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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1948)
Heuner Asked Puppet Regime Set Up by Reds in Vishinsky Says Veto Planned By Roosevelt Reads Letter from Roosevelt to Stalin To Prove Assertion For Ruling on Rent Payments Legality of Deduction From State Employes Raised oiO 10 ; 60th Year, No. 286 HMttd ell Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 30, 1948 Price Five Cents I IU ftUIC UCIIIII tt OTHM 4 By JAMES D. OLSON Attorney General George Neuner will be asked to deter mine If maintenance charges now assessed to state employes who are furnished housing at state institutions are illegal. At the present time the state deducts money to cover rent on homes, apartments and rooms occupied by state employes on the staffs of the various institu tions. The question of the legality jwas raised Tuesday by Dr. Irvin Hill, superintendent of Fairview home, who pointed out that a law passed by the 1941 legisla ture provided that superinten dents of all state institutions "y were to be furnished homes, light and heat at state expense in addition to their salaries. Revised by Dr. Hill . Dr. Hill explained to the board that the question had been raised because of the need of knowing whether to report his gross salary for income tax pur poses or report the salary after the present maintenance charges have been deducted. Dr. Hill receives $6000 annual salary and is charged $900 a year for rental of his home. Gov. Hall stated that as far as he could ascertain there was nothing in any state statute au thorizing the deduction for maintenance charges and it was his belief that the 1941 law was still in effect. For that reason he held that an opinion from the attorney general was necessary in order to clarify the situation. 1941 Law in Effect "If it is held that the provi sions of the 1941 law are still In effect and the legislature desires to make a rental charge the leg islature could amend the 1941 law readily and provide a legal basis for the reduction," Gov Hall said. The governor was authorized by the other members of the board to request the opinion. Authority was granted by the board for calling for bids on an addition to the laundry building . at the state hospital in Salem WThe estimated cost, according to L. P. Bartholomew, architect, will be slightly below $100,000 The addition will add 6100 square feet to the laundry.' Approval to payment of $15 000 architectural fees to Sutton, Whitney and Aandahl was au thorized by the board. Of this amount $8000 is for work per formed in connection with the Ward buildings at the state hos pital and $7000 on work in con nection with the custodial build ing at the Cottage Farm. Navy Fighting Washington, Nov. 30 W Senator Hill (D., Ala.) warned the nation's military chiefs to day he intends to "raise cain un til there it real unification of the armed forces." As a member of the senate armed services committee. Hill said, he will demand in the next congress that the army, navy and air force put aside their "petty ngming lor the country's good. In an Interview before leaving lor Alabama, the senator said: "The time has come for Secre tary of Defense Forrestal to knock some heads together. if need be, to knock some heads off, to carry out the intentions of the law passed by congress to give us unification in fact and not in fancy." Hill was a member of the sen ate armed services subcommittee which began studying unifica tion legislation In 1944. He said "the navy raised such strong objections" that the bill was not approved until last year. "But the spirit and intent of the act have not been carried out," Hill said. The veteran Alabama senator did hot tingle out any specific Instances, but the air force and navy liave been quarreling open ly over their sky assignments. Air force advocates claim that uespue service agreements on war-time tasks the navy It try ing to cut into the air force's long range bombing Job with its carrier based planes. THE WEATHER (Released by United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for 8aln and Vicin ity. Partly cloudy with scat tered showers tonight, becoming cloudy with rain. Wednesday Lowest temperature expected to night. St degrees; highest Wed nesday. 