4 TUMnnook Burn Fire Fighters JL Mm WeiAir OtP S333JDQS mo one The death of General Charles G. Dawes which occurred Monday stirs memories of events and of figures in the interim between the wars. His own career was marked with success in varied fields of en deavor. Durir the first world war he had served the army in its pro curement divi-lon. He sprang into national fame with his "hell 'n Maria" phrase when he defended army purchases before a postwar investigating committee. His color ful persona? iiy, his vigorous speech embellished with this astonishing bit of profanity discomf itted his questioners. He had no apologies for any army extravagances there was a war to win, and Pershing's army had to be supplied. This prominence, along with his leadership in banking, utility and petroleum companies, brought him the appointment "as first director of the federal budget in 1921. His next assignment was to head a commission to study the problem of German reparations. This body came out with what became known as the Dawes plan for restoration of the German economy. Then he was nominated for vice president In 1924 on the republican ticket, being mated with Calvin Coolidge for president. He rubbed senatorial feathers the wrong way when as Vice president he recommended a revision of their rules. President Hoover named him ambassador to Great Britain and then chairman of the Reconstruction Finance cor poration. Meantime his own bank in Chicago was getting into deep water. He resigned and returned to Chicago. The RFC with Hoov er's approval advanced $90,000,000 to bolster his bank, but later it had to be reorganized, though the RFC suffered no loss. The special significance in his passing is not that it brings to an end a- distinguished career and draws tributes from many sources to one who (Continued on editorial page, 4) Attlee DeYiscs Compromise, Fills Cabinet LONDON, April 24 fP) Prime r Minister Atuees party emeu struck a bargain with leftwing bolters today in a bid to keep the labor government in power awnue longer. ' At th same time. Attlee hastily plugged the gaps in his cabinet left by the resignations of Labor Minister Aneurin Bevan and board f trade -president Harold Wil- -r, n,hn nhixtfri tf a 4.172.000.00 arms budget that nibbled away some state welfare benefits. The ailing prime minister named Alfred Kobens, 40, a xormer union itroanirpr whrt has been fuel and power parliamentary secretary, to the vacated laDor posi. Auomcj General Sir Hartley Shawcross 49, moved from his non-cabinet post into Wilson's cnair. The bargain- was reached at a cfnrmv paupus of labor members of parliament. Bevin and Wilson pledged to put party unity in me house of commons nrst. in re tnrn th government chiefs aereed to let Bevan abstain from voting on the DUdget provision ior a au per cent charge to patients who rpcMv false teeth or srjectacles. previously distributed entirely at the taxpayers' expense, tnrougn Uig national neaim service. Wallgren to Quit FCC Post WASHINGTON, April 24-(JP)-Mon Wallgren announced today his intention to resign from the federal power commission. He told an Associated Press re porter that his reasons are per sonal and private. Wallgren is the commission chairman. Asked about the possibility of his re-entering his home state poli tics, he said "I might go out and look the situation over." Wallgren is the only person ever to be elected in Washington state as congressman, senator and gov ernor. He is 60. He said he planned to resign '"some time this summer. Animal Crackers By .WARREN GOODRICH 4,000 Acres Ablaze By The. Associated Press Moist air moving into the old Tillamook burn from the Oregon coast gave hope Tuesday night that a fire that raged over nearly 4,000 acres of slash and snags in some 24 hours- could be; brought in check, j;- j .. Ed Schroeder, northwest re gional district Oregon j warden, said he believed the fire would "lay down" tonight as a result of improved weather conditions. The danger of a catastrophe such as those which hit the burn in a series of six-year jinx fires in bygone years apparently is past, he said. But the fire cannot be put out until there is rain, he indicated, and the weather bureau said none is in sight. The 300 loggers and foresters fighting the flames were sucoeed ing in an attempt to hold the fire on the east front and drive it southwesterly out of the snag area into green timber, where i could be trailed. Trailing ! is impossible in the burn area I because of the large fallen trees and debris, although 28 tank trucks, 18 bulldozers and innumerable power saws were on the job. Two crews were cut off from the Trask ranger station head quarters by the fire and will have to make their way back: by way of Carlton, a report from district headquarters at Forest Grove said A pumper and its 1700 feet of hose was caught in the flames and had to be abandoned. More men probably i will be needed on the fire lines today be cause of the increasing perimeter of the flames. Schroeder