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Supreme Court
Denies Appeal
By Red Leader
Eisler Case Dismissed
Other Actions by
Tribunal
Washington, Nov. 21 (JP) The
aupreme court today tossed out
an appeal by Gerhart Eisler, the
communist leader who jumped
bail and fled the country while
the justices were considering his
case.
Eisler appealed to the supreme
court from a contempt of con
gress conviction. He sat in the
court chamber while lawyers
debated his case earlier this
year. But he stowed away on .a
Polish ship last May and fled to
England, and then to Germany,
before a decision was reached.
The court puzzled for a month
over what to do in such a unique
circumstance. Finally the jus
tices voted 5 to 4 to put the case
in a sort of suspended status. It
was taken off the docket, but
technically remained before the
court.
Dismisses Anti-trust Charges
Recently, Solicitor General
Philip B. Perlman suggested
that the whole business be
thrown out of court. Perlman
noted that Eisler has taken pub
lic office in the Soviet zone of
Germany and shows no signs of
ever returning here. He urged
that the appeal which had been
granted Eisler should now be fi
nally dismissed.
(Concluded on Pare 5. Column II
28 Children on
Missing Plane
Oslo, Norway, Nov. 21 VP)
A plane carrying 28 undernour
ished Jewish refugee children
from North Africa was missing
today, believed crashed some
where in tangled forest coun
try near Oslo.
The plane with 35 aboard 28
children, three nurses and four
crewmen sent its last radio
message about 6 p.m. last night
as it neared Oslo's Fornebu air:
port. Soon afterwards a sharp
flash of light, followed by an ex
plosion was seen near Gjersjoen
lake a mile southeast of Oslo.
Hundreds of searchers strug
gled through the trees and
swamps in the lake region dur
ing the night and this morning
searching for a trace of the miss
ing craft.
The 28 children were in a
group of 55 North African Jews
from Tunis being flown to Nor
way for six months of rest and
rehabilitation before traveling
on to Israel. Most were between
six and 12 years of age.
Another plans with 27 chil
dren arrived safely earlier in the
afternon from T'mi- ""
lng plane, a twin-engined DC-3
transport, was opti-.
Dutch company. Aero Holland.
Visibility was obscured by
clouds as the incoming plane re
ported it was over Oslo only a
mile or two from the capital.
Aero Holland, owners of the
plans, announced at The Hague,
Netherlands, that the plane was
considered lost.
California Picked
Rose Bowl Game
Los Angeles. Nov. 21 IIP)
California v. the unanimous
choice for 'he west's representa
tive in the Rose Bowl.
The announcement was made
b y Conference Commissioner
Victor O. Schmidt, after a tele
graphic poll of all the members.
After whipping Stanford in
the finale Saturday, California's
selection to oppose Ohio State
Jan. 2 was considered a mere
formality. The Bears went unde
fcated through 10 games this
season, seven of them in the
conference.
Heavy Valley Fog
Jo Continue Tuesday
The fog blanketing the valley
region the past few days is due
to continue through tonight and
Tuesday, anyway, reports the
weather bureau, with prospect
of some clearing Tuesday after
noon.
Cool temperatures will contl
nue, too, the minimum tonight
due to hit 32 with local frosts.
The minimum Sunday also was
32 and this morning was 33.
Warnings agiin are given to
motorists traveling at night
stating only emergency travel
should be undertaken because of
CVA Hearing
Put Off for
Perhaps a Year
Congress to Be Busy
For Months on More
Important Legislation
Washington, Nov. 21 UP) The
possibility was expressed today
that the hearings iu the Pacific
northwest on the administra
tion's bill to set up a Colun.bia
valley administration may be
put off for as long as a year.
At any rate, it appeared
doubtful that they would get
underway in January or Febru
ary, as had been hoped by some
of the interested parties.
Senator Chavez (D.N.M.).
chairman of the senate public
works committee, now is in Eu
rope. Before he departed he said
he would determine the date of
the hearings to be held in
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
Montana after his return next
month.
Date Not Yet Settled
Chavez is expected back the
first week of December, but his
staff believes he will go direct
to his home in New Mexico.
They ventured he would not set
the date for the northwest hear
ings until he returns from New
Mexico, and possibly, not until
after congress reconvenes.
Committee attaches said the
committee might not be able to
set a date until after congress
convenes because all members
must concur in the date.
