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61st Year, No. 195 matter a Salttn. Orecou
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 17, 1949
(24 Pages)
Price 5c
Wonder World
Glimpsed 4500
Feet Under Sea
Barton in Diving Bell
Breaks World Depth
Record
Smuggler's Cove, Calif., Aug.
17 ,(p) An "unbelleveable
world" 4500 feet under the sea
and filled with weird and woo
(Rous creatures, has got its first
glimpse of man.
The strange, luminous forms
of marine life which inhabit the
depths of the ocean yesterday
saw a white sphere suddenly
lower itself into their midst.
Inside the sphere was a crea
ture they had never seen before
a man.
Armies of spiraling shrimp
hurled themselves in a barrage
against a window in the sphere
through which the man was in
tently peering.
Their attack was in vain, they
only splattered against the win
dow. World Record Broken
The man was Otis Barton, ma
rine explorer, who in his new
diving bell, the benthoscope, set
a new deep sea diving record
yesterday. He descended to 4500
feet, beating his own record of
3028 feet, achieved in 1934 off
Bermuda with Naturalist Wil
liam Beebe.
Barton telephoned his obser
vations to an assistant on the
barge from which the bentho
scope was being lowered by ca
ble. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
$358,260 for
ital Drive
Ford Watkins, general chair
man of the Salem Hospital de
velopment program, announced
today that pledges and contri-
butions to date total $385,260
as the first phase of the cam
paign nears completion.
Mabel Griebenow, in charge
of the office at 335 North High
street, continues work of audit
ing the receipts and special gifts
for the general campaign, and
according to latest indications
the latter will total In excess of
$50,000. In the large gifts cate
gory receipts thus far total
$236,540 with contributions of
the medical division $71,720 in
addition.
The doctors have been singled
out for particular commendation
by Watkins for their generosity.
It has been the experience in
similar campaigns throughout
the northwest and nationally
that the medical fraternity do
nations have averaged 10 per
cent of the total. In the Salem
program the doctors have sub
. scribed almost 20 per cent.
Among the men leading the phy
sicians' drive were Dr. James L.
Sears, president of the Marion
County Medical association, and
Dr. M. K. Crothers.
The weekly meetings of the
large gifts committee continue
to be held, and the next gather
ing will be at the Marion hotel
Thursday noon.
Byrd Confesses to
A Robbing Dentists
Recent burglaries of Salem
dental and optical offices were
solved Tuesday when Wesley M.
Byrd, a Eureka, Calif., laundry
worker, signed statements to the
effect that he had done the loot
ing. Byrd was arrested in Portland
when he attempted to sell a
quantity of dental gold and
broken eyeglass frames. He ad
mitted having stolen the goods
from Corvallis and Salem.
The local firms he burglar
ized are the Painless Parker
dental offices in the Gray build
ing and the Jewelry Supply
company, -381 State street.
Repeal Publication
Of Big Taxpayers
Washington, Aug. 17 VP) Fi
nal action sent to President Tru
man's desk today a bill repeal
ing a Yequirement that the in
ternal revenue bureau publish an
annual list of compensations paid
by corporations to persons re
ceiving $75,000 or more.
Preparation of the list involves
examination of over 600,000 cor
y .. porate returns each year, and
congress decided this represents
an administrative and cost bur
den not justified by the value of
the information obtained. i
New Effort to
End Strike on
Hawaiian Docks
Resumption of Nego
tiations Made at
Bridges' Suggestion
Honolulu, Aug. 17 (P) Long
shoremen and waterfront em
ployers met across a peace table
today in a new effort to end Ha
waii's 109-day CIO dock strike.
The 'agreement to resume di
rect negotiations developed with
dramatic suddenness 'during a
conference Gov. Ingram M.
Stainback arranged in his of
fice yesterday.
Almost immediately officials
of Hawaii's seven struck steve
doring firms and leaders of the
International Longshor e m e n's
and Warehousemen's union be
gan meeting. The first session
lasted two hours.
Start From Scratch
Resumption of negotiations,
made at the suggestion of Long
shore President Harry Bridges,
was on the basis of starting
"from scratch." The stevedores
struck May 1 for a 32 cents hike
in their $1.40 hourly pay.
The agreement to resume neg
tiations provided that if no pro
gress is made in three days, Cy
rus S. Ching, chief of the U. S.
conciliation service, will be in
vited in as mediator.
