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Johnson Plans House Passes Unification $593,292,270 Af A vmnA Cti-r Af Miif -iif Dill Suited3"5 G apital Un Age HensionsrTYear, n0. 75 Price Five Cents UI HIIIICU I UHOI VVQIul WUT UIII Enured u ccmd lw mfttter t Salem. Oregoi Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 29, 1949 ill . ILrvn Tl 1 Bill Provides $50 a Month to Live On But No Minimums By PAUL W, HARVEY, JR. The old age pension battle headed toward a showdown to day when the joint legislative ways and means committee vot ed unanimously for Its version. This bill would recognize that every aged person needs at least $50 a month to live on, hut it doesn't provide ior any $50 min imum. A $50 minimum was voted by the people last Novem ber, and the house social wel fare committee wants it. too. Favor Lien Cause The ways and means commit tee also favored the so-called lien clause, which would give the state first claim on the estates of pensioners, rather than , let the estates go to the children ( Old age pensioners bitterly op pose lien clauses, as does the house social welfare committee It means a bitter fight will re sult between the two committees on the house floor. The ways and means commit tee also approved an average $33 monthly pay increase for state employes. This means the aver age employe would get $13 more a month, because employes now get a $20 monthly cost of living bonus. State Salaries ... . However, the committee voted only enough funds to pay the same total amount for salaries as now is budgeted. This will force departments to lay off some of their employes so that other employes can get the raise. The committee recommended defeat of a bill which would in crease salaries of state supreme court justices, from $8,500 to $10,000 a year. This bill is con sidered to be a test on whether state officials generally will get a pay increase. If the house refuses to accept the committee's report and thus votes the judges more pay, then the committee would have to raise salaries of nearly all other state officials. Salem Job Goes To Cunningham V John W. Cunningham & Asso ciates of Portland were employ ed by the city council Monday night as consulting engineers to draw plans and specifications, and estimate costs of a sewage disposal plant for Salem. City Manager J. L. Franzen said the engineers' fees, based on an estimated cost of $600,000 for the plant, and the regular 4.7 percent fee charged through out the country, would be about $28,000. The resolution employing the Cunningham firm was intro duced about a year ago, but was held in abeyance at that time. Action Monday night was spur red by a recent letter from the state sanitary authority urging haste in preparation of the plans. Franze advised the council to take up the matter at once. The city is owing the Cun- ningham firm some money for past services, but Franzen said the firm was not pressing for immediate payment. The firm is not employed as consultants on the interceptor sewer, which the city is now getting ready to build, but has advised with the city about the project at times in an unofficial way. The interceptor sewer, which the city will build on force ac count, has $215,000 earmarked to its account in the $815,000 bond issue approved by the people last year. The other $600,000 is for the disposal plant. Charles H. Reynolds On Highway Board Governor Douglas McKay to day appointed Charles H Rey nolds, La Grande insurance and loan man, to the state highway commission. He succeeds A. W. Schaupp, Klnmnth Folic Tt,B anwrnnr said Schaupp "indicated he did not wish to be considered for re appointment." The other two members of the commission are Chairman T. H. Banfield, Portland; and Ben R. Chandler, Coos Bay. The terms run three years. The governor also reappointed Henrietta Doltz and Marjorie Boufford, both of Portland, to the state board for examination and registration of graduate nurses. Krug's Mother Dies Washington, March 29 WPi Secretary of the Interior Krug received word of the death of his mother, Mrs. Emma Korf macher Krug, at Madison, Wis., today, ( Rent Controls Action Delayed In Legislature He condemned the committee for delaying action on the bill, which was introduced 65 days ago. But Rep. Phil Dreyer, an other Portland democrat, said the action was delayed at his re quest. The house refused 45 to 12 today to take immediate action on a bin to provide state rent controls to take effect when fed eral rent control ends. It also voted 43 to 15 against bill which would make the county unit system of school dis tricts compulsory for all coun ties. Rep. Howard D. Morgan, Portland democrat, made the motion to take the rent control bill away from the state and federal affairs committee, and have the house vote on it to morrow morning. Public Hearing: But after Rep. Rudie Wilhelm, Jr., Portland republican, chair man of the committee, explain ed that the committee plans a public hearing on the bill at 1 p. m. Wednesday, . the house voted against taking it from the committee. Morgan said that the rent con trol bill now before congress might not pass, and federal rent controls would end Thursday night. He declared Oregon would need rent control for many years because of its big population increase. