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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, July 13, 1949 (20 Pages) Price 5c
Krug Opposes
CYA Northwest
Referendum
Secretary Says Issue
Should Be Decided by
Congress, Not People
Washington, July 13 U.R -
Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug
today opposed a referendum of
northwest states on creation of
a Columbia valley authority.
Krug told the house public
works committe the issue should
be decided by congress because
it was a national as well as a
1 1 -.L1nn.
lUUcti IJLUUXCIll.
i He supported legislation to
create a Columbia valley au
thority, and said the people of
the northwest are unanimous in
wanting speedy development of
the Columbia River basin.
He said it could be done best
under a single authority rather
than under the combined efforts
of the reclamation bureau, army
engineers, and Bonneville pow
er administration.
Government Unduly Alarmed .
Krug said the governors of
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and
Montana were unduly alarmed
about an authority.
The authority, he said, would
not usurp state jurisdiction
over any activity. He said the
bill was designed to protect
states rights over their re
sources. If congress found the
states were not protected, he
said, the language of the bill
should be changed.
Krug declined to make an es
timate of the overall cost of the
project, but said he thought it
would take from $200,000,000 to
$300,000,000 a year to carry out
the program.
Chairman William M. Whit-
tington, (D., Miss.), asked if it
was true that the federal gov
ernment had done more to de
velop this area than any other
section of the country.
Comparison With TV A
Krug said in dollars spent that
might be true", but comparative
ly the Tennessee valley was 90
per cent developed compared to
10 per cent for the - Columbia
alley. ,
As far as hydroelectric power
Is concerned, Krug said, "the
Columbia river is our big un
developed source."
"That basin, in dollars spent,
has not been neglected in com
parison to other areas," Whit
tington replied.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
75 Pints Blood
Donated Here
Salemites donated 75 pints of
blood during the visitation of
the bloodmobile from the Port
land regional blood center, Tues
day a sum far short of the goal
of 100 pints but a good showing
for so warm a day, the mobile
unit officials said. A total of 108
persons signed up to give blood,
but there were many rejections.
Of the 108 signed to give
blood, 14 were replacements by
persons who wished to give in
return for blood that had been
given their families and friends
The replacement total was a
gratifying gesture for the Red
Cross chapter. Although re
placements are not required, the
.blood being given free of charge
to all in need of it without re
striction, those who can are en
couraged to line up replace
ments.
Two residents from Turner
who had brought in children for
the "learn to swim" campaign
dropped in to donate blood, say
ing they believed that was the
least they could do in appreci
ation of the service.
The Tuesday visitation was
marked by the record made in
keeping appointments. Hereto
fore, many who signed failed to
show up when the unit came,
but yesterday practically every
person signed to give blood kept
his appointment, the Red Cross
office reported.
Next visitation of the blood
mobile to Salem will be on the
second Tuesday of August.
Mark Julius Johnson Dies
Astoria, July 13 Mark
Julius Johnson, 67, prominent
Clatsop county dairyman and
former legislator, died Monday
of a heart attack.
He was president and a found
er of the Lower Columbia Co
operative Dairy association, a
school director and member of
the legislature from 1928 to
1932. The widow, two sons and
two daughters survive.
Strike Ordered in
Steel Mills at
Midnight Friday
Affects All Plants Not
Accepting Truman's
60 Day Delay Offer
Pittsburgh, July 13 VP) The
CIO United Steelworkers today
accepted a presidential proposal
to avoid a steel strike for 60
days. But Union President Phil
ip Murray said he would call
strike tomorrow, effective at
midnight Friday, against those
companies who declined Presi
dent Truman's proposal.
The walkout will be effective
at midnight, Friday, July 16,
said CIO President Philip Mur
ray. Murray said he had no defi
nite information on which com
panies would be struck but that
they appeared to- be the U.S.
Steel Corp., Republic Steel
Corp., and Bethlehem Steel
Corp. "as far as my present in
formation goes."
Only one steelmaker Jones
& Laughlin has accepted Pres
ident Truman's proposal. The
giant U. S. steel corporation, the
nation's top producer, Bethle-
nem and Republic all have re
jected the white house proposal.
A strike embracing 500,000
union workers was threatened
for this week-end, at Friday and
Saturday midnight. President
Truman had proposed a 60-day
contract extension while an un
official fact-finding board in
vestigated the issues. .
Unionist's Viewpoint
A highly placed unionist said
after the executive board's act
ion that:
"The picture now looks as If
our truce will be effective only
with those concerns which go
along with the president. The
picture may change but that's
the way it looks now."
