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61st Year, No. 194 SSS?J32ri Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 16, 1949
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Truman Fights
For Action on
Reorganization
Summons 6 Demo
cratic Senators to
Force Program
Washington, Aug. 16 TO
President Truman took person
al command today of the admin
istration's fight to rescue two
controversial government reor
ganization plans.
He did so by summoning six
panocratic senators to the White
xiuuoe ana appealing lur iiivut-
able action on the proposals.
Senator Hoey (D., N.C.), who
served as spokesman for the
six, told reporters afterwards
that some of the group have
been opposed to the plans.
Shortly after the White House
meeting broke up, the senate
opened debate on Mr. Truman's
reorganization plan No. 1. This
calls for a new department of
welfare.
Second Move in Four Days
Plan No. 2, next on the sen
ate schedule, would shift the
bureau of employment security
from the federal security admin
istration to the labor depart
ment. Today's conference was Pres
ident Truman's second move
within four days in behalf of the
two plans. In a letter to Vice
President Barkley Friday, the
president declared that objec
tions raised against the plans
appeared to him "ill-founded
and mistaken."
Beyond disclosing Mr. Tru
man's appeal for approval of
the plans, Hoey would not dis
cuss the White House confer
ence. The other senators at the
meeting were Sparkman and
Hill of Alabama, Fulbright of
Arkansas, Johnson of Texas and
Maybank of South Carolina.
The fate of plan No. 1 in the
senate rested on whether foes
could muster 49 votes against it.
One administration leader
predicted privately that the sen
ate would hand Mr. Truman a
setback. The opponents were
not so optimistic.
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Drake Admits
Check Racket
A long series of worthless
checks passed in Salem is be
ing rapidly cleared up by city
detective Wayne Parker, follow
ing a talk with Ted Norman
Drake at the Albany city Jail
Monday.
Parker said Tuesday morning
that Drake, who is being held
at Albany for burglarizing a
Santiam Lumber company of
fice, has confessed to passing a
number of no-good checks un
der several aliases.
When Parker interviewed
Drake at Albany, the prisoner
carried five sets of identifica
tion, each bearing a different
name.
Some of the names Drake
used in writing checks are Jack
Hanson, William E. Burns, Bob
Simms, B. L. Larsen, T. G. Bak
er, C. S. Barns, C. B. Barns, Joe
Holley, P. G. Baker, P. G. Pen
ely, J. B. Burns, J. B. King and
C. S. Bailey.
Parker has already traced
down 14 checks passed by Drake
in Salem.
Drake, a former inmate of
Washington state prison, has re
portedly operated his check
racket in 23 Oregon cities. He
has visited Salem several times,
Parker said.
The Salem police department
holds a warrant for "Jack Han
son" on a check-writing charge,
and since Parker has now deter
mined that Hanson is an alias
of Drake, the check-writer may
be brought to Salem to face
charges against him here.
Bridges to Resign
$35,000 a Year Job
Concord, N. H., Aug. 16 TO
U. S. Sen. Styles Bridges (R
N.H.) said today he will resign
next month his $35,000 a year
trusteeship of the United Mine
Workers welfare fund.
He said he wants to wait un
til the first yearly report on the
next month, before stepping out.
It was recently disclosed that
Bridges and Ezra Van Horn,
fund trustee of. the coal operot
ors. had been drawing a $35,
000 a year allowance, while John
L. Lewis, union chief and third
trustee, had not been drawing
from his allowance.
Bridges claims most of the al
lowance went for expenses of
hiring legal experts and ac
countants to help handle the
$100,000,000 fund.
Senate Orders
Reopening of
Arms Program
New Hearings Ordered
For Closed Session
Wallace a Witness
Washington, Aug. 16TO Sen
ators reversed themselves in a
stormy session touay and or
dered hearings reopened on the
administration's $1,4 5 0,0 0 0,000
foreign arms program.
Chairman Connally (D., Tex.)
of the combined senate foreign
relations and arms services com
mittee announced after a closed
session that the groups will hear
a ' half dozen witnesses. They
will include Henry A. Wallace
and Norman Thomas, both for
mer minority party presiden
tial candidates.
Connally said the additional
hearings, starting tomorrow, will
take about two days.
