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Salem, Oregon, Friday, February 17, 1950
(18 Pages)
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Woman Killed
By Streamliner
Near Claxler
Stale Cosls
Fact-Finders !
In Coal Dispute
Told to Report
Truman Wants Action
Gale Hampers
Search for 5
Of B-36 Crew
Two New Clues Inspire
Hope for Missing
Airmen
McChord Air Base, Wash,, Feb.
17 Snow, rain and wind
hampered the search of desolate
Princess Royal island today for
Mount During
Fiscal Year
Unidentified Body
Carried Half a Mile
By Speed Train
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
An unidentified young woman
was instantly killed early Fri
day morning when she was
struck by the speeding South
ern Pacific Shasta Daylight near
Claxter road north of Salem.
Her body was discovered by
t police officer and a first aid
crewman about a half mile south
of Kapphan road. The mangled
remains were scattered near
Where her body dug a foot-deep
furrow in the wet earth.
Crew members from the Shasta
made a brief report to the pas
senger agent at the Salem sta
tion. They said the woman was
standing in the middle of the
tracks looking at the train as it
bore down on her from the
north.
But even the crewmen were
at a loss to explain the accident.
They were unable to say whe
ther she had wanted to stay on
the track or whether she was
paralyzed by fear and unable to
move.
Carried Half a Mile
Residents of the area estimate
the speed of the Shasta at from
70 to 85 miles an hour along the
stretch of track where she was
struck.
Apparently the train carried
the body for more than a half
mile after the impact. It was
pitched clear of the train just
south of a bend in tne irac
near the city limits.
The Shasta was brought to a
stop near the Camp Joy auto
court, and after the accident was
reported by the train crew, the
streamliner headed southward.
A complete description of the
woman was furnished by the
coroner- who examined the re
mains. Hdr age was estimated
at from 20 to 25 years. Her
weieht. also esumaieu, was wo
pounds. She was believed to be
about five feet tall. Her eyes
were blue, and her hair was light
in color dark blond to aupurn.
(Concluded on Fage 5, Column 6)
Sees Socialism
In 'Fair Deal'
Washington, Feb. 17 VP) Sen
ator Byrd (D., Va.) said today
that President Truman is trav
eling "a non-stop, highspeed
highway to socialism" with his
"Fair Deal" proposals.
Byrd voiced the first demo
cratic criticism of Mr. Truman's
Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech
last night as republicans chal
lenged the president to take the
issue of socialism to the polls in
November.
. The president told a glittering
gathering of 5,300 party faithful
last night that the republicans
had "insulted the intelligence"
of the American people by pro-
claiming that the campaign issue
is "liberty versus socialism." He
said his program is not socialis
tic.
The republicans, he said, are
croaking about socialism to hide
their own "negative inaction."
In a statement, Byrd said the
president was adding insult "to
the injury already done our in
Hplect by Truman proposals and
propaganda."
The Virginia senator, who has
opposed the president's spending
program, said the country will
be "irrevocably committed to
socialism" if three administra
tion proposals are adopted by
congress.
He listed these as (1) the "so
cialized medicine" of the presi
dent's compulsory health insur
ance plan; (2) the "socialized
agriculture" of the Brannan
farm subsidy payment plan and
(3) the "extension of socialized
housing."
Asks Loyalty Probe
Of U.S. Official
Washington, Feb. 17 W Sen
ator Malone (R., Nev.) told the
senate today he is informed that
a high commerce department of
ficial is a Manchurian-born Rus
ian who was turned down for
citizenship three times.
He proposed that the senate
interstate commerce committee
inquire into the "loyalty" of
Michael J. Lee, chief of the far
eastern division of the commerce
department's office of interna
tional trade.
Malone told the senate that
Lee's real name is Ephraim Zin
ovi Liberman.
Total of $142,581,000
Collected for 1948-49,
Record Shows
By JAMES D. OLSON
Revenue totaling $142,581,000
was collected from all sources
by the state of Oregon during
the fiscal year ending June 30,
1949, as compared with $131,-
648,000 collected in the 1947-48
fiscal year.
Of this amount $35,883,00"
was derived from personal tax
colle c t i o n s ; $20,041,000 from
corporate income taxes; $20,654,
000 from gasoline tax collec
tions; $10,413,000 from motor
vehicle taxes and fees; $3,964,
000 from alcoholic beverages
profits and fees and $10,182,000
from other taxes and fees.
