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8 Mill TED: Mem .aimed 10 Year ion an v X dp ' ' ' ' . 8Sth YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon. Tuesday. March 7, 1S50 PRICE 5c No. 357 Gdiplon - Lewis Offers $1 Million Loan to Keuther'Jury Sent - :! fi u ones naiienge u-aoor to oatue or uuies EQODjJS ;That hardy perennial in city planning, off-street parking, came to the fore last week with a meet ing of businessmen and others to hear a report from Mayor JQXstrom and hi special commit- The group expressed approval of a diversion of 25 per cent of parking meter fees to an off-street parking fund, which would yield an estimated $25,000 year. It was generally recognized that this would not be enough to do the Job for Salem, but it would prof vide a start s i x Various proposals have been offered to solve this problem. I won't go into all of them. There is one which needs to be explor ed, and that Is creation of local assessment districts which would acquire property and lease it for parking purposes to private operar ton, or if no such deal could be made, operate the facilities them- selves. ' : - Under this plan property-owners in a given area could petition for an assessment district, and, if this was approved the parking facility could be ict up. Special assessments on the property in the district would be levied to pay for the installation and foj any deficit beyond the current Income. The state law (chap. 474, laws ot 1949) gives very broad powers to the city in this regard. A char ter amendment would have to be adopted to -make 'it workable locally. The assessment plan puts the cost on the area being served rather -than on the whole , city. Any section could move to set up such a district. It would run Into criticism as interfering with pri vate industry but private capital Isn't moving fast enough to solve the problem. After all, the town fathers used to provide watering troughs'for horses in the old days, and set up hitching rackSv The municipal parking lot is thus the . modernization of an old function of local government, h Think it over. Discussion of 'Big 4? Meet Possibility Due PARIS, March B-CflVThe possi bility of 'i"big four meeting in cluding Russia will be discussed by the three western foreign min isters in London soon, Trench For eign Minister Robert Schuman said tonight An authoritative French source said the American British and French foreign ministers will meet in the British capital on April 12. Schuman said at a news confer' ence the three foreign ministers will "study the problems of a big four meeting." He said the three foreign min isters also will discuss the far eastern situation, including Jap an, relations with communist Chi na, Indochina and aid to southeast Asia. It will also review the Ger man problems, he said. -. Animal Crackers r By WARREN GOODRICH ZHlx roict certain hu ppe! Giiibitche v Jurors Deadlocked II. n Attlee Plans To Continue Nationalization LONDON, March 6 - VP) -' Win ston Churchill's conservatives to day challenged the shaky labor government to immediate battle on the issues of housing and state ownership of the iron and steel industry. The Tories flung down the gauntlet aftfcr Prime Minister Att lee told the new house of com mons his regime plans to go ahead on the iron and steel program. Earlier, in all the regalia of tra dition. King George had read to the opening session ot the new parliament the labor government's policy speech which omitted all mention, of further nationaliza tion or socialist measures. Meeting of Cabinet Churchill called a meeting' of the conservative party "shadow cabinet a few minutes after Att lee had finished speaking. This group challenged the labor government by deciding to offer two amendments to the standard government motion for approval of the king's speech. One amendment will express re gret that the speech "contains no reference to the future of the iron and steel industry.' Decline In Housing The second amendment will say that there is a "continuing de cline' in the number of new hous es built each year by the labor government, and that the king's speech "contains no indication that the government intends to take more effective measures to deal with the -situation." If the conservatives press the Issue to a vote of confidence and win, the government might have to resign. This would force, a new national election on the heels of the February 23 balloting In which labor was returned to pow er with a precarious seven-seat majority. Attlee said the debate on the king's speech will go on until next Monday. The conservative amend ments may be called up any time between now and then. Churchill will lead off for the opposition in the resumed debate tomorrow. Thieves Make Bad Bargain Thieves made a bad bar- pain when they stole $8 worth oi one-cent stamps from the First Evangelical church at Summer and Marion streets early Monday. The stamps were precan celled for mailing church bul letins and are of no value without special mailing per mit In