Cold Weather
Eases Northwest
Flood Situation
Tragedy on Clear
water Claims 3 Lives
Snow Melt Slowed
Capital AJcs&aial
State Board of Control Ousts
Fisher and Wharton from Tax
TrCommission Oyer McKay's Protest
61st Year, No. 116
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Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 16,
(16 Pages)
A welcome temperature drop
eased the Pacific northwest
flood situation today (Monday),
Just alter one of the snow-swollen
rivers claimed three lives
and a hlrhwiy bridge.
Three members of a log-driven
crew disappeared in the
Clearwater river rapids at Len
ore, Idaho, yesterday when their
18-foot rowboat capsized.
The victims were Leonard
Chase, 28, Orofino; Walter An
derson, 42, Pierce, and Ray Fit
ting, 32, Stites. Four others
saved themselves by grabbing
overhanging limbs.
Peck Bridge Collapses
The Peck bridge, a 750-foot
span across the same river at
Peck, Idaho, collapsed yester
day morning into the swollen
waters. The high water of a
year ago, plus the pounding of
this year, was blamed.
Cooler weather, that slowed
the snow melt, slowed the rise
of several rivers today. Some
were even beginning to fall.
Nearly all streams in the Yak
ima river watershed' were drop
ping. ,t The Kootenai river started
falling at Bonners Ferry, Idaho,
at 9 a.m. today. It had reached
a stage of 30.9 feet, a mark
equalled only seven times in
the last 56 years.
Army engineers and civilian
crews were worried about three
dikes sheltering 1000 acres of
farm land along the Kootenai
They can't be reached for
strengthening and might go out
If the river stays high long
enough to soften them.
Kootenai Dikes Shaky
The Columbia river rose to
more than six feet beyond flood
stage at Vancouver, Wash., and
several families along the half-
inundated lower river road pre
pared to leave. Three, dwelling
in the lowest part of the area,
moved out yesterday.
The Aluminum Company of
America plant, reached by the
same road, was not in trouble.
High dikes, built after last
year's disaster, protect the
plant.
The Willamette river, swoll
en by the Columbia's backwash,
touched 2.9 feet above the flood
mark at Portland this morning
Low docks were inundated, but
their owners ' had already re
moved property safely.
The Portland weather bureau
said the Columbia would rise a
half a foot more at Vancouver
by Thursday, and then fall
slightly Friday.
The middle Columbia from
Coulee to Pasco aided by im
pounding of water in Grand
Coulee reservoir was forecast
to fall slightly during the next
two days. The lower Snake was
expected to remain nearly sta
tionary for 24 hours, and then
fall slightly Tuesday.
Red Commies at
Shanghai Doors
Shanghai, May 16 (IP) The
communists were knocking at
the gates of Shanghai today.
Most foreign airlines were
suspending operations. The last
evacuees were scurrying away.
Communications with the out
side world were sharply reduc
ed. But Shanghai still waited for
the Reds with no great outward
show of concern.
The smashing efforts by the
communists to take Woosung.
the fortified section where the
Yangtze and Whangpoo con
verge, have so far failed.
Red Gen. Chen Yl'a warriors
have been at the edge of Woo
sung several times. But they
have not been able to stay there.
Ships still come and go.
The nationalists' latest com-
V junique says the Reds lost 300
dead and 600 prisoners around
Woosung. Thwarted at Woosung
the Reds jabbed at defenses
around Hung Jao airport. The
nationalists said they were
driving them back.
Hung Jao airfield is only a
stone's throw from Shanghai's
old French concession. The air
field has not been in operation
for several weeks. The few
planes leaving Shanghai now
take off from Lunghwa airfield.
First Barge Arrives
Since Blockade Started
Berlin, May 16 (IP) The first
barge since the Russian block
ade was Imposed 10 months ago
arrived in Berlin today.
She was the "Emma." loaded
at Hamburg with 100 tons of
mixed cargo and food packages
for western Berlin.
The arrival of the barge open
ed the last of traffic lanes
which had been closed by the
Russian blockade of the city.
Train and highway traffic re
sumed at midnight, May 12.
