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61st Year, No. 262 ,V,W,'.YS Salem, Oregon, Thursday, November 3, 1949
(30 Pages)
Price 5c
10-Year Plan
Outlined for
City Projects
Program Outlined by
Franzen for Salem's
Improvement
By STEPHEN A. STONE
City Manager J. L. Franzen
Wednesday night outlined a 10
year city improvement program
which he will offer to the coun
cil by the first of the year.
The program is so shaped that
it will put on an orderly basis
the necessary projects that come
up in various city departments,
and so that it will keep the pub
lic fully informed at all times,
which is important because the
program will depend on public
cooperation.
The plan was revealed at the
first of a series of conferences
that the manager will have with
members of city departments.
The conference Wednesday night
was about public parks, and
meeting with the manager were
representatives of the city park
advisory committee and the park
committee of the long-range
planning commission.
Airport Development
Thursday night the manager
will meet with the airport ad
visory committee and represen
tatives of the state board of aero
nautics and the civil aeronautics
administration to talk about air
port development.
Franzen has prepared pro
gram forms on which will be
listed proposed projects for each
city department. The forms are
in 13 columns. The first col
umn lists the projects, the sec
ond the method of financing, the
third the estimated cost of each
project, and the other columns
are for estimated yearly expend
iture on the projects for 10 years,
from 1950 to 1959 inclusive.
The years are paired, so that
at the May election of each even
numbered year the people may
vote on the financing for projects
of that and the following year,
and if approved, the funds may
be entered in the city budget
which is effective in July.
Program Flexible
The program will not be so
rigid that it can't be changed
and a project may be shifted
from one year to another If ad
visable. A summary form is being pre
pared by the manager- to show
the overall 10-year program ana
total estimated cost from year
to year.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Group Seeks to
Buy Senators
A group of five business men
headed by Howard Maple u ne
sotiatine with Bill Mulligan, bu
siness manager of the Portland
Beavers, for the purchase of the
Salem Senator franchise, west
ern International league.
In making this announcement
Thursday, Maple said the deal
did not involve the immediate
purchase of Waters park, home
of the Senators. He stated that
present plans called for the leas
ing of the plant.
No announcement was made
concerning the money involved
in the negotiations which have
been transmitted by Mulligan to
George Norgan, Vancouver, B.
C, principal stockholder oi me
Portland Beavers who have op
crated the Senators as a farm
club since the war. Maple ex
pects a reply to his offer within
a short time.
While here early in the week
Mulligan disclosed that the Port
land parent club had placed its
local holdings on the market.
At the same time he said that
negotiations with a Salem com
mittee which had sought to raise
funds with which to purchase
both the franchise and the park
had been terminated.
Maple, a graduate of Oregon
State college where he was pro
minent in baseball and football,
later played professional base
ball with a number of clubs in
cluding the Washington Sena
tors. He was business manager
for the Senators for a period
early in the war. Later he went
to Alaska where he was i mem
ber of an organization which
was engaged in building i rail
road for defense purposes.
Gamblers Arrested
Portland, Nov. 3 UP' Thirteen
men and two women were ar
rested yesterday in a basement
room on charges of operating a
policy "timbers lottery. Detec
tives seized numbered slips, re
ceipts and $401 in cash along
with a "case" used for the
drawing.
Big Reservoir
For City Wafer
On Turner Hill
Survey and Tests Being
Made for 50 to 75
Million Gallon Storage
A reservoir storing from 50,-
000,000 to 75,000,000 gallons
may be built by the Salem wa
ter department on Turner hill at
Turner.
City Manager J. L. Franzen
said Thursday that a decision
probably will be made by the
first of the year as to whether
the project is feasible, and if it
is the city will immediately start
moving toward the development.
Survey and tests are now be
ing made at the location. If and
when built the reservoir will lie
in a horseshoe shape around the
hill and be about 200 feet wide.
If the ground formation is found
suitable it could store, says the
city manager, up to 75,000.000
gallons.
Use Detroit Dam
A bigger water supply to the
city of Salem has become a nec
essity. The present pipe line to
Staytoh island can carry only
20,000,000 gallons a day. At the
peak period last summer the
city was using 26 000,000, which
caused a heavy drain on the 10,
000,000-gallon reservoir on Ru
ral avenue.
