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6 1st Year, No. 229 ZSSfjrJSFoXl Salem, Oregon, Monday, September 26, 1949
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Land Owners
Blocking North
Drainage Plans
City Drainage Project
Held-up by Demands
Of Beneficiaries
By STEPHEN A. STONE
To get a drainage project
started In the north and north
east parts of the city is proving
one of the hardest jobs the city
council has tackled in a long
time.
After their distressing experi-
' tnce last winter the people in
that part of Salem clamored for
'drainage. To get the project
started the city pulled its en
gineering crew off the intercep
tor sewer job and let that proj
ect to a contractor. Now a few
of the property owners in north
Salem are opposing drainage
easements across their property
and the city can't turn a wheel
until the easements are secured.
City Attorney Chris J. Kowitz
has been giving most of his time
to the matter for a week, and is
on the ground today talking to
property owners. The wet sea
son is near, which makes the sit
uation serious. A report will
be made at the council meeting
Monday night.
Tighten Taxicab License
An ordinance bill will be in
troduced Monday night to tight
en up on license fees paid by
taxicab operators. At present
the city issues a permit for one
year with the license fee $50 a
year for each taxi operated. But
there ii a provision that the fee
may be paid in semi - annual
Installments of $25 each. The
new ordinance will provide that
the entire fee must be paid in
advance. It is due January 1.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 4)
Salem Schools
Over-crowded
Little or no change in the
crowded condition of class rooms
in some of the Salem grade
school buildings was reported
Monday by Superintendent
Frank B. Bennett. However, the
opening of the third week of the
term found order coming out of
the near confusion that existed
at the outset.
The Capitola building, one of
the two new structures built
during the summer, has not as
yet been made ready for occu
pancy. However, all pupils are
being cared for at the old Wash
ington building on a temporary
basis. They are transported to
and from this building morning
and afternoon.
At Bush where the primary
load is particularly heavy, space
originally intended for other
purposes has been converted in
to a class room.
Overloads at Highland and
Richmond have forced the ad
ministration to convert play
rooms and lunchrooms into
classrooms.
Asked whether the adminis
tration was considering con
struction of additions to build
ings now crowded, the superin
tendent replied that all efforts
were being directed at this time
to securing quarters for the pu
pils as fast as possible. Enlarg
ment will be taken up when the
present situation has been clari
fied a bit.
Barkley Week-Ends
On Visit to Widow
St. Louis. Sept. 26 (JF) Vice
President Barkley spent the
week-end in St. Louis, helping
in attractive friend celebrate her
88th birthday anniversary.
The vice president attended a
birthday party for Mrs. Carleton
S. Hadley Saturday night. Yes
ttrday they went to church to
gether.
Mrs. Hadley't friends had
peculated that the . birthday
party might be the occasion for
announcement of the couple s en
gagement. But it was not even
known today whether Barkley
had given Mrs. Hadley a present
He has made several trips to
St. Louis recently to see her.
Mrs. Hadley, a widow, was at
the airport when the 71-year-old
vice president took off for
Washington late yesterday. She
also met him on his arrival Fri
day night.
Mason Namrd to FTC
Washington, Sept. 26 iPi
President Truman today nomi
nated Lowell B. Mason for a
new seven-year term as a mem
ber of the federal trade com
mission. Mason is a legal rest
dent of Illinois.
British Cabinet
Asks (or Vote
Of Confidence
Labor Government to
Stake Life on Approval
Of Devaluation
London, Sept. 26 W Bri
tain's labor government decided
today to stake its life on a mo
tion asking parliament to ap
prove devaluation of the pound.
Parliament reconvenes tomor
row in an emergency three-day
debate on the crisis raised by
the cheapening of the pound
from $4.03 to $2.80 eight days
ago.
Ask for Cooperation
If the labor party's motion
should fail in the house of com
mons, Prime Minister Attlee
would be forced to disband par
liament and call an immediate
general election. The govern
ment has a 60 percent majority
in the house, and if unruly la-
borites can be whipped into line,
the government will win out.