In Washington, Ching told a
reporter: "It's impossible to say
at this time whether I would be
available or not. No decision has
been made. Meantime I hope a
settlement will be reached with
in the three days."
Maneuvers Listed
The talks came on top of these
maneuvers in court and on the
waterfronts in Hawaii and the
mainland:
1. Circuit Judge Edward A.
Towse ordered a contempt action
"or 'other appropriate action"
against Bridges for personally
defying an antl-picketing injunc
tion obtained by the territory un
der its new dock seizure law.
Towse ordered the territorial at
torney general to start the action
by noon today.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
See Increase in
Construction
By CHARLES MOLONY
Washington, Aug. 17 ffl A
forecast of further moderate in
creases in construction work in
the near future came from the
federal reserve board today.
Because construction is one
of the main bulwarks of business
activity and employment, this
furnished some backing for a
prediction by Secretary of La-
Dor lo bin that employment will
go up" by 1,000,000 the rest of this
year. Tobin made the predic
tion at the White House yester
day. '
The reserve board, in a pub
lication, noted contract construc
tion was providing jobs for more
than 2,000,000 workers at mid
year.
Even while activity declined
substantially at the nation's fac
tories and mines in the snrine
and early summer, the board
report showed, construction was
scoring a more than seasonal
rise from its low winter levels.
Newbry launches War
Upon Drunken Drivers
By IAMES D. OLSON
War on drunken drivers in Oregon has been launched by
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry.
As the first step, Newbry declared, an effort will be made
to stamp out a common practice nn th nart r.i nn
judges urging reinstatement of
Baltic juuges oner me noiaers v
have been convicted for driving
while drunk,
To this end, Newbry has nam
d a review board composed of
Capt. Walter Lansing, of t h e
.tate police, who is on loan a
the state department and now
heads its safety department;
William Healy, assistant secreta
ry of state and Ward McReyn
olds, chief examiner in the driv
ers' license division.
This committee is charged
with the duty of reviewing every
case of drunken driving when re
instatement of a revoked license
is sought. If the record of the
suspended driver shows numer
ous convictions in the past, the
board will recommend that the
revocation stand. Usually such
revoctions are for a year's dura
tion.
Warn Germans
Against Abuses
Washington, Aug. 17 VP) Sec
retary of State Acheson warn
ed the western Germans today
against abusing the freedoms
permitted them by the western
occupation powers.
Acheson sounded the warning
in a news conference statement
of Sunday's elections in western
Germany. He hailed the results
as a "victory for moderation and
common sense."
He noted there had been
sharp criticism of the occupa
tion powers during the election
campaign. He indicated he
wasn't worried about that but:
"Abuse of such freedoms may
alienate western sympathies
while failing to serve the best
interests of the German people."
The Germans "may well be
reminded," he added, "that they
are exercising these freedoms
only because they are privileged
to live under the jurisdiction of
freedom loving nations . . .
Acheson simultaneously ex
pressed himself as favoring the
acceptance of the new West
German republic In the council
of Europe.
The United States, he said, be
lieves this would be a construc
tive step in the integration of a
peaceful, freedom loving Ger
many into the community of
western Europe.
Strasbourg, France, Aug. 17
VP) Winston Churchill suggested
today an extraordinary session
of the European consultative as
sembly be called in December
or January for the admission of
Germany to the council of Eu
rope. Churchill, Britain's wartime
prime minister and her present
conservative party leader, said
the admission of Germany would
be the "greatest and most im
portant of all the questions that
are before us."
"We cannot part here at the
end of this month on the basis
that we do nothing more to
bring Germany into our circle
until a year has passed, he
said.
Another Dust Bowl Due
Denver, Aug. 17 VP) A Uni
versity of Colorado professor,
Norton Seeber, predicts another
"dust bowl" within the next dec
ade. He spoke before a Missouri
Valley Authority committee last
night.
drivers' licenses revoked by these
"Our effort to stamp out drun
ken driving on our highways, in
many cases, has been retarded
by the insistence of judges to lift
the suspension of licenses of dri
vers convicted of drunken driv
ing," said Newbry.
"There is no greater threat to
the life of our citizens than au
tomobile drivers using the high
ways while under the influence
of liquor," he continued. "It is
an evil that I hope can be great
ly reduced by action of the ad
visory board."
