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62nd Year, No. 61 SEEfJ'rfZ'oSZ Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 13, 1950
(16 Pages)
Price 5c
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fer 20,000
Back in Jobs
Past 4 Weeks
Unemployment Claims
Dropping at Rate of
5000 a Week
By JAMES D. OLSON
More than 20,000 workers,
mostly engaged in lumbering
and construction work, have re
turned to their jobs in the four
weeks since the end of the cold
spell in early February, a re
port of the unemployment com
pensation commission states.
( i' Unemployment benefit claims
Rave been dropped at the rate of
E.000 a week and the rapid re
covery from Oregon's worst un
employment since the war is be
ginning to extend to trade and
service lines, the report points
out.
With farm work and other
outdoor activities continuing
th- pick up in early March, the
commission predicts that the
number of active job seekers
would continue well below last
year's comparable figures dur
ing the spring and early sum
mer. Reached All-time High
Compensable state, claims
dropped from the all-time high
of 60,454 for the first week in
February to 47,253 three weeks
later, while initial claims, de
noting new layoffs, declined
from 11,063 in mid-January to
2,818 the last week in February.
The commission reported that
state benefits to unemployed
persons in Oregon for 1950
passed the ten-million mark ear
ly in March more than half of
the 1049 total and more than
paid out in either 1947 or 1948.
(Concluded on Pan 5, Column 8)
2 Youths Admit
List of Crimes
A total of five crimes, includ
ing the theft of mail, were solv
ed by Salem police early Mon
day morning after an alert pa
trolman nabbed two 18-year-old
suspects who fit descriptions
broadcast in a radio alert.
The youths were nabbed in
West Salem, several miles from
the filling station on Lancaster
drive where they were scared
off by a woman's screams.
Presented with evidence found
in their car, the pair William
Stain, Route 2, and Harry E.
McFadden, North Salem Motel
s 1 g n e d statements detailing
their activities. They were held
for court action on burglary
charges.
They admitted stealing five
gallons of gasoline in Canby,
burglarizing the Don W Norris
service station at 1710 Fair
grounds road, the theft of 11
bottles of pop from a service
station at State and Market
streets, and the theft of an in
sured parcel of mail from a box
of the West Salem Lumber com
pany. They were spotted when one
of them smashed out a window
of a service station located on
Lancaster drive at McCleay
road. When the woman who was
awakened by the crash of the
lass shouted: "Get out of there,"
they fled.
An officer who spotted the
two youths in the 600 block on
Patterson street in West Salem
thought they fit the police radio
description of the suspects in the
frustrated service st a 1 1 o n bur
glary. He invited the youths to ac
company him to police head
quarters where officers took
their statements.
Stolen property from the bur
glaries, the gasoline and the
opened mail were found in their
car.
IT'S MURDER!
It's on page 13 in today's Capi
tal Journal and it will take Just
six days to solve the mystery.
Soprano Traubel the noted
Metropolitan Opera singer was
bored with time on her hands
between acts, yes, an opera singer
bored with the characteristics of
the opera read all the detective
stories she could find then de
cided to write one to while away
the time.
Another masterpiece obtained
by the Capital Journal for your
pleasure another step In the
march to the best newspaper
possible to produce.
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Court Upholds
Washington's
Ban on Pinball
Highest Tribunal Says
Gambling Devices
Illegal by Law
Washington, March 13 UP)
The supreme court held in ef
fect today that so far as Wash
ington state is concerned pinball
machines are gambling devices
forbidden by a 41 year old state
law.
The tribunal refused to review
a state supreme court decision
to that effect.
That decision was given in a
case involving the city of Spo
kane. The city council in 1949
adopted an ordinance banning
pinball machines. Later the
council directed the ban be put
to a popular vote in the next
municipal election. At the same
time the council warned pinball
machine owners they would be
prosecuted in the interim.
Several owners of pinball ma
chines protested to the superior
court of Spokane county against
the threatened arrests. The su
perior court granted them an in
junction prohibiting city officials
from interfering with operation
of their machines until the vot
ers decided whether the devices
should be banned.
State Law Upheld
The city then appealed to the
state supreme court. It dis
missed the injunction on the ba
sis of a ruling that pinball ma
chines are barred by the 1909
law. The state supreme court
added that neither the city offi
cials nor the voters of the city
may enact an ordinance which
conflicts with the general law
of the state.
