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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER HERE CLOUDY WITH RAIN tonight, becoming partly cloudy slight ly cooler with widely scattered lipht showers Wednesday. Low tonight, 38; high Wednesday, 48. Mulmum yesterday, IU; minimum to day, 32. Total 4-hour preeiplUtlon: .(15 j for month: 3.1)7; normal, 2.51. Sea ion prt cipltatlon, S6.48; normal, S9.95. Hirer heirht, 18.1 feet. (Report by I'.S. Weather Bureau.) C apital spinal HOME EDITION 62nd Year, No. 68 SffMSTUS Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 21, 1950 (20 Pages) Price' 5c ink . f $20 Deposit for Truman toOpen Parole at State Non-Political Tour in Chicago Hospital Ended Plans for School Building at Blind Schoo Approved The state board of control found out today that the state hospital has been requiring rel atives to put up $20 deposits for paroles of insane patients. The board immediately abol ished the practice, which has been going on for 20 years. When the hospital paroles a patient which it thinks might have to come back to the hos pital, it makes the relatives put Tip a $20 deposit. Then, if the hospital has to go and bring the patient back, it deducts the cost from the $20. It refunds the balance to the relatives. Deposit Returned If the patient doesn't come back within a year, then the rel atives get the whole $20 back. In some cases, like those in which the relatives live near the hospital, the deposits might be less. Board Secretary Roy H. Mills told the board it is improper to make the charge "because a pa role should be based solely on the condition of the patient, and not on whether his relatives have $20," (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) Rent Control Funds 'Pinched' Washington, March 21 (IP) The senate passed by voice vote and sent to the White House to day a $738,000,000 money bill pinching down rent control funds. The house passed the bill yesterday. The measure gives housing expediter Tighe E. Woods $4, 000,000 for the rent control agency during the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30. , Of that amount, however, $2, 600,000 is earmarked for sever ance pay for employes a hint that congress may frown on any extension of controls beyond June 30. President Truman has asked for a year's extension. The rest of the money, $1,400, 000, is for operating expenses. Woodi had asked for $3,600,000 for operations. Thus his request was cut sharply. Another Unit Reaches Goal Governmental division in the Red Cross fund campaign be- came the third unit to reach- its goal Tuesday morning. The division turned in $4011.83, against its quota of $4000. More will be coming in yet for the division, reports Har old Phillippe, chairman. Previously, the educational and professional groups had com- pleted their quotas in the city divisions. Fourth report luncheon meet ing for workers is planned for Friday of this week at the Sena tor hotel. Every effort is being made to show as big a return as possible on the $42,000 county goal in the drive at the Friday noon re port, states Walter Musgrave, general chairman for the cam paign. Slaughter Plants Face Closure Portland, March 21 (IP) Fed eral and state agriculture aides met here today to discuss with drawal of federal meat grading ervices at eight Oregon slaugh ter plants. The federal department an nounced yesterday the action , stemmed from failure of the plants to comply with sanitation and inspection requirements. Five of the plants are in the Portland area, two in Medford and one at Ontario. They were not listed publicly by the offi cials. It was explained that insist ence on complete before-slaugh-ter and after-slaughter inspec tion of animals for disease was involved. The withdrawal of grading followed new sanitation rules effective March 1. The Ore gon plants had been given a tnree-weeK grace perioa io com T ply. President Urges Support of Middle Housing Bill By ERNEST B. VACCARO Key West, Fla., March 21 m President Truman will ad dress a democratic rally in Chi cago May 15 in connection with a cross-country speaking tour which will carry him into the Pacific northwest. This trip, which will include dedication of the Grand Coulee dam in Washington, was con firmed officially by a top White House official, who said a for mal announcement will be made later. Meanwhile, Press Secretary Charles G. Ross disclosed that President Truman sent a tele gram to Chairman Spence (D Ky.) of the house banking com mittee urging favorable house action of the middle income housing bill. 