Active Water
Accounts Pass
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Department Records
Justify City Move for
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Celebration Greets Last Hours
Of Berlin Blockade As Siege
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, May 1 1, 1949
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Active customer accounts In
the city water department have
In recent weeks, reached and
passed the 10,000 mark, and
Wednesday showed a total of
10,065 metered users ot city
water.
That is an increase of 95 since
January, when the total, the
highest on record at that time
was 9970.
The consistent yearly Increase
in water consumption and num
ber of users seems to Justify the
application City Manager J. L.
Franzen is preparing to make
for an appropriation of water
from Big Cliff dam on the De
troit project.
The Increase has been steady,
month by month, over a period
of years, and is more than 3000
higher than the figure was
-running in 1935 when the city
acquired the water system. Ac
tive accounts had passed the
8000 mark in January, 1941,
and the 9000 mark in January
of 1948.
Correspondingly the net pro-
t action of water, metered
ater sales, and monthly rev
enue of the department have
grown.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 7)
No Change in
Ford Deadlock
Detroit, May 11 (IP) Negotia
tions for settlement of a six
day-old strike of 65 000 Ford
Motor company employees con
tinued today with no outward
indication a truce is near.
Ford and United Mine Work
ers (CIO) officials recessed their
peace talks for lunch and said
they would meet again two
hours later.
Asked by reporters if there
was any change in the dead
locked situation following the
two-hour morning conference,
Ford Vice President John S. Bu
gas replied: "I wouldn't say so."
UAW President Walter Reu
ther, who is heading the union's
negotiating team, declined to
, comment.
As the talks continued, Ford
announced that a total of 90,000
employees will be idle after to
day. By tonight, the company
said, only four of its 19 assem
bly plants will be open. Those
are Ford plants at Richmond
and Long Beach, Calif., and Lincoln-Mercury
plants at Metuch
en, N. J., and Los Angeles.
Thus only about 16,000 of
Ford's 106,000 production work
ers still are on the job.
'Truculent Turtle'
Completes Flight
London, May 11 WV-The U.S.
navy bomber "Truculent Tur
tle" landed at Northholt airport
today, completing i t s flight
from America commemorating
the first air crossing of the At
lantic. Aboard the plane were Rear
Adm. A. C Read and Aviation
Machinist's Mate Eugene S.
Rhoads, who were on the navy
flying boat NC-4 when it made
the crossing 30 years ago.
The Turtle had come via Lis
bon on the same route followed
by the NC-4. The difference was
that the NC-4 ended its flight
when it landed in Plymouth
harbor. The Turtle circled Ply
mouth and went on to London
to land.
Governor Dewey
Arrives in London
.
London, May 11 u. Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York
arrived in London without fan
fare today and, almost unnoticed,
checked into the exclusive Clar
Idge's hotel.
He drove here from South
ampton, where he arrived last
night from New York on the
Cunard White Star liner queen
Mary for a "several-day" stay in
Britain and a tour of the conti
nent. He was accompanied by his
wife, and his secretary, Paul
Lockwood.
Counties to Get
More Yets' Funds
The 20 Oregon counties which
hire veterans' service officers
will get a 10 percent increase to
finance these operations July 1,
William F. Gaarenstroom, state
veterans affairs director, an
nounced today.
The state now pays 30 per
cent of the cost, up to a maxi
mum of $1200 per county. On
July 1, the amount will be rais
ed to 40 percent and a $1600
-iMximum,
3 Prong Drive
On Hankow by
Chinese Reds
Shanghai, May 11 (IP) Chi
nese communists, apparently
living off the land, bore down
swiftly today on coastal Fukien
province.
At the same time the Red
noose around Shanghai was
tightened.
The nationalist garrison here
officially admitted these Red
gains.
Unofficial reports indicated
Hankow, big Yangtze port in
central China, may be doomed.
A three pronged communist at
tack on Hankow seemed to be
gathering momentum.
Moves Around Shanghai.
