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- 1 t. fntriiT i rr r i i t if JO0n Y)ll tmti t t&e Crtwta f Cr?a vvv PEICE 10c Ho, 313 100th YEAB 2 SECTIONS-36 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Sunday, February 4, 1951 : j ' FTP jr 'in ii a s. , v, i f i in . i i i i i j i i i i i f FouNDnp 1851;; '' I 0';...'; -V- . Thursday the house passed Joint memorial. No. I to "repeal" the 1949 -house joint memorial No. 3 which supported the strengthen ing of United Nations to make it a "limited world government able to prevent war." The vote was o r 9i - Tu;n vnrs abo the No. 3 memorial passed with a vote of 46 to 10. ; . - . What happened was not so much a change of poind as a change of mental climatte. It offers a very interesting study. Two years ago the country was .t) with Russia's nersistent use of the veto. There was widespread demand for amending the ; char tar' n riorurive one of the biz five of its present right of veto aright . . : . .-3 AM Kw 4ha mat nau ui United States at the San Jfcran conference auite as much as by Russia. Ex-President Hoover later cauea ior reorganizing United Nations by ejecting Rus sia ,and its satellites. At the same time, various groups sincerely anxious to avert war soueht to increase the author ity of United Nations. .We have had - organizations under various names, World Federalists, Atlantic Union, etc. They have this com mon feeline that only by mov ine in the direction of world crnvrrnmpnt are we going to Dre vent wars with all their disaster to victors and vanquished. These movements attracted a very con siderable following. So it was in this mental climate rf Hiccnict rvvcr th vptn. of vparn- ine for a stronger United Nations. that memorial No. 3 was proposed and passed by a large majority. Actually, it excited no controversy at the time and little interest. In two years the mental .climate has changed. We have had the Hiss (Continued on editorial page 4) Sale Shows Hog Prices Jump in Salem ByUllie L. Madsen Farm Editor, The Statesman : Things must be looking up in Salem, H. J. "Mac" McMurray of Council Bluff, Iowa, remarked Sat urday when .he cried the Sixth an nual Oregon Swine Growers bred gilt sale. The sale was held on the state fairgrounds with George Kraus, president, neading the event and John Haase, Cornelius, chair man cf the general sales commit tee. A year ago 24 bred gilts brought but $2,150 for an average of $89.58. Saturday the exact same number averaged $166.88 for a' total of $4,005. Last year only seven brought over $100. In the 1951 sale,' none wer estarted below $100 and the lowest buy was for $130. High Saturday was a fine look ing Yorkshire, Parlor Maid, con signed by Elmer Stangel of Wilson ville. Wendell H. Willard of Day ton who has been a Poland China raiser for 40 years, was the buyer. Willard hastened to say that he was not going out of Poland Chinas but thought he'd "try Yorkshires on the side." The first gilt out on the block Saturday, was a Berkshire con signed by Herny H. Kirk & Sons, Twin Maples Farm, Halsey. Bid .ding started briskly and the an imal brought $172.50 from Walter Hill of Junction City. Hill con tinued his bidding to buy six gilts, the largest number-any one buyer took home. Also heavy bidders were the 4-H club members and the Future far mers. ' Kraus welcomed the large num ber of bidders and spectators at the sale and announced that there would be a similar sale at La Grande on February 10 and one at Klamath Falls on March 2. John Landers, OregorrState col lege livestock specialist, and chair man of the sifting committee at the sale, commented upon the "ex cellent quality offered today," and added that the immediate future in swine "looked exceedingly good." Assisting Landers on the sifting committee were Lyle McKinley of Wood burn and Joe Johnson, also from Oregon State college. Ben Newell, Marion county agent, assisted at the sale. T. R. Hobart of Ladd Sc Bush Bank, served as clerk with Hollis Otta way, Marion county agent, as as sistant. - (Additional details on page 5.) ETKE. TONKON ON BOARD PORTLAND, Feb. 3 (JPf-Moe Tonkon, Portland attorney, and David W. Eyre, assistant manag ing editor of the Oregon Journal, have been appointed to the Reed college board of regents. Learn to Spell! These words will rlmre ta The Statesaan-KSLM Spelling Cos iest for prizes, now underway for 7th and tth grade pupils of Marion and Polk counties: brief character concern consist - ' delivery difficult perimeter executive length endeavor science author niece review travel eye ground coming carriage tragedy Icicles Form Cold Backdrop for South foils 1 SILVERTON Silver! Falls state park presented an Icy picture during here are the giant! icicles at South falls. Below, spray from the falls of ice. (Statesman-Harger photo.) Fire Destroys j Equipment at Walton-Brown A fire which started on a test ing bench destroyed; some equip ment and supplies j and caused minor smoke damage at the Walton-Brown Electric company, 236 State St., Saturday night Owners declined td make an es timate of