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61st Year, No. 180 SSTJlJSrig: Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 30, 1949
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Amendments
Stymie Foreign
Aid in Senate
Seek to Force ECA
To Buy $1.8 Billions
Farm Products
t Washington, July 30 (IP) The
senate appropriations commit
tee, trying to unravel a senate
snarl over a big foreign aid mon
ey bill, clung stubbornly today
to amendments which caused all
the trouble.
The 21-member group slapped
together a new bill late yester
day but, ignoring strong adminis
' tration pressure, refused to with
draw amendments which would:
- 1 Require the economic coop
eration administration and the
army to buy about $1,800,000,
000 worth of surplus American
farm products.
2. Earmark $50,000,00 of ECA
funds for loans to Spain.
Riders Rewritten
The committee re-wrote these
riders in an effort to get around
senate objections that they were
writing new legislation into a
money bill in violation of the
rules. This was the argument
which threw the entire bill into
a confused parliamentary tangle
last Wednesday and sent it back
to the committee.
Vice President Barkley had
proposed that the committee of
fer the foreign aid bill without
the disputed amendments, bring
ing the riders up for a vote in
dependently of the measure.
But the committee was in no
mood to take the vice president's
advice. This would have made
them subject to approval by a
two-thirds vote of the senate
rather than a simple majority.
Cut 10 Percent
The original commodity
amendment, backed by Senator
McClellan (D., Ark,), would
have required ECA and the army
to buy $2,000,000,000 in surplus
farm products.
But it was agreed in the re
vised rider that that general 10
percent cut in ECA funds al
ready accepted by administra
tion leaders would apply also
to the commodity purchases.
McClellan was agreeable to
this change because the amend
ment is likely to draw more
support in its new farm.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 6)
Quiz Maragon,
5 Percenter
Washington, July 30 (IP) Sen
ate investigators handling the
"five percenter" inquiry ques
tioned smiling John Maragon
again today.
It was the third straight day
that the one-time bootblack with
a White House entree had been
behind closed doors with the
senate probers. The investiga
tors said they had started look
ing into a report that Maragon
figured in a customs duty inci
dent in 1946. But Maragon told
a reporter there was "nothing
to the story."
One investigator said private
ly in advance of the new hush
hush session that the secret
diary figuring prominently in
the five percenter case prompt
ly ed the original decision to quiz
Maragon. i
The report on the customs
duty incident, it was learned,
was laid before the senate's spe
cial investigations subcommittee
yesterday by the New York
Herald Tribune.
. Subcommittee sources said
the group is checking into the
matter. They would not say
whether Maragon was being
questioned on it yet.
The Herald Tribune said to
day that the subcommittee is
looking into a report that Mar
agon "tried and failed to avoid
paying customs duty on a val
uable bottle of perfume essence
in 1946 by pretending that the
bottle contained champagne in
tended at a gift to the White
House.
Nab 15 Portlanders
In Gambling Raid
Portland, July 30 VP) Fifteen
persons were arrested early to
day in a raid on the Sportsmen's
club.
Jack Englart was charged
with conducting a gambling es
tablishment and illegal sale of
liquor, James J. Wright was
charged with illegal liquor sale,
and Jane Johnson with conduct
ing a gambling establishment.
Twelve others were charged with
visiting a gambling establish
ment.
Attlee Blasts
Churchill for
Smear Speech
Accuses War Leader
Of Giving Britain a
Black-eye
London, July 30 VP) Prime
Minister Attlee accused Winston
Churchill today of giving Bri
tain a black eye abroad out of
irresponsibility and party
spite."
Replying to Churchill's con
servative party policy speech at
Wolverhampton a week ago, Att
lee said his abuse of the labor
government "may be taken ser
iously in other countries" where
he is remembered mainly as
wartime prime minister.
Attlee declared:
"Any government which does
not contain him is always de
nounced as incompetent."
Churchill told a party rally Rt
Wolverhampton that the labor
government had led Britain in
to "imminent peril" of com
munism and national bankrup
tcy. Suffers Bad Relapse
"I have never been slow to
acknowledge his war service,"
Attlee said in a prepared speech
in his own election district, "but
during these last four years he
has had a bad relapse into ir
responsibility and party spite."
Attlee's speech was his first
purely political appearance in
the campaign for the next gen
eral elections.
He defended the labor govern
ment's nationalization program
which Churchill had denounced
as "cramping and disastrous."
