McKay Appoints
Page Justice of
Supreme Court
Decision on Successor
. To Circuit Court
Bench Undecided
Capital
House Refuses
Quick Action
Price I On Housing Bill
Senate Adopts
Taft's Plan for
.1 -vv ..nDv
Curbing Strikes
61st Year, No. 153
Entered u aecond clui
matter at Salem, Oretoo
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, June 28, h
(22 Pages)
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Circuit Judge E. M. Page of
Marion county was appointed as
sociate justice of state supreme
court by Governor Douglas Mc
Kay Tuesday. The governor stat
ed that he had not yet determin
ed whom he would select to fill
the vacancy on the Marion coun
ty circuit court.
Judge E. M. Page
. The newly appointed justice
has long been an intimate friend
of the chief executive and his
name as successor to the late
Justice Percy . R. Kelly, who
died two weeks ago, has been
whispered about the capitol for
several days.
Judge Page will be the first
Marion county man to serve on
the state's high court since Jus
tice George H. Burnett who was
elected in November, 1920 and
resigned on October 7, 1921. Pre
viously, the late Senator Charles
L. McNary served two years on
the supreme court, having been
appointed in 1912 by Governor
Oswald West.
No Decision on Successor
Governor McKay said that he
was considering a number of
names for appointment to the
Marion county court.
"I hope to be able to name the
new circuit judge in a day or so,"
the said.
'" The new justice was born
April 28, 1893 on the donation
land claim of his grandfather,
Thomas. . Jory,: aboulwsix1' miles
south of Salem. He was the son
of Hiram R.- and Laura D. Jory
Page.
Judge Page attended public
school in Salem, graduated from
the Salem high school and at
tended Willamette university,
graduating in law in 1914. He
was admitted to practice in 1914.
During the time he attended
law school, Judge Page also
studied in the law offices of the
late Judge John H. McNary and
Senator Charles L. McNary and
upon admission to the bar be
came associated with this firm.
(Continued on Page 5, Column S)
81 Pints Blood
At Mt. Angel
. The Mt. Angel area provided
81 pints of blood when the mo
bile unit from the Portland re
gional blood center visited there
Monday. There were 120 per
sons signed to give blood. Of
these 10 were rejected and
vthree were unsuccessful, while
several were unable to stop at
the unit during the hours it was
r Mrs. L. V. Benson from the
Marion county chapter of the
American Red Cross was in Ben
eral charge for the day. Assist-"'-ing
were Mr. and Mrs. A. Lu-lay,-Mrs.
James Fournier, Mrs.
Leo Schwab, Mrs. Fred Prosser
and other members of the Catho
lic Daughters of America. Mrs.
Don Butscho was a nurse during
the visitation.
Mt. Angel has asked that the
unit return there in October.
Next visitation of the blood
mobile to Salem will be July 12.
Agreement Ends
Bendix Plant Strike
' Washington, June 28 (IP) Sec
retary of Air Symington an
nounced an agreement today for
settlement of the strike that has
closed the Bendix Aviation
Corp. plant at South Bend, Ind.,
for 70 days.
Terms agreed to by the com
pany and United Auto Workers
officials were kept secret pend
ing study and a vote by the
Workers.
; Symington summoned the un
ion and management spokesmen
here for conferences which ran
through last night and into this
morning. He said he did so be
tVuse of the effect of the stop
page on production of airplane
engines.
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Council Beats
Decontrol of
Salem Rents
Speakers for the Home and
Property Owners' association
and the Salem Realty board
failed to convince a majority of
the city council Monday night
that rents should be decontroll
ed in Salem. A decontrol res
olution was lost with a tie vote.
Voting for decontrol were Al
derman Dan. Fry and Howard
Maple and Mayor Robert L.
Elfstrom. Voting to retain con
trol were Aldermen Tom Arm
strong, Albert H. Gille and
James H. Nicholson. Aldermen
David O'Hara and Claud Jor-
gensen were absent. There was
talk that reconsideration might
be attempted at the next meet
ing.
J. F. Ulrich, president of the
Home and Property Owners' as
sociation, headed those appear
ing for decontrol resolution in a
public hearing that took up
nearly two hours before the
question went to a vote.