The Shanghai garrison com
munique today gave this pic
ture: 1. A Red force of 2,000 men
has attacked Kinki in Kiangsi
province less than 50 miles from
the Fukien boundary. Fukien
is opposite the island of Formo-
2. The communists were at
tacking Kashan, 50 miles south
west of Shanghai. Communica
tions with that city were sever
ed at dawn. This usually means
capture.
3. Thirty miles northwest of
Shanghai the village of Chenmo
in the Kunshan area was under
communist attack.
The communique gave no in
dication of the size of the two
moves around Shanghai. Most
actions in that area have been
small scale.
(Concluded on Pace 8, Column 6)
Thomas Favors
Atlantic Pact
Washington, May 11 VP) !
Spokesmen for the communist
and socialist parties took op
posite sides today on the North
Atlantic security alliance.
Eugene Dennis, general secre
tary of the communist party,
called the pact "aggressive" and
told the senate foreign relations
committee that this country
cannot even pretend to good
faith" in negotiations with Rus
sia it it is ratified.
He argued also that it "com
mits the United States o forci
ble supression of all popular
movements" in signatory na
tions.
Norman Thomas, veteran lead
er of American socialists, argued
before the same senate group
that failure to ratify the pact
might be a tremendous jolt
to governments and parties in
Europe on which the hope of
democracy depends."
Though he approved the pact,
Thomas cautioned that grave
dangers are inherent in it.
Thomas said he has received
no answer to his question
whether military men believe
"we can make western Europe
invulnerable if the Russian high
command should decide that the
hour had come to attack."
He said American actions may
convince the world of our sin
cere intent to act against ag
gressors and "thus strengthen
the morale of our friends and
weaken our potential enemies."
School Bonds Voted
Oregon City, May 11 (IP)
School district voters here yes
terday approved a $450,000
bond issue, 452 to 42, to erect a
13-room grade school building.
The structure will replace the
56-year-old E a s t h a m school
which was built originally for
less than $9000.
Golden Gate Bridge Jumper
Repeats Leap
San Francisco. May 11 UB
sought to arrest Bob Niles, 22 - year
500 feet from the San Francisco
of the bay.
It was the red-bearded thrill
chute leap. On March 26. he
Jumped 220 feet from the Gol
den Gate bridge into the chan
nel connecting the ocean with
tht bay.
In yesterday's lump. Niles was
driven out onto the bridge. With
a parachute strapped to his chest
and a cigar jammed in his mouth.
Niles climbed one of the two
huge cables.
As he clambered upwards,
some painters shouted at him
to come back. Motorists stopped
jamming traffic on the road
way below.
As a highway patrol car raced
to the scene, Niles took seven
minutes to climb to his take
off point 250 feet above the
roadway, which It another 250,
feet above th water.
"There was a west wind of,
Hirohito Pays
High Tribute
To MacArthur
Bv FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW
Tokyo, May 11 ttl.PJ I talked
today with the two men who
rule Japan's 80,000,000 people
and who are charged with re.
constructing the war - wrecked
nation Hirohito, the emperor,
and Gen, Douglas MacArthur,
the military ruler.
Their views of each other
were expressed frankly and
freely. Although I was pledged
directly to quote neither, I can
say that the emperor paid the
highest and apparently unre
served tribute to the conquer
ing general as a man possessed
of the quality of grandeur.
great administrator and a true
friend of the Japanese people
in peacetime.
Hirohito a Patriot
MacArthur regards Hirohito
as essentially a patriot, a man
devoted selflessly to the better
ment of his people.
Physically there could hard
1; be a greater contrast than
between these two rulers, who
lead their respective lives in
buildings separated only by a
lake and a park.
Hirohito is a small, well-built
man with a slight forward stoop,
sitting rigidly in a chair with
the burdens and troubles of em
pire plainly showing in occa
sional small, nervous manner
isms.
He would remind you of an
expert surgeon or lawyer who
is too tired but with the full
knowledge of so many hopes
dependent upon him he cannot
rest.
Awaits Peace Treaty
I saw Hirohito in the morn
ing and the tall MacArthur, re
laxing his six feet two inches
in an easy leather chair as he
neared the end of his regular
7 a.m. to 9 p.m. workday.