said. He added that if the fire should break out of lines and burn north of the Trask river it might go all the way to the Oregon coast. Ashes from the blaze already were drifting down on the coastal area. One logging company opera tioii was evacuated. Jefferson Area School Districts Back Consolidation Statesman Newt Servict JEFFERSON, April 24 Con- soudation of the Jefferson and Devaney school districts was ap proved by voter of both ! districts in a special election tonight. Devaney district in Linn coun ty, which had previously! rejected the consolidation, approved the measure 32-38. Jefferson voters were in favor by a 33-0 count. Voters in .the Millersburg and Conser districts will hold an elec tion May 18 to decide whether they will join the consolidation which now includes the Jefferson, Devaney,' Sidney, Talbot and part of the Ankeny district. Preliminary plans for a union school to be located at Jefferson are now underway by Architects Annand and Kennedy of Portland. A bond election to finance con struction of the school will bo, held sometime after the May 18 vote. Crime Probe To Lontmue WASHINGTON, April 2i-(JP)-The senate's crime investigation goes on at least until next Sep tember 1 and perhaps longer but with a new chairman. Senator O'Connor (D-Md). And Senator Kefauver (D Tenn), former chairman will stay on as a member. " The program was swiftly ap proved by the senate without ob jection, j The extension resolution pro- vides that by September 1, the special committee shall turn over its records to the commerce com mittee of the senate, along with any unspent money. The stand ing committee then can go on with the same sort of investigations the Kefauver committee has been making. .Mor Commission As!is PJeiinei to Oust Attorney McMINNVILLE. April Attorney General George Neuner said today that the Oregon liquor control commission had asked him to remove John K. Crowe as com mission attorney. I He said the request, received In a letter yesterday, was signed by Carl W. Hogg, Salem, commission chairman; W. A. Spangler, Klam ath Falls, and William A. Bing ham, Portland, the other, two commissioners. -; They wrote that Crowe was no longer satisfactory to them and asked that he be replaced with another assistant attorney general. Neuner said. i . . 1 ... Crowe t was assigned! to the commission by Neuner under pro visions of a 1947 law. i "I told Crowe that they didn't want him - any longer, Neuner said. "It isnl necessary; that be eave the attorney general's office, but X have no other work for him in Portland and he doesn't want to move to Salem. I've found him 101st YEAR Oregon Historical Caravan Visiting Salem 14? T . I :.' it 41 '' " I 1 I t ; M r M ' ' ) l , T iT u-i f,. "ZJt, Z, ifefcjrft'"i n i mum ltimZ rlinft;tnnii-4fc-'. )fc ' i -v. .- I A . v... wio n I ' h I1 I' r T "T in o ii iiiiii in .Migw v.' 'm, -vmat&kdUL -m4 - - tIiii -' mtm ' 'ill .mm fzm-J ' 0 L '.XJxfJ ' , Farrish Junior hlh school eigrbth trraders (top photo ) were amonf the 1500 persons Tuesday who hojurd- ; ed the Oregon Historical Caravan sponsored by th e United States National Bank of Portland in observ- i ance of its 60th anniversary. The museum, set up in two larre buses (lower photo) will be open daily i through Monday in front of the state capitol on C our4 street. Hours are 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. daily and on ;: Sunday from 1 to 5 p. m. The caravan includes a collection of rare documents and article connected j with pioneer Oregon.; (Statesman photos.) j j . . Time-and-Half Plan Worries ; Control Board DisDleasure over the Introduc tion of a senate bill providing for time-and-a-half overtime pay for state institution employes was in dicated Tuesday by the state board of control, whose members said the move was a surprise to them. The board was advised that such a charge would cost the state ap proximately $200,000 during the 1951-53 biennium and would throw the entire institution pay schedule out of line. The bill was introduced by Sen. Phil Brady, Multnomah county, and received approval of the senate labor and industries committee. j ' f The measure is now in the joint ways and means committee where an attempt will be made to hold it until the legislature has ad journed. The board took under consider ation a proposal by James Young, Salem realtor and until recently an employe of the state depart ment, to construct a ; two-stpry building, 30 by 100 feet, adjacent to the present state agricultural department structure : on 12th street. t The building, under the propos al, would be leased to the state on the basis of rentals now charged for space in state structures. Sec retary of State Earl T. Newbry said the additional space was needed by the state agricultural department and state printing di vision. a very capable attorney, !