44. Maximum yesterday 44. Minimum today 41. Mean temprrature yesterday 40 which was t below normal Total 34 hour precipitation in 11:30 am. today X. Total precipitation for he month 7 53 which Is 163 inches above normal. Willamette river height at Salem Tuesday morning, at feet. Power Shortage Dimout Looms For Christmas By MARGARET MAGEE Approach of the yuletide sea son is always the time when lighU burn brightly, but if the heavy demands on the electric power supply here continue to increase lights may be dimmed in this area. One blackout has already been caused by an overload. This occurred Monday night in the northeast Salem area when the Baker sub-station was cut out by an overload, with the power failure lasting from about 3:53 p.m. to 7 p.m. Near Critical Stage Come the holidays and time for Santa's annual trip he may need the services of Rudolph the little red nosed deer to guide him on his trip with the power shortage nearing the critical stage. The small reserve at peak hours has officials of the Port land General Electric company worried, according to Fred G. Starrett of the Salem office, who reported the reserve at the peak point Monday night at only tfuuu Kilowatts. Starrett saw no relief sigm with only three genera- tort to be installed at Coulee dam this year and no other in stallations planned as a relief. Noting that a tremendous heat load is carried in this area he gave as the answer to meeting tne shortage the erection of small private plants, but an Oregon law prevents. Most Critical Hours Listing 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 n.m as the critical hours during the aay starrett stressed the fact that any conservation of electric energy during these hours would be a help In solving the snonage proDiem. (Concluded on Page 13, Column 6) Double Salmon Run in Fraser Bellingham. Nov. 30 UFi Tracing the increase directly to operation of the Hell's Gate fishways and strict regulation of Canadian and American fishing iieeis, tne international Pacific Salmon Fisheriet Commission today announced a 100 percent jump in escapement of salmon to the upper Fraser river In B. C. Chairman Milo Moore, Wash ington state director of fisher ies, said nearly one million spawning salmon were counted, two-thirds of them on the Chil ko river. The Chilko provides the main part of the 1948 cycle run. "We believe the entire run would have been lost thit year except for the Hell't Gate fish ways," Moore said. Moore also announced ap pointment of Lloyd A. Raxx Royal, chief biologist for the state department of fisheries, as chief biologist for the salmon commission. Royal has been with the state fisheries department for the past 20 years. Reds Defeated in Italy Home, Nov. 30 P) Commun ists yesterday suffered their worst defeat since the nation wide elections of last April in voting In two northern Italian provinces. The former Austrian provinces of Trent and Alto Adige were balloting for a 46- seat regional council. The com munist party won only two teats and their socialist allies three. MacArthur Stays Execution Of Tojo Until Tokyo, Nov. 30 (U.B Gen. Douglas MacArthur today granted a stay of execution to former Premier Hideki Tojo and six other conaemnea Japanese war lords as the U. S. supreme court. The seven men, scheduled to sured by MacArthur s action that they would live at least until after the supreme court meets next Monday, Dec. 6. Should the court turn down their appeal, It is likely they would hang immediately per haps on Pearl Harbor day, Dec. 8. Orient time, or Dec. 7, United States time. The stay was granted by Mac- Arthur in two crisp words after two of the condemned men, for mer Premier Kokl Hirota and Gen. Kenji Doihara, went over MacArthur'i head with an ap peal to the supreme court for a review of their trials MacArthur replied "certainly not" when asked if the men would be executed before their appeals were heard. Hit pub lic relations office explained that the tuy of execution ap-j Suchow Army Goes to Relief of Trapped Force Nanking. Nov. ( The powerful Suchow garrison has begun quitting the city to go to the relief of 140,000 comrades trapped by the communists to the south, usually reliable toure es said today. The decision to abandon the bastion of east central China 211 miles northwest of Nanking was taken in a desperate attempt to salvage forces for the defense of China. Suchow had stood firm under nearly a month of communist as sault. But it was outflanked by a sweeping red drive to the south which cut across Suchow's lines of communications. The strong government forces stationed there were reported moving south to engage commu nist troops which have encircled the Nationalist Twelfth army group. Aircraft Also Leave The government four days ago ordered the garrison to quit Su chow but the troops stuck to the fortified