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The Oregon Statesman, Salezxu Oregon. Monday, February 4, 1952
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be held Friday nieht at Crystal Gardens. Tickets go on sale today
from policemen. Proceeds will ro for Christmas baskets and other
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The Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1949 calls for dropping of
the parity ratio for farm prices in
1952 from 90 per cent for most
eligible crops to a 80-90 per cent
figure. Secretary Brannan, how
ever, has fixed the ratio for
wheat and corn at 90' per cent for
this year's crops, with cotton con
tinuing at a higher level. The act
calls for another change in 1954
to a 75-90 per cent range.
President Jim Patton of the
Farmers Union wants the formula
revised upwards. Other farm or
ganizations like the Grange and
Farm Bureau would like to get
away from government price guar
antees. Patton has written mem
bers of Congress, asserting:
"Farmers need to be assured be
fore spring planting time that they
will not be penalized with a lower
parity and 75 per cent supports
if they pitch in patriotically and
build up stockpiles of basic com
modities urgently needed in this
mobilization period."
The Marion County Farmers
Union voted on Saturday to re
commend a 100 per cent parity
ratio, right in line with Jim Pat
ton's idea.
No one wants to penalize the
farmers for doing their patriotic
duty. They have as much claim to
consideration as makers of steel
and airplanes. In the rush for de
fense contracts and accelerated
depreciation every group is eager
to get its share, We should keep a
parity on (economic) patriotism
and the farmers shouldn't be
stood up while others get to the
head of the line with their bowls
and spoons.
The 1949 Act does break away
from the old parity base of pre
world War I which was indeed
antiquated, substituting a moving
ten-year average which seems
much more reasonable. The pur
pose of the sliding scale in the
parity ratio is to discourage over
production (witness potatoes un
der the price props prior to 1951).
Overproduction is not in prospect
at present in view of the heavy
demand for foods and fibers .This
demand seems certain to hold
farm prices at remunerative lev
els. Farmers don't go broke when
wars are raging or imminent. In
an election year a politically sen
sitive Congress will not be indif
ferent to the interests of farmers.
Opposition of the two other, and
larger farm organizations however
dims the prospect for a 100 per
cent parity ratio.
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PlanSuccess
At Silverton
Statesman News Service
SILVERTON Courtesy nickels
pay off in gratitude, reports the
Silverton Chamber of Commerce.
The courtesy nickels for park
ing meters have been furnished in
recent months by the chamber.
Police put them in meters when
cars have over-parked in Silver
ton's downtown shopping district.
Notes are left on the windshield
of the car, instead of a parking
ticket, asking the car owner to
refund tha nickel to the chamber.
Kenneth Brown, secretary of
the chamber, reported at a meet
ing Thursday night, that the
chamber has been making money
on the deal now and then.
"Shoppers have liked the Idea
so well," Brown said, "that we
frequently have received the 50
cents that otherwise would have
been paid as a fine." He added
that the system would continue so
long as there were funds available
for the courtesy nickels.
Taft Silent on
Oregon Try
CINCINNATI (JP)-Sen. Taft, (R
Ohio), said Sunday night he had
"no comment" on a resolution
aimed at getting his name entered
in Oregon's presidential primary
election in May.
Taft, in Cincinnati for a short
stay before returning to Washing
ton Tuesday, added he did not be
lieve he would have anything to
say on the matter for some time."
The Oregon State GOP Commit
tee passed a resolution Saturday
for all thi chief Republican can
didates to enter the primary. Com
mittee men explained they were
thinking primarily of getting Taft
to enter tq try out his strength in
Oregon.
River Covers Approach
To Independence Bridge
The still-rising Willamette
River late Sunday night made the
Independence Bridge impassable,
state police reported.
Water had flooded the Marion
County approach to the bridge
and had spread through much of
the lowlands nearby. On the Polk
County side of the river, the In-
dependence-Buena Vista road was-
closed with almost two feet of
water reported at Hartmen's cor
ner, souths' of Independence, with
fjelds in the nearby hop district
partially under water. .
Sunday :broughi the first flood
ing from the Willamette in this
area, as the river reached 16 J
feet at midnight, and continued to
rise slowly with no crest yet in
sight. Forecasters had predicted a
crest of 16.4 Sunday afternoon,
which failed to materialize.
Farther upstream both the San
tiam and the Willamette continued
to be active. At Jefferson the San
tiam was 13.30 feet at 5 pjn. Sun
Harold Ickes, FDR-Era
Cabinet Member, Dies
WASHINGTON (JP) - Harold Ickes, the bristling, sharp-tongued
former Secretary of the Interior, died Sunday night at the age of 77.
