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61st Year, No. 267 ESffBSSToSS Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 9, 1949
C24 Pages)
Price 5c
Plans Offered
For Cily Traffic
Bottlenecks
Committee Favors
Raising S.P. Tracks
And Undercrossings
By STEPHEN A. STONE
As a first undertaking for
railroad grade crossing elimina
tion along the Southern Pacific
main line in Salem the long
r range planning commission
Tuesday night had a recommen
dation from its transportation
committee.
This would be a regrade of the
railroad from south of Mission
street to just north of Marion,
with underpasses at Mission
and Mill streets and at the 12th
street crossing of the Trade
street line. The estimated cost of
the first project is put roughly
at $1,032,000.
This is part of an overall plan.
looking into the far-distant fu
ture, that contemplates regrade
of the main line from Mission to
the underpass on Highway 99E
and 11 underpasses in all.
No Action Taken
The commission took no ac
tion on the report except to vote
that it be printed for public distribution.
An alternative study included
in a written report is the tunnel
ing of the main line under 13th
street, said to have point of pref
erence over the underpass plan,
but it would be more expensive.
Discarded entirely is the of
ten-suggested tunneling of the
line through 12th street, the
present location of the line.
The report is accompanied by
recommendations for develop
ment of the plan in units with
cost sharing among the Southern
Pacific company, the city, Mar
ion county and the state of Ore
gon.
r.nmine ahead of any under
Dass building would be regrade
of the main line, estimated to
rost $1,021,000. C. A. McClure,
engineer for the planning com
mission, said that all cost esti-
: 1 .. .n,,0h
males were iievcaaij
and based on present conditions.
The report sets up first the
regrade plan, then construction
of underpasses at Mission, Mill,
12th at Trade, State, Center and
Court streets, at a total estimate
of $1,836,000. At 12th, State and
Center the underpasses would be
four-lane, at the other streets
two-lane.
The second' unit contemplates
underpasses at D street, Market
and Madison, all four-lane, esti
mated to cost $430,000.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 5)
Interior Plans
Inadequate
Washington, Nov. 9 WV-The
Interior department's proposed
billion and a half dollar program
for Pacific northwest develop
ment rinesn't include any proj
ects under way or contemplated
by the army engineers
A department program plan
' ning official explained yesterday
that the plan "represents only
the interior department's part of
the total job to be done in wasn
ington, Oregon, Idaho and west
cm Montana.
ThA slx-vear program, first
regional proposal of its kind ex
cept for recent Alaskan plans,
was presented to the budget bu
reau by Assistant Secretary of
the Interior C. Girard David
son. He will explain it to con
gress early next year.
Prior to his departure yes
terday for Vancouver, Wash.,
where he will address the Allied
NcwsDaDcr association tomor
row. Davidson explained that
the reclamation bureau-army
engineers plan set out last April
outlined only the "basic irame
work within which development
of the Columbia basin will pro
ceed over the next 2S to SO
years."
"However," he added, "those
plans cover only the major en
gineering works which are basic
to the region's development.
"Lacking are long range pro
cosals covering the related re
source problelhs of public lands
management, including range
and forest lands, minerals, agri
culture, recreation, fish and
wildlife and Indian resources.
"Lacking also are long range
proposals for acquiring the basic
data essential to the success of
the development program.
"A regional resource program,
to be worthy of the name,
include these related
Pension Law
Repealed by
Californians
San Francisco, Nov. 9 U.R
California voters apparently
have had enough of their new
pension law.
Returns from 10,453 of the
state s 14,203 precincts showed
they voted 1,033,1.34 to 757,495
yesterday to repeal the pension
plan passed in the November,
1948, election.
The plan boosted pensions $10
a month to $75 for the aged and
$85 for the blind. The repeal left
the higher payments in effect
for persons who have lived in
California five years.
However, the repeal measure
requires pensioners to be 65.
Last year's plan lowered the age
to 63.