The state court's ruling was
appealed by Gerald Miller and
David Caudill.
The supreme court dismissed
the appeal on the ground that it
had no jurisdiction to consider
the case. This indicated the high
tribunal felt that purely state
law matters were involved.
Other Decisions
The supreme court held indi
rectly today that a state may for
bid a strike intended to force an
employer to compel his work
ers to join a union.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column t)
99 Percent Vote
Cast in Russia
Moscow, March 13 U.B Un
official reports on the election
of a new Soviet parliament in
dicated today that 99 per cent
of Russia's more than 100,000,-
000 voters went to the polls Sun
day. , '
The precise size of the vote
as well as the names of those
elected to parliament will be
announced by the government
within a few days.
The election, the first since
1946, was held in a holiday at-
posphere on a sunny but wintry
day with the temperatures
slightly below zero.
The uninterrupted festivities
of the day, including open air
shows and street dancing on the
snowy pavements, continued on
into the evening in Moscow des
pite a change in the weather
which brought on a heavy snow
storm.
The voting was for a single
list of candidates. The voter re
ceived a printed ballot with the
names of candidates for both the
682 members of the council of
the union (lower house) and 657
members of the council of nationalities.
Gambling Crackdown
Follows Sunday Raid
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
City detectives were ordered
throughout the city Monday following the appearance in police
court of seven men snared in an early Sunday morning raid
on a private home.
Only one man nabbed in the raid Rodney M. Province, 397
Tryon avenue, a bearded base
ball pitcher entered a plea of
innocent. He was held in lieu
of $150 bail on charges of fre
quenting a gambling house.
Fines for the other six men
in the case totaled $910. In ad
dition, the city collected $125
in cash from the game.
Daniel G. Keidatz, 590 Union,
an employed former "house
man" for a downtown card room,
was accused of operating a
gambling game. He was fined
$250.
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Where Football Fans Died in Crash Officials search
through the twisted wreckage of the fuselage of the chartered
Avro Tudor transport plane that crashed near Cardiff, Wales,
killing 80 persons in the worst commercial aviation disaster
in history. The airliner was loaded with Welsh football fans
returning from Dublin, celebrating a victory over Ireland.
Three survivors, taken from the tail assembly, suffered critical
injuries. (AP Wirephoto by radio from London)
Truman Asks For
23 Reorganizations
Washington, March 13 W) President Truman today sent con
gress a sheaf of plans to reorganize a long list of federal agencies
and abolish one the maritime
Seaboard congressmen and shipping interests were expected
to fight the proposal to shift control of the merchant fleet over to
President Sails
For Key West
Aboard Presidential Escort
U.S.S. William Lawe, March 13
(iTPresident Truman is on his
way to Key West, Fla.,. for a
vacation he hopes will last the
full three weeks scheduled.
Mr. Truman is aboard the
presidential yacht Williams
burg, which he boarded in
Washington Sunday morning.
The Williamsburg skippered
by Commander Donald McDon
ald and this escorting destroyer,
the William C. Lawe, command
ed by Commander Thomas H.
Suddath, passed through the
Virginia capes and into the At
lantic shortly after midnight
after a rendezvous a few hours
earlier near Smith Point light
at the mouth of the Potomac.
The ships encountered such a
heavy fog a short while later
that they slowed speed to five
knots, navigating by radar, but
the fog lifted completely less
than 30 minutes later.
In advance of a four-hour
passage of Cape Hatteras, some
times a rough stretch of water,
the forecast was for cloudy wea
ther with a few light sprinkles,
ten-mile visibility, slight to
moderate sea swells.
Czechs Expel Last
Of Missionaries
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Mar.
13 (JP) Wallace Toronto, last
American Mormon missionary
remaining in Czechoslovakia,
was ordered today to leave the
country by next Saturday.
Toronto headed a group of
American Mormon missionaries
whose mission was ordered
closed recently because the new
state religion law prohibits for
eigners from carrying on church
work here. A score of American
Mormons have been forced to
leave in recent months.
to crack down on gambling
Robert P. O hi sen, 1135 E
street, was fined a similar
amount on charges of operating
a gambling house. According to
police information, Keidatz and
Ohlsen split the "house take"
from the game.