getting Into the church-through a window, the culprits dropped a three- -pound package of bacon which was worth more to them than the stamps. City police investigated the burglary. Coal Miners Back in Pits PITTSBURGH, March Grinning miners got the nation's vital soft coal pipeline back In op eration today, quickly throwing; industry's sag into sharp reverse. Smiles wreathed faces of John L. Lewis diggers as bulk of the' 372,000 strikers struggled back to the pits undef their triumphant pay boost contract. . Coal rolled from mines every where before nightfall. Industry, brought to the brink of collapse by the strike, general ly is expected to return to nor mal in about 10 days. House Approves Hawaii Statehood WASHINGTON, March -UPy-The house, which on Friday pass ed a bill to grant statehood 1 to Alaska, tentatively approved ' a similar measure for Hawaii today. The bill was approved by voice vote. The . action is subject to final passage rollcall tomorrow. - Prospects for both bills are un certain in the senate, which has not acted. jl iajtAi Greek Vote Result i Swings to Riglft ATHENS. March 6-(AP)-An early Leftist lead in yesterday's Greek elections was cut sharply tonight as the soldier vote be gan pouring in. Returns from S per cent of the 140,009 soldiers eligible to vote gave Constantin Tsaldaris Populists A right wing party about at 3-1 advantage over Gen. Nicholas Flastiras' Leftist National Progressive union. Political observers said if the trend continues Tsaldaris' par ty would win. (Story also on page 2) Yeater, Chase, Marsh, Gibson File for Senate Four republicans filed for nom inations as state senator Monday, including State Rep. Douglas Yea ter of Marion county. The others were -Eugene. Marsh, Angus Gibson and Truman Chase, currently senators from Yamhill, Lane-Linn and Lane counties, re spectively. ' . Robert F. Maguire, Portland, filed for position 3 on the state supreme court. Filing for state representatives were: Robert Y. Thornton, (d), Tilla mook, 3rd district. Richard J. Burke, (r), Port land, 5th district. Donald R. Husband, (r), Eu gene, 14th district Loran L. Stewart, (r), Cottage Grove, 14th district. W. P. Vernon, d), Lakeview, 29th district John Morgan, (r), Portland, 5th district. Ed Foss, (d), Portland, 5th dist rict. Robert Rucker. (d), Medford, 19th district Several score more candidacies for state offices are expected to be filed prior to the deadline at 5 p.m. Friday. Mayor R. L. FJfstrom reiterated his decision Monday not to enter the race for a senatorship from Marion county. Head-On Crash v F4tal.t0.Five PENDLETON", March 6 JP) Five persons died today in the flaming wreckage of a head-on automobile collision. A car carrying the five started to pass a truck when it ran into an oncoming truck. Alphonso Knox, 38, was jolted from the car, fatally injured. The other four died in the burning wreckage. They were Knox's wife, Margaret, about 30; Robert Scott, 45; Mary Louise Moution, 22; and Nell Todd, 24. All were Negroes who Jived in Pendleton. The driver of the truck, Elgie Farris, Boise, was not injured. Daylight Saving Gains Slightly . . . Daylight Saving Time gain ed one per cent in the Sound ing Board's poll over the week end, but farmers remained 87 per cent opposed and the city tabulation still showed only 20 per cent for it . The total to date: For Daylight Saving 15 Against Daylight Saving 5 By classifications: Farmers, 3 97 Cityites 20 80 For Against New votes came from the Jefferson, Brooks, Stayton, Sil verton, Gervais, Woodburn and Scio areas, as welT as Salem. Vots received up to Friday night March 10, will be in cluded in the final tabulation to be published in The States man next Sunday, along with pertinent comments. Tear COMPLETE Newspaper r. if a Offers Aid for Struggle Chrysler, GM WASHINGTON, March -JP)-John L. Lewis, flushed with vic tory after . the month-long coal strike, today offered a million dollar loan to help a CIO union win new contracts from Chrysler and General Motors. Lewis wrote Walter Reuther, head of the big CIO Auto Workers union, that wage-welfare im provements in coal were fought by money interests which are linked with "the financial group that dominates" car making. f The miners union boss, having set a $1.40 daily increase goal for other labor leaders, thus put cash on the line to help the fight for gains in other industries. Money help from AFL and oth er CIO unions for Reuther also was invited by Lewis. He wrote Reuther this aid is needed so "your union may be assured, be yond peradventure, of success in its present struggle." Besins Eighth Week Reuther is in the midst of a long strike for workers pensions at the Chrysler Corp. The 90,000-man walkout began its eighth week to day. It was estimated the workers have lost $35,000,000 in wages so far and Chrysler more than $250,- 000,000 worth of business. ! The auto worker union's con tract with General Motors expires in May. Reuther has served de mands on GM for wage and pen sion boosts worth 31 cents an hour per worker. Jubilant