Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, March 11, 1950, Page 1, Image 1

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    THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY CLOUDY this evening;
possible few light scattered
showers. Clearing tonight, Sun
day. Low temperature tonight;
26;high Sunday, 54.
Maximum yeiterder, 40; minimum to
day, 7. Total 24-nonr precipitation: .11;
far month: 1.45; normal 134. 8eaon pre
cipitation, 34.36) normal, 28.61. Kircr
htltnt, 6.1 feet. (Report or V. S. Weath
er Bureau.)
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 11, 1950
Price 5c
26 Enter Race
For Legislature
In Marion Area
7 GOP, 2 Demos for
Senate; 12 GOP, 5
Demos for House
By JAMES D. OLSON
Twenty-six candidates are in
the race for the legislature in
Marion county, of which 12 re
publicans and five democrats
seek nomination for the four
house seats and nine running for
two senate seats, seven republi
cans and two democrats.
Filing by candidates for the
May 19th primary election was
ef'osed promptly at 5 p. m. Fri
day night by Dave O'Hara, elec
tion registrar. It is possible that
a few additional filings, posted
in the mail prior to 5 p. m. Fri
day may reach O'Hara's office
Saturday but it is not believed
that any candidates in Marion
county utilized the mail.
The republican candidates for
the two Marion county senate
seats include Sen. Fred Lam
port, Reps. W. W. Chadwick,
Douglas R. Yeater and Frank R.
Doerfler; Steve Anderson and
K. G. Thompson, all of Salem,
and Richard L. Ryman of Ger
vais. The two democrats who filed
for the senate seats are Arthur
' L. Davis of Salem and Frank
Porter of Silverton.
Republicans filing for the
four Marion county house seats
include Rep. John F. Steel
hammer, H. R. (Farmer) Jones,
Lee V. Ohmart, Roy L. Houck,
B. E. (Kelly) Owens, George E.
Emigh, Jr., E. E. Boring, Rich
ard G. Severin, Ivan G. Martin,
Mark Hatfield and Gene Ma
lecki, all of Salem and Lloyd
Girod of Idanha.
The five democrats seeking
nomination for the house are
Lawrence J. Koch, St. Paul; Jo
sephine A. Spaulding, Ward
Graham, Alvin J. Whitlaw and
Preston W. Hale, all of Salem.
(Concluded on Page 8, Column 1)
Cold Wave Hits
All Northwest
(By the Associated Pre&s)
A mass of Polar air that swept
down from the Arctic erased
hopes for an early spring over
most of the Pacific northwest
last night and brought Spokane
its coldest March 11 in 68 years
today. It was 7 above there.
There were five inches of snow
on the ground ,in the inland
empire and about the only thing
that looked like spring was the
bright sun that rose in a cloud
less sky today.
Oregon escaped the worst cold.
The lowest reading was at Klam
ath Falls, with 12 above. Lake
view had 16, and Bend 17. Most
other readings were in the 20s
and 30s.
A scattering of snow was re
ported over the state. Klamath
Falls was blanketed in snow, a
little less than an inch. There
were patches on Portlands' hills
The weather bureau predicted
colder weather in all of Oregon
tonight down to 10 in some
parts of eastern Oregon, and
down to 25 in western Oregon
It was 27 above in Salem Satur
day, 270 Declarations
Of Candidacy Filed
The largest number of filings
to ever be received in Marion
county at one time hit the coun
ty clerk's office Friday after
noon, when over 250 declara
tions of candidacy for democra
tic precinct committeemen and
committeewomen came over the
counter wrapped in a rubber
band.
Many of the filings were for
precincts in which there has not
been democratic committeemen
or committeewomen previously.
Also filing on the final day
were about 25 republican can
didates for precinct committee
men and committeewomen.
Swiping of Stalin's
Picture Causes Strike
Trieste, Free Territory. Mar.
11 W) Pro-communist dock
workers struck for an hour here
yesterday. Someone had made
off with their lifesize picture of
Marshal Stalin down by the wa
terfront. Soon afterward, two. Ameri
can merchant sailors showed up
, aboard their ship, the African
L Glade, with the picture in tow.