The repeal measure also al
lows Gov. Earl Warren to name
the director of the department
of social welfare. It ousts the
present director, Mrs. Myrtle
Williams, who formerly was sec
retary of George H. McClain's
'citizens committee for old age
pensions which won passage oi
the higher-priced plan last year.
Storm Strikes
Golden Slate
San Francisco, Nov. 9 W)
Drenching rains and high winds
struck northern California early
today and heavy snow fell in
the Sierra. It was the first real
storm of the season.
Trees were uprooted in the
bay area. Water stood inches
deep in the streets of some com
munities. Heavy snowfall was reported
in the Sierra, where the Carson,
Ebbets and Sonora passes alrea
dy are blocked. The weather bu
reau expected a fall of two to
four feet today and tonight, with
gales through the passes and
across ridges.
Colder weather was predicted
generally, with more rain and
snow in store. Rain in "heavy
amounts" was forecast for all of
northern California today and
tomorrow.
The weather bureau issued
storm warnings along the Cali
fornia coast from the Oregon
border south to Monterey, in
cluding San Francisco bay.
Snowing on
Cascade Roads
It Is snowing today on roads
at higher elevations, the state
highway commission warned today.
The road report contained the
following reports of below nor
mal conditions on state high
ways:
Government Camp snowing
lightly, but pavement bare.
Siskiyous and Green Springs
highway snowing hard, slushy;
six inches of new snow.
Ochoco snowing lightly,
pavement bare.
Santiam Junction snowing
lightly, packed snow on roads;
plows are operating, chains
should be carried.
Sisters packed snow on
roads, being plowed.
Lapine snowing lightly,
pavement bare.
Chemult, Odell Lake, Chilo
quin, Keno, Bly snowing light
ly, roads slushy.
Crater Lake travel is dis
couraged because of snow.
Seneca snowing lightly,
pavement bare.
Big 3 Survey
United Policy
Toward China
Yugoslavian Program
Also Included
German Issue Studied
Paris, Nov. 9 W) A well In
formed source said today the for
eign ministers of the United
States, Britain and France have
agreed to examine a common
policy toward Yugoslavia and
communist China.
The three ministers fixed an
agenda for two days of meetings
here. An American official re
ported it covers "a wide range
of subjects," with Germany top
ping the list. The Big Three
ministers then took up a memor
andum from West German Chan
cellor Konrad Adenauer.
The ministers agreed to exam
ine all aspects of the German
question political, economic,
psychological and military and
the issue of Germany's entry into
the European Council and other
international bodies.
Plan Aid to Tito
The three western ministers
were also to discuss what assist
ance they might lend to Yugo
slavia to enable Presmier-Mar-
shal Tito to maintain his inde
pendence from the Kremlin.
They also were to consider prob
lems involved in recognition of
the Chinese communist regime.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Asks Armistice
On Atomic Bomb
Lake Success, Nov. 9 VP) U.
N. Assembly President Carlos P
Romulo announced today he has
appealed to the Big Five and
Canada to consider a short-term
atomic armistice, a ban on use
of atomic bombs, and a new start
on the problem of atomic con
trol.
Romulo so far has not receiv
ed official answers from the six
governments but western dele
gates were reported to view the
proposals as old stuff and vague.
Sources close to the Philippine
delegate said, however, that he
was insisting his proposals have
a thorough study in the General
Assembly.
His plan was published as the
United States prepared to tan
gle with the Soviet Union on the
atomic issue in the Assembly's
special political committee.
"Mankind is not prepared to
accept a deadlock on a matter so
serious to the future of the whole
world," Romulo said in his ap
peal to the United States, Russia
Britain, France, China and Canada.
'Every effort must be made to
explore even the remotest pos
sibility of an effective agree
ment."
i Romulo listed four possible
lines of action in the Assembly's
search for an answer to the west
ern-Soviet deadlock.
'it. - i' !, J
Royal Review King George VI, (center), appropriately
attired in full naval uniform, is escorted by Capt. Ephraim
Rankin McLean of Carrollton, Miss., the ship's commander, as
the British monarch reviews the crew of the USS Columbus
at Portsmouth, Eng. The king chatted with crew members
and stayed for lunch in the course of his three-hour visit.
