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Weather ' "1 J Mia. ,Prcly. 3 - M 32 .00 SO JOO " M .03 SO .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 52 . 49 . II . 30 60 JMu Ylflfl SwrW It fk Grtwth tf Ortcsa Willamette River 9.2 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau, McNary field. Saiem): Fair today with Increasing cloudinesa lata thii afternoon and tonight. Light rain be tinning late tonight. High today 83 U and low tonight 38-40. VV POUNDDD 1651 100th YEAR 12 PAGES The- Orcon Statesman, Salm, Oreaon, Saturday, November II. 1950 PRICE 5c No. 230 V 'W W IV ft V ft X. I I V ft W TAV .XaWV. i I I .III II III It ft V ,-V T I I I 1 II Know Where to Find $79,000,000? 1951 Legislature Must Find Answer By Paul W. Harvey. Jr. . Anybody know where to find $79,000,000? i The legislature will want to know when it meets in Salem Jan uary 8 so it can balance the state budget for the following two years. - State Budget Director Harry S. Dorman estimated six months ago the deficit would be $50,000,000. That estimate ; included the cost of the basic school bill and the soldiers bonus, which the ; voters approved Tuesday. This $50,000,000-in-the-red fig lire was bad' enough. But since then, it has shot up by $29,000,000. The board of control says it badly needs $8,000,000 for state in stitutions buildings. The board of higher education says it has to have $12,000,000 for college and university, buildings. HBHEOS .to mora Armistice Day 32 years after. And what a packed 32 years, the stream of history running now . placid; now wild! Heights of pros perity (1929, 1948); depths of de pression (1921, 1932). Heights of peace (Kellog-Briand pact 1928, United Nations 1945); depths of war i 1941-45. 1950?). Triumphs lor saving hi (sulia drugs, pen icillin, insulin); triumphs for des troying life (atomic bomb, 1945). Extension of democracy In Brit ain United States, ending of col onialism in India, the Philippines, Indonesia; emergence of dictator ships, Russia, nazi Germany, fascist Italy. Verily the wheels have turn ed full circle. Events have served in great de gree to shatter our faith in our selves. From that high moment in 1918 wnen tne rwr u tuu came to a close, to this day of un certainty what a transformation has occurred. Then victory was In hand, peace was assured After two decades another and more horrible war, and after another live years fresh breaches of the peace.. World leadership, rejected by the U.S. senate in defeating the league of nations in 1920, and ac cepted in 1945-50 demands a price which seems high to many. How far may we go in policing the world? Korea, yes; Indo-CMna, perhaps; Tibet, no. How far may we go in refinancing the world? Marshall plan yes. Point Four?? : And which way are we heading, now that the election is over? Toward the Chicago Tribune and Kokomo; or toward Time maga zine and Chiang Kai-shek? Verily this is a day more for meditation than for memory, though recollection of that high, bright day of 1918 awakens both nostalgia and yearnings. The generation- that marched in that re view has marched On and crossed the crest; another generation marches,., already baptized in war fare; still another is being born and into what kind of world? Ours may be described as the generation that failed; wars, de pressions. But perhaps out of this centurr of strueele gains may come ... for better forms of social organization; for an extension of education, health- and creature comforts; for v: attainment of a higher human destiny. We and our forebears have made the world wnaz it is. av Keening vivia in mir portwien th hiph hones of November 11, 1918 perhaps we can make tomorrow s a better world. WASN'T WORTH IT SPOKANE, Nov. 10 -(-Burg lars broke a window pane to get into the American laundry last night. They apparently got cut by the glass and left with more pain than loot. Only thing missing bandages from the first aid kit. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH w6 "She's been 139 i lona, I rt iter." BtP State employes got a salary raise which will cost $7,000,000 more a year. Federal income tax increases, which can be deducted from state taxes, will reduce the state's in come tax revenue $2,000,000 a year. All of that boosts the estimated deficit to $79,000,000. Now, what can the legislature do about it? It might trim off a little of that by cutting down expenses, but not very much. It could levy new taxes, but that might not do any good. Oregon voters have a habit of defeating legislative tax measures at the polls. Or it might just do nothing, thus letting the deficit be wiped out by property taxes. Oregon hasn't had a property County Tax Statements in Mail . , Salem Chest Drive Tops Quota Get or Give Order Closes Up Ranks (Photos on page 5.) Victory was attained Friday by Salem Community chest, for the first time in three years, and two of the drive's most successful di vision