Source of additional water for
the Turner reservoir would be
the Detroit reservoir, the city
having been promised the neces
sary water rights by the army en
gineers. For the Turner storage
the water would be carried from
Detroit by the channel of the
North Santiam river as far as
Stayton, and from there would
be piped to Turner
(Concluded on Pan . Column 6)
No Canadian
Deals by Nehru
Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 3 IIP)
Prime Minister Nehru of India
said today he has made no fi
nancial deals with the Canadian
government and indicated that
none had been completed yet
with the United States.
At a press conference, he said
it would be "convenient for us"
to get needed capital goods and
food for India, paying for at
least part of it by credits from
blocked sterling balances.
Either country can help, he
added. He refrained from saying
specifically that he knows whe
ther he will get that help.
Following the conference, the
prime minister reviewed a color
ful parade and attended a cere
mony at the city hall.
At the meeting with the press
he did not say how far he would
go in collecting Britain's big
debts to India in the form of
imports from Canada, the Unit
ed States and Britain herself.
Nehru told questioners India
would oppose any effort from
the outside to impose a settle
ment of conflict between Indo-
Chinese communists and anti
communists. A settlement, he
said, should be made by "the
people themselves." The people
should have the opportunity to
decide their own fate.
His information was that the
regime of the non-communist
leader Bao Dai is "not a very
successful one. .
Japan Nearing
Independence
Manila, Nov. 3 W) Japan has
moved closer toward indepen
dence in the last few weeks
than at any time since the end
of the war.
This trend gives added impor
tance to the recent scries of re
ports a formal peace treaty may
be near.
Occupation headquarters in
Tokyo now is in the process of
turning over a wide range of lo
cal authority to the Japanese.
The latest move was the an
nouncement that private trade
would be re-established on Dec.
1.
Equally important, perhaps,
the new eagerness of Japanese
officials to take over control
and assume responsibility. A
year ago they refused several
chances to gain more autonomy.
At the same time the Japanese
e conspicuously anxious to
please the United States. No one
has explained completely why
the coal production quota is be
ing met when for more than
three years the output of this vi
tal commodity has lagged badly.
This sugests the Japanese have
been told, or have decided, now
is the time to put forward their
best efforts for the big push to
regain domestic pojyer.
There is new emphasis on
speed in this overall trend which
can not be explained in terms of
local development.
Right Wing Forces
Control Bridges Union
San Francisco, Nov. SOT
Right wing forces have gained
control of the executive board
of one of Harry Bridge's largest
local unions.
Continuing a trend set last
week when four right wing
business agents were elected by
the International Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's un
ion in San Francisco, right
wingers have captured all 13
executive board seats of ware
house local 6.
This local, claiming 18.000
members, has divisions in San
Francisco, in Oakland, Crockett,
Petaluma and Stockton.
Search Goes On for Crash Victims Men in rowboats comb
the bed of the Potomac river near Washington D. C, with
grappling hooks for the missing among the 55 persons killed
in history's worst airplane tragedy. In the foreground are
crumpled pieces of wreckage from an Eastern Air Lines plane
which collided with a Bolivian fighter craft a half mile
south of National airport. (AP Wirephoto)
Pilot Told He Killed 55
No Longer Wants to Live
Washington, Nov. 3 (U.R) Eric Rios Bridoux has been told that
he killed 55 persons in Tuesday's air disaster here and he no
longer wants to live, the Bolivian pilot s physicians said today.
The doctor, who asked that his name be withheld, said the
rightful knowledge caused a relapse which brought the stricken
"flyer near death late last night.
He took a turn for the worse
Hog Prices at
3 Year Low
Chicago, Nov. 3 UP) Uncle
Sam soon may have to add some
pork meat to his hoarded gro
ceries. .
Hog prices are slipping. They
are now at the lowest level in
more than three years. They are
not far above the point at which
the agriculture department must
buy pork to help hold up the
farmer's price for live hogs.
Uncle Sam s hoarded grocer
ies include eggs, milk, potatoes,
grains and many other items. But
there's no meat in the larder.
Many livestock traders think the
last thing Uncle bam wants to do
is buy meat, taking it out of the
consumer's market.
However, he won't be able to
help himself if prices continue
to slide.
. The top prices for hogs here
yesterday was $17.00 a hundred
pounds. That was the lowest
since OPA ceilings were removed
Oct. 15. 1946. The old ceiling
was $16.25.
Falling prices have spurred
meat interests to action. A nation-wide
educational and adver
tising campaign promoting the
use of pork will start next
month.
Charles Shuman, president of
the Illinois Agricultural associ
ation, which is backing the pro
motional campaign, says, We
arc interested in heavy consump
tion of park because it means
we can convert our large grain
supplies into meat and find a
market for our product."
