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61st Year, No. 273 ES?J'bSZ4o Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 16, 1949
(22 Pages)
Price 5c
108 Cities Get
Truman Ready
To Invoke T-H
Loans for Low
Rent Housi
Capital
Dragnet Out
For Members
Of Vice Ring
7 Cab Drivers, 2
Others Under Arrest,
1 More Sought
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
Richard Roy (Dickering Dick)
Carter, South 12th street used
" car dealer, was snared Wednes
day in a police dragnet set up
after a 14-year-old girl related
f her story of sex orgies which
cracked open a flourishing taxi
cab vice ring.
Shortly after Carter's arrest,
an attorney for Don Clark, the
seventh Salem cab driver to be
implicated in the case, said his
client would be in court at 2
p.m. to accept service of a rape
warrant.
The incident upon which the
rape charge against Carter was
based was believed to have tak
en place when the girl was 13
years old. The used car dealer
was released from Marion coun
ty jail last month after serving
three months on a larceny con
viction. During the summer, he
was taken from jail to go to
court on a similar sex crime.
He was fined and given a sus
pended jail term on a charge of
contributing to the delinquency
of a juvenile.
Another Sought
An additional rape warrant
was scheduled to be served
Wednesday afternoon.
Six cabbies and a soldier ar
rested Tuesday on rape charges
were due to be taken to dis
trict court at 2:00 p.m. for ar
raignment. Of that group, only
one Terrle Conway, 1165
Jjlorth 16th failed to sign a
statement of activities.
The girl, an eighth grade stu
dent at Leslie junior high, or
iginally told police of her rela
tions with the soldier Glen
Whitesides with whom she
was arrested and Maurice Mur
dock, Turner; John Hoffert,
2900 Brooks, Al Coulson, 2415
North Liberty and Conway.
It was the accounts of the
first four cabbies who were ar
rested, along with confirmation
by the girl, that led to the arrests
of Meyers Rogow, 1610 Holly
wood drive and Troy Crabtree,
138 North 23rd, and the two
made Wednesday.
(Concluded on Fare 5, Column 7)
Jarman Estate
$1,166,649.07
Report on the determination
of inheritance tax on the estate
of the late Dan B. Jarman filed
in probate court here shows a
total valuation of the taxable es
tate as $1,166,649.07 or a net
taxable estate of $1,153,440.81
after deductions. Total inheri
tance tax to the state is deter
mined at $69,262.
Full exemptions are given to
bequests for charitable and edu
cational purposes subject to in
come provisions of certain trusts,
these inheritances being valued
at $161,695.53 to First Christian
Science church of Salem; $80,
847.77 to Willamette University,
Salem, and $80,847.77 to Al
bertina Kerr Homes, Portland.
Deduction of $26,837.73 tax is
allowed for the charitable be
quests. Breakdown of the estate
shows the largest holding is 23,
511 shares of J. C. Penny com
pany stock valued at $1,031,
845.12. The residue is in US gov
ernment savings or treasury
bonds. An interest in certain
Vancouver property is omitted
s not being located in Oregon.
The foregoing are funds under
a trust agreement established
in 1945 with United States Na
tional bank as trustee.
Value of other Vgacies aside
from the charitable ones men
tioned are placed at $11,677.57
to Mary E. Nordstrom, niece;
$79,685.89 to Edith M. Jarman,
widow; $738,688.26 divided be
tween Martha Findley, Juanita
Post Reynolds and Gwendolyn
Jarman Burgy, daughters, and
Muriel V. Thompson and Anita
Jean Sive, granddaughters.
B-29 Believed Lost
About to Land in Sea
New York, Nov. 16 M Mac
Kay radio said today It had In
tercepted a radio message indi
eating a United States air force
B-29 was believed lost and about
, to land In the ocean off Ber
muda.
No other information was
available hart.
$20 Million to Build
Dwellings for Half
Million
Washington, Nov. 16 (IP)
President Truman launched the
public housing program today
by approving loans totaling $20,
375,400 to 108 cities for the plan
ning of low-rent homes for a
half-million persons.
The loans will finance the sur
veys and planning for 134,500
dwellings in 27 states, Puerto
Rico, and Washington. D.C.
