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v Jowna al THE WEATHER. FAIR, SLIGHTLY cooler to night, Wednesday, Low tonight, SO; high Wednesday, SO. H EDITION 3?y-.;rT uosmo 62nd Year, No. 205 Entered u second elm matter ftt Salem. Oregon Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 29, 1950 lio rages) Price 5c Capital k .j JfTTI i Upholds Bill For Balanced Apportioning Duncan Rules Initiative Measure Le gal and Constitutional By CHRIS KOWITZ The initiative bill for balanced apportionment of the state legis lature is legal and constitutional in every respect, and is there fore eligible to be submitted to the people for a vote in the No vember general election. .. That was the ruling announced Tuesday by Marion county Cir cuit Court Judge George R. Duncan, who last Wednesday heard a trial regarding the con stitutionality of the reapportion ment measure. Alex G. Barry, state represen tative from Multnomah county, had brought about the suit, list ing as defendants Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry and the committee on balanced reappor tionment. Plaintiffs' Arguments Barry maintained that the ini tiative bill was unconstitutional, in that it proposes to amend sev eral separate sections of the Ore eon state constitution. The defendants had filed a de murrer to the complaint on the grounds of insufficiency of facts and lack of jurisdiction. They argued that the bill was legal, since all proposals set forth in the bill were aimed toward one thing balanced apportionment. Duncan's Ruling Duncan's ruling, in part, reads ' "It is apparent that the sign ers of the initiative petition are offering the proposal as one amendment and though the peti tion refers to and seeks to amend three separately numbered sec tions ... of the constitution, nev ertheless taken, together they Constitute a single plan to re apportion the legislature, and the proposed increase in the numbers of senators is an integral part of the plan. -"fwiwrastta. "The court finds that the pro posed amendment is such that it does not in any event violate . . . the Oregon constitution and that it is eligible to be submitted to the voters as a single proposal, The demurrer of the defend ants is thus sustained. Duncan explained that the plaintiff may submit an amended complaint. Otherwise, Duncan will issue a decree dismissing the complaint. Excess Profits Tax 85 Percent Washington, Aug. 29 VP) President Truman's admonition against hasty and premature ac tion failed today to head off the drive in the senate for an im mediate 85 percent excess profits tax on corporations. , The issue is In doubt. The vote may come late today or to morrow. Supporters of the prof its levy predicted victory. Senators O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) and Connally (D., Tex.) offered what they called an "anti-profiteering" levy. They want to attach it to the tax boosting toill intended to help pay for in creased military spending. Without an excess profits tax the measure would add about $2,700,000,000 annually to indi vidual income taxes, another $1,500,000,000 to corportions, and would gather extra millions by plugging loopholes and mak ing other tax law changes. The house has not yet acted on it. O'Mahoney estimated the pro fits amendment would yield about $4,000,000,000 a year be yond the stimated $4,508,000,000 In the bill. He and Connally want it made effective as of last July 1. The issue in the senate is not whether there shall be an excess profits levy it seems almost cer tain there will be but how ana when It shall be applied. Moonshiner Killed By Federal Agent Orchard, Ala., Aug. 29 (P) An accused moonshiner who IcaDed from his horse to scuf fle with an arresting officer was shot to death by the federal agent. Sheriff Williams Holcombe said Jack Thompson, 51, was killed by a bullet in the stomach, f The shot was fired by Joel L, Smith. Jr.. head of the Mobile field office of the federal alco hol tax unit, the sheriff added. Bridges' Union ExpelledbyCIO As Communist Executive Board Ousts Longshoremen and Marine Cooks Washington, Aug, 29 W) The CIO executive board voted 41 to 2 today to oust Harry Bridges and his west coast longshore men's union from the CIO on charges of following the com munist party line. The dissenting votes were cast by J. W. Robertson, vice presi dent of Bridges' union, and Hugh Bryson, president of the Marine Cooks and Stewards who face the same certain ouster be fore nightfall. Bridges and Bryson could ap peal the executive board action to the CIO convention in Chi cago November 20. But it is highly unlikely that the conven tion would upset the board's ove. The convention last year au thorized the removal of all lead ers and unions found to be fol lowing communist policy. Fishermen Also Out Included in the ouster of the 75,000 longshoremen was the removal of the fishermen and allied workers, headed by Jos eph Jurich of Seattle, which had merged two months ago with the Bridges union. A three-man committee in vestigated Bridges' activities of the past several years and de cided that he had adhered to communist party policies at