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61st Year, No. 276
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, November 19, 1949
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Pre-Session
Of Legislature
May Be Called
Organization to
Reduce Length of
Assembly Proposed
By JAMES D. OLSON
Russia Forces
Rearming of
West Europe
U. S. Tells U N
Intentions of Soviet
Feared Everywhere
18 Survivors
Of 20 Aboard
B-29 Rescued
Enlarged Area
For Capitol
Group Sought
Plan Submitted by
State to Local
Planning Boards
By STEPHEN A. STONE
The practical and the ideal are
the opposing forces in plans for
development of the capitol area.
It is fight for the ideal against
those who want to make money
on their property.
The state capitol planning
commission and the Salem long
range planning commission may
set up the ideal plan, but, wheth
er agreeing with them or not, the
city planning and zoning com
mission and the city council
have to face and solve the prob
lems. But the differences aren't
sharp. All the agencies want a
development that is beautiful to
the eye and architecturally
sound. No actual controversy
has developed.
Joint Conference
' That pretty well summarizes
a joint conference by men and
women from all these agencies
that met Friday afternoon at
City hall. Robert White, chair
man of the city planning and
zoning commission, called the
meeting, and Robert W. Sawyer
of Bend, chairman of the state
capitol commission, presided,
and offered the plan around
which the discussion centered.
C. A. McClure, engineer for
the Salem long-range commis
sion, and secretary of the state
group, said the former agreed
with the latter in the plan,
which was before the meeting in
a printed report and pictorially.
And as proof that Salem does
not look at the matter selfishly,
but rather from the point of
view of the whole state, the
long-range planning commission
was given credit for having or
iginated the plan later adopted
by the state group. AH mem
bers of the long-range commis
sion are Salem men.
Ask Council Approval
It was indicated that the city
council will shortly be asked to
give its approval to the plan,
which proposes the extension of
the capitol area north to D
street between Winter and Cap
itol with restrictions on type of
buildings and businesses in the
fringe of the area.
(Concluded an Pate 14. Column 1)
Fog Blankets
All Northwest
(Br the AMoclittd Ptmj)
Fog again blanketed western
Oregon and Washington today
and moved into the Inland Em
pire country.
Seattle was the only major
airport open, although visibil
ity and ceiling there were re
stricted. By a quirk, .Troutdale
airport, east of Portland was
clear. United and Western Air
. Lines landed planes at that field.
Northwest canceled its Portland
flights and expected its first in
coming plane in early" afternoon.
At mid-morning, tne log e -
can lifting at Spokane, but Lew
iston, Yakima, Walla Walla and
Pendleton remained covered
There was a slight drizzle and
freezing temperatures in the
Pendleton area.
Western Oregon's Willamette
vallev had the thickest fog blan
ket. Highway traffic was virtual
ly halted.
The weather bureau said the
fog, after lifting this afternoon,
would descend again tonight. '
Lostine Man Killed
By Moose Hunter
Enterprise, Ore.,' Nov. 19 11
-J-Allen C. Gebhart, Medford,
was held in the Wallowa coun
tv Jail today, accused of man
slaughter following the elk-
hunting death of Reed Wade, 32,
Lostine.
Bond was set at $5000 for
Gebhart. who admitted firing a
hot in the isolated Grand Ronde
river country yesterday where
Wade was shot fatally.
District Attorney Keith Wil-
on said Gebhart would appear
before the Wallowa county
grand lury. probably next
month.
An inquest scheduled yester
day was postponed until later
today, pending arrival of wit
nesses who still had not made
their way out of the wilderness
where the shooting occurred. It
was in the area between Minam
nd Troy.
A pre-session meeting of the
state legislature in Salem, one
month in advance of the opening
of the regular session, for the
purpose of organization of the
house and senate and appoint'
ment of legislative committees,
Is being explored by the interim
committee on legislative proced
ire.
Such a plan, proponents told
members of- the committee,
known as Oregon's Little Hoover
committee, meeting late Friday,
would eliminate much of the
waste of time during the first
several weeks of the legislative
session.
Curtailment of length of ses
sions plus reducing the ever-increasing
expense of the assem
bly, is the job entrusted to the
committee.
State Senator Eugene E.
Marsh, chairman, said the pre
session caucus would also be the
means of calling in heads of all
state departments to inform
them of the need of introducing
any desired legislation during
the first week of the session.
