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132 Death Toll in Heat
Wave Scorching East
With no Break in Sight
Court Upholds
Strike Picketing
When Peaceful
The state supreme court ruled
c unanimously today that a court
i can't stop a labor union from
The decision, by Justice
George Rossman, reversed Cir
cuit Judge Homer I. Watts, sit
ting in Baker county.
The suit ws brought by the
Baker community Hotel compa
ny to stop the local Hotel and
Restaurant Employes union from
picketing the hotel. The union
was trying to organize the ho
tel's 40 employes.
Judge Watts issued an injunc
tion against the picketing, and
also gave the hotel $2500 dam
ages against the union.
Deny Any Damages
But the supreme court, point
ing out that the federal Norris
LaGuardia act prevents injunc
tions to stop picketing, said the
picketing was legal, and also de
nied the hotel any damages.
"Peaceful picketing by a un
ion for the purpose of achieving
the unionization of a place of
employment is lawful and can
not, be enjoined by a court of
equity," the high court said.
The union also sought to have
the court declare uncontitution
al the 1947 law which provides
that the labor commissioner
shall hold secret elections to de
termine when labor disputes ex
ist. But the supreme court refused
to rule on this question, assert
ing it didn't have anything to
- do with the case.
Church Profits Taxed
In another case,"the'court rul
ed that the Methodist Book Con
cern is going to have to pay taxes
on its profits.
The concern, which sell reli
gious literature to Methodist and
other churches, up to now has
been given the tax exemptions
which are granted to religious,
charitable and scientific organ
izations. The concern says it
uses its profits to pay pensions
to retired ministers a'nd their
widows.
(Continued on Page 5. Column 5)
Auto Parking
At Courthouse
The county court made offi
cial Wednesday regulations
which will govern parking on the
courthouse grounds becoming ef
fective July 16 when a new law
of the last legislature goes into
effect allowing violations of the
regulations to be classed as mis
demeanors subject to fine or im
prisonment. The regulations set off 26
parking spaces for courthouse
A employes and leave nine open to
public use. Parking along the
curbs will be prohibited at all
times and any parking whatever
" will be prohibited on the grounds
between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. Spac
es will be provided on the
north and south sides of the
building which will be reserved
at all times for fire purposes and
a space immediately south of
the west entrance for delivery of
supplies.
The order states that the ob
ject of the regulations is to give
access to the building to police
patrol, fire equipment and am
bulances and also to provide
space for parking for employes
and department heads as desig
nated. Russia Seizing
Oil in Romania
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, July 6
VP) Yugoslavia's official press
charged today the Soviet Union
is appropriating Romania's rich
raw materials.
Without quoting the sources
of its information, the Yugoslav
communist party newspaper Bor
da said widespread discontent,
strikes and sabotage have re
sulted in Romania because of
Russia's demands upon her eco
nomy, particularly for oil.
The article said only a fifth
koi the oil tapped from Roman
ia's wells is allowed to remain
in the country.
Scattered Thunder
Storms Cool Sections
Of Hot Belt
(By the Associated Pre&s)
A toll of at least 132 deaths
was counted today in the longest
heat wave, so far this summer.
No immediate break in the tor
rid temperatures was in sight,
although thunder showers cooled
scattered sections of the hot belt
temporarily yesterday and last
night.
In addition to deaths induced
by the heat, seven were known
dead and five were missing from
a sudden, violent squall that
raked the New York metropoli
tan area yesterday. The storm
knifed across Long Island sound
and capsized hundreds of boats,
The estimated dead due to the
heat included heat prostrations
and heart attacks attributed to
the heat.
Deaths by States
The deaths of this nature by
states included: Illirois 54 (in
cluding 50 Chicago area, coron
er's office estimate of deaths
from heat and heart attacks ag
gravated by heat); Indiana 2;
Iowa 6, Maryland 3; Michigan 8;
Minnesota 14; Missouri 10; Ne
braska 3; New York 6; Ohio 10;
Pennsylvania 12; Virginia 2;
Wisconsin 2.
Most of the midwest was wea
ry from a week of hot, sticky
weather. The eastern states also
sizzled in the searing heat. And
in the northeastern area there
was no sign of rain to break the
long drought. The new heat wave
only added to further damage
farm crops already badly wilted
by seven weeks of rainless wea
ther. Crop losses in the region
have been estimated at' more
than $50,000,000.
