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61st Year, No. 253 r;C Salem, Oregon, Monday, October 24, 1949
(20 Pages)
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CVA Blasted
By Speakers
At Dedication
Valley People Meet at
Celebration of Dorena
Project
By JAMES D. OLSON
Verbal blasts at the proposed
Columbia Valley Authority fea
tured Sunday's dedication of the
$14,000,000 Dorena dam seven
miles southeast of Cottage Grove.
Marshall Dana, of the Port
land Journal, who was master of
nAVAmnnine rtlirlArf tfl A first
broadside at the CVA after he
had lauded the work of the army
engineers, whom he character
ized "as the greatest engineers
in the world."
"And I am not willing to trade
them for a CVA," he declared.
Congressman Harris Ellsworth
warned the 800 who had gath
ered to witness the formal open
ing of Dorena dam, the third unit
of the vast Willamette Valley
project, that establishment of a
CVA "would rob the people of
the valley of participation in this
huge project."
People Have Voice
"Under the present system the
people of the region have a voice
to request and obtain modifica
tions in the plan which has been
done," he said. "But under a
CVA three men from Washing
ton, appointed by the president
and not necessarily residents of
the region, will have complete
authority.
(Concluded on Pate S, Column 71
No Relief in
Sight from Fog
(By th Auoclated Prrai)
A heavy fog belt lay over
western Oregon and Washington
today, grounding airplane travel
and slowing motorists to a crawl.
They crawled so conscientious
ly that the Portland area, usual
ly a rash of traffic crashes on
foggy mornings, reported only
two minor motor mishaps be
tween midnight and dawn.
Both the Portland and Seattle
airports were completely closed.
Commercial airline flights,
though normal south of Med
ford and east of the Cascade
mountains, were halted in the
fog belt.
There was no trace of a light
plane which vanished from over
the Salem airport in the midst of
a dense fog last night.
The plane, apparently seeking
to land, swept close to the air
port control tower about 9 p.m.
But it disappeared into the murk
as firemen prepared to light ga
soline in strips along the runway
to guide it in for a landing. No
planes were reported missing.
The fog was formed by moist
air sweeping in from the ocean
and condensing in the cold val
leys, the weather bureau said.
Forecasters reported the outlook
was pessimistic, with no breaks
expected for at least 24 hours.
"It is a very stagnant situa
tion," the bureau said. "There is
no wind to blow the fog away,
and none is in sight. The sun is
not quite powerful enough at
this time of year to evaporate
.the fog, even in the middle of
the day."
CAW Held Part
Of Red Front
Washington, Oct. 24 M The
house un-American activities
committee has described the
Congress of American Women
(CAW) as "an anti-American
and pro-Soviet" snare for gul
lible women. This, retorted the
organization, is "outrageously
unfair."
A committee report was made
public over the week-end. A
CAW reply followed last night
from New York.
The committee said CAW is
"just another communist hoax
specifically designed to ensnare
idealistically minded but poli
tically gullible women," the
chief purpose of which "Is to
act as part of a world-wide pres
sure mechanism among women
in support of Soviet foreign and
domestic policy."
The CAW described Itself as
"an organization of women
whose openly avowed goal since
its inception has been the fur
therance of world peace, and the
betterment of the conditions of
life for themselves and their
children."
The congress was cited In 1948
by the attorney general as sub
versive organization.
Hopes for Early
End Crippling
Strikes Vanish
No Apparent Progress
Toward a Break in
Coal or Steel Tie-ups
'By ths Associated PrMai
Thickening gloom appeared to
have smothered today any hope
for early peace in the nation's
industrial-crippling coal and
steel strikes.
Nowhere was there any ap
parent progress toward a break
in either of the two major dis
putes as unemployment mount
ed and more and more industries
became hobbled.. Some railroads
prepared to curtail train serv
ices because of dwindling coal
piles and layoffs continued in
industries dependent upon steel
supplies.
There was no indication that
President Truman had decided
to intervene in either strike but
spreading dislocations in the na
tion's economy made such action
seem more and more likely.
White House Inactive
Charles G. Ross, the presi
dent's press secretary, said how
ever, he knew of no impending
moves by the White House in
either the coal or steel strikes.
He added that he had no in
formation to justify week-end
published reports of early White
house action.
