THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY CLOUDY with scat
tered showers tonight and Tues
day. Continued mild tempera
tures. Low tonight, 33; high
Tuesday, 45.
Maximum yesterday, 41; minimum to
day, 30. Total 24-hour precipitation: .44 1
for month: 1.17: normal, 1.08. Season pre
cipitation, 1Mt normal, SS.8I. RIvrr
helfht, 4.5 feet. (Report by U.S. Weather
Bureau.)
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62nd Year, No. 31 ESfSSfi&Z Salem, Oregon, Monday; February 6, 1950
(16 Pages)
Price 5c
5 T
Thaw lo Bring
Valley Streams
Higher Wafer
No Menace of Flood
From Run-off of
Melting Snow
State Can Buy
President Invokes T-H Law
To Restore Coal Production
Land for Capitol
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
The slush and water run-off
from the recent snow and ice
will bring moderate to substan
tlal rises in all valley rivers dur
ing the next two and three days,
but there is nothing serious in
the way of flood looming yet,
Iff reports the weather bureau.
N The milder temperatures were
most welcome, Monday, and Sa
lem folk did not mind the re
maining pile-up of snow so long
as it kept melting away. After
nearly five straight weeks of
snow, ice and cold, a little slush
and rain were "mere nothing."
The Willamette at Salem was
up to 4.5 feet, Monday morn
ing, a slight boost for over the
week-end.
Nearly Half Inch Rain
Rainfall for the 24-hour period
ending at 10:30 a.m. Monday
amounted to .44 of an inch,
bringing the February total to
date to 1.17 inches against a nor
mal of 1.08 inches.
Coastal areas reported heavier
precipitation, Newport listing
1.20 inches during a 24-hour
period. All the rest of western
Oregon, too, was enjoying the
thawing, only eastern Oregon,
sections being troubled with
continued cold temperatures
Pendleton listing 7 degrees
above this morning.
Forecast for Salem and vicin
ity tonight is for partly cloudi
ness with scattered showers and
, continued mild temperatures,
Train Trapped
In Fraser Canyon
Vancouver, B. C, Feb. 6 (CP)
Forty passengers were tem
porarily trapped early today
when slides in the Fraser can
yon partially buried a Canadian
Pacific railway passenger train.
Company officials said no one
was injured when the snow cas
caded down on the train, bot
tling up seven cars.
Balmy temperatures the
overnight minimum here was 37
above have tumbled many
slides in the canyon, 115 miles
east of here, once again sever
ing rail connections with the
east.
Both Canadian National and
Canadian Pacific lines are
blocked. Telegraph communi
cations also are disrupted. No
trains will leave or enter Van
couver today. Railway spokes
men said both lines had hopes
obstructions might be cleared
by tonight.
Telephone circuits were rip
ped out by slides around Boston
Bar, in the canyon, cutting off
Vancouver from Prince Rupert,
Williams Lake, Quesnel, Prince
George, Ashcroft and Lytton.
A minor storm moved across
the coast during the night and
brought snow to points east of
Kamloops, in the interior.
One C. P. R. train managed to
thread through the Fraser can
yon last night. The second trans
continental train, however, was
trapped in the slide-vulnerable
area.
On Vancouver island, resi
dents of Duncan heeded a call by
Mayor J. C. Wragg and spent
Sunday shovelling snow from
downtown streets.
By evening, practically all
main thoroughfares were open
to traffic. Business was at a
(tandstill earlier when IS inches
of snow blanketed the town.
Say Russia Can Drop
A-Bombs Anywhere
New York, Feb. 6 VP) W.
Stuart Symington, secretary of
the air force, said last night that
Russia has the capacity to drop
atom bombs on any part of the
United States.
Speaking at the annual din
ner of the New York Baseball
Writers association, Symington
declared:
"We all know international
conditions are not healthy in
this postwar cold-war period.
Behind an iron curtain there
has been an atomic explosion, in
a country which today has the
capacity to deliver bombs to any
part of America, and we have
no sure defense."
Area Extension
Attorney General
Rules Board Can
Purchase Coates Lot
By JAMES D. OLSON
Legal barriers to state purch
ase of the apartment house site
in the proposed capitol expan
sion area were completely re
moved Monday when Gov. Doug
las McKay was informed by the
attorney general's office that the
board of control could legally
purchase the property.