The U. S. weather bureau said
the Only comfortable spots over
the two-thirds of the country in
the grip of the hot weather were
the northern border states. Tem
peratures also were pleasant
along the Pacific coast.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Merger Election
For West Salem
A resolution will be offered
at the West Salem city council
meeting Wednesday night setting
July 26 as the date for a special
election on merger with the city
of Salem.
Mayor Walter Musgrave said
there was little doubt that will
be the date decided on for the
merger vote. The city of Salem
will vote on it at a later date,
probably in the early fall.
Mayor Musgrave expects to
have not less than 100 names on
petitions received by the coun
cil Wednesday night asking for
the special election. Several
days ago he said 61 names had
been checked and found legally
qualified on the petitions, and
he said he expected at least 40
more by Wednesday night. Only
34 names are necessary.
The West Salem council re
gularly meets Monday nights.
It was set for Wednesday night
this week because Monday was
the July 4 holiday.
Cars Must
Of State on
By JAMES
State cars must bear the state
whether the car is assigned to
employe.
This was the edict sounded
Treasurer Walter E. Pearson after rejecting a request , from the
accident commission that the
cars driven by the commission
ers be permitted to operate
without the state seal.
"The legislature passed a law
providing that all state cars, ex
cept those used for police or in
vestigatory work, bear the state
seal," said Governor McKay,
"and I see no reason for making
any exceptions."
Pearson agreed stating that if
exemptions were granted to the
heads of one department simi
lar requests from other depart
ment heads were certain to fol
low. "I see no reason why the com
missioners should be ashamed of
having the state seal on their
state-owned cars," said Pearson.
Boiler Bids Accepted
W. R. Ramson & Sons of Sa
lem wert awarded the contract ,
twnMt iMO.'mJ. n J mill Hi ill Mil s Mmi l-tii,'W .at
Treason Trial Begins Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better
known as Tokyo Rose, and Deputy U, S. Marshal Herbert R,
Cole leave the latter's office for federal court and the begin
ning of Mrs. D' Aquino's treason trial in San Francisco. The 33-year-old
American of Japanese descent is accused of betray
ing her native land by broadcasting radio programs meant
"to undermine the morale of allied troops." She faces a pos
sible maximum penalty of death and a minimum penalty of
five years in prison plus a $10,000 fine if convicted. (Acme
Telephoto)
Death Penalty Unsought
In Trial of Tokyo Rose
San Francisco. July 6 (P)
fight to convict Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose) D'Aquino of war-time
treason but will not demand the death penalty.
Speedy selection of an
women yesterday cleared the
probably, some preliminary tes-
timony, todayi
The statement that the gov
ernment will not ask death came
from Prosecutor Tom De Wolfe
in reply to a reporter s ques
tlon. The minimum penalty up
on conviction would be five
years in prison and a $10,000
fine.
The defendant, born in Los
Angeles 33 years ago on July
4. is charged with eight acts
of ' treason. The government
charged that, as Tokyo Rose,
she hoped to demoralize and dis
courage allied military men
with her broadcasts from radio
Tokyo.
The government used only
seven jury challenges.
Asked if the talesmen were
challenged because they were
Negroes, De Wolfe said, "No,
we were not motivated by that.
There were many reasons.
The government also ruled out
one Chinese as an alternate jur
or.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Red Cross Alerted
Manila, July 6 W The Phil
ippines Red Cross headquarters
alerted its disaster units on Ca
miguin island in the southern
Philippines today after receiving
reports two men had died of
burns from hot ashes spewed by
Hibokhibok volcano.
Carry Seal
Both Sides
D. OLSON
seal on both sides of the vehicle
& department head or a minor
by Governor McKay and State
for installation of two new boil
er,, at the state blind school on
a low bid of $43,600. Four Port
land concerns submitted higher
bids.
Authority was given to the fol
lowing payments for work per
formed during the month of
June:
Empire Construction company,
$20,681.95 for work on the ex
tension of the state sewer In
Portland.
Viesko & Post, Salem, $14,
873.16 for work performed on
the addition of three bathrooms
at the Oregon State hospital.
R. G. Boatwright, for engl
neering services on extension of
state sewer, $486.63 and H. J.
Settergren, $7,121.40 for work
performed on employes' dormi
toryt at Eastern Oregon Tuber
culosis hospital.
The government today opens its
all-white jury of six men and six
way lor opening statements, ana
Did You Notice?
