THE WEATHER HERE
GENERALLY FAIR tonight and
Tuesday. Slightly warmer after
noon temperatures. Lowest to
night, 48; highest Tuesday, 80.
Maximum yaaterdar. It j minimum to
day, 46, Total t4-honr precipitation: .lit
for month: .36; normal: ,0S. Seaton pre
cipitation, 42.23; normal, 37.39. Hirer
belrht, -S.4 feet. (Report by U.S. Weatbor
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61st Year, No. 187 S'M Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 8, 1949
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House Debates
Minimum Wage
Hike to 75 Cents
Compromise Measure
To Face Many
Amendments
Washington, Aug. 8 UP) The
house waded today into its sec-
ond big labor debate of the year.
This one is on whether to hike
the national minimum wage
from 40 cents an hour to 75.
The democratic party's cam
paign pledge of last fall to raise
the minimum and broaden cov
erage of the 1938 wage-house
act was up for redempton. It
faced the same determined, well
organized foes as the still-unre-.
deemed campaign pledge to re
peal the Taft-Hartley law.
Democratic leaders were
backing a compromise bill intro
duced last week by Chairman
Lesinski (D Mich.) of the house
labor committee. Many south
ern democrats and republicans
were lined up tentatively behind
a measure sponsored by Reo
Lucas (D., Tex.), a labor com
mittee member.
Unions' Lobby Active
House members reported la
bor unions active in drumming
up support for the compromise,
but said that representatives
would not state their support of
the measure in writing. It falls
short of the original administra
tion bill in its coverage of work
ers. "The town is jumping with
lobbyists on this thing," said
one labor committee democrat.
Major amendments on the
wage section of the bill were to
be offered by Reps. Sims (D.,
S.C.) and Combs (D., Tex.), and
floor managers of the legislation
had notice of scores of other
amendments to be brought up
when the time comes.
(Concluded on Part 5. Column 8)
McKay Praises
Hoover's Work
Governor Douglas McKay
Monday issued a statement laud
ing ex-President Herbert Hoo
ver, who will celebrate his 75th
birthday Wednesday.
Mr. Hoover spent much of his
boyhood in Salem, leaving the
state to enroll in Stanford uni
versity. "Herbert Hoover, only living
ex-president of the United
. States," the governor's state
ment read, "will observe his
75th birthday August 10 at the
Hoover Institute and Library of
War, Revolution and Peace at
Stanford university.
"For more than 35 years, Mr.
Hoover had dedicated his entire
time and energy to public serv
ice at home and abroad, in war
and in peace, constantly striving
to make the world a better place
for mankind.
"His contributions toward fur
thering the highest ideals of our
American way of life have
played an important part in our
social, economic and spiritual
advancement as a nation.
"Let us see to it, in letter, in
lr,irl efotorrtntif an1 1m lnHi
vidual thought, that Mr. Hoover,
one of the greatest Americans of
all times, is made aware of the
"gratitude of the state of Oregon
and the nation for his intense
generosity as a citizen and pub
lic servant."
Krugen Enters Plea
Of Not Guilty
Edward H. Krugen, accused
of aiding the escape of two girls
from Hillcrest home and con
tributing to the delinquency of
one of them, pleaded innocent to
both charges Monday in district
court.
Trial on the charge of aiding
the escapes is scheduled for Au
gust 19, while a preliminary
hearing on the other charge was
' set for Tuesday. Total bail for
Krugen was continued at $3,000
The charges against him were
signed by an official of the girls'
home.
He was accused of the crimes
while employed on a construc
tion project at the state institu
tion.
Tolo School Burns Down
Medford, Ore., Aug. 8 W)
The Tolo rural school was burn
ed down and two homes damag
ed late Saturday in a brush and
-rerub fire that scorched 300
acres north of here.
Asserts Hunt
Boasted of Entry
To While House
Manufacturer Says 5
Percenter Said Vaug
han Closest Friend
Washington. Aug. 8 ttl.fi)
James V. Hunt, Washington busi
ness man who helped firms get
government contracts, boasted
that "he could and did go to the
White House at any time," sen
ate investigators were told to
day.
