President Orders
Senate Subpoenas
For Files flgnored
KEY. WEST, Fla., April MTV
President Truman has ordered
federal authorities to ignore sub
poenas asking them to surrender
loyalty lileg of accused state de
partment employes.
In a letter to Senator Tydings
(D-Md), chairman of the senate
foreign relations i subcommittee
Investigating charges the state
department is riddled with com
munists or communist sympath
izers, the chief executive said:
"No president has ever com-
flied with an order of the legis
ative branch directing the ex
cutive branch to product con
fidential documents, the dis
closure of which was considered
by the president to be contrary
to the public interest."
. A request for the loyalty files
already had been refused Sen
ator Tydings by the president.
The Maryland senator countered
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Wilsons En
If s Prints
SACRAMENTO, April Z-iFy-The Wilson brothers Turman 24
and Utah,;1 21 were on their way tonight to Vancouver, Wash.;
manacled and in irons. They face charges of murder and kidnap in the
March 19 abduction slaying of 18-year-old Jo Ann Dewey. j
Both brothers waived extradition despite Turman's previous
statement he would fight the move. " j
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Travel Letter Ne. t
; PALM! BEACH, Fla. Thomas
de Quincy in his essay on JThe
Flight of the Tartars" refers to
the "terminus ad quenl" of that
migration of an Asian horde. The
term applies to us here.. This is
it: The southwestern end of the
road. . -II - J
Not that! there isn't distance be-
Emd: Miami; Key West Cuba, etc.
ut we have gone quite far
enough. Tomorrow we become
homing pigeons.
Palm Beach is just what the
pictures show it to be: A resort
city with big hotels, palatial pri
vate estates, boulevards lined with
palms, and a blue Atlantic with
real ships sailing close insore.
It's the lend of the winter tour
ist season, but oddly today was
for our northern blood.
t ; ! 1 - ' -
Florida is Sn the throes of a hot
campaign in the democratic pri
mary. Congressman Smathen is
running against Senator Pepper.
No holds are barred. Pepper calls
Smathers an ingrate and a DuPont
tool. Smathers pins the red label
on Pepper, telling the people Pep
per's association with proscribed
organizations and ties him up with
the "civil rights" i program. Most
of the press is strongly against
Pepper, but the senator is rallying
the old-age pensioners whose votes
elected him first. He rejects FEPC
but naturally will get what negro
vote there is. The result is by no
means clear at the moment.
This has not been an opinion
sampling tour. But the south-
(Continued on editorial page 4)
Grand Jury Hears
Oak ridge Case
EUGENE,) April ,1 - (ff) -James
Lloyd Thompson, 24, Oakridge
logger, accused, of killing the
town's chief of police, went before
a special grana jury session nere
today.. I1 ' i
.judge G. F. Skipworth conven
ed the session at 10 a. m., and
said most of the day would be
consumed1 in study of the case.
Tk. n.. T.,V11
u twv v yvuvc( VIJUV ASMWU,
.was shot when he answered a
complaint that there was trouble
at a party.! Thompson i fled and
was captured several hours later,
lit was charged with second de
gree murder. :
BEAVESTON MAN JAILED
Robert Kennen, Beaverton, was
jailed Monday night in lieu of
$230 bail after he had been arrest
ed by city I police officers on a
charge of driving while intoxlca-
ted. Police Said Kennen was nab
bed in the 1700 block of Center
street. f- V "
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
IAtrt; t art faat should
TKD
CDQS
by serving subpoenas on Secre-i
tary of State Acheson, Attorney!
General McGrath and Chairman
Harry B. Mitchell of the civili
service commission calling for;
the files. I
All three have been directed!
"not to comply with the sub-j
poenas," said Mr. Truman's let-
ter. - j
The disclosure of these files
would seriously prejudice the
future effectiveness and useful-j
ness of the federal bureau of
investigation as an investigative
agency," the president wrote
"The embarrassment, and even
danger, to those who have given
confidential information cannot
be over-emphasized." ... The
files, he wrote, do not contain
"proven information alone" but
include many "unverified
charges and allegations, leads
and suspicions." !
Route Back;
Not in Cars
A few minutes alter me Drier,
court proceedings, Clark county.