As a result Harry S. Dorman,
budget director, prepared a bud
get of $14,100 which is being
presented by the board of con
trol to the state emergency board
Monday afternoon for consider
ation. Emergency Board Meets
If the request is approved, the
board of control can then ob
tain an option on the Summer
street property from Robert
Coates, contractor, who has a
building permit from the city
of Salem to erect a seven-story
apartment house on the lot. The
state can also issue Coates a
guarantee of purchase pending
approval by the Federal Hous
ing Administration of a sub
stitute lot in the 1300 block on
Chemeketa street, optioned by
Coates several weeks ago.
(Concluded on Page S, Column 4)
Millet Admits
Big 'Mo' Blame
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 6 VP) The
operations officer of the Battle
ship Missouri testified today that
when the ship was departing
Hampton Roads January 17 he
told the skipper "we could pass
to port" (inshore) of a buoy
marking an acoustic range paral
leling the main ship channel.
"I was under the impression
then that there were five buoys"
marking the range, "but I know
now there were two," Command
er John R. Millett told a naval
court of inquiry investigating
the ground of the Big Mo.
The court interrupted Millett's
testimony to take a brief recess.
Returning to the hearing room,
the court advised Millett that he
had been designated "an inter
ested party" in the proceedings,
and that he had a right to coun
sel. The court then recessed until
early afternoon to allow Millett
time to retain counsel.
The ship's commander and
navigator were named defend
ants in the proceedings at the
court's opening session last
Friday.
Egg Prices Advance
Cent in Oregon
Egg prices were up a cent in
Salem, Monday morning, fol
lowing similar boosts in the
Portland produce markets over
the week-end.
In the buying list here, prices
Monday were as follows: Large
AA, 35 cents; large A, 32-37
cents; medium AA, 33 cents; me
dium A, 31 cents.
In the wholesale list, large
size generally were listed at 42
cents, a one-cent boost, and the
mediums at 36 cents.
Other produce quotations re
mained unchanged in the Mon
day check here.
Ice at Portland Brings
3 Airlines to Salem
Ice at the airport in Portland again brought planes Into Sa
lem's airport instead of the city north of here.
This time it was not just those of United Air Lines but of two
other airlines, Western and West Coast, as well Freezing rain
both Saturday and Sunday night caused the planes to make
emergency landings here.
United Air Lines employes at
the Salem station both evenings
took care of the passengers of
the other airlines, as well as
those of their own. Saturday
night West Coast Airlines land
ed two planes here, both of them
DC-3s. Flight No. 10 of West
Coast, northbound, landed here
at 7:19 p.m. and the southbound
flight No. 9 of that airlines set
down here at 7:39 p.m.
That same evening the one
United flight Into Portland not
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Sanborn Map
Presented City
You can learn a lot about your
home city that you don't know
from two volumes of Sanborn
maps that were presented to the
Salem fire department Monday
by the Salem Insurance Agents
association.
The maps cover every block in
the city in detail. In the busi
ness areas they show the type
of buildings in the block, loca
tion of fire resistance construc
tion or lack of it, width of
streets, location of water mains
and a dozen other things.
Residence type and construe
tion in every block of the resi
dential districts are shown with
the same detail. If your house
has a shingle roof, for example,
it is indicated by the letter X.
Colors are the key to the maps.
Types of buildings are indicat
ed by certain colors.
It is the first time the city has
had the maps, though they have
been available by purchase to
insurance men The maps are
presented to the city, but the
city will have to keep them up
to date. Corrections are sent
each year by the insurance peo
ple. The maps will be kept in a
specially-prepared place at the
fire department where they may
be consulted by officials or by
the public.
CAA Approves
Airport Building
Civil aeronautics administra
tion has given its final approv
al on the proposed administra
tion building at McNary field
and work can now get under
way on the construction.
CAA the past week-end sent
its okay to City Manager J. L.
Franzen and Franzen has alrea
dy given notice to the contrac
tor, H. G. Carl, to proceed with
construction. Carl's bid was for
537,398 and has been accepted
by the city council.
The building is the first unit
of the administration building
two more units are to be added
later. Under terms of an agree
ment approved previously by the
city council the city's share for
the building is to be $12,422 and
that of the federal government
under the matched funds agree
ment, $24,976.
