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Newspaper Page TextCapital HOME EDITION 62nd Year, No. 87 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, April 12, 1950 (22 Pages) Price 5c Force Railroad Budenz Never No Hot War Seen as Result Oil Slick and To Face Issue Mel or Talked On Union Street To McCarthy A Jon "far. THE WEATHER HERE MOSTLY CLOUDY with scat tered showers tonight and Thursday. Little change in tem perature. Low tonight, 40 de grees; high Thursday, 56. Maximum yeiterday, 59; minimum todty, 4H. Total 24-hour precipitation: .60: for month: 1.09; normal, J.OS. Scaaon precipi tation, 39.86; normal, 32.36, Biter hclcht. S feet. (Report by U.S. Weather Bureau.) .-.VI II II Officials Claim They Never Heard of Franchise Expiration By STEPHEN A. STONE Three or four registered let ters will go from the city ad ministration to the Southern Pa cific company informing the company of its summons before the city council to show cause why it should not vacate Union street. Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom so declared today. The letters will also call at tention to the council's action a year ago when it informed the company that the city of Sa lem did not intend to renew the Union street franchise after this year. Iever Heard of It In reply to an inquiry by the Capital Journal the Southern Pacific's attorney, and its land and right of way agent in Port land said they had never heard of the council's action of a year ago. The railroad company's su perintendent was out of the city. City council records show that the council on June 27, 1949, When the present franchise was granted, warned the company it did not intend to renew the fran chise when it expired. It will expire June 27. The record also shows that the railroad com pany was informed of the coun cil's action in a letter sent out by City Recorder Alfred Mundt on July 1, 1949. This Time They Will "This time," said Mayor Elf strom today, "we'll send regis tered letters to.all of them." He referred to the company attorney, right of way agent, and superintendent. The mayor said he thought the council was justified in fac ing the company squarely with the, issue because of the long standing effort by the long- range planning commission, and a strong local sentiment, to re. move some of the railroad bar riers to the city center of Salem. Standard Time Al Polling Places All of Oregon polling places In the May 19 primary election will have to operate on standard time, regardless of whether the com munities in which they are lo cated are on daylight saving time, state elections Chief Dave O'Hara said today. This means the polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in communities with daylight sav ing-time. They will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in those with standard time. O'Hara said the issue was set tled by a recent supreme court decision which ordered a new trial in a Clatsop county school election case. In that case, the election was held on daylight saving time. O'Hara said the state law pro vides the polls be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and that that means standard time. He said state law prevails over any lo cal ordinance providing for daylight time. Sawmills Deluged With Log Demands ' Saw mills are being deluged with orders and the demand for logs has resulted in the reopen ing of logging operations ear lier than usual, says the month- ' ly report of the Salem office of the state employment service. Mild winter conditions exper- ienced. in some sections of the J country made it possible to con tinue construction work thus I drawing heavily on the availa I ble lumber supplies. ''This, couDled with the clnsine down of manv sawmills in the West frilip tn pxlrpmo pnlrl wpnfhpr made lumber a scarce item." Agriculturists are some- what pessimistic over crop pros pects, feeling that considerable damage was done during the low temperatures of last January to tree and cane fruit. Estimates from some sources place the prospective walnut crop at 20 percent of normal. SOCE Enrollment Up Ashland, Ore., April 12 (U.R) Enrollment at Southern Oregon College of Education totaled 715 for the spring term, Registrar Mabel Wilson said today. The number was 13 percent higher than for the 1949 spring term. Ex-Communist Could Name 400 Com munists But Won't Midland, Mich., April 12 (IP) Ex-communist Louis Budenz, who may have an answer to the Sen. McCarthy-Owen Lattimore dispute, says that he could name 400 "concealed" communists in the United States. But I won't do it," he de clared here last night. "I can't afford libel suits." The former managing editor of the communist Daily Worker was in Midland for a lecture. While here, he was notified of a subpoena to appear before a sen ate sub-committee investigating McCarthy's charge that Latti more is a Soviet agent. I Budenz, named as McCarthy's "mystery witness," would offer no comment on the dispute. But he did say that he had never met, talked with, or given documents to McCarthy. Policy of Reds In justice to the investigat ing committee," he said, "I can not say anything further." McCarthy has indicated that he hopes Budenz's sworn testi mony will show the committee that Lattimore is a communist. Testimony given before such a group cannot be used as a basis for libel charges. