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.Mi:" POUNDS I 1651 Fjr Ship 101st YEAB 12 PAGES The Qrsgon Statesman, Salem, Orsgon, Saturdcry. January 12, 1952 PRICE 5c No. 290 V3U J7 ULf s U. S. Politics ? . ' -7 ; jisfe-Nl J.L y Ly V-A;il'A !f"i 1 - jCL- i '4 I . - V . , j S-s J. " : -i i m , Sn-Hf!.,...- , - i -a - v f . 1 I PUni for mock polltlea.1 conTention bued on nominatinr eonventlonj of national political parties are beinr laid at Willamette University. The conTention will be held on WU campus May 10 with 10 Oreson schools and co litres sendinr delegations. Chairman Is Robert Small, left, Sacramento. Calif., a junior. Others working on the project are Joyce Cronch, center. 5055 Robindale Dr., sophomore, publicity; and Glenn Greer, rixht, Portland, freshman, physical arrans-ements committee. (Statesman photo.) OlP HMEOB PCD0DQIJ Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. HelUel has allowed Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company to increase rates in Ore gon so as tflLECftjUie an additional $853,441 annually. Since the com pany was asking for $5,188,000 it gets only a small bite of the por tion sought. And of the sum al lowed nearly one-half $400,264 will go to the government in taxes. The apportionment of the increase among different classes of users waits on a new filing by the company. One increase is ap proved however, and that is doub ling the coin-box charge from a nickel to ten cents, as is common in many states. (Did the college dormitories and frats ever get un limited phone service restored? If not, the dime will take more of their pocket change.) The commissioner is figuring to allow the company an investment return of 5.6 per cent, or one tenth of a per cent over the pre vious rate. The company had con tended for a IV per cent return. The percentage allowed conforms to that established in California. As a mater of fact the state to the south pretty much sets the pattern in telephone rates since three fourths of the company's earning originate there. One point in the departments statement provokes a question. That is, that the company can meet a considerable portion of its needed added revenue from its earnings in the last two years which overran estimates. This sounds like recapture, for rate making purposes, of excess earn ings, which hardly seems fair. i Suppose earnings had i , (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Western Disarmament Commission Formed PARIS (JPt The United Nations Assembly created a West-backed Disarmament Commission Friday. It instructed the new body to begin work quickly on proposals for the regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments in the world. The vote was 42 to 5 with seven countries abstaining. Animal Crackoro y WARREN GOODRICH j-Wa ym look Hfc doctor US! itm Z9 porcont FodoroJ fc f (M. ft HftVPPI WOV i,w,um. bw Stirring on University Campus 1 Children Break Up Long-Living Pair HOBART, Okla. (JP) S. A. Foote, 101, was granted a divorce from his wife, Nannie, about 86, Friday. The couple had been married five years. His attorney, J. Percy Hugbes, said they got along fine until some of their children by previous marriages, themselves past the half century mark, came to live with them. Paperboard Plant Burns At Longview LONGVIEW, Wash. (JP) The main plant of the Pacific Paper board Company was destroyed late Friday by a 3 million dollar fire which swept the length of the sprawling building within minutes after it started. All of the 36 men working the swing shift were accounted for, said W. G. Brill, assistant super intendent of the plant. They bare ly raced to safety ahead of the fast-spreading blaze. Harry C. Huse, a vice president of the company, estimated the loss which he said is virtually all cov ered by insurance. The cause of the blaze was not established. Workmen and Brill said they believed it might have started from a spark jumping from the paper machine to a dry film of dust on the ceiling. It started shortly after 5 p.m., roaring the length of the 200-yard long ceil ir and down into the plant ma cl nery. Four paper making machines and another for processing paper board and newsprint were de stroyed. Save My Safe Oivner Pleads TILLAMOOKCP) The owner of a safe stolen here wants the thief to open it so he can find out there's no money inside. That's why he phoned Tom Hoover of Radio Station KTH, and asked him to broadcast the com bination. The owner hopes the thief will return the safe and the papers inside. There's been no report so far. Kidnaped Baby Boy Found Safe With Childless Woman MANKATO, Minn. (JP) - An 