THE WEATHER HERE
CLEARING AND COOLER TO
NIGHT; lowest temperature near
25; increasing cloudiness Sunday,
Jf highest temperature near 45.
Maximum yesterday, j minimum In
day, 3tt. Talal 24-hour BreclBltattonl .11
for month: I.Mi normal, Season pre.
elpilatton, 10.86-;- .normal, U.n. Rjnr
aelfht, l. (tel. (Report 11. a. Wr.mrr
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61st Year, No. 294
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, December 10, 1949
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Australians
Oust Socialists
From Control
Free Enterprise
Coalition of Parties
Defeats Laborites
Sidney, Dec. 10 VP) Austra
lia's socialist labor government
was defeated in yesterday's
parliamentary election by a co
alition of the right wing for a
return to free enterprise, hav
ing secured a majority in the
lower house.
4 In the elections, Australians
also voted for 42 senators which,
'. with the 18 senators whose
terms have not yet expired
makes an upper chamber of' SO
seats.
Because of the proportional
representation method of vot
ing, labor is virtually certain of
winning IS seats. It already has
15 members in the senate. This
means that labor will have at
least 33 members a majority,
The senate strength, however,
has no bearing on the choice of
the government. The cabinet
must have a majority in the low
er house to maintain power.
Labor Controls Senate
Before the election liberal and
country party leaders conceded
labor would likely continue to
control the senate. However,
they expressed belief the labor
dominated senate would not ob
struct legislation of a liberal
country party government.
The Sydney Sun summed up
a the election result with the
heading: "Socialism Gets a Hid
ing." It said:
"Labor has been repulsed
most wholeheartedly in the met
ropolitan areas of states ruled
by labor governments (Queens
land and New South Wales).
These figures reflect the rebel
lion of Mrs. Australia, the house-
wife, who is fed up with restric
tions, shortages and controls. In
the defeat of the Chifly govern
ment is a verdict for the demo
cratic way of life."
I : The best-informed political
observers expressed belief that
Australians are tired of controls
and the trend toward more so
cialization, tired of rising prices
which may or may not have
been the fault of government.
(Concluded on Pa?e 5, Column 7)
Blizzards Hit
Midcontinent
(By tha Associated "reas
Blizzards and a fast moving
cold wave bore down on a wide
stretch of the midcontinent Sat
urday, threatening the season's
most gruelling weather.
. The Chicago weather bureau
Issued cold wave, snow or bliz
zard warnings for residents of
eight states.
The storms or bitter cold were
forecast for a wide belt from
Oklahoma to eastern Montana.
North and South Dakota, Ne
braska, eastern Montana and
western Kansas were in the path
both of blizzards and a mass of
Arctic air. Bitter cold and
heavy, blowing snow also were
forecast for Minnesota and Wis
consin. The cold wave was ex
pected to dip as far south as
A northwestern Oklahoma by Sun
y day.
Temperatures were expected
j to dip to an extreme of 20 below
1 in the Dakotas by Sunday night.
' Another mass of cold air
brought severe cold to residents
of the northwestern states Sat
urday. Light snow or freezing rain
made highways dangerously
slick over wide areas of the
country. Blizzard conditions
were forecast for western Ne
braska and Kansas and Okla
homa. Light rain or snow was fall
ing from Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan southward into
the Ohio valley and Applachians
and southwestward into the
southern plains.
Dallas Auto Knocks
Over Phone Pole
Dallas, Ore., Dec. 10 An ac
cident more spectacular than
destructive is reported by Fred
Green, of Dallas, whose auto
mobile knocked down a tele
phone pole on the Salem-Dallas
highway just outside the city
limits early Saturday morning.
Green's machine struck the
pole, taking out a ten-foot sec
tion, and then went into a ditch.
The upper portion of the pole,
supported by wires, rested on
the mid-section of the automo
bile, giving the appearance of
growing out of the wreck. Green
escaped with a cut hand.
