THE WEATHER HERE
MOSTLY CLOUDY with occa
sional rain tonight, Sunday. Con
tinued mild temperatures. Low
est tonight, 43; highest Sunday,
53.
Muimum ;trrd;, u, minimum lo
dey, . Total 24-hour precipitation: .Vi!
tar month: 11.13; normol, s.M. Seeton nre
elpltallon, 51. U; normal 58.03. Rirer
height. 10.1 feel. (Report b V. S. Weith.
r Bureas.)
Capital
Joiaraal
HOME
EDITION
62nd Year, No. 18
Entered u second el mi
matter at Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Januar
Price 5c
OS
ttSJJ 1
Air Hearing
May Be Here
Early in March
io
School Buses
All Inspected
For Safe Use
Capt. Lansing Reports
1252 Vehicles
Examined by Experts
By JAMES D. OLSON
Inspection of 1252 school bus
Coates to Pick
One of 3 Sites
For Apartments
I M' . X
!- 1 1
er U
re
y
i
e
B
s
Chinook Wind
Melting Snow,
Rivers Up
No Major Flood in
Willamette Santiam
On Rampage
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
Valley folk eyed the river
stages apprehensively Saturday
morning although thoroughly
appreciating the welcome "Chi
nook wind" and mild tempera
tures. Reports from the weather bu
reau this morning reiterated that
pno major flooding is expected
along the main Willamette ri
ver at this time, although all
streams will see moderate to sub
stantial rises during the next 48
hours.
The Salem gauge showed the
Willamette up to 10.7 feet Sat
urday morning, the high mark
of the winter to date and a fi
gure compared to the 5.6 read
ing Friday morning. The river
was to continue to go through
Saturday. Flood stage here is 20
feet.
Santiam Rising Fast
Most serious flooding in the
valley is due on the Santiam at
Jefferson.
At the Jefferson station the
Santiam was up to 13.8 feet Sat
urday morning, .8 of a foot above
flood stage, and the river is
forecast to hit 18.5 feet there
Sunday forenoon.
State highways will not be
flooded at that mark, but some
county roads probably will be
washed and considerable low
land flooded when the river
reaches that stage, It was said
this morning.
Upper Willamette
The Willamette will go past
flood stage at Harrisburg by
Sunday forenoon and is likely to
reach a peak of 15 feet by Sun
day night, the weather bureau
forecast said. Flood stage there is
12 feet. The highway would not
be affected there, reports stated,
i Eugene, the area where all the
i big flood troubles start, reported
the Willamette up to 7 feet Sat
urday morning and continuing
to rise. Flood stage there is lz
feet.
The lack of any torrential or
prolonged rain was said to be
holding back flood troubles. The
pile-up of snow and Ice through
the foothills and valley has had
a eradual but sustained run-off,
most valley sections reporting
only light rains along with tne
warm wind.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 8)
Flood Menace
At Silverfon
Silverton, Ore., Jan. 21 Hea
vy run-off of melting snow and
surface water overnight result
ed in Pudding river flooding the
old Silverton highway near the
airport from three to five feeti
this morning w it n preaicuuna
that the water will be the high
est in recent years.
Silver Creek, a tributary to
Pudding river, rose 3Vi feet ov
er night and is still rising. It
t registered five feet beneath the
bridge here in the city. Hop
yards and the general area in
the vicinity of the airport are
several feet deep in water.
The rise in Silver creek has
f not yet affected the reading of
Pudding river and the increase
in volume probably will be re
flected over the weekend.
Rise in Silver creek has re
sulted in the usual flooding of
basements throughout Silverton.
All snow in the immediate vicin
ity has melted and that in the
hieher altitudes beginning to
melt.
Siuslaw Highway
Closed at Florence
The Siuslaw highway between
Rno-pne and Florence was closed
again by a slip-out near Flor
ence, the state hignway commis
sion renorted today.
Rut elsewhere in Oregon rain
washed the snow off most of
the hlehwavs. though others
were still covered, either with
snow or spots of ice.
The road report, based on in
formation received up to 9 a.m.
Included:
Government Camp Spots of
Ice; 102 inches roadside snow.
Upper Columbia River high
way Closed at Shell Rock.