Consign
Eisler to Jail
il Hearing
London, May 16 (U.R) A Brit
ish court today consigned Ger
hart Eisler German communist
agent wanted by the United
States, to a jail cell for eight
days while protests against his
arrest echoed in the house of
commons and the British foreign
office.
Magistrate John Eastwood of
London's Bow street court set
May 24, next Tuesday, as the
date for the hearing on American
attempts to extradite Eisler "to
the United States.
Bail Is Refused
Eastwood refused to allow bail
for Eisler. The balding commu
nist will spend the next eight
days in Brixton prison, London.
While Eisler stood in the Bow
street prisoner's dock, Polish
Ambassador Jerzy Michalowski
was at the foreign office deliv
ering a stiff protect against Eis-
lers' arrest aboard the Polish lin
er Batory in Southampton har
bor last Saturday night.
The small, bespectacled com
munist, wanted in the United
States for skipping bail pending
appeals on conviction for pass
port fraud and contempt of con
gress, was dragged, kicking and
screaming, from the liner by
British police.
Polish Protest Delivered
Michalowski delivered Po
land's protest to Foreign Secre
tary Ernest Bevin in person.
In the house of commons,
Home Secretary James Chuter
Ede rejected a communist at
tempt to. force what would have
amount to a vote of censure for
the government's action in i
resting Eisler at the request of
the United States government.
Eisler was brought to London
after a Southampton's magis
trate court this morning re
manded him to Bow street, the
only British court empowered to
hear extradition cases.
The former No. 1 communist
agent in the United States was
seized at the request of the Unit
ed State, which wants him for
skipping bail of $24,500 pend
ing appeal of conviction for pass
port fraud and contempt of con
gress.
U. S. Threatened
To Seize Liner
Washington, May 16 VP) The
state department said today the
United States had threatened ac
tion to seize the Polish liner
Batory unless the master of the
ship surrendered the fugitive
commuist Gerhart Eisler to
British authorities.
The department said formal
notice was served on the ship's
captain that unless he gave up
Eisler when the Batory put into
Southampton "the attorney gen
eral will proceed against the
steamship line for forfeiture of
the vessel and other applicable
penalties under United States
law."
Eisler, German-born com
munist leader who fled from
the United States aboard the
Polish ship, was removed forci
bly from the Batory at South
ampton Saturday.
The Polish embassy in Lon
don said in a statement yester
day that the U.S. had made the
threat to seize the Batory the
next time she returned to Amer
ican waters.
McKay Going to Capital
Governor Douglas McKay
will iiy to Washington tomor
row to testify at congressional
hearings against the proposed
Columbia Valley authority. Sen
ate President William E. Walsh
will be acting governor.
James Lamb Appointed
Boys Training School Head
James Lamb, 38, probation officer for the Multnomah county
court of domestic relations for the past five years, was named by
the state borad of control today to be superintendent of the Boys
Training school at Woodburn.
Lamb, the number 1 choice of the state advisory committee
lor ine ooys ana girls schools,'
succeeds M. D. Woolley, who re
signed April 1 to manage the
Harney county chamber of com
merce. Lamb will take over the
$5,400-a-year job about July 1.
Lamb received his training in
physical education at Washing
ton State college. Then he took
social service work a, the Unl-
Iversity of Chicago, as well as
working in Chicago s tenement
district.
He then went to work for the
Washington state department of
public welfare, and during the
war ht did recreation work for
JiBiiMBiii man iii ttsaliatyffejU:
Hybridizer Sees His Product E. G. Lapham, noted hy
bridizer of Elkhart, Ind., Saturday saw in the Schreiner
gardens near Quinaby, an iris that he developed. Mr. Lapham,
at right, is shown here with Robert Schreiner. The Indiana
man has been hybridizing for 25 years, and was one of the
American iris growers traveling through the valley in connec
tion with the Portland convention. They also saw the Cooley
and the Dr. R. E. Kleinsorge gardens at Silverton.
Need $1,570,000,000
For Columbia Program
Washington, May 16 (P) Major General Lewis A. Pick, chief
or army engineers, recommended today a $1,570,000,000 water
program for the Columbia river basin.
