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Newspaper Page TextTHE WEATHER hIrE CLOUDY WITH showers tonight and Wednesday. Cooler Wednes day. Low tonight, 41; high Wed nesday, 56. ..Mi1"!mo5elt,d, ' today, 1C,'L ''"' precipitation: 0, ill month: ,9; norml, ,9. Seaion prtclplta lion, M.86i normal, w.W. RI.er h.liht, S.I feel. (Report br 0.8. Weather Bareast.) G apital HOME EDITION 62nd Year, No. 86 Entered J Meend tlut matUr BaIhu. Ortcao Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 1 1, 1950 (20 Pages) Price 5c 11 t, I III . 1 m i ilJLCULA Stale Prison Commended By Grand Jury Inmates Held Well Disciplined and New Cell Block Praised By JAMES D. OLSON A commendatory report on the Oregon state penitentiary was made by the Marion county grand jury in its March report to the circuit court. A copy of the report was sub mitted to the state board of con trol Tuesday. "The management of the prison are exerting every effort to bring the institution to an 'above standard' condition" the report stated. "Inmates are well disciplined and the newly completed cell block is all that could be desir ed" the report continues. Medical Facilities "The employment of a full time physician and surgeon, re cently, will place the medical facilities in a desired position, as the prison hospital is in ex cellent condition," the grand jury reported. Jury members said that the food served at the prison is well prepared and handled under modern sanitary conditions. The jury also said that cleanliness and sanitation "appear to be a watchword" at the institution. Both Governor Douglas Mc Kay and State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson, the only two mem bers present, expressed appre ciation over the grand jury find ings. Portland Office Building Contract for the new state of fice building in Portland to Ralph and Howitz, Portland con tractors on a basic bid of $1,316, 747 will probably be let within a week, the board stated. It was estimated that with extras, the cost of land and inspection will bring the total cost of the build-' ing to $2,358,000 or $144,000 be low the estimated cost. Mem bers of the board are considering s the addition of one floor to the I building or a sub-basement for ' parking of state automobiles. The question of whether the build ing will be faced with marble or terra cotta was put over until next week pending further in vestigation. 3 Elections on School Issues In all probability the Salem school district will be compell ed to hold three elections this spring one regular and two specials. The voters will be called upon to pass judgment on a proposed $1,000,000 bond issue, the funds to be used in the construction of new buildings. Later, the an nual budget which is expected to be in excess of the six percent limitation, will call for a vote of the people. The regular election when one director will be selected, is scheduled for June. The order in which the three elections will be held has not been determined but it is probable the bond issue will come up first. Since polling places for the school elections and for the gen eral primary, election in May are not the same, it has been found impracticable to coordi nate them. The district employs four polling places. The term of Ed Majek will ex pire in June. He has made no announcement whether he would seek re-election, although fel low directors have been urging ' that he do so. Plane Wreckage Located in Pacific San Francisco, April 11 W The 12th naval district announc ed today that wreckage of the navy F-80 jet fighter plane in which Lt. Alvis Bennell Town- send crashed yesterday, had been located one mile off Santa Cruz in the Pacific ocean. The wreckage was marked by a buoy until it can be raised. His wife lives at Los Angeles. His mother. Mrs. Gene Town- send, lives in Tampa, Fla., which is listed as the officer's home town. Norwegian Ship Ablaze at Sea New York, April 11 (U.R) A Norwegian freighter reported by radio today that it had been rocked by an explosion and was in dire distress 680 miles south east of St. Johns, Newfoundland. Bridges' Loss Of Citizenship Action Delayed Labor Leader Sen tenced to 5 Years Prison Appeal Taken San Francisco, April 11 (P) a move to strip Harry Bridges of American citizenshin was de layed today until some time next month. Bridges, 48. president of the big CIO Longshore union, was convicted of perjury in obtain ing citizenship. The Australian born union leader was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison. The government today asked Federal Judge George B. Harris for an immediate order revok ing Bridge's citizenship on the ground that it was obtained through fraud. The judge heard both govern ment attorneys and the defense, briefly, then announced he want ed more time to consider the matter. He said he would give the gov ernment two weeks