In addition, the state received
$17,142,000 in miscellaneous re
venues and $19,331,000 in fed
eral grants.
This information was contain
ed in a nine-page booklet enti
tled Cost of State Government,"
containing figures and "pie
plate" graphs, issued by the
state tax commission.
Biggest Item Listed
The largest sum of money
expended by a single depart
ment during the last fiscal year
was $41,428,000 spent on build
ing and maintenance, of roads,
highways and bridges by the
state highway commission. This
sum was a substantial increase
over the expenditures in the
previous year when the high
way department spent $34,686,-
000 on its highway program in
the state.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 8)
Portland Cops
Nab 2 Bandits
Portland, Feb. 17 VP) A briar
patch nabbed a fleeing man early
today while a policeman's gun
brought down jiis companion.
Both were booked on burg
lary charges the same offense
charged to them in a January
grand jury indictment.
The wounded man, Harold C.
Rambo, 45, was taken to Good
Samaritan hospital. He was shot
the ankle. His companion
Samuel W. Lewis, 56, was un
hurt. They were arrested as they
fled the Fulton Provision com
pany plant and delicatessen on
SW Macadam avenue shortly be
fore 3 a. m.
Rambo fell wounded as Pa
trolmen Jack Latourette and
Albert Pacella fired. Lewis dash
ea neaaiong into a clump ot
blackberry bushes beside the
building. Halted by the bran
bles, he was nabbed easily.
Police had been called three
times by Frank Juhne, who
lives on the second floor. The
first time they found nothing
the second time they found evi
dence of an attempt to cut
through a wall into a meat cooler
but thought the men had been
frightened away; the third time
they entered the provision plant,
felt their way past sides of beef
in the cooler and found a hole
cut through into a smaller cooler
room in the delicatessen. Dis
covery was mutual and the men
ran outside where Latourette
and Pacella were waiting.
Churchill Writes Of
Blunders of Russians
New York. Feb. 17 (IP) Russia's leaders displayed "amazing
ignorance" and vanity, says Winston Churchill, when they failed
to prepare for nazi Germany's attack in 1B41.
However, Churchill credits Russia's ultimate resistance with
cracking the might of the Germany armies.
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his war memoirs, now appear
ing serially in Life magazine
and the New York Times, Brit
ain's wartime prime minister
writes:
'War is mainly a catalogue of
blunders, but it may be doubted
whether any mistake in history
has equalled that of which Stalin
and the communist chiefs were
guilty when.they supinely await
ed the fearful onslaught which
impeded on Russia.
"We have hitherto rated them
as selfish calculators. In this pe
riod they were proved simple
tons as well. Stalin and his
commissars showed themselves
at this moment the most com
pletely outwitted bunglers of
the second world war. '
Churchill reveals that he sent
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Time Schedule
For A-Weapons
Washington, Feb. 17 (IP) The
United States has set a "very
tight time schedule" for building
up its atomic military power, in
cluding the hydrogen super
bomb.
This came to light today with
the release of a letter David E.
Lilienthal wrote Wednesday
the day he stepped out as chair
man of the atomic energy com
mission.
Senator Holland (D., Fla.) had
asked Lilienthal to explain why
a $100,000,000-plus contract at
Oak Ridge, Tenn., was awarded
without competitive bids. He
said, other contractors had com
plained.
Lilienthal replied that to have
let a competitive contract would
have delayed a start on the proj
ect a new gaseous diffusion
plant for 18 months. Lilien
thal added:
The purpose of the expan
sion' program, is to further the
common defense and security of
the United States, and is one in
which a very tight time schedule
has been established in order to
meet the military goals upon
which the expansion program is
based."
Lilienthal did not mention the
hydrogen bomb as such, but
President Truman has oraerea
the commission to proceed with
efforts to turn out the weapon
rated at anywhere from four to
1,000 times more powerful than
the present A-bomb.
Miss Coplon
Fires Lawyer
New York, Feb. 17 (ff) Ju
dith Coplon changed her lawyer
today in the middle of her spy
conspiracy trial.
Federal Judge Sylvester J.
Ryan appointed three attorneys
to defend her.
Named to succeed Archibald
Palmer as the ex-government
girl's defense counsel were Sid
ney E. Berman, bamuei eu
beiger and Leonard Boudin.
Miss Coplon has been on trial
with Soviet Engineer Valentin
A. Gubitchev since January 2.
They are charged with conspir
ing to make U. S. defense se
crets available to the Russians.