chiefs will head the cam paign for 1951. Those were among the develop ments of a rapid-fire Friday which brought realization of the chest's $111,000 goal as a result of an intensive two-day wind-up engineered by Carl Hogg and A. C Haag, co-chairmen of the 1950 event. Chairmen Announced - A few hours after success of the 1950 drive was assured, Al fred W. Loucks, president of the Salem Community chest, armour j- ed that chairman of the 1951 cam paign would be Edward Majek, representative' of Equitable Life! Assurance society, who led his professional division over the top this year. Chairman of the 1951 pre-cam- paign effort, Loucks announced, will be Mai B. Rudd, manager of the J. C. Penney company, whose mercantile division this year raised more money than this sec tion -of the chest ever had raised previously. Figured In the reaching of the total goal were several gifts promised but not yet received from companies whose headquar ters are outside Salem. Dozens of workers brought in the $100 they had pledged Thursday to "get or give," and some will continue to solicit for the amounts they had underwritten in addition to their own earlier gifts. One of First in State A total of $6,160 was reported at .yesterday's victory luncheon mostly comprised gifts from per sons who already had pledged. However, some workers said part of their contributions came from persons who never before had do nated to the chest Charles A. Sprague, publisher of The Statesman, who had key- noted the closing drive at Thurs day's breakfast rally, told the group yesterday that "we're proud for Salem to get away from an inferiority complex and quit stumbling over ourselves. Loyal A. Warner of Salem. president of Oregon chest, said the city was one of the first in the state to go over its 1950 quota. U.N. Claims No Appeal Yet by Tibet NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 10 (P)-Tibet has appealed directly to the United Nations to intervene in the Chinese Communist invas ion of that little Himalayan coun try, usually; reliable sources said today. These informants reported the appeal was launched Wednes day. The Indian foreign ministry said it had not received any in timation from the Tibetan govern ment about the appeal, but for eign ministry officials conferred with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and cabinet members on matters Including the latest Tibe tan developments. (Western diplomats in London said the nivasion possibly may end India's friendly relations with Communist China. India was one of the first countries to recognize the Peiping regime and has cam paigned for-lts entry into the U. N, but in avU. N. debate would find it difficult not to opposed Red China's action in Tibet, they said. (U. N. headquarters at Lake Success said no appeal frem Tibet had been received there.) SALKM PRXCTPITATIOJf Blnea (tart f weather year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 4J4 f.il tax for state purposes for 20 years, because income taxes have wiped them out. But those good old days are gone. Local property taxes are high enough so that a state property tax wouldn't be welcomed by pro perty owners. The legislative interim commit tee, conscious of the complaints by property owners, will recommend that the legislature make it im possible to levy a state property tax. If this hugh deficit is unloaded on property, the property owners would likely rise up in arms with an initiative measure to cut down property taxes. The legislature is in a dilemma, probably the worst financial crisis any legislature has had to face. Mediation Try Unsuccessful In CWA Strike NEW YORK, Nov. 10 -Wf- The government today launched its first try at ending a nationwide telephone equipment workers strike, but reported no progress. Meanwhile, .strikers adopted a surprise new picketing technique. Variously called "push-button" or "hit-and-run" picketing, the new strategy involved sporadic and sudden concentrations of pick ets at telephone offices in certain areas. The CIO Communication Work ers of America said the plan was intended to cause difficulty by keeping the company from know ing when and where service would have to be kept going by super visory personnel. Tactics Wide Spread . The tactics became apparent in numerous states today as federal mediators, for the first time since start of the two-day-old strike, met with company and union ne gotiators. One joint session was between the CWA's division 18 and the Western Electric Co. . New Meetings Today Federal mediation Commission er Walter A. Maggiolo said that the parties remained at logger heads over the length of contract the only issue discussed. He said he planned new meetings tomor row. A key issue in the nationwide dispute, which has bogged down some long-distance telephone serv ice, is the CWA demand for a one year contract. The company has proposed i contract that would permit no new wage negotiations for 16 to 18 months. . Safe Aboard - - "t ' x -. .3r. . NL' " 7 ! :. - ''t -r- -w . C- .