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61st Year, No. 291 ff.f.ri Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, December 7, 1949
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V
Court Refuses
Order to Stop
Idanha Vote
Kimmell for Second
Time Denies Injunc
tion Sought by Vickers
By DON UPJOHN
Circuit Judge Rex Kimmell
for a second time has declined
to use the injunctive process to
stop an election December 9 on
the question of incorporation of
Idanha.
He sustains the general de
murrer to the complaint in the
second case on the ground the
' complaint fails to state sufficient
facts to constitute a cause of
suit. In the first case he refused
the injunction on the ground
that the plaintiff, Edison Vick
ers, was without legal capacity
to sue and that it was essential
for the court to acquire jurisdic
tion that the suit be instituted
in the name of the state by he
district attorney.
This was done in the second
case. The court softens criticism
poured onto the district attorney
at the hearing because he ap
peared as defense counsel in the
first case and as plaintiff in the
second by holding that the case
was properly brought by the
district attorney in the name of
the state of Oregon.
Fall to Show Fraud
However, he holds as to the
complaint itself it fails to show
there was either fraud or il
legality used when the county
court set the date for the Idan
ha election four days ahead of a
similar election for the incor
poration of Detroit when peti
tions for. the Detroit election
had been filed earlier than those
for the Idanha balloting.
He neither approved or dis
approved the action of the coun
ty court in setting the election
date. But, in effect, the court
held that the action in setting
the election dates was a minis
terial function of the county
court, that it exercised it with
in the limits prescribed by law,
without fraud, and it is not with
in the province of the circuit
court under such circumstances
to exercise its injunctive pow
ers. (Concluded on Pair. 6. Column 8)
Anniversary of
Pearl Harbor
(By tht Aiiocf&ted Presa)
Eight years ago today, a day
to remember, a day that was to
live in infamy.
The Japanese, whose naval
fliers dealt the surprise blow at
Pearl Harbor, however, weren't
remembering. Nothing was done
in Japan on this day to remind
them.
Instead, the Japanese were
worrying about a "day" of their
own perhaps a "Tokyo day."
Many among them fear the cold
war will turn hot. That, they be
lieve, would inevitably involve
Japan.
Japan never forgets the prox
imity of Russia. Now Russia
says it has added atomic wea
pons to its arsenal. That makes
Japan shiver.
In the Philippines to the
south, hatred of Japan remains
still strong. Filipinos cannot so
soon forget the iron reign of the
Japanese conqueror.
The hostility is so great that
the Philippines foreign office is
said to have served notice on
General MacArthur it could not
guarantee the safety of a propos
ed Japanese trade mission.
The only observance of the
day in the Pacific was at Pearl
Harbor itself.
It was a simple service, held
at the sad, rusting monument to
the day that thrust the United
States into the worst war in his
tory.
That monument is the super
structure of the once-proud bat
tleship Arizona. It pokes from
the water of the naval anchor
Woodburn Youth
Fined for Liquor
A 19-year-old Woodburn
youth, Eddie E. Kahut, was fined
$25 in police court Wednesday
morning for illegal possession of
liquor.
Two 16-year-old girls, one
from Salem and the other from
Mt. Angel, who were arrested
with Kahut pleaded innocent to
the same charge and were re
teased on $25 bail each.
The trio was found in ear.
County Health
Center in Line
For Federal Aid
Expect to Be Top
On Priority List for
Match Money
County Commissioner Ed Rog
ers and Dr. W. J. Stone, head of
the county health department
conferred this week in Portland
with representatives of the Unit
ed States public health depart
ment in regard to a proposed
health center unit for Marion
county.
The plan is to establish such a
unit on land to be purchased
from the state on D street, pro
vided voters of the county give
their approval to the county's
share of the necessary funds at
the primary election in May.
Local officials returned with
some tentative plans of such
units as recommended by the
public health service.
On Priority List
They also ascertained that this
health center may be on top of
the priority list for match mon
ey from federal appropriations as
it is the only health center unit,
so far as known, now being dis
cussed as a possibility in the
state.
(Concluded on Pane S, Column 7)
Need of Imports
Stressed bv NAM
New York, Dec. 1 VP) The
United States must balance its
exports and imports in jig time
or lose the objectives gained
through spending billions of
dollars for foreign aid, the Na
tional Association of Manufac
turers was told today.
Curtis E. Calder, chairman of
Electric Bond and Share Co.. a
public utility holding company,
said in a prepared address that
he believed the United States
will be forced to discontinue
large scale foreign aid after
1952.
He said it is obvious "we can
not continue, indefinitely, to
pour our national wealth and
substance in unrequited ex
ports." And, he added, a workable
solution toward closing the for
eign trade gap must be found
before the European recovery
program is terminated.