Gubitchev was not involved in
the split between Miss Coplon
and her attorney. He will con
tinue to be represented by Abra
ham J. Pomerantz.
- . . , . .
warning that German troop
movements indicated an impend
ing attack on Russia. But, he
adds, Russia remained so poorly
prepared that throughout 1941
she was more of a burden than
a help in the war.
But Churchill praises the Rus
sian people's courage, and says
that eventually Russia was de
livering telling blows against
German arms. Russian resist
ance, he says, diverted the Ger
man air attack from Britain,
diminished the threat of an in
vasion of Britain and aided
Britain in the Mediterranean
fighting.
(Publication restricted by
Life magazine to continental
limits of U. S. and its posses
sions).
Rescued B-36 Airmen Showing the strain of their three
days on Princess Royal island off the coast of Brtiish Co
lumbia, after they bailed out of a disabled B-36 bomber,
these three crew members are pictured at McChord Field,
Wash., where they and seven other survivors were taken by
rescuers. Left to right: First Lt. E. O. Cox, Capt. H. L. Barry,
plane pilot, and Staff Sgt. Dick Thrasher. Two other airmen
have been rescued and the remaining five are understood
to be approximately three miles inland scattered along a
three-mile area of the island. (Acme Telephoto)
50 Macleay
Protest Garbage Dump
By CHRIS
A crowd of over 50 residents of
the tiny Marion county court
county garbage dump located at
After an hour and a half of argument between the complainants
and the court, the hearing was recessed at noon until 1:30 p.m.,
evees Intact
On Mississippi
(By th A&sociated Press)
National guardsmen and. Red
Cross workers joined in the task
of evacuating additional hun
dreds from the flooded lowlands
of east-central Louisiana and
southwestern Mississippi today.
The floodwaters of a half doz
en rivers tributaries ot t n e
Mississippi spread out over
some 2,000,000 acres of cotton
and livestock land, forcing some
9,000 persons to leave the
homes. No loss of lite was re
ported. Damage to property and
livestock was reported heavy.
Skies were clear and temper
atures a little below normal over
the water shed. No immediate
rain was forecast. Army engi
neers said levees on the Missis
sippi and other major streams
remained intact. But bayous and
smaller tributaries were backing
up surplus waters.
Skies also were clear in the
country's other flood danger
spots in southern Illinois, Indi
ana and southeastern Missouri.
The only rain reported early
today was in central Montana.
There were light falls of snow
over most of New England, nor
thern New York, western Penn
sylvania, Ohio and parts of low
er Michigan. Temperatures were
a little lower east of the Mis
sissippi and higher over the
plains states.
Potato Council
Support Stopping
Washington, Feb. 17 IIP) The
National Potato council today
protested sharply to Senator Lu
cas (D.-Ill.) against removal of
government price supports from
Irish potatoes.
On motion of Lucas, the sen
ate democratic leader, the sen
ate agriculture committee ap
proved yesterday by a 6 to 2
vote a provision that would re
move potato price drops until
congress enacts drastic controls
over both planting and market
ing of potatoes.
Lucas also introduced amend
ments to the farm price support
law calling for drastic potato
controls to discourage surplus
production and save millions of
dollars spent on the price sup
ports.
Seiiure of Book Ordered
Tokyo, Feb. 17 (IP) The
morals section of the Metropoli
tan police board today ordered
seizure of all booksellers' copies
of Norman Mailer's book, "The
Naked and the Dead," on the
grounds it is indecent. It was the
first foreign book seized by the
police since the war. A number
of Japanese books have been
seized on similar grounds. The
book has been a best seller in
Japan since Dec. 15.
Residents
KOWITZ, Jr.
the Macleay district overflowed
chambers Friday to protest the
Macleay.
'when additional arguments were
to be heard.
Chief complaints from the
Macleay residents were the odors
and contamination of the dump.
and the devaluation of property
in that area brought about by
the dump's being located there
The court retaliated by stating
that no evidence of contamina
tion has been found, and that no
one has actually determined that
the property has declined in val
ue since the dump was placed
at Macleay less than a year ago.
Several of the complainants
criticized the court for its "shod
dy method" of "sneaking" the
garbage dump in at Macleay,
without notifying the landown
ers. According to the landown
ers who spoke Friday morning,
the county acquired the land
without revealing what the prop
erty was to be used for.