the expense of CIO programs. The committee, recommending oust er, told the executive board that the communists had been "high ly successful" in controlling the ILWU. (Concluded on Pare 5, Column 6) Red Cross to Move Quarters Headquarters for Marion coun ty chapter, American Red Cross will move to a new location, 434 North High street, October 1, it announced by L. O. Arens, chapter chairman, following a meeting df a board committee Tuesday morning to decide on the move. The building is a former resi dence owned by the school board on the school property on North High. At the last meeting of the school board permission was giv en for the Red Cross to use the building should the chapter of ficers and board approve the ove. The Red Cross will take over the entire ground floor of the house. The saving in rent is the big factor in making the move, Mr. Arens points out, the chap ter making every effort to stretch its budget for its com munity service programs as much as possible. The Red Cross has been located since January in the offices formerly occu pied by the Portland General Electric company on North Liberty. Express Rates on Fruits From West Increased Washington, Aug. 29 VP) The today authorized higher railway express rates on carload ship ments of fruits and vegetables from the west despite protests from California. Effective Sept. 11, the rates will For example, the rate per 1003 rounds on fruit shipped in car loads from California to New York City will increase as fol lows: Minimum 20,000 pounds, $4.08 to $4.17. Minimum 26,000 pounds, $3.BB to $3.97. Minimum 30,000 pounds, ?J.0J to $3 72. The new rates apply to carioaa shipments of: 1. Fruits and vegetables tlresn, fresh frozen, dried or evaporat ed) from California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado to destinations throughout tne United States. 2. Berries, fruits and vegeta bles, fresh or green, from Wash. ineton. Oregon, Idaho, Califor nia and Arizona to certain des tinations in Canada. The Railway Express Agency Inc., had proposed the higher rates for last November, but the nroDosed schedule was suspend ed after a protest from the Cali fornia Grape Tree f ruit Truman Plans Fireside Chat Washington, Aug. 29 VP) A White House official said today! President Truman is preparing a report to the nation. The report, this official said, would cover international af fairs, the fighting in Korea and the controls the president feels are needed at home. This official, who asked not to be quoted by name, said no time has been set for the speech. But he said it would be in the nature of a "fireside chat" such as President Roosevelt used to make and would be tele vised and broadcast. White House sources, who could not be named, previously had said the talk might be ready by this week-end. It would be Mr. Truman's first report to the nation since his July 19 ra dio address spelling out a par tial mobilization program to deal with the Korean fighting. These officials said no defi nite, time had been, set. One rea son was reported to be that con gress has not yet acted upon the president's- request for legisla tion which would enable him to impose limited controls on the domestic economy. A senate-house committee to day (9:30 a.m., EST) buckled down to the task of compromis ing a dispute over how much leeway to give the president over wage and price controls. 30,000 Women Hit Sawdust Trail Portland, Ore., Aug. 29 (U.R) Evangelist Billy Graham topped the half-million mark in Port land attendance last night when more than 30,000 women attend ed a "women only night" at the Greater Gospel Crusade taber nacle. The fiery southern minister1 in little more than four weeks in Portland has scored the biggest success in his young career. Last night's total boosted the official Portland attendance mark to 517,250 and proved Billy's drawing power with the opposite sex, as only 11,000 men turned out two weeks ago for men's night. interstate commerce commission rise by 9 cents per 100 pounds. league. A hearing was held, and the ICC found the increase "lust and reasonable." It said increases in express rates since 1936, including the nine cents, are "substantially less" than the rises in carload freight rates during the same period. Most fruits and vegeta bles travel in freight trains. Ex press service, by contrast, is in passenger trains, or in special trains operated on passenger train schedules. The ICC said that railway ex press has already made a similar increase in carload rates on ber ries and vegcteables from Flor ida and Texas to various destina tions. Schedules proposing Increases in the rates from the North Pa cific coast area (Oregon, Wash ington, Idaho and western Mon tana) to U. S. destinations were withdrawn voluntarily by the agency when the schedule ap proved today was suspended. Aldermen Go Hawaiian Members of the city council Monday night accepted gifts of Hawaiian shirts from Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom. There were two strings to the gift that they don them immediately, and then again October 14 and go in a body to McCulloch stadium to sec the Willamette-Hawaii