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61st Year, No. 292 SZE?jr&fi2 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, December 8, 1949
(30 Pages)
Price 5c
Railroads lo
Haul Detroit
Dam Material
Cement, Steel and
Heavy Equipment
To Come by Rail
By JAMES D. OLSON
All of the cement, steel and
other heavy materials to be used
In construction of the $69 mil
lion Detroit Dam totaling thou
sands of tons will be trans
ported by rail Instead of trucked
to the project over state high
ways. Announcement of this impor
tant decision by Consolidated
Builders, Inc., contractors on the
project, was made Thursday by
Lt. Col. J. W. Miles, resient en
gineer on the big job.
Trucks Out of Picture
Under the plan the cement and
other materials, as well as some
2000 tons of heavy equipment,
will be carried over Southern
Pacific railroad lines to Gates,
then transported under an Indus
trial user contract, over the re
cently government acquired rail
road from Gates to. the dam
site.
Col. Miles said that all heavy
material needed for construction
of Big Cliff dam, two miles west
of Detroit dam, will also be car
ried over rails. Construction of
this re-regulating dam, estimat
ed to cost approximately $8,
000,000, Is scheduled to begin
early in 1951.
Cement Required
An estimated 240,000 tons of
cement will be poured into the
towering Detroit dam and anoth
er 16,000 tons will be required
for Big Cliff and another 5000
tons for a powerhouse at Detroit.
In addition, Col. Miles said,
approximately 5500 tons of steel
for reinforcement and structural
.wprk will be required at the
main dam and another 1000 tons
of steel at Big Cliff.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 7)
Ham CimUI inl
ivuy i lym aim
Suit in Court
District court jurors were
called upon Thursday to weigh
testimony dealing with a dog
light and a suit to collect a to
tal of $709.50 in damages.
The civil action was brought
to court by Fred Stein, whose
10-year-old German pointer was
injured so severely that a veter
inarian was directed to gas the
animal.
According to testimony, the
Injuries were inflicted by D. C.
Smith, who used a hammer to
"break a vice-like hold" which
Stein's virtually toothless point
er had on Smith's dog's neck.
The bill for damages included
$209.50 for veterinarian care and
$500 in punitive damages.
Florine Stein, who was just as
old as the dog which was her
life-long pet as well as her la
ther's hunting companion, was
the first to take the stand.
She testified that Smith had
"pounded 'Bing' on the head ten
or fifteen times with a hammer.
"Bing's" altercation with "Jer
ry" the Smith dog took place
in a State street auto court
where both families resided
Stein was represented by
J. Healy, a blind attorney who
uses a seeing-eye dog coinciden
tally named "Jerry." Healy was
assisted in the case by Deputy
District Attorney Gordon Moore.
Under Moore's questioning,
Smith admitted he turned down
a broom proffered by his wife
to use as a tool to separate the
dogs and went to a nearby shed
to get a hammer.
Smith asserted he was a dog
lover and wouldn't Intentionally
hurt an animal.
Latin America Hit
Hard by Floods
Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 8 VP)
Central and South American
countries mobilized today for
relief work in the wake of heavy
rains that brought major dam
age to at least three countries.
The hardest hit appeared to
be Venezuela, Costa Rica and
Trinidad.
Two helicopters were sent to
aid in rescue work in Venezu
ela's Barlovento coffee belt. A
30-hour downpour there left
some 20,000 persons homeless,
caused two casualties and did
crop and property damage esti
" mated at more than $1,000,000
More than eight persons were
reported dead or missing at
Platan ar, in northeast Costa Ri
ca.
Nationalists
Shift Capital to
Formosa Isle
Virtually Abandon
Most of Mother
Country to the Reds
Chengtu, Dec. 8 (IP) The na
tionalists shifted their capital to
Formosa today and virtually
abandoned most of the mother
country to the Reds.
The sweeping move was de
cked by the cabinet. It could
mean the end of large scale war
fare in China after 22 hectic
years.
Guerrilla forces were left be
hind to keep pecking at the
Reds. But the main Chinese
force was in or headed for Sich
ang, behind Sikang's snow cov
ered mountains, on Formosa, or
Hainan island, 300 miles south
west of British Hong Kong.
Chiang's Stronghold
Formosa is Generalissimo Chi
ang K a i-Shek s stronghold
which has been armed and
equipped for a last ditch stand
against victorious Chinese com
munists. The emergency cabinet ses
sion also decided to make Sich
ang, in Sikang province west of
Chengtu, general headquarters
for operations on the mainland.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Wildcat Strike
A-Plant Ends
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Dec. 8 (IP)
R. W. Cook, manager of Oak
Ridge operations for the atomic
energy commission, said today a
tour-day wildcat strike of con
struction workers on this giant
atomic project has ended.
