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' As the election campaign comet
on various groups prepare score
beets on legislator! and congress
men, rating them by their votes
on selected issues. The theory is
that 'group members and others
will use the score sheet as a, rac
ing form to make their selec
tions'! in the next race. 1 I
The state grange executive com
mittee was out early with one list
a proscription . for , some 22
'members of the Oregon house of
representatives who voted for a
resolution proposing a change in
the requirements for petitions on
direct legislation. Now the AF of L
and the CIO has each prepared
score sheet for senators! and
representatives. The test is how
they voted on a selected set of
bills. If they.voted the way each
organization wanted them to vote
on all or a majority of the bills
then presumably they get the or
ganization's blessing; il , not the
axe. ii''litl
The . trouble with these i, score
sheets is first they do not embrace
all the legislative issues; second,
the test is made according to the
special interest of the compiler of
the score sheet, not according to
the general public welfare. Thus
a, bill which a labor or employer
organization might .consider : high
ly desirable in their own interest
might be in conflict with the pub
lic interest Yet the legislator, vot
ing against it would get: a j punk
mark on his report card compiled
by the group. .. H
" Even a complete report of, just
how an individual senator or
(continued on editorial page, 4.)
Portuguese
Vessel Held by
Nationalists
HOIHOW, Hainan Island, Jan.
29 -Py- Capt C. X. Miguel said
today his 696-ton Portuguese
freighter San Manuel was 1 being
held hoStage in Hoihow harbor by
the Chinese nationalist navy.
He charged the nationalists
. seized his vessel while 1 she was
anchored eight miles off the Liu
chow peninsula outside Chinese
territorial waters. . ' -
He asserted the action was: tak
en in reprisal for the seizure of a
nationalist gunboat last month by
authorities of the Portuguese col
ony of Macao. - Macaou is on the
south China coast 40 miles south
west of the British colony of Hong
Kong.
Miguel said his vessel ! was
boarded Jan. 13 by an armed, par
ty from the gunboat Taicheng. His
radio was ordered shut down and
the San Manuel was escorted, here
by the gunboat, he said. " i i
The San Manuel was carrying
BOO tons of cement from Haiphong.
Indochina, and intended to pre
ceed to Macao via Hong Kong.
This voyage meant going through
the 10-mile-wide Hainan I strait
between the tip of the Liuchow
peninsula and this island.
The San Manuel has a crew of
21 Chinese. jjii;
SckoolBoard
Ban on Autlior
Draws Protest j
PORTLAND, Jan. 29 -VP)- ' An
audience out to hear Author Carey
McWilliams speak here gave a
voice endorsement tonight to a
protest of ''thought control by
city school board action.. 1 ! .
McWilliams had been denied
use of Benson high school when
City Detective Capt William D.
Browne claimed the California
speaker was formerly affiliated
with groups listed as subversive in
character. .; ' : -'.!: lj ' -'
. Capt Browne's statement to the
school was in his capacity as
chairman of an American Legion
committee on subversive activity.
Browne has long headed the Port
land city's "red squad."
i McWilliams appearance here
was sponsored by the Portland cit
izens' committee for civil rights.
He spoke in behalf of a proposed
city ordinance banning race dis
crimination in hotels and cafes.
This was also endorsed by the
audience. - . " ' .
Animal Crackers
' By WARREN GOODRICH
"Do w CO tnoocina around
YOUR bedroom? Do we track
mud all ever YOUR. Ihitig
room NoT
Sunday
I- Snow-conditioned Salem was
getting a. big, new dose early to
day. . ' : f "
I Five more inches fell Sunday
and the season's total climbed to
3U, less than three inches from
the all-time record.
In Washington, sub-zero tem
peratures were making the news.
Weather bureau readings of -29
and unofficial temperatures up to
IS degrees colder were listed.
Schoolmen around the mid-Willamette
valley kept a wary eye
on the falling flakes Sunday night
but only Gervais had announced
definitely that it would be closed.
Snow to Continue
i Flurries that were heavy and
light by turn fell constantly after
4:30 p.m. in Salem. The weather
bureau said they would continue
overnight and perhaps all day.