How disgraceful is is," de
clared Attlee, "to try and make
people believe that all our dif
ficulties are due to socialist mis
management." (Concluded on Fare B, Column 6)
Chinese Seize
II. S. Consulate
Washington, July 30 VP) A
mob's seizure of the American
consulate at Shanghai brought
troubled United States relations
with the Chinese communists to
a new low today.
Several score Chinese, claim
ing to be former employes of the
U. S. navy, seized control of the
consulate yesterday to enforce
disputed demands for back pay.
After an all day siege, the
state department announced, the
staff of consul, General John M.
Cabot, was locked in the con
sulate offices at 9 p. m. (Shang
hai time.)
An official report said the
communist police force "flatly
refused to intervene," while the
aliens affairs bureau of the com
munist military control commis
sion did nothing to restore or
der. The incident was the most
serious since the communists
seized control of the port city
two months ago.
It came on the heels of a warn
ing by Secretary of State Ache
son that remaining Americans
should get out of China immed
iately if possible or face the
danger of being treated as hos
tages. What effective steps might be
taken to deal with the new in
cident were not immediately
clear.
Midwest Heat Wave
Moves on to Seaboard
(Bv the Ajeoclated Press)
Cooling breezes fanned out over the heat-weary midwest and
headed into the sweltering eastern states today as the death toll
from the oppressive weather mounted to more than 75.
The French Canadian air broke the week-long spell of hot and
sticky weather over the central
It was moving eastward from
IS to 20 miles an hour and was
expected to cover the eastern
heat belt tonight. The federal
weather bureau at Chicago did
not expect much of the cool air
to drift into the hot southern
states.
But it looked like another day
of hot weather for most of the
eastern states, extending the
heat wave to two weeks in some
areas. With the arrival of the
welcome cool air, it was a pleas
ant midsummer day in the cen
tral plains, the upper Mississip
pi valley and the upper Great
Lakes region. No 90-degree tern
peratures were in prospect and
there was a sharp reduction in
humidity. The torrid eastern
states can expect similar pleas
ant weather tonight and tomor
row, federal forecasters said.
Queen Stella Receives Crown Miss Stella Dummer Fri
day night was adorned with her crown as Queen Stella I of
Flaxaria in a ceremony at Mt. Angel opening the 1949 Flax
festival. The crown was bestowed by William Healy, assistant
Oregon secretary of state. The queen was escorted to the dais
by Judge Rex Kimmell, from the Salem Cherrians.
Crown Bestowed Upon
Stella I of Flaxaria
Mt. Angel. July 30 In traditional pomp and ceremony, es
corted by her Royal court and Salem Cherrians, Queen Stella I,
kneeling before the royal throne, Friday night, was crowned
sovereign of Flaxaria at tne mil uregon nax lesuvai Dy
Cherrian William E. Healy, assistant secretary of state.
The coronation took place In
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i-uk, Jr.. to wea
Suzanne Perrin
New York, July 30 U,R Rep.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., 34,
will marry socialite Miss Su
zanne Perrin, 18, here shortly
after the adjournment of con
gress, it was announced today.
Mrs. Lee James Perrin said
her dpnrier. blonde daughter
would wed the handsome son of
Mrs. F.leanor Roosevelt and the
late president probably in Aug
ust or September after he has
completed his duties in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Perrin officially announ
peri Hi eneamement which has
been rumored since Roosevelt
was divorced by the former
Ethel DuPont of the Delaware
mnnufacturinir familv last May
21. Both the Roosevelts and the
Perrins had denied the engage
ment. Roosevelt declined to com
ment on the engagement. He
said he felt his personal life
"was not a matter of public re
cord." The couple met last year at
Westbury, Long Island, where
ihf families have adjoining
country estates. Miss Perrin said
they were drawn together by a
mutual interest in breeding An
gus cattle.
Tito Rejects Soviet Protest
Belgrade. Yugoslavia, July 30
() Yugoslavia rejected today
a Soviet protest against arrest
of Russian citizens. Instead, she
accused her one-time commu
nist ally of deliberate insults and
hostile acts.
states yesterday and last night.
;
The mercury was in the upper
60s in Chicago early today after
a week of hot and humid weath
er.
The death toll in the eastern
states mounted as temperatures
soared into the 90s and broke
records for the date yesterday
There were scores of prostra
tions. Business establishments in
many cities closed and sent em
ployes home because of the siz
zling heat.
President Truman was among
the thousands in Washington
who sought relief from the blaz
ing sun. He and his staff left the
96.2 degree capital temperatures
for more comfortable weather at
a mountain-top hideaway in
Maryland. Some 70,000 govern
ment employes were sent home
la setting of burgundy velvet and
golden silk drapery, surmount
ed by her royal name in letters
of gold, and large bouquets of
gladioluses in the foreground
on a stage at the entrance to
the Mt. Angel City hall.
