If .... Levy It fITf By Robert E. Gangware ' . City Editor. The Statesman Salem school district voters will be asked June 2 to' approve a tax levy of $769,706, the district board and budget committee decid ed Tuesday night. - . This nroDosed lew represents the amount of money needed to 'UtD CDDLH At th state election May 19th' the only contest on the judicial ballot is "for the position on the upreme court now held by Jus-, tice J. O. Bailey who is retiring at the end of his term after Jong and exceptionally able service. There are three candidates for the Eition: Robert F. Maguire, Port nd attorney, Sen. Austin Dunn of Baker, and Walter L. Tooze, circuit judge of Multnomah coun ty. I wish very strongly to re commend Robert F. Maguire for this very important ofiice Maguire is one of the leaders of the Oregon bar whose personal and professional standing is of the highest order. Coming to Oregon In 1909 he practiced law first in Medford, then moved to Portland where he served as assistant u, s district attorney and later, as chief -deputy district attorney for Multnomah county, ror over av years he has been engagedin pri vate oractice. his resent associa- tion being as partner in the firm of Maguire; Shields, Morrison and Bailey. ; J Hi leadership in his profession la shown in the fact that when the Oreeon State Bar was estab lished as successor to the former Oregoa Bar association he was its first president and served for three years on its board of gover nors. He has also served as mem ber of the board of governors of the American Bar association, "-His ability was "further recog nized by the government when he was asked to sit as judge at, the nazi war crimes trial in Nurnberg, Germany, where he served for 18 months. I concur in the conclude ing paragraph in the Voters' Pamphlet, submitted by the Ma guire Committee, F. Leo Smith, chairman: .:' r "Seldom are Oregon voters of fered the services of such (Continued on editorial page 4) .. " - "V" Votes Postal Cuts Canceled WASHINGTON, May 9 -(P) The senate postoffice committee voted 9 to 0 today to direct Post master General - Donaldson ,' to cancel the cuts in mail service, he ordered in a recent economy move. Before' twice-a-day home mail delivery could be reinstated and other postal service reductions set aside, both - the senate and house would have to agree to the two bills and a resolution ap proved by the committee. - Donaldson ordered the cutbacks in service April ,18, explaining they must be put into effect to prevent another big deficit in pos tal operations. . Postoffice expenses in the pres ent fiscal year are expected to run above $2,240,000,000. Donald son asked a 2,235,607,000 appro priation for the next fiscal year which starts July 1. Congress has not acted finally on the request, but the house appropriations com mittee has recommended that the fund be held to $2,207,500,000. First Break in Lumber Negotiations Reported KLAMATH FALLS, May 9 -The first break in Pacific north west lumber negotiations came today in a northern California settlement, granting a wage in crease but denying workers life Insurance benefits. . It gave about 2,500 AFL pine Industry workers a 7 Vi -cent hour ly wage increase. That boosted the . minimum to .MVx for box fac tory work and $1.50 for other AFL lumber and -sawmill workers. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "SomW jy soon yom muy wi ( pvtftar about M a littl trm, devote poor h e tim fa yosf Itrwit hobby or ee torn ctrt I cirie attiitt . . Seriate Group keEned! balance next year s scnooi aisixici budget as approved last night, af ter computing receipts and the tax base plus the legal maximum in crease of 6 per cent. For school taxpayers the budg et action proposes a millage esti mated for next year at 37.3 mills. Of this the general fund would require 34.4 mills, or the same as this year and bond funds take 2.9 mills instead of this year's 3.0. Estimate Below 1949-59 Estimated general fund expen ditures in the new budget total $1,958,678, compared with, this year's $2,069,075 estimate. Receipts are estimated at $783,675 com pared with an $869,284 estimate for the 1949-50 year. In all cases the comparison was , made after adding to last year's Salem esti mates the separate budget esti mates ofHayesvill e, Salem Heights and other districts consol idated with Salem district recent ly. ' - -y : - The school budget for. 1950-51 follows the usual pattern which sees nearly two - thirds of the cost accounted for by teachers and administrators' salaries. Salary to tay is estimated for this coming year at $1,223,900, including pay for IB additional teachers. To accommodate the fast-grow ing school population and still keep the tax millage from rising, the school officials drafted a budget which substantially sliced capital outlay and repair expenditures, in order to offset the added costs of instruction. Departments Listed By departments the estimated general fund expense is: Teaching, $1,147,194; - supervision, $161,495 general control (district superin tendent and staff), $50,250; plant operation, $157,772; maintenance- repair, $69,140; health, $11,250; transportation, $25,605; recreation. $29,731; school lunch, $4,170; capi tal outlay, $168,577; fixed charges, $107,000; debt service, $1,050; emergency, $25,000. Donald A. Young presided over k the budget meeting. Other citizen committeemen were William L. Phillips, George Gxabenhorst, J. H. WUlett and William J. Entriss. School board members are Harry Scott, chairman. Mrs. David Wright, Edward Majek, L. J. Stew art and Gardner Knapp. Studied by Item Budget committeemen threshed out the entire budget, item by item. They made minor changes in the school administration's draft of the budget which reduced the general fund and tax requirement by $23,- ooo. . The school district also will place before the voters, later in June. proposed bond issue and serial lev ies for construction to meet needs of population growth. Officials estimated last night that the combined levies of the general fund and construction issues, if ap proved by voters, would total 43.3 mills. They added that this, with the proposed city and county levies, if all adopted by voters, would make the overall levy against prop erty in the city of Salem about 83.4 mills, compared with 72.1 mills currently. j Medical Groun MILFORD. N. H.. May 5-tiP- The Hillsborough County Medical society dropped Dr. Hermann N. Sander tonight, announcing he "no longer is a member of this society ."j Dr. Lloyd L. Wells of ManchesJ ter, secretary of the society, issued this brief statement following a meeting attended by about 100 of its 175 members: ! "At a meeting of the Hillsbor ough County Medical society it'was Voted that Hermann N. Sander ii no longer a member of the society." Dr. wells refused to amplify the statement but it was believed the action was almost automatic in the wake of the state medical board's revocation last April 19 of Dr. San der's license to practice medicine. The 41-year-old Canadian phv. sician was acquitted last March of murder charge in the death of his cancer-doomed patient, Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto. 59. of Manches ter. Slight Progress Reported as Rail Walkout. Nearing CHICAGO, May 10-Wednes day)-(VFederal mediators raled against the clock today in attempts to avert a crippling strike by fire men against four major rail lines, set to start at 6 a.m. local stand ard time. f ' But as talks continued past mid night only slight progress was re ported toward breaking the dead lock over seven year old Issues. With the strike deadline a few hours . away, the four railroad systems curtailed service and planned ; ; further cuts In their schedules. - , . j The strike ' is directed against the entire Santa Fe and Southern lines; the Pennsylvania . system west of Harrisburg, and these New York Central lines: New York Central west of Buffalo, Michi gan Central west of the Detroit river, the C.C.C and St Louis (Big Four)' and the Ohio Central lines. YOUNGSTER DROWNS ( BAKER, May S -tPwo-yeaT-old boy, playing in his yard here, fell into an Irrigation ditch and drowned today. He was Troy Lew Is Boyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oil ver Boyer. Drops Sander 100th YEAR 16 Ex-Red Plane Wreck9 War- V I. 1 ; . , - - JOLIVIRJ : Today will wind up student political campaigning at TVfllamette university, prior to filling next year's student body offices. Tuesday morning the campus blossomed with signs, posters and various attention-getters boosting different candidates. Among thenore bizarre stunts were the wrecked airplane and roaming tractor shown above. Others included a wrecked car a howitzer. (Statesman photo.) President Keorgasiization Plan D Symington Gets Top War Post WASHINGTON, May 9-(- President Truman today issued a new series . of government reor ganization plans which, unless re jected by congress in 60 days, will: 1. Give the country a single boss over the planning of all mobiliza tion for war W. Stuart Syming ton, chairman of the national se curities resources board and for mer secretary of the air force. 