The union's 170-man wage and
policy committee must ratify the
executive board's action. This
ratification was expected at a
meeting this afternoon.
CIO . President Philip Murray
announced the executive board's
decision. Murray told a news
conference after the executive
board meeting that "when the
wage policy committee acts to
day we will officially notify the
president of our decision."
3 Referendums
Shy Signatures
Portland, July 13 OT Old
age referendum backers claim
ed success today, but the day-
ugni saving reierendum was
still short of the needed signa
tures. The other two referendums
on the Rogue river dam and the
electrical contractors', licensing
bill appeared doomed.
Joe E. Dunne, old age pension
leader, said 16,981 signatures
have already been certified on
the old age referendum.
A total of 15,926 signatures
are needed to submit laws to
referendum, and prevent their
going into effect until the elec
tion of 1950.
The daylight saving referen
dum was 5,000 certified names
short, but sponsors who had
other names ready for certifica
tion still hoped to meet the
deadline.
W. J. Smith, who headed the
drive to halt construction of a
Rogue river dam, reported
"very, very bad" prospects for
the success of his referendum.
Senate Prunes Power of
Public Power Projects
Washington, July 13 OT The biggest reclamation program yet
has been approved by the senate appropriations committee for the
year which started July 1.
But the committee which reported a $590,685,911 interior
department money bill to the senate announced that it pruned
several controversial puduc pow-
er projects from the reclamation
bureau plans.
Gone from the bill as it was
passed by the house were funds
for the Central ''alley "west
side" transmission lines and
steam plant, the Kerr-Anaconda
power line in Montana, two
power lines on the Colorado-Big
Thompson project in Colorado, a
power line and switchyards on
the Anderson ranch dam project
in Idaho, and several proposals
of the southwest power admin
istration. Cutting deep into the power
program advanced by the inter
ior department through several
of its agencies, the committee
indicated that, if private utili
ties will promise to do the job
of delivering government power
Plane Crash Fatal to 26 Rescue workers examine, the
crumpled and twisted wreckage of the C-46 airliner in which
26 persons were killed. The plane crashed into Santa Susanna
pass, 20 miles north of Burbank, Calif., where the plane was
to have landed. Standard Airlines, which operated the plane,
listed 43 passengers and five crew members aboard the plane.
Seven minutes before the plane crashed, the pilot radioed
Lockheed Airport tower that two men were fighting on the
plane. (Acme Telephoto)
New Laws Raise Fees for
Visits to Courthouse
By DON UPJOHN
Starting Saturday as new laws go into effect it's going to cost
people visiting the courthouse on certain missions more money
and in some cases more troubles.
Fees for recording papers both at the clerk's and recorder's
office will be upped from 75 cents a page to $1 a page. Those se-
1 curinff came or fish licenses
Thomas for Cut
In Army Funds
Washington. July 13 OT
belief that Russia will avoid
war any time soon was offered
by Senator Elmer Thomas
Okla.) today as "the underlying
reason" for cutting appropria
tions for the armed services.
I think everyone agrees
right how that Russia is in no
condition for another war,"
Thomas told a reporter. "Not
too lone aeo. we were told we
might be bombed any minute.
Thomas called a closed-door
session, starting at 9 a.m. EST,
today, of a senate appropria
tions subcommittee to act on
funds for the army, navy and
air force for the next 12 months.
'I think we can safely cut $1,-
500,000,000 and perhaps a lot
more out of this bill as it passed
the house," Thomas said.
The house approved just un
der $16,000,000,000 in cash and
contract authority for the arm
ed services in this biggest of all
regular appropriations.
Deliberations of the senate
subcommittee may take several
days and then they will be re
viewed and subject to change
by the full 21-member appropri
ations committee, before going
to the senate.
William O'Dwyer
Will Run for Mayor
New York, July 13 OT Mayor
William O'Dwyer announced to
day that he will run for re-elec
tion.
The mayor said at a news con
ference: I deem it my duty in
the best interests of the city to
run for re-election."
The announcement came
day after the democratic mayor
conferred with President Tru
man in Washington
to preferred customers of the
government, it is willing to give
them the chance.
Following are among the
amounts voted by the commit
tee for Pacific reclamation proj
ects. House figures are shown
in parenthesis.
Columbia basin, Wash., $70,
034,390 (59,075,000); Deschutes,
ore., $176,700 ($153,000): Des
chutes Arnold irrigation district,
ure., $3,uuu ($32,300); Des
chutes Ochoco dam, Ore., $1,-
150,000 ($977,500); Deschutes
Grants Pass, $100,000 (house al
lowed nothing; Klamath, Ore.
