THE WEATHER HERE
MOSTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT
with occasional snow; cloudy
with rain or snow Thursday.
Little change in temperature.
Lowest tonight, 20; highest
Thursday, 34.
Maximum yesterday, SI; minimum to
day, 21. Total S4-hoar precipitation: tracei
for month: 9.93: normal, 4.37. Seaion pre
cipitation, 34.91; norma, Z1.07. River
hetfbt, 18.9 fect, falling. Report by U.S.
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62nd Year, No. 21 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January 25, 1950 u i sWM . -acSJ
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Truman to Act
In Coal Strike
By Week-end
Coal Supplies at
Danger Point Reports
Bureau of Mines
Washington, Jan. 25 (U.R) A
Hallie Hinges,
Morse Files
For Re-election
Stales Policies
Sweet Singer
Of Salem, Dies
Cold Wave to
Continue with
Snow Flurries
Willamette Continues
To Fall Slowly
From Crest
More below-freezing tempera
tures tonight with possible occa
sional snow, and rain or snow
Thursday is the weather outlook
for Salem and area. Valley res
idents are practically becoming
resigned to a long siege of winter
frigidness.
The minimum tonight is due
to go around 20 degrees, reports
the weather bureau. The Wed
nesday morning minimum was
21, but downtown streets were
not so treacherous as yesterday,
the fall of snow having melted
to leave the center lanes dry.
River Receding
The Willamette river contin
ued to fall slowly here Wednes
day morning, measuring 18.9
feet at the local gauge. It was
up to 20.7 for the crest yester
day, .7 of a foot above flood
stage.
Oregon was faring better than
other sections of the northwest
in the new blast of bitter cold,
and eastern Oregon is worse hit
than regions to the west of the
range. It was four degrees be
low zero this morning at Bend
and two below at Burns.
Through Washington and Brit
ish Columbia long-time cold rec
ords are being broken in sev
eral sections.
Entire Northwest Suffers
January is to register a "way
above normal" amount of rain
. fall here, the month's total to
date being 9.92 inches against a
normal of 4.27 for the period.
The season's precipitation to
date, from September 1, is 24.91
inches, compared to a normal of
21.57 inches.
The Pacific Northwest's sub
zero cold drove the mercury
down to a 60-year low in Spo
kane early today.
The Inland City's 22 below
zero was listed as the lowest
since 23 below on Feb. 26, 1890.
Winter clamped its icy grip
on both eastern and western
Washington. It was the second
time this month that rare sub
zero temperatures were record
ed on the west side of the Cas
cades. Canada Colder Still
To the north, in British Co
lumbia, it was even colder. At
Prince George, 500 miles north
of Vancouver in the Interior, it
dropped to 50 below.
Temperatures far below the
freezing mark prevailed in all
parts of the Northwest. The
"warmest" area was in south
western Oregon, where Roseburg
reported 28.
Road Conditions
Slightly Better
Oregon highway conditions
wera improved today, but the
Columbia river, Siuslaw, Ore
gon coast and Corvallis-Eastside
highways were still blocked.
The highway commission said
chains aren't required on any
roads. However, it advised mo
torists to carry chains with them
if they travel across the Cas
cades, in south central Oregon,
or in the Pendleton area.
The Columbia river highway
remained blocked by snowslides
between Hood River and Cas
cade Locks. The Coast highway
was blocked by a slide 13 miles
south of Port Orford.
A road cave-in still closed the
Siuslaw highway near Florence,
and high water cut travel on the
Corvallis-Eastside highway.
The daily road report:
Government Camp Packed
now, plowing, carry chains. 4
.inches new snow.
Columbia River Closed on
both sides of river.
Santiam Pass Snowing light
ly, packed snow, plowing, carry
chains. 6 inches new snow.
Willamette pass Snowing
lightly, packed snow, plowing,
carry chains. 6 inches new snow.
Carson Suggested as
Candidate for Senate
Portland. Jan. 25 WV-U. S.
Maritime Commissioner Joseph
K. Carson, a former mayor of
Portland, was introduced to a
democratic audience yesterday
as a possible candidate for U. S.
senator.
The suggestion came from W.
L. Josslin, state democratic
chairman. He was introducing
Carson to the Willamette Demo
cratic society. Carson had no
comment.
high government official said to
day that President Truman will
step into the soft coal dispute
before the week-end unless
John L. Lewis gets 80,000 strik
ing, miners back to work
'quick."