football game. From left, Albert H. Gille, who drew the loud est shirt of all, Howard Maple, Dan Fry, Mayor Elfstrom, Earl Burk, James H. Nicholson, Claud Jorgensen, Dave O'Hara. Aldermen Attired In Hawaiian By STEPHEN Brazenly and unashamed members of the city council sat through the meeting Monday night with arms bared above the elbows. It was the nearest the all-male city council ever came to looking like a ladies' box party It was quite a revelation the snapeiy alabaster of Aldermen WDave O'Hara and Albert Gille, VFW Staging Giant Parade Chicago. Aug. 29 VP) Vet erans of Foreign Wars took time out today from their serious de bate on communism, the Korean war and Gen. MacArthur to stage a giant military parade. Some 30,000 marchers were to assemble on the near North Side and march on Michigan avenue past the reviewing stand at the Congress street plaza. The parade is one of the big features of the VFW's 51st national en campment. Before the parade, however, the delegates were to be ad dressed by Marx Leva, assistant secretary of defense, as a repre sentative of his superior, Louis Johnson. The delegates are scheduled to vote tomorrow on a resolution asking for the ous ter of Johnson. The committee on national se curity and foreign affairs, which has prepared the resolution call ing tor Johnson's removal, also is preparing a resolution recom mending that President Truman discharge Secretary of State Acheson. The mention of Achcson's name on the convention floor yesterday by a New York City delegate brought the first "boo ing" by delegates. The delegate, J. C. Thompson, past commander of the New York state department, defend ed Acheson during a debate on a resolution opposing admission of communist China to the Unit ed Nations. Thomson's was the only dissenting vote as the con vention passed the measure. Lewis Refuses No Strike Pledge Washington, Aug. 29 (P) John L. Lewis advised AFL President William Green today that his coal miners won't be bound by any AFL-lnspired no strike pledge. The government has not asked labor groups to forego strikes during the Korean fighting and defncsc-building period ahead, but Green and some top CIO of ficers have indicated that such a pledge would be given if it was asked. The United Mine Workers made public a sarcastically worded memorandum from Lewis to Green. Lewis said the newspapers re ported Green "as plodding about the country seeking someone to whom you can give a 'no strike pledge. Lewis commented: "Restrict your pledges to your own outfit. We do our own no striking." He also told Green: "I am sure that you will par don me when I suggest that the mine workers arc not yet ready for you to sell them down the river," Shirts A. STONE at the races. the creamy textures of Claud Jorgensen and Dan Fry, the stained walnut of Maple, Burk and Jimmy Nicholson, and the rich mahogany rind of Mayor Bob Elfstrom. Tom Armstrong must have got a hint of what was coming and was afraid he couldn't compete. He wasn't there. Maybe the chest muffs of those members nearest arboreal ancestry peeked above the V necked shirts, but who cared? They seemed kinda proud of it. The councilmen are to come out in the same attire again on October 14 when they attend the Willamette-Hawaii football game in a body at McCulloch stadium. That's by special res olution of the council Monday night. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) Canada Moves In Rail Strike Ottawa, Aug. 29 VP) Canada's parliament assembles today to act on government legislation in tended to start the nation's trains rolling again. There wore indi cations the country's first gen eral railway strike might be over by the week-end. One week ago today 124,000 non - operating rail workers struck for higher wages and shorter hours. Since then a like number of workers have been laid off in industries dependent on rail transport. Some isolated areas in the dominion already have been nipped by shortages of frtsh food. Special legislation to end the strike was expected to be passed by tomorrow. Such action, ob servers said, would permit re sumption of rail transport by the end of the week. Strike leaders were prepared to yield to parliamentary action under certain conditions. 'If a law Is passed ordering the men to go back, they will obey it but they won't like it," said Frank H. Hall and A. R. Moshcr, rail union spokesmen. "If .the law requires the re sumption of negotiations, the unions will no doubt comply," they added. The nature of the govern ment's measures to halt the strike still remained an official se cret. Storm Warnings on Coast Seattle, Aug. 29 (P) The weather bureau issued the fol lowing storm warning today for the southern Oregon coast: "Con tinue small craft warnings 11:30 a.m. (PST) Newport to Cape Blanco for northerly winds 25 35 miles per hour. Warning to expire 11:30 a. m. (PST) Wed nesday." Weather Details Mailman yirtfy, R7t minimum ta dar, Al. Total H-hnur prtelpllatlon, A; for mantle, .M, normal, neanon preripua llsn. 44.19: normal. X7.1I. River helrht, -J.4 feel. (Repert by tl. 8. weather brean. Truman Sends Mac Outline Of U.S. Policy Clarifies General's Own Understanding Of Formosa Situation Washington, Aug. 29 (P) President Truman today sent Gen. Douglas MacArthur a state ment of American policy on For mosa, and also a commendation of the general's direction of the Korean campaign. Mr. Truman's move, follow ing up his week-end order for MacArthur to withdraw a state ment on Formosa, appeared to have a two-fold purpose al though there was no official comment. 