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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Septemrx i949
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THE WEATHER HERE
FAIR TONIGHT and Wednes
day. Continued warm with low
humidity. Lowest temperature
tonight, 45; highest Wednesday,
85.
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day, 50. Total 4huur precipitation. i
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Plans for Stale
Office Building,
Portland OK'ed
Board of Control Ap
proves Sketches for
$2.5 Million Structure
The date board of control to
day approved preliminary
ketches of the 10-story state of
fice building which will be built
in Portland.
The Duucung contains iio.uuu
111 1 square feet, and most of its out-
er walls are glass.
I Morton H. Caine, architect,
I told the board he hopes the $2,-
I Son nnn hiiilrlincr ran hp hnilt fnr
$12 a square foot. That is $1.80
' a square foot less than last
week's bids for the new high
way office building in Salem,
but Caine said the Portland
building will be cheaper to
build.
The building consists of a one
story structure covering a
whole block, plus a nine-story
U-shaped building on top of
that. The bottom floor will house
the unemployment compensa
tion commission.
Parking Space Provided
There will be space to park 70
cars on the block. Caine said
it would be the first post-war
building in Portland to contain
off-street parking.
The board released a fire loss
report showing that the fire
which destroyed the hospital at
Fairview home for feeble-minded
persons cost $139,400 dam
age. It occurred May 18 and was
let by a patient.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
UAL Cargo Plane
Gets Load Here
Winging Its way south from
f.alem to Los Angeles Monday
night was the first cargo plane
of the United Air Lines to go
out of the northwest in three
vitord nn o raa nl nil v crhorllilnH
R hight.
saiem is a regular nag stop,
on the nightly schedule of the
southbound plane.
When the C-180 arrived Mon
day night, it had weighed-in a
cargo load totaling 1688 pounds.
This included 1505 pounds of
mushrooms from the West Mush
room plant, going to the fresh
markets in San Francisco and
Los Angeles, and machinery be
ing shipped to Stockton, Calif.,
by the Gerlinger Carrier compa
ny of Dallas.
Originating in Seattle with a
stop in Portland before setting
down in Salem, the plane before
its arrival here had taken on a
varied cargo.
Given a special place and
special attention were 28 live
martens, valued at $14,000 and
shipped to San Francisco as
breeding stock. Among the oth
er items included in the load
were baby chickens, a Mexican
Chihuahua, three other dogs. 28
Chinese pheasants, and a corpse.
Tax Revision
Planned 1950
Washington, Sept. 27 WPt A
r general revision of federal tax
laws was assigned top priority
. today for congressional action in
1950. It may produce some new
taxes in a drive to balance the
nation's budget.
Whether the new tax law will
bear any resemblance to Presi
dent Truman's now-abandoned
1949 proposal for a $4,000,000,-
000 increase no one now can
say. As a general rule, congress
it not disposed to raise taxes in
n election year which 1950
would be.
There were Indications that,
while hunting for new sources
of revenue, congress may ac
tually reduce some levies prob
ably In the excise list. Some
members believe the wartime
excise rates to be burdensome
both to taxpayers and to bust
ness.
House Speaker Rayburn dis
closed the tax bill priority for
1950 in calling for immediate
house action on a pending mea
sure calling for expansion of the
government's social security
program.
The idea, Rayburn said, is to
clear the way for the house
ways and means committee to
tackle overall tax revisions early
next year.
The speaker did not say def
initely what he expects in the
new tax law but he did com
S ment, significantly, that the gov
f ernment cannot Indefinitely con
tinue deficit financing that is.
borrowing to pay lor day-to-day
spending.
Britain's Profits
Tax Raised Filth
To 30 Percent
Cripps Announces Off
, set to Inflation Caused
By Devaluation
London. Sept. 27 (P) Sir
Stafford Cripps raised Britain's
profits tax by one fifth today to
offset the inflationary effect of
cheapening the pound.
The tax on profits now is 25
percent. Cripps told the house
of commons he is increasing it
'as from today" to 30 percent.
At the same time Cripps re
peated his stand that personal in
comes, including tnose irom
wages, must stay at present lev
els. The chancellor of the exche
quer also warned British busi
ness men:
'If there is any further break
ing away from the voluntary
limitation of dividends I shall
consider myself at liberty to in
troduce legislation to restrict di
vidends in the next finance bill."
Devaluation Debate
Cripps opened the crucial de
bate in the house of commons
on the devaluation of the pound.
He was fortified by a labor par
ty caucus which, informants said,
decided to stand behind the gov
ernment on the currency issue.