The general intends to stay
and work with and through
Hirohito until Japan has a peace
treaty. MacArthur feels that the
Japanese people generally have
done their part well and have
been ready for a peace treaty
for some time past.
However, they, now- are-
pawn of global forces, and the
treaty when it comes will in
effect be dictated by the basic
peace in Europe upon which it
is dependent.
Gilson to Take
Sales Census
Carl J. Gilson, 418 Dekum
building, Portland, will be in
charge of the census of business
for 1948 in the Salem area.
This was announced today.
through the Salem Chamber of
Commerce, by James Maxwell,
business economist with the
Portland district of the federal
department of commerce, which
conducts the census. The cen
sus is now getting started, Max
well said.
No census of business has been
made by the department in this
area since 1940, which covered
the year 1939.
The census of that year show
ed that sales in Marion county
in 1939 totaled $26,884,000, and
in Salem $20,279,000. These fig
ures are official.
Since no census has been tak
en since 1940 no official figures
are available for later years.
Sales Management Magazine,
however, estimates Marion coun
ty sales in 1946 at $69,500,000
and Salem sales at $52,300,000,
and for the year 1947 estimates
sales in Marion county at $85,
200,000 and in Salem $64,100,
000.
Off Bay Span
Angry highway patrolmen today
- old ex-paratrooper who leaped
- Oakland bridge into the water
hunter's second spectacular para
about 15 miles an hour," he
said. "I let the chute out. It
blossomed out beautifully, al
most parallel to the bridge.
"The lines pulled me off the
cable. I swung under, then back
clearing the superstructure by a
good 35 feet. I guided the can
opy away from the bridge and
got a 100-foot clearance."
lies faced the bridge all the
way down, grinning and waving
to spectators and performing a
somersault for news photograph
ers. "When I hit the water 23 sec
onds after jumping, I went un
der four feet," he said. "It was
a strong rip tide, but the chute
stayed open. I was in the water
tw0 ,n(j a nan minutes."
Friends picked him up In a
boat.
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Tunnel Excavators Remove Old Fuel Tank When the
heating plant for the old capitol was converted from wood to
oil 35 years ago this 15,000 gallon tank weighing near five
tons was used for fuel storage. E. J. Slick, Salem excavator,
now digging for an access tunnel between the new state
office building and the capitol, removed the bulky tank with
his small Bucyrus-Eric shovel though not at the first attempt.
County Of ficestoOperate
On Standard Time
County offices will continue to operate on standard time until
Governor Douglas McKay takes action for the state one way or
another as provided under a new legislative act which does not
become effective until mid-July. This fact became evident from
county court discussion and statements by county officials Wed
nesday to the effect that theyf-
can pursue no other course leg-
ally than to continue to keep
their offices open on the basis of
standard time and their clocks
set accordingly.
In fact, it is possible that the
town clock on the courthouse
tower may continue to record
standard time next week when
other clocks in the city are shov
ed an hour ahead. As it stands
now the court Wednesday deter
mined to leave this matter in
status, quo but -left open "for
further discussion." The tenti
ment among the three members
of the court as it stood today
seemed to be in favor of leaving
the tower clock on standard time
regardless of the action of the
city council.
But there is no question about
other clocks inside the court
house remaining on standard
time, especially those in the of
fices of the County Clerk Harlan
Judd and County Recorder Ho
mer Lanke. Those officials said
that the law plainly provides
their offices shall remain open
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and that
this means standard time and
the law cannot be changed by
an act of the city council.
So clocks used for accepting
filings will be kept also on stand
ard time, the officials stating
that in the filing of documents
time often is of the essence and
time on clocks used to stamp
filing dates, hours and minutes,
as well as seconds on documents
will be left unchanged.
This in turn will mean the of
fices will open and close o n
standard time as they do now. In
effect they will go to work at
9:30 daylight savings time and
the offices close at 6 o'clock day
light savings time. The county
court left it up to the depart
ment heads to stagger the hours
of their employes as they see fit
in regard to luncheon periods.
Judge Murphy said he'd do his
eating on daylight savings time
as he didn't like to take his noon
hour lunch by himself.
