New volcano 104th YEAR OTP pcdxh CHICAGO Arrival of three issues of The Statesman of last week (deliveries of second class mail are quite irregular) has en abled me to catch up on Salem and Oregon news. The big story, of course, was the arrest , of a Silverton man charged with the murder 'of Ervin Kaser in the Evergreen district. (The charge later was dismissed.) How long lias it been since a murder sprung from deliberate intent to kill has occurred in Marion county? The last murder case, as I retail, was where a man bludgeoned a wo man to death while robbing'ner home. Other murders doubtless have occurred in brawls or in commission of other crimes. But how long has it been since the whole crime was murder, first degree murder, murder on pur pose? I do not recall any in my residence of over 25 years in the county; but my merapry may be faulty. I notice 5 Sen. Mark Hatfield's prognostication that Oregon Dem ocrats will try to have Sen. Wayne Morse named x as their party's vice presidential nominee. Hardly, unless they would run him for Senator at the same time. With the margin of control of the Senate so thin, (one vote now), the Democrats are not going to pull Morse out of the Oregon Senate race to use him as a running-mate to Adlai Stevenson in a very hazardous race aeainst the probable Eisenhower-Nixon tick et Also, Democrats over the country may not be as ready to advance the newest convert so fast in party honors. The proposal of thes Oregon Motor Court Association to in crease the number on the state highway commission to five from the present three does not im press me favorably. The com mission is well distributed now as far as . s (Continued on editorial page, 6) Army Warns of Germ War Attack WASHINGTON ITi The Army said. Wednesday it has a device which can give instant warning of a germ warfare attack. called an aerosoloscope, it can count ' germs, dust and moisture particles in the .air. It was de veloped at the Army's biological warfare center at Camp Detrick, Md. The gadget can count micro scopic particles germs, dust, radioactive particles at the rate of i00 per second. Particles - ranging in size from one: micron (forty millionths of an , inch) to 64 microns can be counted and measured "one thous and times faster than by the ordi navy method of collecting them in a medium or on a suitable surface and examining them through a microscope." - - Concentrations of airborne parti cles up to 15,000 per millimeter are drawn through the instrument Bridgeport Girl Device Contest; Pedee Boy Second FALLS CITY Poised, sure-spelling Carol Nelson of Bridgeport School topped off her efforts with "efficiency" and then spelled . ''poisonous'. Wednesday night to win the semi-finals of The States-man-KSLM Contest here. The 12-year-old 8th-grader out lasted Harry Cummins, 13, in" the 8th grade of Pedee -School who placed a good second. 1 Carol and Harry will participate in the Grand Finals of the contest next Thursday, night March 10, at Parrish Junior High in Salem. Carol, who was fifth in the semi finals last year, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Nelson, Route 2, Box 131, Dallas. Her teacher 1 Principal Alice Lund., . Harry is the son of ' Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Ctammins II of Pedee. His teacher is Principal Alice E. Murphy. His brother, Dewey, was: in the Grand Finals two years in a row. : : . - - ANIMAL CRACKERS BY WAR RE IV OOOORICM , x mm Td like to leave a call for April 15Ul 4 SECTIONS-28 PAGES Stocks Probe WASHINGTON (J Sehj Ful bright cautioned stock market traders . Wednesday night not to get trigger-happy over an investi gation of the market, . starting Thursday. -. ' ll People who jump to conclusions on the basis of one day's j testi mony may find the next day that they "suffered from an excess of haste, said the Arkansas Demo crat M He is chairman of the; Senate Banking Committee, which j opens a three-weeks probe into the wall Street boom. First witness will be G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange.; At New Highs . j Stock prices started zooming back in September, 1933, and have recently been rising to new j highs, But Fulb right said: i "The basic issue x x x i before this committee is not whether stock prices are too high, whether they can safely go higher, or whether they should be (driven down." ll He said the aim is to determine "whether the public interest is be ing safely and wisely served" by the exchanges. I I Fulbright said the question was being asked everywhere ''whether the wheel of history was about to make a full turn: whether a new stock market collapse on -the 1929 model lay directly ahead.' i Released in Advance 1 This committee is not in any present position t o answer that question either in an encouraging or warning voice, he said in statement prepared for opening of the hearings but released! in ad vance. f "Nor would I, for one, even con sider commenting on it until long and careful , survey I of the facts is completed! if then." Gas Drops to 21 Cents Per Gallon Here ".' - : .' . ! i ; ' Regular gasoline prices drop ped to 21 cents