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 5) Ship Building For West Asked Washington, Marc:: 29 VP) President Truman promised a delegation of west coast con gressmen today to make an im mediate inquiry into their plea for a shipbuilding program in that area. The delegation asked Mr Truman to direct the maritime commission to allocate a part of its future construction contracts to west coast yards. The delega tion requested a 15 percent dif ferential in costs to enable the west coast to compete for con tracts with east coast shipbuild ers. Representative Jackson CD Wash) said Mr. Truman felt "definitely" there war justice in the plea. ' "He said he had made a close survey and that lie would see what can be worked out." Others in the delegation in cluded Representatives Mitchell (D-Wash), Tollefson (R-Wash), Angel (R-Ore), and Norblad (R-Ore). They said they requested the president to exercise his author ity under the merchant marine act of 1936 to require the mari time commission to allocate pari of. its construction program to the west coast. This will require him to have the commission set up a west coast dif'erential to make up for the difference in labor and material costs, they said. They said that not a single maritime commission ship is now under construct'on on the west coast and that shipyards which produced 42 percent of maritime shipbuilding are going tp ruin for lack of business. $15,000 Death Damage The senate passed 26 to 4 to day a bill which would fix at $15,000 the maximum amount of damages which a person may seek in a suit for wrongful death such as in an automobile acci dent. The ceiling now is $10,- 000. The bill goes to the house Senate Group Endorses Ban on City Highways The bill to prevent spending of highway funds inside cities un til the highways are brought up r enaorserner" aay oi tne senate The bill is opposed by cities ects. It would mean a halt in Portland's Sullivan Gulch freeway project, as well as Salem s $7,-'- 000,000 highway and bridge pro ject. Committee members favoring the bill are Sens. Irving Rand and Jack Bain, both of Portland; William M. McAllister, Medford Elmo Smith, Ontario; Ben Musa, ine uaues: ana rtussell ,. uard - ner. Newport. Those opposing the bill are Sens. Paul L. Pitterson, Hills boro, chairman of the commit tee; Frank H. Hilton, Portland; and Angus Gibson, Junction City. Those for the bill say that highways in rural areas should be built up before any more momy is spent insidt citiei. 2 More Stores Plan to Locate In Shop Center By STEPHEN A. STONE Annou n c e m e n t was made Tuesday of two more major tenants and several smaller ones who will occupy the new buildings on Pacific Mutual Life Insurance company's retail shopping center on North Capi tol street. The announcement was made for the owners by George H. Grabenhorst, who has handled transactions between owners and tenants. Two concerns operating throughout the United States coming into the project, are Hughes Ladies' Appaiel of New York, and Owl Drug company. Hughes Ladies' Apparel Hughes Ladies' Apparel is scheduled to open for business in September in a building 60 1-y 125 feet. Construction of this building has not yet started, but it will be built through the mid dle part of the year The build ing will be on the Marion street side of the center. Owl Drug company, another nationally-known chain con cern, will be the main tenant of a building 50 by 125 feet at the North Capitol and Center street corner of the projec. The sche dule is for it to open in October This building also will be in process of construct'on during the middle months of the year. Space for One More Space will be available for one more major tenant in a building 116 by 12 feet that will stand between the Kress building, now under construc tion, and the building to be oc cupied by Hughes Ladies' Ap parel. Other large tenants previous ly announced are Sears, , Roe buck & Co., whose building of 76,000 square feet, to be occu pied in July,, is now going up, and which will extend 230 feet on North Capitol, 100 feet on Marion, and 160 feet on Union; the Elmer O. Berg market, for mally to open Wednesday in its 100 by 120 foot building at 12th and Center; and the S. H. Kress company, national variety store, to open in October in a two-story building 75 by 125 feet. Other tenants of thf buildings will be mainly stores and shops now located in Salem (Concluded on Pajre 5, Column 5 New Cruiser To Join Navy Philadelphia, March 29 (IP) The world's most powerful light cruiser will join the United States fleet Monday. On that day the USS Roanoke will be commissioned at the Philadelphia naval base. A sister ship of the USS Wor cester, the Roanoke cost $30, 000,000 and required over four years to build. The ship is 680 feet long, has a beam of 70 feet, displaces 17,000 tons and has a designed speed of 33 knots. The Roanoke was launched two years ago by Julia Ann He nebry, Rollins college student and daughter of the tl. en-mayor of Roanoke, Va. The new cruiser is the second ship in United State? navy his tory to bear the name Roanoke. The first was a wooden screw steam frigate launched Dec. 13 1855. The Roanoke will be manned by 51 officers and 922 enlisted men. She has a main battery of 12 new semi-automatic six-inch guns house in six turrets. Capt. J. D. Kelsey, Silver f prings, Md., will command the cruiser. o federal standards had the 6 to nighway committee which have big fmDrovement Droi- Those opposed to the bill, in cluding