'Give 'em Hell' Speeches Mr Truman plans to give the country another taste of his rear platform "give 'em hell" speech es of the 1948 campaign, using the opportunity to enlist voter pressure for "fair deal" meas ures, during the cross-country trip. Present plans contemplate a presidential speech at Grand Coulee, northwest of Spokane, about May 11. The Chicago speech, in Soldier Field, will wind up the trip. Mr. Truman will speak at to vns along the way going to Grand Coulee and on the re turn to the capitol. Work on Now White House officials said nre- liminary work will be done on the president's speeches at his "winter White House" where he is spending a vacation that may last into the first week of ADril umciai passes given TeDorters to enter the base are good until April io. (Concluded on Pace 5, Cojumn 6) First Sub Tank Undergoes Test San Francisco. March 31 (IP) The navy's first submarine tank er the U.S.S Guavina under went her first tests off the Gold en Gate yesterday. The 311-foot schnorkel- equipped sub has been broaden ed 10 feet through the addition of tanks along her sides, in creasing .the beam to 37 feet. I She made three dives to 120 teet depth near the Farallone islands, the navy reported. The Guivina is equipped with special hatch arrangement permitting the release of water tight cases of supplies which bob to the surface and might be used to supply guerrilla troops. The vessel was built during the war and saw service in the Pacific. It was converted and recommissioned at Mare Island navy yard. Lw jjlf - - . t, '"""'""rSti ,a Denies Charge United States Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup (right, foreground), tells the senate foreign relations subcommittee in Washington that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's pro-communist charges against him are false. Left to right at table: Senators Millard E. Tydings (D., Md.), chairman; Theo dore Green (DRIJBrien McMahon (D., Conn.), and Tom Connally (D., Tex.)". Between Tydings and Green, in second row is Sen. McCarthy. Behind Sen. McMahon (wearing black hat) is. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. (Acme Telephoto) High Court Upholds Jury Denying $57,600 Suit A Benton county widow and her three children failed today in a $57,600 damage suit for the death of their husband and father. In an appeal from Benton county, the state surpreme court ruled that the circuit court jury's verdict in favor of Clemens Forest Products, Inc., should be upheld. Calvin Solon Dies at Committee Washington, March 21 (IP) Rep. Ralph Edwin Church (R 111.), 66 years old, collapsed and died today at a congressional committee hearing. He was pronounced dead by Rep. Miller of Nebraska, a phy sician, i The hearing was being held by the house committee on ex ecutive expenditures on proposed reorganizations in the national labor relations board. Chairman Dawson (D., 111.) said Church was giving the group his views when he appar ently suffered a heart attack. Dawson said that in the midst of a sentence Church gasped for breath, then slumped in his chair. Church, a lawyer whose home was Evanston, 111., was elected to the house seven times to repre sent the 13th Illinois district. He was chosen for three terms in a row beginning in 1934. In 1940 he broke his string to try unsuc cessfully for the senatorial nomi nation. In 1942 he was elected again and has served in Vie last four congresses. At today's committee hearing, Church was fighting a proposal from President Truman to end the independent status ' of the general counsel to the national labor relations board and trans fer the counsel's functions to the NLRB itself. Church had told the committee "This is nothing more than a device or scheme to destroy the Taft-Hartley law. The opponents of this law are attempting to ac complish indirectly what they are unable to do directly." Spring Opening Show Will Be Spectacular By MARGARET MAGEE Salem is getting ready to put on its best spring attire for the night of March 23 the occasion is the annual Spring Opening The over 100 merchants and auto dealers participating in the ...... U..- nlnHntt,n thai. UjUU0 nnJ Jl.nl... 1w some time and at 7 o'clock Thursday night the windows will be over sale of timber lands Opin- unveiled C. Williams, an em ploye in the company's sawmill, was killed when struck on the head by a piece of wood. His widow and children sued. The jury in Circuit Judge Vic tor Olliver's court ruled that the company was not to blame awarded no damages. But Judge Olliver set the verdict aside and ordered a new trial, Today's decision by Justice James T. Brand reversed Judge Olliver's order, and reinstated the jury's verdict. In an appeal from Tillamook county ; the- court awarded Mary E... Gilman $6,500 . darnages against A. c. Jjurnngnam. , sine Gilman car collided with a truck driven by Buringham on the coast highway north of Wheeler, and Mrs. Gilman was injured. The decision, by Justice Earl C. Latourette, upheld Circuit Judge R. Frank Peters of Tilla mook. The court ordered a new trial in the $29,802 damage suit of Frank M. Bartholomew against the . Oregonian Publishing com pany and Glenn Reymers, Jr., a district manager for the com pany. Bartholomew's car collided in Portland