THE WEATHER HERE
CLOUDY WITH SNOW tonight
and Wednesday. Not quite so
cold. Lowest tonight, 22; high
est Wednesday, 36.
Matlmum reiteriUy, 31: minimum t.
Hy, II. Total 34-hour precipitation: trace)
for month; .111 normal, .49. Seaion pre
cipitation, lfl.10; normal, 11.80. River
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62nd Year, No. 2 SffJfSSs: Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 3, 1950
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4 Indian Tribes
Win Award of
$16,500,000
Court Orders Payment
For Lands Taken
Almost Century Ago
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R) The
11. S. court of claims today
4 1 1 I f T.lin
awaruea tuui- uicjuu
tribes about $16,500,000 for
land taken by the government
almost a century ago.
The award was made ior
coastal land taken by the fed-,
...eral government in 1855. The
tf land totalled 2,772,580 acres
and belonged to miamooKS, jo
quilles, Too-Too-To-Ncy, and
Chctcos.
The unanimous decision was
written by Judge Benjamin H.
Littlejohn,.
The case originally was re
ferred to the court of claims by
an act of congress in 1935 con
ferring jurisdiction to that court.
Suit was filed in August, 1940
On April 2, 1945, the court rul
ed that some of the Indian tribes
which had filed were not en
titled to any recovery, but that
the Tillamooks, Coquilles, Too-Too-To-Ney
and Chetcos were
entitled to compensation." The
decision was appealed to the
supreme court which, in 1946,
upheld the court of claims. The
case was sent back to the lower
court to determine the exact
value of the land as of 1855.
Based on Old Land Value
Richard H. Akers, a court
commissioner, went to Oregon
to determine the 1855 value of
the land. The Indians were rep
resented by both Washington
and Oregon attorneys.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 1)
U.S. Orders Hun
Consuls Out
Washington, Jan. 3 VP) The
t United States has ordered com
munist Hungary to close its con
sulate in Cleveland and New
York by Jan. 15.
The action apparently was in
retaliation for the Hungarian
arrest and imprisonment of Rob
ert Goegler, an American busi
nessman: Voegler has been in a Hun
garian prison since November
18, accused of espionage. State
department officials have de
nounced these charges as "phony
and trumped up."
Lincoln White, state depart
ment press officer, told reporters
that the American minister, Na
thanial P. Davis, had notified the
Hungarian foreign ministry in
Budapest today that the consul
ates must be closed.
The Hungarian minister to the
United States, Imre Horvath,
was summoned by the state de
partment to appear at 3 o'clock
for a meeting with George W.
Perkins, assistant secretary in
charge of the European affairs.
White said Horvath would be
Agiven a copy of the note and
that it would be released for
publication afterward by the de
partment. State department records list
the Hungarian consul in New
York as Istvan Romhanyi.
Benefit Auction
For Lowerys Aid
Because of the holidays and
the absence of many people from
the city, the benefit auction
planned for the relief of the
Homer Lowery family at Falls
City will not be held until Wed
nesday evening, January 11, at
7:30 o'clock. Originally it was
planned to hold the auction this
Wednesday.
Services for the auction have
been contributed by Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Burke, 3610 Silverton
road. Any article that can be
sold is desired for the auction
with the entire cash proceeds to
be given the Lowery family
Receipts to date have not been
sufficient to justify the auction
and also comparatively few
people are aware of the plans.
Mrs. Burke states that some
one will be at the Silverton
road address at all times, though
not always will it be possible to
answer the telephone, as they
are in and out of the house and
not available for call at all
times. The telephone number is
3-9925.
Articles to be given directly
to the Lowerys, including fur
niture, clothing and other sup
plies, are being received at the
St. Paul Episcopal church par
ish, nous.
Coal
Mines Go
Back lo Work
Save in Illinois
7000 Fail to Return
To Pits But Mines
Reopen Elsewhere
Pittsburgh, Jan. 3 tP) Unex
plained work stoppages kept at
least 7000 Illinois coal miners
out of the pits today but most of
the nation's 480,000 diggers
picked up their tools amid ru
mors of an impending nation
wide strike.
Hugh White, Illinois president
of the UMW, said he had wired
all locals without new contracts
to resume the three day week
next Monday. His announcement
followed a conference with
UMW President John L. Lewis.