3 Democrats
On Ballot for
County
Offices
Vistica and Burk for
Commissioner, Heyden
For Recorder
By CHRIS KOWITZ, JR.
Alfred J. Zielinski and Andy
C. Burk, as expected, filed their
declarations of candidacy for
republican and democratic nom
ination, respectively, for the of
fice of Marion county commis
sioners. The filings were made
late Friday, the final day of fil
ings. Zielinski will oppose incum
bent Commfssioner E. L. Rogers
on the republican ticket in the
May primaries. Burk, ex-sheriff
of Marion county, will be run
ning on the democratic ticket
against Anton M. Vistica, who
filed earlier this week.
Surprise Filing
A surprise last-day filing for
county office was that made by
Henry A. Heyden, 2175 South
19th, for the democratic nomin
ation as county recorder. Hey
den will be the lone democrat
seeking this office. On the re
publican ticket will be Herman
Lanke, current recorder.
One commissioner and re
corder are the only major Mar
ion county positions to be filled
in the 1950 elections.
Zielinski of Silverton, is a na
tive of Marion county. He was
born in Salem 35 years ago, and
was educated in the Salem public
schools. He resides in the How
ell Prairie district west of Sil
verton. A World War II vet
eran, he served with the 51st
field artillery battalion, the
603rd tank destroyer battalion
and the 91st Infantry division.
Zielinski is a descendant of
the original five Zielinski broth
ers who settled in Marion county
in what is now Hazel Green dis-
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Carrier Division
ForPacificLooms
Washington, March HOT
The navy is splitting up its car
rier division five in the Pacific
to reestablish carrier division
three.
There has been only one car
rier division in the Pacific since
last June when the carriers
Princeton and Antietan were or
dered laid up.
Under the split, Rear Adm.
John M. Hoskins of Pineville,
Ky., will head the new division
three. His flagship and only ship
at present will be the 27,000-ton
Valley Forge, which has been
part of division five. The divi
sion base will be at San Diego.
The only other carrier of di
vision five, the Boxer, is now
in the western Pacific. A third
carrier, the Philippine Sea, has
been ordered to proceed from
the Atlantic to the Pacific next
month.
Hoskins has been chief of staff
to the commander of the Pacific
fleet's air force. That post will
go to Capt. Thomas B. William
son, naval aide to Secretary of
Defense Johnson. Williamson
has been nominated to be rear
admiral.
The navy said the split of di
vision five will provide the
frame-work for further expan
sion of Pacific carrier strength
if needed.
Collins and Musgrave
In Mayoralty Rate
Earl Burk, 642 Edgewater, Saturday filed his preliminary pe
tition with the city recorder as a candidate for alderman from
Ward 8.
If elected, as he probably will be, since no opposition is indi
cated, Burk will be the first regularly elected alderman from the
new ward which comprises that
part of Salem west of the Wil
lamette river, including the for
mer West Salem which was a
separate municipality before the
merger. Walter Musgrave, who
was mayor of West Salem, is
serving as alderman by appoint
ment of the council, and is a
candidate for Salem mayor.
On his declaration as a candi
date for alderman Burk says:
Will support a continued pro
gram of close cooperation with
all wards in the interest of build
ing a greater Salem "
On the ballot after his name
will appear "Five years experi
ence as a councilman." He was
member of the West Salem
council for that period
Candidates for city offices
have to and including April 3 id O'Hara of Ward 5 may be
to file, and candidates h a v ecome a candidate for mayor.
Sander Sure
Of Registration
Candia, N. H., March 11 OT
Dr. Hermann N. Sander is con
fident the state board of regis
tration in medicine will permit
him to resume practice.
The handsome young doctor,
acquitted of murder in the death
of a cancer-plagued patient, said
last night he felt sure the board
will allow him to return to his
patients "after calm, cool delib
eration." Dr. Sander made the state
ment shortly before he and his
wife left on "a southern trip."
They would not disclose their
destination.