Newbry added that the prac
tice began when some judges in
tervened in hardship cases but
added that now applications for
reinstatement of revoked licens
es has become a habit on the part
of some magistrates."
Gen. Collins Takes Top Army Post Gen. Lawton Collins
(right) becomes the new army chief of staff with oath given
by Gen. Omar Bradley (left), new permanent chairman of
joint chiefs of staff during ceremony at Pentagon in Wash
ington. Mrs. Collins is at center. In rear are Army Secretary
Gordon Gray (left) and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.
(AP Wirephoto)
North Santiam Road
Problems Ironed Out
By DON UPJOHN
At a conference Tuesday afternoon between R. H. Baldock, state
highway engineer, with County Judge Grant Murphy and Com
missioner Ed Rogers, disposition of the situation on the North
Santiam highway was ironed out. While the county and state of
ficials were conferring here, and
Dallas Couple
In Burma War
.n, Rangoon, Burma, Aug. 17. VP)
Eighteen' Americans, includ
ing four recently arrived from
Oregon, are in Taunggyi around
which fighting is raging, but are
believed to be safe. ;
Karen forces captured the
town in week-end fighting. A
Burmese army communique yes
terday said government troops
and Karen rebels were fighting
at the foot of Taunggyi hill.
Taunggyi is 100 miles southeast
of Mandalay.
Three Americans with their
wives came to Burma recently
under the Fullbright education
program and were in Taunggyi
when the Karens overthrew the
local administration. They are:
Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Dashiel
of Dallas, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Brant of Portland, Ore.,
and Mr. and Mrs. Otto K. Hun
derwadel of Gainesville Fla.
Other Americans in the battle
zone are missionaries attached
to the American Baptist mission.
A U.S. embassy spokesman
here said the Americans 12
adults and six children appear
ed to be in no immediate danger.
Senate Fights
Labor Bureau
' Washington, Aug. 17 VP) The
senate turned today to a brisk
scrap over President Truman's
reorganization plan No. 2, after
handing the chief, executive
stinging defeat on his plans for
a welfare department in the ca
binet. Both sides said the fight on
No. 2 to transfer the bureau of
employment security from the
federal security administration
(FSA) to the labor department
probably would wind up in an
administration victory.
Democratic Leader Lucas
(111) told reporters flatly the
plan would go through.
He got a grudging second
from one of the leading oppon
ents who said privately that the
necessary 49 votes the requir
ed majority of the full senate-
could not be mustered to sup
port the resolution of disappro
val. Opponents of the plan have
contended that the employment
bureau would be more fairly ad
ministered in the FSA than in
the labor department. President
Truman and others have said
that the bureau belongs in the
department most concerned with
labor.
109 New Polio Cases
Austin, Texas, Aug. 17 VP)
The state health department
said today 109 new cases of
polio were reported last week
in Texas. This raised the year
total to 1,488 cases in 161 of the
states 254 counties. The week
before, 121 new cases were reported.
also drawing the federal bureau
of roads officials and state po
lice in on the conference by
telephone, Commissioner Roy
Rice was at Detroit, ironing out
other details with the govern
ment engineers there.
Rice reported that the army
engineers Tuesday definitely
closed the old section of high
way between Detroit arid , the
damsite Tuesday to all public
use and will post signs at stra
tegic places bearing slogans
that the road is closed to through
traffic, or closed due to con
struction. The state highway department
will also erect a sign at the point
near Detroit where the old high
way leaves the new highway di
recting traffic to Salem over the
new .highway.
At the statehouse conference
between Baldock and the coun
ty officials agreement was reach
ed over the phone with the fed
eral bureau of roads that the
bureau will take over mainte
nance of the new highway be
tween Detroit and the dam for
two years, but traffic will be di
rected over it by the state high
way department. Any vehicles
that require permits to travel
over it will secure such per
mits from the state highway
department and the state police
agreed to honor such permits
through their officers assigned
to the road. It was necessary
to make some such arrange
ments as officially this section
of the road has not been declar
ed a part of the rest of the high
way known as state highway 222
but will become a part of that
highway when taken over by the
state.
Beran Accuses
Czech Officials
Prague, Aug. 17 OT Break
ing a two month silence, Roman
Catholic Archbishop Josef Ber
an of Prague today accused the
Czechoslovak government of in
terning and Isolating him in his
palace here in violation of con
stitutional rights.
