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Newspaper Page TextJournal THE WEATHER HERE FAIR TONIGHT and Saturday. Little change In temperature. Low tonight, 33; high Saturday, 72. Maximum yesterday, 65 1 minimum today, 82. Total 24-hour precipitation t 6; for month: 1.46; normal, 1.89. Seaion precipi tation, 30.23; normal, 33.111, River helfht, 4.6 feet. (Report by U.S. Weather Bureau.) DITION 62nd Year, No. 95 Entered as second cass matter at Salem, Oregon Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 21, 22 Pages; I ...v,rv 'MWinflSl Price 5c Capital Czech Chicago Consulate Told To Close May 1 U. S. Acts in Reprisal Of Recall of ) Americans in Prague Washington, April 21 VP) ?The United States today ordered communist Czechoslovakia to shut down its consulate general in Chicago not later than May 1. The action, announced in a note to the Czech government, was in direct retaliation of an order closing the libraries of the U. S. information service in Czechoslovakia and the Ameri can consulate general in the city of Bratislava. - The state department's note rejected as worthless the Czech charges that the U.S.I.S. was be ing used as a cloak for spying activities against the commun ist rp0im. "Obliged to Comply" However, this government agreed to carry out the closing order and to recall Joseph C. Kolarek, press attache at the American embassy in the Cap ital of Prague. " In stating that the U. S. is "obliged to comply" with the Czech demand, the note added that the Czechoslovak govern ment must, however, expect .that Its action can not escape iserious consequences affecting various aspects of the relations between the two governments." '(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) Maragon's Bank Checks Shown Washington, April 21 VP) The government showed the ju- ry in the John Maragon perjury trial today three checks totaling $505.80 which he received in 1948 from a firm doing business with the war assets administra tion. George A. Chadwick,, Jr'.-Wa- hington lawyer, testified that as treasurer of Transamerica Traders he made out the checks to Maragon for expenses. The firm was buying and selling surplus war supplies. The government is trying to prove Maragon lied in telling senate investigators last year he negotiated no business with the government and got no money for handling business with the government from 1945 to mid- 1949. The prosecution also set about trying to prove that Maragon drew pay simultaneously in 1945 and 1946 from a Chicago perfume company and from the state department, although he told senators the government job was the only one he had at the time. Fair Week-End Looms in Valley Capricious April weather seems the order still for the Sa lem area freezing temperatures and a light frost coming Friday morning following the season's high temperature to date during the mid-week. Friday s mini mum was 32 degrees. The wea theg bureau said no frost was apparent in downtown, but some ,yf the higher areas about listed . irosc The predicted showers were minus in the weather situation however, the weather bureau re porting the showers passed by to, the north. "Fair through Saturday" is the welcome news for the week end with little change In tem peratures. The daily agricultural report states conditions will be favor able for farm activities, Satur day except for some fresh winds which will hinder dusting and spraying. Keep Oregon Green To Open Ninth Year The Keep Oregon Green asso ciation will observe the start of the ninth year of its program to prevent man-caused forest fires by holding its first governors dinner in May. Albert K. Wiesendanger, ex ecutive secretary of KOG, who announced the event here, said the governor's dinner will be held at the Portland hotel in Portland, on the opening day of (ho f i r- Maum In firaflnn Subpoenas for 3 Witnesses By Spy Probers Dr. Dodd, Huber, Ker ley to Appear Before Senators Tuesday Washington, April 21 VP) Senate investigators today sub poenaed three more witnesses in the Owen Lattimore case. Edward P. Morgan, counsel for a senate committee investi gating Senator McCarthy's charges of communism in the state department, said the wit nesses are: 1. Dr. Bella V. Dodd of New York, a former member of the national committee of the Amer ican communist party. 