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THE WEATHER HERE
MOSTLY CLOUDY with show
ers tonight; cloudy with rain,
Saturday. Little change in tem
perature. Low tonight, 44; high
Saturdayt 54.
Maximum yeterday, BSi minimum today,
47. Total 24-hour precipitation; .95 j for
month: 2.8i); normal. S.flfi. beaion prrclpl
tatlon, JW.80; normal, 29.M. Rlrcr bright
8.3 feet, rliinf, (Report by U.S. Weather
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62nd Year, No. 65 EE?J,Z?o Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 17, 1950
(20 Pages)
Price 5c
$3 Billion Cut
In Budget Aim
Of GOP Solons
Action Would Reduce
Federal Deficit to
$4 Billion
Washington, March 17 (
House republicans aimed a new
Secret Signals
Used by Lewis,
Miner Charges
Ousted Union Official
Claims Court Order
Ignored
Canton, 111., March 17 W) The
ousted president of a United
Mine workers local union said
today John L. Lewis secretly or
dered his miners not to heed the
February 11 court injunction
which directed them to return
to work.
Lloyd H. Siedener, 44, former
president of local 7455, Canton,
(fsaid in an interview that Lewis,
while publicly ordering his min
ers to end the strike, used a sys
tem of secret signals down
through the ranks which ordered
them to continue the strike.
Charges Filed
Sidener filed unfair labor
practices in Chicago Wednesday
against the UMW before the na
tional labor relations board. He
alleged the union fined him $50,
000 for attempting to return to
work February 24, and fixed an
additional penalty of $25 for
each additional day he might try
to work. He said he also was
ousted as president of the local
union.
He said Lewis sent telegrams
ordering the miners to return to
work four hours after he was
served with a federal district
court injunction.
But Sidener asserted Lewis
also sent the secret signal orally
down through his "chain of com
mand." This signal, "the whistle blew
one," meant that the miners were
to, continue their walkout despite
the telegrams, Sidener said. .
Received Call
He added that he, as local un
ion president, received the sig
nal in a telephone call from Ber
nard Beasley of Canton, chair
man of sub-district 2 of the Illi
rtois UMW district. Accordingly,
he said, he passed the word on
to the local union members.
John Lakin, Jr., who replaced
Sidener as local 7455 president,
told a reporter "I never knew
nothing about the signals if there
were any. At that time I was
vice president, and all orders
were received by the president,
Lloyd Sidener, or the secretary
treasurer of our local."
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
U. S. Exports to
Russia Fall Off
Washington, March 17 (IMS
American exports to Russia and
her satellites fell off by nearly
$2,500,000 in January
The commerce department re
ported today that total value of
the American exports in Janu
ary was $7,300,000
January exports to Russia and
her satellites were 20 percent
less than the 1949 monthly aver
age of $9,100,000.
Among the Iron Curtain coun
tries only Hungary reported
greater imports of U S goods in
January, her total rising to $1,
900,000 from $1,300 000 in De-
fmber. Shipments to Russia
were less than $50,000 in Janu-
ary, compared with $100 000 in
December.
Rural Mail Boxes
Get Census Forms '
Saturday. Morning
Distribution will be made
at all rural mail boxes Sat
urday, starting in the morn
ing, of the agricultural cen
sus forms.
The farm schedules have
been received at the Salem
post office, Census Supervisor
Cornelius Bateson said today,
and the distribution will reach
all rural box holders.
The schedules are to be
filled out by the farmers to
save the time of the enumera
tors, and then the enumera
tors will pick them up when
they call to make the regular
population count.
Bateson announced that a
school for the enumerators
working in the city of Salem
will be held at the First Con
gregational church Tuesday,
March 28.
The classes will be conduc
ted by Mrs. Lois poughton and
Mrs. Harriet Smart, the two
crew leaders for the city of
Salem. About 22 enumerators
will work under each leader.
The regular census count
starts April 1.
Wife Crusades for Mate A little frightened, but very de
termined, Mrs. Ruby Smith (left) of Long Beach, Calif., pleads
with Secretary of State Dean Acheson to do all he can to free
her husband, Navy Chief Petty Officer William C. Smith,
who has been held a prisoner of the Chinese communists for
17 months. Smith, along with Marine Sgt. Elmer C. Bender,
disappeared while on -a routine training flight near Tsingtao.