Construction of the building,
which is to have a stucco exter
ior, will not be started until
weather conditions improve, but
it will be completed some time
this spring.
cancelled for the day, flight
175, a DC-3, which regularly
makes a Salem stop, terminated
here.
That plane as flight No. 2174
second section of flight 174)
was made up in Salem Sunday
morning to connect in Eugene
with flight 174, which was made
up in Seattle, because of Port
land weather conditions. Flight
174 was prevented in making
a Salem stop because of low ceil
ings here.
(CoMiuded en Par t, Column I)
You Can Learn About Salem From These Maps Not only
Salem officialdom, but the public as well, can learn a lot about
Salem from two volumes of Sanborn maps that were presented
to the fire department Monday by the Salem Insurance
Agents association. In the picture, from left, Kenneth M. Potts,
president of the association; J. L. Franzen, city manager; W.
P. Roble, fire chief; Clarence M. Byrd, secretary of the
association.
Cities Seek Action
On Santiam Highway
Mill -City, Feb. 6 Delegates representing the Chambers of
Commerce of Mill City and Gates,
and Pnneville and possibly Bend, will appear before the state
highway commission in Portland Tuesday with an argument
for the Mill City-Mehama highway.
Freeze
Delays
Berlin Traffic
Berlin; Feb. 8' OP) The wea
ther froze Berlin's highway traf
fic with western Germany to
day, delaying a conclusive test
of whether the Soviet "little
blockade" was ended.
The east-west autobahn was
so icy after daylight that only
two or three Berlin-b o u n d
trucks an hour reached the
Russian zone checkpoint at
Helmstedt. They were cleared
by the Soviet guards without un
due delay and no pileup devel
oped. The Russians last night slow
ed down the frontier traffic af
ter announcing they were drop
ping their two-week traffic re
strictions. Frontier crossings
were held to six trucks an hour
and a backlog of 25 trucks de
veloped. All had crossed, how
ever, by morning.
C. A. Dix, U.S. transport chief
for Berlin, said all information
indicated the slowdown, which
began Jan. 22, was finished.
The three western comman
dants of Berlin were expected to
reject Soviet Maj. Gen. Alexan
der Kotikov's charges that "wild
blackmarketing and smuggling"
had characterized the city's
commerce with western Ger
many. Discount Coup
By German Reds
Berlin, Feb. 6 VP) West Ber
lin newspapers minimized today
the warning by socialist leader
Kurt Schumacher that the city
faced a communist coup May 27.
Schumacher, opposition lead
er in the West German Repub
lic's parliament, recommended
that allied tanks be used to stop
a reported coup he said the Reds
plan to pull of during a rally of
an anticipated 600,000 East Ger
man communist youth at Whit
suntide.
The western city press seemed
to think the best antidote for pos
sible Red demonstrations would
be to arrange an important foot
ball game between Berlin and
West German players. Then,
they said, the people could
choose between sports and poli
tics. Western allied officials also
threw cold water on Schumach
er's report.
Declaring "rumors of a putsch
are an old story," one American
official here said the allies "Do
not intend to be stampeded by
rumors."
East Berlin officials called for
the rally to protest continued
presence of western occupation
forces in Germany.
and also the cities of Redmond
An effort was being made
Monday to contact the Salem
Chamber of Commerce and the
Marion county court so they
could join in the argument be
fore the commission.
The delegation here was or
ganized when Governor McKay
wrote Robert Veness president
of the Mill City Chamber of
Commerce, that the highway
commission had the Mill City-
Mehama matter on the agenda
for the Portland session Mon
day and Tuesday of this week.
No arrangement had then been
made for an appearance from
this district.
Contact was- made with H. B.
Glaisyer, secretary of the com
mission, and arrangements made
for an appearance Tuesday aft
ernoon. Among those appearing
will be Veness, who will head
the delegation, David M. Reid,
Lee Ross, and Charles Wolver
ton. The state highway department
owns right of way for the road
on the Marion county side, and
the project has beer, approved
by highway department engi
neers. The commission, how
ever, has so far rejected it on
grounds that since it will be
used by the government in the
construction of the Detroit dam
the government ought to build
it. The fact that contractors
have arranged to haul cement
by rail instead of by highway
appears to have removed part of
that argument.
