IBnDQBmiiy nn tp nrs n UJ Truman Holds to Fair Deal By Ed Crexrh ' QMflW) fctfwM Omni H Hm Grewtli l Oraooa V5OU N DEX D 1651 100th YEAR Hurricane Winds Disrupt Oregon Power Allies Advance to Within 25 Miles Of Seoul; Wonju Salient Abandoned BY ROBERT EUNSON TOKYO, Tuesday, Jan. 16-(AP)-U.'S. Tliird di vision troops advanced unopposed to within 25 miles of Seoul in west Korea. In the central sector, allied forces made a planned withdrawal from the Wonju salient to straighten and shorten the defense line. Armor-led reconnaissance forces of the Third divi- mum The American public isn't in on it yet, but evidently big things are afoot in a military way. Announce ment was made over the weekend of the arrival in Tokyo of Gen. J. Lawton Collins, army chief of staff, Gen. Hoyt S. Vanenberg, airforce chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of cen tral intelligence and Maj. Gen. Alexander R. Boiling, army chief of intelligence. Another announce ment was made that Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure had been re lieved of command of the second division in Korea, a command he had held only since December 11th. Strangely, considering the ar rival of so much top brass in To ko, came "word that Col. Echols, press information officer for Gen. MacArthur was on his way to Washington for conferences. .Naturally public curiosity is aroused. What's going on here? These circumstances follow the unusual sijence of General Mac Arthur which was marked last week by announcement that com muniques on the Korean war would hereafter be released by the eighth army, in the field, rather than Tokyo. Has MacArthur, like Achilles, gone to his tent? Or has the high command in Washington sent him to his tent? Coincidentally on the same weekend which gave us news of the Tokyo meeting came release of the article by Homer Bigart of the NY Hearald-Tribune, in Look magazine accusing MacArthur of "unsound deployment of United Nations forces and a momentous blunder" in ordering the "home by Christmas" offensive last Novem ber. Bigart writes: "MacArthur grossly miscalculat ed the intentions, strength and capabilities of the forces, against him. And no nation in the spot we (Continued on editorial page, 4) Jefferson Area Backs School Consolidation Statesman News Service JEFFERSON, Jan. 15 A pro posal to consolidate Jefferson, Tal bot and Sidney school districts was approved by voters in a spe cial election here tonight. Jef ferson voters approved the meas ure 48 to 6, Talbot 23-18 and Sid ney 20-14. D. V. Olds, superintendent of schools here, said that the school board would begin immediately to consider plans for a second elec tion to permit voters of the De vaney district to ballot pn joining the consolidation. A consolidation measure was de feated last year by Talbot, Sidney and Devaney voters. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH minim 1 ill ' i r vr ' g 12 PAGES sion drove four miles up the road from recaptured Onsan to within five miles of Suwon. It was the continuation of the surprise ad vance in the west which gained up to 12 miles and recaptured three towns Monday. Red troops began retreating north from Suwon Monday under attack by U. S. Fifth air force planes which killedor wounded be tween 1,400 and 1,600 of the ene my. The pullback below Wonju to the east was disclosed today by ! the U. S. Eighth army. There had i been no contact with the Reds for 20 hours. Held for 16 Days For 16 days the U. S. Second division, including French and Dutch troops, had held a horseshoe-shaped sector controlling a rail and highway network leading south from Wonju. Eighth army issued a com munique which said: "Concluding the Wonju basin holding action, which cost the ene my thousands of casualties, Unit ed Nations troops have moved south to the defensive line estab lished after the withdrawal from Seoul (January 4). This redeploy ment will usher in a new phase of the battle of the Sobaeks (mountains) west of the Han river." Tried to Infiltrate The Sobaeks block the wav to Taegu and other points in the old Pusan beachhead ' which allied forces held last summer. Red forces have tried to infiltrate through these ranges and cut in behind the Second division. "The United Nations line has been straightened and shortened," the communique said of the Won ju operation. Eighth army also said today that the "main bodies of the opposing armies are out of contact from end to end of the Korean front." AP Correspondent Stan Swin ton, reporting from recaptured Gsan, said the push toward Su won