Snow on the around at McNary
field measured 8 inches at mid
night with more than a possibility
that it would total a foot this
morning. -
i The weather man could forecast
no relief through tomorrow for
the ! valley. - Temperatures were
slated to stay In the 20s today. It
was 18 degrees at midnight A
low of 13 to 15 degrees was fore
east lor tonight . . v
Crews Busy , .; v," -j.
J i Salem street crews were busy
clearing the new snow from
downtown streets early today,
i i Washington's coldest official
reading Sunday was a -29 degrees
at Colville in the northeast Spo
kane registered a -24, the coldest
since 1888. : .
' Readings down to 44 below were
recorded by residents of Dartford
and other small towns in the Little
Spokane river valley where there
The warmest reading turned in
are no official thermometers,
around the northwest came from
Roseburg where the low was 26
above. - j-
An east wind funneling down
the Columbia River gorge added
to the discomfort in the metro
politan Portland area. State and
county snow plow crews Sunday
night abandoned efforts to keep
highway routes east of the city
cleared of drifting snow.
Highways Clogged,
Eastern Muknomah county roads
near Gresham were clogged tight
Most of that area's rural schools
were remaining closed today.
At Mount Hood, state police said
the snow along the highway near
Government Camp was piled to
139 inches.
In Clark county. Wash, PUD
Manager V. M. Cleaveland report
ed 370 men were still working al
most around the clock to restore
service shattered by the January
13 storm. He estimated 100 miles
of power lines . were still down.
At one time about 4,000 customers
were without service. -Power
On tares .
Power outages Saturday night
hit both Vancouver, Wash., and
Portland, blacking out a part of
northeast--Portland and part of
Vancouver's downtown street
lighting system.
Detroit had three feet of snow
on the ground Sunday. All indus
tries were down and work on the
big dam has been halted.
I Albany had 13, inches of snow
and Lebanon, eight The depth at
Falls City was 14 inches Sunday
afternoon and Valsetz reported
snow piled in six foot depths but
the road between was open at that
time. . .
Portland Man
Heads U0 Dads
EUGENE; Jan. 29-(fl3-The Ore
gon Dad's club named Owen Bent
ley,' Portland, president for the
next year at their activities day
session here yesterday.
. George Alexander and John
Caughell, both of Salem, were
added to the executive board. The
club made plans to double the
number of $200 and $100 scholar
ships, planning to give four $200
and two $100 in 1950.
PROGRESSIVES TO MEET
NEW YORK, Jan 29-P)-The
second national convention of the
progressive' party will be held in
Chicago, February 24-28.
Chinese Communists Picture U.S. Vice Consul
As Organizer of Bandit Bands in Sinkiang Area
SAN' FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 -W-The
American vice consul in
China's wild west was accused by
the communists today of being a
hard-riding "Spy who sought to
organize the bandits of the Sin
kiang wilderness.
This latest in a long series of
red .propaganda attacks on U. S.
diplomats charged that Douglas S.
Mackiernan "has been exposed as
an espionage, agent" by three
white Russion confederates who
surrendered to the reds. -:
The broadcast from Peiping by
the official New China News
Agency was heard in San Fran
cisco by the Associated Press.
It alleged. that Mackiernan had
disappeared into -India after a
month-long series of horseback
travels over hundreds of miles to
assorted "bandit" lairs In the wild
back country. Mackiernan Is from
Stoughton, Mass. -
The communist story was, of
course, without confirmation.
, (In Washington, state depart
ment officials called the "red re
port the "usual fantastic yarn.1
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99th YEAR
Job Security
MEMPHIS, TeniW Jan. 29 Sam
Hobson Uvea la the working
man's dream. He's clerk In the
Kroger company's warehouse in
Memphis, .Tenn., and holds more
stock In the firm than its pres
ident President J. B. Ball says
so himself. Hobson started out
with $2,800 worth of stock In
1908 which is now valued at an
estimated $92,000. (AP Wire
photo to The Statesman.)