18-day-old baby boy police said had been kidnaped by a childless wom an "desperate" after a miscarriage, was reunited unharmed with its mother Friday some 20 hours af ter it was snatched from its crib. Held without charge was an auburn-haired woman who sob bed to police and newsmen that she had taken the baby after' a fu tile effort to ,4buy" an illegitimate child for $300 through a bar-room acquaintance. Finally, she decided to take her husband's car and a .38 caliber pistol, and drive to Mankato, 28 miles away. She told her husband, a New Ulrn section hand, she was going to see a doctor. Mrs. Scheid had followed birth notices in the Mankato newspaper and noted the Callahans had had a baby boy Christmas Eve. Mrs. Callahan, 35, said the wom an appeared at their home about lam. Thursday, sarins! aha waa IL-JJ McKay Names Armstrong to Aide Position Edwin H. Armstrong, 31-year-old former Willamette University staff member, was appointed Fri day as administrative assistant to Gov. Douglas McKay. He succeeds Thomas Lawson McCall, who resigned to accept a position with Radio Station KGW, Portland. Armstrong was graduated from the University of Chicago in 1943, and studied law at the University of Chicago and Willamette Law Schools. He served as a first lieu tenant in the Ninth Air Force in Europe in World War II. His Willamette University job was associate director of develop ment. He is a member of the Ameri can Legion and is vice president of the Marion County Republican Club. Armstrong recently - has been doing field work for the "Oregon for Eisenhower" committee, which is campaigning to win Oregon's Republican convention delegates for the General. Armstrong is married and has three small sons. They make their home at 1034 Howard St. Pair of Tivins Arrive; Four Are All Boys Two sets of twins, all boys, were born at Salem hospitals Fri day. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. Mil ford Van Hess of 4260 Silvorton Rd. and Mr. and Mrs. Harry An derson, Lyons Route 1, Box 133. Delivery time for the Van Hess twins was 8:35 a. m., 6 pounds 5 ounces, and 8:39 a. m-, 8 pounds 4 ounces at Salem General Hos pital. The boys had not been nam ed last night, hospital attendants said. The Anderson twins, Gary Wes ley, 3 pounds 13 ounces, and Larry Leslie, 4 pounds 6 ounces, were born at 12:59 a. m. and 12:49 a. m. at Salem Memorial Hospital.. Mothers and sons were reported "doing fine." pregnant and wanted some Infor mation about childbirth. She ar rived shortly after four of the Callahan children had left for school. She and the woman chatted and then the baby, yet unnamed, began to fuss. Mrs. Callahan went to get a bottle and then heard a shot. Mrs. Scheid said Friday the gun had gone off accidentally. The bullet passed through a bedroom wall. : At gunpoint, Mrs. Callahan and her four-year-old son were forced into acloset and a chair was placed under the knob. Mrs. Callahan freed herself about 20 minutes later and called police. About 8:30 a. m. Friday one of Mrs. Scheid's neighbors called New Ulm police. A short time later Mrs. Scheid herself called. The baby was found in a bassi net and in new baby clothes Mrs. Scheid had purchased when she was exnectinf her own child. Modest Carlsen Honored By EDWARD CURTIS FALMOUTH, Eng. (JP) - A tired little sailor in borrowed clothes, Capt. Kurt Carlsen stepped ashore a hero Friday after losing a gruel ing fight to save his Flying Enter prise from Atlantic gales. Humbly, he said: "The odds were against me." The dauntless skipper 20 days out of Hamburg on a voyage that ended in his first shipwreck landed at the Prince of Wales pier in this small Cornish port with Mate Kenneth Dancy of the British tug Turmoil, who rode the hurricane-cracked freighter with him for the final week of a two week epic. Thousands Line Route The Enterprise plunged to the tottom Thursday. Fresh honors and fresh citations were pressed upon Carlsen. He ac cepted them modestly, quietly, in a drawling voice marked by the accents of his native Denmark. This hilly port town of 17,036 put out its flags and pennants in honor of the sea captain from Woodbridge, N. J. Thousands turned out and stood in solid rows, five deep for the two blocks from the pier to the Municipal Building. About 250 newsmen, photograph ers and radio men were on hand. Carlsen said before the reception started he was more afraid of them than the storms that ham mered his ship. Sinkinr Worst Moment Carlsen was dwarfed by the men around him. He stands 5 feet 5 and is slender but solidly built. After a night's rest on the Turmoil he loked fairly fresh, but tired as the day wore on. His eyes were still a litle hollow. His worst moment? 