Calif., $803,460 ($850,000). Dis
approved by the committee was
a request for funds to construct
the Canby substation in Ore
gon.
will pay an extra dime on all
licenses costing under $5 and an
extra two-bits on licenses cost
ing over $5, this added fee to go
into the county general fund to
cover license issuing costs. On
January 1 next year licenses
themselves will go up from $3
to $4 for hunting and fishing li
censes and from $5 to $7 for
combination licenses, plus the
dime and two bits.
A change made in the laws
covering reporter's . fees .In cir
cuit cbu'rt' which heretofore were
$10 a case or $10 a day, are now
changed to $10 for more than
half a day and $5 for half a day
or less and an added $5 for
transcribing notes.
After July 15 when microfilms
are made of public records they
will be made in dual rolls in
stead of- one, one of these to be
kept at the courthouse and the
other stored outside. County
Clerk Harlan Judd says the pro
ject going on for several months
to microfilm probate records up
to 1923 will be finished a few
hours ahead of the deadline so
he will avoid necessity of doing
part of that in dual film
Under a change in marriage
license laws any person in the
armed forces may have a medi
cal examination by a physician
in the public health service or
armed forces.
Price of securing a certified
copy of a birth certificate from
the county records will go up
from 50 cents of $1 and also will
go into effect a law putting re
cording of delayed birth certifi
cates into the circuit court rath
er than into the probate journal.
(Continued on Page 5, Column 8)
Army Building
Bill Hearings
Washington, July 13 OT
Hearings open today on a $623,
000,000 military construction
bill which would pour more
than $195,000,000 into the na
tion's Alaska and Pacific de
fenses. The house armed services
committee called witnesses on
a giant army, air force and navy
program to improve and enlarge
bases' around the world.
Tucked away in it was per
haps the smallest proposed mili
tary purchase on record. One
section would allow the navy to
buy a part of the Oahu rail
road in Hawaii for $1.
The bill would authorize the
three services to spend approxi
mately $383,000,000 in this
country and about $240,000,000
on bases abroad. It also would
set up an unidentified $14,529,
000 special weapons project for
the army.
No money would be made
available by the bill. It would
only grant the services permis
sion to spend the money when
they could get it. The actual
money would have to be voted
by congress in a separate ap
propriation bill.
The bill would concentrate
about $130,000,000 worth of
building by all three services in
Alaska.
I
Truman on Radio
At 5:30 P.S.T.
Washington, July 13 (IP) ,
President Truman is going to sit
down tonight and tell the Amer
ican people about his prescrip
tion for heading off a depres
sion. He wants to get over to them
his idea that there is nothing to
be scared about in the moder
ate economic decline unless folks
get panicky.
And he wants to defend the
fiscal policy of his administra
tion against criticism by some
members of congress.
The president will talk to the
nation over four major radio
networks via television from a
desk in the movie projection
room at the White House.
This first major so-called
"fireside chat" by Mr. Truman
this year is scheduled for 5:30
p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time).
The talk, White House aides
said, will be an elaboration of
his midyear economic report to
congress on Monday. In this he
scrapped earlier demands for
$4,000,000,000 tax increase and
proposed an 11-point program to
expand. production, employment
and purchasing power. .
ine tneme of that message
was that the country cannot
have prosperity "by getting ad
justed to the idea of a depres
sion by cutting investment or
employment or wages or essen
tial government programs."
Demos Revolt
On Farm Bill
Washington, July 13 OT A
rebellion broke out in demo
cratic ranks today against the
administration-supported farm
bill.
This threatened to defeat even
three-crop trial run for the
controversial Brannan plan of
production payments or subsi
dies to support farm prices.
Rep. Gore (D., Tenn.), usu-
ai(y an administration support
er, announced a bi-partisan
group and some farm leaders
are drawing a substitute bill to
continue the present farm pro
gram in 1950.
The present program supports
major crops at rigid 90 per cent
of parity, through government
loans and purchases that remove
price-depressing surpluses from
the markets. Parity is a price
calculated to give farmers a
purchasing power in fair rela
tionship with the prices of
things they must buy.
Gores bill would reject the
Brannan production payment
plan entirely and set aside the
Aiken law enacted by the republican-controlled
80th con
gress and scheduled to become
effective next year. The Aiken
law permits a flexible 60 to 90
per cent of parity support pro
gram for major crops. Aiken
contends, however, that rigid
supports could be maintained
under the law.