The official said that even if
the strikers return to work on
three-day week, Mr. Truman
still may act because of the
growing coal shortage.
This disclosure came soon aft
er James Boyd, director of the
bureau of mines, told the senate
labor committee he has notified
the White House that coal sup
plies are near a "danger point"
which soon may require presi
dential action.
Lewis Calls In Officials
Lewis, meanwhile, met with
two officials from the mine
workers' district four, where
most of the 80,000 miners are
on strike.
It was believed Lewis called
in the two officials to tell them
that the wildcat strikers must
end their two-week "revolt"
against his "suggestion" that
they return to work.
Mr. Truman was said to be
considering two courses of ac
tion: 1. A personal request to Lewis
and the coal industry to call off
all strikes or lockouts for about
60 days while a special presi
dential board investigates the
coal dispute and makes settle
ment recommendations. Such a
board would be outside the Taft
Hartley act.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Employed Near
All-Time High
The number of employed
workers in Oregon is near the
all-time high mark, despite the
fact that there is almost a record
total of jobless workers.
The state unemployment com
pensation commission said that
there were 416,200 persons
working in non-farm jobs during
December. This was only slightly
below the record total for the
month, 418,900, set in Decem
ber, 1948.
During the same month there
were 69,000 unemployed. The
commission figures that this
month the number of jobless
might mount to 100,000, greatest
in history.
Manufacturing employment in
Oregon in December totaled
122,500, which was 1,400 more
than a year before.
But losses in construction and
service industries brought the
total employment figure below
that of December, 1948.
About 30 percent of the state's
non-farm workers were employ
ed in manufacturing. Sixty per
cent of those working in manu
facturing are employed in the
lumber industry.
Group Homed to Study
Gurbuge Disposal Issue
Alderman David O'Hara today announced the appointment of
a special committee to study the garbage disposal question in
connection with a women's club
disposal.
Members of the committee are
William Schiitt, head of the San--
itary Service company: Martin
E. Wilits, who has a garbage
disposal business in West Sa
lem; Alderman Walter Mus-1
grave, Mrs. George W. Ailing,
Don Madison, and B W Cooper.
O'Hara as acting mayor last
Monday night was directed by
the council to make the appoint
ment. The motion specified that
the city manager and the heads
of the two garbage disposal bus
inesses should be members, that
one should be from the council
and the others at large.
Mrs. Ailing, president of Sa
lem Woman's club, which has
taken the lead in the movement,
spoke for it at the council Theet
ing Monday night. The club has
the support of numerous other
wnmen's organizations in the
city, asking that garbage dis
posal by Salem people be com
pulsory in the interests of pub
lic health and rodent control.
A tentative ordinance bill has
not yet been drawn and the pro
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89,000 Strike
At Chryslers'
Detroit, Jan. 25 (JP) Here is
the Chrysler strike situation at a
glance:
On strike: 89,000 members of
ClO-United Auto Workers.
Total Chrysler workers direct
ly affected: 110,000 in 25 plants.
Chief products af f e c t e d:
Chrysler, DeSoto, Dodge and
Plymouth passenger cars, Dodge
trucks, Chrysler marine engines.
Employes of suppliers and
dealers affected: 65,000 to 100,
000. Main issue: Whether Chrysler
will pay pensions as they fall
due or agree to a jointly admin
istered trust fund, with compa
ny contributing set sum for
each man-hour of work.
Union's last demand: New
benefits totaling 10 cents hourly
per -worker, either as wage raise
or as pensions and health insur
ance. Company's last offer: Retire
ment at 65 after 25 years service
on $100 a month, including so
cial security. Workers would
contribute nothing but social se
curity payments. Company
would have sole power of ad
ministration. Last Chrysler strike: 17-day
walkout in May, 1948, settled by
13-cent wage raise.
Present average wage: $1.63
an hour.
Senate Votes for
Women's Equal Rights
Washington, Jan. 25 ffl The
senate today approved a propos
ed constitutional amendment in
tended to give women "equality
of rights" with men.
The vote was 63 to 19. A two
thirds majority was required for
passage.
The measure now goes to the
house where a similar two-thirds
majority is required for passage.
If this happens, the proposed
addition to the constitution
would be submitted to the states,
with ratification required by
three-fourths or 36 states to be
come effective.
movement toward compulsory
City Manager J. L. Franzen
posal presents several legal an
gles. City Attorney Chris J. Kow-
itz says there are two or three
ways in which compulsory dis
posal might be approached.