It looks like a wholesale
back-to-work movement this
morning," Cook said.
He added that all 10 striking
crafts of the AFL Knoxville
Building Trades Council were
represented in the return to
work movement at Maxon Con
struction company.
Maxon is the government con
tractor building two new atomic
plants here.
The business representative of
the Knoxville Building Trades
Council, J. C. Kerr, said affiliat
ed union heads voted last night
to "make every effort to per
suade their members to return
to work."
The president's atomic energy
labor relations panel, the na
tional labor relations board and
the atomic energy commission
have been working with labor
leaders in hopes of putting an
end to the walkout involving
about 3000 workers.
Gallows Installed
In Market Place
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Dec. 8
VP) Albanian Premier Enver
Hoxha has installed a gallows
in his capital's main market
place as a warning to political
opponents, the Yugoslav news
paper Politika reported.
The newspaper said a man was
left hanging in the gallows all
day in the Tirana market place.
It called the hanging part of a
merciless physical extermina
tion" campaign against anti
cominform Albanians sympa
thetic to Yugoslavia.
9 Bodies Recovered
In Airliner Wreckage
Valleio. Calif.. Dec. 8 UP) Bodies of six adults and three chil
dren have been recovered from
ground party radioed today.
The radio was intercepted by
Chief of Police Vincent Warren
crew said tne plane naa noi-y
burned but the wreckage was
spread over a wide area.
The California Arrow Air
ways plane crashed last night in
hilly country shortly after a
takeoff from the Oakland air
port. The scene was placed at six
miles from here and about two
to four miles from Benicia.
The sheriff's branch office
her. said it was unable to con
firm the number of dead but
that there were no survivors.
In Benicia, the rescue opera
tions were watched through
powerful field glasses by Mrs.
Elizabeth Peltier. She telephon
ed the Vallejo Times-Herald that
the ground crew drove within a
mile of the wreckage.
At Burbank, Calif., the Civil
Aeronautics board listed these
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Greyhound lo
Quit Oregon City
Pacific Greyhound Lines and
Oregon Motor Stages want the
latter company to take over all
bus service between Oregon City
and Portland.
Both companies told Public
Utilities Commissioner George
H. Flagg here yesterday that
they are losing money on that
part of the service. They think
it would be more profitable if
Oregon Motor Stages take over
all of the Oregon City-Portland
business.
Pacific Greyhound will file
an application with Flagg to op
erate over highway 99E between
the two points, but eliminating
any right to carry passengers
between the two' cities. Oregon
Motor Stages then will ask for
permission to take over all of
Pacific Greyhound's business be
tween Portland and Oregon
City.
Flagg said that after the appli
cations are received, he will call
a public hearing at Oregon City.
The proposed service means
that Pacific Greyhound's buses
would not handle... any ' Jjocal
traff'c on the Oregon Citji-Port-land
run.
Water Famine
Hits New York
New York, Dec. IW The
world's biggest city doesn't have
enough water today to let its
residents wash their cars.
As authorities worked to plug
the holes in New York's fast-
emptying water barrel, new re
strictions were imposed to con
serve remaining supplies.
For the first time, the pinch
really was being felt directly by
the public.
All "non-essential" uses of wa
ter were out, by order of Water
Commissioner Stephen J. Car
ney. He has directed:
That all automobile washing
be "completely stopped."
That there be no flooding of
tennis courts or filling of pools
for winter ice skating.
That the cleaning of tiled
walls in subway stations be
halted for the duration of the
shortage.
At the same time, the police
department was mobilizing an
army of several thousand civil
ian "water wardens" to canvass
homes and urge dwellers to save
water.
the wreckage of an airliner, a
the Benicia police department,
of Benicia said. The ground
passengers aboard the plane:
James S. Garnett, pilot; Mead
Dillon, co-pilot; Susan DeVore,
stewardess; Mrs. George Batche-
lor and son, Pat, Torrance; Mrs.
Elsu Kimball and infant son,
Pasadena.
(In Pasadena, John Morrison
said his daughter, Mrs. Marion
Kimball, and two sons, Leland
III, 3 years old, and John Wes
ley, 1, were aboard.)
A Mr. Fighey, Laguna Beach
The search for the plane was
hampered by steady rain.