city 211 miles north west of Nanking. Aircraft on Suchow's large air field were ordered to leave dur ing the night, these informants said. There was no government confirmation of thit report However, there was no secret about the previous order to the 250,000-man Suchow garrison to get out and fight. Win in the North The Suchow defenders were told to go to the assistance of the 140,000 government troops under Gen. Huang Wei encircled about 14S miles northwest of Nanking in the Suhsien area. (Only bright news from Chiang Kai-Shek's government came from the northern front An official dispatch said Chiang's armies recaptured Pao tow, Inner Mongolian rail ter minus 320 miles west of Peip ing. Government headquarters also said inflicted heavy casual ties on communist convoys mov ing southward through Jehol province.) Meanwhile two ominous signs appeared In Nanking. (1) There was a total absence of war news in the afternoon papers. (2) The governments military spokes man remained away from his of fice. In the past both of these have indicated reverses of con siderable importance to Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's ar mies. Strikes Tie-up 430 Jap Ships Tokyo, Nov. 30 P) A wave of strikes tied up 430 Japanese ships and idled 140,000 coal miners today. The government is at least in directly involved in all the strikes. More strikes were threatened a few hours after the Japanese house of representatives approv ed a bill outlawing strikes or collective bargaining by gov ernment workers. The house of councillors is expected to adopt the measure soon after it it call ed into session. Japanese shipping was tied up by a two day strike of the tea men't union in support of a 30 per cent boost demand. Anoth er three day strike was threat ened If no agreement is reach ed by Thursday. Negotiations are with the government be cause most shipments are gov ernment cargo. Court Acts a result of a two-man appeal to hang at any moment, were as plied to all seven condemned men. All seven were condemned by the Far East military tribunal and their sentences were upheld by MacArthur. It was believed they might have hanged today had not their appeal stayed the execution!. MacArthur hat re fused to reveal the date of executions. A special communique from MacArthur s headquarters said: "In reply to a query from the press as to whether the con demned Japanese war criminals could be executed before ac tion could be taken on appeal to the supreme court of the United States. General MacArthur cate gorically replied 'certainly not' " Pilotless Ram-Jet on Record Flight The Gorgon IV (PTV-N-2), a pilotless aircraft built for the Navy by the Glenn L. Martin Co. to test ram-jet engines in free controlled flight, shoots over waters of the Pacific of Point Magu. Calif., after launching from a Black Widow fighter, modified to be the mother airplane for the test. Black background is the Pacific; light dots are white caps on waves. The Gorgon IVs made longest sustained flights ever made by pilotless air craft. They were piloted by remote control and tracked by radar. Flights lasted more than 10 minutes. (AP Wirephoto) Gasoline Prices Up One Cent in Salem By STEPHEN A. STONE The price of gasoline will increase 1 cent a gallon in Salem and community Wednesday. But this time the increase will station operators and not the manufacturers. Decision to add 1 cent to the meeting of 57 independent oper-' ators held Monday night at the Bright Spot cafe with Monroe Cheek as temporary chairman. Present were operators of Sa lem, West Salem, Turner, Aums ville and some other places. In creases already have been made effective at Independence, Cor- vallis, - Lebanon and McMinn- ville. Independent dealers are all operators except those of Stand ard Stations, Inc., where the managers are in the employ of the Standard Oil company. Standard Oil company has in formed the independents that it will fall into line with the price increase as soon as it is estab lished. Chevron stations, which handle Standard products, are independent dealers. The purpose of the increase, it was explained, is to get a larger margin of profit for the service station operators. The cents- per-gallon profit to the opera tor has remained practically the same for the last 20 years, it was said, while the cost of oper ation hat doubled in the last five years. All recent increases, it was further explained, have been for the manufacturer and not the local dealer. The increases heretofore have been definitelv a manu facturers' take," one operator