White said they "decided it was
advisable" to return to work
then.
Lewis in Illinois
Lewis, now visiting his ailing
mother in Springfield, 111., de
clined to discuss the work stop
pages with reporters.
Slop work orders were re
ported to have been telegraphed
White's headquarters. Source of
the telegram is not known.
While, before talking to Lewis,
said: "I don't know why they're
not working."
In nearby Indiana, all but
about 400 of the state's 8500
UMW members are back at
work.
Reasons Not Given
About 4000 UMW diggers in
the Taylorville-Springfield area
remained idle. Some of the min
ers reported for work at Taylor
ville but left before the shift
began. At West Frankfort, 111.,
another 1500 miners stayed
home. Also affected was a strip
mining area near Canton, 111. Il
linois has a total of about 23,000
UMW miners.
West Virginia and Pennsylva
nia, the two largest coal produc
ing states with more than 200,
000 miners, led the return to
work. Many coal industry ob
servers though unfair labor prac
tices, lodged by operators against
UMW President John L. Lewis,
had prevented major walkouts.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 6)
China Asks for
Formosa Aid
Washington, Jan. 3 tP) The
state department disclosed to
day that the Chinese national
ists have submitted a detailed
new plea for American military
and other advisers to help save
Formosa.
Ambassador Wellington Koo
asked on December 23 for mili
tary, political, and economic ad
visers. Koo also urged the eco
nomic cooperation administra
tion to release funds for China
which were frozen last May
when the communists took
Shanghai.
Michael J. McDermott, state
department press officer, report
ed Koo s plea to newsmen today.
Reporters previously have been
told that only informal ap
proaches had been made thus
far for American help for For
mosa. 'I now find that on December
23 the Chinese ambessador call
ed on Walton Butterworth, as
sistant secretary for far eastern
affairs, and presented a memor
andom with respect to assistance
for Formosa, including military.
political, and economic advis
ers, McDermott said.
Curtailed Bus Service
Effective on Thursday
By STEPHEN A. STONE
The curtailed bus service of City Transit Lines in Salem sub
urban areas will be effective Thursday of this week, Carl Wendt,
general manager of the lines, said
There will, however, be a temporary compromise whereby the
company will run four round trips daily into the Swegle and the
Fruitland districts where the cut
is to take place. The trips will
be in the forenoon and two in
the afternoon, timed for the ben
efit of working people and shop
pers.
The compromise will be ef
fective only until the mayor's
special transportation committee
makes a report with findings
about the bus service. The re
port is expected in March.
Wendt s announcement and his
plan of compromise were an
nounced at a conference Tues
day in the office of Mayor Rob
ert L. Elfstrom. It was attended
by Wendt and R. L. Davidson,
Salem bus manager, foi the uy
Transit Lines; Mayor Elfstrom,
City Manager J. L. Franzen, and
City Attorney Chris J. Kowitzl
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Winter Returns
To Central West
Chicago, Jan. 3 (UP.) A cold
wave began moving eastward to
day, routing the unseasonably
mild weather covering the east
as the nation counted almost 400
dead from accidents over the
New Year's week-end.
A United Press tabulation
from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight
last night showed that 394 per
sons died in accidents. They in
cluded 235 killed In traffic, 42
in fires, 11 in airplane crashes
and 106 in other types of acci
dents. The number of dead in traffic
was far below the 330 predicted
by the national safety council.
Experts said that fog, rain and
snow discouraged driving and
helped prevent highway crashes.
A bitter cold wave moved in
to Kansas and Iowa today and
began pushing eastward slowly.
It shoved aside layers of warm
air which have caused a record
breaking winter warm spell ov
er much of the area east of the
Mississippi.
Scan Plans for
New Courthouse
Members of the county court
were scrutinizing a modified set
of plans for the proposed new
Marion county courthouse Tues
day afternoon.
Pietro Belluschi, Portland ar
chitect, was meeting with mem
bers of the court. Belluschi,
whose previous courthouse plans
drew criticism from Salem
townspeople, has modified his or
iginal drawings, and it is his new
plans that the court was study
ing Tuesday.
No official action was expect
ed to develop from the meeting.
