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XHE VALLEY NEWS COLUMNS From The Oregon Statesman's Valley Correspondents Funeral Service Set Wednesday For Mrs. Moser SILVERTON Funeral services for Mrs. Wary Zula Moser, who died Saturday at the -Silver-ton hospital, will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. from the Ekman Funer al home with interment in Miller cemetery. Mrs. Moser was born in Kansas, Jan. 6, 1882. She had lived at KiiiuHnn a number of years. Survivors are the widow, Or val Guy Moser, Silverton; son, I Orlin in New York; 1 grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. William Harlan of Foss, Ore, and Mrs. L. C. Bai ley of Oregon City; two brothers, A, S. Wattersol Stayton and Ed gar of Eugene. Event Planned To Aid Scouts SILVERTON Sergeant Wym er, recruiting sergeant for the army air corps was program guest of the Silverton Junior Chamber of Commerce Friday night Lat Toney's. Wymer showed movies of the China crisis, the Flying Tigers and air progress from the time of the Wright brothers. Plans were also started for a white elephant sale, proceeds to used toward imancing live Kilverton Boy Scouts to the na tional iamboree at Valley Forge - . ' .1.. ..... in July. J-aw ior uic we " s,w. jot May o,inp- vu I iGUsZAi t- Siouncea lairr. iiwucu -vm-nittpc were Kenneth Brown, chairman: Dave Demeter and W. E. Grodrian. Child Killed by Truck 3 rv A II ! hit I' , -4 '-M..C -VMS Budget Cutters Run Second to Tax Slashers By William F. Arborast T WASHINGTON, April 23 -TV Budget cutters are running a poor second to tax slashers as the house heads into another week of fighting over federal finances. The great $29,000,000,000 appro priation bill to run the govern ment next fiscal year threatens to leave the house early next month with an actual increase instead of a cut. On the other hand, the tax slashing process under way in the ways and means committee starts up again tomorrow with signs that it may go well beyond the $655,000,000 cuts in retail excise taxes which President Truman recommended. The committee has dipped into both retail and manu xacrurer excises and appears headed for a total cut of some $1,000,000,000. At the same time there is a no ticeable lack of steam behind ef forts to get the lost revenue back by plugging existing tax Iood- holes. Mr. Truman has promised a veto for any tax bill which doesn't do that. The score to date: $8,700,000 In spending cuts voted by the house in the gigantic appropriation measure to finance more than 40 i , . - icuerai agencies ior tne vear starting July 1; $335,000,000 in tax slashes on retail and manu. facturer's excises tentatively ap- DrOVea rV InC WSVI unH moini r I committee. neraided economy drive, oricrinallv aimed at whacking at least a bil- Named tl - : imfc , , , . S YOUNGSTOWX, Ohio. April 23 Miss Pauline Powers (above), 56, teacher of blind students in the Chancy school, Youngstown, hu been named "Best Teacher of 1950" in nationwide contest sponsored by Qnix Kids radio program. She' will receive a $2,000 award. (AP WUrephoto to The Statesman). lion dollars from the omnibus money measure, will get into high gear When the house starts its second week of considering amendments. The contrary .appears likely. Commies Take Possession of Hainan Capital (Story also on page one) TAIPEI, Formosa, April 23-JP) -The communists evidently took unopposed possession of the Hai nan island capital of Hoihow today. Nationalist fears were uncon cealed that the reds would win the whole 13,500 - square - mile island in due course. (The independent Hong Kong paper Sing Tao Min Pao said the reds peacefully entered Hoihow at dawn and shops already were re opening.) Stanley Rich, Associated Press correspondent , who flew out of Hoihow to the Hainan south coast on the last plane Saturday after noon, said the nationalist air force, army and civil adrrunis trators had left Hoihow. At the time he left, the reds were only three miles away. Rich said the red invasion force was estimated at 10,000 to 15,000 men, opposing about 60,000 na tionalist troops, of whom many had fled by air. No Newt of Fighting There was no news of fighting on Hainan today. The grim tidings, coming on top of false nationalist claims of a great defensive victory Friday, had a profoundly depression ef fect in