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(nfn a lien THE WEATHER. PARTLY CLOUDY tonight, Wednesday, with a lew show en. Little change In tempera ture. Low tonight, 40; high Wed nesday, 55. E OS'"u;o AW""' EDITION 62nd Year, No, 277 SS? .fVSSlhSS: Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 2 1, 1950 fS Pages,) Price 5c State's Deficit Likely to Slash Building Plans Board of Control to Pick Out Projects Absolutely Essential By JAMES D. OLSON Members of the state board of control Tuesday were studying the proposed $18,800,000 siz-year building program for Institutions. Faced with a possible state de ficit of approximately $63,000, 000 members of the board said they would only pick building projects that are absolutely es sential in the recommendations to be made to the legislature, It was decided Tuesday that the building program will not be included in the regular state bud' get, but as a separate proposal. Intermediate Institution William Ryan, director of in stitutions presented a prelimi nary report on the proposed in termediate penal institution in which it has been suggested yopng offenders at the Boy's school at Woodburn and prison era below 21 years of age at the state penitentiary could be housed. Ryan said that this building would cost in excess of $3,000, 000, and is not included in the suggested building program sub mitted to the board. It has been suggested that this intermediate building be located near the state prison. State Hospital Rebuilding Rebuilding of the old adminis tration building at the Oregon State hospital at a cost of $8, 000,000 is recommended in the report under study. The report suggests that If the new build ing cannot be constructed, It will be necessary to provide for a new building for aged inmates of the hospital, now housed in the old administration building. It is estimated that such a building, to house 400 patients, would cost $1,100,000. Ryan pointed out to the board that if the administration Duuaing re mains. It would also be neces sary to enlarge the kitchen, bak ery and refrigeration plant in the buildmg. A third new cell block In the penitentiary is urged in the re port Such a cell block would cost in the neighborhood of $1, 250,000 with the use of prison la bor. Also urged in the report is a women's dormitory at the pris on at an estimated cost of $175,- 000. Bandits Start 10 Year Terms Three men who figured In an armed robbery of a Salem pawn shop October 28 each start ed a 10-year term in Oregon state prison Tuesday. They are Walter J. Sampson, Thomas Turner and Joseph Ed ward Toman, all of Portland, who robbed Mr. and Mrs. Al Volchok, proprietors of the Star Exchange Loan office, 311 worth Commercial street. The men took an estimated $146 in the October robbery, though the Volchoks had origl nally claimed a theft of about $500. The trio was apprehend ed in Portland within 12 hours after the robbery. Sampson, Turner and Toman were given their sentences by Marlon county circuit court Judge George R. Duncan. Cold Continues In Midwest Areas Chicago, Nov. 21 VP) Cold weather below freezing con tinued over the central part of the country and the chilly air moved eastward into the eastern coast sttaes. No sub-zero tem peratures were reported as some warming was reported in the northern and central parts of the great plains and the Rockies yesterday's coldest regions. The below freezing weather extend ed as far south as Memphis, which reported a reading of 29, There were some snow flurries In the upper Great Lakes and in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Rain or snow fell elsewhere in the Middle At lantic and New England states. Light rain fell in northern Cali fornia and parts of Nevada and Utah. Elsewhere in the country fair weather was reported. Weather Details IbsteM rMterfar, It: mIhImm. U4r, nantfc. T.I: rnal. Or rtrtal uum. itjitt rani, n.m. riw hoieht, U.T ft. (BtMrt kyll.l that lrM. Flood Wafers Rip Through Golden Stale 9 Persons Dead and Thousands Driven From Homes (Bgr ibi AiMKUUd Prui) Torrents of mountain-fed flood waters ripped through northern and central California and west ern Nevada this morning, driv ing thousands of persons from their homes and doing nntold amounts of property damage. At least nine persons were dead from the floods, which started on its third day of ram page with added force from mountain rains and melting snow. Nevada Suffers Also Here is how the situation stacked up: Nevada The main section of Reno was a tumbled mass of mud, debris and torn paving aft er the swirling Truckee river normally three to four feet deep at this time of year roared 20 feet deep and three blocks wide through the center of "the big gest little city in the world." The Truckee burst its banks with crushing force at 10:30 last night, flooding swank hotels and gambling casinos. For hours the downtown section was under six to eight feet of water, but the flood was receding today. One death was attributed to the rag ing waters. State of Emergency California Governor Earl Warren declared a state of emer gency over the raging floods in the Central valley. The Yuba county sheriff's office ordered thq evacuation of an estimated 3,500 residents from East Linda, (Concluded on Page , Column () Flood Wafers Submerge Reno Reno, Nev., Nov. 21 VP) The rain-flooded Truckee river cut a muddy swath through this glit tering divorce capital today. Un told damage was wrought in the beart of this "biggest little city in the world." There were no reports of drownings, but one death was at tributed indirectly to the flood, By mid-morning, the waters were receding. Transcontinental rail traffic was disrupted by washouts be tween here and Truckee, Calif., in the Sierra to the west. Power lines were down. Gambling ca sinos were a dark mess. Plus ho tels were flooded. 