Report from MacArthur
He said he doubts now that
the senate group can vote this
week on the bill, which was
approved for the full amount
yesterday by the house foreign
affairs committee.
Senators scheduled an after
noon closed session to talk over
with Secretary of Defense John
son a report from Gen. Douglas
MacArthur covering the stra
tegic situation in the Japan
Korea area.
Johnson announced that Mac-
Arthur has declined an invita
tion voted 13 to 12 by the senate
groups last Friday, to return
home to testify on the arms
plan.
Administration acceptance had
been forecast earlier for some
of a series of ameri,nents of
fered by Senators Vandenberg
(R., Mich.), and Dulles (R., N.
Y.), to the foreign arms pro
gram. Initiated by George
Connally told reporters the
move to reopen hearings was
initiated by Senator George (D.,
Ga.), who has been urging that
that the proposed $1,450,000,000
fund be cut in half.
Most of the witnesses to be
heard will be in opposition to the
program, Connally said.
The Texas senator added that
it now appears that the senate
"has got a good deal of time"
ahead of it before it can con
sider the arms program because
of the press of other legislation.
On the other side of the capi-
tol, Speaker Rayburn predicted
at a news conference, that the
house would approve the bill in
'substantially" the form voted
by the foreign affairs committee.
New Rail Rates
Aid West Shippers
Portland, Aug. 16 TO New
railroad freight rates were view
ed today by the West Coast Lum
bermen's association as a gain for
western shippers.
K. C. Batchelder, traffic man
ager for the association, said
lumber rates will maintain "com
petitive relationship with other
regions." Earlier, the Western
Pine association had denounced
the changes listed by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Authoress Dies from
Auto Crash Injuries
Atlanta Anff. 16 (U.B Marearet Mitchell, a shy Georgia woman
whose Civil War history at her father's knee inspired her to write
Gone With the Wind," died today.
Death came five days after she was struck down by a drinking
taxicab driver's private car on
of the most vivid action of her
fabulous novel about the south's
lost cause."
She died at noon (EST).
Miss Mitchell, 46, and her
husband, advertising executive
John Marsh, were crossing the
street en route to a movie the
night of August 11 when she
was injured.
Her skull was fractured and
her pelvis was crushed when
she was dragged 10 feet along
the pavement by the speeding
car, driven By Hugn u. ura
vitt. Gravitt was jailed on charges
of drunk driving and a list of
other traffic violations, then re
leased on $5,450 bond. In view
of Miss Mitchell's death, addi
tional and more serious charges
were expected to be added.
Doctors, inclufiing the south's
foremost nerve and brain spe
cialists, worked tirelessly but
futilely to save the famous
writer's life. Several times she
rallied, spoke to her husband,
told him she "hurt all over."
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Airliner Passengers Rescued Rubber raft (arrow) with
passengers from four-engined U. S. bound airliner which
crashed into the sea off western Ireland lies alongside British
trawler Stalberg as rescued come aboard. The trawler carried
49 survivors of the crash into Galway, Ireland. This airview
was made by navigator of a TWA plane which aided in
search. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Paris).
Kaneko's $30,000 Suit
Against Jones on Trial
Trial of the $30,000 suit of Hiroshi Kaneko vs. Ronald E. Jones
and Labish Celery Growers cooperative was launched before Cir
cuit Judge Rex Kimmell Tuesday with all parties and the court
agreeing that the suit was simmered down to one issue, whether
there was a consideration for the $30,000 voted in 1946 to Ronald
"E. Jones by the Labish cooper
County Owns
Road Says State
The county court which has
been trying to convince -the
state highway department that
the latter owns county road 884
which runs through the forsaken
townsite of Silver Falls city
hasn't proved its point and was
notified by the commission
Tuesday that the county still
owns the road, even though the
state owns the old townsite and
its streets and alleys, long since
vacated.
The highway department said
that when the state tooK over
the old townsite in 1938 and it
was vacated by the county in
1939, everything was involved,
the records show, "except
county road 884," whicn tne
state said still remains in the
county's hands. The county
court has now agreed tne state
is probably right in its conten
tion.
