THE WEATHER HERE
CLOUDY WITH RAIN to
night, Wednesday. Partly clou
dy Wednesday, scattered show
ers. Slightly warmer tonight,
low near 42; slightly warmer
Wednesday, highest near 47,
Maximum yffiterdar, af: minimum to
day, 80. Total Jti-hour precipitation: .00!
for month J.lfll normal, 1.07, Season pre
cipitation, 10.04: normal, 11.83. Rver
height, 2.8 feet. (Report by U.S. Weather
Bureau.)
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6 1st Year, No. 290 SEffAStf
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, December 6, 1 J0 9iaM . . ages)
Price 5c
Stale Building
To Be Occupied
On February 1
Delay Caused by
Shortages Cement
Block Plant at School
By JAMES D. OLSON
p The new $2,500,000 state of
fice building, scheduled for com
pletion January 1, will not be
ready for occupancy until Feb.
ruary 1, Secretary of State Earl
T. Newbry Informed the board
of control Tuesday,
Delay in obtaining necessary
materials for interior work is
i largely responsible for the de-
lay, Newbry reported.
The tvard authorized pay
ment of $63,449.74 to the Sound
Construction and Engineering
company, contractors on the
building, for work performed
during November.
Cement Block Plant
James Lamb, superintendent
of the Woodburn Boys' school
was authorized to establish a
cement block plant on the school
campus.
Lamb informed the board that
the cement blocks could be used
in the construction of a number
of small buildings planned at the
school. However, he said, the
main object of the plant was to
provide work for boys in the
segregation section of the school.
Machinery for the project can
be purchased at a low cost, Lamb
said, and money is available in
the institution's budget to cover
the cost of setting up the proj
ect (Continued on Page S, Column 4)
Want Chiang
To Take Office
Chengtu, Dec. 8 VP) Clamor
for Chiang Kai-Shek to resume
presidency of nationalist China
, became noisier today as the
Eeds pushed within 90 miles of
Chengtu, , .
(From H6h:X6ng, Associated
Press Correspondent -Wayne
Richardson radioed that Presi
dent LI Tsung-Jen ordered na
tionalist officials in Chengtu to
carry on under his orders. Li,
flying to the United States for
treatment of a stomach ailment,
said he would "telegraph" in
structions and would return
within a month.)
Meantime, the war situation
was worsening. One Red force,
striking along the main highway
from recently deserted Chung
king, approached Neichiang, a
ferry crossing 90 miles southeast
of Chengtu.
Another thrust along a more
northerly highway towards
Sulnlng, 90 miles east of Cheng
tu. (A broadcast from the com
munists' Peiping radio said the
Reds captured Yungning, a
stronghold in southern Kwangsi
province. Yungning is only 90
miles from the Indochina bor
der. It was the provisional cap
ital and headquarters of nation
alist Gen. Pal Chong-Shi.
(Hong Kong newspapers said
provincial army units mutinied
at Yuki, 30 miles south of
Kunming. The mutineers could
threaten Kunming's rear. Their
strength was not given.)
.Ward Leaves Mukden
Enroufe Tientsin
Washington. Dec. 6 VP) An
gus Ward reported today that he
and his American consulate staff
have arranged to leave Mukden
at 3:45 a.m., Wednesday (11:45
a.m., PST, today).
About 23 members of the con
sulate staff and their dependents
expelled with Ward by the com
munists. are expected to board a
train for the 700-mile trip to
the north China port of Tient
sin. Ward's latest report was tele
phoned to U. S. Consul General
O. Edmund Clubb in Peiping and
relayed to the state department.
Storm Warnings
Flying on Coast
Seattle, Dec. 6 VP) Southeast
storm warnings were ordered
along the Washington and Ore
gon coasts at 9 a.m. today, south
ward to CaDe Blanco.
Southeast winds of 33 to ou
Ues on hour were forecast for
e Washineton coast this after
noon, with 30-to-40 mile winds
along the Oregon coast. A vel
ocity of 25 to 35 miles was fore-
east for the strait.
Elfsfrom Plans
Chang
es in Cily
Bus Schedules
Special Committee to
Work for Relieving
Traffic Congestion
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Changes in Salem street bus
schedules that will popularize
bus riding, and benefit the city
by relieving traffic congestion.
is the purpose of a special com
mittee appointed Tuesday by
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom.
On the committee are Mai
Rudd, chairman, Edward Schre-
der, Fred Gahlsdorf, Mrs. Ralph
E. Moody and Mrs. Mona R. Yo-
der. The mayor said he wanted a
committee that would represent
both the downtown business men
and the bus-riding public.