the state highway com mission, said cities would be come bottlenecks on every high way system unless good high ways are built through the cities. The bill probably will pass itne senate, since 16 or tne 3U senators are listed as sponsors. The committee drafted amendments so that the bill would not halt construction of the proposed state highway office building in Salem, and so it wouldn't affect contracts let inside cities before the bill would become effective. The bill would become law 90 days after the legislature ends. I a "s r, ; ' jVa'! ml ' TV t7 Ny; I j . . yeeiMBeCM' ,. " ,j nlMMtffl I M ".' '' ij Reorganizes Game Commission Governor Douglas McKay Monday signs into law HB217, setting up a new policy, bud get control commission. The five member group will consist of two men from east of the Cascades, and two from the west ern slope, with one appointed from the state at large A new game director will be chosen to head the commission with full powers over the department. Among persons active in promoting the bill were, left to right, Rep. G. Giles, Senator O. Thompson, Rep. D. Baum, Jim Loder, Pres. Oregon Wild life Federation, Don C. Harger, Pres. Salem Chap. IWLA. (Photo by Robert E. Brown, Jr.) Felton Rules Tree Play' Pinball Machines Illegal District Judge Joseph Felton ruled Tuesday that "free play" Dinball machines were illegal under Oregon law when he handed down an opinion which overruled a defense argument in a slot machine case. The 23-page opinion prepared Only $31,652 For Red Cross Only $31,652 were in for the noon audit of the American R(;d Cross fund campaign in Marion county, Tuesday, a sum of $37 above the morning figure. Objective of the campaign is $52,000 and next Thursday is the deadline for solicitation. Of the $31,652, the sum of $27,499 has been raised in Sa lem, $4,153 in communities out in the county. To date, the education and utilities divisions are the only ones to exceed their quotas. As of the Tuesday noon audit the following were the standings in the campaign: Advance gifts, $8864; automo tive, $1267; contractors, $205, or 29 per cent of its quota; ed ucation, $1173.52; general gifts, $1031.28; governmental, $4, 332.03, nearly to the goal; mer cantile, $1025, or 40 per cent of the quota; industrial, $482, or 23 per cent of quota; .profession al, $1355; utilities, $645.35; women's residential, $7117.06; county areas, $4153.52. Trio Nabbed for Armed Hold-up Grants Pass., March 29 (Pi Two men and a woman, suspec ted of being implicated in the holdup of four employes of the Grants Pass laundry at 6 o'clock last night, were captured by state police near Medford short ly before midnight. In the first armed holdup in this city in more than two years, a man brandishing a 38 caliber revolver herded Mrs. James Annabil, wife of the laundry owner, two drivers and a cash ier, into a back room while his woman companion rifled an open safe, the cash register and scoop ed up customers' clothing valued at $400. The woman also ripped the telephone wire loose from the wall. A check of auto courts dis closed that a couple answering the description of the robbers, and another man, had pulled out without notice to the court own er. Their car license number was broadcast by state police and a road block near Medford result ed in the arrest of Donals Web ster Riverbark, 35. who was armed, Francene Meyers, 31, Portland, and Boyd Edwin Lo bel, 28, the car driver. Riverbark and Lobel gave their address as Fresno, Calif The clothing and $50 in cash were recovered with the arrest of the trio, State Police Sergeant C. R. Borgman laid. by the jurist dealt with a prob 4lem presented to the court in the charge against George Green, operator of the Stop-Lite cafe, south of Salem on highway 99E. Green was charged with maintaining a coin-in-the-slot machine in a compl&int signed by John Harger, deputy sher iff. Defense attorneys filed de murrers to the charge on the ground that the complaint was improperly drawn charged more than one crime and that no crime had been committed. The real argument for the de fense hinged on the contention that "free play" slugs paid out ly the machine on a chance ba sis were of no value. Judge Felton, however, ruled that the "free play" slugs brought the case within the sta tutes dealing with gambling. A date for trial remains to be let, but the decision handed down Tuesday and filed with the district attorney and de fense lawyers brought the case a step nearer a hearing on facts after weeks of legal argument and study. M E Bishop of Korea Arrested Seoul, March 29 IIP) Yang Ju Sam, 70, first Methodist bishop of Korea, was arrested today on charges of wartime collaborating with the Japanese. Special police made the arrest on orders of a committee of 10 national assembly delegates. Bishop Yang is also president of the YMCA of Korea. He is among 80 persons arrest ed since January on collabora tion charges. Pending trial at least 52 days hence, details of the accusation were withheld. Captain Kim Song Duk of the special police said further arrests are likely. Observers said the legislative committee's action lacks the support of President Synginan Rhee in many instances' Some say the charge of collaboration is being used for political pur poses. Trial on ant i-governmcnt charges of one of Korea's wealth iest men, Pak Heung Six, is un der way now. THE WEATHER (Released