to file briefs, then the defense will have 10 days to answer. The matter would then be submitted to Judge Harris, who could rule at his pleasure. Doesn't Want to Be Hasty Judge Harris said that to be too hasty in the matter might cause Bridges "to be caught be tween the grinding forces of the law." He questioned whether he had the right to sign the citizenship revocation order now. and then sign an order staying it until the case has been appealed, clear up to me u.b. supreme court, (Concluded on Page 5) Column 5) Plains Area Hit By Dust Storms (By the -Associated Press) The third big dust storm of the year swept wide sections of the nation's wheatlands in mid America yesterday, , And with the blow came fears that strong April winds may whip up more trouble for farm ers already harassed by long dry speus. . Kansas and Oklahoma, two of the nation's top wheat produc ing states, took the brunt of yesterday's winds. But strong gusts also kicked up valuable top soil in the Texas Panhandle, eastern Colorado and New Mex ico both Sunday and yesterday. The winds were not consider ed qiSite as strong as a heavy blow two weeks ago. An agronomist at the Ft. Hays, Kas., agricultural experiment station pointed out, however, that in the previous dust storms this year only small areas were blowing, but yesterday's winds eroded larger spots. A prolonged dry spell has loos ened the soil. "This could lead to most se vere damage," said Agronomist A. F. Swanson. "The wind also is beginning to work the soil into a fine powder. And when this happens we will really have a problem." The dust was so thick yester day in parts of Kansas that visi bility for a time was zero. The highway patrol closed one U.S. highway west of Salina because of the dust hazard. 3-Hour Parking Meters In Fringe Recommended Three-hour parking meters in metered districts just outside the city center, two-hour meters in some other districts, and 20 minute meters in the vicinity of the banks will be the order in Salem if the city council approves recommendations received Monday night from City Manager J. L. Franzen. About 300 of the city's 15UC meters would be involved in the change, which would encourage the use of metered stalls in the fringes that are little used at present. It would cost about $1000 to make the conversion. Three - hour parking would cost 10 cents, or a nickle for an hour and a half. For three-hour meters the manager recommended: Church street From Ferry to State and from Court to Che meketa. High street From Chemeke ta to Marion. Chemeketa From High to Cottage. Liberty From Center to Mar ion. Commercial From Center to Marion Centeif From High to Com mercial i' $tv cr! , r v. WM "W Truman Meets Party Leaders Washington, April 11 ffl Senate democratic leaders talk ed with President Truman for an hour today about the con gressional legislative situation and reported he is "pretty well satisfied" with progress on his program. Senator Lucas of Illinois, who said that was Mr. Truman's re action, predicted "We are going to have a very good record in congress when we finish." Lucas, with Vice President Barkley, brought the president up to date on the legislative sit uation as Mr. Truman started his first full day back at his Washington desk after a month in Florida. , From the- record so far, Mr.; Truman may get scarcely more than a half-loaf of his "fair deal" program from this congress, but Lucas said he thinks more will be accomplished than most peo ple think. "We were in the same position last year when a lot of people said we were not going to get anywhere," Lucas said. He predicted congress, before adjourning, will pass foreign economic and arms aid pro grams, increase social security benefits, reduce some excise taxes, extend rent control and increase the borrowing power of the commodity credit corpora tion. Lucas also said democratic leaders will make a "determined effort" to get action on a fair employment practices bill. T-nighf Set in Hotels Of Nation for Census -Portland, Ore., April 11 (U.B The federal census agency has tonight set aside as T-for-tran-sient-night in order to count ho tel guests throughout the nation. Enumerators will be stationed in all hotel lobbies to assist guests in answering question naires, the Portland di strict of fice said today. Hotel guests will be counted with the populations of their home towns and not with the cities they are visiting. Two-hour meters were recom mended for these streets: Liberty From Chemeketa to Center. Commercial From Chemeke ta to Center. Chemeketa From Front to Commercial. State From Commercial to Front. Seven parking stalls would be equipped with 20-minute meters at each of the downtown cor ners where the United States National and the First National banks are located. To enable the public to recog-l nize the meters, the standards of the 20-minute meters would be red, the two-hour meters green, and the three-hour meters yellow. All others would be the present aluminum color. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Bridges Posts Bail Ed Mitchell, clerk of the federal court at San Francisco (right), looks at a certified check for $30,000 posted for Harry Bridges (center), west coast CIO longshore leader, and his two co-defendants, Henry Schmidt and John R. Robertson, as bail. Germains Bulcke, vice presi dent of the longshore union which furnished the bail, is at left. Bridges was sentenced to five years for perjury and two years for conspiracy, to run concurrently. The two co-defendants received two years each for conspiracy. Bail for the three totalled $45,000. (AP Wirephoto.) Union Street Railroad Franchise Again up By STEPHEN A. STONE Alderman Albert H. Gille is one up on Mayor Robert L. Elf- strom today, and the Southern an official threat that its Union street franchise will not be renewed. The franchise expires June 27. The railroad company will be Thailand Gets $10 Million Aid Bangkok, April HOT The United States has granted $10, 000,000 worth of arms and other military aid to a Thailand threat ened by communism, Premier Pi- bul Songgram disclosed today. This was the first concrete manifestation of decisions reach ed at the Bangkok conference in February. Philip C.'Jessup, U. S. ambas-sador-at-large, set forth the U. S. position there of giving mili tary assistance to Asian nations displaying the will to stand against the communist tide. Under Songgram's leadership, the tiny kingdom of Thailand has taken its place alongside demo cratic powers in the cold war against communism. But the war is more hot than cold in southeast Asia, which lies athwart the mighty new commu nist nation of China and itself is riddled with Reds. The premier successfully fought for recognition of Bao Dai's French supported regime in Indochina. The western pow ers have lined up for Bao Dai while the communist bloc sup ports the opposing regime of Ho Chi-Minh. 5000 Reds on Isle Surrender Taipei, April 11 P) Five thousand communist guerrillas, their morale shattered by propa ganda and cut supply lines, sur rendered during the past week on Hainan, Chinese nationalist dispatches said today. The nationalist high command on the hard-pressed south. China island said about 2,800 guerrillas laid down their arms in six vil lages on southern Hainan. The others surrendered in scattered areas. The nationalists threw a three pronged drive at the estimated 25,000 to 30,000 guerrillas on Hainan. They bombarded them with air-dropped leaflets promising life and re-education. They stepped up the military drive. They blasted six Chinese com munist attempts during the past month to pour men and supplies across Hainan beaches from Lui chow peninsula 10 miles away. For the week ended Sunday, the high command reported: Nationalist warships sank more than 40 Red junks, killing more than 2,000 Reds and cap turing more than 100. Nationalist planes sank or damaged 250 junks, killing more than 1,000 Reds. Pacific company is up against asked to appear before the city oouncil and show cause why it should not vacate Union street on that date Gille, who has been attacking the Southern Pacific company quite regularly ever since he has been a member of the council, said at the meeting Monday night that when the present franchise was granted by the council the railroad company was informed it would be the last time. City Recorder Al Mundt was twice sent downstairs to bring to the chamber the minutes of the meeting of June 27, 1949, when the present franchise ordi nance was passed. A hasty peru sal of the minutes did not show the action Gille had mentioned. He wasn't satisfied with the hasty scanning of the record, however, and Tuesday morning the record was checked again and found as Gille remembered. And Mayor Elfstrom himself had made the motion that the South erg Pacific be limited on Union street to the year now expiring. On the night the franchise or dinance was passed, June 27, it happened that Gille was in the chair. The last item in the min utes reads: "The chair entertained a mo tion, and Mayor Elfstrom made a motion, that the city recorder be instructed to write a letter to the Southern Pacific com pany advising them the city does not intend to renew their fran chise on the Union street line at the expiration of the present ordinance." (Concluded on Page 5. Column 4) Railroad Board To Probe Strike Washington. Anril 11 (P) President Truman set up an em ergency board today to investi gate a dispute Between the rail roads and the railroad vardmas- ters. His action automatically post poned for 60 days a strike which the yardmasters had set for to morrow. The yardmasters, who conduct switching operations in the big rail centers have been demand