A representative of the state
board, who talked with the doc
tor before he left, said the group
may not hold a formal hearing
on suspension or revocation of
Dr. Sander's license for several
weeks. . - - i
Members of the board will
meet at the state house Monday
to set the date.
The board is expected to give
particular attention to Dr. San
der's court testimony tnat ne in
serted, or attempted to insert, an
air-filled needle into a vein in
the arm of Mrs. Abbie C. Bor
roto. his patient.
The state charged that the air
injection caused Mrs. Borroto's
death. Medical testimony was
offered by the defense, however,
that the vein had collapsed and
that an air injection was im
nossible. The 31 members of the house
of delegates of the New Hamp
shire Medical society will meet
in Concord tomorrow to discuss
the case.-
Hoover Opposed to
National Police Force
Washington, March 11 W)
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
said today he is "unequivocally
opposed" to any national police
force in this country.
"The old world implications
in the very words are abhorrent
to me as an American," Hoover
said.
The FBI chief expressed his
views in a signed editorial in the
March issue of the bureau's law
enforcement bulletin, which is
circulated among law enforce
ment officers.
now filed for all city offices.
Those who have filed are:
For mayor, Harry V. Collins
and Walter Musgrave; for city
treasurer, Paul H. Hauser; for
city Judge, Elmer M. Amund
son; alderman from Ward 2, Al
bert H. Gille; alderman from
Ward 4, Dan J. Fry; alderman
from Ward 6, E. J. Church and
Tom Armstrong.; alderman from
Ward 8, Earl Burk.
Completed petitions signed by
the required number of citizens
have been filed by Amundson
Collins and Gille, the latter fil
ing his complete Saturday.
Alfred Loucks, an announced
candidate for mayor has not yet
filed his declaration. There Is
a possibility that Alderman Dav-
True Happiness Although the children are a little frighten
ed by the photographer, Dr. Hermann N. Sander, his family
and their dog, Taffy, present a scene of true happiness as
they pose in their Candia home after the physician was freed
as a mercy slayer in Manchester, N. H. Found innocent by
a court of law. Dr. Sander has promised not to resume his
practice pending a trial by his fellow doctors on whether he
violated medical ethics when he injected air into a cancer
doomed patient. The children are left to right: Mary Alice,
4; Nancy Ada, 18 months; and Martha Louise, 5. (Acme
Telephoto)
Public Hearing Monday
On Capitol Re-zoning
By STEPHEN A. STONE
A public hearing on the question of re-zoning the southeast
corner of North Capitol and Center street to permit the erection
of a high class service station will be the center of interest at the
city council meeting Monday night.
George A. Rhoten and Sam F.
May Buy Pork to
Keep Prices Up
Chicago, . March" 11 OT The
government may have to buy
pork within the next few weeks
to keep hog prices up, the pro
duction and marketing adminis
tration of the agriculture depart
ment said today.
Average cost of barrows and
gilts at Chicago fell under the
federal support level at the close
of this week, the administration's
market information service said.
"Moreover," it added, "the
combined average cost at seven
markets for the week may have
been under the government
guide as a result of the late
downturn in prices.
"With fall pigs already start
ing to market and threatening
prices, the department of agri
culture may find it necessary to
buy pork within the next few
weeks in order to keep prices
up."
The point at which the govern
ment must buy pork is based on
a mathematical formula. Its es
sence is a "guide" price for seven
midwestern markets. When the
average price of barrows and
gilts at these markets sell below
the "guide" price, government
support operations may be called
into play.
The guide price for all of
March is $16.65 a hundred
pounds. In the .week ended
March- 4 the average price of
barrows and' gilts was only 21
cents above the guide, or $16.86.
The average price for this week
will not be announced until
Monday.
Molalla Sawmill
Worker Dies in Names
Oregon City, March 11 OT
Reuben Robert Hildebrandt, 45-
year-old sawmill worker who
was married only three weeks
ago, burned to death last night
in his cabin near a sawmill five
miles from Molalla.
It was Clackamas county's
ninth fire fatality in three days.
