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Retired Admiral Visits Salem
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Vie Admiral Bom T. Mclntlre, one-time physician to President Tfcoos
levelt and now head of the national Americas Red Cross blood w
mm. was a Salem visitor Wednesday. The photo show him talk-
In with his sliter-in-law, Mrs. Floyd Mclntlre, at the home of his
cousin, Frank Harritt. SOS Union sL (Statesman photo.)
Ross Mclntire, One-1 ime
Physician to FDR, Visits
By Lester F. Conr .
r ' Staff Writer. Tha Statcaman
" Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, author, retired naval officer and
personal physician to President Roosevelt, visited his old home town
f Salem Wednesday. ... . .. ..
Mclntlre. now bead ox tne American tiea cross s Diooa couecuon
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The city zoning and planning
commission has approved a change
of zone of the southeast corner of
Capitol and Center streets"1to per
mit the erection of .service sta
tion on the tract. This land lies
directly j across from the block on
which the new highway office
building is being erected. It is
and has been for years in the 1C
(capitol zone) which denies use
of the land for commercial pur-
- ' poses. : . I
- Protection of this fringe area
was urged in a resolution of the
-Estate legislature in 1939 and Is
reiterated In the recommendation
of the present state capitol plan
ning commission. Both the state
board of control and the highway
commission protest ' the proposed
change. For the zone change to
be approved by the city council
would be to ignore the legislature,
the board of control, the highway
commission, the - state planning
commission. It would also invite
further criticism by papers and
citizens all over Oregon.
The explanation given for the
action of the zoning commission
Is that the tract Is too small for
an apartment house, and the own
ers say that a structure of marble
and glass will be built to harmon
"ize with the capitol group. I do
not thing that justifies the action.
It is not the duty of the commis
sion or of the council to ball out
the landowners. The present own
ers acquired it with the full
knowledge of the class in which
It was zoned. As for a marble
service
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Conservative Baptists
Choose Dr. Anderson
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PORTLAND, Feb. 22 -(flV Dr.
Lloyd T. Anderson, pastor of the
First Baptist church, Salem, was
elected moderator of the Conser
vative Baptist Churches of Ore
gon today.
; His election . closed a two-day
annual conference of messengers
and visitors I from 88 member
churches. . ! . -
i John Foster, Portland,' was
elected vice moderator. Ray Cates,
Salem, heads the men's lay group.
Animal Cracltcrs
By WARREN GOODRICH ;
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WLU I hoM you two will
program, oinea wuu rciauvei
Wednesday afternoon before leav
log for San Francisco to contin
ue a tour of regional blood cen
ters.
In a short interview with
Statesman reporters, he backed
a proposal by Defense Secretary
Louis Johnson to Gov. Douglas
McKay urging revival of the war
time civilian air raid warning
system in Oregon.
"In view of existing world con
ditions," Mclntire stated, "we
must be prepared. I can remem
ber vividly our feeble defense
set-up at the beginning of World
War II and would hate to see the
same mistake repeated."
He urged Salem citizens to step
up contributions through tne mo
bile blood collection unit, declar
ing a surplus supply of blood and
derivatives must be accumulated
to meet emergencies. He said the
present supply was Just barely
meeting demands.
Mclntire is no stranger to Sa
lem and the Willamette valley.
He was born on a farm in the
Sunnyside district, about eight
miles-south of Salem and attend
ed the old, one-room Sunnyside
school. ,
His family then moved to Lib
erty where Mclntire finished
grade school. He was later gradu
ated from Salem hi eh school and
received his bachelor of arts de
gree from Willamette university
in 1912.
"After 1912 I spent very little
time in the valley," he said Wed
nesday, "but I have always con
sidered It my home. In fact I
hope to return here some day."
During his Wednesday stop
over, Mclntire was a guest of his
first cousin. Frank Harritt. 60S
Union st. Accompanying him to
Salem were his sister-in-law.
Mrs. Floyd Mclntlre and her brother-in-law
and sister. Mr. and
Mrs. C, L. Murphy, also of Port-
lana. .
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ELLIS SEEKS REELECTION
PENDLETON. Feb. , 22
Stat Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton,
said today ho would file for his
fifth term in the state - senate.