2. Strio from the reconstruction finance corporation" its two major housing duties and put the rest of that independent lending corpora tion into the commerce depart ment. . : Symington, Mr. Truman propos ed, would be solely responsible lor organizing the shome iront against the "eventuality of a future war." His board of seven cabinet officers would become merely advisory to him. The NSRB has been criticized frequently by congress members lethargy. It lacked a chairman for months until Symington's appoint ment recently. Today's action, Mr. Truman indicated, is meant to stimulate its planning of industrial mobilization, rationing,' manpower controls and civil defense. McKay Slight Told by Aide; Report Denied KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., May 9 Oregon's Douglas McKay won't'be on hand tomorrow to greet Presi dent Truman on his visit to tnis state. An aide of the governor said McKay wasn't invited. Lawson McCall, the republican governor's administrative assistant, told an Oregon cattlemen's conven tion here today it was a "deli berate affront." Gov. McKay is now in Montana for a session of the Columbia basin inter-agency committee. (At Pendleton, E. B. Aldrich who is in charge of the reception for President Truman there, re ported he had personally telephon ed McKay, asking him to meet the president, V (At Salem, the governor's wife reported the invitation came Mon day night shortly before Gover nor McKay departed by airliner for Montana.) . j - - ... WESTERN INTERNATIONAL. At Salem 3. Yakima 3 -At Victoria 7. Tri-CitV 1 - At Wenatche 3. Spokane 3 (10 inn.) At Vancouver-lacoma. rain. ; COAST LEAGUE At Portland 1. Sacramento 3 (11 lan.) At Seattle I. San Etteco - At Hollywood S. Ixm Angeles ft At Saa Francisco 1, Oakland T (tie, 11 inn.) AMERICAN LEAGUE At New York 4. St. Louis 3 At Philadelphia 9. Cleveland t : At Washington 3. Chicago I At Boston 6, Detroit 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE -At Pittsburgh 10. Brooklyn At Chicago S. New York ft At St. Louis-Boston, rain Only game scheduled BASEBALL ' - - i !S - POUND0D 1651 PAGES Links U.S. Atomic Scientist to Figures iri Campus Election t i ; (Story on page 6.) . taps Reds in China Poster Pasters Warned City's Laud Of f -Limits It's against the lew, gentlemen. That in effect is what Chief of Police Clyde Warren is being forc ed to reiterate these days in re gard to election posters on city property. ' -, Police pointed out that practi cally all power and telephone poles are on city property, .cfaid that to legally put jelection posters on poles or billboards evenfon private property it is necessary to get written consent of the owner. Second Town In Canada Gutted by Fire CABANO, Que., May 9-UP)-A roaring fire which destroyed half the mill town of Cabano today was reported under control by night- falL In its wake it left more than 250 families homeless and 112 resi dences and 33 commercial build ings destroyed. The.Fraser com. pany lumber yard, principle in dustry of the town, was a smoul dering mass of embers. There were no casualties. The fire was5 believed to have started in a sawmill operated by Ernest Pelletier.' Fanned by a steady wind it raged through one building after another. Some streets were completely wiped out, Cabano's fate was strikingly sim ilar to that of Rimouski, 50 miles to the north, where a $20,000,000 fire laid waste a third of the city over the week-end. DIXIE DENIES RIFT HOLLYWOOD, May M-Dixie Lee Crosby, once a singer herself, Lifted her voice today to back up crooner husband Bine's denial of rift in their marriage, the Los Angeles Herald-Express reports. Step Toward Relocation Of State Fair Area Taken The Salem long range planning commission tooK steps xowara eventual relocation of the Oregon state fairgrounds Tuesday night at one of its final sessions. The commission will ask the Chamber of Commerce to appoint a committee to study the plan with Leo G. Spifctbart, state fair man ager. Findings would be submit ted to the state legislature. An area east of McNary field was mentioned as a possible new site for the- fairgrounds. C. . A. McClure, commission en gineer, reported that Salem's growth has surrounded the fair grounds, that traffic has become an increasing - problem during state fair week, and that ultimate ly the fairgrounds would have to be relocated, v v McClure said it was possible that the Salem public school dis trict might be interested in the present grandstand and adjacent Tha Orecon Statocinan Salem. OrgoxC Wadneadcry. May 10 IS 50 '"if 4 piled against a campus tree and Russia Taking! Food ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN, May .8 Vr(P)- President Truman tonight" accused the communists of starving China to help feed Russia. i ' In a move interpreted as a sign that this country will not sooi recognize the communist govern ment of China, the president said the fate of the Chinese people is "tragic. But he made it clear that the United States, j working through American private agencies Still in China, will do what it can to feed hungry' people there, irre spective of their form of govern ment. . I Topped Major Speeches The president's blast at the Chinese communists, made in a speech prepared for a University of Wyoming audience at Laramie, topped a day in which Mr. Tru man made major speeches at Cas per and Cheyenne, with whistle stops in between. ' Asserting the! Chinese commun ists haver been; "heartlessly" in' different to the worst famine wfiicn nas occurred in cnina in 100 years, Mr. Truman declared: "They have leven sent to the Soviet Union food which is des perately needed by the Chinese people." j The speech was one of the bluntest on his! tour of the west. Portland Preppers To Get Math Brush Up PORTLAND, school v juniors May 9-P)- Hign and seniors here will have to study grammar , school arithmetic again t if they cant pass eighth grade tests. . It's a new wrinkle of the school system to correct deterioration in skills with numerals. Beginning ' next year, tenth year pupils who have forgotten their arithmeticj must brush up be fore they receive their diplomas. CP DEFENSE FUNDS WASHINGTON, May 9-V-The house today boosted defense funds by $385,360,000. mostly for new warplanes. , ' ground for an athletic plant. McClure presented a map show- ing possible development, of the fairgrounds. It: featured a recre ational and cultural area, in the heart of the j present grounds, Shown were a gridiron directly in front of the stands, a swimming pooL baseball i and Softball dia monds, the proposed memorial au ditorium and a 2,000-car parking lot - - ; .. j " The recreational area comprised 24.5 acres of the fairground's 170 acres. About 50 acres north of Highland avenue were designated on the map asi an industrial area while land bounded by 17th, 24th, and Wood row streets and Sunny- view avenue were shown as a residential area. An 11-acre oak grove between 17th street and the Southern Pa cific tracks was shown as a dry park. ssued ! Said Iescye Creivs Battle Time in Attempt to Save Tra 1 By Henrietta Leitb and Ed Creagh - j NEW YORK, May 10-(Wednesday)-fl,)-Sweating rescue workers tunneled under the floor of a touch-and-go effort to save a well. digger trapped in: a shaft and ; badly burned by an explosion. The trapped man was Dominick 1 Atteo, 49, father of six children. More Uan 12 hours after a slide of earth and stones engulfed him, he was conscious but in a state of shock. A doctor lowered into the pit said his condition was "very bad." ' Workmen operating a pneumatic drill estimated it would take at least until 3 a.m. (1 a.m. PDT) to reach Atteo, who tried desperately to dig himself free With bare hands until an explosion in the 20-foot shaft burned fiim pain fully. 1 ; j Thousands Stand Outside Thousands thronged the street outside the garage while the rat-tat-tat of the drill clanged through the searchlight-pierced interior. The tunnel was started 30 feet away from the collapsed well and was dug in terraces toward a point directly under Atteo's pin ioned body, so that a boulder holding one of his legs might be worked loose. City workmen propped up the roof of the garage, which threat ened to collapse on the rescue workers as the floor, sustaining a single steel girder that held up the roof, . was weakened by the digging. ! Atteo was buried to the armpits shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday in the cave-in of a well he was dig ging to provide the garage water for washing cars. rrl 1 1 A. 11 J : i lie nusivy, gemai wcii-uiggcr scooped handfuls of earth and stones away from his imprisoned body for hours while police, low ered cautiously into the shaft on ropes, gave what help they could. Explosion- at nightfall. . The explosion Came at night fall. .......i-i Although : the air Inside the shafrwas heavy with oxygen, one of Atteo's sons yielded to his father's plea and lowered a light ed cigarette. There was a sharp blast. The already shaky walls of the well sent down a fresh shower Of dirt and ;rock. Atteo" cried out with pain from the bums on his unprotected face, arms and shoulders. The son became hysterical. Three times, up to early morn ing. Dr. Harold Berson was low ered into the pit He administered