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casional ahowcra tonight, Satur
day. Continued cool. Lowest
temperature tonight, 30; high
est Saturday, 43.
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Sex, Total Se-nonr precipitation: ,14
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cipitation, 14.S4; normal, 17. Rlrer helrhl.
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Bus Company
To Confer with
City Officials
CTL to Continue
Service on All Lines
Until Tuesday
By STEPHEN A. STONE
City Transit Lines will not
discontinue any of its suburban
routes January 1, but will con
tinue all lines as at present at
least through Tuesday, Jan. 3.
On that date a conference be
tween city authorities and repre-
en
entatives of the transit company
ill be held to determine what
ill be done after that. Pos
sibly a public hearing may be
held at a later date.
This was the situation today
after Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom
had requested General Mana
ger Carl Wendt of the transit
company, through R. J. David
aon, Salem manager for the com
pany, to continue service until a
hearing could be had.
Examine Authority
Later Wendt called the may
or and stated his position.
Because of uncertainty as to
whether the city has authority
over the lines outside the city
limits City Attorney Chris J.
Kowitz and Mayor Elfstrom were
trying to find out today just
where the city's authority begins
and ends.
Authority of the state public
utilities commission over trans
portation companies in a radius
of three miles outside city limits
ends January 1 under a new
law effective on that date. The
transit company announced that
it would Immediately abandon
service to the Fruitland-Auburn
area east of Lancaster avenue
and to the Swegle and Fisher
road area.
Protest Pour In
Protests began to be heard,
resulting in Mayor Elfstrom's
request to General Manager
Yxrnl. -J 1irn.4i dis
position that the city is without
authority outside the city limits.
uiiy Aiiomey i;nris i. ivowiiz
admits that the franchise held
by City Transit Lines has no
provision whereby the city can
dictate a route outside the city
limits.
But whether the new state
law transferring jurisdiction
from the utilities commission to
the city automatically gives that
authority is something of a ques
tion. The law, it seems, is not
clear on the question.
Aid Offered
Lowery Family
Material aid for the Homer
Lowery family at Falls City is
taking substantial form with
nearly $700 already contributed,
supplies donated and a pie so
cial scheduled for the Bridge
port community hall at 8 o'clock
Friday night with residents of
the Gutherie community to take
similar action.
The Loweryj lost two little
girls in a fire which consumed
their small residence and all its
furnishings early Wednesday
morning. The father and one
little girl are hospitalized at
Dallas with the two youngest
children and mother escaping
injury.
t Floyd French, Falls City groc
ff, who announced that he
would contribute his truck and
time In picking up any dona
tions in the district, reports
that Salem used and new car
dealers had contributed $300 in
cash while Clifford Reeves,
member of the Falls City volun
teer fire department, turned in
$400 more donated by Falls
City business houses and resi
dents. Another dollar was re
ceived from an elderly Salem
woman who said "she wished
he could afford to give more."
When the family is located a
Lake Labish district farmer has
offered to provide 10 bushels of
potatoes and other vegetables.
In the meantime contributions
of canned goods and clothing
re being received.
154 New Cases of -Polio
During Week
Wnehmolnn Ttcw 30 tOfi
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There were 154 new cases of po
lio during the week ending Dec.
24, the public health service said
today.
The five-year everage for that
y eek is 90 cases, the agency
aid. During the preceding week,
ending Dec. 17, there were 243
new cases.
India Exlends
Recognition
To Red China
Nehru Severs Diplo
matic Relations with
Nationalist China
New Delhi, Dec. 30 U.PJ In
dia recognized the Chinese com
munist regime in Peiping today
and official London reports said
Britain, Australia and New Zea
land would follow suit next
week on January 7.
India's action as the first Brit
ish commonwealth country to
recognize the Chinese commu
nists was announced in an offi
cial statement. At the same time
the Indian government broke off
diplomatic relations with Gener
alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's na
tionalist government.
The London reports said Can
ada would announce her recog
nition of the Chinese commu
nists after the commonwealth
conference in Colombo, Ceylon,
which starts January 9 and
closes January 14.
Ceylon Awaits Bevin
Ceylon, another British do
minion, is expected to announce
recognition when British For
eign Secretary Ernest Bevin ar.
rives for the conference next
week. Similar announcements
by South Africa and Pakistan
are anticipated later.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Nationalists
Strike Back
Taeipeh, Formosa, Dec. SO VP)
The nationalist Chinese gov
ernment tonight severed diplo
matic relations with India.
Severance of relations with
the other big Asian nation came
but a few hours after India had
recognized the communist re
gime as the government of
China.