1. To clarify MacArthur's own understanding of the whole sit uation and give him an implied reminder not to get out of step again. 2. To ease the sting of the in cident to the general and also help maintain MacArthur's pres tige In the Far East. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross gave out Mr. Truman's message without comment and refused to answer questions as to why Mr. Truman sent it. Text of Truman's Note The text of Mr. Truman's let ter: "I am sending you for your information the text of a letter which I sent to Ambassador Austin dated August 27. I am sure that when you examine this letter, and the letter which Am bassador Austin addressed to Trygve Lie on August 25 (a copy of which I am told was sent your headquarters that night), you will understand why my ac tion of the 26th in directing the withrawal of your message to the Veterans of Foreign Wars was necessary. (Concluded on Page 5, Column S) House Debates Anti-Red Bill Washington, Aug. 29 JP) With strong bipartisan backing, bill to crack down on com munists and subversives in this country came up for house de bate today. Prospects were it might pass by nightfall. Like several companion bills which the senate is scheduled to take up shortly, the legislation goes beyond recommendations President Truman made for dealing with any internal threat to the nation's security. It was drafted after lengthy hearings by the house un-American activities committee. In a statement accompanying the bill to the floor, the committee de clared its investigations over a 10-ycar period had established: 1. That the communist move ment in this country is control led from abroad; 2. That its ul timate objective is to overthrow free American institutions in favor of a communist totalitar ian dictatorship; 3. That it works by secret conspiratorial meth ods; and 4. That its activities constitute an immediate and powerful threat to U.S. security. Primarily a registration bill. it also is designed to tighten up laws against espionage, and to require communist and com munist "fronts" to label their propaganda. Tropical Hurricane Headed for New Orleans New Orleans, Aug. 29 VP) hurricane moved slowly toward today from a point in the Gulf cast of New Orleans. The weather bureau said the Orleans until about 10:30 a.m.- (EST) but it could not forecast what path It would follow after that. If the hurricane continues its present course, the bureau said, it couufnot reach the city before early Thursday morning even if it picked up .speed. The weather bureau said the pre-dawn movement of the storm today was so vague and indefi nite it could hardly be called a course. Forward movement, of the storm was reported very slow from a position 340 miles west of Havana and about 100 miles north of the Yucatan peninsula. Winds up to 85 miles an hour extended outward about 70 miles to the northeast of the im perfectly formed center of Bo ye," located at 4:30 a.m. (EST) British Troops, Aussie Planes Join in Battles Tokyo, Aug. 29 (IP) British planes stepped up their attacks against the Korean Reds today as crack British troops in token force marched onto Korean soil to the traditional skirl of bagpipes. U.S.-made Australian Mustang fighters blasted three enemy air strips, a naval-type craft, an un derwater bridge, supply dumps, Red villages and many vehicles The Aussies left two villages burning furiously. The bombed and rocketed the underwater bridge at Yonghong.. The naval vessel, about 100 feet long, was left a charred wreck. Two Aussie Mustangs were hit, one in the tail and the other in the propeller, but both returned to base. British-carrier - based Firefly attack bombers and Spitfire fighters yesterday hit a variety of west coast targets. They drove two enemy vessels ashore and destroyed them. MacArthur Gag Campaign Issue Washington, Aug. 29 UP) Re publicans hoisted as a congres sional campaign issue today what they called a presidential "gag order against Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's views on Formosa. Accepting this as inevitable, Senator Lucas of Illinois, the democratic leader, told report ers that while he thinks MacAr thur is doing "a wonderful job1 as the Pacific military command er "it is my understanding that the president is the commander-in-chief and makes the policies.' While congressional reaction generally followed party lines, some democrats backed MacAr thur and at least one republican supported Mr. Truman. The president cancelled a Mac- Arthur message to a Chicago veterans meeting obviously be cause "the general's views could be interpreted as calling for per manent defense of the island, now in the hands of the Chinese Nationalists. This went