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Salem, Oregon, Friday, July 29, 1949
(16 Pages)
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Cities
Merger Likely
In September
Another Measure on
Ballot Will Be
Creation of Ward 8
By STEPHEN A. STONE
City Attorney Chris J. Kowitz
beliaves the special city election
to vote on accepting West Salem
as part of the city of Salem will
be held the latter part of Sep
tember. ;
Kowitz thinks that if the mer
ger were the only question to
vote on the election might .be
Vcalled 15 days after the city
"council legislation providing for
the election. But other ques
tions will have to be voted on
at the same time, so the regular
30-day leeway will be necessary
The legislation, Kowitz
thinks, will be ready for the city
council at the next meeting,
Monday night, August 8.
Creation of Ward 8
One other question to be vot
d on at the same time will be
a measure creating Ward 8. and
adding one ward to Salem's
present seven wards. The new
Ward 8 will comprise West Sa
lem and the recent Kingwood
annexation. Legislation that
has already passed the council
makes the Kingwood annexa
tion a part of Ward 3.
When the new ward is creat
ed, since it is located in Polk
county, the Polk county court
Election on
will have to make some read
justments of precincts, which
will be added to Salem's pres
ent 42 precincts.
Other measures that probably
will be voted on are the antici
pated referendums against the
Baldock plan.
Charter Revision
City Attorney Kowitz would
like to have the people vote on
a measure or measures to re
move deadwood from the city
charter, but things it should be
held off for another election
some time in the future.
, One complication that may
T arise in connection with the spe
cial election; is a voting place
for Ward 3. It is presumed
there will be only one voting
place in ward, instead of vot,
ing in every precinct as in a
regular election. Since the
Kingwood annexation is now
part of Salem the question arises
whether the polling place for
Ward 3 should be on the east
or the west side of the river.
$55,904,813
In Income Taxes
State personal and corpora
tion income tax collections in
the year ended July 1 totaled
$55,904,813, a new record and
18 per cent more than in the
previous record year of the pre
ceding year, the state tax com
mission said today.
The commission said the in
crease was caused by higher
wages and more business.
Individuals paid $35,863,526
of the taxes, compared with
$30,863,181 the preceding year.
Corporations paid $20,041,
287, compared with $16,575,914
in the previous year.
The commission pointed out
, that total tax collections, includ
ing both corporation and per
sonal income taxes, are 11 times
as great as they were in 1940.
They are three times as large
as they were in the peak war
year of 1943.
There were 375,822 taxable
personal income tax returns
filed this year, which is consid
erably under the record number
of 506,824 returns filed last
year.
Charles Chaplin, Jr.,
Pinched As Drunk
Hollywood, July 29 UP)
Charles Chaplin, Jr., 24-year-old
son of the comedian, was arres
ted early today in front of
gambler Mickey Cohen's Cafe
Continentale on a drunkenness
charge.
Officers at the Hollywood
sheriff's substation said that
young Chaplin was creating a
disturbance outside the cafe.
He created another disturbance
at the substation, the officers
added, when news photographers
tried to take his picture.
Young Chaplin, son of the
movie comedian by his second
wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, was ar
rested in January, 1948, on a
imilar charge after a minor au
tomobile accident. He drew a
$50 fine and a ten day suspen
ded sentence at that time.
Elevator
Type
Of Apartment
House Sought
Application Made for
101 Unit Structure
For Salem
Salem could use one or two
elevator-type apartment houses
in a central location. A small
group of local businessmen were
told that Thursday afternoon by
Verne Elliott, assistant state di
rector for the Federal Housing
Administration.
In fact, one application has
been made for a 101-room
apartment house to be located
on the southwest corner of Un
ion and Winter streets, Elliott
said. The property, measuring
165 feet by 165 feet is presently
owned by Doug Yeater, Marion
county legislator and local ap
pliance dealer.