A family of eight perished at a
sawmill camp near Sandy Wed
nesday. The mill owner, George Lind
say, saw the blaze and tried to
rescue Hildebrandt, but was un
able to brave the flames. Cor
oner Ray Rilance said Hilde
brandt apparently fell asleep
while smoking.
Hildebrandt's wife, a Cana
dian, had left just yesterday for
New Westminster, B.C., to obtain
papers for permanent re-entry
into this country. Her maiden
name was not available.
Speerstra, owners of the property
?and the petitioners, have
sup
porting them the city planning
and zoning commission, which
has recommended the change to
the city council.
Against them they have the
state capitol planning commis
sion and the Salem long-range
planning commission.
What the city council, which
has the final say, will do about
it is the issue Monday night. The
ordinance bill was introduced
two weeks ago and is on the
calendar for third reading and
final action.
It is known that Rhoten will
be present to take part in the
debate, also that the state com
mission and the long-range com
mission will be represented.
Other speakers are expected.
The question is controversial
because the property is on the
fringe of the capitol zone where
the state commission wants a
ban on commercial enterprises.
Another public hearing Mon
day night will be on the ques
tion of 40-foot-set-back lines
from the center line of Portland
road (Highway 99E) from Lana
avenue to the north city limit.
The set-back is requested by the
state highway department.
Whether the two daylight sav
ing ordinance bills will be in
troduced Monday night is a
question. One would make day
light saving time automatic
every year, the other would set
the dates for it this year. The
bills were prepared prior to the
last February meeting of the
council, but were not introduced.
They are strongly opposed by
various organizations.
Among bills for third reading
is one giving the South Salem
Friends church authority to erect
a neon sign that was presented
the church.
A bill restricting fireworks
may be introduced. On the
agenda will be a large number of
sidewalk resolutions for new
walks in Rosedale annex, North
Salem, Cardwell, Highland ave
nue and Kay's Second additions.
Atlantic Allies to
Discuss Defense
Washington, March 11 OT
Top defense officials of the 12
North Atlantic allies were called
today to a series of meetings
at The Hague.
Secretary of Defense Johnson
announced that The Nether
lands government will be host
to a meeting of the Atlantic pact
defense committee on April 1
It will be the third meeting of
this committee, which is compos
ed of Johnson and defense min
isters of the 1 1 other treaty mem
bers.
Johnson said the meeting has
been called to review the accom
plishments of North Atlantic
treaty planning.
Pope Pius Calls
Prayer Crusade
To Urge Peace
Says Armament Race
Leaves Souls of All
Fearful
Vatican City, March 11 (P)
Pope Pius XII declared i n
a worldwide encyclical today the
armaments race leaves "the souls
of all fearful and suspended."
He called for a "crusade of pray-
on Passion Sunday, March
26, to invoke of God "opportune
remedies to prevent evils."
Although war has ceased al
most everywhere, nevertheless
desired peace, a solid and stable
peace that could happily resolve
the many and always increasing
motives of discord, has not ar
rived. Many nations place ob
stacles in each others path and
as trust fades there is a race to
re-arm leaving the souls of all
fearful and suspended."
Uplifted by Pilgrims
The pope said the sight of Pil
grims flowng to Rome for holy
year "has sweetly uplifted us."
Nevertheless, he added, "reas
ons of distress and anxiety are
not lacking which sadden our pa
ternal spirit.
The pontiff said the "root of
all evil" was that "not infre
quentiy truth is replaced by
falsehood which is used as an in
strument of dispute."
Without mentioning them by
name, the pope clearly lashed out
against, communist countries
which, he said, were "not few,'
and where "the rights of God,
of the church and of human na
ture itself is being offended and
downtrodden."
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 8)
Calls for Fast
On Atomic Bomb
Bexhill, Eng., March 11 OT
A Church of England pastor
called on Britons today to stop
work and begin a solemn fast
March 26 unless a national com
mittee is formed to demand ne
gotiations on atomic weapons
between the U.S. and Russia.
The vicar, the Rev. R. S. S.