(AP Wircphoto via radio from London)
Postcard to Davenport
Arrives 41 Years Late
By ANNA POWELL
Silverton, Nov. 9 Roy Davenport of Cherry street, because
he is a near relative of the noted cartoonist, and an employe of
the local post office, was given custody of an unusual piece of
mail, a post card, on his arrival home from a two-week hunting
trip in northeastern Oregon late last week.
The card had a personal mes
Elections Chill
Republicans,
Cheer Demos
N. Y. Elects Lehman
Driscoll Smashes
Hague in New Jersey
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington, Nov. 9 (U.R) Re
turns from scattered elections
across the country chilled repub
licans today and fired President
Truman's party with confidence
for 1950 and 1952.
The 1948 democratic tide re
mains strong.
Best news for the GOP was
re-election of Republican Gov.
Alfred E. Driscoll in New Jer
sey which was followed before
dawn today by Boss Frank
Hague's resignation as leader of
the democratic party in that
state.
Driscoll licked democratic
state Sen. Elmer Wcne who had
the support of Hague's tarnished
political machine. A two-time
republican winner, Driscoll be
comes a young man to watch. He
is 47 years old.
Boston Defeats Curlcy
Another democratic boss got
his lumps in Boston. There
Mayor James M. Curley lost his
office to a political novice. City
Clerk John B. Hynes. But it
was a non-partisan contest and
iiu outright gain for the GOP.
Curley struck out in the 50th
year of his political career. He
and Hague were of
ft' " l
mm? i
i
Clyde
Reed
Senator Reed
Dies Suddenly
school of the famous bosses of
our times, Penrose, Pendcrgast,
Crump, Kelly, and Charley Mur
phy of New York.
(Concluded on rage 5. Column 7)
Parsons. Kas., Nov. 9 (IP)
Republican Senator Clyde M
Reed, who fashioned three suc
cessful careers politics, news
paper publishing and the rail
way mail service died Jast
night.
The 78-year-old senator from
Kansas apparently succumbed
to a heart attack. He collapsed
while descending a stairs in his
home. His body was found at
the foot of the stairs by his wife,
Minnie, and a maid.
He just left the hospit.il last
week after suffering from in
fluenza. Reed was elected to the Unit
ed States senate in 1938 and re
elected in 1944. His term was
scheduled to expire January 3
1951.
His death trimmed the num
ber of senate republicans tern
Dorarilv to 42. However, a re-
the hard publican probably will be nam
Dulles to Truman
Washington, Nov. 9 (P) Here
is the text of a telegram receiv
ed by President Truman today
from Senator Dulles (R., N.Y.):
"You win."
Liquor Sales in Oregon
Continue to Decrease
By JAMES D. OLSON
Liquor sales in Oregon are still declining, having dropped to
$9,087,193 92 during the three months ending September 30, 1940,
as compared with $9,985,377.73 of sales during the same quarter
in 1948.
The drop in sales of $898,183.81 was reported by the Oregon
state liquor commission wed-"-
Wins $10,000
Damage Suit
Dallas, Ore., Nov. 9 Damag
es of $10,000 were awarded Mrs.
Edith Brooks, of Dallas, widow
of William D. Brooks, in her
action against the A. F. Coats
Lumber company of Tillamook
in a verdict last night by a Polk
county circuit court jury follow
ing a two-day trial.
Brooks was killed last May
31 when his automobile and a
lumber truck owned by the
Coats company and driven by
William Bishop, collided at the
Dolph corner three miles north
of here on the coast highway
In her complaint Mrs. Brooks
charged that the truck came
around the corner at a reckless
rate of speed and that the tail
gate swung into the path of her
husband's vehicle. The lumber
concern countered with the
charge that Brooks was travel
ing at too high rate of speed and
also was driving on the wrong
side of the highway.
Mrs. Brooks had sued for $15
000, the maximum for a death
claim under the new law. The
amount awarded by the jury
was the highest in his knowl
edge. Circuit Judge Arlie G.