Mr. Truman's action was an
nounced by John Taylor Egan,
Commissioner of the public
housing act approved this sum
mer, are preliminary to latr
financing arrangements which
will permit the start of con
struction.
Build Within Two Years
The housing developments
launched today are to be under
taken within the next two years.
Funds have been reserved for
another 100 local authorities
which intend to take part in the
first two years of the public
housing program.
The legislation provides for
about 810,000 units over the
next six years.
Chicago led the list of cities
with 21,000 dwellings proposed.
New York was second with
20,300, but New York's prelim
inary loan amounts to $2,180,-
000, considerably higher than
the $720,000 approved for plan
ning in Chicago.
Other sizeable approvals in
clude Los Angeles, 10,000
dwellings; New Orleans, 5,000;
Baltimore, 5,000; Pittsburgh, 5.-
000; Washington, D.C, 4,000;
Norfolk, 3,000; and Newark, 3,
500. (Concluded on Pare 5. Column 8)
Call Meeting
On Courthouse
County Clerk Harlan Judd
announced Wednesday that an
other meeting of the courthouse
building commission is being
called for Wednesday, Novem
ber 23, at 1:30 p.m., and that
Pietro Belluschi, architect, is
also being asked to attend the
meeting.
One was held recently with
Belluschi absent and the mem
bers of the commission went
over all of the plans, both out
side and inside, with the accent
on the exterior plans. It is no
secret that some of the members
of the commission are not alto
gether sold on the exterior
plans, or at least some phases
of them. The interior meets
general approval.
However, it was intimated
that next Tuesday's meeting
may result in final determina
tion on the plans, or it may be
that there will be some insist
ence for a change.
The court has issued appeals
for comments on the plans from
Marion county citizens but not
many over 50 have expressed
themselves so far in writing or
otherwise as definite expressions
to the court or commission. The
majority seem to be opposed to
phases of the building program
but court members have said
there have not been many con
structive suggestions as to what
should replace the plans as now
prepared.
Deco y Note Found In
Purse of Judith Coplon
New York, Nov. 16 (IP) Judith Cnplon'i former boss told
today of giving the young woman a highly secret memo that
related to atomic energy and turned out to be a decoy.
The government charges that
found in Miss Coplon's purse
and Soviet Engineer Valentln'8
Gubitchev in New York.
William E. Foley, head of the
internal security and foreign
agents registration section of the
justice department, told of giv
ing the message to the former
government girl.
He was the 11th and last wit
ness called in a federal court
hearing by which Miss Coplon's
lawyer, Archibald Palmer, is
seeking to prevent her from be
ing tried with Valentin Gubit
chev on spy conspiracy charge,
i Foley said he told Miss Cop-
Civil Rights Bill
Again Stressed
Washington, Nov. 16 VP)
President Truman's civil rights
proposals were pushed to the
forefront of administration
"must" measures today behind
his fighting slogan of "no retreat
and no retirement."
The president served notice
last night in his second civil
rights speech in five days that
he is enlisted in a finish fight
against "racial and religious dis
crimination." With southern democrats up
in arms against his call for anti-
lynching, anti-poll tax and oth
er anti-discrimination measures
which cost him for Dixie states
in last November's presidential
election, Mr. Truman threw out
his blunt challenge:
'We are going to continue to
advance in our program of
bringing equal rights and equal
opportunities to all citizens. In
that great cause there is no re
treat and no retirement."
Mr. Truman spoke at the 14th
annual meeting of the National
Council of Negro Women and
lavished praise on the record of
Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, 74-year-old
Negro educator and re
tiring president of that organ
ization. Czech Mission in
Germany Revolts
Berlin. Nov. 16 (IP) An entire
Czechoslovak mission in Ger
many dropped its relations with
the Prague communist govern
ment and obtained shelter with
the British, it was disclosed to
day
British authorities said the
reparations and restitution mis
sion in the British zone, headed
by Dr L. Rozboril, had asked
asylum as refugees from the
communist regime.
"In accordance with the tra
ditional British policy of grant
ing asylum to all who genuine
ly seek it, irrespective of race,
nationality or creed, the request
was granted," the British said in
a statement.
excerpts from the message were
when FBI agents arrested her
Ion, then employed in his de
partment, that the message was
"strictly confidential," "hot."
and "very interesting" when he
gave it to her in Washington on
the morning of the day she was
arrested.