Siuslaw closed,
Santiam Pass Bans pave
ment; 124 inches roadside snow.
Willamette Pass -Spots of ice;
118 inches roadside snow.
Cochran Makes Pro
gress on Home Issues
In National Capital
Salem, not Washington. D. C.
probably will be the place of
hearing for the United Air Lines
case before the civil aeronautics
board according to an Associat
ed Press story today.
The dispatch quotes Clav
Cochran, manager of the Salem
Chamber of Commerce, who is
now in Washington, and men
tions that the hearing has again
been postponed to a date i n
March.
Cochran, expected home i n
time to report at a meeting of
the Salem chamber's board of
directors next Wednesday night,
is in Washington on several is
sues. He is trying to prevent
a temporary removal of Salem
from United Air Lines sched
ules, and, among other things,
arrange for the marketing of
surplus Oregon flax.
Washington, Jan. 21 (P) Clay
Cochran, of the Salem, Ore.,
Chamber of Commerce, said to
day he hopes to be able to work
out some way to dispose of the
surplus flax in the Salem area
from the 1947 and 1948 crops.
Cochran said he had tried to
get federal commodity credit
corporation and marketing pro
duction officials to agree to pur
chase the 300 tons of surplus
flax for stockpiling purposes. He
said the agencies reported they
did not have funds for that pur
pose.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
Crisis Passes
On Mississippi
(By the Associated Press)
Floodwaters continued to
menace areas in the midwest,
south and Pacific northwest to
day but conditions in the major
watersheds generally appear
ed improved.
The Mississippi river flood
crisis in the Missouri-Illinois re
gion appeared to have passed.
But the 11,400 refugees from the
Birds Point-New Madrid flood
way in southwest Missouri were
cautioned not to move back to
their homes prematurely.
There also was a marked im
provement in the nation's wea
ther. There were only a few se
vere cold spots and only a few
areas were hit by rain or snow.
Temperatures generally moder
ated. The weather bureau re
ported "hot" weather in parts of
the Rocky mountains. Tne mer
cury hit 52 at Sheridan, Wyo.
and 50 at Billings, Mont.
Temperatures in the central
and northern Rockies and parts
of the central great plains climb
ed from 30 to 40 degrees yes
terday. The high at Pueblo,
Colo., was 75, a record for the
winter season. At Goodland,
Kans., the top was 73 and it was
69 at Denver. The 57 at Salt
Lake City was a record for the
date. '
The only sub-zero areas today
were parts of Minnesota and
North Dakota and in northern
New England. Some snow fell in
Pennsylvania and New York and
Michigan. There was a rain belt
from northern California into
the Pacific northwest and west
ern Montana.
Capitol Zone Change
Hearing Set Monday
By STEPHEN A. STONE
A public hearing will be held by the city council Monday
:wt th. nrrtinsmee bill that
jhi .n. the four-block area bounded by Center, Winter,
Union and Capitol streets, together with other fringe areas in
adjoining blocks.
The proposed ordinance oatus
uo the state capital planning
commission in its recommenda
tion that the area De maae part
ni Ihe, raDitol building zone and
that the state purchase the four
blocks.
Since the ordinance bill was
introduced Monday night, Jan
10, Attorney General George
Neuner. asked by the state board
of control for an opinion, has
held that the state cannot Duy
the property without legislative
authority, and the state emer
gency board, because of the
opinion, has gone on regoru
against immediate purchase
Tk hill hofnre the citv COUn
cil would change the area in
All UAL Planes
Stop at Salem
McNary field took on the look
of a metropolitan airport today.
As in the days of the 1948
flood, Salem's United Air Lines
station was handling all of the
Portland-bound air traffic.
United began sending its
flights regularly scheduled for
Portland into Salem Friday aft
ernoon. Ice on the runways at
the Portland airport prevented
stops there. "
First of the big planes to ar
rive was a DC-6 from the south
which set down on McNary field
at 4:20 P.m. Friday. During the
remainder of the day and Fri
day night two other DC-6s, one
of these from the east; one ja--i
and one C-54 cargo plane stop
ped in Salem instead of Portland
Flight 175, a DC-3 that has a
Salem stop and then terminates
in Portland, terminated in Sa
lem and originated out of here
Saturday morning as flight 174,
southbound.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
17,000 Idled
By Rail Strike
Pittsburgh. Jan. 21 VP) Near
ly 17,000 workers were idled to
day by a strike of 400 Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen who
quit work in a dispute over the
discharge of a conductor on an
inter-connecting railroad.