said. At a majority of stations the increase will make the price 26.9 cents a gallon for standard grade and 28.9 cents for ethyl gasoline. There is some variation in price. Between Salem and Portland is a discrepancy in the gasoline market just now that is causing some confusion. In Portland the price is normally half a cent lower than in Salem on account of added transportation rate to Salem after arrival by water in Portland. But Portland dealers have recently attempted to in crease the retail price 2 cents a gallon, making the price there higher than in Salem. Not all dealers there are in line with that increase and the situation is confused. Pudding River Span Completed The six-mile improvement of the Silverton road under federal aid funds carried on this year from Middle Grove to Stephen's comers, a mile east of Central Howell reached final completion Tuesday when the widening of the concrete bridge over little Pudding river, part of the proj ect, was completed by applica tion of the surfacing and the bridge reopened to normal traf fic. The bridge has been used while the widening was going on but the surfacing was rough and one-way traffic used. County Commissioner Roy Rice said the bridge hat been widened from 18 to 28 feet to meet requirements of the new pavement which has been brought up to federal standards. The project will ultimately com plete the improvement into Sil verton, much of the rest of the road being on a new alignment j and a new entrance into Silver-, ton. 1 be for the benefit of the service price was made unanimously at a Eastern Docks Back to Normal (Br tht AaMclaUd Preu) Shipping operations along the eastern Atlantic coast appeared headed back to normal today as the railroad freight embargo was lifted in eight cities. But the lull in waterfront business along the west coast for the la three months due to strikes con tinued. The embargo on freight inten ded for export or coastwise movement was lifted by the As sociation of American Railroads in eight ports New York, Bos ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Hampton Roads, Va., Wilming ton, Del., Port Newark, N. J., and Portland, Me. Most of the 65,000 AFL long shoremen on strike for 18 days at east coast ports from Maine to Virginia returned to work yesterday after approving a wage increase of 13 cents an hour for day work and 19 cents for night and holiday work. About 250 ships had been tied up In New York. Only one of the four unions in the Pacific coast maritime strike, the CIO longshoremen, have ra tified a new contract. The other three seagoing unions have not reached agreement with em ployers. A fourth union is in volved in a jurisdictional dis pute. Freeze Proof Motor Oil Developed Los Angclet, Nov. 30 Uft De velopment of an automobile mo tor oil capable of remaining fluid in temperatures down to 60 de grees below zero was announced today by MacMillan Petroleum corporation. The new product, developed by the company's oil technolo gists, will aid starting and lub rication In sub-zero climate, L. L. Rebber, MacMillan't director of research, said. He said it is fortified against oxidization, foaming and varnish while re taining film strength and pene trating qualities. The company's testt showed little ring or bearing wear, very light carbon sludge and normal oil consumption, Rebber added. ALL AMERICAN GRIDDERS One of the ranking selec tions of Ail-American grid ders the Associated Press team will be published in the Capital Journal December 1 on the same day that news papers throughout the nation announce the team. The fea ture, which will include pic tures of the grid stars named by the wire service, will be carried In Its entirety Wednesday. Dense Fog in West Europe London, Nov. 30 W) The most persistent fog in a decade fouled up western Europe again today. The murk cut visibility to few yards, grounded planes, slowed trains and snarled auto mobile traffic for the fourth successive day. For the third time in three days it forced postponement of the sailing of the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth, already 13 days behind schedule on its Southampton to New York run. It stopped the Berlin air lift. kept ambassadors, generals and ministers of state from keeping appointments, and made mil lions late for work. Weather forecasters said there was litle prospect cf the fog lifting within the next 24 to 48 hours. The fog blanket extended from the Baltic to Portugal. Most of France and Germany were blacked out. The last trickle of airlift planes reached Berlin late