The plane, a two-engine DC-3
operated by the California Ar
row Airlines, had a crew of three
and four passengers aboard.
Search parties were scouring
an area between Pinole and Mar
tinez, about 30 miles northeast of
here.
Tree Sales Bolster Scout Treasury Scout pack 15. with
103 Christmas trees for sale to bolster their treasury sell their
first trees to G. H. Lewis, plant manager for National Lead
Battery company. Shown are Danny Quinn, Billy Perkins,
Ronny Crenshaw, Bobby Ray Thomas, Macy Hadley, Dale
Karnes, David Bell, Charles Gates, Ed Williams Cub Scout
master for pack 15 and G. H. Lewis.
Vickers to Continue
Fight on Idanha Election
By DON UPJOHN
Edison Vickers, champion of the move to incorporate the city
of Detroit, declared in a statement Thursday that "every legal
remedy, even including an appeal to the supreme court," will
be exhausted in the effort to get a vote on the Detroit incorpora
tion ahead of the vote to incorporate Idanha as a city which is
General Ike
Talks to Texans
Houston, Tex., Dec. 8 (IP)
Finding a dividing line between
government control and citizen
responsibility is America's big
gest problem. General Dwight
D. Eisenhower warned last
night.
The Columbia university
president" told a crowd of 15,
000 that Americans need to take
stock because "I think each of
us would admit he is worried."
Americans are wondering
"where we are going" he told
the annual meeting of the Hous
ton Chamber of Commerce.
He quoted from Abraham Lin
coln's Gettysburgh address
"Government of the people, by
the people and for the people."
"Lincoln left out one proposi
tion," he said. "He did not say
'to'. Lincoln saw no reason for
our government to do things 'to'
us like some bureaucrats now
find so intriguing."
His remarks drew applause.
Eisenhower made one indirect
reference to the 1952 presiden
tial election.
He said one might be consid
ered self-seeking should he dis
cuss problems involving Ameri
ca's future.
"I have found it is no use to
say 'no'," he said, "but I still
have the right of an ordinary
American to say what I think
about subjects I thoroughly be
lieve are concerning all."
To Ease Taxes
In Foreign Plants
Washington, Dec. 8 VP) The
Truman administration wants to
ease U. S. taxes on American
business operations abroad to
boost the president's program
for encouraging foreign invest
ment.
The tip-off was given by the
treasury's chief counsel, Thomas
J. Lynch, in a speech to Phila
delphia members of the tax ex
ecutives institute last night.
The entire regime of taxing
American business abroad
should be reexamined with a
view towards eliminating any
inequities which discriminate
against foreign investment," he
said.
Liberalizing these tax laws
would be the next step in an al
ready comprehensive administra
tion program aimed at helping
foreign countries to increase
their earnings of U. S. dollars
so as to pay for their purchase
in this country.
One objective of the tax
changes would be to spur Presi
dent Truman's "Point Four"
program of private American
financial and technical aid to
underdeveloped nations.
Lynch said the treasury, after
"serious study" has come to the
belief that "certain tax meas
ures will assist these efforts to
encourase nrivata Investment
I abroad."
scheduled for Friday, December
9.
In his formal statement Vick
ers said "It is admitted, even by
our opponents, the calling of the
election on the Idanha petition
for December 9, even though
that petition was filed several
days after the Detroit petition
was filed to block efforts of our
group to incorporate.
"The demurrer was sustained
upon a legal technicality," he
continued. "It appears the law
as at present interpreted per
mits antics of this sort. There
fore, (we shall exhaust every le
gal remedy, even including ap
peal to the supreme court, in an
eiiort to remedy a wrong and ob
serve the old American custom
of fair play in other words
'first come, first served.' It was
in the same spirit of fair play
that District Attorney Stadter
took the stand he did, as well as
because of the great public in
terest involved."
What effect an appeal to the
supreme court would have at this
late date seemed problematical,
unless the court would agree to
immediate hearing as of Thurs
day, or grant a temporary in
junction which was denied by
the lower court.
Indications were Thursday
that the election on the Idanha
proposal will go ahead as sched
uled. Much speculation has been
aroused as to the effects of the
two elections in case both carry.
There is considerable overlap
ping territory in the areas and
proponents of the Idanha incor
poration contend if their city is
incorporated it will preclude the
overlapping area from becoming
a part of the proposed city of De
troit, even if that election should
carry. They state under the law
two municipalities organized for
the same purpose cannot exist at
the same time in the same area.