A statement from the national
ist foreign office here said the
"government had learned with
profound regret" of India's rec
ognition of the communist gov
ernment in Peiping.
The government, which fled
here from the mainland as the
Reds swept China, pointed out
that the communist regime in
China lacks many attributes of
a sovereign state and the full
support of the Chinese people.
The statement added that the
Indian government's act will
tend to aid the spread of com
munism in Asia.
The foreign office statement
concluded "in view of the above
the Chinese government is con
strained to recall its diplomatic
mission to India in spite of the
friendliest feelings which the
Chinese people always cherished
and will continue to cherish
toward the Indian people."
Pittsburgh Found
Noisiest of Cities
New York, Dec. 30 (Pitts
burgh, with its narrow, crowded
streets, is the nation's noisiest
city, a sound research laboratory
reported today. Los Angeles is
the quietest.
The Vander Schalie laborato
ry, after a survey that lasted
more than two months, listed
the 10 noisiest cities for 1949 in
this order:
Pittsburgh, Chicago, New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, San
Francisco, Cincinnati, Houston,
Miami and St. Louis.
Cold, White New Year
Looms for Northwest
(Br itae Auoclate4 Preu)
A winter storm moved in on western Washington and Oregon
today.
Snow fell Intermittently or was in prospect In many Washing
ton areas. A cold, white New Year's day was in prospect.
A wintry blow was due later
The weather bureau orderec
storm warnings hoisted at 11
a.m. along the Washington coast
and south to Cape Blanco, Ore.
Southeast winds of 20 to 30
miles an hour, with gusts to 40,
were forecast.
Small craft warnings were
posted for the Strait of Juan de
Fuca and inland waters of
Washington. Winds of 15 to 25
miles an hour were in' prospect
for the Puget Sound area.
The wintry blasts were ex
pected to diminish on the Wash
ington coast early tonight and
over the rest of the area late
tonight.
Seattle got a brief taste of the
prospect shortly before noon.
During a short-lived fall of
Giant Log at
Mill in Dallas
Dallas A big Douglas fir log
hauled in to the Willamette Val
ley Lumber company here Wed
nesday is among the largest
ever seen here. Those respon
sible for cutting it and bring
ing it to Dallas were K. F. Doty,
Dallas; Robert Jahn, Louie Pot
ter, and Lewis Ritner of Pedee
who felled and bucked the big
tree, in logging operations of
Fred Andel and Don Green on
the Roy Gage ranch.
The log measured 11 feet ac
ross the butt and seven feet
across the top. Twenty-four feet
in length, it scaled 8020 board
feet. In May, 1949, a "big stick"
was sawed at the Willamette
Valley Lumber company that
was over eight feet in diame
ter. It was 22 feet long and
scaled 7277. At that time it
was believed to be the largest
to be cut here.
The log brought here Wednes
day caused considerable trou
ble in falling. A chair saw with
a six-foot bar was used to cut
around the tree, and a section
of stump rot in the center help
ed ease the job.
On the highway to Dallas
the log barely cleared through
the White bridge across the
Little Luckiamute.
First Snow of
Season in Valley
First snow of the season to
stay on the ground glistened on
housetops and lawns in Salem,
Friday morning. Snow flurries
came earlier in the season but
the Thursday night fall was the
first this season to make any no
ticeable showing on the ground
here.
The snow started falling about
11:30 p.m., Thursday and con
tinued until about 1 a.m. It was
general throughout the city, al
though more of it was noted on
the higher elevations than down
town. A dip by the mercury early
this morning caused the snow to
frost over, making the early tra
vel a bit hazardous. As the
morning progressed the snow
and icy streets cleared up down
town.
Forecast is for continued cool
temperatures tonight and Satur
day and for occasional showers
that may be mixed with snow.
The Friday morning minimum
temperature was 33 degrees and
the rainfall for the 24-hour pe
riod ending at 10:30 a.m. Fri
day amounted to .14 of an inch
here.
this afternoon and tonight.
snow, wind gusts carried it al
most horizontally at times.
Snow fell in scattered areas
Thursday night. A fall of
nearly six inches hampered
traffic and communications in
the Everett-Snohomish vicinity
in western Washington.
Highways were slick in the
Seattle area, after a mixture of
rain and snow fell during the
night.
An earth slide 500 feet long
blocked the Quinault road
three miles south of Forks, on
the northwest Olympic penin
sula. The highway department
estimated it would take two or
three days to remove it.
