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62nd Year, No. 38 SlS?J'S?0Z
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 14, 1950
Price 5c
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Capital
Oregon Slow in
Paying Bills
Says Governor
Takes 3 Months
Which Shuts Out
Small Merchants
By JAMES D. OLSON
' 'The slate of Oregon Is too slow
In paying Its bills, Governor
Douglas McKay stated Tuesday
at the weekly meeting of the
board of control.
"It sometimes takes as high
as three months for the state to
get its money to the merchants
for materials furnished and this
tends to shut out the small mer
chants who cannot wait that long
for their money," he said.
His observation following re
jection of a plea by the Salem
Iron Works to insert a clause
providing for two percent dis
count in its bid for two saving
plans, if the state paid the bill
within 10 days. The company's
bid provided a net price.
Wants Cash Discount
The Cramer Machine company
of Portland, representing the
Madson Iron Works of Hunting
ton Park, Calif., was the low bid
der on the two plants for the
highway commission. Its bid
was $29,105 while the Salem
firm bid $30,348.17.
All members of the board
agreed that previous action by
the board is not permitting the
two percent discount for cash
unless it was specified in the
bid, precluded such action on
this bid.
- "However, I think that it
.should be made clear to all bid
ders that this two percent is al
lowed" said the governor.
When he was informed that
the discount could only be al
lowed by departments with a
revolving fund, the governor
said that purchasing department
should take steps to cut , down ;
the time of paying state bills.
Forced to Walt 90 days.
"I don't think there is any
reason why any merchant should
be required to wait 90 days for
money due him by the state of
Oregon."
Secretary of State Newbry
suggested that possible exten
sion of the time when two per
cent would be allowed by bid
ders for cash from 10 to 30 days
might help the situation.
(Concluded on Fag . Column ()
Miss Charley
Indian Queen
Eleanor Charley, student at
Chemawa Indian school, was
elected queen for the school's
70th birthday party which will
be celebrated February 24. The
actual anniversary date is a day
later.
. The election of the queen took
place Tuesday. At the same time
four princesses, who with the
queen will comprise the court,
were elected. They are Georgia
ns Young, Loretta Quaempts,
Isabelle Patchpe, and Martina
Quaempts.
The party will start at 7:30
in the school gymnasium, with
crowning of the queen. This will
be followed by a program and
dance and the cutting of the
birthday cake. The cake will be
a huge culinary achievement,
large enough to be shared by
600 students and faculty mem
bers and some others besides.'
The birthday party slogan
motto is '-'Seventy years of serv
ice, a future of responsibility."
Catholics Plan
$250,000 Church
Rev. T. J. Bernards, priest at
St. Joseph's Catholic church,
told the city council Monday
night of plans of the church to
erect a $250,000 church, possibly
this year.
He appeared in connection
with capitol zoning problems
before the council, and was ad
vised by the mayor and the
council that the church should
proceed with its plans.
The church will be located in
the fringe area of the capitol
zone, at Chemekta and Winter
streets. Father Bernards said
that with the council's assurance
that the church will be within
zoning regulations the architect
would be told to proceed with
plans.
The new church was first
planned about 10 years age, but
the war Interfered. .
Plan Regional
Pad to Fight
Reds in Asia
American Diplomats
Advise Military.
Alliance at Bangkok
Bangkok, Thailand (Siam),
Feb. 14 (P) America's Far East
diplomats today discussed a re
gional alliance In Asia to com
bat communism.
Philip C. Jessup, ambassador
at large who is presiding, gave
no hint in a statement whether
this would be military or econo
mic.
Jessup has said, however, that
if the Asiatic nations entered in
to a military alliance the United
States would view it sympathe
tically. Jessup also reported the di
plomats brought up "certain as
pects of the problem of the con
clusion of a peace treaty yith
Japan." Japan's trade relations
with Asia and the United States
also were discussed.
Most of the sessions last night
and today were devoted to gen
eral economic problems.
Economic Problems
These include a study of Pre
sident Truman's point foui pro
gram, which is designed to help
nations become economically
self-sufficient through aid and
technical advice.
Jessup said the study includ
ed the question of- tying this
program in with other forms of
aid, including possible funds
from the international bank.
Jessup did not bring from
Washington any specific state
department plan for economic
aid. He is asking the diplomats
on the spot for the information
to be used by Washington in
welding a program for Asia.