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Tydings Rejects Spy Hunter Washington, April 12 tfP) On grounds the man is a republican office seeker. Senator Tydings (D-Md.) refused today to ac cept a GOP-nominated aide to the senate committee investigat ing charges of communism in the state department. -Tydings said he is holding up the appointment because be be lieves "every effort should be made to keep politics out" of the inquiry. The man in question is Fred erick Ayer, Jr., on nomination of Senator Lodge (R-Mass.) he was named yesterday as an as sistant counsel to the senate for eign relations subcommittee looking into charges from Sen ator McCarthy R-Wis.) that Reds infest the state depart ment. Tydings, chairman of the sub committee, said he had learned that Ayer is a candidate for the republican nomination for at torney general in Massachus etts. Therefore, Tydings said, he was holding up the appointment and advising Ayer not to come to Washington until he could put the matter before the full com mittee. Coafes Aparlmenf Bids Opened in Week Portland, April 12 W) Bids on a balem apartment house planned by Robert Coates, Port land builder, will be opened in about a week, Coates said today. They are the second bids on the job, the first having been rejected as too high. Coates said he had not opened the bids now at hand because another contractor still is pre-. paring estimates. Pearson Hints Flegel Withdraw Candidacy By JAMES D. OLSON State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson has no intention of withdraw ing from the democratic primary race for governor. State Senator Austin F. Flegel step out of the race, contending Governor McKay could appoint prevent democratic control of the board of control There is just as much sense in Flegel stepping out of the governnor's race as there is in my withdrawing," said Pearson Wednesday. Pearson said that he was con ducting his owr campaign and wasn't paying .any attention to any statements made by his dem ocratic opponents. "I'm not running against Fle gel or Wallace,'' he declared "I'm running against Governor Mc Kay." It is Pearson's contention that if nominated and elected gover nor he would be able to appoint his own successor to the treas ury post and thus break the long republican control of the state. 13 Die in Fiery Crash of B-29 Albuquerque, N. M., April 12 (P) Thirteen airmen died last night in the fiery crash of a B 29 bomber into a secret area of Sandia special weapons base. Deaths of all aboard were con firmed this morning with offic ial announcement of their names. Authorities said a search crew finished recovering the mangled bodies only a short time earlier. The big ship from Walker base at Roswell, N.- M. Crack ed up near the crest of the Man zano mountains three minutes after taking off from Kirtland base here. Officials reported it had climbed little more than 1,000 feet, unaccountably failing to gain appreciable altitude or bank sharply to avoid the peak. Witnesses at Kirtland saw flames leap high into the air mo ments later. The scene of the crash was in a remote area of .Sandia base, which assembles the atomic bomb. Tight secrecy regula tions were invoked Newsmen were barred from entering the area, a spot 7!000 feet high in the Manzano moun tains. The scene is some five miles east of Sandia headquar ters and 17 miles east of down town Albuquerque. Wipe Out Reds Invading Hainan Taipei, Formosa, April 12 (IP) Nationalist China today an nounced it had wiped out ace Red Gen. Lin Paio's 258th regi ment in this odd climax: Three junk-loads of crack troops were the only survivors of the 258th's quickly smashed attempt to invade Hainan. The nationalists said earlier they killed the other 1000 Reds. The survivors were afraid of stern punishment, for failure, if they returned to their Luichow peninsula basing point only 10 miles away. So they cruised in the Gulf of Tonkin until yester day. Then they tried again to land on Hainan presumably to op erate as guerrillas. Nationalist warships sank two junks. Seventeen men were pick ed out of the sea. The others drowned. The third junk ran up the white flag. Seventy-eight offi cers and men, with arms and am- Imunition, were captured. suggested that the state treasurer that if Pearson was successful, Pearsons successor and thus But Flegel, together with a number of lawyers in Portland, dispute Pearson's theory, con tending that when Pearson re signs, in the event of his elec tion, McKay would be free to make the appointment before Pearson could be sworn in. Sen. Flegel has been ' critical of the senate voting record of both Pearson and Wallace, par ticularly pointing to their votes in favor of the Ox Bow dam on the Snake river. Flegel contends that the two men favored private power interests over public pow er. Pearson had no comment Wed nesday on Flegel's criticism of his senate voting record. Debate Team Feted Salem high school's state champion de bate team coached by Miss