Pick told a house public works subcommittee on flood control
the Pacific northwest needs for water development are great.
He said the Columbia river ba
sin "needs for development are
among the greatest in the na
tion."
The engineers' plan, he said,
includes projects for flood con
trol, power, irrigation, recrea
tion, conservation, and naviga
tion. Demands for flood control
were again emphasized tragi
cally by the floods of 1948, he
said.
Pick said the engineers' pro
gram is expected to provide
more than 6,000,000 kilowatts of
power.
He said plans call for exten
sion of navigation to Lewiston,
Idaho, on the Snake river and
to Harrisburg, Ore., on the Wil
lamette. The subcommitte of which
Rep. Davis (D., Term.), is chair
man, announced plans for a
hearing Friday on the Columbia
river basin program. At that
time. Pick said, army engineers
will present detailed recom
mendations. Rep. Angell (R., Ore.) com
mented that damages from
floods along the Columbia basin
amounted to more than $1,000,
000 last year.
In answer to a question by
Angell, Pick said the proposed
Columbia valley administration
would not interefere with the
engineer's development for the
basin.
Four Alaskans
Split Tanana Pot
Nenana, Alaska, May 16 U.R)
Four native Alaskans, who
correctly guessed the day, hour
and minutes of annual break
up on the Tanana river, split
$164,000 today.
The ice broke at 2:39 p. m.
(PST) Saturday.
Correct guessers on the $164,
000 jackpot were Olaf Efkkila
and Ino Nlckelson of Anchorage
and La Lay and Betty Dan of
raimanks.
the war relocation authority.
Working for Judge Donald E.
Long in the court of domestic
relations in Portland, Lamb
handled the cases of 3,500 boys
in the past five years.
Lamb told the board today
that the boys school has "plen
ty of money in its budget to do
an adequate job, and I might
even get along with fewer em
ployees." Governor Douglas McKay
said experts of the children's
division of the federal govern
ment inspected the school last
week and give it a good rating.
Cancer Fund
Drive Total $928
Contributions received to date
in Marion county for the 1949
American Cancer society fund
drive 'total $928.70, Robert M.
Fischer, Jr., chairman of the
campaign in this area, announc
ed today.
Friday, May 20, will see the
wind-up of the drive and collec
tion of com boxes from grocery
stores, cafes and otehr places of
business. In the meantime
county residents interested
helping further the battle against
cancer may send one dollar, or
more, to campaign headquarters,
229 North Liberty street.
Two communities where a con
centrated effort is under way to
collect money for the cancer
drive, Stayton and Jefferson,
have not reported their contrib
utions thus far but are expected
to be heard from in a few days,
Fischer stated.
Breakdown of contributions is
as follows: women's clubs, $60;
labor unions, $40; grange and
farmers' unions, $20; veterans
organizations; $59.88; lodges,
$20; Salem business firms,
$252.50; individuals, $303.25; MJ.
Angel, $15.00; Woodburn,
$13.00; Silverton, $12; Talbot,
$133.07. With the exception of
Talbot only partial returns have
been made by the communities
listed.
"Response to the cancer drive
improved last week and the com
mittee looks forward to even bet
ter returns between now and
May 20," Fischer said.
Waiting Lines at
Rent Control Office
Three days of waiting lines
have been the experience of the
Salem area rent control office
as a result of publication of no
tice that Monday is the deadline
for registration of housing units
brought under control by the
1949 housing and' rent act.
The notice was published on
Thursday. The response was
immediate. A line of registrants
formed Friday. Ordinarily the
rent control office is not open
on Saturday. But one of the
clerks happened to go to the of
fice and ran into enough business
to keep her busy for an hour and
a half.
A line was waiting throughout
the forenoon Monday, which
dwindled at the noor hour, but
grew again in the afternoon.
The situation is remindful, one
of the clerks said, of the earlier
days of rent control in 1946.
Kodak Price Slashed
Rochester, N.Y., May 10 AJ.B
The Eastman Kodak Co. slash
ed prices today on popular still
and movie cameras and projec
tors an average of 12 Vi per cent.
On some Itami the price cuts
I ranged to 174 per cent.