Unless the problem is solved,
he said, the United States will
be faced with the disquieting al
ternative of continuing foreign
aid or of losing most of what it
has ventured in its post-war
program.
The solution most compatible
with the role of the United States
as a creditor nation, he said, is
expansion of imports.
Calder spoke at the opening
of the NAM'S 50th annual con
gress of American Industry.
Thief in Night Robs
Japanese
e Palace
Tokyo, Dec. 7 VP) Eight years
ago Emperor Hirohito was con
sidered sacrosanct by the Jap
anese.
Today he awakened 150,000
yen ($4,166) poorer.
A thief, who no longer consid
ered the emperor sacred, stole
the money from the imperial
household account.
Feather Trail Leads To
Chicken Thieves Arrest
A trail of chicken feathers from moulting hens provided state
police with clues which led them to an apparent solution of the
theft of a flock of 21 birds from a farm near Marion.
Three men and two women the alleged chicken thieves were
arrested Tuesday night by state
by District Attorney E. O. Stad-
ter charging them with burglary,
not in a dwelling.
The case b e g a n on the Ray
Wilt farm near Marion. A total
of 20 hens and one rooster were
removed from a hen house at
the rear of his home. But the
moulting hens fluttered enough
to blaze a trail to where the
quintet had parked a car.
Tire tracks came into play at
that point to permit officers to
trail and identify the get-away
car.
The five, residents of the Jef
ferson area, were identified as
Gary Alan Meredith, Leonard
A. Burns. Alford V. Cureton.
Sally June Meredith and De-
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Half Finished
Salem's Interceptor sewer job,
a major construction project,
was said by City Engineer J. H.
Davis today to be just over 50
percent complete. At the present
rate of progress he said it
should be finished by the end of
February, which would be some
months sooner than expected.
Over a mile of the heavy pipe
has been laid. Laying of the 1325
feet of 72-inch pipe and 1644
feet of 66-inch pipe is all com
plete, and the crew of Werner &
Jeske, the contractors, is now
busy with the 60-inch line which
will have a length of 7779 feet.
Starting at the lower end of
the project on North River road
where the sewage disposal plant
will later be located, the line
has been brought across South
River road to North Commercial
street, and along North Commer-i
cial to South street.
At South street the crew is
now making a tunnel under the
tracks of the Oregon Electric
Railway. From that point it will
continue on North Commercial
to Shipping, east on Shipping to
Fifth, and south on Fifth to Mill
creek, where it will connect up
with another unit of the job
which was pushed ahead
make possible the building
the new bridge on Church
Mill creek.
North Commercial street
blocked between Jefferson and
River, and North Church be
tween Union street and Mill
creek, making traffic detours
necessary.
Excavations for the sewer
line are being filled as the pipe
is laid. Pipe manufacture is on
the site by the Seattle Concrete
Pipe company.
officers on a complaint prepared
lores Heller.
Admissions were obtained in
dicating that all five were impli
cated in the case.
The group was held at the Ma
rion county jail Tuesday night
and taken before Jefferson Jus
tice of the Peace E. E. Howell
Wednesday morning.
Judge Howell ordered hear
ings transferred to district court
in Salem.
With the uncovering of the
chicken stealing, authorities hop
ed the arrests would lead to a
curb on activities of a similar
nature which have plagued ma
ny turkey ranchers of the same
area.
Interceptor Sewer Halt Completed Top: View northward
along Commercial street from South showing excavating and
laying machinery at the point of today's operation. Work
has progressed from the site of the sewage disposal plant to
this intersection in about 90 days. Lower: Viewing north
ward along Church street from Union where work is now
practically completed, including the Mill Creek tunnel, to D
street. '
Cities, Counties Allotted
$33 Million Road Funds
By JAMES D. OLSON
A total of $32,779,075.07 of highway funds have been allocated
to cities and counties of the state
and county roads during the past six years, according to state
highway officials Wednesday.
Of this amount Marion county
Truman Host to
Bureaucrats
Key West, Fla., Dec. 7 W)
President Truman's vacation
party became a stag affair to
day as attention was concentrat
ed on the forthcoming battle in
congress for key administration
objectives.
The president directed Lt. Col.
Francis (Frenchy) Williams, pi
lot of the "Independence," the
White House plane, to take Mrs.
Truman and his daughter, Mar
garet, back to Washington. A
takeoff from the Boca Chica
airport, eight and a half miles
front here, was scheduled for
10:30 a.m. (EST).
Mr. Truman called his entire
White House staff to meet at 2
p.m. (EST) for a full-scale con
ference on the "State of the Un
ion" budget and economic mes
sages to be presented to congress
in January.
These messages will lay the
groundwork for an election year
fight for the "Fair Deal."
