THE WEATHER HERE
GENERALLY FAIR tonight and
Saturday. Little Important tem
perature change. Lowest tonight,
52; highest Saturday, 84.
Ma it mum yesterday, M; minimum ta
dny, 8a. Total 24-hour precipitation! 0; for
month: .38; normal, .21. Seaion precipita
tion, 42.35; normal, 37.B5. Hirer belfhi.
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EDITION
61st Year, No. 197
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Salem, Oregon, Friday, August 19, 1949
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Seek Building
North Santiam
Road in Marion
County Launches
Campaign for Use of
Right-of-way Acquired
By DON UPJOHN
The Marion county court Fri
day launched a campaign for im
mediate construction by the state
of the proposed new section of
the North Santiam highway on
the Marion side of the river be
tween Mehama and Mill City on
right of way secured by the
county in pre-war plans for the
road.
At one time part of the right
of way was cleared and a fed
eral labor camp installed on the
road above Mehama, but with
the war plans bogged down. Now
with completion of the road from
Mi)'. City to Detroit the time is
considered ripe for starting
work on the project at once and
rushing it to completion to aid
in caring for the tremendous
traffic in supplies and people
caused by the new highway and
the Detroit dam.
Ask Immediate Action
All members of the court have
signed a letter going out Friday
to the commission urging re
sumption of the road without de
lay.
Prefacing their letter by say-
ing they never had secured so
much satisfaction out of seeing
a road open as they did Sunday
at the Breitenbush bridge, nor
has there ever been a road they
were so glad to get rid of as the
old one from Niagara to Detroit,
they cite that it is now the time
to get the next link going be
tween Mehama and Mill City.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 5)
$60 Million lor
Oregon Projects
Washington, Aug. 19 VP)
House conference committee
members are willing to boost
appropriations for army civil
functions in Oregon to some
$60,705,000.
The figures were released by
Chairman Cannon (D-Mo) of
the house appropriations com
mittee. The house and the senate
conferees have been unable to
agree on the nation-wide pro
jects. The house appropriations
were increased by the senate
and the conference committee
is now trying to smooth out the
differences.
These are the Oregon figures
as listed by Cannon as meeting
the house group's approval (the
original house appropriation is
shown in brackets):
Rivers and Harbors:
Columbia river at Bonneville
$1,250,000-($1,030,000); Colum
bia and lower Willamette rivers
below Vancouver and Portland
$150,000 ($111,000); Coos Bay
$850,000 ($687,000); Depoe Bay
$400,000 (none); McNary lock
and dam, Columbia river, Ore
gon and Washington, $35,000,
000 ($27,579,480); Umpqua riv
er $100,000 (same); Yaquina
bay and harbor $35,000 ($24,
000). Flood control:
Cottage Grove reservoir
$140,000 ($104,200); Detroit res
ervoir $9,400,000 ($8,408,200);
Dorena reservoir $2,500,000
($2,175,700); Fern Ridge reser
voir $190,000 ($154,800); Look
out Point reservoir $8,500,000
($8,185,000); Milton-Freewater
$640,000 ($528,800); Willamette
river bank protection $450,000
($372,100).
Trucks in Collision
Near Four Corners
Two heavy trucks collided in
a spectacular headon sideswipe
near Four Corners late Thurs
day night but no one was injur
ed, state police reported Friday
A lumber truck and trailer
driven by Darr L. Mennis, Sa
lem, crashed into a dump truck,
swerved off the road and over
turned. William E. O'Hara of Sublim
ity was the driver of the dump
truck.
Mennis was cited on a charge
of being intoxicated on a pub
lic highway.
Quake in Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 19 wa
A strong earthquake rocked the
town of Alacovas in bouth Por
tugal today. No casualties were
reported.
No Side Work
For Firemen
And Policemen
Preference Hereafter
For City Employment
For City Residents
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Any members of the city po
lice and fire departments who
have other gainful occupations
will have to give them up. The
only alternative is dismissal
from the service.
Another o f f i c ial announce
ment Friday was that in the em
ployment of others on the city
payroll, aside from the civil ser
vice, preference hereafter will
be given residents of the city.
This announcement came from
City Manager J. L. Franzen.
It has been found that 50 or
more city employes now live
outside the city, over 30 of them
in the engineering department.
Both conditions to be changed
by the rulings announced today
came about during the war when
the bars were let down because
of manpower shortage.