first aid, then morphine, finally , blood plasma, Condition Very Bad i Weary and dirt-stained, his clothing torn, the doctor emerged at last and reported: "His condition is very bad. Police emergency squads low ered a steel oil drum, with the ends knocked out, over Atteo's upper body to shield it from any new cave-in. i.ncy lowered a sieei neunei ior further protection, then tied a rope under his arms to prevent ' fm.. l i . j , i , A . him Irom sinking deeper. Until ,11 p.m. despite the con stant risk of new earth slides, they labored with garden trowels to enlarge the opening around the steel tube encasing Atteo. Finally, authorities decided the danger was too great and the tun neling operation got Under way. Chest Agencies Hold Discussion Representatives of Salem Com munity chest agencies conducted a panel discussion on "What Your Commumty Chest Dollar Buys Tuesday night at a Salem trades and labor council meeting. Al Loucks, Salem Community chest president,' proposed that every member of organized labor who was able be asked to give five hours' pay to the chest cam paign next fall. CAR THEFT ON TRADE Theft of a 1938 Ford sedan from the 600 block of Trade st. was re ported to city police Tuesday night by" Wendell W. Gilbert, 1890 N. Winter. . .- , ' j UNION MEN ARRESTED PORTLAND, May 9 -Wt- CIO Woodworkers Chief James ' Fad- ling and three aides and two AFL lumber union men were arrested last night after fisticuffs in a cafe.' ,,r ,: :r ; Max. Mia. Preeip. 3 tra . 60 44 AO , C9 .44 " M Salem . Portland , San Francisco Chicago 74 sa . .u 64 47 -trace New York ... i. ; mm A . forecast (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): MoaUy cloudy wiw catterea ugni now em todax mnA tonight. Littla change in temperature with high today near 63; low tonight near 40. Scattered light showers will occasionally hinder Um acttvttiea today. - ' SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year I Year - Normal 40.7 : J : 1M mm PRICE 5c p p ecS . a on Brooklyn garage early today in a ment Of HBomb WASHINGTON, May 9-4V A successful development of a hydro gen bomb lies "somewhere between probable and possible" and the "Gods" alone know whether prog ress is being made. So said Sumner Pike, acting chairman of the atomic j energy commission, at an AEC news con ference today. At the same time Pike and Com missioner Henry D. myth indi rectly affirmed that to manufac ture one possible ingredient of an H-bomb a substance called triti um mean a "sacrifice" in the production of plutonium j for A bomb or power use. A reporter asked Pike the di rect question: . i "Can you say in general ' wheth er progress is being made toward the development of the hydrogen bomb?" "That is in the lap of the Gods." replied Pike. "If you had asked whether 'effort was being made, would t say yes. As to whether progress is being made, the answer to that will come when one goes bang or doesn't." Later, another reporter asked Pike whether the word "probable" he once'used in referring to chan ces of H-bomb success is now too strong. v't . s .. "Somewhere" between 'probable' and "possible' is about the way It seems to me," Pike replied. Soviet Bid to Remove Berlin Troops Rapped BERLIN, May 9 -OSVA Russian proposal that all occupation troops be removed from Berlin as a pre lude to a "free and democratic" city election was rebuffed by anti-communist Germans and western allied spokesmen! alike to day. - French Maj. Gen. Jean Ganeval spoke most plainly for the west ern powers, whose garrisons the Russians would like to see sent 100 miles to western Germany. He said the Soviet proposal can not be taken seriously. I Secretary of State Acheson said the. proposal is a repetition of a demand Soviet Foreign! Ministei1 Andrei Y. Vishinsky put forward a year ago, "with some added trimming." The Soviet Idea was sprung by Col. Alexei Jelisarov, .representa tive of the Russian control com mission here. . i He said that he, like the west ern commandants, was in favor of supervised cHy-wide elections to reunite the city administration which the communists ruptured when theyfset up a rump govern ment in east Berlin in 1948. Develop Uncertainty Politics on Parade . . . .... . t . . , - - , Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! (Editor'i Bote: Commeats la this series are made by or 'for the candi dates witkoat restriction, and may may not reflect us opuua ei w newspaper). I. ...... Today's Subject: Peery T. Boren Candidate for Salem Municipal Jodge "A challenge to our ' system of law enforcement exists; unless the general public respects our muni cipal courts. . . That is the op- '--.