damage, centered in a repair and test room at the rear of the one-story building. Testing J equipment and tools were destroy ed and electric motors damaged by the blaze. Smoke filled jtfie work shops ; and office areas but damage was expected to be light. Firemen, summoned to the store at 10:40 p.m., said the fire started either fromj a short j in wiringj or from testing equipment being left on by workers. The fire was discovered by City Patrolman Robert Fiedler who no ticed smoke seeping out through a broken window at the front of the building. j EAGLE SHOT AT WIULAMINA . WILLAMINA. Feb. 3 J. ; A. Baker of Willaminaj shot a huge eagle this week. It measured 83 inches from wing tip to wing tip, weighed 12 : pounds f and was : 35 inches from the tin; of its beak to the end of its tail. He shot the bird with a .22 pistol while it was sitting on a snag. i GityvSP Start j Joint Planning to Remove Railro - By Robert E. Gang-ware i City Editor. Tiss statesman f A good start on joint planning by the city of Salem and the Sou thern Pacific railroad was report ed Saturday i by Mayor Alfred sW. Loucks. j S Engineering studies of possible remedies for railroad bottlenecks in- Salem will be undertaken) in the near future by a joint commit tee ox engineers, ioucks said, j City Manager J. U Franzen and City Engineer J. H. Davis will get together with Harry Williamson, SPs Portland " division engineer, for actual surveys and cost esti mates of ; various projects which have at one time or another been proposed to improve Salem traf fic where rail crossings axe in volved.:: i; , - - , ft These include possible elimina tion of the . present Union street line by rerouting along Front and Trade streets; relocation of the mainline tracks . now along 12th street or easing congestion there by tunneling: the tracks or build ing grade separations, and other 3k Salem Spotters Scan Skies to Detect Plan The first defense "sky-gazing" in Salem since the end of World War II occupied a dozen residents Saturday. They found the task interesting despite the low ceiling which made most of the day fairly barren of air traffic. The spotting from a downtown building was part of the Fourth air force's test of the volunteer air warning system, designed to sup Boy Drowns In Fall from Float House REEDSPORT, Feb. 3 -(Jf)- Billy Michael Stiles, 8, drowned today in Schofield creek here when he fell from the porch of the float house where he lived with his parents, Mr. and" Mrs. George W. Stiles. The 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Jacob Stolz, residents of an ad joining float house, saw the boy fall and called her mother. Mrs. Stolz dived into the water, but could not find him. State and city police dragged the creek but failed to recover the body tonight. They expect to resume dragging operations to morrow. ' Tbe Stiles family moved here from Portland two weeks ago. ad Bottlenecks projects. A joint committee on rail prob lems, formed by the new mayor, met for the. first time Friday night in a three-hour session in which the entire recent history of city SP relations was reviewed. " The committee includes for the city Aldermen David O'Hara and Albert H. Gille, the mayor, man ager and engineer. Present for the railroad were the division engineer and Attorney Frank McColloch. Division super intendent L. P. Hopkins was un able to attend. , Participants in -the conference said, they realized that - the im provements desired cannot be brought about immediately. But they expressed themselves as will ing to make a realistic survey of the railroad situation in-order to arrive at some t recommendations which might be satisfactory to both the city and the railroad. ' The engineers will be conferring over a period of months before reporting back to the joint committee. C'1 this week's cld snap. Pietared coated everything- with a sheet plement the radar detection of air craft for defense. It will continue from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in charge of Robert Geddes, chief observer. The civilians reported approxi mately 20 aircraft, under direc tions to ignore commercial trans ports and other planes landing at or leaving McNary field. Some of them were presumed to. be part of the air force planes paritcipat ing in the test. PORTLAND, Feb. 3-7P-Some 200 Oregon volunteer aircraft spotters participated in today's test of air defense in the western states by simulated, low-level plane attacks. First observer to spot a plane was Ethel Chatfield, who reported from her central Oregon post at 8:04 a.m. Reports came in to the Portland filter --center, directed by Capt. Henderson Cagle, western defense air force officer. Filter' center workers, in turn, reported plane movements to radar warning sta tions and other filter centers in the northwest cities. Portland-based aircraft also were participating in the defense maneuvers. (Additional details on page 2.) Salem Mill Forced To Reject Further Defense Contracts PORTLAND, Feb. 3-P)-The government wants 4,000,000 wool blankets, but mills of Portland and Salem cannot take on any addi tional contracts because of the cur rent wool shortage, officials ! said today. The Portland Woolen 'mills and the Thomas Kay Woolen mills of Salem . have already taken con tracts which total well over $1, 000,000. . .. ' The Salem firm was awarded a contract by the government Thurs day for manufacture of . 