Ellis,! a republican. Is second in
seniority in the senate, topped
only by Sen. Dean Walker, Inde
pendence. .
Land
Reform Advice Needed
InjWorld, Farm
By LtUie L. Madsen
; Farm Editor, Tlx Statesman
World markets should not be
killed by wars. Money spent for
wars could better be spent for the
cultivation of these world mar
kets. If there had been more agri
cultural specialists and not so
many diplomats the United States
might have "gone some place in
China.1 Land reform assistance
was what was really needed. , '
These were some of the state
ments prepared by James G. Pat
ton, president of the National
Farmer union, for his address at
Waller hall Wednesday night. This
was the annual public meeting of
the Oregon Farmers Union . con
vention now in session at the Sa
lem VFW halL
Patton expressed fear that "we
might gradually slide into an
economic depression without be
ing fully aware of it" This threat
ened depression should be pre
vented through ' proper steps in
agriculture, industry and foreign
economics, he said. - .
In agriculture, he continued, the
Brannan plan points the way. He
urged the public "to recognize
the basis for the four concepts of
the Brannan plan which he nam
ed as: . , v ;
(1) Agriculture should receive a
fair share of the national income,
LONDON, Feb. 23 -W5)- Briton
began voting today in a vital
election to decide whether to keep
Britain on the road to socialism.
More than 5,000 polling places
opened at 7 o'clock this morning,
British time, (11 pjn. FST). Some
34,000,000 voters will choose be
tween continuing the labor gov
ernment of Prime Minister Clem
ent Attlee or a return to the con
servative leadership of Winston
ChurchilL
Mild weather in most sections
promised a record vote turnout
Churchill, who hopes to regain the
government leadership he wielded
during the dark days of World
War II, planned to vote on noon
near his home in the Hyde Park
district.
.A close race between the labor
Ites and their major opponents
the conservatives is forecast
by most political observers.
.For the past three weeks can
didates of various parties have
been campaigning in the hamlets
and great cities of the nation. In
their pleas for support, the can
didates have described the ballot
ing as a time of fateful decision!
Position Not Clear - - N
. A few hours before the polls
opened the liberal party announ
ced it would be willing to sup
port the labor party in the new
parliament if the laborites halt
all nationalization of British in
dustry for the next five years,
including the key iron and steel
industry.
The liberal position -was not
entirely clear to political observ
ers since the party's statement
did not mention coalition. It did
not amplify what was meant by
the word support.
Coalition Seen Feasible
Perhaps significantly, the state
ment made no mention of a pos
sible liberal, - conservative com
bination. The laborites have de
clared repeatedly they would not
take part in a government based
on a combination of parties.
Political writers have speculat
ed that neither the laborites nor
the conservatives may 'obtain a
working majority in the house of
commons as a result of today's
balloting. A coalition is one pos
sible way out of . such a stalemate.
Naval Officer
Claims View
Of Flying Disc
NEW YORK. Feb. 22-CaVA
navy officer says flying saucers
were seen over the White Sands,
N. M . nrovine eround tor guio
ed missiles last year and he thinks
the discs are space ships from an
The officer, tommuwer two-
ert B. McLaughlin, writes in tne
March issue of True magazine
that saucers were seen at White
Sands in April, May ana June,
1949.
On one occasion, he said, two
small saucers chased a navy
rocket.
The air force has called the
discs hoaxes or . misunderstand
ings of natural phenomena.
However. McLaueniin. menu
fled bv the magazine as a naval
ordnance and guiddd missile ex
uert. wrote in his article:
"I am convinced that they are
space ships from another planet,
operated by animate, Intelligent
beines "
- McLaughlin said that in April,
1949. a croup of navy men and
scientists "tracked" a disc with
an instrument which was being
used to watch a weather balloon
and chart its progress upward.
He added that data obtained in
dicated the saucer was about 105
feet in diameter and flew at i
speed of about five miles per sec
ond at an altitude of approxl
mately 56 miles. It was visible
for a minute.
Mclaughlin . wrote that in May,
IS49, he personally watched
flying saucer at White Sands.
McLaughlin also wrote that in
June other observers saw two
small flying saucers flirting
around a 2,000 - feet - per-second
navy rocket. The discs finally
speeded up and passed the fast-
traveling navy missile.