A treasury spokesman said
Cripps has authority to raise the
tax on business and industrial
profits at once. Later, the spokes
man said, the chancellor pre
sumably will submit some sort of
formal motion asking house of
commons approval, which would
be virtually automatic in view of
the heavy labor majority.
Informed observers saw the
action as a sop to rank and file
labor which has been complain
ing that the little people will
suffer most from the cheaping of
the pound from $4.03 to $2.80.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Alflee Refuses
A-Bomb Data
London, Sept. 27 U. fhe
government today rejected
Winston Churchill's request for
further information on Russian
progress in the atomic field. '
Prime Minister Clement Att-
lee, standing pat on the official
announcement last Friday, told
the house of commons that he
did not believe further disclos
ure would be "in the public in
terest." Winston Churchill, leader of
the conservative opposition,
touched off the brief comment
on Soviet atom developments at
the outset of the special session.
A few minutes after parlia
ment's reconvening Churchill
asked if Attlee had any further
word on the official statement
that an atomic explosion had oc
curred in Russia.
Attlee answered "no sir," and
then added:
'We have made it perfectly
clear that there should be inter
national control of atomic en
ergy. Great progress will be
made if Soviet Russia will agree
to international inspection."
Sewer Fund Tapped for
North Salem Drainage
The north Salem drainage project looms of such major import
ance that the city council Monday night authorized City Manager
J. L. Franzen to get the necessary money by tapping the intercep
tor sewer fund for about $100,000. He was authorized also to
proceed with the project.
It will first be necessary to
complete negotiations with own
ers of four properties for drain
age ditch easements across their
premises. City attorney Chris
J. Kowitz, who said the prop
erty owners have good basis for
their objections, and City Man
ager Franzen, said they thought
the agreement could be reached
in a few days.
The property owners are rep
resented by Ray Kerr. 3650
Portland road, who insisted on
written agreements specifying
just where the ditches or pipes
were to convey the drainage
flow. This was agreeable to the
council.
Kowitz agreed with Kerr that
drainage ditches across property
were very undesirable, and
Franzen said that open ditches.
where necessary now because of j
lack of funds, should be replaced
in five or 10 years with covered
pipes.
Frazen. in report to the
council, estimated the total cost
of the project it $98,644. Kow
iti held It was legal to take the
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24 Killed in
4 Plane Crash
(Br the A26oelatd Preu)
Twenty-four persons died and
it was feared 29 others lost their
lives in four plane mishaps in
this country, Mexico and Eng
land Monday.
The most spectacular acci
dent involved a Mexican air
lines plane with 24 aboard. A
shepherd ? -' ' he saw it fall into
the snow i.igh on the slopes of
Popocatepetl volcano.
Rescue workers toiled toward
the scene. Mexican Senator
Ramos Millan, chairman of the
National Corn commission, was
reported aboard. The line said
two of the passengers may be
Americans.
A B-29 air force bomber on
a training flight from Smoky
Hill base, Salina, Kas., crashed
and burned near Talihina, Okla.
A rescuer said he had counted
10 bodies. It was believed the
other three crewmen also per
ished. Twelve British fliers died and
two were missing in the air
collision of two four-engined
RAF bombers in central Eng
land. The accident occurred
during exercises testing Western
Allied air strength.
Two University of Tennessee
students were killed in the
crash of their single engine
plane near Heiskell, Tenn.
Mothball Fleet
lo Be Repaired
Seattle, Sept. 27 P) Some 53
vessels of the reserve fleet moor
ed on the Pacific coast will be
affected by yesterday's senate
action in authorizing $25,000 -
000 for the repair of military
vessels. Senator Magnuson re
ported from Washington today.
The authorization covers a to
tal of 134 military ships.
The authorization was con
tained in an amendment by Sen.
Magnuson to the supplemental
appropriations bill.
Nine of the ships to be repair
ed are at Olympia. 10 at Astoria,
and 34 at Suisan Bay.
money from the sewer fund for
the reason that without drainage
the water would reach the in
terceptor sewer and the dispo
sal plant to be built later and
render them unserviceable.
Franzen said he didn't think
the tapping of the sewer fund
would interfere with the sewer
construction program, but said
it might be necessary to Issue
more bonds later. The author
ized issue is $815,000, of which
$215,000 for the Interceptor con
struction were issued Monday
night in a sale of the bonds to
the Ladd & Bush-Salem Branch
of the United States National
bank on a bid with Interest
ranging from 14 to 2'4 per
cent. It was the only bidder.