Walker,' said in receiving the
verdict.
Prior to the last session of the
legislature the maximum that
could be awarded under a death
by accident claim was $10,000.
The law increasing the amount
went into effect July 16 of this
year.
Representing the plaintiff was
Bruce Spaulding, Salem, for
mer Polk county district attor
ney while the defendant was
represented by Lamar Tooze of
Portland.
sage, merely signed by "A," writ
ten to the world famous car
toonist of the early part of the
cntury. Homer Davenport, and
mailed in Portland, Ore., July
20, 1908.
In a perfect state of preserva
tion as though it had been mailed
within the past few days, re-
stamped with a Portland date
of apparently October 17, 1949,
sent on to Silverton, the original
destination on the post card.
Where the card has been tucked
away for the past 41 years has
the present possessor wondering.
The card was received at the Sil
verton post office October 18,
1949.
On the non-address side of
the card is a color replica of
"Oneonta Bluffs, Columbia riv
er," huge rocks, piled high, top
ped by two evergreen trees. At
the base of the bluffs is a rail
way track.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 6)
CAA to Control
ilitary Planes
nesday.
The commission had an inven
tory of goods valued at $7,527,
239.17 on July 1, 1949. as com
pared with a $13,520,608.80 in
ventory a year earlier. Purchase
of liquor by the commission
nn far 1pm. the rCDort showing
that during the three months of
this year the purchases totaled
$4,962,050 as compared witn so,
048.963.18 during the same pe
riod in 1948
ed a drop, the commission hav
ing issued 43.558 during the
three months of this year as
compared with 49,846 In the
comparable months of 1948
Receipts of the license divi
sion was $53,239.58 below the
revenue received In the same
quarter a year ago. the 1949 to
tal being only $24,696.50.
Total earnings of the commis
sion have been showing steady
Thrniioh curtailed ourchascs aecune since wnen an an-
the commission showed I higher tim high was set with the year s
net operating revenue, the report earnings of $10,771,660 87. The
showlna that after deducting , following year the earnings
showed a slight drop to $10,650
262.32 and In 1948 dropped down
$507,687.27 for operating ox
rwnsei. this revenue total $2,
1124 025.78 or $173,460.86 more to $8,729,884.41.
, ih AnA,a4inif NVAmip rf 1 1 r. i Total uminDi or the liauor
IUUBI II" ": utaiBKin ..... , - -
resource ing the same three months a year Commission since Its Inception to
items in addition to tht major ago ieptrmoer ju, total m
engineering works." I Liquor permits sales also show-t834,656.47.
Quirino Leads
In Philippines
Manila. Nov. 9 President
Elpidio Quirino today boosted
his lead over Jose P. Laurel, dar
ling of anti-American Filipino
elements, to 114.480 In unoffi
cial returns from about one-third
of the precincts from yesterday's
presidential election.
Quirino, friend of the United
States, had held a lead of more
than 29.000 votes when one-
fourth of the unofficial tally was
completed from the Philippines
general election yesterday.
The latest unofficial return.-i
gave: Quirino 770,458, Laurel
655,978; Jose Avclino, third can
didate, 270.183.
The official tally was far be
hind the unofficial figures, due
in part to the extraordinarily
heavy vote. More than 4,000,000
Filipinos balloted.
Washington, Nov. 9 ( A ci
vilian government agency took
over air control of military
planes as a safety measure to
day, hard on the heels of an air
line pilot's report that he had
almost collided with a B-25
bomber over National airport
here.
The civil aeronautics admin
istration (CAA) announced the
new safety move last night, a
short time after disclosure of
the near-collision between an
Eastern Airlines Constellation
and an mstrumcnt-Ilying air
force plane. The airliner was
carrying 54 persons on a flight
to Miami.
The CAA did not relate its
announcement to the airliner
bomber incident. It said the new
regulation resulted from a scries
of air safety discussions with air
force and navy officials which
started several weeks ago.