The county was not altogether
in a philanthropic mood in at
tempting to give this road to the
state highway department. The
reason for it was that word had
come in a bridge on the road
needs repair. The county court
thought it didn't own the road
and that the cost of repairs
would be up to the state and told
it so. But seemingly the coun
ty records hold otherwise. The
county will go ahead and repair
the bridge.
Peachtree street, in tne neaniana
Margaret Mitchell
Author of "Gone With the Wind
ative. The plaintiff is seeking to
have the money restored to the
cooperative for distribution
among its members on the al
leged basis it was voted to Jones
without consideration.
Bruce Spaulding, attorney for
Jones, averred in his statement
to : the court there was a consid
eration in excestf of toe $301000
paid to defendant Jones. The
question grew out of evacuation
of certain Labish lands by Jap
anese during the war which took
them away from completing care
for their 1942 crops. Most of
the cooperative members, nine
of them, were Japanese leasing
lands in the main from Jones.
When the evacuation came the
Japanese gave a power of attor
ney to the cooperative to care
for their lands the cooperative
to receive one-half the net prof
it. This was approved by Jones.
Spaulding said with evacua
tion of the Japanese it left Jones
as about the only one with re
sponsibility to care for the
crops. Securing help was diffi
cult, he said, generous bonuses
were required, and when the
crops were marketed there was
net profit, he stated, of over
$160,000. Half of this, he stated
was paid to the lessee farmers
and half kept by the cooperat
ive. Out of this, he added, the
bonuses and other expenses
were paid and after these ex
penses something over $30,000
was placed in the cooperative re
volving fund out of proceeds of
the 1942 crop.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Soviet Recalls
Fnvoy to Tito
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Aug. 16
(U.B Russian has recalled her
ambassador to Yugoslavia, it was
announced today, leading veter
an observers to speculate that
the Soviet Union was preparing
for "graver action" against ex
communicated Marshal Tito.
The ambassador, Antoli Lav-
rentiev, a 45-year-old Soviet ca
reer diplomat, was released of
his duties in Belgrade and pro
moted to deputy foreign minister
in Moscow under Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrew Vishinsky.
Veteran diplomatic observers
said it was doubtful if Lavren
tiev would be replaced. Some
thought that Lavrentiev's with
drawal was a roundabout way of
breaking relations with Yugosla
via, i
This belief, western observers
said, was Russia's biggest post
war blunder.
Lavrentiev was credited by
western observers with having
influenced Soviet policy in the
Cominform's battle with Marshal
Tito. These observers said La
vrentiev thought Tito could be
forced to recant his nationalist
theories
Idaho Fire Controlled
McCall, Idaho, Aug. 18 (JP)
The 5000-acre fire in the Sal
mon river section of the Payette
National forest was reported un
der control today.
All Bodies of
Crash Found
Galway, Ireland, Aug. 16 (IP)
The bodies of all nine persons
who lost their lives in an air ac
cident at sea yesterday have
been recovered and identified.
The accident occurred when a
Transocean airliner with 58 per
sons aboard ran out of gas and
bellied into the Atlantic off Ire
land. Forty-nine persons were
saved in a dramatic flare-lit air
sea rescue.
Meanwhile a full investigation
of the crash went forward to
day with American officials par
ticipating. George Clark of New
York arrived at Shannon airport
early today to investigate the
disaster for the civil aeronautics
board.
Eight of the victims were
among 47 Italian immigrants en
route to Venezuela from Rome.
The ninth casualty, Radioman
Herbert Asbel of Brooklyn, N.
Y., was drowned when the
wreckage knocked him from the
fuselage into the sea.
No Money for
U. S. Employes
Washington, Aug. 16 TO The
United States military establish
ment was penniless today, along
with the interior department, the
veterans administration, and the
economic cooperation adminis
tration. ,
Technically, said Chairman
Cannon (D., Mo.) of the house
appropriations committee, they
can't spend or commit a single
penny legally, and some govern
ment people "are getting frantic
about it."
However, the defense depart
ment showed no pressing anxi
ety. An official said it has au
thority under basic law to con
tinue contracting for food, fuel,
etc.; its civilian payroll normal
ly runs 12 days behind services
rendered.
Something may be done about
the situation before the end of
the day.