He also was quoted as describ
ing Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan.
President Truman s ' military
aide, as "one of his closest
friends."
Hunt's claim to White House
entree was described to the sen
ate investigating committee by
Paul D. Grindle, president of the
Charles W. Laing Woodworking
Corp. of Framingham, Mass.
Got Larson His Job
Hunt also claimed, Grindle
said, that he was responsible for
the appointment of Jess Larson
as war assets administrator and
was "at the White House when
Mr. Steelman" told him Larson
wolud be appointed.
Presumably he referred to
Presidential Assistant John R.
Steelman. Larson now is head
of the government's big new gen
eral services administration.
Hunt said he tried to get Lar
son's appointment held up be
cause of Larson's health, Grindle
said, but was told by Larson
that he thought it was his duty
to take the job.
Grindle's complaints about
Hunt set off the senate investi
gation of alleged "influence ped
dling" by "five percenters" in
behalf of business men seeking
government contracts. Grindle,
formerly a reporter for the New
York Herald Tribune, told h i 8
story to that paper, which pub
lished the first account of Hunt's
alleged activities.
Johnson to Cooperate
Grindle testified after the
committee heard Secretary of
Defense Louis Johnson promise
whole-hearted cooperation" in
ridding the capital city of "un
scrupulous business." Johnson
said that when he entered the
cabinet last spring and checked
up on the five percenters, "I
was amazed at their audacity
and the extent of their opera
tions."
When the committee gets
down to cases, one of the first
things it will consider will be
the construction of the Tanforan
race track in California with
scarce materials in the postwar
period.
Blood Mobile Unit
At Salem Tuesday
Tuesday brings the monthly
visitation of the mobile unit
from the Portland regional blood
center to Salem, hours to be be
tween 3 and 7 p.m. at the First
Methodist church.
A last minute appeal is made
by the local Red Cross office to
all persons having appointments
to keep such, or notify lone
enough in advance that substi
tutes may be dated. The unit is
set up, too, to accommodate a
number of "drop-ins," those in
terested in gaving blood but who
have not made appointments.
Several firms and organiza
tions have encouraged their staffs
and membership to donate this
time, and a number of such list
ings are on the appointment
books for Tuesday.
Montana Forest Fire
Still Out of Control
Helena, Mont., Aug. 8 (UR) The northwest's worst forest fire in
40 years still raged out of control today after devastating 6,000
acres and killing 13 firefighters in 96 hours.
Ranger headquarters said the blaze might be brought under
control this afternoon, but A. D. Moir, supervisor of the Helena
national forest warned that
strong breeze could wipe out all
the last three days' work.
The Montana fire is the larg
est of an estimated 75 blazes
roaring through 18,000 acres of
forests and praries in five north
western states.
Over 500 men have fought it
along a 21-mile perimeter in a
region so remote that supplies
must be brought by boat, pack
train, trucks and airplanes.
Rangers placed the number
of firefighters throughout the
five-state area at more than 2,
500 men.
Some of the smoke-grimed
men fighting the Montana blaze
in the fates of the mountainous
region had gone 72 hours with
out sleep, jaui tney inrew aiij
e
9400 Cases of
Polio in 1949
(By the Associated Press)
More than half again as many
polio cases have broken out so
far this year as during a similar
period last year.
An Associated Press survey
showed, however, that there are
signs that the peak has passed
in some of the hardest hit areas.
During the last four days of
the week past an AP state by
state tally showed 1,400 new
cases were reported.
This brought the 1949 total to
9,400 cases. The figure was more
than half again as high as for
the same period, in 1948. That
year was the second worst in
fantile paralysis year on record.
In Washington, D. C, the U.S.
public health service said it not
ed evidence of a slackening of
the upward pace in the country
as a whole.
Public health officials in hard
hit Texas, Arkansas, and Detroit
had words of cheer.
The survey showed that only
in Indiana, Kansas, and North
Carolina is the disease proving
to be highly fatal.