Acheson, who had just concluded a speech in which he warned
the Chinese people that they would bring "grave trouble"
on themselves if they followed the Chinese communist leaders
into "aggressive or subversive adventures" beyond China's
borders, pledged to review the case. (Acme Telephoto)
Sec. A cheson May Have
Put Russia On The Spot
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Washington, March 17 VP) Stale department officials speculated
today that Secretary Acheson's
for ending the cold war may have put Russia on the spot even
though not intended that way.
For the first time Acheson laid
Vikings
Favored
To Win Tonight
Eugene, March 17 (Special)
Salem high's. Vikings were fav
ored to win their semi-final bat
tle from the Spartans of Corval-
lis Friday night to enter the pay
off game of the 1950 Class A
tournament. -
Records of the Big Six league
basketball season gave the cue
as to why the Salem squad was
ranked over Corvallis in the
state meet. The Vikings whipped
the Spartans twice during the
season, once at Corvallis and in
their return engagement in Sa
lem.
But the control ball style of
play of the Spartans upset fav
ored Marshfield, 39-36 and is
expected to give the Vikings
trouble.
The 1948 edition of the Spar
tans edged past Coach Harold
Hauk's Vikings, 47-43. for the
state championship that year.
The problem of meeting the Cor
vallis challenge will be compar
able this year.
Hillsboro moved into the con
solation finals of the Oregon
state high school class A basket
ball tournament with ease to
day, downing Dallas 51-27. ,
The issue was never in doubt.
Hillsboro took a 14 5 lead at
the quarter, dropped two points
of the margin for a halftime 20
13 lead, then zoomed in the
third quarter to a 16-point 36-
20 edge. The final period was
more of the same with the lead
stretched to 24 points at the
gun. V
'Concluded on Page 5, Column 4
Man Gets Life After
Woman Pegs His Eyes
Los Angeles, March 17 VP)
A convicted robber-kidnaper,
trapped by a woman who could
n't forget his eyes, has been sen
tenced to life in San Quentin
prison.
Henry J. Thwaites, 38, Wil
mington, Calif., received the
term yesterday for the holdup
robbery and kidnaping last July
of San Pedro cafe owner George
Speropoulous, 61. Thwaites'
partner, Gordon K. Darcy, 37,
was sentenced earlier to life.
Thwaites was arrested when
Mrs. Mary Bigler, a patron in
the cafe at the time of the hold
up, identified his eyes after
peering at 22 sets of eyes of
known criminals.
Japs Get Bibles
Tokyo, March 17 W 'Gil
Dodds, famed American miler
and minister, will arrive Satur
day to help give away Bibles.
After two days in Tokyo he
will fly to Korea for a preach
ing tour.
Dodds is helping the Pickett
Testament League of New York
to distribute 10,000.000 copies of
the testaments here.
r' T in,,, i. ... P
seven - point list of requirements
down in detail, in a California
speech yesterday, the conditions
under which he thinks the com
munist and non-communist world
might exist together on a live-and-let
live basis.
Every condition he laid down
called for a major retreat by
Russia from some political or
propaganda position; Acheson
hastened to add that he did not
think the Russians were in a
mood to accept his program. ,
Nevertheless, he also got across
the idea that he did not think
either side of the East-West con
flict wants a shooting war and
the only danger lay in weakness
on the part of the west. There
fore, he called for western
strength and unity including a
total effort on the part of the
United States to win the cold
war.
Acheson's speech, it was learn
ed from associates here, was de
signed primarily for the purpose
of telling the American people
why he thinks it is not possible
now to have a Big Two or some
other kind of meeting which
would solve basic problems be
tween the United States and
Russia.
He was also anxious to give
what he considered a broader
perspective to those who believe
that if the United States and
Russia could just get together
on control or atomic weapons
the world troubles would pretty
well be over.
Concluded on Pare 5. Column 5)
Commissioner Named
London, March 17 VP) Sir
Ivone Kirkpatrick is to become
Britain's high commissioner in
Germany in June, relieving Gen.
Sir Brian Robertson.
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Placed on Furlough Capt. John G. Crommelin smiles as
he talks with newsmen in San Francisco, after the Navy de
partment placed him on furlough effective April 1. Crom
melin, arch-foe of unification, was directed by Adm. Forrest
Sherman February 21 to refrain from further public criticism
of defense department policies. The captain told newsmen he
had no intention of quitting or retiring from the navy. (AP
Wirephoto)
Irish March
In New York's
Biggest Parade
St. Patrick's Day
Marchers Line Out
15 Miles Long
New York, March 17 VP)
Flannagans, Hannigans, O'Tooles
and O'Flynns . , . the boys from
Cork, Kerry, Dublin and Lim
erick swung up Fifth avenue to
day in the world's largest St.