But out of the dismal week
end developments came settle
ment of two other strikes the
45-day ticup of the Missouri Pa
cific railroad by train and en
gine men and the 176-day walk
out of stevedores at five of six
Hawaiian ports.
The Missouri Pacific expected
to have some trains running by
late today and the Hawaiian
dock workers were ordered back
to their Jobs tomorrow and Wed
nesday. Rail Strike Settled
Negotiators did not disclose
the terms which ended the Mis
souri Pacific strike but it was
announced that agreement was
reached on 189 union claims
against the railroad with the
other 93 to be submitted to ar
bitration. The dispute involved
grievances only.
The strike of 5000 members
of the Brotherhoods of Locomo
tive Engineers, Enginemen and
Firemen, Railroad Trainmen
and Order of Railway Conduc
tors forced the railroad to aban
don operations and lay off about
20,000 other employes.
But these settlements scarce
ly dented the nation's total of
nearly 4,000,000 idle workers
which Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer says might climb to 5.-
000,000 by December 1 unless
the steel and coal strikes arc
settled meanwhile.
Speedboat Pilot Convicted
Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 24 P
A federal jury today convicted
Oakland Automobile Dealer Phil
Davis of negligence in the speed
boat accident on Lake Tahoe in
which 14-year-old Imogene
Wittsche lost both feet.
500 School Teachers
Of 5 Counties Meeting
High school teachers, principals and administrators totaling!
approximately 500 from Benton,
ion counties in joint assembly at Snlem senior high Monday
forenoon heard an informal talk by Governor Douglas McKay
regarding conservation. : -
The governor told the group mg his greeting to the educators
that teachers had the best op ald hc was concerned "that in
portunity to mould public opin- ur n Profession we find peo
ion since they were dealing with'? who do give credit for the
.i. j . mh r..r.n. ,h job that is being done." Put-
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had become pretty well fixed in
their convictions.
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Conservation means "wise
use" in his vocabulary said the
the possibilities of Oregon, hy-Lh.
droelectric development. And
while the state is busily engaged
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number of new citizens,
ing ua.... ..u uU-.. u.v
foresU Governor McKay urged
that those things. Oregonians
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Governor McKay touched on
conservation irom tne viewpoint the evening was scheduled to in
of the soil, purity of the streams, elude folk dancing, games and
harvesting oi tne lorests on a similar entertainment,
sustained yield basis, develop-1 Marion county elementary
ment of power and irrigation. teachers met at Leslie Junior
"I feel optimistic concerning high schol Monday forenoon
the future of Oregon, although I where preliminary introductions
grow discouraged at times at thc i were made by Miss Florence
lack of interest on the part of jBcardsley, director of elementa
the public concerning our demo-'ry ducation of the state depart
cratic way of life," said the gov-1 ment.
ernor.
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dent oi public instruction, dur-jday.
Rex Putnam, state luperinten-i
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Atlantis Ghost
Dictates Book
London, Oct. 24 W) British
Author Frances Dale did the typ
ing, but she insisted today that
her last book really was written
by a priest who has been dead
thousands and thousands of
years.
He lived, so said his ghost, on
the continent of Atlantis which
sank in the Atlantic ocean a long
time ago.
So certain is the 40-year old
writer that the book which
fairly flew from her finger tips
is none of her work that she
told her astonished publisher
that she will accept no royalties.
"I can't explain it," said Miss
Dale, who has written numerous
novels, children's books and a
cook book. "But a voice inside
me said 'write this down' and I
just typed with exhausting
speed. How that chap could dic
tate!" The voice, she explained, iden
tified itself as being that of a
priest named Armartus, and he
warned of dangers confronting
civilization. She said she under
stood him to say he'd been dead
nine million years. Too much
materialism and selfishness are
what's wrong in this age,
said
the old Atlantisian.
Lincoln, Linn, Polk and Mar
nam said he was convinced that
iraciier. are uo.ng ju.i. .uyu
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a jod as any group in puouc me.
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MrJ Agnes Booth. Marion
build-'coun(y scnoo, ,up.rintenden,
presided during the forenoon's
gram tnat lncluded , number
0 d(,partmentaI mUn tne
conclusion of Putnam's Ulk
Thc atternoon wa, devoted to
further group discussions while
Both groups will continue their
iann
annual conference through Tues-j
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Dorena Dam Dedicated Top:
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way gate releasing waters impounded by $14,000,000 Dorena
dam dedicated Sunday. This flood control dam is 146 feet
high, 3,390 feet long and the reservoir will contain 70,000
acre feet of water available to irrigate 6.000 acres along the
Willamette tributary area. Below: Approximate site of
Dorena dam showing covered bridge across Row river May 3,
1947, before work started. Dorena dam was completed one
year ahead of schedule.
