2 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Tuesday, January 17, 1950
Portland Tax
Suits in Court
The state supreme court heard
arguments today in two suits
to determine whether Portland's
new business tax is unconstitu
tional. The suits attack the annual
tax of $25 a year plus $1 lor
each $1,000 of gross sales over
$25,000 a year. It affects every
retailer in the city.
Circuit Judge James W. Craw
ford of Portland ruled the tax
is valid. The case was appealed.
One suit was brought by Ted
Garbade and Fred Boynton, both
retailers. The other one was fil
ed by six automobile dealers.
They claim the tax is not uni
form, thus violating the consti
tution. The supreme court today up
held the dismissal of a $54,900
damage suit of Frances C. Wild
er against Dr. Wallace Haworth,
Portland.
She claimed Dr. Haworth
burned her with X-rays. Cir
cuit Judge James R. Bain, Port
land, threw the case out of
court. The supreme court, in an
opinion by justice Arthur D.
Hay, upheld him.
Other court action:
Mary M. Flanagan vs Terry
A. Flanagan, appellant. Appeal
from Union county. Suit for
divorce. Opinion by Justice J.
O. Bailey, Judge R. J. Green
modified.
Vandenberg
To Step Aside
Washington, Jan. 17 (IP) Sen
ator Vandenberg (R., Mich.)
has stepped aside to let senate
colleagues write the first draft
of foreign policy declarations in
the proposed republican state
ment of party principles.
Senator Taft (R., Ohio), who
heads the senate republican pol
icy drfating committee of 14,
told a reporter Vandenberg had
said he would not submit any
proposed language for the for
eign policy section of the forth
coming campaign document.
The Michigan senator does
expect to be consulted about that
phase of the proposed platform
before it is put into final shape.
Taft said he will call the sen
ate committee together Thurs
day. As a preliminary, members
of the group will meet at an In
formal dinner here tomorrow
night with 21 house policy com
mitteemen and 15 members of
the party's national committee.
After the senate group has
culled suggestions submitted to
it by other republican senators,
Taft said, he will name a com
mittee of three to sit down with
a similar house group to try to
work out a final draft.
Clarence Budington Kelland,
Arizona national committeeman
and author, will be Invited to
join the drafting group, Tail
said.
"I don't think we'll have too
much trouble working out a
statement that will be accept
able to all of the republicans
in this year's congressional
campaign," Taft commented.
Austrian Prince
Weds Yolande
Beloeil, Belgium, Jan. 17 W
The brother of the pretender
to the throne of Austria mar
ried his childhood sweetheart
a 28-year-old Belgian princ
ess in a brilliant ceremony to
day. She is Princess Yolande,
daughter of Prince Eugene de
Ligne, Belgium's ambassador to
India, and Princess Phillipe de
Noaules,
He is Archduke Charles of
Hapsburg, 31-yonr-old son ot
the late Emperor Charles of
Austria and Empress Zita.
The wedding, one of the most
guttering in recent times here,
brought together many of Eu
rope's noble houses.
The couple plan to fly to the
United States where they will
make their home.
3 Dayfon Stores
Burglarized
bayton, Ore., Jan. 17 Three
Dayton business houses were
burglarized sometime Sunday
night with the thefts first discov
ered and reported to the office
of the Yamhill county sheriff at
McMinnville Monday morning.
Entrance to all three places was
made by breaking glass panels
In front doors.
Stores entered were a drug,
grocery and hardware establish
ment with the drug store the
heaviest loser. Cash and mer
chandise valued around $100 is
reported missing. The other two
stores lost change In tills. From
articles stolen from the drug
tore and the fact that only cash
was taken at all three places,
youthful prowlers are suspected
ny me sheriff ! office.
Gas Workers
End Strike
Bridgeport, Conn., Jan. 17 W
Striking employes of the
Bridgeport Gas Light company,
waiting until almost the last
possible minute, returned to
work at 4 a.m. (EST) today,
averting a shut-off of gas serv.
ice in this industrial city of 165,-
000 and its suburbs.
If the return to work had been
delayed a half hour more, said
gas company vice-president Ron
ald A. Molony, there would have
been no gas this morning, or for
many mornings to come.
The company had been using
its reserve supply of gas since
the 212 employes, members of
United Mine Workers District
50, walked out when their con
tract expired at midnight Sun
day. '
Once gas is shut off, it cannot
be turned into the mains again
until all pilots and similar out
lets are checked, a long task
since the company has about
70,000 customers.
Complete stoppage of serv
ice would have meant especial
hardship to the 2,000 customers
who heat their homes with gas.
Many major Bridgeport indus
tries, including General Elec
tric, Remington Arms and the
Bridgeport Brass company, de
pend on gas for some of their
operations.
The strikers went back to
work without reaching an agree
ment in their contract negotia
tions, where union pension de
mands provided the chief stum
bling block. The union agreed to
man the plant while negotia
tions continue. The pension de
mands have not been made pub
lie.