2. John J. Huber of Mt. Ver non, N.Y. McCarthy, Wisconsin republican, has described Huber as a former undercover agent for the FBI. 3. Lawrence Kerley of the staff of the New York Journal- American. McCarthy also has described Kerley as a former FBI agent. Morgan said the subpoenas call for all three to appear next Tuesday at a closed meeting of the senate group. Dr. Dodd Expelled Red McCarthy has accused Latti more, Johns Hopkins professor and Far Eastern affairs expert, of being Russia's top spy in this country. Lattimore denied he was a communist or had ever aided the communists. Yesterday Louis F. Budenz, former communist, swore he had been told by high communist officials that Lattimore was a member of a communist "cell" in the Institute of Pacific Rela tions. Lattimore's attorneys tried un successfully yesterday to put an affidavit by Dr. Dodd into the official record of the subcom mittee. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Red River Flood Hits Winnipeg Winnipeg, Man., April 21 VP) Southern Manitobans in the Red river valley prepared to move their families and live stock and furniture to higher levels today as the turbulent river continued to swell. Dynamite crews blasted ice jams. Barricades and dikes were being raised and the re serve army stood by for emer gency flood duties. Gretna, a border town hit hard by the overflow of the Pembina river, a tributary of the Red river, was still one-third flood ed. Some families who moved back into their homes after Wed nesday's sudden onslaught were forced out again yesterday. Six hundred pounds of meats were flown to the isolated town by a Winnipeg packing firm. At Winnipeg, the Red tilted over the 18-foot flood level this morning. An ice jam sent it up to 18.9 feet for an hour. When the jam dissolved it eased back to 18.4 feet. Peak in the disas trous 1948 spring flood was 22.4 feet. At some points residents heaped sandbags on the north bank while others prepared to pull out. Last Pipe Laid Today On Interceptor Se wer By STEPHEN A. STONE The last section of pipe in the city's interceptor sewer project, one of the biggest public works contracts in Salem history, was laid Friday afternoon. The sewer, smallest diameter of which is 60 inches, will be cut Into service within two weeks. It will take all the sewage from the south part of Salem at Berry and Rural streets, across the city to the sewage disposal plant site on North River road. The interceptor line extends a total of 10,850 feet, from the disposal location, via North Commercial and other streets, to Church and Union. It has 1278 feet of 72-inch pipe, 1635 feet of 66-inch, and 7778 feet of 60-inch pipe. The last section will be laid on North Fifth be tween Belmont and Market. The project on a contract held by the H. C. Werner company of Eugene, was started late in Au gust, and the contract called for completion May 15, so the con tractor is several weeks ahead of schedule. The project in final details will be completed within two weeks, according to Joe Fitzpatrick, assistant city engineer. I Ts?m 1 Hainan Claims Defeat of Reds By STANLEY RICH Hoihow, Hainan Island, April 21 VP) Firecraclcares shattered the silence of Hoihow's streets this afternoon as the Chinese Na tionalists' own newspaper an nounced a great victory in the defense of Hainan island. The Nationalists said 10,000 Chinese Red invaders were kill ed or captured in an eight-hour battle that started last midnight. (A Nationalist broadcast said two Russians were found among the captured communists. It said Hainan defense headquar ters verified the capture. (It also said Nationalist war ships sank 40 of 60 junks off Lui- chow peninsula opposite Hainan this morning. The broadcast, By the Nationalist Central News Ag ency from Taipei; was heard in San Francisco by the Associated Press.) Despite official optimism and the jubilation in this island's capital city, however, there were other signs the Nationalists were not doing so well. As I arrived at Hoihow air field last night I could see a tiny AT-6 training plane struggling to get off the ground with a 25 pound bomb strapped under each wing. Such desperate measures don't jibe with Nationalist reports of sweeping success. Even now from the heart of Hoihow I can hear the muffled sounds of bombing in the dis tance. Pro - Nationalist newspapers said "substantial army rein forcements" arrived this morning from Taipei. . Vote Excise Tax Cuts Washington, April 21 (fl) The house ways and means committee today approved an additional $250,000,000 slash in excise taxes eliminating some of the imposts completely and halving others. This brought the total cuts, so far as the commit tee has covered the excise list, to $335,000,000 almost twice as much as President Truman requested. The interceptor will be cut into service first at Hickory street, then Liberty, Belmont and Union in order. Cost of the sewer laying con tract was $217,000. The pipe was manufactured at a plant set up in Salem by the Seattle Con crete Pipe company, and the cost was $150,000. All sewage carried in the In terceptor will be taken through the treatment plant yet to be built, but which will, according to plan, be started this summer. It should be operating in about a year. Another important sanitary sewer line is proposed for con struction this year, to be con nected with the interceptor, This is the Capitola line of 6400 feet of 42-inch pipe which will cut into the interceptor at the north line of Mapieton addition (Concluded on Page 5. Column 5) Budenz Gives Evidence Louis Budenz, a former commu nist, (left) displays a copy of the "New Masses" a magazine he said was communist controlled as he testifies in Wash ington, before a senate subcommittee in the probe of charges of Reds in the state department. Seated behind him is Owen Lattimore (right) whom he charged with being a member of a communist cell. Beside Lattimore is his counsel, Thur mond Arnold. (AP Wirephoto) Nancy Miller to Reign A t Cherry land Festival Ruling over Salem's 1950 Cherryland Festival, June 15-17 will be brown-eyed, brunette Nancy Miller from Salem high school Selection of the attractive slender five-foot, five-inch tall Sa lem girl, as ruler over the June the Cherrians' annual Blossom Seeks Extension Rent Controls , Washington, April 21 (UP.) President Truman today y urged congress to continue federil rent controls until June 30, 1951, to prevent "a wave of exorbitant rent increases." In a special message to the house and senate, Mr. Truman said the housing shortage is still acute and that abolition of rent controls would mean "serious hardship for millions." . But in extending rent controls, the president said, "We should continue the present policy of granting the landlord all justifi able increases in rent." Under the law which expires June 30. Mr. Truman said, land lords in the past year alone have been granted increases covering more than 900,000 units. The av erage increase authorized, he said, was 18 percent. But experience has proved, he said, that where controls were dropped "prematurely," rents soared as much as 66 percent, "It is clear, therefore, that a sudden and simultaneous remov al of rent controls on a national scale would precipitate a wave of exorbitant rent increases. Flyer's Jacket Found in Baltic Stockholm, Sweden, April 21 yp) A yellow flyer's jacket, pos sibly an American model, has been found by a fisherman in the Baltic 40 miles south of Stockholm, the Swedish air force reported. The discovery raised specula tion that the jacket might have belonged to one of 10 crew men aboard the U.S. navy patrol plane missing in the Baltic area for the past two weeks. Search for the plane was abandoned last week-end. The jacket had not yet been delivered to the Swedish air force for examination but was expected later today, an air force spokesman said. The jacket, he added, was of windproof material. Its zipper fastener had been torn away, it was found between the islands of Muskoe and Landsort, in the southern part of the island chain off Sweden's east coast. A yellow rubber life raft, be lieved to have belonged to the missing U.S. plane, was picked up by a British freighter 45 miles southeast of Stockholm on April 16. Woman Killed in Crash Portland. April 21 (IP) The toll from traffic was up to 11 in Portland today, following the death of Mrs. Minnie M. Bliss, 76, who was struck by an auto mobile at an intersection yesterday. JO AlSa.ii"H dvwo celebration was announced at day dance Thursday night. The newly elected queen's at- tire Thursday night was a bright red ballet length strapless for mal of taffeta and net, the same that she modeled Princess Selec tion Night. Present when the honor was conferred upon Nan cy were her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Burr Miller. Her father is a Cherrian., A native Oregonian, Nancy was born at Roseburg Septem ber 17, 1932. The Millers came to Salem from Eugene in Jan uary, 1942, and Nancy has been attending Salem schools ever since. On completion of her high school education this year she expects to enter the Uni versity of Oregon and major in art, planning to become an in terior decorator. Queen Nancy's high school activities are many and varied. She is a member of Girls' Letter club, Radio Broadcasting club, Vikettes,Philhistorians and Tri- Y of which she is publicity man ager. This year Nancy was the Civics club Carnival princess from the Philhistorian club; she managed the Vikette skit in the Civics club carnival and draws posters and advertising for the ASB dances. She likes swim ming and takes water ballet swimming. Princess in Queen Nancy's court are: Martha Storruste of Silverton; Marlcne Hartmann, (Concluded on Page