THE WEATHER HERE
CLOUDY WITH rain tonight,
Thursday. Continued mild tem
peratures. Lowest tonight, 46 de
grees; highest Thursday, 50.
Mailman) yeiterdar, 61; minimum 4.
day, 47. Total 24-hour precipitation, trace;
for month, 4.40; normal, 8.11, Season pre
cipitation, 18.94; normal, 18.33. RUer
tiflfht, S.4 feet. (Report by U.S. Weather
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61st Year, No. 308 ESrWSTMS Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Dec ..-cr8, 1949
(16 Pages)
Price 5c
Warning on
Pollution of
Willamette
City Given Until
January 1, 1952, to
Comply with Order
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Salem, along with other Wil
lamette valley cities, is given
until January 1, 19S2, to quit
polluting the Willamette river
by its sewer system.
This notice was received in a
notice from the Oregon state
sanitary authority to the city
council Tuesday night. City
5
Manager J. L. Franzen said to-
ay the sewage disposal plant
should be completed by that
date. It will take care of indus
trial waste from the canners, he
said, but the mill of the Oregon
Pulp & Paper company poses a
problem.
Waste from pulp and paper
mills can't be taken into sewage
disposal plants, the manager
said, because i t contains sul
phuric acid, which eats out rap
idly any metal it contacts.
Formal Order Coming
Franzen said the industry, and
not the city, would be held re
sponsible by the sanitary author
ity if the pollution is not elimi
nated. But the paper mill indus
try has a problem because it has
no way, except one of almost
prohibitive cost, to eliminate the
waste. Karl Heinlein, manager
of the Salem mill, said the in
dustry had been working on it
for several years through the
state colleges of Oregon and
Washington.
A formal order to the city of
Salem, says the letter from the
sanitary authority, will be is
sued after the next regular
meeting of the authority.
The letter read Tuesday night
was signed by Curtiss M. Everts,
Jr., secretary and chief engi
neer. He said in part:
"On numerous occasions since
Jt was first-organized in 1939
the Oregon state sanitary author
ity, in an attempt to obtain vol
untary cooperation, has direct
ed to the attention of the Salem
city council the necessity of pro
viding adequate sewage treat
ment works for the city, of Sa
lem. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Seek to Build
Apartments
Another major apartment
house project, for which prelim
inary plans are on file with the
city building Inspector's office,
will if approved, be located in
the heart of the proposed capi
tol zone on the west side of
Summer between Marion and
Union.
It was the subject of an ap
plication to the city council
Tuesday night for adjustment of
set-back lines.
The building would be seven
stories high, contain 36 apart
ments, and cost around $300,-
000. Approval by the federal
housing administration has been
given.
The application was signed
by Don Byers, Portland archi
tect, on behalf of the Prescott
corporation, Capitol Plaza cor
poration, and Coates Construc
tion company of Portland, Pro
perty transfers in connection
ith the project are being
handled by Grabenhorst Bros.
The application asks waiver
of the building code regulation
that requires a set-back of four
feet from adjacent property
lines. The builders want to ex
tend the first story to the pro
perty line to give ample space
for car storage for tenants,
since the ground floor will be
used for that purpose with al
ley entrance. The floors above
would be 10 feet from property
line,' the application said.
Chinese Planes
Bomb Commies
Hong Kong, Dec. 28 W
Nationalist planes today bombed
communist troop concentrations
in Liuchow peninsula of south
ern China.
The planes, American built
B-25s and Canadian built Mos
quito bombers, took off from
Hoihow, northernmost town on
Hainan island and 10 miles from
Liuchow peninsula.
Other nationalist planes
ybombed strategic Red bases
long the coast from Canton
fnorthward to Swatow.
A government communique
said hits were scored and large
ares started.
McKay Names
Aides to Jobless
Governor Douglas McKay
Wednesday announced appoint
ment of a state-wide committee
to combat the growing unem
ployment problem in Oregon.
With approximately 55,000
unemployed listed by the state
unemployment compens a t i o n
commission, the governor set up
a 10-man advisory committee in
conformity with terms of the
Wagner-Peyser act requiring
states to establish advisory em
ployment councils drawn from
labor, management and the pub
lic. He named Dr. Calvin Crum-
baker. head of the University of
Oregon department of economics
as chairman.