began at daylight this morn ing. This previously was described by Eighth army; as an effort in strength to feel out enemy, strength and their whereabouts. At Eighth army headquarters. AP Correspondent Don Huth said three Communist armies were be lieved massed south of the Han( river which flows through the' southwest outskirts of Seoul. (Communist armies usually have 40,000 men, indicating some 120, 000 Reds just below Seoul). The other two.towns recaptured yesterday were Kumyangjang, 26 miLes southeast cf Seoul, and the nearby town of Chon. Huth said an allied patrol which moved north of Kumyang jang encountered between 600 and 800 Reds. The patrol Underwent mortar fire and had to withdraw to a defense perimeter south of the town. (This suggested that the Ameri cans controlled the town but did not choose to set up defenses in it). Resolution Asks . f pmclntivp TnKc ISiailY C JUIJS Spread Over State A measure aimed at settling the age-old argument over who will be hired to help during legislative sessions was introduced in the senate Mondays A resolution b.y Sen. Richard L. Neuberger of Portland seeks crea tion of a legislative interim com mittee to work out program for the 1953 assembly to insure em ployment of people from all parts of the state on the legislative pay roll. f Neuberger's resolution Implies there are too many Salem resi dents being hired as secretaries, committee clerks, doorkeepers, etc. "A disproportionate share of employes and staff of the legisla tive sessions have come from the vicinity of SalenV the resolution states. It asks creation of a study committee made up of four house and four senate representatives, each representing one of the state's four congressional districts. - U. S. HANDS "RUSSIA BILL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 -The United States renewed direct talks with Russia today in a move to make the Soviet Union pay up for part of the $11,000,000,000 in American lend-lease supplies it recerred during the last war. f The Oregon Statesman; Salem, Oreaon, Tuesday, Badman Cook Captured, Says Memory Blank SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jan. 15-(JP) Badman Bill (William E. Cook) was captured -and charged with kidnaping and murder-flight to day even while the bodies of eight suspected victims were found and recovered. The 23-year-old Missouri ex convict was arrested in Lower California. Mex., and escorted across the border at Tijuana into the waiting hands of FBI agents. They brought him here where he was arrigned on the federal charges and ordered held without bail for a hearing January 29. While the dramatic events of the capture and return to the United States were developing, the five bodies of the Carl Mosser family were found In an abandoned mine shaft near Cook's home in Joplin, Mo. Cook, whose age the FBI lists as 22 to 24, was charged before the U. S. commissioner here: 1 With kidnaping the Mossers with intent to do bodily harm. The original charge was filed at Oklahoma City. 2 With flight to avoid prose cution on robbery charges. 3 With flight to avoid prose cution on a charge of murdering Robert E. Dewey, 33, Seattle sales man, near Blythe, Calif., Janu ary 6. Cook told newsmen at Tijuana, before being taken to the border, that he had memory blackouts. He said he didn't remember ever being with the Mosser fam ily. "I woke up In the mountains and I had a gun in my hand," was one of his remarks. (Additional details on page 2.) Construction Ban Ordered Until Feb. 15 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 - (JP) The government clamped down tight today on the construction of new commercial buildings, pro hibiting the starting of virtually all such new projects until Febru ary 15. After the freeze period, each private new commercial building project must be submitted to the National Production Authority for approval. The ban is necessary to save materials for mobilization, NPA said. Work already under way Is not affected. Certain wholesale sup ply facilities, small jobs and re pairs are exempted too. A government - announced clampdown on commercial con struction had no immediate effect in Salem Monday. No city building permit applica tions were. held up, reported City Engineer J. H. Davis, "because the city has received absolutely no in structions about any federal build ing restrictions." He indicated building permits will be issued until definite in structions to the contrary are re ceived from Washington. Albany Couple Among Four Frozen in Alaska Plane Crash CORDOVA, Alaska, Jan. 15--Four