Final Approval Not Given
Final approval by- the FHA
has not yet been given on this
application, Elliott said. Based
on FHA experience of $8100 per
aDartment hniisp rental unit th
cost of this elevator-tvne apart
ment has been estimated at over
$800,000. Rentals would prob
ably be in the $65 - $75 a month
category.
The assistant state director
tried to encourage Salem inter
ests in developing the apartment
ana nousing situation here. There
is a need for well-constructed
houses in the price-range of
from $6,000 to $8500, he said.
Businessmen attending the
conference agreed with him. It
was the general opinion of the
group that such houses would
forestall the need for any gov
ernment-subsidized low-income
or slum clearance type of dwel
lings. (Continued on Pace 5. Column 7)
13,810 Traffic
Death Toll '49
Chicago, July 29 (ff) The na
tion's traffic death toll for the
first six months of 1949 was 13,
810 only 100 lower than for
the comparable 1948 period.
The National Safety council,
which reported the figures today.
said that a five-month compari
son however, showed that the na
tion's motorists rolled up 6 per
cent more mileage this year than
last, and the ratio dropped to 7
deaths per 100,000,000 miles of
travel.
This compared with a rate of
7.2 percent for the equivalent pe
riod last year the previous low
rate.
Twenty two states reported
fewer deaths for the first half
of 1949.
The largest of the communi
ties with perfect records were
New Bedford, Mass., Pawtucket,
R. I., and Cedar Rapids, la.
Leading cities in each popula
tion group for the first six
months of 1949, ranked accord
ing to the number of traffic
deaths per 10,000 vehicles, in
clude:
200,000 to 500,000 Portland,
Ore., 1.1; Oklahoma City, Okla.,
1.4; Newark, N. J., 1.7.
10,000 to 25,000 Richland,
Wash., Ventura, Calif., and Hol
land, Mich., all 0.0.
Heavy Catch of Tuna
Astoria, Ore., July 29 VP) '
Boats were bringing in rich
albacore tuna chatches today, as
clear skies and cairn seas aided
offshore fishing. The catch was
averaging a ton a boat.
Moscow Directs Stream
Of Abuse at Douglas
Washington, July 29 UP) Moscow is directing a stream of its
choicest epithets at Associate Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas for his vacation visit to Iran.
A Moscow radio broadcast to Iran recorded today by Ameri
can official monitors referred to Douglas as an "arrogant spec
ulator" who was accompanied by
'gang of spies" on a mountain
climbing jaunt near the Soviet
border.
Douglas, accompanied by his
son, left in June on a summer
tour of Iran and other Middle
East areas. He announced in ad
vance he planned to climb peaks
in Azerbaijan, close to the Rus
sian frontier. Moscow immedi
ately voiced suspicion but did
not really warm up to the sub
ject until the latest broadcast to
the Iranians in tjtie Persian lan
guage. Douglas, said Moscow, was ac
companied by a "dozen devils
that is, 13 Americans, who were
really United States army of
ficers who were disguised in
mountaineering outfits." The
Iranians, were told:
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Acheson Asks Full Arms Aid Secretary of State Dean
Acheson (center) confers with Rep. John Kee (left) and Rep.
John M. Vorys prior to testifying before the house foreign
affairs committee in Washington on the $1,450,000,000 arms
aid program for nations friendly to the U. S. Secretary Ache
son asked for full approval of the arms program as a means
of discouraging Soviet Russia from taking a gambler's chance
to invade free western European nations. (Acme Telephoto)
Probe Maritime Strikes
As Communist Plot
Washington, July 29 (U.R) House investigators said today they
are looking into the Hawaiian
it fits into a plan laid down in
trol of shipping.
A member of the house un-American activities committee said
that a number of witnesses have
been scheduled for closed door
hearings. The first Joseph
Curran. president of the CIO
national maritime union will
be heard Tuesday.
At a later date, this member
said, the committee will hear
an ex-communist who was in
Moscow during the late 1920'
This witness, he explained, was
nresent at an international com
munist meeting at which plans
were discussed for taking over
the maritime industry,
"We think there may be a pat
tern in the dock strikes in Ha
waii and London," this member
said. "We would not be sur
prised if these two strikes were
followed by others in otner parrs
of the world."