Death came after an 11 months' illness when complications de
veloped from an old arthritic condition.
President Truman paid tribute to the outspoken former govern
ment administrator as "a unique figure in American public life ... a
true patriot and a many sided citi
zen whose passing leaves a void
in our national life not- easily
filled."
Ickes was a controversial figure
on the national scene in the
Roosevelt New Deal era from
1932-46, when he was Secretary
of the Interior and also head of
the Public Works Administration
in the days when the country was
in the grips of a depression. He
headed the Interior Department
longer than any other man.
He went into a coma Sunday
three hours before his death at
6:25 pjn.
Widow Survives
He is survived by his widow,
the former Jane Dahlman, two
sons, and a daughter. He and Jane
Dahlman were married in 1938.
The first Mrs. Ickes, the former
Anna Wilmarth Thompson, died
In 1935.
Funeral services will be held in
Washington at 2:30 p.m. Wednes
day. Burial will be at Sandy
Spring, Md.
In a statement issued by Mrs.
Ickes, she said that he requested
that funeral services be simple,
and "characteristically his mind
turned to other sufferers" and re
quested that those who so choose
should make a contribution to an
arthritic aid foundation instead of
sending flowers.
Master of Sarcasm
A sharp-tongued phrasemaker,
Ickes called himself "the Old Cur
mudgeon" and in his time was just
as rough on others.
He once said Huey P. Long,
late senator from Louisiana, had
"halitosis of the intellect." When
Wendell L. Wilkie ran against
President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Ickes called him "the simple,
barefoot Wall Street lawyer."
Ickes once referred to Thomas
E. Dewey, the Republican presi
dential candidate in 1944 and 1948,
as "the candidate in sneakers,"
Ickes resigned from the Truman
cabinet in 1946.
4 Caesarean
Births in 4
Days at Dallas
Statesman News Service
DALLAS Four Caesarean
births in four days from Wednes
day to Saturday set a record for
Bartel Hospital here.
Attendants said that was the
most ever born at the hospital in
go short a period.
The first Caesarean baby was a
6 pound 13 ounce son born Wed
nesday to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Lyday of Kings Valley. On Friday
a 6 pound 15 ounce daughter was
born to Mr. and Mrs, Charles Hart
of Dallas.
But the big day was Saturday
when two Caesarian" babies were
born. They were a 7 pound 14
ounce son born to Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Durfee of Dallas; and a 7
pound 12 ounce son born to Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Sullivan of Mon
mouth. Electric Vest Worn
By King George
LONDON (VThe Sunday Ex
press said Sunday that King
George is wearing an electric vest.
The king has been wearing the
heated vest on doctor's orders dur
ing recent outdoor trips, the paper
said. The vest is made of khaki
silk and ribbed with wires which
receive electricty from a small
battery.
day, a little above the flood stage
of 13 feet. Flooding, however, was
so far confined to lowland areas
farther downstream. River Read
er Henry Freeman said the river
rwas again rising siowiy, arter
having dropped a little in the
early part of the day.
There were no reports of any
flooding on the Willamette at Al
bany, although the river was sup
posed to have crested at 16 feet
Sunday morning. It was still ris
ing very slowly there.
More hopeful word came from
the Weather Bureau in Portland
which said there would be only
slight flooding in the Willamette
Valley as the rivers soon would
crest below flood stage at most
points.
Another .84 of an inch of rain
fell in Salem Sunday, bringing the
total for the last four days to a
little over three inches. More rain
is predicted for today.
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'Curmudgeon Dies
Gifts Accepted
From Firms by
PMA Employes
WASHINGTON UP)-At least a
score of employes in the Produc
tion and Marketing Administra
tion of the Agriculture Depart
ment accepted gratuities from
firms with which they were doing
grain storage business, a HODBre
subcommittee reported Sunday.
The consequences Included dis
missal in some instances from
their jobs, reprimands and 30-day
suspensions, and letters of caution
from supervisors.
The listed gifts included such
items as: Luncheon guest, several
bottles of whisky, clock, cigars,
cigarets, guest for golf, help in ob
taining apartment, assistance in
obtaining new car at discount,
baseball tickets, $100 gift certifi
cate. Stetson beaver hat.
One note pad, a cigaret lighter,
two decks of playing cards, ties,
one Holy Bible, St. James version;
week-end outing at guest ranch,
one medium sized fruit cake, use
of launch for fishing trips, box of
jam.