'The worst flood in Reno his tory," commented Mayor Fran cis Smith, three hours after the Truckee surged over its sand bagged banks. The debris-strewn waters be gan trickling down Reno's Main street shortly after 10 p.m. (1 a.m., EST) and rapidly spread to a turbulent three-block strip smack down the middle of the usually gay city of more than 20,000. A torrent ranging ud to six feet In depth rushed through the business and night spot section. Only one of the eight bridges across the Truckee, which flows through the middle of town, was usaDie .today. Double Funeral for Aged Mother and Son By DOUGLAS THOMAS Double funeral services were oia motner ana ner dependent hospital climaxed a shocking family tragedy. The case came to attention of police shortly after 7 p.m. Mon day when C. D. Hawley, 1305 authorities to the residence ois the mother and son, at 1337 North Winter street There, officers found that Mrs. Melissa Shattuck was dead. Her 44-year-old son Walton M. Shat tuck, was in critical condition from shock; exposure and ex treme dehydration as well as malnutrition. The (on was rushed to the hospital by the Salem first aid crew, but efforts to save his life failed Tuesday morning. From the condition of the woman's body, officers conclud ed she had been dead for about 10 days. And that point was further proved by the fact that a water bill and county tax state ment, postmarked November 10 and 13 respectively, were found in the Sattuck a mail box. The son, former inmate of Iff'- rJ fr ) Am? Ask Equality For Germany Strasbourg, France, Nov. 21 VP) Karl Mommer, German so cialist, demanded, complete equality with other nations as the price of participation in Joint western European defense at the general affairs committee of the European consultative assembly today. Persons present at the closed committee session of the unoffi cial parliament said Mommer as serted western Germany must have complete political, eco nomic and military equality within a real European organi zation before she could con tribute manpower to defense. These informants explained that by military' equality he meant German units in a Euro pean army must be on an equal footing with those of other na tions, through not necessarily in equal numbers. He declared "we want Eu rope defended on the Elbe, not on the Rhine. We do not want Germany to become a scorched earth." Backed by his party's victories in state elections in Hesse and Wuertemberg-Baden last Sun day, Mommer criticized the proj ect for a European army present ed by Duncan Sandys British conservative. The Sandys project, still of ficially a secret document, is reported to stress linking the projected European army to the Atlantic pact us a basis for com mon defense. It would give con trol of the army to the various national defense ministers at present, rather than to a Euro pean defense minister. Another Cent Boost In Top Egg Prices Another one-cent boost on top grades of eggs was listed by some local produce dealers, Tuesday, others holding their lists at the same as for Monday. Portland markets also reported the AA and A grades a cent high er, Tuesday, other grades remain ing unchanged. The local list now quotes the following buying prices: AA grade, 58 cents; large A, 54-60 cents; medium AA, 50 cents; me dium A, 48-52 cents; small, 33 37 cents. No other produce changes were listed here for Tuesday. scheduled Tuesday for a 79-vear- son whose death at Salem General North Winter street, summoned Oregon State hospital, was al most completely dependent upon his mother who had gained his parole from the institution. And with her death, he was unable to cope with the simple prob lem of living. Food, which apparently had been prepared by the mother before her death, was found in pans on the kitchen stove. Al though it dangerously spoiled by action of time, there was evi dence to show that the son had eaten some of it during the pa thetic vigil by his mother's death bed. Police and the coroner! of fice both reported that the death of the woman appeared to have been the result of "natural causes." (Cenelodea Ml Fag t, Cohunn ) They Want Busses This group of people of the Fruitland Swegle district met in a mass meeting Monday night to talk about a bus service, which they need now that City Transit Lines has taken away their route. Speaking is J. H. Gordon, general chairman. Seated at the table, from left, are Mrs. Charles W. Bottorff, S. W. Burris, John