Taipei, capital of General issimo Chiang Kai-shek's regime The nationalists many times in the past four years of civil war have put out exaggerated reports Tha Statesman, Salam, Oraqon, Monday, April 84, 19S0 3 have they put themselves in quit such a position. Embarrassed nationalist offic ials conferred for hours before deciding on the texts of retractions admitting that a proclaimed "vic tory" was actually a defeat Current Theories There are three current theories for the original false report: 1. The nationalists simply counted their chickens before they were hatched; 2. The reds hoisted white flags as a ruse for which the national ists fell; and 3. The Hainan command delib erately put out the false news to prevent panic and enable leaders to flee. Rich's dispatch from Samah on the south coast said there were reports in nationalist circles that the reds actually were encircled and pretended to surrender Fri day morning, then were Joined Friday night by 2,500s local guer rillas and broke loose for their fast 25-mile push to Hoihow. He also reported, however, that he flew over the scene of suppos ed "battle where the national ists had said communist corpses were piled, and saw nothing to indicate a fight Gen. Hsueh Yueh, the "little Tiger" who is defense commander of Hainan, is now directing na tionalist operations from the south coast port of Yulin, 130 miles by air from Hoihow. He fled there Saturday with Gen. Chen Chi-Tang, governor of Hal ana, and other high officials. The air force is based at Samah, near Yulin. 1 Capture of Hoihow gives the reds control of Hainan strait. which is only ten miles wide at its narrowest point They thus are enabled to reinforce their holdings from the southern main' of victories, but never before land at minimum risk. 12 Marines. Bermudians Lost at Sea HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 23 -AVNine u. S. marines from tha naval operating base In Bermuda and three Bermudians were be lieved lost today aboard a 32-foot fishing boat somewhere southeast of Bermuda. Names of the marines were not disclosed. The boat which left Bermuda at 6 a.m. yesterday, was expected to return at 3 pjn. The party left for Challenger Banks, 25 milea southeast of Bermuda, in a heavy sea and adverse winds. The search and rescue division of the U. S. air force base at Kind ley field was alerted at 6:45 p.m. and 15 minutes later Lt Paul N. Gates took off in a B-17. After an all night search he reported ha had seen no trace of the 12 men. Other planes took up the search this morning. Commercial airlines have been notified to be on thas lookout and are cooperating by flying at 500-foot levels for hun dreds of miles as they approach or leave Bermuda. If the men were unable to get an anchor at sea, it is estimated te boat may have drifted as much as 100 miles southeast of Bermuda during the night This distance forms the critical search area at the present time. Mrs. Sorensen Heads Home Unit ' SUtesmaa News Servic CLEAR LAKE The Clear Lake home extension unit met at the home of Mrs. T. C. Mason on Friday, April 21. Unit members voted on their selection of projects ior next year. New officers elected were Mrs. ' Arthur , Sorensen, chairman: Mrs. Walter Oldenburg, vice chairman,' and Mrs. Everett world this spring SPOKANE. Wash. April 23 Air Force Srt F. D. LeFever kneels be side the blanket-covered body of his 3-year-old son, Michael Dale, who waa killed when he was run over by a dump truck ou a Spokane, Wash., street Traffic Officer Dale Baird and unidentified relatives of Sgt LeFever stand by. (AP Wirephoto to The States- .man). Feather-bedding schemo of Firemen's Union to put an additional fireman on dicscl locomotives has boon The Pony Express began east west operations through Utah ba 1860. Live Turkey Crop Stumbling Over Heavy Cold Storage Pack By Lillle L. Madsen Farm Editor, The Statesman How to eat cake and still have it has been reversed in the turkey I Whelan. secretary-treasurer. ! Eleanor ' Tr indie, home demon stration agent presented the proj- tnrtAm trT ihm InrVa v rt , "cpriniis." rrnwprs to- 5!' SJ;Sk .TELSFME trade, restaurant How to .eat the crop of yearling turkeys from breeder flocks now coming to market and still not have left the 1949 cold storage ware house turkeys, is the big problem now facing