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62nd Year, No. 53 SSSffiES
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Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 3, 1950
Price 5c
Army to Build
Salem Armory
For Reserves
$10 Million to Be
Spent in 20 States for
Training Purposes
By MARGARET MAGEE
U.S. army authorities in Wash
ington Friday announced that
the Army will spend $10,000,000
for the construction of 21 new
armories in 20 states to be used
in training officers and men of
the organized reserve corps.
The information, received via
Associated Press, also stated that
4 in the group for Sixth Army
area was Salem, Oregon; San
Jose, Calif.; Logan, Utah; Olym
pia. Wash., and Fort McArthur,
Calif.
. In addition to the 21 new ar
mories the Army will establish
four armories in buildings to be
purchased, the story said.
Sites Not Determined
New armories will be built on
government owned land and the
contracts let through competi
tive bidding except when direct
negotiation is deemed to be in
the best interests of the govern
ment. Salem previously had been
informed by Sixth Army that it
was to receive one of the armo
ries and proposed sites inspected
by Sixth Army representatives.
According to previous infor
mation received by Lt. Col.
: Bruce H. Johnson, senior in
structor for reserves here, the
armory is to be of the standard
type constructed by the 'Army
for reserves and of concrete
blocks.
Standard Design
The standard armory design
is a building of three levels, the
first being a basement. Size of
the building is 12B.4 feet by 88.6
feet.
On the basement level will be
the rifle range (small arms);
storage space for ammunition,
arms and sensitive instruments
and the boiler room and heat
ing plant. .
The ground floor has a large
assembly hall 120 feet by 75
feet in the center. It is surround
ed by office space for the unit
instructors, instructor personnel
and unit commanders; day room
space for both officers and en
listedmen; locker room space
for the enlisted men and offi
cers; a small kitchen and stor
age space for unit equipment.
The entire second story is giv
en over to class room space. It
is divided into two class rooms
that can be opened into one large
classroom, but can be sub-divid
ed into almost any number of
rooms.
Wintry Blasts
Blow in East
(By the Associated Press)
Wintry blasts blew away all
thoughts of springtime over areas
from Minnesota to the Atlantic
seaboard today. The Arctic air
seeped southward and the freez
ing line extended into central
Georgia.
There was some hope of
warming over the chilled mid
west region. But another day
of mid-winter weather appear
ed in prospect for most of the
eastern states Normal weather
was reported over most areas
from the Mississippi river west
ward to the Pacific coast.
Schools were closed, highway
travel impeded and hundreds
of motorists stranded in central
New York state, which was
swept by a blizzard. Tempera
tures dropped over the eastern
region and were generally below
zero over the New England
states except in the coastal areas
of Massachusetts and Rhode Is
land.
The mercury tumbled to six
below zero at Albany, N. Y.,
while lows in New England in
cluded -14 at Caribou, Me., and
-13 at Burlington, Vt. The cold
air covered the Carolinas, parts
of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama
and Kentucky. It got into north
ern Florida, too, and the early
morning reading at Jacksonville
was 38. At the same time it
was 54 at Miami and 32 at
Birmingham, Ala.
Winds diminished over the
midwest cold belt but they still
whipped over the eastern states
Burns Fatal to Girl
Portland, March 3 VP) A flam
ing nightdress, touched off by an
electric heater February 18.
brought death yesterday to De
anna Mae Cagle, 10, of Sweet
Home. The girl, daughter of Mr.
k and Mrs. P. D. Cagle, died in
Doernbecher hospital.
Plan to Widen
3 Streets for
Auto Parking
Mayor Proposes Use
Court and Liberty in
Downtown District
Widening of three blocks of
streets in Salem's business dis
trict, and improvement of a
part of River street were recom
mended to Salem business men
by Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom
Friday as the 1950 program for
additional car parking facilities
downtown.
Other facilities would follow
from year to year as needed.
The mayor s recommendations
were considered, and were ex
pected to be endorsed, by busi
ness men meeting at the Marion
at the call of the Salem Retail
Trade bureau.
The mayor recommended:
Recommendations
That Court street be widened
between High and Church; that
Liberty be widened between
Chemeketa and Court; and that
Liberty also be widened between
State and Ferry; that River
street be made accessible for
free parking.