Some labor leaders worried that
some of the leftists in their ranks
might abstain from voting and
cut down the labor margin.
The labor leaders also prepar
ed a motion today asking the
house to call on the British peo
ple for "their full cooperation
with the government" in dig
ging out of a desperate trade de
ficit. I Percent Cut Looms
It promised the government
would continue "maintaining
full employment and safeguard
ing the social services." These
services include food subsidies,
free milk for school children,
old age pensions, medical treat
ment and other welfare meas
ures which are popular with a
large section of the voters.
The motion gave no indica
tion that the government plans
any economies other than a five
percent cut in admi' .stration
costs asked by Chancellor of the
Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps,
Britain's austerity czar.
A copy of the motion was sent
to Winston Churchill, conserva
tive leader, who planned to dis
cuss it in private tonight with
his Tory chiefs.
Churchill to .
Stress A Bomb
London, Sept. 26 fP) Conser
vative Leader Winston Church
ill is expected to ask the labor
government for more informa
tion on the atomic bomb race
tomorrow when parliament op
ens its emergency session.
Reports of new uranium dis
coveries on both sides of the
iron curtain in Czechoslovakia
and Spain spurred talk today
of such a race now that Russia
has discovered how to set off an
atomic explosion.
The house of commons meet
ing has been called to debate
Britain's pound devaluation.
The British Press association
said Churchill is studying the
advisability of asking Prime
Minister Attlee for more infor
mation on the subject of atomic
weapons.
The speaker of the house
must approve special notice
questions before they may be
asked. Because of his position
as an opposition leader it is un
likely that Churchill would be
turned down if he requested ap
proval for a question on the ato
mic bomb.
Theft Near Silverton
Clew to Prison Escapee:
Theft of food, a pair of dungarees and a flashlight from the
home of Joseph Lerud, Box 169, Route 1, Silverton, Sunday it the
latest lead of officers who are trailing John Perkins and Leo Gil
bert Williams, who escaped from Oregon State penitentiary last
Thursday. '
Perkins. 24, was a resident of
the Silverton community before
his sentence to the penitentiary,
and is suspected of the burglary.
The house was entered between
9:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. while
the family was attending a
church meeting. Entry was made
by forcing a basement window.
Perkins ii under a 40-year
sentence on a morals charge.
Williams, 21, who escaped withiwhere the three got away last
him is still at large. He wasweek. Gulovsen entered the
sent up from Union county on a prison last December. Deputy
three-year rap for burglary, a
charge that also makes him sus-
pect in tne silverton case.
Earl Richard Railback. 19.
serving three years from Des-
chutes county for burglary, es-
caped at the same time but was
caught within an hour.
i Prison guards Sunday night,
lite'
Truman Signs
Trade Pact Bill
Washington, Sept. 26 W)
President Truman today signed
into law an extension of the re
ciprocal trade agreements pro
gram until 1951. He said it will
aid "expanded world trade at a
time when it is most urgently
needed."
The legislation, extending the
law for the sixth time since it
was first enacted in 1934, gives
the president a free-hand in
working out tariff-cutting treat
ies with other nations.
Under the measure, the pre
sident can agree to cut U. S.
import duties on articles from
other countries where those
countries make similar conces
sions to the United States.
The extension is until June
12, 1951.
Cordcll Hull, former secre
tary of state and credited with
originating the trade agreements
Drincinle 15 years ago, was pre
sent to watch the president sign
the bill.
In a statement, Mr. Truman
said that "through this wise and
farseeing legislation, the United
States reaffirms its intention ol
pressing forward toward ex
panded world trade at a time
when such action is most ur
gently needed."
Still Seeking to
Avert Big Strikes
B th AJUOClBtM PTMBI
The three - ring bargaining
struggle between big labor and
big business tensed today with
the prospect of new action in
two of the arenas steel and
automobiles.