About one case in ten died in
the three states.
Six states have had no deaths:
Delaware, Maine, Montana, Ne
vada, New Hampshire, and
Rhode Island.
Polish Priest
Defends Pope
Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 8 VP) A
Roman Catholic priest here yes
terday attacked "attempts to dis
credit the priests and the pope."
The priest was not identified
because authorities might regard
his sermon as hostile to the gov
ernment which on Saturday or
dered penalties up to death for
violation of a citizen's "freedom
of conscience."
Churches all over predomi
nantly Catholic Poland were
jammed yesterday for the cele
bration of the 25th anniversary
of the ordination of Archbishop
Stefan Weszynski, primate of
Poland.
The priest who came to the
defense of the pope and Catho
lic clergy urged his parishioners
to "pray for the pope and the
nation."
Speaking of the attacks, he
said "we fully realize where such
accusations come from and why
and who is spreading them."
The new government order
was praised in editorials in Po
lish newspapers.
their strength yesterday into
stopping two blazes started by
lightning north of the main fire
They brought the new fires
under control last night.
The Montana blaze killed 13
firefighters during the week-end
They were trapped by shifting
winds and perished in the flames.
Twelve of them had parachuted
into virtually inaccessible Mann
gulch.
The other was a ground fight
er who had joined them. The
parachutists were members of
a crew of 15 forest service
"smoke jumpers." The area
where they were killed was so
remote that a 500 foot trail had
to be hacked from the rock walls
of a canyon to bring out their
bodies.
L ifr.:-.?
Wrecked But How?.. This badly damaged late model
Ford sedan coupe, registered to Eldon Ardell Johnson, route
6 Box 248-W, was wrecked near Central Howell on the Salem
Silverton highway Saturday night. A report of the accident
has not yet been made to either state police or the sheriff's
office. The picture was taken by Frederick B. Nowack, 425
North 20th.
Launch Campaign to
End Shoplifting Here
Salem merchants are losing hundreds of dollars in merchandise
every week to shoplifters. In a
sands of dollars.
The Salem Retail Trade bureau held a special meeting Monday
at the Chamber of Commerce to see what could be done about it,
Ultimatum on
Ferry Landing
Marion county court members
indicated Monday they may
serve notice on the Yamhill
county court that if it does not
get the approach to the Wheat
land ferry on its side of the river
in practical condition to take
care of the situation during the
high water periods of next win
ter, that th court here may. or
der the ferry tied up as the win
ter approaches and leave it tied
up until next summer.
Commissioner Ed Rogers said
that the Yamhill court had
agreed to build the necessary ap
proach. Tom Bowden, ferryman,
in town Monday told the court
if Yamhill county is going to
build the approach, now is the
time to do it, as the water is at
as low a stage as it will reach
at any time this summer and if
it waits another month water
conditions are liable to change so
it will be impossible to go
ahead with the construction.
It is likely that Commissioner
Rogers will be directed to have
another conference with the
Yamhill county court to call its
attention to the water conditions
and ask that it go ahead and
carry out its agreement immedi
ately as to the building of the
approach, so ferry troubles will
be reduced to the minimum next
winter.
To Plan New
Chinese Policy
Washington, Aug. 8 W) Sec
retary of State Acheson expects
to begin consultations with con
gressional foreign policy com
mittees before the end of this
session on the development of
a new American policy toward
China and the far east.
Officials said today that the
state department chief, expects
to have China studies well ad
vanced this summer. It still
seemed highly unlikely that they
would result in any requests for
new legislation before congress
adjourns.
Rep. Martin of Massachusetts.
republican floor leader in the
house, said yesterday that re
publicans "stand ready to join
with the administration in the
formulation of a strengthened
China policy for peace."
Other developments bearing
on the general problem of try
ing to recoup the anti-communist
position and chart new lines
of attack on communism in Asia
include:
The visit of Philippines Pre
sident Elpidio Quirino begin
ning here today seems likely to
give new force to Quirino's
plans for promoting a non-mill
tary regional organization of
countries in the southeast Asian
area. State department officials
were reporter to be interested
in wuinno s plans.