The giant Pittsburgh works of
Jones and Laughlin Steel corpor
ation was closed, throwing 12,
00 out of work. The remainder
idled are employes of other dis
trict plants served by the Mon
ongahela connecting railroad.
Picket lines were thrown aDout
the sprawling Jones and Laugh
lin plant.
There was no disorder, how
ever. Hundreds of men reported
for work shortly after the strike
was called at 6 a. m. (Eastern
Standard Time).
would change to a oiass i resi-
volved Into a Class I residential
zone which would prohibit the
erection of any building but res
idences. It strikes mainly at
apartment houses, which are
permitted in the precent Class
II residential classification, and
the issue was started by the pro
posed erection of a seven-story
apartment house at 555 North
Summer by Robert Coates of
Portland. Coates, out of con
sideration for the wishes of the
state commission, has agreed to
abandon his plan if compensat
ed for money so far spent on
purchase of the property and
other costs.
- 1 (Concluded on Page 5, Column 1)
Fire Damaged Planes Pictured above are two of the
planes damaged in the fire discovered early Saturday morn
ing by CAA control tower operator, Jim Miller, in the old
barracks building used by the Farm Air company as a shop
and hangar. At top is a newly converted duster; a Stearman,
owned by the Farm Air company, and below the Stinson
fuselage owned by Ernie Monner, being worked on by the
mechanic for the Farm Air company.
Arson Suspected in
Airport Hangar Fire
By MARGARET MAGEE
State and icitv -police and firemen Saturday morning invest!
gated a fire in ,-n-,.pld , barracks building at the south end of
McNary Ifieid wni'cK has been used as a shop and hangar by the
Farm1 Air company. ' '
The fire, spotted at 3:10 Saturday morning by Jim Miller,
Jury Finds Hi ss
Guilty, 2 Counts
New York, Jan. 21 (ff) A
federal jury convicted Alger
Hiss on two counts of perjury
today a verdict that branded
Hiss a communist spy for the
Russians while he held high
state department office before
the war.
The federal court jury of
eight women and four men deliv
ered the verdict at z:du p.m.
(EST), nearly 24 hours after it
received the case.
It was Hiss' second trial. Last
July another jury failed to agree
in the case.
Hiss faces a maximum sen
tence of 10 years in prison plus
$4,000 in fines.
Hiss was convicted specific
ally of lying to a federal grand
jury when he denied passing
state departments secrets to
Whittaker Chambers, self-de
scribed courier for a Soviet spy
ring operating in Washington in
the late 1930's.
He also was convicted of lying
when he denied seeing Cham
bers after January 1, 1937.
Federal Judge Henry W.
Goddard set January 25 for sen
tencing and continued him in
the same $5,000 bail.
Quiz Employe
In Big Robbery
Boston. Jan. 21 W) A vet
eran Brink's employe was still
under questioning today and
police said he would be "un
til we clean up one angle" in the
hunt or the Hallowe'en-masked
gang who looted the armored car
firm of a million dollars.
Capt. Francis M. Tiernan said
William E. Manter, 49, a 22
year employe of Brink's, Inc.,
was still held after Being pick
ed up last night when a police
alarm went out for him.
Tiernan spoke of the one
angle" but would not say any
thing more about it.
The search turned today to "a
western Massachusetts city,"
Tiernan said, but he said he
could not identify the city or
say why it figured in the na
tion's greatest cash raid.
A second Brink's employe,
Gerard Pfaff, left headquarters
today and Tiernan said he on
ly came in for questioning ana
was very cooperative."
operator at the UAA control
tower at the field did damage
estimated at about $1000 to a
Stearman airplane owned by
the Farm Air company, and
probably burned beyond repair
a Stinson fuselage owned by
Ernie Monner.
Charred paper, charred wood
and paper and the fact that the
fire was spotty when the navy
firemen arrived to extinguish
the flames, point to arson, plus
thr fact that the padlock had
been pried from a side door of
the building. Fire Chief William
P. Roble Saturday morning said
that the state arson squad was
being contacted.