Mystery Blast
At Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland, Feb. 14 (?)
Police said they had no expla
nation of an explosion early to
day that rocked the parliament
building where a Finnish presi
dent is to be elected tomorrow.
The officers said the explo
sion, on the staircase leading to
the building's entrance, caused
no serious damage inside the
structure, in which 300. electors
today present their credentials,
prior to the presidential ballot
ing tomorrow.
The electors are virtually cer
tain to re-elect President Juho
Paasikivi, 85-year-old anti-com
munist statesman. Of the 300
electors chosen in the January
general election, 172 are pledg
ed to support him.
There was no indication that
the explosion was connected
with tomorrow's election.
Immediately after the blast
police threw a cordon around
the staircase and the front en
trance. The crowd that gathered
on the street could see a hole
the size of a football in the buil
ding's main entrance door, and
twisted metal frames and brok
en panes in nearby windows.
Authorities said the main en
trance, which could not be used
today, would be open again be
fore the electors ballot tomor
row. Methodist Leader Dies
Washington, Feb. 14 (U.BEd
win H. Hughes, 83 retired
Methodist bishop and one-time
president of Depauw university
died here Sunday. Hughes re
tired as head of the Methodist
church in the Washington area
in 1940 after serving eight years.
Council Responsible
For lone Protection
A simple bill introduced by Alderman Tom Armstrong, and
put through to final passage
council s capitol zoning headache.
Two other bills on the subject, on the calendar for third read
ing, were tabled to give the Armstrong bill right of way. Ad
mittedly the action taken was
somewhat on a trial basis, and
the two tabled bills will be held
in reserve in event the Arm
strong bill proves inadequate.
The Armstrong bill is de
signed to protect both the in
terests of the state and those of
people who have invested in the
area where it was proposed to
make a zone change to restrict
construction to residences only.
The bill that was passed simply
provides that the city council
shall pass on building permits
in the district. It makes the
council the guardian against un
desirable construction.
i The main oni of tht tabled
Brotherhood
Week Planned
Further plans for Brotherhood
week, February 19-26 in Salem
were announced Tuesday by
Chairman Joseph Felton as Gov
ernor Douglas McKay signed a
proclamation designating the
week as Brotherhood week in
Oregon.
Local plans include special
Brotherhood week speakers at
four service clubs. During the
week the Exchange club and
Kiwanis have Norman Olson
scheduled as Brotherhood "week
speaker. Rotary will hear Glenn
Wade and the Lions Joe Dodd.
Olson is a member of the board
of Trinity Methodist church of
Los Angeles.
C A. Howard, former state
superintendent of public instruc
tion, will address the Silverton
Lions club on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 22, on phases of brother
hood and W. W. McKinney, Sa
lem municipal judge, will speak
at the Stayton PTA meeting
Monday, February 20. Howard
has already addressed the Wood
burn Rotary and Gervais PTA.
At the present time Dean Rob
ert Gregg and the Rev. Brooks
Moore, as school and church
chairman, respectively, are
scheduling special school and
church observances of Brother
hood ;' week. , Saul Bloomberg, .
co-church chairman, has an
nounced an open service for the
week at 7:30 p.m., on February
24 at Temple Beth Sholem, Sa
lem. Other events will be an
nounced later.
Chairman Felton has asked
that organizations wanting
speakers for the week contact
him or Ford Watkins at the First
National bank.
Nazi Held in
Heuss Attack
Hannover, Germany, Feb. 14
WP) An old-time nazi was under
arrest here today on charges of
plotting to kill west German
President Theodor Heuss.
Chief of Detectives Friderich
Peter of the Hannover police
quoted the arrested man as say
ing: "I lost my job and my bread
by the democratic state and I
intended to murder the repre
sentative of this democratic
state."
It was revealed .the man has
been under arrest for three
months and his sanity is being
examined.
Police found a diary on the
man outlining his plans to kill
Heuss with a bomb at the Han
nover railway staton.
When questioned, the man
said at the last minute he decid
ed against the bomb attempt be
cause it "would have killed hun
dreds of others at the station,"
the chief of detectives said
The man's name was not an
nounced.
Monday night, relieved the city
bills provided that apartment
houses be barred by changing
the zone classification . from
Class II to Cass I residential in
all of the four blocks bounded
by Capitol, Winter, Center and
Union streets, which are in the
proposed capitol zone extension.