Curran, who broke sharply
with left wing elements in his
union a few years ago, appear
ed before the house un-American
activities committe in 1939.
At that time, he was a hostile
witness suspected of left-wing
tendencies.
Committee members said he is
expected to be "cooperative" at
Tuesday's session.
The Hawaiian dock strike is
under the leadership of the CIO
International Longs horemen's
union, headed by Australian
born Harry Bridges. Bridges
facing charges of passport fraud
on the west coast.
Committee officials said they
will not call Bridges until these
charges have been settled.
Committee members plan to
hold no hearings in Hawaii until
the strike is settled.
The Hawaiian strike has tied
up all shipping in the islands
since May 1.
Salem Man Elected
Portland, July 29 UP) The
Free Methodist church, holding
its annual conference at camp
grounds near here, re-elected
the Rev. J. R. Stewart, Salem,
superintendent yesterday.
"It is as well to recall that
in September and October, 1947,
after a similar ascent by another
group of U. S. mountaineers in
the Azerbaijan region, restric
tions against the Kurds and their
mass punishment was begun, and
this coincided with the banish
ment of 20,000 citizens of Chan
la n to the far-off and uninhabit
ed regions of the south of Iran
"Less than a year ago an
other group of U. S. tourists
was found ... in the proximity
of the Soviet frontiers and along
the River Aras. .This group for
got all about the beautiful seen
eries of the summits and began
to inspect the construction of
fortifications and airdromes for
U. S. aircraft . . ."
dock strike to find out whether
Moscow to seize world-wide con
27 Death Toll
Of Heat Wave
(Br the Associated Prexx)
Deaths from effects of a late
July heat wave mounted today
with at least 27 fatuities in east
ern cities. No immediate break
in the hot and humid weather
was in sight for the area. .-.
- But some relief came to parts
of the midwest. A mass of fresh
Canadian cool air moving south
eastward brought lower tem
peratures into the upper Mis
sissippi and Missouri valleys.
The outlook for further move
ment of the cool air into the
sweltering east and south is not
good, however, federal wea
ther bureau forecasters said.
They promised another day of
hot and sticky weather for most
of the eastern and southern sec
tions of the country.
Temperatures in the 90s over
most of the area from the Rock
ies to the Atlantic coast for the
last week hit record marks for
the day in several cities yester
day. Readings of 100 were
common throughout New Eng
land. Boston's 99 was a record
for July 28.
Nine persons died in Wash
ington from the heat as the capi
tal baked in 96 degree tempera
tures. Some 83,000 federal and
District of Columbia govern
ment employes were sent home
early because of the oppressive
heat.
The hot weather claimed the
lives of five persons in Penn
sylvania as the heat wave ex
tended for the 11th day. Phila
delphia's top mark was 95 and it
was 92 in Pittsburgh and Har
risburg. Eye Glasses for
Cross Eyed People
Southbridge, Mass., July 29
(P) The American Optical
company today announced eye
glasses for cross-eyed people. It
is easier to see through one
lens than the other.
The announcement says doc
tors prescribe unequal glasses
of this sort when cross-eyed peo
ple form the habit of using only
one eye for seeing. Gradually
the non-working eye loses its
ability to see details.
The new spectacles blur the
glass over the good eye. That
eye can still see through the
blurred glass, but has to work
harder. The eye that has been
out of training thereupon goes
to work, too, and slowly regains
its lost power.
Signing Recall Petitions
Portland, Ore., July 29 U.B
The committee spearheading the
drive to recall Multnomah Coun
ty Sheriff Mike Elliott today es
timated that 12,000 petition sig
natures have been obtained so
far. However, only 6,179 signa
tures have been filed with Re
gistrar James W. Glcason for
verification.
