91
County Budget
Board Votes for
$10 Pay Raise
Increase Extends to
All But Elective
Employes
First act of the Marion county
budget committee Monday open
inf it le salon on the 1949-50
budget was to vote an across the
board increase of $10 a month to
all but elective employes which
will represent 112,120.
The action extends to county
road crews, members of which
will receive an additional S cents
an hour which approximates the
same raise. County Judge Grant
Murphy was the only commit
teeman voting against the $10 a
month. He said he was opposed
because it isn't enough.
He said he favored a larger
wage rather than an increase of
personnel to make department
hads feel justified in being more
exacting with their employes. He
also said, rather than a hard and
Wfast raise, he favored one a lit-
tie more open where adjustments
could be made based on work
done and ability. The iudse said
further that he believed wage in
creases could be made by cut
ting out some of the other items
in departmental requests, items
he said might be handy to use
but could be dispensed with.
Justify Wage Hike
The wage increase was further
justified by statements that all
governmental agencies Irom led'
eral down have granted wage
increases. "To keep the wages
down so low in the county is to
merely set up the county as a
training school for future state
employes," said Judge Murphy.
"They come and take their pick
with more attractive offers.
With the wage problem out of
the way the committee began
tackling the budget item by
item.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
17 Legislators
Off on Junket
Seventeen members of the
Oregon legislature, headed by
William E. Walsh, president of
the senate, and Frank J. Van
Dyke, speaker of the house, will
leave by chartered plane wed
nesday for Sacramento where
the group will visit the Califor
nia legislature.
Then members of the party,
members of the Joint commit
tee on inter-state cooperation,
will meet with a similar com
mittee composed of California
legislators to discuss problems
relating to traffic regulation.
highway use by heavy vehicles
and some problems facing both
states in relation to aviation.
The senate committee will be
represented by Senators Carl
Engdahl, chairman; Eugene
Marsh, Paul Patterson, Irving
Rand and Austin Dunn.
- Members of the house com
mittee that will make the trip
include W. W. Chadwick. Sa
lem, chairman; Carl Francis.
Alex Barry, Giles French and
Robert Gile.
Other Oregon legislators who
will make the trip include Max
Landon, chairman of the house
highways committee; William
Morse, member of the ways and
means committee; Ralph Moore
chairman of the house taxation
committee; Henry Semon, chair
man of the house ways and
means committee and Sen. Wil
liam McAllister, chairman of
the senate labor and industries
committee.
"Voters Affirm
School Budget
Voters in the 83 precincts of
Marion county's rural school
district voted favorably April
18 to affirm the district budget
of $1,120,871, according to
completion of the official count
showing 1281 votes for to 917
against the budget. So shows
the official count Just completed
by the staff of County Superin
tendent Agnes C. Booth for the
district boundary board.
However, there was an upset
in the vote on the proposal to
consolidate Stayton union high
school district 4 J with the rural
district boaad when final re
turns showed that proposition
defeated by a vote of 1110
against it to 1069 in favor.
Both votes will be confirmed
as official at district boundary
board meeting Friday.
At that meeting also votes
will be canvassed on an elec
tion April 22 on consolidation
of Evans Valley and Briar Knob
districti In the eastern part of
the county. The unofficial re
turn from that election showed
J carried with a favorable vote
each district.
G apital A Journal
61st Year, No. 99
John L. Sullivan
Sullivan Quits
Cabinet Post
Washington," April 26 W
Secretary of the Navy John L
Sullivan resigned today with a
blast at Secretary of Defense
Louis A. Johnson for blocking
the navy's plan to build a super
aircraft carrier.
In a letter to Johnson. Sulli
van called the defense secreta
ry's order to halt work on the
carrier "arbitrary" and said it
was taken without even consult
ing the navy.
Sullivan added:
"The conviction that this will
result in a renewed effort to
abolish the marine corps and to
transfer all naval and marine
aviation elsewhere adds to my
anxiety."
Sullivan's office made this
letter public shortly after Presi
dent Truman accepted his resig
nation.
The White House, announc
ing Sullivan's resignation, made
public an exchange of letters
between him and the president.
These, letters said nothing about
the carrier.