This Front Page
Looks Different
Today's front page of the
Capital Journal looks differ
ent, doesn't it?
The more conservative war
time look with which readers
have become familiar for the
past seven years is gone. It
has been replaced with the
streamlined appearance you
find in today's issue,
i Newsprint shortage during
the war forced the Capital
Journal, along with other
newspapers, to find ways to
conserve space. The recent
type of front page was one of
the answers. Headlines were
crowded around the newspa
per's nameplate at the top of
the page. Headline types
were reduced in size.
With adequate newsprint
supplies available again, the
Capital Journal is resuming
its pre-war policy of using
the most modern, larger, and
easy-to-read types which
better indicate to the reader
the importance of the stories.
Today's top headlines are set
in the latest available type
style, in keeping with the
Capital Journal's responsibil
ity as Salem's leading news
paper. Truman Report
Due on Monday
Washington, July 6 (IP) Pre
sident Truman's mid-year re
port on the nation's economic
health is due to reach congress
Monday.
That is the "target date" for
its submission, Press Secretary
Charles G.'Ross told a news con'
ference today. And, Ross added,
"it looks like the message will
be ready" them.
Ross described the report as
"quite long," and said "a cer
tain amount of polishing" re
mains to be done. There will be
"further study and consultation"
and possibly some rewriting of
the rough draft, Ross told re
porters. Among Mr. Truman's callers
today was Budget Director
Frank Pace. They talked about
the budget, including the cur
rent deficit.
Senator Flanders (R., Vt.),
said meanwhile that the only
real danger to the nation s eco
nomy is the possibility of busi
nessmen "frightening themselves
into a recession.
Britain Orders
Halt to Spending
Import Dollars
Dwindling Exports
Forces Draft on
Reserves of Gold
London, July 6 W Britain
today ordered a halt to the
spending of her dwindling dol
lars except where importers can
show such spending is a matter
of urgent national necessity.
Sir Stafford Cripps said n
buyer's market has reduced ex
ports to the United States and
cut earnings abroad so that Bri
tain has had to dig drastically
into her reserves of gold and
dollars to pay her bills. The
situation likely will slash pur
chases of food and raw mater
ials abroad. This county now ob
tains vast quantities of wheat,
cotton, tobacco and gasoline from
the United States and other
countries demanding payments
in dollars or other "hard" cur
rencies. Pledge No Devaluation
Cripps did not go into details
today, but promised them later.
He reported the sterling area s
reserves are down to $1,624,
000,000 after dropping radically
in the last six months but he
said Britain has "not the slight
est intention of devaluing the
pounds."
Existing contract for dollar-
area purchases will stay in
force, Cripps told the house of
commons, but the treasury will
permit further spending only
"where a clear case of urgent
national interest is established.
Cripps, chancellor of the ex
chequer and Britain's economic
chief, declared Britain must re
duce the price of her products
to encourage exports. He said
this can be done through effi
ciency of production and we
have no desire to see wages
cut."
(Continued on Page 5, Column 8)
Hopper Plague
Grows Worse
Washington, July 6 (U.R) An
agriculture department official
said today the grasshopper
horde now infesting Wyoming
and Montana has "many of the
earmarks" of the hopper plague
that hit the midwest in the
1930's. '
W. L. Popham, assistant chief
of the department's bureau of
entomology and plant quaran
tine, said the Wyoming-Monta
na situation is "a bad deal." He
said that 5,000,000 to 6,000,000
"economically important" acres
are infested.
The two-slate outbreak, he
said, is far more dangerous
than the second grasshopper in
vasion in Nevada. But he agreed
that the Nevada plague is the
more spectacular.
In Nevada, he said, the grass
hoppers are moving in dense
masses close to the ground. In
such a formation, he said, they
give the appearance of a dense
cloud rolling over the rich coun
tryside.
In the 1930's, a plague of
grasshoppers destroyed as much
as $100,000,000 of crops in one
season. Starting in the Dakotas,
the horde spread swiftly through
Wyoming, Montana, Kansas, Ok
lahoma, upper Texas and Colo
rado. . The plague reached its
peak in 1938 and 1939.
Although he emphasized he
was not speaking for Agricul
ture Secretary Charles F. Bran-
nan, Popham said congress pro
bably would be asked soon to
appropriate more funds to al
low the department to step up
its insect-poisoning program.
