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Attlee -s Party Holds 5 to 3 Margin Despite Gains by Conservatives 40 Per Cent of Vote Counted; : Shows 163 Seats for Labor, Shorn Of its penalties the house passed a' bill for no discrimination in employment Thursday. Vote came after southern members had put up a bitter fight to keep the bill off the floor. The house re mained in continuous session for 12 hours, the longest since 1820, to beat down this attack. When the voting on amendments occur red the opponents of the measure secured adoption of one striking ou punishment for violating the law. Congressman Adam Powell, who represents a district in Har lem, New York city, called the bill as passed "nothing but good advice." . - i Perhaps the heuse was imitating the action of the 1947 legislature which passed a measure declaring fair employment "to be the public policy of this state", banning dis crimination in public employment, and authorizing the state depart ment of education to prepare edu cational programs against discrim ination. In 1949 the legislature passed a new law, with, enforce ment officers and penalties pro vided. The house bill now goes to the senate whose ancient rules give greater opportunity for a filibuster. This the southern senators promise to carry on to head off ' voting. They have succeeded regularly in the past in killing off such civil rights legislation and may succeed again. Time is running out and congress hopes to adjourn by the deadline of July 31st. Now FEP without teeth for en forcement is not what the civil rights advocates want; but the hictni-v indicates that the teeth rarely have been invoked. Oregon. has had the law for about eigni . n.J a1i 4'ittm mti 4UUI1UI9 IiU VIUJ v. 1 (continued on eoiwruu page, 'World Gtizen' Davis Wants to Return to U.S. STRASBOURG, France,. Feb. 23 -(tfVGarry Davis started trying to regain American citizenship today after a two-year, career, as "No 1 citizen of the world" without a w4en"fcs- MovKa v Inuft :. fh a n fFtrl him, but the road back won't be easier for that. Davis declined comment on re ports from his old home country that he wanted to go back in order to marry Hollywood dancing teacher Audrey Peters, 20. Sho said he proposed by mail. Davis, a wartime American air man and son of Orchestra Leader Meyer Davis of Philadelphia, made known his change of heart on citizenship in an approach, to the UJS. consulate here. ' He asked-for an immigration visa .and was told he would have to apply to the American embassy In Parissuch things aren't hand led in the consulate. Embassy sources in Paris said Davis could apply to "immigrate to the United Statse for the pur pose of becoming a citizen," and could not revive the passport he gave up in Paris in the summer of 1948. . He could try for the U.S. citizen ship In turn under the French quota of immigrants to the United States, embassy sources said. They consider him a resident of France, although he had some ar guments from time to time with the French police over his lack of a visa and the basic lack of a pass port to put a visa in. ., Storm Warnings Remain on Coast SEATTLE, Feb. 23 -Of)- The weather bureau issued the follow lng continued storm warning to-' night: -!., - ."Continued southwest storm warnings - on - Washington coast and mouth of Columbia river, and small craft warnings inland wat ers and Strait of Juan de Fuca, and south on Oregon coast to Cape Blan-o at 9 p.m., Thursday. South west winds 25-35 mph, increasing to 33-45 by Friday afternoon off Washington coast and mouth of Columbia, and southwest to south 20-30 mph other areas." Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Guess waf, kiddies daddie's Ukinj us til to the dog show and thai litzt dinner CP 89th YEAR : 20 PAGES . Tha Orecjon Statesman. Sedans. Oregon, Friday. Februco-r 24, 1950 PRICE 5c v No. 347D " Planners Oppose Capitol Zone IFEPC; Bill Passes Minus. (Legal Teeth . WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -V-In a bitter defeat for the adminis tration, the house today passed a substitute FEPC bill stripped of the legal barriers against racial discrimination in employment that Presi dent Truman has demanded. The vote was not even close: 240 to 1??. Some of the sponsors of the original administration measure voted against the substitute. Lyons Group to Protest Road By-Pass Plan Itilnau Ntwa Service MEHAMA, Feb. 23 Lyons busi ness men today prepared to pro test the new Mehama - Mill City highway which will by-pass Lyons. - The new route was approved by the state highway commission Feb ruary 