THE WEATHER HERE
RAIN TONIGHT and Friday.
Little change in temperature.
Low tonight, 42; high Friday,
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Maximum Tflaterday, 58; minimum today,
44. Total 24hoiir precipitation: .15; (or
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62nd Year, No. 64 SSTAS: Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 16, 1950
(28 Pages)
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Cily Solicitors
Ordinance to
Get Legal Test
Insurance Men Say
State Statutes
Govern Them
Insurance salesmen and the
companies which they represent
were preparing Thursday to test
the validity of a city ordinance
which earlier in the week
brought about the arrest of Edw.
J. Burnside by a Salem police of
ficer. Burnside has represented the
Metropolitan Life for several
ears. He was booked on a
"iiarge of soliciting without a
license, and released on his own
recognizance after declining to
post $25 bail.
Indicating that no further ar
rests are contemplated under
'ihe ordinance was an order is
sued at police headquarters over
the signature of G. Bowman, cap
tain. "Do not bother any per
son selling insurance until such
time as the law has been clari
fied," reads the order. "As soon
as this is cleared there will be
an order to such effect."
Insurance men as well as
those engaged in the sale of real
estate contend that state statutes
cover their operations, and that
there is no legal basis for de
manding a city permit with a $10
license fee attached.
Ordinance 3888, passed in
1948 by the city council under
which recent arrests have been
made carries the following def
inition: (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Leopold Awaits
Solons Verdict
Geneva, March 16 (IP) Leo
pold III, exiled king of tjie Bel
, gians, has deoided to leave the
decision of his future to Bel
gium's parliament, he announc
ed today.
"Whatever the decision which
parliament will take and for
which it assumes, in conformity
with the constitution, the en
tire and exclusive responsibil
ity, I will bow to it," Leopold
said in a statement released by
his secretary, Jacques Pirenne,
at a news conference.
Leopold, exiled from his
homeland since the war, won
57.7 per cent of the vote in an
advisory referendum last Sun
day on whether he should re
turn to his throne. Many poli
tical leaders in Belgium feel
this percentage is far too small
for a king, who is supposed to
represent unity for his people.
Other political factions feel he
should be returned.
Earlier, Premier Gaston Eys-
kens denied published reports
that he had urged Peopold to
abdicate.
Eyskens has been here con
ferring with the exiled king
since a national referendum in
Belgium March 12 showed that
only a bare majority of the peo
ple wanted him to return to the
throne.
The vote was taken as an ad
visory poll to guide the parlia
ment in deciding whether to
permit Leopold to return to Bel
gium. He has been in exile in
Switzerland since the end of
the war.
Leopold himself has not com-
merited on what he intends to
do.
Tax Deadline
Had Father
All Flustered
- Atlanta, March 16 UP) A
flustered taxpayer, making
his II. S. income returns on the
last day deadline yesterday,
was the father of seven chil
dren. But he couldn't think of
their names to claim exemp
tions for them. Finally, one
of the 68 special agents assist
ing with returns let him use
his kids' nicknames.
Nor was this father alone in
. the deadline rush and con
fusion. Another late-comer
wanted to claim his mother-in-law
as an exemption, bnt he
couldn't remember her name.
.
Seattle, Wash., March 16'
(UP.) The last day rush at the
-collector of internal revenue
office brought a man who
wanted to know if he could
deduct the cost of his marriage
license from his Income tax.
Captain Brown
01 W to Face
Court Martial
Two Other Officers
Of Battlship Also
To Face Court
Norfolk, Va., March 16 VP)
General courts martial were or
dered today for the command
ing officer, the operations off!
cer and the navigator of the bat
tleship Missouri as a result of
the vessel's grounding in Chesa
peake bay, January 17.
The officers to be trie dare
Capt. William D. Brown, of
Frostproof, Fla., the big Mo's
skipper; Comdr. John R. Millett,
operations officer, and Lt.
Comdr. Frank G. Morris, of New
York, navigator.
The courts martial will be
convened March 27 at the Nor
folk naval base. The trials will
begin at that time, naval spokes
men said, if the defendents are
ready to proceed. All proceed
ings will be open to the public
and the press.
The courts martial were or
dered by Rear Adm. Allen E.
Smith, commander of the cruis
er force of the Atlantic fleet, af
ter a review of the proceedings
of the naval court of inquiry
which investigated the ground
ing. Admiral's Statement
Smith's action was announced
by Adm. William M. Fletcher,
commander-in-chief of the At
lantic fleet.