It results from the fact that
congress has not yet finally pass
ed the annual appropriation bills
for the agencies involved, and a
temporary financing measure for
them expired last midnight.
The house appropriations com
mittee sought house approval
yesterday of another temporary
measure, but the rush procedure
required a two-thirds vote and it
didn't get it, although it mus
tered a majority.
Cannon has asked the rules
committee to grant clearance for
the emergency measure under
procedure requiring only a ma
jority vote. The rules committee
turned him down late yesterday
but was expected to change its
mind later.
Rising Costs Hit
Filbert Growers
Portland, Aug. 16 (IP) Rising
costs have knocked the profit
out of filbert nut growfhg, a de
partment of agriculture hearing
committee was told here.
Grower co-operative spokes
men hope to persuade the gov
ernment to call a referendum
on marketing regulations. They
want a new agreement.
Two bankers, McKinley Kane
Newberg, and R. L. Lewis, Che-
halis, Wash., testified yesterday
that filberts are no longer con
sidered a good investment. Ben
Dorris, a Springfield grower
told of rising costs.
The hearing continues through
tomorrow.
Waitt Admits Making Note
Rapping Rivals to Keep Job
Hawaiian Court
Order Defied
By Harry Bridges
Honolulu, Aug. 16 TO Har
ry Bridges shoved Hawaii's 108
day CIO dock strike into a de
cisive phase today. The territor
ial government obtained an anti
picketing injunction. He defied
it personally
The next step was up to Wal
ter D. Ackerman, Jr., Hawaii's
attorney general. His office said
Bridges, president of the CIO In
ternational Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's union, might
be arrested for contempt. Acker
man said he would determine
today what to do.
Ackerman went into circuit
court yesterday to obtain the in
junction. He acted under an em
ergency law of the territorial
legislature. Under this act the
government has seized Hawaii's
struck stevedoring firms. It
plans to operate the docks, tied
up since the ILWU struck May
1 for a 32 cents hike in the $1.40
hourly basic longshore wage.
Secured by Territory
The territory resorted to the
injunction as it tried to unload
the Matson line freighter Ha
waiian Merchant at pier nine.
ILWU pickets were on duty
there. CIO marine cooks and
stewards and independent mar
ine firemen said they would
walk off the ship if government
stevedores worked behind the
picket line.
(Continued on Face 5. Column 7)
Right Coalition
To Rule Reich
Bonn, Germany, Aug. 18 (JP)
The new west German govern
ment, dominated by conserva
tives will be forged here this
weekend.
Leaders of the enristian demo
cratic union party, which topped
Sunday's voting, were summoned
today to a series of conferences
with these goals:
1. Forming a coalition of right
wing parties which think largely
like the christian democrats
(CDU) to establish an unchal
lenged majority over the social
ists who still are a major party.
2. Selecting the first chancel
lor, (prime minister) in Germa
ny since Hitler and recommend
ing a president.
The calls went out from Dr.
Konrad Adenauer, chairman of
the CDU, who emerged from
the voting for a parliament as the
most powerful single individual
in west Germany's politics.
A surprising tone of concilia
tion was noted in the eastern
press today as German commu
nists still reeled from the elec
tion trouncing.
Despite a loud and vigorous
campaign, featuring tirades
against the unpopular allied dis
mantling program, the commu
nists won only 15 of 400 scats.
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Testify at 5 Probe Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt (left)
suspended Chemical Corps chief and his counsel Col. William
G. Easton, as they arrived to testify at the 5 probe in Wash
ington, D. C. The committee wants Waitt's own explanation
of the events leading to hn suspension. (Acme Telephoto)
My
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Admiral Alan G. Kirk
U.S. Envoy Visits
Premier Stalin
Moscow, Aug. 16 (IP) U.S.
Ambassador Alan G. Kirk said
today his meeting with Prime
Minister Stalin in the Kremlin
last night was a "courteous
pleasant visit."
The conversation lasted about
45 minutes. It was the first
time any high American official
had seen Stalin in nearly a year.
It was reported that Stalin
and Kirk sat at a long table in
the prime minister's office and
talked in an informal and relax
ed manner. Kirk said the con
versation dealt with "general
subjects."
