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Newspaper Page TextGo - : - MyaKite - .,-. Nu rr-otg. Salem - , , U IS jn . Portland SI M 43 " ' San Francisco .It 41 trace Chicago 40 SI 'trace ."" New York 47 M - M Willamette river 14.4 feet , FORECAST (from U.S. weather bur-' eau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight with (li turner oaytuno tomo-raturM. Hth saw. day S3-&3: low tonl-ht AX14 Iiu-him cloudiness Wednesday. SALXM PRLCIPITATIOI This year X-tstvear. . KorhaJ 89th YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem. Orecan, Tuesday, March 21, 1950 PRICE 5c No. 3657 Ghina Reds Block Exit of 400 Americans, 1,200 Others . ' v3 ' :. t . ' r . "' . - i f - , ., X Q . . VlJX rmm 'm. tin frm few-year-old Gil Vftstba. ton f Mr. and Mr. Kenneth K. Vautnn. iem i Incildedr-, there will b plenty ef wind fer flyinr kitee darinx : the tmie-1 llareh weather aow. - (Pnete by Don Dill, SUtesituui ! stall phetetranher.) , Jefferson Flax Growers' Plant To Continue tatesa-aa News Service JEfTERSON, March 2WAP Tbe Santiam Tlax Growers plant --Jefferson's only industry will continue to operate flax growers decided at a meeting here Monday night. - The plant has not 'run on a full time basis recently due to insuffi- t Charles A. Spragve, writer ef It Seems, to Me" which BsaaHy . appears In this column. Is en ra cation. Seems' will be resamed upon bis return within the next few weeks. - dent flax crops, and the meet was called to determine whether to dispose of it or continue. A spokesman for the growers said the -decision was based on a desire to keep the industry in the community and to protect the in vestment that growers have in the plant. . Appropriations Bill Advances WASHINGTON, March 2tHV GOP budget - cutters withheld their fire today as the house ap- Eropriations committee tentative r approved some $16,000,0004)00 in spending' for almost every fed eral agency except the defense de partment. After approving that much of an omnibus $29,000,000,000 money bill wrapping up almost all pro posed government financing for fiscal year 1950-51, the committee quit until tomorrow morning. Republican committee members said they proposed no major cuts in committee because they want to make their, fight on the house floor. t DIE IN COLLISION . ROCKFORD, HL, March l0-(ff) 'Eight persons in an automobile including two babies were killed .tonight in a head-on collision with a truck on "death' curve" ten miles north of Rockford. ' - ., ; Anirhsl Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH hold mtp -- 5- f JJessyp Renounces; McCarthy C&narges As Aid to Commies Bv Kozer WASHINGTON, March 20-(P-Ambassador Philip C. Jessup to day angrily denounced Senator McCarthy's charges that reds infest lxi c aiAte acuuuiiciiL au uitdur foreign policy and an actual aid to world communism. And supported by Gen. George C Marshall and Gen. Dwight D, Elsenhower, Jessup sweepingiy attack on him as having an "af- finity'' for comumst causes. He said the senator had shown "a shocking disregard for the inter ests of our country. ' The state department's roving envoy and No. 1 diplomatic troub- leshooter topped off a 3,500-word blast aeainst ! McCarthy by sub mitting letters from Marshall, former secretary of state, and Ei senhower. f The letters strongly praised Jes sup for his loyalty, to the United States and his opposition to com munism. " - -Marshall 'Shocked Gen. Marshall said he was "shocked and distressed" by the attack on Jessup's integrity. Gen. Eisenhower said no one who has known Jessup would Question "the depth or sincerity" of his devo tion to "the principles of Ameri- But at the end of a stormy three. hour session on Capitol Hill, Mc Carthy still insisted that if senate investigators could get a look at the complete files on Jessup, "the importance of taking action . . . will be demonstrated.' Threatens Boycott The senator also threatened to boycott future hearings before a senate foreign relations subcom mittee unless the committee per mits him to cross-examine wit nesses. Testifying under oath, Jessup contended that McCarthy's char ges of communists and red sympa thizers in the state department have had the effect of aiding the international communist move ment. "It is impossible to -estimate the harmful effect that these innuen does have had on the success of my mission (in the far east) and the foreign policy of the United States, Jessup said. Dave Hoover Presses Attack On Sen. Morse EUGENE, March 20 -()- Dave Hoover of Lane county tonight launched his campaign to win the republican nomination for U. S. senator with a stinging attack on Incumbent Wayne L. Morse. "Morse should not run as a re publican; not as a democrat but as a member of the "Morse party',' Hoover told his audience in the Eugene high school. About 120 persons turned out. The dairyman said Senator Morse's stand on me Columbia Valley administration ' proposal was an example of "Morse the self-confessed intellectual ver sus Morse the practical politician.'' "We suspect Morse for the friends he has made," Hoover de clared. "No socialist will ever say of me that I am his favorite re publican." This was a reference to a recent statement by Norman Thomas, often a socialist candid ate for president iHBW.