The third contest, between
John L. Lewis' United Mine
Workers and the nation's coal
producers, marked time although
Lewis held a tight strangle hold
on the operators. The 480,000
UMW diggers began the second
week of a protest strike because
their welfare fund benefits have
ceased.
.The CIO Steelworkers' union
kept a steady pressure on the
resisting big steel employers, in
sisting on a company-paid pension-insurance
program to cost
10 cents per man hour of work.
Negotiation-conferences were re
sumed after a week-end recess.
, prevented Harry D. Gulovsen
from escaping the prison. Gulov- Kill Will IfPllim
on 10 ii nervlno three vearilWUI f I III rACIUIII
from Cons Bay for selling
mortgaged automobile, and was
reported missing when a count
was made Sunday night. He was
found sitting in the new spill
way now under construction in
side the walls.
The spot is near the place
Warden Eugene Halley said the
Coos Bay youth had a piece of
jron bar when searched by a
guard.
The three who got away
Thursday night used a six-foot
crowbar to pry open the steel
bars nf a wjill being built over
the Mill creek spillway,
Work Starts On the Baldock Plan Stale nignway crew,
working on the Baldock plan for relief of congested Salem
traffic, started surveying this morning on South Liberty
street to establish location of a one-way street to connect
South Commercial and Liberty streets, part of the one-way
grid system. Surveys to locate the new, inter-county bridge
on Marion street will begin later this week. From left: Wayne
Murphy, transit man, assisted by R. A. Mahoney, O. H. Krieger
and A. C. Shaw.
Aerial Defense System
Perfected in Northwest
Seattle, Sept. 26 W) An elaborate aerial defense system, im
proved from World War II, was disclosed today to be operating
24 hours a day in the Pacific northwest.
Every plane that takes off from a Pacific northwest field or
enters the area is detected by
$1 Billion Asked
Basin Project
Washington, Sept. 26 m Sen.
Magnuson (D-Wash) said today
that the senate public works
committee has agreed to approve
in principle a billion dollar com
prehensive plan for the develop
ment of the Columbia river ba
sin. Bills for the coordinated pro
gram of the army engineers and
the reclamation bureau for the
project have been co-sponsored
by Sen. Magnuson and Sen.
Cain (R-Wash).
Magnuson said that the com
mittee is expected to allow about
$400,000,000 in immediate au
thorizations to cover prospective
appropriations for the next two
or three years.
About 44 projects are includ
ed in the comprehensive bill
submitted by Magnuson previ
ously and called for in substance
in a bill introduced by Cain.
Projects having priority will
be determined by conferences
between the two senators, the
bureau of reclamation and the
corps of engineers.
Both senators appeared before
the committee in a closed ses
sion today. They will submit
their dollar recommendations to
the committee tomorrow.
Referring to President Tru
man's recent request that action
on the coordinated plan be post
poned until next year, Cain said
a "campaign of delaying tactics
has finally reached high plac
es." The president, who has urged
legislation to create a Columbia
valley administration, asked that
action on the coordinated pro
gram be held up until execu
tive agencies concerned with It
have completed their review.
Cain told the committee that
all administration witnesses in
favor of creating the CVA had
urged, at senate hearings, quick
authorization of the coordinated
program, saying it would in no
way interfere with the creation
of a CVA if it is approved by
congress.
Smog Eases a
The "smog"
few days In the valley Is not in
the unusual phase, reports the
federal weather bureau.
Smoke from forest fires and
from slashing burns, set follow
ing the rains, aids in bringing
on the condition, particularly
because of the cool tempera
tures at night, the smoke and
particles in It Being caught up
when the. condensation point Is
reached, and causing the
"smog." pd at securing both senate seats
Monday was fairly free of the from Washington for the repub
smog. but the smoke-fog condl-! licans. Washington has a re
tion is forecast again for tonight j publican governor, Arthur B.
ana Tuesday, witn slightly
warmer temperatures in the af' -
jternoon.