The widening of the three
blocks in the city center would
make possible angle instead of
parallel parking, to accommo
date about 60 additional cars,
and the estimated cost would be
about $30,000.
River street would accommo
date an estimated 188 cars, and
the cost of the project would be
about $20,000, including the op
ening of Court street to the lot.
Only this part of the 1950 pro
gram would give off-street park
ing. The $20,000 would include
paving, not planned this year.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Chairman Quits
Housing
Board
Portland, March 3 VP) Port
land's housing authority was dis
rupted today when the chairman
quit charging federal pressure
, and three other top men said
they were planning to resign.
J; J. Gard, chairman, gave out
word of his resignation last
night.
He said there had been con
stant pressure from the public
housing administration and he
either had to quit or become a
"rubber stamp."
Harry D. Freeman, executive
director since 1942, said he too
was going to quit. The same word
came from his assistant, Ken
neth E. Eckert, and the director
of maintenance, Roy W. Taylor.
The men offered no detailed
comment, but Gard said the lo
cal authority and the PHA dis
agreed on such things as paint
ing of the city's 7000 public
housing units, conversion of uni
versity homes from coal to oil
meter rates for washing ma
chines and other matters.
The local housing authority
acts as lessee of the PHA in
handling the housing units and
its actions are subject to PHA
review.
Dentists to Meet
Portland, March 3 IP) The
57th annual convention of the
state Dental association will be
held here March 6-8.
Oregon Bank Robber
Nabbed in San Salvador
San Salvador, El Salvador,
today announced the arrest of
by the FBI on various charges.
Police officials identified the
who escaped from McNeil island
Vernon Ward Morgan, charged
with bank robbery and other of
fenses in several states, and Ar
thur Thomas Downes, charged
with counterfeiting.
The three were jailed pending
arrival of FBI agents to return
them to the United States.
Portland, March 3 VP) Hen
ry Clay Tollett, reported under
arrest today in San Salvador,
took part in two of Oregon's
smoothly executed 1947 bank
robberies.
He was only a year out of the
Oklahoma state penitentiary
when he helped engineer the
$31,431 robbery of the E. G.
Young & Co. bank at Oakland,
Ore., on May 5, 1947, and the
$57,947 robbery of the Bank of
Sweet Home the following Au
gust 29.
Within a month of the second
robbery Tollett was named by
the FBI. At that time he was
uadei arrest at Bakersfield,
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Saar District
Now Republic
Paris, March 3 VP) France
gave the title - of "Republic"
with broader autonomy to the
occupied Saar today in return
for control of the valley's ricn
coal mines for the next 50 years.
Ir a treaty signed by "French
and Saar 'representatives,
France " promised the border-
area which Is still claimed by
Germany full independence
after 50 years.
The final effectiveness of the
Franco - Saar pact, however,
hinges on a final peace treaty
between the allies and Ger
many. The treaty today confer
red the title of "Republic of the
Saar" on the region containing
926,000 German-speaking in
habitants. France detached the Saar
from the rest , of western Ger
many after World War Two and
gave its government a form of
autonomy linked economically
to France.
The pact, concluded after a
month of negotiations here, of
fers more freedom in internal
affairs to the Saarland govern
ment, but France still retains
control of its foreign relations
and military security.
A 12-man board, equally di
vided between Frenchmen and
Saarlanders, will be set up to
supervise the coal mining.
Bing to Enter Hospital
Hollywood, March 3 (U.R) Bing
Crosby will undergo an appen
dectomy next week, his brother
said today.
The crooner will enter St.
John's hospital in Santa Monica
Tuesday.
"The appendix has been giv
ing Bing trouble off and on for
some time, Larry Crosby said.
March 3 VP) Salvadorean police
three North Americans wanted
men as Henry Clay Tollett,
penitentiary, Washington state
Henry Clay Tollett
Calif., on an armed robbery
charge he later was convicted
along with Sam Scribner who
drew 20 years for his part in he
Oakland robbery.