30,600 blankets at a cost $450,738. Com pany officials announced that no additional employes would be re quired at the Salem plant to fill the contract, . i L PRISONERS TOTAL 13C1S8 WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 The . defense department spokes man said today a. total of 136,188 prisoners have been taken by U.N. forces in the Korean war up to January 10. . t 1 lira SafeGuii -ri3CianEQ4 Tn dntT- ,dDjiat2iD im lin Back to Work Moves Start In Some Places By The Associated Press The postoffice department ord ered a nationwide embargo "on certain classes of mail Saturday amid scattered return to work movements in the crippling rail switchmen's "sick" strike. Local back to work movements were reported in various cities from Newark. N. to Seattle, Wash, These included Sioux City, la-, Jacksonville, Fla Fort Worth and Houston, Tex., St. Paul and Minneapolis, Mirjn and several smaller cities in Wisconsin. Switchmen in Atlanta, Ga., call ed a special meeting for Saturday night, but did not disclose the purpose. However, there were no indi cations a general trend was un der way that would restore nor mal service on the 50-strike beset railroads serving some 100 large cities. In some places, more switchmen joined the ranks of strike idle. The army said no men were going back in Chicago. Plea by Kennedy The scattered back-to-work moves followed a plea from W. P. Kennedy, head of the striking Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and new government mediation efforts in Washington. Government prosecutors press ed federal contempt charges in Chicago against the striking switchmen in : an effort to break the log jam. Told to Show Cause , Federal Judge Michael L. Igoe ordered the striking union to show cause why it should not be held in contempt In the current walk out. The five day strike of . 12,000 Brotherhood bf Railroad Train men members has crippled freight and passenger train service in many parts of the country, hit in dustrial output a sharp blow and forced more than 160,000 into idleness. The postoffice embargo Is an extension throughout the nation of its Thursday embargo which applied only to mail moving to and from 14 eastern states. Containing some exceptions, It applies to second class mail, ex cept newspapers, and all third and fourth class matter; matter of the first class exceeding eight ounces, and air parcel post exceeding two pound's. Medicines, drugs and some other vital items were excepted. V Timberline Trolley9 Takes First 'Payload9 GOVERNMENT CAMP, Feb. 3 (P)- A new aerial tramway, al ready known as Timberline Trolley" carried its first paying passengers up the slope of Mt Hood today. Round trin rides from Govern ment Camp to Timberline lodge cost si.ou. une way trips are 73 cents passengers, made its first "pay- ioaa run up tno mountain - at 11 ajn. The three-mile tram from here to Timberline lodge was recently completed at a cost of S7 50,000. netted man Noted Speaker Scheduled for Luncheon; Public i The Oregon Statesman, . which rounds out a century of publica tion on March 28 next, is planning a number of special features in celebration of the centennial event. Traditional, of course, is the "Centennial Edition" which is now In preparation and will appear on the morning of March 28. It will compress a century of history of the newspaper, of Salem, of the Willamette valley, the state and the industrial, development of the region. i .. ' - r . Five special sections will be de voted to this "Cavalcade of a Cen tury, besides the regular news section.';''-; .,.. - - : Besides this, . The Statesman plans a number of public events as part of its centennial celebra tion. ' ! - , - .. '. : First will be a luncheon for mer chants and advertisers to be held at the Capitol room of the Senator hotel Thursday noon, February 15. , Featured speaker for this occa sion will be Arthur H. "Red Mot Legislature Bills Aim to Cut School Up Findfice Department -y John IX. White f Staif Writer. The Statesman -1 Bills to cut state school support payments by about $18,000,000 and to reorganize completely the duced Saturday as the 46th state legislature ended its first month. The measures were dropped in the house which convened more than two. hours late because two-thjrds quorum failed to show. up. (Additional details on page o. Rep. Sprague Carter, Pendleton, introduced the bill which would eliminate the $30 per, pupil in crease in basic school support funds approved by the voters last November. The increase, from $50 to $80, would cost the taxpayers $11,000,000 during the next fiscal1 year. Carters measure also would al low basic school funds to go for children only between the ages of 6 and 17, instead of the present limits