Queen Stella, attired
white satin gown made empire
style with long court train, and
carrying a sheaf of white gladi
oli centered with pink carna
tions, was escorted to the throne
by Cherrian Judge Rex Kimmell
while the orchestra played
Claire de Lune."
Crown Princess Mildred Bre-
tano of St. Paul was escorted by
Cherrian Gib Wyncoop; Princ
ess Jacqueline Rue of Wood-
burn bv Cherrian Mary Van
Cleave; Princess Yvonne Bailey
of Mt. Angel, by Cherrian Doug
las Hobson; Princess Ramona
Berg of Monitor by Cherrian
Frank Doerfler; and Princess
Kathleen Templis of Silverton
by Cherrian R. N. Fischer.
Queen Mary Jane Geelan
Beyer, ruler of the 1948 Flax
Festival, wearing her courtly
gown and carrying a scepter of
flax, was the first to arrive at
the dais for the royal court, and
was escorted by George
Schmidt, president of the Mt.
Angel Business Men's club. She
wore a corsage of white gladio
luses centered with pink carna
tions.
Mrs. J. J. Penner, official
chaperone for the 1949 festival,
carrying a sheaf of red gladio
luses and escorted by-Hy Bren-
don, chairman of the festival
committee, was next to arrive
and was seated to the right of
the court.
Then followed the princesses
and their. Cherrian escorts.
Princess Kathleen was dressed
in pink organza, Princess Ra
mona in aqua organza, Princess
Yvonne in nile green organza,
Princess Jacqueline in yellow
organza. Each carried a colon
ial bouquet of daisies and carna
tions. Crown Princess Mildred
wore a gown of orchid organza,
and she carried a colonial bou
quet of carnations and daisies.
All wore crownless picture hats
with satin streamers.
(Continued on Pare 5, Column 7)
Korean Wives Revolt
On Mates' Mistresses
Seoul, July 30 VP) Korean
women let it be known widely
today they are going to do some
thing about the "shameful prac
tice of Korean husbands who
keep a mistress or two on the
side.
Two days ago about 700 mem
bers of the Federation of Wo
men's associations got up a pro
test against concubinage. It was
handed to Shin Ik Hi, chairman
of the Korean national assem
bly Nothing happened.
"But they'll try aRain," said
the . assembly's secretary gen
eral, Lee ChongoSon. "I know
My wife's a woman."
Koreans say it's fairly com
mon for a man to have both wife
and mistress, especially if he be
longs to the more prosperous
class.
Uranium Ore
Said Plentiful
In Colorado
Senators Assert De
posits Ample for Ato
mic Energy Program
Washington, July 30 W Col
orado's uranium deposits are
ample to supply the nation's
vast .atomic .energy program,
Senator Millikin (R., Colo.) said
today.
Similar assurance came from
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D ,
Colo.), who declared there is a
tremendous amount of uran
ium" in the Colorado plateau
country.
Both senators are members of
the senate-house atomic energy
committee.
They spoke out as the United
States prepared to enter into
"exploratory c o n v e rsations"
with Great Britain and Canada
on a long range program of col
laboration in raw materials sup
plies and exchange of atomic in
formation. Need Price Incentives
Millikin told a reporter:
"Given proper price incen
tives and under efficient organ
ization, our domestic supplies
available from the Colorado
plateau, the surface of which
has hardly been touched, will
supply a very substantial
amount of our needs. And there
are other reassuring factors
which I am not at liberty to dis
cuss." At present, the United States
gets the great bulk of its uran
ium the basic material for
atomic weapons from Canada
and the Belgian Congo.
The big Congro mine is con
trolled largely by Belgian inter
ests and a U.S. -Britain-Belgian
agreement regarding its output
reportedly will expire sometime
soon.
Scattered in Ore
In contrast to the rich deposits
of these mines, the Colorado
uranium is scattered throughout
the Carnotite ore of the region.
It is both difficult and expen
sive toVxtract.
The primary mineral for uran
ium is pitchblende. The atomic
energy commission has said no
one is actually producing that
mineral in this country.
The commission is conducting
what is termed an "extensive"
exploration program for uran
ium. Most of it is centered in
the four-corner area of Color
ado, New Mexico, Utah and Ari
zona the major U.S. source of
uranium at this time.
Fire Menace in
Oregon Increasing
Portland, July 30 VP) Ore-
gonians were warned to be care
ful in the woods today, as fire
danger again rose in the stale.