Must Cut Duration
"It is exceedingly important,"
Marsh said, "that something is
done to cut down the duration
of the sessions. Men elected to
the legislature just can't afford
to be away from their businesses
or professional duties for four
months at the present rate of
compensation."
(Concluded on Pure 5 Column 8)
Nut Growers
To Get Subsidies
Washington, Nov. 19 U.R The
agriculture department has an
nounced it will pay out more
than $1,000,000 in subsidies to
divert surplus nuts away from
consumers.
The subsidies will be paid to
producers for converting surplus
walnuts into drying oils for
paints and for converting sur
plus almonds into edible oils.
Other diversionary uses also
will qualify for the subsidy pay
ments.
The department said it is con
sidering a similar program for
filberts. It said that the record
crops of walnuts and almonds
would seriously depress grower
prices if allowed to enter normal
markets.
The diversion program will
leave consumers with more wal
nuts and almonds than last sea
son and consumer prices are ex
pected to be "reasonable," the
department said.
Officials said the subsidy rate
probably will amount to about
70 per cent of the price produc
ers will get for nuts sold in reg
ular markets. The subsidy is
designed to offset the low prices
returned for nuts moved into un
usual and diversionary chan-
jncls
The payments will be made
on diversion of 5,500,000 pounds
of walnut kernels and 5.000,000
pounds of shelled almonds. The
subsidy rates will be 10 cents
pound for unshelled walnuts
containing 25 per cent kornals
and 14 cents per pound for un
shelled almonds containing 46
per cent kernel.
Stay of Execution Asked
By One Taxicab Driver
Motion for stay of execution vas made orally before Circuit
Judge Duncan Saturday morning
for John Hoffert, sentenced this
penitentiary on a charge of contributing to the delinquency
of a minor. He is one of several taxicab drivers involved.
The court set December 13 at
10 a. m. as time for hearing
Williams indieating he wished
to make a showing for parole or
probation for Hoffert.
Glen Whitesides, a soldier in
the army air force, entered a plea
of guilty Saturday morning to
contributing to the delinquency
of the same minor and on re
quest of Deputy District Attor
ney Gordon Moore the matter
of his sentence was continued to
November 25 at 9:30 a. m.
First Lt. Richard Spooner of
the air force at McChord field.
Tacoma. appeared to ask thatWtuld naturally assume if she
Whitesides be returned to his I was minor she would be pick-
command to be dealt with there,
He said that in event of imposi -
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Veep and Bride
On Honeymoon
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 19UR
America's favorite sweet
hearts, Vice-president Alben W.
Barkley and his bride, were
headed southward today to hon
eymoon at a hidden "Shangri-
la."
Police, the press, and even
their friends had lost track of
the newly weds. They were re
ported to have stopped in Cairo,
111., last night.
The vice-president and the
new Mrs. Barkley wouldn't tell
anyone their honeymoon plans.
Before leaving. Barkley was ask
ed if it would be cold in his
Shangri-la." He grinned broad
ly and said: "We'll make it warm
when we get there."
He said the honeymoon spot
s a romantic secret. We're
just going to strike out, stop
when we please, where we
please. But I hope to be back in
Washington in time for the sec
ond session of the 81st con
gress." .
The self-styled 71-year-old
"Veep" and .his attractive 38-
year-old bride were last seen
heading down Illinois highway
3 in the convertible he gave her
as a wedding present. The car
was jam-packed with luggage.
They may eventually end up
in Florida where President and
Mrs. Truman may meet them lat
er in the month.
It was significant that the
road the Barkleys took was in
the general direction of Padu
cah, Ky., the Veep's hometown.
Gordon Interested
In Senator's Franchise
Joe Gordon of the Cleveland
Indians has indicated consider
able interest in the Salem Sen
ator franchise, having conferred
with Bill Mulligan of the Port
land Beavers this week.
Gordon was in Salem for the
recent Western International
league meeting. He started ne
gotiations with Mulligan when
the group of Salem business
men headed by Howard Maple
decided they did not want to
purchase the franchise or the
ball park.
Gordon, owner of a hardware
store in Eugene and a former
University of Oregon athlete, ex
pects to continue his talks with
Mulligan next week. As an in
fielder he played with the New
York Yankees for a number of
years prior to joining the In
dians. by Bruce Williams, attorney
week to 16 months in the state
tion of a sentence of a year or
more the man a air force enlist
ment would be ended and he
would be barred from further
service. He said Whitesides had
a good record and is serving un
der reenlistment.