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radar and identified as a secret
control center.
If identification is not estab-
lished immediately armed inter
ceptor planes are sent up. It is
partly practice, partly precau
tionary. Operation of the defense set
up was reported today by the
Seattle Times, the Everett Her
aid and Rep. Henry Jackson CD-
Wash.). Reporters for the two
papers toured defense installa
tions with Jackson and military
authorities cleared their stories
with specific locations, radar
ranges and number of aircraft
omitted for security reasons.
The newspapers said the con
trol center, established by the
Fourth air force for Washington
Oregon Idaho and Montana, i!
located "somewhere near Puget
Sound." The aircraft warning
system and interceptor planes of
both the air force and navy
based in this area are under a
single command.
The northwest's probable tar
gets have been catalogued and
plans have been made to defend
them. Backbone of the system is
the radar network. This elec
tronic warning web extends west
into the Pacific and north Into
Canada. It also probes east and
south to guard against any
"back-cutting" by a possible aer
ial invader.
"The general scheme," the
Times story said, "is to try to
knock down the enemy far from
the targets, or at least force him
to dump his bombs before he en
ters the target area."
Alaska, in another defense
area, was not covered in the
newspaper survey, nor was any
information included on wheth
er similar networks operate in
other sections of the United
States.
The stories said, however, that
this area has been given a high
priority for modern equipment
because of its geographic loca
tion.
Cain Undecided
On Making Race
Washington. Sept. 26 W
Senator Cain (R., Wash.) said
today friends have suggested he
resign his senate seat and run
next vear for the neat now held
during the pastihy Senator Magn uson (D.,
Wash.). He said he will make
no decision for months and will
not consider it If some strong
GOP candidate comes forward
against Magnuson.
Magnusnn's term expires Jan
uary 1, 1951. and he is up for
re-election next year
Cain's'
term expires January, 1953
The GOP strategy back
getting Cain to resign and run
i against Magnuson would be alm-
iLanglie. who could appoint a
1 member of his party to Cain's
iunexpired term.
Russia Dots Eastern Europe
With Rocket Starting Bases
Russia Favors
Absolute Ban
On A Weapons
Moscow, Sept. 26 i1 West
ern diplomats here
weighed I
Moscow's latest bid for atom
control today as they studied
Russia's claim that she has had
atomic weapons for at least two
years.
The Russian statement is
sued yesterday by Tass, official
Soviet news agency was the
first official reaction to Presi
dent Truman's announcement
that evidence had been discov
ered of a recent atomic blast in
Russia
It did not confirm or deny
such an explosion, but recalled
the statement of Soviet Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov on Nov.
6, 1947, that the secret of the
atom bomb "has long ceased to
exist." It said Russia has had
atomic weapons since that time.
Prohibition Sought
Observers' attention was fo
cused mainly on the last two
paragraphs of the Tass state
ment. These paragraphs read:
"It should be pointed out that
the Soviet government, despite
the existence in its country of an
atomic weapon, adopts and in
tends adopting in the future its
atomic position in favor of the
absolute prohibition of the use
of the atomic weapon.
"Concerning control of the
atomic weapon, it has to be said
that control will be essential in
order to check up on fulfillment
of a decision on the prohibition
of production of the atomic
weapon."
(Russian long has urged out
lawing the atom bomb and ad
vocated controls to make the
ban stick. However, she has
turned down the U. S. plan for
detailed controls and inspec
tion.)
(Concluded on Pare 5. Column 8)
CIO Pickets at
Pineapple Ship
The Dalles, Sept. 26 iP)
Fifty maritime workers put up
a picket line today in front of
a much-chased bargeload of
pineapple from Hawaii.
CIO Longshoremen and mem
bers of the Marine Engineers
Beneficial association arrived
from Portland to establish the
picket line. Union sources said
another 25 automobiles, carry
ing pickets, were en route.