In addition, it would have made
the same change on numerous
lots in various blocks of the
fringe area. Also it would
have changed from Class III
business zone to Class I residen
tial four lots at Capitol and
Union streets.
(Concluded on F&f t i, CohunA )
Brotherhood Week Proclaimed Governor McKay issues
proclamation making February 19 to 26 Brotherhood week
in Oregon. From left: Joseph Felton, local chairman; Leo
Henderson, theater chairman; Ford Watkins, co-chairman for
local Christian and Jewish conferences, Governor Douglas
McKay, Saul Bloomberg, local co-chairman, and C. A. Howard,
also a co-chairman.
Naval Reserve Plans
Explained by Knowles
By MARGARET MAGEE
Salem Kiwanis, holding their meeting Tuesday at the Salem
Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training center, were told of
the naval Reserve program and of the effect that the program
has on Salem and this area.
Speaker for the meeting was
New Floods in
Mississippi
(By the Associated Pre&s)
Rain splashed over the middle
and lower Mississippi valley to
day, raising the threat of new
floods In the area already hard
hit by overflows this winter.
Heavy rainfalls were report
ed by the U.S. weather bureau
in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mis-
sippi. More rain also fell in some
parts of Indiana, Illinois and
Missouri.
The Mississippi and Ohio riv
er., the v two biggest ..- streams
which hs-ve been the-cause of
most concern, as well as small
er streams were reported rising
in many - areas., A new evacua
tion was started by some 3,000
persons from the new Madrid
floodway below Charleston, in
southeast Missouri. '
The rain belt extended from
Tennessee, Kentucky and 1111
nios eastward to the Atlantic
coast.
Ice storms and snow dealt
damaging blows to wide areas
over the midwest and in south
ern New York and northern
Pennsylvania.
Power and telephone service
in hundreds of midwest commu
nities was disrupted. Highway
travel was slowed by the glazed
conditions.
Temperatures, generally, over
the country were not severe.
White Held on
Fraud Charges
An alleged bogus check artist
from Corvallis was behind bars
in the Salem city jail Tuesday
because he placed too much faith
in a storekeeper's word without
equal faith in his common sense.
The prisoner was ldentitico oy
police records as Harold Patrick
White, 30, of Route 1, Corvallis.
He is charged with obtaining
money by false pretenses, with
bail set at $1000.
On Sunday, according to a
statement signed by White, he
endeavored to cash a check he
had prepared at a grocery store,
The amount of the check was
put at $52.50. The merchant,
unable to give him the full am
ount gave White $10 and a prom
ise to pay the balance Monday.
Meanwhile, the merchant
found the check worthless.
White, apparently counting
heavily on the word of the store
keeper, returned as scheduled.
Police nabbed him shortly after
he appeared.
The Corvallis man said he nad
used the money to transport him
self and his two children, aged
7 and 8, to Rainier, Wash., along
with a hitch-hiker. He had re
turned with his mother.
White's statement cleared the
hitchhiker of connection with the
check writing.
Appliance Union Loses
' Washington, Feb. 14 OT
Fourteen' appliance repairmen at
the Portland store of Montgom
ery Ward are not entitled to
their own bargaining unit, the
national labor relations board
ruled yesterday
The NLRB said they did not
constitute a proper bargain
ing unit. At present the 14 are
included in an AFL teamster s
contract. ...
the fiscal control officer of the
bureau of personnel appropria
tions of the 13th Naval District,
Comdr. W. A. Knowles.
The commander began his talk
by giving the background of
the Naval Reserve program and
history on a national basis. Next
he told them of the history in
ihc Pacific northwest from pre-
Pearl Harbor to the present day.
It was pointed out that in
stead of disposing of the U.S.
fleet, the greatest in the world
in 1945, the navy had instead
used the mothballing system.
After telling of the system of
placing the fleet in mothballs,
Knowles noted that to keep from
losing the skills and abilities of
the approximately three and
half million naval reservists the
navy used the reserve program
to keep up their old skills and
develop new ones.
Then touching on the financial
effect of the program on Salem
the officer pointed out that the
navy had' an initial investment
of approximately $300,000 in
the training center building,
with the equipment facilities
costing approximately $200,000
additional.