Kirk said he had requested
the interview with Stalin and
described his visit as a "cour
tesy call" according to protocol
It was the first time the 6-year-
old American envoy had met the
Soviet leader. Kirk, a retired
admiral who succeeded Lt. Gen
Walter Bedell Smith as am
bassador to Moscow, arrived in
the Soviet capital in June.
All Moscow morning news
papers carried front page stories
on the meeting. Soviet-American
relations always are a sub
ject of interest here.
A complete version of
meeting is being sent to Wash
ington today. After the visit to
the Kremlin was concluded
Kirk, Minister Counsellor Wal
worth Barbour and First Sec
retary George Morgan went di
ricetly to the American embassy
where they sent off a first ac
count of the talk.
Barbour and Morgan accom
panied Kirk to the Kremlin. On
the Soviet side at the meeting,
besides Stalin, were Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
and Foreign Office Translator
Jan Troyanovsky, son of the
Soviet Union's first ambassador
to the United States.
Folio in Upswing
Seattle, Aug. 16 TO Polio is
on the upswing in Washington,
the state health department re
ported yesterday. There were 38
new cases throughout the state
during the week ending Aug. 13,
as compared to 24 the previous
week.
Dictated Memo
To Secretary of
James V. Hunt
Washington, Aug. 16 TO Maj.
Gen. Alden H. Waitt said today
that Maj. Gen. Harry H.
Vaughan asked him to prepare
a memorandum on eight officers
eligible for Waitt's job as chief
of the army chemical corps.
Waitt told the senate investi
gations committee that he
thought Vauehan. whn is
dent Truman's armv airtp aeWnri
him to do so at some social gath
ering "perhaps a cocktail
party."
He said he could not recall thn
date, but said he thought
Vaughan asked him to "give my
estimate mv nersnnal nnininn"
of officers most likely to be con
sidered lor the post.
Cutthroats of Rivals
Further, Waitt acknowledged
to the committee, looking into
activities of so-called five per
centers, that he dictated the
memorandum to the secretary of
James V. Hunt, Washington
management counselor. Hunt
has been a prime figure in the
inquiry.
Senator Mundt (R., S.D.),
said when the memorandum was
placed in evidence last week
that Waitt had "cut the throats"
of his brother officers who
might succeed him as the army's
chemical chief.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Elsey Named
Aide to Truman
Washington, Aug. 16 VP)
President Truman today ap
pointed George McKee Elsey,
31, as a $10,000-a-year adminis
trative assistant.
Elsey, whose home is in Oak-
mont, Pa., is a former assistant
to Clark M. Clifford, special
counsel to the president.
His appointment brings to
five the number of administra
tive assistants to the president.
Six of these jobs were created
during the administration of the
late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, whose idea was to fill
them with men with a "passion
for anonymity."
Elsey has been a familiar fi
gure around the White House
for several years. He was an as
sistant naval aide under Clif
ford when Clifford was naval
aide to the president. He later
became an assistant to Clifford
when the latter was appointed
Mr. Truman's special counsel. He
did research rather than legal
work since he is not a lawyer.
Recently he has been working
with Capt. S. E. Morrison on an
active naval assignment compil
ing a naval history of the last
war.
Born February 5, 1918 at Palo
Alto, Calif., he received his
A. B. degree from Princeton in
1939, and M. A. degree from
Harvard in 1940.
The four other administrative
assistants are Charles S. Mur
phy, Donald Dawson, David K.
Niles, and David Stowe.
Pockets Promised
In Gobs Uniforms
Washington, Aug. 16 TO
Navy enlisted men can look for
ward to some improvements in
their dress-up blue uniform by.
mid-1952.
The new uniform will have
hip and side pockets, instead of
just the tiny watch pocket in the
present uniform. And the drop
front will be replaced with a
zipper.
Bell bottom trousers will be
retained in the new style.
The jumper will have coat
style sleeves instead of the tight
button cuff of the present jump
ers.
Although the navy already
has begun manufacture of the
new uniform at Its Brooklyn
clothing depot, the new model
won't be authorized for wear
until July 1, 1952.
Fire Engine Burns up
Felixstonc, England, Aug. 16
TO The firemen of Felixstone
today had faces as red as their
fire engine. Their fire engine
burned up last night while they
were fighting a blaze In a near
by village.