persons were found frozen to death yesterday in the cabin of a Cordova air service transport which had crashlanded on the Copper river flats 32 miles north east of here. A rescue party flow to the crash scene found the bodies. The dead were identified as Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Dyson, Albany, Ore.; Mrs. Fena Ekemo, and Er nie Cruz, both of Cordova. Bud Richardson, pilot of the Ill fated plane, had done everything possible for the passengers com fort after making a forced landing when he lost the horizon during a snow storm. He hiked through subzero weather to a cabin for help. He was spotted there by the pi lot of a rescue plane. The passengers were frozen aft er apparently having escaped the crash-landinx without injury. Rescue Pilot Stewart Starbuck got out word of the tragedy today High Surf Claims Victim By the Associated Press Gale and hurricane winds raked the Pacific northwest yesterday from the tip of Vancouver island to southern Oregon. It was the worst wind storm of the winter season for many towns. Trees snapped in winds that at tained a speed of 80 miles an hour. Power lines fell. Telephone ser vice was disrupted, "toads were blocked. Radio towers at Astoria fell be fore the raging winds and other stations were silenced by power failures. The storm claimed at least one life. The coast guard reported a fisherman, Bud Wariner, 47, New port, Ore4, was swept from rocks into the surf while fishing near Port Orford about 11:45 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Alen Bruce, Port Orford, who were with Wariner, notified the Port Orford coast guard sta tion. A lifeboat searched until darkness without finding his body. 70 Miles per Hour At Victoria, B.C., winds blew 70 miles an hour for three hours before slackening off. Dozens of parked cars were wrecked under crashing trees. Ferries dropped anchor and rode out the storm in the lee of William and Gordon heads. Several per sons suffered minor injuries. Gusts up to 58 miles an hour were reported at the Seattle-Ta-coma airport. Puget Sound cities had minor troubles with power failures and toppled trees. Gusts of 80 Miles At Portland, winds reached a speed of 68 miles an hour. Hurri cane gusts of up to 80 miles were reported at the Trbutdale airport, several miles east of Portland. The Union Pacific's Jdahoan was' flagged by a former brakeman af ter winds blew a 40-foot shed so close to a track that part of the roof protruded over it in Portland. The train was delayed 24 minutes before the shed was pulled away. Scoreboard Topples The scoreboard . at the Portland Beaver baseball park toppled and crashed down into the center field bleachers. Two parked cars were damaged by falling timbers. In the Astoria area. Radio Sta tion KVAS lost a 190-foot radio tower. And one of two towers at Station KAST buckled in wind. At nearby Warrenton, two huge smokestacks of the Prouty Lumber company went down, closing the plant. Bonneville power administration reported nine important circuits cut, but service was restored later. Schools Close Ten schools closed in Portland because furnaces were cold. Bus schedules both in and out of the city were disrupted when trees blocked traffic arteries. Houseboats in the Willamette and Columbia rivers were torn from moorages at the height of the storm. Two houses sailed across the mile-wide Columbia to the Washington side after breaking their mooring at the Columbia River Yacht club. Five houseboats lashed around at the Portland Yacht club, smash ing walks and floats before be ing remoored. Heaviest damage in Oregon was at Astoria. In addition to the radio towers and downed trees, a large Associated Oil company garage collapsed and a garage adjoining a home was blown 1 lz blocks down a street after narrowly averting disaster himself. Starbuck made a daring landing of a rescue party Sunday near the spot where Richardson had been sighted. A doctor was included. As Starbuck took off from the isolated area, a terrific wind caught his plane and carried it backward. It crashed on its back. breaking in two. He escaped without injury spent the night in the plane wreckage and mushed today to the same "Mile 271 cabin in which Ri chardson had taken refuge. Both pilots were flown to Cor dova today in small planes. Temperatures in the region have sunk to 20 and 25 degrees below zero in the past two nights. It was almost a miracle that Ri chardson survived after such mis fortune as falling into water on his trek for aid. He was near ex haustion but bis condition Was re ported