by the United States Weather Bureau) Forecast for Salem and Vicin ity: Mostly cloudy with occa sional light rains tonight. Part ly cloudy Wednesday with wide ly scattered showers. Little change in temperature. Lowest temperature expected tonight 37 degrees highest Wednesday, 58. Maximum yesterday 63. Mini mum today 39. Mean tempera ture yesterday 42 which was 6 below normal. Total 24-hour precipitation to 11:30 a.m. today 0. Total precipitation for the month 2.90 Inches wnlch is .69 of an Inch below normal. Willam ette river height at Salem Tues day morning, 4.7 feet. To Keep Old Santiam Road The United States army engin eers have taken a right about face from asking the Marion county court to vacate the old North Santiam highway be tween Niagara and Detroit which some time ago it asked the court to do and indicated at that time the sooner it was done the bet ter. This has nothing to do with the section between Gates and Niagara which the court is about to order vacated and has called a hearing for April 29. But it is the upper section of the road where construction work on the dam and new road will be going on soon and the engineers now say they don't want the old section there va cated, even after the new road is completed. When that time comes all they want the court to do is simply to close the old road to traffic and not vacate it ine change of mind came when it was discovered under the original proceedings estab lishing the highway it was done by resolution and damages paid and not done by deed by the county buying the right of way outright. This means, if the county would vacate the old sec tion, the roadway would revert to the original owners or their successors in interest. The engineers still want to keep control of the old road which the county has turned over to them lock, stock and barrel and are shying away from having to deal with hundreds of land owners which would be the case in event the road was vacat ed and reverted to the former owners. County Judge Murphy said there was little question the county could order that section of the road closed, rather than vacated, when the time comes and that the request of the en gincers will be acceded to. In the meantime the road will be left in use as a service road and for the public until construction conditions require some other ac tion. Peeping Tom Bill ' The house voted today to low er the boom on Peeping Toms. It passed and sent to the senate a bill which fixes a maximum penalty of a year in jail and $1,000 fine for any person caught peeking Into windows, doorways or transoms of homes or other dwelling places. Cash Payment Cut by Reserve Board Washington, March 29 (IP) Lessening worry about inflation was apparent today in the federal reserve board's decision to make it easier to invest in stocks. The board, which controls the volume of money end credit, already had made it easier to buy autos, furniture, etc., on the installment plan. Then last night, it decreed j U,e broker's hands. In a major- that stocks may be bought after today with a cash down pay ment of 50 percent as compar ed to 75 percent required for the last two years. The cut is warranted, the board said, by the "general credit situation." Shortly after the board's an nouncement board member Mar riner S. Eccles said the action indicates a "recognition that a deflation is certainly more im minent." Eccles spoke on a tel evision broadcast. He said a certain amount of deflation is a "healthy thing for the country." The remaining 50 percent of the purchase price of stocks has to be paid to the firm that han dles the transaction when the buyer takes the securities out of Army, Navy and Air force Ordered to Move At Once to Pentagon Washington, March 29 lP) Defense Secretary Johnson set out today to unify the three armed forces completely and quickly. As the first step of this crack down, he told a news confer ence he is ordering the army navy and air force tc move at once to the Pentagon. Some agencies of those departments are scattered throughout the city. They were already under or ders to move to the Pentagon, but the approved moving sche dule stretched out over two and one-half years. Johnson has told them to scrap the schedule and move now. To Abolish Boards Johnson said he also intends to abolish many of the 800 boards and agencies set up by the army, navy anO air force over a period of years. He declared: "There are too damned many ior efficiency's sake and we're going to abolish and coordinate some of them." It probably will be possible to abolish 30 or 40 light at the start, he said. A reporter asked Johnson if he has made up his mind what the "respective roles" of the air force and navy should be. Bombing Duties The two services have quar reled over what bombing duties each should have in event of war. Johnson replied: "I do have a pretty fair con viction. The three services are going to have a chance to argue me out of that conclusion in the next couple of days." He said he plans to go to Key West, Fla., with the command ers of the three armed forces within the next week to confer with General Dwight D. Eisen hower, the temporary chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Ei senhower went to Key West yesterday to recuperate from an illness. Stop Tour for 'World Peace' Washington, March 29 (IP) The state department today threw up a blockade against