(Concluded en Pag i. Column 7)
Dallas This big Douglas fir log, received at the Willam
ette Valley Lumber company's mill, is among the largest ever
seen here. It scaled 8020 board feet. In the picture is the
crew that brought it in, from left, K. F. Doty of Dallas,
driver, Robert Jahn, Louie Potter, and Lewis Ritner of Pedee,
who felled and bucked the big tree. The battle is indicated by
the ragged cut visible at the end of the log. (Abel photo.)
300 Sabine Women
Strike on Husbands
Rome, Dec. 30 SIR) Three hundred wives at Monte Flavio
in the Sabine hills broke off marital relations with their hus
bands today in a modern real-life version of the classic Greek
comedy, Lyisistrata.
In Aristrophanes' play, written
Pilot Blamed for
Crash in India
The Hague, Netherlands, Dec.
30- (A5) The Dutch KLM Air
line, agreed in principle today
with the Indian government's
finding that pilot error caused
the crash of a KLM airliner near
Bombay but expressed reserva
tions regarding the wording of
tne report.
Dr. A. D. Snitslaard, head of
the KLM flight division, said it
was "probable that an error ol
judgment by the pilot was re
sponsible for the crash that kill
ed 45 persons, including 13
American news correspondents
July 12. The Indian government
report listed pilot error as the
direct cause of the accident.
"If indeed the plane's captain
wanted to land on runway 23 as
indicated by the report, the con
trol tower's advice must have
led him to do so," Snitslaard
said.
Bell Telephone
Strike Looms
St. Louis, Dec. 30 VP) A
union attorney said today that
"as things now stand" a strike
of 50,000 Southwestern Bell
Telephone company employes in
six states will start at midnight
tomorrow New Year's eve.
It is the union's view, he said,
that Southwestern Bell has in
effect rejected a recommenda
tion for settling the dispute ad
vanced last night by four gov
ernors and representatives of
two others.
The governors conference
plan was for a 15-day period of
negotiations with the dispute to
be submitted to arbitration if
no settlement is reached by the
end of that period.
Southwestern Division 20,
CIO Communications Workers,
accepted the governors' plan on
condition that the company did
likewise.
But a company spokesman
id: "We cannot at this time
commit ourselves on arbitration.
However, we are prepared to
resume negotiations with the
(federal) conciliation service."
The conference was arranged
by Gov. Forrest Smith of Mis
souri, who called in the gover
ors, or their representatives, of
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Ar
kansas and Illinois.
Uranium Ore for
A-Bombs in Michigan
Negaunee, Mich., Dec. 30 VP)
Uranium ore, basic material for
making atomic bombs, has been
discovered in upper Michigan.
This announcement was re
leased today by the Jones &
Laughlin Ore company with the
approval of the atomic energy
commission.
The discovery was the first to
be reported in Michigan.
Size of the deposit has not
been determined.
about 411 BC, women took an
oath of chastity until men re
nounced war.
At Monte Flavio the wives
vowed solemnly not to share
their beds with their husbands!
until they get their favorite mid
wife back.
"We will not surrender," the
women swore, "come what may,
even if our husbands implore us
on their knees for our mercy.
The mass strike, one of the
largest communal marital dis
putes in history, revolved
around a midwife, a pretty girl
of 22.
Her name is Vanda and she
arrived in the town last Octo
ber to replace the regular mid
wife, Bruna Paolinl, who went
to Rome to look for a better job
Midwives in Italy are govern
ment civil servants, and Bruna
was not satisfied with the pay.
In her absence Vanda won
over the "Sabine wives" with
her professional manner, and
her services as doctor and phar
macist.
The wives also were attract
ed by her "economy-size" fee
$7.50 per baby as against Bru
na's standard fee of $15.
Bruna didn't get the job she
wanted In Rome, returned to
town and resumed business.
The 300 wives, however, didn't
want to let Vanda go. They de
manded that their husbands take
action with authorities to allow
her to stay.
The husbands ignored the re
quest. They thought it was a
joke.
To the women, however, It
was the most serious thing that
had happened in these hills
since their grandmothers many
times removed were assaulted
by the Romans in the historic
"rape of the Sabine women."
"Maybe they've been waiting
ever since, all these generations.
to get back at men in general,"
one citizen commented.
At any rate, the women organ
ized. They prayed in the local
church.
Today they took their vow to
break off marital relations with
their husbands until the men
agree to appeal the case right
on up to the civil service depart
ment in Rome.
Hong Kong to
Combat Chaos
Hong Kong. Dec. 30 OT This
British crown colony, faced
with the possibility of a gen
eral strike, today gave its gov
ernor virtual war powers to use
at his discretion.