If necessary, it was decided.
a special meeting of the council
will be called after conferences
with the property owners are
completed.
The project when completed
will drain about 700 acres, much
of which lies between Lancaster
drivt and Highway 99E.
Temperature at 95 Degrees
nice and Mac, 7, native Alaska children adopted by Reverend
and Mrs. R. J. Teeter, Assembly of God missionaries, working
270 miles north of Anchorage, arrive in Salem where they
will participate in a Youth For Christ program. They are now
at the home of Chas. H. Teeter, 4940 Wolf street in the
Keizer district.
Acute Fire Menace May
Delay Hunting Season
By JAMES D. OLSON
The question of whether the hunting season due to open Oc
tober 1, will be postponed in view of the present acute fire condi
tion, will be decided by Governor Douglas McKay at 5 p.m.
Tuesday.
At that time he will receive a
ester George Spaur, wno nas-
called for reports from all fire
districts in the state.
State Game Director Charles
Lockwood telephoned the gov
ernor Tuesday morning to in
form him that the United States
Forest service is more concerned
with the fire danger west of the
Cascades than it is with condi
tions east of the mountains.
If it looks as if a closure is
called for," Lockwood told the
governor. "It would be better
to announce it now instead of
waiting until the last day when
hunters are out in the forests."
Lockwood said that many nim-
rods start heading for shooting
territory several days in advance
of the opening of the season.
Governor McKay said that he
had received several requests,
particularly from lumber inter
ests in northwestern Oregon,
urging postponing opening of the
hunting season.
Spaur told McKay Tuesday
morning that if the season does
not start as scheduled, the hunt
ing season openings may have to
be in a modified form, particu
larlv unless humidities ascend
rapidly and the drying east wind
abates. Spaur said that the wea
ther bureau had informed him
that the east winds would con
tinue to rake northwestern Ore
gon for another 24 hours.
He also said that the Klamath
Falls hunting area had some rain
recently and may expect thun
der showers tonight and Wed
nesday.
Spaur said, to his knowledge,
no slash burning permits had
been issued since last Wednes
day. Some fires, he said, par
ticularly one in the Taft area
resulted from unauthorized burn
ing. Except for two or three
men working in the Salem of
fice, all state forestry employes
are either fighting fire or check
ing on the seriousness of the for
est hazard.
Governor McKay said he
would meet with Lockwood
Portland late Tuesday and await
a telephone call from the state
forestry department. His de
cision will be based on his evalu
ation of the findings of the two
departments, he said.
Maxine Buren's Leap
Into Creek Saves Life
Miss Maxine Buren, woman's
editor of the Statesman, may
have saved her life Monday when
she plunged into a creek at her
rural home to quench flames
that were burning her clothing.
She is in Salem General hos
pital with severe bums on one
leg, but her condition Is not ser
ious. Miss Buren was operating a
weed burner at her home o n
Route 8, and was alone. The
hose of the burner became dis
connected, with the result that
her clothing was sprayed with
kerosene, and ignited from the
torch. She quickly Jumped In
to the creek and quenched the
fire.
N5
and They Came In Furs Ber-
report from Acting State For
European Arms
In Conference
Washington, Sept. 27 W
Swift agreement in a senate-
house committee on a $1,314,-
010,000 overseas arms program
sped along today one U. S. an
swer to Russia's A-bomb claims.
The news of an atomic blast
in Russia served to speed agree
ment among the lawmakers that
friendly nations must be
strengthened against the threat
of communism.
A scnate-houSe conference late
yesterday sidetracked a house
economy move and agreed, in
three hours, on the higher cost
program voted earlier by the
senate. The discarded house fig
ure was $869,415,000, or $444,-
595,0000 less than the agreed
upon senate figure.
The conferees worked on fi
nal small points today (11 a.m.
PST). This will clear the way
for final congressional action,
first by the house and the sen
ate. Chairman Connally (D., Tex.)v
of the senate foreign relations
committee told reporters the
Russian atomic reports "have
given the arms program new
strength."
Republican Senators Bridges
of New Hampshire, Knowland of
California, agreed.
Non-Union Coal
Mines Reopen
Pittsburgh. Sept. 27 OP)
Western Pennsylvania's nnn
union bituminous mines reopen
ed today despite the nationwide
strike of John L. Lewis' United
Mine workers and slate police
quickly arrested 17 pickets to
block violence.
Heavy state police forces in
vaded the four-county Clear
field area where some 35 opera
tions resumed after a week of
idleness due to picketing by
unionized bands.