Fletcher said "the formal
charges and specifications to be
served upon these officers and
upon which they will be tried,
will not be made public prior to
the convening of the respective
courts. The individual officers
concerned, however, may release
the charges and specifications
in their respective cases at their
own discretion."
Fletcher said Smith did not
consider the evidence against Lt.
John E. Carr, of Norfolk, Va:;
combat operations officer of the
Missouri, of sufficient gravity to
warrant trial by court martial.
However, Smith has addressed
a letter of reprimand to Carr.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 7)
Big Cut Looms in
Truman
Budget
Washington, March 16 VP)
The house appropriations com
mittee has tentatively worked
out a $1,200,000,000 cut in Pres
ident Truman's spending pro
posals for the 12 months begin
ning July 1.
The committee has not form
ally taken final action, but it
was learned a "central commit
tee" has recommended the cut.
The committee is working on
an omnibus bill embracing items
for which Mr. Truman asked
$30,326,00000.
Members of the committee
said these have been trimmed to
roughly $29,113,000,000.
The president's overall budget
requests for the fiscal year start
ing next July 1 were $42,439,-
000,000. This included approxi
mately $3,000,000,000 for Mar
shall plan foreign aid and $9,
000,000,000 in so-called perma
nent appropriations and trust
funds.
Sec. Acheson Challenges
Reds; Has 7 -Point Plan
Berkeley, Calif., March 16
challenged Russia today to demonstrate her desire for peace bv
accepting a new seven-point
destructive tensions and anxieties."
Boiled down, the seven steps Acheson proposed call for an
ena to Kussia s aggressive diplo
macy, both in her dealings with
satellites and with the western
world, and for new moves to con
clude peace treaties and to find
some solution to the problem of
atomic controls.
Bluntly, he predicted Russian
refusal of any attempt to settle
these points of "greatest differ
ence" between the east and the
west.
But he insisted that they
"must be identified and sooner
or later reconciled if the two
systems are to live together, if
not with mutual respect, at least
in mutual security."
Otherwise, he said, the United
States can only continue to re
sist aggression where it finds it,
and to "press ahead with the
building of a free world."
"We are always ready to dis
cuss, to negotiate, to agree,"
Acheson declared, "but we are
understandably loath to play the
Dallas Drubs
Trappers, 60-48
Eugene, March 16 UP) Dallas,
a dark horse which surprised
competitors by reaching the state
tourney at all, overcame Scap
poose, 60-48, in today's second
consolation game.
Dallas pulled away from .a
27-27 halftime tie to run up 15
points in the first five minutes
of the second half.
The winners led at the end of
the third quarter, 44-37. Scap
poose threatened briefly once
more, narrowing Dallas' margin
to 44-43. But then Dallas un
leashed another great spurt to
end the tilt at 60-48.
Scappoose was actually ahead
only once: 5-4 in the first peri
od. By the quarter's end Dal
las led, 14-11.
Hillsboro defeated Milwaukie,
46-40. in a tight contest in to
day's consolation . rounds of the
state prep basketball tourney,
The score was tied five times
the first quarter, but Mil
waukie pulled ahead, 14-12, at
the period's close, and stayed
slightly ahead though hard
pressed thereafter.
Milwaukie threatened repeat
edly, narrowing Hillsboro lead
to 29-28 at one point, and again
to 37-36 with only three minutes
left in the game.
Then forward Jim Nierman,
who hadn't scored before, sud
denly spurted into action and
sewed up the game for Hills
boro. Within three minutes he
shot two field goals and sank
four foul shots.
(Box score of game on page 5)
Gov. McKay Invites
Truman to Seaside
Seaside, March 16 (IP) The
western states conference of
labor apprentice training here
May 22-26 may hear President
Truman.
Gov. - Douglas McKay has in
vited Truman to speak. The
president will be on a trip in the
region at the time to dedicate
Grand Coulee dam.
Labor and industry represen
tatives of 11 western states,
Alaska and Hawaii are due for
the session. The governors have
been invited.
VP) Secretary of State Acheson
program to free the world from
role of international sucker."
Acneson s address a major
statement of American policy
said to have taken three months
to draft was prepared for de
livery at the University of Cali
fornia, in connection with the
conference on international co
operation for world economic de-
velpment.
Declaring that "we want
peace,, but not at any price,"
Acheson said Russia must do sev
eral things "which, while leav
ing much yet to do, would give
the world new confidence in the
possibility of peaceful change."