Informed persons also pointed
out that congress probably will
be busy with important legisla
tion at the start of the session
and that committee members
would be loath to be absent
This, they said, might make it
impossible for the committee
to get away in January or Feb
ruary and might even make it
impossible for the members to
leave until late spring or early
summer.
(Concluded on Page 5 Column 8)
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Cul Pensions
Olympia, Wash., Nov. 21 (IP)
Public welfare grants in Wash
ington state will be cut begin
ning January 1.
The cuts, predicted for some
time, where confirmed today by
Roderic Olzendam, state direc
tor of social security.
He did not say how deep the
cuts would be but he sent pre
liminary instructions to all coun
ty welfare administrators to pre
pare for them.
The cuts will affect 144,000
persons who receive aid direct
ly or indirectly from one of the
following social security pro
grams: Old age assistance, aid to
dependent children, and general
assistance.
Approximately 850 blind per
sons will not be affected by the
cuts. They will continue to re
ceive their full grants.
William K. Moors, assistant
director of social security, said
the cuts were being made for
two reasons:
1 To keep expenditures ol
the department within the am
ount of money made availaole
by the last legislature.
2 To make the availaole
funds last throughout the bi
ennium which ends March 31
1951.
Taxi Drivers Facing
Expulsion from Union
Expulsion from the AFL teamsters union was faced Monday
by taxi drivers nabbed in connection with the vice case in
volving a teenaged schoolgirl as
case was taken before district
The promise oi permanent expulsion for the taxi drivers was
made by Ward Graham. secre-
tary of the Salem local. He said
the order would go into effect
pending outcome of court ac
tion. Those who may be found In
nocent will be reinstated while
those who are found guilty will
be permanently barred from the
union This order from the la-
bot organization would supple
ment court actions for Maurice
Murdock and Al Coulson two
men who have already been sen
tenced
Although the men were re
leased, the court ruled they were
not to drive for hire during a
three-year probationary period
The only other cab driver sen
tenced was John Hoffcrt who
faced I 16-month penitentiary
term.
Dick Bakke, 2040 Laurel, a
50-ycar-old salesman for Dick-
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Fog Blamed for
Fatal Auto Crash
Funeral arrangements were
completed Monday for a 21-year-old
youth Wallace Thornton
Taylor of 1970 John street
who was crushed when his 1932
model roadster hurtled off the
Pacific highway at the inter
section of Lancaster drive.
State police who investigated
the accident believed that Tay
lor had been driving north on
Lancaster drive and, failing to
realize he had reached the in
tersection as a result of the fog
continued across the highway.
His car was a total loss. Tay
lor, the only occupant, was toss
ed free of the vehicle after it
jumped a ditch and struck a
tree. He died en route to the
hospital.
Survivors are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Sol B Taylor of Salem;
sister, Carolyn Taylor of Salem;
two brothers, Oliver Taylor and
John Charles Taylor of Salem;
grandparents, Mr and Mrs.
Ralph Johnson of Ordnance,
Ore., and Mrs. Madge Taylor of
Salem.
Services will De held at the
Virgil T. Golden mortuary Wed
nesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
with Rev. Dudley Strain offi
ciating. Interment in the City
View cemetery.
Soviet Increases;
Albanian Force
Belgrade, Nov. 20 VP Re
sponsible sources say Russia has
increased the number of her
military men stationed in Alban
ia to an estimated 12,000 to
15,000, about twice as many as
were there four months ago.
The reports, apparently auth
entic, came from responsible
non-Yugoslav sources who said
however, they could not give
the exact number of Russian
forces in the little Soviet satel
lite which is surrounded by Yu
goslavia, Greece and the adri
atic sea.
The reports said the Russian
newcomers to Albania appeared
to be technicians, officers skilled
in guerrilla warfare and train
ing experts.
Some sources here thought the
influx of Russians might be part
of the war of nerves against
Yugoslavia and Premier Marshal
Tito. Others said such Russian
reinforcements could indicate
plans for guerrilla hit-and-run
warfare against TUo, with Al
bania as a base.
the 14th man arrested in the
court.
crin Dick s used car lot, was
taken before district court Mon
day morning. He waived prelim
inary examination and was held
for higher court action on a
charge of contributing to the de
linquency of a minor.
Bakke's employei, Richard
Roy Carter, was rrrested earlier
in the case. Bakke, like all of
the men involved in the affair
with the exception of Terrle
Conway, signed a confession to
the charge for police.