The Catholic primate charged
further that the government had
illegally seized his consistory
(administrative office) and con
fiscated the funds of his Prague
diocese.
He made these charges in a
letter to the state procurator
(prosecutor). It was given to
the foreign press here through
church and diplomatic channels.
In this letter Beran asked these
questions:
"Is the Roman Catholic church
in Czechoslovakia still recog
nized by the state? If so, by
what law was the Roman Cath
olic church deprived of its le
gal independence in internal
matters."
Beran had been secluded in
his police-guarded palace since
June 19, when communist heck
lers broke up his service in St.
Vitus cathedral.
The last word from him was
in a pastoral letter, also signed
bv all the bishops of his hier-
Jarchy, which was read in Cath
olic pulpits on June zo.
Mundt Denounces Vaughan
As 'Finagling Bargainer'
Stalin Asked to
Curb Jamming
America's Voice
Washington, Aug. 17 VP) V. S.
Ambassador Alan Kirk asked
Premier Stalin to speed action on
American protests against jam
ming of the Voice of America
radio broadcasts, Secretary of
State Acheson disclosed today.
Kirk called on the Soviet
leader Monday night. Acheson
told a news conference that it ac
tually was a courtesy visit and
was limited almost entirely to an
exchange of courtesies between
the new American ambassador
and the Russian premier.
However, he added, Kirk did
mention to Stalin two points cur
rently at issue in Soviet-Ameri
can relations. These, Acheson
said, are the Russian jamming of
American radio broadcasts and
the long drawn out negotiations
on a final settlement for wartime
lend-lease.
Merely Expressed Hope
On both points, Acheson said
Kirk simply expressed hope to
Stalin that the foreign office
would consider the two matters
so that the two governments
can get on with the business of
solving the problems involved
Asked what Stalin's reaction
was, Acheson said that the mat
ters were referred to the Soviet
foreign office.
His disclosure of Kirk's ap
proaches to Stalin on the two is
sues came in response to report
ers' inquiries and after he had
read a statement accusing the
Russians of having planned the
"complex, costly jamming oper
ation" for many months.
To Isolate Russians
This interference with broad
casts from the west to the Rus
sian people, Acheson declared
must be looked upon as a long
range plan of the USSR for iso
lating the Russian people even
more completely from access- to
truth and fact about the outside
world."
The house appropriations com
mittee yesterday recommended
increasing the Voice of America
funds by $11,500,000. This would
be used for the construction and
improvement of the broadcasting
stations to fight the jamming,
Acheson said.
"This jamming," he added, "is
a direct violation of internation
al telecommunications conven
tions to which the USSR is a
party, including the so-called
Madrid and Cairo conventions."
Gen. Childlaw Named
Washington, Aug. 17 VP)
President Truman today nomi
nated Lt. Gen. Benjamin Wiley
Childlaw lo be commander gen
eral of the air material com
mand of the air force.
Off to Question Gen. Arnold Members of House Armed
Services subcommittee leave Washington for Sonoma, near
San Francisco, Calif., to question Gen. H. H. Arnold, retired
former Air Firce chief, about B-36 procurement. They are
(left to right) Reps. L. Mendel Rivers (D., S.C.), John R. Walsh
(D-, Ind.), Walter Norblad (R., Ore.), Jack Z. Anderson (R.,
Calif), (rear) and Leroy Johnson (R-, Calif.) (AP Wirephoto)
British Bonds
Forced Down
On Exchange
London, Aug. 17 VP) British
government bonds were subject
ed to heavy selling on the Lon
don stock exchange today. Some
issues closed as much as 15
shillings ($3) lower.
The decline interrupted a slow
rally which got under way last
week after government shares
had fallen past their low point
of World War H.
Brokers cited these two main
reasons for the selling wave:
1. A statement by the British
Federation of Industries that a
lower standard of living is Brit
ain's only real hope of overcom
ing her dollar shortage.
2. A Paris-dated story In the
London Daily Express that Paul
Hoffman, chief of the American
financed European recovery
program (ERP), is dissatisfied
with Britain's recovery effort.
Finances Lift
Rent Control
Cleveland, Aug. 17 VP) A
budget cut will force his office
to decontrol one-third of the
areas where rent controls are
now in force, federal housing
expediter Tighe Woods said to
day.