Notice to Civil Service Board
After consulting with mem
bers of the city council Mayor
Robert L. Elfstrom sent a let
ter to the civil service commis
sion which has jurisdiction ov
er the police and the fire de
partments, calling attention to a
rule that was not being enforc
ed. The civil service commission
immediately communicated with
Chief Clyde A. Warren of the
police and Chief William P. Ro
ble of the fire department and
the chiefs have in turn notified
members of the departments.
Chief Warren posted a notice at
headquarters and requires each
department member to initial it
so he will know all have been
notified.
"My attention has been call
ed to the fact, if it be a fact,"
said the mayor's letter to the
commission, "that a number of
the civil service employes of the
city, connected with the fire and
police departments, are gainful
ly employed in outside activities.
(Concluded on Pace S. Column I)
Arms Program
Looks to Senate
Washington, Aug. 19 VP) Bat
tered by the house, the admin
istration's foreign arms aid pro
gram looked to the senate today
for gentler treatment.
The program was slashed and
hedged in with restrictions be
fore the house passed It last
night by a vote of 238 to 122.
Despite their entreaties, a 50
per cent cut was imposed on the
$1,160,990,000 earmarked to
help western European nations
resist possible Soviet aggression.
Congress could decide to appro
priate the rest of the funds next
year.
On top of that, the house de
creed that at least half of the
supplies sent abroad must be
carried in ships flying the Amer
ican flag. The lawmakers also
tightened up a prohibition
against using United States
troops for other than non-combatant
duty in connection with
the program.
But the house granted the full
$211,370,000 the president want
ed for aid to Greece, and Tur
key, and the $27,640,000 he
asked for Iran, Korea and the
Philippines.
Vet
Clean-
Vigilante Group to
up Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Aug. 19 VP) The "old west" moved in today , on
the Mickey Cohen case with formation of a vigilante committee.
The committee, mostly World War II veterans, announced that
it planned "citizen action to stop lawlessness, restore integrity
in government and to protect our families." A spokesman said it
will seek appointment of a spe
cial prosecutor.
Five federal agencies, mean
while, studied the explosive
transcripts of the police record
ings of the gambling boss' pri
vate home conversations.
Particular attention was paid
federal statutes on income tax,
the transportation of guns, the
Mann act, narcotics and using
the mails to defraud.
U. S. Attorney James M. Car
ter said the matter will be pre
sented to the federal grand jury
when it reconvenes Aug. 31. He
added that the panel will con
sider indictment of one "ma
jor" member of the Cohen mob.
Carter said the federal agen
cies got copies of the transcripts
from sources outside the police
, :vv' r
West Coast Airlines Outline Plans for Salem Bob England,
(left) traffic and sales manager, and H. A. Munter, executive
vice president, outline West Coast Airline plans in relation
to Salem, to Mayor R. L. Elfstrom. .
West Coast Airlines
Anxious for Service
By MARGARET MAGEE
West Coast Airlines will be ready to serve Salem when a de
cision is reached in the CAB's
substitution of West Coast service for that of United Airlines.
That was the statement made by Herbert A. Munter, executive
vice president of West Coast Air--
lines Thursday night at' a meet
ing of WCA officials and a group
of Salem officials, civic leaders
and business men.
Munter emphasized the fact
that the final decision rested
with CAB and that airlines must
do as . CAB ordered. Then he
told the group that, while Salem
had been on his company's orig
inal? application, WCA had not
made application to serve balem
prior to the issuing of the show
cause .order ,oi, i-Ati, mis sum
mer. ' " ; f'-- ';::':?'
Stressed by Munter was the
importance of Salem's having
connections by air with sur
rounding Oregon towns that his
line serves. In pointing out this,
he asked the question: "Do you
value business of1 the rest of the
towns of the state of which Sa
lem is the capital?"
In talking of service offered
by West Coast Munter stated that
last vear his line had nauiea
000 passengers, providing a short
haul service that met a necessity
of the people. He pointed to their
safety record and to tne coop
eration that they had gotten
from the towns they now serve.
Asked if the company could
handle freight. Munter remind
ed the group that their modified
DC-3. recently reconverted to
handle baggage and freight could
carry 1000 pounds of baggage
and that it was probably better
equipped to handle freight than
some of the other air lines. More
planes would be reconverted in
future months.
In reply to the inquiry on what
would happen to cut flowers and
other perishables should there
not be enough space for all of
the baggage, Munter stated that
they would be given preference
over other freight. This, he said,
would be removed and held; for
another flight to allow space for
perishables.
(Concluded on Fe 5., Column. )
department three months ago.
Vice squad officers secretly in
stalled microphones in Cohen's
Brentwood home when it was
built and listened in from April,
1947, to March, 1948. ;The ex
istence of the recordings,' how
ever, did not come to light until
this week.