Nationalist
Garrisons Join
Chinese Reds
Kunming Troops
Desert and Seize
Yunnan Province
Hong Kong, Dec. 18 ff) The
Chinese nationalists lost alt but
three meager fingertip holds on
China proper today. And they
were ready to give up one of
those newly abandoned Cheng
tu just as soon as they could
complete its evacuation.
The other two are Sichang, in
Sikang province virtually sur
rounded and worthless; and the
Luichow peninsula opposite
Hainan island. The Reds are
reported preparing to attack on
the peninsula to prevent na
tonalists from fleeing to Hainan.
New Developments
These were today's fast de
velopments:
The nationalist garrison at
Kunming an estimated 40,000
troops deserted and seized both
that city and its province, Yun
nan, for the Reds. It was a coup
for former Gov. Lung Yun, one
time friend but now bitter foe
of Chiang Kai-Shek.
The deserters seized 12 planes
at Kunming airfield. Later, one
of them, flown by Capt. F. E.
Birkman, San Francisco, roared
away under fire. Only one bul
let hit it. A Skymaster of the
Pacific Overseas Air Service
(POAS) it carried 57 passengers
to Hong Kong. Another took
20 passengers to Hong Kong.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6
Bonneville to
Increase Power
Portland,' Ore., Dec. 10 U.
Bonneville power line loads will
be increased 30 percent in Port
land, the Willamette valley, and
southwest Oregon Sunday when
power output from about three
Grand Coulee generators go into
action.
The increased power load will
go through the Bonneville Pow
er Administration's new 230,000-
volt transmission line from North
Bonneville to Troutdale, Ore.,
Administrator Paul J. Raver
said.
The $1,110,000 line and term
inal facilities were completed
this week by the Midland Con
structors, Inc., Los Angeles.
Bonneville lines with the new
22-mile high voltage circuit will
carry peak loads of 750,000 to
800,000 kilowatts to the lower
Columbia area. This compares
with the previous line capacity
of 550,000 to 600,000 kilowatts
over the present two-230,000
volt circuits.
Baver said "strengthening the
entire Grand Coulee-Bonneville-
Portland - Chehalis - Seattle
loop of the Columbia river sys
tem with the new line will in
crease system stability. It will
help minimize serious lightning
and other outages on major
transmission facilities."
The administrator said "a sec
ond North-Bonneville-Troutdale
230,000-volt line is planned to
bring future generation from Mc
Nary dam directly to Portland
load centers." Power require
ments of Portland and Willam
ette valley load centers are ex
pected to exceed 1,300,000 kilo
watts by 1954," he observed.
Audit Shows County
Tax Paying Slackening
By DON UPJOHN
Annual audit of county finances as filed by Bowers, Davis
and Hoffman, auditors, covering
reveals that taxpaying has been
three years, the uncollected taxes
$419,288.80 as compared with
preceding fiscal year and $213,-
952.83 at the end of the 1947 fis
cal year, or approximately twice
the uncollected taxes at the end
of the current fiscal year as
compared with 1947.
Percentage of total collections
to the current levies also have
dwindled from 97.14 in 1947 to
95.88 in 1948 and to 94.16 in
1949. Each succeeding year
the total roll has been larger, al
so reflecting that even with lar
ger rolls each year, the percent
age collected has constantly
dwindled.
The report cites certain defi
ciencies of collateral securities
covering bank accounts to which
attention of the officials
w a
caned.
The report also advises that a
property suspense fund has been
erroneously credited to the gen -
eral fund. Distribution of thisjfunds.
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Ward Parly
Leaves Sunday
Taku Bar, China, Dec. 10 W)
Angus Ward s party is scheduled
to leave Red China, finally, to
morrow aboard a tug.
But the 20-odd members of
the U, S. consul general's staff
are not expected aboard their
ship of hazen the Lakeland
Victory before late at night.