Possibility of the fire starting
from faulty electrical wiring was
ruled out. The outside electrical
switch had been thrown by Lloyd
Miller, mechanic for Farm Air
company, when he left the build
ing about 4:30 Friday afternoon
Poet said.
Evidence Found
Poet also said that there was
no fire in the stove and that the
welding equipment had all been
turned off.
Other partners in the firm
with Poet are L. C. (Mac) Mac
Glothlin and Gilbert Waage.
(Concluded on rage 5, Column 4)
Tucker Case Goes to Jury
Chicago, Jan. 21 (U.R) The
government's case against Pres
ton Tucker and seven associates
charged with mail fraud, con
spiracy, and violation of SEC
regulations, went to a jury at
10:55 a. m. (CST) today.
, - . Ja.
ujjumB ! mnmmmmmwmmnrn i ill T2 ''r,t " mm iY ' nil ilH i iiWii" IWlTPIWi
Salem Airport Gets Portland Traffic Portland airport, closed by Ice, Is now diverting traf
fic to Salem airport where a flight from Seattle to Washington, D. C, landed this morning.
Passengers are shown leaving the plane for United Air Lines limousines to Portland.
es in the state of Oregon has
been completed, according to
Capt. Walter Lansing, director
or the traffic safety division of
the secretary of state's office.
The school bus inspectors tra
veled more than 15,000 miles
into every school district in the
state and within a week or so,
will set forth to repeat the Jour
ney in re-inspection of the buses
found to be deficient.
The 1949 legislature enacted
a law requiring the secretary of
state to adopt minimum stand
ards of construction and opera
tion of school buses and to in
spect them for compliance. For
merly the public utilities com
missioner prescribed the regula
tions with the state police mak
ing inspections when requested
to do so.
Majority Meet Requirements
At the completion of the ini
tial inspection, D. V. Price, Mon
mouth, and J. O. Byerley, Al
bany, the tvs inspectors, report
ed that the majority of buses
easily met the requirements,
with many other requiring only
slight corrections or additional
equipments.
However, some buses were so
obsolete that no reasonable
changes would render them safe
for operation and have been re
placed. Capt. Lansing explained
that the standards adopted are
considered minimum, and that
bus manufacturers have been
meeting them or exceeding them
for many years.
(Coiicluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Vishinsky Calls
Acheson Liar
Moscow, Jan. 21 (P) Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
said today U. S. Secretary of
State Dean Acheson s charge
that Russia is annexing four
north China provinces is a ly
ing and slanderous declaration.'
Vishinsky made his statement
in an unusual press release to
foreign correspondents, coincid
ing with the arrival in Moscow
of Chou En-Lai, foreign minis
ter of the Russian-recognized
Chinese people's republic.
Chou s arrival led to the be
lief that negotiations for a trea
ty of friendship between Russia
and the new Chinese republic of
Communist Leader Mao Tze-
Tung were nearing an important
climax. Mao has been in Mos
cow for a month.
. Vishinsky, commenting
statements by Acheson at the Na
tional Press club in Washington
January 32 that Russia is tak
ing over Manchuria, Inner and
Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang,
said they were intended "to put
a good face on a bad game
the failure of American policy
in Asia."
Vishinsky also accused Ache
son of uncovering his own "an
nexionist plans in relation to Ja
pan and also the Philippines and
Ryukyu (islands of the North
Pacific)."
Acheson, he said, declared
"these non-American territories
in the defensive line of the Un
ited States which, as is well-
known, is in the line of aggression."
'Persona Non Grata' Bul
garia has demanded recall of
Donald R. Heath, U. S. minis
ter to Sofia, charging, in a
note, that he is "persona non
grata" unwelcome in Bul
garia. Highly placed sources
said the state department con
siders the case so serious that
it will break diplomatic rela
tions with Bulgaria rather
than submit to the demand.
(Acme Telephoto)
Bulgaria Stands
Fast on Recall
Washington, Jan. 21 W) In
formed officials said today they
look for Bulgaria to stand fast
possibly on orders from Moscow
against a United States threat
to break off diplomatic relations,
Expressing the suspicion that
the Soviet Union had called the
signals on the Bulgarian demand
for the recall of U. S. Minister
Donald Heath, these diplomatic
authorities said the Russians
may welcome a chance to force
American officials out of Sofia
entirely.
