jm WEATHER HERE
J PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT,
r Sunday morning with occasion
al snow flurries; increasing
cloudiness late Sunday with
light snow. Lowest temperature
tonight, 20; highest Sunday, 28.
Maximum yesterday, 3S; minimum to.
flay, 25. Total S4-hour precipitation: .09:
for month: 11.34: normal 4.M. Beaton
precipitation, 36.33; normal, S2.10. Rlrer
height, 11.1 feel. (Report by IT. S. Weath
er Bureau.)
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 28,
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Unemployed in
Oregon Listed
Over 90,000
Increase Heaviest in
Timber Areas Slight
Gain in Salem
By JAMES D. OLSON
Oregon's unemployed total is
IB Ward at
,11.
State Hospital
Gels Federal Ok
ISIS
Snow and Cold
To Continue,
Forecasts Say
Little Hope Held Out
For Weather Change
In Northwest
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
More snow, more cold that's
the general weather outlook for
Salem and vicinity this week
end, and not much information
is gleaned from the weather
bureau as to when relief will
come from the continued winter
bold on the valley.
Already January has set an
all-time record for any month
lor the amount of snow here and
there are still three more days
in the month.
Up to 10:30 a. m. Saturday, a
total of 26.5 inches of snow for
the month had been recorded.
The previous high for any month
was a total of 25.2 inches meas
ured for the month of Febru
ary in 1937. The previous high
for January had been 22.1 inch
es measured in 1943.
20 Degrees Tonight
Total snowfall in the 24-hour
period ending at midnight, Fri
day, was 4.2 inches, and up to
10:30 a. m. Saturday, .4 of an
inch more had been added.
A low of 20 degrees is pre
dicted for tonight and the fore
cast calls for occasional snow
flurries tonight, increasing clou
diness Sunday afternoon and ev
ening with renewed light snow
falls.
But while many gloomily
viewed the weather situation
with its icy streets and roads,
and slowdown for traffic, and
gave thought to higher fuel bills
and slackened business gener
ally, the young folk and those
with more artistic souls were
enthusiastic over the continued
snow.
Beautiful Landscapes
The landscape 'generally is
very beautiful, trees and shrubs
with their covering of snow
making picture scenes.
And children look forward to
a big week-end of sledding and
snow sports, right at home.
(Concluded on rage S, Column 7)
Same Old Story
For Northwest
(Br ih Associated Press)
Winter stayed on in the Pa
cific northwest today (Saturday)
clamping parts of eastern Wash
ington, Oregon and northern Id
aho in a sub-zero grip as low as
an unofficial minus 37.
There was an over-night snow
accumulation, too, that added to
already set January snow rec
ords in such cities as Pendleton,
Seattle, Yakima, Salem and Cor
vallfa. Eastern Washington and
northew Idaho coal stocks were
just aboult gone and dealers were
on a day"day basis. With no
relief front the cold in sight,
worries BrMff-
But last -night's snowfall was
not heavy and lor tne most Dart
today's vfeather story was just
one of "a
An inofficial low of minus 37
degreeat Deer Park. Wash., be
lieved tjh coldest in the United
otatesy nu oxitcicti imuua lean
ings' ot 21 at Harrington, Wash.,
- y,f at Coeur D'Alene, Ida., and
jl at Bend, Ore., and Spokane,
iVere reported.
Spokane's weather station had
a v "warming" fog layer over it.
Elsewhere in the city thermom
eter, dropped to 20 below.
Tfijmath Falls, too, had er
rant thermometers. The airport
CA1 thermometer went, to
abrfve at the same time a down
towlP thermometer nose-divided
,ji 12 above at 6 a. m. to 2
. below two nours later,
Snowfall Snaps
telephone Wires
'The Pacific Telephone and
Tf elegraph company has been ex-
i u ui- 1
,. penencing consiueiauie uuui.m
tv in maintaining service be
tween Turner and Mill City. The
trouble is due to the excessive
jnow fall which has been snap
ping the wires about as fast as
'workmen can repair them.