(In Salem, Hogg said he had no comment on the request for Crowe's removal. "As, far as I'm concerned, Mr. Crowe will be with us until the legislative ! session' is finished and probably longer' he said. i ; - t(In Portland Crowe ! said: "In view of the (Multnomah county) grand jury's report, I do not feel that the reason for the commission requesting my replacement ' is either legitimate or honorable. The reason given, ;he ; said, . was "that I owned a store Building in which a liquor store was located.'!) f(The report of the grand jury, after a liquor commission investi gation, referred to Crowe's own ership of the store and suggested that the services of the commissioil attorney had not been used to their fullest extent : . I (Crowe said he bad purchased the store from his mother-in-law after she had leased it to the com ! MUNDBO 1651 ' - . 12 PAGES 75,000 flllanuJactoes's Told to Reprice Products WASHINGTON, April 24-W)-In a far-reaching order which of ficials said would bring many price rollbacks for consumers, the gov ernment tonight directed 75,000 manufacturers to reprice a vast range of products. . Price Director Michael DiSalle acknowledged there would be some price increases too, although he said the "net" effect would be a tp - auction in tne general level or manufacturers' prices. Estimating that the 75,000 man ufacturers do about $70,000,000, 000 of business yearly, he called the new regulation a major step toward restoring "equitable indus trial prices," It covers products ranging from refrigerators and television sets to breakfast cereals and soup mixes. DiSalle told a news conference the regulation will: 1. Roll back the prices of com panies which "unjustifiably" rais ed their prices and profit margins after the outbreak of the Korean war; and 2. Provide relief to manufactur ers who were caught by the gen eral freeze January 26 with ceil ing prices in many cases below actual production costs. The new regulation replaces teh general price freeze under which the manufacturers have been op erating. In another action today the of fice of price stabilization (OPS) extended for another 30 days until May 30 the time for 275,000 retail stores to file pricing charts with OPS and put new margin type ceiling prices into effect. OSC Milk Cost Study Exonerated, Edgar Smith States PORTLAND, AprU 24-ip)-A re port on the investigation of char ges that Oregon State college mis handled milk cost studies, exoner ated the college's research from the charge of bias. - That was the report of Edgar Smith, president, to the state board of higher education here to day. He said Chancellor Charles D. Byrne has a board code revision program underway that will modi fy rules relating to state system employes contacting the state leg islature. That was, one of the ma jor points of . contention by the college's critics. ; ... REACTIVATION FORECAST f ASHLAND, April 24-(J53-Mayor Diamond Flynn of Medford today told j the Ashland chamber i of commerce be bad learned that If universal military training is en acted. Camp White will no doubt be reactivated. The- Oregon Statesman, Salem, r-rrnr Western International ( At Salem 7. Victoria 0 I At Spokane 3. Vancouver 7: 1 At Yakima 7, Wenatchee6 i At Tri-City 3. Tacoma 6 j j ' Coast League f At Portland 1. San Francisco 7 At SeatUe 4. Hollywood 3 At Los Angeles 6. San Diego 3 At Oakland -Sacramento, weather. National League ! At Chicago 4. Pittsburgh S ' At Brooklyn 4, Boston 7 ' ) At St. Louis 3. Cincinnati 1 At Philadelphia 8, New York 4 American League' At Boston 5. Washington 7 At New York 3, Philadelphia 0, At Cleveland 5. Chicago 2 i At Detroit -St. Louis, rain. ' TAFT, LUCE SEE MAC ; i t NEW YORK, April 24-JP)-sn-Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio( visited Gen. Douglas MacArthut at his Waldorf-Astoria hotel suite today. Another reported caller j at the general's suite today was Henry R. Luce, magazine publisher.' Pair Judged , - - t $ , ... STAYTON Healthiest? 4-H girl in Marion county lis Sally Tontz, 11 years old, of Brooks and healthiest boy is Jerome Ebner, 12, of Mt Angel. These had great est number of points in examina tions held at Stayton on the open ing day of the 4-H fair. 4 , Runners-up were John Foster, Macleay;. Wayne Kreger,, Clover dale; Robert Bowlsby, J Hazel Green; Jerry Hutchison, Sidney; Arbee McDonald, Keizer; i Loreen King, Victor Point; Faye York, Keizer; Kathy Archer, Lake Labish; Ruth Wilde .Mt. Angel; Carolyn Uppendahl, Parkerville. - NEW DIVISION IS JAPAJT - TOKYO, Wednesday, April 25-(Jpy-Units of the 45 th division ar rived today at the Western Hok kaido Port of Otaru fori occupa tion duty. . . f t aHSMssiBaasBSMiHm! ": "i ' BRANNAN BACKS PARITY WASHINGTON, April 24 - () Secretary of Agriculture Brannan went on record today against any move to push price ceilings on farm products belowc parity, lev els. Oregon, Wednesday. April 25, School By Robert E. Gangware City Editor. The Statesman Salem school board and budget committee Tuesday adopted a $2, 829,038 budget and submitted for May 18 vote a $659,443 tax levy to effect a balance. That general fund levy repre sents the amount needed