ing a 40-hour week with no re duction in pay. They now work 48 hours. The dispute is between the railroad yardmasters of Ameri ca (RYA) union and the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Car riers conference committer. The emergency board, whose members are yet to be named, has 30 days to report. For 30 days thereafter there can be no change in present working con ditions. The union is seeking the same five-day work week which the bulk of railroad employes were awarded by an emergency board last September 1. Russia States US War plane In Battle with Red Fighters Budenz Named As Source oi McCarthy Tales Washington, April 11 VP) Ex- communist Louis Budenz was subpoenaed today as the "mys tery witness" Senator McCarthy wants senate investigators to hear on his charges against Owen Lattimore. A senate foreign relations subcommittee ordered Budenz to appear at a public session next Monday. The committee is looking into McCarthy's accusations that Lattimore is a Soviet espionage agent. Budenz is former managing editor of the communist news paper. The Daily Worker. He renounced communism and re turned to the Catholic church. "Mystery Witness" Chairman Tydings (D., Md.), told reporters that Budenz is the "mystery witness" that Mc Carthy, Wisconsin republican, contends can swear that Latti more is or has been a communist party member. Lattimore, Johns Hopkins university professor and some time consultant to the state de partment, has denied under oath that he has ever been a com munist. He has called McCarthy an unmitigated liar for making the charge. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Trindle Heads Training Unit Appointment of Lt. Comdr. William H. Trindle as command' er of the AVUA, Naval Air Station, Seattle No. 3, at Salem. Oregon, was announced in Seat tle Tuesday by Capt. A. E. Buck ley, commander of the NARTU, NAS, Seattle. Trindle, veteran of World War II and a resident of Gervais, suc ceeds Lt. Ernest Eldridge, com mander since the volunteer naval air reserve unit was organized here. Eldridge is also a World War II veteran. Trindle is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Trindle of 1965 South Commercial street. Change of command became effective as of April 2, and has been given the approval of the Chief of Na val Air Reserve Training. The now commander has been with the unit since last fall. He first entered the navy July 1 1942, and took his training at Corpus Christi, Texas. , Trindle served as an instructor for the navy at Livermore then became a naval air transport pilot, fly ing first on the continent and later flying in the Pacific. Storms Delay Queen Mary Southampton, England, April 11 (P) Heavy Atlantic gales have delayed the luxury liner Queen Mary at least 12 hours on her voyage from New York, the Cunard White Star line said to day. Loaded with 1,838 passen gers, she is not expected to dock here until Thursday morning. Daylight Saving and Finance Plan Okayed Adoption of daylight saving and approval of a first-year pro gram under City Manager J. L. Franzen's 10-ycar city improve ment plan were the main ordinance enactments of the city council Monday night. Daylight saving will start at tcmbcr 24. Although most coun- cil members didn't want it they were forced to vote for it to prevent an intolerable situation in relation to other cities and Pacific coast states. Alderman O'Hara voted against it. Voting hours on the day of the state primary and city spe cial elections, May 19, will be according to standard time. The council did not consider another proposed bill to make daylight saving automatic each year. The, financial measures that the council voted to put on the ballot are: For sewers and sewage treat ment, $800,000, bonds; for bridges, $125,000, bonds; for drainage, $280,000, bonds, the bill being amended by adding $80,000 for Madison street con struction; for water system and - Alfred Kohlberg Kohlberg Says Supplied Data Larchmont, N.Y., April 11 WP) Importer Alfred Kohlberg, re peating that he had furnished data to Sen. McCarthy (R., Wis.) in connection with his charges of communism in the state depart ment, declared last night: 'It took a man with the guts and dumbness of Sen. McCarthy to start this investigation" after the government "shielded us from the facts. 