THE WEATHER HERE
MOSTLY CLOUDY with occa
sional rain and snow tonight,
Thursday. Slightly warmer.
Lowest tonight, 20; highest
Thursday, 35.
Maximum yetterdar, SO: minimum tn.
day, IB. Total 2-hour precipitation! .07r
for month: 6:14) normal, 3.01. Seaion pre
cipitation, 21.73! normal. 20.30. River
helaht. 2.0 feet. (Report bj U.S. Weather
Bureau.)
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62nd Year, No. 15 SSfJ'St'oSSl Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January 18, 1950
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Forecast Says
Gradual End
Of Cold Wave
Mimimum Today 15
Degrees With Rain
Or Snow Predicted
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
What next in a weather deal?
That was the main question in
Salem, Wednesday morning.
Will it be more snow and cold,
or icy rain and a possible silver
thaw, or just a good rain to melt
away the snow and ice?
f Reports from here and there
made the outlook a bit confus
ing. The local weather bureau
forecasts occasional rain and
snow tonight and Thursday and
slightly warmer temperatures
the low tonight due to be around
20, which is still 12 degrees be
low freezing.
By 1 p.m. the mercury had
climbed only to 21 degrees, the
weather bureau reported. No
new snow fell during the morn
ing and that on the streets and
sidewalks became a bit slushy
with constant travel.
Weather a Guess
While Salem was listed with a
morning minimum of 15 degrees,
Wednesday, Eugene with a 16-
degree' reading at mid-morning
was getting a wet, freezing mist;
Roseburg was threatened with a
silver thaw, while on farther
south Medford was soaked with
1.02 inches of rain in a six-hour
period ending at 4 a.m., and re
ported a minimum or 4 degrees.
Over at Klamath Falls, the mi
nimum was 37 this morning
against the 15 in Salem and 14
at Portland, most of the south
ern part of the state reporting
warmer temperatures and rain.
East of the Cascades, Bend re
ported its worst storm of the
winter over Tuesday, 16 inches
of new snow bringing the total
there to 25 inches on the ground.
AU school and mills in that vi-
, cinity were closed and logging
operations suspended.- ' , .
' (Concluded on Cage 5, Column 5)
2 Main Roads
Closed by Storm
The Columbia river highway
will be blocked all day today by
snow between Cascade Locks
and Hood River, the state highr
way commission said in its 9:30
a.m. summary of road conditions.
The Willamette highway was
closed by fallen trees between
Goshen and Oakridge.
Other highways were danger
ouy Icy or snow-covered.
But one bright spot is that
conditions in southern Oregon
are near normal.
The road report:
Government Camp Packed
snow, plowing, carry chains.
Columbia River Highway
Closed at Shell Rock, between
Cascade Locks and Hood River,
all day.
Hillsboro-Silverton Closed
by drifting snow 5 miles north
of Newberg. Hope to reopen by
noon. .
Siuslaw Highway Closed 8
miles east of Florence.
Santiam Pass Packed snow,
, plowing, chains required. 8 inch
W es new snow.
Willamette Pass Snowing
hard, slush, 20 inches new snow.
Raining at Oakridge, highway
closed by fallen trees, Goshen to
Oakridge.
Highway 36
Drops 12 Feet
Florence, Jan. 18 ff About
200 feet of highway 36, the
route from Eugene to this coast
al city, dropped 12 feet during
the night, and because of the lo
cation, about eight miles east of
here, it cannot be detoured.
A state highway shovel crew
from Roseburg was about to start
work Wednesday filling in with
dirt. No estimate was given as
to how long the job will take.
Dirt will have to be brought
from a considerable distance.
The highway at this point is
bordered on the north by-the
railroad and on the south by the
river. Traffic is being routea
around by Drain and Reedsport.
A few hardy drivers are attempt
ing the old route which leaves
route 36 east of Mapleton and
angles up and down a very steep
hill, coming out betwen Cush
man and Florence.
Army Combals
Major Flood
On Mississippi
Tributaries and Main
River at Highest
Point in 13 Years
(Br the Associated Pre&s)
The army ordered heavy earth
moving equipment to critical
fuze plug" sections of the big
Mississippi today in the biggest
flood threat since 1937.