The stretch of road is part
ol the banuarn highway which
is being built across the moun
tains by the government as far
as Mill City, but not west of
here.
Army Approves
Salem Bridge
Final approval of the Salem
bridge project at Marion street
has been made by the secretary
of the army.
This information came to the
Chamber of Commerce Monday
from Representative Walter Nor
blad in Washington.
Friday word was received
from Norblad that approval of
the project had been given by
the chief of the army engineers.
The bridge, a project of the
Oregon state highway depart
ment, dovetails into the Baldock
plan for a street grid and traf
fic improvement in Salem. It
will carry two-way traffic until
the old bridge at Center street
has been rebuilt. Then it will
carry only eastbound traffic,
while the Center Street bridge
will carry westbound traffic.
The Marion Street bridge will
cost about $1,250,000.
Gas Chamber for Stroble
Los Angeles, Feb. 6 VP) Fred
Stroble today was ordered to
die in the state's gas chamber
for the brutal sex-slaying of
six-year-old Linda Joyce Glu-coft.
360,000 Miners
Likely to Defy
Truman's Order
Pittsburgh, Feb. 6 P) The
soft coal strike burst into a na
tion wide walkout today with
angry miners in nearly a score
of states joining in an all out
bid for a contract showdown.
As the number of idle miners
skyrocketed from the 100,000
out last week in six states to at
least 360,000, production of bi
tuminous (soft coal) plumeted.
Roving pickets were active in
some areas.
"Let's wait and see what hap
pens now," declared a grizzled
veteran of the Pennsylvania pits.
He referred to reports Presi
dent Truman had invoked the
Taft-Hartley act against John L.
Lewis and his United Mine
Workers.
Surveys showed no UMW dig
gers at work in Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Illinois, Utah and
Tennessee. Other states said in
complete checks indicated a total
work stoppage.
Few Mines Operating
A small stream of coal still is
coming from unorganized mines
in some areas and from the coal
companies whose operators have
signed new contracts on Lewis'
terms.
Those pacts, covering a small
proportion of the nation's 400,-
000 soft coal miners, give the
men a raise from $14.05 a day
in basic wages to $15. They also
increase operators' payments to
the UMW welfare and pension
fund from 20 cents a ton of coal
mined to 35 cents.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
M'Cloy Criticizes
West Germans
Stuttgart, Germany. Feb. 6 VP)
The U. S. high commissioner
for Germany today sharply rep
rimanded West German officials
for criticizing the western allies,
He presented a program for Ger
many ruling out an army or air
force and pledging that nazism
will not rise here again.
In a t o u g h talking major
speech Commissioner John J.
McCloy informed the Germans
the United States intends to keep
a firm girp on the occupied na
tion's political affairs.
This address was the most
critical utterance by McCloy con
cerning the Germans since he as
sumed his post here last summer.
McCloy has just returned here
from conferences in Washing
ton.
McCloy outlined a nine-point
policy for Germany, and at the
same time warned west German
leaders to stop agitating on such
foreign issues as the dispute with
France over the Saarland.
We American are not here
exclusively to feed the German
people," McCloy declared. "Our
main purpose is to help Germany
achieve political recovery.
"That is my answer to those
who occasionally say we have no
right to mix in the political
problems confronting this country."
Groves Meets With Lawmaker;! Lieut. Gen. Leslie Groves
(center), retired wartime head of the atomic energy project,
poses with Sen. Brian McMahon (D., Conn.), (left), chairman
of the Congressional Atomic committee, and Rep Carl T.
Durham (D., N. C.,), committee member, before closed-door
questioning about the activities of Klaus Fuchs, 38-year-old
British scientist accused of passing atomic secrets to Russia.
(AP Wirephoto)
Arrested A top British
atomic scientist, Klaus Fuchs
(above), was arrested in Lon
don as the result of FBI dig
ging into leaks of A-bomb se
crets to Russia. London dis
patches said Fuchs was charg
ed with two violations of the
official secrets act in Bow
street court. This photo of
Fuchs was made available by
FBI headquarters in Washing
ton. (AP Wirepholc)
Hoover Tells of
Tracing Fuchs
Washington, Feb. 6 (IP) J. Ed
gar Hoover gave the congres
sional atomic committee a first
hand account today of the FBI's
role in the arrest of a top Brit
ish scientist accused of giving
atomic secrets to Russia.