Commies Win
In 3 European
Rigged Elections
(Br tht Auoclatrd Pr.ju
The communists shadow-boxed
through three elections in
Europe yesterday. They count
ed votes today and found, to
nobody's .surprise, .they had
won.
The elections were in Hun
gary, Bulgaria and the eastern
zone of Germany. The German
voting is continuing today. Fol
lowing the pattern laid down by
the Soviet Union, there was but
a single slate of candidates in
each place, carefully chosen in
advance by communist-controlled
organizations.
Hungarian Election
The Budapest government
said first official figures on
Hungary's voting for a new par
liament showed 97.3 per cent in
favor of the hand-picked slate.
In Sofia the official tally
made it appear that virtually
every voter turned out to mark
his ballot for the government.
In Germany, the voters had a
choice of voting "ja" or "nein"
on a hand-picked slate of peo
ple's congress members. This
congress" is expected speedily
to set up a government to rival
that of west Germany. Com
munist predictons for the elec
tion were for a virtually solid
"ja ' vote.
Nearly Unanimous
A Hungarian interior minis
try statement said only 1.9 per
cent of the first 1,154,000 bal
lots counted were cast against
the government slate. The offi
cial count this morning was:
government, 1.123.000; against
the government, 21,700; invalid
ballots, 9,600. Absenteeism was
about the only way a voter
could safely register protest, but
since no figures on those eligi
ble to vote were issued, the ab
sentees could not. be checked
accurately.
These elections, the first since
1947, are expected to pave the
way for the final step in com
munist domination of Hungary
The communist controlled
new outlets of eastern Germany
repo.tea a 60 per .cent turnout
of voters yesterday in the first
day of the two-day balloting
By tonight the communists pre
dicted a virtually solid "ja" for
their list of people.
Government
In Ford Strike
Washington, May 16 W) The
federal government stepped into
the Ford strike today In an ef
fort to get a settlement.
Walter Reuther, president of
the CIO Auto Workers, visited
Federal Mediation Director Cy
rus S. Ching and talked with him
about the strike.
Coming out of Ching's office.
Reuther told reporter, in reply
to a question, that Ching's agen
cy conciliation service plans to
have a man there today"
meaning at the strike negotia
tions in Detroit.
The union had asked the me
diation service to intervene in
the strike.
The Ford Motor company, with
100,000 men idle, had declared
in Detroit earlier that it would
give "all possible assistance" to
any federal peace effort.
President Henry Ford II ask
ed, however, that Ching "weigh
carefully" certain factors other
than the strike itself before step
ping into the dispute. One of
this is the company's contention
that factionalism and politics in
the union led to the strike.
Union officials deny that.
Landers Given Fines
Independence Donald L.
Landers, Scotts Mills, was fin
ed a total of $125 by W. A.
Wiest, justice of the peace. For
theft of a flashlight from the
parked automobile belonging to
Robert Durfee near the Inde
pendence sawmill he was fined
$25 and for taking a jacket, two
billfolds, flashlight, motor oil
and an auto robe from the park
ed car of Lloyd Lane, also in the
mill vicinity, he was fined $100
THE WEATHER
fReleaxed by United States
Weather Bureau)
FortVint for Salem and Vicin
ity: Generally fair tonight and
Tuesday. Little change in tem
perature. Lowest temperature
expected tonight, 48 degrees;
highest Tuesday, 74. Conditions
will continue favorable for agri
culture work except for fresh
to occasional moderate northerly
winds. Maximum yesterday 67
Minimum today 40. Mean tem
perature yesterday 58 which was
2 above normal. Total 24-hour
precipitation to 11:30 a m, to
day 0. Total precipitation for the
month 1.64 inches which ts .37 of
n Inch above normal. Willam
ette river height at Salem Mon
day mornint. 6$ feet.
(Above) Wallare S. Wharton
(Below Earl L. Fisher
Non-Unionist
Truman Painter
Independence, Mo., May 16
iff) The summer White House
has less than half its spring coat
of paint today and President
Truman has a protest over the
non-union painter.
The protest is a registered
letter mailed to the president
by painters district council No.
3, A. F. L.