The United States, replying to
the recall note yesterday, de
clared bluntly that It will with
draw its entire diplomatic mis
ston from Bulgaria and send Bui
garian diplomats in this country
home unless the eommunist gov-l
ernment at Sofia drops its in
sistence on getting Heath out.
The American government
thus indicated that it has decided
on a tough policy toward the
communist satellite governments
of eastern Europe in respect to
the treatment of American offi
cials and citizens there.
Larsen Heads
Civil Defense
Washington, Jan. 21 JP) A
former atomic research official
was named today to head the
government agency charged with
planning for wartime civil de
fense.
Paul J. Larsen, who has been
associated with atomic research
in Los Almos and Albuquerque,
N. M., will take over as first
chairman of the civilian mobili
zation office on March 1, Presi
dential Assistant R. Steelman an
nounced.
The office was set up as one
of eight planning groups in a re
cent reorganization of the na
tional security resources board,
which Steelman has been run
ning as acting chairman.
Larson's appointment was an
nounced on the heels of a de
fense department disclosure that
recruiting of 150,000 volunteer
aircraft observers will start im
mediately to be ready for action
if war should come.
The two announcements mark
ed a sudden surge of action in
the civil defense program, which
has been dormant since the war.
Plans Told to Mayor
Elfstrom in Conference
At Portland
Robert Coates of Portland is
certain he is going to build an
apartment house in Salem.
He will use one of three pro
posals.
That is the way the contro
versial capital zone apartment
project stands today after a con
ference in Portland yesterday
between Coates and Mayor Rob
ert L. Elfstrom.
The three proposals are;
The first is to build on a lot
Coates owns in the Hollywood
district at the northwest cor
ner of McCoy and Hunt streets.
Second to build near the capi
tal zone on a lot the state would
have to furnish him in return
for his property at 555 North
Summer.
And the third is to go ahead
with construction at 555 North
Summer on the permit already
issued him by the city.
Wants Expenses Back
Whether Coates builds on his
Hollywood lot depends on trans
fer of his FHA committment to
that location from North Sum
mer street. If FHA is willing to
do this Coates is willing to stand
any expense of making the
transfer.
Also he will not insist on an
immediate transfer of the North
Summer street property from
himself to other owners to com
pensate him for his investment
there and his incidental expens
es. He will be willing to hold
the property until the next leg
islature has a chance to act on
capitol zone expansion.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Truman Plans
Tax Revision
Washington, Jan. 21 (U.R)
President Truman plans to ask
congress to cut excise taxes by
about $750,000,000 a year but
to more than make up this loss
through higher corporation
taxes, congressional sources
id today.
Mr. Truman was understood
to be planning to send his tax
recommendations to congress on
Monday. Most of the president's
proposals will be in general
terms, It was said, with the
treasury scheduled to spell out
the details at subsequent con
gressional hearings.
Democratic members of the
tax-framing house ways and
means committee were given a
preview of Mr. Truman's tax
message at a White House con
ference yesterday.
While they agreed among
themselves that they would not
discuss the recommendations
publicly, it was reported that
Mr. Truman will propose a
$1,000,000,000 boost in corpora
tion taxes, higher estate and
gift taxes, plugging of some tax
loopholes, and the $750,000,000
reduction in excises.
Mr. Truman, it was said, has
no present intention of asking
for higher taxes on top-bracket
individual incomes as he did a
year ago.
Snow Woman Loses Teeth
Medford, Jan. 21 W) An un
happy Medford woman wished
today she hadn't been so realis
tic about that snowman. Help
ing build the snow figure, she
put a spare set of false teeth in
its mouth for a touch of real
ism. Somebody stole the teeth.
STARTING
MONDAY
ANOTHER OF THE
BETTER STORIES
BOOKED FOR
CapltalJournaJ
Readers
A Six Day Novelette
"A Man Is Missing"
By Erie Stanley Gardner
Creator of the Famous
Fictional Detective
Perry Mason
STARTING MONDAY
in the
CapltalJournal
Salem'i Leading Newipaper