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62nd Year, No. 68 SffMSTUS Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 21, 1950
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$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.
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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
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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.
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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)
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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.