John H. Moler, 67, who start
ed a one-man job on the presi
dent's home May 3, says he's
not a union man, never been
and doesn't intend to be one,
but doesn't have any grudge
against the union.
Moler, who says he's painted
for the Trumans before, says he
can't understand "why the un
ion is so upset.
Jack Cooke, union represen
tative who announced the mail
ing, said "after all, Truman has
championed himself as the man
of the hour in labor and yotl'
can't serve but one master if
you serve him right."
Cooke said the letter was "no
tification" to the president that
Moler is doing the job.
There was no comment from
the White House.
Dallas May Go On
Daylight Time
Dallas, May 16 Decision on
the daylight savings-standard
time situation will be reached
within a few hours.
The city council will lake ac
tion" Monday night while the
Polk county court is to deter
mine its action Tuesday. Both
Mayor Mollis Smith and Coun
ty Judge C. F. Hayes believes
the change will be approved.
Operations at the Willamette
Lumber company mill were on
daylight savings time Monday,
conforming to the change in Salem.
Tornado Sri-ikes Amarillo
Killing 4, Injuring 65
Amarillo, Tex., May 18 (IP) A kipping, whipsawing tornado
chewed up a four-square mile area in southern Amarillo last night,
killing four people. About 65 were Injured.
It was the first destructive tornado in the 62-year-old history
of this Panhandle capital of 102,000 people.
Dawn found Red Cross and
volunteer workers still picking
their way through acres of
shambles. It looked as if a big
kitchen mixer had dipped in,
stirred everything up, and then
spewed it around.
Although many sections of
Amarillo were hit. the tornado's
most destructive blow fell on the
southern area dotted largely
with new homes for veterans.
A near-cloudburst and hail
stones as large as a man's fist
added to the damage.
Ambulances and highway pa
trol units tunneled into Amarillo
from a 200-mile radius, bringing
Injured to the crowded hospi
tals. Red Cross people flew in
from St. Louis.
To property damage here may
bt added heavy loss to crops in
Ray Smith of Portland and Robert MacLean of
Lincoln to Take Office June A Governor
Alleges Political Deal by Newbry and Pearson
By JAMES D. OLSON
In a stormy session of the state board of control Tax Com
missioners Earl L. Fisher and Wallace S. Wharton were ousted
and new men named to replace them as Governor Douglas Ma
Kay charged bis fellow members with "entering Into a deal."
The new commissioners are Ray Smith, secretary of the Port-
land Aerie of Eagles and prominent republican in Multnomah
county to replace Fisher in the
Robert MacLean, county commissioner of Lincoln county who
will take over Wharton's post in the assessment division of ths
commission.
The new men will assume office on June 4, when the terms
of the present incumbants expire.
Smith was nominated by Secretary of State Newbry and sup
ported by State Treasurer Walter Pearson and MacLean was
named by Pearson and supported by Newbry. In both cases Gov
ernor McKay refused to concur
'When you have men who arch
doing an efficient job I don t
like to see you fire them," de
clared McKay. "And another
thing I don't like is for you
two gentlemen to meet a half
hour before this meeting and en
ter into a deal and give me no
chance to consider it."
Newbry Denies Deal
Both Pearson and Newbry
countered by declaring that the
governor had refused to discuss
the appointments with them.
"I talked to you governor I
three weeks ago," declared Pear
son, "and other than to say that
you were for Fisher and Whar
ton and no one else, you would
not discuss it."
Newbry then denied that he
had entered into any "deal"
with the state treasurer and that
more than a month ago had re
fused to support the state treas
urer s suggestion that Howara
Morgan, Portland democratic
representative be appointed to
the job.
"You two men have the votes
but I wish to say again that I
don't like to see men who arc
performing an efficient job get
kicked out in this way," the
governor declared. "You have
started to fix me up but the vot
ers will have the final say."