Then yearly the navy spends
approximately $12,000 for rou
tine maintainance and operation;
approximately $15,000 for re
pairs and alterations; and around
$10,000 for new work of various
kinds. In addition to this the
payroll for the drills and the 14-
day cruises of the reservists here
comes to approximately $40,
000. Comdr. Knowles also told of
the training program, its various
aspects, methods and courses
and pointed out that this train
ing, as well as being necessary
for national defense was a civic
asset because it made better citi
zens of the men.
Oregon Highways
In Good Condition
Oregon highways were in the
best condition today in two
months.
The highway commission ad
vised motorists to carry chains
the Austin area of central
Oregon. The Bellevue-Hopewell
highway was closed by high wa
ter.
Roads in all other sections
of the state were clear, the com
mission saying that snow in the
mountains has caused a break
up in the packed snow.
Tornado Lashed Air Base This is the wreckage of two barracks and a mess hall at Slack
Air Force Base, Shreveport, La., which was struck by one of a scries of tornadoes that swept
through East Texas, Western Louisiana and Arkansas. Five airmen and civilian were
killed at the air base. One barracks (center) was leveled and the other (right) battered.
The wrecked mess hall it at the left. (AP Wirephoto)
Crippled
Said Do wn, Charlotte Soum
Miners Stand Pat
In Defiance of
Court's Orders
Pittsburgh, Feb. 14 VP) Mine
whistles shrilled in vain again to
day as striking soft coal miners
for the second day defied work
orders from both the government
and John L. Lewis.
The no contract no work walk
out continued full force in all
major coal producing states.
Hundreds of pickets roamed
Pennsylvania to make sure all
pits were closed.
Pennsylvania state police re
ported two men wounded with
buckshot in the area of Latrobe.
It was not determined if they
are miners or pickets.
Two Men Wounded
The men wounded were iden
tified as Frank Kozar, 23, and
Leroy Harris, 27.
Police were trying to learn if
the shooting was connected with
the posting of armed guards at
nearby non-union strip mine.
A truck was dynamited at that
pit last week.
The West Virginia Coal asso
ciation said some idle miners in
the United Mine Workers Dis
trict 17 stated they have not re
ceived "any order to return to
work."
Association Secretary Jesse V.
Sullivan said the men "are not
revolting but arc awaiting in
struction from their union lead
ers to return to work."
(Conoluded on Fnge s, Column 6)
Union Repeats
Return Orders
Washington, Feb. 14 VP) The
United Mine Workers union said
today it has sent messages to
all the union's 3,000 locals tell
ing miners to return to work.
Telegrams to all locals went
out yesterday, a union spokes
man said. They duplicated the
back-to-work instructions wired
to union district offices Saturday
by John L. Lewis, UMW chief.
Even these messages to the
locals, however, seemed to have
little effect on getting the idle
miners back into the pits. They
continued their full fledged
walkout today despite hopes of
government officials they might
start drifting back to work.
Th White House said no fur
ther action on its part is contem
plated at this time.
"The matter is in the hands
of the courts," Charles G. Ross,
White House press secretary,
told reporters.
Ross, in response to a question,
said there is no plan to seize the
coal mines. Mr. Truman told
his news conference last Thurs
day that he neither has nor
wants seizure power.
A spokesman for Lewis ex
plained that the back-to-work
messages to union locals were
sent out Monday because it was
a "physical impossibility" to dis
patch so many messages late
Saturday, when the instructions
to district offices wore sent out
Knudson Nominated
Washington, Feb. 14 OT
President Truman today nomi
nated James K. Knudson of Utah
to be a member of the interstate
commerce commission. Knud
son was named to replace the
late Carroll Miller for a term
expiring Dec. 31, 1953.
B - 3 6, 16
' k' t,
Sumner T. Pike named act
ing chairman of Atomic Ener
gy Commission.
Pike Acting
AEC Chairman
Washington, Feb. 14 W) The
White House said today that
President Truman will designate
Sumner T. Pike as acting chair
man of the atomic energy com
mission pending appointment of
a successor to David E. Lilien-
thal.
There was no indication when
Lilienthal's successor would be
chosen.
Lilienthal, who leaves office
tomorrow, called at the White
House today. Presidential Press
Secretary Charles Ross described
it as a "goodbye call.
Pike, a republican and vice
chairman of the commission, will
start serving Thursday as act
ing chairman.
Pike is one of the .orginal
members of the commission.
The White House announce
ment that he will be acting
chairman put to rest a boom
among some members of con
gress for the job to go to Gor
don Dean.