yesterday. Suit Filed on Steel Monopoly Washington. Nov. 30 (U.R) The government today charged the Republic Steel Corp., 19 other steel manufacturers and a trade association with trying to restrain competition in the manufacture and sale of sheet metal and sewer pipe. The Justice department made the charge In a civil anti-trust suit filed In federal court at Cleveland. O. The acti nn was announced by the department here. The government's comnlalnt charged that the 20 pipe manu facturers divided up the country among themselves and that each specificially had defined geo graphical areas for selling the pipe. The complaint asked the court to dissolve the association and to force the 20 manufacturer to abandon these agreements. Besides the association and ReDublic. other defendant in. eluded the Eaton Metal Products company of Montana, Billings, Mont., and the Thompson Pipe and Steel Co., Denver. Blasts Kill Ten Hull, England, Nov. 30 (U.PJ Ten persons were killed and 34 injured yesterday In three ex plosions at the British Cocoa Mills plant, police said today. $362,616 Contract Let Parrish School Rebuilding The Salem firm of Vicsko and Post with a low bid of $362,618 was awarded the contract for the rebuilding of Parrish junior high school Tuesday night. Their bid, the lowest of seven sub mitted, was approximately $54,000 below the high figure turned In by Henry G. Carl. The project calls for tha construction of an auditorium with a capacity ofv slightly less than 1000 persons, a new enlarged gymnasium and the conversion of the present gym into a cafeteria The. pro gram also will include the addi tion of a few class rooms. The successful contractors plan to start work on the Par rish job as soon as materials can be assembled. They are now engaged in remodelling the Mar ion hotel. Bids submitted by other firms were: Henry G. Carl, $416, 981.53; Carl M. Halvorsnn, Inc. $404,996; Coast Construction Company of Vancouver, Wash., $382,100; MalarKcy and Moore. $388,750; Charles J. Johnson of Portland, $413,505; Erwin I Batterman, $390,966. , Unwilling to Risk Election, Division of City Completed Berlin, Nov. 30 Wi The com munists set up a hand-picked puppet government for Berlin today, completing the city's east-west division. Unwilling to risk the results of a popular election, the com munists called a meeting of carefully selected leaders. This meeting by a show of hands elected a mayor and a magis trate (executive administration) claiming jurisdiction over the whole city. This action by the Russian- backed communists came as the United Nations considered a compromise proposal on cur rency which could lead to lift ing of the Soviet blockade of western Berlin. No Agreement Possible The communist move in the Soviet sector made it virtually impossible for any agreement on currency to be carried out The currency dispute is a key to the Berlin crisis. The Soviet Union now is in the position of making a gesture in Paris to ward settling the Berlin crisis while sponsoring actions Berlin which would make any agreement reached in Parit im possible of achievement. The communists named Frie- drich Ebert, namesake ton of the first Weimar republic president, as "mayor" of ail Berlin. Ebert promptly declared that the elections set for Sunday in the western sectors were null and void. The communists have refused to take part in the reg ularly scheduled elections for all Berlin remembering their de feat In 1946, and have ordered their followers to boycott the voting in the western sectors. (Concluded en Pace 13, Column 5) More Snow on Cascade Roads Roads In the mountains and central Oregon were covered by more snow today, making chains necessary. The 9 a.m. road report: North Santiam highway 12 miles of heavy construction be tween Niagara and Detroit, traf fic advised to use other routes. Road closed at night. Alsea highway Tidewater state hatchery section under con struction, controlled traffic. Willamette highway Con struction between Pleasant Hill and Dexter. Oregon Coast highway Con struction on Agate Beach-New port, Delmar-Coaledo, and Port Orford-Gold Beach sections. Government Camp 5 Inches new snow, packed snow from Rhododendron east. Santiam junction 3 inches of new snow, packed snow through out district. Odell lake 2 Inches of new snow, packed snow throughout district. Butter Up Cent In Salem Market Butter was up a cent here Tuesday morning and butterfat also was higher on the first and second grades. The market has changed in several listings the past week but not uniformly, and the