McKay said that Commission
er Fisher would reach the age
65 next March and he was in
favor of retaining him until that
time. He also said that Commis
sioner Wharton had long expert
ence in the tax commission and
he could see no reason to dis
place him. - -
Biographies of Appointees
Smith, was born in Portland
on March 10, 1908. He obtained
a law degree from the North
western college of law in 1936
and for a nun.ber of years was
an auditor in the division of
audits of the secretary of state's
office. Later he acted as fiscal
agent for the state board of
health and was also employed by
the corporation department. He
returned to the bureau of audits
working there until 1946 when
he became secretary of the
, , . . rT,QnrJj onri
lives in Portland.
MacLean was born on July 9.
1901, in Minneapolis, Minn., and
came to Waldport in 1940 where
he has operated a 190-acreranch.
He served 16 months in the first
world war as a private and en
listed in the second war as a
private in the air corps and went
out of the service as a lieuten
ant colonel.
He is married and has three
children. He was elected coun
ty commissioner of Lincoln coun
ty last November.
Power Plant Resumes
Idanha, May 16 After being
shut down since March 28 the
power plant of the Idanha Lum
ber company is now back in op
eration. The Idanha Power com
pany has been furnishing power
for the mill which resumed cut
ting April 11. The power house
was wrecked when a flywheel
on the steam engine flew to
pieces.
the wheat-rich Texas panhandle
that part of the state which
Juts up to the north, bordered
by New Mexico and Oklahoma
Hall such as fell here would de
stroy the near-ripe wheat but
smashed communication lines
made it difficult to discover the
extent of the hailstorm.
Three carloads of pigs, smash
ed free from their freight-car
prisons, rooted in the wreckage
here. Curious sight seers throng
ed streets already littered with
tossed rooftops, smashed cars,
shredded lumber and toppled
trees. Some rooftops had been
blown a mile.
Night rescue work was carried
on by the lights of cars, ambu
lances and trucks. Electric power
was out.
income tax division and Col,
Two Killed in
Plane Smash
Cave Junction, Ore., May 16
iif) A private airplane crashed
at the Siskiyou national forest
airport near here yesterday,
killing two Grants Pass men.
Josephine County Coroner
Virgil Hull said John M. Scott,
machinery operator and the
plane
pilot and owner, and
Thomas Boland, formerly of
Boise, died soon after the plane
cracked up.
Witnesses said the plane ap
peared to stall in taking off
and nosed into the ground. They
had flown here from Grants
Pass.
Cliff Marshall, forest service
airport director, said it was un
derstood Scott's wife and chil
dren were motoring in the vicin
ity at the time of the crash. He
was employed by the Grants
Pass Provision Co.
Fred Hale, manager of tht
Grants Pass Air Service, report
ed Boland was preparing to take
examination for a private
pilot license. He said Scott was
at the controls when the plan
took off from Grants Pass.
Mrs. Burtenett
IX 1 I J A
uies Aged luz
Mrs. Emma Burtenett, former
resident of Salem, died at New
port Sunday at the age of 102
years. She made her home here
from 1909 until 1931 when she
left for the coast to make her
home with a daughter, Mrs.
Prentiss Fullerton.
Mrs. Burtenett was born at
Canton, Ohio, May 1, 1847 and
when ten years old moved to
Iowa with her parents, where
she married Charles E, Burte
nett March 5, 1874. They lived
there until coming here in 1909.
He died in December, 1918. She
is also survived by another
daughter, Mrs. Ada Petram, Se
attle, and a son, C. A. Burtenett,
L.os Angeles.
Funeral services will be held
from the Newport Christian
church at 10 o'clock Wednes
day (standard time) with com
mittal services at the City View
cemetery in Salem at 3:30
o'clock (daylight savings time),
under the direction of the Par
ker funeral home at Newport.
Truman Gives Award
To Mayor Dot Lee
Washington, May 16 UP) May
or Dorothy McCullough Lee of
Pnrllnnrt flro urns nna n ,iv
j women to whom President Tru
man presented 1949 achievement
awards of the Women's National
Press club at an annual banquet
Saturday night,
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt re
ceived the club's top award as
"Woman of the Year" for her
work as chairman of the United
Nations human rights commit
tee. Other winners included Mrs.
Anna Mary Robertson of Eagle
Bridge. N. Y.. self-taught paint
er; Actress Madeleine Carroll;
Author Mary Jane Ward of Ev
anston. III.; and Marjorie Child
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