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It Could've Been Worse - f "" --"".- - I .ma vsjiji tmnl H Hm Grtwtfc tf OrtgM -'U51 Hip . "i 1 1 f ; '1:1' POUNDID 1651 100th YEAB 12 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday. January 15. 1951 PRICE 5c No. 231 S Sfiay mi IFogk Son llmm -fao C1dgh It snowed at Salem, too, Sunday and while youngsters built snowmen grandparents probably conjured up stories about snowfalls like this AP wirephoto scene from Houghton, Mich., where it finally stopped snowing Saturday after 52 days and 118 inches of snow. Wet Snow Competes With Rain in Valley Big, wet snowflakes briefly "draped Salem in white for the first time this season Sunday while other valley points were xeporting from flurries to four inches of snow from the same storm. The weather bureau recorded 1.11 inches of precipitation here Sunday but listed only a trace of it as snow. It was enouch. however, to give nearly all parts of the city a annB OCDQjIB Doctors of the AMA will be sure that Bernard DeVoto, who contributes "The Easy Chair" to Harper's magazine, suffers from hyperthyroid toxicity after they read his January instalment, that is, if they don't have a stroke of apoplexy before they get to the end. For DeVoto, who often uses caustic soda for ink in his writ ings, this time lays it on with a spray gun. What has touched him off is the AMA-financed cam paign against socialized medicine as put on by Whitaker & Baxter, advertising agents or public re lations specialists. DeVoto deducts 25c from his doctor bill to signify "that I will not help pay for the $25 assessment you sent to the AMA to run these ads and print these pamphlets. I will not help you finance distortion and dem agoguery." The critic says he is fed up with AMA methods, "with its persist ently negative approach to every Ing; with its unvarying misrepres entation fit the efforts other coun tries are making to solve tlje prob lem." To quote again: "The advertising, propaganda and vilification which the AMA conducts is steadily, and now seriously, undermining your pro fessional standing and prestige. The public very much needs both. The traditional system of medical practice has burst its seams; it is now inadequate and outworn. We are going to have something dif ferent. No matter what your pro pagandists say, it is certain to be not a single system but multiple and mixed." DeVoto may be too lavish in his condemnation, but the campaign of Whitaker & Baxter was ex treme too. In their great fear of socialized medicine (continued on editorial page, 4) Pliilippine Red Chiefs Surrender MANILA, Jan. 14- (JP) -The Philippines defense department announced today the surrender of three communist Hukbalahap leaders. Names were withheld. A Huk squadron leader might command between 50 and 300 guerrillas. An army spokesman said the surrenders indicated disorganiza tion within Huk ranks as a result of a stepped-up government mili tary campaign in Luzon. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH sr.,'- . i-. , . I 1 : A. wmte trim neiore rain wasnea n away. Dallas reported more than an inch of snow on the ground and state police estimated the depth near four inches farther west at Grande Ronde. The snowstorm apparently cen tered west of Salem. Silverton re ported only flurries and there was no roadside snow along the San tiam highway as far as Mill City. Weathermen said the tempera ture here was 34 degrees while snow and snow-rain fell between 9 and 11:30 a. m. The mercury clung near 35 in the afternoon and zoomed from 40 to 53 degrees be tween 11 p. m. and midnight. Hills to the west of Portland were blanketed and youngsters there got out their sleds for the first time this winter. Making snowmen appeared as the popular juvenile sport in Salerq, while sev eral youngsters said the snow was "just right' for snowballs. The heavy rainfall saturated telephone cables in Portland, knocking out several hundred phones. Rain also was blamed for a slide on the Silverton loop high way a mile southeast of Silverton. State police said the road was not blocked completely. The snow brought temporary grief to motorists on hills just north of Dallas on the coast high way and farther on near Grande Ronde, state police reported. All highways in the area were report ed in good condition early today. Temperatures will not drop be low 40 tonight in the galem area, the weather bureau predicted. Rain and a high of 56 are forecast for today. Commercial Construction Ban Forecast WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-(P)-An order temporarily banning new construction of most types of com mercial buildings will be issued by the national production au thority tomorrow, it was reported reliably tonight. The ban is designed to save steel, copper and other materials for defense production, expansion of basic materials plants, and other uses which are considered essen tial. 4 A flat ban is expected to be ap plied for a short period, after which new construction of the af fected types of buildings will be permitted only if found necessary and are licensed in specific cases by the NPA. . i Bali to Restrict Camera Fans JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jan. 14-(M-Bali's bare-breasted beauties will no longer be permitted to pose for the cameras of toufists. Governor Susanto fTirtoprkdjo of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which include Bali, has decreed that photographing of half-nude girls or bathing beauties by visitors will be banned in future. I He explained to the Jakarta newspaper Merdeka toiday that the decree is intended toft aid in the emancipation of Balinese women. Birthday Party At Blood Bank SYRACUSE, N.Y., Ian. 14-P)-Milt I. Weiss sent out jbirthday in Titationa today for a party at the Red Cross blood bank.; An insurance man yho will be 42 on January 29, Weiss said he bad asked 10 friends to Join him in giving a pint of blo0d each. . "I don't know of anil better way to celebrate," be said. "After all there are a lot of people all over the world who won'f be having any mora birthdays." I 18 Children In 18 Years CLIFFWOOD BEACH, N. J., Jan. H-t)-Joseph Carey, 51, proudly welcomed home today his 34-year-old wife and their 18th child in 18 years of mar riage. Mrs. Clara Carey's newborn child, Bruce, weighed in at 10 pounds. Carey is a boiler engi neer for a Keyport, N. J., cork company. He makes $60 a week. The family lives in a six-room house. The Carey children, in order of age, are: Bruce, Peggy, 1; Johnny, 2; Barbara, 3: Vernon, 4; Dale, 5; Emily, 6; Doris Joan, 7; Doro thy Ann, 8: Geraldine, 9; Ray mond, 10; Margaret, 11; William, 12; Crawford, 13; Jackie, 14; Joseph, 15; Jimmy, 16; and Car ol, 17. Longshoremen Leaders Favor Security Plan LONGVIEW, Wash., Jan. 14-VP) -West coast longshore leaders voted overwhelmingly late today to support the government's wa terfront security screening pro gram. The vote was reported un officially to have been 57-7. Action on the controversial screening issue came after 17 hours of debate in the fourth day of an area-wide caucus. The stand of the Harry Bridges led union was hailed immediately by maritime industry leaders here as assuring trouble-free operation of ports under jurisdiction of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union (Ind.) Bridges, himself, was a member of the 12-man committee which a union spokesman said gave un animous approval to the "screen ing" resolution adopted by the caucus. Ousted from CIO He had been reported prior to the caucus as actively opposed to the screening procedure. His un ion was ousted last year from the ClO on erounds that it was communist-dominated. The caucus, originally scheduled for three days, drew some 80 dele gates representing 15,000 long shoring members of the ILWU in Pacific coastal states, British Co lumbia, Alaska and Hawaii. The 55,000 warehousemen in the un ion had no representation, since they were unaffected by the se curity program. Absentions Assumed There was no immediate expla nation for the discrepancy be tween the 57-7 voting figure and the number of delegates. It was assumed there were several ab stentions. In an official statement, the caucus said it accepted the coast guard screening program under the new maritime security act be cause the "ILWU recognizes that an adequate security program is necessary in order to protect the interests of our nation." The statement, however, con tained several minor reservations to complete acceptance of the screening procedure. The union said it reserved the right to "resist any attempts to use the security program as the means of refusing work opportunity to any member of the ILWU for any reasons other than security. Joint Financial Committee Talks Aim to Save Legislature Time Apparently off to a good start, Oregon's legislative assembly will reconvene at 11 a. m. today with the "let's - shorten - th e -session" theme well in mind. Six-day weeks appear assured from here on out (barring suc cessful opposition by legislators who demand long weekends to keep up with their private busi nesses), and high hopes have been expressed that the scheduled joint meetings of financial com mittees Tuesday would speed up introduction of appropriation bills. iSeven bills on final passage five in the house and two in the senate are slated for considera tion today, and committee meet ings are in prospect following both forenoon and afternoon sessions. A maximum 10-year sentence for a person found guilty of pos session of burglar tools or ex plosives intended to be used for burglary purposes is provided in one of today's house bills.Vrhis bill was introduced by Rep. John D. Logan, Multnomah couniy, at the request of district attorneys. !A bill for senate consideration would authorize an appropriation of $400,000 to apply toward the expenses of the current legislative session. Legislators here Sunday - ex pressed hope that Tuesday's Joint meeting of the ways and means group and tax committees, to dis it: X 1 7?t vr i - - J 2 V ' , t ' i ' j yhs ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF COLLINS "We'll Stay and Firhf ii'. GEN. HOYT VANDENBERG Air Force Chief of Staff hi - A if J 7 LT. GEN. BEDELL SMITH U. S. Intelligence Chief TO SEEK WAGE HIKE PORTLAND, Jan. 144-The CIO International Woodworkers union will seek an across the board