City Plans to Take Over
Vets Housing Project
A resolution is being prepared for introduction at the city
council meeting Monday night to approve transfer ot tne vet
erans' housing project from the federal government to the city
The Droiect is in the south part
mately by 16th, 19th, Hines and
Strategy Talks
On Cold War
London, Oct. 24 W Ameri
can diplomats from behind the
iron curtain began secret stra
tegy talks today on the East
West cold war.
In their two-day conferences,
the United States envoys to Rus
sia and her satellite states may
discuss:
1. The 'orsening feud be
tween the Kremlin and Marshal
Tiln if Yusoslavia.
2. Tendencies if
any of
"Titoism," or revolt against
Moscow, to spread to other Rus
sian satellites in eastern Europe.
3. The church-state disputes
in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria
and Yugoslavia.
4. The recent puigc of thou
sands of Czechs by the Prague
government.
5. The effect of the recent an
nouncement of a Russian atomic,
explosion on general over all
policy toward eastern Europe.
6. How to combat the anti
American prupaKaiiua u.
the Soviet group.
Schrunk Named to
Sheriff Elliott's Job
Portland. Ore.. Oct. 24 rPj
Multnomah county commission
ers today named Terry Schrunk,
Portland fire department cap
tain, to be sheriff here, succeed
ing Marion LcRoy (Mike) El
liott. Elliott was recalled in a spe
cial election Friday 59.059 to
44.810. Schrunk. like Elliott, is
a registered democrat. He was
named to serve until the 1950
election.
The 28-year-old sheriff will
be formally removed from office
as loon as the county registrar
of elections completes the offi
cial vote count and notifies him.
That will probably be tomorrow.
Young Elliott, whose fibs got
him both in and out of office,
took the recall as hardily as
he has taken all the other con
troversies swirling around him.
"I II be back." he told Inter
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viewers cheerfully
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Governor McKay opens spill
of the city, bordered approxi
Wilbur streets. It has a total of
172 housing units with only three
vacant. All units have been oc-
cupied since the project was es
tablished. The proposed transfer is be
cause of a policy of the federal
government to transfer to local
control all temporary housing
projects except those on gov
ernment or government-controlled
land. Thc government is
stressing permanent housing.
At present the government
collects a percentage of the ren
tal income from thc project, thc
percentage amounting to about
S20.000 a year. Total rentals
from thc 172 units run between
$50,000 and $60,000 a year.
If thc transfer is made thc
Salem housing authority will re
ceive all thc income and also ab
sorb any losses. It is possible
that instead of thc money going
into thc city's general fund it
may be held in a separate ac
count for possible future use for
permanent housing. That, how
ever is indefinite At pres
ent the city's part of the income
goes into the general fund, but
is earmarked for special pur-
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-fe 'ysTeased
ior three years, with option of
renewal for two more years, so
thc year starting next March 20
would be the final year under the
present lease. Negotiations are
under way with the owners of
the proprty for an extension over
the five yenrs If necessary.
' When thc lease was written
the property was owned by thc
late Otto Klctt. It is now owned
by Leo N. Childs and Duane
Gibson.
Members of the Salem housing
authority which administers thc
project arc W. J. Braun. chair
man: Karl E. Wenger, secretary;
Arthur Bates, Elmer Amundson
and Homer. Smith, Jr. Joe Hop
kins has been manager since the
project was started.
Protest Junking Fire Pumper
Albany, Ore., Oct. 24 '
Citizens here arc getting up a
head of steam over the fire de
partment's decision to Junk an
ancient steam-operated pumper
Frank N. Wood, a lormer vol
unteer whose father and other
pioneer citizens bought the ve
hicle in 1875, have protested
The fire department gave thc
Hell I'mirelic to a civic stadium auction
jfund for salt.
Truman Calls on Motions
To Outlaw Atomic Warfare
Britain Slashes
Defense Costs
To Ease Crisis
London. Oct. 24 ( Prime
Minister Attlee sl a s h e d dollar
spending and defense costs and
cut down on free medical serv
ices today to ease Britain's eco
nomic crisis.