Whitesides himself told the
court that he was amazed to
discover the girl was a minor.
"I saw her out during early
morning. She was visiting in
taverns and at the bus depot and
-carrying whiskey," he said. "lleadcrs of Protestant churchcsiOO B-29s to be wrecked In
de up and taken care of by the
,police."
It's Mr. and Mrs. Now Vice President Alben W. Barkley
proudly waves his hat as he emerges from church holding
hands with his bride, the former Mr. Curleton S. Hadley. The
ceremony was performed in St. John's Methodist church, at
St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Albea Godbold, pastor, is between couple
in background. (AP Wirephoto)
Mystery Veils Girl
Victim in Vice Ring
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
Just what sort of a girl is the 14-year-old whose activities
have shocked staid Salem residents?
Why did a child hardly outgrowing the doll-playing stage
plunge into such a staggering series of affairs?
These are the questions most frequently being asked in ref-
'erence to the taxicab vice case
Detroit Plane
Crash Kills Pilot
Detroit, Nov. 19 MR) A DC-3
cargo plane plunged in flames
into a home near City airport
today, killing the pilot and in
juring the five persons in the
house. i -;. :- " '--"rt
The plane, its engines splut
tering, slammed into the roof of
another house first and then
smashed in a cloud of white
smoke into the doorway of the
second.
The co-pilot was missing in
the smoking wreckage.
The ship, a twin engine plane
from Tetersborough, N. J., nos
ed half way through the new
frame and brick home.
An off-duty fireman, who liv
ed directly .behind the home.
pulled a middle-aged woman, a
girl, and an elderly lady from
the house. All were injured.
The crash occurred about a mile
from City airport as the plane
was coming in for a landing,
Taken to Saratoga hospital
were R. R. Perry, 44; his wife,
Edna, about 40: a daughter,
Judy, 14; Harold Witzky, 36, and
his mother, Mrs. Bertha Witzky.
Auto Outlook
Held Spotty
Detroit, Nov. 19 (VP) Because
of the steel strike the automobile
industry faces a spotty future,
A spot check showed today
that manufacturers, with steel
supplies short, will be going
through with curtailments as
planned before the strike ended.
It isn't all bad, but it s not
good, either.
Production of 1950 models is
being interfered with.
plants are closed, others will be
closed.
The exact loss is undetermin
ed, but it will be extensive.
One source in the industry
places it at 475.000 vehicles.
Seven car makers have
switched over to 1950 models.
Only one of these Nash Motors
is now closed. Nash started
making 1950 models last Sep
tember.
Another,
Pontiac division of
General Motors corporation, will
close Wednesday, however, just
two weeks after putting its 1950
car into production.
The other new models include
Fords and Mcrcurys produced
by the Ford Motor company, and
Hudsons, Studcbakers and Pack
ards. All have continued in pro
duction through the steel strike
and shortage, with relatively
little or no curtailment.
But Ford closed down its
Lincoln division Nov. 11
Television in Churches
Syracuse, N.Y., Nov. 19 IF)
Now the churches are going in
I for television. Twelve national
put on a show yesterday. They
produced, directed and acted in
a 15-minules program on a Sy
racust television station.
which has tapered off to court
actions for the men who have
already been caught. No new
arrests have been made, but
from police activity it was ap
parent the case was not closed.
The answers to the questions
about the girl are hard to find
Her identity, because she is a
juvenile, must be kept from the
public. She is not available for
interviews.
The Oregon Juvenile system Is
designed to cloak such children
in anonymity in the hope that
their future life can be different
Descriptions of the girl have
been given by men who knew
her. Her mother provided back
ground information. Juvenile
authorities have made explana
tions. The girl herself, in tell
ing the most intimate details of
her life, has provided additional
clues.
The cabbies, to a man, have
given the same description. She
has been pictured as the aggres
sor, worldly-wise. But these de
scriptions amount to an explana
tion for their own actions.
Her mother, separated from
her husband, claimed that until
recently the girl had been well
behaved. She continually won
praise at home and from friends
for her motherly care of a 14-months-old
baby sister. It was
only recently ihe showed signsl
of wanting to discard these re
sponsibilities.
