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61st Year, No. 221
Salem, Oregon, Friday, September 16, 1949 , 9J.s 'l&es)
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C apital jl
Interim Group
Probes Truck
Transport Tax
Complaints Allege
1949 Law Subsidizes
High Mileage Vehicles
By JAMES D. OLSON
Complaints that high mileage
trucks are substantially sub
sidized by the 1949 transpor
tation tax law, passed by the
last legislature, were under in
vestigation by the legislative
highway interim committee.
Opening a meeting at the Mar
Ion hotel Friday morning, Rep
resentative Ralph Moore, chair
,man of the committee, pointed
Anv.l that H. B. 188, providing for
the amended motor transport
tan was a stop-gap measure and
purely temporary.
"This bill," Moore said, "was
framed with the objective of
bridging over the coming bien
nium so that further study could
be made prior to enactment of
a permanent measure.
Cites Discrimination
It was pointed out that under
the new act, which becomes ef
fective on-January 1, 1950, a
small pick-up truck paid $86 in
fees in 1948 and would be
$156.30.
It was also shown that a
truck-trailer combination oper
ated in fixed termini service,
with annual mileage of 35,000,
and combined weight of 62,000,
aid $1,672.50 in 1948 and for
a like operation in 1950 the total
tax would be $1,569.10.
The charges were countered
bv A. F. Harvey, superintendent
of transportation for the public
utilities commission, who point
ed out to the commission that
heavy duty trucks, although
paying tax on the weight of the
vehicle together with the poten
tial pay load, frequently trav
eled with less than a full load
and many times empty.
Small Trucks Pay Most
Harvey, in reply to a ques
tion by Senator Paul Patterson
s declared that he believed that
ithe small commercial vehicles
,'operating in congested centers
should pay at a higher rate of
tax than the long distance haul
era. Members of the committee
were told by both Harvey and
William Healy, assistant secre
tary of state, that the motor
transport tax and the increased
gasoline tax would bring in
greater revenues for highway
construction than wer estimat
ed at the time of the legislature.
(Concluded on fate 5, Column 1)
Gervais Youth
Killed by Train
Riverside, Calif.. Sept. 16 VP)
The body of a Gervais, Ore.,
youth was here today after shift
ing steel girders on a railroad
flat car crushed him fatally at
Indio yesterday.
He was Ray Dean, 17. The
flatcar was in the railroad yards
at Indio when the accident oc-
curred yesterday. Young Dean
was reported to have come from
Winterhaven. Ariz.
The coroner took charge of
the body and brought it here
after notifying the youth's par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen S.
lDn of Gervais, who are on the
v&? here to claim the body.
Rajk on Trial
Admits Plot to
Seize Hungary
Former Minister
Implicates American
In Conspiracy
Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 16
UP) Alasilo Rajk, once Hunga
ry's No. 2 communist, told a peo
ple's court today he plotted with
Americans and other westerners
to overthrow the communist
government and make Hungary
a "colony of Yugoslavia.
Rajk, former interior minister
and foreign minister in the com.
munist government, went on
trial for his life with seven oth-
ers against a background of a
seething war of nerves between
communist Yugoslavia and the
Soviet-led nations of the com'
inform.
Rajk Pleads Guilty
The former boss of Hungary's
police pleaded guilty to all
charges in the indictment. One
of these was that he plotted with
Marshal Tito's Yugoslav govern
ment to assassinate leading Hun
garian officials.
Rajk quickly named two
Americans as accomplices. Heap
ing guilt upon his own head in
a long recital to the court, he
freely almost eagerly testi
fied to contacts with British,
French, American and Yugoslav
intelligence agents.
(The trial was following a fa
miliar pattern. As in the case
of the convicted Roman Catholic
primate, Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty, the defendants went on
trial with the presumption that
they were guilty until proved in
nocent. This is the opposite of
most western procedure,
New Zealand to
Defy Harry Bridges
Wellington, N.Z., Sept 16 VP)
Prime Minister Peter Fraser
told the house of representatives
today that the longshoremen's
union leader, Harry Bridges,
had threatened to tie up Pacific
shipping and that amounted to
a declaration of war on New
Zealand.
"Let them try," he said. "Let
anyone in this country try. We
will deal with them with the ut-
most rigor of the law, and If that
law is not sufficient, we will
make it so."
