THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY CLOUDY with
showers tonight and Sunday.
Continued cool. Lowest temper
ature tonight, 32; highest Sun
day, 42.
Maximum yesterday, 44; minimum to
day, 4(1. Total '4-hour precipitation: .ftfft
for month; 2.44; normal, .1.43. Season pre
cipitation. 11.08; Normal, 11.10. River
height, l.:i feet. (Report by V. S. Weather
Bureau.)
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61st Year, No. 300 SSSS'J'SS'oSS Salem, Oregon, Saturday, December 17, 1949
Price 5c
Voters Have
Chance lo Mark
Many Ballots
National, State,
County and City
Offices to Be Filled
By JAMES D. OLSON
Oregon voters will be called
upon in 195.. to elect a governor,
a United States senator, a con
gressman in each of the four
congressional districts, four su
preme court justices, a superin
tendent of public instruction and
, a state labor commissioner.
These together with members
of the legislature and county
J and city officers.
From present indications,
Governor Douglas McKay will
have no serious opposition for
the republican gubernatorial
nomination.
No definite word has come
from democratic headquarters
as to who will seek the demo
cratic nomination for governor.
Mentioned prominently, howev
er, are State Senator Austin F.
Flegel, Portland, State Treasur
er Walter J. Pearson and Slate
Senator' Richard Neuberger.
Lew Wallace, former state sen
ator, who .i has twice won the
democratic nod for governor,
but has met defeat at general
elections, may make a third try,
according to reports from Port
land. Search in Vain
No apparent success has been
attained by a group of republi
cans who are scouring the state
' for someone to oppose U.S. Sen
ator Wayne Morse. The latest to
be mentioned as a candidate
against Oregon's aggressive jun
ior senator is Admiral Thomas
L. Gatch, retired.
Supporters of Morse do not
seem concerned, feeling that
Morse will win the republican
nomination: hands down and go
to an easy win over any demo
cratic opponent that might be
placed against him at the No
vember, 1950 election.
-.JUtirmnMJpYP justices of the
state supreme court expire on
January 5, 1951. They are Chief
Justice Hall S. Lusk and Asso
ciate Justices J. O. Bailey, Ar
thur D. Hay and E. M. Page.
Justice Bailey has made it
known that he will not seek re
election, and Robert F. Ma
guire, Portland attorney who
recently returned from Ger
many where he presided in the
Nazi trial court for eight months,
has announced his intention to
seek Bailey's seat on the high
bench.
Reports have been prevalent
that State Senator Allan Carson
of Salem will oppose Justice
Page, but thus far Carson has
been silent on the subject. Page
was appointed by Governor Mc
Kay following the death of Jus
tice Percy Ri Kelly. It is ex
pected that Lusk, Hay and Page
will be candidates to succeed
themselves. f
(Concluded on -Paire 5, Column 6)
Storm Brings
Gales and Rains
Portland, Dec. 17 W A storm
swept inland across the north
"west today, bringing heavy
showers to some areas and snow
to the higher regions.
Winds up to 48 miles an hour
whistled over the Portland air
port. High winds raked coastal
v ports, and the town of Brook
ings got nearly an inch of rain.
Snow closed the Mount Hood
loop highway from Wapinitia
Junction to Hood River Mea
dows. A heavy snowfall was fore
east for the Cascade mountains,
and even Portland was warned
to expect some snow on its hills.
Strong wind and showers
made Saturday a blustery day
for the Salem area. During the
early part of the morning the
wind whipped it up to between
30 and 40 miles per hour at the
top of gusts.
More than a half-inch of rain
descended during the night and
early morning. .65 of an inch
being recorded in the 24-hour
period ending at 10:30 a. m.
The Willamette river was a
foot higher here in the Satur
day reading, being measured at
1.3 feet.
Forecast Is for the showers
and cool temperatures to con
tinue through the week-end.
Woman Killed on Trestle
Portland, Dec. 17 VP) An el
derly woman, crossing a trestle
as a shortcut to work, was killed
today when a freight train
caught her on the span. Police
Identified her as Oneta Harrel,
textile worker.