The gifts covered a period from
1946 to 1950.
The House subcommittee also
reported that in Texas alone it
has found shortages of $3,820,000
in the government's grain storage
program.
(Additional details on page 4)
Boulder on
Road Isolates
400 Skiers
PLACER VILLE, Calif. (JP) - An
estimated 400 skiers were isolated
Sunday on snow - clogged U. S.
Highway 50 by a granite boulder
"as big as a two story house."
No one was believed hit when
the huge rock crashed 200 feet
down onto the highway last night
a mile and a half east of Kyburz.
Trapped skiers were being evac
uated on foot to waiting buses on
the west side of the rock.
Capt. Earl Personius of the Cal
ifornia Highway Patrol, estimated
the boulder weighed 6,500 tons.
He gave its measurements as 40
feet high, 55 feet long and 35 feet
wide.
It was estimated that the high
way would not be completely
cleared for three days. Caught be
hind the boulder were 120 cars
and three chartered buses, which
were being used to shuttle skiers
and motorists from Echo Summit
to the path around the boulder.
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Criticism
Aimed at
Morris
WASHINGTON (P-Rep. Potter,
(R-Mich.) said Sunday Newbold
Morris' "record of being used by
Communist front organizations"
should disqualify him from gov
ernment service in any capacity,
let alone as No. 1 anti-corruption
investigator.
Potter said in a statement that
Morris had been connected with,
or had spoken before, half a doz
en organizations which have been
identified as Communist fronts.
He said that "demonstrates that
Morris is either naive to the ex
treme or a soft-headed idealist
whose judgment is most poor."
"If .he cannot distinguish a Com
munist - sponsored organization,
how can he be expected to identify
corruption even if it were staring
him in the face?" Potter asked. Al
though I have no knowledge of his
reputation for veracity, his state
ment is too asinine for reply.
"I never have been a member
of any Communist front organiza
tion." Named by McGrath
Morris, New York attorney and
a Republican, was named on Fri
day by Att. Gen. McGrath to head
up the administration's long-heralded
hunt for any wrongdoers in
the government.
Potter, a member of the Un
American Activities Committee,
called the selection of the former
New York City Council president
"a typical Truman-McGrath ap
pointment" and he added:
"While Mr. Morris claims to be
a "Lincoln Republican, I am con
fident Republicans generally do not
consider him as such."
Potter said Morris is listed as a
one-time sponsor of the American
Committee on Yugoslav Relief
the Greater New York Emergency
Conference on Inalienable Rights,
and the New York Tom Mooney
Committee.
Pro-Red Groups
In 1939, he added, Morris was
a member of the lawyers com
mittee for the American League
for Peace and Democracy.
Potter quoted the Daily Worker.
Communist Party paper in New
York, as saying Morris signed a
1946 statement by the Action Com
mittee to Free Spain Now and that
he spoke at several meetings of
the American Youth Congress.
All six organizations, Potter said,
have been cited as Communist by
the attorney general, the Un
American Activities Committee, or
both.
Potter said the ones he men
tioned are "not a complete list of
Communist fronts with which Mr.
Morris has been connected."
Weather Stalls
Plane Search
REDMOND, Ore. (P)-Bad flying
weather in Central Oregon Sun
day hampered the search for a
missing plane and Its three pas
sengers. The plane, enroute from Boise,
Idaho, to Roseburg, Ore., stopped
at Burns, Ore., to refuel at 11:50
a.m. Saturday. It should have ar
rived at Roseburg about an hour
later.
The CAA identified those on the
plane as Norman Bryar, 26, pilot,
and Fred de Blois, 27, and Paul
Peterson, 30, passengers. All are
believed to be from Boise.
A search party headed by Capt.
J. McGarry, arrived here from
McChord Field early Sunday. It
was unable to begin its search be
cause of snow.
The plane, a single engine, radio-equipped
four passenger craft,
was painted maroon and gray.
Graham Asks President for U.S.
Day of Prayer in Capitol Revival
WASHINGTON (Evangelist
Billy Graham told a crowd from
the steps of the United States Cap
itol Sunday:
"If I would run for President of
the United States today, on a plat
form of calling the people back to
God, back to Christ, back to the
Bible, I'd be elected.
"There is a hunger for God to
day." -
The 33-year-old, blonde, wavy
haired preacher gave two sermons
during the course of an hour-long
meeting carried coast-to-coast by
the ABC radio network.
In one sermon he asked the U. S.