Meeting i The help for Reuther was auth orized at a jubilant meeting of Lewis with his top union aides. Loud applause was heard behind the closed doors of the miners' meeting hall for Lewis and his lieutenants, and for Welly K. Hoplins, the union's chief lawyer who obtained acquittal for the un ion from court contempt charges. Lewis is understood to have boasted at the meeting that he had "licked" the strike emergency in junction provisions of the Taft Hartley law. A court injunction obtained under the law failed to end the coal strike. The 372,000 strikers simply couldn't work without a contract To Continue Appeal ' However, the justice department said it will go ahead with its ap peal of the acquittal decision by Federal District Judge Richmond B. Keech. The department had said earlier that it probably would drop the appeal to the U. S. court of ap peals if the strike ended. Police Bullets Stop Car After Speedy Chase , EUGENE, March 6-UPiV6U.ce chased an automobile all the way from Salem to Springfield at speeds up to 95 miles an hour to day, finally halting it with gun fire. The car's two occupants, un hurt were arrested. John L. Sha ver, 22, was booked on an auto theft charge, and Robert Fox, 21, on a grand larceny charge. - Police said the chase began when Salem police sighted a car reported stolen in Dallas. ; They went after it and the car stepped VP to. 80 miles an hour, headed for Eugene. At Eugene it zipped past a road block. Four Eugene patrol cars then took up the chase, careening through Springfield at 00 and 95 miles an hour Then they began firing. The car, shot through the wind shield, body and hood, rolled over at an underpass near Goshen. Judge Refuses to Delay Case for Government PORTLAND. March 6-WVFed- eraT Judge James Alger Fee, got his dander up today. He refused a government attorney a delay in the opening of a civil suit against a corporation. , He said a government agency Is not entitled to more consideration than a private citizen and that the case would open March 13, whe ther the government was ready or not Tft Wrttl U IIOICI For Night NEW YORK, Tuesday, March 7 -(&)- A federal jury was locked up early today after twice report ing itself unable to reach agree ment in the Coplon-Gubitchev spy conspiracy trial. Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan told the six men and six women at 12:28 a.m. (EST) they would be sent to a hotel for the remainder of the night and would resume deliberating at 10:30 ajn. The jurors received the case at 4:34 p.m. yesterday and spent four hours and 24 minutes in actual deliberations. Asked for Respite The jurors sent the iudee a note at 12:25, a.m. saying that in view of the hour and because there was no prospect of earlv a?rpmpnt they wished to "cease delibera tions." Ryan, agreed and. ordered the jurors taken to a hotel under custody of deputy U. S. marshals. The jurors had come into the courtroom twice before. The first time at about 11 p.m. they reported they had (. been unable to reach a verdict but asked per mission to continue deliberations for a time before giving up for the night Asked Question Shortly before midnight they returned again to ask whether the second count of the indictment alleged Miss Coplon had secret documents in her possession law fully or unlawfully. Judge Ryan said the answer was "lawfully. But he said the question was whether Miss Cop lon transmitted the information to someone else i.e., to Gubit- chev who was not entitled to possess it Miss Coplon faces up to 35 years in prison if convicted. Gub itchev could get up to 15 years. Each could be fined up to $20,000. Miss Coplon was sentenced to 40 months to 10 years following her previous conviction in Washing ton. She is free on baiL Westinghouse Builds A-Power Plant for Sub PITTSBURGH, March 8 -(JP). For the first time, Westinghouse Electric Corporation today offic ially admitted the atomic power plant it is building is for a U. S. navy submarine. Previously the company's only explanation of the project was that the atomic power plant was intended for a naval vessel Scientists say such a craft could virtually run forever without re fueling. The work, being done at old Bettis airport near Pitts burgh, has been subject of con jecture of many months. Work on the project began last April. It is estimated completion will take from, two to six years. The submarine itself will be built elsewhere. . Westinghouse now discloses In a news releases on its annual re port to stockholders that a tech nical staff has been assembled for the project and is now at work. Dr. Sander Insists Patient Died Prior To Injection; Even Injection in Doubt MANCHESTER, N. H March 6 -UP)- Dr. Hermann N. Sander stoutly insisted today Mrs. Abbie Borroto , was dead before he in jected air into her arm but claimed his mind "snapped and he could not explain why he did it. Nearly three hours of sharp cross-examination by his long time friend, Attorney General William L. Phinney, failed to shake the story of the 41-year-old country