with an Oregonian car driven by Reymers. The jury found in favor of The Oregonian, but Circuit Judge James W. Crawford ordered a new trial. The Oregonian then appealed from Judge Crawford's order. Today's supreme court deci sion by Justice Arthur D. Hay upheld Judge Crawford's order granting the new trial. The court upheld a $750 dam age verdict in favor of Dolores Kudrna, four-year-old Portland girl who was injured in an ac cident in which her mother was killed. The little girl and her mother were passengers in a car driven by her mother's brother, Laudie Adamski. The car went off the highway and crashed. The girl, through her guar dian, sued Adamski and collect ed $750. The decision, by Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk, upheld Cir cuit Judge Frank J. Lonergan of Portland. Other court action today: Jens and May Lebrock vs. Shields ReMine, appellant. Ap peal from Marion county. Suit Top Red Named By McCarthy Washington, March 21 VP) Senator McCarthy said today he has handed senate investigators the name of the man connect ed with the state department whom I consider the top Rus sian espionage agent in this country." The Wisconsin republican made the statement to newsmen Reports circulated meanwhile that the state department is urg ing President Truman to open FBI and all other government loyalty files to the senate com mittee looking into McCarthy's charges there are communists in the department. The "top Russian agent" was described by McCarthy as Alger Hiss' one-time boss "in the es pionage ring in the department." Hiss, former state department official, has been convicted on a charge that he lied in denying he handed secret U.S. documents to a courier for Russia. Peery Buren Runs for Judge Peery T. Buren, attorney, an nounced Monday that he will be a candidate for city judge in this- year s elections. Buren was a candidate in the 1948 elections, and in the pri mary finished at the top of the list of four candidates. In the November election, however, he was defeated by the incumbent, W. W. McKinney. Buren is a native of Salem. He studied at the University of Oregon and graduated in law from George Washington univer sity in Washington, D.C. The only other candidate so far announced for the office of city judge is Elmer M. Amund son. McKinney will not be a candidate for re-election. Britain Refuses To Return to Cato'NineTails Outbreak of Crime By 'Kid Gangs' Arouses British London, March 21 (IP) Brit ain's labor government refused flatly today a demand for the return of flogging as punishment in crimes of violence. Lord Jowitt, the nation's chief law officer, told the house of lords: We have no intention of re introducing it none whatever." Flogging Abolished Use of the cat o' nine tails on criminals was abolished in a re vised criminal justice act passed by parliament in 1948. Recently an outbreak of slug ging and robbery, mainly by teen-aged boys who chose de fenseless women as their vic tims, has led to a rising chorus of calls for its return by wide sections of the press and judi ciary. Britons of all classes even some of the old-time profession al thugs and burglars are get ting more and more incensed at the sickening violence of Brit ain's postwar "kid gangs." Worse still, to the average Briton, is the fact that more and more criminals are carrying guns and this in a land where ordi nary policemen traditionally are not armed. (Concluded on Pane 5, Column T) Wherry Directs Fire on Acheson Lincoln, Neb., March 21 J. Senate Reoublican Leader Ken neth S. Wherry said today that Secretary of State Dean Acheson "must go" and that he ia "a bad security risk." Wherry assailed Acheson in a speech prepared for delivery be fore the republican-sponsored Nebraska founders" day celebra tion. While it was a general at tack on the administration, its heaviest fire was aimed at Ach eson. "Secretary of State Dean Ach eson is the most powerful man in the government today," Wherry said. "The voice is the voice of President Truman but the hand is the hand of Dean Acheson. "Apparently, he nas become so powerful as the idol of left wing, appease-Russia agitators that the president is ' fearful, should he fire Mr. Acheson, he will lose the support of this radical, socialistic pressure group in the coming elections and in 1952." Facts Concerning Huge Government Appropriation Bill Washington, March 21 (U.R) Facts about the omnibus ap propriation bill approved by house committee: Amount $29,045,030,164, or some two-thirds of the feder al budget. What was asked $1,567, 900,504 more than was given. Compared with previous year down $2,207,000,000. Covered most government agencies, including the arm ed forces. Not affected foreign aid and such fixed costs as inter est on the public debt. Where does it leave the an ticipted deficit at $4,153,- 682,312, compared with Pre sident Truman's estimate of $5,133,171,372. Packed House Gets