as satisfactory. January 16, 1951 Pane of Glass 1 (f) . im' u- R y I ill ' : T ' ' 1 'Tff - -4 IV W 1 III - ?'" - i Z K m 1 I , '"i f , I f Vf t I ty,ii i.i...f mm,,' 1 ; - J 'V 3 , ' j ' j J ' IWM$ifl'M I " - A-01 ..tyiai"j."lm ' j - " -Vita " i -" i 'id ivHx r ) m .vl: v ' ill t ''1 Terrific blasts of wind early Monday morning caused some serious damage as this shattered window at the Stan Baker Motors show room at Chemeketa and High streets. Surveying the hole left by the 9 by 11 foot plate glass window are Homer C. Stiffler, left, sales man; and Fred Prentice, right, service salesman. The heavy sheet of rlass narrowly missed a new car sittinr on the showroom floor. (Statesman photo.) 60-RIile Winds in Valley Keep Repairmen Busy Gusts up to 60 miles an hour whipped the Salem area early Monday, felling trees, cutting electric and telephone lines, breaking windows and toppling buildings. Heaviest hit by the storm which swept through the valley from about 3:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. were in Salem area residences from a few trees falling across lines. Five poles carrying 24,000-volt line were downed near Hubbard and four more were down just south of Aurora. Fred Starrett. division manager for Portland General electric, said about 30 poles were downed in various parts of the valley. One line outage gave Silverton hign school students an unexpected va cation. They were returned to their homes shortly after classes opened Monday when lack of power prevented heating ol we school building there. The storm was the battering end of two days in which the area had been subjected to heavy rains, the first measurable snow of the sea son, a sudden warmup in temper ature, hail and lightning. Nearly two inches of rain, and a trace ol snow were recorded during the period at Salem's McNary field. Service Restored Telephone linemen were "on the . . , . . , 14 run ail aay Monday as a resun of the high winds. By night, how ever, service had been restored to all but two or three isolated sub urban lines, it was reported by El mer Berglund, Salem manager for Pacific Telephone and Telegrapn Co. The manager said the town of Marquam had been isolated for a short time during the day and sev eral lines in and around Salem, Mt. Angel and Detroit-Mill City were out of service at one time or another. The Cilverton area ex perienced the same troubles and there too, the hospital was without electricity for a time. Barn Collapses Twelve head of beef cattle were killed outright and eight others had to be destroyed because of in juries when an old barn collapsed on them at the J. S. Fisher farm in the Whiskey Hill district east of Canby. An unfinished barn and machine shed was blown down at the W. H. Stevely ranch in the Ankeny district south of Salem. At Wood burn, several trees were toppled by the gale. A big plate glass window at the Stan Baker Motors, 525 Chemeketa street, was shattered by the wind. Many areas were littered with branches which had been blown from trees. New snow was reported all along the Cascade mountain range with chains being advised for tra velers at Government Camp, Wil lamette pass and Santiam pass. AIRLIFT SUPPLIES 7,0 QUITO, Ecuador, Jan. 15-(V An airlift supplied food today to 7.000 persons isolated by floods In a farming region 50 miles north west of Quito. Damage to crops from' weeklong rains throughout Ecuador was estimated at $500,000. PRICE 5c Yields to Wind nfW ifc My" '2kr un"'' m-mT't' ' -.Tri utility companies. Power was oil minutes to five hours because of County Handed Large Order For Draftees Largest order for Marion coun ty inductees since outbreak of the Korean strife, for 50 men to leave February 6, was announced Mon day by the selective service board. The office also spent a busy day registering doctors. Yesterday's enrollment, for doa tors under 50 years not previous' ly registered or not in the reserv es, totaled 62 physicians and sur geons, 14 dentists and eight vet erinarians. Board attaches ex pected that few missed the sign up. The county board also was In session Monday afternoon, with Col. Francis W. Mason of Portland, deputy state selective service dir ector, sitting in. Mason compli mented the board, headed by Hans Hofstetter, for its following of regulations and conduct of draft affairs. Draft to Supply Replacements WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 - ()- The Defense department said to day "Replacements for casualties and battle weary soldiers" will start reaching Korea "In quanti ty" by early March, and a