At any rate, the creation of the
two municipalities would un
questionably generate a lot of
controversies, with the likeli
hood of a number of law suits
along with them.
Policemen and
Prisoner Killed
Portland, Dec. 8 VP) A hand
cuffed prisoner grabbed a spe
cial patrolman's gun early today
and in the ensuing struggle
both men were fatally wounded.
Aaron Robert Ball, 39, a spe
cial patrolman for nine years,
died in a hospital. His prisoner,
Lo'uis C. Fugent, 46, surprised
while prowling a tire shop on
S.E. Powell boulevard, was dead
on arrival at a hospital.
Ball had handcuffed Fugent's
arms behind his back, then turn
ed to a telephone to call the tire
shop manager. Fugent, identi
fied by Detective Rudolph Bow
man as a former convict with a
long police record, backed up to
Ball, pulled the patrolman's
gun from its holster and fired.
The men struggled througn
three rooms as Ball sought to
wrest the pistol from Fugent.
When he finally got it, he fired
as Fugent made a break for the
door. Fugent fell mortally
wounded. Ball staggered into
.the street and collapsed.
Manganese Products Buys
Salem Alumina War Plant
Hands Off China
Policy Adopted
United Nations
New York, Dec. 8 VP) The
United Nations assembly today
adopted finally an American
sponsored proposal calling on
all the world to keep hands off
China and to respect all her
treaties.
The decision grew out of Na
tionalist China's bitter charges
that Russia aided the Chinese
Communist forces of Mao Tze-
Tung and thus were guilty of
aggression.
The American plan also
sponsored by Australia, Mexico,
Pakistan and the Philippines
made no specific mention of Rus
sia.
The five-power resolution was
approved first by a vote of 22
to 4, with 3 abstaining and many
of the 59 national delegations
absent. Chile challenged the
vote on the ground that no quor
um was present. On the second
ballot the proposal was approv
ed by a vote of 45 to 5 with no
abstentions.
Appeals to World
The negative votes were cast
by the Soviet bloc.
The five-power resolution ap
pealed to the world:
1. To respect the political in
dependence of China.
2. To respect the right of the
people of China now and in the
future to choose freely their
political institutions and to
maintain a government inde
pendent of foreign control,
(Concluded on Pago S, Column 8)
Guilty Pleas in
Tifoisf Trial
Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 8 (IP) A
third defendant in Bulgaria's Ti-
toist trial pleaded guilty today
to charges of treason and spying.
Boris Christov joined Nikola
Nachev, former deputy construc
tion minister, and Ivan Steva
nov, former finance minister, in
admitting he plotted to make
Bulgaria a vassal of neighbor
ing Yugoslavia. Christov was a
former Bulgarian commercial
attache in Moscow.
As a special court resumed its
trial of 11 former government
and business officials, Christov
testified he had connections
since 1946 with the Yugoslav
commercial attache in Moscow
and, under the direction of
Traicho Kostov, former comma
nist deputy premier, gave the
Yugoslav espionage information.
Kostov is the main defendant
in the trial.
(Tass, the official Soviet news
agency, reported in a Moscow
radio broadcast heard in Lon
don that Kostov yesterday repu
diated portions of a ' previous
confession of guilt to charges of
plotting with Yugoslav Premier
Marshal Tito and British intel
ligence agents against Bulga
ria's communist regime.
(A similar report was earned
by the London Daily Express.)
As in the recent Hungarian
treason trial, the defendants are
accused of plotting to overthrow
their country s Red regime
Relaxing Clad In summer weight clothes, President and
Mrs. Truman and daughter, Margaret (right), bask in the
warm sun on the lawn of the "Little White House" in Key
West, Fla. (Acme Tclephoto)
Insane Hospital
Escapee Seen
At Oregon City
Oregon City, Ore., Dec. 8 U.R)
Search for two men who es
caped from the criminally in
sane ward of the Oregon State
hospital last Friday shifted to
the Oregon City-Portland area
today when one of the men was
reported seen walking down an
Oregon City street.
Al Brandt, Oregon City auto
salesman and member of the
Clackamas county sheriffs' re
serve, said he saw Marion E,
Watson and another man he
could not identify walking down
6th street here about 10:30
m. today. Brandt said he was
positive one of the men was
Watson. He said he had helped
take Watson into custody on pre
vious occasions in his capacity
as a deputy sheriff and he was
certain the man he saw today
was Watson.
Brandt immediately notified
police and then attempted to
follow the two men. But by the
time police arrived the men had
disappeared. Brandt said they
turned onto Main street and he
lost sight of them there.