V Service has been on the in
termittent side, although no re
Jports of cross arms and poles
being broken has been received.
j Crews of 15 or more men have
' been working almost around the
) clock in an effort to restore serv.
sue.
Elsewhere throught the valley
fervice has been fairly normal,
cnslderlng the weather.
between 90,000 and 100.000 ac
cording to an estimate made Sat
urday by the state unemploy
ment compensation commission.
Actual figures on the unem
ployment picture will not be
available until after February
1 when all claims are in. The
commission reported 64.539
claimants under the state law for
the week ending January 20.
Only a slight increase was re
ported from the Salem area, the
commission reporting 5,700 un
employed as of January 1, as
compared with 5,000 a month
earlier.
Lumbermen Idle
Although more than a third of
the state's labor force is concen
trated in the Portland area, it
accounted for only a seventh
of the post-holiday unemploy
ment increase. During Decem
ber only 1,200 were added to
the metropolitan iob-seekers.
while outside areas had 46,500
without jobs against 34,000 on
December 1, 1949.
Increases were heaviest in the
western Oregon timber areas.
although virtually every office
in tne state reported a strong
uptrend. It was pointed out that
last year's all-time unemploy
ment peaK oi o,3Z3 in mid-February
included 23,068 applicants
for veterans' readjustment al
lowances, while currently only
about 1,100 of the idle workers
co-lid qualify under the G. I.
Bill of Rights.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Winter Sports
Weather Good
Portland, Jan. 28 (P) Good
winter sports weather through
out the entire Cascade ranee
was reported Dy the weather bu
reau today.
The weather bureau issued
the following general ski fore
cast:
Generally good winter snorts
weatner entire cascade range,
wim partly cloudy skies, consid
erable sunshine higher eleva
tions, light northwest winds ex
posed areas, continued cold, oc
casional light snow flurries with
little snow. '
Timberlme Lodge 195 inches
snow, 15 inches new snow, tem
perature at 8 a.m., 18 degrees;
skiing excellent: roads open.
chains required, ample parking,
tows operating.
Cooper Spur 92 inches snow,
iu incnes new snow, snowine
heavily, light northeasterly
wind, 2 tows operating, roads
one way in many places, passes
very narrow, chains advisable,
parking limited.
Odell laks 50 inches snow, 8
inches new snow, fluffy, snow
ing lightly, skiing good.
No other reports were avail-
able.
Small American Arms
Assembled for Europe
Washington, Jan. 28! VP) Small
being hastily assembled for delivery to Atlantic Pact nations.
Officials said these initial supplies are intended as "psychologi
cal boosters" for the European countries, which have been con
cerned over the delay in getting
The aid project was approved
bv congress last October,
but
could not get rolling fully until
yesterday, when the ambassa
dors of eight western European
nations agreed to terms set by
this country.
At the same time, President
Truman formally proclaimed his
approval of the master defense
plan drawn up by the 12 Atlantic
pact military chiefs.
The president acted m accor
dance with a congressional order
holding up $900,000,000 of the
billion-dollar European program
until Mr. Truman said western
Europe's defenses were "inte
grated" to his satisfaction.
Mr. Truman hailed the Joint
defense outline as a "deterrent
to aggression," and said its re
commendations "provide fur
ther convincing evidence of the
determination of these nations
to resist aggression against any
of them.
He noted, however, that the
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Mississippi
Raps Acheson
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 28 VP)
The Mississippi house of repre
sentatives sharply rebuked Sec
retary of State Dean Acheson
yesterday for his comment on
the perjury conviction of Alger
Hiss.
Acheson had said: "I do not
intend to turn my back on Alger
Hiss."
Hiss, former state department
employe, was convicted and sen
tenced to five years for denying
passing confidential state papers
to a pre-war Russian spy ring.
The Mississippi house's reso
lution declared Acheson's stand
is "shocking and unprecedent
ed." It said the United States is be
ing threatened by "the gradual
but steady march of communism
directed from Moscow" and that
communism already has invaded
. . the high and important de
partment of state as evidenced
by the disclosures and conviction
in the trial of Alger Hiss."