'It was the moment that the r lying rjuerpnse aisappearea De- low the sea." Carlsen said.. "I hurt for quite a bit." His brightest moment? ,s That, he said, came when Dancyi stepped from the pitching Turmoil to the deck of the Enterprise Jan. aiier carisen naa spent six days and nights alone and said "shake hands." Why did he stay aboard his ship, listing heavily from a beating in the worst North Atlantic storm in 50 years, after his crew of 40 and 10 passengers were rescued? It was his duty, said the 37-year-old Carlsen. Franco Police Guard Griffis MADRID (P)-Government and Embassy sources disclosed Friday that Spain took extraordinary po lice precautions to protect U. S. Ambassador Stanton Griffis from a reported Communist assassina tion plot when he and an Ameri can Navy squadron visited Valen cia Thursday. Ambassador Griffis himself car ried a big Army pistol in his pocket to cope with the plotters if necessary. Griffis, confirming the reports of a plot against his life, said the Embassy learned of it two weeks ago from an anonymous tipster. The Ambassador has been in the midst of delicate negotiations with Spain for U. S. naval and air bases that may be linked with general Western European de fense plans. One-Way Plan Due at Council Conversion of North Summer Street between Center Street and the Statehouse to one-way traffic use will be proposed by resolution to Salem City Council Monday night. Under the new Salem traffic system North Summer Street Is one-way southbound from Holly wood to Center Street. The new resolution would continue the one-way designation in the block between Center and Chemeketa Streets and in the block of West Summer Street past the State Lib rary to Court Street East Summer- Street on the oth er side of the sunken garden would be one-way northbound. Traffic and parking changes to be proposed in other resolutions include provision for left turns from Division to Commercial Streets without stopping, no park ing on south side of Trade Street between Liberty and High Streets and two-hour parking on North Church between Chemeketa and Center Streets. Aldermen of the city face a full agenda at their first public meet ing of the new year, including seven more licensing bills and five public hearings on vacations, an nexation and zoning matters. HEAVY SNOW IN KLAMATH KLAMATH FALLS (JP) Snow fell heavily here all day Frid y. Numerous country roads were drifted shut, but - all main highways- were open Succumbs )' f PARIS Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassixny, France's World War II hero, who died Friday night. His last assignment had been French high commissioner and military commander in chief of the Far Eastern outpost. (Story on page 2.) Reds Challenge Allies in Air Battles Again SEOUL (JP)- Communist lets challenged Allied air power again Saturday after furious sky battles naay wnich cost them ftve planes shot down and one damaged. Fridays battles raged southward almost to the 38th narallel hut I today 100 MIGs hune rlosp tn tho Yalu River border of Manchuria, The Fifth Air Force said swift j U. S, Sabre jets took on the Red ; jets in several brief clashes close j to the river but no MIGs were I damaged. About 50 of the MIGs stayed on their side of the border. in an mere were live air battles Friday, when the MIGs made their farthest southward penetration of the war. Friday night 10 B-29 super forts pounded the Red rail yards at Slnanju in Northwest Korea. Thej'Vombers reported "intense"' groundiire but no Communist fighter activity. Atom Artillery Gun Displayed For Senators WASHINGTON ()-A small model of an artillery gun designed to fire shells with atomic war heads was displayed Friday to members of the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee. Tight secrecy surrounded the showing, which took place behind closed doors. But from past offi cial statements it could be inferred that the weapon has already been tested, although perhaps not with an atomic shell in it. It was Senator McMahon (D Conn), chairman of the Joint Committee, who described the model to newsmen as that of gun "designed to handle atomic shells." McMahon declined to say whether it was a small scale model of a gun already in existence, or made from blueprints of one not yet built. However, Gen. J. Lawton Col lins, the Army Chief of Staff, said last month that atomic artillery "has been tested as a weapon." Officials have been saying for some time that the U. S. has ready for use tactical weapons which could be used against troops