And whatever happens the
county oiling crew will be kept
on standard time. Commission
er Rice said that the oil doesn't
loosen up until about 9 o'clock
and if a switch over was made
the crew would have to wait an
hour getting started and work
an hour overtime in the after
noon at a time and a half in
pay.
"If the governor orders us to
do this after mid-July then we'll
go ahead and do it," he said,
"but until he docs the crew will
stay on standard time as usual."
THE WEATHER
(Released by United State
Weather Bureau)
Forecast lor Salrm and Vicin
ity: Generally lair tonight and
Thursday. Little change In tem
perature. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight, 47; highest
Thursday, .near 82. Conditions
will continue favorable for farm
work Thursday. Maximum yes
terday 81. Minimum today 4ft.
Mean temperature yesterday 63
which was ( above normal. Total
34-hour precipitation to 1 1 :30
a.m. today 0. Total precipitation
for the month 1.53 Inches which
is .71 of an nch above normal.
Willamette river height at Sa
lem Wednesday morning, a fret.
Columbia Rises
Moderately
Portland, May 11 UP) The
Snake and Columbia rivers con
tinued to rise moderately today
with snow-melt cascading into
the tributaries.
Streams in north cen t r a 1
Washington wthe only . area
where damage is expected con
tinued to swell as warm weather
went into its sixth consecutive
day.
Elmer Fisher, weather bureau
river forecaster, said the lower
Snake and middle Columbia
would continue to rise for at
least two or three more days.
The Columbia will be near the
15-foot flood stage at Vancou
ver tomorrow, exceed it Friday
and crest at 18 feet Sunday, he
said.
The 18-foot stage at Vancou
ver means further flooding of
lowland pastures but no impor
tant damage, Fisher said.
The Willamette In Portland
harbor also will reach 18 feet,
which is flood stage, Sunday. No
damage results at that level but
an additional rise would cause
evacuation of some of the lower
dock installations.
The north central Washington
area from Lake Chelan north to
Canada may have severe flood
ing. Fisher said. Already a
bridge has been closed by the
Twisp river and a road in Me
thow valley is covered.
There is danger of severe ero
sion damage, Fisher said,
U.S. Attitude
Toward Spain
Washington, May 11 (IP) Sec
retary of State Acheson said to
day Franco Spain must go a long
way toward restoring basic civ
il rights before it can hope to be
admitted into the family of free
European nations,
Acheson told a news confer
ence the United States considers
the issue of relations with Spain
an International family matter
on which European agreement
is needed. For this reason he
said the United States will con
tinue to abstain from voting In
the United Nations general as
sembly on a resolution to re
turn ambassadors to Madrid.
Acheson referred to the Fran
co regime as patterned after
fascist Italy and nazi Germany.
He said it is still fascist.
The secretary's review of pol
icy toward Spain followed up
criticism of the state depart
ment's stand by Chairman Con
nally (D.-Tex.) and ranking
members of the senate foreign
relations committee.
Franco Spain, Acheson said,
has denied such fundamental
human rights as habeas corpus,
trial by Jury, religious liberty
and free association. He said
these are the same rights which
make the difference between
free Europe and the iron curtain
countries.
Demos to Oust
Mike DeCicco
Portland, Ore., May 11 U.PJ
W. L. Josslin, chairman of the
democratic state central com
mittee, today said the state exe
cutive committee would meet
here May 21 "to oust Mike De
Cicco as state treasurer of the
party."
Josslin said the move was
prompted by "resentment all
over the state in democratic
circles" over the Gearhart in
cident.
DeCicco reportedly was beaten
at his beach home in Gearhart
by a group of sailors. DiCicco
said the men were friends of
woman employe whom he had
discharged.
Josslin said party leaders have
tried to arrange a meeting with
DeCicco but that he had "given
us the runaround."
The state chairman declared
the committee would recommend
that DiCicco be removed and an
upstate war veteran put in his
place. Josslin said the executive
committee had full legal power
to take this step, but if neces
sary he would call a session of
the full state committee.