At White Sands, officials said
the flying saucer report is noth
ing new and declined comment.
Leader Tells
lor about $27,000,000,000 annually
I for its program if present stand
ards of living are to be maintain
ed.-' '
(2) Agriculture Is the first In
dustry to contribute to the econ
omic depression slides.
3) Agriculture should produce
abundantly and supplies should be
put on the market place so that
people can buy.- The supplies
should not be locked up or other
wise withheld from a market un
der a program to prop up prices
at artificial levels such as propos
ed by the "scarcity plan." He cited
potatoes and eggs as samples of
government purchases of surpluses
and their results.
(4) Frank recognition of effi
cient and sensible use of such de
vices as government guarantees of
Income through direct payments,
which "is a more honest and ef
ficient than kidding the public that
purchase programs are not forms
of subsidies- - -
In referring Jto subsidies, Patton
explained thai they had been in
use In some form or other for
generations and people bad gen
erally become of the opinion that
they were good if "they helped us
and bad if they don't"
(Additional details on pages 10
and 1L)
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Telephone Strike , Postponed 60 Days
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By Sterling F. Green
WASHINGTON. Feb. 22 -OPV-
The nation-wide telephone strike
scheduled for Friday was postpon
ed tonight for 60 days.
The CIO Communications Work
ers of America agreed to a 60-day
truce proposal made by President
Truman, who said a walkout
would deal a severe blow to the
public welfare.
Joseph A. Beirne. union cresl-
dent, issued a statement that the
union's executive board had agreed
xo aeiay tne. strike call.
we have a sincere desire to
resolve the issues through collec-
tive
oarcauung in ' an open.
straightforward
manner,' Beirne
said.
Bargaining to Continue
The president asked that there
be no interruption of work and
that the nation's telephone com
munications remain unbroken dur
ing two months' of bargaining with
the help of federal mediators.
American Telephone and Tele
graph company wired the presi
dent late today it would be glad
to continue bargaining for another
60 days "in a sincere effort to settle
the dispute.
In New York, Stanley Bracken.
president of the Western Electric
Co- also agreed to the truce and
the reopening of bargaining talks?
western Electric, the manufacture
tag and installation unit of the
Bell system, is one of the key com
panies involved in the labor dis
pute.
Pacific Firm Agrees
In San Francisco. President
Mark R. Sulivan of the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph Co. like
wise agreed to the extension. He
said that of the 60,000 non-super
visory employes in the company,
25,000 are represented by the com
munications union.
In wires to 25 officers of the
Communication Workers of Ameri
ca and 19 officials of Bell System
companies, Mr. Truman said a
walkout would cause "great dam
age to the public interest and wel
fare."
The country's switchboards and
"long lines' already are working
on borrowed time. The strike
previously was set for February 8
but was deferred to February 24
at Federal Conciliator Cyrus
Chug's request.
BURGLARS LIKE MUSIC
OREGON CITY. Feb. 22 -UP)
Music-loving burglars broke into
the Fanners Union hall at Cedar
dale, near Colton, and stole $100
worth of phonograph records,
record cases and a phonograph,
the Clackamas county sheriffs of
flee was informed today.
lrum
Proposal
Accepted
Ashes Mark Foreheads as Lenten Season of Penance Opens
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Peioatie
WaDace Link
To Communist
Party Qaimed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -Uf-
A former undercover agent for
the FBI testified today that Henry
A. Wallace once conferred with
two well known Pittsburgh com
munists about support for his third
party presidential campaign.
Matthew Cvetlc was the agent.
He told the house un-American
activities committee he himself was
one of the pair of well known
communist party members. He
identified the other as George
Wuchmich.
Relates Activities j
Cvetic has been telling the-com
mittee how he bored into the com
munist party in western Pennsyl
vania and spent seven years as
an active, trusted member while
slipping reports on its activities
to the FBI.
Today he named 13 men, headed
by organizer Steve Nelson, as the
top level reds in western Pennsyl
vania. And he told of communist
efforts to infiltrate the key steel,
coal and electrical industries in
the region.
Wuchinich, the witness said, was
one of the 13 and his special fields
were the progressive, party and
the American Slav congress.