outside the 6 per cent increase limitation. It is about $110,000 less than the levy approved by voters last year. Estimated millage is 30.6 for this year's general fund, compared with 33.2 last year. Total millage for school purposes, including the al ready-approved bond fund and se rial levy for school construction, would be 41.2 for the 1951-52 school year. ; But the general fund ; expenses, overall, are increased in this year's budget by $273,314 virtually all of it in higher salaries for teach ers, administrators, clerical and custodial employes. The general salary boost averages 10 per cent for .the school employes. : Most of this added expense is offset by the boosted state school support to be received by the local school district. The estimate is for $676,458 coming in. compared with $420,000 this year. Presentation ot the 1951 budget evoked from citiien budget com mitteemen a threshing-out of school budgeting " and administra tive practice. Requested Cot Budget Committee Chairman William L. Phillips said the citizen members after preliminary study of the budget last week had agreed to ask the administration to cut it by $150,000. But school board members, headed by Harry Scott, pointed out that the budget had been present ed as the minimum consistent with eood education and that 75 per cent of general costs is In pay-J roll, which the budget committee as a whole already had commit ted itself to increasing $270,000. Citizen members also discussed possible segregation of business and education supervision in the school district. They were advised by Superintendent Frank B. Ben nett that such a division had not been successful when tried in Sa lem and in other cities. Members Protest In a third point raised by the citizens, suggestion was made that the budget committee hire an in dependent representative to study the budget throughout tne year. School board members protested that the superintendent and busi ness manager, as well as the board, keep close tab on the budget through the year as the public s responsible agents. Citizen mem bers looked over bookkeeping and budget posting practices and in dicated they were satisfied with present procedure. On the budget committee are Phillips, William J. En tress, J. H. Willett, George H. Grabenhorst, Donald A. Young and board .mem bers Scott, Mrs. Dayid Wright, Gus Moore, Gardner -Knapp and Leroy J. Stewart. Included In Receipts The overall $2,829,038 estimated expense includes $z,Z3l,99Z in general fund and the remainder in bond and serial funds. Receipts in clude $190,000 for the old Wash ington and old Lincoln school sites which the school board recently sold, plus general fund receipts of $1,123,818. This latter includes county, state and federal funds. rentals, tuition and a $30,000 cash balance. . School budgetmakers estimated that ' city, county and school tax millage combined this year would approximate 76.4, some 2.5 mills less than approved for the past year. ' Wealthiest J. . : A ' - O f y Budget Adopted STAYTON, April 24ZIarIoa eounfx's healthiest yon&gsienu In 4-H judging here at the 1951 spring shew, are Jerome Ebner. 12. of Mt, Angel, and Sally Touts, 11, el Crooks, 1951 PRICE Mi InJoj n - n J : By Tom Stone ' j j-" TOKYO, Wednesday, April 25-(AP)i-AHied troops today halted a Chinese red breakthrough force in central Korea and fought fierce eeeneaw battles in the west more than 20 miles above newly imperiled Seoul. j f There were j allied withdrawals but a frontline lfi cer said the United Nations forces were; still "-ollirg with the punch'." I I He added that the withdrawals are definitely not Ja sign of de feat." On the fourth day of the red counter - offensive the allies ap peared to ge giving up virtually all holdings inside j Red Korea north of the "38th parallel. The allied strategy was to give ground but make the reds pay a bloody price in merj. A field dispatch today said the 130.000 reds who broke through the mountainous center appeared to "have run out of steam." They were stopped at least momentarily seven miles south of 38 by fresh allied reinforcements. Seoul Residents Flee In the west, residents of Seoul began fleeing that ! war-wrecked capital for the third time in 10 months of war. i Field dispatches; today said fighting was heavy; all along the winding Imjin river. One red force across it near Choksong broke through allied lines. Choiz- song is 26 miles north of Seoul. Another red assault force cross ed the Imjin near Munsan, 21 miles, north wet of Seoul. : Iespite these successes, allied commanders - said there was no immediate threat to the main al lied forces. Trade Real Estate "We could at this moment stand and fight on a solid line," said one officer, "but it's a lot cheaper trading real estate.' Fifth air force planes estimated they had killed or wounded near ly 1,000 reds by noon today boosting the enemy's three-day losses to more than 18,000. Allied withdrawals already ranged up to 20 miles. And the allied Supreme com