of 4 to 20 years old. This cut would lop $7,000,000 off the amount the state pays ' to schools each year. Carter said. School interests have indicated they would fight any measure to reduce school support money. Revamps Finances The "Little Hoover Commission" launched the bill seeking reor ganization of the Oregon financial system. The measure would set up a state department of finance and administration to be headed by a director appointed by the gover nor. The state budget division, ac counting division of the secretary of state, purchasing function of the board of control and the state printing board all would be under the department's jurisdiction. Commission members estimated the change would save the state hundreds of thousands of dollars. The department would be created August 1. Under Direct Control All self - supporting agencies which are supported by their own taxes and fees, would be brought directly under legislative control. These agencies will spend $323,- 000,000 of the $505,000,000 total state budget during the next fiscal biennium. Another feature of the proposed department would be its control over all state-owned autos except those of the police and the high way commission. This move would help stop use of these vehicles for private business, the legislative commission claimed, The commission also recom mended creation of a state depart ment of revenue to take over the tax commission and the motor ve hicle division of the secretary of state. It has decided, however, not to seek this department at this session. To Benefit Koreasi Yets Another house bill introduced Saturday would give state educa tional aid to veterans of the Kor ean war or any U. N. police action. Such aid now Is limited to World War II veterans. In senate action, the state grange sponsored a bill which would in crease from two to seven years the time limits In which persons call ed into, the service may start legal actions . or i suits. The . proposal states that persons must start ac tions within a year after being discharged. Sen. Vernon D. BulL La Grande, said he would introduce a bill to reduce the maximum interest rates charged byl loan companies from 3 to 2 per cent. The senate and house will con- veno at 11 a. m. Monday. (Legislative news page 6) trills eniennia - t ley , one of the dynamic leaders in the field of publishing and sales promotion.: . Motley is president of Parade Publications, Inc., of New York City. Prior i to becoming publisher of Parade magazine he was with Crowell-CoUier Publishing com pany for 19 years, holding various executive positions. In 1950 he was chairman of the board of directors of the National Sales Executives, and in this capacity traveled over 80,000 j miles and addressed 117 audiences. I He is an inspiring speaker on the subject of produc tion, selling and advertising. Motley is making a trip along the coast and will be at Portland on February .14.. His Salem ap- pearance was arranged by Wallace A. sprague, managing eciior ox Parade. . . Invitations to this luncheon have been mailed to local business houses. r .- .- - - The second featured event will be a panel discussion at Waller Funds, state financial system were intro U.N. Forces Fight Growing Red Resistance TOKYO, Sunday, Feb. 4 -VP- United Nations forces today fought a dodged hill-to-hill battle against increasing communist resistance as the allied offensive inched forward in western Korea. Chinese communists .counter attacked all along the 40-mile front Saturday night. They launch- TOKYO. Sanday. Feb. Allied cruisers and naval air craft bombarded the area aroond Inchon, the port of SeoaL yes terday, the navy announced to day. The bombardment was led by the British cruiser Ceylon and the U.S. heavy cruiser SC FauL ed a new assault in biting cold weather early today 12 miles north of Irhon on the western f ront's eastern flank. Ichon Is 30 miles south-east of Seoul. - Vanguards of the UJi. forces were within seven miles perhaps less o SeouL Earl D. Johnson, assistant secretary of the army, ac companied a tank-led infantry col umn Saturday to a point seven miles south of the fallen South Korean capital. The UJS. Eighth army commun ique this morning said communist resistance in the west was stead ily increasing." It said , the Reds suffered more than 2,600 casualties Saturday. This would bring the nine-day total to nearly 18,000. Turkish troops were driven off the crest of hill 431 eight miles north of Suwon in dogged fighting Saturday night. . The hill changed hands four times during the day. Another important hilL flanking the main allied advance route, was taken by South Korean troops early this morning after a valiant all-night stand against communist fire. . Allied troops on the west flank of the front held their ground after advances of as much as one mile Saturday, AP War Correspondent Jim Becker reported.; (Additional details on page 2) 1 t;c v7QMH;tG0 1 Ida. Fred S J as Jtn 47 ; JOS S . Traco. It . jSS Salem Portland San rrandsco Chicago ' ' New York M 9S SS 1 Will me tt River M feet - . TO RECAST (from U. S. wcatbar bu reau. McNary field. Salem):, Mostly cloudy wlta showers today and tonight. uign loaay near so;- tow ton nm near 4S SAXXM PXKCXPIXATIOM 1, mtmem Start of Waataer Tear SeuC 1 This Year -v- Last Year . Normal S7.SS- - Caiehcli or Forum Slated March 28 hall Wednesday night, March 28, on the general theme of the rele of the newspaper in today's world. The program is now being arrang ed. This meeting will be open -to the public Another public event arranged by The Statesman for this year Is the Marion-Polk county spelling contest, the finals for which will be held on. April 20 "to Salem. Thousands of 7th and. Sth grade students are partiapaung. - "What we have in mind In con nection ' with these special events is to do something special for the community which has supported this newspaper through the years,' said Charles A. Sprague, publisher of The Statesman. . The Cavalcade, of a Century edition will review the past. The other events will point to the pres ent and the future. They will, hope, help The Statesman do an area better Job as It enters its sec ond century.' Plants Affected By Curtailing Of Ship ments 600 Salem 'cannery workers were I " idled Saturday and jobs for many hundred more mill workers in the- 1 area were threatened as a three day-old rail tieup continued. - j . The cannery workers, women . J f employed at Paul us Brothers f I Packing company on government contracts, were laid off when ship- ments to and from Salem wera i sharply curtailed. The company - I i has been assembling C-rations tor f the army. - ' - i " j While freight shortages threat ened other industries, passenger service, already crippled by tie up of Greyhound bus schedules, was narrowed. .The Southern. Pa cific's Rogue River, nirining ."be tween Portland and Ashland, was cancelled when' crewmen failed to show up Saturday night. The line's crack passenger train, the Shasta Daylight, completed its .runs Sat urday -with part union and part railroad officials in - her crews. Other passenger trains were still running also. Closed Dae to Cold Five major mills in the Silver ton area, closed down during the past week by cold weather, plan ned to reopen .Monday as sched uled. Mill officials said they would fill empty cars already on sidings or stockpile until the strike ended. At Dallas, the big Willamette Valley, Lumber company, was al- . ready on half shifts for its oay and night crews as the tieup halt ed in corning shipments of logs by rail. . ? . Officials at Oregon Pulp and Paper company's Salem 'plant said the strike would have no affect on employment , there unless it ccn" tinued for another week. The Na tional Battery - company reporUd supplies sufficient to -weather an other two.weeks without incoming shipments..: No Baek-to-rTork An SP spokesman reported no f indication of . any back-to-wcrk movement among railroad woik- ers. The . office reported one f through freight train from Eugeno I i to Portland was the only freight j traffic on the SP line Saturday. f i Oregon Electric officials report- ? ed that all switchmen on that lino, t were "still feeling well? Saturday I but that traffic was being ham- pered by the embargo on freight. f - An engine and caboose, . based in Hillsboro, produced -the only j t movement out of the I4U and Hines yards here. A crew took the train' to Hillsboro Saturday morning. " j Reu Admits Stealing 7th Mau Pouch Theft of a. seventh bag ef mall In the Salem area was admitted Saturday by David Herman Beil, arrested Thursday, the saiem pos tal Inspector was informed from Portland, where - Rail is held awaiting federal grand Jury ac tion. . . Th theft occurred la3t Satur day, January 27, he told authori ties, andOhe maUhag was oeins; sought in Shelton ditch. Another was thrown into the Willametls) "river. - The other five have boost recovered,-but only a small posi tion: of the contents were .iouxkl according to "Inspector Harcld Young. -The search is continuing. .When arrested after being trail ed for several days, Reil signed an admission to theft of six sack while employed as a Southern Pa cific baggage employe and a poes office -holiday rush worker. One in December was bound for Wood burn. .The others were all taken last .-month, four bound from Aurora to points north andUesst and In California, followed by cue each last Saturday and Sunday, leaving- Salem. Two of the pouches were thrown from Salem bridges Into Shelton ditch and . one was found. Bell led officers, to four other bag, one in his car and others in resi dential areas and on an induo trial ash heap. Young said Bell told of burning contents of three mail bags in the Incinerator at the senior high school. i " Reil Is being held In Hultnoman county Jail in lieu of $2-000 tail. D RITES ASBXSTED "s Benjamin-H. Shattuck, 1IC5H? Fairgrounds rtL, was held in th; city Jail following; his arrest fcy , city police early today on a eharjrs ; cf driving while Intoxicated. Fo lice said Lhattuck waj arrested M ; the 800 block cf Xforti Comrct-' cial street. - . i f -f i t i u ! 1 i