The chief of the federal bu
reau of investigation, accompa
nied by his two top aides, met
with the group behind closed
doors. He told reporters he did
not plan any public statement
after the meeting.
Clyde Tolson, associate FBI
director, and L. B. Nichols, as
sistant director, appeared with
Hoover.
Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves,
wartime head of the U.S. ato
mic enterprise who testified to
the committee last week, will not
appear again today.
Before Hoover's testimony,
Senator Bridges (R-NH) de
manded a search in "high pla
ces" for any American con
tacts of the arrested scientist,
German born Klaus Fuchs.
Fuchs was arrested in London
last Friday and charged with
two violations of the official se
crets act.
Bridges told a reporter FBI
Director J. Edgar Hoover will
be questioned about that point
tomorrow by a senate appropri
ations subcommittee.
This group of which Bridges
is a member already has talk
ed with Hoover about the Fuchs
case. The FBI chief had anoth
er date today to meet with the
senate-house atomic energy com
mittee behind closed doors
(10:30 a.m., EST).
'This man Fuchs," Bridges
said, "must have had contacts
in this country and we follow
through to find those contacts,
particularly to learn whether
any of them tie into high places."
Names Board
Of Inquiry to
Study Dispute
Washington, Feb. 6 UP) Pre
sident Truman today invoked
the Taft-Hartley law in an ef
fort to restore coal production.
He appointed a board of inquiry
headed by David L. Cole, Pater
son, N.J., lawyer, to look into
the issues at dispute.
The other members are Wil
liam W. Wirtz and John Dunlop.
In view of the emergency.
the president instructed the
board to report "not later" than
one week from today.
Mr. Truman's move sets in
motion T-H law procedures that
could lead to a court order a
week or 10 days from now for
the miners to get back to work
for 80 days.
Miners May Mutiny
Whether the miners will pay
any attention to a "stop-strike"
order from the courts provid
ed one is issued is a question.
John L. Lewis, the 70-year-old
president of the United Mine
Workers, told Mr. Truman last
week that he doubted they
would.
After Mr. Truman acted,
Lewis declined to see reporters
but sent them word that he had
"no comment."
At the capital, Senator Taft
(R-Ohio), one of the authors of
the T-H law, said the president's
action was "a step necessary to
be taken."
Emergency Exists
Senator Brewster (R-Maine)
commented: "Thank God there
is a law under which he can
act."
President Truman has tried
unsuccessfully to get congress
to repeal the republican-enacted
law and made it an issue in his
1948 election campaign. But he
has said that as long as it was
on the books he would enforce
it.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Delay Asked in
'Phone Strike
Washington, Feb. 6 UP) Con
ciliation Director Cyrus S. Ching
today asked the CIO Communi
catioRo Workers to put off any
strike until Feb. 24.
A strike now is scheduled for
6 a.m. (EST) Wednesday.
In messages to the union and
lo companies in the Bell Tele
phone system, Ching asked for
Intensified bargaining negotia
tions. He asked that they advise him
by noon tomorrow whether they
would co-operate.
Before Ching s request was
made known here, a union
spokesman in New York said he
had said the union might con
sider a strike postponement if
federal mediators asked it. He
was Ernest Weaver, president
of the installation division of the
CIO Communications Workers
of America.
The strike would involve
more than 300,000 workers in
the nationwide Bell telephone
system.
The installation division is a
unit, with 11,000 workers in 43
states.
County lo Invest
$300,000 U.S. Bonds
A $300,000 investment in
United States government cer
tificate of indebtedness bonds
is being made by Marion coun
ty as a result of an order issued
in Marion county court Monday.
County Treasurer Sam J. But
ler had requested permission to
make the investment, and his
request was approved by the
court. Butler said the $300,000
would be taken from the court
house construction fund.
Certificate of Indebtedness
bonds pay an interest of 1 Va
annually, Butler said. The coun
ty's investment will be for a
six months period.
Pclley Granted Parole
Washington, Feb. 6 VP) The
U. S. parola board today granted
parole to William Dudley Pelley,
founder and one-time leader of
the Silver Shirts of America,
who was convicted of sedition
during World War II.