Hot Stuff on
5 Percenters
Washington, July 29 UP) Sen
ators investigating the activi
ties of "five percenters" took
fast-talking John Maragon be
hind closed doors again today
for more questioning on matters
described as "plenty hot."
Maragon, dapper former boot
black who gets into the White
House, spent more than an hour
with the investigators at a
hush-hush session yesterday.
Afterward, his secret testimony
was rated "plenty hot stuff" by
a senate source.
Maragon showed up this
morning at a basement room of
the senate office building and
immediately was closeted w'ith
the senate group looking into
allegations of the use of influ
ence in the awarding of gov
ernment contracts.
"I'll be out in about 15 min
utes," Maragon called cheerily
to newsmen. A senate official
said it would be' much longer.
Maragon calls many top gov
ernment officials and congress
members by their first r.imes.
He listed President Truman's
military aide, Maj Gen.- Harry
H. Vaughan, as one of his good
friends.
Farmers Victors
At Swan Lake
A battle for water in Swan
Lake valley, east of Klamath
Falls, was decided today in fa
vor of 20 farmers located along
the tiny creeks that go into
Swan lake.
The ruling, by Stale Engin
eer Charles E. Stricklin, is
against the Liskey brothers and
Hankins brothers, who wanted
all the creek water so it would
flood the lake, and thus irri
gate their 1,639 acres of crops
along the lake's edge.
Stricklin's recommendation
now goes back to the Klamath
county circuit court for final
order.
What started all the fireworks
was when H. Douglas Whitelne,
a farmer on Anderson creek, de
cided to build a reservoir on the
creek for irrigation storage. The
Liskey and Hankins brothers
sought a court order to stop the
reservoir, and the circuit court
asked Stricklin to look into all
water rights in the valley, which
is seven miles long and five
miles wide The lake, however,
is only about a square mile.
Stricklin said that for the
Liskey and Hankins brothers to
irrigate their 1,639 acres with
flood waters from the lake, They
actually have to flood more than
10,000 acres. He called this a
terrific waste of water.
Of the 20 creek farmers in
cluded in the order, only seven
actually have water rights now
Stricklin said that in the past
10 years there actually have
been only two years when there
was enough flood water from
the lake to irrigate the lands
of the Liskeys and the Hawk
inses.
Stricklin said the case was the
first of its kind.
Bid of $51,000
For Starr Plants
Portland, July 29 VP) A high
bid of $51,000 has been submit
ted for the Starr Fruit Products
company plants at Portland, Sa
lem, Sunnyside and Yakima, At
torney Edward A. Boyrie said
here yesterday.
He said 15 bids were received
for the bankrupt company's ma
chinery, equipment and leases.
Arms Aid
May Continue for
Berlin Airlift
To Be Ended
By October 31
Berlin, July 29 (P) American
and British military govern
mcnts announced today the
combined Berlin airlift will be
reduced by gradual stages start
ing next Monday.
A joint statement said:
"In view of the favorable
stock position in Berlin, it has
been decided to reduce the air
lift by stages commencing Au
gust 1, 1949."
The airlift operation is to
end, under present plans and
barring renewed cold war pres
sure, on October 31.
Five Months' Stockpile
The city has upwards of five
months' stockpile of essential
supplies, built up since the Rus
sians lifted their blockade May
12.
The airlift, which once hit a
peak of delivering almost 13,000
tons in one day, has been aver
aging 8000 tons. The western
sectors of Berlin have existed
during the blockade on as little
as 3,000 tons but need between
12,000 and 15,000 for normal
life.
Road, rail and barge traffic
now are bringing almost 20,000
tons daily.
The airlift was started by
Gen. Lucius D. Clay on June
26, 1948.
70 Airmen Killed
Air force officers today is
sued a revised total of fatali
ties, listing 70 airmen killed
since the lift began. Thirty-one
were Americans, 39 British. In
addition, seven German civilians
lost their lives in crashes.
The cut-back operation is
scheduled to be done on a re
duced tonnage basis The daily
schedule for August is 3,700
tons, for September 2,100, and
for October 1,000.