The four who pleaded guilty
to frequenting a gambling house
were Charles E. Sherman, 835
D street, Edward Ace Baker,
1430 McCoy, Jay Burnett, 260
Marion and Richard Eugene
Moore, Portland.
(CMcladed oa rf I, Column f)
commission.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer.
in another of his 21 proposals,
Mr. xruman jit the fuse for a
second major explosion in con
gress by calling for abolition of
the almost-independent office of
the general counsel of the na
tional labor relations board. The
post is held by Robert N. Den-
ham.
uennam, prosecutor and po
liceman of the Taft-Hartley law,
is at odds with the NLRB ma
jority. He calls it "pro-labor."
Labor unions, in turn have de
manded Denham's removal.
The White House plans take
effect automatically in 60 days,
unless vetoed by either house of
congress.
In 23 accompanying messages
to congress, Mr. Truman said
the plans will have "modest" to
substantial" sums. All are based
on proposals of the reorganiza
tion commissions headed by for
mer president Herbert Hoover,
he said, adding:
"These plans will take us well
along the road toward more ef
fective, economical and respon
sible government."
The commerce department
would take over all activities of
the five-member maritime com
mission, which has regulated
American shipping for 14 years.
A new three-man "federal
maritime board" would be set
up in commerce to regulate rates
and grant ship subsidies, under
broad policies fixed by Sawyer.
A "maritime administration"
would be created, also in com
merce, to take over the jobs of
building, selling and chartering
vessels.
Secretary of Commerce Saw
yer would have-top policy con
trol. Six of the White House plans
strengthen the power of cabinet
officers the secretaries of treas
ury, interior, agriculture, com
merce and labor, and the attor
ney general
New College
Construction
Portland, March 13 WV-The
building committee of the state
board of higher education gave
a go-ahead signal today for $2,
250,000 worth of new college
buildings.
The board authorized a $1,
100,000 animal industries build
ing and an $850,000 food indus
tries building at Oregon State
college.
Also approved for construc
tion was a combination library
classroom building at Southern
Oregon College of Education,
expected to cost about $300,000
The committee's recommend
ations will go tomorrow to the
full board, which almost always
approves committee action. The
board later will determine when
to call bids on the projects.
The committee also authorized
a survey for a new road to Sam
Jackson park in Portland, where
a proposed medical center is to
be built.
Court to Pass
On Loyalty Tests
Washington, March 13 OP)
The supreme court today agreed
to rule on the legality of the
government's loyalty program.
The tribunal accepted an ap
peal from the joint anti-fascist
refugee committee.
The committee asked the high
court to declare the program in
valid and to strike its name
from a "subversive" list compil
ed by the attorney general.
The court also refused to re
view a Washington state su
preme court decision that pin
ball machines are gambling de
vices prohibited by a 1909 state
law.
The anti-fascist refugee group
appealed to the supreme court
after thi! U.S. court of appeals
for the District of Columbia re
jected its complaints. The
preme court will hear arguments
in the case early in the spring.
The tribunal however, deferr
ed action on a similar appeal
filed by the National Council of
American- Soviet Friendship,
Inc. The council likewise asked
that its name be stricken from
the "subversive" list.
The court of appeals, here, in
turning down protests from both
organizations, said the action of
the attorney general was in the
same class as action by the pre
sident that is, not subject to
judicial review.
The list of subversive organi
zations drafted by the attorney
general provides one of the cor
nerstones of the whole loyalty
program. Present or past mem
bership in organizations on the
list is one of the factors consid
ered in determining whether an
employe can be considered loy
al to the government.
Leopold Wins
Small Margin
Brussels, March 13 W) Bel
gian politicians met secretly to
day to consider the critical situ
ation which has arisen in the
wake of a referendum showing
that 57.68 percent of Belgium's
voters want exiled King Leopold
ill returned to his throne.
Belgians awaited a statement
from their handsome king, who
has been barred from the throne
since surrendering his army to
tne Germans in World War II.
Premier Gaston Eyskens met
with the cabinet, then prepared
to leave for Pregny, near Gene
va, to confer with Leopold. The
monarch said earlier he would
abdicate if he did not win 55
percent of the vote.
There was no statement fol
lowing the cabinet meeting. A
minister commented dourly: "We
have exchanged our points of
views."
The vote Sunday split the
country and the political parties.
Leopold won a 72.2 percent ma
jority in Flanders but got only
a 40. z percent minority in the
Walloon provinces.