Opposition Leader S. S. Hol
land said his party would help
pass any legislation needed to
deal with such a situation.
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Levis Stops Wei fare Doles:
US Intervenes, Steel Strike
Declines to Say
Whether Coal
Strike Called
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Mediator Sets
Joint Meeting
Next Monday
Washington, Sept. 16 ( The
government today called steel
companies and the CIO Steel
workers union to a mediation
meeting Monday morning.
Cyrus S. Ching, federal medi
ation and conciliation service
director, called on both sides in
the steel dispute to meet with
government conciliators Monday
at 9:30 a.m.
Ching said in a statement
there is a "good possibility"
that the failure of steel firms
and the union to begin bargain'
ing on the basis of the presi
dent's fact finding board report
"springs not from irreconcilable
fundamental differences in
views, but from the meaning of
words."
World's Largest
Bomber Crashes
Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 16
VP) A giant B-36, world's larg-
( Concluded on Pan S, Column 1) t bomber, crashed into a lake
last nigni, laKing inree ur iiiuic
lives.
Air force officers said they
were mystified by the 326,000-
pound giant's plunge into Lake
Worth. An unexplained power
failure was blamed.
One member of the crew of
13 was killed in the crash.
Bodies of two other crewmen
caught in the submerged wreck
age of the huge craft, were re
covered today.
Two airmen still were miss
ing. Eight of the crew survived.
The six-engined giant roared
down Carswell air force base's
long runway just after dusk last
night, rose only a few feet and
fell into the lake at 100 miles
an hour.
Maj. Gen. Roger Ramey,
Eighth air force commander,
said:
"After questioning all of the
men in the B-36 involved in last
night's accident, we are more Jn
the dark than ever as to its
cause."
Ramey said that when the pi
lot called for emergency power
"the emergency power was in
dicated on the instruments, but
the plane was not delivering it."
First Lt. Richard L. English,
flight engineer from Sartell,
Miss., said he stood on the fuse
lage of the cigar-shaped ship aft
er the plane hit and took a hasty
roll call. He said every man an
swered. Crash boats picked up survi
vors from the wings, fuselage
and the water as the six-engined
air monster stayed partially
afloat.
The eight known survivors
were rushed to the base hospital
for treatment of minor injuries.
Fall Opening
Treasure Hunt
Salem merchants participat
ing in Fall Opening, set for
Tuesday, Sept. 20, have begun
distribution of t i c k e t s for the
treasure hunt, which for several
years has been a feature of both
Fall and Spring openings.
By Friday morning at least 75
merchants, most of them in the
downtown area, had signed-up
for participation in the annual
fall event and over 165,000
tickets had been distributed to
the merchants by the Salem Re
tail Trade Bureau. One large
firm has 10,000 tickets for dis
tribution.
Prizes for the tickets will be
found the night of Fall Opening
in the windows of participating
merchants and will range from
ready-to-wear to hardware and
household items.
Opening event of Fall Open
ing will be a revived feature, not
held for a number of years, a
display of new models of auto
mobiles by local dealers. This
display is to be arranged in
Court street between North
Commercial and North High
streets.
As in the past, there will be
a window display contest with
merchants divided into a num
ber of classifications for the
event and windows slated for
unveiling at 7 p.m. Judges for
the contest will be three out-of-town
window decorators. Alrea
dy selected as judges are John
Mock of Bedell's and J. R. Ness
of Nudleman's in Portland.
Final Plans for "Soil Conservation Day" Program Key
figures check final plan for Oregon's 'biggest land use show,
which opens Saturday morning on Irvin Bartels farm, one
mile north of Shaw. Standing, left to right, Irving Bartels,
owner of field day site and Bob Schmidt, general chairman.
Kneeling, at left, is Vernon Jette, supervisor of Santiam soil
conservation district, co-sponser of the event with the Oregon
State Grange and W. M. Tate, local arrangements chairman.
Soil Conservation Day
Saturday at Bartels
A farm which has lust about everything wrong with it from
a soil conversationist's point of view will get a free face-lifting
tomorrowby soil engineers in a big public demonstration.
Irvin Artel's farm, near Shaw, 10 miles east of here, was
chosen for the Willamette valley conservation day program from
847 faims in the Santiam soil
Murray Appeal?