It urged a congressional inves
tigation of the state department;
the judiciary and the rest of the
federal government.
In discussing the resolution.
House Speaker Walter Sillers
said "We have the spectacle in
our country of a man proved of
disloyalty, convicted after two
trials, being defended by a man
in the position of holding and
guaranteeing the secrets of his
country, who stands by mm
(Hiss) instead of standing by the
people of his country.
Russians Shot
Jap Prisoners
Tokyo, Jan. 28 P) Repatria
tion authorities said today a Ja
panese army prisoner of war
smuggled out of Siberia the
names of 150 comrades who died
of disease, malnutrition or be
fore a firing squad.
Authorities accepted the
names as authentic and have be
gun notifying next of kin, who
had no clue to the war prison
ers fate.
The Japanese officer is Mino-
ru Yahata, 29, a company com
mander. He was held alternately
at Kharaza and Tabaheiza camps
in Siberia and at a hospital in
Iman.
American arms shipments are
the arms aid program started.
military aid defense plan is but
a "first step" and that a strong
defense demands constant re
view "in the light of changing
circumstances."
The eight European govern
ments signed up for their share
of the U. S. arms in a 13-minute
ceremony presided over by Sec
retary of State Acheson.
speaKing for the eight na
tions, Ambassador W i lh e 1 m
Munthe De Morgenstierne of
Norway said the signing of the
agreements proves that the
western democracies are now
profiting by the lessons of his
tory. .
"We have refused to make all
over again the fatal mistake of
letting an aggressor pick us off
one by one," he said.
And, apparently anticipating
Russian denunciations, he era
phazide anew the "utterly de
fensive character" of the North
I Atlantic treaty.
Heavy Snow Covers Hills and Valley View from a Fair-. .
mount hill yard looking westward into Polk county shows
shrubs, trees and distant hills deep with snow.
Production Credit Assn.
Plans Office Building
Phil Brandt, manager of the
association, Saturday announced purchase of property at North
Commercial and Division and plans for immediate construction of
an office building.
The property, at the northwest
Churchill Up
For Re-election
London, Jan. 28 VP) Conser
vative opposition leader Winston
Churchill enters the lists offici
ally tonight for Britain's general
election, only 24 hours after
Prime Minister Attlee.
The wartime prime minister
who seeks to bring his party
back to power in the balloting
Feb. 23 is to be adopted as con
servative candidate for the
house "of- commons from Wood
ford constituency, north London,
He will speak there (at 2:30 p.m.
EST) tonight.
Attlee, who lost his old consti
tuency of Limehouse, east Lon
don, in the last redistribution of
seats, was adopted last night as
the candidate from West Wal-
thamstow, only a few miles from
Woodford.
The 75-year-old Church ill,
veteran of almost 50 years in
parliament, has represen ted
Woodford since 1945.
The liberal party, Britain's
third in strength, approves its
platform today in the windup of
a two-day emergency meeting of
its assembly.
The liberals published a list
of 400 candidates for the 425
seat house of commons last night
but said there would be more
nominees later. The labor and
conservative parties will contest
all seats.
Snow Piles-up
lii California
San Francisco, Jan. 28 U.R
A Pacific storm swept east
across the Sierras today leaving
north California rail and high
way traffic disrupted by snow
and dumping up to 2 'A inches of
rain in the San Francisco bay
area
Winds up to 50 miles an hour
were subsiding today, and the
weather bureau predicted scat
tered showers today, with clear
ing and a new cold snap to
morrow. Heavy snow is predicted for
parts of the Sierras and rain
was forecast for most coastal
and central valley points south
and east of here. The storm
dumped seven tenths of an inch
of rain at San Francisco airport
up to midnight. Other sections
of the bay area got up to three
times that amount, with Mt
Tamalpais, across the Golden
Gate reporting 2.46 inches for
12 hours ending at 10:30 p.m
The Southern Pacific railroad
was forced to cancel today's
Shasta Daylight streamliner runs
between here and Portland, Ore,
because of blizzard conditions
and derailment of a freight train
in the Cascade mountains.