Freezing at Bend
Portland, Aug. 8 UP) Sum
mer? Not at all; it was freez
ing today at Bend. The mer
cury there dropped to 32 de
grees early this morning.
year's time the losses reach thou
and called into conference Chief
of Police Clyde Warren, City
Juvenile Officer Allan McRae
and County Juvenile Officer No
na White.
A decision was reached to keep
lists of known offenders, and
prosecute to the limit those who
are caught. For every one caught
under preventive efforts used so
far there are 50 who are not
caught.
Offenders are both adults and
juveniles.
There was, for example, the
wife of a prominent man, who
for years carried groceries out
of one store two or three times
a week, and when finally caught
and told not to come back, did
the same thing at another store
There was the theft ring of
17 high school girls. One was
caught stealing money at school
She divulged the names of the
other girls who, she said, were
shoplifting. One store recovered
seven or eight skirts from the
group.
And there was the man who
stuck a shotgun down his pant
leg and nonchalantly walked out
of the store. And the other man
who wore two pairs of overalls,
the under pair with the legs tied
tightly about his ankles. He
could carry a wheelbarrow load
of groceries inside his overalls
Two girls were mentioned who
got away with $400 worth of
goods from a department store
by charging the goods to the
account of another family with
daughters of similar age and
forging names.
Mrs. White exhibited two
skirts taken from girls recent
ly apprehended, and one mer
chant reported eight suits ruined
by theft of the skirts, none of
less than $40 value. The girls
go in for skirts, especially as
time for school to open draws
near.
Parents were blamed largely
for the operations of the juve
niles. Cases were mentioned in
which girls had stolen skirts
worn them at home, evidently
never questioned by parents as
to where they got them.
(Concluded on Fare 5, Column 2)
Barkley at Game
With Fair Widow
St. Louis, Aug. 8 P) With
nothing like the secrecy at
tempted two weeks ago, Vice
President Barkley turned up at
a ball game yesterday with a
very lovely charming St. Louis
widow.
Those are the adjectives he
used with reference to Mrs.
Carleton S. Hadley, while she
stared straight ahead as they sat
together in Owner Fred Saigh
box at Sportsman's park at the
game between the Cardinals and
Giants-.
"Romance?" h was asked
and he answered:
"There have been humors like
that about me for the past year
but that s as far as it s gotten.
The last time the vice presi
dent detoured his Washington
bound plane to St. Louis for a
Sunday luncheon with Mrs
Hadley it was supposed to be
"sort of secret," according to
reports.
Yesterday they kept their date
in front of some 29,000 persons.
Ecuador Quake Death Toll
Estimated Less Than 4000
Acheson Rejects
Stop-Gap Arms
Aid to Europe
Washington, Aug. 8 UP) Sec
retary of State Acheson flatly
rejected today a proposal by
Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.),
that congress provide only stop
gap arms aid to western Europe
until next year.
Acheson told the Michigan
senator, who has been a leading
supporter of the bipartisan for
eign policy, that such a course
would be little more than ges
ture. In an obvious reference to
Russia, Acheson told the sen
ate foreign relations and armed
services committees:
In dealing with the forces
with which we are dealing, you
gain no advantage by assuming
an attitude. We must deal
realities. The sooner we fill the
vacuum of military weakness in
Europe, the better it will be for
our own security.--Vandenberg's
Contention
Vandenberg contended that
the administration's $1,450,000
000 arms program sets a pattern
for the military defense of west
ern Europe before the council
to be formed under the north
Atlantic treaty has come into be
ing and set up a defense com
mittee to make military plans.
He complained that the United
States is going ahead without
consulting its north Atlantic al
lies. He said that he favors in
stead an interim program which
will show clearly that this coun
try intends to furnish arms,
but will not preclude further
joint planning.
Vandenberg asked Acheson u
he would "resist the idea" ot
proceeding with a stop-gap that
would "demonstrate our attitude
at the moment but wait until the
next session of congress for pass
ing upon the pattern of the to
tal program."