The prime minister laid be
fore the house of commons a
program which will mean that
some food costs for hungry, ra
tioned Britons will rise.
Attlee told the house of com
mons he estimated cuts would
save 280,000,000 pounds ($784,
000,000) in Britain's 1949-1950
budget. Thc budget totals 3.300,
000,000 pounds. The British
pound now is worth $2.80. It was
devalued from $4.03 on Sept. 18.
Armed Forces Cut
30,000,000 pounds of the sav
ings will be in armed forces ex
penses of this nation, which
holds a key position in the west's
Atlantic pact defense plans.
The leader of the labor gov
ernment announced he had slap
ped a fee on the bold and expen
sive public health service insti
tuted by his party in July, 1948.
From now on, patients must pay
a shilling (14 cents) for prescrip
tions. H 1 1 h e r to prescriptions
have been free.
Britons now pay a small week
ly social security tax, of which
eightpence (about 10 cents) goes
to thc medical service. Other
taxes pay for the remainder of
the program.
(Concluded on Fage 5, Column 8)
5 Day Week on
County Roads
Faced with a restricted bud
get for the balance of thc year
due to extraordinary expenses
since July 1, the county court
decided that beginning with No
vember 1 all county road em
ployes will be placed on a five
day week. They now work on a
full six-day basis. About 55
employes will be affected by the
cut.
This, said court members, will
effect a saving of about $8000 a
month. Also laying off of four
private trucks used in connection
with oiled road operations which
costs about $1000 a month for
each truck will save another
$4000.
But, even at that, it was point
ed out there will still only be
about $40,000 a month left for
the balance of thc fiscal year to
operate the road work which
normally runs about $50,000
month with the crews working
full time.
The road appropriation for the
year was $643,820 and the last
report up to September 30, show
ed $206,646 expended which is
about one-third of the appropria
tion used up in a fourth of the
year for which it was assigned
But that doesn't tell the whole
story, as there arc about $70,000
in oiled road charges which do
not show up in thc expenditures
will probably ont be in until thc
October report is out, so all told
it is estimated about $40,000 a
month is left to take care of the
rest of thc fiscal year's work.
If the county should run into
some similar condition to last
winter when freezing and thaw
ing broke up roads all over thc
county, it would present a grave
situation for road financing.
Salem Airport Puzzled
By Stray Plane in Fog
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
A phantom airplane loomed out of a heavy fog over McNary
field at 8:14 Sunday night, nearly crashed into the civil aeronau
tics administration control tower, skimmed over the top of Ore
gon State prison, then disappeared.
Thc light plane never returned to the local field, and no clue
as to Its whereabouts had been-
received by noon Monday. CAA
headquarters in Portland con
tacted airfields throughout the
state, but were unable to find
any reports of a plane landing
last night.
No airplanes arc reported
missing in this area. In fact, as
far as airfields throughout Ore
gon are concerned, no plane
even took off late Sunday to fly
over the Willamette valley. Fly-
ing conditions were to bad that
Georges Bidault
Bidault Tries
For a Cabinet
Paris, Oct. 24 (U.Rl France
turned today tc Georges Bid
ault, former foreign minister and
premier, in efforts to find an
other centrist governrmcnt that
will end the 19-day-old govern
ment crisis.
Bidault, a popular republican
(MRP), accepted designation as
premier after Socialist Jules
Moch and radical socialist Rene
Mayer failed to whip the mid
die-road parties into line.
Negotiations with party lead
ers which began this morning
were complicated by a strike
threat from Socialist workers
The socialist workers force, the
largest non-communist union in
France, authorized its executive
committee to call a strike unless
salary demands are met.
Gen. Charles De Gaulle's right-
wing followers cotninued their1
demands for dissolution of par
liament and new elections. The
cry for elections was taken up
by one section of the radical so
cialists, the third part of the
centrist coalition, in the Rhone
department.
The Rhone radicals voted In
favor of an interim cabinet to
prepare the way for new elec
tions. Bidault will appear before
the national assembly tomorrow
for a vote of confidence, which
is sure to receive.
Chinese Deny
Kweilin's Fall
Chungking, Oct. 24 (IF) Thc
defense ministry denied today
that Kwcilin had been abandon
ed to communist troops trying
to cut nationalist south China in
two.