The mayor of historic Vin-
cennes, Ind., issued a special sec
ond call for volunteer flood
fighters in his endangered city
on the banks of the Wabash.
The army sent the bulldozers
and earth movers to the levee
tops of the Birds Point-New Ma
drid floodways. There the crews
will await orders either to blast
out sections of the levee, or set
their machines chewing into the
massive earthen iloodwall.
To Pull Out Plug
The idea is this: If a "plug"
is deliberately pulled out of the
levee, the mighty Mississippi's
torrent will surge into the 139,
000 acre floodway. This will
lower the pressure on other
walls, up and down stream, such
as that at Cairo, 111.
A leaking dike on the north
side of Vincennes made Mayor
William L. Betz' call at Vin
cennes necessary. He asked 400
or 500 fresh workers to bear a
hand at the levee near the mouth
of Kelso creek. The north side
of the city, the site of Indiana's
old territorial capital and other
historical monuments, is in dan
ger.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
Flood Threats
In California
San Francisco, Jan. 18 VP)
Winter storms which have whip
ped northern California for two
weeks tapered off today, leaving
in their wake the threat of floods
in a score of communities.
Three deaths attributable to
the storms were recorded in
northern California yesterday,
bringing to six the number of
victims of winter-caused fatali
ties.
The flood threats today cen
tered largely in the north coast
al counties, as did the heaviest
downpours from this week's
storms. The Smith river, near
the Oregon line in Del Norte
county, was rising rapidly. So
were the Eel, the Mattole, the
Mad and the Klamath in Hum
boldt county.
The Eel, rising a foot an hour,
was expected to reach a height
of 22 feet today, five feet above
flood stage
Silver Thaw Threatens
Roseburg, Jan. 18 VP) A sil
ver thaw threatened to shift
south to the Roseburg area, as
the temperature dropped to 29.7
degrees at 9:30 a.m. and was go
ing lower. State police reported
the highway a sheet of ice from
the Winchester bridge, six miles
north of here, through to the
Willamette valley..
Pickett Appointed as
District Phone Manager
Selection of Bruce F. Pickett of Portland to succeed Harry V.
Collins as district manager of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company in Salem was announced today by Fred Scholl, general
commercial manager for Oregon.
Collins, who came here as Salem manager for the company in
1930, and was advanced to the
district post in 1931, retires Feb
ruary 1 after more than 40 years
of service. Pickett will assume
the responsibilities of his new
position on that date.
A graduate of Oregon State
college, where he received his
bachelor of science degree in
business administration in 1923,
Pickett has been personnel rela
tions supervisor in the compa
ny's administration department
in Portland since' 1947.
Starting his telephone career!
a student engineer in Port
land immediately after gradua
tion, he transferred to the
commercial department the fol
lowing year.
Advancing through various
levels of supervision, he subse
quently served as sales supervis
or, office manager, and manager
in Portland, and in 1946 was
named district manager for the
company in eastern Oregon, with
headquarters at Pendleton. In
1947 he was returned to Port
land and given state-wide re
sponsibilities in personnel rela
tions work, the assignment he
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Snow Crashes
Roof at Dallas
Dallas, Jan. 18 Heaw snows
caved in the roof of the Frank
Neufeld dehydrator on South
Jefferson street Tuesday morn
ing, causing damage estimated
at $2000.
Two trucks, a tractor, prune
equipment and dehydrator
equipment were stored in the
plant which had not been in op
eration since the walnut season.
One truck was damaged and
some other equipment was hit
when the roof fell in the center
of the bulding. The cave-in was
directly over 500 sacks of wal
nuts, which were not believed
to be seriously damaged.
New fluorescent lights in the
building were all broken. The
owner said he had examined the
room Monday, but decided that
buildings on his farm were more
seriously threatened and devot
ed the day to clearing them.
A large barn on the Academy
ranch just northwest of Dallas,
caved in from the weight of the
snow. Eleven head of livestock
in, stalls along one side escaped
but a 1941 model, automobile
was crushed. The ranch is on
the Ellendale road and was for
merly a riding academy.
Wallace Admits
Report on China
Washington, Jan. 18 (IP) A
republican senator's complaint
that Henry A. Wallace fathered
America's China policy has
drawn from Wallace the retort
that if his ideas had been fol
lowed, the U. S. would be bet
ter off.
