Carnal.
THE WEATHER HERE
CLOUDY WITH intermittent
rain tonight Saturday. Contin
ued mild temperatures. Lowest
tonight, 35; highest Saturday, 45.
Mailmum yeiterrHy, 40: minimum to
dftjr, S3. Total 84 -hour precipitation: .1t
for month: 8:3(1; normal, 8.36. Season pre
cipitation, J8.35; normal, tO.M. River
heliht, S.S feet. (Report by V.S. Weather
Bureau.)
HOM
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62nd Year, No. 17 SSSfJ'SSS Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 20, 1950
(14 Pages)
Price 5c
Capital
Serious Flood
Conditions Not
Expected Here
Thaw and Light Rains
Taking Off Snow and
Ice Gradually
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
f1 There is no serious flooding
due at this time along the main
stem of the Willamette or along
its main tributaries despite ex
pected moderate to substantial
rises during the next two days,
reports the weather bureau.
The big run-off of water ex
pected with the melting snow
and moderate temperatures has
been a big concern with the wel
come turn to the better in the
recent snow and ice wave.
Any big rain storm, however,
speeding up the run-off could
make a different picture in a
day or two, and could bring
more serious local surface
water troubles.
Bp 3 Feet Overnight'
At Salem the Willamette was
up nearly three feet Friday
morning, measuring 5.6 feet
here. The Santiam at Jefferson
was up to 8.9 feet, flood stage
there being 13 feet. A moderate
spill-over at Jefferson, however,
is not too serious.
The upper Willamette was ad
vancing Friday morning, Eugene
reporting a depth of 4 feet to
day against a zero reading yes
terday. Flood stage there is it
feet, and the big concern on a
Willamette valley flood comes
when the area around Eugene
starts reporting abnormal boosts
in the river.
Slushy Streets in City
Downtown Salem continued to
be slushy and dripping Friday
as the snow continued to melt
but no one was complaining,
even if things were messy, most
folk welcoming the warmer tem
peratures and the thawing fol
lowing the touch of silver thaw
Thursday morning and the pile-
up of frozen snow.
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 6)
Death Toll in
Northwest 39
Portland, Ore., Jan. 20 U.R
The Pacific northwest fought to
day to restore transportation and
oommunloation facilities shatter
ed by a weird ioe storm, latest
of a series of wintry blows that
left 39 persons dead.
Thirteen towns, Including the
Columbia river port of Astoria,
were cut off from the outside
world by telephone as ice snap
ped all lines.
Linemen worked through the
night and finally restored par
tial communications to the city's
20.000 residents and hoped to
get 'phone service to the other
communities by noon.
But more freezing rain was
forecast for today.
The storm, which left 13
Inches of ice and snow in Port-
i land and a foot of slush in Puget
Sound cities of Washington state,
struck lust as' the Red Cross de
clared northwestern Oregon and
southwestern Washington a "dis
aster area."
The Red Cross said widespread
suffering was being felt by many
residents due to a week-long cold
wave and a series of blizzards
and sleet storms giving the area
one of its worst winters in his
tory. The Arctic' cold wave was
tapering off, however. From its
former mass covering 200,000
square miles, it had dwindled to
only a fraction of its former size
and strength. '
Road Conditions in
Oregon Improving
The Columbia River high
way will be blocked by snow
drifts at least until Monday, but
warmer weather greatly im
proved all other road conditions.
The highway commission said
in its 9:30 a.m. road report that
chains aren't required on any
highway. But it suggested that
motorists have chains in their
ran they plan to travel on
the Sunset and Wilson river
highways, or in the Pendleton
and The Dalles areas.
Snowplow crews are unable
to move the bin drifts of tapioca
snow that block the Columbia
river highway between Viento
and Troutdale.
The roal report:
Government Camp Slush,
sack breaking up.
Willamette Pass Spots of Ice
and short section of one-way
U.S. Threatens
Relations Cut
With Bulgaria
Ultimatum Sent for
Withdrawal of
Recall Demand
Washington, Jan. 20 VP) The
United States threatened today
to break diplomatic relations
with Bulgaria unless that com
munist country withdraws its
demand for the recall of Ameri
can Minister Donald R. Heath
from Sofia.