'Other men in the senate," he added, "who know more than McCarthy remain silent because they know they will be smear ed." Kohlberg said he had given McCarthy evidence that various persons had association with communists." "To make that evidence con clusive," Kohlberg declared In a speech before the Larchmont Men's club, "McCarthy needs testimony from men within the communist intelligence or under ground who can identify officials in our state department as com munists. "But if these men look like communists, associate with com munists, or write like commun ists, they should not be running our government, even though there is no evidence to prove them communistic." Kohlberg said he had told Mc Carthy that Owen Lattimore "as sociated with communists and followed a communist line." But, he said, he did not tell McCar they that Lattimore, Far Eastern expert at J ohns Hopkins univer sity, was a communist. Montana Bank Robbed of $25,000 Valier, Montana, April 11 Ml Two young men robbed the national bank here today and es caped with about $25,000, Bank President Nels Swanson report ed. Swanson said he went to the bank at 8:20 a. m. (MST). The men were waiting for him, h e said, and forced him to enter the building and unlock the safe. Swanson said he was the first person to got to the bank. Road blocks have been set up in this northern Montana area. 2:01 a.m. April 30 and end Sep Turner Hill reservoir, $300,000 bonds not requiring outside fi nancing; for airport improve ment, tax of 2.6 mills to produce about $78,000; for ladder truck and pumper for fire department, tax of 1.7 mills, to produce about $50,000. The council passed an ordin ance requiring persons moving buildings to get the consent of the city engineer if the route on city streets, or of the highway department if on highway A bill requiring off-street parking for apartment houses, hotels and rooming houses was tabled. Also tabled was a bill requiring milk processing plants to be located within the city limits if distribution is in Sa lcm. Only American Plane Unarmed Navy Aircraft London, April 11 (IP) Russia charged today that a U. S. mili tary plane opened fire three days ago on a flight of Soviet fighters over Latvia, and said one of the Soviet planes fired back. A Soviet protest, lodged with the U. S. embassy in Moscow identified the plane as a B-29 bomber, but U. S. air force heacl- 7 quarters at Wiesbaden, Ger many, said the plane in ques tion may have been a missing navy aircraft sought since Sat urday in the northern Baltic. Air force officials said this plane, a navy version of the B-24 bomber, was not armed. Unarmed Navy Plane Missing This plane had 10 men aboard when it disappeared on a round trip flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Wiesbaden, Germa ny. Called "The Privateer," it had four engines like the B-29. U.S. planes have been searching for it since Saturday. The Russians reported the shooting took place roughly 350 miles east of Copenhagen. They gave the site as Pelaya (Libau) on the Baltic sea, and said the plane penetrated about 13 miles into Latvia, which is regarded by Moscow as Soviet territory. Foreign Minister A n d r e i Y. Vishinsky, in his protest to U.S. Ambassador Alan Kirk, said the plane "bearing American identi fication marks" was sighted south of Pelaya last Saturday. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 5) No U. S. Airforce Plane Missing Washington, April 11 P) The air force said today it has "no official knowledge" of anv American bomber exchanging fire with Soviet fighter planes. That was its only immediate comment on a Soviet report that a B-29 opened fire on the Soviet planes over Russian territory along the Baltic Sea last Sat urday. The report from the Russian news agency, Tass, said one of the Russian planes had fired back at the American ship. The air force has In Europe several B-29s and B-50s, a mod ernized version of the B-29. All are based in England. They include a B-50 bomb group, made up of about 40 planes, a B-29 tanker-refueling squadron, and units of weather and rescue B-29s. In addition, Britain has receiv ed at least four of 70 B-29s which it is to get under the arms aid program. However, all Ameri can markings ' were removed from these planes before they were flown to England. The navy's Privateer plane one of which has been missing over the Baltic area since Sat urday also bears a vague re semblance to a B-29, although an experienced observer would not mistake the two. In addition to four engines, as in the B-29, the Privateer has an unusually high tail which looks, at a distance, somewhat like the tail of a B-29. 4 Boys' Bodies Found on Raft Cleveland, April 11 (IP) The bodies of four boys who had drifted overnight on a little rub ber raft were taken from the wind-capped waters of Lake Erie today. All four were pro nounced dead. A coast guard picket boat pulled their bodies off the craft. Crewmen applied artificial res piration while the boat sped for Fairport harbor. But when It arrived, Coroner W. R. Carle pronounced them dead. He said they had died of exposure. The group had been swept in to the lake at dusk last night as they went after a drifting canoe. An air-sea rescue force of a dozen planes had conducted a . search for them. Thinly clad in cotton shlrta and blue jeans, they had been tossed by waves which were whipped by gusts up to 50 miles an hour.