Sullivan wrote Mr. Truman:
"More deeply than words can
express, 1 regret the circumstan
ces that prevent me from con
tinuing in my present post to
help you in your magnificent
efforts.
. Sullivan asked that the resig
nation be made effective "at the
earliest date convenient to you,
Mr. Truman, replying, wrote
he deeply regretted "that you
feel impelled to relinquish your
post."
State Offices
Tunnel to Start
Interesting construction, start
ing next week, will be a tunnel
extending from the new State
Office building at Court and
North Capitol to the State
House across the street.
Be g i n n I n g Monday Court
street will Be closed to vehicu
lar traffic in the building area
The traffic will be detoured by
way ot center street. The reason
for detouring to Center instead
of Chemeketa is that barricades
now extend 40 feet into Che
meketa. City Engineer J. H. Davis said
Tuesday the detouring to Cen
ter street will probably cause a
traffic problem and that some
special policing may be neces
sary. While the tunnel construction
is under way arrangements will
be made for pedestrians to use
Court street.
The tunnel will be about sev
en by nine feet. A trench will
be dug, the tunnel tube install
ed, and then covered. Davis said
the street would be closed from
30 to 60 days.
No Drawing Straws for City
Contracts Goes With Mr. Fry
Maybe, said Alderman Dan Fry Monday night, it wasn't col
lusion, but lt sure was a strange coincidence.
And as for drawing straws to see who would get a city con
tract the alderman couldn't go for that at all.
So, on Alderman Fry's motion, the council refused to accept
me commercial sand at Gravel
Supply company's bid on
ready-mix concrete for Salem's
street work, and threw out two
other bids as well. City Man
ager Franzen was directed to
look around and see what can
be done.
The bid of the Commercial
company was $11 cubic yard.
But the bids of the Walling
Sand & Gravel company and
the River Bend Sand & Gravel
were also $11.
According to I time-honored
American custom the bidders
met in the city engineer's office
and drew lot. Whether straws
or toothpicks were used, or
whether they rolled dice, wasn't
revealed. Anyway Commercial
company won, and City Man
sger Franzen recommended Its
bid be accepted,
Salem,
West German
Republic to Be
Created July 15
Frankfurt. Germany, Anril 2fi
(IPu An anti-communist federal
republic of western Germany Is
due to come Into being this sum
mer. The west German state, foraed
from the three allied occuoation
zones, will have a oonulatlon
second only to the Soviet Un
ion on the Euronean continent.
More than 46.000.000 people
within its borders.
The final obstacles to forma
tion of a German republic free
if military government were
overcome in a momentous six
hour conference last . night be
tween West German political
leaders and the three western
military governors.
Date Set July IS
The announcement was made
at a news conference by Gen.
Lucius D. Clay, American mili
tary governor.
Clay set the target date for
the birth of the republic as July
15 four months after the date
set last year by the western
allies.
The accord Ignores Russia.
which occupies almost a third
of the prewar reich. The repub
lic will be made up of the in
dividual German states in the
American, British and French
occupation zones.
Western Ge r m a n leaders.
while going along with the al
lies in formation of the repub
lic, insist they want to see all
Germany united eventually.
Magnet to Germans
They theorize hopefully that
a prosperous west German state
will prove a magnet to Germans
in the Soviet zone and kill any
Russian hopes of establishing a
popular communist regime.
Russia, which has been bitter
in its opposition to a seemingly
final splitting of Germany, has
made many efforts to prevent
formation of a west German
state.
House Debates
On Labor Bill
Washington, April 26 W)
Rep. Lesinski (D., Mich.) got
set to open house debate over
the Taft-Hartley act today with
a request that the administra
ion's labor bill be passed "with
out amendment."
In speech prepared for de
livery, the labor committee
chairman said the people voted
last November for repeal of the
Taft-Hartley law. Then he de
clared:
"If we break faith with out
own people who expressed
themselves so clearly and in
such detail last November we
confess to the people of western
Europe who are today desper
ately seeking the truth, that the
forces of communism speak the
truth, while we practice hypoc
risy." The administration bill.
which bears Lesinski's name in
the house and that of Senator
Elbert Thomas (D. Utah) in the
senate, would repeal Taft-Hart
ley and replace it with a some
what enlarged version of the
original Wagner act of 1935.