---HBM--Ja--Ba ASHLAND FETE DATE ET ASHLAND, March 2 (HP)-Ashland's Shakespearean festival will be held August 2-24 this year. Four plays will be presented in the outdoor Elizabethan theater in Iithia park, . BAKES TO TOTE ONUGHT8 BAKER, March 20 - VP) - Baker voters will be asked to decide May If whether they want to spend $100,000 on mercury vapor street lamps and some automatic traffic signals. ; . . Solons Back Substitute of $1 Billion Surplus Farm Crops for EC A Cash By Den Sanders , WASHINGTON, March' 20-(flV Overriding administration pro tests, the. house foreign --affairs committee voted today to hand a billion dollars worth of farm sur pluses to western Europe and cut that much cash out of the Mar shall plan. The v committee agreed behind closed doors to provide the sur plus commodities in lieu of a third of the money the administration had asked for the Economic Co operation 'Administration (EGA.) for the year beginning next July 1. ' If the house and senate go along, the action will mean that EGA will get $1,950,000,000 in new cash next year, plus $1,000,000,000 in sur pluses now held by the Commodi ty credit corporation. Their, value would be based on actual cost to the government. Including handl ing, -except that it could not be higher .than current market pric es. . .... . D. Greene uiniAuaiui i . ui.vw denied the Wisconsin republican's Investigation Of Multnomah Fair Ordered PORTLAND. March 20 -JPy- District Attorney John B. McCourt said tonight he would order a grand jury probe of "irregulari ties" in management of the Mult nomah county fair. He said his decision was reach ed after a full day's study of audit reports and "mismanagement" charges by County Cornmissioner Gene Rossman against the County Fair association. "The matter will be fully ex plored and all Interested parties given the opportunity to be heard," McCourt said. The fair association and the commissioners have been feuding for several months over who is to operate the f 1850 program at Gresham. The commissioners can celled the association's lease on the property last December. The asso ciation threatened last week to go to court to gain control of the fair grounds. Ordered Off Damaged Roads Heavy truck traffic through Sa lem was ordered off the county portions of Lancaster drive and South 12th street Monday by Mar ion county court. The directive, limiting loads to 12,000 pounds, is the result of severe damage to the heavily traveled roads during the recent freeze and thaw. The order is effective on Lan caster from State street (Four Cor- iners) to Its junction with high way 89-15 north of Salem, on 12th street from the city limits (Hoyt street) to its junction with 89-E south of Salem. County court members said large holes had appeared in the surfac ing and that adequate repairs are not possible for the present. CaptDuke to G)mmandl 'Mo WASHINGTON, March 20 -VP)-Capt. Irving T. Duke, hero of a World War II rescue at sea, will take over command of the battle ship Missouri next month. The Mighty Mo's former skip per, Capt William D. Brown, goes on trial before a general court martial at Norfolk, Va next Mon day oq charges growing out of the battleship's grounding Janu ary 17. . The navy disclosed Duke's sel ection for the new assignment to day. ''-"Xj. . He won the navy and marine corps medal for rescuing 247 pas sengers from the transport Wake field which 'burned at sea in 1842., "We don't like to be put in that kind of a strait jacket," EGA chief Paul G. Hoffman told reporters after the committee action. And Rep. Kee , (D-W.Va), committee chairman, protested that the move will cost the taxpayers more in the long run. . - Kee did not disclose the vote, but he said it cut across party lines. Rep. Vorys (R-Obio), who spon sored the amendment to the Tru man administration bill said, "there is no excuse for using new funds to ' buy more agricultural products - for a government pro gram, when we already own and have paid for these gigantic sur pluses." , The government has been try ing to get rid of some of the $4, 000,000,000 worth of farm sur pluses which it acquired during price support operations. Hoffman said be would have to investigate what surpluses are available which Europe needs. -- Heavy Trucks SHS Student Body Follows jr , -- ,. ! .