There was no evidence,
though, that an attempt would
be made today to unload the
pineapple, which was brought
to this Columbia river port, 180
miles upstream from the ocean,
nftr th nivnpn IrlpH vninlv In
find an nnnirkptpH rinrlc in I
Puget Sound.
The controversy over the
$800,000 load of fruit stems
from the Hawaiian dock strike.
The first picket to arrive was
from Hawaii.
The pickets here, guarding
the lone' road to the dock, were
handing out mimeographed ap
peals to The Dalles workers not
to unload the barge.
Truck-Car Crash Victim
Dies from Burns, Injuries
A A 1 . itonr.nlrl ITi i unno nan
- Mn.Ali. t.m A,A !,.nrl'.tr U Gnlom Momnrini hftni1nl
from burns and Injuries sustained
The smashup which rauscd
resulted in injuries to his wife.
South 12th street and the Paci
fic highway. His auto was enter
ing the highway from South
12th when it collided witli a 21)
ton truck and trailer loaded with
32 head of cattle.
The truck careened across
Ika, hiohuBV anH atnirk A hill
but its driver, Harold Whitis of
Seattle escaped without Injury.
The impact of the accident1
tossed Mellor from his car. He
landed in a pool of gasoline and
was Immediately enveloped in
flames.
The heroic effort of Victor (.:.
of Bovelle, 160 North 17th street,
gave physicians at the hospital
an opportunity to save Mellor
Bovelle smothered the flames
around Mellor with his coat, but
his efforts and those of pliyai-
ciani finally proved hopeless.
A wrecker worked for a half
hour to put the truck back on
I the highway. A grass fire, ig-
Olympic cms
WelfareGrants
All Along Line
Olympia. Wash., Sept. 26 W
Cut..- in Washington State pub
lic welfare grants ranging from
12 to 50 percent effective No-
vember 1 were announced today
by stale social security tJirec
tor Roderic Olzendam.
In an order sent to all county
welfare administrators, Olzen
dam directed that grants to per
sons covered by the aid to de
pendent children program be
cut 12 percent.
General assistance payments
to unemployable persons re
cently cut 20 percent effective
October 1 was sliced to 35 per
cent beginning November 1.
Assistance grants to employ
able persons without jobs were
cut 50 percent beginning No
vember 1 when many such per
sons, excluded from any pay
ments during the summer
months, will be back on the gen
eral assistance rolls.
New Uranium
Strikes in Europe
London. Sept. 26 UP) Reports
of new uranium discoveries on
both sides of the iron curtain
n Czechoslovakia and Spain
spurred talk of an atomic ener
gy race now that Russia has ato
mic weapons.
These were the week-end de
velopments in Europe following
President Truman s announce
ment that the Russians had
touched off an atomic explo
sion recently:
1. Tass. th official Soviet
news agency, asserted Russia
has had atomic weapons since
1947. It again said the Soviet
union was ready for internation
al control of atomic energy but
didn't say what kind of control
a ooint that has balked Ame
rican-Soviet agreement because
previously Russia has Insisted on
a veto power over international
inspectors.
2. Franco Spain, already pos
sessing known uranium deposits,
was reported to have found new
veins of the ore from which atom
bombs arc made. This prompted
sneculation as to whether Gen
eralissimo Franco would use his
uranium store in bargaining for
imnroved relations with the
western powers.
3. A new uranium mine was
renorlcd opened In Czechoslo
vakia under the direction of
Russian engineers. At least two
Czech mines are known to be
sending uranium already to So
viet Russia.
4. German scientists and ura
nium ore from east Germany
helped the Russians develop
their bomb, informed American
and German sources reported.
Stole Mehama Bee Hives
Mehama, Sept. 26 ( Mrs
Leo Wagner of Mehama says she
is not malicious but she is hop
ing someone got stung. Thieves
enlered her premises and walk
ed away with a complete hive of
bees.
liuir - H fro in ll 14 ttTPI'krrl CRT tlttd
in Hip accident
the death of William Mellor and
Agnes, occurred a the junction ot
-
- ' it(lfi 1)V gasoline, was stamped
nut by spectators before the ar -
rival or firemen.