Others on Committee
In addition to Dr. Crumbaker
the members named to the coun
cil included Jack Jennings, Port
land, chairman of the Portland
labor-management commit tee;
David Blakeman, Portland, na
tional executive committeeman
of the American Legion depart
ment of Oregon and Milan Smith,
Pendleton, representing civic or
ganizations as the public mem
bers. Labor is represented on the
committee by M. E. Steele, Port
land, secretary of the bakery
drivers, A. F. of L.; George
Brown. Portland, secretary ol
the state CIO council and Alice
A. Bissell, Eugene, secretary of
the cannery, .warehousemen and
food processors union.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column I)
Anthony Adverse
Author Dies in Miami
Miami, Fla., Dec. 28 W
Hervey Allen, 60, author of "An
thonv Adverse" died today at
his home of a heart attack.
Dr. Frank Stewart, local heart
specialist, said the noted author
was stricken with the fatal at
tack early this morning.
Indonesian President
Urges Dutch Friendship
Ratnvia. Java. Dec. 28 (IP) President Soekarno, who headed
the rebellion that led to independence for the New United States
of Indonesia, told his people today to show goodwill and hos-
nitaiitv toward their former Dutch masters.
About 200,000 cheering Indonesians jammed into the square
before the government palace tc
greet Soekarno as he arrived to
establish the capital of the new
nation that officially came into
being yesterday.
Calling for "work and work
and work," to build prosperity
for the U. S. I., Soekarno added:
We now are on peaceful
terms with the Dutch and other
foreigners. They are all our
guests. Show hospitality toward
them."
His speech echoed the appeal
for Dutch-Indonesian coopera
tion voiced yesterday in Amster
dam by Queen Juliana as she
signed the papers making the
United States of Indonesia an
independent nation. The U. S. I.
remains linked to the Nether
lands by recognizing the Dutch
crown as a symbol of Dutch-
Indonesian union, much like the
British commonwealth of na
tions. Soekarno flew to Batavia from
Jogjakarta, capital of the rebel
Indonesian republic whose lead
ers fought in guerrilla warfare
against the Dutch for four years.
The republic now is one of the
16 federal states in the U. S. I.
Indonesian police lining the
four-mile route from Kemjoran
airfield to the palace were un
Fire Survivors in Dallas Hospital Hospitalized in Dallas
today are Homer Lowery, (left), and his daughter, Fay
Jean, 9, seriously burned in a
of the Lowery children at Falls
Jean was rescued by her father.
City Transit Lines May
Abandon 2 Rural Runs
Indications were strong today
to abandon several of its suburban runs after January 1.
On that date jurisdiction over the lines, under a new law,
passes from the state public utilities commissioner to the city.
That law is effective for a radius
Record Snow
Blankets B. C.
Vancouver, B. C, Dec. 28
(CP) Record snowfall sealed
mountain passes in central in
terior British Columbia today
isolating the coast from eastern
Canada,
Heavy, packed snow blocked
the $12,000,000 Hope-Princeton
highway, where slides tumbled
down the mountainside.
Scores of motorists were re
ported marooned between Hope
and Princeton along the 183-
mile road link to the interior.
Seven buses and 150 private
cars were on the "missing list,"
but many would be able to shel
ter in road camps during the
night.
Others were stranded in their
cars as giant rotary plows bat
tled to clear the roadways.
Princeton, where more than
30 inches of snow have fallen
in the last 24 hours, was packed
with travellers.
The Trans-Canada highway,
blocked by a slide between
Whilliwack and Hope, 100 miles
east of Vancouver, was cleared
early today. The slide had cut
off the Fraser Canyon route.
The heavy, wet snow and
sleet snapped communication
services to the east and train
service was disrupted. No trains
arrived in Vancouver this morn
ing.
able to hold back the thousands
who enthusiastically cheered
their slim, black-haired presi
dent. Soekarno, dressed in a white
naval uniform, was accompanied
by Sultan Hamengku Buwono
vice premier and minister of
defense. The president stood in
the open car, waving and re
sponding to swelling shouts of
Merdeka" freedom.
"This is the first time after
four years I am face to face with
the people of Batavia," he de
clared in his brief palace speech.
Soekarno fled from Batavia
to Jogjakarta when Dutch
troops took over after the In
donesian republic was proclaim
ed in 1945.
Washington, Dec. 28 W) The
United States today formally
recognized the new government
of Indonesia.
H. Merle Cochran was named
as the first ambassador to the
new republic.