Waterson, said in an interview
the committee should include
political, church and civic lead
ers and experts on atomic ener
gy. He compared the proposed
protest to the passive resistance
movement of the late Mohandas
K. Gandhi.
'This is not a sword hanging
over an individual," he said,
"but a doom hovering over the
world, and we must act in accor
dance with the seriousness of
tho situation.
'Let us demand the immedi
ate formation of a national com
mittee to open negotiations with
Russia and the U.S.A. and to de
fine a policy on the use of the
bomb.
'If the demand has not been
met by March 26, let all Christ-
people cease work and be
gin a fast until the national com
mittee is appointed.
'This will be drastic action
and will threaten our product
tion, but the threat to production
is not as serious as the hydrogen
bomb threat to our civilization.''
Dr. Waterson is the vicar of
St. Augustine's with St. Andrew
in this Sussex village near Lon
don.
Gubitchev to Accept
Deportation Otter
New York. March 11 OT Valentine A. Gubitchev, convicted
as a Soviet spy, reportedly will
offer of release from a 15-year
hi en home tn Russia.
The government had told
could pick his own penalty for
conspiracy and attempted es
pionage against the United
States.
He could get out, and stay
out, or he could go to prison for
15 years.
It was reported that Gubit
chev plans to leave the United
States March 20 aboard the Pol
ish liner Batory the same ship
on which communis fugitive
Gearhart Eisler fled this coun
try as a stowaway last May.
Both the New York Times and
the New York Herald Tribune
said they had learned of Gub
itchev's decision.
The reported sailing date is
four days ahead of the deadline
set by Federal Judge Sylvester
Ryan Thursday when he meted
out sentences of 15 years each to
Gubitchev and his co-spy, 28-year-old
Judith Coplon.
Asks McCarthy
tor rroor or
Red Infiltration
Washington, March 11 OT
Deputy Undersecretary of State
John E. Pcurifoy challenged
Senator McCarthy (R, Wis.), in
effect today to put up or shut up
on all his charges of communist
infiltration in the state depart
ment. "This is much too Important
to the country and its foreign po
licy to be left to innuendo,"
Peurifoy said in a statement is
sued at the department.
He implied that reliance on
innuendo is back of McCarthy's
announced plan to build his evi
dence against the state depart
ment on a few "thoroughly docu
mented" cases instead of trying
to present complete details on
all the cases of alleged disloyalty
which the senator has mention
ed.
Fuchs Passed on
All A-Secrets
Washington, March 11 OT
Dr. Klaus Fuchs, confessed Rus
sian spy, may have stripped the
United States' scientific cup
board bare of all but its latest
atomic secrets.
Further, it is considered like
ly among those familiar with
the situation that he could have
passed on to the Soviets highly
educated guesses, ' to say tne
least, about the rate of U.S. A
bomb production and the size of
this country's stockpile.
Both are closely guarded sec
rets. So is all data connected
with development of the poten
tially more deadly hydrogen
bomb. Fuchs was familiar with
the theory of the H-bomb, too.
Members of the senate-house
atomic energy committee who
saw the Fuchs' confession for
the first time yesterday took a
grave view of the matter. Sena
tor McMahon (D-Conn), com
mittee chairman, declined to
say what was in it or answer
minstlnnR about it.
The confession, passed on by
the British, reached the joint
committee through the' federal
bureau of investigation and the
atomic energy commission. AEC
officials met with the committee
behind closed doors to go over
the document.
Black Market in
Germany Booming
Bonn, Germany, March 11
P) More than half of all the
coffee West Germany drinks and
25 percent of the cigarettes it
smokes are smuggled into the
country by black marketers.
This claim was made today in
a motion to the Gorman parlia
ment (bundestag). It claims only
a small amount of the smuggled
goods could be confiscated "be
cause many of the black market
ers are foreigners" who canpot
be brought before German
courts.
Lookout Dam Contract
Portland, March 11 OT The
army engineers will invite bids
about March 16 for constructing
a railroad detour and a section
of the permanent Southern Pa
cific railroad in the Lookout
Point dam area. The project be
gins 11 miles upstream from
Lowell, and extends for 114
miles.
accept the U. S. government's
prison term on the condition tnat
the 33-ycar-old engineer that he
The judge, on recommenda
tion of the justice department
and the state department, said
the Russian's sentence would be
suspended if he made his exit
within two weeks "never to
return."