Supporting the move to oust
DeCicco, according to Josslin,
were:
Mrs. Joada Leonard of Kla
math Falls, vice chairman of the
state committee; Volney Martin,
secretary; Monroe Sweetland,
national committeeman; and
Nancy Honeyman Robinson, na
tional committeewoman.
British Advisor
Shot by Burglars
Berlin, May 11 (IP) Sir John
Shcehy, British military govern
ment financial adviser, was shot
to death last night when he sur
prised two burglars in his home,
officials announced today.
No arrests have been made.
British officials here said
Sheehy's wife telephoned police
shortly after the shooting
She told them that Sir John
heard a noise in his home, lo
cated at Vlotho, near Bad Sal
zuflen, in western Germany and
went to investigate. Moments
later he fell, fatally wounded.
Unwedded Parents Marry
Vera Cruz, Mex May 11 Wi
One hundred unwedded par
ents were married here yester
day in a mass ceremony cel
ebrating Mother's day. Their
300 children attended the wed
ings at City hall. One couple
said they had lived together for
43 years.
Tanana Ice Nears Break-up
With $185,000 Pay-off Near
Ncnana, Alaska, May It U.B The Ice broke In the Chcna
slough at 8:29 p.m. (PST) last night sending a floe-choked stream
surging towards the mighty
Alaskans lined the shore waiting for the record $185,000 payoff in
the famous annual Ncnana ice lottery.
The slough is located in the
heart of Fairbanks and usually
breaks a day or two ahead of
the Tanana river. Old-timers
predicted that the ice -locked
Tanana would start moving
within 24 hours
Max Willard or Anchorage
won the $6,800 Junior pool when
the Chena slough broke up. He
gursed the ice would break at
8.32 p.m. the closest to the ac
tual time.
The biggest payoff in the his
tory of the ice classic will go to
the lucky person whose guess is
closest to the actual time the
Tanana itself begins moving to
wards the sea.
A tripod, situated about 285
I feet out in tha river is attached
All Military Jrains Reinstated Along With
Freight Trains, Trucks, Autos and Barges
Allied Counter Blockade Also Lifted
Berlin, May 11 OP) The last hours of the Berlin blockade ticked
away tonight In a spirit of celebration and deliverance from avanta
which brought the east and west
The end of the 327-day siege of
after midnight, which is equivalent to 2:01 p.m. in Pacific
Standard Time. Trains and trucks lined up near the border
between the British and Russian tones of Germany. The dropping
of roadblocks will start them along the 100 miles ot Russian-con
trolled territory that makes an
The First American military
Berlin Express," left Frankfurt
a.m., FST) The express Is due
German time tomorrow.
The U. S. army announced that
ated to and from Berlin as of March 1, 1948, will be reinstated.
They will operate from Munich,"
Frankfurt and Bremerhaven to
Berlin.
Sixteen freight trains were
ready, along with scores of
trucks, automobiles and barges.
The trains from the west carry
coal and food the things that
the 2,000,000 western Berliners
have gotton only through the
might of the American-British
airlift in the last 10 months.
Counter Blockade Relaxed
At the same time the western
powers will relax their counter
blockade. Under that they kept
goods from flowing into west
ern Germany from the eastern
(Russian-controlled) zone. But
it is the Russians who take a
diplomatic defeat out of the Ber
ling blockade; western leaders
say the Russians, not reckoning
with the airlift, thought they
could squeeze the west out of
Berlin.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay eommen
ted today;
"The west's stand showed the
determination of the free
tions not to yied in the face of
pressure. This undoubtedly re
sulted in renewed confidence of
the people seeking a free way
of life in Europe."
Like a County Fair
The American military gov
ernor declared the Germans.
tested by the blockade, had
shown a willingness to fight for
their freedoms for the first
time since 1933.
It was like county fair day at
Helmstedt. the British zone town
which is the main gateway for
transportation entering the Rus
sian zone enroute to Berlin.