Senator Ferguson (R., Mich),
told the senate yesterday that a
"secret report" which he said
was written by the former vice
president in 1944 laid the basis
for present American foreign
policy in China. Ferguson de
plored the policy as helpful to
the communists in China.
Wallace's response was given
to a reporter at South Salem, N.
Y. I f the administrtion and Ken
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had
followed the line he suggested,
Wallace said, "we would be in
a much stronger 'position in the
Orient today.'1
Bruce F. Pickett
held until his Salem appoint
ment. With Mrs. Pickett and a
daughter, Jocelyn Davis, who is
a sophomore at the University of
Oregon, he plans to establish
residence in Salem Immediately.
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Roof Falls Under Snow Heavy snow laid low the large
expanse of roof covering the Frank Neufeld dehydrator on
Jefferson street at Dallas Tuesday. The main roof was com
pletely down, the shed roof partially. On hand to inspect the
trouble are Claude McAllister, Rollin Friesen, Leon Goebel
and Roger McWhirter, who are enjoying an extended vacation
from school because of snow. In the background is the ele
vator of the Farmers Union Cooperative warehouse.
Army Reserve Corps
Armory For Salem
By MARGARET MAGEE
Salem Is to have an Organized Army Reserve Corps armory
and the city has been given number one priority in the entire
Sixth Army area for the construction of the structure.
Confirmation of the construction of tne new armory in oaiem
is broueht here by the Sixth Army site board from Sixth
Strike Notice
Given Chrysler
Detroit. Jan. 18 W) The CIO
United Auto Workers, rejecting
Chrysler's 100-a-month pension
offer, handed the corporation ;
Seven-day strike notice today.
The ultimatum was handed the
company at the start of regular
ly scheduled negotiations today.
There was no immediate com
ment from the company.
Norman Matthews, UAW
Chrysler director, said the union
considered Chrysler's pension of
fer, made late yesterday, "un
sound and inadequate."
Total benefits in the offer
amount to only about five cents
per hour, Matthews said. In
recent pension agreement be
tween the UAW and Ford Motor
company union gains were esti
mated at 10 cents an hour.
'Chrysler is trying again to
disguise with glowing words
cheap and shoddy offer which
falls far short of meeting the
needs of Chrysler workers and
their families," said Matthews.
Negotiations between Chrys
ler and the UAW have been go
ing on since last July. The cur
rent union contract expires in
August.
At the crucial stage in negoti
ations, it is often the union's
practice to strengthen its bar
gain hand by setting a strike
deadline. Such a move does not
necessarily mean that a strike is
imminent.
Ice Jams Hit
Lumber Plant
Tygh Valley, Ore., Jan. 18 (IP)
Ice jammed across the White
river in this lumber mill town
south of The Dalles, crunched
out over the banks, ripped down
fence and threatened four
houses today.
Ice heaved up into piles eight
to 10 feet high as cakes from up-
river flowed underneath the sur
face sheet, smashed into the jam,
and buckled the top layer.
The threatened houses one
was evacuated during the night
are in a low area over which
massive ice blocks are pushing
out.
The jam formed yesterday.
This morning the jagged cakes
moving slowly into the low area
were 30 feet beyond the south
bank of the river. They leveled
fence and inched up to one
house, reaching the floor level
at dawn. Farther on are three
more houses, occupied by mill
workers, all in the path of the
frozen flood.
A powder expert was being
brought here today by Wheeler
Rucker, resident army engineer
at The Dalles, to study the possi
bility of blasting the jam.
Frank Burglung, timekeeper
at the Tygh Valley lumber mill
said residents feared that a se
rious flood would follow any sud
den thaw if the jam were not
broken.
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OArmy headquarters, Presidio of
San Francisco.
The board, which was joined
by northern sub-area represen
tatives and engineers from Se
attle and Portland, was in Sa
lem Tuesday to confer with Lt.
Col. Bruce Johnson, instructor
for the Salem Army Reserve
units, and to inspect proposed
sites.
Currently being considered by
the army as sites of the armory
are locations on the airport road
just off East State street. One
of the sites would be just south
of the state highway laboratories
on the west side of the airport
road and the second across from
the laboratories on the east side
of the road.