Belluschi was just attempting to
determine the court's opinion of
his new plans.
today.
for the city, and Mai Rudd
chairman of the mayor's special
committee.
Wendt told the conference
frankly that his company wants
to get out of the suburban busi
ness. The operation is at a loss
he said. The loss on the whole
Salem operation is about $3000
a month, said Wendt.
"We have to do one of two
things," he said, "quit business
or give you a good transporta
tion system. And a good system
means a system for 95 per cent
of the people who live in the city
instead of a money-losing system
for the benefit of 5 per cent who
(live outside the city.'
(Concluded on Fa , Column 5)
Jmm mi I 11 "' W "iff""? - '
Troublesome Truck Trailer Loaded with house trailers for
Mongold, the semi-truck and trailer belonging to E. R. Hitch
man, of Mill City, came to grief at Mill City shortly before
noon Monday. Though the road had been sanded, the equip
ment skidded and broke a window in the Davis building and
also damaged the trailer house on the truck. It was an hour
before the wreckage was cleared. The upper picture shows
how the truck and trailer finally stopped and the lower a
close-up of the damage.
Season s Record Cold
To Moderate Slightly
Shivering Salemites reading their thermometers Tuesday morn
ing found the mercury at 11 degrees , the low figure for the sea
son to date. The low was reached at 3:30 a.m.
Cheering news came from the
that while it is expected to snow tonight and Wednesday, tem-
All Northwest I
In Icy Clasp
(By the Associated Press)
Sub-zero weather knifed into
inland and mountain areas of
the snow-covered Pacific north
west today.
The forecasts for Washington
and Oregon were generally for
warmer tonight and tomorrow,
with more snow.
The coldest reported weather
was in the cascades area oi
southern Oregon. A low of 25 be
low zero was recorded at Gerber
dam, on the Klamath-Lake coun
ty line, and 22 below at Chem
ult, in the Cascades north of Kla
math falls. The city of Klamath
Falls itself had 7 below.
A sudden skid of the mercury
carried it to 10 below zero at
Spokane, Wash., at 7:30 a.m. The
weather bureau's regular 24
hour minimum report had listed
the temperature at zero only
three hours earlier.
Other sub-zero recordings in
cluded: Moscow, Idaho, 11 be
low; Omak, Wash., 5 below; Cas
cade mountains in Washington, 5
below; Lakeview, Ore., 14 below;
Ellensburg, 2 below; Baker, Ore.,
6 below; Meacham, Ore., 9 be
low.
Icy rural road conditions led
to school closures in several ar
eas of Western Washington. Cow
litz county schools remained clos
ed after the Christmas-New Year
holiday period. The minimum in
that area was 9 above early to
day. Salem Hunters
Bag 3 Cougars
Three cougars, a mother and
two kittens, were bagged by two
Salem hunters Sunday on Boul
der creek above Detroit. The
hunters, Walter Ball and Melvin
Erickson of the city engineering
department, jumped the animals
with dogs.
They were cougar hunting at
the time, and will collect a
bounty of $65 on each of the
animals, $50 from the state and
$15 from the county.
The two itlens are about 7
months old. One of the young
cougars was brought to Salem
and its skin will be converted
linto a rug.
weather bureau with the forecast
ppratures will not be so low.
tonight's low expected to be
around 22 degrees. Prospect of
more snow on top of the frozen
ground was not too welcome
news, however.
Monday's maximum in Salem
went only to 31 degrees, one
below the freezing mark, and
throughout the afternoon and
evening it grew gradually cold
er with "tne Tuesday morning
minimum hitting the 11 degree
station. The 11-degree mark was
the second time the mercury
registered that figure for the
year here, last January 13 also
being listed with 11 degrees.
Freezing weather was general
throughout Oregon, with tern
peratures sliding to below-zero
readings at eastern Oregon
points -and in mountainous
gions. , Klamath Falls recorded
7 below; Gerber dam on the
Klnmath-Lake county line, 25
below zero, and Chemult, in the
Cascades, 22 below.
Salem fared better than some
of the Willamette valley sections,
Eugene recorded 8 above this
morning against the local 11
Portland, however, registered 16
above.
Rogue River Basin
Tops List of Surveys
Boise, Ida., Jan. 3 (U-fi) Ore
gon's Rogue river basin. Goose
lake and Jordan Valley will top
the list of 1950 investigations
by the reclamation bureau, it
was announced today.