Tracks were cleared about 1 a.
m.. but not in time to allow
yesterday's trains to reach their
terminals and be serviced for
runs today. Some 1,300 pas
sengers were delayed
Heavy snowfall was reported
over the Siskiyou and Sierra
mountains to the north and snow
invaded the upper Sacramento
valley, with a fall of more than
I five inches at Redding.
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Willamette Production Credit
corner of the intersection, and
'now without buildings, was
bought from the Caidalaria In-
vestment company through Gra
benhorst Bros.
The building will have of
fices both of the Production
Credit association and the Fed
eral Land bank, and off-street
parking will be provided for
customers of the association.
It will be of one story about!
40 by 65 feet, of reinforced
concrete or steel, and cost an
estimated $16,000. Plans are
now being prepared by an archi
tect and construction will start
as soon as the design is approved
py tne association board. The
property is 119 feet on North
Commercial and 75 feet deeD.
Willamette Production Credit
association and the land bank
employ at present about 12 per
sons besides field men working
out ot saiem. But the building
will be designed for expansion
that could employ twice that
number, Brandt said
The offices are now at 299
North Commercial.
Purge Begun in
East Germany
Berlin, Jan. 28 VP) Russia's
agents in eastern Germany shar
pened their terrorist weapons
today against non-communists in
politics and industry.
The communist press publiclv
acclaimed their campaign to de
stroy independent leadership in
tne Dig unnstian democratic
party (CDU) and to fasten a sec
ret police network on the Soviet
zone.
Communist charges of crimin
al utterances by CDU officials
and widespread sabotage by pro-
western workers in the eastern
two-year economic plan nearly
distracted Berlin's attention
from its other troubles.
Ihe city's autobahn suddIv
line to tne west still was throt
tled by Russian guards at Helm
stedt, 100 miles westward on
the Soviet zone border, where
the slowdown of truck traffic
continued for the sixth straight
day.
About 160 trucks were queued
up. About seven an hour were
ailowed to pass the Soviet
checkpoint. Previously this week
the rate had been as low as two
an hour.
Officials here of the three
western powers agreed that the
Soviet squeeze probably could be
broken only by direct interven
tion of the allied high commis
sioners with General Vassily
Chuikov, chief of the Soviet for
ces in Germany.
Sec. Sawyer Pleads
Consumer Interests
Atlantic City, Jan. 28 VP)
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer
proposed today that business
give up some of its profits and
labor some of its wage demands
to bring prices down.
He said consumers' interests
"must be a first concern of the
government," that the farmer
should bear them in mind
"when he asks for public sup
port of agricultural prices," and
that the consumer sits unseen at
every labor management conference.
130-Bed Unit, in
Separate Building,
To Cost $650,000
Rep. Walter Norblad Satur
day informed the Salem Cham
ber of Commerce that the fed
eral public health service has
approved the initial applica
tion for a $650,000 tuberculo
sis ward at Oregon State hospit
al. The hospital, as planned, will
be a 130-bed unit of the state
hospital, but will be a separate
building.
It is a federal grant project.
Of the estimated $650,000 that
the building will cost the feder
al share will be $216,666 and
the state's share $433,334.
Requirements Needed
Before a contract can be
awarded and construction start
ed the applicant, which is the
state, must develop the plans and
specifications and meet other re
quirements of title according to
the public health service act.
Col. W. C. Ryan, coordinator
of state institutions, said today
the word from Washington indi
cated the project was safely on
its way, but that much prelimi
nary work remains to be done.
It will take a couple of months,
he said, to complete the draw
ings and get the plans approved.
Badly Needed Now
Speaking of the need of the
ward he said the state mental
hospital now has a tuberculosis
ward, but that it is very in-
aaequate and has to take care of
all mental tuberculosis patients
both of the Salem and the Pen
dleton hospitals
The need, he said, is for a
thoroughly modern hospital
where the inmates can both be
treated for tuberculosis and seg
regatea from other inmates.