Chiang's Planes
Bomb Red Bases
Taipei, Formosa, Jan. 17 (IP)
Around the clock bombing of
communist bases on the China
mainland continued tonight with
Nationalist Chinese planes strik
ing Liuchow peninsula in south
China.
Official reports said a num
ber of Red military establish
ments and junks were destroyed
in the night raid. The commu
nist forces are massing for an
assault on Hainan island, 10
miles from the peninsula.
Nationalist warships were In
control of the gulf of Tonkin,
guarding the northwestern ap
proaches to Hainan.
Dispatches also reported Hai
nan s defenses had been stren
gthened by the arrival of 40,000
troops from Yunnan province
The reinforcements belong to
the command of Yu Cheng-Jan
and Li Mi, two commanders seiz
ed last month by turncoat Gov
orner Lu Han. He freed them
later.
The two went to Hainan after
conferring in Taipei with Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
The additional troops would
give the Nationalists 80,000
poorly equipped first line troops
on Hainan. There are about 60,-
000 secondary troops on the is
land which served as one of Ja
pan's main south China bases
during the war.
Kiwanis Listens
To Williamson
Man has reached the thresh
hold of middle age at 35 years
and cannot hope to recapture his
youth. However, the Kiwanis
clubs, now observing their 35th
anniversary i can fortify itself by
drawing in young men and con
tinue to be a vita! factor In the
United Slates.
This was the gist of a talk be
fore the Salem Kiwanis club
Tuesday noon by Clyde William
son, Albany banker, as he de
livered a talk concerning his
experiences and the alms and
outlook of Kiwanis.
Williamson spoke of the
changes that had occurred dur
ing the past half century and
contrasted present day methods
and conveniences with those of
50 years ago.
Colonel Philip Allison, chair
man of the Boy Scout commit
tee, reported the Kiwanis club
had contributed $295 of a $300
fund being raised to send a scout
to the national Jamboree at Val
ley Forge, Pa., next summer.
State Committees
Of Parole Group
Governor Douglas McKay Is
honorary chairman of the state
committee of the National Pro
bation and Parole association,
he announced today.
State Prison Warden George
Alexander is the real state
chairman.
Other members of the com
mittee are Justice George Ross
man, former Gov. Charles A.
Sprague, Paul B. Wallace and
Guy Hockok, all of Salem; R. S.
Keene, Corvallls; Judge Herbert
K. Hanna and O. H. Bcngtson.
Medford; and U S. Sen. Wayne
Morse and Virgil M. Cameron,
both of Eugene.
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Oregon College of Education, Monmouth OCE's new li
brary, to be constructed on a site next to the administration
building here soon, will present students with the finest in
modern facilities for study and research. Cost is estimated
to be $288,000.
Ibsen Play to
Be Next Olfer
A psychological play entitled
Ghosts" .by Ibsen will be the
second stage play produced by
the Willamette university dra
matic department this school
year. Presentation is scheduled
for February 16 and 17.
Cast selected by Ruane Hill,
instructor in speech and drama
and director of the play, in
clude? George Bynon, Salem
Margaret Guice, Seattle; Phil
Hammond, Portland; Dave
Place, Hood River, and Marian
Sparks, Salem.
Handling production will be
Ella Louise Ball, Estacada, as
sistant director; Rex Lindemood,
Twin Falls, Idaho, stage mana
ger: Chic Schmidt, Lapwai, Ida
ho, lighting; Betty Herstrom,
Port Townsend, Wash., and Mar
garet Conklin, Bend, properties;
Marjorie Letteken, Dallas, cos
tumes; Lloyd Hanson, Bend,
workshop manager; Dorothy
Wood, Salem, makeup; Marian
Spann, Payette, Idaho, publicity;
Bernice Isham and Catherine
Person, Salem, managerial.
To Reorganize
Trade Bureau
Reorganization of the Salem
Retail Trade bureau by chang
ing to a merchants' association
plan, with paid memberships
and a secretary-manager on sal
ary, was being considered by the
bureau Tuesday.
The trade bureau went into a
noon session at the Marion hotel
to discuss the plan and to elect
officers.
Under the plan, which is fol
lowed in California cities, Port
land and elsewhere, member
business men would pay dues
according to the number of em
ployed personnel. The associa
tion would cover the whole city
and Include all types of business
in the city. It would continue
affiliation with the Chamber of
Commerce.
The bureau re-elected Jim
Beard president. Reynolds Al
len was elected vice president.
and Kenneth C. Perry, secre
tary.
As board mmbers Harold Bus-
ick, Mai B. Rudd, Dick Cooley,
Linn Kraemer and Fred McKin-
ney were elected.
Truman Talks to
Reserve Bankers
Washington, Jan. 17 (IP)
President Truman says that
when he leaves the White House,
he hopes the country will be "on
the road to accomplishing"
world peace and prosperity and
wcliare for all.