The district attorney, the newly-appointed
chief of police, the
sheriff and state attorney gen
eral all have been trying to de
termine why they did not re
ceive copies of the recordings be
fore.' Cohen, himself, told reporters
that he bought a copy of the
transcript a year ago and the
Herald-Express said that he paid
a Los Angeles policeman $20,000
for it
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show cause order that proposes
To Contract for
B-47 Bombers
, 'Washington, Aug.' 19 (fl) An
informed air - force official said
today that "strategic viilnerabil-
ityl:.!eai 'inthUnited ,S1,ate's
to air attack by Russia- is con
sidered in placing contracts for
high priority combat planes.
;"' His remark was in.connectlon
with the -proposed -trip of Sec
retary of the Air Force. Syming
ton, air force officers and Sen
ator Magnuson (D.. Wash.) to
Seattle, Wash. ' . ' '
The group plans to fly to Seat
tle in September to discuss the
proposed move to the Boeing-op
erated plant in Wichita, Kan., of
the sub-assembly work on the
B-47 bomber now being done at
the Boeing-owned plant in Seat
tle.
Since Gen. Hoyt S. Vanden-
berg, air force chief of staff, this
week told the B-36 senate in
vestigating committee that Rus
sia is the "one major military
threat to the United States"
remark he said had been cleared
with the state department t h e
air force has been more frank in
discussing production matters.
"We have no desire to fold up
xisting plants but we do not pro
pose to expand activities in areas
which in time of war would be
considered vulnerable," the air
force representative said. This
especially holds true in regard to
high priority combat planes.
The air force regards the B-47
bomber as second to the giant
B-36 bomber.
Wallace Raps
Arms-Aid Plan
Washington, Aug. ' 19 VP)
Henry A. Wallace said today that
passage of an arms-aid program
would "undermine the economy
and military security of both the
U. S. and Europe."
What's more, he said, the state
ments in support of the program
by President Truman, Secretary
of State Acheson and the nation's
military leaders "are the state
ments of men who are either in
tent on provoking war or are so
afraid their case is weak they
must incite passion to support
it." '
The progressive party's 1948
candidate for president was a
witness before the combined for
eign-relations and armed serv
ices committees of the senate.
He reiterated, in his prepared
statement, his belief that Russia
does not want war, and declared
that the administration -program
to arm this country's allies is
part of a policy which has failed
wherever it has been tried in
Greece, in Turkey and in China.
"The policy of the arms pro
gram was given a full run In
China," the one-time vice presi
dent said.- "At long last the ad
ministration has admitted the
complete failure of that policy
in China. It was forced to by
events.
Prize Programs
On Radio Curbed
By FCC Order
Advertising Lotteries,
Advertising Prizes
Banned October 1
Washington, Aug. 19 VP) The
government today slapped strin
gent new rules on radio and tele
vision giveaways. They may
knock out most of the prize pro
grams.
The federal communications
commission said that, effective
Oct. 1, it will not permit pro
grams advertising lotteries of
"offering prizes dependent in
whole or in part upon lot or
chance." ;
The penalty will be the loss
of a broadcaster s license.
Then the commission set forth
conditions that will bar a pro
gram. While each program will
be judged separately, the rules
appeared broad enough to cut off
most of the programs that have
showered millions in cash and
prizes on listening and viewing
audiences.
Hits Phone Giveaways
Trade circles expressed belief
that the action would hit hardest
at the telephone call giveaway in
which a contestant has to be at
home to answer the telephone,
has to be listening to the pro
gram, and has to identify a tune,
solve a riddle or answer a ques
tion correctly.
Other programs may be af
fected in varying degrees.
Radio industry officials with
held comment publicly, but said
privately it looked to them as
though all the prize contests
would have to be confined to
studio audiences. .
This would mean that pro
grams could stay on the air but
no awards would be given to the
people listening in.
Court Appeal Looms
Obviously, , however, one of
the big attractions for sponsors
of giveaway programs is the
drawing card of a big radio au
dience anxiously and hopefully
waiting lor a chance at a prize.
Only four members of the se
ven-member FCC took part in
the decision and one of the four
dissented.
The ruling, stemming from a
year-long investigation, seems
certain to be carried into the
courts for review.
The proposed regulation was
fought vigorously by most of the
radio industry, on grounds that
the FCC lacks authority to cen
sor program content.
The commission's reply was
that it is empowered to forbid
the use of the air for promoting
lottery.