A return of hot summer wea
ther and falling humidity in
creased fire hazards. A few
lightning storms struck the Des
chutes and the southern Cascade
area during the night, but start
ed no fires.
Several small grass and brush
fires broke out in the Portland
area yesterday. A fire in eastern
Lane county, believed to have
started in some slabs that were
being burned, spread to trees
and slash and destroyed C. J.
Marcus' small sawmill near
Trent.
The temperature soared to 98
at Medford yesterday. It reach
ed 96 at The Dalles, 92 at Sa
lem, Eugene, and Lakeview, 90
at Roseburg, Klamath Falls and
Burns, 88 at Baker and La
Grande, and 87 at Portland.
Bank Entry Wins Sweepstakes Taking the sweepstakes honor in the grand parade of the
Stayton Bean festival Friday night was the entry of the Stayton branch of the First National
Bank of Portland. The pretty girls on the float in the above picture are Nancy Nielson and
Joanne Albus. The festival drew a crowd estimated at 10,000, bigger by far than any olher
linglt night in tht history of In. event. (Story on Pig t)
I
olives Lost in Crash
Of Airliner with Plane
Joint Chiefs of
Staff Surveying
Europe's Needs
Frankfurt, Germany, July 30
() The United States joint
chief of staff arrived here today
in President Truman's personal
plane to begin 10 days of con
ferences with western European
military chiefs and to survey
American forces in Europe.
Adm. Louis Denfeld, chief of
naval operations, said he and
Gen. Omar Bradley, U. S. army
chief of staff, and Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg, air forces com
mander, would talk over military
problems with western European
leaders.
'We will talk with the chief
of staff of the Atlantic Pact na
tions during our 10-day stay in
Europe," Denfeld told news
men. "We are not going to talk
about military aid."
Testified Secretly
Washington, July 30 (P) The
nation s top brass was in Eur
ope today to seek more informa
tion for a congressional commit
tee still not sold on President
Truman's big program to arm
friendly nations.
The joint chiefs of staff left
Washington last night after tes
tifying behind the closed doors
of the house foreign affairs com
mittee on the $1,450,000,000
arms proposal.
On their return in about ten
days, the military heads of the
army, navy and air force are ex
pected to meet with the commit
tee again for more extended dis
cussions. If they gave the house group
any startling secret testimony.
yesterday it was not disclosed.
Committee members said the
meeting could as well have been
public.
Not Sold Yet
"They gave us some figures
on Russian military strengtn
which we have seen published
already," a republican member
told newsmen. "But they did
not tell us anything to clear up
some of the doubts many of us
have about the program."
"We haven't been sold yet," a
democrat added.
The committee has held only
two days of hearings so far. And
members said they probably
won't get into details until la
ter.
All three witnesses who have
testified in public session stress
ed the importance of the pro
gram to the defense of the Unit
ed States. They said it is need
ed to make friendly foreign na
tions strong enough to resist mil
itary aggression.
The three witnesses were Sec
retary of State Acheson, Secreta
ry of Defense Johnson, and Gen.
Omar N. Bradley. Bradley is
army chief of staff. The other
joint chiefs are Gen. Hoyt Van
denberg for the air force and
Adm. Louis E. Denfeld for the
navy.
Stole Anti-Freeze
Washington, July 30 (IP) On
one of the hottest nights of a
super-heated summer, a filling
station here was robbed. The
loot: 36 gallons of anti-freeze.
Detroit Dam
Contract for
Facilities Let
Portland, July 30 (IP) A eon-
tract to build a number of fa
cilities at Detroit dam was
awarded by the army engineers
today to Minnis and Shilling,
Eugene, on a low bid of $138,
734. The firm must construct a
motor repair shop, warehouse,
pumping station, water storage
tank, appurtenant water and
sewer systems, aerial electrical
distribution system, substations,
access roads, and parking areas
in the permanent housing area
R. A. Heintz Construction Co.,
Portland, was awarded a $14
853 contract for revetment re
pair along the Willamette riv
er's left bank four miles south
east of Corvallis.
McKinnon Construction com
pany, Sandy, was awarded i
$11,131 contract for bank pro
tection works on the Willamette
river's left bank five miles
southeast of Independence.
Italy Lines-up
In Atlantic Pact
Rome, July 30 VP) Italy, first
axis country to surrender in
World War II, lined up with
some of her former enemies to
day despite violent opposition
from the country's powerful
communist minority.