S, Column 5) Taft forSlash In Foreign Aid Washington, April 21 VP) Senator Taft (R., Ohio) gave his support today to a $600,000,000 cut in Marshall Plan spending. He spoke out in an interview preceding a republican senator ial conference on the administra tion's foreign aid program. Taft said he would back a pro posal by Senator Hickenlooper (R., Iowa) to trim the European Economic Recovery program from $3,100,000,000 down to $2,- 500,000,000. Senator Bridges (R., N.H.) said the GOP lawmakers would take no official party stand the conference (10 a.m., EST) and no senator would be bound by the discussions. We just want to talk over the program and get everyone s views," Bridges said. Bridges and Senator Know- land (R., Calif.) both said they knew of no organized effort de veloping among republicans to cut the spending program. Hick cnlooper's proposal is the' only economy move against the bill that has been made in the senate up to this point. Chairman Connally (D., Tex.) of the senate foreign relations committee opened debate on the $3,372,450,000 foreign aid mcas ure yesterday. Kremlin Spurns US Demand for Loss of Plane Moscow Insists B-29 Fired at Soviet Plane First over Latvia London, April 21 VP) Russia rejected today a U.S. demand for compensation for the loss of an American plane fired at by So viet fighter planes in the Baltic area April 8. The USSR also insisted the plane was a B-29 bomber, not an unarmed navy Privateer, and that it fired at the fighters first. In a note handed to U.S. Am bassador Alan G. Kirk at Mos cow, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky declared the plane was trying to "photograph Soviet defense installations." The note said the Soviet gov ernment cannot accept for ex amination the U.S. demands for compensation and a guarantee against any recurrence of the in cident. U.S. Demands Absurd it asserted these demands "are clearly absurd and without any foundation whatever." The Privateer, missing with its crew of 10 since the day fix ed by the Russians as the day of the exchange of fire, has been given up for lost. The Soviet note today, broad cast by Moscow radio and pick ed up by the Soviet monitor in London, replied to the U.S. pro test note of April 18. (Concluded on Page 5,' Column 8) Moscow Reply Angers Senate Washington, April 21 VP) Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.) of the house armed services committee today accused Russia of an act of aggression "a murderous, dastardly, despicable act which has been officially condoned by the Russian government." He was talking about the loss of ten American fliers aboard an unarmed navy plane which the U. S. says was shot down by Sov iet fighter planes over the Bal tic sea on April 8. Vinson addressed the house shortly after Moscow rejected as "clearly absurd" this country's demand for compensation for the loss of lives and for assurance that there will be no recurrence of the incident. The armed services chairman took the floor when the house suspended other business to vote on a resolution honoring the ten lost airmen. The senate passed the measure last Wednes day, 66 to 0. The resolution directs the sec retary of the navy to award pos thumous honors to the 10 fliers and expresses congressional sym pathy to their families. At the end of Vinson s ten- minute speech, the house adopt ed the resolution by a roll call vote of 330 to 0. Vinson said the American were killed "deliberately, savagely and brutally." '' I "i ' M i0 ) L ' ' A ) ;. A ' '', ';'aJ ' I 1 -1 I U , " Wtl il J.. vc- ; -.' ;?'' ' , 'Ml ':zrz ...-ft i ' ;i I 1 i I 4: :r. .l ! . n 1 s f ' " New Queen and Father Queen Nancy Miller of the 1950 Cherryland Festival, whose selection as ruler of the annual event was announced Thursday night at the Cherrians Blossom day dance, is pictured here with her father, E. Burr Miller. The queen's father is a member of the Salem Cherrians. iff JPW : S ' t " , Ex-FBI Girl Slain The body of former FBI girl Bet tie Renner (above), 38, bru tally beaten about the head and nude except for a bras siere, was found jammed into a narrow well opening in an abandoned stone quarry in Nassau, Bahamas. An autopsy report showed Miss Renner had not been raped but that there were "certain indica tions" that the slaying was a sex crime. (Acme Telephoto) Brothers View Slain FBI Sister Nnsau, Bahamas, April 21 VP) Two heartbroken brothers were to view the body of their murdered younger sister today as police sought the person who stripped her almost naked and tossed her into a well to drown. The semi-nude body of Miss Betty Renner, 38-year-old Wash ington attorney, was recovered from a shallow well Wednesday. She