Yes, Senator Vandenberg, I
would resist that," Acheson re
plied quietly. "I think we must
go forward on both fronts."
He favored furnishing military
aid while strategic plans are be
ing drawn under the treaty.
Acheson told the combined
senate committee earlier today
that congress should approve for
eign arms aid because "the Unit
ed States is open to attack on
its own territory to a greater ex
tent than ever before."
In a prepared statement Ache
son told the senators that the
western European allies of the
United Slates are now so weak
in military power that their sit
uation is an invitation to any
would-be aggressor to strike.
A ttempt to Escape from
County Jail Frustrated
A frustrated jail break which might have emptied the Marion
county jail of 35 inmates including a suspected murderer and two
confessed gunmen was under continued investigation Monday
by Sheriff Denver Young.
Although only four of the inmates admitted complicity in the
attempt. Sheriff Young said thafS- ; :
wnM ,,nHnhtPrilv have
joined in the break had the bars
been cut through.
Immediately after the sawing
was detected by a passerby, two
hack saw blades were found in
the cell. A subsequent investi
gation brought forth the admis
sion from Jack Henry JJyKes, a
confessed car thief, that he had
smuggled the tools into the jail
by hiding them in the soles of
his shoes.
The sheriff's office and the
jail are on separate iioors oi
the courthouse, and it would
have been virtually Impossible
for the deputy on duty to detect
the sawing noise provided he
had not been tipped off by a
sharp eared passer.
Others admitting their part in
the attempt were Edward
Charles McEwen, 32-year-old
car and hearse thief who will oc
returned to Arizona to face a
murder charge; Norman Betts,
a gunman who with his partner,
James Reeds, alias Jimmy Rich,
was sentenced Monday to serve
10 years in the penitentiary for
the armed robbery of George
Fuller of Rickreall, and Frank
L. Utcch, being held for the FBI
on charges of army desertion.
Young disclosed Monday that
McEwen would be returned to
Phoenix, Ariz., to face a murder
charge against him there rather
Your Telephone
Will Ring Some
Day During Week
Mr. and Mrs. John Doe Sa
lem, and Junior and Sue Sa
lem: Your telephone probably
will ring Monday or some
other day early this week.
The caller will be a volunteer
worker for the Salem Hospi
tal Development program.
It may be the first oppor
tunity you have hart to give
this cause, to provide better
hospital facilities for Salem.
Campaign workers point out
that such facilities some day
may save your own life or
that of a member of your
family; or may bring you or
him a speedier recovery.
Your donation docs not
have to be big to be welcome.
A dollar, five, ten or a hun
dred, even pennies and nick
els of children are being
sought.
If you will give, say so, and
campaign leaders promise
that a worker will be sent to
your home.
Council Adds
Greece, Turkey
Strasbourg, France, Aug. 8 (IP)
Foreign ministers of the coun
cil of Europe voted unanimously
today to add Greece and Tur
key to the council's original 10
members.
A Swedish source who atten
ded the opening session in Stras
bourg's medieval city hall said
Iceland also was invited to join
The foreign ministers met as
the council's ministerial com
mittee at 3:45 p. m., opening a
historic effort to unify Europe
French Foreign Minister Rob
crt Schumnn presided.
The ministers represented Bri
tain, France, Belgium, the Ne
therlands, Luxembourg, Swe
den, Norway, Denmark, Italy
and Ireland, the charter nations.
Other tasks will be to fix an
agenda for the council's legisla
tive blanch, the consultative as
sembly, which convenes In the
Strasbourg university auditor
ium Wednesday.
An official source said the
ministers intend to lay down
general principles of European
cooperation and thus leave the
assembly wide initiative for de
tailed projects to carry out
these ideas.
Former Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill, a member of the
British delegation in the as
sembly, is to arrive here to
morrow. than to ne tried in Marion coun
ty on charges of car theft.
A check of police records dis
closed Saturday that McEwen
who has admitted stealing a car
in Salem as well as the W. T
Rigdon hearse which was wreck
ed last week, was wanted on a
first degree murder charge in
the death of Charles T. Shoop,
45, an Arizona rancher.