14 New Firemen
Assigned Work
Fourteen new firemen, who
qualified in the recent civil
service examinations, were as
signed Wednesday by Chief W.
P. Roble to headquarters sta
tion and the three sub-stations
The assignments were:
Headquarters, A shift, Iver-
son, Noble, Howe, Milligan, War
ren Paynter, Arnett, Hagedorn,
Mize, Dill.
Headquarters, B shift, Norton,
Ruch, Hendrickson, Wayne
Paynter, Aeschliman, Patterson,
Payne, Frad.
Engine No. 2, North Salem, B
shift, Blakley.
Engine No. 3, East Salem, A
shift, Biedelman, Nelson. B
shift, Carlisle, Carrutn.
Engine No. 4, South Salem, A
shift, Wiltsey. B shift, Wall.
ic Pact
Declared Vital
By Vandenberg
Senator Says Ratifica
tion Shield for Free
dom Against Reds
. .Washington, July 6 (IP) Sena
tor Vandenberg of Michigan to
day asked the senate to ratify
the North Atlantic pact as a
shield for free men against "em
battled, greedy communism."
He opened the second day of
debate on the 12-nation alliance
with the double-barreled state
ment that (1) communism is the
sole threat to world peace and
(2) its final target is the Unit
ed States.
The treaty will be a warning
to would-be conquerors, Van
denberg said in his prepared-in-advance
text, that 300,000,000
people will resist aggression.
Week of Debate Looms
As republican leader in for
eign affairs, he added the weight
of his prestige to that of Senator
Connally (D., Tex.) who led off
in the debate yesterday.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
NEA Voles to
Ban Commies
Boston, July 6 CP) The Na
tional Education Association
825,000 school teachers today
took a firm stand that communist
party members should not be al
lowed to teach in the nation's
schools.
The 3000 delegates adopted on
a voice vote the flat declaration:
Members of the communist
party of the United States should
not be employed as teachers."
There were only a few faint
"no's" when President Mabel
Studebaker asked who opposed.
The convention's action settled
a parliamentary procedure tan
gle which had delayed direct ac
tion on the communist question.
The communist-ban came aft
er-a - spirited denunciation of
communism by John K. Norton
of Columbia university's teach
ers college.
Norton told the convention
"The country is looking at
what we do in the next half
hour."
"We know we're loyal," Nor
ton said. "But there are a lot
of people "who are confused."
He blasted communism as "an
evil system" which would "reg
ulate according to a despotic id
eology every phase of a citizen s
life."
Norton said that communism
"looks upon the schools and ed
ucation as an essentially choice
means of obtaining its evil ends."
Oregon Gives $369,000
Portland, Ore., July 6 (U.R)
Oregon contributors gave $369,-
873 to the 1949 March of Dimes
drive, State Chairman Dr. E. T.
Hedlund of Portland said today.
Attacked Mrs. Eva Paget (above), 27-year-old mother
of two children, was lashed to a tree and raped by a crazed
killer who slew two men near Sonoma, Calif. An ex-convict,
Henry Guldbrandsen, released from prison only last month,
is held as the suspected slayer and rapist. Mrs. Paget's assail
ant, whom she knew only as "Hank," lured her to the cabin
where the two men were found slain, on the pretext that
one of them had broken hia arm and needed help. (Acme
Telephoto)
Lilienthal Says in
1947 U.
Armed Atomically
I'JUIIM.IXJ VVUIU tVlUIIU
In Way of Arming,
He Tells Committee
Washington, July 6 (IP) David
E, Lilienthal said today the
United States was "virtually un
armed atomically" in 1947 when
the atomic energy commission
was created.
Formally answering charges
of "incredible mismanagement"
by Senator Hickenlooper (R.,
Iowa), Lilienthal said the AEC
couldn't be poorly managed if
its production of A-bombs was
as good as the Iowa senator ad
mits it is.
Lilienthal said the commis
sion's whole program was di
rected toward giving this coun
try "unquestioned and unquali
fied leadership" in the atomic
field.
Retained Leadership
For that reason, he said the
commission had to ignore many
"useful" things it might have
done and had to put up with
some "careless, stupid and negli
gent" personnel at times.
Pursuing a policy of letting
nothing "stand in the way of
arming the nation atomically"
has meant "sticking our necks
out" and disregarding "bureau
cratic procedures," the AEC
chairman went on. but it has
also gotten a job done.
And, drawing on the Bible
Lilienthal declared:
By their fruits ye shall know
them."