Different Kind of Concert Clarksville, Ark., March 21 (IP) Johnson county night on the statewide tour of the Ar kansas State Symphony drew a packed house here last night. Promptly at 8:30 o'clock, School Supt. Arlie Kendall stepped to the center of the stage and introduced Conduc tor Josef Blatt, who was greet ed with a roar of applause. The conductor raised his ba tonless hand. "It is one of those things that happen once in a million years," he announced. "The orchestra is here and ready The instruments are here. But no concert. We left every scrap of our music in Little Rock." The symphony, complete with music, will return here Wednesday night. Program Prepared For Fire Convention A state association of directors of rural fire protection dis tricts was being formed here Tuesday, with the assistance of the Oregon Fire Chiefs association and the Oregon Fire Fighters as sociation. Meeting here to prepare a program for the joint state conven tion of the chiefs and the fire fighters June 1, 2 and 3 were The automobile show is to be held in the downtown streets and blocked off for the show will be Court street between High and Commercial streets and Liberty street between Chemeketa and State. Participating merchants Mon day began distributing tickets for the treasure hunt that is a feature of Spring Opening. Ap proximately 175,000 of these tickets are to be in the hands of the merchants for distribution during the week and can be had by the public by asking mer chants for them. No purchase is necessary to secure the tickets. They are free to all. Several bands and orchestras will be on hand for the occasion. At least three musical groups will make their appearance on the streets during the evening and more may be added to that list this week. The three are Monte Blue's Castle Jazz band 'the Salem high school band, and the Drum and Bugle Corps of Capital Post No. 9, American Legion. Bill DeSouza's band is to play at the Crystal Gardens and three orchestras will play at the Sa lem Armory during the evening. In this group are the Western Valley Boys, Glenn Woodry's orchestra and Monte Blue's Cas tle Jazz band. MORE Here also for Spring Opening but slated to be open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m Thursday is the Mod ernization Caravan of the Pitts burgh Plate Glass company This display, arranged on two large vans, includes miniature displays of 12 types of stores and busi ness places, built to scale. Each display is of the entire business establishment, and in cludes the latest in lighting furn ished by the General Electric company, store fronts and inter iors. (Concluded en rag i, Colamn I) ion by Justice Earl C. Latour ette. Judge E. M. Page, affirmed. Ml. Slates Asks For Lower Rates Mountain State Power compa ny filed application today to re duce its rates in the city of Springfield. - The company said it wants the rate reduction in order to com pete with the city of Spring field's city-owned power system. This case is similar to the one several months ago when Pacific Power and Light company cut its rates in The Dalles in order to compete with a peoples utility district. In that case, Attorney General George Neuner ruled that a power company could re duce rates in any locality in or der to meet competition from' an other utility. representatives of both those or ganizations and of the rural dis tricts. When the state conventions meet the rural district directors will also have a state meeting on the first two days. In the state are approximately 120 rural fire protection dis tricts,, each with five directors; making a membership of 600 or more. Attending the meeting here today were: W. P. Roble, chief of the Sa lem fire department; H. P. Teets, president of the board of directors of the Keizer rural fire protection district: H. C. Rpauld ing, chief of the Newberg fire department; A. E. LaBranchc president of the board of the Four Corners district; Harold A Rosebraugh, secretary of the Lib erty-Salem Heights district; J. A. Manegre, director of the St. Paul district; Paul Jarrett, chief of the Park Rose fire protection district; E. L. Smith, drill mas ter of the Salem fire department; C- C. Puderbagh, chief of the Oak Grove district; W. F. White, chief engineer for the Oregon Insurance Rating bureau; Rob ert Taylor, state fire marshal Howard Gill, drill master of the Portland fire department; Ed ward Grenfell, chief of the Port land department; P. C. Lein weber, Portland, president of the State Fir Fighters associa tion; Clyde Buckholtz, Salem, secretary of the fire fighters association; and Jack Hayes, act- ng secretary of the Fire Chiefs association. Dr. Sander Cited By Medic Group Manchester, N.H., March 21 (IP) Dr. Hermann N. Sander has a new hurdle to clear before he can return to good standing in New Hampshire's medical pro fession. Dr. Lloyd L. Wells, secretary of -the Hillsboro County Medical