New Business
Building, Planl
Cost $54,000
Church, Mill Street
Site Utilized Also
Parking Project
When a building permit was
issued Saturday for a $24,000
building at the northeast corner
of South Church and Mill, an
nouncement was made by Leo N.
Cliilds of a new business to be
established at that corner.
And on the same quarter block
Childs announced an off-street
parking project that will accom
modate about 150 cars.
The building will be occupied!
under a long-term lease by the
Nu-Way Cleaners. The lessees
are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Smith,
coming here from Central City.
Nebr., and the business will be
under the management of Clyde
F. Nordstrom, now operating the
Nu-Way Cleaners in West Sa
lem, which will be continued.
Nordstrom is a brother of Mrs.
Smith.
50 by 80 Feet
The new building will be 50
by 80 feet, one story high, of re
inforced concrete. The designer
was Lyle P. Bartholomew and
the contractors are Barham
Bros. Nordstrom said the design
had been made expressly for the
cleaning business, and that the
building complies in all details
with city and state fire codes, as
well as being planned for the
comfort of employes.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
To Explain Boost
In Steel Prices
Pittsburgh, Dec. 17 (P) Why
did U. S. Steel corporation boost
its steel prices an average of $4
a ton?
The giant firm is anxious to
tell congressional Investigators
the reason. In fact, U. S. Steel
President Benzamin F. Fairless
says he welcomes the opportun
ity to put his cards on the ta
ble. He insists he has nothing
to hide. - ,.;
And the man who demanded
the investigation, Senator O'-
Mahoney (D-Wyo), is happy,
too.
Advised of Fairless' statement
yesterday, O'Mahoney declared:
"That's splendid. It clears the
way and I certainly shall rec
ommend to my committee that
we proceed and get the facts."
O'Mahoney has indicated the
joint congressional economic
committee he heads will start
its probe soon after Christmas.
The Wyoming democrat savs
Big' Steel's move threatens Am
erica's economy. He's hoping
other steel companies will not
follow the leader of the industry.
Generally, U. S. Steel sets the
pattern.
O'Mahoney says Big Steel's
action in boosting prices affords
other steel companies a "great
competitive opportunity."
There's no indication that
other major steel producers will
stand pat on their present pric-
City Rejects Silverton
Road Drainage Plan
By DON UPJOHN
Plans for the proposed city-county drainage project to install a
new culvert under the Silverton
and clear that ditch for 2100 feet north from the road have been
definitely abandoned by the city stating it will be unable to ac
cept a compromise offer from the county as to sharing the expense.
The county had advised the
city it would go ahead with its
first commitment and build the
culvert as well as give an addi
tional $250 toward clearing the
ditch. ' The county originally
had agreed to clear the ditch for
300 feet. Then the city came in
with an additional proposal ask
ing the county to clear it for
2100 feet and submitted an esti
mate of the cost. The county in
turn figured that $250 was about
one-seventh of the cost for the
2100 feet which would take care
of its first commitment to clear
the ditch for 300 feet. Under
the county's last proposal the
city would use its own equip
ment rather than having the
work done by county equipment.
City Manager J. L. Franzen
now has advised the county it
cannot accept the county pro
posal due to very limited funds
at hand and states "therefore it
is necessary to discontinue any
further plans on the project."
The city manager said in his
letter that it would cost the city
in the neighborhood of $6000
to install a drain along the south
Collapse Follows Mrs. San
ta Clause Award Above,
Mrs. Charles A. Sprague,
(left), principal in the "Tag
Mrs. Santa Claus" contest,
happily watches Mayor Robert
L Elfstrom award Mrs. Jessie
L. LeBoeuf, 67-year-old pen
sioner living at 147 North
Commercial, $100 as first to
tag Mrs. Santa Claus. Below,
Mrs. LeBoeuf, seated and sud
denly ill, following presenta
tion of the award. Assisting
her are first aid personnel:
Don Hill, left, and Clinton
Hart, acting captain.