The location for the ward is
east of the present treatment
hospital and north of Center
street.
114,000 Idled
By Auto Strike
Detroit, Jan. 28 VP) The
Chrysler strike pushed its ef
fects deeper into the automobile
industry today and had more
than 114,000 workers idle.
Of these, 85,000 are the CIO
United Auto Workers strikers
who walked out of Chrysler
corp. plants Wednesday to en
force pension or wage demands.
The rest, numbering more
than 29,000 have been thrown
out of work by shutdowns of
Chrysler supplier plants in
Michigan and other states.
The weekend began without
any definite moves on the part
of federal and state mediators to
bring the warring union and
company back to negotiations.
It had been reported that they
were aiming to get peace talks
started by Monday.
The UAW says it will hold for
10 cents an hour put into a $100
monthly pension and insurance
trust fund, or else the same am
mount of money in a straight
wage boost.
Super H-Bomb a Must
Says Nobel Prize Winner
New York, Jan. 28 VP) America must either run the race for
the hydrogen super-bomb or risk letting Russia win the world
by default, one of the country's A-bomb pioneers said last night.
Dr. Harold C. Urey, Nobel prize winner in physics and a top
atomic scientist, said: "In fact, we may have already lost the
armaments race."
Thc H-bomb referred to by
some as the "hell-bomb" will
be nearly 1,000 times more pow
erful than the atom-bomb if it
caii be developed, scientists
say.
"I am very unhappy to con
cluded that the hydrogen bomb
should be developed and built,"
Dr. Urey said. "I do not think
we should intentionally lose the
armaments race. To do this
would bo to lose our liberties
and, with Patrick Hpiry, I value
my liberties more than my life."
Dr. Urey referred to the fact
that President Truman is weigh
ing whether the U.S. will launch
an H-bomb project or not and
also to a report that this was
postponed as far back as 1945.
"These decisions in regard to
the hydrogen bomb have been
made in an almost unbelievable
atmosphere," he said.
"Those people who decided we
should not develop it believed
Clark M. Clifford
Special Counsel
To President
Resigns Office
Washington, Jan. 28 W) Pre
sident Truman has accepted the
resignation of Clark Clifford as
his special counsel a situation
which, he said, "from the bot
tom of my heart I wish could
be indefinitely deferred."
Clifford is going back to pri
vate law practice. The presi
dent said White House adminis
trative assistant Charles Mur
phy will be sworn in as Clif
ford's successor Wednesday.
In the letter of resignation
made public yesterday, Clifford
said Mr. Truman has "furnish
ed the highest type of leader
ship, not only to the people of
this country, but to the peoples
of the world."
Try Explosives
To Free W
Norfolk. Va.. Jan. 28
Small explosive charges will be
set off near the grounded bat
tleship Missouri tomorrow in
an attempt to break that sue
tion that imprisons her on
Chesepeake bay shoal.
Atlantic fleet headquarters
reDortcd today the blasts will
occur at mid-day at low tide
and are not expected to free the
45,000-ton ship.
A fleet spokesman said charg
es equal to about 75 pounds of
TNT will be placed about 50
feet from the ship on either
beam. The explosives will be
lowered into 10-foot deep holes
dug in the bay bottom.
Shock saves which will be
set up in the water by the ex
plosives, the spokesman said,
are designed to do two things:
(1) To "squash" or flatten
ridges in the sand on which the
Missouri rests.
(2) To help the ship break
contact with the sand.
To emphasize the "small pota
to" nature of the 150 pounds' of
explosives, the spokesman com
pared this charge with the 350
pounds and 500-pound depth
charges the United States navy
used in World War II.
The charges will be exploded
separately, the charge on the
starboard (or right) side of the
ship first. Holes for the explos
ives were being dug today.
that the USSR could not get the
ordinary atomic bomb in less
than 10 or 15 years. Time has
proved them Incorrect on this
point."