He said the message named
Isidore G. Needleman, general
counsel for the Amtorg Trading
corporation, as an FBI informer.
The government announced
after Foley's testimony ended
that it would not call any wit
nesses in the hearing.
Child's Body Found Los Angeles Police Sgt. Bill Brcnnan
inspects the body of Linda Joyce Glucoft, six-years-old, upper
right, found beneath a brightly colored Indian blanket beside
an incinerator in the rear of a home not far from her own.
Police are seeking Fred Stroble, 67, lower right, to whom they
said they had traced the blanket. (AP Wirephoto)
Extensive Manhunt
Foils to Locute Slayer
Los Angeles, Nov. 16 (IP) A baggy-eyed baker, sought for ques
tioning in the brutal Linda Joyce
seen in a score of California cities
Police switchboards were kept busy by reports that Fred
Stroble, 66, had been seen on streets, busses and in bars. Pa-
tiently each was run down,
in
Poland Rages
Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 16 VP)
President Boleslaw Bierut has
disclosed the arrest of spies, sa
boteurs and terrorists in a drive
to wipe out an "entire under
ground army" in communist-led
Poland.
The report on widespread op
position to the Red government
was made in a speech last week
to the central committee of the
ruling communist party and pub
lished in detail yesterday in the
nation's press.
Observers believed the unpre
cedented revelations indicate a
big series of treason trials soon.
Bierut told the committee the
number of persons engaged in
espionage, sabotage, conspiracy,
terror and all similar activities is
greater in Poland than in any
other country.
He described the underground
army as specialists in subversive
activities "directed against the
people's regime."
With these declarations and
the ousting of three former Im
portant members of the commu
nist party's central committee it
appeared Poland was in the
throes of an all-out purge. Bi
erut said "substantial numbers'
had been arrested.
Bierut lashed out most vehe
mently against former Minister
of Construction Gen. Marian Sp
ychalski one of the ousted com
mittee members.
Reds Want in
United Nations
Lake Success, Nov. 16 (IP)
The new Chinese communist re
gime in China has challenged the
right of Chinese Nationalist del
egatcs to keep their scats in the
United Nations.
The announcement yesterday
apparently was the first step by
Mao Tze-Tung's Red "people's
government aimed at taking
over the big power membership
in the UN held by the retreating
Chinese Nationalists.
A communist broadcast from
Peiping announced that the Mao
Tze-Tung government was send
lng a message to UN Assembly
President Carlos P. Romulo de
claring that Nationalist delegates
have "no right to speak for the
Chinese people in the United Na
tions organization.
The United States Immediate
lly reaffirmed its support of the
Nationalist delegation's right to
lit in the UN.
i Li .
Glucoft slaying, was reported
today.
without success.
In Santa Monica there was
Drier iiurry as tne body of a
man, answering Stroble's de
scription in general, was taken
from the Pacific ocean. But it
had no split index finger. Stro
ble has.
Six-year-old Linda's mutilated
body, wrapped in a brightly
colored blanket, was found yes
terday in a rubbish heap in a
neighbor's backyard. Stroble,
who lived in the house there,
vanished. A police broadcast,
ordering his pickup, said he "is
believed to have murdered" the
chubby, curly-haired first-grad-
As the search for him went
on, demands rose for stricter con
trol of sex cases. Civic and
neighborhood groups led the
way btroble was at large after
jumping $500 bond on a child
molestation case here last April.
Police Chief William Worton
said he fled to Mexico, returning
a week ago. But the former ma
rine general added:
It was extremely regrettable
no action was taken on the war
rant for Stroble's arrest after
the first sketchy search for him.
Every precaution against such a
situation in the future wili be
taken."
Worton also told reporters he
is studying the possibility of ac
tion against Mr. and Mrs. Ruben
D Hausman, Stroble's son-in-law
and daughter, for failing to
report the latter's return.
"I have been giving it con
siderable consideration," said
Worton.
Meanwhile, the hunt took on
an international aspect.
A bus driver told police he
drove a man resembling Stroble
across the Mexican border. Po
lice there launched a search for
him.