beyond the admin istration policy to neutralize the island from communist attack during the Korean fighting and to leave its eventual disposition to international action, probably through the United Nations. Royal Babe to Be Named Anne London, Aug. 29 VP) Princess Elizabeth's new baby was named Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise to day. The child's father, Prince Philip, entered the names all of which are famous In the his tory of England's monarchy on her birth certificate this morn ing at Clarence House, the royal couple's London mansion. The two-wcek-old baby's proper title and name thus will be "Her Royal Highness Princ ess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh." Edinburgh is the name taken by Phillip when King George named him duke of Edinburgh Just before his marriage to the heiress-presumptive in Novem ber, 1947. The baby also was given an identity card and a ration book today. A small, poorly defined tropical the Louisiana-Mississippi const of Mexico 490 miles south-south storm would inch toward New today near lattitudo 23.5 north longitude 87.5 west. Gales reach ed outward about 150 miles to the north and northeast of the center. The weather bureau said the hurricane would not pick up in tensity for the lime being, be cause of its imperfect formation and shallow depth. But from Pensacola. Fla., to Morgan City, La., midway be tween New Orleans and the Tex as line, the Gulf coast began to batten down. About 500 navy planes were evacuated from the Pensacola area and from the New Orleans naval air station. Major oil companies called in drilling crew from off shore in stallations. Beat Back Red Attacks in Two Wild Battles Reds Repulsed at Both Ends of Curving Korean Warfront Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 30 UP) Allied troops beat back Red attacks in two wild battles at opposite ends of the curving Korean warfronts Tuesday. That apparently ended com munist chances of a quick end- run on Pusan, the Reds' Aug. 31 goal. But the North Koreans were building up at the center of the line for a major stab at United Nations forces. The bloodiest battle was on a bald hill at the southern anchor of the line. There American Ne groes and South Koreans turned back a North Korean bayonet charge in hand-to-hand combat. One American machine gun nest was wiped out by Red bayonets. Allies Holding Pohang At the other end of the battle- front a Red force whipped be- -hind allied troops and cut a road . three miles southwest of Pohang at the east coast anchor. The Pohang sector still was controlled by United Nations troops. The attacking 20,000 Red troops there were pushed back around recaptured Kigye, nine miles northwest of Pohang. Gen. MacArthur's headquar ters in an early morning war summary said South Korean forces gained up to 2000 yards (over a mile) in the Kigye area. Enemy resistance was described as light at this point, but farther north progress was slow against "constant enemy resistance. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Air Force Busy Bombing Reds- Tokvo. Aug. 29 (IP) ' B-29s nlunged 230 tons of bombs today on the rail yards at Chongjin, North Korean east coast trans port hub less than 60 miles from Russian territory. Light bombers hit Red supply lines on the west coast from Kyomipo in the north to Sun chon in the south. Fighter planes attacked communications targets well north of parallel 38 and few support missions in the hard-pressed Pohang-Kigye area on the northeast battlefront. The B-29 strike against Chongjin was made in clear weather. Maj. Edward M. jac quet, 1712 Cambridge Drive, Kalamazoo, Mich., said: "I could see that the railroad yards had been severely hit. Columns of dirty gray smoke covered the targets." The B-29s also dropped more than 100 tons of bombs on other North Korean transport targets. The B-28s hit bridges, trains, railroads, vehicles and troops along the west coast. Lt. Louis A. Goalby, Jr., Den ir. said his crew destroyed a locomotive and damaged a num ber of boxcars along the Han river west of Seoul. Second Lt. John R. Couller, Uniontown, Pa , another B-28 pilot, said his flight showered fragmentation bombs on Red troops west of Pohang and bombed tanks and vehicles. F-51 Mustangs and F-80 Shooting Star jets roared over the northeast battlefront, straf ing and rocketing Red troops, fuel dumps, warehouses and ve hicles. Alcoa Plant Unit Opened, Vancouver Vancouver, Wash., Aug. 29 W) An Aluminum Company of America vice president snipped a cable today to mark opening of Alcoa's new $5,500,000 rod mill here. The mill, put into partial pro duction as each unit was finish er, had turned out 7,000 miles of aluminum cable when the en tire plant went into operation today. M. M. Anderson, vice presi dent in charge of personnel and Industrial relations, was the cable-snipper. With him here from Pittsburgh for the opening were James P. Halght, assistant gen erl manager ofthe fabrication division, and M. E. Noyes, ca ble production manager. The new mill, turning out rod, wire and cable, employes about 200 men and boosts Alcoa's pay roll here to about 1300.