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61st Year, No. 219
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 14, 1949 $(24 Pages,)
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Plane Operators
Protest Roads,
Stench in Area
City Warned Flies,
Dumped Waste
Menaces to Health
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By MARGARET MAGEE
Poor roads, still unpaved
approaching both the west and
east side of McNary field
cannery waste dumped on a
nearby field, and bones from the
nearby slaughter house scattered
along the road.
These are a few of the com
plaints voiced this week by pri
vate airplane operators at Mc
Nary field and representatives
JMtf the Salem Naval Air Facility.
The unimproved condition of
the roads leading into the air
port have for some time brought
complaints from the operators
and requests for work to be
done, especially on the west
side.
Garbage Dumped
Refuse dumped in the field
just west of the airport and
bones along the road, however,
are a fairly recent problem with
which the operators at the field
have to deal.
They point out that this is a
question of health, as well as
stench, which at times drifts as
far east as the Naval Air Fa
cility. Flies are being attracted
by multitudes. The refuse pile,
with the bones along the side of
the road is an excellent breed
ing place for more flies, the
operators contend.
One operator drew attention
to the fact that local health au
thorities had taken no action to
put a stop to the health menace,
even though they had been con
tacted last week by Lt. Comdr
Wallace Hug, officer in charge
of the Salem Naval Air Facility.
Black with Flies
The same operator stated that
flies were so thick on the west
side of the air field that when
he opened his office Monday
evening the ceiling was black
with them.
For the past few years the
operators at McNary field have
)r"contended with bad road condi
' tions and this year were told
the road would be given an oil
surfacing by the county when
placed in condition by the city
street department.
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 7)
Balkans to Face
Charges in UN
Washington, Sept. 14 W
Secretary of State Acheson an
nounced today that Soviet-dom
inated Bulgaria, Hungary and
Romania will be charged in the
United Nations General assem
bly with violations of human
rights.
The secretary emphatically re
newed at his news conference
ive long-standing British-American
charges of "callous disre
gard" of the human rights
. . - . i T -. i-
ciauses in me peace ireaues wiiu
the Iron Curtain nations.
He said the three Soviet satel
litcs have just turned down a
proposal by the United States
that they name commissions, as
provided in the peace treaties, to
take up the dispute over charges
that they have repeatedly violat
ed the agreements. These call
for the fair trials and various
f personal freedoms.
Bulgaria, Hungary, and Ro
mania, Acheson said in a state
ment which he read, "continue
to insist that they have not
violated the human rights clauses
of the treaties but they are un
willing to apply the procedures
specifically provided in, the
treaties for just such cases of
disputes over whether or not
violations have taken place.
Acheson noted that the U. N
assembly last April formally
called -attention of Bulgaria and
Hungary to their obligations.
Ask Police Aid in
Securing Race Horse
Brown Keno, one of the en
tries In races during State Fair
week, became the subject of Sa
lem police reports Wednesday.
- A report from a detective said
that two Portland men T. W.
Schappcrt and Richard E. Smith
armed with a paper from the
purported owner of the horse,
Mary Riddle, also of Portland,
had asked aid in securing the
niii.al.
Tex Davis, who was identified
. is trainer, claimed title to the
race horse.
- Detectives suggested that the
racing commission should clari
fy ownership.
N.W. States to
End Border
license Blocks7
Agree on New Plan
For Truck Licenses
In Three States
By JAMES D. OLSON
Oregon, Washington and Ida
ho have tentatively agreed to a
new system of reciprocity on
commercial vehicles designed to
end "license road blocks" on the
states' borders, according to
William E. Healy, assistant sec
retary of state.
Healy, who has returned from
tri-state conference held in
Spokane last week-end said that
under the new agreement regis
tration of commercial vehicles
operating in the three states will
be divided, each state to obtain
equal revenue.
This will be done, Healy said,
by totaling the number of com
mercial vehicles from the three
states together with the total
mileage of each vehicle in each
state. Then the mileage will be
divided three ways and each
state will receive its share.