The Italian senate approved
ratification of the Atlantic pact
last night, 175-81, and by a show
of hands, authorized the govern
ment specifically to ratify the
alliance with the western pow
ers. The chamber of deputies
has already approved.
The pact, previously- ratified
by the United States, Great
Britain, Canada, France. Bel
gium and Luxembourg, will go
into formal effect as soon as the
Netherlands completes action.
Her senate is expected to debate
the issue next week.
Italy, along with Norway, Por
tugal, Denmark and Iceland, is
associated with, but not a founder-nation
of, the pact.
There were 87 members of
the senate absent as the vote on
the historic alliance against ag
gression was taken, but the pub
lic galleries were filled despite
the late hour.
Vittorio Emmanucle Orlando.
Italy's World War I premier,
voted against the pact, as did
former Premier Francesco Sa
verio Nitti.
Under the pact, Italy, largely
disarmed after her defeat in the
last war, hopes for modern weap
ons.
However, Premier Alcide de
Gasperi emphasized that Italy
seeks only better, modern equip
ment, not arms or armed forces
exceeding the limit of her peace
treaty.
17 Killed
Puebla, Mexico, July 30 (IP)
A truck taking peasants to a
weekly fair was caught between
two buses last night, killing 17
persons and seriously injuring
22 others. All the dead are
Mexicans.
The drivers of all three vehi
cles were arrested.
f.
Collides With
Military Craft
Near Fort Dix
Fort Dix, N. J., July 30 (IP)
An Eastern Air Line DC-3
crashed and burned near here
today, and the line reported It
lives were lost. The airliner col
lided with a military plane, EAL
said.
The line said the casualties in
cluded the 12 passengers, the
three crew members and the pi
lot of the military craft.
The southbound DC-3 "disin
tegrated in the air" after the col
lision, EAL said it was advised
by persons who went to the
scene.
First reports had listed 11
passengers on the airliner. But
EAL said a child also was aboard
who was not included in the first
list.
Navy Plane a Hellcat
All of the passengers board
ed the plane in. Hartford, Conn.,
in New York.
LaGuardia field authorities
said they were advised the mil
itary plane was a navy F6F Hell
cat, but that it was so badly
smashed it could not be identi
fied immediately.
These sources said a navy craft
which left a Pennsylvania field
this morning en route to Ana
costia, Md,, was missing.
Mrs. Mildred Morris, whose
farm adjoins the field into which
the airliner plummeted, said she
heard the big plane roar in low
and ran to her window to see it
pass with what looked like a
large hole in its rear fusilage.
She said she ran out of the
house but found that the plane
already had crashed into the
nearby field, plowing a wide
ditch out of the farmland and
then bursting into a tower of
flame.
f
Column A)
(Concluded on Far. S,
Nationalists
Fighting Back
Canton, China, July 30 (IP)
Nationalists showed signs today
of fighting back in the battle for
south China.
They reported "aggressive ac
tion had removed the commun
ist threat from the east to Heng-
yang, chief defense point for
Hunan province. Hengyang is
about 100 miles south of Chang
sha, the provincial capital.
Official accounts said govern
ment forces counter attacked
and recaptured Lienhwa, 90
miles east of Hengyang in west
ern Kiangsi. Gen. Teng Wen
Yi, army spokesman, said this
paved the way for an attempt
to cut the Red supply lines be
tween Kiangsi and Hunan.
In Kiangsi Hunan's eastern
neighbor the nationalists re
ported they had blunted the Red
drive southward towards Kanh-
sien, 215 miles from Canton.
They said the communists had
been halted at a point south of
Taiho.
Also listed as a government
success was recapture of Yung
fen, 90 miles south of Nanchang,
communist held capital of Kiag
si. The 200 man Red garrison
surrendered, it was said. Only
importance attached to the ac
tion was that it showed a nation
alist effort to disturb the com
munist rear.
A private telephone call from
Hengyang reported the Reds
withdrew from Chuchow today.
Nationalists reoccupicd the
town. Chuchow, on the Canton-Hankow
railroad, is 325
miles north of Canton and 25
miles south of besieged Chang
sha. Jerusalem Jarred
By Two Explosions
Jerusalem, July 30 (IP) Two
thundering explosions shook
southern Jerusalem early today
and a large blaze was seen on
Mount Zion, just outside the Arab-held
oil city wall.
Israel officials had no explana
tion for the blasts. Some sources
said they believed a fire on the
Arab side of the boundary line
exploded land mines.
Mount Zion is the site of an
abbey where a joint Jewish-Catholic
Investigating commission be
gan work this week examining
war damage to church property.
early becaust of the heat.