Example o f ,
Free Speech
CHICAGO, Jan. 29 -JPy- "Sam
Destefano doesn't like his new
automobile, and, what'8 more, he
doesn't care who knows it -
He decked the shiny vehicle
with N grapefruit and hung signs
on it proclaiming "This Is A Lem
on." A police officer, distressed at
such unusual goings on, hauled
Sam in. But a search of the law
books showed the demonstration
violated no ordinances. Sam was
allowed to continue on his war.
grapefruit and alL ,
15 Portland
Housing Said
Sub-Standard
PORTLAND, Jan. 29 -rV The
city's official housing survey re
ported today that 15 per cent of the
area's dwellings were sub-standard.
The rating was put on dwell
ings that were dilapidated or
lacked sanitary facilities.
The housing committee said the
percentage came to 23,268 of the
city area's 156,870 occupied dwell
ing units. It listed 10,710 of these
substandard units in the dilapi
dated category. .
WRECK DAMAGES SHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 29 -()
The Joel Chandler Harris, Coast
wise Lines transport, was damag
ed today in a ship collision in San
Francisco harbor- The bow of the
Pacific Transport Line's Linefield
Victory rammed Into the stern of
the Harris, opening a hole near
the No. 5 hatch. 7 I v
(These officials said Mackiernan
left his post at Tihwa, under
Washington orders to get out
barely ahead of the communist
forces. "2'' '
(The department said that was
some weeks after he had been left
In ' charge of the consulate last
September. The exact date was
not at hand today.
(The last report the department
had was that Mackiernan was try
ing to get out of China by the
hazardous route over the Hima
layas toward India. There was
no report in Washington to indi
cate that he had gotten across the
border.) v
When Consul J. Hall Paxton of
Danville, Va, was ordered to
leave his post at Tihwa, Sinkiang,
last August he left Mackiernan in
charge.'--'': !-'- ..--!, ;
Paxton, Mrs. Paxton and Vice
Consul Robert Dreessen of St
Louis, Mov reached India" last
October after an arduous trip
afoot and horseback: over the
Himalayas..
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White House
Expected to Act
On Coal Tie-Up
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 30 (Mon
day) JP) Thousands of miners
continued their three-week-old
strike today despite strong indi
cations President Truman is get
ting ready to intervene.
All indications point to a con
tinuance of the rebellion against
John L. Lewis suggestion . that
his 88,000 strikers go back to work
while he seeks to obtain a new
contract
A source close to President
Truman said last night the chief
executive may act within 48 hours
unless there's a back-to-work
movement
If Lewis had hopes all of his
miners would go back to the pits
on the three-day week he's im
posed on the industry they were
shattered today.
Nigfit shifts failed to report
Sunday at ten mines in the Fair
mont (W. Va.) area. They em
ployed 4.950 diggers. And the big
Isabella mine of Weirton Coal
company near Uniontown, Pa.,
reported its midnight shift failed
to show up. The mine employs
1,050.
Few UMW officials would com
ment r-
Aluminum May
Start Rush to
Alaska Area!
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. .29
-CV Skagway and Dyea, a cou
ple of towns which haven't fig
ured much in the news since Klon
dike gold rush days, may hit the
headlines soon in a new rusn
for aluminum.
The Aluminum Corporation of
America (ALCOA) has purchased
land there in connection with a
gigantic development which could
lead to a $70,000,000 investment
and creation of a city of 50,000.
Ralph Brown of the Alaska de
velopment board , disclosed today
the corporation has taken up op
tions on substantial acreage at Dy
ea, where it is proposed to erect
an aluminum plant and at Skag
way for offices and administra
tive structures.
He said the land was purchased
this winter after the company's
geologists completed studies of the
mountains between Skagway and
Lake Bennett
A mammoth hydroelectric power
development with tunnels through
the mountains, would be the back
bone for industrial development,
Brown added.
Officials of County
Chest to Consider
Funds' Placement
Community Chest officials In
Marion county, one of the 24 in
Oregon which have not met the
1949 goal, will ponder disposition
of funds available at a meeting
Tuesday at 8 p.m. in chest head
quarters, 241 N. Liberty St.