These are the points he listed:
1. Join with the west in de
fining peace terms for Germany,
Japan and Austria without try
ing to make them satellites
meanwhile refraining from any
interference with the new states
of the Far East.
(Concluded on Pane 5, Column t)
Big Apartment House on South High Above is an archi
tect's sketch of what will be Salem's biggest apartment house,
to go up at South High and Kearney if city authorities ap
prove a zone change. It will have 122- living units, be eight
stories high and cost $1,500,000. The owners will be William
E. Healy, assistant secretary of state, and Paul Murphy of
Oswego. Morton H. Caine is the architect.
Change of Zone Sought
For 122-Unit
With plans completed for a new
on South High and Kearney streets, actual construction awaits
action of Salem's planning and
tion for zone change. The application will be considered at I
Judith Coplon
Free on Bail
New York, March 16 UP) Ju
dith Coplon was free on $40,000
bail today pending appeal of her
spy. conspiracy conviction. ..
i"But the Way was not yet clear
for her to cross the East river
from Manhattan to her family's
home in Brooklyn.
The court order fixing bail,
under which she was released
late yesterday, forbade her to
leave the federal southern dis
trict of New York, which does
not include Brooklyn.
She was reported to have
spent the night with friends in
Manhattan. Her lawyer was to
apply today for permission for
her to go to Brooklyn..
Miss Coplon, 28-year-old for
mer department of justice em
ploye, had been in the women's
house of detention since March
7.
That was the day she and
Valentin A. Gubitchev, 33-year-old
Russian engineer, were con
victed of espionage Each drew
a 15-year prison term
Gubitchev, still in jail, is
scheduled to receive a suspend
ed sentence next Monday and to
be put on a boat en route home
to Russia. The government re
commended that procedure as a
move to forestall possible repris
als against Americans in Russia
and her satellite nations.
Miss Coplon's brother, Ber
tram, posted her $40,000 bail.
Bail had been allowed Monday,
but it took the family until yes
terday to raise it.
The bail consisted of $20,000
in bills and a government check
for $20,000, representing return
of the bail in which Miss Cop
lon had been held prior to her
conviction.
Mrs. FDR Explains
Paul Robeson Incident
Louiseville, Ky., March 16 U.R
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt believes
many persons "misunderstood'
the nature of her television pro
gram on which Paul Robeson
was to have taken part in a dis
cussion group.
The program was cancelled
by the National Broadcasting
company after a flood of pro
tests against the appearance of
the Negro singer because of his
alleged pro-communist sympa
thies. Mrs. Roosevelt said here
yesterday that her son Elliott
arranged the program with the
idea that "subjects should be
controversial."
"The subject in this case was
'The Negro in Politics ' and Paul
Robeson was to have represent
ed the progressive party, with
the same amount of time to
speak as others in the group,"
Mrs. Roosevelt said.
Famed Illustrator III
New York March 16 (JP)
James Montgomery Flagg, 73
illustrator, was critically ill to
day of a heart condition. He was
stricken several days ago and
has shown a slight improvement
Apartment
eight-story apartment building
zoning commission on an applica
meeting next Tuesday night.
The apartment house, to be
known as the Parkview Plaza,
will be of re-inforced concrete
with painted stucco finish on the
exterior and will be located on a
150 by 163 foot lot at the corner
of South High and Kearney. The
major part of the property was
purchased by William E. Healy,
deputy secretary of state and
Paul F. Murphy, of Oswego from
V. E. and Bertha Kuhn. A 35-
foot piece of land was alro pur
chased from Don Upjohn.
The petition to the commis
sion asks that the property be
placed in a Class II apartment
house zone in place of the pres
ent Class I, single family resi
dence zone. 1
A luxury type structure, the
apartment will have 122 apart
ments plus a two-story garage
on the side of the building for
off-site parking. The garage is
designed to hold approximately
60 cars.
The apartment is to have a
corner entrance on South High
and Kearney and on the main
floor there will be a spacious
lobby. Two automatic elevators
are to be installed.
Rooms in the building will be
larger than the average and all
apartments are to be wired for
television. The apartments, with
the exception of a modern range
and refrigerator of the latest
type, will be unfurnished. There
are to be 23 bachelor type or
efficiency type apartments and
one bedroom and two bed
room apartments. All apart
ments will have. metal kitchen
cabinets and there will be hard
wood floors throughout.
Architect for the apartment
building for which a committ
ment for $1,018,000 has been
made by the FHA, is Morton H.