Mrs. Nona Whie, the county
juvenile worker to whom the
girl was taken by city police,
adds this:
(Concluded on Put I! Column 1)
Order B-29s to
Be Grounded
Washington, Nov. 19 IP) A
part of the nation's B-29 bomber
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tigation into a series of crashes
which have killed at least 120
men in the past 12 weeks.
Gen. Hoyt S. Vandcnbcrg
chief of staff, Issued the ground
ing order last night.
A few hours before, the latest
crash had killed five of a nine
man crew aboard a Supcrfort
rcss which was taking off to
help search for the 20 men
. . .. .
Six accidents have occurred
in the past 16 days, with a known
death toll of 35 and with the 20
men aboard the lost B-29 still
missing.
Available unofficial records
show that since August 26, when
16 crewmen died a!tr an engine
caught fire in a takeoff form
Hickha field, Hawaii, 27 Super
fortresses have gone down with
a death toll of 120.
While the air force declined to
say at this time how many acci
dents have occurred since the
war or during the last year, it
once estimated that during a
given year it could expect about
crashes. This included ground ac
cidents or crash landings which
resulted in no casualties but
Imade the airplant useless.
Lake Success, Nov. 19 (IP)
The United States told the Unit
ed Nations It is helping western
European countries re-arm be
cause they fear the intentions of
the Soviet Union.
Assistant Secretary of State
John D. Hickerson spoke out
bluntly in debate on a proposed
world census of ordinary (non-
atomic) arms in the UN Assem
bly's special political committee.
He replied to Soviet charges
that the U. S. opposes extending
tne census to atomic arms, as
proposed by Russia, because it
is preparing itself and western
Europe for a new war instead of
for disarmament.
Opposed to Arming
Ihe nations of western Eur
ope are not arming themselves
because they are opposed to dis
armament," he told the commit
tee. "The United Slates is not as
sisting them in their efforts be
cause the United States is op
posed to disarmament.
'The are rearming themselves.
and the United States is helping
them to do so, because they fear
the intentions of the Soviet gov
ernment."
Yesterday the United Nations
General Assembly beat down
Russian opposition once again
and approved an arms embargo
against Greece s Cominform
neighbors.
(Concluded on Pare 5. Column S)
Crommelin Case
Ordered 'Closed'
Washington, Nov. 19 WP) Ad
miral Forrest Sherman, chief of
naval operations, said today that
tne case of Capt. John Cromme
lin is closed."
Officers said that means the
reprimand administered to the
fiery air officer stands, and he
does not get the court martial
he has demanded.
The case grew out of Cromme-
lin's unauthorized disclosure of
navy documents relating to the
controversy over the air force's
B-36 bomber.
Sherman's office told reporters
that in the original letter of
reprimand Capt. Crommelin was
given an opportunity to reply
and "he has made that reply."
That closes the case, it was
said. -
In his reply, made public yes
terday, Crommelin put the navy
on the spot with new charges
that Pentagon "zealots" with a
"lust for power" have clamped
nazi-type controls over the de
fense department.
The 48-year old war hero in
sisted yesterday that either the
reprimand should be erased from
his otherwise sparkling record
or he should be allowed to ex
plain his actions in a court martial.
They'll Take the Cake Vice President and Mrs. Alben W.
Barkley hold kife to cut their wedding cake at reception, as
bride gestures with hand on which she wears her wedding
ring. On sash of her blouse she wears fan-shaped diamond
clips. Reception was at home of Mrs. T. M. Sayman, in St.
Louis, Mo. (AP Wirephoto)
7 Year Old Glcnda Joyce
Brisbois of Burley, Idaho, as
saulted and killed by Ned
Butterfield, 16, who threw her
body into a canal.
Admits Killing
Girl (or Thrill
Twin Falls, Idaho, Nov. 19 (P)
Neil (Butterfingcrs) Butterfield,
16-year-old high school athlete.
confessed last night to the thrill
slaying of seven-year-old Glcnda
Joyce Brisbois.
The youth, who was arrested
as he fled west in a stripped
down "hot rod," told officers he
killed the child "just to see
someone die."
Sheriff Saul Clark of Cassia
county said the youth admitted
orally that he slugged the little
blonde first grader from Burley,
Idaho, with a tire jack before
throwing her body into a canal.
But the sheriff said he denied
that he raped the girl.
Glenda, fully clothed, was
found in the canal Thursday
She had three wounds on her
head. She was last seen Wedncs
day evening when she entered
an automobile driven by a man
Officers announced following an
autopsy last night that the girl
had been sexually assaulted.