Ulrich Offers Figures
Ulrich submitted a list of
housing owners and vacancies
which, he said, proved a hous
ing shortage no longer exists in
Salem. In 784 units represent
ed in the list, he said, were 100
vacancies, or 12.45 per cent.
Attacking the rent control
law in general, Ulrich said:
We have socialized housing
and socialized rents. They are
talking about socialized medi
cine and a socialized CVA. Will
we go as Germany and Italy
have gone and as Russia will
go?"
In reply to a question Ulrich
said the natural law of supply
and demand would give the
proper regulation of prices.
"It always has and it always
will," he said. "We have built
the best government on earth
on that principle."
R. J. Schmidt read statistics to
indicate that newspaper adver
tising showed a shortage of
housing no longer exists. Elmer
Amundson, speaking for the
realty board, declared only
about 20 per cent of the hous
ing units are under control, and
mat . decontrol would ... not in
crease rents. B A. Forkner
(Concluded on Cage. S,- Colwna-
Bus Fare Here
ill Move Up
July 1 will probably be the
effective date of street bus fare
increases in Salem and its sub
urbs. The city council Monday
night enacted an ordinance in
creasing fares in the city to a
straight 10 cents, removing the
three-for-a-quarter fares.
Before the public utilities
commission is an application for
an Increase in the suburban dis
tricts to a straight 20 cents for
zone to zone fares. At present
two fares are sold for 35 cents.
Carl Wendt, general manager
of Oregon Motor Stages and City
Transit L,mes, told the council
that the lines lost $5600 in Sa
lem in May, and lost $22,600 the
first five months of the year.
He said that some curtail
ments in the service have been
made on the suburban runs and
some slight curtailments will be
made inside the city after 7
p.m. and on Sundays.
Asked by Alderman Gille if
he would be willing to turn the
service back to its former oper
ators, Wendt said, "We would be
glad to turn it over to anyone
who wants it if they will con
fine it to a suburban service."
The same changes being made
in Salem are also being made in
Eugene,
Price of Milk in Portland
Cut Cent a Quart Friday
The price of milk in Portland will be reduced one cent per quart
beginning Friday morning, State Agriculture Director E. L. Pet
erson ordered today.
Peterson said the reduction to producers, however, will amount
I l'4 cents a quart.
He declared that producers'
costs have dropped since last
year by about the same amount
as the reduction, and that for
the first time in six years, there
is more than enough -milk to
supply the demand.
Consumer groups had asked
Peterson to reduce the price two
or three cents a quart to make
the prices in line with those of
Seattle and Tacoma.
The reduction applies only in
the Portland area, but similar
reductions are expected in oth
er Oregon cities.
"A careful analysis of the
transcripts of testimony and evi
dence presented in the last hear
ing I believe will support the
contention that the minimum
prices now established are not
more than are necessary to pro
War Criminals
ChangeTadicsin
Freedom Fight
Washington, June 28 W) In
ternational war criminals seek
ing freedom from American im
prisonment today charted new
course toward U.S. civil courts,
along a route marked out by a
supreme court justice.
Attorneys for Japanese war
lords serving prison terms for
war crimes said they probably
will seek American court action
as a result of an opinion handed
down yesterday by Justice Wil
liam O. Douglas.
Douglas' views dealt with a
case the supreme court disposed
of six months ago in what he
now calls a potentially danger
ous decision even though it
was one he agreed with.
No Power on Appeals
In that ruling, the court held
that it had no power to hear the
appeals filed by wartime Japan
ese Premier Hideki Tojo and 24
other former Japanese officials,
because they had been found
guilty by an international tri
bunal. Douglas said he hasn't chang
ed his mind about that, although
it troubles him because "it
leaves no room for judicial scru
tiny of this new type of military
tribunal which is evolving."
Then he added what was vir
tually an invitation to Ameri
can-held war crimes prisoners to
try for a new court test.
Up to Lower Courts
Despite the high court's lack
of authority in cases tried by in
ternational tribunals, Douglas
said, persons convicted by such
tribunals have a right to ask
American lower courts to decide
whether they are being legally
held if their jailers are Ameri
cans.
In taking that view, Douglas
apparently was in sharp conflict
with a previous lower court de
cision.