was wearing only a bras siere. Dr. H. B. Taylor, who per formed the autopsy, said there was no positive evidence of rape but the posibility was still being investigated. Her older brothers, Fredferick P. Renner, 40, and Charles H Renner, Jr., 39, arrived by plane from Miami, Fla., last night and went immediately to a hotel to rest. Both said they had gotten lit tle sloop since news of the trag edy. They planned to talk with police and the United States con sul today before viewing their sister's body. Major G. H. Ranoe, chief of police, said the death was defi nitcly murder and that a Negro of the waiter type was being sought. The Negro was seen bicycling with Miss Renner the arena before she disappear ed Tuesday. Settlement Averts Ship Strike in East New York, April 21 VP) Set tlement of a dispute threatening a tieup of shipping on the east and Gulf coasts was announced today. The agreement came after IB hours of almost steady negotia tions between representatives of 40 shipping concerns and the AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots association. Yugoslavia for Settlement of Trieste Issue Italian Pact Sought Russia Demands Re moval of West Troops Washington, April 21 VP) Sava Kosanovic, Yugoslav am bassador, today expressed his country's willingness to consider "direct agreement" with Italy to settle the Trieste problem. Kosanovic made the statement to reporters after paying a fare well call on Secretary of State Acheson. He returns to Bel grade within a few days to be come minister of state in the Yugoslav cabinet. The Yugoslav envoy said "There will be no real peace in the Adriatic as long as there is this Trieste problem between the Italian and Yugoslav peoples." He noted that Italian Foreign Minister Carlo Sforza recently expressed Italy's readiness to talk with Yugoslavia about a set tlement. Russian Charges Russia thrust the Trieste problem back onto the interna tional scene yesterday with a note charging in effect that the Big Three western powers are turning the Adriatic sea port into a military base. Diplomatic officials predicted today the United States, Brit ain, and France will reject tne Soviet charges as unfounded. They said the three powers will confer on a reply and it is pos sible a joint answer might be made when Acheson, British For eign Minister Bevin and French Foreign Minister Schuman meet in London early today. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 1) Russian Trieste Charges Denied Washington, April 21 VP) Diplomatic officials predicted today the United States, Britain and France will reject as un founded Russian charges that they are turning Adriatic port of Trieste into a military base. The three western powers will confer on a reply, it was said, and it is possible that a joint answer might be made when Secretary of btatc Acne- son, Britisn Foreign minister Bevin and French Foreign Min ister Schuman meet in London early next month. Russia charged in a note yes terday that the Italian peace treaty is being violated by the continued presence of British and American troops in the stra tegic Trieste territory on the borders of Italy and Yugoslavia. The treaty provided that the territory would be set up as a free zone under an independent governor. No governor has ever been agreed on between the east ern and western powers, how ever, and for this the west blames Russia. Moreover, diplomats here said that until a governor had been named, the treaty provisions re quiring withdrawal of troops would not come into effect since they specify that withdraw al should occur within 90 days after a governor takes over. The United States, Britain and Yugoslavia each have about 5000 troops there. Russia Maps Plan For Invading West Rome, April 21 VP) The Ital ian news agency ARI, which specializes in Roman Catholic news, declared today that Rus sia has mapped plans for invad ing western Europe. The agency, quoting "confi dential reports from clandestine resistance organizations in the U.S.S.R.," predicted that once the Soviet invasion was under way Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia would turn about and side with the Russians. Tito's communist regime has been on the Moscow blacklist for nearly two years for demanding independence from Kremlin dictates. The invasion plan, said the agency, called for forcing Anglo-American troops to retreat from their Atlantic bases into Italy "where they would meet many surprises." The reports, Ari said, indicate that 1950 may be the "decisive year." Braddock Manager Dies New York, April 21 VP) Joe Gould, who managed heavy weight champion Jimmy Brad dock, died today after a linger ing illness. He was 52.