Traffic Jammed the ancient.
winding streets. Five passenger
cars arrived on the railroad from
Frankfurt, to be attached to a
British military train from Biele
feld. The train will move across
the zonal border at 2:13 am
The American cars carried al
most 100 news and radio corres
pondents, photographers and of
ficials. Rail Strike Averted
A threatened strike of Ger
man railway workers was aver
ted. The workers' leaders said
their demands that the wages of
those who work in east Berlin
but live in west Berlin be paid
in west marks had been granted.
Dismantling of brick and me
tal barricades erected by the
communists started today.
Squads of German women, led
by blue uniformed police, were
doing most of the work.
The Soviet headquarters an
nounced the long-severed elec
trical supply to west Berlin from
Russian sector power plants
woud be resumed, and that the
western areas then could have
as much current as they need.
Postal Service Restored
Post offices in both the west
ern and Soviet zones of Ger
many said they were making
fast progress with plans to re
store service disrupted by the
blockades.
Soviet zone canal locks have
been readied to handle barges
from the west "without fric
tion," an announcement said.
The Soviet army newspaper
Tacgliche Rundschau described
the easing of restrictions as a
"contribution to peace." Prac
tically everybody in Berlin
agreed.
(Conrludrd on Page 5. Column II)
Tanana river where hundreds of
by wire to a clock. When the
tripod moves the clock will stop
and spring officially will have
come to Alaska.
As sourdoughs, Checchakos.
miners, Indians and fishermen
waited tensely on the banks of
the Tanana, the waters of the
Chena began cutting into the big
river's ice cap.
It still could be the latest
break-up In the record of the
classic. The Tanana has never
moved later than May 16.
When the Ice breaks this year,
residents will receive a few sec
onds warning of the payoff time
A new and unique siren system
will be set off when the tripod
moves one foot. j
almost to the brink of war.
Berlin was set for one minute
island of Germany's greatest city.
train for Berlin, the famed
at 5:30 p.m. German time (7:30
to reach Berlin at 8:15 a.m..
all military trains which oper
Acheson Talks
On Conference
Washington, May 11 (IP) Sec
retary of State Acheson Indi
cated today that success of the
coming Big Four conference on
Germany will hinge on how fai
the Russians will go along with
plans already laid out by the.
western powers.
He told a news conference
the United States intends to de
mand full guarantees of civil
rights for the German peopla
and will not accept any propo
sals which do not provide foi
such guarantees.
Acheson also made this state
ment, later authorizing direct
quotation:
"Whether a solution can bt
reached in Paris depends, ol
course, upon the willingness ol
the Russians to make or considei
proposals which will not retard
in any way whatsoever tht
great progress which has been
made by the western powers in
their effort to bring as much ol
Germany as possible into a con
dition where it can be a peace
ful and constructive member ol
the community of free nations
in Europe."
The meeting of the Big Foul
foreign ministers opens al
Paris May 23.
In setting the limits of Ameri
can maneuvers at Paris, Ache
son went further than any top
American official had gone to
suggest publicly that if majol
compromises are to be made foi
agreement on Germany they
will have to be made by Russia.
Maguire Says Russ
Licked Communism
Portland, May 11 (IP) Th
Russians themselves licked com
munism in western Germany.
Robert F. Maguire, Portland at
torney, said today.
Maguire has just returned
from Nuernberg where he was I
member of the military tribunal
trying 21 nazis on war crima
charges.
"The attitude of the Russians
and tho magnificent work per
formed by the airlift have soli
dified every element of society
against communism," he said in
an interview today.
He said the best results In re
building Ge r m a n y can b
achieved by "spending a lot ol
time on the young people. It it
too late to try much in the way
of educating the older genera
tions which have lived through
two hard wars." But, he added,
uppermost in the minds of tha
people there is the idea of build
ing a government that combine!
authority and responsibility
and no dictator.
Justice of Peace
Can't Teach School
A justice of the peace can't
leach in the public schools, At
torney General George Neuner
ruled today.
Neuner pointed out that tha
constitution prevents any per
son from holding positions in
more than one branch of the
slate government. A Justice of
the peace is in the Judicial
branch, and the school system
is part of the administrative
branch of government.
The opinion was requested by
William Bennett, district attor
ney for Gilliam county.
Ford Goes Fast
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