in the field. But that description might cover smaller A-bombs, artillery shells, guided missiles or possibly radioactive dust. Father of Two Sons Killed in Korea Refuses To Accept Medal; Blasts at Idea, Truman WASHINGTON (JP) - A heart broken father of two sons killed in Korea said Friday he refused to accept the Medal of Honor on the ground that President Truman is unworthy to bestow it "on my boys or anyone's boys." The 65-year-old father, Halsey McGovern of Washington, D. C, said he based his objection on Mr. Truman's "record" and because he doesn't believe in the idea of awards for heroism. Boys are dying by the thou sands," McGovern told newsmen. "Perhaps some receiving awards for their gallantry did not measure up to some, whose deeds went unnoticed." The tall, white-haired father said he not only rejected the Med al of Honor awarded posthumous ly to one of his sons but also the ' Silver Star awarded to an other. "I don't want any part of it," he said, "if It infers that Truman is a proper party to honor these boys and other boys who died over there. Phone Boosts Granted A rate increase of $853,441 an nually out of $5,188,000 requested, was granted Friday to Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com pany by the Oregon Public Utili ties Commissioner. The boost will be felt first in the change from a nickel to a dime minimum charge on pay phones. Commissioner Charles H. Helt zel signed the order granting the increase, which he said could all be charged to a recent rise in wages and to additional taxes. It allows a return on the company's investment of 5.6 per cent, com pared to the current 5.5 per cent and to the 7.5 per cent asked by PT&T. Major Portion Denied The PUC, after extensive hear ings last summer and fall, refused the major portion of the firm's asking, which comprised mostly across-the-board increases on long-distance calls and regular bills for all phones. Of the amount granted, about $334,000 in additional revenue will come from the doubling of coin box fees. Salem phone officials said the conversion of pay phones, already partially accomplished, will be completed soon, but they did not know how soon this could be done. The PUC said many states already have the 10 - cent pay phones. Although the PUC order is ef fective immediately, source of the other approximately half million dollars ol the increase is not yet certain. The order calls for PT&T to file a new tariff schedule de signed to raise this amount, sub ject to PUC approval. The sched ule Is to be filed by Feb. 15, and the boost will appear on March statements. It was noted that this amount could not increase any category of rates very much. Half of It Taxes Heltzel said the company will receive only about $400,264 of the increase, with the balance going to federal taxes. The added revenues will not fully cover the items of raised wages and taxes, since PT&T earn ings during the last of the year had exceeded estimates and it was pos sible to meet a considerable por tion of the cost from the greater earnings, said Heltzel. The order includes a new feat ure in complete elimination of al lowance for earnings on working cash, since the company no longer uses any of its working funds in investment. Present tax laws make it necessary that it have ample cash on hand at all times to meet working capital needs. 'Reasonable Return' Heltzel pointed out: "I did not have the advantage of attending the hearings on this application, as they were completed before my taking office. I feel that this order will provide the company only with a reasonable return on its property dedicated to public serv ice. I am fully aware of the fact that there is a wide disparity be tween the 7.5 per cent return ask ed by the company and the 5.6 return allowed, but I cannot see any justification at the present time in increasing this amount." incur rervrj551 Max. . 44 ... 38 Min. 34 34 44 19 Precip. .38 .35 1 03 .00 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago 34 33 37 New York 23 Willamette River S.6 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy with occasional rain showers or rain and snow showers today and to night. Little change in temperature with the highest today near 3S and low est tonight near 30. Salem tempera ture at 12.-01 am. today waa 30. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. This Year 26 78 Last Year 29.80 Normal 19.22 Pentagon officials said it was the first time in history since Congress established the medal in 1861 that anyone has turned down the nation's highest award for gallantry "over and beyond the call of duty" in battle. An Army spokesman said that regardless of the father's attitude, the son's name would go down on the honor scroll as a winner of the heroic emblem. "The medal was not awarded to the father. It was awarded to the son in death," spokesman said. The son to whom the medal was awarded for 'incredible valor near Kamyangjan-Hi was Lt. Rob ert H. McGovern, 23, of the 1st Cavalry Division. His brother, 2nd Lt. Jerome F. McGovern, 21, of the 2nd division, won the Silver Star for "absolute fearlessness" in leading a charge against the Chinese Communists- McGovern is a self-employed traffic consultant. He was former ly an official of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, SEATTLE (T5) -Coast Guard planes and a search vessel reported Friday night finding wreckage and debris near the last known posi tion of the missing freighter Pennsylvania, j - j; ' The report was received by Seattle district Coast Guard . head-. quarters from the Cutter Klamath. It said aircraft sighted debris and the Canadian ' weather ship Stonetown had located a hatch cover. lumper ana plates mues souui;Dy southeast from the Pennsyl vania s last radioed location. No survivors from the crew of 45 or 48 men were seen. Aircraft also have sighted 15 boxes, an oil slick and drums with yellow ends 24 miles southeast of where the Pennsylvania last messaged, the Coast Guard said. The report brought intensified plans for a wider aerial and sea search tomorrow and one Coast Guard and five Navy planes will be in the vicinity at daybreak. Hope Almost Abandoned Previously, hope for survival of any of the men who abandoned the disabled freighter Wednesday evening had almost vanished. "Not a trace" was the report from ships that sailed back and forth across a vast area of the storm-whipped North Pacific. A slim possibility the men may yet be found was held out by De partment of Transport officials at Victoria, B. C. The hope aroused Thursday by a search ship's report of an un identified object on its radar faded with the dawn. The Cygnet II radioed to the Coast Guard's search coordinating headquarters that it was only one of the search planes. The fleet of search ships from four nations grew to six three United States, one Canadian, one Japanese- and one Honduran. Wind Abates in Area A plane reported the wind had diminished to about 30 miles an hour. It had been up td47 during the period of the Pennsylvania's fight for her life and the crew's abandonment of her Wednesday. It is unknown whether the sea- men were even able to get into their four 40-foot lifeboats in the battering seas which were run ning in waves over 40 feet high. There was doubt about whether 45 or 46 men were missing. The States Steamship Company listed 46. One of the final radio mes sages mentioned "45 men for four boats." Even if the seamen got safely into the lifeboats, and the boats have survived the tremendous seas, the exposure through two nights and days of saturation and cold might be more than they could survive. Home Building Blocked by New Controls WASHINGTON (JP) - The gov ernment put the brake on home building and almost all types of civilian construction Friday. Announcing a new allocation of strategic metals for the construc tion industry, the Defense Produc tion Administration said it would provide for a level of only 600,000 new home starts this year. This is 45 per cent below the total of 1,100,000 dwellings begun last year and compares with a current starting rate of 850,000 homes a year. DPA has the task of dividing up scarce materials between civilian and defense users. Its latest allo cation of steel, copper and alumi num for civilian builders is for the quarter beginning April 1. On its face the cutback Is great er than DPA Administrator Manly Fleischmann predicted when testi fying at a Congressional hearing Wednesday. At that time Fleisch mann estimated home starts would drop to an annual rate of 660,000. About 500 new schools will be started this spring, DPA said, bringing the total under construc tion in the country to 2,400. It was estimated that hospital building would be maintained at the pres ent level. A close friend of the McGovern family said the father was strong ly anti-Truman and objected to any of "the Truman high brass" conferring any awards on his sons but that he is proud of their mili tary achievements. A brother said McGovern felt that Mr. Truman's Far East poli cies had led to the Korean war and that the men in combat were not given strong enough military support. ' Today's incident marked the second time in recent months that controversy has arisen over hon