This will be a breeze for
pilots who have averaged 8,000
tons daily since the lift got into
full swing and thundered in an
eastern parade of nearly 13,000
tons in 24 hours.
Chinese Reds Near
Changfeh Outskirts
Canton, July 29 m Nation
alist dispatches today pictured
communist forces on the out
skirts of Changteh in the heart
of Hunan province s rice bowl
The communist drive from
the north appeared to be t
flanking operation. Heavy fight
ing was reported under way for
Changteh, which is 100 miles
northwest of Changsha, Hunan
capital.
Observers here saw the com
munist strategy as an attempt
to block the nationalists from
Kweiyang, Kweichow province
capital. Kweiyang has been
mentioned as a possible nation
alist capital if Canton is deserted
as was Nanking.
Kaiser Purchases 3
US Aluminium Plants
Washington, July 29 (Pi Sale of three government-owned
aluminum plants one in Baton
Wash. to the Permanente Metals Corp. lor $jb,uuu,uuu was an
nounced today by the war assets administration.
Terms of sale provide for a down payment of five per cent
and purchase money mortgaged
or mortgage ever a period of 25
years at four per cent interest.
The purchase price of $.JU,-
000.000 represents 80 per cent
of the fair value placed on the
three properties by war assets.
Permanente, a Henry J. Kai
ser industry, has been operating
the plants under lease since
early 1946, with options to buy.
Rear Adm. Paul L. Mather,
liquidator of war assets, in an
nouncing the sales, said:
"One of the principal objec
tives laid down by the congress
in the disposal of surplus prop
erty from the last war was to
foster the development of new
independent enterprises and to
promote competition in indus
try.
"This disposal firmly estab
lishes Permanente Metals cor
poration as an independent op
erator in the aluminum indus
try." Proprrfics included in the
sale were:
1, Mead aluminum reducing
to Friendly Motions
Log Jam Ties
Up $27 Billion
Appropriations
Washington, July 29 UP) A
total of $26,809,282,632 in ap
propriations piled up today be
hind a plodding senate and there
appeared little chance of a quick
break in this log jam.
A bipartisan bloc of economy
advocates is challenging almost
every expense item in an at
tempt to chip off a few millions
here and there.
A senate - house committee
meanwhile worked on a com
promise to keep the govern
ments vast machinery rolling
with emergency funds until the
cash can be provided by appro
priation. The house and senate passed
a stop-gap measure yesterady
the second time this year to
provide a part of the money
which should have been avail
able by July 1. The house voted
to keep the money flowing to
agencies through August. But
the senate put the cut-off date
at August 15. Conferees are try
ing to work out this difference.
L. A. Ex-police
Chief Indicted
Los Angeles, July 29 W) Ex-
Police Chief C. B. Horrall's va
cation has been cut short.
The big bluff chief, who step
ped down a months ago because
of "ill health," is on his way
home from Montana to face a
county grand jury indictment
charging him with perjury. Four
of his aides surrendered yestcr
day on similar charges. .
The indictments shared the
limelight with the death of Mic
key Cohen's henchman, Edward
Neddie! Herbert, one of the
quartet shot in the ambushing of
the little gambling czar last
week.
The body of Herbert, about 38
will be sent to New York for
burial, and Cohen, about ready
to leave the hospital, said he in
tends to attend the funeral.
But before Cohen can leave
for the east, he must get supe
rior court permission to do so
He is under $100,000 bond in
the assault case which touched
off the grand jury investigation
into police department vice tie
ups with the underworld preying
on lush Hollywood.
The inquiry led straight to
Brenda Allen's Bordello. After
weeks of check - and - double
checking, the jury yesterday
charged Horrall, Assistant Chief
Joseph F. Reed, Capt. Cecil Wis
dom, Lt. Rudy Wellpott and Sgt.
C. J. Jackson with not telling
the whole truth before the in
vestigating group.