On numerous occasions during
the hearing, a complainant would
say something with a tint of
sarcasm aimed at members of
the county court. Such remarks
drew laughter and applause from
the Macleay citizens present.
Macleay people who spoke
principally Friday morning were
Joe Fendricks, Mrs. Theodore
Olson, Mrs. George Boedigheim
er, Wilber Miller and Ed Tooker.
Also appearing was J. B Hum
pert of Mt. Angel, who owns a
piece of land adjoining the
dump.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 6)
German Cleray
Ban Red Front
Berlin, Feb. 17 VP) East Ger
many's Catholic and Protestant
clergy have been ordered by
their church leaders to shun the
new communist-led "national
front."
Both Roman Catholic and
evangelical authorities issued
such instructions in opposition
to the new mass organization
which the communists two days
ago announced would work for
German unity and against the
influence of the three western
allies.
Konrad Cardinal von Prysing,
Roman Catholic bishop of Berlin,
in an Episcopal letter to all
Catholic priests in Berlin and
Brandenburg charged that "free
dom of belief and thought is
being suppressed" in the Soviet
zone.
He said the socialist unity
(communist) party was trying
to "extend an ever-increasing
one-party dictatorship to the
whole of our German father
land."
A directive by the Evangelical
church to its representatives in
Berlin and East Germany reaf
firmed standing orders that "the
church must not participate in
any political activities and dem
onstratons or any other political
manifestations" in bovlet-occu
pied territory.
The directive said this policy
had been made known to the
Russian army command two
years ago and was being restat
ed because of latest activities of
the "national front."
aturday and Puts
n Pressure
Washington, Feb. 17 ((Pre
sident Truman today asked his
fact-finding board in the coal
dispute to give him a personal
report tomorrow.
The White House announced
the president's move amid signs
that the government was putting
on heavy pressure to get the dis
pute wound up this week-end.
David Cole, the chairman of
Mr. Truman's board, told re
porters that government media
tors were "shooting for a settle
ment by Monday.
Court Likely to Act
Cole also suggested that it
might be difficult for the courts
to refrain from contempt action
against the miners if their strike
continues beyond this week.
The 370,000 coal diggers have
defied all this week a federal
court's order for them to go
back to work.
Eben Ayers, assistant presi
dential secretary, said the in
quiry board- was instructed to
appear at 10 a.m. (EST)' to give
the president an up-to-the-date
progress report.
Cyrus Ching, chief of the fed
eral mediation service, was ask
ed to sit in on the White House
conference along with John R.
Steelman, the assistant to the
president.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Pope Hits at
Red Tyranny
Vatican City, Feb. 17 VP)
Pope Pius XII said today "Peace
is endangered wherever public
opinion ceases to function free
ly."
The pope's words, which were
to have been delivered Sunday
to delegates to the Third Inter
national Congress of the Catho
lic Press, were published in the
Vatican newspaper Osservatore
Romano.
Osservatore said the pontiff
has recovered from an attack of
influenza but that some hoarse
ness persists and prompted him
to publish his discourse to the
journalists, whom he is to receive
in special audience Sunday.
In a clear reference to commu
nist-dominated countries, the
pope said:
We will leave aside those
cases where public opinion is si
lent in a world where even just
liberty is banished and where
only the voice of parties in pow
er, the opinions of chiefs or dic
tators is permitted to make its
voice heard.
To muffle the voice of citi
zens, to reduce it to a forced si
lence, is,'J in the eye of all
christians, an attempt against the
natural right of man, a violation
of the world order as God estab.
lished it."
Gets the Word Gen. George C. Marshall, now president of
the Red Cross, listens attentively as eight-year-old Charles La
Brozzi, Philadelphia youth, tells how he has been using Red
Cross plasma since he was two to combat a rare anemia from
which he is suffering. General Marshall is attending a Red
Cross session at Philadelphia, (AP Wircphoto)
Survivor S. Sgt. James R.
Ford, Holdenville, Okla., who
parachuted from B-36 off the
British Columbia coast, wear
ily tells newsmen at Fort
Hardy, B. C, how he hung
from his tree-caught parachute
for two hours, then found by
kicking his feet to restore cir
culation, he was only one foot
above the ground. (AP Wire
photo) Navy Orders 700
New War Planes
Washington, Feb. 17 VP) The
navy has ordered more than 700
planes, with a heavy emphasis
on jet fighters, it was learned
today.