turkey growers. In an attempt to help solve this problem, which turkey growers report is served, with Mrs. Everett Whelan assisting the hostess i Seventeen members were pres ent Mesdames Delbert Bair, wn and processor representatives, will meet Tuesday night in the ban quet room of the Bohemian rest aurant at Portland. The meeting liam Smith and Clifford Orey va. h- rawA kv witr Krhur- . j w v .u j were visitors anu mrs. ncwreiu Seely became a new member. Scout Leaders Conclave At Iclanha Spar Cafe dler. president of the Oregon Turkey improvement association, sponsor of the gathering, United States storage stock of turkeys on March 1 were 128 mil lion pounds as compared with 51 million pounds in storage a year SUteiman Nrwi Serrte ago and the five-year average of IDANHA The Soar cafe was 89 mi lion pounds. the setting for the Boy Scout More In Incubators troop 43 executive dinner Friday The number of poults hatched niffht. Those attending were Eric durins March, as reDorted- by Soderburg. Cascade Area council hatcheries suDDlying information scout executive and his wire, on turkey operations, totaled about Scoutmaster Don &inggow ana the same as in March last year. Mrs. Striggow, Mr. and Mrs. John These same hatcheries reported Weiseerber. ' Mr. and Mrs. s. i.l20 oer cent more egKs in incu Moore, Mr. and Mrt. Qumcy bators on April 1 than a year ago. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. nenry nei- Reports from hatcheries covering bert Mr. and Mrs. Ray Overhal- February and March showed only ser. and Mr. and Mrs. Warren a 6 per cent smaller poult hatch Oard. i than during the period last year. Unless the yearlings now com' ing on the market are eaten up. they will be on hand to depress prices of 1950 crop birds next fall Noel -Bennion, Oregon State college poultry expert and H. E. Pickerill. U. S. department of I airriiniltiir frral traiin nMialist Kllvrrton Cub Scout Pack 52 from Kan Francisco, have hwn receiving' awards at the April assisting in the arrangements for meetinc Friday night, were uer- the session in Portland rold Hopkins, Wolf; Peter Gosso, Setk Bigger Consumption HO DCrl Yinv,lr, iwutu nuauis, Tlon A !- l. 4-J 1 Jack Rutherford. Fred Grant, . inrreac-l rnn..mntinn f tnr jonn !aniora wa vr.ig , J " keys on the theory that the more Ba.r; Robert Adams, Peter Gosso, consumerl eatt ewer gov. uraig ciarK jr., wiu uuci- ernment will have to buy to sup xora, txr voiu auuws. rum c prices. pnni in.u .ur w The USDA has announced it as COWDOyS l uil KVUi imuj u -.111 rtt ,nnnr IQIft Wr.r t,,i- 5aiem. xway o. a coverea wagon k b t it 1 eommitted to buy u dciii uuiii uj - ,lu"u""' v 1949 birds in storage next July, be used lor ine occasion. Oreaon turkey hatcheries con ... Ai o.-. v.. tinue to operate below a year ago, been elected president of the S5T2" uVZtZT niitt rrk ParenUTeachers as-1 """ " sociation, with L. A. Patton, (vice president: Mrs. H. J. Kiersey, sec retary; Mrs. Lawrence Gehaman, treasurer, and Mrs. Alvis Imper, historian. Valley Brief 0 of this year compared to 1,023, 000 a year ago. Turkey prices averaged (na tionally speaking) 31.6 a pound live weight in March, compared with 42.9 cents a year earlier. Spring markets on" dressed tur keys opened firm, but weakened by the end of March. CIO Votes to BackFlegel In Primary i NEWPORT, Ore., April 23 -P)- The CIO political action commit tee of the first Oregon congres sional district today voted to sup port State Senator Austin Flegel in the democratic gubernatorial primary. The committeemen in dicated hte 1949 legislature's un employment compensation act was involved. Flegel, a Multnomah countian, is opposed by State Treasurer Walter Pearson and Lew Wallace, Portland. The state CIO council had refused to favor one candi date, declaring all three were ac ceptable. The congressional dist rict committee announced "if Fle gel is not nominated by the demo cratic party, we are going to get McKay again. Delegates from the IWA locals pushed through the endorsement of Elegel. He bad opposed a I "seasonality" clause In the 1949 unemployment compensation act the woodworkers were against. Spokesmen here said the clause permits logging and sawmill in dustries to obtain seasonal class ification. The union argues this denies unemployment benefits to lumber and logging workers idled during winter shutdowns. East Salem Mrs. W. E. Rich ardson was hostess for the April meeting; of the Garden Road Neighbordhood club at her home on Garden road Friday. Co-host ess was Miss Frances Byram. There were 17 present with Mrs. 2L P. Sentman a special guest The business meeting was conducted by the president Mrs. Richardson and "Look and Learn" games were on the program. Prizes were given tilt. Julia Jennings and Mrs. Paul Lynch.' Mrs. A, A. Geer received j the door prize. 