Conway and Troy Crabtrce,
both cabbies, were to appear in
district court Monday afternoon
for a preliminary hearing on
pleas of Innocent.
Meanwhile, police were con
tinuing their efforts to locate
the fifteenth man involved in
the affair thus far. and their
.investigation was continuing.
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Death Shrouded by Fog Wreck of 1932 Ford where Wal
lace Taylor, 21, 1970 John street, was fatally injured late
Sunday night when his roadster left the highway at the
intersection of Lancaster road and 99E.
18 B-29 Survivors Tell
Of 3 Days on life Rafts
Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 21 u.R All 18 American airmen who
spent three nightmarish days and nights on two storm-tossed
rubber life rafts after their B-29 Superfortress came down in the
Atlantic off Bermuda, probably will be out of the hosptial in a
Poles Arrest
French Envoy
Paris, Nov. 21 lP) France
and Poland were ,on sorely
strained diplomatic terms today
after the arrest in Warsaw of a
French consulate employe and
the retaliatory detention in
Paris of a Polish airliner and its
crew.
The Frenchman, Andre Simon
Robineau, was charged with es
pionage involving two other
French diplomats, Aymar De
Bressin de Mere and Fernand
Reneaux. members of the staff
of the French embassy in War
saw. Robineau was arrested Friday
as he was boarding a Polish
plane.
From Warsaw it was reported
the government there had or
dered his two alleged accom
plices to leave Poland. They
were scheduled to leave for
Paris by train today.
Because they had not been of
ficially notified of Robineau's
arrest, French authorities filed
homicide charges against the
seven crew members of the Po
lish airliner that was to have
brought Robineau to Paris. The
crew at first said here that
Robineau had boarded the
plane.
Their plane was impounded.
The crew was held for a time
at the interior ministcry, then
was allowed to go to a hotel,
under restriction.
The Polish embassy filed a
formal protest against the de
tention with the foreign minis
try. The note demanded the
crew's release.
Panama Police
Oust President
Panama, Panama, Nov. 21 WP
This little Central American
country, site of the Panama Ca
nal, changed presidents over the
week-end in a bloodless night
time revolt staged by police
force leaders.
President Daniel Chanis, surgeon-politician
who has been
president less than four months.
resigned after helmeted police
surrounded his palace. Vice Pre
sident Roberto F. Chiari, 44, was
sworn in as president at 6 a.m.
Sunday.
Emerging as the new "strong
man" of Panama's turbulent pol
itics was Police Chief Col. Jose
Rcmon. 41.
Chanis was swept out of of
fice because he tried to fire Re
mon and two of his top aides in
the 2000-man police department
that is Panama's only armed
rr.
Instead of resigning, Rcmon
ordered out his police and iso
lated the presidential palace. Ra
dio broadcasting was suspend
ed, newspapers were ordered to
withhold their Sunday editions
and tele phone service was
stopped.
This happened Saturday night.
By 4:30 a.m. Sunday before
most of Panama's 700,000 Inha
bitants knew what was happen
ing Chanis had bowed to the
police chief's ultimatum and re
ind to avert threatened bloodshed.
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week, their doctor said today.
Col. Dan R. Sewell, Kindley
field surgeon, said none of the
survivors suffered any serious
injuries. But all need lime to
recover from exhaustion, shock
salt water sores, swollen limbs,
bruises and cuts, he, said.
The 18 survivors were landed
in Bermuda and taken to St.
George's hospital yesterday aft
er their rescue Saturday after
noon by a Canadian destroyer
which battled 60-foot waves to
reach them.
Bearded, haggard and salt
burned, the 18 men told of their
ordeal as they lay in a row of
white beds in the hospital.
Their voices weak and shaky
they told how two of their com
panions were swept away and
drowned, how one of their life
rafts overturned three times,
how they "prayed and thought"
while search planes seeking
them roared overhead lost in
low clouds.
They said they watched, al
most in despair, as ships passed
without spotting them.
Lt. Col. Jonn Grable. Jr.,
commander of the B-29 and of
the 2nd bombing squadron, said
he flew around and around last
Wednesday seeking Bermuda
under every cloud after his ra
dio compass failed on the 4100
mile non-stop flight from Cali
fornia. When he exhausted his gaso
line, he brought the piano down.
in zu-foot waves.
"It was every man for him
self," he said.