Dr. Urey said he hoped "very
much" that research on the H
bomb will fail, but he docs not
count on it.
"I think we should assume
that the H-bomb can be built
he said. He estimated the cost
as low as $100,000,000. Other
estimates have run from two to
four billions.
Dr. Urey won his Nobel prize
for discovering heavy hydrogen
the isotope that would make
any H-bomb possible and did
some of the most critical work
in isolating uranium 235, the
stuff that A-bombs are made of.
At present he is professor of
physics at the University of Chi
cago. Dr. Urey spoke at the annual
Roosevelt day dinner of Ameri
cans for Democratic Action.
Air Search on
For 3 Planes
Lost in Canada
Only One, U. S. Trans
port, with 44 Aboard
Definitely Missing
Ottawa, Jan. 28 (CP) Three
aircraft were reported missing
today two In northern Ontario
and one in the Yukon but
R.C.A.F. headquarters said they
knew of only one plane definite
ly missing.
That is the United States air
force transport plane which has
not been reported since Thurs
day on a flight from Alaska to
Montana. A total of 44 persons
were aboard.
Officials said search and res
cue headquarters in Trenton,
Ont., was assisting In an investi
gation into a report that "a
large plane" was seen to crash
south of Chapleau, Ont.. last
night. However, the R.C.A.F.
had no report of any air force
aircraft being in the area at that
time.
Third Plane Reported Lost
Meanwhile, they discounted a
report that an air force plane
from nearby Rockcliffe station
was missing in a flight which
left here today. This report
came from a transport depart
ment officr at Porquis. Ont.. and
said one Dakota aircraft flying
irom nere to Winnipeg appar
ently had not reported by radio
to stations at Proquis and North
Bay.
The transport department of
ficial was quoted as saying that
of 10 aircraft which left Rock
cliffe today for western Canada,
only nine had reported.
The R.C.A.F. at Rockcliffe re
ported only nine aircraft actu
ally left. Six were Dakota! dis
patched to Edmonton to take
part in a search for a missing
United States transport plane.
The other three were Lancaster
aircraft headed for "exercise
sweetbriar."
No R.C.A.F. Planes Missing
The Dakota.") were expected to
chock in at Winnipeg's Steven
son field for refuelling.
'Concluded on Pais t. Column 6)
West Europe
Opposes Spaak
Paris, Jan. 28 VP) U. S. pres
sure to put Belgium's former
Premier Paul-Henri Spaak at
the head of Europe's economic
cooperation organization got a
cold reception here today.
Instead of giving Spaak a po
sition of strong political leader
ship, as President Truman and
U. S. Secretary of State Dean
Acheson, proposed 10 days ago,
European ministers here to dis-
c u s s economic "integration '
made a counter proposal.
The eight-member "consulta
tive group" of the organization
for European economic coopera
tion (OEEC) proposed that top
level guidance be given two days
a month each by the foreign
ministers of three small Marshall
plan countries. Those proposed
are Belgium's Paul Van Zeeland,
president of the OEEC council;
and Sean MacBridc of Ireland
and Karl Gruber of Austria, both
vice-presidents.
After two days of conferen
ces, attended by Marshall plan
administrator Paul Hoffman,
several officials agreed that
Spaak's candidacy was a "dead
duck."
Hoffman's spokesmen had
said he would fight hard for
Spaak's appointment to the pro
posed new post of OEEC general
secretary. But their enthusiasm
had waned at the end of yester
day's meeting.
The question is due to come
up for further discussion at an
other meeting Tuesday morning.
Child's Cough Saved
Rivet Operation
Omaha, Jan. 28 VP) Four-year
old Garlin Young, playing with
a toy construction set, slipped
a rivet into his mouth and gulp
ed. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Young, rushed the boy
from their home in Wood Lake,
Nebr., to a doctor in nearby
Valentine. On the doctor's ad
vice, they drove 300 miles
through the night to get Garlin
to an Omaha hospital for an op
eration. At the hospital today, Garlin
was waiting to be taken to the
operating room when he cough
ed. Up came the rivet.