There has been heavy pressure
on civilian and military avia
tion authorities to take new
measures toward greater safety
in the air particularly against
air-to-air collisions. In the past
14 months, all fatalities suffered
by passengers on U.S. airlines
have resulted from aerial collisions.
National airport was the scene
of a disastrous crash last Tues
day, Involving an Eastern Air
lines DC-4 and a Bolivian P-38
tighter, in which 55 persons lost
their lives.
Truman Joyous
Over Election
Washington, Nov. 8 VP) Pres
ident Truman, once again today
the leader of a triumphant par
ty, welcomed Tuesday's election
results as an endorsement of his
fair deal" program and an
omen of democratic victory in
1950.
The president, jubilantly read
ing election returns to 400
cheering democrats at a dinner
last night, said the results in
New York "will have a very de
cided effect on the elections in
1950." The people then will elect
all members of the house and
one-third of the senate.
Mr. Truman saw in the re
turns, also, a powerful stimulus
on congress to enact the unfin
ished portion of his legislative
program.
"The democratic platform set
out certain things which it is
our duty to try to accomplish,"
he told the women's national
democratic club of Washington
"I want to say to you that the
first session of the 81st congress
did a remarkable job, and the
second session of the 81st on
gross is going to do a better one
as a result of these elections to
day." The president was an irrepres
sible guest of honor. With ev
ery dinner course he bounced
to his feet with a broad grin,
rapped on the microphone for
attention, and read the latest
election returns. Each report
raised new cheers and applause
from the crowd of cabinet offic
ers, party leaders and club mem
bers.
ed to succeed him. Kansas Gov.
Frank Carlson, who will make
the appointment, also is a re
publican.
When the senate returns in
January there probably will be
54 democrats and 42 GOP mem
bers, assuming Carlson appoints
a republican and a democrat is
named to succeed Senator Bald
win (R., Conn.). Baldwin plans
to retire in December.
Reed spent 3" years in the
railway mail service before en
tering newspaper work and poll
tics. He began as a clerk. When
he quit to manage and publish
The Parsons Sun, a daily news
paper, he was superintendent of
the railway adjustment division
In the senate Reed, a white-
haired husky man, was consid
ered an expert on transporta
tion matters.
His son, Clyde, Jr., also sur
vives.
Dr. Gallup Eats
Pheasants Now
New York. Nov. 9 W Dr.
George Gallup of the Gallup Poll
said he was eating pheasant to
day a welcome change from his
year-long diet of crow.
His poll forecast the U. S. Sen
ate viclorv of former Gov. Her
bert H. Lehman in yesterday's
New York state election.
Gallup's figures were not
close as llicy have been in the
past, but he picked the right
man.
Gallup gave Lehman 57 per
cent of the vote, and his repub
lican opponent, Sen. John Foster
Dulles. 43 percent.
Almost complete returns from
the actual balloting showed Leh
man winning with 52 percent
over Dulles with 28 percent.
Gallun was badly off on the
size of Lehman's democratic-lib
eral majority, however.
Lewis Orders
Coal Miners
, !i Back lo Work
380,000 Strikers to
Return to Pits at Least
Until November 30
Chicago, Nov. 9 (P) John L,
Lewis today ordered his strik
ing soft coal miners back to
work.
A resolution was adopted by
the 200 man policy committee
of the strikers to go back to
work until midnight, Nov. 30,
under the terms of the UMW's
contract which expired July 1,
1949.
Lewis said; "This is done as an
act of good faith, designed to
contribute to public conveni
ence." Lewis told reporters the 380,
000 bituminous workers east of
the Mississippi river who have
been idle 51 days were ordered
to go back into the pits immediately.
To Renew Conferences
Lewis also said:
"The United Mine Workers
will again make another contri
bution of major magnitude to
enhance the remote possibility
of agreement being reached."
Lewis said that between now
and November 30 officers and
scale representatives of the un
ion "will participate in such
wage conferences as may even
tuate in conformity with recog
nized policy."