One would be to make it op
crative by the city Itself. Should
this be done it would be neces
sary to charge all homes and
places of business a monthly:
fee much the same as sewer
rentals are now charged. Anoth
cr method would be for the city
to contract it out to a private
operator, similar to the way it
is done now.
There is even a possibility
that the matter might be re
ferred to the people
Little criticism has been heard
of the present operators. There
is already a city, ordinance re
quiring resident to dispose of
their garbage, but some of the
methods they use, like burning
or burying on their premises
are being criticised.
New Camera Angle Oregon's capitol, difficult to photo
graph adequately from nearly any ground position, offers this
new and comprehensive view when pictured from the roof
of the new Public Service building.
Young Couple Confess
To Some 17 Burglaries
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
A teary-eyed young mother of three children Mrs. Jean L.
Cook was taken into custody at noon Wednesday by Salem
detectives on charges of burglary and forgery resulting from a
case which already had brought the arrest of her husband and
Harold B. Lancelle.
Soviet Absorbs
4 Chinese Areas
Washington, Jan. 25 () The
state department made new
charges today that Soviet Rus
sia is absorbing four of China's
richest northern areas.
Supporting Secretary of State
Acheson's recent' accusations,
the department issued a detailed
"background document"' which
said that Russia's designs were
in part supported by "two sec
ret agreements signed by the
Chinese communists with the
U.S.S.R."
It said these are known as
the "Moscow agreement and the
Harbin agreement. These pur
portedly grant further special
rights to the U.S.S.R." in Man
churia.
In a speech before the Nation
al Press club two weeks ago,
Acheson charged that Russia is
detaching Ma n c h u r i a , outer
Mongolia, Sinkiang and inner
Mongolia and tying them to the
Soviet union.
Foreign Minister Vishinsky in
special statement over the
week-end denounced Acheson's
charges as a monstrous lie.
Backing up Acheson s words
the state department said of Rus
sian intrigues in Manchuria:
"The Soviet union has placed
the richest industrial area of
China firmly behind the Far
Eastern segment of the Iron
Curtain."
FDR Jr. Center
Of FEPC Strike
Washington, Jan. 25 (IP)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., be
came the storm center today of;
an argument threatening to split
the ranks of house backers of
civil rights legislation.
Some of young FDR's colleag
ues accused him of being more
interested in the governorship of
New York than in the ultimate
fate of civil rights bills. He de
nied it.
The Storm broke around
Roosevelt's head as Rep. Pow
ell (D-NY) announced that he
will file today a petition to force
a vote on a bill to set up a fair
employment practices commis
sion (FEPC), aimed at racial and
religious Jolj discrimination
Powell, a negro clergyman,
has led the fight for FEPC for
several years and is sponsoring
a bill 'now bottled up in the
house rules committee. If 218
members of the house sign such
a petition, it would force a house
vote on the bill.
Roosevelt, a Liberal-Democrat
from New York and son of the
late president, got ahead of Pow
ell on Monday by filing a peti
tion of his own to force house
action. Up to a late hour yes
terday it had 79 of the needed
218 signers.
Powell said many republicans,
including Rep. Halleck of Indi
ana, had told him they would
not sign the Roosevelt petition
' as a matter of party policy" but
indicated they would sign Pow
ell's.
The arrest was based on in-
formation secured from her hus
band, David R. Cook, and. Lan
celle. Both of their confessions
relating to some 17 burglaries
and attempted burglaries in
Marion, Polk and Washington
counties, pointed out that she
had been along on their criminal
forays.
In view of the fact that she
remained in an auto during bur
glaries committed by the men,
it was presumed that she acted
as a lookout for the two men.
Meanwhile, the two men who
were taken into custody by Sa
Iem police on the week-end aft
er their arrest in Hillsboro by a
state patrolman on an attempt
ed burglary charge found new
charges filed against them Wed
nesday.
They had been held by Salem
police on forgery charges. Two
separate charges of burglary
were filed against them Wednes
day.
The forgeries of which the
men were accused were based
on the passing of checks written
with a machine on blank checks,
all taken in burglaries in Salem
Lancclle's confession to police
accused Mrs. Cook of writing
names on the checks
While the woman's arrest
brought the investigation near
er a close from a police view
point, detectives were at a loss
to assign a motive to the sudden
criminal spree of the trio.