An American note replying to
the Bulgarian recall request was
ordered delivered to the Bulga
rian government in Sofia. It was
also handed to Dr. Peter Voutov,
ranking Bulgarian diplomat
here.
The note described the demand
for Heath's recall as simply the
latest of a "series of indignities
and restrictions" which have
made it virtually impossible for
the U.S. diplomatic mission in
Sofia to carry on its duties.
Series of Insults
The American note added:
"Accordingly, unless the Bul
garian government withdraws
its note of January 19 and dem
onstrates its willingness to ob
serve established international
standards of conduct, the United
States government must con
clude that the Bulgarian govern
ment does not desire to maintain
normal relations.
(Concluded on Page '5, Column 6)
Flood at Crest
In Mississippi
Charleston, Mo., Jan. 20 VP)
The flooded Mississippi river
swirled to an apparent crest
today a short distance upstream
from this town at the edge of the
threatened Birds Point - New
Madrid floodway.
Pre-dawn reports said the
river was at a standstill' within
a fraction of an inch of the pre
dicted 55.4-foot crest at Cairo,
111.
That is 1.6 feet short of the 57-
foot stage below which army
engineers said the 212-square
mile spillway probably will not
be flooded.
Thousands of scattered ref
ugees were cheered by news that
the river had quit rising. They
are quartered in homes and
tents here, at the nearby town
of East Prairie, and in an aban
doned army air base at more
distant Maiden.
About 11,400 residents fled
after the engineers warned Mon
day that it might be necessary
to open the front-line levee near
here and flood the area. The
plan was devised after the dis
astrous 1937 flood to ease pres
sure on Cairo and other cities
along the river in case of emer
gency.
An estimated 600 persons re
main in the floodway lowlands
in this southeast Missouri area.
Rescue operations continued to
day. A coast guard helicopter from
St. Louis joined the search for
stragglers left behind in the gen
eral exodus.
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House Defeats
Korean Aid Bill
Washington, Jan. 20 VP) Re
publicans hung a "no-confidence"
tag on the administra
tion's Asiatic policies today af
ter the 193 to 191 house defeat
of a Korean economic aid bill.
Caught by surprise, the ad
ministration took its severest
foreign policy blow since pre
war days when 131 house repub
licans joined 61 democrats and
one American labor party repre
sentative late yesterday to smash
down the aid bill.
They topped by two votes the
170 democrats and 21 republi
cans who stayed in line for the
measure, which the senate pass
ed in the last session with little
show of opposition.
The bill would have authoriz
ed $60,000,000 more to round
out a $120,000,000 program to
help southern Korea keep its
economy going in the face of the
communist dominated Korean
regime to the north.
Republicans termed the result
a clear sign that members of
their party and some of the de
mocrats have lost confidence in
the state department's handling
of the cold war against commun
ism in the Far East.
Democrats replied tartly that
election year winds are blowing.
They intimated that the repub
licans have turned away from
the bi-partisan foreign policy.
Stroble Tries to
Escape Death
Los Angeles, Jan. 20 VP)
Fred Stroble, convicted of the
murder of six-year-old Linda
Joyce Glucoft, today begins his
second attempt to escape the gas
chamber.
He goes to trial on his insanity
plea before the same jury of 10
women and two men which yes
terday brought in a verdict of
guilty of first degree murder
carrying the death penalty.
"I didn't expect that," the 68-year-old
former baker said in
his cell.
Stroble broke down briefly
after the verdict was in and
later he and his attorney, De
puty County Public Defender
Al Matthews, joined in prayer.
Tries Out Iron Lung Chris Kowitz, Jr., Capital Journal
reporter who has chased convicts, been a circus clown and
played department store Santa Claus, adds a March of Dimes
chapter to his list of adventures by spending a half-hour in
an iron lung.- In top photo Kowitz is seen being put into the
lung. Attending the "patient" is Mrs. Fae Lefore, 505 N.
21st street, registered nurse. at Salem Memorial hospital. In
picture below,- he lies "secure" in the lung.