Senate and House to call upon
President Truman to set aside a
day of prayer-as did President
Abraham Lincoln on April 13, 1863
-as a "day of confession of sin,
humiliation, repentence, and turn
ing to God at this hour."
Graham spoke from the place the
stand is erected for the inaugura
tion of Presidents. Mr. Truman,
specially invited, did not attend.
Graham said "this is one of the
largest crowds I have had the hon
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On PGE Tax Savings
Nearly $15 million of the total
cost of Portland General Elec
tric's $22 million Pelton Dam
can be written off in five years
as depreciation for federal tax
purposes, an Associated Press
report from Washington, D. C,
Sunday indicated.
The saving came about
through approval by the De
fense Production Administration
Sunday of federal tax benefits
to 573 defense plant projects
costing a total of $739,100,650.
The approval of the certifi
cate entitles the PGE to write
off within five years 65 per cent
of the total cost of the Deschutes
River dam. The normal write
off period is 20 years. Thus, $14,
469,000 of Pelton Dam's total
cost of $22,260,000 will fall into
the savings bracket. In effect it
means that $2,893,800 of PGE
income will not be taxable by
the federal government each
year for five years.
Construction on the dam has
American Girl Reported
Kidnaped in West Reich
By DAN DeLUCE
FRANKFURT, Germany (-Military police broadcast a kidnap
alarm throughout Western Europe Sunday night after two Army
sergeants said an 18-year-old American girl with them was abducted
by a gunman wearing a U. S. Army uniform.
Early Monday the greatest manhunt in postwar Germany's history
had failed to uncover any trace of the girl, or the man the sergeants
26 on Freighter
Grounded Off
Carolina Coast
CAPE HATTERAS, N. C.
Coast Guardsmen battled inky
blackness, near hurricane winds
and foaming seas early Monday
in an effort to reach a Panamanian
freighter aground off this desolate
graveyard of many ships.
The lifeboat station at Ocracoke,
about 20 miles southwest of here,
said 26 men the entire crew
were still aboard the ship, sighted
by a search plane late Sunday
night. One lifeboat was sent out
from the station there and another
was standing by.
The Ocracoke station said the
ship was grounded about "two and
a half to three miles out."
The plane circling the stricken
2,600-ton Midget, reported that it
had sighted flares from the vessel.
The Midget was en route from
Baltimore to Morehead City when
she called for help.
ARABIAN HORSE SHOW
PORTLAND The all-Arabian
horse show will be held at the
Pacific International Livestock
Exposition arena here June 27-28,
Ken Hall president of the Arabian
Horse Breeders Association, re
ported Sunday.
FRANCE TO CUT IMPORTS
PARIS (JP) France Sunday de
cided to cut down imports from
other West European countries, in
an effort to save dwindling stocks
of foreign currency.
or of addressing."
An announcer told the raido
audience 40,000 had attended.
Other estimates were more conser
vative, some going down to 20,000
persons. Capitol police declined to
make an estimate.
At the close of the service
Graham asked for a show of hands
of those who sought Christ.
"I see yours, soldier. Yes, sir, I
see you. Out on the steps there,
if I don't see you, God does. God
bless you, sonny boy.
"Now heads down, eyes closed,"
Graham continued. "Will those
who raised their hands come for
ward."
With their sponsors they came,
young, middle aged, white, Negro,
women, boys with their heads
bowed, some clutching their Bibles,
. - Revival officials said nearly 500
siened cards pledging church at
tendance at some Washington
church.
Graham's aides said he will sail
March 7 for England to see if there
is any possibility for a series of
revival meetings there In 1953.
Truce
to Final Todib
not yet started and there is a
dispute between PGE and fish
ing interests which oppose the
dam on the grounds that a dam
would stop the State Fish and
Game Commission's plans to re
store the river as a major fish
ing stream. State law requires
that dam construction be author
ized by the Oregon Hydroelectric
Commission, which has so far
refused to give its approval.
Pelton Dam was one of two
Oregon projects which got the
approval of DPA for federal aid.
The actions brought the total
amount of federally aided indus
trial expansion projects to $12,
253,287,293 since the start of the
stepped-up defense program.
The other Oregon project and
the percentage of cost to which
the rapid write-off may be ap
plied, was:
Spokane, Portland and Seattle
Railway Co., Portland, $1,205,361
at 55 per cent.
said forced her out of their car on
the snowy road between Frank
furt and Hanau at 7:30 pjn. Sun
day. First Kidnap Report
The girl is red-haired, blue
eyed Mamie Ruth Shelton, step
daughter of Master Sgt F. B.