-s rT .--: -" - s- . v-" - "- - - - . " : r - . . , t - 5 . . - - Sj-.v " . . Lt D. L. Davis, CSN, Is covered with a blanket as he Is led away frem a rescuing helicopter which land ed him back aboard the carrier Leyte. Davis ha d been picked up from the sea off the Korean coast after his F9F Jet Panther Plane had crashed shor tiy a&er takeoff from th Leyte on a battle mission. (U. 8. Navy Photo via AP WlrephoU to the SUtssman.) v The legislature gets angry at the voters who vote to spend money, and then won't provide the money, or refuse to approve the tax in creases which the legislature makes In order to finance what the voters ask for. Another thing which makes it tough for the new legislature is that the house, which by constitu tion has to pass on all tax mea sures before the senate does, is very short of men who know any thing about taxes. Of the 11 members of the house tax committee of the 1949 legis lature, only three will be in the new legislature. The senate, however, has lots of experienced tax men. So what ever the house does, the senate will rewrite It, like it usually does. Nov. 15 Deadline To Gain Discount A large portion of Marion coun ty's taxpayers will have this week to mull over and prepare payment on their 1950-51 property taxes, for which statements were mailed Friday afternoon. , However, since mail will be de livered only in towns today, many must wait until Monday for their statements. Speed will be need ed to receive the 3 per cent cash discount, as the deadline is No vember 15. Mailed payments must be post marked by midnight of the 15th (Wednesday), to get the discount. Since county offices will ob serve today's holiday, over-the-counter payment will start Mon day morning. General mailing of the state ments could not be started until the tax roll of approximately $5, 000,000 was turned over Friday by the assessor. Chief tax Deputy Harold Domogalla estimated 75 per cent of the bills were mailed Fri day. Helping to speed the lines this year will be a second giant cash register, which arrived just as the rush was tapering off in 1949. The full 3 per cent discount Is available only upon payment of the entire amount of tax. One per cent reduction is given for a half year's payment and 2 per cent for three quarters. Several persons who appeared Friday afternoon upon hearing rumors that the statements were mailed were able to pay their taxes. SCHOOL BILL APPROVED PORTLAND, Nov. 10 -(JP)- The basic school support measure was approved by the voters in Tues day's election by a margin of 2307 votes, complete unofficial returns showed today. After Crash Landing in Sea e Winner? -V i :L Yrf.i - Alfred D. SieminskI, newly -elected representative from New Jersey, learned of his victory while waiting to fight off a guerrilla attack in Korea, Sie minski, a major, said he would not return home until the army found a replacement for him. (AP Wirephoto to the States man.) Today Official Holiday in City; Parade Slated Official Salem will have a holi day today as Armistice day is celebrated, principally with the traditional parade and courthouse program. The parade will leave Marion square at 10:30 a.m., going along Commercial, State, Church, Court and High streets to the courthouse. There the 11 o'clock service will include an address by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. All governmental offices except emergency services will be closed today, as weU as the banks. Regu lar mail deliveries will be made in the city, but postoffice windows will be closed. Most stores will re main open. Salem Driver Critically Hurt Wade Harbin, 38, Salem route 4. box 612, was injured critically Friday night when his car flipped end over end on highway 222 near Aumsville. Harbin incurred broken face and jaw bones and severe lacera tions about his face, according to his doctor, who said his condition remained critical late last night. State police said Harbin was alone in the car when the accident happened about 5:30 p. m. A pa trolman said Harbin apparently missed a sharp turn and was town from his car when it roll ed over. V - ' " ' ' ..A Vi - ' -aw - HI. UJo ml Ufifil l(o Pre- Winter Freeze Grips Most of U.S. A siirge of polar air spread over nearly the entire country Friday in a pre-winter blast that brought these conditions: The mercury sank to -26 in Big Piney, Wyo.; -23 in Laramie, Wyo.; -8 1 in Denver, Colo., and -1 in Bismarck, N. D. onowiiaxes tumbled down at Mobile. Ala., on the gulf of Mex ico. Freezing weather dipped as far south as iTexas and central Ken tucky and Tennesssee. A mass of cold dry air shoved across the Rockies into California kicking up destructive winds and blinding dust clouds. Only Florida and the southeast Atlantic coast escaped the cold air. Snow Dell in the Great Lakes region and upper Mississippi