Truman and Cabinet
Discuss Situation
Washington. Aug. 19 (IP) Pre
sident Truman and his cabinet
talked over the economic situa
tion today.
Members said Secretary of
Labor Tobin produced charts
supporting his. belief that em
ployment will increase steadily
for the rest of the year.
Tobin said earlier this week
he thinks a million persons will
be added to the job rolls before
the end of the year.
Tom Clark, just confirmed
for the supreme court, attended
his last meeting as attorney gen
eral. He was (accompanied by
Philip Perlman, solicitor gen
eral, who will serve as acting at
torney general until J. Howard
McGrath takes the oath.
' Hearing on Dr. Horace Miller's Discharge Opens Left to right, Dr. Dean Brooks, on staff
at hospital; Dr. Charles E. Bates, superintendent of Oregon state hospital who dischargd Miller;
Catherine C. Barsch, deputy attorney general, hearing reporter; J. N. Chambers, chairman of
Civil Service commission, Commissioners A. C. Cammack and Robert Johnson, director of Civil
Service commission.
Data on Vaughan Coming
From White House Sources
Hearing Opens
Over Discharge
Of Dr. Miller
The question of whether or
not patients in the womens1
wards at the Oregon state hos
pital in Salem were tied to the
benches on which they were re'
strained and the whereabouts of
a letter alleging that one patient
may have died from maltreat'
ment remained unanswered Frl
day as the hearing into the dis
charge of .Dr. .Horace .Miller,
phychiatrist, recessed at noon.
Dr. E. C. Bates, superinten
dent of the hospital, who dis
charged Miller, intimated at the
hearing before the state civil
service commission that patients
cared for by Dr. Miller were
tied to benches but denied that
he had the letter in question,
Thompson Testifies
Dr. William Thompson, called
by Bates as a witness, testified
that he could not say that Mil
ler's patients had been tied to
benches but recalled distinctly
that there had been approximat
ely 20 in "the usual restraints of
cuffs and belts, sitting on bench-
in back rooms" adding that
Miller had been carrying too
heavy a load.
Questioned by Bates concern
ing the letter, which he said
had been received through the
governor's office, Thompson said
it concerned a patient . . . who
had died in Miller's "C" ward
after having been moved in an
excited condition from another
doctor's care.
Lack of loyalty and creation
of dissension were the reasons
given by Dr. Bates for the dis
charge of Dr. Horace A. Miller,
psychiatrist.
After Dr. Miller had declined
to open his case on the grounds
that he did not know why he
had been discharged from .the
hospital staff, the commission
called on Dr. Bates to make a
statement.
(Continued on Page B, Column 4)
Seek to Reach
B-26 Wreckage
Portland, Ore., Aug. 19 VP)
Nine persons risked rock ava
lanches on the bleak upper
slopes of 11,245-foot Mt. Hood
today in an attempt to reach the
bodies of three fliers.
Wreckage of an air force B-28
was found yesterday at the base
of a misty 1000-foot cliff at
about the 7000-foot level.
It was identified as a plane
that carried Air Force Col. A. Y.
Smith, 49, San Francisco; Army
Col. Walter W. Hodge, 45, San
Francisco; and MSgt. H. E.
Sluga, San Jose, to their death
April 21.
Deep snows hid the plane un
til warm weather.
A party that attempted to
reach the scene yesterday was
driven back by plunging rocks.
Charles Coletti, who found the
wreckage while climbing on
the mountain, said the area al
ways was dangerous.
It was so hazardous in fact
that even planes were barred
from flying over today, lest pro
peller vibrations set off an ava
lanche on the nine climbers.
Coletti said a light plane yester
day started such an avalanche.
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British Aviatrix
Finishes Flight
Around Globe
Prestwick, Scotland, Aug. 19
u.R) Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait
Britain's flying housewife, land
ed her single-engined plane at
Prestwick today, completing her
round-the-world flight in one
year and one day.
The attractive 25-year-old for
mer model and mother of a 30-
month-old daughter thus became
the first woman to pilot a plane
around the world.
She and her navigator, Mi
chael Townsend, 25, handsome
Cambridge university undergra
duate and childhood friend,
came down at this war-time
bomber base after a flight from
Iceland.
They had taken off from Bri
tain Aug. 18, 1948. Mrs. Mor
row-Tait kissed her husband
good-bye and told him she would
be back in six weeks.
"Please look after baby until
then," she said.
But a combination of crash
landings, red tape and a lack of
funds extended the flight to 12
months and a day and made her
husband Britain's most publiciz
ed baby-sitter.
