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8Sth YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon. Tuesday. March 7, 1S50 PRICE 5c No. 357
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Lewis Offers $1 Million Loan to Keuther'Jury Sent
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;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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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centers to combine park, anditor-
and fire station at five Salem
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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.
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