Emergency regulations were
published empowering the gov
ernor to take steps to meet at
tack or internal disorder. He
was authorized to requisition
manpower, property, bar strikes
and lockouts in essential serv
ices and to utilize extraordinary
police powers that would put
the colony on a war footing.
The governor may also ban
seditious organizations, prohibit
meetings likely to cause disturb
ances, detain or expel any per
son from the colony, search
premises, vehicles, ships and
planes. All types of traffic in
and out of the colony were plac
ed under his rigid control.
Red Invasions
Of Nationalist
Isles Smashed
Attempts to Land on
Matsu and Hainan
Repulsed
Hons- Kone. Dec. SI) IPi Chi
nese communist attentats to land
on two islands of nationalist re
treat off the mainland have
been smashed, government re
ports said today.
The most determined Red at
tempt was against Matsu island,
off China's east coast about 100
miles nnrtliwpst nf tho national
ist island stronghold of Formosa,
me ouicial central news agency
said.
The second was a smaller,
feeler operation against Hainan,
oig island off the south coast.
But the nationalist!; nssprroH that
even here the attackers lost
heavily.
Formosa Objective
These claims coincided with
first reliable reriorts that th
communists have begun the in
filtration of Formosa itself.
These accounts said Red troops
made small, isolated landings
irom junKs along Formosa's
long coast line, then vanished
hastily into the interior.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column I)
New U. S. Policy
To Fight Reds
Washineton. Dep. sn PI Tho
United States was reported to
day to be shaping a vigorous
new policy backed by a beef-ed-up
Asiatic fleet to block the
spread ot communism in the Far
East.
The navy said the 27,000-ton,
45-plane aircraft carrier Boxer
and two destrovers have Kn
dispatched to strengthen the
oevenin tasK fleet based in the
Philippines.
Announcement of thla shift In
naval power late yesterday fol
lowed a session between Presi
dent Truman and his top mili
tary and diplomatic strategists.
At the same time, the state
department broadcast in ITS
shipping lines a warning from
the nationalist government of
China that the approaches to
Shanghai, the Chinese commun
ists' largest port, have been com
pletely blocked by mines.
That brought a prompt re
sponse from H. J. Isbrandtsen,
president of the Isbrandtsen
Line. That company, practi
cally the only one operating
American ships in the area, has
run into frenupnt trniihlo m.
cently with Nationalist blockade
ships.
Travel Dangerous
On Oregon Roads
Automobile travel was danger
ous over much of Oregon today
because of snow and Ice, the state
highway commission warned.
The 9 a.m. road report:
Government Camp Packed
snow, plowing, carry chains. 10
inches new snow.
Santiam Pass Packed snow,
plowing, carry chains. 12 inch
es new snow.
Willamette Pass Snowing
lightly, packed snow, plowing,
carry chains. 10 Inches new
Sloper Appointed As
Assistant to Stadter
The county court Friday granted the request of District Attor
ney Ed Stadter for an additional deputy and the district attorney
immediately stated that D. Val Sloper, Salem attorney and Wil
lamette graduate of 1949 will be named to the post. The office
now has one deputy employed by the state, another by the
county and a secretary provided
by the county.
The district attorney last fall
put in a request to the court for
a third deputy but after some
conferences agreed to put the
matter off until the first of the
year.
In a formal application made
Friday he points out that busi
ness of the office In the courts
and elsewhere Is now such that
often the district attorney and
both deputies are compelled to
be away at the same time.
He also showed that tele
phone calls average 45 a day
with the result his secretary's
time is badly broken up. Per
sonal callers on an averge of 30
are at the office dally consum
ing considerable time.
He also showed that in 1945
the office handled 300 criminal
leases, in 1946, 366; 1917, 430;
I f Ml
" fejyai la
J! 1
Reported Fiancee Miss
Narriman Sakek (top), 16-year-old
daughter of an Egyp
tain civil servant and report
ed fiancee of Egypt's King
Farouk. The New York Post
said that the king, despite the
opposition of the royal fami
ly, plans to marry her on Feb
ruary 11, his 30th birthday.
The Egyptian embassy in
Washington denied that King
Farouk had split up the ro
mance of Miss Sakek and
Zaki Hachian (bottom), 27-year-old
Harvard educated
economic expert of the Egyp
tian UN delegation. (AP Wire
photo.) Bidault Wins
Confidence Vote
Paris, Dec. 30 VP) Premier
Georges Bidault won two votes
of confidence In the national as
sembly today. Both were on
1950 budget questions. The first
was 305 to 287, the second 307
to 288.