- uuon oi .retry x. Buren, candidate for. municipal judge. He is an able and exper ienced attorney with solid pro-fej-Honal and personal pack ground upon which to base his Since the ma- Pry Boxen i jority cf people make their only contact with the law in tha lower courts, obviously It la essential that the public have a favorable lmnrcstioa of such courts. The PHP""! Cc '"1 wtrffirit-T 'rrrtrTit-yf jdon- im Omni U fke Crawth Ortjaw No, 44 Oppenheimer Denies Word In Testimony OAKLAND, Calif, May An ex-communist testified today that Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer once held a closed communist meeting at his home in Berkeley testimony flatly denied tonight in Washington by the top atomic -scientist. , i r The witness, Mrs. Sylvia Crouch, appeared before the state senate un - American activities committee which ! is seeking to' determine if there were jcommun ists connected with the University of California's atom-smashing la boratory. : ( Mrs. Crouch, an admitted com munist from 1929 until 1942, said she attended the meeting in 1941 and that photographs of Dr. Op penheimer which she ' saw later convinced her he was one of those present. Disclaims Membership . In Washington. Dr. Oppenheim er said in a statement tonight h never had been a communist party member, never attended a party meeting "in my. home or any- where else." . ' . He said he formerly knew many persons in left-wing circles and had belonged to several left-wing, organizations but that the govern ment knew about that ever sine he started work oh the atomic bomb project. Dr. Oppenheimer said he had not yet seen the full testimony . given by Mrs. Crouch but thai he understood its import to be that Mr. and Mrs. Crouch and a group of other people met at Oppen- Seimer's home in Berkeley id uly, 1941, for a closed communist meeting. Directed Los Alamos "The implications of such testi mony are obvious, and l snouia like to comment at once, he con tinued. I have never been a member of the communist party. I never assembled any sum group of people for any such pur pose in my home or anywher else. . I am unable to recall any gathering in mjH house that could reasonably hate been mistaken for such a meeting. Neither th name Crouch nor the accounts" of Mr. and Mrs. Crouch recall to me anyone l nave ever Known; i Dr. Oppenheimer, chairman dl the powerful advisory committea which shapes policy for the na tions atomic energy commission, was a director of the atomic ie- , search laboratory"' at Los Alamos, N. Mex., during the war. The first atom bombs were made there. ( Causes Great Stir Dr. Oppenheimer became direet- er of that laboratory about tn time it began to functionln the spring of 1943. At that time th project employed a little more . than 50 people. In two and a half years it grew to a community of 8,500. Oppenheimer was director ; from beginning to end. Mrs. Crouch said sne naa seen Dr. Oppenheimer several timaf after the Berkeley meeting, but nAvpr tt Bain at a closed eommuiv- i 1st session. '1 The testimony caused an imme diate stir in scientific circle, where Dr. Oppenheimer'a stand ing is. very high. His name never before haj been publicly connect ed with possible communist party mpmhrshin. although his broth er, ur. i ranK uppenneimerj naa admitted, belna a onetime party member. TOSCANJTNI ARRIVES PORTLAND, May 9-W-Con-ductor-Arturo Toscanini and mnni cians of the NBC syphony orches tra arrived here today by, special train for. a one night stand at the auditorium. juvenile offender usually has hit- first brush with the law on tne city level and the handling of hla . case by the Judge can either push hint "down the path to crime or. guide him to adjustment and good citizenship. ' Peery T. - Buren- bellevea the municipal judge must be fair and impartial, deciding each case sole-' ly on its merits, guided by training and experience, tempered by o understanding of his fellow-men. Buren is a graduate of the Uni versity of Oregon and George Washington University law school, Washington, D.C., where he did special work In the field of muni-cipal- law. and -received a Juris Doctor degree. He is admitted to practice in the District of Colum bia and Oregon. Buren, an activa worker for worthwhile commun ity projects in -Salem, la a war veteran, member of the Presby terian church, a homeowner, mar ried and has a daughter. ! , Peery T. Buren's background of education and experience and his interest in affairs of the commun ity merit the support of lawafekL lng citizens on May 19. , (Tomorrow Howard. Latawrette) Party