A tentative agreement has
previously been made with the
state of Oregon to secure one
of these locations for the site
of the armory, to be used in
training army reserve units in
the Salem area.
The building, which will be
concrete and concrete block
structure is to be a two-unit ar
mory and is a standard army
design armory with a few al
terations. Final plans have not
yet been completed.
Members of the Sixth Army
site board in Ealem Tuesday
were Lt. Col. William F. Curren
of the G-3 section; Maj. William
H. Peterson of the G-4 section,
Maj. Pierce P. Hurley from the
engineer section and J. J. Adams
and James M. Orr, an engineer,
both of whom are from San
Francisco.
Joining the men from the
Presidio of San Francisco here
were Col. Thomas F. Kern from
the northern sub-area; Hanford
Thayer and W. C. Nelson, both
from the district engineer's of
fice in Seattle; and D. M. Bel-
ton, from the division engineer's
office in Portland.
Civil Rights
Clauses Lose
Washington, Jan. 18 (IP) The
senate today junked an anti
lynching amendment to a bill
providing for the repeal of fed
eral oleomargarine taxes.
One of the three civil rights
amendments offered by Senator
Langcr (R., N.D.), it was killed
by a 60 to 20 vote to lay it on
the table.
A similar fate apparently was
in store for his anti-poll tax and
fair employment practices am
endments. Their rejection would
help to clear the way for a quick
senate vote on the repeal bill.
The motion to table was made
by Senator Fulbright (D., Ark.)
immediately after administra
tion leaders had attacked Lan-
gcr's proposals as an effort to
kill the bill.
Democratic Leader Lucas of
Illinois said Langcr hoped to
"cause a filibuster" which would
ultimately kill the repeal meas
ure. Southern democrats are
bitterly opposed to the civil
rights measures.
"He is not fooling the people
who are truly interested in pass
ing the civil rights program,'
Lucas added.
Page Resigns from Supreme
Bench; Latourette Succeeds
nlkd tor ban
On Coal Strikes
Washington, Jan. 18 (U.R) La
bor Board General Counsel Rob
ert H. Dcnham announced today
he is asking the federal court
here to prohibit the United Mine
Workers from calling any strikes
until they drop several allegedly
illegal contract demands.
Denham said he considers the
current three-day week in the!
coal fields a strike. He wants
the court to issue a temporary
injunction to put all coal miners
on a f we-aay week.
4 Violations Charged
Specifically, Denham accused
the union of four violations of
the Taft-Hartley act.
1. Demanding an illegal closed
shop;
2. Demanding a welfare fund
for union members only;
3. Seeking an illegal contract
clause which permits miners to
work only when they are willing
and able, and
' 4. Bad faith in bargaining.
Denham said he would ask the
court to order John L. Lewis and
the mine workers union to give
up their allegedly illegal de
mands and "forthwith resume
bargaining in good faith" with
the coal industry.
Denham said he had cleared
his action with the White House
'and they raised no objection."
Accused of Coercion
The soft coal minors, on or
ders from Lewis, have been
working only three days a week
since Dec. 5. Lewis put his'
men on the short work week to
allow them to earn some money
and still reduce coal stockpiles.
(Concluded on Pago 5. Column 3)
Reds Necessity
Caused Seizure
Tokyo, Jan. 18 VP) Radio
Peiping said tonight "military
necessity" prompted Chinese
communist seizure of American,
French and Dutch barracks and
other buildings" in Peiping last
week-end.
The radio added the govern
ments concerned had "consent
ed" to the seizures. (The seiz
ures prompted the United States
to recall ail state department of
ficials from Red China).
The communist statements
were made in a Chinese lan
guagc broadcast. It was moni
tored here by Kyodo News
agency.
After mentioning "consent,
however, the Red radio said the
three governments' "former con
suls" in the Red China capital
had "yielded" to communist de
mands for the buildings.
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What Do You Feed a Flicker7 The photographer's springer
spaniel, Duke, retrieved this cold, half starved bird from ,
the West Salem park Tuesday, and posed a tough feeding
problem for his master. Birds throughout the valley are
finding slim pickings during the current sub-freezing weather.