Four Burn to Death
Montreal, March 13 (P) Four
persons were burned to death
early today in a fire which
swept a two-story building on
midtown street.
Police identified the dead as
Mrs. Alice Desrosiers, 40, and
her three children, Jacques, 10
Pierre, 7, and Yvon, two months.
The fire broke out about 5
a.m. and was confined to the
brick building.
80 Killed in Crash of Airliner
With Football Fans
M'Carthy Lists
Alleged Reds
In High Posts
Washington, March 13 VP)
Senator McCarthy (K., Wis.)
told senators today he has heard
reports that a former navy sci
entist familiar with the coun
try's "topmost defense secrets"
is an admitted communist. He
proposed an investigation.
McCarthy named the man as
Stephen Brunauer, a former
navy commander.
He tossed this out while tick
ing off to a senate foreign re
lations committee the names of
state department employes he
says have displayed communist
sympathies.
McCarthy has charged the
state department is honeycomb
ed with Reds and sympathizers.
State department officials have
denied that. The senate group
is giving McCarthy an opportu
nity to produce what proof he
has.
Lists Red Suspects
McCarthy named:
Haldore Hanson, 87, who
heads the department's techni
cal cooperation projects staff.
Hanson is a native of Virginia
Minn., and a former teacher in
China. He joined the state de
partment in 1942.
Mrs. Esther Caukin Brunauer,
a $9,706 job holder on the de
partment's United Nations rela
tions staff. She is the wife of
the navy scientist that McCar
thy asked to be investigated.
Owen J. Lattimore, state de
partment consultant and now' di
rector of the Walter Hines Page
School of International Rela
tions, John Hopkins university,
(Concluded on Faee 5, Column 0)
Jessup to
Back to Testify
Paris, March 13 VP) U. S. rov
ing ambassador u. jessup an
nounced today he has volun
teered to fly to Washington im
mediately to answer senatorial
allegations that he is friendly to
communism.
Jessup. completing a round-
the-world intensive study of Far
Eastern affairs, said he was
"communicating with Washing
ton" about a possible appearance
before a senate foreifin relations
subcommittee investigating al
legations of Red influence in the
state department.
The ambassador previously
had planned to leave by ship
for New York on Wednesday.
Senator McCarthy (R., Wis.)
whose charges touched off the
investigation, told the sub-corn
mittee last week that Jessup had
an "unusual affinity for com
munist causes."
Following McCarthy's state
ment, Senator Tydings (D., Md.)
invited Jessup to appear before
the committee. Jessup said he
would be glad to appear "if the
Tydings committee wishes to
devote a little time to disposing
of the allegations that I am
friendly to communism."
Jessup arrived from London
yesterday for a series of con
ferences with French foreign
officials and Marshall plan lead
ers about dollar aid for three
French union states in Indo
china Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
King Leopold in exile in Switzerland shown with his wife,
the Princess de Rethy, during a visit at Havana in 1948.
Sander's Case
Up to County
Doctors' Group
Manchester, N.H., March 13
(P) Dr. Hermann N. Sander
had crossed another hurdle today
in his fight to return to his
country doctor practice.
The New Hampshire medical
society refused yesterday to take
disciplinary action against the
young physician and left any
such action to the Hillsborough
county medical society.
A spokesman also reported
that the state society did not
plan to make any recommenda
tions to the state board of regis
tration in medicine, which alone
has the right to revoke or sus
pend a medical license.
The board planned to meet
today to set a date for a formal
hearing for the 41-year-old Can
dia doctor acquitted last week
of murder in the death of Mrs.
Abbie Borroto, a cancer patient.
Cut in Excise
Taxes Delayed
Washington, March 13 UP)
The house ways and means com
mittee rejected today a new re
publican effort to ram through
'quickie" bill slashing excise
taxes immediately by about $1,
000,000,000. The rigid party lint, vote was
15 to 10.
The democrats, however, gave
some ground, trying at the same
time to head off a veto if excise
cutting goes beyond the limits
set by President Truman. They
pressed through the committee,
on a similar party vote, a resolu
tion saying the committee will:
1. Approve excise slashes,
perhaps far beyond the $655,
000,000 the president has re
quested. Some members private
ly are estimating the excise cut
will be around $1,000,000,000.