The county drive reached $99,
692 of its $128,369 quota, or 77.66
per cent Of that amount the
Oregon Chest will receive $15,062.
Counties which attained their
goals were Hood River, Clacka
mas, Sherman, Harney, Grant,
Curry, Lane, Gilliam, Multnomah,
Baker, Benton and Wasco.
v The communist broadcast as
serted that Paxton himself had
visited" one "bandit" lair last
March and July, "giving instruct
ions to the bandits on both oc
casions. . 0 -
"Mackiernan spoke emphatic
ally to the bandits on how to un
dermine the democratic work of
the Chinese people," said the Pei
ping storyv "He Instructed Wus
man, Janimkhan and other bandits
to continue opposing the people's
government of Sinkiang and guar
anteed that the United States
would render them assistance.
"Mackiernan told them they
should accumulate their forces for
the present to wait for the out
break of the third world War.",
The account said Mackiernan
gave the bandits 25 taels of gold
(a 'variable .weight that would
roughly approximate $1,000), "ar
ranged for three young men to
follow him to America "to study"
and to return to Sinkiang to fight
"when the third world war breaks
out" : '
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Oracjoa Skztosmcm, Salem. Orocon, Monday, Jomucny 30 IS SO
FLEET
Parachute Rescue Team Aicaits
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Jan. 29-(P)-Para-Doctor rescae team studies a map ef the Taken wtlderaess
before leaving Great Falls, Mont In .search of a missing C-54 with 44 persons aboard. (L-R) Lt W.
' Boyd, parachute physician; Maj. J. C. Smith, chief ef rescae operations and Set John Bobbins,
Boyd's assistant All are attached to the Air Force 4th rescue squadron, McChord' Field, Wash.
(AP Wlrephoto to The . Statesman.) . i
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Korea, Formosa Aid Drive
Russ Loosen
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29
Economic aid for Formosa where
China's nationalists stand with
backs to -the wall, and for south
Korea where the infant republic
is under pressure from the Soviet-dominated
north, comes up In
congress tomorrow and Tuesday.
Administration leaders express
ed confidence tonight that both
programs will go through. Unless
they do, aid ends February 15.
The proposal is to extend ' it
through June.
Heavy pressure is on the Kor
ean .proposal. That $60,000,000
plan has been turned down once
by the house in a vote widely in
terpreted as a slap at Secretary of
State Acheson's handling of far
eastern policy.
Acheson is due before the house
foreign affairs committee tomor
row with a plea for a second look
at it backed up by President Tru
man. The Formosa situation comes be
fore the senate foreign relations
committee Tuesday with indica
tions that fireworks may blaze up
anew over demands by a number
of senators that military as well
as economic aid go to Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-shek. The ad
ministration has turned thumbs
down on military measures.
Chairman . Connally (D-Tex)
predicted tonight that a $28,000,000
non-military program for Formosa
will get quick approval In one
senate committee. Several other
senators renewed arguments that
it should be stiffened with mili
tary help to hold the island as a
strong point in the VS. defense
line against Soviet aggression.
Rural School
Meets Canceled
Two rone meetings to give rural
school districts aid in preparing
budgets were canceled Sunday,
due to weather conditions. They
were to have been zone one at
Gervais today and zone three at
Cloverdale Tuesday.
.Mrs. Agnes Booth. "Marion
county school superintendent said
boards in those districts should go
to other zone meetings for aid and
instruction. Those are zone two
at Keizer on Thursday, four at
Mt Angel Wednesday arid five
at Stayton Friday.
Any board? unable to reach
those sessions should bring their
budgets and problems to the coun
ty school office in Salem next Sat
urday morning, she said. ;
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cloudy today and tonight with Inter
mittent now flurries. Hlfh today SO
to IS; low tonight UtoU. ,
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This Year
Lart YeaTx Normal
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Winds Defeat
Speed Flight
AMARILLO, Tex., Jan.