Caine of Portland.
Wintry Touch
In North States
(By the AMtocl&ted PruA)
Snow and cold weather gave
a wintry touch in mid-March to
the northern tier of states from
the midwest to the New England
region today.
Light snow fell over the Mis
sissippi valley as far south as
Springfield, 111., with some snow
mixed with rain at St. Louis.
Temperatures were below nor
mal, with lows of near zero in
some parts of the north central
region. The mercury dropped to
one below zero at Pellston,
Mich. Readings also were on the
chilly side over most of the
northeastern states.
Rain fell from the east gulf
states northward into the Ohio
valley. The heaviest falls were
associated with thunderstorms
near the gulf, with Mobile re
porting 1.65 inches in six hours
yesterday.
A freak windstorm accom
panied by hail, sleet and snow
yesterday caused thousands of
dollars damage in the rich straw
berry belt of southeast Louis
iana. Dry, westerly winds rang
ing up to 50 miles an hour,
whipped over the Texas Pan
handle and northern Texas as
far east as Fort Worth and Dal-
Navy Orders
Crommelin
Furloughed
Fiery Captain Says
He "Won't Throw
In the Sponge"
San Francisco, March 16 (U.P.)
Navy Capt. John G. Crommelin
will continue criticizing the arm
ed forces general staff even
though the navy has ordered the
Pacific war hero furloughed on
half pay.
I'm not going to throw in
the sponge," he said yesterday
on learning that Navy Secre
tary Francis P. Matthews order
ed a disciplinary crackdown.
I still have six or seven
more speaking engagements. If
back down on anything I ve
said, you will know I have been
given the Cardinal Mindszenty
treatment."
Gets Half Pay
The furlough order was the
stiffest punishment imposed on
a navy officer, short of a court
martial, in 24 years. Under mili
tary law, the Secretary of the
Navy may furlough any officer
on half pay without a court mar
tial and without explaining his
reasons.
Although Matthews did not
explain the reason for his or
der, it was obvious that it was
for Crommelin's criticisms of
the general staff.
For playing a leading role in
last fall's "admiral revolt,"
Crommelin was "banished" to
San Francisco.
Nevertheless, he continued to
speak out against what he call
ed "Prussian Pentagon policies.'
He was ordered last month to
cease his criticisms. He respond
ed by quoting only the words
of other armed forces officials
in speeches that were critical of
the general staff.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 6)
$68 Millions for
BPA Proposed
Washington, March 16 (IP) A
house appropriations subcom
mittee has approved a $621,
634,000 interior department
money bill, it was learned to
day, with more than one-half
the funds being ear-marked for
western reclamation.
The subcommittee's action is
subject to ratification by the full
appropriations committee. A
formal public report on the leg
islation, which will be a sec
tion of the "one-package" ap
propriation bill covering' all
government activities, is expect
ed next week.
Included in the recommenda
tions will be $68,250,000 for the
Bonneville power administration
during the year starting July 1.
The sum includes $41,500,000
cash plus contract authority of
$21,750,000 for construction and
another $5,000,000 for operations
and maintenance.
The contraclural authorization
was upped, it was learned, to
continue the transmission con
struction program to provide ad
ditional facilities needed to mar
ket power from new generating
facilities aproaching completion
in the near future.
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Time-Bomb Plot This casual photo taken by a tourist
shows the time-bomb (arrow) ex-jcwclrv salesman J Albert
Guay had placed aboard a Canadian airliner in Quebec, in
order to get rid of his wife, one of the 23 persons killed
when the plane exploded in midair 15 minutes after this
picture was taken. Guay was found guilty of the time
bombing of the plane and sentenced to hang. Pilot and
stewardess killed in the blast are shown under the plane's
wing (right). (Acme Telcphoto.)
Fertilizer Plant
Taken Over Here
As Home Industry
By STEPHEN A. STONE
The Salem alumina plant, war-born industry on North
Cherry avenue, is now home owned.
It passed today into the hands of local men who took it
over from the government general services administration.
The new owners are Charles H. Strickfaden, owner and operator
of the Capitol Lumber company at 2860 North Cherry; George
A. Rhotcn, attorney; and Arch W. Metzger, who has been with
the chemical plant as manager since its beginning.
Since the start, the plant has operated mainly in the manu
facture of ammonium sulphate fertilizer. It will continue turning
out that product, and Metzger said it is the intention of the new
corporation to be in production on or about April 15 for a
short spring run, because of the extreme shortage of nitrogen
in this territory at present.