Pittsburgh, Sept. 16 W The
CIO United Steelworkers today
appealed to the steel industry
to accept the presidental board's
peace recommtndations to avert
strike September 25 and at
the same time summoned its top
strategists to plot the unions
next move.
Union President' Philip Mur
ray sent this telegram to the
57 steel producing companies
which appeared before Presi
dent Truman's fact finding
board.
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Union Rejects
Peace Plan in
Hawaii Strike
Honolulu, Sept. 16 W A new
territorial government peace
plan for Hawaii's 139-day dock
strike foundered today on union
rejection.
Gov. Ingram M. Stainback
had proposed that the 2000
striking dock workers go back
on the job at a 14-cent hourly
wage increase. Meanwhile, un
ion and employers would nego
tiate a new two-year contract.
Fred T. Low, chairman of the
CIO International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's un
ion strike committee, said "no"
to that.
He said his committee would
give immediate and serious
consideration," however, to any
concrete proposal made by the
seven struck stevedoring com
panies.
The union has accused Stain
back of "strike-breaking" with
territorial opera t i o n of the
docks.
conservation district. It has red
soil hillside lands subject to
erosion, poor lowland drainage,
and about everything else to
give a chance to let conserva
tionists show their stuff.
Farmers from all over the
state were expected to show up
for the all-day spectacle.
Gov. Douglas McKay will
speak to the group at noon on
the value to the state of con
servation methods.
U. S. and Santiam soil conser
vation technicians have muster
ed more than 100 pieces of
equipment to do about two years
work in one day.
They will bull-doze, demon
strate terrace cultivating, sub-
soiling, and strip cropping, and
will lay ditches and ponds for
drainage.
They plan to make it into a
model farm of its type.
Bartle, whose family has
watched production slowly de
cline over the past 60 years be
cause of erosion, thinks it's "a
fine idea."
Eugene Plans Purchase
Of Baseball Franchise
Eugene, Ore., Sept. 16. (Pi A San Jose, Calif., businessman ap
peared likely today to buy the Bremerton franchise in the Western
International league and establish a WIL ball club here.
The Eugene school board voted last night to negotiate for lease
of the Civic stadium to Frank Burrell, San Jose. And Burrell,
contacted by long-distance tele-
Cyclists Tie-up
River Highway
Motorcyclists, mountain
climbers and sightseers are just
about driving the state highway
commission crazy.
They are tying up traffic on
the new Columbia river high
way east of Troutdaie every
week-end. .
Last Sunday, a dozen hill
climbing motorcycle riders
wrecked a bank which the com
mission had just seeded with
grass.
On the same day, the moun
Snow In Crook County
Prineville, Ore., Sept. 16 U-
Snow fell in Crook county to
day, blanketing mountains of
the Ochoco national forest about
tflO miles southeast of here near
Paulina. Rangers reported most
of tht snowfall on Wolf mountain.
phone, said he would be in Ta
coma, Wash., Monday and Tues
day to discuss buying the Brem
erton franchise.
Burrell said he hoped to es
tablish a "first division ball
club" for Eugene. The general
belief in sports circles here was
that the club would be in oper
ation by next spring
The school board did not def
initely decide upon a lease, but
agreed to talk the matter over
with Burrell. An arrangement 0j
wouia nave to DC wurneu uui bu
that WIL games do not conflict
with high school athletics on the
6,000-seat stadium.
Burrell expressed confidence
that he could arrange a contract
satisfactory to the school board
Tacoma. Sept. 16 Western
International league directors
past, present and prospective ,
will meet here Monday to trans
act post-season business and con
sider new developments of far-
reaching Importance.
President Robert B. Abel said
today the W-I moguls will con
sider proposed transfers of a
pair of franchises. Wenatchee to
Richland-Pasco-Kennewick and
Bremerton to Eugene.
Then, too. there's the "for
sale" sign which proxy Bill Starr
the parent San Diego Padres
hung on the Tacoma Tigers last
week, a matter which is expect
ed to be the subject of some dis
cussion. Representatives of Eugene In
terests seeking to obtain the
Bremerton franchise will be in
attendance at the parley, Abel
reported, as will several civic
leaden from tht Tri-City area.
"Willamette Valley Soil Conser
vation Day" on the Bartel farm
north of Shaw looks like this on
a schedule:
10:30 Strip-cropping of 248
acres.