8, and $350,000 was approp riated to complete grading on six miles of the road from Mill City westward. . The nine-mile road win be lo cated on the Marion county side of the North Santiam river. The present road crosses the river at Mehama and travels through Ly ons in Linn county. : Would Cut off City - Lyons merchants today said the new route would virtually cut off their city from a heavy tourist trade expected to travel over the North Santiam highway to Detroit dam and the recreation area to be created by the dam reservoir. , Others objecting are farmers near Mehama whose property would be cut up by the new high way. Keith Phillips, one of the property owners, said "my fields are already producing a good crop of surveyor's stakes." ask improvement. , Opponents to the new road be lieve the old highway should be widened, straightened and improv ed, xney point out that another bridge over the Little North Fork could be constructed beside the present one, making a four-lane bridge system and cutting costs of the entire project Proponents of the new road, however, point out that the right-of-way has been the property of the county for many years. They also assert that the old route would be unsuitable for a curve -free highway. The new route has the blessing of the Mill City Chamber of Com merce and the , Marion county court Money Measures Scheduled for Ballot in Portland PORTLAND. Feb: 23 -fiPU The city council voted today to submit two financial measures to the peo ple in we May i primary elec tion. - One Is a proposed 3150.000 bond Issue to provide improvements at trie, civic auditorium, the other a proposed 3200,000 special levy for park improvements.! l I n The council tomorrow will de cide whether also to submit to voters proposals to raise $3,500,000 through higher property taxes and water rates. I Ronald Jones Re-Elected President of Oregon Farmers Union; Meet Backs Reapportionment By Lillie L. Hadsea ' Farm Editor. The Statesman ' Ronald J ones of Brooks was elected president of the Oregon Farmers -union for the, sixth an nual time Thursday as its conven tion which opened here Tuesday drew to a close. Jones was also voted to serve as the delegate for the Oregon group to the national convention to be held in Denver in early March. J. G. Matzke of Aurora was. re elected to the vice presidency and directors named Thursday were D. J. Hunt of Boring and Arnold Spranger, Salem, the latter re elected. Holdover directors are El don Emerson of The Dalles, Frank Schulmerich of Hillsboro and Wil liam Jensen of Halsey. Other than election, the final day was spent in adopting resolu tions including one favoring re apportionment of the legislature and the policy and action program tor the coming year. Two items in the latter brought some fire from the floor. - , Raising the most heated argu although in doing so they had to get in the same column of the roll call as the southern demo crats who i superintended the wrecking of the original bill. FEPC, the initials which have taken on almost a mystic signifi cance to Negroes and some other minority groups, stands for fair employment practices commission. The bill the house passed and sent to the senate would establish such a commission, but that is about alL The hoard would be directed to work with state and local agen cies to discourage discrimination in the hiring and firing of min ority groups. The commission could hold investigations, and make recommendations but it couldn't issue cease-and-desist or ders enforceable by the federal courts, as the administration bill provided,-"' -.; A democrat, who holds a very high position in the house summed it up: "Just a gesture." Air Freight Shipments Set Salem Record Record-breaking shipments of air freight have been flown out of Salem in recent days by United airlines to cap a winter of shat tered production marks. Manager Harold Sweeney revealed Thurs day. ' ?' Wednesday and Thursday near ly 6,000 pounds of mushrooms were flown from the ' city to es tablish a new two-day record, Sweeney said. In the past week. February 16 through 22, shipment of 11,556 pounds of mushrooms and: poults smashed another Salem base rec ord. , As United airlines prepares to testify before the civil aeronaut ics board relative to the petition of West Coast airlines-to institute service in Salem, Sweeney Thurs day reviewed United s winter rec ord and took a brief look at the future. - His company will be called on to review its record at a prelim' inary hearing next week at the Salem Chamber of Commerce and later at the final hearing in