Senator Morse
Studies Mexico
Mexico City, Dec. 17 W
Senator Wayne Morse (R., Ore.)
left today for Los Angeles
aboard President Aleman's
plane "El Mexicano" which
brought him here from Dallas.
The plane left at 9:10 a. m.
(CST) and should reach Los
Angeles in the early afternoon.
Morse, after a week's study of
oil and the fight against aftosa
among cattle, seemed much
pleased with his visit.
He said he thought "it very
important that Mexico gets the
oil loan" for development of
her resources. He spent much of
yesterday with Antonio J. Ber
mudez, director general of Pe
mex, government oil monopoly.
They flew to rich Poza Rica field
and during the past week they
went together to other fields and
to the chief oil installations.
For an hour yesterday, Sen.
Morse talked through interpre
ters with President Miguel Ale
man about Mexican problems
With Sen. Morse are Ralph,
Cake, republican national com-j
mitteeman from Oregon, and
Mrs. Cake.
Afte. talking with officials of
the joint U. S. -Mexico aftosa
commission and seeing some of1
its work, Sen. Morse said he
was "much impressed" with
what is being done.
His chief interest, however,
was the oil development and he
said he thought Pemex, under
Bermudez, is "doing a remark
able job in developing Mexican
oil facilities."
19 Dead in Sioux City Blast
Sioux City, la., Dec. 17 U.R)
The death toll in Wednesday's
explosion at the Swift and Co.
meat plant rose to 19 today as
Joe Kueny, 18, Sioux City, died
of injuries suffered in the blast.
road near the Hollywood ditch
side of the Silverton road to a
point where the proposed cul
vert would have been installed.
This drain, he said, would take
care of all the water running
northerly to the Silverton road
and the city didn't feel as though
it could make any further ex
penditure because of limitation
of its funds. So apparently the
whole plan is off for this season
at least.
The county court took the po
sition in limiting expenditure
for clearing the Hollywood ditch
that the only excuse it had for
expending the money in the first
place was what protection it
might serve to the Silverton
road as the only funds it had
available for the work are road
funds and it would have to jus
tify their expenditure on that
account. When the clearing of
the ditch went past that point
the court felt it could not in
justice use road funds for such a
purpose because it could no
longer come under the classifica
tion of road protection.
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TaggerMMrs. Santa
III Following Award
The people of Salem, massed
and applauded mightily Friday
67, who lives in a flat at 147 Worth Commercial, was acclaimed
winner of $100 for tagging Mrs. Santa Claus.
They were happy because, it
Veep Speaker
Miami Banquet
Miami, Fla., Dec. 17 W
Democratic party stalwarts,
headed by Vice President Alben
W. Barkley and his bride, will
meet in the Dinner-Key auditor
ium tonight to eat and hear
speeches at a Jefferson-Jackson
dinner.
It is being hailed as the "big
gest democratic dinner ever ser
ved under one roof."
Winston K. Pendleton, assis
tant state democratic finance
director, said 3,360 guests had
confirmed seats for the $10-a-
plate dinner.
'Veep" Barkley, who is to be
principal speaker, arrived here
Thursday with his bride.
Yesterday the nation's most
famous honeymooners went
yachting on Biscayne bay.
Mrs. Barkley, dressed in an
aqua blue cotton dress with
tiny white polka-dots and a
double while Eaton collar,
laughed as her jovial husband
tilted the yachting cap on his
head.
She contended she was a "real
democrat."
'I wish people would get that
straight," she smiled. I voted for
Mr. Willkie once, but I'm a real
democrat."
Schneider Dies in
Prison Gas Chamber
Canyon City, Colo., Dec. 17
(U.R) Paul J. Schneider was ex
ecuted here last night for the
murder of a Denver filling sta
tion man.
The handsome,' Bible-reading
Schneider, died in the lethal
gas chamber at 8:01 p.m. (MST).
He was confident to the end that
he would get a reprieve but his
ninth stay of execution failed to
arrive.
