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-Easily-the best report from in
' tide Russia today is that written
fev Harrison Salisbury, correspon
dent lor the New xorK ximes, in
a series which was carried also by
the Oreeonian. There are lew cor
respondents of western nations in
Russia, but the Times has kept
up its representation. Salisbury re
ported on his observations made
United States. The main features
"of his reporting are these:
The USSR is busy with a great
construction program, xt is ouua-
ing two huge hydroelectric works
with generating capacity of ten
billion kwh per year. Several mil
lion hectares of land are being put
tinder irrigation. Lots of construe
tion is under way in Moscow, in
chiding tall ' office buildings and
housing. Old properties are being
repaired -and rerurDisnea.
The supply of consumer goods
is increasing and on some things,
like automobiles, prices are lower.
There are no queues at stores and
no hoarding. Varieties' of food
stuffs are more abundant in the
markets. More articles of metal
ware for household use are of
fered for sale.
: As to preparedness for war there
was no indication of special ac
tivity in this neia. no recruiting
posters, no mobilizing of reserves.
Russia imposes universal military
training of two, three or four-years
depending on-the branch of ser
vice chosen and Salisbury says its
military forces are "incomparably
superior to those,, at - any other
power in Europe or Aaa." He
adds there is "no substantial
changeover of the economy from
its predominantly , peacetime .as
pect to one of preparation for or
war scare - - ' - - ,
Another thing which Salisbury
commented on was lack of any
war scarce '
(Continued, on editorial page, 4)
SUCC Budget
Limit Cuts -
36 from Staff
The state unemployment com
pensation commission announced
Thursday it would lay off 36 em
ployes by November 1.
This brings to 80 the total of
UCC workers dropped since July.
The layoffs are a direct result of
the $7,000,000 federal budget re
duction made by congress recently,
said Silas Gaiser, administrator of
the commission. -
Because unemployment is at one
of its lowest points In Oregon
history now, the reduction will
not hinder the commission's work,
said Gaiser. But, ha declared,
when the jubless total begins to
climb this winter, new workers
will have to be hired, at least on a
temporary basis. . , ------
The current lay-off is almost
exclusively confined to local em
playment offices over .the state.
The Salem office will lose one,
and possibly two, employes, . a
. commission spokesman said. r
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Milk producers were most numerous among producers, distributors, retailers and consumers U appear
at a state milk control hearing la Salea Thursday. Here, in an informal moment, are producers J.
perksen. Turner; F. E. Pesheck, Tangent; M. a BisseU, Dallas, and Frank Richardson. Albany, from
left; and Kenneth E. Carl, state milk administrator. (Photo by Don Dill. SUtesman staff photographer)
Salary
For Employes
Of State Seen
The state civil service commis
sion will recommend ' to Gov.
Douglas McKay that its proposed
salary equalization plan, which
would adjust salaries of the states'
580 classes of positions, be adopt
ed effective this November 1, and
that any cost of living adjustment
the administration or legislature
may authorize be made in addi
tion to this plan. -
This was announced here Thurs
day, by: James M. Clinton, civil
service commission director.- He
said the proposed plan had been
sent to all state department heads.
. under the so-called equalization
salary plan there would be an
average $10, per month increase
for state employees.
Based en Survey
The plan. Clinton said, was bas
ed on a survey of salaries in pri
vate industries and other ouhUr
jurisdictions in the northwest
completed last June. The clan does
not take into consideration chang
es in economic conditions and the
labor market that have occurred
since that time. : . .
The survey showed, according
to Clinton, that in the states low
er positions with beginning 'salar
ies from $140 to $220 a month the
state - salaries as of June wef e
fairly competitive with private in
dustry and required only slight
revisions.
The middle group, however, had
fallen considerably below private
industry and other public Juris
dictions. Plan Seen Possible
In this group the state has been
attempting to employ persons with
considerable experience in vari
ous technical, and administrative
fields or with college education or
its equivalent.
Clinton - said the civil service
commission believes the state de
partments can put the equalization
plan into effect for the remainder
of the current biennium without
asking for additional funds
through savings that have result-1
ed from vacant positions during
the past year and by holding merit
increases to a minmnm :
RED RADIO SILENT '
TOKYO, Friday, Oct 20
Radio Pyongyang in the partly oc
cupied capital was silent today.