doctor who is on trial for murder. ' The state claims he killed Mrs. Borroto, a. hopeless cancer pa tient, in an act of mercy" to end her agony. Dr. Sander repeatedly denied "any intention" of killing Mrs. Borroto but admitted making the injections even though he knew she was dead explaining "something snapped." "1 felt impelled or obsessed to do something. Why, I don't know," said the doctor, M ... It doesnt make sense." Under cross-examination Dr. Bra mage, Priority; Lommun System in City Officials 9 Plan it r By Robert E. Gangware City Editor, The Statesman . , A long, hard look at $8,336,439 worth of .projects considered essential to the city of Salem was taken Monday night by Salem councilmen and zoning com missioners. ; ! The projects and the figures embraced just about everything from com munity centers to long-talked drainage and airport improvements. Together these represented a 10-year city development plan as drafted by Gty Manager J. L. Franzen, his top city aides ami citizen advisers. The plan was uucncu uciwc oaicm vmciaiuom aiier umacrai City Manager .".'."'..l.'-f: S)L. - ' ' : J i ,..r.. '. V - v: y. srAy y y:iym x ' yyyy K -r--- . I- !- . ; y City Bfaiuter J. I Franzen. showed maps and charts tm the city cevneH and city zoning commission Monday night as he Outlined an 8,000 000 program for city of Salem improvements offtdde regmlar bedgets ever the cominr decade. Circles mn map above represent half-mile community radios from proposed turn, branch library, gymnasium areas. (Statesman photo). Air Force May Drop Jet Bomber WASHINGTON, March 6-(JP-The air force said today that it has not yet decided whether the Boeing XB-52 jet bomber will be dropped from its present position as the planned successor of the B-3 6 intercontinental bomber. The statement replied to inquir ies about published reports that abandonment or postponement of the jet bomber's development is being considered. The published reports saM the air force is con sidering instead large orders for a greatly: altered B-3 6 equipped with new Hurbo-prop" engines in place of its present piston engines. New Snow in Santiam Pass Two Inches of new snow in the Government Camp area, with plows in operation, was reported by the state highway department here Monday. Eighty-eighf inches of roadside snow was reported in the Government Camp section. There also was new snow on Santiam Pass with chains advised. Plows were in operation. Spots of ice were reported at Seneca. Only other new snow was in the Aus tin area and in the Willamette pass district. All other roads in the state were reported in good condition. Sander said he could not remem ber what he was doing until the next day but he insisted "I knew I hadn't done anything wrong." The doctor defendant and the youthful prosecutor sparred in a dramatic clash that saw sharp but calm verbal exchanges. Dr. Sander insisted that he was not given a chance by county in vestigators to explain the hospital notations of air injections before his arrest on December 29 25 days after Mrs. Borroto's death. Over and over, he snapped back at Prosecutor Phinney "My con science is clear my conscience has been clear throughout this af fair." ;. At one point. Dr. Sander, who was on the stand about 4ft hours, retorted: "I couldn't go on about my practice so nonchalantly if I had thought I had killed her (Mrs. Borroto)." Earlier,, the accused doctor de clared "I have never done any thing to harm any patient." When Phinney asked whether Sewer Plant Get Explains Plait IiA.v'-.:.'..-a centers to combine park, anditor- and fire station at five Salem . Anderson Will Seek Office as State Senator Steve Anderson, Salem attorney, announced Monday he would file for the republican nomination as state senator. i Anderson, 35, said his "cam paign might be a test of the pos sibilities of younger leaders of the republican party in aspiring for public office." i A precinct committeeman since 1940, Anderson 'was state execu tive secretary of the Young Re publican federation in 1942, na tional committeeman for the fed eration in 1946, state chairman in 1948 and now national vice chairman for the region.- He was treasurer of the Marion county central committee in 1946-47. - : Anderson was born in Curry county, was graduated from Wil lamette university in 1937,. re turned to Willamette law school to graduate in 1942 and was ad mitted to the Oregon bar prior to entering the service. He served as an ensign and lieutenant (j.g. for more than three, years, mostly in the Mediterranean, but has op posed a state veteran's bonus. I Anderson has served on the ! city housing authority, as presi dent of wuiamette Alumni asso-, elation in 1946 and 1947 and as board member at First Methodist chjA-ch. He is married and has one son: (Picture on page 5.) he ever felt a patient "might be better served by being dead" Sander replied, "I have never thought that" While admitting attempting the injections, Dr. Sander refused to concede that he succeeded in pushing the needle into the cancer-stricken woman's veins. . . "You say now that there is a serious question about whether it was an intravenous Injection?" asked Phinney. That's right," replied the de fendant. Q. Then the only thing correct (In the hospital report) is that there was an air Injection? - A. Probably the correct thing Would be to say that an attempt was made to give some. air. He said he withdrew the barrel of the syringe, "but no blood Came out; ordinarily, blood would nave come (if a vein had been pierc ed)." . ' - l . -i . . Dr. Sander said he was ! in fluenced in his act by "the ex pression on her face the long suffering also the fullering ot her husband." 