per gallon in many Salem stations Wednesday in the latest round of the spread ing gasoline price war.i ? Some steadfastly hung to pre war price? like 31 cents, whereas middle - of the roaderj, ' directly across the street from I 21-cent men, maintained big posters pro claiming theirs at 2a cents a gal lon. Some compromised on 23 cents. H The operator of- one near town, two-pump station ; put his customers to work filling their own tanks while he coped with four cars at once. Midway through an after-supper siege! he tele phoned home for a. helper. Jap Earthquake Caused by Love? TOKYO (UP)-An earthquake shook (Tokyo Tuesday while Pfq Pat Sheridan was playing the tune "Love Can Cause an Earthquake" over the Armed Forces; Radio net: work. ft! "That was Love Can' Cause An Earthquake," Sheridan! announced when the song ended, f ! A second quake promptly jolted the city. I ! Wins Spelling The two- Grand Finalists were alone on the stage of Falls City High School for the last 93 words pronounced, and showed no sign of weakening , until Harry finally slipped on efficiency, which Carol then spelled and; won with the next word. W Carol received a Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary for placing first Both top winners received special certificates of merit, as did the third-place winner, Lor raine-. Kinsey, 13, in the 8th grade at Gutfane, who dropped an e out of "volunteer." , - j ! Lorraine is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Lawrence Kinsey, Route TURNER TONIGHT Spelling champian i Of Clover- dale, Jeffersoa, Marion, Macleay, Riverside, Shaw, Sonnyside and Tomer will compete! in a semi finals of The Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest at 7:43 tonight at Turner Elementary School, wila the public invited without charge. 2. Dallas, and her: teacher is Principal Elina Brewster. Beverly Cook, 13-year-old 7th grader from Valsetz, had an extra letter in "laughter;"! Helen Bow man, 13, of the host school's 8th grade, left a syllable out of "char acter;" Yvonne Ahlberg, 13, ' an 8th-grader at Oakhurst, tumbled on "innocent" and Margaret Eg gert, 13, in Oakdale's; 8th grade, inadvertently slipped up on 'copy." Host principal was J. Herschel Bond. Herb Johnson.! program di rector of KSLM, was master of ceremonies and Wendell Webb, managing editor of The Statesman, Ready called the words. - ' If ' - I: PCUNDETD 165! . Tht Oregon Statesman, Committee An overflow crowd of nearly 200 took In the sales tax hearing be-the faced the committee (in picture above) Is R. E. Kerr, Lane Conn i fore the House tax committee Wednesday afternoon at the Oregon ty filbert grower who represented the statewide Oregon Farm Bureau CapitoL Reading a prepared statement in favor of a sales tax as J Farmers Call for Sa les Tax to Relieve Burden on Property Withholding Tax By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Twenty Oregon citizens appeal ed to the House tax committee Wednesday for a general retail sales tax. Most of them were armers who said such a tax would relieve the burden of prop-; erty taxes. 1 Toes of the sales tax, also in cluding several farmers, replied that these citizens just didn't real ize what they were asking. ; While familiar pros and cons of the sales tax issue which appears at every Legislature held the at tention of some 200 persons pack ed in the committee room at the Capitol, it was actually the ; in come tax which received major attention Wednesday from the committee.! Would Double Tax In recommending passage of a bill to double the state withhold ing tax, the House tax group add ed weight to the growing indica tions that higher income taxes are being eyed as the prime source of additional state revenue. This taxi committee faces the task of finding new revenue to pay an estimated $45 million oper ating deficit and to finance essen tial state construction lr the next two years, j I The withholding tax bill which the committee stamped "do pass" at a morning session would mean that 2 per cent of wages or salary would bej withheld against the wage earner's annual state in come tax f bill. Present withhold ing is 1 er cent Agricultural Employes A major feature of the with holding bill is inclusion for the first time of agricultural employ ment If higher income taxes are enacted, the 2 per cent withhold ing would come closer than 1 per cent to make the income tax "pay as you go." A Democratic tax program calls for a 30 per cent increase of in come tax, by a surcharge. A labor farm program also calls for high er income tax rates. The afternoon sales tax hearing centered on House Bill 413, pro posed by Rep. Earl Hill (R), Criminals Repent In Pennsylvania WAYNESBURG Pa. (UP) - Waynesburg police said Wednes day the town's criminal element either has reformed or gone soft First a heavy tombstone stolen from a monument works several days ago was returned. Then $238 stolen Monday night from a local furniture store was found at the store's entrance when employes re ported for work Tuesday. Max. Min. Preetm. - 4S . 33 M Salem Portland - - M 32 traca 37 , 27 J6 - 43 1 37 .11 46 37 trace .. 