Their 18-mile trip from Tient
sin down the Han river to Taku
bar, in the gulf of Chihli, will
require about 10 hours. They
will start at noon.
Capt. Paul R. Sexton of the
Lakeland was so notified today.
Sexton said no one aboard the
Lakeland no U.S. army person
nel, including a doctor, and no
correspondents or: photographer
would be permuted ashore
during the Lakeland's stay.
Nor will anyone be permitted
to meet Ward at Tientsin -to ac
company him back aboard.
Maj. William E. R. Basch, an
army doctor, had requested per
mission to meet Ward in Tient
sin. The ship is expected to sail
Tuesday or Wednesday.
Robert Puck, German born
Tientsin agent of the Pacific Far
East Lines, said he was told
Ward and his party of 20-odd
are in good health and good
shape."
The Lakeland anchored today
at Taku Bar, 16 miles off Tient
sin.
Navy to Lease
Its Giant Planes
Washington, Dec. 10 W The
navy wants to lease its two giant
Lockheed airplanes to a com
mercial airline. Reason: It can't
afford to run them itself.
Announcing that the 180-pas-
senger air transport planes are
available on a five-year lease,
the navy said:
"The reduced military bud-:
gets do not permit the continued
operation of the planes by the
navy. If the planes can not be
leased they will be stored at:
the navy's plane storage base,
Litchfield park, Ariz."
the year ending June 30, 1949,
distinctly slackening in the past
as to June 30, this year, totaling
$286,141.87 at the end of the
money was being held up pend
ing an opinion as to whether
revenue from state forest lands
purchased by the state is to be
distributed to the general fund
or in the same manner as money
received from tax foreclosed
lands.
The audit also, advises that
work done for various depart
ments by printing equipment se
cured by the county has been
charged against budget accounts
of the various departments when
it is recommended the expenses
and charges of this type be set
up in a separate revolving fund
The report says that justices of
sjthe peace of Jefferson, Breiten
bash and Mt. Angel districts
have not complied with certain
statutory provisions providing
: for control and deposit of public
Ward and Aides in Mukden Dr. Angus Ward third from
right, front) American consul general at Mukden, China, now
en route to Japan after being held for months by communists,
sits with members of his staff at the consulate in this picture
made by Mrs. D. R. Longacre of Bethesda, Md., about six
months before Ward's capture by Reds. The picture was
made public in Washington Dec. 9. In photo are: front
(left to right) Arthur Abbott, now in New Zealand; Fred
Hubbard of Edgemont, S. D., vice consul; Delano McKelvey,
consul; Ward; Major Longacre, now on duty in Washington;
Mary E. Braden, Dysart, Iowa, clerk. Rear (left to right)
Albert Siebens, vice consul now in Germany; William N.
Stokes, Staten Island, N. Y.; unidentified man; Eiden Berik
son, Concordia, Kas., clerk; Ralph Rehberg, Rochester, N, Y.,
clerk; Larry Horton; Leonard Lane. (AP Wirephoto)
Jobess Benefits Pass
$17 Million in Oregon
By JAMES . JLSON
Unemployment compensation payments in Oregon passed the
$17 million mark during the first week of December to establish
.nwweekly-highoi-: any year
in 1938; it was announced Saturday. -
With payments being made
Tree Lights On
December 20
Lights on the Cherrians live
Christmas tree on the court
house lawn will first begin to
twinkle this Christmas season
the night of December 20.
Time for turning the lights on
8 p. m. and a special program
has been arranged by the Cher
rians for the occasion. Santa
Claus is expected to be present
and will have candy canes for
the youngsters.
In the past years that the tree
has been lighted it has been
trimmed by the city fire depart
ment for the Cherrians. The
tree has now become so high
that Cherrians fejt it was dan
gerous to use the tail ladder and
employes of the Walton Brown
Electric company have volun-
tered to donate their services in
decorating the tree.