Atomic Strike
At Oakridge
Oak Ridge, Tcnn., Feb 14 P
Construction of a $66,000,000
atomic plant again is involved
in a labor dispute.
An atomic energy commission
spokesman said 225 plumbers
and steamfittcrs left their jobs
three hours before a shift was
due to end yesterday.
The workers idleness was "no
action of the union," said A. E
Galyon, business agent of AFL
Plumbers local 102.
'The company ran them off.
It is definitely no strike," Gal
yon added.
C. A. Budnik, project manager
for the Maxon Constructoin com
pany ol Dayton, o., said tne
company had received no noti
fication from the union.
The Maxon firm is building
the plant, known at K-29 under
a contract with the AEC. Maxon
also is building the K-31 plant
which will cost $162,000,000.
Construction on both projects
was halted early in December
when a wildcat strike saw 2200
workers leave their jobs They
returned four days later upon
the urging of their parent union,
the Knoxville Building Trades
Council (AFL).
No official reason for the De
cember walkout was given.
Aboard,
Huge Bomber,
Engine Afire,
Thought Ditched
Seattle, Feb. 14 IP) A crip
pled B-36 bomber with 16 men
aboard was believed down today
in Queen Charlotte sound, about
460 miles northwest of Seattle.
The six-engine plane was las':
heard from at 2:54 a.m. when it
radioed that one engine was
afire and the pilot contemplated
ditching in the water
Planes and ships sped to the
scene, about 125 miles northwest
of Port Hardy, on the northern!
tip of Vancouver island.
On Training Flight
The big bomber, on a train-
ng flight from Eielson air force
base, near Fairbanks, Alaska, to
Carswell air force base, Fort
Worth, Tex., said in its last dis
tress message:
At 17,000 feet in severe icing.
Instrument and engine trouble.
Severe emergency. Going to let
down through overcast to Jose
ice.
Search planes fanned out ov
er Queen Charlotte sound from
bases at Kodiak and Ketchikan,
Alaska; Whidbey island and Mc
Chord field, Wash., and from
Royal Canadian air force bases
in British Columbia. Other air
bases were alerted to have
search planes ready.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
47 Death Toll
In Tornadoes
Ripley, Tenn., Feb. 14 W)
Four states skip-bombed by a
series of small tornadoes that
snatched at least 47 lives fig
ured a mounting toll of destruc
tion today.
The deadly twisters slapped
20 small communities in Texas,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Ten
nessee and left a million-dollar-plus
hop-skip trail of damage.
The latest whipped hard at
Hurricane Hill near here yester
day. Nine lives were snuffed out
a family of eight and a negro
farm woman.
The erratic cone of 50-mile-
per-hour winds sucked up the
home of Wilson Carroll, a 34-ycar-old
tenant farmer, threw
it through a dense woodland and
left the bodies of Carroll, his
wife, and their six small child
ren scattered over a wide area.
The Hurricane Hill twister
also touched the home of Alice
Wright, 57, wrecked it, and left
her in the ruins with fatal in
juries.
Two Texas towns, Laporte
and Alvin, were the first hit in
the 24-hour series of storms.
Nine were killed in the Lone
Star state and 152 injured. State
police at Austin reported dam
age estimated at more than $1,
500,000. The largest death toll was in
Louisiana 29, according to
Red Cross count. Most of the
Louisiana 'twisters centered in
towns around Shreveport Sun
day.
The Shreveport Times, which
counted three less than the Red
Cross, said nine were killed at
Roytown, six at Slack Air Force
depot, four at Sligo, two at
Hood's quarters, one in Shreve
port, and four in Grand Cane.
Freeze Damage
Declared Light
Willamette valley orchards
survived the January freeze in
apparently good shape, Marion
County Agent Donald Rasmus
sen said Tuesday.
"The exact amount of damage
will not be known until later,"
Rasmussen indicated He said
that the freeze probably will re
sult in some shortage of the or
dinary crop, but that the trees
themselves would probably near
ly all survive.
Young peach trees suffered
the worst from the freeze, Ras
mussen said. He warned against
doing away with dead-looking
trees, however, saying that in
many cases trees which appear
to be dead will recover in a cou
ple of months.
He also told orchardists not to
worry about damage to peach
and cherry buds. He said fruit
trees could lose up to 90 percent
of their buds and still have a
good year.