The new owners said the transaction had been financed. They
will run the plant on a three-year lease extending to July 1, 1953,
MiloK. Mclverto
Replace Banfield
Milo K. Mclvcr, 53-year-old
Portland mortgage broker, was
appointed by Governor Douglas
McKay today to the State High
way Commission.
On March 31, Mclver will
succeed Harry Banfield, chair
man of the commission who is
resigning after seven years on
the commission.
Ben Chandler, Coos Bay, is ex
pected to be the new chairman
of the commission. The third
member of the commission is
Charles Reynolds of La Grande.
Highway commissioners serve
three-year terms.
Mclver owns the Commerce
Investment company of Port
land, whose main business is fi
nancing sales of real property.
He has lived in Portland since
1925.
He was president of the Port
land Rose Festival board ir
1945-46, and served as director
of the Portland school board.
The governor also announced
the following appointments to
day:
Glen G. Duncan, Portland, to
the stale apprenticeship council
succeeding Ralph Waggoner, of
Klamath Falls.
T. J. Fry, Portland, to the
state apprenticeship council,
succeeding Kenneth D. Schomak-
er, Salem.
Dr. J. H. Rossman, Portland,
reappointed to the Oregon Den
tal School Advisory Council to
the State Board of Higher Edu
cation. Grover Cleveland's
Son in GOP Politics
Tamworth, N.H., March 16 (IP)
A son of the late democratic
President Grover Cleveland has
successfully, if modestly, enter
ed the political lists under the
republican banner.
He is Francis Cleveland, 46,
newly elected as a selectman at
Tamworth's town meeting
Cleveland, a poullryman and
summer theater operator said
he became a republican when
President Truman took office.
5"but with an option of two more
years. At all times during the
lease period they have an option
to buy the plant at a stipulated
figure not announced.
Strickfaden is president of
the corporation, Rhoten vice
president, and Metzger secre
tary-treasurer and general man
ager. Of great assistance in negotia
tions with the government au
thorities in Washington in the
process of negotiation have been
Senators Guy Cordon and Wayne
L. Morse and Representative
Walter Norblad. Also constant
ly at work to get the plant back
into operation as a going con
cern has been Arch Metzger, who
has always been the actual op
erator. The Salem Chamber of Com
merce has been active in all
negotiations from the start, and
Manager Clay Cochran has given
it close attention both from Sa
lem and in Washington.
Also credit for assistance giv
en by the Portland Chamber of
Commerce through Chester
Starrett, manager of its indus
trial division, and Harold B.
Say, its Washington represen
tative. A name for the new corpora
tion has not been definitely de
cided on. Northwest Chemical
company was chosen, but it was
found to conflict with the name
of a concern in Yakima. Sug
gested names include Consoli
dated Chemical comany, Con
tinental Chemical company, and
Oregon Chemical Industries, Inc.
The sale of the plant was han
dled through the Seattle office
of the General Services admin
istration, whose personnel, Orrin
C. Bradcen, regional director;
Russell Blackburn, assistant to
the regional director; and Emer
son Ocamb, of the liquidation de
partment, were especially active.
Taking a keen interest in the ne
gotiations, however, was also
Jesse Larson, head of General
Services in Washington.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5
Burglars Enter
Optical Store
Burglaries at the Boring opti
cal establishment and at the
home of Dr. Thomas Dunham
were investigated Thursday
morning by Salem detectives.
The back door of the optical
shop at 1194 Center street was
smashed open by a burglar who
used a force bar. Splinters of
wood found near the front door
indicated that he had endeav
ored to leave by that means. It
was presumed that the burglar
was frightened off. Nothing was
missing.
A maid discovered the burg
lary at the Dunham residence at
1885 South Church street when
she reported for work Thursday.
The family has been out of town
on vacation.
Although the home was ran
sacked, jewelry was left un
touched. The maid could not de
termine if anything was missing.
Freighter Nootka
Aground in B. C.
Vancouver, B.C., March 16
(CP) The Canadian Pacific
coastal freighter Nootka was
hard aground today on Walkcn
island, 125 miles northwest of
here.
Capt. Charles Robson, skipper
of the 3500-ton vessel which
grounded in the fog last night,
said she might be refloated with
in six hours, at high tide
Pulp cargo he said in a tele
phone interview, was being un
loaded to lighten the ship
The Nootka's item went
aground last night as she crawl
ed slowly through the fog
near Chatham Point 30 miles
north of Campbell River