-.. f (,. t tarn : - 9 -g--f.V, JL , A y : r ... ! The face ef victory shows fa the parading yeoths ef Salem senior high school above as they marched In a hare victory parade in downtown Salem Moaday, the aftermath ef SHS winning the state basketball championship Saturday night at Eugene. Members of the winning; team led the parade while riding in cars and were foUewed by the Civil Defense Minus Source Of State Funds How to pay ."negligible" state costs of maintaining an aircraft warning service with no funds at all posed a question for Oregon civilian defense officials Monday, U. S. Rep. Walter Norblad, 1st Oregon district, advised officials he had received a letter from Paul J. Larsen, director of the U. S. office of civilian mobiliza tion, explaining how costs of the service would be divided. He said the federal government would pay administrative costs. the cost of the filter centers and of the air raid warning facilities down to the local level. "States and local out-of-pocket costs are negligible," Larsen wrote, "the great contribution here being in time given, princi pally in receiving training by .vol unteer civilians through civil de fense agencies." State officials want money for a zuil-time secretary and lor travel expenses, but the 1949 leg islature failed to make an, ap propriation when it set up the civil defense organization. The state emergency board may be asked to provide some money, but officials said there is serious question whether it has authority to do so, because the legislature said no.. The organization also reported to Gov. Douglas McKay it is hav ing trouble obtaining volunteers to man the air raid warning sys tem which Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson recently ordered established in Oregon. little White Hen Goes Berserk ALBANY. Ga March 20-MFVA little whit hen was fastened up in the dote pound today after she furiously attacked in succession a dog. a hog. a horse, a cow and a child. Her captors thought she .might have hydrophobia. Health Com missioner D. D..M. Wolfe said, though, he . never heard of a chicken with rabies. . He suggested the hen may have become mentally unbalanced. She. was held for observation. He said he knows they include wheat, cotton and tobacco. Chairman Kee, who said he vot ed against the proposal, told re porters that the amendment, "in my opinion, doesn't save any thing." - , . Kee's argument ran this way: ECA normally would buy large stocks of U. S. foodstuffs on the open market at prices lower than the government is pledged to pay to support prices. If it is forced to take a billion dollars worth of surplus stocks . the total demand will shrink, and the department of agriculture will have to buy up the same amount to keep farm prices from falling. "So it will cost the government more, because the secretary , (of agriculture) will have to pay 90 per cent of parity, which is more than the open market price," Kee said. "ECA would get more for its money than the commodity cre dit corporation." 'Victory Day' Celebrated By Salem High Students By Gilbert Bateson Statesman School Correspondent Monday was "Victory Day" at Salem high school. The student body was excused from afternoon classes to celebrate the state prep basketball championship won last week at Eugene. Fes tivities included an assembly, a downtown parade and a dance in the school gym. The assembly from 12:30 until 1:30 started the celebration. Frank Bennett, superintendent of city schools, spoke briefly on the sig nificance of the championship. E. A. Carle ton, high school principal, then introduced the ' team and played a recording of the final minutes - of the title tilt with Grants Pass. Coach Harold Hauk, Assistant Coach Loren Mort and Director of Athletics Vernon Gilmore also spoke at the assembly. Daryl Gi rod and Doug Rogers, who were named all-state, were interviewed and Girod, Viking captain, pre sented the championship trophy to Merlin Schulze, student body pre sident. The high school rally squad, composed of Kent Myers, Don Herring, Ginger Currier, Gwen Fry, Joan Marie Miller and Alice Girod, closed the assembly with a yell-session. From there the team, rally squad, band and shouting students paraded downtown, flanked by a police escort. Festivities ended with a dance at the high school after the par ade. A school dance band directed by Jim Todd furnished music. Dust Swirls in NorthernTexas By the Associated Press Stiff winds scooped dust Into dense whirling clouds in the south ern plains Monday night At Amarillo, Tex-, in the Pan handle, visibility was lowered to a quarter of a mile. Wind gusts there reached 54 miles an hour. For the nation's big grazing dis trict, it was an ominous beginning of spring. The southern plains need rainfall badly. Progressives Want Pension On State Ballot PORTLAND, March 20-(iv-The progressive party wants a $65 at age 65 state pension measure on the Oregon ballot.. State Chairman Nels Peterson said 150 party members and "friends" , from 19 counties . met here yesterday on the plan. A committee of 12 was named to or ganize the work of obtaining 25, 482 voters signatures on petitions. Peterson said the