Orders for Induction Received
By
23 More in
Twenty-three more Marion
county men were ordered up for
induction, as the selective service
board received a call Thursday
for 184 men to take pre -induction
physical examinations in Novem
ber. - '". " . , "
The board also issued two policy
statements, in answer to frequent
questions. It said that inductees
are guaranteed ; 21 days notice,
from' the time their orders are
mailed until they are to report,
and that at present no men are
being drafted who were married
prior to taking their physical ex
amination. , . - r
The November groups for ex
aminations will go to Eugene on
the 3rd, 7th, 17th, 28th and 30th.
Included in the regular induc
tion call are 11 men who are to
report . to board headquarters
Tuesday at 3 pjn. to be taken to
The Orecjon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday,
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Bread Price War
Cuts Living Cost
In Corvallis Homes
: CORVALLIS, Oct. 19 -fl-Housewives
here who were alert
saved money today on the staff of
life. The early ones didn't get the
biggest bargain either.
A bread price war started when
one grocer undercut the loaf price
of a nearby chain store's commod
ity, soon spread elsewhere. At the
bottom of the price swing, the one
and one-half pound loaf was sell
ing for 10 cents. '
Sex Criminal
Control Bill
Drafted
By Winston H. Taylor'
- Asst. ay Editor. The SUtesman -
Legislation to secure improved
control of sex criminals or su
spects, particularly those who vic
timize children, will be proposed
at the 1951 Oregon-legislature. -
This was disclosed Thursday by
E. O. Stadter, jr., Marion county
district. attorney, who said as
chairman , of the legislative com
mittee for the Distrist Attorneys
Association of Oregon he had been
authorized to draft several bills
for changes in the criminal code.
Stadter said he would prepare
an amendment to the vagrancy
statute which would permit de
tention and investigation of per
sons .who molest children or who
loiter near schools, narks or other
public places.: .
. The California statue which Stad
ter is employing as a model pro
vides fines up to $500 or imnrison-
ment up to six months for molest
ing children under 14 years or
for loitering. . i
At' present, the district attor
ney pointed out, a charge of con
tributing to the delinquency of -a
minor is the only one available. A
felony, it requires more evidence
for convictions than is usually ob
tainable, especially since children
are often poor court witnesses.
Other changes with which. Stad
ter -is concerned include - amend
ment of the non-support statue to
enable prosecution of women as
well as of men for failure to sup
port thetr children. ' -
Marion County
Eugene are LJoyd Francis Beut
ler, Morris P. V. McElwee, Bobby
R. Harrison, David L. DeLapp,
Donald T. Thompson,' Ralph
Craig Taylor, Theodore W. Ander
son, Darald Dean DaMoude, Don
ald Lee McNuIty, Ronald Cass
Nichols and Donald -Ordeen Kjos.
Officials said this group completes
the list of 22-year-olds ordered
into service with the 21-year-olds
to be called next.
The others ordered for induc
tion Wednesday at Eugene are 12
men from earlier lists, whom the
board has been unable to contact.
They are Clyde Phillip Pease,
Robert Francis Craft, Wiley Snow,
Jack Thomas Back, Robert Peter
Paulson, James Robert Stanley,
Walter Leo Kitchen, William. K.
Kuhahiko, jr Claud Gene Clark,
Norman Martin,' Frans Nelson
Wood and Gilbert Charles BideL
Being
October 20, 1950
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Dairymen Ask
Increase in
Price of Milk
Milk producers of. the Salem
area testified Thursday that dairy
farm eosts are mounting and main
tained that the price they get for
milk should also rise.
Dairymen predominated among
35 men and women at a public
hearing In the state library build
ing prompted by recent sugges
tions that milk price be raised all
along the . line.
Only a few witnesses actually
alluded to the possibility of a
higher retail milk price, in the
course of 'testimony taken by as
sistant . administrator - Kenneth E.
Carl and northwest field represen
tative Albin Nordquist for the Ore
gon milk marketing administra
tion. X . ,
No organized consumer or labor
groups appeared at the hearing
which was one of a series being
held throughout Oregon. .
In general the producers called
attention- to higher prices -they
paid in recent months for . cows,
feed, veterinary service , equip
ment and labor. Distributors' rep
resentatives said prices are up for
labor, truck tires, bottles and caps
and other items. Retailer spokes
men said grocery clerk wages are
high and may go higher.
- Under present milk control. Pro
ducers get 90 cents per pound for
butterfat plus $1J0 per hundred
weight. Distributors bottle the
milk, sell it to stores at 18 cents
a quart bottle; stores put It on sale
to consumers at 19 cents.