Patrick's day parade.
Murphys, Kellys, Sullivans
and O'Briens . . . transplanted
Irish from Gaelic-speaking fish
ing villages, from mountain cot
tages, from Dublin's fair city
marched proudly past St. Pat
rick's cathedral in honor of their
beloved saint.
Raffertys, Muldoons, Hogans
and Morans . . . they and their
dark-eyed colleens got the day's
festivities started when the two-and-one-half
mile march went
under way at noon.
It will last at least five hours,
and when the marchers were all
in one line it stretched over 15
miles more than the length of
Manhattan island itself.
'Biggest Ever'
Always the world's biggest
parade on the saint's day, this
year it is the "biggest ever"
surpassing even New York's
previous efforts.
There are more Irish in New
York city than in Dublin. A
good share of them will be on
hand.
The weather for the slow-rolling
green wave was fair with
brisk winds to lift the banners.
But the weather doesn't really
count. This is one parade that
always marches come rain or
drought, scorching sun or drift
ing snow.
4,000 Cops
In addition to the 100,000
marchers, about two million oth
er persons watched from side
walks and the windows tower
ing above the street. To hold the
crowd in check, almost 4,000 po
licemen were assigned to the
march route, which started at
44th street and ends abreast of
Central Park at 94th street.
As always, there are two main
reviewing stands. .
One, on the steps of the St.
Patricks Cathedral, recognizes
the religious meaning of the day
honoring the man who brought
Christianity to Ireland 1,500
years ago.
Catholic clergy were on the
Cathedral steps although one
familiar face was missing. Fran
cis - Cardinal Spellman, arch
bishop of New York, is absent on
his Holy Year pilgrimage to
Rome.
Dewey 111
The other reviewing stand is
at 64th street, where civil au
thorities took the salute. Here
Irish-born Mayor William
O'Dwyer and New York state's
lieutenant governor, Joe R. Han-
ley, stood. Another familiar
face will be missing here, too.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, recover
ing from a shoulder operation,
planned to attend but was for
bidden by doctor's orders.
The parade marched under
papal blessing sent from Rome.
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Submarine Brought to Surface Held by lifting gear of two
salvage vessels, British submarine Truculent is beached on
Cheney spit in the Thames estauary off Sheerness, England.
Multiple nine-inch hawsers of vessels Ausdauer (left) and
Energie lifted her 54 feet from bottom of Thames where she
had lain since her sinking by Swedish tanker Divina, with a
loss of 64 lives. Water in hull of Truculent has yet to be
pumped out before salvage workers can enter it. (AP Wire
photo). (Photo of raising on Page 9)
Civil Defense
Chiefs Named
Governor Douglas McKay ap
pointed today 15 men to be
chiefs of divisions under the
state civil defense agency.
He said they would deal with
peacetime emergencies as well
as war problems.
The appointments are:
James E. Singleton Salem,
public utilities - commission, to
be chief of the evacuation divi
sion. Joseph M. Mjolsness, Salem,
state relations officer of the Red
Cross, to be chief of the food
and clothing division.
Leslie H. Warfield, : Salem,
highway commission to be chief
of the shelter and housing divi
sion.
State Public Welfare Commis
sioner Jack H. Luihn Portland
to be chief of public welfare di
vision.
Col. William C. Ryan Salem
state coordinator of institutions,
to be chief of planning division
State Vocational Director Os
car I. Paulson, Salem, to be chief
of training division.
Thomas Lawson McCall, Sa
lem, secretary to the governor,
to be chief of public relations.
Col. Edward C. Snow.Nation-
al Guard, Salem, to be chief of
mutual aid division.
State Police Capt. Walter Lan
sing, Salem, to be chief of plant
protection division.
Major Irvina Ail. Portland
National Guard, to be chief of
warden services.
Deputy State Police Supt. Lee
Bown, Salem, to be chief of po
lice services.
O. R. Blair, Portland to be
chief of transportation division.
W. C. Williams, Salem, assist
ant state highway engineer, to
be chief of engineering and res
cue division.
Capt. Robert L. Clark to be
chief of ground observer section
Lt. E. W. Thomas Portland,
National Guard, to be assistant
chief ground observer.
FDR Letters
Public Property
Hyde Park, N.Y., March 17
UP) President Franklin D.