wage increase of 8 to 10 cents an hour, Virgil Burtz, union research director, said tonight. cuss the state's over-all financial picture with State Budget Director Harry Dorman and other state of ficials, would "expedite the work of the legislative session. Lawmakers said they wanted a definite estimate Of the amount of money required to cover the state's demands for the 1951-53 biennium, along with some idea what theh tax committees have in mind with relation to new revenue sources, so that the ways and means committee can report out appropriation bills without wait ing for the tax committees to act. One proposal apparently destin ed for opposition provides for creation of a state conservation division, legislators agreed this weekend. There were indications Sunday that the legislature might approve an advisory conservation committee, as requested by Gov. Douglas McKay, but might reject a conservation department as proposed by an interim commit tee. Meanwhile, Rep. John Steel hammer indicated continuance of his avowed economy drive which thus far has reduced the number of paid personnel utilized in ac tivities of the house of represen tatives. Both he and Senate Pre sident Paul Patterson also have re iterated hopes of slashing two or three weeks from1S49's record 87 , day session. 1 - U.S. to Send Replacements; Division Command Revised Gen. McClure, 2nd Division Chief, Replaced U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Jan. 14-P)-Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure was relieved tonight as commander of the U. S. Second division and Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner was named to replace him. Ruffner as chief of the staff of the U. S Tenth corps played a key role in the evacuation of Hungham in December. For six bloody days the Second division has been holding a 25-mile salient into enemy territory south of Wonju on the central Korean front. Until Ruffner arrives to take command, the division will be led by Brig. Gen. Royal M. Haynes, deputy commander, an Eighth army spokesman said. When division officers heard that a new commander had been named they promptly cut off beards that had gone unshaved since the Chinese and North Ko rean reds crossed the 38th paral lel two weeks ago. (There was no elaboration on this report in the dispatch, nor any immediate explanation of Mc Clure's replacement). Assignment with China A P Correspondent Russell Brines said one possibility wa that McClure had been relieved for an assignment capitalizing on his ex perience as former deputy chief of staff for Nationalist Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek during World War II. , Brines said Tokyo has been buz zing with unconfirmed reports about nationalist China's partici pation in the Korean war. Many U. S. officers, he said, believe na tionalist manpower is essential if the U. N. stand in Korea is to con tinue for any length of time. Stricken by Pneumonia McClure had succeeeded Maj. Gen. Laurence B. Keiser. General Keiser was invalided with bron chial pneumonia due to exposure after the second division, at heavy cost, had helped slow the Chinese communist offensive north of Pyongyang last November. McClure, who saw service In the South Pacific and in China during World War II, calls Rome, Ga., his home. (Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure is not be confused with Maj. Gen. Robert A. McClure, who was sta tioned at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., until a few months ago and is well known to northwest people. He is in Washington in charge of the division of psycho logical warfare). State Printing Plant Building Plan Broached That another attempt may be made at the current legislative session to obtain an appropria tion for construction of a building to house the state printing plant was the subject of reports Sun day. Such a proposal failed at the 1949 legislature after the joint ways and means committee had considered the cost. Officials said the present state printing depart ment building is inadequate and further expansion of printing fa cilities is impossible under exist ing conditions. An additional appropriation probably will be sought to aug ment pFinting equipment. Fatal Wreck on Road to Coast Laid To Slick Highway McMinnville, Jan. 14. -iPh A two-car crash on a slick, snow covered highway southwest of here resulted today in the death of Clarence Oren Tanner, 81, Reeds port. He was killed when hurled from the back seat of an automo bile which skidded and swung into the path of a car coming from the opposite direction. A rear door sprung open and Tanner was thrown to the pavement. The car was driven by Thomas A. Richmond, Winchester Bay. Driver of the other car was Dee Mellema. Ballston. Ore. The accident occurred on high way 18, a mile west of its junction with highway 89-W. Heroic Stewardess, Six Passengers Die As Airliner Crashes By Lee Linder PHILADELPHIA, Jan. li-iP)-A heroic airline stewardess, four other women and two babies died today in the flaming wreckage of a four-engine National Airlines plane that skidded past the end of a runway, crashed into a ditch and burned in landing at Inter