(Additional details on page .) .
U.S. Admits
Jet's Attack-
- LAKE SUCCESS. Oct 19-FV-
The" United' States admitted today
that, two American planes strafed
a Russian airfield October, 8 and
offered to pay for the damage. -1
Chief U. S. Delegate A. Warren
R. Austin forwarded to United
Nations Secretary General Trygve
Lie a report from Gen. MacAr
thurs headquarters about the in
cident' '-, ' -
The U. S. said two American
jets made an attack on Soviet air
craft on an airfield in the vicini
ty of Shkyua Rechka. It said the
incident was a mistake while pi
lots were fighting in that nart of
Korea which borders on Russian
Liberia. The Russians made a cro-
test which the U. S. declined to
receive, saying it should be re
ferred to the U. N. since the planes
involved were part of the U. N.
forces fighting in Korea. -
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LONDON. Friday. Oct 2fW3v-
Russia, in notes to the United
States, Britain and France, has
warned that she will not tolerate
creation of a German army in
western Europe, the Moscow ra
dio said today. , - . .
The broadcast said the warning
was in identical notes to the three
western powers rejecting as un
lounaea their charges that the
east German people's police is in
fact a military organization.
Claiming that the People's
lice in eastern Germany was in
full accord with directives of the
allied control council for all Ger
many, the Soviet note to the U. S.
aeciarea: ' -
Kaps Training, Units
"At the same tune , the Soviet
government . draws the attention
of the government of the United
states to the existence in the west
era zones -of Germany of police
formations which are in point of
xact army units.
The arming of thes fnrm.
tions, their organization structure,
training of officers in special
schools and also the fact that they
undergo regular army training and
take part in military maneuvers
together with the occupation
troops of the western powers leave
no doubt that these formations are
m no way designed for rf rhr
Tint usual police functions."
' Tha nnto olrl h. - -
foreign ministers meeting in New
York on September 19 granted
western Germany the right to set
ap mobile police units -"which are
in essence military units." t
. t also alleged that the ' three
western, foreign ministers pro
vided for the participation of west
ern Germany in the joint armed
forces of western Europe.
Han to Revive Army
However, sources at the New
York conference said they were
unable to agree on that step at
present because of French objec
tions. .... . -
"In other words,' 'said the So
viet note, "it is ooenhr envisaged
to revive the German army, which
lianas in utter contradiction to
the rulings of the Potsdam confer
ence on demilitarization of Ger
many." e
"Th Soviet ' government states
it will not tolerate such measures
of the governments of the United
States, Britain and France aimed
at reviving the GermanN regular
army in western Germany," the
note concluded., ."..-.
! Russia charged that the west
ern powers, in recent notes to the
Kremlin, were trying to cover up
their own attempts to revive a
west German army by claiming
that the Soviet-sponsored east
German police force is a military
organization. '-
The Soviet Unions said the west
ern notes contained "absolutely
ungrounded allegations that the
People's police of the German de
mocratic . republic does not dis
charge usual police functions and
is of a military nature," . I
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Piles ef fall leaves and a grenp of youngsters get together often at this season. Here young students
sf Highland school take advantage ef their lunch period ta scuff, rake, kick and throw the yellow
. maple leaves on the school grounds. "As days grew shorter leafy trees win be stripped bare-and the
air cleared af the smudge and smell af burning leaves then winter wCl be. here. (SUtesman. photo.)
Toll of A merican Dead
In Korea Up to 4,036
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 -JPh
The announced total of American
dead in the Korean fighting has
risen to 4,038, total casualties to
28,083.' v . f .
- In making the announcement to
day, the defense department said
the figures represent casualties
reported to next of kin through
Friday, Oct 13, The total does not
reflect all casualties suffered up
to that time, because of time con
sumed collecting and checking the
reports. ; .-r
The casualty total, L920 larger
than that announced a week pre
A huge south Salem . sunermarket fove1nnmant r. aii.-j
Thursday by Arthur M. Erickson,
uia omen in XTineviiie, McMinnvllle and Bend.; J-
. Erickson said he would build a 120 hv ins fmt mv. L c..k
Pnmrn. II 4V . a
wuiujciuu Alice sireeis m me
Candalaria sector. He opened bids
on the construction project yester
day and, pending a contract award,
announced only that the low bid
der is Browning and Randolph,
Salem contractors. ,
The new market designed 'hv
Architect James L. Payne, would
nave ,3U0 square feet of sales
floor space alone, plus 3,500 feet
in stockroom and refrigerated stor
age and 1,200 feet in offices.