Spee1 Pilot Paul Mantz gave up
today his try for' a new east-west
transcontinental speed record. He
landed at Amarillo air terminal at
4:20 pjn. (CST) because of high
winds.
He had taken off from New
York international airport at
11:37:29 ajn. (EST for Burbank,
Calif., in an unofficial attempt to
break his own record.
"Head winds were too strong,
Mantz said when he landed at
Amarillo more than six hours lat
er. "At times they reached 100
miles an hour at the 25,000-foot
leveL
Mantz said he had decided to
give up by the time he reached St
Louis.
1,500 Die in
Iran Quake
TEHRAN, Iran, Jan. 29-rV
More than 1,500 persons have been
killed, thousands more injured
and about 20 villages destroyed in
a series of earthquakes in the area
of Bushire, Persian gulf port ac
cording to Information received
here today.
The reports, delayed by breaks
in communication lines to Bushire,
said the quakes had occurred since
Wednesday. t y
. Heavy snows and cold weather
were said to have made the situ
ation worse in the stricken area.
An Iranian government source
said relief would be sent to Bush
ire by army planes tomorrow.
Bushire is on the northeastern
shore of the Persian gulf about 500
miles south of Tehran. '
5,000 Vessels Assemble
For Invasion of Hainan
By Spencer Moosa
TAIPEI, Formosa, Jan. 29-P)-An
official nationalist source re
ported today that the Chinese reds
have massed more than 5,000-motor-powered
Junks and other small
craft for an invasion of Hainan
island, i .. :- . '
The i vessels ' are intended ,to
transport 100,000 to 200,000 red
regulars to the big nationalist
island ten miles off China's south
coast said Gen. Hsia Yu-Tsai, di
rector of the Taipei office of the
Hainan defense command.
Nevertheless, he asserted in an
interview that the communists
never would be able to conquer
Hainan unless they , got active
Russian help, ; .
(Hsai's report bf the vast red
concentration was somewhat at
variance with a January 18 report
Word of Plane
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BERLIN, Jan.T 29-WVThe Rus
sians got generous then tough with
Berlin-bound truck traffic at
Helmstedt on the Autobahn today.
For nearly 20 hours they let
trucks through the British border
point at a rate of about 10 an
hour a 100 per cent speedup com
pared with some periods of the
eight-day slow down, but still only
about a third of normal.
Then tonight, when the waiting
line of trucks had been reduced
from about 225 to 35, they sudden
ly reim posed the old five-an-hour
schedule. Guards resumed their
meticulous checking of cargoes
and shipping papers.
Te Restore Traffic
The British zone newspaper. Die
Welt reported from Luebeck that
the Russians Intended to restore
traffic to normal this week, but
gave no source for its Information.
If this turns out to be true, an
American official in Berlin said,
it may, be because -the Russians
wish to avoid reprisals from the
western powers In the form of ec
onomic sanctions against the east
ern zone
- It could be that the Russians
feel they have sufficiently Im
pressed the West Berliner anew
with the fact that he is living 100
miles behind the Iron curtain, the
official added.
Series ef
East German communists start'
ed a series of Soviet sector border
rallies in an effort to steam up
support for their regime. Gerhart
Eisler. East German government
information chief, addressed the
first rally on the French sector
border yesterday and told a crowd
of several thousand you must
pound into the ears of the occu
pation powers: 'Go home. .? ;
East German newspapers were
crammed with declarations against
"Anglo-American saboteurs." The
Soviet army's Taegliche Rund
schau said 127 of these agents, an
Germans, had been arrested in the
Russian zone on spy charges. The
newspaper gave no details.
by the Hainan commander, Gen.
Hiph Yiiph. Hsueh at that time
said nationalist air and naval
forces had destroyed more than
2,000 red invasion craft and that
as a result an invasion was "im
possible.') To meet the red onslaught the
nationalists have on Hainan1 100,
000 regulars plus 90,000 militia
men, said Hsia.
He reported the Hainan com
mand had surrounded about 15,0Q0
pro-red guerillas in the Five
Finger mountain area of north
western Hainan. As a result the
possibility of an inside job against
Hainan no longer threatens, be
said. x -
The air force meanwhile Toe
ported continuing raids along the
south China coast sinking an un
specified number of red Junks.