House republican leaders and
many southern democrats are
supporting a substitute introduc
ed by Rep Wood (D.. Ga.). This
also says the Taft-Hartley act
is "hereby repealed." Then it
proceeds to re-enact most of the
Taft-Hartley provisions.
The debate will take several
days. Debate in the senate is
still several weeks off.
"Was there collusion?" Fry
demanded to know.
Franzen and City Engineer
J. H. Davis said they thought
not, and Davis explained how
the $11 could have been arriv
ed at, since there is a standard
price for ready-mix.
' Why one of them didn't bid
5 cents under I can't say," said
Davis.
Fry still contended It was a
bad precedent.
"I'm afraid if we accepted
bids like that It wouldn't be
long until they were all meet'
ing ahead of time and arrang
ing their bids. I want competi
tive bidding."
The Warren Northwest com-
pan was the only bidder for
about 9000 tons of asnhaltic
mixture. Its bid of $8 10 and
8 40 a ton was accepted.
Oregon, Tuesday, April
Record Recorded Ground crewmen pass gasoline to fliers
Bill Barris and Dick Riedel at San Diego, Calif., as the pair
reach the 964 hour mark of their successful attempt to stay
aloft for 1,000 hours. This was the last re-fuelling planned for
the fliers as they near their goal. They landed on the 1008th
hour. (Acme Telcphoto)
Camp Mongold Soon
Operating at Capacity
By JAMES D. OLSON
Camp Mongold, constructed to
staff of the Corps of Army Engineers during the construction of
Detroit dam, will soon be operating at full capacity, according to
Lt. Col. John W. Miles, resident
The camp, located about six
Indict 4 for
Stealing Safe
Dallas, April 26 Indictments
were reported out by the Polk
county grand jury Tuesday,
charging burglary not in a
dwelling against the four men
arrested in Sacramento for
theft of a safe from the Y cafe
on Salem-Dallas highway.
. The four, who have not yet
reached here in charge of two
Oregon officers, are Otis Lang-
ley. 21, Douglas Samuel Boying
ton. 22. and Jasper Boyington,
19. all Californians, and Charles
Gepner. 21. of Salem.
- Witnesses before the grand
jury were Mr. and Mrs. Ervln
York of the Y cafe. The true
bills of indictment were return'
ed to Judge Arlie G. Walker.
In charge of the rour men, on
their way here from California,
are Deputy Sheriff Tony Neu
feld and Sergeant Mayfield of
the Oregon State police.
DST Measure
Before Council
Mainly to gratify the wishes
of people who work for the
state a bill was Introduced in
the city council Monday night
to set up daylight saving time
in Salem.
It would be effective at 2:01
a.m.. May 16, and end at l:o
a.m., September 11.
Although it would not start
until May 16, the bill" is sup
posed to be given final action
by the council at the May 9
meeting, and carries the emerg
ency clause which would make
it effective as soon as passed
and signed by the mayor.
While daylight saving is gen
erally opposed by everybody ex
cept those who are employed
on fixed and liberal time ached
ules, it probably will pass the
council, since it is backed by
the argument that Portland and
few other cities have gone for
it.
Alderman Gilic introduced
the bill.
Attorney General George
Neuner ruled Monday that
when the new state law govern
ing daylight saving becomes ef
fective it will supercede any ci
ty ordinances.
By the act passed by the le
gislature no part of the state
may adopt a time change after
July 16 except by proclamation
of the governor, and no such
proclamation may be issued by
the governor except In confor-
mity with time changes in ad
joining states.
If the state law becomes ef
fective Salem and other locali
ties would stav on daylight sav
ing only until July 16. If the
referendum, now threatened, is
successfully Invoked against the
state act the localities would
continue on daylight saving. It
would take the signatures of
about 16.000 voters to referend
the act.
Robber Takes Day's Cash
Portland, April 26 ifi An
automobile dealer and service
station manager was relieved of
$426 and locked in his office
by a lone gunman last night.
Terrell W. Loos said he was
alone, counting the day's cash
receipts, when held up.
26, 1949
virtTC
3
serve as headquarters for the
engineer.
miles east of the damsite, is
veritable city, with its own wat
er and power supply, dormitor-
ies and cafateria for the single
men and apartment buildings,
now all occupied, for families of
the administrative staff.