any tour of American cities by Soviet and satellite delegates to the "World Peace" conference. It circulated a notice to em bassies pf their home countries, reminding them that the del egates were granted admission to this country only for the pur pose of attending the contro versial conference in New York. Now that the conference si over, the department announc ed, United States assumes the delegates will leave within a "reasonable time." The notice was sent to the Russian, Czechoslovakian, Pol ish and Yugoslav embassies. The delegates from those countries have a different posi tion from the delegates from other countries. American laws forbid admission of commun ists to this country. That law was waived so that the delegates from the communist-controlled nations could attend the con ference. But the waiver ex tended only to the conference. Interim School Study The house voted today to create an interim committee which would spend the next two years studying the state's whole public school system. The reso lution goes to the senate. for Stocks ity of cases, however, people! who buy stocks on margin leave the securities in the hands of the broker instead of paying for them in full. The board's order was issued in the wake of a flow of gov ernment reports showing em ployment, production, prices, bank loans and sales of many goods coursing down together in early 1949. Not in four years since the approaching end of the war made the board in 1945 fearful of an inflationary boom spread ing out of the stock markets had the board made securities buying credit so liberal. Throughout 1946, when it was sounding the gong against infla tionary fires, the board banned grant of any credit to stock buyers. Flood Control Funds Include Those for Willamette Project Washington, March 29 W The house passed today a $593,- 292,270 money bill for water ways projects and ether army civil functions during the year starting July 1, The measure, approved by voice vote, now goes to the sen ate. The approved total is $6,530, 270 more than that recommend ed by the house appropriations committee. Chief increase was one of $6,000,000 for flood con trol work in the lower Missis sippi river. 20 Percent Cut The amount voted represents a slash of upwards of 20 per cent from President Truman's budget requests. Most of the cut was made in anticipation of 8 15 percent drop in construction costs on flood control and navi gation projects. But with a few specified exceptions, the army engineers would be expected to perform all work programmed for the coming year in the bud get estimates. Meanwhile, the house got rea dy for a fight over the annual interior department appropri ation bill which calls for expan sion of public power facilities. President Trumans' b u d g et called for $767,733,220 for all the army's civil functions In the year beginning July 1. (Concluded on Page 5, Column I) Rent Control Bill Approved Washington, March 29 (IP) The house today approved th compromise rent oontrol bill, sending it to the White House. Washington, March 29 VP) The senate today approved com promise legislation to continue rent controls 15 months. The bill also provides for "home rule" decontrol and a "fair net operating income" for landlord!. The measure now goes to tbe house, with administration lead ers predicting its approval before nightfall. The present rent law expires at midnight, Thursday. The senate vote came after rejection of a motion by Senator Bricker (R., Ohio) to send the bill back to a senate-house con ference committee for revision of its terms. Bricker contended that a pro vision aimed at giving landlords a "fair net operating income" was meaningless. The vote against Bricker's motion was 53 to 83. Bricker centered his fire on a provision directing the federal housing expediter to set rents at a level that would give land lords a "fair net operating in come.' He said that gives landlords no more relief than they have under the present law The house first passed a bill requiring that landlords receive "a reasonable return on a rea- sonablo value" of their property. The senate bill provided for 10 percent rent increases in some cases. Trio Starving in Midst ot Plenty Paola, Kas., March 29 UP) Two starving sisters and the body of their brother were found today in a farm hous cluttered with mountainous piles of food and clothing. Coroner William Brown said the sister, Miss Mandy Stach ling, 65, and Miss Mattie Stach ling, 63, were found in a bed un der a huge pile of bedclothing. Both were brought here for treatment, A physician said feeding by intravenous injec tion might be necesary for sev eral days because of their con dition. The coroner said the brother, Albert P. Stachling, 70, had been dead about ten days and apparently had died of malnu trition. Officers broke a locked door to enter the home. Under Sheriff Fred Ivy, Jr., said the four downstairs rooms in the two slory house were stacked almost ceiling high with boxes of food, bedclothing, dress materials and shoes. Redding Firm Gets Contract at Detroit Detroit, Ore., March 29 (IP) -Clearance work for the Detroit dam site has been awarded L. L. Byers and R. W. Byers, Red ding, Calif. Consolidated Builders which has the general contract for building the dam, did not dis close the amount of the bid. R. A. Hoffman, superintc dent, said the clearance ' start within a week, y j