ors paid to Korean war dead. On Nov. 11, Eugene R. Guild, retired Army captain, of Glen wood Springs, Colo., disclosed he had written a letter to President Truman asking if his criticism -of the Truman administration had prevented his hero son from re ceiving the Medal of Honor. Guild suggested in the letter that perhaps there had been "po litical tampering awards for the heroism of our fighting men in Korea" J..; Washington Mirror ) New Bar Building Unlikely By A. ROBERT SJUTII Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON President Truman has made it falilv that, important as he believes fed-' eral hydroelec tric ' power pro- - jects t be, he will not ask ' Congress this year for funds to start any nw . dams. t! , "' When premi-. nent Northwest - 'member of Coo-! gresa wrote th President recent-'. Smith ly urging that . , Ice Harbor Dam be placed in the bulging budget, he received this reDlv from th Chief Executive: t;v One of our difficult!, in tK if we include one of these r " projects all of them will haveMo' De included and the budcet fa In such a situation that it is going to " be almost impossible to include any of them." ? Last year Mr. Truman ssImw! Congress for $4 million to begin construction of Ice Harbor, as w 11 as $18 million to start The Dalles " dam. - The House Appropriations Committee had already ' decided that no new dams should be start-. , ' ed and turned them both down, but the Senate committee got a compromise by which $4 milliotf ' was allowed for The Dalles -but none for Ice Harbor. h As for the Willamette Valley, m no new-starts policy would' rule out once again Green Ptter Res ervoir on the middle fork, of the bantiam and Cougar Reservoir -on me soutn ior oi tne fticKemie. ior wmcn congress last year re fused to grant the $7500 request ed for each by the President. II would also postpone Hills Creek Reservoir on the Willamette be low Eugene, a flood control pro ject for which Mr. Truman asked . $200,000 and didn't get. il This policy, presumably, would have no effect upon projects such as Detroit Dam now under con- struction. I i-. . ' In his State of the Union ad dress the President declared, K speaking of his domestic program, "We can't do all we want to m times like these we have to choose the things that will con- -tribute most to defense but we - must continue to make f progress if we are to be a strong natiea . in the years ahead." I ..i "Farms and Factories" H ' More specifically, he said, "We are .going to produce i essential power and build the lines we have to have to transmit lt to OUT farms and factories." Reliable sources estimated the budget requests for Columbia : River Basin projects as follows: Detroit Dam, $10,700,000: Mer idian Dam, $17,250,000; The Dalles, $37,500,000; McNsry, $6.- 000,000; Chief Joseph, $25,300,060; Albeni Falls, $8,100,000! Hungry Horse, $13,250,000; and $70 million for Bonneville Power Adrninistra tion. i I i " This list does not include funds ' which may be requested, for Wil lamette River bank protection I work, which last year was. granted $400,000. ir Further development I ? of th Columbia Basin in this session of Congress will have to be limited to continuation of projects now under construction plus the pos sibility of Congressional: authori zation of Hells Canyon Dam e ' the fuel-fired electric genera tinej ! plants BPA wants to build along the coasts of Oregon and Washing ton. ). The steam plant bill has already been passed by the House Publie Works Committee and is how ly- ing in the House Rules Committee ' awaiting a decision that will send , it on to the floor of the House for a vote or back to committee,- m dead issue for another year. Present indications are that th intertie is still another project that will be forgotten in 1852. Michael W. Straus, commissioner f of the Bureau of Reclamation, maintains, "We still think the intertie s sound. We're still for it." ; Straus asked Congress In 1954 and 1951 for funds to -.build the line that would connectHhe grids of the Northwest and California but was turned down flatly, both times. He would not say whether . .. the new budget will contain third request for this project. cnuRcmix in ottatt a ,i OTTAWA (JP) - Britain's Prims Minister Winston Churchill, wear- ing s sa wed-off stovepipe hat, ar rived by train Friday for: four day round of conferences with top ; Canadian officials. 4 ' ' If U. N. PLANES ijOSIt i:! WITH FIFTH AIR : FOTtCS ; HEADQUARTERS,' Korea i Uft $ The United Nations lost 16" planes over North Korea between Jan. 4 and Jan. 11 the U. S. Fifth Air Fores said Saturday, i . v V. - it