Although Detroit dam has
been designed primarily to re
duce flood damage in the Wil
lamette valley an important
link in the entire Willamette
Valley project provision has
been made for installation of
two power generators to de
velop a maximum of 90,000 kil
lowatts.
Land Will Get Water
In addition 340,000 acre feet
of water will be available for
irrigation of lands lying below
the dam. Col. O. M. Walsh,
district engineer for this area,
has made it clear that no one
is to be forced to accept water
foi irrigation.
In fact. Col. Walsh states that
no water will be appropriated
for irrigation unless application
is made by irrigation districts
formed under the laws of the
state of Oregon.
The Detroit Dam, when com
pleted in 1953, will tower 1569
feet above sea level. It will cre
ate a lake 8 4 miles long and
covering 3,580 acres.
One of the large tasks will
be clearing of the entire pool
area of trees and shrubs. The
first contract for clearance work
has been let by the Consolidat
ed Builders, Inc., the contrac
tors building the dam, to L. L.
and R. W. Byers of Redding
Calif., to clear 48 acres at the'
dam site. The Byers crew has
already cleared a path for
Bonneville power transmission
line from the damsite.
Miles Held Big Jobs
Col. Miles, who has been as
signed by Col. Walsh to super
vise the project at resident en
gineer, joined the army engi
neers in 1934. He was on the
staff that handled the Bonne
ville dam construction and ear
ly in the late war was in charge
of military construction in the
Portland area.
In 1943 Col. Miles was dis
patched to South America where
he was regional engineer in
charge of construction of eight
large air bases.
Upon conclusion of this
signment, he was sent to the
European theater, serving in
England, France and Belgium in
charae of construction work
For the past two years he has
served as special assistant to the
district engineer in Portland
working on flood control and
river and harbors projects.
(More on Detroit Dam proj
ect in Wednesday's Capital Jour
nal). I TaIhmUS
LOWCI LOIUlTlDId
Dikes Repaired
Portland, April 28 (i Most
lower Columbia river diking
districts are making Improve
ments in anticipation of high
water in June, Cel. O. E. Walsh
reported today.
Walsh. Portland district army
engineer, said recently that
many districts had not taken
any action. He warned that they
were Inviting trouble. Since
then, he said, reports of main
tenance work have been receiv
ed He said he would make pub
lic about May 1 the names of any
districts which have failed to
report on condition of levees by
that time.
Panes) Price 5c I
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1008 Hours in
Endurance Hop
Fullerton, Calif., April 26 Wi
Ending six full weeks in the
air, Endurance Fliers Bill Bar
ris and Dick Riedel landed to
day. The wheels of their mono
plane touched the asphalt run
way at Fullerton airport at 11:45
a.m. (Pacific Standard time).
They had been in the air 1,008
hours, one minute.
Six weeks was the goal they
set when they took to the air
March 15 for their fourth try
at exceeding the 10-year-old en
durance rceord of 726 hours.
Their three previous failures
once because of magneto
trouble, twice because of ice on
the carburetor had been costly
and they were kept in the air
only by contributions of $1 each
from some 2000 Fullerton citi
zens. The Chamber of Com
merce also had chipped in some
$1500 from its surplus cash.
A great cheer arose as a shot
from the official timing stand
announced that the pair had
passed the 1008-hour mark. Im
mediately the plane started
down on its approach.
North Marion
Appeal Dropped
Announcement is made In an
official note from Bartlett Cole,
Portland, attorney for the ob
jectors in the matter of validity
of the proceedings in connection
with formation of union high
school district known as the
North Marion or Aurora-Hub
bard district, that the appeal to
the supreme court by the objec
tors has been withdrawn. Ob
jectors are William O. Gooding,
Jack Murray and Edwin J. Mil
ler.
When the district boundary
board recently set May 16 as
date to vote on petitions asking
the electors to again pass on the
dissolution of the district, it did
so with the statement made that
in event a date was set for the
election the appeal would be
withdrawn.
Withdrawing of the appeal
lagged and County Superinten
dent Booth wrote to Cole advis
ing that unless the appeal was
abandoned as had been indicat
ed the district boundary board
might withdraw the dissolution
election. Cole says his letter Is
in answer to the county super
intendent's answer and "to give
proof that a pending appeal has
been withdrawn.