Wash ington, D.C. Outcome of the hear ings will decide whether West Coast airlines will supplant or supplement United In Salem . . or whether West Coast will even come Into the city. "Despite bad weather we broke all winter production records dur ing November, December and Jan uary," Sweeney said. "The three-month air freight total was nearly 100,000 pounds," he said. Total loaded in Salem during 1949 was 229,137 pounds compared with 182,805 pounds in 1948. (Additional details on page 20) ment was the proposal to repeal the law, passed at the last elec tion, giving non-property owners the right to vote on school tax is sues.. Hunt, the newly-elected board member, lead the fight for its re peal and Wendell Barnett of Ger vais favored the retention of the law. No other measure up for con sideration during the entire con vention brought forth as many speakers both for and against as did this proposed resolution. How ever, in final count, the resolution failed adoption giving a two to one vote for the law as it now stands. Indications were that the family buying a home on contract and therefore not technically pay ing a property tax, who would be denied a vote if the law were repealed, defeated the passage of the resolution as introduced at the Thursday session. The second item bringing up argument on the floor was the reapportionment proposal submit ted under the policy and action program. The proposal provides Ask Work Of Board Retained ODDOsition to changing any zone classifications in the state capitol area or fringes around it was ex- Kressed Thursday night by the Sa m long range planning commis sion. The commission's action was aimed at a recommendation of the city zoning commission earlier this week that a business zone De established at the southeast corn er of Capitol and Center streets where George Rboten and S. F. Speerstra seek to locate a service station. Long range planners will have their stand laid before both the city council and the zoning com mission. The move for business zoning of the lot now in question will go before the city council fpr final disposition. Several members said they op- nosed a business zone at the Capitol and Center corner, two blocks from the capitoL In other business, the long range planners recommended that their commission be retained as an ad visory body to the Salem Chamber of Commerce, with the commis sion's paid staff to be. taken over for planning work in some gov ernmental office here. (Additional details on page 4) Longshot Bet Gets High Odds LONDON. Feb. 23 -MVA cus tomer eot 10.000 to 1 odds on a 1 ($2.80) bet with Bookmaker Douglas Stuart today. To. collect, '-all. of these things have to happen: Conservatives to win today's election;' Churchill to be the next prime minister; Cromwell to win the Grand Na tional steeplechase, March 25; China Verdict to win the Lin colnshire handicap, March 18: : Chelsea to win the football as sociation (soccer) cup (now ifi quarterfinals, finals April 29): Canada to win world amateur hockey championships (starts March 13); Cambridge to beat Oxford in annual boat race (April 1.) The backer was not Identified. All his 'choices start with the letter "C." . Seven Gunmen Steal 350,000 in Uninsured Jewels CLEVELAND, Feb. 23 -(JP)- W earing stockings on their shoes and hoods over their heads, seven gunmen got an estimated $350, 000 in uninsured jewels today in a slick holdup at the William G. Mather mansion. - But Mather himself, 93-year-old retired board chairman of Cleve land Cliffs Iron Co and a mil lionaire many times over, slept on as nis wife screamed and bis Irish terrier, Pokey, barked. i The robbers discovered where the jewels were by waking Mrs, Mather, 60-year-old socialite. for apportionment of representa tion in the state legislature by population rawer tnan by area. : Senator Dean Walker of Inde pendence opened the opposition to the reapportionment to which he referred as the "Portland propos aU The matter was brought into discussion in mid-forenoon and by noon was returned to the commit tee for reconsideration, i Sen. Walker, In his opposition, stated that while he - was not against reapportionment in some form he rather opposed the form presented here.; , "We cant he said move Port land out to Harney county which has mo population, but ftill has rights and X feel this program for reapportionment might deprive tnem ox tnese." - The committee brought back the proposal in its original form im mediately after the noon recess and it was passed with no further argument and only one negative vote that of Sen. Walker. (Also