Wolf, Harold O. Bressler, Chet Shelberg, and J. M. Sleighter. Suburban Areas Seek Exclusive Bus Service Preliminary machinery designed to eventually assure the sub urban areas of Salem with exclusive bus service was established Monday evening at a mass meeting of residents of the Swegle, Auburn and Fruitland districts at the aduitorium of Swegle school. Black Panther Hunted in Iowa Des Moines, Nov. 21 VP) Law enforcement officers, dogs and an airplane went on a "safari" today to hunt down an elusive black beast that is giving north west Des Moines the jitters. Several people have reported seeing the animal in the past several weeks, and from their descriptions officials . said It could be a black panther. Tracks measuring about four inches across have been found. Kenneth Sonderleiter, who operates a zoo, warned people to beware. He said panthers sometimes attack people "just forewarned residents of caution when they are out of doors." Several mothers asked yester day whether they should let their children go to school. Dep uties told them to "use your own judgment." The latest encounter with the animal was reported yesterday by T. L. (Mike) Lester. He said his dog 115-pound Tennessee boar-hunting hound fought with the beast while Lester was coon hunting. Lester said he approached within 30 feet before scaring the animal away. He described it as a "black, shiny animal with a long tail." He added that it was "larger than the dog." The dog is four feet long and 28 inches high. Though badly clawed, the dog will recover, Lester said. Excess Profits Tax Opposed Washington, ov. 21 VP) The U. S. Chamber of Commerce called on congress today to cut government spending for non- military purposes by at least $6,000,000,000 before it con siders taxing excess profits of corporations. Ripping into administration proposals for a 75 per cent tax on abnormal business profits, Ellsworth C. Alford, chairman of the Chamber's finance commit tee, declared, it was impossible to devise a workable excess pro fits tax to produce the $4,000, 00,000 yearly asked by President Truman. Alvord set forth the Cham ber's views in a statement for the house ways and means com mittee, which is winding up hearings on the profits tax pro posal which Mr. Truman says Is necessary to finance the expand inc defense program. J. Cameron Thompson of Minneapolis spoke for the com mittee for economic develop ment. "The decisive reason for not imposing an excess profits tax of this kind now," Thomson said, "is that It would weaken America in the long run for which we must be prepared. It would be folly to finance a pro gram to strengthen America by a tax that would weaken Amer ica." After five or ten years of such a tax, he contended, "corporate enterprise would become bu reaucratic, with little drive for improvement . . ." Following the suspension of service in these areas last Wed nesday, residents protested that even if the City Transit Lines were to resume service in that section it would be barred by some means. Participating spectators at the meeting last night stated that service in the area was always designed to "skim the cream' and left most regular passengers in the lurch. To alleviate the situation, an organization called the East Sa lem Suburban Improvement club was established and officers and a board elected by the 200 members present. An open dis cussion and agreement delegated authority to this group for fur ther action on securing the services of another bus line. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Nation's Output At Top Notch Washington, Nov. 21 UP) The nation's output of goods and serv ices is within about 5 percent of goal President Truman once set for 1955. And it's growing fast. An annual rate of $284,300,- 000,000 was attained during the third quarter of this year after a $14,000,000,000 upsurge from the preceding quarter, the com merce department reported yes terday. Last January, President Tru man spoke of a prosperity goal of a $300,000,000,000 gross national product "within five years. Gross national product is a term economists use to sum up the output of all goods and services. The $284,300,000,000 rate of the July-September period may not be as close to the president's goal as it seems at first glance, however. Mr. Truman specified he meant $300,000,000,000 worth of goods and services measured by the prices prevailing last January. The gross national product has spurted $30,500,000,000 since then, but a big part of the dollar- volume gain can be attributed to price increases. The commerce department said that the swelling output was brought about largely by record consumer spending. Consumers went on a splurge in 1950 s third quarter, tossing their money on retail counters at a rate of $198,- 400,000,000 a year. Heavy Snows on Cascade Passes The state highway commis sion's 9 a.m. road report today listed the folowing subnormal traffic ondltions: Government " camp spota of ice, 24 inches roadside snow. Timberline Lodge violent wind, packed snow, plowing, carry chains. Wilsonville ferry Closed by high water. Santiam Pass snowing light ly, spots