Hopes of Early End to
Steel Strike Collapse
Cleveland, O., Nov. 3 (OR) Striking CIO Stcelworkers have up-
ped the cost of settling their pension fights, dashing all hopes, to
day that the Bethlehem pension agreement would bring a quick
end to the 34-day steel strike.
There was no rush of steel companies to accept the Bcthlc
hem settlement as a pattern
today and has developed a lung
congestion.
Although his tough body still
is fighting on, rallying from the
relapse, the 28-year-old Rios
now seems to prefer death to re
covery, the physician said.
Until yesterday afternoon the
28-year-old South American air
ace did not know that his P-38
fighter on Tuesday had sent a
packed eastern air transport
crashing in history's worst civil
aviation disaster a disaster of
which he is the sole survivor.
The strictest orders had been
issued to keep the grim knowl
edge from him while doctors
fought to save him from the ef
fects of a back fracture and
other severe injuries.
Rios knew his plane had hit
something and that he had come
to struggling in the water. But
he was able to tell officials in
vestigators and others little else.
Civil aeronautics board officials
hope to learn more from the mer
cifully drugged flyer when and
if his condition improves.
When, rousing from his fre
quent blackouts, Rios would ask
what happened to the plane he
hit, doctors tried to turn his
thoughts to something else. All
visitors were ordered to do the
same
But yesterday afternoon one
of them perhaps it was a slip of
the tongue said the forbidden
words
Rios almost immediately be
gan failing. Last night he near
ly died. Bolivian officials were
hastily called to his bedside
Today the flyer's personal
physician learned what had
caused the relapse. The Bolivian
whose condition had been prom
ising before, had discarded his
desire to survive
Government
Likely to Act
In Big Strikes
Indiana Operators Re
ject Separate Peace
Offer Made by Lewis
Washington, Nov. 3 UP) Re
ports that the government may
soon step into the coal strike
revived today with word that
Indiana operators have refused
separate peace talks with John
L. Lewis.
One highly - placed official
closely watching the steel-coal
strike crisis said: "We can't let
Lewis go much beyond this
week-end."
He indicated that unless there
is some progress toward settling
the 46-day coal strike the gov
ernment will invite Lewis and
operators to Washington nego
tiations, probably some time
next week.
Failure of such federal talks
would put the coal problem up
to President Truman. Up to now
Mr. Truman has held that
neither the coal nor steel strikes
has reached the national emer
gency stage.
Rejected in Indiana
The Indiana operators last
night turned down a proposal
of Gov. Henry Schrickcr of In
diana for a separate coal pact
covering that state. Lewis had
accepted the idea, saying he
could submit any tentative offer
to his union's policy committee
at its meeting in Chicago Monday.
The Indiana operators dis
cussed the idea and rejected it.
Harvey Cartwright, secretary
of the Indiana Coal Producers
association, said: "The issues in
volvcd are national in character
and cannot be reconciled to dis
trict negotiations."
This evident decision to stick
to industry-wide bargaining was
a blow to Lewis' strategy to
make a separate deal with Indi
ana or Illinois mine operators
in hopes the rest of the soft coal
industry would go along.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 6)
Pearson s Bill
For Printing
Paid by State
With a big grin on his round
face, State Treasurer Walter J.
Pearson announced today that
the state had paid the $160 bill
for printing Pearson's statement
of the duties of his office.
That is the bill which Gover
nor Douglas McKay had refused
to approve. It caused a quarrel
between McKay and Pearson at
last week's board of control
meeting.
The claim was honored by
Secretary of State Earl T. New
bry, who ruled that his office
could pay it without approval of
the board of control.
Pearson said today that if the
state hadn't paid it, he wouldn't
have paid it, either.
Jail Pickets of
Pineapple Ship
Portland, Nov. 3 UP) Fifteen
CIO longshoremen, indicted in
the Sept. , 28 pineapple riot at
The Dalles, were in jail today as
police sought nine others missed
in a night-long round-up.
Thirteen of the men spent
the night in the Portland city
jail and one, refusing to cross
the state line, was jailed in Van
couver, Wash. The fifteenth man
was arrested this morning.
State and city police, hamper
ed by faulty addresses or by
finding no one at home, contin
ucd the hunt for the other nine
men named in secret grand jury
indictments, resulting from wat
erfront violence that halted un
loading of a pineapple barge at
The Dalles. They started the
roundup at nightfall.