national airport. The stewardess, who aided many of the 19 other passengers to escape with minor injuries, lost her life in her effort to save all aboard. Mary Frances Housley, 24, of Jacksonville, Fla., a diminutive brunette who had been with the airline only since last August, was found dead in the wreckage, her arms around one of the two babies. Survivors of the crash told how she opened the cabin door, cau tioned them to "take it easy," and made repeated trips into the burn ing plane to aid others. The pilot and co-pilot of the DC-4 plane escaped injury as the huge craft came to a stop with the fuselage bridging the 10-foot ditch at the edge of the big air port. The plane had crashed through a heavy wire guard fence and hit a beacon light that clipped off part of the left wing like a match snapped in two. Almost immediately fire flashed through the wreckage. Raining, Snowinr It was alternately raining and snowing as the big plane, making its only stop on a Newark, NJ., to Norfolk, Va., flight, touched down for the landing at 2:13 p.m. (EST). The 6,000-foot paved run way was coated with nearly an inch of slush and water, but was rated safe for operations. Vis ibility was 14 miles. The civil aeronautics adminis tration employe on duty in the airport control tower said the big plane was making an instrument landing because of clouds cover ing the airport. It was a "normal" landing he added, but the plane overran the runway, rammed through the fence and bumped across the ditch, coming to a stop with the after section of the fuse lage bridging the 10-foot cut. Jumped from Plane A National Airlines official said that the 21 persons who escaped alive jumped from the plane with in 90 seconds after it came to a stop. Many of them suffered cuts and bruises in the 10 foot drop from the cabin door to the ground. Others were burned, although none was reported in serious con dition. Mrs. Manuela Smith, wife of a sailor stationed at Norfolk, Va., es caped alive with her three-year-old daughter Betty Jane. But her infant daughter Brenda Joyce died in the wreckage. Among the dead, also, were Mrs. H. Marchiano and her infant son of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. The other dead were identified by the airline as Mrs. N. B. Joy nes, 58, Norfolk, Va.; Marion Car den, 28, of Norfolk, Va., and a woman listed on the passenger manifest as Mrs. Hubian, of New York City. The pilot, Howell Barwick, and the co-pilot, Edward Zatarian. both of Jacksonville, Fla., were be ing interrogated tonight by air lines and CAA investigators. Their version of what happened was not made available immediately to re porters. Tribute to Heroism Graphic accounts of the crash by the survivors universally paid tribute to the heroism of pert Frankie" Housley, the 24-year' old stewardess. 'She was very calm," said Sai lor Robert Clim, 18, of Manville. N.J. "She told me to Hake your time'." Others told, too, how Miss Hous ley opened the passenger door in the undamaged rear section of the plane, helped them to escape and kept going back into the passen ger cabin to aid others. Several of the fortunate ones recalled nearmg a woman screaming "my baby, my baby. And apparently Miss riousiey heard it too, over the shouting and roar of the flames and left her safe post at the door In the rescue effort that cost her life. Mix. ' Min. 4 33 -45 -S3 40 . 24 33 Predp. 1.11 iaa M traco Portland San Francisco Chicaro Nw York -43 30 .89 Forecast (from U. 8. weather bu reau, McNary field. Salem). Cloudy with rain this morning becoming showery this afternoon and tonight. HiCo. today SS-6S and tow tonlsn 40- SALEM PKKCTFRATION Kinro Start mt Weather Tear. leot 1 This Year LastYear Normal SJL33 L2 ISjM VA Medical Director Ousted Over Dispute WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -&)- Dr. Paul B. Magnuson said tonight he is being ousted as chief medical director of the Veterans adminis tration because he refused to go along with policies he said "are certain to wreck the whole VA me dical set-up." Magnuson disclosed that he and VA Administrator Carl R. Gray, Jr., have differed sharply over policy matters for more than two years. Advised of Magnuson s com ments, Gray told a reporter: There were differences of opin ion that aparently could not be reconciled. Announcement was made today that Magnuson had resigned, ef fective tomorrow. He is to be suc ceeded by Vice A dm. Joel T. Boone, retired naval surgeon and long-time .White House physician. Asked to Resign Magnuson told a reporter he knew nothing about plans to re place him until Gray called him yesterday. He said Gray asked for his resignation tnen and again to day. He said he refused to give It. Gray then told him, Magnuson said, he would accept a resigna tion Magnuson had offered in August 1948. "The administrator (Gray) is of the firm opinion that doctors don't know how to do anything but practice medicine, Magnuson com mented. Hospital Issue The former prominent ortho pedic surgeon in Chicago 6aid ha and Gray have differed over many matters, but the principal issue was how the Veterans administra tion hospitals should be operated He said Gray clings to the idea that