Schneider, convicted of slay
ing 47-year-old Frank J. Ford,
Denver filling station attendant.
was steady and stony-faced as
Warden Roy Best and prison
guards came to his cell to escort
him to the gas chamber.
"Take it easy," he called to
fellow inmates as he left cell
block five. "The Lord's will,
will be dont thii evening."
in the city center, wore thrilled,
night when Mrs. Jessie L. LeBoeuf,
was said, the recipient seriously
needed the money, and she had
not been well.
But the emotion of the mom
ent was too much for Mrs. Le
Boeuf. She became faint, but
she would be all right in a little
while, she said. They wished her
merry Christmas. Then they saw
she was in distress and first aid
was called. She was taken to
her home but it was said today
her condition was not serious,
Mrs. LeBoeuf, a pensioner,
worked for a while in the can
neries last summer, neighbors
remembered, but a rathei bad
spell of illness made it imposs
ible for her really to get out and
make a living. So the $100 post
ed by the Salem Retail Trade
bureau as a feature of the sec
ond Santa Claus night was very
welcome to her.
The Mrs. Santa Claus role on
Friday night was played by
Mrs. Charles A. Sprague, wife
of the former governor. Mrs.
LeBoeuf tagged her at the Hart-
man jewelry store and Mrs. San
ta graciously acknowledged her
identity.
Both in the city center and in
the Capitol Shopping Center Sa
lem was out cn masse. It was
a bigger crowd, said the merch
ants, than a week ago, and a
better buying crowd, so from
both angles records were brok
en. Most of the 26 Mr. Santa
Clauses were tagged early in the
evening. That, apparently, was
because they tried to hide in
the crowd and not look like San
ta Clauses. One Willamette stu
dent who played the part did it
differently. He went around
telling people he was Santa
Claus and no one would believe
it. Then just at the 9 o'clock
closing hour a woman customer
put the finger on him and won
her prize.
(Concluded on Tare 5, Column 7)
New York to Install
Parking Meters
New York, Dec. 17 m Only
nature is needed to put New
Mayor William O'Dwycr's sig
York in the list of American
cities with parking meters.
A bill authorizing them clear
ed two big hurdles yesterday-
the city council and the board
of estimate. Only the mayor's
approval is needed to make the
mil effective.
UN Council
Hears Kashmir,
India, Decision
Efforts to Get Packis
tans and Hindus to
Sign Pact Fail
Lake Success, Dec. 17 Wi The
United Nations trusteeship coun
cil, after three fruitless meetings
wrangling about the internation
alization of Jerusalem, is going
to try for a quick preliminary
decision on Kashmir.
Letting the question of Jeru
salem slide over for a fresh start
next week, the council meets (at
10:30 a.m. EST) today to take up
the princely state over which In
dia and Pakistan have fought
and argued for the last two
years.
The 11-nation council stopped
a shooting war over disputed
Kashmir by a cease fire order
last Jan. 1. The order came af
ter months of dickering by a spe
cial commission of the council
with representatives of India
and Pakistan.
Refuse to Sign Truce
Since then the commission has
tried in vain to get India and
Pakistan to sign a truce agree
ment and hold a vote so the po
pulation could decide whether
the state should go to Moslem
Pakistan or Hindu India. Near
ly four-fifths of the more than
4,000,000 Kashmiris are Moslem
To Name Mediator
The commission now is asking
the council to name one man to
mediate and arbitrate the dis
pute. A long report Dec. 12 said
the commission was no longer
effective in dealing with the
two countries.
The commission report said
also neither Pakistan nor India
had satisfied completely the com
mission truce program for with
drawing troops and stopping pro
paganda so as to allow a free
plebiscite.
The trusteeship council ended
its third meeting on Jerusalem
,last night with Russia, fighting
off, an immediate Vote on the
question of inviting Israel to sit
with the council during the dis
cussion of Jerusalem.