Amanda Anderson was honored Tuesday night at the Salem Chamber of Commerce by local speech clubs for their team's recent accomplishment in win ning the state title. Shown above are the team members. Left to right are Miss Anderson, Frank ViTaris, Eugene Poindexter, Eunice Peckenpaugh, Jim Humphrey, John Bone, Paul Ward and Gilbert Bateson. State Champion Debate Team Fete J at Banquet By DAVID BLACKMER Several scores of persons turned out Tuesday night to wit ness the testimonial banquet honoring the state champion Salem high school debate team held at the Salem Chamber of Com merce sponsored by the combined Toastmaster and Toastmistress Urges Action On Crime Probe Washington, April 12 (IP) 1 Senator Kem called on Presi dent Truman today for action to wipe out what the Missouri republican called an "unholy al liance" between politics and crime in Kansas City. Kem said in a speech pre pared for the senate that unless the federal government acts be fore May 27 to bring indictments in the 1947 theft of ballot boxes there the statute of limitations will bar prosecution. "After that date," Kem said, "the president of the United States, the attorney general and the department of justice will be powerless to act." He declared "the recent bloody1 killing" of Charles Binaggio. leading figure in Kansas City politics, and his henchman. Charles Gargotta, were not iso lated crimes. Kem said both had been al lied with the Pendergast political machine in former years but that Binaggio recently "has operated his own political organization in opposition to that of Pender gast." Kansas City is Kern's residence and is a short distance from the president's home town Inde pendence, Mo. Senator Brewster (R Me.), ioia reporters earlier that vi olence in Mr. Truman's home state had forced democratic sen ate leaders to approve a $150,- uuu crime investigation. Woman Catches Bank Robber ot. Louis, April 12 (IP) A 62-year-old man captured by a woman bank teller has been involved in bank thefts amount ing to more than $1,000,000, the federal bureau of investigation said last night. William R. Evans was charged yesterday with larceny of bank. Miss Audrey Lorenzen, blonde bank teller, captured Evans with the help of a passer by Monday. She chased Evans through downtown streets and stores after more than $1,500 was taken from her bank. FBI Agent Gerald B. Norris called Evans a notorious "stick man" one who puts chewing gum or sticky paper on the end of a stick to help grab money in tellers' cages. Norris said Evans has a crim inal record dating back to 1907 including involvement in : $590,000 bond theft from the bank .of Manhattan in 1936 Claims Mindszeniy Taken to Russia Vatican City, April 12 UP) The weekly "Sunday Osscrvatore Romano" said today that the firmest opinion in Vatican circles is that Josef Cardinal Mindszen- ty has been taken to Russia. The Vatican weekly said a re port to that effect last October was never denied by Hungarian authorities. clubs of Salem. The seven speech students and their parents were the guests. The students demonstrated their talents which brought them the state speech crown several weeks ago on the University of Oregon campus. The event was sponsored by the Salem Toastmistress. Salem roastmasters, Willamette Toast- masters, and the Capitol Toast- masters. The Toastmistress club of which Miss Amanda Ander son, the debate coach is a mem ber, worked out the deta if for the celebration. Miss Anderson praised her team, highly for its record throughout the year. The Vik ing debaters won sweepstakes honors at a Pacific university invitational meet and took sec ond place at the Linfield col lege tourney and then went on to cop the state berth title. Other honor guests present for the event were Mayor R. L. Elfstrom, School Superintendent Frank B. Bennett, Principal E. A. Carleton, Assistant Principal Gurnee Flesher, and members of the school board. Testimonials for their speech accomplishments were voiced from the four sponsoring speak ing clubs by Loraine Meusey, Robert A. Forkner, and George R. K. Moorehead. Mrs. MarionJ Curry presided and Richard Schmidt was toastmaster for the affair. Moorehead spoke on "Value of Speech Training in the Schools" and Forkner spoke on "Better Citizens Through Trained Lead ership." Each of the seven debaters gave his or her winning speech. Celebrities for the evening were Gilbert Bateson, Paul Ward, Jim Humprey, Eugene Poindexter, Eunice Peckenpaugh John Bone, and Frank ViTaris. Filth Year End Finds Truman Fit Washington, April 12 (IP) Pre sident Truman ends his fifth year in office today in what his friends describe as a confident, happy-warrior mood. The sun-tanned president, fresh from a vacation in Florida apparently is ready to carry to the people a counter-offensive against republican attacks on his secretary of state and other GOP assaults. Picturing the president as in vigorous health, Senator Lucas of Illinois, the democratic lead er, gave a reporter this descrip tion of Mr. Truman: 'He is confident and in f happy frame of mind. He thinks conditions throughout the coun try are good. He thinks world problems are not insolvable. He is ready to