PRICE 5c
No. 328
Hope Ebbs for
Survival of 44 :
On Transport
WHITEHORSE. Y. T Jan.
-CT"- Scores of American and -Canadian
planes engaged in the
northland's greatest aerial search
put back to their bases tonight
without a trace of a missing.U. S.
C-54 and its 44 passengers ;nd
crew.
As the long sub-arctic night
settled over the bleak Yukon
mountains and wastelands, there
was ebbing hope for the survival
5$
of those aboard the homeward
bound transport 4
The skyborne search armada
wheeled ceaselessly through its
third day today along a 1,300 mile ,
corridor from Montana to Alaska, .
ranging 30 miles to each side. Re
sults were negative, w: . .
It was this airway the TJ. 8.
Military Air Transport Service ; !
(MATS) plane was to have fol- -lowed
on a nonstop flight from "
Anchorage. Alaska, to Great Fans,
Mont Aboard were 34 service
men returning on furlough or for .
reassignment an expectant mother .
and ner two-year-old son, and
eight crew members. .
Veteran Flyer-
The big, four-engine military
counterpart o the DC-4 was
headed back to its home base at
BiggS field. El Paso, Tex, after a
routine training flight to Alaska. .
At the controls was Maj. ueraia
F. Brittain, 36, a veteran of 64
wartime crossings of the Atlantic
The C-54 was little more than
two hours out of Anchorage last ,
Thursday afternoon when it rad
ioed its last position report to the
tinT weather station of Snag. 20
miles inside the Yukon territory
from Alaska. a ,
Search te TJ. S. Border '
Since the transport was to have
checked at Whitehorse, 300 miles ?
farther- southeast-JJs . believed
down somewhere between the two
points. But search officials, re a- -hzing
the possibility of radio fail
ure, have extended the hunt all
the way to the American border.
Meanwhile, word was awaited
at this principal search center
deep in the Yukon from a ground
party pushing its way to an almost
inaccessible SDot aDDroximately 40
miles to the southwest
The light mobile crew was dis
patched today to investigate a
forest ranger's renort that he saw
a large plane flying over that area,
then heard a thud, explosion ana
saw billowing smoke.
The search coordinator here. Ail
Commodore Martin Costello ot
Royal Canadian air lorce, said tne
report was one of the "most high
ly proDaoie yet receiveo.
Oregon to Get
Federal Forest
Road Funds
Oregon will receive a total of
$2,753,489 as its share of the fed
eral aid highway appropriation to
be distributed to the states xoi
improvement of highway in na
tional forests during the fiscal
year 1951, according to Dr. E. B,
McDanlet president ox the Oregon
State Motor association, affiliate ,
of the American Autemobile asso
ciation, "v.
"This appropriation Is authorized
by the Federal Aid Highway Act
of 1948, which provides for thf
distribution of $20,000,000 among
the states for national forest high
ways in each of the fiscal years
1950 and 1951, Dr. McDaniel said.
"The apportionment of funds is
made on the basis of area and the
value of the land owned by the ay ;
federal government within the na-
tional forests in each state. The
money will be available begin
ning July 1, 1950."
- "The approved forest highway ,
system comprises about 23,250
miles. During the past fiscal year,'
Improvements were completed on
232 miles of the system at a cost
of $8,101,563. Projects under con
struction at the end of the fiscal
year amounted to 521 miles, to cost
about $23,942,000. An additional
861 miles had been programmed
at an estimated cost of $33,266,
Sheriff SchnMlc
Raids Liquor Glib V
PORTLAND, Jan. 29 State
liquor agents joined Sheriff Terry
Schrunk and deputies early today
in a raid on Manny's club on S.W.
Barbour boulevard. William W. OU
sen, 37, a former Roseburg police
man, was arrested on a charge of
illegal sale of liquor. j
Several card game type table
were in the dub, but the sheriff
reported no gambling was observ
ed, v - -. t : . .