society, disclosed last night that a charge has been filed with the organization against the young country doctor. The state board of registration in medicine already has a hear ing pending to determine Dr. Sander's right to continue the practice of medicine. The hear ing will be held April 12. The disclosure that a charge had been filed with the county society came a few hours after two Catholic hospitals announc ed Dr. Sander had been banned from practicing in the institu tions. The 41-year-old physician was acquitted March 9 of murder in the death of Mrs. Abbie C. Bor rolo, 59, a cancer-ridden patient. In announcing that the county society had been called upon to take action, Dr. Wells said: "A charge has been made against Dr. Hermann N. San der. The Hillsboro County Med ical Society's constitution and by-laws govern all procedures. No further official comment will be made until these procedures are completed." The nature of the charge was not disclosed. Truman Budget For 40 Bureaus Cut $1 Billion Half of Huge Outlay For Defense and Fixed Charges Washington, March 21 (IP) A $29,045,030,164 deficit-boosting government spending bill rep resenting a $200 outlay for every man, woman or child in the na tion was approved today by the house appropriations committee. Grim reminder of the cost of war, more than half of its total is composed of items for national defense, including charges grow ing out of World War II. The bill carries $13,911,127,300 for the defense department, $5,801, 782,795 for the veterans' admin istration and $947,970,000 for the atomic energy commission. There were no deep cuts in any major programs, the average reduction under President Tru man's requests being five per cent. But there is a move in the house to send the bill back to the committee for a further $1,000,000,000 cut or more. The committee vote was not officially announced. But Rep. Taber (R., N.Y.), said all repub licans present voted against ap proving the bill on the ground it was "too big." He said all democrats voted for it. There are 27 democrats and 18 repub licans on the committee. Slated for house debate next week, the bill wraps into a sin gle measure for the first time in modern history the appropria tions of more than 40 federal agencies. Not included are for eign aid and military assistance funds and so-called permanent and indefinite appropriations, aggregating $11,592,751,053. The bill's total is $1,567,900, 504 less than the president re quested and, if approved by con gress, would result in an estimat ed federal deficit of $4,153,682, 312 for the 1951 fiscal year, starting next July 1. The appro priations provided are for that year. In actual cash, the bill appro priates $27,266,403,664, which is $1,385,377,504 less than the pres ident requested and $832014,180 less than was provided for com parable activities this year. In addition, it provides author ity for government agencies to enter into contracts totaling $1,778,626,500. This sum is $182,523,000 less than the presi dent sought and $1,877,408,128 less than was provided this year. Future appropriations normally are necessary to finance these authorizations. The appropriations committee pointed out that the cash cuts would mean a reduction of $979, 489,060 in planned government spending in the fiscal year 1951. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 5) ' ' ( '"f " "," WlHlj"-1 ""ill j Slays Sister Alice Richard, 14, is escorted to justice court in Fresno, Calif., by Sheriff J. W Ripperdan to be arraigned for the slaying of her Identical twin lister, Sally. (Acme Tele-photo.) Mental Probe for Alice Richard, 14 Fresno, Calif., March 21 (IP) Sally Richard, 14, will be bur ied today. A little later psychi atrists will be court appointed to ask her twin, Alice why she shot Sally in a fit of hatred. Alice told officers she had no desire to attend her sister's fun eral. She said she had hated Sal ly four years and "I would kill her again." Clothed in a plain cotton dress and with no makeup, Alice was arraigned before Justice Leonard J. Myers yesterday. She was defiant as she heard the charge: That she wilfully and with malice shot Sally early Sunday. A high school sophomore, she had the air of a pupil called be fore a principal for some in fraction of the rules. She seemed to have a notion of the gravity of the crime; but no worry as to its consequences. Asked if she realized what might happen to her she shrugged: "I guess they'll put me in an institution for a while and then execute me." Under California law she is too young for execution but could be sent to a girl's school of correction or a mental institu tion. Probation Officer John Ash jian said "she shows absolutely no remorse." She ate big meals yesterday and told him she had her "best night's sleep in six years." Superior Judge Arthur E. Shcpard said he would order a sanity examination and appoint psychiatrists today.