party's plan would provide free medical care and establish property exemptions for the aged. He said it would re peal the relative responsibility act of 1949 and the old age Assistance law of the same year. The latter has been challenged by a refer endum to appear on the Novem ber ballot. Dallas Contributes 57 Pints of Blood ftatesamaa Newt terrlce DALLAS, March 20 Donors contributed 57 pints of blood to the Red Cross mobile blood unit here Monday. ' - The Kev. Cyril p- Haney, joix county blood bank chairman, was in charge of arrangements. The bloodmobile's next visit to Dallas is slated for next fall. Band in Downtown Parade rchool band and a mob ef happy stndenls. The parade followed special assembly daring which yeU leaders led the stodeat body ia cheers and speeches were made. A dance ia the school gym f allowed the parade. (Statesman pheto). Portland Race Law Heads For Vote Test PORTLAND, March 20 -(JP)-This city's new anti-racial dis crimination ordinance today was heading for a likely vote test by the people. City . Auditor Will Gibson re ported opponents of the ordinance apparently will have enough valid voters' signatures to put the question on the ballot in Novem berThe ordinance, normally ef fective March 24, would be set aside until the balloting if op ponents are successful. It was passed by city council the week Portland was cited dur ing national "Brotherhood" week for its outstanding work in race relations. The law . prohibits discrimina tion by hotels, cafes and other public businesses for racial rea sons. During hearings on the is sue, opposition came chiefly from hotel and restaurant interests. The ordinance provides maximum fines of $500 or Jail sentence up to six months on conviction for tangible acts of violation. Gibson said those opposed have until Thursday to obtain 13,282 registered voters' signatures on the needed referendum petitions. He said this appeared likely. The civil freedom committee already has filed 13,100 names. Gibson said checks of the list proved 78.1 per cent were qual ified to sign the petition. On this basis, only 18,600 would be need ed, Gibson figures. 2 DTE IN HOTEL BLAZE KINISTINO, Saslc, March 20 (iTVTwo persons are missing and believed dead after- a fire swept through the 30-room, three-story Kinistino hotel today, . . Census Crews Cooperative During Trial Run' ' Some 40 ' Salem and - Central Howell families need worry no more about the 1950 census, and they've also reduced the cares of about 20 census crew leaders. . . In a test enumeration Monday morning, the census takers met no refusals, found everyone ready with the right information and even were invited to lunch. . The cooperation was excellent and the welcome cordial at all homes, according to Salem Dis trict Supervisor Cornelius Bate son. He doubted that the regular enumerators,, who go to work April 1, can count on Invitations to home-cooked meals, but knew they would receive as good coop eration on their rounds as fore cast by yesterday's sampling. The 17 crew leaders are attend ing school in Salem this week, to prepare them to teach and super vise enumerators in their areas. Leading the list as far as one worker was concerned was the "perfect hostess," who ushered the enumerator to a card table, offer Se&Johiison To Continue Budget Cuts WASHINGTON. March 20 -UPf-Secretary of Defense Johnson has set a target of $13,000,000,000 for bis 1952 military budget This was disclosed today by a house military appropriations sub committee in releasing the report of its final hearings on the defense department's request for $13,028,- 675,000 for the 1951 fiscal year beginning July I. . - ' Johnson, who has been pressing an economy drive, told j the sub committee that although the 1952 defense budget goal will be about the same as in fiscal 1951, he ex pects to find new ways to save on operating expenses this year and the next. Johnson reported that since last August, he has eliminated 163,500 civilian jobs in military installa tions and he expects the figure to reach 175,000, including 10,000 in a number of hospitals, hi has or dered closed. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair man of the joint chiefs of staff, said it was too early to forecast U. S. military strength in 1952. But he said no reduction was con templated from the 1951 figure of 1,507,000. Westside Salem Development on Zone Board Docket A combined shopping center and residential development in west side Salem will be reconsidered tonight when Salem planning and zoning commission conducts a 7:30 pjn. public hearing on west Sa lem zoning. Among Interested property owners planning to attend the city hall bearing is Frances Smith who is seeking zone classifications to permit a large-scale business, apartment and residential devel opment extending from Dallas road back into the higher ground at the west edge of the former West Salem boundaries. Permanent