Lt. Frank L. Garnow report
ed 17 arrested for mass picket
ing around the Wingcrt mine
near Siigo In Clarion county. A
court injunction issued recently
prohibits mass picketing.
Eleven hundred non-union bi
tuminous miners defied the
striking United Mine workers
and went back to the pits.
The state troopers brought re
inforcemnets into the four-coun
ty Clearfield area.
Miners went to work carrying
rifles and shotguns. Armed
guards paced near entrances to
mine workings or stalked in un
derbrush nearby.
Scores of automobiles contain
Ing pickets cruised leisurely on
narrow winding roads skirting
the mines but made no reported
efforts to interfere. Squads of
state police trailed them and
occasionally brought them to a
halt for Inspection.
Fire Fighters Losing Battle
A gainst Spread of Flames
Coastal Towns
Aided by Fog
In Checking Fire
(By the Ajwociatod Prewit
An ocean fog rolled in today
checking a
forest fire that
threatened two north Oregon
coastal communities, but scores
of serious fires were being
fought .elsewhere in western
Oregon and Washington.
One fire fighter was killed
last night when a tractor used in
building a fire trail around a
blaze 26 miles east of Molalla.
Ore., rolled over on him. He
was James B. Zachary, 41, a
logging camp superintendent.
At least three of the Oregon-
Washington fires were major and
burning out of control. Scores
of others were potential dyna
mite as an East wind picked up
this morning following a night's
lull.
Two Towns Endangered
A blaze that caused residents
of the resort towns of Cannon
Beach and Tolovana Park to
pack up in readiness to flee
last night, was claimed by a
night mist. Fog was carried
over it by an off-shore wind at
mid-morning and men directing
some 300 fighters said it was
in hand" but not "under con
trol." An east wind could kick
it up again and the weather
bureau said such a wind was in
prospect late today.
Smoke clouds hung over west
ern Washington and Oregon,
hampering evaluation of fires
and location of new ones that
spotted the forested mountains
in the wake of a searing wind
yesterday.
Some 80 persons left farm and
lumber camp homes west of Mc-
Minnville last night as three
fires threatened to merge
The coastal fire recalled the
destruction of the beach town of
Bandon 13 years ago yesterday.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Top Pay Raises
To Be Opposed
Washington, Sept. 27 W The
senate, having agreed to raises
in military pay, turned more
critically today to President
Truman's idea of boosting sal
aries for top federal executives
A house-passed bill increasing
the pay of cabinet members and
other upper-bracket officials is
the next major legislation in the
day after some other matters arc
disposed of.
It follows in the wake of sen
ate passage by voice vote lalu
yesterday of a bill giving pay
raises to members of the armed
forces in almost every grade at
cost of about $300,000,000 an
nually.
The house accepted senate am
endments today and sent to Pres
ident Truman the bill raising the
pay of personnel of the armed
forces.
The senate changes in the
$300,000,000 - a - year measure
were so minor that Rep,
(D,
Tex ), who headed the com-
mittce that drafted the original
house measure, said there was no,
disagreement worth sendint to'tcrday. He was born in N e w
conference. iYork.
, RV'
Truman Signs Trade Pact President Truman (left) hands
former Secretary of State Cordell Hull one of the pens with
which he signed a bill extending the reciprocal trade agree
ments act in Washington, D. C. Hull was the father of the
reciprocal trade program early in the New Deal. It was the
first White House visit for Hull since he retired early in the
war because of illness. (Acme Tclephoto)
tomrk Cum or
Quick Cure for
Common Cold
If Taken Early
New York, Sept. 27 W) A
common cold cure which work
ed 90 percent of the time, if you
'detected the cold within the first
hour, is reported by Captain
John M. Brewster, U.S. Naval
Medical corps.
The cure is not one drug, but
at least five, all antihistaminics.
That is the drugs you take for
allergic sneezings.
Capt. Brewster reported his
experiments in the U.S. Naval
Medical Bulletin of last Janu
ary-February. The drugs he
used are pyribenzamine, theny-
lcne, neoantergan, histadyl and
benadryl.
For every hour's delay in tak
ing the alergy drugs there was
drop in cures. Waiting six
hours gave only 74 percent.
Capt. Brewster declared that
it is possible to catch colds early
enough. He said that cold suf
ferers know when one is begin-
ing.
40 Mile Speed
On South 12th
The Oregon State Speed Con
trol board has notified the coun
ty court that it is establishing
40 mile per hour speed zone on
the south 12th street cutoff from
the south Salem city limits to
Fairview avenue and asking the
court to provide the signs for
the roadway.