Burns of Hot Springs, Va. It was
the first report of a kidnaping of
an American girl in the history
of the U. S. Occupation dating
back to 1945.
Military police gave this ac
count: Sgts. John J. Ford and Herbert
L. Evans said they were out driv
ing with Miss Shelton when they
stopped to pick up a hitchhiker.
The squat stranger, dressed in a
soldier's overcoat and uniform,
suddenly drew out a .45 caliber
automatic pistol when the door
was opened. He forced the ser
geants out, took over the wheel of
the car and sped away with the
frightened girl.
Just Escaped"
The two sergeants said the
stranger told them he had "just
escaped from prison." He spoke
English fluently and was about
five feet four with a ruddy com
plexion. There were indications he
is an American, but officials would
not comment on this.
Military police and German
authorities radioed a kidnap alarm
throughout Western Europe.
Apparently the abductor had an
hour or more to make his getaway
before the military police received
a general alert. A European-wide
search was begun in two and a
half hours.
Thousands of military police
started a dragnet in the American
rone of Germany, where the U. S.
now has 250,000 fighting men.
German police augmented the
search.
Burglars Hear
Spanking Threat
From 5-Year-Old
SAN ANTONIO tP) The O. A.
Sawyer family was having a leis
urely breakfast Sunday.
"I ran the burglars off last
night," piped up Jana Lynne, 5
"Uh-huh," said Sawyer.
"But they won't come back be
cause I told them if they do you
will spank them. They asked me
where our money was but I said
we are all broke down now," she
added.
"Yeah?" her father asked, now
wide awake.
Mrs. Sawer found her purse
rifled and a screen off Jana's
window.
'CRIME COMPOUNDED
" THIONVILLE, France (JP) - A
13-year-old boy was arrested Sun
day and accused of stealing two
mail-bags from a bus on which he
was traveling. He said he took the
bags because he wanted to recover
a letter his grandmother had
written to his mother complaining
of his bad conduct while staying
with grandma.
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First Plenary
Meeting Called
Since Dec. 4 I
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MUNSAN, Korea CVThe Ani1 :
and Reds Sunday called aJ full
dress, plenary session of Korean '
armistice delegations for Wednee
day to discuss the last item on the
truce agenda-recommendations to
the belligerent governments.)
It will be the first plenary -
meeting since Dec. 4. I
Almost simultaneously the jU. N.
command disclosed that the true
teams would have to agree on spc-
cific recommendations; or oe
could be made. f
This opened the way to a! pes- .
sible new deadlock in the armi
stice talks which already have two
long debated but still Unresolved
main issues. These are prisoner
exchange and supervision of the
truce. st
The plank on recommendation
was added to the truce conference
agenda last July as a compromise-v
to the Communist demand for
withdrawal of foreign troops fnom v
Korea. I
The Allies insisted then that this -matter
was political and ocrtside
of the scope of a military rmi-
stice. (
The Reds appeared certain 4o
renew their demand in the agenda
item five talks. i' . t '
In addition to agreeing to! Vice
Adm. C. Turner Joy's proposal of
last Thursday for immediate -discussion
of the recommendations,
the Communists also? offered m
sweeping prisoner parole I ieal
Sunday. i
The Reds still cling to their de- .
mand that all prisoners be released
and repatriated whether
they
wanted to or not.
Legion Chief
Asks 'Back to
Church' Move
PHILADELPHIA (JPS - The
tional commander of the America
Legion called on the group's lour
million Legionnaires and auxiliary '
members Sunday to "spearhead m
movement for the spiritual
awakening of all Americans.?
Launchmg the Legion's nalkio-
wide "Back to God and f to
Church Movement," Comaraader
Donald R. Wilson addressed -several
hundred persons at the Chapel
of the Four Chaplains. i
The ceremony commemosatMl
the ninth anniversary of the deaths
of four chaplains who went down
with the torpedoed U. S. transport "
Dorchester after giving up; their
lifebelts to enlisted men. 1
Now, with the very existence tf ..
our way of life threatened, Wilson
told Legion members, this spiriluij '
call to arms is paramount mong
all our undertakings. . i ,. ,
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Korea Fire Leaves I
4,750 Homeless j
PUS AN, Korea (JP) One ana
was killed and 4,750 persons made
homeless by a five hour fire "Sun
day on Yungdo Island near this
port city.
Five hundred houses were -de '
stroyed and 100 damaged, j
A fire marshal said the .Iaz4
starting in a home, spread rapidly
fanned by a high wind from the
sea. - J . .. j
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