As U.S. representative of the
United Nations commission for
Indonesia, Cochran had a major
hand in bringing about the
agreement that created the new
republic in the East Indies.
fire that took the lives of two
City early Wednesday.
Fay
that City Transit lines intends
of three miles outside the city
limits.
At the PUC it was said that
Carl Wendt, general manager
of City Transit Lines, had said
unofficially that the company
expected to abandon the Fruit-
land and the Auburn road runs.
In Salem Wednesday there
were similar rumors about the
subrban service.
Persons in the habit of using
the suburban service were arous
ed. At the Salem office of City
Transit Lines Manager R. J.
Davidson said he had no def
inite information and was not
in position to confirm the ru
mors until he hears from the
Portland office.
City Manager J. L. Franzen
said the report had not reached
him.
Oregon Escapes
Predicted Storm
The expected stormy weather
passed by the valley regions,
Wednesday, most of the morning
here being featured by some
sunshine coming through the
cloud patches and mild temper
atures prevailing. The morning
minimum was 47 degrees, fol
lowing a maximum of 51.
Press reports stated the storm
hit the Washington and Brit
ish Columbia areas but left
Oregon untouched except for
some brisk wind yesterday and
scattered rainfall.
In the Salem area the 24-hour
precipitation in the period end
ing at 10.30 a.m. Wednesday
amounted only to a trace.
Forecast is for cloudiness and
rain tonight and Thursday but
with the mild temperatures con
tinuing.
40 Hour Week
'Fool's Paradise'
New York, Dec. 28 W A
Columbia University marketing
professor questioned today whe
ther this country can continue
a self-maintained and surplus
producing economy under a 40
hour, five-day work week
The point "has never yet been
proved or demonstrated," Prof.
Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia's
graduate school of business told
the American Marketing associa
tion at its winter conference
here.
"There has been no attempt
to measure that possibility," he
declared. "The effects of this
artificial brake on our economy
have never been assessed. The
unions, the government, the busl
ness men and the people of the
country are living in blissful
hope that this policy may not
land us in the wreckage of
fool's paradise."
The 40-hour week was con
ceived as a spread-the-work
measure during the depression,
he declared.
Winter Hits at
(By the AASocl.ttd Press)
King Winter opened a verit
able Pandora's box of weather
today marooning travelers with
snow and slides, snapping com
munications lines with blizzards
and whipping winds, and threat-
ing to bring a half dozen west
ern Washington rivers to flood
stage with soaking rains.
One death was reported in
southwest Washington, but prin
cipal storm damage seemed to
be centered in British Colum
bia.
The victim was Burnis Mc-
Henry, 28, a Long Bell Lumber
company logging railroad work-
He was struck by a wind-
snapped tree near Ryderwood.
In British Columbia, highways
to the east were closed by snow
Six Canadian Pacific trains
four of them crack trans-con
tinental passenger trains were
halted east and west of Revel-
oke, B. C, by snowslides. Re-
velstoke is 400 miles east of
Vancouver.
Heavy sleet broke down tele
phone lines, - necessitating all
calls to be rerouted through
Seattle. Three feet of snow cov
ered Kelowna, 375 miles east of
Vancouver. Twenty-six inches of
snow blanketed the Princeton
area.
In Washington's Cascade
mountain area, a blinding snow
storm all but halted traffic west
of the Snoqualmie pass summit
Approximately 150 skiers and
returning holiday vacationists
were rescued yesterday noon af
ter being marooned in Stevens
Pass overnight.
False Spring
Hits New York
New York, Dec. 28 (IP) New
York City coasted to its third
heat record in a week today
when the first reading at 12:01
m. showed the mercury at
59.6. The old mark was 58.1 set
in 1936.
At the same time, warm rains
eased temporarily the chronic
water shortage.
The city shared a "false
spring" with New England and
states to the south which the
weather bureau said was caused
by warm Gulf breezes moving
north between high pressure ar
eas.
New York also set a heat rec
ord last evening of 62.1, and an
other of 62.2 on Dec. 22.
It was lilac time in Massachu
setts.
Middlebury, Vt.. reported hay
ing. Maple sap was running in
Vermont, and hornets usually
asleep at this stage ol tne win
ter were on the wing at Bidde-
ford, Me.
Gardeners were worried lei
plants and trees start to bud in
the unseasonable warmth, only
to be killed by a sudden freeze.
This condition is extremely dan
gerous for fruit trees.