The first vote was on the ques
tion of whether to raise the tax
on industrial production from
12.5 percent to 13.5 percent.
Communists and followers of
Gen. Charles De Gaulle opposed
it, Bldault's cabinet had recom
mended it.
This wan intended to raise
about 45,000,000,000 francs
($128,000,000) In additional rev
enue to meet the outlays in Bl
dault's 1950 budget, calling for
expenditures of about 2,257,
000,000,000 franc ($6,440,000,
000).
Parliament already has agreed
in principle to this budget, but is
balking at raising the revenues
to meet it.
Korea Recognizes Indonesia
Seoul, Dec. 30 (P) The Re
public of Korea, one of the new
post-war countries, today recog
nized the United States of Indo
nesia, newest of the lot.
1948. 448 and In 1949 584. This
shows Just double the amount of
such cases handled this year as
compared with 1945 and he said,
further, that there are prob
ably as many cases up for con
sideration as those going into
the court but which never reach
the courts. This type of cases
requires nearly as much office
time as the others.
Salary for the new deputy Is
placed at $190 a month, of
which $100 a month will be paid
from the land department funds.
For several years under preced
ing officials the office had a
special deputy who devoted his
time to tax foreclosures and
property matters, but this de
puty was discontinued when
Stadter came into office and
foreclosures and such matters
have been handled by the regu
lar staff.
1
Cabinet Hears
Sfafe of Nation
Message Read
Economic Advisers
Call far Cooperation
With Business
Washington, Dec. 30 VP) The
White House said today Presi
dent Truman will outline his
tax program In "general terms"
in his state of the union message
next Wednesday.
Detailed recommends t i o n s
will be made later.
Charles G. Ross, presidential
secretary, disclosed this after
Mr. Truman went over his mes
sage with his cabinet at a two
hour and 20 minute meeting.
The president is expected
to urge repeal of at least some
of the war time excise taxes
and suggest that they be offset
by higher taxes on corporation
profits.
For Wednesday Delivery
He will deliver the state of the
union message to a joint ses
sion of the senate and house at
10:00 a.m. (PST) Wednesday.
Ross said he did not believe
the message would contain any
great surprises since it was
mainly a renewal of proposals
which the president has sup
ported since he entered the
White House.
Mr. Truman called In the cab
inet after releasing a report of
his economic advisors calling
generally for closer cooperation
with business.
Departing cabinet members
refused to comment on reports
from White House aides that
the president now favors elim
ination of at least some wartime
excise taxes, but with an accom
panying Increase in corporation
taxes to offset losses in reven
ue. White House plans call for
sending the president's econom
ic message to congress next Fri
day with the annual budget of
spending and revenue estimates
to follow a week from Monday,
Pleasant Reading
Congressmen and others who
studied the "Fourth Annual Re
port to the President by the
Council of Economic Advisers"
agreed most of it would be pleas
ant reading for business, indus
try and democratic politicians.
Prepared by Acting Chairman
Leon Keyserling and John D.
Clark, the 38-page document
stressed repeatedly a policy for
cooperation between "free gov
ernment and free enterprise."
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 8
Loan Assured
Iranian Shah
Washington, Dec. 80 VP)
President Truman today assured
the Shah of Iran that the Unit
ed States will support Iranian
requests for loans from the
World bank.
Mr. Truman also Informed
the shah that the U.S. intends
to help the Iranian government
through the point four program
which the president has pro
posed to congress. This pro
gram "WOLild grant American
financial and technical aid to
underdeveloped countries.
In a statement released by the
White House, the president
said, too, this country "is cur
rently prepared to offer cer
tain military assistance essen
tial to Iran."
It noted that the Iranian gov
ernment has planned a seven
year program for economic and
social progress, and added:
"The president appreciates the
importance of this program to
the economic development of
Iran, and applications by the
Iranian government to the In
ternational bank for reconstruc
tion and development for econ
omically justifiable loans to be
used in the furtherance of the
program will therefore receive
the support of the United
States."
The statement said the young
Iranian ruler Is leaving for
home today after tour of the
United States.
Holiday Hours for
Eastern Marts Given
New York, Dec. 30 VP) The
New York stock exchange and
all other domestic securities
markets will be open for busi
ness two hours tomorrow, but
will be closed Monday Jan. 2.
All domestic commodity mar
kets will be closed both Satur
day, Dec. 31, and Monday, Jan.
2. Livestock reports will be is
sued by the department of ag
riculture as usual on Saturday,
Dec. 31, but none on Monday,
Jan. 2.