The.order from the speed con
trol bncird is outgrowth of a pe
titiont filed several months ago
by D. C. Roberts, chairman of
the Salem Traffic Improvement
association and others, asking
for a 35 mile per hour speed
zone on the cutoff.
This petition was filed with
the county court and referred to
the state speed control board
as provided by law. That board
is made up of T. H. Banficld
chairman of the state highway
commission; H. G. Maison, sup
erintendent of the slate police,
Earl T. Newbry, secretary of
state, and F. B. Crandall, secre
tary.
The advices lo the county
court say that a field investiga
tion was made of the situation
resulting in the 40 mile per hour
decision.
Secretary Crandall says in his
letter that this was considered
a reasonable speed commensur
ate with the basic rule operation,
"and such speed indication," he
savs, would leave a sumcient
percentage of violators toward
whom enforcement officers
might direct their attention
Admiral Kirkpatrick Dies
Oakland. Calif.. Sept. 27 P
Rear Admr, Walter E. Kirkpat
rick, 62 (Ret.) who served in
world war 2 as chief of staff
to Vice Adm. John Greenslade,
Kildayjcommandcr of the western sea
frontier, and also to Adm. Jonas
H. Ingram, commnmler-in-cliic
of the Atlantic fleet, died yes
24 Known Fires
In Polk-Benton
Out of Control
Dallas, Ore., Sept. 27 Hun
dreds of men are on the fire
front in what at present is a
losing battle against the spread
of slashing fires which already
are getting out of control
throughout the Polk-Benton
area.
Little help is predicted by the
weather bureau and fire condi
tions are hourly growing worse
instead of better.
Humidity was down to 21 de
grees yesterday with a north
east wind between 30 and 40
miles an hour an added menace.
Danger point of humidity is 30
degrees.
Twenty-four known fires are
burning according to the offi
cial report of the Polk-Benton
county district fire office of the
state board of forestry here.
Headquarters admits there are
others but cannot estimate the
total.
No More Help Available
All men and equipment have
been exhausted here and most
of the fighters are men employ
ed in logging operations. Stu
dents from the OSC school of
forestry have been dispatched to
help in the Long-Bell holdings
in the Grand Ronde area where
between 2500 and 3000 acres
of slashings are getting out of
control and threatening vast
stands of green timber.
State forestry headquarters in
Salem dispatched an additional
6000 feet of hose and two pump
ers to aid in the fight.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Jury Still Out
Tokyo Rose Case
San Francisco, Sept. 27 VP)
The fate of Iva Toguri D'Aquino,
charged with treason as the
"Tokyo Rose" of wartime radio
Tokyo, was still in the hands
of the jury today.
At 1 1 : 1 1 p.m., last night, weary
court attaches, newsmen and
scattered spectators were in
formed that the jury of six men
and six women was retiring for
the night. Deliberations were
resumed today.
The jury received the case
from Federal Judge Michael J.
Roche at 11:44 a.m. yesterday.
With time out for meals and re
quests to the court, it had de
liberated 8 hours and 48 min
utes when it called a halt last
night.
The 33-year-old defendant.
Los Angeles-born Nisei, was pal
pably nervous. She wept once
during the forenoon recess.
When the Jurors filed out to
start deliberations, it required
five minutes and two efforts to
get her out of the courtroom.
With her during the long wait
in the U. S. Marshal's office were
her sister, Mrs. June Hori of
Los Angeles and her father, Jun
Toguri, now of Chicago.
Covers Reunited
From Overseas
Salem became he love center
of the universe when two young
English people, who believed
themselves separated by 6000
miles in either dirtction, met
this noon.
She is Alice Peiirilehury of
Korscl, near Manchester and he
is Bryan nonhistone. 2nd offi
cer of the USS Tacific Liberty,
cargo carrier in the British
merchant marine service.
The young couple said good
bye to each other last Easter
in England, Miss Pendlebury a
teacher in the Strand girls'
school, to conic to Monmouth
as an exchange student at the
Oregon College of Education for
Miss Sylvia Claggett balem Who
is now at Strand as an exchange
professor.
Both young people expected It
would be at least two years be
fore they met again and she
wrote him while crossing the
Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth.
Just how the letter caught up
with Officer Goulristone is not
known but it was adresscd to
his shipping firm in England to
he forwarded. He had been in
East Africa. India and Hong
Kong before arriving at Vancou
ver. B.C., few days ago.
He immediately got in touch
with Miss Pendlebury and the
Salem meeting was arranged.
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