The President, on the annl
versary of Pearl Harbor, is de
termined to continue the Euro
pean Recovery Program, the
Arms-Aid program under the At
lantic Pact and other bi-partisan
moves to strengthen the demo
cratic front against communism.
The presidential party, includ
ing administrative assistants to
administrative assistants, became
so large that some of the lesser
lights were sleeping and eating
all over this naval submarine
station.
Hospital Sued
Morgantown, W. Va., Dec. 7 UP)
Mrs. Isabell Shaffer said she
fell off a laboratory table and
broke her leg while being X
rayed for a broken arm.
Her $25,000 damage suit on
file in circuit court against the
Monongalia General hospital
contends the hospital was negll
ment and that she lost about $1,
500 in wages she would ordinar
ily have earned as a waitress be
cause of the accident.
for improvement of city streets
received $1,468,311.99 and the
''city of Salem $529,658.02 during
this period
Under laws passed by the le
gislature 19 per cent of all
funds received by the state high
way department must be allo
cated to the counties of the state
and ten per cent to cities of
5,000 population or more.
The distribution of the funds
to the cities and counties
made on a proportionate ratio
of motor vehicles registered in
each city and county as com
pared to total registrations of
the state as a whole.
The yearly distribution of
highway funds to the cities and
counties has steadily increased
As an example, Marion county's
share in the distribution has in
creased from $145,062.09 in
1944 to $356,038.01 in 1949.
Multnomah county's share in
the fund during the six year
period totaled $7,328,774.39 and
the city of Portland was alio
catcd $3,488,943.13 during the
same period.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
55,300 Listed
Oregon Jobless
The number of jobless persons
in Oregon mounted to 55,300
this month, or 53 percent great
er than a year ago.
The unemployment compensa
tion commission also estimated
that eight percent of the state's
workers are without jobs. It was
up to 14 percent last February,
when 93,000 persons were un
employed, largely because the
severe winter weather shut down
the logging industry.
During November, the num
ber of unemployed in the Port
land area increased from 20,200
to 22,900, this being the smallest
percentage increase in the state.
Salem has 5000 persons with
out jobs, an increase of 1250
during last month. Eugene's to
tal went to 4650, a gain of 600
during the month.
Bids Called
Portland, Ore., Dec. 7 u.R
Bids for construction of three
bridges and an underpass at the
site of Lookout Point dam will
be invited about Dec. 15, the
Portland district corps of engin
eers announced today.
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Hopkins of A tomic
Li Tsung-Jen
Here As Virtual
Political Exile
By SEYMOUR TOPPING
San Francisco, Dec. 7 W Li
Tsung-Jen, acting president of
nationalist China, arrived in the
United States as a virtual politi
cal exile. The plain fact is that
he has no safe place to go back
to in China.
Li said upon arrival in San
Francisco last night that his ab
sence from China is only tem
porary. Li left again at 12:22 a.m.
(3:22 EST) by chartered plane
for New York's Presbyterian
hospital for treatment of an ul
cerated stomach. This treatment
is described as his principal rea
son for being in this country.
Li also plans to talk to Ameri
can officials presumably about
aid for the nationalist cause.
To Visit Truman
He said he "naturally" would
pay his respects to President
Truman.
Pan American said Li would
reach New York around 3 p.m.
EST today unless headwinds
forced refueling in Chicago
around 11:30 a.m. EST. In this
case he would be an hour late
In reaching his destination.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Premier Yen
Plans Flight ,
Chengtu, Dec. 7 VP Premier
Yen Hsi-Shan today whittled his
government to 107 men and pre
pared to go over the mountains
away from the approaching com
munists. Streamlining of the govern
ment was made necessary. Yen
said, to keep it mobile. Ordi
narily the Chinese Nationalist
government is composed of thou
sands of persons within minis
tries and bureaus. Hundreds
were dropped in Chungking.
The exodus of officials con
tinued from Chengtu, fourth Na-i
tionalist capital this year. Most
are going to Formosa by way
of .Hainan Island, far to the
southeast.
Yen is expected to take his
slim government forces to Sic
hang in mountainous Sikang
province to the west.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek still is in Chengtu. He
is directing the nationalists and
attempting to salvage something
from the approaching Reds, who
are within 75 miles of Chengtu.
Chiang most likely will go to
Formosa when he leaves here,
(Hong Kor.k news reports said
the Yucan provincial govern
ment was preparing to abandon
Kunmine and move to Tali. 430
miles northwestward).
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Tells of Radar Shipment Former Air Force Major George
Racey Jordan faces reporters across his desk in New York,
as he tells of ripping secret radar equipment out of four
planes bound for Russia. A fifth plane, he said, carrying the
same equipment reached the Soviet Union. With Jordan, who
touched off a new investigation of secret material allegedly
obtained by the Soviets, is Fulton Lewis, Jr., radio commen
tator (dark suit) on whose program the disclosures were made.