Building plans incorporate ul
tramodern design features to ex
pedite serve-self shopping through
out The meat processing depart
ment would be in an air condition
ed cutting room visible from the
latest type of refrigerated self
service equipment on the . sales
floor. - .
An architectural feature of the
reinforced concrete, brick . and
aluminum trimmed building will
be 113 -foot roof trusses.
Fluorescent tubing reaulred .to
illuminate the sales room will total
one-half mile in length.
Off-street parking in front and
rear, accessible from both streets,
will accommodate 88 autos.
Erickson's other Salem markets
are the Paramount downtown and
supermarkets in north Salem and
at Four Corners. .
Gas Lantern
Takes 4 Lives
COLVILLE. Wash- Oct
me naming explosion of a gaso
line lantern was named today as
the cause of a fire that killed four
small children. .
ine imams, three rrom one
family and one from another, were
trapped and burned to death in
a two story log home 15 miles
east of Colville last night Four
other youngsters escaped unharm
ed. - - - -
But the life of a fifth person
was in danger tonight She is Mar
fret Frye, a 14-year-old baby sit
ter, who rescued two of the four
children saved. Two others, found
their way. out of the burning
house.
Trusty Recaptured
By Portland Police
Everett J. Stalnaker. Oregon
prison trusty who escaped from
the penitentiary annex Saturday,
was apprehended by Portland au
thorities late last night, state po
lice reported.
- Stalnaker, 24,' had been work
ing in a cow barn shortly before
he was missed. He was sent up
from Multnomah county -in 1948
on a burglary charge. -r - '
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viously, included 17,7 11, wounded
and 4,336 missing in action.; Of
the missing, 366 since have, re
turned to military control, - and
107 are listed as captured or in
terned by the enemy. . -
The army reported 22,838 of the
casualties; including 3,394 dead
and 13.268 wounded, r
- The marine corps lost 2,880, In
cluding 049 aeaa and 2,309 wound
ea. The air force, total was 169,
Including 51 dead and 10 wounded.
Among the navy's 196 casualties
were 42 killed and 124 wounded.
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Operators Hit
PORTLAND, Oct 19-(,)-Doug-las
fir prices that had skyrocketed
to "unheard of levels" a few
months ago have undergone the
worst collapse in history" an in
dustry expert reported today.
The" sharp break on green; di
mension lumber commonly used
as studs and joistr in framing
houses hit ' marginal operators
hardest and, If not checked, threat
ened to force scores out of business..--'
The drop did not . materially
shake big operators, although they
felt it ; ' ,
C. W. Crow, editor of the widely
read Pacific Coast Lumber Digest,
who called it "the worst collapse
in history" said the price level had
been more than double the world
war II ceilings.'
The price of 2x4s and 2x6s bit
a peak of $90 a thousand, but by
this week had dropped to around
850 and below. ' ' ; . '
i The break wa;felt ton.: other
lumber- to a lesser, degree. ;
At Eugene, in the center of th
nr production, area, himbermen
reported drop-in the past week
of abotit $10 a thousand., r:-v
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Hits Columbia
t ST. HELENS, Ore, Oct19-(15)-A
navy Corsair was reported miss
ing tonight at the same time resi
dents here said an airplane crash
ed into the Columbia river near
here. - ' ' " -
State police began dragging the
river bottom, near , Columbia Cjty.
Missing is 'a Corsair which left
Salem at 4:30 p.m. on a flight to
the Seattle naval air station .with
a sistership that landed at the
Portland airport-
The civil-aeronautics adminis
tration said the missing aircraft Is
No. 76333. The pilot of the sister
ship, No. 88337, '. reported at the
Portland airport that he made
180 degree turn to swing out of
some low clouds to land at the
Portland field but his companion
failed to do so.
Both 'planes landed last night
at the Salem airport and took off
tonight at 4:30 pjn. ;
CONFERENCE SLATED
PORTLAND, Oct 19 -V The
41st annual Pacific northwest log
ging congress opens here Sunday.
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UR IN THE AIR OVER KOREA,
Oct 20 -JPy-American parachute- '
troops jumped into communirta
territory 23 miles north of Pyong-i
yang today in a swift thrust to euT
off Red escape, routes from the U.