Denied by Wallace j
Cvetic said that he and Wuchin
ich conferred with Wallace and
Wallace's campaign manager,
"Beany? Baldwin, in the former
vice president's room at the
Schenley hotel in Pittsburgh on
Nov, 11,, 1947.
i Wallace aid at Vila South S1m
N.Y- home:
"I can say with absolute flat
ness I had no awareness whatso
ever of meeting any communist
in Pittsburgh." He recalled meet
ing Wuchinich In Pittsburgh but
not Cvetic. He said even today he
had no personal knowledge that
Wuchinich was Y. communist.
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Willamette river 6.8 feet
FORECAST (from U.S. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy
with rain today becoming partly
cloudy with ahowera tonight. little
change la temperature with high to
day near SO and low tonight near 35.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Thif Year Last Year Normal
30.95 34.44 . 28.90
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ihon nirtnr. ntnKr f st. Vln.
the altar at Wednesday morning aer -
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Mercy Death Trial
Jury Views Room
MANCHESTER, N.H., Feb. 22
-W-While Dr. Hermann N. San
der stood by silently, the all-male
jury trying him for murder today
looked in on the hospital room of
Mrs. Abbie Borroto, 59, his
"mercy death" cancer patient.
The visit to Hillsboro county
hospital was the first order of
business after selection of the 13
man jury was completed.
After the half -hour hospital
visit court was adjourned until 10
o'clock tomorrow when the state
will begin presentation of evi
dence. ,
The jury was taken to the scene
of death, so they would be able to
visualize) it when ever the room
and surroundings .might be refer
red to during the trial.
' Just before leaVing the court
Rogers Seeks Reelection
As County Commissioner
E. L. Rogers of Quinaby will seek reelection as Marion county
commissioner, he announced Wednesday.
Marion County Recorder Herman Lanke, only other county of
fice-holder who must seek reelection, said Wednesday he expects to
file soon. Lanke is rounding out his 10th year in office..
Rogers, appointed to the commissioner post in 1940 on the death
of James E. Smith, was elected In
November of that same year.
Prior to his appointment he had
been a county road foreman since
1936. He was born in Missouri.
Following a brief school teaching
career in the Oklahoma territory,
where he married, he came to
Oregon in 1909 and settled on a
farm near Quinaby. He has four
children.
While a member of the Marlon
county court, along with Judge
Grant Murphy and Commissioner'
Roy Rice, Rogers has specialized
in county bridge, ferry and road
maintenance. During his term of
office, Rogers estimated he has re
placed nearly 300 wooden road
culverts with new concrete or
steel pipe.
Commissioner Rogers said he in
tends to carry out "projects begun
by the present Marion county
court." Most important of these,
he said, are a continued program
to obtain federal funds for roads,
the new Independence bridge and
the proposed new Marion county
courthouse. (Photo on page 5.)
NIGHT SHIFT LOPPED
WESTPORT, Ore, Feb. 22-(P-Tbe
Shepard-Morse sawmill an
nounced it was cutting off its
night shift of 100 men on March
1 because of the high price of logs.
backxreiuid). and the Kev.' Enrta
l Statesman photo.) (Stery en
PRICE 5c
room for the hospital, Dr. Sander
and the jury heard the reading of
the indictment which charged that
he injected into Mrs. Borroto's
veins "10 cubic centimeters of air
four times in close succession.
"Well knowing the said air in
jections to be sufficient to cause
death."
Completion of the 13-man jury
nine catholics and four prot
estants came just before the
noon recess today on the third day
of a trial that has drawn world
wide attention.
The jury sitting In judgment in
the case reflects the complexion
of the industrial center, both in
their occupation and their relig
ion. Most are mill and factory
workers.
Armed Threat
Of Reds Hit
By President
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -W-President
Truman today took the
occasion of Washington's birthday
to deliver a stinging denunciation
of communism as an armed threat
and "a modern tyranny far worse
than that of any ancient empire."
Describing his message as a
"straight from the shoulder" talk
on U. S. foreign policy, Mr. Tru
man left no doubt that his re
marks were aimed directly at
Soviet Russia and her satellites.
"The great danger of commun
ism does not lie in .its false prom
ises," he said. "It lies in the fact
that it is an Instrument - of an
armed imperialism which seeks to
extend its influence -by force."