Authorized by Council
The committee was authoriz
ed by the city council Monday
night, Nov. 28, on motion of Al
derman Albert H. Gille and on
request of the mayor. This fol
lowed the reading of a letter
from G. G. Wendt, general man
ager of City Transit Lines, re
questing permission to extend
the bus terminal space on Com
mercial street south of Court to
the north property line of the
Salem Hardware company. This,
said Wendt, was necessary to
avoid double-parking the buses.
If the council could not grant
the request permanently, he ask
ed that it be done as a trial
through the holiday season, and
that the council did.
"As your chief of police will
confirm," said Wendt's letter,
the present loading zone does
not have sufficient length to ac
commodate the number of buses
scheduled. As a result one or two
buses are forced to stop in the
traffic lane, thereby congesting
traffic, with particularly bad re
sults during the hours of peak
traffic flow.
Nominal Changes
"With the Christmas shopping
season approaching, the relief to
traffic congestion by this move
would be of particular aid to
your police department and to
the traveling public ... In event
you have any doubts regarding
public reaction, may we suggest
a temporary trial during the
Christmas shopping period."
As schedules now are buses
all arrive at the terminal at ap
proximately the same time and
line up at the curb on the east
side of Commercial In the ap
proximately half a block allotted
by the city. The space does not
give room for all buses.
One means of relief suggested
is that bus schedules be changed
so arrivals at the terminal will
be scattered and not simultane
ous. The committee will confer
with the city manager, the may
or and with bus line representa
tives. "I think," said the mayor,
that we can relieve a lot of the
congestion downtown if we can
make bus riding more attractive.
have received many com
plaints."
Airmen's Bodies
Remain in Snow
Mr.riinrrl Air Force Base.
Wash., Dec. 6 OT The bodies of
six airmen who died in the
uri-rirap-0 of a C-54 on Mt. St.
Helens will remain amid the
snow and ice until next spring.
The decision to postpone fur
ther nrobins of the treacherous
slopes high on the mountain was
announced last night. Simulta
neously, air force officials dis
closed that a 12-man rescue crew
located three of the six bodies
Sunday but was unable to bring
them down the mountain.
The three airmen whose
bodies were found were identi
fied as Lt. Richard M. Fanning,
originally of Portland; 2nd Lt.
Thomas C. Hardisty, Sarasota,
Fla.; and SSgt. Richard C.
Hsmer, Rt. 1, Burton (Vashon
Island), Wash.
Searchers found the bodies at
the 8,000 foot level of the south-
urpst Washineton peak. A pro-
neller and a wheel section also
were found.
The nubile Information office
here reported the search party
onont Kunrlav nicnt on tne moun
tain at a timberline base camp
and did not arrive here until
late yesterday with word that
three bodies had been found.
Eighteen Convicts Await Jobs
T-iahteon convicts at the state
Itentiarv could be released
if they had Jobs waiting for
them, Gov. Douglas Mcrvay saia
ta-v Hp said all 18 nave Deen
paroled on condition they get
jobs.
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fill.
Truman Plans
Drive on Doctors
Washington, Dec. 8 VP) Dr.
Ernest E. Irons, president of the
American Medical Association,
said today the Truman adminis
tration is getting set for a "re
newed assault on medicine and
free enterprise."
He told the association the
administration is "sending a bur
eaucratic mission to Europe at
the taxpayer's expense to search
for new destructive ammuni
tion." AMA official said Irons was
referring to a trip that Federal
Security Administrator Oscar E.
Ewing and several aides are
making to Europe to study na
tional health plans in England
and elsewhere.
In announcing plans for the
trip, Ewing said it was intended
to get information to carry on
a full-fledged drive for passage
of President Truman's compul
sory health insurance plan in the
next session of congress.
The AMA is fighting the pres
ident's proposals, which Irons de
nounced as "socialized medicine"
in a prepare address at the open
ing of the association's four-day
clinical meeting. The group is
considering a move to collect
more funds from doctors to carry
on its campaign.
Irons, a Chicago physician,
said that "under the cover of
the welfare state the nation is
being led down the road to so
cialism with all its blighting ef
fects on individual incentive and
personal responsibility."
Lindy to Receive
Aviation Trophy
Washington, Dec. 6 VP)
Charles A. Lindbergh will get an
award this month for "signifi
cant public service of enduring
value to aviation in the United
States."