N.-occupied North Korean capital. 1
: General MacArthur, circling tiie 1
battle area in bis transport plane, ' "
personally directed the first para. 1
chute drop of the Korean cain
paign. .. .. . . : i ... f . r
It was commanded bv fcbl
S. Bowens of the 187th regiment
of the. veteran 11th airborne divi
sion. . . - . - ' i -
j The North Korean government
including Premier Kim n Sung, ia :
believed to have fled the
1st Capital to the north. Prisoners '
said the government had fled to '
Huichon, 80 miles north of Pyong.
yang. .
The prisoners also said Worth '
Korean military headquarters' had -been
moved to Sunchon, a size
able town 11 miles east of Suk- :
chon. . - . .
The grim ' young Americana
dropped from early morning, skies
on the flatlands between the key '
highway town ow Sukchon and
Sunchon, which is about 23 miles -northeast
of Pyongyang. -Their
job was to seal ofT Red ;
forces withdrawing from Pyong
yang with a new battle line 80 ,
miles south of . the Manchariaa :
border.
Another of their aims was to
cut off : the highway and -rail line
running through Sunchon - and ,
Sukchon. ' j - -
; Attentive and determined. Cm. -
eral MacArthur watched from his
Constellation: plane "Sea p" as
thousands of paratroopers tumbled
from transpQrt planes and floated "
to the ground. - ,
The Constellation. tmaVmed -tni
protected by fighter planes, stsodj
out in the morning sky.
uenerat MacArthur left Tmky
at 30 a. m. fl:30 n. m. r??r
Thursday) and flew to Kimpo-aa.
port near Seoul to join the hr
armada. ' " : '
.The . transport planes circle
westward over the Yellow sea
aToia Red anti-aircraft batteries
and wheeled inland to reach tha
Jump area north of Pyongyang. -
The paraebnter are expected -to
catch many communist soldiees
ana any .comity mist officials who
might have remained until the
last minute al Pyongyang, wbee l
United Nations.' troops axe nop- -
ig up. -;;- ! . , -v, i ,.,.:,, .. .w
Another aim of the paratroop
ers was to release any American
and United Nations troops the :,
communists may hold prisoners ia
the area. - - , t,-, -
SEOUL; Fridav. Oct. 2fl lak
United Nations forces tnda v4r -
tuaHy completed the occupation of
Pyongyang and "bombers smash!
at the enemy's line of retreat hw
yond the North Korean commun-'
ist capital. . .
One American and two Srratk .
Korean divisions were crushing
the last resistance in the ruined -city,
deserted by Red dictator Kim -
II Sung and the remnants of bJst
army. .. ; .
Collapse, of the Reds in that
northwest sector tended to over- :
shadow an; appointment for lbs
northeast sector the one closest to
the Siberian border. . A-
Positions Ceneealed . -:
Mai. Gen., Edward E. Almond.
the liberator of Seoul, took com- .
mand of all U.N. forces in north,
east Korea. . v- : v: ; .
At the same . time. mflitarv a
thorities clamped a security black
out on the -whereabouts of the U.
S. First marine and the UJS. Sev
enth infantry divisions. They wera
a part of General Almond's Amer
ican 10th corps command.'
The entry and occupation of Py
ongyang was a 24-hour accom
plishment The U3. First cavalry division
entered Pyongyang from the south '
at 11:02 ihl; Thursday. Itwas fol
lowed 18 minutes . later by .the.
South Korean First division, en
tering from, the east
The two forces Quickly overran
the east - industrial sector, theft
swept across the Taedong river in
to the business 'section Thursday
night. , y
Famed Poetess
Clainied by Deatli
AUSTERLXTZ. N. Y- Oct 18-.
(-Poetess Edna St Vincent 1111.
lay was found dead at her hssae)
here today. She was 58.. .
Her physician said she died 4sf
a heart attack.
In . 1923 she . was awarded the
Pulitzer- prize for verse for her
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver."
Miss Minay, best known for her
poem -Renascence," moved here?
22 years ago. from New York City -with
; her husband, Eugene Jan
Boissevain. He died about a year
ago.r : j t ' -
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Takes Eigbt lives
SAN ANTONIO." Oct 19-tfVA
Randolph air force base B29 crash
ed in a pasture near Seguin. Tex
today, killing all eight crew mem
bers. ; -
The big bomber crashed on tha
Richard Grein farm and "explod
ed like thunder." Parts ef the
plane. were scattered over a half
mile radius.- -
Several witnesses said the air
craft apparently had developed
gina trouble. .. '