Moreover, Wellpott and Jack
son are accused of accepting five
bribes from Call House Brcnria.
Rouge, La., and two in Spokane,
plant, Spokane, Wash. This
plant cost the government ap
proximately $24,000,000 and
has an annual production capa
city of 216,000,000 pounds.
2. Trentwood rolling mill,
Spokane, Wash. This plant cost
the government about $47,000,
000000 and has an annual pro
duction capacity of 288,000,000
pounds.
3. Alumina plant, Baton
Rouge, La. This plant repre
sents an original investment by
the government of approximate
ly $20,000,000 and has an annual
capacity of 500,000 tons of alu
mina from bauxite.
The Baton Rouge alumina
plant permits Permanente to-run
a completely integrated alumi
num operation as far as semi
finished products in view of the
company's reduction plant and
rolling mill at Spokane.
Previously Permanente had
purchased from the government
a small aluminum plant at Ta
comn, Wash., and a fabricating
plant at Newrk, O.
5 Years
Johnson Says
$1.5 Billion Bill
Only a Starter
Washington, July 29
Secretary of Defense Johnson
told congress today that U. S.
arms aid for friendly nations
may have to be given for four
or five years, at diminishing an
nual costs.
He made the estimate which
he emphasized was only a per
sonal one before the house for
eign affairs committee. He set
the pitch before that group for
a chorus of backing from the mil
itary high command for Presi
dent Truman's request for a one
year $1,450,000,000 program to
help European nations arm
themselves.
Johnson emphasized that "no
man can give you an answer"
when asked by Rep. Mansfield
(D., Mont.) for an estimate of
tile overall cost and duration of
the proposed program, now pro
jected on a one-year basis up to
June 30, 1950.
Cost Decreases Yearly
"Personally," he said in meas
ured words, "I think that you're
into a program that may run
four or five years."
The costs should decrease each
year, he said, as the nations re
ceiving help improve their own
ability to help themselves.
Scheduled to follow Johnson
on the stand were Gen. Omar N.
Bradley, army chief of staff, and
others of the high command.
That group, making up the joint
duets of stalf, was ready for a
quick takeoff for Europe this
afternoon after giving the com
mittee their views. The joint
chiefs are going abroad to dis
cuss the arms program and gen
eral defense plans with Europe
an military chiefs.
Johnson in his testimony rein
forced the administration's as
surance that no additional Am
erican troops will be sent to
EurP as Part of the arms aid
nrnpram
program.
No U. S. Troops Used
In a statement prepared for
the house foreign affairs com
mittee setting forth the national
military establishment's views
on the legislation, Johnson said
he wanted to make one point
"absolutely clear."
"That is," he said, "that un
der this program no United
State troops will be sent abroad
to employ the equipment we will
provide.
"This military assistance pro
gram is solely an equipment and
a technical and training assist
ance program. The only United
Stales personnel involved will
be a strictly limited number of
technical and training specialists
to assist and advise the partici
pating countries."
(Coiu'luilrd on Pa(! B. Column 7)
Straighten-out
Snarl on ECA
Washington, July 29 UP)
President Truman has assurance
that the snarl over foreign aid
will be straightened out today
and some sort of bill will be
brought back before the senate.
Secretary of the Interior Krug
told reporters about it after a
cabinet meeting at the White
House.
He said Vice President Bark
ley spent some time explaining
"the mess on the ECA bill" to
Mr. Truman.
Biirklcy, Krug said, assured
Mr. Truman that the matter
would be straightened out and
some kind of measure brought
out during the day.
The job on the $5,72.1,000,000
money measure for European
recovery fell to the senate ap
propriations committee, which
got it back as the result of a
technical tangle on the senate
floor.
At least three decisions art
possible:
1 Reopen hearings.
2 Strip the bill of disputed
amendments.
3 Demand that the senale
consider the bill as it was in its
original form.
Senate leaders said privately
the best bet is the committee will
agreed finally to take out the
five disputed amendments and
permit (he senale to vote on
each of them independently.