(Bob Brown photo)
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Above Justice Earl C. La
tourette of Clackamas, below
Justice E. M. Page of Marion.
Polish Delegate
To UN Resigns
Lake Success, N. Y., Jan. 18
(U.R) The counselor of the Po
lish delegation to the United
Nations has resigned and asked
Secretary of State Dean Ache-
son for asylum in the united
State because "freedom has dis
appeared in Poland," it was re
vealed today. 1
Aleksandcr Rudzinski, a key
figure in the Polish UN delega
tion since 1946, broke with the
Polish government over its sup
port of Russia's walkout from
the security council and other
UN organs in the last few days.
He resigned from the Polish UN
staff and from the Polish con
sulate in New York.
He charged that the Soviet
walkout was designed to "par
alyze" the UN.
State Department Spokesman
Michael J. McDermott said in
Washington that the request for
asylum is under consideration.
Rudzinski wrote to Acheson
Monday for political sanctuary
in this country. He said that Po
land had undergone a "rapid
and profound transformation" in
the last few months, climaxed
by the imposition of Soviet
Marshal Konstantin K. Rokos-
sovsky as Polise defense minister.
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Resignation of
Justice Page
Due to III Health
By JAMES D. OLSON
Associate Justice E. M. Page
of Salem submitted his resigna
tion Wednesday from the state
supreme court bench and Circuit '
Judge E. C. Latourette of Ore
gon City was named by Gover
nor Douglas McKay to fill the
vacancy.
Ralph Holman, Oregon City
attorney, was appointed circuit
judge of Clackamas county by
the governor.
Both Latourette and Holman
are members of pioneer Oregon
families. Latourette a democrat
and Holman, a republican, must
stand for cleotion for their new
non-partisan offices in the May
primaries.
Accepted With Reluctance
Governor McKay said he was
'forced to accept Page's resigna
tion with extreme reluctance"
but was compelled to do so be
cause the associate justice had
been in failing health. Page, de
scribed by the governor as a
"fine legal mind and a staunch
friend," served on the Marion
county circuit bench for eight
years prior to his appointment
to the supreme court last July to
fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the late Associate Jus
tice Percy R. Kelly.
Ex-Governor A. W. Norblad,
republican, named Latourette
to the circuit court position in
the fifth judicial district 19
years ago. Latourette has experi
enced what the governor called
a "phenomenally small number
of opinion reversals in that
time."
Favored by Bar Poll
The governor also pointed out
that the Oregon state bar poll
on candidates for the newly-created
Oregon federal district
judgeship favored Latourette by
better than a three-to-one mar
gin. 'I believe in promoting faith
ful servants of the state wherev
er possible," said McKay. "Judge
Latourette's brilliant service to
this commonwealth for nearly
20 years certainly entitles him
to such a promotion."
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 6)
Friday Vote on
Rules Change
Washington, Jan. 18 VP) War
ring group's in the house agreed
today to a showdown vote Fri
day on a rules change that could
bottle up civil rights legislation
and other parts of the Truman
program.
Speaker Rayburn announced
the decision after a huddle with
administration lieutenants. Ho
said there will be no caucus of
democrats.
Many democrats feel that a
party caucus last year on the
same subject is still binding.
That meeting bound most demo
crats but not all of them stay
ed put to support a change in
rules stripping the rules com
mittee of its stranglehold over
legislation.
The rule was changed after
that caucus.
A republican-southern demo
crat coalition now is backing
repeal of the 1949 rule and re
turn to the old procedure giving
the rules committee its former
power. The rules committee is
dominated by the coalition
forces.
President Truman predicted
yesterday an all-summer fight
for the civil rights program, but
he got no outpouring of support
from congressional leaders.
Mr. Truman said he is doing
"everything possible" to prevent
adoption of the house rules
change.
$75,000 Fire at
Copco Tokefee Plant
Roseburg, Jan 18 VP) Fire
causing damage estimated up
wards of $75,000 destroyed the
warehouse and compressor room
at California-Oregon Power com
pany's Slide Creek unit of its
Tokctce Falls project Wednesday
night of last week.
Information of the fire was
brought out Tuesday by Karl W.
Smith, camp supply man.