In fact, it said the Reds had
not even entered Kweilin s
Wangs! province at any point.
This was in sharp variance
with pro nationalist dispatches
in Hong Kong. Thc reports plac
ed the communists within seven
miles of Kweilin, which is 250
miles northwest of fallen Can
ton. They indicated Gen. Pai
Chung-Hsi had moved headquar
ters for his 200.000 man nation
alist army 200 miles southwest
to Yungning (Nanning), less
than 100 miles from the Indo-
China border.
Officials in Chungking con
firmed only that the KwanRsi
provincial government hud been
transferred from Kweilin to
Yungning.
The defense ministry describ
ed the situation at Lingling. 105
miles northeast of Kweilin. as
"obscure." This was a gentle
way of saying it was lost.
commercial flights were can
celled. It has thus been assumed that
the phantom airplane took off
from a private landing strip or
flew directly here from Califor
nia. A zero ceiling in all parts
of the valley after 8:30 p m
would make it practically Im
possible for a plane to locate its
private landing strip and land
there.
j (Concluded en Pan I, Column )
Cornerstone of
United Nations
Building Laid
New York, Oct. 24 (.P) Presi
dent Truman pleaded anew to
day for safeguards to banish the
atom bomb and "negotiation and
mutual adjustment" to end the
cold war's threat to peace.
The president addressed 16,
000 at an unprecedented open
air session of the United Nations
assembly. The principal speak
er at the cornerstone ceremony
for the United Nations' new
home here, the president refer
red to the structures as "the
most important buildings in the
world."
All mankind, the president
declared, is in fear of destruc
tion from the awesome atom
bomb.
'To assure that atomic en
ergy will be devoted to man's
welfare and not to his destruc
tion is a continuing challenge
to all nations and all peoples,"
President Truman said.
750,000 Along Route
Mr. Truman spoke after a tu
multuous welcome to New York
from a police-estimated crowd
of 750,000 along his route from
Pennsylvania station to the UN
site on 42nd street. It was his
first visit to the big city since
his victorious election campaign.
The band played "Sidewalks
of New York" as the chief ex
ecutive drove up In a 2 5 -car mo
torcade. The song was chosen
by the UN officials who decided
no national anthems would ba
played on this international oc
casion. A slight cheer arose from the
crowd as Mr. Truman shook
hands with Russia's Andrei Y.
Vishinsky upon his arrival with
Secretary of State Acheson at
the blue and wltite draped ros
trum at the dead end of East
42nd street on the East river.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column I)
Pencil Tear Bomb
Used on Police
A pencil style tear gas bomb,
accidentally exploded by a man
called to assist an officer hand
cuff a drunk, temporarily blind
ed Patrolman Ernie Finch and
his quarry early Monday morn
ing. Finch had been detailed to
check the apartment of Edith
Insko, 594 North Commercial,
when she told police she feared
to return there, believing that a
man was there.
The officer accompanied by
the complainant, Lorraine Izzo,
1064 Howard and Jack Turner,
2096 State, went to the apart
ment and found Jack Truxall,
2987 Brooks. Clothing as well as
the bed had been torn up and
kitchen knives were found lying
about.
Finch managed to place Trux
all under arrest and bring him
down to the prowl car, but there
.he broke
loose. After he was
lie patrolman asked
'subdued
Turner to slip on the handcuffs,
but the tear gas bomb was re
leased in the attempt.
Truxall was sentenced to pay
a $25 fine and was ordered to
spend five days in thc city jail.
Dock Strike at
Honolulu Ends
Honolulu, Oct. 24 (IT) Ha
waii's striking CIO stevedores
will go back to work tomorrow
and Wednesday in five of thc is
lands' six ports. They started the
territory's most crippling labor
tie-up May 1.
An agreement covering all
ports except tiny Mahukoma
was signed yesterday afternoon
176th day of the strike whose
known losses start at $100,000,
000. The memorandum was
signed by officials of all but one
of Hawaii's seven stevedoring
firms and the International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
men's union.
Thc agreement covers fringe
issues which had blocked return
to work since October 6 when
thc 2.000 ILWU stevedores were
granted an immediate pay boost
of 14 cents an hour with seven
cents more March 1. They struck
to raise their $1.40 hourly wage
' by 32 cents.