Roosevelt kept a copy of al
most every letter he wrote, and
almost every letter he received
after he began his political
climb.
Today more than 5,000,000 of
these letters became public
property a- mirror to one of
the vital eras of world history.
Brief ceremonies marked the
event at the Franklin D. Roose
velt library here. It took two
and a half years to index the
papers.
There are letters to kings and
to high and low-born men whose
names are marked forever in
history. And there are humble
letters, the voice of the aver
age American as he took pen in
hand and wrote to the White
House during Mr. Roosevelt's 12
years in office.
About 85 per cent of all the
letters became public property
The rest were withheld for an
other 25 years. They might em
barrass persons still alive, or
might affect our relations with
other nations.
The letters are in boxes which
fill the shelves lining four rooms
of the federal library.
Confidential letters are mark
ed by red folders.
Worth $15
To Settle
Irish Argument
Jersey City, N. J., March 17
VP) The Irishmen were argu
ing in a tavern yesterday about
exactly what the angle of slant
was of the rooftops from
which riflemen fired in Ire
land's Easter Monday rebel
lion of 1916.
The pre-St. Patrick's day
argument grew hot. When a
fight seemed imminent, the
bartender put in a transatlan
tic telephone call to William
Sweetman, editor of the Irish
Press in Dublin.
It is not recorded just what
Sweetman said the slant of the
rooftops was In 1916, but It
settled the dispute.
The phone call cost the bar
tender $15.
Rivers Rising,
But No Floods
- Moderate rises in all rivers of
the valley are due during the
next two and three days but no
major flooding is expected at
this time, reports the weather
bureau. The higher waters come
following rains of the past few
days.
The Santiam at Jefferson Is
forecast to go to 14 feet 'tonight,
one foot above flood stage, but
the overflow at that point caus
es little damage except wash
ing. The river there was up to
12 feet this morning
The Willamette at Salem was
up to 5.3 feet, Friday morning,
a boost of more than 2 feet over
the reading Thursday
Generous quantities of rain
poured down in Salem through
Thursday and the night, nearly
an inch being measured here in
the 24-h our period ending at
10:30 a.m. A total ol 95 of an
inch was measured in that per
iod. A total of 1.37 inches was
measured bet we e n midnight
Wednesday and 10:30 am. Fri
day. Forecast is for continued clou
diness and showers tonight with
more general rain Saturday.
B' Gorra, St. Patrick's
Day Has Come to Salem
By STEPHAN A. STONE
Salem's best St. Patrick's day story comes from a home in south
Salem in fact from two homes.
It's a story so good that we'll be withholding the names. Not,
you understand, that there was a bit of disgrace about any
of it, but you have to use judgment about mentioning names.
And, anyway, the cops didn .
get in on it, as Mom wanted
when the thing first started.
It was around 2 a.m. and Mom
and Dad, both a bit on the shady
side of middle age, were very
sound asleep.
Something awoke Mom, and
she soon traced the wild noise
in the night to the house next
door. There was singing and
very loud talking, though with
two walls and an alley between
Mom couldn't tell what they
were saying, nor the kind of
songs they sang. But it was very
disturbing.
She nudged Dad in the ribs.
"Dad," she said sharply.
"Hum?"
"Wake up. What's that awful
party going on next door?"
"How'd I know?" he said grog-gily-
"Well find out. Call a police-
Stale Leases
Site to Army
Capt. Richard Reynolds,. Army
Reserve instructor for the Sa
lem area, this week was in
formed that the state board of
control was agreeable to leasing
to the army for 50 years the site
upon which an Army Reserve
armory is to be constructed here
The information was given
Capt. Reynolds in a letter from
Roy Mills, secretary of the board
of control, after a poll of the
members had been taken on the
subject.
Formal action on the lease will
be withheld until the army has
taken action. Reynolds forward
ed the information to both the
chief of the Oregon Military dis
trict, Col. Russell Snyder, and
to Albert F. Straub, chief of the
real estate division of the dis
trict engineers in Seattle.
The three-acre site selected by
the army and the engineers is1
located on the west side of Air
port road just to the south of
the state highway shops and lab
oratory. The armory is to be a
block concrete structure with a
basement and two stories above
the ground.
Irish Guards Get
Shamrocks from King
London, March 17 VP) King
George VI gave the Irish guards
the "Micks Irish shamrocks
today in celebration of St Pat
rick's day and the regiment's
fiftieth birthday.