37 36 trace . 58 43 .00 63 43 .00 v47 -32 . - .00 Baker Mediord North Bend Roseburg San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago New York 56 40 AO Willamette River 5.0 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau. McNary field, Salem) Partly cloudy with a few scattered showers today. High today near 45. Taif umxgnv with a low near 26. Temperature at 12 ."01 a.m. today - - , , SALEM PRECTP1TATIOV Mace Start of Weather Year Sept. This Year - Last Year Nermal 2L1S 35.30 2S.63 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March Room Crowded as Sales Tax Hike Wins Vote Cushman, as a 3 per cent tax on all retail sales with but few ex ceptions, including feed, fertilizer, gasoline laireaay uxea at con sumer level) and food animals. The tax which would raise an estimated $60 million would be earmarked for support of local schools in an effort to reduce lo cal property levies and avoid a state property tax. All Should Share "All people, not just few, should share the burden of school costs," declared sponsor Hill at ihe hear ing. He was the only legislator to speak, among a dozen or more representatives sitting in on the hearing. Opponents declared the sales tax would be a heavy burden on low income groups -and emphas ized also that businesses like saw- THURSDAY HEARING On crop dusting law changes House agriculture committee, Room 325, at 3 p.m. mills and banks would be spared property tax under the plan but wouldn't have much reason to be paying the sales tax in return. Will Take Week The House tax committee took no action on the sales tax bill and Rep. Loran Stewart (R), CotUgeL""". -,i . Grove, its chairman, said it would Fhe cmit7 Ca in probably be a week before the committee reviews the bill. In other legislative action Wed nesday, final approval was voted by the Senate on bond issues for college housing construction, com mittee endorsement went to a plan for a constitutional convention- and employer and employe groups renewed arguments, over unemployment compensation at a hearing. '. (Additional . details and other legislative news on page 6, 7, sec. and page 2, sec. 1.) Partly Cloudy Day Forecast Snow continued to fall in many sections of Oregon Wednesday as some sections of Salem got a little early -morning snow, which did not stick, and late-morning down town sleet Today is to be partly cloudy with a few scattered showers, say weathermen. Fair weather is pre dicted for tonight . . Travel was hazardous Wednes day on state mountain highways, the highway commission reported. Chains are required at Govern ment Camp, Timberline, Sunset Summit, Santiam Pass and Aus tin. ' 7. -. '"" - Ice spots were reported at Sis kiyou, Bly, Lakeview. Brothers and Lapine. - ' Plows were operating at Gov ernment Camp, Timberline, Green Springs, Santiam Pass, Willamette Pass and Wilson River Summit Ike, Airs. Eisenhower Honored by McKays WASHINGTON W President and Mrs. Eisenhower were hon ored guests Wednesday at a dinner given by Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Douglas McKay. . The dinner, to which McKay also invited fellow cabinet mem bers and their wives, was at the exclusive 1325 F Street Club here. 31955 PRICE ' -ft Federation. (Statesman photo.) (Picture also on page 7, sec. 3.) Angry Arabs In Wad Riots At Palestine GAZA, Egypt-Held Palestine UPi Hundreds of Arab refugees from Palestine rioted in this coast al Palestine city Wednesday. Of ficials said the refugees, embit tered by their fate as homeless person for more than six years. were expressing, wrath against the United Nations and Israel At least seven persons were wounded as police and Egyptian troops fired on the stone-throwing mob. . Reports', from Khanyounls, refu gee center 15 miles south of Gaza, said a mob burned a U.N. store. The food destroyed would have fed for a month 50,000 refugees in the area Tuesday's rioting, climaxed by a prolonged attack with stones on U.N. truce observers' headquar ters here, erupted after a clash between Egyptian and Israeli troops Monday night near their wmistic demarcation border. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. Ul urgent session Friday to, discuss Egypt's charges of aggression . by Israel near Gaza m the frontier zone. Ike Says U.S. In Atomic Lead WASHINGTON tf Presided Eisenhower said Wednesday the Western world still leads Russia in atomic and hydrogen weapons But he said it is problematical "how long that lead can be sus tained." Eisenhower also told a new con ference: " "There comes a time, possibly, when a lead is not significant in the defensive arrangements of country. If you get enough of particular type of weapon, I doubt that it is particularly import an to have a lot more of it. (Additional news conference stor ies on pages 4, 5 of sec. l) High Soviet Shakeup Deposes Ministers of Coal, Agriculture V By STANLEY JOHNSON MOSCOW ilfi The Supreme Soviet' Wednesday fired two min isters for inefficiency and switched a third to a new post. ' The shakeup affected coal and agriculture. It underscored recent widespread criticism by officials and in the press of lags in the economy. - The