see story page 13) Candidate M ' V FlUna for re-elecJon Thursday was Walter Nerblad, republi can, congressman representing the first Oregon congressional district. . Noi4)lad Asks New Term as Congressman Walter Norblad, republican con gressman from the first Oregon congressional district, filed for re election Thursday. He is now serv ing his third term. . Norblad,- originally sent to Washington via special election in 1945 to succeed the late Rep. James W. Mott, is western repub lican whip and is a member of the powerful committee on com mittees and the armed services committee of the house. The 41-year-old Astoria attor ney served in the Oregon legis lature two terms prior to World War II and was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1940. He entered military service in 1942, serving with the combat intelligence division of the 8th air force, and was awarded the air medal for voluntary combat mis sions. Norblad received the bachelor of science and doctor of juris prudence degrees from the Uni versity of Oregon and took grad uate work at Harvard Law school. The congressman so far is un opposed on the republican ticket, L. T, Ward of Philomath has filed for first district congressman as a democrat (Additional Thursday filings on page 16). Oswego Lake Fire Destroys Boats. Shop OSWEGO. Feb. 23 -MVA fire destroyed Wally's Marine Sales and Service today, along with a 60-foot yacht and several smaller boats which were inside the build ing. V : ' 'v,:' '-. ' Exploding gasoline punctuated the fire, and sent flames spurt ing high in the air. A - The Lake theatre, a joining the building, was slightly damaged, but flames were kept xrom spread ing to it by a fire wall. Two power lines, which burned and crashed to the street, were re moved by linemen. Firemen from Oswego. River dale, and West Linn fought the names. Corvallis CouncU Still Considering Time Switch CORVALLIS. Feb. 23 -IJPi- Th iorvams city council is still de- Dating wnetner to go on daylight saving time this summer nr nnt ine retail merchants asked for daylieht time. But the nntnn County Farm Bureau, the Wren farmers union,' ana a group of individuals all petitioned for stanaard tune. Max. MIn. Preelp, wen i Portland , 4S .S4 San Francisco ...,5S . 42 .00 Chicago ' t J New York 33 25 , AS Willamette river SB feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy this ' moraine with Intermit tent light rain Improving to partly ciouay wiu occasional ugnt snowers wis arternoon and tonmt. - SALEM PRECIPITATION This year ,. Jast Ytax Normal SX3S M.44 24.M Si- r ange School Near End By Winston H. Taylor Staff Writer, The Statesman Testimony was completed Thursday afternoon In the trial concerning alleged secret society activities at Salem high school, assuring that the proceedings would end today in Marion county circuit court. Closing arguments will commence at 9:30 us. today. Decision by Circuit Judge Dal M King of Coquille will not be forthcoming for from two to. four weeks, be said Thursday, It will concern whether the Salem club involved, whose 19 members were expelled from school last October, was a secret society within the meaning of the Oregon law pro hibiting such groups and whether the school systems hearing for the boys was adequate and fair. Con stitutionality of the law is not at stake. v Both Sides Rest Cases. Without calling to the stand a considerable number of persons subpoenaed, the plaintiffs rested their case at 10:45 aJn. Thursday. The defense rested at 3:35 pjn., also without calling some witness es. Plaintiffs' counsel in the re buttal recalled three witnesses and added testimony from three addi tional. ".'".-.;-. Judge King warned yesterday morning that he was "not going to allow lawyers to call everyone in the state to give his opinion' and warned against duplication of testimony. As the court recess ed in the afternoon, however, he said counsel : had "handled , ad mirably 'a difficult type of case and expressed appreciation of co operation by principals in the trial and by the crowd, which lammed and overflowed the courtroom al most continuously during the case's three days. Tell of Procedure Two school board members and two officials testified as to pro cedure in learning about the boys group, known as Alpha Beta Chi or American Boys' club, from the opening of school to the expulsion decision; as to the many hours spent by board members in the case... .. . , .;. ' Gardner Knapp of the board told of a meeting with groups of club members, where he said the substance of conversation w a s that the boys hadn't