1, Idaaha Arnold R. Snyder, of the en. H. B. Freeman, flew from Seattle Friday night to spend a couple of days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Snyder and his brothers Donald and Leonard. Nt r sumac Soeacthtsdixsvina 7 A r7 SUSS 1 ii ' i c nMi tot afT.Ms ar sa J siacpwsoiunttfstea dncs a IN bhstarv-ertM wittwa 24 tows. at dntQitts, 53c I StX SPIIADII Sturdy, l m4 wrtfc fvbbc flfN. Apply SCOTTS vaaly aad wty. MJiw S10.S5. capacity ti7ja It's a breeze do the job yourself In a jiffy with a SCOTTS 5 P READER. Food with Lawn Food. Than sow Scoffs Lawn Seed. You don't need as much because there are 3,000, 000 seeds in each pound. 1 lb $1.45 5 !biS6.95 &cX LAWN FOOD CWo mmol P town food. Economical, a Into btpt B' look'Mf It Ut lo (tdi 2300 mi ft-$l.S I y Iwg. 1100 m H-S7JO. IVY-DRY'I- mnM. in J Uuul!DlJ3 o Fact Finding Boards appointed by Presidents Roosovclt and Truman i , . ( ' have said thoso demands were "devoid of merit" and thoy voro mm . MM O Now the Firemen's leaders seek to paralyzo railroad transportation to compol the railroads to employ a wholly unnecessary additional fireman to ride on diesel locomotives This schemo is plain mm nr 1 Leaders of the Firemen's union have called a nationwide strike starting with four great rail roads on April 26. These railroads are the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, and Southern. The union claim that a second fireman is needed on grounds of safety is sheer hypocrisy. Safety has been dragged into this dispute only in an unsuccessful effort to give a cloak of reepect ability to vicious feather-bedding demands. .After a careful study of the first demands of this union; a Presidential Fact Finding Board on May 21, 1943, reported to President Roosevelt that there was no need for an extra fireman on diesel locomotives. Again, on September 19, 1949, after a second hearing on the union leaders' demands, a second . Board reported to President Truman that: "there presently exists no need for an additional fireman ... upon either the ground of safety or .that of efficiency and economy of operation.' Safety Record of Diesels is Ovrtstaadiagly Good - Although the railroads accepted the Board find ings, the union leaders have brazenly rejected i them. They represent that an extra fireman ia needed lor "safety" reasons. Hera's what ti Board had to say on that point CTbe safety and on -time performance of diesel electric locomouTea operated ander carrent rules hare been notably good fUpon careful analysis of the data submitted on safety, we bare concluded that em valid rea sons hare been shown as a support for the Brotherhood proposal trader which a fireman 1 Would be required to be at all times continu ously ia the cab of road diesels. The proposal must be rejected. The reed reason behind these demands is that the union leaders are trying to make jobs where there is no work. In other words, a plain case of ther-bedding. The railroads have no intention of yielding to these wasteful make-work demands. "The Safety Record of Diesels is Outstandingly Good..." PtmMDnut. Fact Tmuta Box Rwotr Re4 Umm eieerftta tnm ocVfal resorts of Tnd- aeatiol Ttxt VWiaf Boor do: , Tba safety record of Diesels is out tandinf ly food, sad it foQowt that ibs aolety ruloa bow apptieabla hava pro duced good rwulU." Tba safety sad 00-time performance of DWotl oloctxic locomotivas opera tod under current rulea IndicaU that Dia-sel-elactrie operation has been safer than steam loeomotira operation ..." ResMBuWel TVeaa are aat suUesieaui of tiM ral reada. They sre Jnst s few of ta sassy suaSar can claaliaa reacaad y TttMtwl Truman's Fsct FlnoV laf Board waka aaant moatas iarcaticaunf tha as m i tt-i.-i a 1 V 7h are pnUiahmg thia and other sdrertiaemenU to UDx to you SS Irat hand about saattsta which are important to everybody. m.