Detectives said that both Mr.
and Mrs: Cook had been under
forgery charges in Wisconsin
They came to Salem in the au
tumn of 1948, had secured em
ployment, and apparently struck
out along a new path.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 41
Guard to Fly
Jet Airplanes
Oregon's Air National Guard
before many months will be fly
ing jet fighters instead of the
F-51s that they now fly.
First step in thai direction has
already been taken by the Na
tional Guard bureau in Washing
ton, which has ordered five
pilots and 18 mechanics from
the Oregon Air Guard to school
at Shaw Air Force base in South
Carolina.
Reason for these orders are to
prepare the men for the transl
tion to the jet fighters. The five
pilots will check the rest of the
Oregon Guard pilots out on the
new jet planes when they arrive.
The school dates are February
9 to March 6.
Receipt of the jet planes by
the Oregon squadron there Will
be 24 planes when all have been
received will partially depend
on the completion of the new
runway at the Portland Air
Force base where the men train
Plans now call for that runway
to be completed in June of this
year.
Pilots going to Shaw Air Force
base to attend the school are
Lt. Col. Gordon . L. Doolittle,
Capt. John J. Haley, Capt. Dan
iel C. Smith, Cant. Richard J
Schmidt and Capt. Carl L,
Brose.
Lingering Illness
Fatal to "Oregon's
Nightingale"
Some festal occasion years
ago had brought hundreds to
Willson park. Many were there
from the town's oldest families.
They warmly applauded the
woman who sang for them. They
had done that many times, on
other occasions, for they never
tired of her.
Hallie Hinges came down out
of the bandstand, and stood
apart from the crowd, smartly
dressed, strikingly handsome.
She said to a friend:
I love them. I just love them
all."
Hallie Parrish Hinges, whom
President Theodore Roosevelt
called "The Oregon Nightlh
gale," died Wednesday morning.
She was 82.
Loved for Personality
Her warm heart embraced the
community and its people. And
it was inevitable that she should
have their affection. They loved
her for the pioneer stock from
which she came, and for her per
sonality, and for her silvery
voice.
Maine farnsii Hinges was
born in Salem January 30, 1868.
The name Parrish is outstanding
in the history of Salem. Her par
ents were Mr. and Mrs. Norman
O. Parrish, and her grandfather
J. L. Parrish, Methodist mission
ary who came around Cape Horn
to Oregon on the Lausanne. Her
father died in 1900.
For sixty years, or little less,
she sang for Oregon audiences
from the time when she was a
tiny tot until age halted her.
There is a little dispute about
the time she made her first pub
lie appearance. Some say she was
4 years old. Others say 6.
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Slowdown on
Berlin Traffic
Helmstedt, Germany, Jan. 25
(IP) The Russian slow-down on
west Berlin truck traffic entered
its fourth day today with 80 car
goes awaiting clearance at the
Autobahn frontier point here.
Allied and German trains to
Berlin, however, were running
on schedule.
Soviet guards allowed abdut
10 trucks an hour to enter the
Russian zone from western Ger
many. One or two an hour were
turned back because of alleged
rregularitics in shipping docu
ments.
Although its papers were in
order, a truck carrying medical
supplies for the west Berlin wel
fare department was refused
clearance by the Russians with
out explanation.
The slow-down forced truck
ers to w a i t an average of 15
hours at the frontier barrier.
The queue of vehicles extended
nearly two miles.
Similar tactics were adopted
today by the Russians at Hof on
the frontier of the American
zone.
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Great Grandma and Nick Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt hugs
Nicholas Delano Scagravcs, five months old, her only great
grandson, as she sees him for the first time in his Portland,
Ore., home. His mother, Mrs. Van Seagraves, is former
Anna Roosevelt Dall, one-time nicknamed "Sistie." (AP
Wircphoto.)
Alger Hiss
5 Years Prison
Hiss Sentence
New York, Jan. 25 (IP) Al
ger Hiss was sentenced today to
five years in a federal peniten
tiary. Sentence was pronounced by
Federal Judge Henry W. God-
dard in the courtroom where
Hiss was convicted on two per
jury counts last Saturday by a
jury of eight women and four
men. He was not fined.
The former state department
official had denied slipping se
cret state papers to a prewar
Soviet spy ring.
After sentence was pronounc
ed defense counsel filed a no
tice of appeal with the clerk of
the court and submitted a de
fense motion that Hiss be con
tinued in bail pending decision
of the higher court of appeal.