Safeway Stores Will
Appeal from Decision
Safeway Stores, loser in the first round of a battle for an up
state milk market centering in Salem, indicated today it. would
challenge the state's milk control powers.
The battle is expected to go to the state supreme court, where
Safeway can question the right of the state to keep Safeway's
milk out of upstate markets.
Kowitz Tries Iron Lang
For March of Dimes
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Being in an iron lung is no fun. In fact, it's downright tough.
I know. I spent a half hour inside one yesterday.
No, the dreaded polio hadn't hit me. I just wanted to deter
mine what it was like to feel the life-saving action of an iron
lunir
When I first was fastened in
the huge cylinder and allowed
the iron lung to take over my
breathing, I thought something
was wrong with the machine.
Safeway lost the first round
yesterday when Milk Adminis
trator Thomas L. Ohlsen in Port
land denied the grocery chain
permission to sell its own brand
of milk (Lucerne) in Salem.
A spokesman for the grocery
chain, Division Manager C. H.
Bartlett, at once accused Ohl
sen of "fostering a milk monop
oly.'
Ohlsen said Safeway must De
kept out of the Salem market
in order to protect dairies now
business here. They might
suffer losses, and in turn produc
ers might be hurt In the end
the public would suffer, Ohl
sen concluded.
Safeway had applied for per
mission to process Salem-bought
milk in its own Lucerne plant
in Portland, then sell 3.8 per cent
butterfat milk in paper contain
ers in Salem Safeway stores at
minimum prices.
This drew the opposition of
the big dairy cooperative asso
ciation in a hearing in Portland
last month
Curley's dairy of Salem also
opposed Saiaway,
Both admitted they did not
want competition from Safe
way's richer milk. They have
been charging a half-cent pre
mium for 3.5 per cent milk in
paper containers.
In a statement accompanying
yesterday's decision, Ohlsen in
dicated he would protect upstate
markets from Portland competi
tion. He said distributors other
than Safeway also had expressed
interest in expanding to other
areas. Such expansion "might
have serious and far-reaching ef
fects" on upstate dairies, he said.
Bartlett asserted "Safeway
has asked for nothing the ad
ministrator has not already al
lowed others to do. We fail to
understand how Oregon's milk
czar can let Salem-processed
milk be sold on other markets
but refuse to allow Salem-pro-
duced milk to be resold there
just because it happens our proc
essing plant is in Portland. When
the administrator forces Salem
producers to sell their milk only
to- certain Salem distributors,
what is he doing but fostering
a milk monopoly!
There must not be enough
nroasnre. I thought. Surely it
can't always be this way. Sure
ly my lungs are supposed to get
more air than this. Surely in
fantile paralysis victims don't
survive this ordeal for months
at a time. My torso seemed to
be stretching, my lungs seemed
to be collapsing. Something must
be wrong . . . something must
be.
But nothing was wrong with
the machine, Mrs. Fae Lefor,
a nurse who was standing by,
assured me. The pressure was
right, the machine was operat
ing perfectly. Everything
OK.
So this is It, I thought. So
this is the way it feels to be in
an iron lung. So this is the way
polio victims are forced to live
month after month.
(Concluded on Paso , Column 1)
21 Vessels Fail
To Free Mighty Mo
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 20 (U.B The
navy called off today's attempt
to free the stranded battleship
Missouri after 21 vessels heaved
and hauled for two hours with
out budging her.
Twenty-one tugs and other
vessels tried to loosen the stran
ded Missouri at high tide, but
the two hours of pulling and
pushing didn't move her an inch
The navy gave up until Feb.
2, when the next high tide peak
is expected.
New Hospital
Plans Offered
By Architect
Tentative Proposals
For First Unit of
Salem General
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Carl Erikson, Chicago hospital
architect, has submitted to the
board of directors of Salem Gen
eral hospital tentative plans for
the first unit of the new hospital
to be built with funds pledged in
the Salem Hospital Development
program.
The unit will be a central
tower and maternity wing, and
the plans are being revised and
will be approved by board com
mittees. The cost of this unit is
estimated at from $750,000 to
$800,000. Federal funds of
$275,000 will be available if an
additional $280,000 is raised lo
cally.