Effect of New Laws
The agreement was made pos
sible through new laws passed
by the legislatures of Oregon
and Washington. In Oregon the
secretary of state is given au
thority to enter into reciprocal
agreements on commercial ve
hicles, in Washington, the di
rector of motor licenses is giv
en the same power and in Ida
ho this authority has been on
the statutes for some years.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Russia Sleps-up
Tito Camnaion
Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Sept.
14 VP) An important Yugoslav
spokesman claimed today Rus
sia has stepped up her campaign
against Marshal Titos govern
ment because she wants to block
western trade agreements with
Yugoslavia.
Vladimir Bakaric, president
of the Croatian republic, said
Russia seeks to discourage oth
er Soviet satellites from follow
ing the same independent line
as Tito.
Bakaric, quoted in the official
communist newspaper, Borba,
said the whole campaign of the
cominform now is designed to
create a feeling that Yugosla
via's position is unsafe.
The Croatian leader outlined
Yugoslavia's position in a speech
at Pazm, on the Istnan peninsu
la, and declared "the present
situation does not frighten us."
Bakaric s remarks came as the
Tito regime approached the
point of concluding a big trade
pact with Britain and while an
international bank commission
continued its inquiry here on
Tito's request for a major loan
Amend Boundary Line
Liberty Fire District
By DON UPJOHN
Tentative agreement on amended boundary lines for the pro
posed Liberty-Salem Heights rural fire protection district was
reached at a hearing on organization of the district before the
county court Wednesday morning.
Proponents of the district consented to elimination from the
present proposed boundaries of'
considerable area extending
from the city limits south and
east of the Pacific highway to
Oak Hill avenue with the 12th
street as its east boundary. About
125 residents of this portion of
the proposed district submitted
petitions saying they were not
opposed to the district but they
wished to be excluded from it in
order to give other plans due
consideration. It is understood
they are negotiating with the
city in regard to extending pro
tection into the portion involved.
Also sought was exclusion of
a small contigious piece adjacent
to Mary and Ewald avenues.
Scenic View and Duplex drive.
Proponents of the district were
not sure that this should be
eliminated until it was ascer
tained as to what the feeling of
residents of that small patch is
This is to be ironed out among
those interested.
The meeting ended with the
note that a new map would be
drawn eliminating, at least, the
portion immediately south of
the city limits referred to.
Also to be ironed out is prop
erty along the south side of
county road 813, the road im
mediately south of Liberty con
necting the Liberty-Rosedale and
Skyline roads. Nine property
owners signed this petition ask
ing that their property be left
Plaintive Plea
From Nigera
London, Sept. 14 VP) A Brit
ish colonial office of Nigera re
ported receiving the following
plaintive plea from a West Afri
can who unexpectedly found
himself "disemployed."
'Dear Sir On opening this
epistle you will behold the work
of a dejobbed person and a very
bewildered and much children
ized gentleman, who was vio
lently dejobbed in a twinkling
by your good self.
"For heaven's sake, sir, con
sider this catastrophe as falling
on your own head, and remind
yourself on walking home at the
moon's end to five savage wives
and sixteen voracious children
with your pocket filled with
non-existent pounds, shillings
and pence and a solitary six
pence; pity my horrible state,
"As to the reason given by
yourself esquire for my dejob-
ment the incrimination was la
ziness. No sir., It were impossible
that myself who pitched sixteen
children into this vale of tears
can have a lazy atom in his mor
tal frame, and a sudden depart
ure of eleven pounds has left me
on the verge of destitution and
despair.
"I hope this vision of horror
will enrich your dreams this
night and the good angel will
melt and pulverize your heart
of nether milestone so that you
will awaken with such alacrity
to rejobulate your servant. So
mote it be, amen."
Columbia Highway Opened
The Bridal Veil-Dodson sec
tion of the new Columbia River
highway will be opened for traf
fic Friday at 4:30 p.m., the state
highway commission said today
out because, they stated, they
had ample fire protection facili
ties of their own, two heavy
power sprayers owned by resi
dents. It is likely proponents of
the fire district will be opposed
to elimination of these properties
as they are not contigious to
boundary lines of the district
and would take a piece out of
the heart of the district itself.