Wash., Sheriff Early Anderson
and other Vancouver orncers
loaded the brothers into separate!
cart and left for the northwest, j
The brothers have stoutly
maintained their innocence ince
their arrest here Thursday night.
PORTLAND, April 3 -&)- Po
lice said today that fingerprints
of slain Jo Ann Dewey did not
show on either of the cars held
here as evidence in the Vancouv
er, Wash., abduction-murder.
A Pontiac believed the car in
which Jo Ann died had been eli
minated earlier. The black Buick
sedan, believed the car in which:
she was abducted, was checked off
early today.
Engine Trouble
Forces Bixbys
To Delay Flight
CALCUTTA, India, April 3 -(JP)
The dream of Dianna and Bob
Blxby of breaking the world cir
cling aviation record ended today
when a faulty engine forced them
to return to Calcutta after taking
off for Tokyo.
With aU hope of beating the
record of the late Bill Odom in
1947 gone, the Bixby's decided to
take a breather ' and wait for a
takeoff to Tokyo until tomorrow
afternoon.
I The Bixbys had covered 11,836
miles of the 20,735 they had sched
uled from San Francisco around
the "world and back to the Golden
Gate city. They were well over
half their Journey in Just over 40
hours.
They arrived at Calcutta's Dum
dum airfield at 11:40 a.m. (10:10
ajn., PST) this morning. At Cairo
they were 15 minutes behind
schedule, but they made that up
and arrived here on time.
Neck-and-neck with Odom'u
around-the-world time of 73
hours, five minutes, 11 seconds,
the California couple took off for
Tokyo on a flight across red China
at 12:34 p.m. (11:24 ajn. PST).
They were 250 miles out from Cal
cutta when the cooling system of
one engine failed on their twin
engined converted British Mos
quito bomber. r
Germans Told to Expand
Railroad to Uranium Pits
BERLIN, April S--The Rus
sians have ordered the East Ger
man government to expand its
railway system in the Saxony ur
anium mining: district to sten ud
uranium shipments to the Soviet
Union, it was reported today.
cast German sources said the
Russians expressed irritation ;at
tardy handling of uranium ore
shipments by the east zone rails
way.
Politics on Parade : . .
Who's Running for What in the May Primaries !
(CdlUr't : CMutiti U this 1
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avwipapr).
, Today's subject
HelUs Smith (r)
Candidate for
State representative (Pelk)
I am a native Oregonian, born
at Portland. 1902, and have lived
in Dallas nearly all my life. My
education was
received in Dal
las schools, with
one year at Uni
versity of Ore
gon. I have
Keatrt vino s-ik-l
since 192S ind;
have one daugh-
ter. Almost my K
entire business -
career has been f
In the automo- f
uve neia. l nave huis sstiu i
owned my own business since
r I have taken an active part In
community affairs, serving
president of Dallas Chamber of
Commerce three years: president
of Dallas lions club and district
100th YEAR
Baldock Asks Repairs Jleplace
Oregon
Dorman
Reports
Figures j
The state, of Oregon will face a
$32,000,000 to $50,000,000 fund
shortage for the 1951-52 biennium.
Budget Director Harry Dorman in
dicated in a report filed with
Governor Douglas McKay Mon
day. Anticipated revenues coupled
with estimated general fund re
quirements for the two-year per
iod would fail by $32,737,749 of
meeting state needs, Dorman said.
However, if the proposed soldier
bonus and basic school tax in
crease of $30 per school child are
approved by the voters at the No
vember election, the state will be
short $50,759,976 of meeting its
allocations, Dorman indicated. The
property reduction fund, created
to avoid any state tax on property,
would be down to $8,238,854.17, he
said.
Suggestions Made
Dorman suggested three means
of meeting the expected "serious
financial situation. These includ
ed an advalorem tax on property,
new sources of revenue or drastic
cuts in state activities.
Income tax division officials of
the state tax commission assisted
Dorman in computing estimates of
income revenue on both excise
and personal income taxes, for the
two year period ending July 1,
1953. , I
Dorman figured there would be
a balance of $1,750,023.25 in the
excise tax account on July 1, 1951,
with an estimated $18,000,000 in
collections in excise taxes for that
year. . '
Without Funds
It was stressed, however, that
after all estimated obligations
have been fullfilled this account
would be without any funds when
the 1952-53 fiscal year begins, and
only $18,000,000 in collections will
be available for general fund ap
propriations. !