All were held under "fugitive"
warrants from Wasco county
Bail was set at $2500 but offers
by members of a longshore de
fense committee were rejected
None of those arrested was a
top officer in the Portland
Longshore local, which picketed
the unloading operation.
To Free Top
Reds on Bail
New York, Nov. 3 (P) The U.
S. court of appeals ruled today
that the 11 top communists con
victed of conspiracy may be re
leased in bail pending appeal of
their case.
The court ruled that seven
could be released in $20,000 bail
each and four in $30,000 bail
apiece.
The government originally
asked that their total bail be set
at $1,000,000.
Shortly after 11 a.m. three of
ficials of the bail fund of the
civil rights congress posted
$260,000 in negotiable 2Vi per
cent U.S. treasury bonds in $5,
000 denominations. The civil
rights congress has been listed
by the U.S. attorney general's
office as subversive.
Their release was delayed,
however, when the U.S. attor
ney s office raised the question
of whether the fines of $10,000
imposed on each of the 11 should
be paid today in addition to sup
plying bond.
An opinion handed down by
Judges Learned Hand, Thomas
W. Swan and Jerome N. Frank
said that bail was being set be
cause the government "conced
ed that the appeal herein raises
a 'substantial question.' "
Bail of $30,000 was set for Eu
gene Dennis, John B. William
son, Jacob Stachel, and Irving
Potash.
A $20,000 bail was fixed for
Robert G. Thompson, Benjamin
J. Davis, Jr., Harry Winston,
John Gates, Gilbert Green, Carl
Winter and Gus Hall.
Previously the government
asked $100,000 bail each for
Dennis, Potash, Stachel. Wil
liamson, Hall, Green and Thomp
son. It recommended $75,000
bail each for Davis, Winston,
Gates and Winter.
Ballentine to
Get Sherman's
Near East Post
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Meet to Consider
Future Navy Plans
Washington, Nov. 3 IIP) Ad
miral Forrest P. Sherman
moved swiftly today to tighten
ship under the new navy top
command by assigning Rear Ad
miral John J. Ballentine, Pacific
war hero to his own old post
in the Mediterranean.
Sherman, pulled out of com
mand of the Sixth Task fleet in
the Mediterranean to take over
as chief of naval operations, was
sworn in only yesterday after a
shakeup growing out of the inter-service
row over war roles.
Shortly after the announce
ment of Ballentine's assignment.
Sherman attended his first
meeting of the joint chiefs of
staff where the quarrels over
unification policy had centered.
Bradley Presides
He was introduced to the oth
er members of the joints chiefs
by the chairman, Gen. Omar
Bradley.
One member was absent. Gen.
Hoyt Vandenberg, air force
chief of staff, left last night for
an inspection visit to Eglin Air
Force Base, Florida.
As CNO, Sherman succeeded
Admiral Louis Denfeld, an out
spoken backer of the admirals'
coterie that had contended the
navy was being frozen out in
strategic decisions.
Ballentine will have the rank
of vice admiral in the Mediter
ranean assignment. He has been
serving on the general board,
the navy's policy advisory
group.
(Concluded on Page S, Column 8)
Dutch Grant Amnesty
To Political Prisoners
Batavia. Nov. 3 IIP) The
Dutch government today granted
amnesty to "practically all po
litical prisoners" in Indonesia, a
government spokesman, said, as
a follow-up to the agreement
signed yesterday between the
Dutch and Indonesians.
He said several thousand will
be affected.
At the same time the Dutch
army commander in- the islands
told his troops they all could
count on being home In The
Netherlands by July, 1950. The
USW spokesmen were confident
however that large independents
would fall in line, one-by-one
within a few days.
Chances for piece-meal set
tlements were good. Although
the union has not heard from
U. S. Steel Corp., which ap
parently is standing by and
watching the maneuvering, a
half-dozen other companies have
contacted the union.
Executive board members of
the ClO-Unitcd Steclworkers
met with President Philip Mur
ray last night to hear details of
the Bethlehem settlement. They
were told that it should be used
as i basis for settling other steel
strikes and that negotiators
should use the employes bene
fits, not the cost to the compan
ies, to gain uniformity of pen
sion benefits in the industry.
The union's drive to bring the
big Independents into line ap
parently will pick up steam af
ter the close of the CIO's 11th
convention here Saturday. The
union's strategy appears to be
to wean Jones & Laughlin, Re
public, Inland and Youngstown
Sheet & Tube into the fold.
USW officials figure that U. S.
Steel would be forced Into settle
ment or lose customers to the
independents.