The tree, first decorated by
Cherrians in 1B13 and then the
first living Christmas tree, today
the tallest living Christmas
iree to be lighted. It is possible
that this may be the last year
that the tree will be lighted, be
cause of its height, and Cher
rians now are making plans for
the planting of another tree for
decoration next year.
Members of the Cherrian com
mittee planning for the tree's
decoration this year and for the
program are Fred Starrett, Jud
son Bressler, Robert M. Fischer,
Jr., Marty Boesch and Douglas
Yeater.
Spies Confess
To Aiding Tito
Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 10 &l
Five witnesses at the Kostov
treason trial this morning testi
fied they carried on espionage
for the Yugoslav intelligence
service. They appeared against
11 Bulgarian communists charg
ed with treason, espionage and
sabotage to aid Yugoslavia.
They said they worked against
the fatherland front and the com
munist party under direct in
structions of Yuloslav embassy
officials in Sofia.
Iril Nikolov, identified as a
former Nevrokov district prose
cutor, said he followed Yugo
slav intelligence instructions to
carry out subversive activities in
Macedonia, aiming at the annex-
istion of Bulgarian Macedonia to
'Yugoslavia.
. ,
aaaf,ai2iiiua&Ji
since first benefit were-paid
td1' unemployed at a rate of over
$8GQ,000 a week, the 1949 total
may pass $18,000,000, of nearly
14 per cent above the previous:
high in 1946 when war workers:
were changing to peace-time
jobs.
Already this year's benefits
are more than the combined
total for 1947 and 1948 and of
ficials of the unemployment
compensation commission say
that 1949 payments will prob
ably equal the entire amount
paid out of the end of the war
nearly eight years after pay
ments began.
During November $1,836,454
were to unemployed workers,
considerably more than three
times the $535,858 paid out a
year ago.
Oregon's covered payrolls, aft
a strong comeback in April,
May and June when a new rec
ord of $242,747,807 was estab
lished, fell short again in the
late summer.
At the end of the third quar
ter pay rolls were running about
$35 million lower than for the
same period a year ago. In 1848
state payrolls aggregated $875
million. The 1849 figure will
depend upon wages paid during
the fourth quarter, reports for
which will be tabulated early
in 1950.
Every unemployment compen
sation office in the state with
the single exception of Coos
Bay more than doubled 1948
unemployment payments. Port
land was slightly below aver
age with three and one-half
times last year's benefits, while
The Dalles, Medford, Eugene!
and Roseburg led with totals
more than six times as high.
Eugene with payments total-:
ing $1,142,000 passed Salem to:
quadruple last year's figure of
$277,715. In third place Salem:
paid out $990,598, while Oregon:
City, Astoria, Coos Bay and:
Klamath Falls were close togeth-i
er just over the half-million:
mark
Effect of seasonal shutdowns:
was shown by an increase of
nearly 10,000 claimants report-:
ing to local offices during the:
last week of November. The
number of claims initial, wait
ing and compensable reached
40,592, more than in any week
of 1947 or 1948.
Annexation Asked
Portland, Dec. 10 W) A pro
posal to extend the Portland city
limits about two miles to the
southwest was made today. It
came from a group of residents
in the community of Multnomah,
who asked an election to be an
nexed to the city. Previously
the community has opposed such
a merger, but the group said
sentiment was shifting.
Pre-Chrislmas
Santa Claus Eve
Big Success
Rain and Cold Fail
To Dim Enthusiasm
Of Youngsters
By 'STEPHEN A. STONE
It rained, and It was cold. But
Salem sparkled Friday night.
The eager eyes of cute school
girls sparked happily as they
squirmed about among the thous
ands who milled in Salem streets.
Laughter rippled from the lips
of matrons. The behavior of:
small boys, if rude at times, was
forgiven, and the faces of their
dads or uncles glowed when
some strange but pretty woman
tapped their shoulders and said
"Tag. You're Santa Claus."