val ley. Marquette, Mich., had three inches of new snow. Snow, rarely seen along the gulf coast even in mid-winter, fell at Mobile along with a light drizzle of rain about noontime. The mer cury was above freezing, but tem peratures i were expected to dip to the freezing mark by Saturday morning. I Far to the north in the Canad ian prairies, temperatures were below zero in some places but a slight warming trend was expect ed. ! The California winds, which reached 70 miles an hour, closed two major highways, threatened shipping and sent a brush fire rag ing. Clouds of dust cut visibility to zero on U. S. 99 to northern California and on U. S. 66 between Upland and San Bernardino. (Ad ditional details on page 2). A 50 mile an hour dust storm raged throughout the night from Bakersfield, in the lower reaches of the Saa Joaquin valley to San Fernando,' a suburb of Los An geles. Lights were out in several communities for an hour or more. Trees were blown down, store windows I shattered and crops damaged to an unestimated ex tent I - B-5Q Jettisons Drill Bombs In St. Lawrence RIVIERE DU LOUP, Que., Nov. 10-(P-An American B-50 jetti soned some 500 -pound practice bombs, into the St Lawrance river today, causing near-panic in Ri verside villages. The big bomber was on a train ing flight from Goose Bay, Labra dor, to Tucson, Ariz. When engine trouble developed, the pilot drop ped the bombs into the river about 15 miles frem this lower St Law rence valley town. A series l of blasts brought the residents of the south shore village of St Andre de Kamouraska piling out of their, homes. Jeannette Carlos, St Andre newspaper correspondent for the Quebec daily Le Soleil, reported: "Agigatlon among the eye-wit nesses of the explosion was great In these times of international un easiness some thought this might be a bombing attack." Rainto Close Frosty Spell Rain and I warmer temperatures will ease out a three-night stand of freezing i thermometer readings in the mid-Willamette valley to night the Salem weather station predicted early this morning. The mercury leveled off at 30 degrees early Friday and was back to that point last midnignt with a dip to 25 forecast for early today. A low of 38 to 40 degrees is expected tonight if clouds move in this afternoon as predicted. Rome, in ; southeastern Oregon, reported 1 degree above zero yes terday. Other low readings in cluded 12 above at Ontario, 13 at Burns and 16 at Baker. Coffee! Price Cut Leads to Arrest of Portland Grocer ' i PORTLAND, Nov. 10 -UP)- A Portland grocer was arrested to day because he sold coffee at 67 cents a pound. William B. Luther, operator of a large east side store, was charg ed with violating Oregon's fair trade practices act, which for bids sale of food items at less than cost plus 6 per cent District Attorney John B. Mc Court said lt would be a test case. . Th arrest was made at the in sistence of Robert Aw Green, sec retary of the Oregon Food Mer chants association. Several other Portland stores, including the large chains, also sold coffee at the 67-cent price, and at least ones aid lt would continue to meet such prices. Portland Driver Runs Afoul of Law A Portland woman became well acquainted with the Marion county sheriffs office Friday. She parked in a spot reserved for one deputy. She backed the l car out ef the spot smack into i another deputy's car. She was cited by a third deputy a wit ness. The ease was dismissed with a warning in district court. Collazo Faces Four Charges; Death Penalty WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -V A multiple indictment involving the possible death penalty today was returned against Oscar Col lazo for the Nov. 1 attempt to assassinate President Truman, s A federal grand jury which has been examining witnesses to the Blair House shooting for the last three days charged the 37-year-old Puerto Rican with: ' Wilful murder for the death of Pvt Leslie Coffelt of the White Housepolice force. Attempted housebreaking "with intent to murder the president of the United States." Two counts of felonious assault based on the serious wounding of White House guards Joseph H. Downs and Donald T. BirdzelL Both the murder and Intent to murder charges. are punishable by electrocution. The felonious assault charges carry maximum penalties of 15 years each. The secret service has not yet publicly disclosed whose bullets killed Coffelt in the barrage of gunfire that left two dead and three wounded in front of V f president's temporary home. There has been some indication that Gri selio Torresola, Collazo's compan ion who was killed In the assault on Blair House, may have felled Coffelt Count Error Turns Vote In Michigan DETROIT, Nov. 10-(ff)-Discov- ery of -a major election error in MaComb county tonight tossed Republican Harry F. Kelly back into the lead in Michigan's fan tastic governorship election by a margin of 319 votes. Louis Luchtman, chairman