A total of $445,000 will be
spent on bureau surveys in Ore
gon this year, compared to
$284,000 in Idaho and $161,000
in Washington stale.
t
Cougars Bagged by Salem Hunters Three cougars, a mother and two kiuens about 7 months
old, were bagged on Boulder creek by Salem hunters, Sunday. The picture shows one of the
kittens, and the killer, Melvin Erickson.
Slate Building
Upper Floors
Completed
Probably Require
Another 30, 40 Days to
Complete Structure
By JAMES D. OLSON
The two upper floors, the
fourth and fifth, of the new Pub
lic Service building, opposite
the state capitol, have been com
pleted and finishing touches are
being placed on the third floor
by the contracting force.
It will probably require an
other 30 or 40 days to complete
the remaining floors and base
ment with the entire building
ready for acceptance by the
board of control during mid
February. State Police Offices
The Oregon state police de
partment will occupy the north
one-half of the first floor and the
south one-half will be divided
between the board of control and
its purchasing department and
the state civil service depart
ment. The main entrance to the
building will be on East Sum
mer street with a large lobby
leading to 'wo elevators. A ci
gar and magazine stand is locat
ed on the north side of the lob
by.
PU Offices on Second
The entire second floor will
house the public utility commis
sioner and his staff while the
third, fourth and fifth floors
will be occupied by the unem
ployment compensation commis
sion and the industrial accident
commission.
There is a total of 110,000
square feet in the new building
with state departments paying
ten cents per square foot for of
fice space, four cents per square
foot for storage space above the
basement and three cents per
square foot for basement storage
space.
(Concluded on Paget 5, Column 8)
McCloy Asks for
Red Cooperation
Berlin, Jan. 3 (U.R) U. S. High
Commissioner John J. McCloy
tacitly Invited Russia today to
take part in an all-Germany gov
ernment and help promote free
elections all over the country.
"We are and always have been
for free elections once it Is per
fectly clear that the (Russian)
offer is bona fide," McCloy said.
He held his first press confer
ence in 1950 here. He was sched
uled to fly to Frankfurt tonight,
Four power talks on inter-zonal
trade and other economic co
operation between the west and
Russia "certainly haven't been
very successful so far," McCloy
said.
He said that signs of democ
racy in West Germany outnum
bered nationalistic tokens.
McCloy said the situation in
Europe still was too uncertain to
encourage foreigners to risk
large investments in Germany.
Any major cut in Marshall plan
aid to Germany would be most
unfortunate, he said.
He said economic revival in
Western Germany probably
would level off within the year.
Spring Follows Winter in N. Y,
New York, Jan. 3 W It was
a spring day today in New York
where the weather played tricks
with the calendar.
The weather bureau said the
thermometer reading 56.3 de
grees at 11 a.m. was within
three-tenths of a degree of
breaking the all-time Jan. 3
mark. That was 56.6 in 1913.
A warm drizzle fell and the
weather bureau predicted occa
sional rain tonight and most of
tomorrow.
, Py&
George Palmer Putnam
Former Salem
Resident Dying
In California
Trona. Calif., Jan. 3 W)
George Palmer Putnam, pub
lisher and author who pushed
the long search for his aviatrix
wifo, Amelia Earhart, when she
vanished in the Pacific, is near
death today in a hospital here.
The 63-year-old operator of
Stove Pipe Wells resort in Death
Valley has been under treatment
for uremic poisoning and inter
nal hemorrhages for four weeks.
Physicians say he is growing
steadily weaker, and list his
condition as critical.
Miss Earhart, who disappear
ed in 1937, was the second of his
four wives. Since she was de
clared legally dead in 1939, he
has married twice. His present
wife, the former Margaret Havi
land, is at his bedside.
George Palmer Putnam, who
is seriously ill at Trona, Calif.,
was a resident of Salem for sev
eral years when he was private
secretary to Governor James
Withycombe.
When Withycombe was elect
ed governor, Putnam, a member
of the family of G. P. Putnam's
Sons, eastern publishers, was
publisher of the Bend Bulletin
and he was mayor of Bend two
terms, in 1912 and 1913. After
leaving the position in the gov
ernor's office he made the Bul
letin a daily instead of a weekly.