of ice, 3 inches new snow, 45 Inches roadside snow. McKenzie pass closed. Willamette pass pavement bare, 27 Inches roadside snow, 45,000 Soviet Agents (onfrol Red China Life Nationalist Delegate Tells U.N. Peiping Regime Moscow Tool Lake Success, Nov. 21 VP) Nationalist China's T. F. Tslang told the United Nations today 45,000 Soviet agents complete ly dominate the political, eco nomic and cultural life of com munist China. Events of the past 12 months, Tsiang said, have fully proved that the Peiping regime is the stooge and tool of Moscow. He spoke before the general assem bly's 60-nation political commit tee. Tsiang told the committee Russia has completely ignored the assembly's 1949 appeal to all nations to refrain from inter fering In the internal affairs of China. He blamed Russia for the intervention of communist China in the Korean war and said Russian imperialism was re sponsible for most of Asia's un rest. Resistance Growing He said the resistance move ment on the China mainland is growing rapidly. Before Septem ber, 1949, he said, there were only some 395,000 men operat ing against the regime of Mao Tze-Tung, but now there are aoouc i,t67,uuu. About 15 per cent of these, Tsiang said, are communist troops who have swung their allegiance to Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, (Concluded on Pate 5, Column 6) Jap War Lord Freed by Mac Tokyo, Nov. 21 m Japan' wartime foreign minister, Ma- moru Shlgemitsu, was released on parole from, a seven-year prison term today despite Rus sia's strenuous objections. It was the first parole grant ed a principal defendant in the war crimes convictions growing out of World War II. Shigcmitsu was convicted at the Tojo trial in 1948. War-launching Premier Hideki Tojo was convicted and hanged. The seven-year sentence eiven the veteran Japanese diplomat was the lightest imposed by the international tribunal. He was paroled because of good be havior. Shlgemitsu. 63. was one of two Japanese who signed the historic surrender aboard the U. S. bat tleship Missouri in Tokyo bay. His foreign service career dated back to 1911 and included am bassadorships to Moscow and Nanking. Russia protested his release from grim Sugamo prison as an "illegal and arbitrary action" taken by General MacArthur. The Soviet note, following un two earlier protests, asserted that MacArthur lacked authority to parole any Japanese war crimi nals. In reply to a Russian protest last summer, the United States said the parole system was "in accordance with the practice in enlightened and democratic countries." MacArthur had es tablished the parole system in Japanese war criminal cases March 7. Expansion Program For Atomic Energy Washington. Nov. 21 VP) The embarking on a new expansion facilities," Senator Maybank (D., SO.),, disclosed today. He made public a letter from A EC General Manager Carlton Shugg saying that the commission plans to ask for the mnnev 10 pay lur me program as soon1 as congress returns next Mon day. Neither the amount the AEC seeks, nor details of the New program were revealed. Maybank is a member of a senate appropriations subcom mittee which has jurisdiction over AEC funds. Shrugg wrote: "It is now planned to present a supplement appropriation re quest a further program of ex pansion of certain production fa cilities when the congress re convenes at the end of this month." Maybank told reporters that money for atomic energy de velopment should be "the No. I item" in any defense appropria tions to be considered at the short session. Dollar-a-Year Business Men To Be Called Washington, Nov. 21 VP) President Truman signed an exe cutive order today to permit the appointment of outstanding busi ness executives to "dollar-a- year" defense posts within the government. Under the order, the head of any defense agency or depart ment may "employ persons of outstanding experience and abil ity without compensation." In the past, such persons have been known as dollar-a-year men. They were permited to draw compensation from their private concerns while serving in government posts at no pay or at the nominal salary rate of $1. Mr. Truman acted under pro visions of the defense production act approved in September. Probe Copper Cargoes to Reds Washington, Nov. 21 (JF) A senate subcommittee ordered s public airing today of new evi dence about round-the-world shipments of Japanese copper to communist China. Called to testify (10 a.m., EST) were officials oi export iirms which had a part in trade that sent the war-useful metal from U. S.