Funds for the project are still
being collected, both on pledges
already made and in new dona
tions. Erikson, the Chicago archi
tect, is to be in Salem in a few
weeks and will choose a local
architect to be in charge of the
project, Erikson to serve as con
sultant. Obstetrical Department
Milton L. Meyers, chairman
of the hospital board, said the
plans have been carefully re
vised with an eye to having an
obsterical department with
maximum of efficiency. A part
of this arrangement is movement
of the mother-patient from ad
mission to preparation room, to
labor room, to delivery room
and to wards according to
motion-saving plan, with the
mother protected from public
contact at all times.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column B)
Truman Wins
House Control
Washington, Jan. 20 VP) The
Truman administration today
beat an effort by republicans
and southern democrats to
change the house rules and grab
control of the legislative pro
gram there.
The roll call vote against
changing the rules was 236 to
183.
There were cheers in the
house when it was announced.
Before the vote, a top repub
lican and a top democrat agreed
that the real issue was "whether
or not the entire Truman pro
gram will succeed or be defeated."
Rep. Leo Allen (R., 111.) put it
that way.
Speaker Rayburn (D., Tex.)
said Allen had stated the issue
correctly and shouted:
'.Who won the election in
1948, anyhow?"
The motion for adjournment
was beaten, 225 to 160. It was
almost a straight democratic-republican
split. Southern demo
crats, who want the rule chang
ed, voted with the administra
tion on this motion.
Dry Friday
Observed at
Monmouth
Monmouth, Jan. 20 Residents
of this city were living like New
Yorkers today, with a "dry Friday."
But the Monmouth drouth is.
not on a voluntary basis. The
city's water main broke near its
inlet at Falls City early Friday
morning, shutting off Mon
mouth's water supply complete
ly.
Crews were sent to repair the
water line immediately, and ex
pect to have water service re
sumed by sometime Friday
night.
Schools which have been clos
ed the entire week will reopen
Monday.
Hiss Held-up
As U. S. Traitor
Counties Get Highway Funds
Counties got $1,709,708
state highway funds today. The
amount is 19 per cent of state
motor vehicle fees and gasoline
taxes collected in the last three
months of 1949.
New York, Jan. 20 VP) A
government prosecutor today
likened Alger Hiss to Benedict
Arnold, Brutus, the devil and
Martin T. Manton, a federal
jurist convicted of "selling jus
tice."
Speaking measuredly and in a
deep voice. Assistant U. S. At
torney Thomas F. Murphy told
a federal court jury in his sum
mation it should convict Hiss
on the basis of "the immutable
documents" in the case.
Hiss, former high state de
nartment official, is on trial for
the second time on charges of
perjury. His first trial last sum
mer ended in a Jury disagree
ment.
Tall, mustached Murphy
pointed to the piles of govern
ment exhibits which tne gov
ernment claims Hiss passed to
Whittaker Chambers, admitted
former courier for a Soviet spy
ring.
They don't depend on any
body's memory," Murphy said,
Thev have been here 11 years.
No one has altered them."
Hiss and his wife, Priscilla
aooeared calm as Murphy ad
dressed the Jury. Both the de
fendant and his wife were dress-
in grey, the same color they
wore yesterday.
Murphy recalled to the jury
the Biblical story of Moses re
turning from the mountain with
the ten commandments and
finding that his people had
built a golden calf to worship.
Keizer Diking
Area Created
A Keizer diking district was
formed by an order of the Mar
ion county court Friday morn
ing. An election in the Keizer
area will be held in about 30
days to name nine directors of
the district.
Chief project of the district
will be the construction of a Bix
foot dike, from 300 to 400 feet
in length, between the Keizer
revetment and Cummlngs lane.
Actual planning and building
of the dike itself will be done
by the United States corps of
engineers, who will also main
tain the dike after its comple
tion.
The Keizer diking district, be
ing organized under the Oregon
diking district law, will affect
over 800 acres of land in the
Keizer area. The dike will be
used for flood control, drainage
and irrigation purposes.
No opposition for the district
appeared at Friday's hearing be
fore the county court.