The forecast was for a slightly
cooler day in New York City,
with highs up to 55, and for con
siderably cooler in Boston.
Enjoyment of . the warm
Christmas season was limited in
New York City because of rains
and continuing drizzle but it
was Just as welcome to the wa
ter-shy residents.
Children's Nursery Burns
Chcrryville, Ore., Dec. 28 u.
Fire late yesterday destroyed
a frame building used as a chil
drens nursery for skiing par
ents. The building was empty at
the time. A defective oil heater
was blamed for the blaze which
temporarily blocked traffic
I the Mt. Hood Loop highway,
2 Children Burned to Death
In Fire at
Baby Princess
Born to Rita and
Prince Aly Khan
Lausanne, Switzerland, Dec.
28 (IP) A baby princess was
born today to Rita Hayworth,
the glamorous red-headed movie
star who married IVroslem Prince
Aly Khan last spring.
The baby, weighing about five
and a half pounds, was born
about eight hours after Rita
made a pre-dawn dash to exclu
sive Montchoisi clinic.
The new princess' name will
be Yasmin, the Arabic spelling
for the fragrant jasmine flower
used in southern France for
making perfume.
Prince Aly, unshaven, hag
gard but smiling made the an
nouncement to newsmen outside
the clinic doors.
Tough Time for Rita
'Rita had a very tough time,'
he said but added with a smile:
It has gone off all right. She
is very tired."
The prince said the birth was
natural one, delivered under
gas.
Rita's first daughter by a pre
vious marriage was delivered in
1944 by Caesarian section.
Yasmin was born at 9:45 a.m.
(3:45 a.m. EST).
prince Aly, whose marriage
to Rita took place at Vallauris,
France, May 27, has said that
premature babies are not unsual
in his family.
Messages of congratulations
were pouring into the hotel
within an hour after the an
nouncement of the birth.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 4)
r
5 Boys Escape
Training School
Woodburn, Dec. 28 (IP) Five
boys escaped from the State
Training school this morning
after hitting a supervisor on the
head with a broom and taking
his keys, but two of the group
were recaptured.
James Lamb, superintendent
of the school, said the boys are
serious offenders. They escaped
from a detention cottage con
taining 30 boys. Lamb said the
other 25 could have escaped, but
they didn't try.
He said the escape occurred at
6:45 a.m The supervisor, Vern
Neal, received a cut on his head,
but wasn't seriously hurt.
The boys were dressed in
overalls but had no shoes. Ten
cars from the school were patrol
ling the highways in an effort to
recapture the boys.
The boys are:
Walter Leroy Forbes, 14
Roseburg; Richard Henderson,
17; Omaha, Neb.; Robert Hughes
15, Portland; Richard William
Kirkel, 16, Vallejo, Calif.: and
John Simon, 16, Portland.
Henderson and Hughes, both
colored, were nabbed by school
officials.
Jetmobile Exhaust stacks are shown protruding from a jet
turbine and a ram jet engine mounted in the rear ot an old
model car by John R. Mitchell (shown kneeling), a Chance
Vought aircraft employe at Dallas, Tex. Mitchell says his Jet
mobile costs only two-tenths of a cent per mile to operate, and
is capable of generating 800 pounds of thrust, equal to about
200 miles an hour. But Mitchell explains it isn't practical
for city driving, "it makes too danged much noise." (AP
Wirephoto)
Falls City
Bull Escapes
Slaughter Pen
Stages Rumpus
Manheim, Pa., Dec. 28 (U.R)
A 1,600-pound bull crashed out
of a slaughter house pen here
today.
He terrorized housewives by
peering in windows and snort
ing.
Then he spotted three-year-
old Judy Martin. She was play
ing in her sandbox. The bull
charged Judy and tossed the
little girl and a neighbor who
ran to her aid over a fence. They
escaped with bruises and shock.
Next he charged 16-year-old
motorcyclist Durrcll Brock. The
youth's father jumped between
the bull and. the cycle to freight
en off the animal.
From there the bull galloped
into the American House hotel.
Patrons ganged up to shoo him
out.
Then he ambled into the hear
ing room of Justice of the Peace
L. W. Musser, who was taking
evidence in an assault and bat
tery case. Police officers drove
him out and gave chase.
Four hours after his break for
freedom the bull was lassoed by
an electricians helper on Fer
dinand street.
Undecided on
Loan to Tito
Washington, Dec. 28 JP) The
world bank said today it has
not made any decision" wheth
er a loan can be' made to Yugo
slavia.