Dorman estimated there will be
a balance in the property reduct
ion fund on July 1, 1951, of $21,
428,853.99, plus $15,999,999 cushion
and personal income tax collect
ions aggregating $32,000,000 dur
ing the fiscal year of $68,428,
853.99. After meeting levies that would
otherwise be assessed! to property
in the state, the balance on July 1,
1952, in this fund would be re
duced to $16,977,733.02. with an
additional $15,000,000 cushion and
estimated tax collections of $32,-
000,000, or an estimated total of
$63,977,773.02.
Rickreall Girl
Seeks Crown
Eva Jean Miller, 16-year-old
Rickreall girl, will vie with 12
other Willamette valley high
school seniors April 14 when the
court will be chosen for this sum
mer's Salem Cherryland festival
The Rickreall girl will represent
Dallas high school where she was
been a homecoming princess, chor
us member and dramatics partici
pant. '
She is a brownette, 5 feet 44
inches tall and weighing 125
pounds. She is the daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. L. C. Miller. .
governor for Lions International.
I have been president of Cascade
Area council Boy Scouts and at
present am a member of the na
tional council. I was chairman of
the Polk County Civilian Defense
council during war years.
In 1940 I was elected to the
city council. At the close of one
four-year term, I was elected
mayor. My third two-year term
as mayor expires this year. I be
lieve In progressive, practical,
businesslike administration of city
affairs and no one will deny Dal
las has made steady progress
during my administration. As
mayor I have taken an active part
in the League, of Oregon Cities,
having served on the board, i
vice president and now am presi
dent.
I am a republican, Presbyterian,
past chancellor commander of
Marmion Lodge, Knights of Py
thias; member of York and Scot
tish Rite and Al Kader temple.
If we are to have a free, demo
cratic, economical government
and a good community, we must
give a full share of time and
energy. - j j
(Tomorrow -Ward Graham)
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ny day yesterday wen the Salem Senators worked eat on their
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Taylor Gives
NEW YORK, April 3-(jP)-Radio
CommenUtor penry J. Taylor said
tonght manyf'flying saucers" re
ally are $.-controlled experi
mental jet fighter planes.
On his ABG ' broadcast he iden
tified the plane as the XF5U.
Concerning Ithe jet craft he said,
"in addition t$ other models which
I cannot mention, it is a United
States navy experimental fighter."
"It is a jet! plane of incredible
speed," he siid, "it really looks
like and is shaped like a pancake.
It had roughly a circular outline."
Taylor, in a broadcast from
Dallas, Tex., last Monday said he
thinks there are other flying sau
cers that are I real and that they,
too, are U. Si-controlled.
Several Type!
Taylor said these flying saucers
are of severaj types "but nobody
is inside any bf them."
"They varyfjin authentically re
ported size," Hie said, "from small
white discs 20 inches In diameter
and six inches thick, such as was
found and then hushed up, in
Galveston Bay, Tex., to sizes act
ually 250 feet in diameter."
He said; two were found In
Texas, the second on the ground.
Printing en Saucer
He said printed In stencil "on
the original saucer found in Tex
as" --he did; not specify which
this was - - was the following
transcription:;
"Military secret of the United
States of America army air forces
'and a number, and then this: "
"Anyone damaging or revealing
description or whereabouts of this
missile is subject to prosecution
by the U, S. government. Call col
lect at once.'! .
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Bill Includes
Federal Aid for
Salem lAirport
" M.
WASHINGTON. April 3 JPh
Financial aid; for Salem s McNary
field and other airports over the
country is proposed in a measure
the house started debating today.
Twenty-three Oregon airports
are listed in the measure which
already has been approved by the
house appropriations committee.
They include (with proposed
government 1 1 contribution listed
first and local sponsors' share in
brackets): it
Salem, S9,&50 (11,150): Albany
Municipal airport, $55,000
(44,100.) Ml
2f 'SPIES SENTENCED
SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 3
Six Yugoslavs an 20 Bulgarians
were sentenced by a district court
today to long prison terms two
of them to life on charges of
spying for Yugoslavia and plotting
to overthrow; the Bulgarian gov
eminent.