While living in Salem he was a
member of old Company M of
the National Guard and went to
the Mexican border with that or
ganization in 1916.
He held positions with the
Putnam publishers both before
and after his Oregon residence
and is the author of many books
$2 Billion More
Price Supports
Washington, Jan. 3 VP) -The
administration is going to ask a
$2,000,000,000 increase in the
commodity credit corporation's
lending power to assure funds
for rising costs of farm price
supports in 1950.
Chairman Spence (D., Ky.) of
the house banking committee
announced today he will offer
legislation to that effect.
The bill would raise the CCC's
loaning power from $4,750,000,
000 to $6,750,000,000. The CCC
is the agency that underwrites
the farm price supports.
In a statement, Spence empha
sized that increasing the loaning
authority "does not mean that
the corporation will spend $2,
000,000,000," but will use the
money as loans with stored com
modities as security.
Six Quakes In Luzon
Manila, Jan., 3 (IP) The sixth
earthquake in six days today rat
tled windows and caused build
ings to sway in Manila but caus
ed no damage.
Congress Open
With Routine
Formalities
Fireworks Start Wed
nesday When Truman
Presents Message
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R) A
campaign-conscious congress re
trned to work today to com
plete the legislative record oil
which the nation will pass judg
ment in next November's elec
tions. The second session of the dem
ocratic 81st congress was Rav
elled into session at noon. New
ly wed Vice President Alben W,
Barklcy presided in the senate
and bachelor Sam Rayburn of
Texas in the house.
A double filibuster threat and
the major issues of taxes, spend
ing and foreign policy hung over
the legislators. On all three ma
jor issues, the administration
was on the defensive.
Today's opening session was
routine. Members, back from
an 11-weck vacation which gave
them a chance to sound out grass
roots sentiment, went through
the usual opening-day formali
ties, swore in a few new mem
bers, and engaged in many hud
dles on strategy.
Three Members Coming
The fireworks really start to
morrow when President Truman
appears in person before a joint
session of congress to present the
first of three annual messages
within six days the state of the
union message which is expected
to restate, in large part, the pres
ident's big spending "fair deal"
program. Friday comes tha
economic report and on Monday
the budget message.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)'
'Streamlining'
Not Favored
Washington, Jan. 3 VP) Con
gressional leaders showed no
great enthusiasm today over new
suggestions that congress con
sider further "streamlining" of
its operating machinery.
If anything, they said, the 1946
congressional reorganizations act
may be modified instead of en
larged. It was this law which
was supposed to have improved
the mechanics of running con
gress.
Suggestions for enlarging the
1946 law have been made by
Robert Heller, chairman of the
national committee for strength
ening congress, a private group.
Heller was a leading figure in
drafting the 1946 act.
He wants congress to create a
permanent joint committee to
resume the work of moderniz
ing congress, and to effect oth
er changes.
Congressional leaders who
have been active in past organ
ization moves don't think any
thing more will be done, at least
for some time.
"To much has been done al
ready," said one who asked not
to be quoted by name. "It's
time we repealed some of the so
called reforms embodied in the
1946 law."
For one tiling, he said, the
changes in congressional commit
tees hasn't worked out as plan
ned. While technically the
house sharply cut the number of
its standing committees, it in
creased the number of subcom
mittees until now there arc close
to 100 such groups.
Rep. Reed to Seek
Higher Exemptions
Washington, Jan. 3 VP) Rep.
Reed (R.-N.Y.) wants every
body's federal income tax ex
emption increased from $600 to
$700. He doesn't want anybody's
tax to be more than half his
net earnings.
Reed planned lo introduce
promptly a bill to carry out his
proposals.
He said in a statement last
night that a $700 personal ex
emption should apply also to
each dependent of a taxpayer.
Under this plan, a taxpayer with
wife and one child would have
an exemption of $2,100 instead
of the present $1,800.
To Hear Kcds' Appeals
New York, Jan. 3 VP) The
U.S. circuit court of appeals to
day agreed to hearing next
June the appeals of 11 commun
ist party leaders convicted of
conspiracy to teach forcible
overthrow of the U.S. govern
ment. The court scheduled the
hearing for either the week of
June 5 or June 12.