(AP Wircphoto)
c Clears Both
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General Leslie R. Groves
United Nations
To Act On China
New York. Dec. 7 VP) The
United Nations General Assem
bly prepared today to take a fi
nal stand on whether or not it;
will pass in silence Nationalist
China's charges of Soviet inter
ference in Chinese internal af
fairs.
The Assembly has before it
two proposals approved by its
59-nation political committee at
Lake Success last night.
One of these an American -
backed resolution adopted in
committee by an overwhelming
47 to 5 vote calls on the world
to keep hands off China and let
the Chinese settle their own
troubles.
The second measure, and the
one on which Nationalist China
now pins its hopes, would refer
the whole Chinese question to1
the year-around "Little Assem
bly." That body would bring in
recommendations to the 1050
general assembly.
Showdown on
Formosa Near
-Honolulu, Dec. 7 VP) Senator
Ferguson (R-Mich.) said today
the time for a showdown on
Formosa is near.
He said he was going to Wash
ington "to see Louis Johnson
(defense director) and lay the
cards on the table."
Ferguson and a party of sena
tors are pausing here on a round
the world trip. Ferguson visited
Formosa, Chinese nationalist
stronghold athwart the Ameri
can defense line in the western
Pacific.
The Michigan senator said the
United States must "secure For
mosa from communist occupa
tion no matter what."
'Every possible military com
mander feels that way but prob
ably what .will happen is this
the state department will have
us recognize the Chinese com
munists and they will move into
Formosa," Ferguson said.
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Wallace,
Charges
Neither Sought
A Secrets for
Russian Use
Washington, Dec. 7 VP) -Lt.
Gen. Leslie R. Groves testified
today that neither Harry Hop
kins nor Henry A. Wallace ever
tried to get any atomie secrets
or materials from him for the
Russians.
Groves, who headed the war
time atomic bomb project, told
house investigators that he had
never, in fact, met Hopkins or
had any correspondence with
him.
As for Wallace, Groves said.
the former vice president never
brought any direct pressure on
him in connection with the atom
ic energy project and, as far as
he knows, never put on any in
direct pressure.
Wallace to Testify
groves was a witness before
congressional investigators dig
ging into a story of atomic ma
terials going to Russia in lend
lease planes during the war and
of a mysterious note signed "H.
H." saying "Had a hell of a time
getting these away from Groves."
After getting Groves' testi
mony, Rep. Walter (D., Pa.), act
ing chairman, said the commit
tee would give Wallace a chance
to testify later.
The committee broke off its
hearings to hold a closed door
session.
Groves was dismissed as a
witness.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
U.S. Licensed
Atom Exports
Washington, Dec. 7 VP) Sec
retary of State Acheson said to
day that the army's wartime ato
mic bomb project approved gov
ernment licenses for the ship
ment of uranium compounds to
Russia in 1943.
In a news conference state
ment, Acheson recalled that two
export licenses were granted in
March, 1943, and another in Ap
ril, 1943. In November, 1943, he
said, a license was granted by
the board of economic warfare
for shipment of 1000 grams of
heavy water to the Russians.
The lend-lease records now
held by the department," Ache
son said, "show that none of
these export licenses was per
mitted without approval of the
Manhattan engineering district."
The Manhattan engineering
district was the army's name for
the agency that developed the
atom bomb.
Acheson in effect denied char
ges by former Air Force Major
George Racey Jordan that sec
ret state department documents
had been illegally transported
to Russia.
"The department has no
knowledge," he said, "that any
departmental documents, secret
or otherwise, were made avail
able to the Soviet government
without proper authorization, as
alleged by Mr. Jordan."
Global Anti-Red
Labor Organize
London, Dec. 7 VP) Leaders
of 50,000,000 anti-communist
trade union workers in 53 coun
tries including the U. S. formal
ly organized the International
Confederation of Free Trade Un
ions (ICFTU) today.
By a lop-sided majority, the
delegates adopted a constitution
pledging the confederation to
fight for job security for mem
bers, and for their right to work
where they choose.
No negative votes were cast.
But leaders of the French and
Belgian Christian (Catholic)
workers, abstained from the
vote. They did not say why.
The new organization will
carry the fight to communism
and the World Federation of
Trade Unions (WFTU). They
quit the WFTU early this year
because Reds controlled it.
A 20-man executive board
along with a president and ex
ecutive secretary will be nam
ed late today.
Paul Finet, of Belgium, chair
man of the conference which
formed the new international,
seemed assured of election as
president.
J. H. Oldenbroek, of the Neth
erlands, led in speculation for
tha executive secretaryship.