In stating this goal, at a di
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Federal Reserve System last
night, he did not say when he
expects to quit as "head of the
greatest government in the his
tory of the world."
Nor did Mr. Truman touch on
the subject of his proposed new
taxes, an item of particular in
terest to financial circles.
He did tell the members of the
banking fraternity that one rea
son he appeared at their dinner
was to show that "I do not wear
horns and I haven't a tail I am
just an ordinary citizen of this
great republic of ours who has
the greatest responsibility in the
world."
Mr. Truman talked extempo
raneously; without reporters be
ing present. His remarks were
transcribed and released by the
White House later.
Colorado Fire
Hits Army Post
Colorado Springs, Colo., Jan.
17 (U.R) High winds whipped a
brush and timber fire in the
famed Broadmoor hotel district
to new fury today and spread
the flames into warehouses on
an army post in the vicinity.
The public information office
at Camp Carson, located in the
Broadmoor area, said that four
big warehouses and a laundry
were afire.
The blaze, raging for 12 hours
over a 14-square-mile area, had
been brought partially under
control at mid-morning by an
army of 5,000 firefighters, in
cluding troops, a Seabee battal
ion, firemen, city and county em
ployees and other volunteers.
The warehouses, located in the
north end of the military reser
vation, are about one mile from
the main post headquarters and
its barracks. An estimated 1,500
soldiers aided by firemen were
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Aid Offered on
Income Taxes
Deputy collectors of internal
revenue will visit Willamette
valley counties during January,
February and March, also all
other counties in the state, for
the purpose of assisting taxpay
ers in preparing their federal in
come tax returns for 1949.
The schedule for Marion coun
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Silverton, February 6 to 7,
City hall; Woodburn, February
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Post Office building.
The Polk county schedule is:
Valsetz, February 9 and 10,
Valsetz Lumber company; Dal
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First National bank; Monmouth,
February 17, City hall.
Linn county:
Sweet Home, February 13 and
14, City hall; Lebanon, February
15 to 17 inclusive, City hall;
Scio, February 23, Post Office
building; Albany, March 1 to 15
inclusive, Post Office building.
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First Concert
Dated Feb. 2
The first of a series of con
certs sponsored by the instru
mental department of Salem
senior high school will be held
in the auditorium the night of
February 2. This concert, as
well as the two that will follow,
will be free to the general pub
lic. In making the announcement,
Donald E. Jessup, director of in
strumental music for the Salem
public schools, said the program
would be varied with the
"A" and "B" bands and the
high school orchestra taking
part. Approximately 175 indi
vidual students will participate.
The orchestra will be directed
by Victor Palmason; the "A"
band by Jessup and the "B"
band by Willamette university
students who have been taking
their practice work at Salem
high.
Nome Field Closing
Called False Economy
Washington, Jan. 17 0J.PJ
Alaskan Delegate E. L. Bartlett
said today that closing of Marks
Field at Nome would be "econ
omy purchased at too great a
price."
He said the field is "our
closest base of all to Soviet Si
beria." "It stands there alone and uni
que as a symbol of the power
and prestige of the U.S.," Bart
lett wrote to Defense Secretary
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he said, "there will not be a
military plane stationed along
the length of the Arctic coast.
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air force or the army."
Extend Oil Pipe
Line to Pasco
Salt Lake City, Jan. 17 VP)
Signing of two contracts cleared
the way yesterday for an early
start on construction work ex
tending the Salt Lake Pipe
line company's oil products
line to Pasco, Wash.
C. E. Finney, Jr., company
president, said construction will
begin as quickly as weather
permits. The line now runs from
Salt Lake City to Twin Falls,
Idaho. Completion into Boise is
expected soon.
Finney said the section from
Boise to Baker, Ore., will be
built by Morrison-Knudson
company, Inc., the Macco cor
poration and the Bechtel cor
poration. The northern portion
into Pasco will be built by Pa
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School Classes
Resume Work
Resumption of class work at
Salem public schools Tuesday
following Mondays shutdown
on account of snow, found at
tendance somewhat spotty
fairly normal in some instances
and quite a bit below normal in
others.
All buses operated by the
school system were in operation
although a number of them were
late in reaching the various
schools. Bus operators report
lighter loads than usual although
they were able to cover their
complete routes.
Selem senior high reported
fairly normal attendance. Par
rish junior high had an absentee
list of 134 out of a total regis
tration of approximately 1000.
Leslie reported 124 absent from
an enrollment of 720.
Bush grade school indicated
fairly normal attendance, as did
West Salem where 14 junior
high pupils and 21 in the lower
grades were marked absent
The new Washington grade
school in the northeast portion
of the district had 37 out while
Lincoln reported 36 absent.
Most of the regular teachers,
were on the job, the list of flb-k
sentees in this connection being '
smaller than usual.
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