Presidium's announcement was broadcast by Moscow radio. It said the changes were made on the recommendation of Premier Nikolai Bulganin, The Presidium under the constitution is the top state authority when the Supreme Soviet,'-Russia's' parliament, is not in session. The announcement said the Pre sidium had deckled to release AJS. Zasyadko as minister of the coal No. 341 Discussed 5c I I 1 Walton-Brown i . - - - Building Sold To Milk Firm Sale of the Walton-Brown Elec trie Co. plant in southeast Salem to Damascus Milk ' Co. of Port end for use as a milk distribution center, ' was . announced Wednes day. : 'j New owners will take possession of the ' property, located at Simp son and Ford streets, about .April 1. Purchase price was about $40, 000. s James . Walton, owner and presi dent of the electrical firm, said his firm would "remain in opera tion." New business site ,for elec trical company will, be announced later, he said. ! The sale transaction was -made through Grabenhorst Bros., Salem real estate firm, which describes the property as consisting of six lots with a frontage of 300 feet on Simpson and 124 of Ford street. Three buildings are on the prop erty. The include space for stor age, warehousing and the Wal ton-Brown modern offices. j None of the buildings built in recent years will be removed, ac cording to Alden H. Schwabauer, ' tant sales manager for the company, who will be Salem branch manager. j i The DaniaKMis 'enmnanv will use the offices, and will make con siderable alterations, including ad dition of refrigeration, he said.) The milk firm purchases a great deal of its milk from dairy farms in Marion County, said Schwa bauer, and location of the branch; distribution center here is for the most adequate service to the com munity." " j Operating in Salem for the past two years the Damascus company has had temporary offices in the Pacific Building. Schwabauer has been here since Jan. 1. Probation Officer Tackles Prisoner PORTLAND CP A speedy probation officer foiled an "escape attempt by a federal prisoner here Wednesday. : ' ) John Gregg ran after Donald ;W, Rogers, 20, Wenatchee, when -he made a break for freedom ind overhauled him in the federal courthouse after Rogers had pleaded guilty to a charge I of driving a stolen car from Wenat chee to The- Dalles. Gregg brought down Rogers with a flying tackle. industry ''because of unsatisfac tory work." A.N. Zadenudko jwas named to succeed him. 4 ' The presidium also ' released "Comrade A.I. Kozlov" as minis ter of state farms "because he' failed to cope with the work.? -To succeed him, "Comrade LA. pen ediktov" was "released fromJ the duties of U.S.S.R. minister of ag riculture No successor to Ben- ediktov was announced. - ! Western diplomats here have been expecting the shakeup ia ag riculture ever since the Commu nist Partyss denunciations of the country's farming methods have been publicized. These T expecta tions increased after Georgi M. Malenkov took the blame, for ag ricultural failure on his own shoul ders when he resigned as premier Feb. S. E r irate Hawaii Field By ROY ESSOYAN PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) A new Tolcano split a half mile crack in a cane field on Hawaii's tormented eastern tip Wednesday and exploded a 200-foot high fountain of red-hot rock plantation workers. All escaped unhurt. Fountains i of molten lava spewed all along the fissure and two, boiling streams burned paths through the sugar cane. National Guard trucks fanned out northeast and southeast from Pahoa to evacuate about 100 more persons whose escape routes were in danger of being cut off by the newest eruption. .. 400 Removed Four hundred j persons were re moved Earlier from villages and farm homes on the rich sugar cane and coffee lands of Hawaii Island's eastern slope. -. The National Guard plane which spotted the newest eruption ran out of gas and made an emergen cy landing north of Kapoho, an abandoned village near Hawaii's easternmost tip. The plane landed on a small air strip less than a' mile from the advancing river of molten rock. The pilot obtained gasoline and flew out. The newest eruption came In mid-afternoon, about four or five miles northeast of the cane field where Hawaii's underground fires burst open a new crater Monday morning. ' Smoke Shoots l cl.i.:.. 1 t ci ti i oiiajiiii iiivc a jeai, ouunji l&eua, 29, told of the newest eruption. "I was working in the field and the first thing I noticed was smoke shooting up next to my house," Ikeda said.; "I thought the house was burning. I dropped,.everything and ran ,and then I saw this lava shooting ' up j right next to my house. "I didn't know what to do. My friends were working behind me. My house and all the things I have were in danger but my friends were more important. "I turned around and ran to warn my friends. "The last I saw the fountain was shooting high over my house but I think. the flow Vas going the other way." Earth Rumbles Throughout the day the tortured earth groaned and rumbled. Huge cracks opened, splitting fields and roads. Steam hissed out of the ground. A string of long