The National Aeronautics as
sociation said Lindbergh will
get the Wright Brothers Memor
ial trophy at a dinner December
17 sponsored by the Aero club
of Washington.
He was picked for the honor
by a group of aviation leaders.
m t ill
School Fraternity Ban
Case Set December 28
New strategy is in the offing in defense of the case of Lebold
vs. Salem school board No. 24 and others in circuit court here.
It is expected that three answers will be filed Immediately
in which general denial will be
plaint which charged the school
arbitrarily and without author
ity in the suspension of the 18
plaintiffs from Salem high
school for alleged affiliation
with secret societies.
These answers will In effect
brush aside a motion heretofore
interposed by the defendants
which demanded that the plain
tiffs make election as to whether
or not they are attempting to
question the constitutionality of
the law which bans secret soci
eties from high schools in the
state and also asked that parts
of the complaint be made more
definite and certain.
Objective of the defendants in
substituting the answer for the
motion is to avoid delay. By fil
ing answers makinggeneral de
nial the necessity of the plain
tiffs filing a reply to the answer
is obviated and the case may
then come up directly on its
merits instead of being delayed
by arguments on the motion, fol
lowed possibly by ' filing of
briefs and awaiting a decision of
the court as to the motion.
The case has been set for De-
jcember 28 to be heard before
Excavation Starts for Highway Office Building Monday
afternoon shovels owned by Salem Sand & Gravel company,
subcontractors, started excavating 18,000 yards of earth to
be removed for the 145 by 235 foot basement beneath the
new state highway office building. The excavation will be
11 feet deep. Four shovels and about 12 dump trucks will
be employed on the job.
Legal Battle Renewed
Overldanha Election
By DON UPJOHN
State Senator Allan Carson launched a verbal barrage at
District Attorney E. O. Stadter in Judge Rex Kimmell's court
Tuesday morning as arguments were under way in the second
case seeking to enjoin an election being held December 9 to vote
on the question of incorporating Idanha.
Truman Aides
Flock to Keys
Key West, Fla., Dec. 8 VP)
Presidential advisors came thick
and fast today to swim with
President Truman and help him
draft all-important messages to
congress.-' :v. ., ,.- . . .
They left the chief executive
with a personal housing prob
lem. And no navy , man under
the rank of captain felt secure in
his herth as bunks' were provid
ed for the incoming guests.
The overflow spread to the
presidential yacht USS Wil
liamsburg, . anchored near the
temporary "White House" at
this naval submarine base, and
to "quarters L", another resi
dence of this naval submarine
station.
All thought of feeding all of
them at the president's quarters
was abandoned and each had a
different place for chow.
The gulf, where the presi
dent takes his daily swim, seem
ed big enough' to accommodate
everybody, and the beach af
forded plenty of room for the
volley bailers and sun bathers.
Presidential Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross identified five
of those who arrived yesterday
as Presidential Assistant John
R. Steelman, administrative as
sistants Charles S. Murphy, Don
ald Dawson and George Elsey
and Brig. General Wallace H.
Graham.
But White House associates
said others got off the incoming
planes at Boca Chica airport,
eight and a half miles away.
made to allegations in the com
board and school officials acted
Judge Victor Olliver of Linn
county, assigned to it by the su
preme court. Had the motion
stood as filed then the argu
ments on the motion would have
been heard on that date. With
the answers on file evidently the
case will come up for trial on
the 28th, instead.
In the meantime the boys are
back in school under a tempo
rary Injunction order filed by
Judge Earle C. Latourette of
Oregon City who was holding
court here for a day when the
complaint was filed. He receiv
ed the original assignment to the
case but withdrew and Judge Ol
iver was named in his stead.
Appearing as attorneys in the
case are Reginald Williams and
Lawrence Osterman for the
plaintiffs and George A. Rhoten
Robert DeArmond and Donald
A. Young for the three sets of
defendants.
Ralph Moody, prominent Sa
lem attorney, appears In the
pleadings as guardian ad litem
for all of the minor student
plaintiffs.
- rnrsnn sr-nrprl Srfirlfp.i -for nn.
pearing in the first case as coun
sel for the defendants county
clerk and county court and then
in the second case appearing as
an attorney for the plaintiff in
his capacity as district attorney.
He further scored him for put
ting his signature to the com
plaint which charges the county
court with "acting in an arbi
trary and unlawful manner," in
calling the special election for
December 9 and further charg
ing the county court "with pre
meditated design to disenfran
chise plaintiffs and deprive them
of the right to vote." He called
attention -to the fact that Stadter
was acting as legal adviser for
the county court when it called
the special elections.