Judge Goddard said it would
be "fair" to continue Hiss under
bail.
The next step for appeal be
yond the circuit court would be
to the United States supreme
court. Should it go to the high
est tribunal, at least three jus
tices arc expected to disqualify
themselves. ...
They are Felix Frankfurter,
Stanley Reed and Tom C. Clark,
The first two testified as char
acter witnesses for Hiss at the
first trial last June. Justice
Clark was U. S. attorney gener
al while the government work
ed up its case against Hiss.
A decision to disquamy nim-
sclf is up to each justice. He is
not compelled by law. However,
a justice customarily steps down
in a case when he feels that ei
ther side might be aggrieved by
his considering it.
Portuguese Gave
Reds Chinese Planes
Hong Kong, Jan. 25 (IP) Maj.
Gen. Claire L. Chennault's Civil
Airline today charged the Por
tuguese government of Macao,
on the south China coast, had
surrendered $2,000,000 worth of
airline radio equipment to Chi
nese communists.
The equipment belonged to
the two large government-owned
Chinese airlines. Chennault
claims to have purchased them.
Pro-Red employes of the airlines
have claimed them for the Chi
nese communists.
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'Principle Above Poli
tics' Slogan For Bi
partisan Foreign Policy
"Principle Above Politics," is
the slogan chosen by United
States Senator Wayne Morse for
his campaign for re-election to
the United States senate.
Arriving in Salem at 8 a.m.
Wednesday, Oregon's junior sen
ator breakfasted and then went
to his room alone, filled out his
filing papers and decided on his
campaign slogan.
Surrounded by friends and
members of Professor Freeman
Holmer's class in political sci
ence at Willamette university.
Senator Morse presented his fil
ing papers and $150 to Dave
O'Hara, state registrar of voters.
Metzger as Aide
After filing for the republican
nomination as United States sen
ator Morse announced that Arch
Metzger of Salem had agreed to
serve as co-chairman of his cam
paign committee in Marion
county. Paul Wallace was nam
ed as chairman some weeks ago.
Metzger stumped the state for
Morse in his 1944 campaign and
the senator said it was "gratify
ing "to know that the many peo
ple who helped me In my cam
paign six years ago in the vari
ous counties of the state are
again serving on my county
committees."
"Continuation of the biparti
san foreign policy is essential,"
Morse told a large audience at
the Salem Rotary club at noon.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Acheson Urges
Draft Extension
Washington, Jan. 25 (IP) Sec
retary of State Acheson urged
congress today to extend the
draft law to show the world
that the United States intends
to slay strong.
"Weakness invites aggression
direct or indirect and to re
main free the nations of the
free world must be strong, both
economically and in terms of
their defense capabilities," he
said.
Acheson appeared before the
house armed servics committee
to support the administration's
request for a three-year exten
sion of the draft law, due to ex
pire in June.
The committee already has
heard military leaders plead for
an extension as a form of insur
ance in the event of another war
and as a spur to recruiting.
Committee members have
shown little enthusiasm for the
proposal although there has
been talk of keeping selective
service on a "standby" basis
with a ban on drafting men un
less congress approves.
Acheson said the draft law is
needed to support this nation's
foreign policy.
He reminded the committee
that world peace is not yet se
cure. The reason, he said, is not
failure of the United Nations
but the Russian tactics of re
fusing to compromise on major
issues.
Cnmmitlpp mnmhnrs. hn re
marked, "arc completely fa
miliar" with the Russian record.
Senate Group
OK's DP Bill
Washington, Jan. 25 (IP) The
hope of additional thousands of
displaced Europeans for getting
into America came one step near
er realization today.
A bill to permit 320,000 DP's
plus 5,000 orphans and 5,000
adopted children to enter this
country by June 30, 1951, was
approved last night by the sen
ate judiciary committee. It is
expected to be introduced in the
senate promptly.
The total approved by the
committee includes the approxi
mately 124,000 who already have
reached the United States under
the 1948 DP law.
That law authorizes the entry
of 205,000 persons in the two
year period ending June 30, 1950.
A bill approved by the house
would increase the number to
339,000 and extend the date by
one year.
The senate committee s action
was announced by Chairman Mc
Carran (D., Nov.), who termed
the measure "generally satisfac
tory." The chairman previously
had been thoroughly dissatisfied
with other proposed bills for ad
mitting additional DP's.
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