Overhead in the streets the
colored Christmas lights that
studded the evergreen garlands
added gaiety to the always bril
liantly-lighted city center and
Yuietide music played from g
dozen places.
Crowds were as dense at the
Capitol Shopping Center, and ai
other business spots farther out.
as they were downtown. All car
parking stalls were filled early
in the evening, and the new
stores in the center were con
gested with patrons throughout
the shopping hours.
AH Salem Turned Out
It seemed that ail Salem turn
ed out for the first of the pre
Christmas Santa Claus nights,
which are to be each Friday, It
was a happy crowd, even though
it was necessary to find shelter
indoors at times. This filled the
'Concluded en Paw Column g)
Parachuting
Santa Caught
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dee. 10
(JP) Santa Claus parachuted into
town today, got hung up in high
tension wires and was rescued
as hundreds of kids wept and
cheered.
There were oohs and ahs as
Santa hit the silk over the edge
ot Stranahan field in mid-city
but the happy ouicries'became
yells of concern as the red-suited
visitor, caught in a brisk
wind, was blown into power
lines.
The field was jammed with
several thousand kids and their
parents. Horrified children saw
Santa swing hard against a util
ity pole as the chute tangled,
then dangled helplessly 45 feet
above the ground.
Jack Niles, 22, the chutist.
was shaken up but unhurt. His:
descent knocked radio station
WFTL-WGOR (FM) off the air
for a time, but miraculously
none of the electricity struck
Sania.
"Mommy, Santa Claus is trap
ped," was screamed by hundreds
of young throats.
Fire department ladder trucks
were called, but before they
arrived John W. Bell, a utility
lineman watching the event.
quickly shinned up a pole in
borrowed climbers.
Bell fashioned a line over
crossbars, swung it over to' San
ta Claus who unharnessed his
parachute. A ladder meantime
was placed under him and the:
not -so-jolly St Nick lowered:
himself and scrambled down to
the arms of a mob of anxious:
youngsters.
At Santa Class Tat; Night last night little Leonard Sabrow
ki couldn't find one of the civiiian Santa Clauses but here
he tells his hopes to Bill Iguldin, Kris Kringle for Milier's
department store, as his brother James waits his turn.
Spots Bridges Prosecution
witnesses Kermit C Kroleck
(above), electronics engineer
of Belmont, Calif., testified in
the San Francisco perjury
trial of CIO Longshore Chief
Harry Bridges that he attend
ed several communist party
meetings with Bridges in 1938,
and that Bridges served as
chairman at one such meet
ing in Long Beach, Calif,
(Acme Telephoto)
Bridges Trial
Third Through
San Francisco, Dec. IS Wt
After four tumultuous weeks of:
the Harry Bridges perjury tri
al, government prosecutors esti
mated today they are about
one-third through their half of:
the bitterly-fought case. It looks
like a long trial ahead.
'I'm hoping to wind up the:
government case by .mid-January,"
said Chief Prosecutor F.
Joseph Donohue.
Kermit Charles Krolek, elec
tronics engineer, ex - communist;
business agent for the Portland,
Ore., local of the American Ba-i
dio Telegraphers association
declared he saw Bridges act as
chairman at Long BeacH commu
nist meeting, also attended by
Schmidt, which framed- a pro
gram and slate of candidates to:
be pushed at the Maritime Fed
eration of the Pacific convention
testified he saw Bridges and
Schmidt at communist meetings
in Portland, Ore., in 1937.
Every trick in the bag popped
out in defense tactics. "I'm en
titled to trap lying witnesses by
any trick I can 1 make no apol
ogy for my method," snapped
Bridges lawyer once. He is under
a 6-month jail sentence for con
tempt, slapped on early in the
trial by Federal Judge George
Harris, based on courtroom cgji-:
duct and flouting of court rul-:
ings. The sentence is to be serv-:
ed after the trial. An appeal
is in progress.
Prosecutor Donohue, premis
es another "punch witness" early
next week.