The government has hinted
that the offer was made in hte
hop- that it might induce com
munist countries to accord sim
ilar treatment to Americans in
volved in court proceedings.
In Vienna, Mrs. Robert Vogel
er expressed hope that the ac
tion would prompt Hungary to
release her husband, an Ameri
can citizen sentenced in Buda-pe-'
last month to 15 years in
prison on charges of spying for
the U. S.
"We have set an example for
Hungary to follow," said Mrs.
Vogeler. "Maybe now they will
release my husband."
Airplane Strike
Called Off on
American Lines
Ground Crews Return
Monday, Win Security
Lose Wage Raise
New York, March 11 OT The
CIO Transport Workers union
today called off a nationwide
strike of ground crewmen
against American Airlines.
TWU President Michael J.
Quill, in announcing the action,
said the line's 4600 striking em
ployes would begin reporting to
work at 7 a.m. (EST) tomorrow.
The 11-day-old walkout had
crippled about 80 percent of the
line's normal operations.
Quill said that at meetincs nf
TWU , locals throughout tha
country today 3100 members
had voted to accept a proposal
that led to the termination of
the walkout. With still some lo
cals to be heard from, 390 had
voted to remain on strike, Quill
said.
Country Wide Meetings
The ground crewmen struck
in a demand for improved job
security and working conditions.
The country wide meetings
had been called by the union to
hear what a spokesman termed
a "report on important develop
ments" resulting from efforts ot
federal mediators to settle the
dispute.
William Grogan, TWU's inter
national vice president, said the
company had agreed to the un
ions job security demands. It
also agreed in writing that no
sub-contracts would be let for
maintenance work which com--'
pany employes could perform.
Grogan said.
The union's demands for waga
increases were dropped during
the course of the bargaining.
the union official said. It had
sought a 20-cent hourly Increase
to present scales ranging from
$1.02 to $2.14 for various job
classifications.
(Concluded on Pare K, Column 4)
Chiang's Forces
Report Victories
Taipei, Formosa, March 11 OT
The Chinese nationalists today
reported fresh air blows in sup
port of their invasion-threatened
Chushan islands and new
guerrilla succesess on the west
ern mainland.
Air headquarters announced
that Mitchell bombers and Mus
tang fighters yesterday attacked
shipping around the communist
held islands of the Chushan
archipelago 100 miles southeast
of Shanghai. Three big junks
and numerous small craft were
reported sunk.
(The communists have cap
tured a few minor islands in the
Chusan group. The principal
ones are held by the nationalists.
They use them as a base for
their blockade of the Red China
coast.)
Nationalist guerrillas were re
ported to have recaptured Lu
ting and Tanpa in Sikang pro
vince, which borders Tibet, and
Chinghau in Szcchwan pro
vince to the east of Siknng.
The nationalists asserted Wed
nesday their guerrillas had re
taken Kangting, capital of Si
kang, on March 5. Luting is 20
miles southeast of Kangting,
Tanpa 65 miles north. (Chinghau
is not shown on detail maps. J
Guerrillas credited with the
reported new successes in
China's far west are remnants of
nationalist armies which made
their way into Sikang when
resistance crumbled last Decem
ber and Chengtu fell. Chcngtu,
last nationalist capital on the
mainland, is in Szcchwan 120
miles northeast of Kangting.
House Near Gates
Burns to Ground
Gates. March 11 A house
owned by Tony Baker, east of
Gates, and occupied by the Dav
is family, man and wife and five
children, was destroyed by fire
about 11 a. m. Saturday.
The fire was discovered by M.
J. Thomas, a neighbor, who call
ed assistance. The family was
not endangered, but contents
could not be saved. The family
dog is believed to have perished
in the fire.
An overheated flue is believed
to have caused the fire. The
Gates fire department was call
ed, but the flames were too far
along to be stopped.
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