zoning for territory on the west side of the Willamette river recently annexed to Salem will be drafted following the hearing. . . - ? ace ed pen and ink and pencil and had her account books and agricultur al schedule ready for aU the ques tions. . The farm questionnaires, seek ing extensive information, were received in farm homes Saturday. Knowing he would be away Mon day, one man -stayed, up half of Saturday " night ' completing the form so his wife would be ready with all the information In calling at approximately 30 Central HoweU residences and nine in Salem, two census-takers refused luncheon invitations and two others were "loaded up" with farm produce to take home. Sev eral said they were "overwhelm ed with friendliness." Those homes contacted yester day are done with this decade's census unless changes occur prior to April E. , 1 Another practice run wHt be made by the enumerators on March 30 and 31, when they will be attend g schools at Salem and eight other locations. Find PoDul Wait to Leave at Shanghai By Fred Ilampsea HONG KONG, March 20-CTV-. The Chinese communists tonicht at the "eleventh hour arbi trarily blocked the departure of more than 400 Americans and 1.- 200 other . foreigners from . Red Shanghai. , Fifteen foreign consulates in '; Shanghai scheduled a general pre test meeting Tuesday morning. J. J. Berryman, Hong Kong manager of the American President lines, said this was a "last ditch" effort to get the Reds to go through with the carefully-laid original ar rangements, i Persons who have witnessed frequent communist stalling prac tices in the past predicted the Reds ultimately would back down; but only after exasperatta- deUvs that might run into many days. ! The program - for the rpecial evacuation via the APL's General w. H. Gordon was knocked in the bead when the Reds refused to let two civilian-manned American former tank-landing ships come into Shanghai to take off the for eigners. .. Eatraaees Mused'; . t Use of these shallow-draft ves sels to ferry passengers out to the Gordon in international waters off the Yangtze river mouth had been . planned because the Chinese na tionalists say the entrances to Shanghai are mined. Berryman learned of the last minute Red rejection in a tele phone conversation with' Shang hai at 8:30 puna. The Reds already had issued exit Permits to hun dreds of foreigners, and every . thing had seemed set. Departare Delayed The Gordon now is at Hong Kong, already having postponed its departure for. the Yangtze mouth three times. Another post ponement to Tuesday night was ordered, but Berryman said the new departure date- was "purely arbitrary," depending on what the Reds do next. As news of the Red stall spread, anger and disgust boiled up in thli British colony. It. was generally believed that the communists were motivated by two things: "face" and money as ec Faee . The.efofrts of so many foreign ers to get out (after having passed up chances to leave during the ear her period of the communist re gime) and Including all American diplomatic personnel, constitutes a stinging loss of face an im portant consideration in China. Second, departure of these for eigners will mean a large' loss el Income to the reds. The efforts of so many foreign gers are of a class having income from abroad that average perhaps $100 a week. To let 1,600 of them get away would thus mean a loci of possibly $160,000 a week in the . sound foreign exchange which the communists so badly need. Anti-Leopold Strike Called BRUSSELS. Belgium. March 10 -VP)- Anti-Leopold socialist action commute umight voted to can a 24-hour general strike in Brussels and southern Belgium. The action was taken as a spokesman for Belgium's largest political party, the Social Chris tians, declared they would bring exiled King Leopold back to his throne "to stay" despite the wave of socialist strikes. . , The sooiallsts,' who have an nounced they would call a series : of 24 hour strikes until Leopold abdicates; tied up 128 snips at Ant. werp today with a walkout of 11, 000 dockers, ship repairmen and other workers. -, , Woodliurii School ? Bid Opening Set : For Wednesday j! SUtesaaam News Service - WOODBURN. March 20 Bids on construction of the proposed new Wood burn high school will be opened by the school board at a special meeting Wednesday night. March 22, at Lincoln school. Tb4 new building is expected to cost approximately $300,000. Plans call for an L-shaped building with a 315 foot wing fac ing on Boone's Ferry road and an other 196-foot wing facing the Woodburn-St Paul highway. Al ternate bids have been asked on construction of a folding; partition In the center of the gymnasium and on folding bleachers. ' BUTAIN error n-sss 'm- WASHINGTON, March 20-4FH The United States turned ove$ four battle-tested B-29s to tbd British today as America's billiotl dollar program to rearm western Zurope picked up speed.