smaller number will arrive in February. An official spokesman said most of them will be drawn from men inducted into service in the Sept ember, October, and November draft calls, but he declined to give totals. Learn to Spell! These wort rds will fifor in The StatesmaB-KSLM Spelling Con test for prizes, now nnderway for 7th and 8th grade pupils of Marion and Folk counties: protect range; remain result search terce shown passed poet position prepare profit quilt remainder reward satisfied screw separate shock special No. 296 Travel Bill Asks Death for Sabotage By Lester F. Cour Staff Writer. The Statesman Introduction of a bill seeking the death penalty for sabotage in Oregon during wartime highlight ed activities Monday as the state legislature began its second week of work. The busy day also saw introduc tion of 20 bills embracing some of the recommendations contained in the Holy report to improve Ore gon's educational system. Sponsored by Sen. Frank Hilton of Portland, the sabotage proposal would provide the death penalty or life, inmprisonment for persons convicted of 'destroying any pro perty essential to the war effort. Capital punishment now Is ap plicable only to persons convicted of murder or treason. It would also permit a jury to rule capital punishment or life imprisonment for persons who knowingly allow defective parts or equipment being used in a war effort to pass inspection. The measure provides prison terms up to 20 years for attempted sabo tage and would allow roads around essential war plants or areas to be closed to public travel. Education Bills Bills introduced by the house and senate education committees were prepared by Dr. T. C. Holy, Ohio State university education professor, who studied Oregon's education system at the request of a 1949 legislative Interim commit tee. His recommendations include proposals to require uniform re port cards; improve school gui dance; pay teachers more money; increase vocational and adult ed ucation; have county school super intendents appointed by rural school boards rather than be elect ed; reorganize and recodify school laws; give the board of education more authority; have the state su perintendent of public instruction appointed by the board of educa tion; enlarge school districts; re organize the state department of education and let school districts vote new tax bases. No Burglar Tools The house Monday passed and sent to the senate four bills, In cluding one which would make it a prison offense to possess tools or explosives with the intent to use them for burglary. It provides a maximum sentence of five years. The other house bills sent to the senate would provide for distribu tion of forest funds to counties every six months instead of once a year; allow the assistant for ester to act for the forester when he Is away on military duty, and allow for larger grouping of for est lands for purposes of assess ment. The first bill approved by both houses this session was passed in the senate Monday. It provides a $400,000 appropriation to pay leg islative expenses, and now goes to the governor. Opposes Civil Service Two controversial bills were dropped in the senate. One, by Sen. Rex Ellis of Pendleton, would virtually junk the state civil serv ice law. His measure would allow any state department head to re ject the law, exampt all employes in departments headed by elective officials and deprive the civil ser vice commission of the right to fix wage scales. A bill has already been introduced to repeal the entire civil service law. Another senate bill, introduced by Senator Hilton, would permit state prison inmates to manufac ture motor vehicle license plates. Reapportion Bill A young republican bin, ex pected to win the support of farm and labor groups, was being pre pared Monday to reapportion the state legislature. Marion county's delegation of four representatives and two sen ators would remain unchanged if the bill becomes law. But Mult nomah county's strength would be boosted from 13 representatives to 17 and from 6 Vi senators to seven. Sen. Robert Holmes of Astoria introduced a memorial asking President Truman to keep Japan ese fishermen out of north Amer ican waters. Today, the ways and means and tax committees of the house and senate will meet in the house chambers after, the afternoon ad journment to hear a tab-committee report on the deficit faced by this legislature. The deficit is ex pected to be about three times larger than the $18,000,000 figure mentioned by Gov. Douglas McKay in his inaugural address. Both the house and senate wfH meet at 10 ajn. today. ; (Additional legislative news on page J.