conferred with , school officials about the club, until called in, because they thought 11 it grew large enough the school Vould hesitate to ex pel them." Three boys, Dick Coats, Dick Klinefelter and Marvin Dow, de nied that any such statements had been made. They and Jim Kroep lin. club president, told of taking in five members September 21, but said no officials had-ever ask ed them why they took that step after being warned September 19 that the club might not be legally acceptable.;;.,. Kroeplin said the ABC "dis banded informally" at a late Sep tember meeting. (Additional details on page 3) DONAUGH CANDIDATE PORTLAND. Feb. 23-VCarl C. Donaugh, former VS. district attorney here, said today he would run for the democratic nomina tion for XJJS. representative. ,That is the post held by Rep. Homer D. AngelL republican, Club Case -Hatfield, Emigh to Run for House; Anderson Eyes State Senate Rsco Two more republicans announ ced their forthcoming candidacies for the state house o represen tatives from Marion county Thursday. . They are Mark O. Hatfield? In structor in political science at Willamette and alternate chairman of the county republican commit tee, and George Emigh, general manager of the Salem ; Senators baseball team. - v Hatfield, 27,ls a native of Dal las; a graduate of . Salem High school, Willamette university (A. B.) and Stanford ULA. in po litical science), and chairman of the county citizens' committee for the Hoover report He is a naval veteran of World War II (It Jg), a member of several professional societies and active in the Salem hospital drive, (Additional details on page 20.) Emigh, who came to Oregon 23 years ago Iron. Michigan, was 10Z tor lones in Parliament ; By the Associated Press ' ' ' ' " ". 1 : LONDON, Friday. Feb. 24-f AP-Britain'a IaW party wrapped up a 5 to 3 lead over the conservative -in parliamentary election returns from more than : uura oi tne nation today. Labor claimed a clear-cut ? victory and with it. a mandate to drive Britain alomr the road to socialism for iteturns from 266 of per cent of the vote showed labor clinched 163 seats in the new house of commons, the conservatives 102 seats, and the once-powerful liberals, only one. At that : point counting ended for the night Two fit the 2ftft seat. AaMAaA wam TI rttU,, v.lt4l. n.-MUw, WAfcUWUI VXMUAiaj W cause the candidates were unopposed. The popular vote for the other O A .-t-J f. .1. A1A VXf Sf . ... ... ... v- kuuucu toti;. iisregarauig. arov. T n hn. J ,70 9X1. n LI Communist, 46,670. s - V- - . Jubilant laborites predicted at least a 60 -seat majority in the new house. They, had a 148-member majority In the last one. , Gloom settled over conservative headquarters. While Winston '. Churchill's hard-fighting party had cut into labor's ranks In parlia- " ment. bv morning it still hail m 1tn v in trn Tint tliat Mriffanflf iiioe had not yet given up the fight rnme, Minister Attlee was reelected to the house, along with Sir Stafford Cripps, chancellor of the exchequer, and Aneurln Bevan, the . health minister. . ; . . - Attlee Says Result 'Pretty Satisfactory' Attlee hailed the results as "pretty satisfactory" At 445 am 'fft'lS nm Thnrutn TXIX ha tM UKn. r,mr4-m m. ficfals at party headquarters: -I should say while one never the finish, the results are pretty ine e -year-oid leader seemed tired, but was in good spirits. "There will be a labor government in power in Britain tornor row," declared Morgan Phillirw. ; Phillips, the party stratecdst. highest in the 50-year history of majonty in me new nouse would be at least 60 seats. Labor had fully expected that the whopping 143 majority it had In the last housa would be reduced. The last house had 640. seats, 15 more than the new one will have. The Indications were that the vote was the heaviest In Britain's history --somewhere in the neighborhood of 26.000,000. Late after noon and early evening rainstorms which caused labor some dismay apparently had little effect on the size of the outpouring of voters -seeking to say their say on the Issue of more or less socialism. ; Czar of Austerity Program Re-Elected i Cripps, whose popularity was not enhanced by his position as czar of Britain's belt-tightening austerity program, told his supporters: The results show that the people are determined to hang on to what they have won in the past: We have done all sorts of things in the labor government which have not been popular, yet you are com ing along and supporting the most unpopular man of alL" He meant himself. - - - ' , ; -The labor minister of health, Bevan, was