Rural Phone Bill
Passed by House
Washington, July 13 OT The
house today passed legislation
designed to provide better rural
telephone service.
The bill now goes to the sen
ate.
The measure allows the rural
electrification administration to
make long term loans to private
companies or cooperatives to
build and extend telephone fa
cilities in rural areas.
The interest rate would be 2
per cent, the same amount now
charged on REA loans for elec
tric lines. Reps. Allen (R-, 111.)
and Brown (R., Ohio) tried to
hike the rate but failed. Allen
proposed 2.5 per cent, Brown 3
per cent. .
Pilot of California
Flying 2000 Feet
Bodies of 40
Recovered in
Bombay Crash
Bombay, India, July 13 OT
The rain-soaked underbrush on
Ghatopar hill today yielded the
bodies of 40 of the 45 persons
killed yesterday in the flaming
crash of a Royal Dutch (KLM)
airliner on Bombay island.
mirteen of tne dead were
American news correspondents.
The bodies of all but one of the
correspondents Fred Colvig of
the Denver Post have been
identified.
Hundreds of police slogging
through monsoon rains contin
ued the search for the five miss
ing bodies. Luggage aboard the
ill-fated plane has been recov
ered.
On 800 Foot Hill
The plane, a Constellation,
crashed on the 800-foot high hill
while preparing to land at an
airfield 15 miles north of Bom
bay. Controller of Airdromes
Shumshere Jung said the field
was "perfectly okay" at the time
of the crash and that other air
craft had made takeoffs a short
time before. (
The American consulate re
ceived instruction from the U.
S. state department to have sev
en of the bodies of the corre
spondents cremated at the re
quest of relatives who want the
ashes sent to them.
In Hong Kong, Mrs. Dorothy
Brandon of the New York Her
ald Tribune, denied that she had
refused to board the plane be
cause she had feared it would
be sabotaged.
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Reuther Seeks
Control of (JAW
Milwaukee, July 13 OT
Stronger than ever and starting
his newly-won third presidential
term, Walter Reuther sought to
day to make absolute his con
trol of the CIO United Auto
Workers.
This goal was regarded by ob
servers at the union's conven
tion as a possibility but no cinch.
All four top officers won
hands-down re-election late yes
terday over weak, left-wing op
position that was only a ghost
of another faction that once
dominated the million - member
UAW.
Reuther overpowered W. C.
Grant, ex-president of the big
uord local 600, by a 12 to 1
margin. The final but unofficial
vote count was 8,080 to 672.
Reuther will hold his post un
til the next convention in April,
1951 some 20 months hence.
His three top aides won their
second terms about as easily.
Secretary-Treasurer Emil Ma
zey beat out James Lindahl of
Detroit Packard local 190.
Richard T. Gosser and John
W. Livingston held onto their
vice presidencies with resound
ing defeats of William H. John
son of Detroit and John De Vito
of Cleveland.
All four candidates who ran
against the Reuther slate were
nominated by a group of left
wingers some of them admit
cd communists known as the
"progressive unity caucus."
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India Crash Victims Fred Colvig (left) of the Denver
Post and George Moorad (right) of the Portland, Ore., Ore
gonian, were among the 13 American news and radiomen
aboard the Royal Dutch Airlines Constellation which crashed
neary Bombay, India. Besides the newsmen there were 31
other persons aboard the plane all of whom were killed.
(AP Wirephoto)
CAB Inspector Asserts Fight
Between Passengers Had No
Bearing on Santa Susanna Crash
Chatsworth, Calif., July 13 (U.R) Pilot Roy G. White was 2009
feet below officially prescribed altitude when he smashed a
C-46 Commando into the Santa Susanna mountains with loss of
34 of its 48 occupants, civil aeronautics board Inspector James
Peyton said today.
' "I think I know why he was too low, but I don't want to say
why until we complete our investigation and hold a formal
hearing," he said.
He snid he was convinced a fight between two passengers had
no bearing on the crash.
The plane, owned by Standard Airlines, a non-scheduled line,
crashed and burned in Santa Susanna pass yesterday morning as
White was coming in for a landing at Lockheed air terminal,
Burbank.
33 Bodies Recovered
Ventura county deputy coro
ner, John Bragg, said 33 bodies
have been recovered. Fourteen
injured were identified and one
passenger was unaccounted for
and presumed dead. The air
line said that one of the origi
nally reported 49 occupants
Lois Tucker apparently failed
to board the plane at Kansas
City.