State police, sheriff's deputies
and city police combined forces
in a concentrated search for the
men in this area.
New Judge in
Frat Case Asked
The services of still another
circuit judge are being sought
in the case of Gene Lebold and
others vs. school district 24CJ,
Salem, involving an effort to set
aside suspension from school of
18 high school boys here for
alleged affiliation with secret
societies.
This time Ralph E. Moody,
guardian ad litem for the stu
dent plaintiffs has filed an ap
plication for a change of judge
from Judge Victor Olllver of
Linn county, recently assigned
to the case by the supreme court.
He acts under amendments in
1947 session laws which allow
such application to be made at
a certain stage in the pleadings
and makes it mandatory that as
signment of a new judge be
granted. The law does not re
quire that any reason be given
for the requested change of
judge.
The case originally was filed
at a time when Judge Earl La-
tourette of Oregon City hap
pened to be here on assignment
as to other matters. He signed
a temporary restraining order
which lifted the suspension ban
until the case is decided. Then
Judge Ollivcr was assigned to
the case. It is due to come up
for court airing December 28.
Oregon Health Group Meets
Bend, Dec. 8 (P) The Oregon
Association for Health, Physi
cal Education, and Recreation
will open its annual convention
in Bend tomorrow.
Seattle Conceo
To Pay $750,06
For Property '
Word was received In Salem
Thursday that a contract has
been signed whereby ownership
of the Salem alumina plant VU1
pass from the war assets admin
istration to Manganese Products,
Inc., of Seattle.
The Information came from
the Seattle company, and has
been announced through a bul
letin published by the firm.
Manufacture of fertilizer will
continue when the plant resumes
work.
The purchase figure is given
as $750,000 for the plant which
stood the government about $5,
600,000 in construction cost dur
ing the war. Financing of the
deal, it is understood here, is
now being arranged.
Negotiations Concluded
It is noted in the company's
bulletin that its president, John
R. Allen, and Norman Ketzlach,
chief chemist, have recently re
turned from a trip to the east
with the company's attorney, Al
len Peyser, and its auditor, John
Meals, for conferences to wind
up the negotiations.
"The successful conclusion of
months of negotiation on the
part of Manganese P r o d u c ts,
Inc.," says the information from
Seattle, "was the awarding of a
federal contract on November 23 1.
to the Seattle company to pro-J
or -Denencate- manganesvi
ore. As an integral part of th$;
United States strategic materials -
program, the contract award pla- 1
ces Manganese Products, Inc., in
the front ranks of commercial
firms whose efforts on the na
tional behalf rate high priori
ty To Process Manganese
"The unique manganese re
covery methods to which MPI
holds the patents make it pos
sible for the company to process
these ores with greater efficien
cy than any other known meth
od. The processing work will be
carried out at Salem, Oregon, in
the former aluminum plant
which the company is purchas
ing from the government . . .
The government contract
with Manganese Products, Inc.,
is on a very favorable basis to
the company. The government
pays for the benefication of the
manganese ore and the company
obtains the tremendously valu
able by-product, sulphate of am
monia. Work will be started at
once to convert the Salem plant
to meet the requirements of the
contract operation."
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 1)
Ward Awaiting
Ship at Tientsin
Washington, Dec. 8 (IP) The
state department received advic
es today indicating that Angus
Ward and the American consu
late group from Mukden may
now be at the north China port
of Tientsin.
A message from the U. S. con
sul general at Tientsin said the
group's special train had passed
Tangsan.
Based on the liming of the
message, state department olti
cials figured the Ward party ot
20 should have arrived in Tient
sin about 8 a.m. (PST) todny.
The communist north China
news agency said in a broadcast
that Ward left Mukden at 3:40
a.m. Wednesday (11:40 a.m.
Tuesday, PST).
The state department said it
had confirmed through British
sources that the party left Muk- -den
on Wednesday with food
supply for two days.
These reports were the first
on the long isolated consulate
group since Ward got out word
that he expected to be able to
leave Mukden early Wednesday
morning, local time.
At Taku Bar, downriver from
Tientsin, an American merchant
ship is to take the Ward party
aboard. They will go first to
Yokohama, Japan.
Pedestrian Killed
Portland, Dec. 8 VP) Pedes
trian Gustav W. Lesch, 79, Port
land, was injured fatally last
night when struck by a car
southeast of the city. County
deputies reported the motorist,
Henry K. Tuerck, Portland, was
not held.