Ex-King Carol
Weds Lupescu
Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 19 VP)
Former King Carol of Romania
and Mme. Elena Lupescu were
married in a religious ceremony
last night at the ex-monarch's
Estoril residence.
The Rev. Hartinian Ivinovitch,
head of the Romanian (Greek
Orthodox) church in Paris, came
here to officiate at the ceremo-
iy.
The ceremony took place in
strict privacy in Carol's villa.
Only the former monarch's
chamberlain, Ernest Durdarianu
other members of the royal
household, and a few close
friends were present.
Durdarianu said it was impos
sible to hold the ceremony before
because no Romanian church re
presentative was in Portugal.
'This scotches once and for all
ridiculous rumors recently cir
culated about the king being on
bad terms with his wife," said
the marshal. He added that
henceforth Mme. Lupescu's title
will be Princess Elena.
Allege Beer Bottle
Used As Weapon
Noel Marion Cumbey, who
gave his address as Prineville
was brought to the county jail
from Detroit early Friday morn
ing by Deputy Sheriff Ed Scott
charged with assault with
deadly weapon.
Along with Cumbey Scott
brought the neck of a beer bot
tle, all that was left of the bot
tle with which Cumbey is al
leged to have beaten Frank
Schweizrt, Detroit resident, over
the neck and head. In the fra
cas, the officer reported, Schwei
zrt lost the lobe from one ear
and sustained cuts and gashes
about the face and neck.
According to Cumbey's story
it all arose over a four-bit bet
over some competition on a shut
fleboard.
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Deep Freezer
Gifts Linked to
Trip to Paris
Washington, Aug. 19 VP)
Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) said
today that senate five percenter
investigators are getting infor- .
mation about the activities of
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan
"from sources very close to the
president."
McCarthy said the data also is
coming from persons very close
'to Vaughan in the White
House." Vaughan is President
Truman's army aide.
McCarthy is a member of the
special senate subcommi ttea
checking on whether improper
influence has figured in the han
dling of government business.
Vaughan s name has bobbed .
up almost every day at the In
quiry. Senator Mundt (R-SD), anoth
er committee member, is seeking
to link a flying trip to Paris in
1945 by three agents of a Chi
cago perfume firm with that
company's gifts of home freezers
to Vaughan.
Get Leads on Vaughan
McCarthy declined to elabor
ate on his statement to newsmen
about the reported source of
some of the committee's infor
mation on the general.
He said only:
"We are getting leads and in
formation on Vaughan's activi
ties from sources very close to
the president and to Vaughan in
the White House.
Mundt told reporters that the
testimony given the senate in
vestigations committee secretly
Monday, and made public yes
terday, "begins to disclose a sua- .
picion of a motive of what if I
crs. , ..
Paid for by Verley
He referred to freeiers paid
for by the Albert H. Verley Per
fume company which were sent
to Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Gen
eral Vaughan and four other ad
ministration officials during the
summer of 1945 and the winter
of 1945-46.
Three representatives of the
Verley company made the Paris
trip on an army transport plana
in July, 1945 at a time, Mundt
said, "when businessmen just
couldn't get there."
Mundt isamemberof the
committee which is looking into
the activities of "five percent
ers" individuals who search
out government contracts for
others at a fee, usually five per
cent. Two of the central figures in
the inquiry are Vaughan, Presi
dent Truman's military aide,
and John Maragon, Washington
man-about-town who used to
have free access to the White
House.
Plane Crash in
Britain Kills 27
Manchester, Eng., Aug. 19 VP)
A British European Airways
plane en route here from Bel
fast crashed into a hill in thick
weather today and killed 27 of
its 32 occupants.
Four persons were killed in
another crash at Baildon. near
Shipley, Yorkshire, the civil
aviation ministry announced. ,
All occupants of the planes
were believed to nave been
British.
The BEA twin-engine trans
port, an hour out of Belfast, ap
proached Manchester in a thick
mist. It ploughed into a moun
tainside, exploded and burned.
Police officers at the scene
said they counted 22 passengers
and four crew members dead.
Another passenger, a woman,
died en route to the hospital in
nearby Oldham. About half the
passengers were women.
Two children, badly injured,
were reported to be among the
survivors.
aunch Overturns;
3 Seamen Drowned
Dawson, Y.T., Aug. 19 VP)
Three men drowned at nearby
Stewart City when a motor
launch loaded with seamen en
route to this city's 51st anniver-.
sary celebrajjons overturned In
the Yukon river.
The drownings occurred Wed
nesday and were reported last
night
V