administrators ought to con trol the hospitals. But, Magnuson said, this leads to "red tape which ought to be cut so the doctors could go ahead and do a good job." Magnuson, who was brought in to the VA in 1945 after Gen. Omar Bradley became VA administrator, said he had worked diligently for five years to organize medical In stitutions for the VA. "Now," he said, "there is an effort to break down everything that has been done because the administrator insists on arbitrarily carrying out his ideas of how the hospitals and medical set-up should be run not by medical people." Here Are the First Words In the Contest If you can spell these and other to-be-published words, youll have a good chance at the war-bond prizes in The Statesman-KSLM Marion-Polk county SpellLnr Con test. That is if you're in the 7th or 8th grade and can win the championship of your school. Twenty words lished each day eight weeks. win b pnb for the next Every 7th and 8th grader In the two counties Is eligible to com pete, through school-wide parti cipation. ; Here axe the first 29 words of the contest: notion obtam owe package pattern policeman precious property railway jtmark ' route scene secret seventeen silence palm phone poison prayer principal Top Military Leaders Hold Tokyo Meeting By Olen Clements TOKYO. Monday. Jan. 15H7P1- The U. S. army chief of staff said today "we will certainly stay and fight" with new forces due at the front "in two or three months." Gen. J. Lawton Collins arrived at U. S. eighth army headauartera in Korea after a high level con ference in Tokyo which suggested something big was impending in the war. He expressed his views at a press conference, saying ho believed the U. S. forces were In no danger of a disaster in Korea. Afield ground action today was limited in scale, highlighted by allied recapture of a town which eased the east flank pressure on the u .b. second division in cen tral Korea. These were key developments: 1. United Nations forces re captured Yongwol, 30 miles south east of the transport hub of Won ju on the critical central Korean front. This relieved somewhat the threat of up to 30,000 Korean reda to outflank the entire second di vision by infiltration through the Sobaek mountains. 2. Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure was relieved without public ex planation as commander of the second division. 3. U. S. army and air chiefs ol staff arrived from Washington with two intelligence chiefs and swung immediately into Tokyo conferences which were cloaked with airtight secrecy. Military Brass Arrives The high level conferences be gan after the arrival last night of General J. Lawton Collins and Hoyt S. Vandenberg, army and air force chiefs of staff. With them were Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of the U. S. central intelligence agency, and Maj. Gen. Alexander R. Boiling, army chief of intelligence. Even their arrival was kept secret for hours. The conferences began last midnight, presumably with General MacArthur. Sessions resumed today. Tokyo military sources declined to discuss the conference schedule. Nor would anyone talk about McClure's removal. It left such wide field of speculation as: (1) He might be, on his way to a larg er mission; (2) he might have been wounded or injured; (3) be might have been involved in a clash of personalities. City Recaptured The recapture of Yongwol slightly improved the situation ol the second division. It was holding a wedge 25 miles deep, 40 miles wide at its base and extending to within one and a half miles ol Wonju. Wonju is the key to south east Korea's road-rail network. am iieia dispatches ana a re port by a U. S. eighth army brief ing officer made it clear the threat to the division remained great. AP Correspondent Tom Brad- shaw said up to 30,000 North Kor ean reds had infiltrated deeply to the division's rear and threat ened to cut in behind it. Mxssinr Strength The eighth army briefing officer said Chinese and North Korean reds were massing in strength north and west of Wonju. Thus the second was threatened both from the front and rear. Second division American. French and Dutch troops held grimly to advance positions one and one-half to two miles south of Wonju. Supporting allied planes and ar tillery blasted enemy positions to ridges around the second's salient northernmost U. N. position tik Korea. The recapture of YongwoL road town taken by the reds three day? ago, lilted, some or the pressor being exerted on th right Hank by reds swarming south over the rugged, cold mountains. But AP Correspondent Brad shaw said up to three North Kor ean divisions have infiltrated mountain area bound by tha towns of Hamchang, Yechon, Tan yang, Chungju and Chechon. AS are vital transport centers. Ham change was the deepest point of penetration, 55 miles south i Wonju. The enemy infiltration movet around and below Wonju wert diagnosed by a second divisioia spokesman as more than Just en attempt to drive us off th Kar can peninsula. i -Cut Us t Piece" They want to separate us ana cut us to pieces,'' the rpokesms4 said. . ' Th west Korea area also waa 1 devoid of ground action. (Additional details on- past tl