Street Car Conductor
Shoots 3 Negroes
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 21 "Pi
A streetcar conductor shot
three Negro passengers last night
after one of them took a scat in
the section reserved for whites,
police reported.
Detective R. A. Macmurdo
said two of the men were wound
ed accidentally. The third, Sam
my Lire Willinms, 34, suffcrd
a serious wound of the abdomen.
Conductor M. A. Weeks pro
tested when Williams sat down
in the white section, the detec
tive said. An altercation and the
shooting followed.
Amos Crosby, 24, was wound
ed in the leg and John Garling
ton, 3rd, 21, suffered a hip
wound.
Weeks was not arrested last
night. Detective Macmurdo said
he is still investigating the inci
dent. Streetcar conductors are
allowed to carry weapons for
their protection.
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U.N. Voles for
Independence
Of Liberia '52
Italian Somaliland
Also Slated for
Freedom in 10 Years
New York, Nov. 21 UP) The
United Nations assembly voted
decisively today to make an in
dependent nation of Libia, Ita
ly's biggest prewar African col
ony, by 1952.
This was the major part of a
three point program for dispo
sal of Mussolini s old overseas
empire.
The Libian territory, on the
south shore of the Mediterran
ean, was wrested from Italian
hands by Britain's Field Marshal
Montgomery in his historic drive
from Alamein to Italy against
German Field Marshal Rommel
in the second World war.
The vote on Libian independ
ence was 49 to 0, with 9 abstain
ing. The decision of the assem
bly is final, since the United
States, Russia, Britain and
France agreed in the Italian
peace treaty to accept the as
sembly's recommendations on
the disposition of the Italian
colonies.
Somaliland to Wait
' Under the UN program, Ital
ian Somaliland also is slated for
independence, but the- assembly
decided Somaliland must wait
ten years to prepare the people
for self-government.
Details of Plan
1. Libia will be independent
by Jan. 1, 1952, and eligible for
U. N. membership after that,
with a government uniting the
provinces of Circnaica, Tripoli
tan ia and the Fezzan.
2. Italian Somaliland will be
independent by early 1960, after
serving under a U. N. trustee
ship administered by Italy and
aided by Colombia, Egypt and
the Philippines.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
American Held
By Hungary
Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 21
HP) The U.S. legation said to
day it was asking the Hungarian
government about the fate of an
American Telephone company
executive reported arrested Fri
day by Hungarian police.
The legation confirmed that
Robert A. Vogclcr, Jr., 38, as
sistant vice president of the In
ternational Telephone and Tele
graph company, left Budapest
by automobile Friday for Vien
na and had not been heard from
since.
In Vienna, Vogclcr's wife said
she believed her husband was
being held incommunicado by
the Hungarians. She said she
had no idea why he might be un
der arrest.
Vogcler, I. T. & T. represen
tative in eastern Europe, is the
son of Robert A. Vogcler, Sr., of
35-15 78th St., Jackson Heights,
Long Island.
Reports in Vienna that a sec
ond employe of I. T. it T. might
have been arrested In Budapest
were declared unfounded today
by officials at the American le
gation. These reports concerned Ed
gar Sanders, British accountant
for the company.
Legation officials said they
spoke to Sanders this morning
and that he had not been arrested.
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Host and Honor Guest President Truman (left), honor
guest at a dinner given by the Shah of Iran (right), chats
with the youthful Shah at the sumptous banquet table
in Washington's Shorcham hotel. The Shah is in tho U. S.
on a month-long goodwill tour. (Acmt Telcphoto)
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Gus Jerome Moisan
Ex-Mayor of
Gervais Dies
Gervais, November 21 Gus
Jerome Moisan, who served as
mayor of Gervais for 32 years
and was active in the Gervais
city government for 42 years,
died at a Salem hospital Sunday.
He had been in ill health for
several years.
Moisan, a member of an early
pioneer family, last January re
tired as mayor of Gervais after
32 years of continuous service
in that office, establishing a rec
ord for Oregon cities. He also
had served on the council of
that town and as city treasurer
and was a former postmaster.
Born on the donation land
claim of his father, G. T. Moisan
near Brooks, Moisan was the
grandson of Thomas Moisan,
who came to the northwest from
Montreal, Canada, with the Hud
son's Bay company. Gus Moi
sans father was born on the
land claim in 1841.
As a youngster Moisan at
atended Brooks schools and lat
er was graduated from Willam
ette university. He was married
to Bessie Stevens of Gervais,
who died in 1947.