(Concluded on Pate 5, Column 4)
May Widen These Streets to Help Parking in City Center
Above, Liberty, from Court to Chemeketa, and below,
Court, from High to Church, which Mayor Elfstrom recom
mends be widened this year to increase automobile parking
by providing angle instead of parallel parking. The recom
mendations were heard by downtown business men meeting
at the Marion at noon Friday. (Other pictures on Page 5)
State Plants
By Emergency Board
- ' : ' Bv JAMES D. OLSON ' . ...
I 'Members of the 'state emergency board and two members of
the board, of control visited
home; school for the deaf and the
ing,
The visit was made to give
Ban Visit of
Red Partisans
Washington, March 3 VP) '
The United States refused today
to permit a 12-member European
peace delegation" headed by
Pablo Picasso, noted Spanish
artist, to visit this country.
The state department said
that the 12 "are either known
communists or fellow travelers
and are therefore subject to ex
clusion from the United States
under the immigration laws."
American consuls were in
structed last night to refuse
passport visas for the group,
whose announced purpose was
to present a petition to congress
calling for immediate reduction
of war budgets and military
forces, and prohibition of ato
mic weapons.
The turndown came after
strong pressure had been ex
erted on the state department by
congressional leaders to block
the proposed visit.
The Picasso group is known
formally as the World Congress
of Partisans of Peace
Quiz Hoffman
On British Oil
Washington, March 3 VP)
Senators today called on ECA
Chief Paul Hoffman to explain
why Britain needs more than
$500,000,000 worth of American
oil.
The committee heard one ex
planation last week from W
John Kenney, chief of the eco
nomic cooperation administra
tion mission to England. It did
n't satisfy Senator Lodge (R
Mass.)
Lodge asked the committee to
reopen the hearings (10:30 a.m.,
EST) to permit Hoffman to give
his report and Chairman Con-
nally (D., Tex.), agreed to the
unusual procedure.
Lodge argues that Great Brit
ain has a $1,000,000,000 deficit.
This dollar gap could be cut
mere than half, he insists, if
Great Britain used sterling (em
pire) oil rather than dollar oil.
Kenney's explanation was that
Britain is expanding her oil pro
duction but still needs oil from
this country to meet her domes
tic and foreign requirements.
There purchases are financed by
recovery dollars.
Inspected
three state institutions Fairview
state hospital Thursday morn
members of the emergency board
van opportunity to personally
view buildings in which emer
gency improvements amounting
to $373,000 have been requested
and on proposals to be voted up
on Thursday afternoon.
Installation of sprinkling sys
tem in the administration build
ing and cottages of Fairview
home at an estimated cost of
$56,000 is included in the emer
gency list.
Several members of the board
expressed belief that a: ( '
chutes to be used to evacuating
patients in the event of fire
should be installed in the Fair
view home cottages.
In some buildings in which
patients sleep, only one chute
has been installed and William
Walsh, - president of the senate
and chairman of the emergency
board, declared that he felt that
chutes should be installed on
both ends of each building. Dr.
Irving Hill, superintendent, en
dorsed the idea.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
Congress Alter
Defense Boss
Washington, March 3 VP)
Rep. Vinson (D-Ga.) said today
he will introduce legislation to
keep Secretary of Defense John
son from "freezing" money ap
proved by congress for specific
military projects.
Johnson couldn't disregard
congress even in the name of
economy, under Vinson's pro
posed bill. The congressman is
chairman of the house armed
services committee.
Vinson said the bill would re
quire the defense secretary to
consult with the senate and
house appropriation committees
before congress-approved funds
are withheld by administrative
action.
Back of this is anger within
Vinson's committee and in the
house military appropriations
subcommittee over action by
Johnson last year in halting the
spending of $735,000,000 voted
by congress to increase the air
force from 48 to 58 groups.
Sternly questioned, Johnson
told a military appropriations
subcommittee in January that
he took this action at the direc
tion of President Truman. He
said that in his opinion Mr. Tru
man was acting in his capacity
as commander-in-chief of the
nation's armed forces.
Mr. Truman had taken . the
position that 48 groups were ad
equate for national defense and
that any increase in strength
would be more than the current
spending budget could stand.