10:45 Sub-soiling.
11:00 Terracing. 1 mile.
11:15 Grass waterways. 1 mile.
11:45 Permanent pasture seed
ing. 12:00 Rodent control.
12:15 Pheasant release and
Multlflora rose planting
state game commission.
12 :30 Program.
1:45 Tile drainage.
2:30 Open drainage ditch con
struction. 2:45 Post treating.
3:00 Weed control.
3:15 Farm pond.
3:30 Side hill row crop cultivation.
Senate Delays
Minton Action
Acheson Tells
Of Cold War
Washington, Sept. 16 iP) Sec
retary of State Acheson report
ed to President Truman and the
cabinet today on new U. S. -Brit
ish-French measures to deal with
Russia in the cold war.
The report was made at a 45
minute meeting in the White
House. Acheson, however, de
clined afterwards to discuss it
with reporters. It was the reg
ular Friday cabinet meeting.
Topping the list was believed
to be agreement to give Yugo
slavia's Marshal Tito all essen
tial support in his economic and
political struggle with Moscow.
All the various matters have
been intensively reviewed here
this week by Acheson and For
eign Minister Bevin and Schu-man.
The American, British, and
French foreign policy chiefs cli
maxed their round of meetings
tain climbers scaled Rooster ytcrday, They held then a
Study Raise in
Price of Gold
Washington, Sept. 16 (ff)
Governors of the international
monetary fund voted unanimous
ly today to start a study of a
proposed higher price for gold.
The United States assented re
luctantly. The fund and the $8,000,000,
000 World Bank held closed ses
sions this morning. Both gov
erning boards approved without
dissent every report from their
committees and from the man
agements of the global lending
agencies. ,
The bank in Its closed session,
approved the application of the
Republic of Haiti for member
ship and fixed $2,000,000 as its
share to be subscribed in the
bank's capital. March 31, 1950
was set as the deadline for post
ing the funds and accepting
membership.
Since Haiti also would join
the fund, it's acceptance would
raise the membership in both or
ganizations to 49 countries.
The dale for Liberia's accept
anc of membership was post
poned until next Marcn 31
Camille Gutt, managing direc
tor of the fund, who reported
the actions within the closed
fund meeting, said the consensus
among the members is to make
start, however, small, on the
removal of world-wide currency
restrictions.
Washington, Sept. 16 P)
Senate action will be delayed a
while on President Truman's
expected nomination of Sher
man Minton to be a supreme
court justice.
Although there was no appar
ent opposition to the appoint
ment, Chairman McCarran (D-
Nev.) of the judiciary commit
tee, said the nomination will
"take the routine course." That
usually takes about three weeks,
a committee aide said. There is
a speedier procedure often used
in cases where opposition is
lacking.
Senators who would com
ment on the appointment prais
ed Minton, a former democratic
senator from Indiana, a thor
ough-going new dealer and now
judge on the U.S. circuit court
of appeals at Chicago.
The president nominated him
yesterday to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of Justice
Wiley Rutledge last Saturday.
Many senators declined com
ment. While some privately ex
pressed disappointment at the
president's choice, they said they
knew of no reason to attempt
to block the nomination.
McCarran, now enroute to Eu
rope for a three-week trip, has
been at odds with the adminis
tration over displaced persons
legislation and other matters re
cently.
Senator Kilgore (D-W.Va.)
told a reporter that McCarran
telephoned his instructions on
the appointment from his ship.
Washington, Sept. 16 VP)
John L. Lewis today announced
suspension on welfare payments
to miners effective tomorrow. .
Lewis said the action was due
to lack of funds. It was order
ed in a resolution adopted at a
five-hour meeting of the fund's
trustees. Lewis, speaking brief
ly with reporters, declined to
say whether there would be a
walkout in the coal fields.
He also declined to say by
what vote the action suspend
ing benefits was taken.
The trustees met in urgent
session amid indications of a
showdown over the refusal of
some operators to make pay
ments into the welfare fund.
Lack of Funds Claimed
The benefits include $100
monthly pensions for miners
60 yeazs of age or more, plus
other forms of welfare benefits.
Senator Bridges (R-N.H.), the
neutral trustee of the fund, was
with Lewis when the announce
ment was made. Ezra Van Horn,
operators trustee, had left ear
lier, declining comment.