Officers at San Bernardino
60 miles cast of here, hunted for
a man a bartender identified as
Stroble from news pictures and
a mutilated finger. The man wa:
reported to have left a bus upon
its arrival from Los Angeles.
The child had been strangled
by a man's tic and her body
hacked with an axe and stabbed
by an ice pick or similar instru
ment.
Dr. Frederick D. Newbarr,
county autopsy surgeon, said
death was caused by asphyxia
from strangulation. He found
three stab wounds, two of which
penetrated the lungs. Dr New
barr believes they were inflict
ed while the girl was dying.
Highest-Lowest Tides Sunday
Astoria. Nov. 16 if) The
year's highest and lowest tides
will both occur at Clatsop
beaches next Sunday. The high
tide, of 9.9 fect, will come at
12:49 p.m. and the low tide
'of minus 19 at 7:49 p.m.
No Recognition
Of Red China,
Says Acheson
Treatment of Consul
At Mukden Held
Insult to U. S.
Washington, Nov. 16 HP) The
United States is protesting to the
Chinese nationalist government
against a Chinese warship's fir
ing on an American merchant
vessel.
Secretary of State Acheson
told a news conference today
than an immediate protest is be
ing made against this endanger
ing of American lives.
Acheson also declared that
Chinese communist treatment of
American Consul General An
gus Ward at Mukden presently
removes any possibility of con
sidering recognition of the Chi
nese communist government
Trying to Obtain Releases
He said some progress is being
made in efforts to obtain the re
lease of two ECA officials held
by the communist regime in
northern Korea.
Russia in response to an Amer
ican request is taking up the
matter with the Korean commu
nist authorities, Acheson said.
Acheson discussed the Far
Eastern situation after first sum
marizing his meeting in Paris
last week with the British and
Trench foreign ministers and his
subsequent trip to Germany
While declining to go into any
detail on the Paris Big Three
conference, Acheson emphasized
that complete igrcement was
reached on German problems.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Shah of Iran
Truman's Visitor
Washington, Nov. 16 (U.R) His
imperial majesty, the Shah of
Iran, arrived on a state visit to
day and received President Tru
man s personal praise Sor the
"courage and far-sightedness"
his nation has shown in facing
worw problems.
Mr. Truman's formal remarks
in welcoming Mohammed Reza
Shah Pahlavi at the National
airport lent emphasis to the cold
war aspects of the 30-year-old
"king of kings" good will tour
of the United States.
Resistance to Soviet pressure
and communist-inspired internal
disruption have been the chief
postwar "problems" faced by
the strategically-located and oil
rich nation on Russia's southern
border.
The president left no doubt
of America's friendly attitude
toward Iran. He said the two
countries were "partners in the
struggle against fascism," and
added:
"The traditional friendship
which bound us together during
those troubled times has grown
even stronger in the years since
the war."
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Pay $1,420,000 in Fines Representatives of the United
Mine Workers arrive at district court in Washington to pay
the government $1,420,000 in fines imposed on UMW Chief
John L. Lewis and the union for their failure to -obey a no
strike court order in 1948. Court officials thought the fine
may be the largest ever paid. Left to right: Welly Hopkins,
general counsel; Earl llouck, assistant general counsel, carry
ing check, and Harrison Combs, also an assistant general
counsel. (Acme Tclephoto)
James Roosevelt, who has
announced his candidacy for
democratic nomination for
governor of California.
Roosevelt's Hat
Hurled in Ring
Washington. Nov. 16 W)
James Roosevelt's bid for the
California governorship gave the
west coast state top ranking with
New York and Pennsylvania to
day in major party speculation
over the 1950 and 1952 elections.
These are the three most pop
ulous states, on the basis of cen
sus bureau estimates. They cast
a total of 107 of the nation's 531
electoral votes in a presidential
election. Each of them will elect
a governor and U. S. senator
next year.
The governors' chairs are now
held by Republicans (Dewey, N.
Y.; Warren, Calif.; and Duff,
Pa.) The senate scats arc now
democratic (Lehman, N. Y.;
Downey, Calif.; and Myers. Pa.)