Topping the list of purchases
is a contract with Grumman
Aircraft Engineering corpora
tion, Bethpage, N. Y., for 242
jet F9F Panthers and 72AF's, a
propeller-powered attack plane
for anti-submarine warfare.
The navy, like the air force,
has made no official announce
ment of aircraft purchases with
funds provided during the cur
rent fiscal year ending next
June 30. However, the navy con
firmed the order list after it
appeared in some detail In
American Aviation Daily,
trade letter.
Among the orders placed were
these:
McDonnell Aircraft1 corpora
tion, St. Louis, 140 F2H Ban
shees, a twin-jet fighter..
Douglas Aircraft company,
Santa Monica, Calif., 70 F3D
Skynight twin-jet all-weather
fighters and 53 Skyraider pro
peller attack bombers.
Congress appropriated $540,
900,000 for 768 new navy planes
to be bought this year.
Patton to Make
3 Speeches in Salem
President James G. Patton,
Denver, of the National Farmers
Union will make three speeches
here next week.
He will talk to the 40th annual
convention of the Oregon Farm
ers Union, the Salem Rotary
club, and to a public meeting at
Willamette university.
Patton, who is a member of
the European Cooperation Ad
ministration public advisory
board, will speak about Ameri
ca's stake in world economy.
The state convention opens
Tuesday and closes Thursday.
five airmen still missing from
the B-36 crash off the British
Columbia coast Monday night.
The storm, with winds up to
50 miles an hour, broke as
search parties trudged through
rough, wooded hills, encouraged
by sighting yesterday of tree
snagged parachutes and track
in the snow.
The search was also sparked
by two new clues a blood-spattered
patch in the snow where
a man had apparently fallen and
a SOS stamped in the snow.
Tracing New Clues
A Royal Canadian navy
spokesman at Esquimau, B. C,
said these were sighted yester
day, but northern darkenss clos
ed in before investigation was
completed.
One search party did not re
turn to the Cayuka until near
ly midnight. It was delayed
when thickness of island growth
forced members of the party to
crawl a "considerable distance"
on their hands and knees.
A United States helicopter
spotted the SOS and imprint.
Four parachutes also were locat
ed, but it is not known whether
they belonged to the missing
men or to those already res
cued. The 12th survivor rescued was
Lt. Charles G. Pooler of Beloit,
Kas.
Reserve Search Parties
Three search parties were be
ing held in reserve today aboard
the Cayuga. They will be rush
ed ashore it air reconnaissance
pinpoints any "hot" clues.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
Canadian C-47
Crashes, Yukon
Donjek River, Y. T., Feb. 17 (IP)
The seventh large military
plane to come to disaster in the
northwest area of Canada and.
the United States within the past
three weeks crashed yesterday
on an icy lake between here and
Northway, Alaska.
Only one of the four Cana
dians and 10 Americans aboard
was injured.
The plane, a Canadian Dakota
(C-47), was participating in ex
ercise Sweetbriar, the joint U. S.
Canadian Arctic maneuver.
Land vehicles are being sent to
aid the crashed plane which pil
ed up eight miles from the Alas
ka highway near Snag.
It was another chapter in a
disaster-ridden three weeks for
military aircraft throughout the
Northwest.
The series of tragedies began
when a USAF C-54 vanished
Jan. 26 with 44 persons aboard
while flying from Anchorage, Al
aska, to Great Falls, Mont. No
sign of the plane has been found
since, but the search continues.'
Two C-47's, participating in
the search for the C-54, cracked
up but all occupants of both
planes were rescued. Another
C-54, also participating in the
search for the big transport, pil
ed up out of Great Falls, killing
three persons.
Then Monday night, 17 per
sons parachuted from an ice
sheathed, burning B-36 off the
northern British Columbia coast.
Twelve of the 17 have been re
covered, but five still are miss
ing. A B-29 cracked up Wednes
day morning near Great Falls
shortly after taking off to aid in
the hunt for the B-36. Eight
crewmen perished in the flames.
Storm Warnings
Hoisted on Coast
Seattle, Feb. 17 VP) The wea
ther bureau issued the following
storm warning early today:
"Hoist southeast storm warn
ings 7 a.m. Tatoosh to Cape Blan
co and entrance Strait of Juan
De Fuca for increasing south
easterly winds today reaching 30
40 m.p.h. by afternoon and at
same time hoist small craft warn
ings inland waters of Washing
ton for slowly increasing south
erly winds today reaching 20-30
m.p.h by late this afternoon.