boosts Tuesday followed sim liar ones in Portland. Butter is now listed at 71-72 cents a pound on grade A, whole sale, here; amd at 76-77 cents a pound, retail. Premium butterfat Is still list ed at 70-71 cents, buying quota tions, but No. 1 is up to 68-69 cents and No. 2 up to 62-66 cents All other local produce re mained unchanged, Tuesday. Simultaneous with the award ing of the contract, the school board agreed to readvertise the issue of $1,500,000 in bonds voted by the taxpayers last spring. This time the bonds will be offered in two $750,000 lots with the expectation that more bids will be attracted. It is pos sible the state of Oregon will submit a proposal foi $750,000 The bunds will not call for t minimum rate of Interest. Rut a tingle bid was submit ted a few weeks ago when the entire issue of $1,500,000 was of fered. This bid was turned down as not being particularly favor able to tht district. Paris, Nov. 30 UP)Andrel Vishinsky of Russia said lousy that the United Nations vctn, which the Soviets have invoked 28 times, was conceived and pro posed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In a clear hint that Russia would not stay in the UN with out its veto power, Vishinsky told the UN political committee: "The United Nations would not exist one day without the veto." Any tampering with or elim ination of the veto power for the great nations would kill tha UN overnight, the Soviet dep uty foreign minister warned. Attacks Elimination Vishinsky attacked those seeking to eliminate the veto. The dispute over it has gone on ever since it was put in tht UN charter at San Francisco. The debate was the highlight of a day which saw most dele gates waiting for Juan A. Bra muglia to deliver his swan song as security council chairman by appointing a special, Informal, technical committee to "study" the Berlin currency issue. The western powers saw no hope of a settlement of the Ber lin crisis. They noted that Rus sia already had used the veto to block a settlement which the rest of the world was prepared to accept. Reads FDR't Lettrr Vishinsky read a letter from Mr. Roosevelt to Premier Josef Stalin on December 14, 1944, after the Dumbarton Oaks con ference at which the delegates were unable to agree on voting procedure in the security coun cil. He quoted the former presi dent as describing the Big Five powers as "the principal guar dians or custodians of the peace" who must assume world leader ship and act in concert for peace. Btterly criticizing the pres ent U.S. government for trying to modify the veto, Vishinsky shouted: In U.S. Proposal "Why do they do tills when the proposal for the veto was an American proposal, tubmitted on December 14, 1944, by Pret ident Roosevelt to Premier Stalin?" He quoted Mr. Roosevelt tl telling Stalin after the disagree ment at Dumbarton Onkt: "You and I must now find ways of completing the task started at Dumbarton Oaks." Speed Housing For Vanport Washington, Nov. 30 uP Two officials of the public housing administration left today for Portland, Ore., to speed settle ment of a proposal to provide additional temporary housing for Vanport flood e'-acuces. They are Commissioner John T. Egan and James P. Murrln, director of the agency's con struction branch. Housing Administrator Ray mond Foley said trailer accom modations, provided after the flood by the housing and home finance agency under special congressional authority for stop gap housing, are reported in adequate. He said the 11HFA is consider ing a local proposal to convert barracks on Swimn Island for use by the flood victims. Decision on the matter has been held up, Foley said, until further information is received from Portland housing officials on whether necessary commu nity facilities, such as schools and bus service, are available in the area. Foley said h aked Egan and Murrin to fly to Portland to confer with local authorities In order to expedial a decision. Mme. Chisng Lends In San Francisco San Francisco Nov. 30 -Madame C'hilinff Kai Slick arriv ed by plane today on her way to Washington to seek a'd for the imperilled Chinese govern ment. Smiline and uncommunica tive, she arrived at noon, Cali fornia daylight time m a tour engined navy transport at ncni by Mnffrtt field She was to transfer here 'o the "Sacred Cow," former pnt of President Truman, for tht flight to Washington. Java City t uiitureri Batavia, Java, Nov. 30 n The Indonesian news agency Antara reported today the re publican army had captured DJokesutnno. military comman der of tht communist forcot in Java.