Truman Asks Congress For
Power to Seize Coal Mines
Nurse Testifies
Cancer Victim
Already Dead
Manchester, N.H., March 3 VP)
A head nurse testified today
Mrs. Abbie Borroto had a death
pallor .and .was .not breathing
some minutes before Dr. Her
mann N. Sander ever injected
air into the woman's veins.
"I thought she was dead," said
Mrs. Cecelia Smith, who had
stopped at the patient's bedside
in the Hillsboro county hospi
tal last December 4.
Mrs. Smith, a defense witness,
said she failed to detect any
pulse in the 59-year-old cancer-
stricken woman during her first
visit to the bedside the morning
Mrs. Borroto died.
Later, the nurse testified she
returned with Dr. Albert Snay
and that he took Mrs. Borroto's
pulse and listened for her heart
beat through a stethoscope.
Had Awful Death Pallor
Dr. Snay has signed a state
ment that the woman was dead
when he looked at her and that
he so indicated to Dr. Sander as
the first degree murder defen
dant went to the room moments
later.
Dr. Sander is accused of in
jecting a fatal dose of air into
Mrs. Borroto's veins in a so-call
ed mercy gesture to end her
suffering.
Mrs. Smith said Mrs. Borroto
had "an awful death pallor" at
the time and she was "cold and
clammy."
"Was she breathing?" asked
Defense Attorney Robert P.
Booth.
"No, she wasn't," answered
Mrs. Smith, who was supervising
nurse in that part of the hos
pital at the time.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
Doctor Asserts
Air Harmless
Baltimore, March 3 VP) A
Baltimore physician has offered
to have 40 cubic centimeters of
air injected into his veins in be
half of the defense in the New
Hampshire "mercy killing" trial.
Forty cubic centimeters is the
amount allegedly injected into
the veins of a Manchester, N.H.,
cancer victim for whose death
Dr. Hermann N. Sander is now
being tried.
Dr. Harry M. Robinson, pro
fessor of dermatology at the Uni
versity of Maryland and instruc
tor of syphilogy at Johns Hop
kins Medical school, said yester
day he has injected 40 or more'
centimeters of air into the veins
of many patients without any
harmful effects.
Dr. Robinson declared:
"Injections of air into veins
cannot cause death. Air that is
injected into the veins goes to
the right side of the heart and
then to the lungs, where it dis
appears.
"There are nn results at all
either good or bad. The air
simply has no effect."
Polio Chapter Faces
Year with Funds Low
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
Assets: $2592.57. Unpaid bills: $8595.711
That was the situation confronting Marion county chapter, Na
lional Infantile Paralysis Foundation, Inc., when members as
sembled for their monthly meeting Thursday night at Salem
Memorial hospital dining room
Step by step, the situation
was met like this:
With $13.57 cash on hand at
the end of the month, the chap
ter turned in its last reserve
bond of $1644, and received
back the $935 loaned to set up
the March of Dimes campaign
the three sums giving the assets
of $2592.57.
To date $16,000 has been re
ceived from the March of Dimes
campaign, half of which goes to
national headquarters according
to the set-up of the foundation,
it was reported by Howard Ra
gan, campaign chairman.
By vote at the meeting, Ra
gan this morning turned over
$8000, the half from the cam
paign funds due the chapter.
With this $8000 plus the chap
ter assets of $2592.57 the chapter
wki l'- "1
'King Coal' John L. Lew-,
is, union boss' of the nation's
striking coal miners, hangs
onto his hat and bundles his
coat collar around his throat
as he breasts blustry, snowy
weather on arrival at Silver
Spring, Md., to resume bar
gaining on a contract to reopen
pits. He is returning from
brother's funeral in Illinois.
(AP Wirephoto)
Declares Lewis
New York, March 3 OT The
New York Times said today John
L. Lewis, chief of the United
Mine Workers, insists that neith
er public health . nor safety is
imperiled by the nationwide coal
strike.
Lewis says there is enough
coal on hand, if "fairly distrib
uted," to last out the time needed
to end the dispute, the newspa
per reported.
And he added that he could
come to a quick settlement if
the industry would send its "real
owners" to bargain with him.