of the McComb county board of can vassers, reported the error which gave Kelly 381 votes more and substracted 525 from the total for Gov. G. Mermen Williams, the first-term democrat who once was considered beaten and then pull ed into the lead late today in the midst of a maze of election errors. With 32 of 52 MaComb county precincts canvassed, the state to tals changed to give Kelly 934, 851 votes and Williams 934.532. Luchtman said the remaining precincts would not be canvassed until Monday. Withdrawal Red Troops Demanded LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. lOHyP) The United States and five other countries called ' on the United Nations security council today to order the immediate withdrawal of all Chinese communist troops from North Korea. Russia's Jacob A. Malik promptly served notice anew that the Korean conflict can be settled peacefully only if U. S. and all U. N. troops get out of Korea. . "A peaceful settlement of the Korean question can be secured only by a cessation of th fighting and withdrawal of th : foreign interventionists," Malik told the security council in a vain attempt to prevent the council from dis cussing the Chinese communist action. He always calls the U. N. forces "interventionists.' His motion to knock out th Korean question was defeated, 10 Border WITH UJS. 24th DIVISION-Vrt. REA; Kov. 11-CtfVThe U.S. 24th division and th British common wealth brigade iumrjed ff tvf frdm the Chongchon river bridgc- uu nu aavancea almost thre miles. ! They met virtually no opposition. By late afternoon 24th riitHm troops were on the outskirts jof Pakchon and had occupied hills im the south- and east of the bomb r wrecked town. . , Pakchon is eight miles nnrth Anju, site of a vital bridge across ' the Chongchon river. Meanwhile, the UA Firs ravl ry division, from positions further to me east also attacked, but was , reported moving north more slow- ly. . The extent of the first division gains was not disclosed. Almost no opposition was re ported by advancing United Na- ' tions troops. In many cases, they ' reported units walked down roads and over hills, meeting no enemy fire. . The largest concentration "of communist troops was reported by air reconnaissance about five mi les north of Pakchon.. An estimated 400 red troop were spotted there. They were strafed by fighter-bombers. Maj. Gen. John H. Church, 24a division commander, said he be lieved the main body of Chines -red troops was in defensive posi tions about five miles north xf th " most advanced 24th positions. SEOUL, Korea, Saturday, Now. 11 -WV Furious allied air blow knocked out two border bridges la the supreme effort to choke off th stream of Chinese red troops and arms pouring into North Korea, official accounts said today. Aground, the UJS. marines in a five-mile .dash on the northeast front seized the last of four big hydroelectric plants which supply power to North Korean and parts of communist Manchuria. On the northwest front ah ob servers said units of the U.S. 10th corps from the east coast linked up with the U.S. Eighth army from the west coast at Tokchon, 60 mi les northeast of the fallen North Korean capital of Pyongyang. An eighth arm y spokesman said. however, ther was no ground con firmation of the report and it could be In error. Villages were set afire by cease less fighter and bomber attacks on enemy movements in this sector. It appeared efforts were being made to keep the Chinese com munists from striking south and turning the flank of the eighth army in the northwest or the 10th corps in th east The tempo of the air war in creased. : The army In Washington report ed that two B-29 superforts in a' series of raids Friday were so bad ly shot up by enemy fighters that one ditched at sea and another was destroyed in landing at its base. CARAPATA ACQUITTED . SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. lHff -Douglas Carapata was acquitted tonight on a charge of beating hia niece, Mary - Mclntyre, with a hammer at her San Francisco apartment last June 4. NINA WARREN IMPROVES SACRAMENTO, Calif.. Nov. 10- (ABedside reports from Governor Earl Warren's polio stricken young est daughter Nina wer favorable today. of Chinese to 1. He cast the lone vote for hi motion. The council then voted 9 to 0 to put the question of Chi n e s e communist lnterventiom ahead of the Palestine case. Malik refused to take part in this vot and Egypt abstained, v - The council was called to meet on Palestine but the United States, France and Britain asked it tm discuss the Chinese communist action instead. Malik accused the three of making a "sneaking at tempt" to bring up th Koream question and -said it is impossibl to discuss communist China her without, representatives of th Peiping regime. Th United States, France, Britain, Cuba, Ecuador and Nor way, , sponsored the resolution calling for withdrawal of red troops. - :''.!: t Bridges Bombed