"If an American general holds
a prisoner," he declared, "our
(legal) process can reach him
wherever he is. To that extent.
at least, the constitution follows
the flag. -
"It is no: defense for him to
say that he acts for: the allied
power. He is an American citi
;Snr wh6;-::is ' pe'rtolDgifuric
tions for our government. It is
our constitution which he sup
ports and defends."
Hiss Quizzed on
New York,. June 28 (IP) Alger
Hiss was cross-examined today
about his connection with the
International Juridical associa
tion, which a house committee
has called "a communist front."
Assistant U. S. Attorney
Thomas F. Murphy pointed out
that the former state department
official had said he wrote articles
for the association in 1932-33.
Then the prosecutor asked him
where the office 'of the associa
tion was.
"I can't recall,'; Hiss replied.
"Was it in the office of Mrs.
Carol King?" asked Murphy.
(Mrs. King served as attorney
for Gerhart , Eisler, a leading
American communist who escap
ed to Europe.),
"No," Hiss said, "I think it
was in the office of Mr. Polier."
"I thought you didn't know
where the office was," Murphy
snapped.
The association was cited as a
"communist front" by the former
house Un-American Activities
committee in March, 1944.
Earlier, Murphy was prevent
ed from questioning Hiss about
suicide in his family.
vide milk of accepted standards
of quality and wholesomeness in
quantity sufficient to fill the de
mands, of consumers for such
milk in the Portland area," Pet
erson said.
"All factors considered, the
minimum prices established for
milk do not price this commodi
ty out of proportion to other
foodstuffs generally or out of
proportion to the price of milk
in other markets of this state
or markets of states within this
region.
"It needs to be constantly re
membered that the slightest
change in costs or margins has
a heavy impact upon individual
operations both at point of pro
duction and at point of process
ing and distribution and partic
ularly in the latter."
Florida's First Lady Congratulated U'ne Kev. A. J. Soldan
shakes hands with Florida's new first lady, the bride of Gov.
Fuller Warren (center), after he united them in marriage at
Los Angeles. The new Mrs. Warren is the former Barbara
Jeanne Manning, a sun-tanned California blonde. (AP Wire-photo)
Parking Meter Fees
Buy Police Equipment
Expenditure of $7100 for police equipment to improve the ef
ficiency of the department, and $1920 for "turnout" equipment
for firemen were authorized by the city council Monday night at
the request of City Manager Franzen.
For the police the money will be. from a sum of $12,985.57
unexDectedly available. This
money was not anticipated in the
1948-1949 budget, nor is it in
cluded in the cash balance shown
in the 1949-1950 budget for the
reason that it could not be anti
cipated at the time the budget
was made up.
Of the total amount- $8000 is
May proceeds of parking meters.
Franzen asked authorization to
spend $9100 instead of $7100,
but $2000 requested for purchase
of additional parking meters was
cut out by the council. " y
Included in the new police
equipment will be.j:xadio trans
mitter and receiver for tne ponce
network,, making posible instan
taneous communication oetween
Salem, . Portland, Albany, Eu
gene and other cities. This will
cost $1000..
The money will also make pos
sible the purchase of another
automobile for the department.
Six are needed, but the new bud
get pl-ovides for only five. The
car Will cost $1800. '
Other items are; Two radios
for solo motorcycles, $1300; One
radio for three-wheel motor
cycle, $650; two three-wheel
motorcycles, $1500; radio signal
generator, $600; increased tele
phone rates, $300.
For the fire department equip
ment the bid of the American
Elkhart company was accepted.
Atomic Bombs
Cost Reduced
Washington, June 28 VP) The
atomic .energy commission said
today: ;that the unit costs of pro
ducing uranium-235, a major
component of the atomic bomb,
has decreased 50 percent since
January ,1, 1947, at the Oak
Ridge, Tenn., plant.
This reduction in unit cost
is the equivalent of savings of
of $22,000,000 a year," the AEC
said in a statement.
The AEC added that Carbide
ahd Carbon, Chemicals corpora
tion, Oak Ridge contractor, had
reduced its employes during the
period from 6713 to 4430 at the
gaseous diffusion, plant.