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 15-PU President Truman handed con- gress and the American taxpayer today a "national survival" budget of $71,594,000,000, with a flock of "fair deal" measures thrown in and a deficit of at least $16,500, 000,000 to be met from new taxes; The president said the new tax increases, which will hit every body, could soar as high as $20, 000,000,000. His budget was by far the larg est in American history except in the all-out war. j He earmarked almost three quarters of it for the growing; ready-for-war buildup of this country's military strength and for bolstering the defenses of other free nations against what he call4 ed the "imminent possibility" of attack by the "barbaric" forces of communism. Then, braving the quick and sure wrath of many legislators, he dusted off key sections of his con troversial "fair deal" program and asked their speedy adoption in the interest of high production for de fense, i Included Arannan These included the Brannan farm price plan, a national health insurance system andlike a red flag to most southern lawmakers revival of the World War Tw federal fair employment pricticeg commission ((FEPC) to wipe out discrimination against Negroes and other minorities in Interstate industries. In general, lawmakers of both parties showed willingness to go a long way with the president op his military proposals. But on the rest of his program it was a different storv. Man republicans promptly accused him of trying to disguise "welfare state" measures as defense moves. These critics also charged fha president failed by a wide margin to cut non-defense spending far enough. General Support Senator McFarland (D-Ariz.1. senate majority leader, termed Mr. Truman's military program a "must" and added: "I think it will have the general support of sena tors on both sides of the aisle." f House Speaker Rayburn (B- Texas) expressed agreement with". the president that every effort should be made to keep the gov ernment on a pay-as-it-goc ; foot ing. On the republican side, Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, hjj party's ranking member on the fi nance committee, said he was "shocked" to find "provisions for the fair deal under the guise ef defense spending." Theories Repudiated Senator Welker (R-Idaho) said the president apparently was try ing to put across "welfare state theories that were repudiated el the polls last November." On top of the $71,594,000,000 to be spent in fiscal 1952, Mr. Tru- man asked congress to vote $22,- 835,000,000 which would be spent after the fiscal year ends. Thie brings the grand total to $94,423, 000,000. The new budget would boost tbo public debt to the neighborhood of $276,300,000,000 if new taxes are not levied. It leaves a gap of about $16,500,000,000 between what Mr. Truman wants to spend and what the government expects from all its sources of revenue. Wants Balanced Budget In his budget message, and in a question-and-answer session with reporters on Saturday, the presi dent made it clear he wants every dollar of this' deficit to be made up from new taxes so as to put the preparedness program on a pay- as-you-go basis and keep the na tional debt from rising further, i He wouldn't guarantee that the new taxes will be held to $16,500, 000,000. New military demands, he said, could push up the figure con siderably maybe to $20,000,000t 000. Mr. Truman said he hoped to have his tax proposals ready fee congress within a month. (Additional budget stories ;oa page 2. Lobbyists Get Cushion Chairs, Along with Tack Lobbyists at the Oregon legis lature got their cushioned chain Monday. The cushions probably are safe - - the secretary of state'! office tacked them to the chairs. ENEMY PLANES STRAFE 1 With the U. S. Second Division in Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 16 - (JF"r A Second Division spokesman to day said two enemy: planes drop ped flares and then: strafed AliU ed Forces before dawn Monday in West-Centeral Korea. The attacM was made near Changbowan. 41 miles southeast ox Seoul. , j . I Max.! arm. ica, IS 3 U i ..i4$t: M . sea l : , At talem . - , Portland San Francisco . Chicago Nw York m ' r -at " ,jm Willamette Hirer Ui feet FORECAST (from U. 8. weather Jn rean. McNary field. Salem): alasO ckmdy with a few showers today; e casional rain tonight. Cooler today mHA falgn near ; low toolrht near Si tine Start ef Weaf- Tai tl , This Tear LasUYtar; harmsr SIM aUSft; UU4