2. Try to replace the lost rev
enue "by closing loopholes In
existing tax laws, by strict en
forcement against tax evaders,
and, if necessary, such other
tax changes as may be deemed
feasible."
The democratic-sponsored res
olution made no mention what
ever that any attempt will be
made to raise $1,000,000,000 net
extra revenue beyond that
necessary to offset losses from
excise cuts.
Any idea of a new tax in
crease, which Mr. Truman re
quested, apparently has been
abandoned.
Father Finds Young
Son Dead in Pool
Hamilton Township, N.J,
March 13 VP) Thomas Bradshaw
saw three boys poking sticks at
what they thought was a doll in
a three-foot pool of water yes
terday. A pair of red rubber boots
could be seen just below the
surface of the water. A small
body dressed in a blue snow-
suit bobbed about the bottom of
the pool.
Bradshaw dashed into the
pool and carried out the body.
It was his two-year-old son,
Thomas, Jr.
Police and firemen worked for
two hours in an unsuccessful
attempt to revive the child.
Dr. William Hutchinson said
Mrs. Bradshaw is expecting a
child soon.
in Wales
World's Worst
Commercial
Plane Disaster
Cardiff, Wales, March 13 m
Eighty persons died here yester
day in the crash of a chartered
Tudor airliner packed with
Welsh football fans celebrating
a victory over the Irish. It was
aviation's worst commercial
plane disaster.
British aviation experts, head
ed personally by Minister of Ci
vil Aviation Lord Pakenham, be-
gan an inquiry here today into
the latest accident involving the
unlucky Tudor ships. The crash
came as the giant plane was
landing on a return flight from
Dublin.
Of the 78 passengers and five
crewmen aboard, only three
survived. It was the world's
worst commercial air tragedy
and brought the toll of deaths in
Tudor planes Britain's first
postwar four - engined commer
cial aircraft to 144.
In Sunny Weather
The chartered plane, biggest
in active service in Britain, was
preparing to land In sunny
weather.
Tired but happy rugby foot
ball enthusiasts aboard had tra- ,
veled by plane and train to Bel- .
fast to see Wales down Ireland
6-3 in the United Kingdom
championships. After a night of
celebrating in Dublin, they were .
returning home by their char
tered aircraft.
The big four-engined plan
appeared to be touching down
nt T.lanrlnur nirnnrf Tipnr riftra -
for a normal landing when,
without warning, It roared back
into a climb. It smashed to
earth in a field after making a
right-hand turn and sideslipping.
The huge plane crashed 15
yards from a house. It did not
explode or burn.
Two Survivors Unhurt
Two of the three survivors,
brothers-in-law, walked out of
the wreckage unaided and vir
tually unscathed. They had been
sitting side by side in the tail of
the plane.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 7)
Probe of Crash
Of Plane Opens
Llantwit Major, Wales, March
13 UP) A sorrowing queue of
Welshmen testified today at th
inquest on 80 persons killed in
the AVRO Tudor plane crash
yesterday.
Bright lances of sunshine fil
tered into the concrete hut at
Llandow airport, glinting on the
drawn and haggard features of
relatives of the dead.
Col. Harold Recs deputy cor
oner of East Glamorgan county,
opened the proceedings shortly
before noon by saying the air
crash was similar to coal mine
disasters which have occurred
in Wales.
It has brought sorrow into
hundreds of homes, he said, and
the feeling of impotence is simi
lar to that of Welsh women who
have waited at pitheads when
there was fire in the mines.
"The disaster that occurred
yesterday is a disaster unparal
leled in recent times in South
Wales and it is comparable only
to the great colliery disasters of
the past," he said.
The inquest took place across
a table on which flying officers
not so long ago plotted RAF
flights to Germany.
Witnesses waited their turns
sitting in weeping rows on fold
ing chairs. A little field stove,
with glowing coals, took the
chill from the room.
Jap Paper Balloon
Inventor a Suicide
Tokyo, March 13 W Dr. To-
shiro Otsuki, inventor of paper
balloons the Japanese floated
across the ocean to the United
States and Canada with incen
diary bombs during the war, was
listed as a suicide today by the
newspaper Mainichi.
The newspaper said Otsuki
and a girl fellow worker in a
factory committed suicide In a
forest on Izu Peninsula 100 miles
southeast of Tokyo.
Mainichi carried the story
under a headline "inventor ol
balloon bomb goes to heaven,"
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