The 4430 are producing more
U-235, the AEC said, than did
35,000 production workers em
ployed at all three production
facilities at Oak Ridge in early
phases of the atomic program,
The statement was made pub
lic as the joint senate-house ato
mic committee entered its fifth
week of hearing charges of "in
credible mismanagement'.' made
against -the commission by Sen
ator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa).
WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Partly cloudy with scattered
light showers tonight and Wed
nesday. Slightly cooler tempera
tures. Lowest temperature ex
pected tonight, 49 degrees, high
est Wednesday, 72. Fresh winds
and scattered showers will hin
der farm work. Maximum yes
terday 73. Minimum today 52.
Mean temperature yesterday 58
which was 6 below normal. The
24-hour precipitation to 11:30
a.m. today .03 of an inch. Total
precipitation for the month .85
of an inch which Is .30 of an
inch below normal. Willamette
river height at Salem Tusday
morning, -1.5 feet.
File Petition for
City Merger
First of petitions for merger
of West Salem with Salem were
in the mail Tuesday for certifi
cation of names with Edna M
Pitzer, Polk county clerk.
It was understood that Walter
Musgrave,. West Salem mayor,
had 63 names, on the petitions
which request that. the question
of West Salem surrendering its
charter and merging with: Salem
be-placed on the ballot.
The law requires the names of
5 percent of those voting in the
last election to permit the call
ing of a special election. In West
Salem this would mean 34.
Besides the 63 names already
secured, four or five more peti
tions are still being circulated.
It was believed that Musgrave
would request the West Salem
city council at its next meeting
to designate July 26 as the date
for the special election to decide
the merger issue.
ONG Contracts
For Rifle Ranges
The Oregon National Guard
awarded contracts today to build
additions to motor vehicle sheds
and rifle ranges at Bend, Leb
anon, Oregon City, Corvallis and
Ontario.
Contracts will be awarded
soon for similar buildings at
Grants Pass and LaGrande.
Contracts for the federal gov
ernment's share of the construc
tion in the same cities already
have been announced.
The contracts awarded today:
Bend A. Wilson Benold,
Bend, $39,423.
Lebanon Smith and Nelson.
Salem. $35,809.
Oregon City Gladstone Con
struction Co., Oregon City, $38,
321. Corvallis Ward and Greene
Portland, $36,627.
Ontario Ward and Greene
Portland, $45,161.
Western European
Fleet Maneuvers
London, June 28 VP) More
than 100 British, French, Dutch
and Belgian warships, .manned
by some 22,000 men, headed to
day for Penzance bay on Eng
land's west coast for one of the
largest peacetime naval ex
clses in history.
All types of vessels, from air
craft carriers to minesweepers,
will take up battle stations
Thursday in the picturesque
Cornish cove.-
For eight days, the interna
tional flotilla will carry out de
fense exercises against simulat
ed air, surface and submarine
attacks.
After a two-day practice
warmup in Penzance bay, the
flotilla will join Britain's home
fleet and steam into the Bay of
Biscay lor further exercises.
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More Detroit
Dam Bids Asked
Further advance in the con
struction of the Detroit dam near
Mill City is seen in the latest
call for bids by the Portland
district, corps of engineers, with
the prospective opening date
July 19 at 2 o'clock, .
The construction is in four
different groups. The first con
sists of grading, embankment
construction and drainage for
streets, parking areas and build
mg sites, and surfacing of
streets and parking areas.
Second phase calls for the
construction of a water supply
and sewer systems and the third
section for the construction of
the motor repair shop and ware
house and the final part in
cludes aerial electrical distribu
tion systems and a substation.
Work will be awarded separ
ately by parts, by a combina
tion of such parts or as a whole
to one bidder, whichever is in
the best interest of the govern
ment, according to, Col. O. E.
Walsh, Portland district engin
eer. - Contractors will be required
to start work within 10 calen
dar days after the date, of re
ceipt of written notice to pro
ceed with completion for all
parts of the project set for 200
calendar days.
Romania Jails
Last 2 Bishops
Vatican City, June 28 (IP) A
Vatican source said today word
has been received of the arrest
by the communist Romanian
government of the last two Ro
man Catholic bishops at liberty
to perform religious functions
in Romania.