fight for his pro gram. A republican reaction to Mr. Truman was expressed by Sena tor Brewster of Maine, chair man of his party's senatorial campaign committee. "We wish Mr. Truman but not his program a long life, Brewster said. "We think it is obvious that he is going to campaign for a Truman congress, since the democratic 81st congress has been no better, from his stand point, than the republican 80th Of Plane Battle Russian Protest Likely To Be Rejected and Angry Notes Follow Washington, April 12 (IP) A hot war with Russia as a result of an airplane shooting scrape or any other single incident is regarded by American diplomat ic and military authorities highly unlikely. At the state department and Pentagon, there was no inclina tion to treat lightly an official protest from Moscow that an American B-29 type bomber had violated Soviet territory in the Baltic area, fired on Russian fighter planes and been fired up on in return. But neither was there so much as a suggestion that either country might want to go on from there to knock chips off shoulders. Probably Shot Down U. S. officials indicated yes terday that the truth of the mat ter may be that an unarmed American navy patrol plane, missing since Saturday, was shot down by Russian fighters. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross was asked at his news conference today about the Russian protest. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Bishop M'Grath Of Baker Dies Baker, April 12 (P) The Most Rev. Joseph F. McGrath, D. D., bishop of Baker City, died early this morning at the age oi '(. His death, which came after three-week illness, followed by less than two weeks that of the Most Rev. Leo Fabian Fahey, bishop coadjutor of the Roman Catholic Baker City diocese. Bishop McGrath was installed bishop in the Cathedral of St. Francis de Sales here on April 1, 1919. He was born March 1, 1871, in County Kilkenny, Ireland, where he began a philosophy course in St. Kieran's seminary. He completed philosophical and theological courses at the Grand Seminaire, Montreal, Canada. He' was ordained a priest in LIXXX 1895 and had been on the west coast since 1906, when he became pastor at Tacoma, Wash. Previously he had served at Adams, Mass., Portland, Me., Scranton, Penn., San Antonio, Tex., and Seattle. During his term as pastor in Tacoma a new church was built there. In 1910 he was appointed va diocesan consultor to the bishop and in 1915 was made dean of the counties of Pierce Thurston and Gray's Harbor. Funeral arrangements have not been made yet. Oregon Counties Get $142,500 from Liquor Oregon counties got $142,500 in state liquor privilege taxes today, and another $47,500 went to the state general fund. The money was collected in the first three months of this year. The counties also got $4,393 today from amusement device taxes, with another $6,590 go ing into the state public assist ance fund. Magnuson Cordon Raps Basin Bill Washington, April 12 (IP) Senator Magnuson (D., Wash.), con tinued today his fight for an amendment to add $413,000,000 of Columbia basin reclamation projects to the $1,800,000,000 house passed waterways authorization bill. The senator yesterday smilingly fought off opposition of nearly a dozen senators to put- ting irrigaton projects in a rivers and harbors and flood control measure. Today he planned to direct much of his attention to another phase of the amendment. ? "hough the bill contains proj s in every part of the coun try, action is rtot expected on any other features now until aft er the Columbia basin amend ment is disposed of. It would provide for the set ting up of a Columbia basin ac count for government power, reclamation and flood control projects in the Pacific northwest, All power revenues would go in to the account and all expendi tures come out of it A new scheme would permit interest paid the government on Pres. Gabriel Gonzales Videla of Chile Truman Greets Videla of Chile Washington, April 12 (IP) President Truman welcomed President Gabriel Gonzalez Vi dela of Chile today as a leader of a nation devoted to the "de mocratic principles we cherish here." Mr. Truman met Gonzalez Vi dela at the airport on his arrival in the capital for a 21-day visit to this country. He said the visit symbolizes the "warm friendship" between the two countries which he said are motivated by the same concern for individual freedom and human welfare." Mr. Truman said in part: "I am happy to welcome you as the chief executive of a sis ter republic whose citizens have constantly been inspired by de votion to the democratic prin ciples that we cherish here. Your arrival symbolizes the tra ditional and warm friendship that has long existed between out two countries. . . . "Welcome, Mr. President!" The department of defense detailed crack troop units and 12 of the fastest U.S. jet planes to take part in the reception. Military bands, armored cars and some 2000 foot soldiers were ordered along the line of march from the airfield to his toric Pennsylvania avenue. The keys to the city were rea dy for presentation. President Truman had a welcome address prepared, a state dinner sched uled for this