PTA Meet Opens
Eugene, April 26 ( The
state Parent-Teacher associa
tion opened a three-day conven
tion here today.
Fish Board Threatens
Court Action Against Dam
Portland, Ore., April 26 u.R
today threatened to resort to
tion of the proposed $12,000,000
river.
The threat was raised during
State Hydro-Electric commission'
on the application of the North
west Power Supply company to
build a 150-foot high barrier
athwart the Deschutes to In
crease the northwest's dwindling
power supply.
More than 50 witnesses pa
raded before the commission,
again drawing the battle lines
sharply between fish conserva
tionists and power advocates.
John C. Veatch, chairman of
the fish commission, testified
"We would be bound to move
in against anyone attempting to
block the stream. Oregon has
Invested $70,000 on the Metolius
hatchery site, above the propos
ed dam site. This $70,000 would
be a total loss to the state In
event of construction of the dam.
"Until there is n e w leglsla
tion, I see no way the company
can take over public land, occu
pied by the lUta."
U.S. Navy Ships
Leave Shanghai
Mi KCUi I1CQI
100 Americans on
Warships, Communists
Nearing Hangchow
Shanghai, April 26 Heavy Moscow, April 26 (PI Mob
II. S. naval vessels moved out of cow's press published today the
Shanghai today as two commu
nist spearheads rolled toward
the Shanghai-Hangchow area.
The communist radio in Pelp-
ing boasted two nationalist ar
mies, the 20th and 99th, had
been wiped out. Two towns.
Ithing, 85 miles west of here,
and Chingtai, 60 miles southwest
of Nanking, were captured, the
radio said.
The communist broadcast said
the NankinR-Hangchow highway
had been cut. Government gar
rison headquarters said Red ad
vance units were around Soo
chow (Wuhsien), 40 miles west
of here.
Reds Capture Ihing
Red capture of Ihing, on the
west bank of Lake Tai, would
mean the communists were half
way to Hangchow, where some
300.000 government troops are
believed dug in. A rapid thrust
south could cut the Shanghai
Hangchow corridor.
The American ships went
down the Yangtze estuary from
here to avoid involvement in the
civil war.
U. S. Consul John Cabot esti
mated 100 Americans, mostly
women and children, boarded
U. S. navy vessels for evacua
tion in any emergency.
Another group of Americans
is expected to board the SS Wil
son of the President lines when
it arrives tomorrow from Hong
Kong.
(Concluded on Pure 5. Column I)
Churchill Asks
For Retaliation
London. April 26 (Pi Win
ston Churchill angrily told the
government today it ought to
have aircraft carriers in China
water for "effective power of re
taliation" against Chinese Com
munists who attacked British
warships.
"This is not a matter of war-fare,"-Prime
Minister Attlee re
plied in the house of commons,
"there is no suggestion of mak
ing an attack anywhere at all."
Churchill called the shelling of
British warships on the Yangtze
an "atrocious outrage" and ac
cused the government of
"throwing the whole burden" of
responsibility on naval comman
dcrs in China.
The sloop Amethyst was disa
bled by Communist artillery fire
last Wednesday while en route
upriver with supplies for the
British embassy at Nanking. Oth
er ships which went to her aid
were heavily shelled and turned
back. Attlee gave official cas
ualty figures as 42 dead, 53
wounded, and 12 missing.
Earlier the foreign office dis
closed that Britain got a warn
ing from China two months ago
that it was unable to guarantee
the safety of ships in the Yang
tze. A spokesman said he un
derstood the warning was sent
to a number of governments with
ships anchored there.
BPA Contract Let
Seattle, April 26 (Pi A $289
400 contract for installation of
10 circuit-breakers in the Bon
neville Power administration
network was granted yesterday
to the Pacific Electric Corp.,
San Francisco. Circuit-breakers
will be installed at Kcnnewick
Shelton, Olympia, Covington,
and Snohomish in Washington,
ind Eugene, Coquille, McMinn-
ville, and Coos Bay. Oregon
The OreRon state fish commission
court action to prevent construe
Pclton dam on the Deschutes
a day-long hearing before the
It was explained later that the
fish commission feels there is no
place below the dam where the
company could build a hatchery
to replace the present state
hatchery.