Navy
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Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Tuesday, April 4, 1950
Saucer Story, Says Old
'Details' of
Navy Searcher States
Contact Made with Sub
nSAN FRANCISCO. April S-(JF)-A naval officer returned today
from a submarine hunt off the California coast and said he believed
he had made Instrument contact with one or more unidentified un
derseas boats about 17 miles offshore.
Officially, the western sea frontier, which ordered the hunt, said:
"Results and comment, negative." It added the search had been
discontinued "pending further de
velopments." ' .
But Capt. J. A. Holbrook, a for
mer submarine officer who com
manded the destroyer U. S. SCol
ahan on the search, said:
"It is my opinion, as a submar
ine officer, that we probably had
contact with one or more submar
ines in the area."
Rear Admiral F. I. Entwistle,
after studying Captain Holbrook's
report, said the contacts made by
the Colahan "very probably" were
one or more foreign submarines
on "routine peacetime patrols."
The search by surface centered
off Cape Mendocino, about 230
miles north of San Francisco.
Capt. Holbrook and a hastily
summoned crew, including many
reserves, put to sea Thursday,
March SO, following a report by a
navy patrol plane pilot that he
had seen a submarine 40 miles off
Cape Mendocino. The navy said
no U. S. submarines were In the
area.
At 11 p. m. that night. Captain
Holbrook said, the Colahan's ra
dar screen picked up "indications
which we tracked until 12:20
a. m."
The next contact, this time by
sonar, was made shortly after
noon Friday. Contact. was main
tained for about an hour and then
was picked up by navy aircraft
which tracked the object for about
two hours.
LOS ANGELES, April 3 -OP) -The
mysterious disappearance at sea
of a man who wrote that he lived
in constant dread of deportation
after a wartime conviction for
treason baffled authorities today,
Missing is German-born" Theo
dore Donay. 51. of Detroit.
Found at sea, empty save for a
suitcase of clothing, was the 18
foot motorboat a man giving the
name of Theodore Donay of De
troit rented at Avalon, Catalina
island, Saturday.
ixva note saying "the outlook for
my future is very dark" and
"goodbye to my good friends' and
signed Theodore Donay" : was
found in the missing man's Ava
Ion hotel room at about the time
the navy reported ah unidentified
submarine had been repot te
sighted off the southern California
coast.
Officials said w they have been
unable to determine whet he
there Is any link between the two
occurrences.
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illion Deficit for 1951-52
orenaraUon for aoenlnr f ihm
April It. (Photo by Don DilL SUtesman sUff photographer.) (Story
I on sports page.
'Secret Weapon' Saucers
Guerrillas Put
Manila in State
Of Near-Siege
MANILA. April 3 -UP- Com
munist-led guerrilla raids, now in
their sixth day. have virtually
paralyzed vital . highway traffic
in central Luzon and thrown this
capital city into a state of near
siege.
President Elpidio Quirino has
charged that the attacks are part
of a plot to place this country in
the hands of the communists. He
has put the army In control of all
of Luzon, the Philippines' main
island, but the hit-run pattern of
the raids makes suppression ad
mittedly difficult.
Six new incidents reported
over Sunday night included at
tacks on villages, ambush of
bus and running fights with the
constabulary. The death tolls
since the latest outbreaks by the
so - called Hukbalahaps began
March 29 rose to at east 68. Sev
eral villages have been burned
How Large Is Salem?
- The 1950 census has started and the returns are going to be
tremendously interesting, especially to our valley area and to
Salem. Very soon we wiiL know the new figures.
In the mesa time, as anneaneed by THE OREGON STATES
MAN en March 19. this newspaper is conducting Its ewa guessing
contest with ae entry fees, ne cost, ae obligation.
Starting today, guesses of Salem's 1959 population will be
accepted. J:
For the eleeest gueea S25- ft second closest 10- For
third closest SS-
You may us the blank on page 3 today, via letter or postcard,
or you may write your estimate on your own stationery.
The rules: (1) Only one gaess per person; (2) Guesses ami
be ta The Statesman effke by Aaril 11; (S) Guesses, aaa
addresses arast be wrltiea PLAINLY.
How big is Salem? It's anyone's guess. The fun is on!
0rcjaon G3 ltatesraati
PRICE 5c
Road Projects
Waters Park
Xvtt. nrArMin..l KK.n
(Vlodel Idle
WASHINGTON, April
Th navy said tonight th nearest
thing to a flying saucer it ever de
veloped --the XF5Ul--hai not;
flown since 1947.