evening and an apartment set aside for the visit ing president at Blair house. Streets of the city were deck ed out with the single-starred red, white and blue emblem of Chile and placards reading "Welcome to Prcsidente Gabriel Gonzalez Videla." Mr. Truman sent his personal airplane "The Independence" to Santiago to bring the Chilean executive here today, the fifth anniversary of the day Mr. Tru man became president following the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The American president has been invited to repay Gonzalez Videla's visit later this year, pos sibly for the opening of Chile's first big steel mill. West Berlin Symbol Berlin, April 12 (IP) West Ber lin adopted the slogan "F" for freedom today as the symbol of this year's May Day celebration. Anti-communists have made the letter "F" irritating in the Sov iet zone by splashing it on walls wherever possible in recent months. Champions, construction money advanced for army engineer dams to be applied to the account. It would be used as is interest on rec lamation power dams to subsi dize irrigation projects the wa ter users are unable to pay for Senator Cordon (R-, Ore.), if expected to follow Magnuson in the senate debate and continue his opposition to the Columbia basin account, which he yester day termed "a ghost account." Cordon told a reporter that if the proposal becomes law it may forever prevent the Pacific northwest states from forming an intcr-state compact and tak ing over the hydro-electric proj ects in that region. Life Raft Clue To Lost Plane! Pilot Search for Lost Naval Privateer j Sights Debris Also " Wiesbaden, Germany, April S' 12 (IP) The crew of an Amcxi- , can search plane today reported the sighting of an oil slick and what appeared to be a life raft, in the Baltic sea area where a U.S. navy plane is missing. The searching B-17, piloted by Capt. Banta M. York of Ra leigh, N.C., scanned the seas off Bornholm island, Denmark, for six hours and returned to Co penhagen late in the day when its fuel ran low. Air force headquarters here quoted Sgt. Winthrop Maddox of Griffin, Ga., a member of York's crew as saying: "It looked like a life raft to me. It was partly submerged in the center of an oil slick. The yellow color showed up, and it looked like it might have been equipment off an airplane." No Sign of Life York said he saw debris but no signs of life. An oil slick is left on the wa ter by sinking planes or vessels. The plane sought is a four-engine privateer, which left Wies baden Saturday for Copenhagen and may have been disabled, air officers here fear, by Russian gunfire. The search plane's reports did not raise much hope for the miss ing crew of 10. A Danish pilot who went to the scene said he believed the American pilot might have been misled by a buoy placed by the Russians to mark dumped mustard gas. York told the Associated Press: Fuel Ran Low "I dropped everything except the kitchen sink into the sea to keep flying as long as possible, but at last I had to give up be cause fuel was running low. An Associated Press corres pondent flew out from Roenne, Bornholm island, and saw noth ing but water, other searching planes and vessels. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) Soviet Press Protests Search Moscow, April 12 (IP) Moscow newspapers published a scries of dispatches from abroad today protesting that the American search for a missing U. S. patrol plane is being used as an excuse to conduct maneuvers near Sov iet territory. Among those published was a report from the Copenhagen cor respondent of the Soviet News Agency Tass declaring that the "Danish public is more and more inclined to view the report of the loss of the American plane as a pretext for American aviation maneuvers." The report said these maneu vers are "designed to acquaint American pilots with the Dan ish airdrome of Kastrup." The newspapers at the same time displayed prominently yes terday's official Soviet protest to the United States against the reported appearance of an Amer ican Super-Fortress over the (Soviet-held) Latvian republic. A Tass dispatch from Stock holm quoted the liberal Swed ish newspaper Expressen as saying the missing patrol plane was to have flovn a special mis sion to the Estonian shores of the Baltic. Another Tass report from Stockholm said the Americans have concentrated "significant military air forces" in the region of the Baltic sea. Sweden Sends Mild Protest on Air Search Stockholm, April 12 (IP) Swe den sent a mild protest to the U. S. embassy here today against violation of her territory by U. S. rescue planes searching for an American navy patrol plane. The foreign office said that some rescue planes had passed over "the forbidden area around Karlskrona," Sweden's biggest naval base on the Baltic. (U. S. Air Force officers at Wiesbaden, expressed surprise at the reports. Capt. D'Jack Kling cr, directing the Baltic search, said American planes have been instructed to fly only over the sea. Search flights over land are being made by Swedish planes, Klinger said. The sea search carries some American planes near the southern tip of Sweden where the base is located.)