Six other persons involved in
an accident five miles south
I Salem on the Pacific highway
' r' '"I"" treated at Salem Me
1 morinl hospital for injuries.
The accident which resulted
in injury to Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Wnttenbarger, James Dorothy
and Douglas Bidwcll, all of Al-
-bany, occurred Saturday. The
accident victims sustained irac-
lures ann: other painlul injuries
but their conditions were de
scribed as good Monday by hos
pital attaches.
Claude Waltenbarger was dri-
vinst
' ,
h ear which was involved
collision with a machine
driven by Roy Edholm of Tan-
Kent. Ediiulm (scaped injury.
iSites for V-Bomb
faf Deadlier
Than Hitler Used
Frankfurt, Germany, Sept. 26
(U Pi Reports that the Russians
are building a network of V-X
rocket launching bases pointed
at strategic points in western
Kurope have been confirmed,
American and British Intelli
gence sources said today.
These reports said the sites for
the V-bombs, which were show
ered on England during the war,
were backed up with radar in
stallations designed to keep the
guided missiles on their courses.
German Expert Used
A detailed report on the Sov
iet installations was brought out
of Russia by a German expert
in the field who was shipped to
Russia with other German tech
nicians in 1946 but who managed
to escape to the west recently.
The V-bomb expert, whose
name cannot be disclosed, was
forced to work for three years on
Soviet scenitific projects, includ
ing the "Soviet central institute
for V-bomb development" in
Moscow. He was identified as a
former scientist at the German
V-two Bleicherode works in
Thuringia.
"I had opportunities to look
into certain files which reported
on strategic planning of V-two
bomb bases in east Germany,"
he expert said.
(Continued on Pat S, Column 4)
Pravda Assails
Acheson and UN
Moscow, Sept. 26 UR Secret -tary
of State Dean Acheson was
accused in print here today of
dictating the truth and trying to
dictate to the United Nation!
assembly in his comment on ato
mic control.
The political oommeitator ol
the communist organ Pravda,
Yakov Victorov, assailed Ache
son and hailed Foreign Minister
Andrei Vishinsky s speech at
the UN as "a new Soviet con
tribution to peace."
Pravda, the only newspaper
published today, contained noth
ing regarding Soviet possession
of atomic energy. Its leading
editorial was devoted to econo
my in industry aimed at lower
ing production cost.
Sunday newspapers had print
ed on page two without fanfare
and without editorial comment ,
56-line statement by the Tasa
news agency regarding soviet
possession of the atom bomb.
The Russian people appeared to
be taking the news calmly. No
sign of anti-American sentiment
was discernible at street gather
ings. Victorov said Acheson's pro
nouncements provided an exam
ple of hypocrisy and tactics cal
culated to undermine the UN,
Ratzlaff Cuts
Bus Schedule
John K;itI;i(f. who several
months ago started operation of
Pacific Coast Lines, a passenger
service between Salem and New
port, has reduced his schedule
to only one run a week.
Ratzlaff started with two
round-trips a day oetween Sa-
IctTl and th
const, stopping at
and Newport.
On September 15 he filed no
tice with the public utilities
commission that he was reduc
ing, schedules to one round trip
, WOek, effective September 25,
Ih run (o be made on Sundays.
(The law permits him to reduce
ofjlhe schedules on 10 days notice.
The Saturday bus leaves Salem
at 9:15 a m. and arrives at New
port at 12:12 p.m. Returning It
leaves Newport at 2 30 p m. and
arrives in oaiem hi o..mi p.m.
Ratzlaff had previously in
formed the commission that pas
sengers were so few that tha
daily schedules did not pay, and
he was using his own privata
automobile as a pawenger vehi
cle It is understood he wants to
retnin his franchise until next
spring, and in the meantime
make an attempt to intareet tha
coast people to the point where
a paying patronage will be possible.