The navy made the statement in
commenting on an article In U. S.
News and World Report The
magazine said engineers have
concluded the reported saucers are
Jet-powered planes of revolution
ary design developed by the navy.
Its experiments . along those lines
don't account for the recently re
vived reports of saucers, the navy
replied..
It said one 3, 000-pound model
of a pancake-shaped plane de
signed for it by Charles H. Zim
merman of the Chance - Vought
Aircraft Corp., was flown several
times. But it has not flown since
1947, the navy said.
' A full scale experimental mod
el never got off the ground and
was scrapped in January, 1949,
the navy said. It added that a one
third scale model was also built
and is now being used In wind
tunnel tests at Langley, Va., by
the national advisory committee
for aeronautics (NACA). -
A navy spokesman denied that
the service has developed any
pancake-shaped Jet planes. He
said also the navy is not develop
ing or experimenting with any
type of missile that could be re
garded as saucer-shaped.
The magazine, in today's Issue,
attributed the saucers to Zinfmer
man's early experiments, which Is
said were carried on for NACA.
ANNEXATION VOTES DUE
PORTLAND. April 3HJP-Seven
southwest suburban areas will
vote tomorrow on whether to
merge with the city of Portland.
0On Yflff
feorte tt tke Grtwlh el OrtfM
No. t
Asks Half
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Of Funds
Diverted
PORTLANn Arr!l ' fmS
Slashing Oregon's new highway
construction in naix to repair danW
aaed and deteroi rated man wn
recommended today by Chief
rugnway commission Engineer R.
n. jBaiaocK.
Winter damage of the past twe
years and persistent overloading
by trucking operators were blam
ed by the engineer for the poor
condition of much of the state'
highways. s
Baldock said he would recom
mend that half of the current an
nual $15,000,000 new construction
fund be allocated to repairs. H
added that new roads built with
the remaining half of the fund
should be made stronger than a4
present. i
Less Than Half
He explained it would mean less
than half of present mileage pro
grams would be built, but the
surfaces would better support the
heavier traffic loads of xecen
years.
Baldock s proposals were mad
at the request of Chairman B. R.
Chandler, Coos Bay, following a
request of central Oregon groups
for repair of the Warm Spring
highway.
Fines Net Enough
The engineer said truckers' dis
regard for weight regulations had
resulted in a "chaotic" situation.
"Owners of large trucks repeatedly
avoid the law on weight limits,
he Said. "The fines are not
enough to deter them. We , have)
community remonstrances in some
cases when we enforce load limits
too, with charges t h a t we are
throwing people out of work. i
Baldock compared the present
situation to that experienced by
the state in the early 1930s. The
roads that had been oiled after
1923 practically broke apart by
1930. This necessitated deferring
new construction until the exist
ing system could be strengthened
over a period of years.
Delegations from Seaside and
Silverton asked aid in the con
struction of bridges in their areas. .
The commission referred the prob
lem to the engineering department
for studies.
Japan Judges
To Visit State
Supreme Court
Judges of the Japanese supreme
court and of the high court el
Tokyo will visit the Oregon so
preme court here today as part t
a nation-wide study oz America
courts.
Judge Shigeru Kuriyama of the)
supreme court and Judge Nitto of
the Tokyo court are viewing first
hand the democratic process at
American law. They, are doina at
at the courtesy of U. 8 .Gea.
MacArthur in Japan. '
They will visit the supremo
court here at 10 o'clock this morn
ing and will lunch with the EalOnt
court judges. If tin permits thy
will visit Willamette university
campus. ''.?,
Willis Mahoney, formerly :f
Medford and Portland and new
of Washington. D. O, is with the)
Japanese on their tour. He eseaa
ed the prosecution at the Teja
war trials. The party will be ac
companied to Salem by Sidney
Teiser. Portland attorney ant av
member of the board of governor
of the American Bar association.
The Japanese Judges attended
the Oregon Bar association meet
ing In Portland Saturday. Kuri
yama was formerly Japan s am
bassador to Belgium and Den
mark. The Judges have toured the)
east and mid-west and will viart
California courts prior to going
home. I
ANNEXATION AT PENDLETOlf
PENDLETON, April J
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