The king; colonel-in-chicf,
handed over the greenery at a
regimental parade at Chelsea
barracks here Queen Elizabeth,
Princess Elizabeth and Field
Marshal Vis count Alexander,
governor-general of Canada and
commander of the regiment,
were there.
So was Mrs. Josephine O'Keefc
of Rosscarbcry, county Cork,
Ireland. The shamrock had been
flown over from her garden.
It was in 1900 that Queen
Victoria commanded that the
Irish Guards be founded in hon
or of the bravery of Irish regi
menls in the Boer war
Truck Driver Killed
North Bend, Ore March 17
tP) A lumber truck driver was
fatally crushed in his truck cab
near here yesterday by a load of
lumber that shifted He was
iWalter Edward (Johnny) Green,
man. So the neighbors can get
some sleep."
Dad protested, but Mom in
sisted. "Okay, o-kay," he yielded, and
donned a bath robe yawingly.
"I wanta be fair," he said "I'll
call 'em up. Tell 'em to pipe
down.
Mom heard Dad dialing down
stairs. The conversation was
drawn-out, but next door the
noise went on. Then Mom heard
the outside door open and ciose.
Dad was going to take things
into his own hands
Mom waited anxiously A half
hour maybe. The noise got no
less. Really worse. Mom worried
about Dad. Maybe they were
giving him a bad time
At last she heard him come
in. What relief Then something
crashed.
(Concluded oi. Pace (, Column 3)
9J,uuu,uuu,uuu cut today at a
lump sum $30,300,000,000 ap
propriation bill already tenta
tively trimmed by $1,200,000,
000. The bill carries most of Presi
dent Truman's budcet recom
mendations for federal agencies
for the 1951 fiscal year, starting
next July 1. It is due to be
considered by the house apro
priations committee starting next
Monday and Is slated for floor
debate March 27,
The tentative reduction was
reported by members of the pow
erful "central" subcommittee of
the appropriations group. The
cut does not affect foreign aid
funds, nor docs it apply to the
so-called permanent and indefi
nite approriations and trust
funds which cannot be trimmed.
Altogether they account for
about $12,000,000,000.
The committee action would
make the federal deficit for the
fiscal year 1951 about $4,000,
000,000 assuming that congress
sticks to its aparent determina
tion not to raise taxes this year.
More Cuts Planned
Another cut of $3,000,000,000
in the omnibus measure would
lower the anticipated deficit to
$1,000,000,000, and that is what
GOP fiscal leasers are driving
for.
(Concluded on Page K. Column 6)
$27,000 in On
Red Cross Drive
With almost $27,000 reported
in as audited, Red Cross fund
campaign workers found 64 per
cent of their goal of $42 000 re
alized when they assembled for
their report session, Friday.
A total of $26.978 04 was
checked in for the noon report.
Two city divisions now have
passed their goals professional
and educational. Edward Majek,
professional division chairman,
listed 111 percent of his returns
or $1782 against a goal of
$1600.
The educational division,
headed by Arthur Myers and
Connell Ward, listed $1101 in,
their goal having been $1100.
Big gains were listed for the
women s residential division and
the mercantile division. The wo
men have $5944 in against their
goal of $7000, while the mercan
tile has $929.75 in against its
quota of $1800
Governmental division is near
its quota of $4000, reporting $3,
716.33 in Friday. Harold Phil
lippe is chairman.
Other divisions reporting Fri
day included: Special gifts $7,
209.75; automotive $328: con
tractors, $550; utilities $521;
county, $3780.71; general gifts,
$626.46; industrial, $500 50.
Labor Party Loses
Member by Death
London, March 17 (U.R)The
labor government's perilously
small majority in the house of
commons was reduced to five
today by the death of Adam Mc
Kinlay, labor member for West
Dumbartonshire
McKinlay died at his home in
Glasgow. A former woodworker
and trade unionist, he was con
sidered an expert on housing.
He first was elected to parlia
ment in 1929
His death cut labor member
ship in the house to 314 com
pared to 309 members of other
parties. The conservatives hold
298 scats, the liberals nine and
the Irish nationals two.
Chest Meeting Dated
At Marion on Monday
Community Chest agencies
staff members will hold a lunch
eon meeting in the Marine room
of the Marion hotel Monday
noon.
Slated for discussion at the
meeting are "Camp How to co
operate to give more boys and
girls a fine camping experience
this summer," and "Do we have
enough information about the
needs of youth in our rapidly
growing city?"
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