Lilienthal was in the witness
chair of the senate-house atomic
committee, formally replying to
Hickenlooper's charges.
Replies to Charges
. For the last five weeks, the
committee has heard Hicken
looper cite specific matters
which he said supported his
charges. The AEC has defended
and replied as these matters
were brought out but Is now
launching into a more detailed
defense.
Lilienthal said his opening
statement was intended "to de
velop a setting for the witness
to follow."
Dr. Robert F. Bacher, atomic
scientist and former member of
the commission, backed up Lil
ienthal's claim that the atomic
project was in a bad way when
the commission took over.
I was deeply shocked to find
how few atomic weapons we had
at that time," Bacher said
Bacher added the project had
had "a dramatic decline at the
end of the war," which wasn't
any reflection on Lt. Gen. Les
lie R. Groves and the army of
ficers who built the wartime de
velopment.
S.
Not
Ex-Con Admits
Slaying of Two
With Bludgeon
Eureka, Calif., July 6 (IP) A"
husky, 34-year-old merchant
mariner and ex-convict surren
dered last night and in a signed
statement admitted the Fourth
of July bludgeon slayings of
two men in a cabin overlooking
the Valley of the Moon.
The man, Henry Brun Gul-
brandsen, gave himself up to Ed
Neumier, a cub reporter, and
Elmer Hodkinson, editor of the
Humboldt Times.
In a long; wandering state
ment, he for the most part cor
roborated the hysterical tale
told by Mrs. Eva Paget, 27-year-
old mother of two. Her story of
rape and murder set off one of
the most intensive manhunts in
recent northern California his
tory. Denies Raping Woman
But Gulbrandsen denied he
had raped Mrs. Paget, a Berke
ley woman who had been vaca
tioning in Jack London's old ter
ritory 200 miles south of here
in the Sonoma valey. ' Guld
brandsen said she had submitted
to him to "soothe" him, after
he had bludgeoned her.
In the Sonoma hospital where
she is in critical condition from
the attack and beating, Mrs.
Paget reiterated she had been
raped, and hospital attaches
commented on Gulbrandsen'i
assertion- "That's ridiculous!"
Gulbrandsen signed a state
ment, first for the newspaper
and later for the sheriffs-office'
admitting slaying his friend, Lt.
Peter J. Flint, 31, of the mer
chant marine, and Flint's long
time friend, Peter J. Jensen, 55,
landscape gardener for the Son
oma state hospital.
Nude Bodies Found
The nude bodies of Flint and
Jensen, covered by sheets, were
found in beds in separate rooms
in Jensen's curio-laden home in
the Triniti mountains, 'north
west of Sonoma.
Officers went there yesterday
after Ms. Paget, bleeding, hys
terical, and wearing only a
T-shirt, stumbled down a can
yon road and told a party of pic
nickers that she had been rap
ed.
Gulbrandsen was booked in
the Humbolt county jail on the
technical charge of "en route to
Santa Rosa."
Nab Wild Man
Of Redwoods
Willits, Calif., July 6 VP) The
red-headed "wild man" of the
redwood forests was run to earth
yesterday after six weeks of
hide and seek with law enforce
ment officers.
State Highway Patrolman Roy
L. Burton captured the red-hair
ed, red-bearded man, barefoot
and clad only in overalls, in the
Mendocino mountains 35 miles
north of here.
The mystery man, who has
been scon a score of times by tra
velers and farmers in the region
but who always fled into the
hills, identified himself as Orby
Kelsic Mecks, 38, "from Arkan
sas." Taken to Ukiah, he told Sheriff
Beverly G. Broaddus that he had
escaped from the Camarillo
State hospital in Ventura coun
ty, Calif., and "I followed a deer
all the way until I found myself
in the mountains."
The fugitive lived fairly well.
raiding cabins and feed bins at
ranches, the sheriff said. For a
month he had grown his own
vegetables in the mountains and
appeared in "good condition,"
Broaddus added.
The wanderer had been souaht
in hones that he mieht he fnl
Archibald Y. Smith of San Fran-
Cisco, U. S. air force officer who
has been missing since last Ap
ril when he disappeared with
two other officers on a B-28
flight from Hamilton field to
Portland, Ore.
Mrs. Evelyn Smith, the offi
cer's wife, had believed the mys
tery man might be her husband.
She said he might have survived
but suffered a loss of memory In
the plane crash.