1 t ity Center uie xuarion not el last night ah oi ine projects would have to be financed outside the re-mlar city budget except ,$2,667,000 in water department Improvements ' which department financing Itself ', would carry. Councilmen indicated they would lay the project list before the pub lic through an education campaign and then ask the public to vote on various of the projects as bond, issues or miilage taxes, separately or in combinations, over the next 10 years. - Top priority was assigned by in- 1 formal agreement to a $1,841,700 program, of drainage and sewage disposal over the .next six years.. 25-Year" Bend Issue Aldermen and commissioners ? said they would ask the voting public to consider, the drainage sewage project as a whole, prob ably as a 25-year bond issue re quirement. !."; After 'that and the self -f inane? ' . ing water department improve come nearly $4,000,000 worth of . additional projects spread in thie planning stage over the entire 10- -year period and awaiting priority decisions. The council proposed to submit ; this latter, list first to a ' citizens coordinating committee recently . formed by the Salem Chamber of Commerce to survey the extra tax ' needs of city, county and school ' district here over the coming dec ade with an eye to the overall tax ; burden. Also County, Schools . The Salem school district board . also has outlined an $8,000,000 . construction program it considers necessary in the coming 10 years. , The county has indicated a prob able need for a half million or. more in special funds. Here are the highlights of the ' city of Salem's 10-year plan: , Drainage ftqrtheast; Salem I drainage program to be virtually f completed this year, with south. Salem drainage to. follow: cocn drainage ditches in some places to be covered later. The S300,000 , program designed to keep the in- ' creasing runoff out of basements in wet seasons. Sewage -An additional $260,000 needed to enlarge the sewage dis- " posal plant already authorized by bond issue vote but not yet built. This was said necessary to accom modate a larger population than considered in the 1947 planning and to meet stricter-than-antici-pated standards of the state sani tary authority. Community Centers A $1,090, 000 program tentatively set for 1955-59 to combine needs for' branch libraries and fire stations with recreation and park areas. Five $200,000 buildings, about 100 by 150 feet, to include gymnasium, auditorium, fire station and li brary in park setting at neighbor ture, Englewood (Kay) park, 5il- verton road. Fairgrounds road and State street Present fire station properties would be sold and larg- -er areas acquired In some cases, i Bridges A $510,000 program ' for replacement of numerous old . bridges and widening in some -cases. Completion of the Church street bridge over "Mill creek and - South 23rd street bridge re- -placement have top priority In : this part of the plan. Street WideningFourteen pro- iects listed at various parts of city . in this $731,730 program, with in- ' dication that another $905,500 would be needed for similar wid- , eningsln the decade after 1960. Airport City fund need pegged at $447,087 over the 10 years, to be matched by $489,275 in federal . funds if available, for completing runway and taxiway improve ments, access roads, administration building, high . Intensity lights, landscaping and drainage. " Water First projects under this $2,667,000 program would include $350,000 reservoir built into Turner hill for potential storage capacity of 120,000,000 gallons, other storage facilities, West Sa lem improvements and new distri bution. Fire protection A $133,500 pro gram to replace heavy equipment, some of it already over 20 years old. Bush's pasture Not figured In the 10-year plan's community cen ter at this site would be develop ment of athletic grounds, picnic v and garden areas to be financed under the present park miilage , levy. The park tax might also' finance bulk of . the community center project over the decade. Max. 41 43 M Mln. ITeelp. . U .tl M M 37 jOO 33 JOO Salem i Portland. San. Francisco . Chlaaso , 4S 4S New Y ork at jW Willamette river 10.1 feet i FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Generally fair today with increasing cloudiness k tonight- High today Mar Hi low to night near U. lAUEM rai crrrxATio This Tear : san Last Year at Normal ga.it