William J. Linfoot, chairman
of the organization committee
for the district, said that this
would be one of the smallest
fire districts out of the 130 al
ready in the state. He said that
if the fire station were placed
near the center of it any part of
the district would be within a
three mile radius. He said, how
ever, it was still a question as
to whether the district would
have its own station and equip
ment, whether it would contract
with the city, or perhaps have a
cooperative arrangement where
it would own some equipment
and mutually exchange service
with the city. These, he said
were matters for the board of
directors to decide.
Attending the meeting were
Ray R. Ritchie. Wayne A. Curry,
Floyd McClellnn, Carl Harris
Mrs. Paul Rlffey, Mrs. H. A
Rosebraugh, Raymond R. Ricks
Paul Griebenow, Edward Col-
man, William J. Linfoot and
Eleanor Griffith.
Marble to Arise Out of Rubble Site for the new state of
fice building shown at Chemeketa and Capitol streets where
Salem's older homes are being removed to make room for a
new state structure for highway department usage. Debris
in the foreground is rubbish from the E. T. Barnes home,
one of seven structures on the block wrecked for salvage by the
Madson Wrecking company.
GOP Wins Congressman
In Pennsylvania Election
Johnstown, Pa., Sept. 14 VP) Republican forces made deep in
roads in democratic strongholds today to put the 26th Pennsyl
vania congressional district back in the GOP fold and hand the
Truman administration a setback.
Naval Veteran John P. Saylor, who supplied the flag raised
on Iwo Jima, recaptured the?
special election prize his party
lost in the 1948 Truman sweep
And he did it without men
tioning in his campaign the
name of democratic Gold Star
mother Mrs. Robert L. Coffey,
Sr., who sought the congression
al post vacated by the death of
her son in a plane crash.
Since Mrs. ' Coffey had re
ceived Truman's endorsement
and had campaigned with ring
ing support of the entire "fair
deal" program, her defeat was
seen as a blow to the adminis
tration. The western Pennsylvania
vote provided the first test of
the president's "fair deal" pro
gram since last year's balloting.
Republicans and democrats alike
regarded it as a clue to the 1950
congress elections.
The vote yesterday was in
conjunction with statewide par
ty primaries.
Returns from 267 of 325 pre
cincts: Saylor, 48,042.
Mrs. Coffey, 37.204.
Intense interest in the off
year balloting brought out a big
primary vote in the three-county
agricultural, industrial and
coal mining district.
Jerusalem Plan
Faces Trouble
Lake Success, Sept. 14 VP)
The new UN proposal for inter
national control of Jerusalem
appeared today to be headed for
trouble.
The plan was submitted yes
terday for consideration in the
50-nation General Assembly by
the Palestine Conciliation com
mission as a basis for peace in
the Holy City.
UN delegates were reluctant
to comment on the plan until
they had time to study lt more,
but informed quarters said bit
ter opposition may be expected
at least from the Israeli govern
ment.
It still was not known wheth
er the plan would meet the ap
proval of other vitally interested
religious and political groups:
Arabs and the Vatican and oth
er Christian churches.
To become effective, the plan
must be accepted by Israel and
Hashemite Jordan, the two
countries now occupying Jerusa
lem. The assembly had no pow
er to enforce its decisions; it can
only recommend and use per
suasive force.
The commission's blueprint
would preserve the Arab and
Jewish sectors of the Holy City
and provide a measure of self
rule for each, but would give
supreme authority to a UN com
missioner named by the General
Assembly.
Sources familiar with Israeli
policy pointed out that Israel al
ready had told the UN she
could accept no plan which re
cognized an International re
gime as supreme in the Holy
City.
Benson's Tales
Conflicting
The conflicting stories told
by William Benson are an appar
ent attempt to confuse every
one," George Alexander, war
den of Oregon state prison, said
Wednesday morning in regard to
various statements made by the
Oregon prison escapee in Ohio,
where he is being held following
his capture there early last
week.
Originally, Benson told that
he and his escape partner, John
Pinson, had been out of Oregon
within 24 hours after going ov
er the prison wall May 30 as a
guard shot at them.
Then Saturday, Benson said
that Pinson had died of in fee
tion from two wounds and that
he had buried the convicted po
lice slayer near Salem.