Opponents of the dam out
numbered the proponents at the
hearing.
RBy Kell, attorney for the Or
egon State Grange, protested the
application on grounds that con
servation and irrigation needs
were paramount over the pow
er needs In the case of the Pel
ton dam.
Main contention of the oppon
ents was that the power short
aeg in central Oregon will be
filled within one to three years,
as soon as new Columbia river
dams begin producing power,
and that the Pellnn dam there
fore Is not an emergency pro)-tct
Russia Offers
Terms for Lifting
Berlin Blockade
Hinges on Meeting of
Council of Foreign
Ministers
terms under which the Soviet
t'nion offer to lilt the blockade
of Berlin.
A statement distributed by
Tass, the official news agency,
said that if an agreement can
be reached on a date for a meet
ing of the council of foreign min
isters, then:
1. The Russians will lift their
communications ban, provided
the west ends its counter-block
ade of eastern Germany;
2. The Berlin currency ques
tion, which hampered the four
power talks in Moscow last sum
mer, can be discussed by the
four powers after the commun
ications restrictions are lifted.
3. The entire German ques
tion should come up for review
by the four foreign ministers.
Only Holds a Promise
Some foreign diplomats here
said this offer was the first
sign in months that some agree
ment might be possible between
the east and the west, but they
warned against either hasty op
timism or undue pessimism. One
diplomat said the Soviet state
ment "holds a promise" which
was worthy of consideration by
the United States, Britain and
France.
(The Soviet statement comes
closer than in any previous over
tures to meeting the west's de
mand that the blockade be lift
ed first before any four-power
talks can be held on the future
of Germany as a whole. The of
fer was made public only a few
hours after the announcement
by the west In Germany that dif
ficulties barring the way to a
west German government had
been cleared away. Russia ve
hemently opposes a separate
west German state.)
Red Press Bids for Peace
It would appear here, from
the terms of the offer, that a
unified Berlin currency no long
er is a prime condition for the
lifting of communications re
strictions In Germany's first ci
ty If this be true, it represents
a step forward from the point
where the four-power discus
sions broke down last summer.
The three western envoys in
Moscow almost had reached
agreement with Prime Minister
Stalin and then Foreign Minis
ler V. M. Molotov, but the cur
rency issue blocked the way.
All newspapers this morning
published the Tass statement
prominently but made no edit
orial comment, as if waiting for
w estern reaction.
It seemed significant, howev
er, that the newspapers carried
the new May Day slogans bid
ding for peace with the west.
Terms Held to
Be Acceptable
Washington, April 26 (IP)
The United States said today
"the way appears clear" for lift
ing the Berlin blockade provid
ed the Russians' terms actually,
are those published by Moscow.
The state department got out
a 1200-word statement of the
American position. It was un
derstood the United States, Brit
ain and France had discussed the
published Soviet terms and had
found them acceptable.
The only reservation appears
to be whether the Russians in
tend to propose any further con
ditions. The formal stale department
pronouncement came after a
round of top-level government
conferences. One of these was
a report to President Truman
from Dr. Philip Jessup, the Am
erican delegate to the United Na
tions Security Council. Jessup
had discussed the Soviet propos
al at Lake Success, N. Y.. wilh
Jacob A. Malik, the Russian UN
delegate.
For himself Jessup tnld re
porters "things look hopeful."
That presumably was an indica
tion that he inclines to the view
that the Soviet proposal Is a
sincere one and Hint there are
no hidden conditions to be
sprung later.
THE WEATHER
(Released bv United Btates
Weather Bureau
Forecat for Salem and Vlcln.
tlv: Considerable cloudiness to
night and Wednesday, and a few
shower Wednesday. Little
change in temperature. lowest
temperature expected tonight, 3S
degree: highest Wednesday, fig
Conditions will he moMlv favor
able for farm work. Maximum
yesterday SA. Minimum today .17.
Mean temperature yesterday M.
which was I above normal. Total
34-hour precipitation to 1130 a
m. todav 0. Total precipitation
for the month of an Inch
which la 1 71 inches below nor
mal WHIam.tt river height at
Ralem TueadaT morning. S 6 feet.
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