a four-to-one winner In his district in Monmouthshire, Wales. ' Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin was returned to the house, but Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones lost out to his conservative opponent by a margin of 81 votes.. . .", The vote in conservative leader Churchill's district was not to be counted until later today, but like most top party leaders, he was a "safe" constituency with election virtually assured for the 75-year-old leader ox nis majesty's loyal opposition. ; Govt. Official Defeated in Election A, senior government official failing to gain reelection was Sir Frank Soskice, solicitor general. He was defeated by Liverpool Lum berman H. D. Oakshott, a conservative, by 3,219 votes in the Beblng ton district' - v Among the labor ministers reelected were: Arthur -Henderson, secretary for air; George R. Strauss, minister of supply, and A. J. Barnes, minister of transport , Oliver Stanley, a prominent conservative, won a seat Sir Andrew McFadyean, liberal party president trailed the field at Finchley. In biting Into labor's majority, the conservatives took 21 com mons seats which had been laborite, while surrendering only one which had been conservative. Because of the revision of constituen ces, it was not possible in most cases to compare these results with ' those of 1945, when labor scored its postwar landslide. . - The count of votes will be resumed this afternoon. The communists had won no seats at alL They had two seats la the last parliament and put 100 candidates In the field this time. Among the defeated conservative candidates was Randolph Churchill, son of the conservative leader. Reports Indicated that the greatest outpouring of voters In Brit ain's history cast ballots on this issue: More socialism under labor, less under the conservatives. 10-Year Blueprint For Salem Parks Development Near "A 10-year blueprint for Salem parks development is shaping up and should be ready for its place in the city administration's over all development plan within a week or twoJ City Manager J. L. Franzen saidNrhursday. Future parkplannlng was dis cussed Thursday night with the manager by members of the park advisory board, the long range planning commission's park; com mittee and the local recreation committee. graduated from Oregon State col lege with a BS. in education and physical education in 1931, later getting a master of science de gree. He has taught and coached at Burns, Astoria and at Jeffer son and Franklin high schools in Portland. He came to Salem in 1945, after being mustered out of the marine corps. (Additional details on page 6.) " -Another eyeing the legislature is Steve Anderson, former presi dent of. the state Young Republi cans and a Salem attorney. An derson is known to be considering running for the senate. He said Friday, however, that "it's a little too soon to comment" Marion county Is to elect four representatives, two senators, this year.V. Already ' announced . for -: the house are H. R. (Farmer) Jones, former - representative, and Lloyd Girod of Idanha, both republi five more years. 625 constitnencie or 40 ' minor parties, u was spilt una mnm AAA. ., V i . . . . . . "... i likes to anticipate a result before satisfactory and the vote is up." labor oartv secretary. said the labor vote would be ihm his party. He predicted that labor'a Man Dead in Siletz Wds NEWPORT, Feb. 23 -CSV Del bert Hargis, 27, was found dead today by a search party which had been scouring the rough Si letz country for him. Taft Police Chief Dale Westram said Hargis had evidently died of a heart attack while alone in the forest His body was found within a mile, of the point where he dis appeared. . . Volunteers had been called in to hunt for Hargis after he failed to return from the woods yesteiday. cans. Rep. John R. Steelhammer is regarded as certain to be candidate to succeed himself; B. E. (Kelly) Owens, Salem auto dealer, and Roy Houck, contract or, and Dr. E. E. Boring ara known to be among possibilities. Two of the county's present representatives W. W. Chad wick and. Douglas Yeater al ready have announced themselves candidates : for the republicaa nomination to the senate, as ha Frederick Lamport, . Incumbent senator. Sen. Allan Carson has indicated he would not seek new term. Rep. Frank Doerfie is expected to file for the sen ate, and Mayor R. L. Elfstrom also is being urged to run. Both art republicans. 1 ' - Democrats are known to bo urging Loyal Warner and Clar ence Shrock to run for. the legis lature but neither, has given thi go-ahead. ;