Bridges told reporters in an
swer to questions that he has
not resigned as a trustee. There
had been advance rumors that
Bridges was ready to quit.
The meeting came quickly af
ter Lewis' return from White
Sulphur Springs. W. Va., where
the stoppage of 20 cents a ton
royalty payments by some oper
ators put a new complication in
to negotiations for a coal mine
labor contract.
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Rock, and cars were lined up
three hour and forty-five minute
for more than a mile to watch. "sio" devoted to discussing
The sightseers, about
carloads of them every Sunday,
go only 20 miles an hour. And
the road can't handle so many
cars going that slow.
The commisison asked the
state police to straighten all this
out, but the cops said that's in
the domain of Multnomah coun
ty Sheriff Mike Elliott.
Now the commission is ap
pealing to Elliott to help.
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xan situation as wen as uer
Storm Warnings Fly
Portland, Ore., Sept. 16 UP
The weather bureau today con
tinued small craft warnings un
til sunset on the Strait of Juan
De Fuca and inland waters of
Washington for southwest winds
18 to 28 miles an hour, gusty
today and diminishing tonight
many and Austria.
Officials said they did not get
around to talking about the
development of a common anti-
communist strategy in the far
east but hoped to arrange an
other session here in a day or
so.
Meanwhile Acheson scheduled
a series of afternoon appoint
ments with other western for
eign ministers gathering here for
tomorrow's meeting of the At-
Furniture Workers Sign-up
Seattle, Sept. 16 M"! A con
tract granting improved work- lantic treaty council. This is the
ing conditions but no wage in- body which is due to order crea
rrease was signed yesterday for
2,500 furniture workers union
(AFL) workers in 57 Washing
ton and Oregon plants. The
contract provided better senior
ity rights, one week vacation Richard W. Cook today was ap-
with pay after one year, two pointed manager of the atomic
weeks after three years and lix I energy commission's operations
paid holidays. at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
tion of defense machinery for
the western world.
Cook Oak Rldga Manager
Washington, Sept. 16 VP)
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First In Pacific A squadron of these F-9-F Panther Jet
fightrrs operated with the Pacific Fleet for the first from the
carrier Boxer. The fighter above has Just landed aboard
the flattop. Pilots enthusiastically voiced the Navy view that
the Panthers could otitfly and outfight the air force's B 36.
(AP Wirtphoto from U. S. Navy)
Senate Rejects
Carl llgenfrifz
Washington, Sept. 16 VP) The
senate today rejected President
Truman's appointment of Carl
A. Ilgenfritz, U. S. Steel Corp.
official, to head the munitions
board.
It voted 40 to 28 to disapprove
Ilgenfritz for the post.
The opposition was chiefly a
protest against White House-approved
plans for Ilgenfritz to
continue drawing a $70,000 a
year salary from the steel com
pany while serving in the gov
ernrment post.
Senator Byrd (D., Va.). who
led the fight against confirma
tion of the appointment contend
ed that would establish a dan
gerous custom under which big
corporations dealing with the
government might be allowed in
the future to subsidize govern
ment officials.
Byrd said he was not ques
tioning Ilgenfritz' character or
abiliitcs. But he noted that U S.
Steel has an important stake in
military orders.
As chairman of the munitions
board, Ilgenfritz would have had
charge of advance planning of
wartime industrial mobilization,
assigning military buying duties
and fixing priorities for such
buying.
In a telegram read to the sen
ate before it voted, llucnfritz of
fered to give up the $14,000 sal
ary of the chairmanship. But he
expressed doubt that any such
action would be legal.
Miners Strike
In Wyoming
Rock Springs. Wyo , Sept. 16
in An estimated 8.000 coal
miners in the Utah - Wyoming
district of the United Mine Work
ers walked out of the pits volun
tarily today pending a settle
ment of the currrnt contract dispute.
Houston Martin of Rock
Springs, president of district 22
which embraces the two states,
said the walkout was purely vol
untary and that it had not been
called by union officials.
"The coal miners of district
22." Martin said, "walked out on
their jobs nn their own Initia
tive, and I had nothing to do
with It."
Some 3,500 to 4,000 of the 8,
000 miners In the two states ar
employed In coal fields around
Rock Springs. All failed to show
up for work at midday.
Martin declined In make any
I other comment regarding th
walkout.