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The Oregon Statesman. Salem. Orecan, Tuesday, March 21, 1950
PRICE 5c
No. 3657
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.