Regulation of
Butler Grades
Held Illegal
Judge Latourette
Holds State Law
Unconstitutional
By JAMES D. OLSON
A regulation on butter grades,
promulgated by the state depart
ment of agriculture, was declar
ed unconstitutional Friday in an
pinion written by Circuit Judge
C. Latourette, of Clackamas
ounty.
The opinion was the last writ
ten by Judge Latourette before
his elevation of the state su
preme court. He had heard oral
arguments in the case here last
Monday.
At issue in the case was a
legislative enactment directing
the state department of agri
culture to classify butter for re
tail sale on its flavor.
Ralph E. Moody, of Salem,
representing the majority of but
ter manufacturers of the state,
filed the attack on the regula
tion while the attorney general's
office defended it.
Federal Law Adequate
Moody said that federal reg
ulations on butter grades were
adequate and the ruling would
not in any way permit the sale
of ungraded butter.
It is obvious from reading
the statute in question that the
state department of agriculture
is given a wide discretion in the
classification of butter accord
ing to its flavor, without any
rule for its guidance in the ex
ercise of such discretion."
The Judge pointed out that this
was in contravention with well
established legal rules.
Judge Laturette quoted the
dictionary definition of flavor
as follows:
'The quality of a substance
which affects the taste, especial
ly that quality which gratifies
the palate; relish; zest, as, the
flavor of the peach, of wine, etc.)
a spicy flavor."
Too Much Power
"The department," Judge La
tourette continued," according to
the whim or caprice of its of
ficers, under such an act, if con
stitutional, would have the au
thority to classify butter as
sweet, sour, pungent, or in any
other respect that the taste buds
of the taster dictated."
Pointing out that the legisla
ture could very easily have clas
sified butter itself, citing what
the legislature of California had
done in that regard In a statue
which specifically set forth the
requirements for the various
grades of butter.
Storm Warnings
Hoisted on Coast
Seattle, Jan. 20 VP) Storm
warnings were raised at 7 a.m.
todav along the Washington and
Oregon coast from Tatoosh to
Cane Blanco. The weather bu
reau also ordered small crait
warnings continued for the
Strait of Juan De Fuca.
The forecast was for south to
southeast winds off the coast,
reaching 35-45 miles per hour,
shifting to southwest this after
noon and continuing southerly
25 to 35 miles per hour tonight
and Saturday.
Easterly winds 25-35 miles per
hour were forecast for the
I Strait of Juan De Fuca.
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Judge Latourette Becomes Associate Justice Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk (left) administers
the oath of office Thursday to Earl C. Latoufette, circuit Judge of Oregon, who became an
associate Justice of the Oregon supreme court.
Wood Alcohol
Kills 3 Convicts
Three state prison convicts
died last night from drinking
wood alcohol, prison warden
George Alexander said today.
All were employed as cooks.
They are Samuel E. Malone, 43;
Edward H. Reese, 24; and Dan
iel W. Rivenbark, 40.
Warden Alexander said Ma
lone died at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Reese died at 10 p. m and Ri
venbark was found dead in his
cell this morning.
Alexander said Reese, who
was cooking for the prison hos
pital, admitted taking the al
cohol from the "hospital labora
tory Wednesday night. Some al
cohol was found in Rivcnbark's
cell.
Malone, serving his fourth
prison term, was received at the
prison from Douglas county
April 27, 1948, to serve three
years for forgery.
Reese came from Klamath
county June 18, 1949, to serve
10 years for larceny.
Rivenbark, received from Jo
sephine county April 16, 1949,
was serving 12 years for assault
and robbery while armed with
a deadly weapon.
Barkley Declares
Senate Is Windy
Washinglon, Jan. 20 (JP) Vice
President Barkley has made it
official: He said the senate is
windy.
The vice president announc
ed from the presiding officer's
rostrum yesterday that some
how a draft of air keeps sweep
ing over the seat he occupies.
He said everybody who has
been called on to preside in his
absence has caught a cold be
cause of the draft.
Barkley said he wants some
thing done about it. He told the
architect of the capitol to look
into the matter and stop the
draft.
traffic.