Jews and Arabs
May Rush Peace
Haifa, Israel, Dec. 17 (&) In
formants here say Israel and
Hashemilc Jordan may rush to a
final peace agreement as a re
sult of the U. S. decision to in
ternationalize Jerusalem, which
the two countries hold jointly.
The two nations, whose war
has been halted by a truce, al
ready are negotiating for set
tlement of traffic problems aim
ed at giving Jordan a route to
the Mediterranean sea and pro
viding Israel roads through
Arab-held territory to Mount
Zion.
Both the Israeli republic and
King Abdullah's Arab nation are
in full agreement on maintain
ing their present positions ir
Jerusalem rather than giving in
to the U. N. internationaliza
tion order.
The Arabs hold the old city
in which most of the holy places
of seven faiths lie The Jews
hold the new section and have
set up most of their govern
mcnt offices there in defiance
of the U. N. order.
Musgrave Chairman
Of Red Cross Drive
By MARIAN LOWHY FISCHER
Walter Musgrave. realtor, and
and service organizations, will be general chairman for the 11)51)
American Red Cross fund campaign in Marion county, it was
announced today by Charles H. Huggins, chairman of the local
Red Cross chapter.
The drive formally opens
March 1, March being designat
ed nationally as Red Cross fund
campaign month.
"The Red Cross program is a
vital one and I am happy to ac
cept the appointment as fund
campaign chairman in Marion
county and do what I can to as
sist in the work of this worth
while organization," Mr. Mus
grave said.
Mr. Huggins is announcing tho
appointment said:
"The Marion county chapter of
the American Red Cross is very
pleased that Mr. Musgrave has
accepted the chairmanship for
the annual fund campaign. He
was selected by the board of the
Red Cross here because of the
thorough Job he has alwayi done
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Former Premier Traicho
Rostov of Bulgaria hanged for
Titoism.
Kostov Purged
On Gallows
Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 17 U.R
Sofia newspapers said today that
former Premier Traicho Kostov
confessed completely to charges
of treason and espionage and
asked for mercy shortly before
he was hanged.
Kostov was the first purged
communist to plead innocent in
any postwar eastern European
trial. He was found guilty and
condemned to death by the Bul
garian supreme court Wedncs
day.
The presidium of the national
assembly rejected his plea for
clemency Thursday and he was
hanged in Sofia's Central prison
yesterday.
During his trial, Kostov repu
dialed a confession which the
court said was in his own hand
writing. Newspapers today pub-,
lished facsimiles in his hand
writing of his plea to the na
tional assembly in which he al
legedly confirmed all that he
had admitted in the original con
fession. The press said that Kostov
said he considered his death sen
tence "absolutely correal?' anfl
attributed his conduct during: if
trial to "excited nerves and skk
intelligentsia ambition."
Ward Due in
Japan Monday
Aboard Lakeland Victory,
Dec. 17 (fP) The Lakeland Vic
tory steamed from Pusan, Korea,
this afternoon with all but one;
member of U. S. Consul Gener-'
al Angus Ward's party.
The ship is due in Yokoma
ma, Japan, Monday morning.
Alfred Kristan, German on
Ward's staff in Mukden until the
diplomat and his parly of 20
were ousted by the Chinese com
munists, was transferred to the
U. S. embassy in Seoul, capital
of South Korea.
Franco Cicogna and his wife,
Italians, also were assigned to
Seoul but refused that post.
They said they would continue
on the Lakeland to Yokohama
and return to Italy rather than
go to Seoul.
Except fr the Cicognas and
Kristan, ail other members of
Ward's parly are Americans.
The Americans will continue
to the United Slates after a few
days in Tokyo. They are sched
uled to sail Doc. 22 on the Presi
dent Wilson. (It was not report
ed whether the Cicognas would
be on the Wilson, but it was pre
sumed they could be.)
active worker in several civic
in every civic activity ne has
undertaken. It is my opinion he
will put on an active, aggressive
and short campaign, and I be
lieve the public will respond
generously because the need for
the Red Cross and the require
ments necessary for its program
are well known."