Elliott. Roosevelt
In Tele Business
Hyde Park, N Y., Doc. W m
El ml t Roese vc3 1 ss id Soay
he was going inla radio and tel
evision production.
The second son of the late
President Franklin D. Rooseveti
said he and Morgan Jones, Hew
York City radio and tHcvjssen
executive,, had rmed the term
of KocseveH and Jones, Ine,
Hooseveii said he would srve
ss a director of the new firm,
United Nations
Assembly Ends
1949 Session
$8 Million Voted to
Finance International
Regime at Jerusalem
N'tw York. Bee. 18 m The
United NatiQHS Assembly ad
ijourned its 1949 session at l;2l
p.m, (EST) today after hearing
Russia accuse the western pow
ers of a "black plot" against
peace.
s Soviet Deputy Foreigs Minss-
war" note in the midst of the
customary round of congratula
tory speeches ai adjournment
lime. He termed ihe Assembly'
work "unsatisfactory."
The SS-natJon assembly had
been in sessksB since Sept, 26,
Malik said the United States
and Britain used -the Assembly
meeting to cover up what the
Russians call plans for a sew
war, tie said Russia stands for
people and will continue to stand
for peace.
Pride in Record
Assembly President Carlos P.
Romulo told the delegates he felt
they could take justifiable pride
in their achievements. He ex
pressed ihe belief some progress
is being made toward world
peace despite the fact that "ho
startling results" are evident.
"The Assembly has neither
yielded to despair nor acknowl
edged failure," Homulo said.
U.N. Secretary-General Tryg
ve Lie also contended the big
powers have taken some posi
tive steps toward settling their
basic differences.
"We have moved forward,"
Lie said, "to a point where in
world has reason to hope for a
step-by-step resumption of real
negotiations between both sides.
This, in Itself, would be substan
tial improvement over the situa
tion that has prevailed over th
past three years,"
Some Unity Achieved
U. S. Delegate John Sherman
Cooper told the Assembly a re
markable degree o unity had
been achieved on such measures
as the "essentials of peace" res
olution which was supported by
53 out of the Assembly's 59
members. The Russian bloc was
against it.
The last major decision et the
assembly was the adoption of the
U.ti.'s 1S5S budget of $43,641,
733, including $8,000,000 to fi
nance the setting up of the pro
posed international regime for
Jerusalem approved last night.
The Assembly disposed s 68
separate iteins during its 12
weeks of deliberations. It heid
57 plenary meetings and its sev
en major committees held 384.
rain Trusters
Visit Truman
Key West, Fla., Dec. 10 5 .
President Truman's brain trust
ers basked Impartially today in
ihe rays of the Florida sunshine
and the sunlight of the presi
dential smil?.
The Key West holiday bloom
ed into full glory as everyone
put aside his penciis, his law
nooks and his ideas to relax
over the week-end.
Budget"? Yoii wouldn't think
there was s budget in sight to
sec the staff at play volley balis
raised high, horseshoes circling
above the sands of ihe beach,
bronzed arms spiashing in the
waters et ine gim.
Cast aside far the Saturday
and Sunday holiday were the
language sf "ihe state of the
'inion" message, the strategy of
another fight in congress for
the "fair deal," and the taxes
to finance it.
The staff, particularly the
working force, w-as divided, cot
over policy, but how to take
ihcir time off. There was quite
a pilgrimage to Havana. Others
went to the golf courses, or out
to sea to fish. But mostly they
swam with ihe president
And the president, a happy
man from all appearances, put
aside the eares thai normally
dominate his dav to let every
body "take off" for a couple of
days.
He will return to work Mon
day on the "state of the union"
massage, the budget and eco
nomic messages.
Lock wood Reappointed
j Portland, Dee. 10 ! Charles
A. Locktt-ood was unanimeasly
reappointed state game director
the state game commission
today, Lockwood's new term
will be indefinite. His old term
would have expired Dec. 31.
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