"The matter is still under dis
cussion," a spokesman added.
Dispatches from Belgrade said
Yugoslav officials told their par
liament yesterday that the bank
has "agreed in principle" to lend
Yugoslavia $25,000,000.
It was surmised here that the
Yugoslavs were putting that con
struction on the fact that the
bank has entered into negotia
tions for a possible loan after
sending an economic mission to
Yugoslavia last summer.
But bank officials said the fact
that negotiations began a few
days ago does not assure that a
loan will be made, or mean an
agreement "in principle" to
make a loan.
Yugoslavia put in a general
application for a loan of about
$250,000,000 some two years ago
when the bank was in its form
ative stages.
Since then the bank has set
tled on a pplicy of lending only
for specific projects. When the
U.S. government began warm
ing to Marshal Tito after his
break with Moscow, Yugoslavia
began seeking funds for specific
power, mining and agricultural
projects.
Walk Out in Protest
Rome, Dec. 28 (IP) Bus and
tram workers struck for two
hours from 10 a.m. to noon-
this morning putting thousands
of workers, shoppers and pil
grims afoot.
Home
Another Child
And Father in
Dallas Hospital
Falls City, Dec. 28 Two
Small children were burned to
death early this morning in a
fire which destroyed their home
and sent the father and another
child to the Dallas hospital with
severe burns. Neither are be
lieved in a critical condition.
Dead are Betty Louise, 5, and
Mary Frances Lowery, 7, daugh
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Low
ery. Another daughter, Fay
Jean Lowery, 9, has burns about
the body and face. Lowery was
ournea irom the waist up in his
attempt to save his children.
Neither M rs. Lowery nor two
other children. Alvin James, 3,
and Delores Jean, 1V4, were in
jured. Bodies Found in Quins
Bodies of the two girls were
found in the ruins after thev
had cooled sufficiently to per
mit search.
Lowery was awakened bv the
fire shortly after 1 o'clock.
The family occupied two front
bedrooms in the small house
just south and outside the city
limits, ine rooms were on op
posite sides of the living room
which separated them.
The parents and the two youn-
ger children were asleep in one
bedroom and the. rest of the
family in the other.
Lowery was able to carry Fay '
Jean from the burning building
but flames prevented him from
saving the other two. The bed
room had only one small win-,
dow, about 30 by 30 inches, lo
cated rather high in the wall and
it is believed the two children
suffocated as they would have
been unable to leave the room
by way of the window.
(Concluded on PAfre 5, Column 8)
Churchill 'Man
Of Half-Century
New York, Dec. 28 (IPh-Win-
ston Churchill Time magazine
editors say is the "Man of the
Half Century."
The portrait of the wartime
British prime minister by Am
erican artist Ernest Hamlin is
on the cover of the Jan. 2 Time,
which contains a 16-page sup
plement "The Half-century."
"No man s history," Time says.
"can sum up the dreadful won
derful years 1900-50. Churchill's
story comes closest."
Describing the British leader
as "one of the half-century's
greater politicians," Time says:
"Sometimes wrong, often right,
he fought his way toward the
heart of every storm.
"In 1900, Churchill, like his
contemporaries, looked forward
to pleasant years. Like his con
temporaries, Churchill was to
struggle through depths and rise
to heights unimaginable to
1900."
In summarizing the period.
Time weaves Churchill's career
into the international picture.
"His chief contribution was to
warn of rocks ahead, and to lead
the rescue parties. He was not
the man who designed the ship;
What he did was to launch the
lifeboats. That a free world sur
vived in 1950, with a hope of
more progress and less calamity,
was due in large measure to his
exertions."
Time adds that Churchill "as
mobllizer of two great national
defense efforts "Two World
Wars" unwittingly contributed
more than all the Fabians to
the triumph of the socialist
state."
Miss America Weds
School Sweetheart
Litchfield Park, Ariz., Deo.
28 (IP) A high school romance
has blossomed into marriage for
Miss America of 1949,
Jacque Mercer, the national
beauty queen, exchanged vows
with Douglas Cook at the non-
denominational community
church here yesterday after
noon. They have gone steady for the
past five years.
The marriage was a surprise
affair. Only last Friday the cou
ple had announced their en
gagement and set the date at the
altar for next July 4.
The new Mrs. Cook is a resi
dent of Litchfield Park, She will
be 19 next month.
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