Murray admitted that his un
n negotiators are trying to
work out "tentative agreements"
to offer strike-bound companies
to get the workers back in the
mills while the pension details
are worked out. The hitch here,
evidently is Murray's insistence
that the "tentative agreements"
embody a guarantee that the
companies will match Bethle
hem's offer of a minimum $100
a month pension for 23 year
men, aged 65 or over.
case Bans on
Tito's Suonlies
Washington, Nov. 3 IIP) The
United States and Britain have
eased their ban on the sale of
commercial planes and aviation
equipment to Yugoslavia. The
first shipments, limited quanti
ties of gasoline and lubricants,
were cleared by the slate de
partment today.
Diplomatic officials, reporting
the U.S.-British move just be
fore the fuel and lubricants sale
was announced, said it marks
the latest step by the west to
bolster Marshal Tito in his fight
with Moscow and her eastern
European allies.
The state and national defense
departments are reported to
have decided on the move as
another of the "calculated risks"
oi me com war. .,,r,n-i. nn H lhr
The matter was agreed upon L- ..- Hrrk In addition to the
with the British. Then the two actua pcopie counters.
er western governments of their
action in the hope that they will;
do the same.
One idea is to clear the way
for an "airlift" to Yugoslavia if
that rebel against Moscow domi
nation of world communism
should be cut off by guerrilla at
tack from normal transport.
Census Office
Located Here
Salem will be the seat of one
new office of the census bureau
when the feneral census is tak
en next year, it was reported
Thursday from Washington. The
other office will be in Astoria
Existing offices in Oregon arc
in Portland, Eugene, Bend and
La Grande.
The census bureau announced
establishment of new field of
fices on the west coast in prepa
ration for the 1050 census-tak
ing.
Bureau spokesmen said they
hoped the new offices would be
srt up by the end of January.
Their staffs will consist of a
Truman Again
Campaigning
Minneapolis, Nov. 3 IIP) Pre
sident Truman arrived here at 1
p. m. (CST) today by special
train. He will take part in a
"Truman Day" celebration in
connection with observance of
the Minnesota Territorial Cen
tennial.
Crater Lake Visitors
Washington. Nov. 3 UJ
Crater Lake National park and
Oregon Caves National monu
ment drew a record of more than
414.000 visitors during the year
ended Sept. 30, the National
I Parks Service reported today.
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Visits Bolivian Pilot Ambassador R. Martinez Vargas of
Bolivia visits Erick Rios Bridoux, Bolivian pilot in an Alex
andria, Vs., hospital. Bridoux was the pilot of a fighter
plane which collided with an airliner near Washington with a
loss ol 53 lives. Bridoux. told of the S3 dead, no longer wants
to live. He has a broken vertebra, two broken ribs and
lacerations of the face and scalp. (AP Wirephoto)
Aboard Truman Train, En-
route to St. Paul, Nov. 3 UP)
President Truman, making his
first rear platform talk since the
election, told a crowd at Savan
na, 111., today he is trying his
best to carry out democratic
campaign pledges.
A crowd of several hundred
turned out in the cold at 7:40
a.m. to greet the president
aboard his old campaign train
on the anniversary of his great
est political victory.
He carried with him what he
jokingly described as a "non-
political, bi-partisan" speech for
delivery at St. Paul, Minn., at
7:30 p.m. (PST) tonight
His aides said it was a re
newal of his blasts at "reaction-
aries and of his championsmp
of the "fair deal" program for
which he campaigned in 1948
and which he presented to the
81st congress last January.
And they emphasized he will
send the program back to con
gress again in January and back
to the voters in next year's con
gressional elections.
It was a year ago today the
result was long in doubt in the
November 2 voting that Mr.
Truman received the news of
Thomas E. Dewey's concession
of defeat.
European Arms
Negotiations On
Washington, Nov 3 UP) Tho
United States opened negotia
tions with eight western Europe-
allies today on agreements
under which this country will
furnish them $1,000,000,000
worth of arms and military sup
plies.
Diplomats of each of the eight
countries called at the stale de
partment in a day-long succes
sion. Each received a copy of
the agreement which the Unit
ed States proposes his country
should sign. There was no gen
eral conference bringing them
all together.
Officials said the texts will
not be made public until they
are finally aRrccd on In detail.
rtrcp nuiin as i Hfiiai
Bonn, Germany, Nov. 3 OP)
The West German Federal par
liament today decided to keep
the Rhlneland city of Bonn as
its capital. Bonn received 200
votes and its rival, Frankfurt,
178, In the secret vote.