The argument arose when Al
lan and Wallace Carson, appear
ing for the defendants, attempt
ed to have the second complaint
thrown out as defective because
it named Edison Vickers and
some 58 others as relators, when
under supreme court rulings the
district attorney only can ap
pear as relator for the state.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Admit Failure
To Oust Tito
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 6
(P) Yugoslavia's leading com
munist newspaper declared to
day the Cominform by inference
has admitted failure of its 18-months-old
attempt to promote
an international revolt against
the rule of Premier-Marshal
Tito.
This, said Borba, was implicit
in the new blast against Tito's
government in the form of a res
olution adopted by the Comin
form (Communist International.
Information Bureau) in Hun
gary.
In a long front-page analysis
of the resolution, the first in the
official press here, Borba de
nounced the new resolution as
part of a plot to make workers
of the world "tools of the non-peace-loving
policy of the Sov
iet government." The resolution
had called upon all communists
to work toward the overthrow of
Tito as a heretic from Marxism.
This new action of the Comin
form, Borba said, will "only
deepen and increase" the mass
es' disapproval of Soviet tactics.
'If the first resolution (which
ousted Tito from the Cominform
in June, 1948) at least by form
and content looked like some
kind of Marxist document, the
second resolution reminds one
more, by its form and content,
of the sentence of some court-
martial," the editorial said.
Borba chided the Cominform
for describing Yugoslavia as " a
fascist country and for promot
ing the crusade against Tito.
Gov. Stainback Visits
Portland, Dec. 6 UP) Gov. In
gram M. Stainback of Hawaii
was a guest of the Portland East
Side Commercial club today.
He arrived by airliner yester
day and will speak at the club's
annual banquet tonight.
Secret Radar Equipment
Ripped from Russian Planes
Wallace Eyed
For Connection
With Russians
Washington, Dec. 6 VP) The
house un-American activities
committee eyed former Vice
President Henry A. Wallace and
many others today in a sudden
ly revived hunt for people who
pushed wartime uranium sflilp
ments to Russia.
Wallace commented that a
statement that he was involved
is false, and a part of "an un
remitting effort to tarnish the
name of Franklin D. Roosevelt."
Chairman Wood (D., Ga.),
promised there "isn't going to be
any avenue left untouched" as
the, house committee digs into
the story that persons in high
places helped Russia get uran
ium and atomic information.
Only Seek Truth
For the sake of the American
people, Wood told reporters,
'the story must either be corro
borated or disproved."
Much of it is old, particularly
the part about several shipments
of uranium compounds to Rus
sian back in 1943, by way of
Great Falls, Mont., and the Alas
kan air route.
But now big names are being
brought into it:
Wallace, who was fired from
the cabinet by President Tru
man for siding too much with
Russia on international policy,
and Harry L. Hopkins, the late
intimate and adviser of Presi
dent Roosevelt.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
China Bitter
Over
Lake Success, Dec. 8 (P) Na
tionalist China's chief delegate
to the United Nations lashed out
bitterly today at an American
Supported move which he said
is designed to stop U. N. action
in the Chinese-Russian dispute.
The Chinese, representative,
T. F. Tsiang, said the new pro
posal, submitted by the Philip
pines with U. S. backing, pre
supposed silence will solve the
Far Eastern crisis and said: "That
silence means unconditional sur
render to aggression."
Tsiang said this amendment in
effect says "We have done
enough." Then he went on bit
terly:
"There are those who say Chi
ne is dead. Free China is not
dead. It is unthinkable that this
assembly should pronounce not
only China dead but the case of
China dead. If that is the case
we might as well close our doors.
This amendment is nothing but
escapism."
Wrangling delayed final com
mittee action on the question.
Shirley Temple Wins Divorce Shirley Temple, with, At
torney George Stahlman at her side, tells a judge in .Lot
Angeles that her marriage to Actor John Agar was "turbu
lent" because he paid too much attention to other woiricn.
She got the divorce. She and the handsome actor married in
1945 when he was an army sergeant. (AP Wircphoto.).
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U Tsung'-Jen, president of
the Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment. Li Interviewed
At Honolulu
Honolulu, Dec. 6 UP) Li
Tsung-Jen, acting president of
tottering nationalist China, ar
rived by Pan-American Airways
today from British Hong Kong.