dead craters curves down the eastern slope of Mauna Loa, a massive volcanic mountain, from its famed Kilauea crater to the sea. The new craters have burst like fiery blossoms in cane fields. The first one Monday erupted close to the old Puulena Crater. All are part of the Kilauea vol cano system, a volcanologist on the scene said. Meat Marketing Demonstration Friday Morning Salem and other Marion County meat consumers are invited to the first meat marketing demon stration held in this area in a (long time. The event will be held Friday at the Senator Hotel starting at 10 a.m. auj is spon sored by the Marion County Live stock Association. Bill Ward, Senator chef, is pre paring a buffet luncheon from the economical cuts, and this will be served in the Cave Room for those attending the demonstra tion. During the afternoon, new methods of preparing and cook ing meat will be shown. (Addi tional details on Farm Pages 4 and 5, sec. 2.) War ds Fight Gathers Speed LOS ANGELES W The fight or control of Montgomery Ward k Co. gathered speed Wednesday as the seweu Avery forces an nounced a door - to - door cam paign for stockholder support to offset the efforts of a young finan cier to take over the company. Louis E. Wolfson, 43-year-old Miami financier, is trying to wrest control of the big mail order house from' the 81-year-old Avery, board chairman and head of the firm for 23 years. ' Holloway Namedh To State Board of Higher Education Charles R. Holloway Jr., Port land, was appointed Wednesday to the State Board of Higher Ed ucation by Gov. Paul Patterson. Holloway, vice president and general manager of the Liberty Fuel and Ice Company, succeeds Edgar W. Smith who asked to be relieved of his job on the board prior to the expiration of his term Wednesday. - Holloway, 43, is a graduate ol the University of Oregon, and ob tained' a law degree form North west College of Law in 1940. (Additional details on Page S, Sec 3.) From only 200 yards from 12 Oregon Efforts Against Pelton 'Encroaciing' WASHINGTON UT Oregon efforts to prevent construction of Pelton Dam on the Deschutes River were described to the Supreme Court Wednesday as "unauthorized encroachment" on ' federal property. The jassertion was made by Willard W. Gatchell, general counsel ' of the Federal Power Commission: He argued that the court should overturn a lower court decision that cancelled an FPC license to Portland General Electric Co. for construction of the dam. The cancellation was ordered by the Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco after Oregon and its fish and game commissions had objected that the dam would injure fishery resources.; The Deschutes River flows in part through federal lands, and at the Pelton site one bank is on the Warm Springs Reservation. Gatchell told the court it would have to decide whether Congress has rights to water flowing across federally owned land. j Arthur C. Higgs, assistant attor ney general of i Oregon, argued that ui the 1877 Desert Lands Act Congress irrevocably surrendered to the states all regulatory power over non-navigable waters on arid or semi-arid lands uv public domain. ! The Circuit Court said federal ownership of land at the Pelton site did not give the federal government power to i use Des chutes water "contrary to Oregon law." , ' , Gatchell insisted the project would provide new pool facilities and "win hot interfere with, invade or - encroach upon any rights to the use pf water In the stream." S129 Stolen in 3 Break-Ins At Perry dale Statesman Newi Service DALLAS, Ore. Three overnight break-ins at Perrydale netted bur- - glars $129 in cash and checks, the. Polk County sheriff's office re ported Wednesday. Deputy Robert LeFors said the $129, about half in cash, was taken from a fireproof filing cabinet at Perrydale High School. The culprits also broke into Elliott Feed and Seed Co. where they apparently overlooked small amountsof money in desks. They also broke into 'the postoffice, lo cated in the old railroad depot, and sprung" open a chest which was bolted to the floor. f)nly records were kept in the chest. Nothing was reported missing from the grain company or post office. Home Sold to Make Way for. Store Expansion Sale of the colonial-style Rob ert K. Powell home at 2895 S. Commercial St to Erickson'i Markets for planned expansion of their S. Commercial and Alice St. store was announced Wednesday. Details of plans for the lot were not available Tuesday, but a portion of it will be used for additional parking. The purchase now gives Erickson's a full block ironiage on a. commercial between Alice and Hansen Ave nues. Powell, .who said the consider ation for the property was $32, 500, said his family wouldmove soon to a new home at 2360 Bluff St v - The transaction for the two story, four-bedroom home built in 1941 by VirgiLT. Golden was bandied by Grabenhorst Bros., realtors of Salem. Today's Statesman Sec Pago City Briefs l 7 Classifiods JV 4-6 . Comes the Dawn I 6 Comics. JZ. II 6 Crossword 1V - 4 Editorials , , . I 6 Farm 114, 5 Legislature Markets . 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