Lewis defended himself and
his United Mine Workers in a
1,500-word answer to seven
questions asked by . Arthur
Krock, Washington correspon
dent for the New York Times.
"No strike )n the coal fields
has ever imperiled public health
or safety, this one included,"
Krock quoted Lewis as saying.
"When has this nation ever
been imperiled by one? There
is enough coal on hand, if it were
fairly distributed, to last out the
time we shall require to adjust
the current dispute fairly."
The Times said publication of
the personal interview was held
up pending the outcome of the
government's contempt case
against the UMW in federal
court in Washington yesterday.
was in position to pay Its unpaid
Bills of $8595.71.
That will leave a balance of
less than $2000 to face a whole
year before another campaign is
completed and a sum of $14,
000 was paid out during 1949 to
care for 31 cases of polio in
Marion countyl
And already, three cases have
been reported since the start of
1950. And bills still come in for
care of cases stricken during the
past few months!
"What next?" was the qucs
tion from the 30 persons attend
ing the meeting "Where do we
go from here?"
The chapter practically is
"broke" again albeit the an
nual fund campaign is just com
pleted but the bills for the mo
ment are paid.
(Concluded on rage S, Column 6)
Asks Immediate
Action As Nation
Out of Soft Coal
Washington, March 3 VP) '
President Truman today asked
congress for power to seize the
nation's strike-bound coal mines. .
The president said in a special
message:
"Within a few days we shall
be virtually out of soft coal.
The danger to the national
health and safety is real and im
mediate. It requires action at
once. '
Ke said that if coal produc
tion is not resumed at once there
will be "human suffering and
disastrous economic disloca
tion."
Mr. Truman proposed:
President's Proposals
1. An impartial board to -
make recommendations "con
cerning fair and just compensa
tion for the use of the property
of the mine owners."
2. Another impartial board to '
determine how much the gov
ernment should pay the miners
while they work for the gov
ernment.
3. Establishment of a com
mission of inquiry, including
government, congressional and
public members "to make
thorough study of the coal in
dustry in terms of economic, so
cial and national security ob
jectives." The miners have now been on
a full strike since Feb. 6 and
since Feb. 11 have defied a fed
eral court's order for a return to
work.
Mr. Truman's proposed pro
gram was based on the assump
tion that they would return to
work if the government took
over the pits.
Hopes for a Contract
At the same time he asked
the power of seizure, the presi
dent said he hoped he would
not have to use it.
(Concluded on Fat 5, Column 8)
Navy Fuel Aids
Seven States
Pittsburgh, March 3 VP) The
navy came to the aid of coal
short institutions in seven states
today as the fuel shortage grew
more acute across the nation.
The Charleston (S.C.) naval
base made available 17,000 tons
of coal for public institutions
in the sixth naval district. It is
made up of South Carolina,
Georgia, North Carolina, Flor
ida, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Alabama.
Maine's Governor Frederick
G. Payne asked the air force
for use of coal stored in the de
activated Presque Isle base for
that northern Maine city s
schools which have only a two
week supply.
Unemployment continues to
mount.
It is estimated unofficially
that at least 225,000 workers in
allied industries have joined the
372,000 striking United Mine
Workers in idleness.
More and more emergency
measures are going into effect
in an effort to keep the growing
paralysis from strangling Am
erica's economy.
Henry Ford II, head of Ford
Motor company, says "the en
tire country will be shut down
in two weeks" if coal produc
tion isn't resumed soon.
In Fontana, Calif., the Kai
ser Steel corporation announced
a 10 to 20 per cent steel produc
tion cut with a corresponding
layoff among 5,000 employes.
Defense Closes in
Judith Coplon Trial
New York, March 3 VPf The
Judith Coplon-Valentin Gubit
chev espionage case is going to
the jury without any witnesses
for Miss Coplon and only brief
testimony in behalf of Gubitchev.
The defense rested in a dra
matic move late yesterday, less
than four and a half hours after
the prosecution completed ita
case.
Defense and government law
yers will sum up their cases on
Monday. Federal Judge Sylves
ter J. Ryan will charge the jury
of six men and six women on
Tuesday and place the fate of
the defendants in the jurors'
hands.