Through an interpreter in the
early hours before dawn he said
his sole purpose in coming to the
United States was to obtain me
dical aid for a severe stomach
ailment. He has been in a Hong
Kong hospital.
Li will go direct to New York,
arriving in San Francisco later
today. There had been specula
tion in some quarters his trip
was to try to raise American aid
to fight the communists in Chi
na. The U.S. state department
approved his visit and granted
him a diplomatic visa as chief of
state.
" Lt. Jen Wang-Chih, Li's mili
tary aide, said the acting presi
dent could make no comment on
political or military events in
China of the past few days be
cause he was not abreast of de
velopments.
Wang said Li was too tired
and ill for a news conference
But after Li, Madame Li and
their two sons greeted amiably a
Chinese delegation at the air
port, 'they went for a drive
around Honolulu.
Wang was shown an Associ
ated Press story quoting Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in
Chengtu, China, as saying Li
had been expected to return to
China from Hong Kong to help
cope with the communist situa
tion but had left the country )n
stead. After reading it Wang
said:
"Dr. Li left the country as the
acting president of China and he
is still acting president of Chi
na." (The Hong Kong Standard
yesterday had said Li made a
dramatic bid to retain his pow
ers of office by advising Nation
alist Premier Yen Hsi-Shan and
other politicians he is still their
president.
Jordan Snatched
Apparatus from
4 Soviet Craft
New York, Dec. 6 VP) Former
Air Force Major George Racey
Jordan told today of ripping sec
ret radar equipment out of four
planes bound for Russia in the
war but said a fifth with the
same material reached the Sovi
et union.
Jordan told a news conference
he snatched the equipment from
four planes at the Great Falls,
Mont., air base. But another
plane made it to Russia from
Washington without stopping at
Great Falls and balked him, he
added.
The former air force officer
touched off a new investigation
of secret material allegedly ob
tained by the Soviets in a broad
cast last Friday.
Found Radar Parts
He charged that the Soviets
obtained uranium products in ,
the war and repeated the aciu-
sation before a congressional
committee yesterday. Uranium is
used in making atomic bombs.
Jordan was an expediting of
ficer for lend-lease supplies to
Kussia at the Great Falls base
in the war.
He told the news conference
he found the radar equipment,
which he never had seen before,
in a C-47 transport destined for.
the Russians.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 5)
Insignificant
Say Professors
Chicago, Dec. 8 (IP) Univer
sity of Chicago atomic scientists"
today minimized the Importanca
of uranium exports by the .Unit-
ed States to Russia in 1943.
They commented on the dis-
closure by the state department
that licenses were issued for the
export of urano-uranic oxide, ur- -anium
nitrate, uranium metal "
and "heavy water" (deuterium).
The men and their comments
were:
Dr. Harold Urcy. a leading nu
clear physicist who helped make
the first atomic bomb The ur
anium listed in slate department
reports were stable compounds
of "virtually no interest, inter
nationally, for explosive purpos
es during 1943.
"In addition, the weights al
lowed by the export licenses"
were so small as to be insignifi
cant in relation to the amount,
needed to produce a bomb.
"I think we had to keep a tri
ckle of all those chemicals flow
ing during that period. If we
had shut them off entirely we -
would have told the world they
had some new value which sev
eral years earlier they had not.
not."
Dr. Thorfin R. Hogness, di-'
rector of the university's Insti
tute of Radio Biophysics All the
materials listed by the state de- .
partmcnt were common chemi--cals
before the war and "we sent '
all kinds . of that stuff abroad
then." . !
Dr. Samuel K. Allison, a key
atomic scientist and professor of
physics at the university
'Those chemicals were fairly
standard items of trade in 1943. '
If they had been extremely puri
fiod, some idea 01 our cxper:
mcnt might have been exposed.
The amounts, however, wouldn't
even get an atomic enery p
gram started.'
1 Killed, 2 Injured
Corvallis Wreck
Corvallis, Dec. 8 (IP) Ronald
A. Dixon, 17, route 3, Junction
Cily, was killed and two others
were badly injured when their
car crashed into a mud bank
about two miles south of here at
1 a.m. today.
Injured were Floyd Cotrell,
20, Monroe, and Phyllis Carson,
15, believed to be a route 3, Cor
vallis, resident. Attendants at
Good Samaritan hospital here
said both arc expected to re
cover. Police suid the car in which
the trio was riding, driven by
Cotrell, came west on Richland
lane, a country road leading to
highway 99W. The lane ends at
the hU'hway but they failed to
make the turn, plunging on
across the road and into the
bank on the west side.
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