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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
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; 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
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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,
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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
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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
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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. '
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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
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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.
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reau. McNary fitld. Salem : Fartiy
cloudy this morning, clearing tbMiai-,
ternoon and tonight. High today 4S-40;
low tonight 3-38. ' , '
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Tol
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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
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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 , ,,
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