-occupied Japan to New York and then to China. In advance of the public hear ing they had told their stories behind closed doors to a senate commerce subcommittee inves tigating shipments of oil, metals and other strategic materials to communist China. At an open session about three weeks ago the subcommittee, headed by Senator O'Conor (D., Md.), received testimony that nearly4,000,000 pounds of Japa nese copper had been hauled to China by way of New York. The shipments were made prior to the tightening of con trols over exports of Japanese copper last July. A ban had been placed on shipments of U. o. produced copper to communist areas a year earlier. O'Conor said last night that millions of pounds of tin mill products have also been shipped from this country to Red China. Order Cut in Use of Cobalt Washington, Nov. 21 VP) The national production authority today ordered a 70 pen cent slash in civilian use of cobalt, a steel hardening mineral described as "highly essential" in the manu facture of radio and television sets. NPA froze all sales of the mineral last week. A spokes man for the Radio-Television Manufacturers' association said that unless today's temporary relaxation of the freeze had been issued the industry would have shut down by January 1. In any case, the spokesman said, the cobalt curtailment and pres ent and pending curbs on alum inum, copper and nickel will cause a sharp drop in production early in 1951. Today's directive was a stop gap. It applies only on orders calling for delivery this month. A longer-range porgram will hn anl un fnw nnnamkop tanrl 4hn I first quarter of 1951 shortly. atomic enerav commission Is program for "certain production He said that he would do ev erything he could to assist the AEC in getting the money it wants, and was sure that con gress would provide It, The AEC already has recclv cd more than $900,000,000 in cash from congress for the 1951 fiscal year ending next June 30 Of this amount, $260,000,000 was earmarked primarily for work on the hydrogen super bomb which President Truman has ordered the AEC to try to develop. The H-bomb reportedly would be anywhere from eight to 1,000 times more powerful than the conventional uranium-plutonlum atomic bomb which the commls sion now is turning out GIs Raise U.N. Flag on North Korean Border Americans Walk Into Deserted Hyesanjin Without Opposition Seoul, Nov. 21 VP) Tank -sup ported U.S. infantrymen walked into deserted Hyesanjin on the Manchurlan border today. Not a shot was fired. Only the narrow, ice-coated Yalu river lay between them and Red Chinese territory. The troops of the 17th regimental combat team were the first Americans to reach the Man churian boundary. Reports to 10th corps head quarters in Korea said the Unti ed Nations flag was raised by U.S. forces on the south shore of the Yalu river opposite Man churia. Only 15 Villagers U.S. war planes swooped low over the smouldering, bomb wrecked town as weary infan trymen slogged the last two miles through snow. The only humans around were 15 villagers, garbed in black. They stood outside the town and bowed low as the smiling Amer icans marched by. Hyesanjin itself was deserted. Buildings that had survived the bombing were boarded up. (Concluded on Pago 5, Column 3) More Bloody Battles Loom Tokyo, Nov. 21 U.R) Com munist re si stance collapsed throughout northeast Korea to day as the U. S. 7th division reached the Manchurlan fron tier. But more bloody battles loom ed at the western end of the 250- mile Korean front. A spokesman for Gen. Doug- I las MacArthur said the Chinese I communists have completed new defense line on the ap proaches to Sinuiju, temporary I capital of the Korean Reds, and I the Yalu river power plant In I northwest Korea. He predicted the Chinese! would make a strong stand I there. He said they also might I launch a new offensive from the I line. Fifth Air Force fighter-bomb ers flew 40 flights against com munist troops massing behind I the new defensees and supply I convoys moving down from the I Manchurlan frontier. They straf-1 ed, bombed, rocketed and drop-1 ped flaming Jellied gasoline on I gun emplacements, entrenched I buildings and convoys all along I the freezing front. American 24th division pat rols probing the western end of I the line came under machine- gun fire. On the west-central! front, however, South Korean! troops advanced up to seven! miles without opposition behind! communist forces withdrawing! to the new defense line. Way Prepared By Engineers U. S. 10th Corps Hcarquarters.l Korea, Nov. 21 VP) Engineering! feats "which would have done! credit to Paul Bunyan" made itl possible for the U. S. Seventh! division's advance to the Man-I churian border, a spokesman! said today. He identified the units as the 13th Engineer combat battalion! of the Seventh division and thel 185th Engineer combat team oS the 10th corps. I The Engineers, often operating! under direct enemy fire, winched! vehicles over the streams in Rprfa thousht coulcln t be cross ed. Thov tan It 12 ama l bridges an turn lump Railev bridges acros rivers. Bailey bridges are sembled from prefabricate Darts of heavy steel. Th 0nffinr bull-dozed air ol-tr,a fmm onrth. frozen SO Stlf mat tne cuiuna Diaacs wuu.u n off only one and two-Inch lay crs of soil at a time. The spokesman said that, ii Hrililnn to helDlni the Seventh 4l,,le nn maim nnr nWBrfl M In ( knniaF th iniiineers camurec a number of Reds. Small Craft Warnings Seattle, Nov. 21 (P) Th uvpa thr bureau Issued the fol lowing advisory toaay; urai tinue small craft warnings I a.m. PST on inland waters o Washington, Strait of Juan Di Fuca, and Tatoosh to Newport! Ore., southwest winds zu-3 mph, squalls up to 40 mph toda and tonight."