Sources said the other three
Roman Catholic bishops were
deposed previously. The Ro
manian government last October
arrested all six of the bishops of
the Uniatc rite which recognizes
the authority of the pope, the
informant added.
(A Romanian spokesman in
Bucharest Friday said the six
Uniate church bishops are re
stricted to their quarters in
monasteries throughout the
country.)
The Vatican informant said
reports indicated Msgr. Aaron
Marion, 53, bishop of Alba Julia,
was arrested June 21. Msgr.
Antonio Durcovici 61, bishop of
Iasi (Jassy) was arrested two
days ago, the reports said.
The informant said the bish
ops are allowed to remain in
their palaces but are not allow
ed to perform religious func
tions.
City Council Cracks Down
Hard on Southern Pacific
Salem city council, swayed by the suspicion that the Southern
Pacific company does not 'ntend to do anything to relax its
steel girdle around the city, cracked down hard on the railroad
company Monday night.
It served notice on the SP that after next year it will not again
extend the company s franchise
on Union street, and it put limi
tations on the company's spur
franchises a't Front and Division
and Water and Court.
Ordinance bills up for third
reading provided a one-year ex
tension of the Union street fran
chise, which brings in the line
from across the river, and pro
vided 10-year franchises at
Front and Division and at Water
and Court.
As the Union street bill passed
it remained at one year, but the
city recorder was directed to
serve notice on the railroad
company that the franchise will
not be renewed again.
The other two rrancnise bills
were amended by extending the
Effort to Shut Off De
bate Fails 115 to 75
Delaying Final Vote
Washington, June 28 W Ad
ministration forces lost today in
an effort to shut, off house dc
bate and force a quick show
down on President Truman's
big, controversial housing bill,
A motion to stop talking and
vote failed 115 to 75.
This may delay a final vote
until tomorrow, but Speaker
Rayburn (D., Tex.) predicted an
administration victory "by
substantial margin" whenever
the showdown comes.
Rep. Spence (D., Ky.), who is
leading administration forces on
the floor, figures the biggest
hazard facing the bill was a pro
posal that would throw the race
issue into the housing fight,
Rep. Marcantonio (AL-NY)
said he was ready to "resent an
amendment barring segregation
in publicly-owned housing proj
ects.
Spence, chairman of the house
banking committee, declared:
If somebody wants to scuttle
the bill, that is the way to do it.
If it gets into the bill it would
have the effect of beating it. A
friend of the bill would not offer
such an amendment. Let them
bring this issue up in separate
legislation."
Marcan tonlo s amendment
would ban discrimination in the
construction, sale, rent or ten
ancy of public housing because
of race, color, creed or national
origin.
The senate, before it passed
the housing bill April 21, beat
back a somewhat similar amend
ment after a long wrangle with
leaders of Mr. Truman's civil
rights program sparking the
fight against it.
Apart from the race issue, the
housing measure apparently had
smooth sailing ahead in the
house.
(Concluded on Fare 5, Column 7)
Liberty Street
Fire Quelled
Fire Tuesday morning did
light damage and caused hasty
vacation of the Willamette Real
Estate office and the George
Redfern jewelry store at 172 and
174 South Liberty streets.
The real estate business is op
erated by Mrs. C. Gobler and
Redfern runs the jewelry store
The fire apparently started
from an oil stove that was en
closed in an alcove in the real
estate office. The walls were
charred, the second story of the
building, which is vacant, was
filled with smoke, and furnish
ings were removed from both
businesses,
The fire department succeed
ed in quelling the blaze with
chemicals and avoided water
damage.
The Liberty cafe and the J. C.
O'Reilly shoe shop, which join
the two businesses, suffered no
damage.
The building is owned by R.
G. Larsen and is located south
of and across an alley from a
a building owned by Mrs. Mar
garet Will.
The building is of wood con
struction and the fire drew a
large crowd when it appeared
that a serious fire might occur.
Americans to Get
British Lumber Order
Washington, June 28 VP)
Rep. Mack (R-Wash) said today
Americans will get $4,000,000 of
a $10,000,000 current order from
Great Britain for lumber.