Peyton said he and his inves
tigators would spend "another
two or three days" digging
through the charred wreckage
strewn among the boulders in
an effort to confirm his opinion
of why White was flying at 1600
feet instead of 2500 as prescrib
ed by the CAB.
Approach Held Normal
"Everything else about his ap
proach was normal," Peyton
said. "He came in on the right
leg, contacted the control tower
at the proper points, lowered his
landing gear as prescribed, and
made the correct procedure
turn.'
He added that visibility was
adequate, pointing out that
California Central Airlines pilot
in the air awaiting his turn, to
land was able to see the burn
ing wreckage of White's plane
from the prescribed altitude ofi
3500 feet.
"The reports of a fight aboard
the plane have a place in our
thinking, of course," Peyton
said, "but from our interview
with survivors we're sure it had
no bearing on the crash. It
wasn't too big a fight, and it was
over long before the crack-up."
Identifying Bodies
Deputy Coroners Bragg and
Frank Watkins concentrated to
day on identification of the 33
recovered bodies. They said
some may never be identified
positively because they were so
badly burned and mangled.
Another phase of the invest!
gation was scheduled by District
Attorney Arthur Wait, who
planned to interview Charlotte
Grenandcr, stewardess on duty
when the New York-lo-Long
Beach, Calif., plane crashed at
7:50 a.m. yesterday.
Jennifer Jones
Weds Selznick
Portoflno, Italy, July 13 (U.R)
Jennifer Jones and David O
Selznick, American movie star
and her producer-boss, were
married today aboard his yacht
off the Italian Riviera.
Capt. Ernest Stround, skipper
of the yacht Mcnona, performed
the ceremony. It climaxed
months of speculation over when
the actress and the producer
would be married. Their off-again-on-again
plans had kept
the gossips guessing.
Airliner
too Low
Negro Lawyer
On FEPA Board
By WILLIAM WARREN
Oregon's only Negro attorney,
Ulysses Plummer, today was
named to the seven-member ad
visory committee ordered by the
1949 legislature to counsel the
commissioner of labor in his
handling of Oregon's new fair
employment practices act.
Gov. Douglas McKay an
nounced the appointment of
Plummer, five other men and
one woman all from Portland
to the commission.
In making the announcement.
Gov. McKay said he was "most
hopeful that the committee's ef
forts will lead the way to an
era of real progress in this im-
protant field of labor relations."
Public members named by the
governor are Plummer, who for
merly was assistant district at
torney at Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs.
J. H. Thomas, prominent in
Portland church and WCTU ac
tivities, and David Robinson,
lawyer, president of the Port
land City club and a leader in
northwest Jewish affairs.
Other Members
Labor members are Al Me.
Cready, newspaperman (Oregon
ian) and chairman of the Ore-
gonion unit of the CIO Ameri
can Newspaper Guild, and S. P.
Stevens, 9th district vice presi
dent of the International Asso
ciation of Firefighters, AFL, and
member of the executive board
of the Portland Central Labor
council.
Business and industrial man
agement will be represented by
Herald Campbell, personnel
manager of Pacific Power and
Light Co., and Francis Kern,
one of the state's highest Catho
lic laymen and owner of the Ea
gle Lumber Yards of Portland
and a Portland sash and door
plant.
Acheson Raps
Arms Bill Cut
Washington, July 13 OT Sec
retary of State Acheson today
flatly opposed any cut in the ad
ministration's projected $1,450,-
000,000 foreign arms aid pro
gram.
He said this figure represents
the absolute minimum needed
for western Europe and other
areas.
The secretary stated his posi
tion at a news conference while
opposition led by Senator Taft
(R., Ohio) was wiping out pros
pects for a quick senate vote on
the North Atlantic treaty.
The small group opposing the
defense agreement centered their
fire on the military aid program
and the commitments carried in
the pact.
Acheson also commented on
another issue which has arisen
on Capitol Hill. He agreed with
Senator Dulles (R., N. Y.), that
the United Stales delegation at
the Big Four foreign ministers'
meeting in Paris had considered
whether the American people
should be kept "artificially
alarmed" and had rejected the
idea completely.
The matter came up, Acheson
said, in discussion of whether
the Russians might try to create
a false sense of peace and se
curity by making a show of co
operation. The U. S. delegations,
he added, decided that it should
not reject any possible avenue
of cooperation with the Soviet
Union merely because accept
ance of the avenue might relax
tension in the world.
Majority Leader Lucas (D.,
111.), said he may keep the sen
ate in session Saturday to reach
a vote on the 12-nation alliance