He urged that private house
holders and public institutions
"provide themselves in the in
terim with necessary coal sup
plies to tide them over a further
suspension period in the event
that the contemptuous arrogance
of the coal operators remains
undiminished."
(Concluded on Pare B, Column S)
Morse Raps Senate as
Two Party Coalition
Washington, Nov. 9 M'l Senator Morse (R., Ore.), said In a
statement released here today the people should recognize that
the senate in its last session was not a two-party system in
operation "but a coalition of conservative republicans and demo
crats.
Marts Close Friday
New York, Nov. 9 i Finan
cial and commodity markets
throughout the United States
and Canada will be closed Ar
mistice day, Friday. November
11. Various livestock report
It represented a new politi
cal alignment in fact if not in
name," Morse said.
"It was a powerful coalition;
too powerful for the liberals
because there re not enough
liberals in cither the democratic
or republican party in the senate
to out-vote the coalition of re
actionaries."
The senator, now in Oregon
to campaign for reelection, made
Silverton Road
Drainage Plan
An estimated cost of $3950
was submitted to the county
court Wednesday by City Man
ager J. L. Franzen and City En
gineer J. H. Davis on the pro
posed new culvert and regrad-
ing of the Hollywood ditch for
2100 feet north of the Silverton
road in connection with the
county's requested share in the
drainage program of the city
north of Salem. The county was
asked to participate on the bas
is of its being done as a protec
tion to the county road system.
The court has taken the mat
ter under advisement but will
probably give an early answer.
The court had agreed to put a
new culvert under buverton
road at Hollywood ditch and re
grade a short distance north in
the ditch leading from the Sil
verton road. Then the city offic
ials asked a revamping of th"e
program by the county contin
uing on with the rcgrading for
a distance of 2100 feet. After the
county court had looked over the
situation on the ground It had
declined to proceed further until
it got the estimated costs which
were submitted Wednesday. Not
only is the ditch to be regraded
and deepened but the project
also involves taking out and dis
posing of a large quantity of
brush and several full grown
trees.
Principal objective on the ci
ty's part for the project is to do
away with water over the road
near Lansing avenue which
blocks off school children cross
ing the road to the new Washing
ton school In Capitola. It is plan
ned to bring a 2500 foot ditch
along the Silverton road to the
culvert at the Hollywood ditch
and carry the water off through
that regraded and deepened
ditch.
Admit Confessions
Of Mass Rapists
, . , . . . Tacoma, Nov. 9 "P The state
Wl.erry (R.. Neb), which re- scored onc of lta maior victorln
quires 64 atnrmative votes in , vs,rrdav )n tnc drawn-out trial
order to carry a motion to endi; , . ., charced with the
mass rape of a Tacoma house
wife when it succeeded in gain-
debate in the senate. Morse said
it was not an anti-filibuster I
resolution at all, and added:
"The absurdity ot the 64 vote
requirement of the Wherry res
olution is evidenced by the fact
that In spite of all the pressure
that was put on mrmbers of
tnc senate, only 63 senators
his statement public through hislshowed up to vote for the reso-
office here.
He said the first session of the
81st congress "will undoubtedly
go down In congressional history
as the coalition congress."
At the very beginning, he said.
a coalition of sou'hrrn democrats future two-thiros of the 96 sen
and republicans was formed in ators must be present and vote
will be issued by the department support ot the so called anti-fih- for ending of delate on any is
of agriculture. (busier resolution ot Senator. sue in order to stop a filibuster.'
lutinn
"Thus we have the sorry spec
tacle of the senate of the United
States for the first time In its
history passing by a majority
vote a requirement that In the
ing admission of the defendants'
signed confessions Into evidence.
Superior court Judge Max
Church permitted the confes
sions to stand over sharp ob
jections by defense attorneys.
The Judge ruled that the body of
the crime had been estaonsnea
and that submission of the con
fessions was in ordrr.
Tho lurid hearing, proceeding
with admission limited to "ad
ults only." brought testimony
yesterday from Eduar Edmlston,
a gas station attendant, who said
he saw three men and a nude
woman drive into his station
about 8 p.m. on May 27,