Young telephoned Arizona
authorities at noon Monday and
learned that sufficient evidence
connected McEwen with the
murder to warrant his release
for trial on that charge before
hearings on charges in Salem.
The suspected murderer, how
ever, pleaded guilty In district
court Monday on a car theft
charge and was ordered held for
the grand jury.
Also on Monday, Betts and
Rich appeared before Circuit
Judge George R. Duncan for
sentencing on charges of arm
ed robbery involving the theft
of Fuller s car and personal be
longings. The two men plead
ed guilty and were given 10-
year penitentiary terms.
Another of the principals in
the attempted jail break
Dykes, was taken before dis
trict court where he pleaded
guilty to the theft of a car from
the Teague Motor company in
Salem. He was ordered held
for the grand jury under $1,500
bail.
Destruction in
Property Put
At $50 Million
Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 8 (U.B
An official spokesman said to
day that destruction in last Fri
day's central Ecuadorian earth
quake may reach $50,000,000 or
more, but he scaled down esti
mates of dead to between 2,000
and 4,000.
Many believed dead, he said.
had been found among some
227,000 men, women and chil
dren who fled to the hills and
plains in terror after the tremors
wrecked their villages and
homes. Rescue workers found
them camping in the open, he
said.
The spokesman was Miguel
Albornoz, secretary to President
Galo Plaza Lasso. The president
himself in a radio broadcast
Sunday after his return from
the disaster scene had estimat
ed the dead at 5000 and the in
jured at 20,000.
Many Returning
"It is impossible to tell the
exact total killed," Albornoz
said, "until we begin large-scale
digging in the ruins of towns,
and this is made difficult be
cause we lack bulldozers and
other machinery.
The task is too monumental
to be tackled with picks and
shovels.
However, original estimates
of the' number killed may be
rather high. It seems now,
judging by the large numbers
which escaped to the open coun
try that the total will be found
to be between 2,000 and 4,000.
"On the other hand, estimates
of the material losses of $20,-
000,000 seem far too little. tt
seems more likely losses will bp
$50,000,000 or more."
(Concluded on Pare S, Column 6)
No Peace Signs
In Honolulu
Honolulu, Aug. 8 UP) An im
minent threat of government
dock seizure brought no sign of
early peace today in Hawail'i
100-day waterfront strike.
Backed by a new territorial
law to put the government In
the stevedoring business, Gov.
Ingram M. Stainback ordered
the islands' 2,000 striking CIO
longshoremen and seven struck
firms to resume work immedi
ately.
There was no indication either
side would obey the order to
keep the territory from taking
over and operating the struck
firms.
The International Longshore
men s and Warehousemen s
union said its stevedores would
not work for the government.
ILWU President Harry Bridges
said the union would fight "gov
ernment scabbery" on the docks
and in the courts.
The employer stand was not
announced. Spokesman Dwight
Steele said their attorneys still
were studying the law, over
whelmingly approved Saturday
by a special session of the Ha
waiian legislature. To forestall
seizure, the employers must
come to terms with the union
or go to court.
U.S. government Conciliator
George Hillenbrand was trying
to set up a new negotiations ses
sion. But Dotn sines suii were
far apart on the issue a raise
of 32 cents in the $1.40 hourly
basic longshore wage.
Auto Speeds Into
River; Four Drown
Entiat, Wash., Aug. 8 U.R
Police dragged the Columbia riv
er today for the bodies of four
persons whose speeding automo
bile careened down a hill onto
a ferry and plunged across it
into the swift current.
Tom Jones, ferry operator
who was credited with jumping
to the, rescue of two of the six
in the auto, told police he shout
ed at the car to stop its dash
down the steep hill.
"But it just speeded up more,"
he said. "It snapped the safety
chain on the open end and went
over the edge."
Missing and presumed dead
were Mrs. H. C. Petty and her
daughter, Clementine, Louisville,
Ind., and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar R.
Wilker, Manson, Wash.