The lists for decontrol now are
being prepared in Washington
and will be announced in
week or 10 days, Woods said
Decontrol will become effective
upon the announcement, he ex
plained. About 1,000 counties are still
under rent control and the ceil
ings will be lifted in one-third
of these; Woods said.
The first list will be followed
by another list of actions, he
added.
This second list should come
before October 1, Woods said.
The two lists together will make
up the one-third cut in the con
trol program.
I do not think any communi
ties over 100,000 will be affect
ed," Woods said. "The cuts will
be countrywide, not concentrat
ed in any one particular sec
tion."
Woods said he would meet
with top regional advisors in
Washington tomorrow to speed
up preparations of the decon
trol lists.
After he left Washington for
Cleveland to address the 28th
national convention of the Dis
abled American Veterans, Woods
decided on the program of de
control as the answer to a heavy
slash in appropriations for his
office's budget.
Our budget for the fiscal
year was slashed from $26 mil
lion to $21 million by the sen
ate and now has been cut fur
ther by the conference commit
tees of both houses to $17,500,
000, he explained.
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Ask Indictment
Of Maragon on
Perjury Charge
Washington, Aug. 17 VP) Sen
ator Mundt (R-SD) today de
nounced Maj. Gen. Harry II,
Vaughan as a "finagling bar
gainer who applied "pressure,
intimidation, bluff and bluster"
in an attempt to get a govern
ment worker to violate the law.
Mundt's bitter criticism of
Vaughan, President Truman's
military aide, drew a sharp re
primand from Senator Hoey (D
NC), chairman of the senate's
special investigations subcom
mittee. Hoey said that if Mundt had
made such remarks at a court
trial, the case would be thrown
out of court. But Mundt deman
ded that his remarks stay in the
record.
Other Developments j
The sharp exchange between
Mundt and Hoey at the five per
cent inquiry came after these
other developments:
1. Senator McCarthy (R-Wis)
demanded that John Maragon,
key figure in the investigation,
be indicted for perjury.
2. Milton R. Polland, a Mil
waukee insurance man, testified
he paid $1000 to Maragon for
trying to get a sugar rationing
suspension order lifted against
Perth Amboy, NJ, in 1946.
3. Herbert C. Hathorn, a for
mer agriculture department em
ploye, testified that Vaughan .
was "a little rough" on him in
trying to get him to grant an al
location of sugar to the New
Jersey firm in 1946.
Pose From White House
4. The committee got teslimo- '
ny that Maragon, in trying to .
get a sugar ration for the same
firm, represented himself as a '
White House liaison man when
he went to the agriculture de"-'
partment.
Polland said he met Maragon,
a former Kansas City bootblack
who once had a pass to the White
House, at a party given for
Vaughan by a Milwaukee brew
ery. The witness said he got in
touch with Maragon after that
on the Allied firm matter.
Hathorn, who was subpoenaed
by the committee, testified that
the Allied company in 1946 was
involved In a "serious violation"
of the molasses controls an
auxiliary control to sugar ra
tioning. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Try lo Disarm
Urges Thomas
Washington, Aug. 17 VP) So
cialist Norman Thomas urged
congress today to take the lead
in one more attempt at world
disarmament before voting to
send military supplies to Eu
rope.
Thomas testified before the
combined senate foreign rela
tions and armed services com
mittees as the house prepared to
open debate on the administra
tion's $1,450,000,000 foreign
arms bill.
House leaders said they are
confident the measure will be
approved, possibly by Friday,
without substantial change in its
terms.
Thomas, many limes a candi
date for president, told the sen
ators he thinks any arms ship
ments under the bill should be
delayed until a coordinated de
fense of the North Atlantic com
munity is worked out.
"Such concerted agreement
for defense would have a prac
tical and moral backing now
lacking, if, preceding any fur
ther expenditures in the ghastly
arms race, an effort were mane
by the United States or by the
nations in the Atlantic pact
through the United Nations to
bring about universal disarma
ment under effective interna
tional controls and with inter
national provision for security,"
he said.
Today's entire session in the
house was set aside for debate,
with voting to start tomorrow.
Critics are waiting with a
barrage of amendments to fire
at the program. It is the Tru
man administration method of
helping western European na
tions, plus Greece, Turkey, Iran,
Korea and the Philippines, arm
against possible Soviet aggres
sion.