The results conceivably could
furnish or eliminate a poten
tial candidate or two in the
formulation of presidential tick
ets for 1952. Add to that the fact
that the three states will elect
101 representatives now divid
ed 50-50 between the two par
ties .(plus one American laborite
from New York) and the out
come will go far in determining
the makeup of the next con
gress.
Ohio, farther down in popu
lation estimates, also rates high
in the figuring. There, a lead
ing republican senator, Robert
A. Taft, and a democratic gover
nor, Frank L. Lausche, will be
up for re-election.
The announcement by the 41
year-old Roosevelt (he'll be 42
next month) last night in Los
Angeles that he will run for the
democratic gubernatorial nom
ination had long been expected
by politicians here. He said he
would also reluctantly run for
the republican nomination, un
der the California law which
permits such dual candidates.
To Produce Rainfall
Boston, Nov. 16 (U.R) A Boston
group organized to sell, dis
tribute and manufacture and
produce rainfall by artificial
means" has been granted a char
ter of Incorporation.
Act on Lewis
Miners Given Rest of
Week to End Strike
Before President Acts
Washington, Nov. 16 (IP) The
White House appeared willing
today to give John L. Lewis the
rest of this week to accept a
fact-finding board in the coal
dispute like the one which helped
settle the steel strike.
President Truman was report
ed ready to invoke the Taft
Hartley act which Lewis and
Mr. Truman both dislike if the
United Mine Workers' leader
doesn't agree to the other pro
cedure by Monday.
Barring some prior move by
Lewis or the soft coal operators,
the administration's tentative
timetable for dealing with the
coal deadlock was reported as
follows:
Tentative Time Table
1. A fact-finding board, with
power to recommend a settle
ment "while the miners stay at
work for 60 days, would be pro
posed to Lewis and the operators
on Thursday.
2. Lewis would have until the
end of the week to accept or re
ject the proposal, which he al
ready has indicated he strenu
ously opposes. The operators,
talked to in advance, have indi
cated they would submit to such
an inquiry.
3. In the event the UMW chief
turns down the proposal for cre
ation of a board with authority
to suggest a settlement, the pres
ident on Monday would invoke
the Taft-Hartley, with its ma
chinery for an 80-day court in
junction against the strike.
Speedy Action Unlikely
Seemingly bearing out this re
ported timetable. Presidential
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
told reporters it was "unlikely"
that there would be any govern
ment action today in the strike.
He replied with "no com
ment" when asked whether us
of the Taft-Hartley law is immi
nent. Lewis has been a consistent
enemy of the Taft-Hartley act.
He is one of the last holdouts
among labor leaders against
meeting its terms.
Ching Gives-up
Mediation Hope
Washington, Nov. 16 (IP) Fed
eral Mediation Chief Cyrus S.
Ching today turned the dead
locked coal dispute over to the
White House for action.
Ching reported to John R.
Stcelman, President Truman's
assistant, that further attempts
to get union leader John L.
Lewis and coal operators into an
agreement seemed useless.
After seeing Stcelman at tht
White House he told reporters:
"It is our considered judg
ment that further mediation at
this time would be fruitless."
Ching said he was filing a writ
ten report covering the coal case
with President Truman this aft
ernoon. He said it would not contain
any recommended course for
White House action but would
include a number of suggestions
on what can be done.
These suggestions were re
ported to include establishment
by Mr. Truman of a fact-finding
board outside the Taft-Hartley
law with power to recommend
settlement terms
Another suggestion was re
ported to be use of the Taft
Hartley law's national emer
gency provisions, including a
court injunction to bar a new
coal strike.
Guam in Path of
Monstrous Typhoon
Guam, Nov. 16 (IP' This Am
erican base in the Pacific bat
tened down today for a mon
strous typhoon with 130-mile
winds which is roaring up from
the southeast.
Weather reconnaissance planes
said the center of the typhoon,
with a 360-mile radius, was ex
pected to hit Guam Friday. Sixty-mile
winds are expected to
howl across the island tomor
row afternoon.
Island activities were practi
cally shut down. Schools closed.
Islanders prepared to take to the
mountain caves.
Pan American flights wera
cancelled. Marine, navy and air
force planes left for Iwo Jlma,
Wake, Kwtjaleln and Manila.