Although the national fund
campaign universally opens
March 1, the Marion county di
rectorate plans to launch its part
in the event with the Chamber
of Commerce kick-off luncheon,
February 27, Mr. Huggins stat
ed. "Mr. Musgrave is interested
in making the campaign as
speedy as possible and is anx
ious that Salem set the pace for
the other cities of the state,
he added.
(Concluded on t'uge 5, Column 5)
Relief Jailed
By Hungarians
Israel Jacobson Ar
rested but Charges
Against Him Unknown
Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 17
UP) Hungarian authorities an
nounced today that ksrael Jacob
son, director of the American
joint distribution committee in
Hungary, has been arrested. They
declined to give any details of
the charges against him.
U. S. Minister Nathaniel P.
Davis said he had been refused
permission to see Jacobson in
prison.
Harold Trobe. Vienna director
of the American joint distribu
tion committee, a Jewish relief
agency, said Jacobson was ar
rested Thursday when he re
turned to Budapest after a six
week leave in the United States.
Trobe said he knew of no pos
sible reason for Jacobson's ar
rest.
Returned from United States
Jacobson's home was formerly
Rochester, N. Y., but a few
weeks ago his family moved to
Chicago. His wife, Florence,
worked in the Chicago office of
the "Federation of Jewish Char
ities." Mrs. Jacobson was with him
in Budapest before they left three
months ago on their trip to the
United States.
Jacobson left here last Thurs
day after spending a week get
ting a Hungarian visa. Trobe
said the visa was issued with
"only a minimum of difficulty."
Jacobson was driven to the
Austro-Hungarian ..border ..on
Thursday morning by a driver
from the Vienna office of the
AJDC. At the border Jacobson
was met by a driver from the
Budapest office and he crossed
the border at eleven o'clock.
Cause of Arrest Unknown
When he failed to show up at
the Budapest office on schedule
Thursday, Inquiries were made
at -the- A. WGUu:aneBaUon..hc,,
i lie i. legation was iniormea,y
the Hungarian foreign office th
Jacobson had been arrested.
Trobe said Jacobson "probably
was acquainted with" Robert A.
Vogeler, American businessman
arrested by the Hungarians No
vember 18. He said, however,
the two were probably not very
close friends and he did not
think there is any connection be
tween their arrests. '
Jacobson, 45, was assigned to
the Budapest office of the AJDC
in September, 1947, and stayed
there until he left for the Unit
ed Stales.
enna only twice during that
time.
Trobe said as far as he knew
Jacobson was never molested by
Hungarian police during his
long stay in Budapest.
Trobe said the European head
quarters of the AJDC in Parii
has been notified of Jacobson'l
irrcst and he assumed the case
would be taken up with the state
department.
American legation officials
here said they know of the ar
rest but no action has yet been
initiated from Vienna.
Chinese Trooos
Desert to Reds
Hong Kong, Dec. 17 (IP) A
new revolt today reportedly
opened wide the gates for a
Red army now sweeping into
the mountain lands of western
China, proposed base for na
tionalist guerrilla warfare.
Private reports said Szech
wan province militia went over
lo the Reds in the borderlands
north of Chengtu. last of a ser
ies of refugee capitals abandon
ed hy the government.
The militia had been station
ed there to chec-k the troops of
Red Gen. Peng Teh-Hwal. Now
thc had joined Peng in a drive
i Chengtu.
This new deflection left Gen.
Hu Tsung-Nan and his 400,000-
man army to face alone the
blows of two Red armies. Re
volts at his back in Sikang prov
ince and in Yunnan to the south
had him in a tight corner
The Hong Kong Standard said
Hii'n forces already had been
sliced into three segments, pre
sumably by the army of Red
Gen. Liu Po-Cheng. Liu's troops
are pounding toward Chengtu
and southward toward Yunnan.
Hu's largest forces are center
ed around Chengtu It was be
lieved he would try to pull them
westward into Sikang province.
There they would fall upon the
private army of turncoat Gen
Liu Wen-Hui, Sikang warlord.
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