Benson's latest story is that
Pinson died and was buried
near a small town in northwest
era Idaho after a bus ride from
Spokane."
In his latest version, Benson
states 1 gave Pinson cocaine
several days before he died and
at one time pulled a piece of
bullet-shattered rib out of his
body with my fingers."
Benson still declines to tell
how he and Pinson made their
escape from the prison's deten
tion unit.
"I may want to escape again
sometime," he explains.
Lewis Attacks
Coal Operators
Washington, Sept. 14 VP)
John L. Lewis declared today
that if coal operators continue
to withhold payments to the
miners welfare fund it "may
precipitate a social convulsion in
the mining areas of this coun
try."
Lewis made this dire predic
tion in a telegraphed appeal to
the Cleveland Trust Co., repre
sentative of the Island Creek
Coal company, asking it to re
quire welfare payments from
the two coal companies con
trolled by the bank.
One of the coal mining com
panies is the Island Creek com
pany. James D. Francis, presi
dent of Island Creek, yesterday
contended that southern coal op
erators owe the miners welfare
fund nothing since coal contracts
expired June 30.
These contracts called for
payment of 20 cents on each ton
of coal mined as royalty to pay
for miners health and welfare
benefits.
Lewis' telegram was address
ed to I. F. Freibergcr, chairman
of the board of the Cleveland
Trust Co.
Lewis said Cleveland Trust
represents the Holden estate
which. In turn, controls and op
erates both the Island Creek and
Pond Creek Coal companies
human Asks Congress to
Defer Columbia River Bill
Murray Calls
Steel Industry
To Meet Union
Pittsburgh, Sept. 14 CP)
President Philip Murray of the
CIO United Steelworkers today
called on the steel industry to
say "promptly and plainly"
whether it is willing to accept
the presidential board's formula
for settlement of contract differ
ences. Murray asked the steel indus
try to meet with union repre
sentatives in a joint collective
bargaining conference before
end of the strike truce expiring
September 25.
The CIO president's move
came in the form of a telegram
to President Benjamin A. Fair
less of U. S. Steel Corporation,
acknowledged leader of steel in
dustry moves.
No Immediate Reply
There was no immediate com
ment from U. S. Steel but a
spokesman said the Murray mes
sage is being studied and a re
ply might be available later.
The move came unexpectedly
amid new strike rumblings de
spite acceptance by both the
steelworkers and the union of
extension of the strike truce and
agreement to renew bargaining
under the presidential board's
formula for peace.
Murray said the union "stands
ready to meet with your repre
sentatives and to negotiate a
mutually satisfactory agreement
prior to 12:01 a.m., Sept. 25
1949."
New Strike Threat
Reluctance of some steel com
panies to approve in advance the
presidential board's proposal
that they pay for such programs
was interpreted in some quarters
as holding a new strike threat.
(Concluded on Pane 5, Column 7)
3 Injured in Crash
Of Autos in City
Three men were injured Wed
nesday morning in a smashup
which saw one of the vehicles
tossed over on its side in the
intersection of Hood and North
Front streets.
The injured men were Aubrey
J. Clark. 3250 Triangle drive,
who sustained possible chest In
juries, Richard Duane Boelan-
der. Clover Cafe, who suffered
a gashed head and a passenger
with him, W. H. Williams, 1481
North Summer street, who sus
tained possible back injuries.
Apparently Clark's car hit the
Boclander auto in the side.
Clark had been driving north on
Front street while the other car
was headed east on Hood. Boe-
lander's auto was tossed over on
its side and the driver as well
as passenger were knocked out
by the impact.
The three men were treated
by first aid and advised to see
physicians.
I
English Exchange Instructor at Monmouth Miss Alice Pen
rilrbury, English exchange professor of Arts, is met in Port
land by Dr. H. M. Gunn, president of Oregon College of Edu
cation right, and Mrs. Pearl Heath, head of arts department,
OCE, left.
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Maj, Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe
Gen. McAuliffe
Named Chief of
Chemical Corps
Washington, Sept. 14 VP)
Maj. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe,
who said "Nuts" to a German
demand for surrender at Bas
togne, was tapped today to be
chief of the army chemical corps.