Shortly after Butterfield made
his confession, he was taken un
der heavy guard 27 miles cast
of Twin Falls just inside the
Cassia county line. There, in a
field of sagebrush beside the
highway he was arraigned be
fore Probate Judge Henry W.
Tucker of Cassia county on a
first degree murder charge.
He waived preliminary hear
ing and was remanded to cus
tody of the Twin Falls county
sheriff.
The open air courtroom was
within the legal limits of the
county where the crime was
committed. Officers feared to
take him into Burley because
of high feeling among citizens
of the town of 3500.
50,000 Jobless in
Oregon Says Board
The state unemployment com
pensation commission reported
today there were indications that
the number of jobless in Ore
gon will fall short of the post
war peak reached last Febru
ary. Forty-five thousand persons
were seeking jobs in Oregon as
of Nov. 1. Subsequent layoffs has
boosted the total of unemployed
close to 50,000 at the present
time.
2 Went Down with
Plane Rafts Spotted
385 Miles Off Bermuda
Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 19
(U.Ri The U.S. air force announc
ed today the rescue of 18 sur
vivors of a B-29 superfortress
forced down in the Atlantie
Wednesday, and said the other
two of the 20 men aboard went
down with the plane.
The survivors were found
aboard two large life rafts
northeast of Bermuda more than
75 hours after their big plane,
lost in murky weather and its
instruments crippled, smacked
down into the sea.
The air force's greatest rescut
mission since the war was re
warded on its fourth day. A B-17
rescue plane spotted the rafts
385 miles northeast of Bermuda,
radioed the tidings, and a war
ship raced to the scene and pick
ed up the surviving airmen.
Search Plane Missing
Ironically, the search did not
end as soon as the survivors
were found. A search plane was
four hours overdue, and was
being sought. Officers empha
sized that this did not mean it
was down, but merely that It
was out of touch with the air
base here, as was the case fre
quently during the search in
which scores of planes took part.
An official announcement said
the men were found 75 hours
and 35 minutes after they made
a forced landing in the Atlantic
off Bermuda near the end of a
non-stop flight from California.
A B-17 air - sea rescue plane
from Kindley field found the
survivors aboard two big life
rafts some 385 miles northeast
of Bermuda.
Picked Up by Destroyer
A destroyer raced to the scene,
reached it at midafternoon, and
began picking up the survivors,
according to the first fragmen
tary reports radioed to the head
quarters of the air force's great
est rescue mission since the war.
The air force did not know the
nationality of the destroyer.
The first reports did not men
tion the condition of the sur
vivors.
Lt. Edward W. Lynch of Hart
ford, Conn., piloted the B-17
which found the two life raftj
drifting in the Atlantic along
the lanes where the search had
been concentrated since debris
and flares were sighted and
radio distress calls heard.
The B-17 parachuted a life
boat to the men aboard the rafts.
(Concluded on Pate S, Column 7)
Virtual End to
Big Steel Strike
(Br OntlKl Prru)
The CIO United Steel Work.
ers announced a virtual end to
the nation-wide steel strike to
day, and a threatened shipping
tie-up was postponed f or almost
a month.
Meanwhile, coal mine oper
ii tors claimed they hold the up
per hand in their dispute with
John L. Lewis, and planned to
settlement overtures of their
own.
Frank Amos, chairman of the
northern coal industry's wage
committee, said, "to hell with
him."
The While House said no act
ion would be taken in the coal
I dispute during the weekend.
Lewis has threatened to renew
the walkout December I
Leaders of the CIO Steel
Workers at Pittsburgh announc
ed settlement with Crucible Steel
Corp , Ihe last major hold-out
in the industry, and with Am
erican Rolling Mill Co., with 8,
68.1 workc-j in six plants.
Settlements called tor the con
troversial non-contributory pen
sion. Crucible Steels 12.500 em
ployes began returning to plants
in Pennsylvania, New York and
New Jersey after the firm sign
ed a $l00-a-month pension
nurrcmcnt based on the Bethle
hem Steel Corp. contract that
set the pattern for labor peace
in the industry.
Crhco Prices Cut
Cincinnati. Nov. 19 (i The
Proctor and Gamble company
today announced a reduction of
a cent and quarter a pound in
Ihe wholesale price of Crisco
vegetable shortening. The cut
brought the price to Its lowest
level since October 1946, the
company said.
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