- In the early 1900s Moisan
served s postmaster at Gervais.
Later he operated a grain busi
ness and constructed several
warehouses. From 1935 until his
retirement he had been in. the
real estate and insurance busi
ness.
Moisan was elected to the
Gervais city council in 1906.
Two years later he became treas
urer of that town and in 1916
under the town's new charter
took the office of mayor of Ger
vais. (Concluded on Pg i. Column SI
Austria Slashes
Schilling Value
Vienna, Nov. 21 M" Austria
devalued the schilling today.
The government announced
three new rates in relation to
the United States dollar.
The new rates become effec
tive at midnight tonight.
The new value f f the schil
ling will be as follows:
Tourist rate; 26 to the dollar.
Commercial rate, 21.36 to the
dollar.
Basic rate for import of most
Marshall plan goods, 14.4 to the
dollar. The previous rate was
about 10 to the dollar.
The Austrian National bank
closed before the announcement,
and will reopen Friday.
Austria is the 31st nation to
devalue its currency in the pa
rade begun by British cheapen
ing of the pound sterling from
$4.03 to $2.80.
Trustees Clash
Over Welfare
Fund Disposal
Lewis and Styles
Bridges at Odds Over '
Miners Pension Money-
Washington, Nov. 21 (P)
John L, Lewis and other trustees
met today to debate the spend
ing of what is left of the coal
miners' dwindling welfare fund.
The session cast Lewis and
Senator Styles Bridges (R-NH)
in the role of antagonists. In the
past, they have voted together
on most decisions.
This time, Lewis wants to
make payments for miners' hos
pital bills. Bridges has question
ed the legal right of the trustees
to spend welfare funds in the ab
sence of a formal mining con
tract. Lewis Suffers Cold
Lewis, suffering from a cold
and with his neck bundled in a
scarf, had nothing to say to re
porters when he went into the
closed door meeting. Bridges
told them: "I think it will be a
very interesting session."
Lewis represents the miners
on the board of trustees. Bridges
is the neutral trustee.
Former Federal Judge Charles
Dawson of Louisville the
third trustee was attending his
first session as the operators'
representative. He replaces Ezra
Van Horn who resigned.
It was learned that Bridges
intends to press the fight against
using funds collected since the
miners' contract expired June
30, and to cut out all payments
from money remaining in the
treasury from collections before
that. The fund is financed by a
20 cent royalty on each ton of
coal produced.
(Concluded on Page S, Column 8)
No War Threat
Seen by Monty
Washington, Nov. 21 (PI
Britain's Field Marshal Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein flew
into Washington today for a vis
it expected to bring a round of
unofficial but highly important
talks with America s top mili
tary men.
A twin-engine U. S. air force
transport plane brought Mont
gomery from New York. He
crossed the Atlantic in the Queen
Elizabeth.
Montgomery was met at the
airport by Lt. Gen. Matthew
B. Ridgway, U. S. army deputy
chief of staff. Ridgway was a
corps commander under Mont
gomery during World War Two.
"If there were any immediate
danger I wouldn't be here, would
I?" He asked with a grin on
his arrival on the liner Queen
Elizabeth.
The field marshal wore British
army battle dress, with nin
rows of ribbons, and the black
beret he has made famous.
Montgomery said he did not
intend to ask United States au
thorities for more American
troops in western Europe.
The number of troops in
western Europe has nothing to
do with me," he said.
He explained that the ques
tion of the number of troops was
political in nature and said "The
soldiers do what the politicians
tell them."
Marshal Montgomery declined
to comment on the position of
the atom bomb in the world
military picture. However, he
said he might have something to
say on this topic tomorrow when
he is a guest of the National
Press club in Washington.
Czechs Confiscate
U. S. News Bulletin
Prague, Nov. 21 iP) Czecho
slovakia's communist-controlled
government confiscated the U.
S. Information service's Czech
language bulletin today.
The bulletin reported the text
of an American-British resolu
tion In the United Nations ad
vocating "full freedom for ex
pression of political opposition"
as necessary to the preservation
of world peace.
Czechoslovak authorities told
the American embassy here they
regarded such sentiments as "an
alarming report which could
menace the security of the state
and public order."
Paragraph one of section 18
of the Czechoslovak constitution
reads: "Freedom of expression
is guaranteed."
the fog.
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