President Truman sent the
nomination of the 51-year-old
officer to the senate.
If the senate approves, Mc
Auliffe will succeed Maj. Gen.
Alden H. Waitt who was sus
pended from the job last July
after his name cropped up in
the senate's "five per center'
investigation. Waitt, 56, was re
stored to active duty last week
but immediately retired.
Along with McAuIiffe's nom
ination, Mr. Truman sent to the
senate that of Stanton Griffis to
be ambassador tq Argentina.
He also nominated:
Thomas W. S. Davis of Vir
ginia to be assistant secretary of
commerce.
Maj. Gen. Alfred Maximilian
Gruenther to be deputy chief of
staff for plans and combat oper
ations of the army with the rank
of lt. general.
British Warship
Sails Up Hudson
New York, Sept. 14 iP) A
British warship sailed up the
Hudson river toward Albany to
day for the first time since the
Revolutionary war in 1779.
This time the British came
with a bang bang. There were
168 peaceful officers and men
aboard the armed frigate, HMS
Snipe.
With a straight face. Com
mander C. G. Walker, skipper of
the 300-foot ship, said he ex
poctcd a peaceful voyage. Good
I will and all that you Jtnow,
To Sidetrack
Development
To Create CVA
Washington, Sept. 14 (P)
President Truman has asked
Congress to defer approval of a
$1,000,000,000 army engineer
reclamation bureau program
for development of the Colum
bia river basin.
The president has proposed
instead that Congress set up a
Columbia Valley administra
tion to develop the basin. It
would take over functions now
carried on by various govern
ment agencies including the
reclamation bureau and the ar
my engineers.
Views Sent Chaves
The president's views on the
engineers-bureau program were
sent to Chairman Chavez (D
N.M.) of the senate public works
committee by William E. Warne,
assistant secretary of the inter
ior. Warne wrote:
I have been asked to inform
. that the president believes
it would be a mistake to include
the substance of S2180 in the
rivers and harbors and flood
control bill at this time.
'He does not wish to indicate
any lack of confidence in the
interior-army consolidated re
port, but rather a strong feeling
that the report itself and all who
are interested in it would be
benefited if the regular order
were followed and time given
for the executive review that
is contemplated in the normal
procedure."
(Concluded on Pa Re 5, Column 6)
Britain Resists
devaluation
Washington, Sept. 14 m Si
lence from the British monetary
delegation indicated today that
it has no present intention of
yielding to pressure for a deval
uation of the pound.
Some American officials at
the fourth annual meeting of
governors of the World Bank
and International Monetary
fund conceded they see no sign
that Britain will give ground in
the near future.
The fund's annual report yes
terday poured on Britain the
heaviest pressure to date with
out mentioning either that na
tion or its currencies by name.
It invited the deficit countries
those like Britain which have
a critical dollar shortage to re
value their currencies if such
action will help to increase their
exports and their dollar-earning
capacity.
Before the same 48 - nation
forum, Eugene R. Black, presi
dent of the World bank, said he
fails to see how devaluation
"can be avoided." He later stated
this was his personal view.
But after a closed committee
discussion of the fund's report,
at which Britain was one of the
17 nations participating. Man
aging Director Camillc Gutt told
reporters he saw "no indication"
that any country had changed
its mind.
And Sir Stafford Cripps, the
British chancellor of the ex
chequer, in a brief speech fol
lowing the public remarks of
Black and Gutt. confined him
self to polite formalities.
Plan Ban on Races
Af li 1! I
ui jei Airplanes
Washington, Sept. H W -The
armed services arc consider
ing a ban on closed course races
for jet planes, an air force offi
cial said today. National air
races officials in Cleveland al
ready have been told to expect
such a decision.
Final action awaits coordina
tion of views within the air
force, navy and marine corps.
The three services normally
would rotate participation in the
jet division of the Thompson
Trophy race.
The air force flew the Thomp
son this year, using four North
American F-86 Sabres of the
type that holds the world speed
record at 670 miles an hour
Two of the planes were dam
aged, one seriously, by flying
through rough air at very high
speeds close to the ground. An
other plane did not finish the
rare and the fourth did not get
off.