Journal
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;
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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."
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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.
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, 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.