Mack told a reporter the eco
nomic cooperation administra
tion informed him the United
Kingdom has decided that $6,
000,000 of the order will be al
located to Canada and the re
mainder to the United States.
franchises only one year Instead
of 10 years.
The motion to terminate the
Union street franchise was made
by Alderman Gille, who said
Southern Pacific officials at a
conference here last week had
made it plain they would spend
no money toward relieving the
city from the present condition.
Fry seconded.
The same members made the
motion on Front and Division.
For Water and Court, Gille hav
ing taken the chair, the motion
was made by Maple and second
ed by Fry.
Mayor Elfstrom, after a talk
by Gille, made the motion that
the Union street franchise be
terminated after another year,
Administration De
feated 50 to 40, Use of
injunctions OK'd
Washington, June 28 VP) The
senate today approved the plan
of Senator Taft (R., Ohio), for
the government to use both in
junctions and plants seizure in
dealing with national emer
gency strikes.
The vote was 50 to 40..
It wrote this proposal into the
Truman administration's labor
bill at the climax of a bitter
scrap over what provision should
be made in a new labor law to
meet the problem of strikes
which threaten the national
health or safety.
The acceptance of the Taft
plan altered the administration's
bill still further toward the
likeness of the Taft-Hartley law
which the democrats and Pres
ident Truman are pledged to
repeal.
In the preliminaries to accept
ance, the senate took these three
votes:
Before Final Vote
1. An amendment by Sena
tor Holland (D., Fla.), and others
providing for injunctions with
out seizure was defeated 54 to
57.
2. A move by Senator Lucas
(111.), the democratic leader, to
knock out the injunction author
ity from Taft's plan. This lost,
46-44.
3. A proposal by Senator Ives
(R., N. Y.), authorizing neither
injunctions nor seizure, but de
pending mainly on congress to
act in national emergencies case
by case. This is substantially the
same amendment that was de
feated 67 to 13 a week ago. To
day the vote against it was 51
to 40.
The big squeak for the Taft
plan was the two-vote margin on
Lucas' move.
No Stopper in Bottle
After .the preliminary voting
was out of the way, Senator Tyd-
ings (D., Md.), announced his
support of the Taft proposal be
cause, he said, otherwise there
would be "no stopper in the
bottle" against national emer
gency strikes. i
Others apparently felt the
same way and piled up the final
10-vote margin.
Before the test on the Lucas
move, the senate rejected a
straight out proposal to keep
Taft-Hartley.- law, injunctions
against national emergency
strikes. The vote was 54 to 37.
Preliminary Victory
It was a big preliminary vic
tory for the Truman adminis
tration in the senate scrap over
a new labor law.
The first vote was on an
amendment sponsored by Sena
tor Holland (D.-Fla.) and others.
It simply proposed to keep the
provision of the present law
which lets the government get
court orders to block strikes im
periling the national health or
safety.
Both sides went to extraordi
nary efforts to get every vots
they could for the big test. Sena
(Concluded on Page S, Column 4)
House Group OK
New Farm Bill
Washington, June 28, (IP) The
house agriculture committee ap
proved today to brand new farm
bill authorizing a three-crop
"trial-run" for the Truman ad
ministration's controvers
ial "production payment" pro
gram for agriculture.
The measure went through on
a 17-9 vote against virtually sol
id republican opposition.
It sets up a major issue as
democrats and republicans are
scrambling for the midwest farm
votes in the congressional elec
tions next year. Some farm
groups already are assailing the
administration's idea as a "sub
sidy" and a "dole."
The measure would maintain
rigid price supports, at higher
levels for most crops than un
der the present price prop pro
gram. It would repeal the farm bill
enacted by the republican-controlled
80th congress, with its
60 to 90 per cent of parity props.
Some committe republicans
battled for continuation of the
present farm program into 1950.
They objected to even the 1950
"trial run" for "production pay
ments" which the bill would
permit.
British Doctors Ask
Priority for Autos
Harrogate, England, June 28
The British Medical association
voted unanimously today to de
mand the police help doctors
cars through traffic.
"When we get the chief of
police on the operating table,"
said Dr. Lawrence Abel, "per
haps we can convince him that
some form of recognition from
the police is necessary."
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