Under gray drizzling skies, the
president spoke at. ceremonies
marking the unveiling of a 17-foot
statue to the nation's first presi
dent at the George Washington
National Masonic Memorial in
nearby Alexandria, Va.
Kev. Geerre OTCeefe, pastor, (la
S. Yandehey - (nearest camera).
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23. 1950
No. 347C
.to . IHlaift
Early Hours
Session Sets
House Record
WASHINGTON. Feb. tS --(ThuiayM;p)-The
house ad
Jonrned at 299 ajn. (EST) tc .
day after going en record in
favor ef a voluntary rather than
a compulsory FEPC measure. It
did net take final action, hew
ever. .
WASHINGTON. Tt 9 n.,
day)-W)-The house refused early
today to adjourn and drove ahead
with consideration of a fair em-:
ployment practice (FEPC) bin.
After having temporarily loot
control, supporters of the FEPC '
regained ine upper hand and
h!1" 239 to 165, a southern ;
democratic motion to end the see-'
sion, which started at noon Wed.;
Had the motion carried, the bin"
Both Sides Adamart
The bill would wtiin i
commission empowered to prevent
wumiiMuon in hiring or firin
because of race, creed or color
f sLon of the ""J01" measure),
in President Truman's civil righto
program. ,.
Southerners." said they were
ready to set around another 12
hours or longer if necessary to
beat the MIL Proponents were
equally determined to force a fi
nal vote.
.Early this morning the house "
hadn t acted on a single amend-;
ment, although scores of them
were pending. Early efforts to Mm-"
It debate were, rebuff ed. .
Filibuster Kenew r'"-1:
Old-timers who pored through
the records said the house set a
new record for this century when
it remained In session beyond
midnight. The lonrest contim
session since 1820 had lasted ex
actly 12 hours, they , claimed, al though
the house has stayed in
session longer on . other .occasions
but had recessed from time to
The 1820 session lasted confirm
ously fori two days and nights
while the house wrestled with the
Missouri compromise.
Immediately after the adjourna
ment vote was announced, the fill
buster started anew and the house
ordered a roU-caU to determine
whether it would again consider
ine nuns Dill.
That motion carried, 270 to 134.
Agreement Yet Wen
The first hint of a crack fn tha
wall of opposition came ahnrtl v
later, about 1 ajn. (EST).
ijemocraua reader McCormack
won an agreement to vote at 2:20
am on several substitute bills.
The substitutes provide for vol
untary, rather than compulsory,
handling of the discrimination
problem. .
The house by a vote of 192 to
64 approved McCormack's motion
to cut off debate. But the agree
ment covers only two substitute,
bills and does not end debate on
numerous other amendments.
The substitutes were introduced
by Reps. Steed (D-Okla) and Mc
Connell (R-Pa). The house ac
cepted an amendment to McCon
nell's bill to direct the commis
sion to make Immediate investiga
tions or complaints and to try to
settle them by persuasion and con
ciliation. Opposition Took Centre!
C An agreement to limit debate
was what the bill's supporters had
been seeking for hours, In the
hope that they could drive toward
a final vote. Little more than an
hour earlier, they seemed to have
lost the initiative. ,
Southerners opposing the bill
had grabbed control of the pro
ceedings temporarily shortly be
fore midnight. They got the house
to lay aside the FEPC bill - tem
porarily. That move carried on a
172 to 165 vote, clearing the way
for the adjournment, motion. .
.- Even before that, the opponents
of the controversial measure bad
showed surprising strength by
beating down a proposal by Rep,'
Powell (D-NY) to limit debate.
Test Loses In Tote
Powell and other backers of the
measure had hoped, by this, curb
on oratory, to reject ' the substi
tutes opponents were offering and
thus pave the way for a final vote.
' That test, on a substitute offer- -ed
by Rep. Steed (D-Okla), lost
167 to 140. Members were not re
corded by name. Steed's substitute,
like others which FEPC oppon
ents advocated, would have pro
vided for a fair employment com
mission without powers to enforce '
its regulations. . . " , .
Powell and other supporters
were surprised by that vote, but
they- pushed ahead amid indica
tions that , tha session might last
throughout the night
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