mander, after a flying visit to the front, warned that the biggest red blow was yet to come. Reinforcements checked the most menacing breakthrough by 130,000 reds in the center fouf miles short of Kapyong on the vital Chunchon-Seoul lateral road. The red forces had blasted a big hole in the allied center at the outset of the offsensive, and then poured three army corps through it across the 38th parallel into the Republic of South Korea. The allies abandoned the 11- mile-long Hwaehonj reservoir and dam north of the parallel. Then with reinforcements they dug in seven miles south of 38 and pre vented the reds from cutting the Chunchon-Seoul road. ! TO CONFER ON JAP TREATY WASHINGTON, AprU 24-- Representatives of the United States and Great Britain will open series of conferences here to morrow in an attempt to settle their differences oyer a Japanese peace settlement, j MORE MEN FOR FORMOSA WASHINGTON, April 24 - UP Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Lovett said today 500 additional men may be assigned to the mili tary mission to Formosa. He de clined to elaborate On the reasons. at 4-H Show 1 :- v -i ft y k- ; "! K i 9 9. r. t " Weather Max. 65 : 53 Mid. mHk 37; S lM 38' i JBO - 49' 5 i3 48 i U3 43 JM Salem ,;. - Portland San Francisco Chicago Mew York Willamette River JI iet . FORECAST (from U. S. WMHW'b reau. McNary fitld. Salem : Fartiy cloudy this morning, clearing tbMiai-, ternoon and tonight. High today 4S-40; low tonight 3-38. ' , ' 8ALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ( Weather Year Sep-1 This Year , Iast Year S h 46.23 ' 39.27 , J 3X3 5c 'No. 3 IDOTI1(SCJ Tol ncreasei Road Bonds t, By Theater F. Cooi Staff Writer. The Sutnmao The house Of representati mi a Tuesday refused; 34 to 24j to pass the senate-approved measare Tnv viding. a $45,000,000 bond tissue tto finance a three year emery iter highway construction program. The issue will now have j to -mm settled by a conference loetween highway committee members -of both houses, and may delay!' plans to adjourn the legislature ;by net Saturday. j i But the house did approve tfca remainder of highway , bills sp- proved by the senate providing 4 $1,000,000 Increase in big I truck taxes, lower weight limits for log trucks and stiffer penalties for log 1 1 . - ... i vucs overloading. ,, -. . i j J The road bond Issue passed in the house would provide Jfor a $36,000,000 bond Issue to give the highway commission $12,000,000 a year for the emergency program. The measure passed by Ithe sen ate and turned down by t &e Tiouse would provide $45,000,005 ivvorth of bonds at the rate of $1 $,000,000 a year. 1 j Mast Be Repassed ' - ; f A compromise will have to be repassed again by both the Jiouse and senate. The highway fcopnmffl sion originally requested ? a $62, 000,000 bond issue to finance -a five-year program. ! - The truck bllli sent to the gov- ernor by the house Tuesday rill give big truck operators a 35 rper cent fee boost, but will cjutf taxes on small trucks.) 1 I The- weight - limit m a a a u Km wipes out the 10 per cebt toler ance allowed logging, trucks, nd cuts 2,000 pounds off the weight limit of dual axle logging trailer combinations. I S t Seta Truck Ratal 1 : It will also allow four-wheel log trucks to haul up to 38,000 pounds on tandem trailers for another two years. . ( i r The weight bills passed in th senate were more generous than those approved firstr in the house, but the representatives readily agreed to permit, the allowances. Also sent to the governor by the house was another highway bill allowing loggers to operate over weight trucks over county ; roads . if they agree to maintain!' or build them. f , li 'The senate debated for it more than an hour before approving-and sending to the; governo!" a bill which will ' give elective land ap pointive state Officials a 10 per cent wage increase. i ji Other bills sent to thp gover nor's office by! the senate would give Korean veterans state farm and home loan privileges; cive state employes tune off to attend national guarS or reserve training camps in addition to their regular vacation time, give the state police department a $4,000,000 budget for t the next biennium, and exempt from state income tax profits made from home sales provided the mon ey is reinvested in another;, home within six months. i I Both the house and senate win meet at 10 an.! today. ' (Other legislative new on page Bonneville Lines , Funds Slashed I i WASHINGTON, April 24-v9 The house today tentatively eut $5,500,000 from the Bonneville power administration's request for funds for transmission line coo struction. l The slash brought to $3,845,003 the total tentatively cut jfrom the $520,031,500 Interior department appropriation ball. The house -will resume consideration of the mea sure tomorrow.! ; ' ! s Members will get ft chanct to reconsider the cuts if d e s lr i when the house considers, vim c- tire appropriation bill, i j , ,, i DM u mission, " - i i f 5 : I ! ' 1 ? .1 ! 3-1 5 t