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EDITION
62nd Year, No, 277 SS? .fVSSlhSS: Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 2 1, 1950
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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.
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Flood Wafers
Rip Through
Golden Stale
9 Persons Dead and
Thousands Driven
From Homes
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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
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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."