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JoBrnal THE WEATHER CONTINUED FAIR and w a rm tonight and Friday. Low tonight, 48; high Friday, 84. DITION 63rd Year, No. 148 Entered u second cl&M matter at Salem. Oreion Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 21, 1951 (30 P ; Price 5c Capital McKay to Heed Advice Given By Legislators To Follow Recom mendations of New Emergency Board By JAMES D. OLSON Governor Douglas McKay will follow the recommendations of the new emergency board in disbursing monies from the $1, 500,000 emergency fund, even though the new board has only advisory powers. The governor made this clear during a discussion of funds for jetting up the first convict for est camp in the Tillamook burn area, when officials of the state forestry department intimated that the costs of providing this camp and operating it, might re quire more funds than are avail able In the forestry department budget. The 1951 legislautre created the new emergency board after Attorney General George Neu ner ruled that the emergncy board which had been set up in 1913 did not have powers to allocate or withhold funds from slate departments operated on appropriations made by the state legislature. ; 11,500,000 Provided In addition to providing for the advisory emergency board, the legislature appropriated $1, 500,000 which was placed in the hands of the governor for final disposition In the event financial emergencies. (Conoluded on Pate 5, Column 7) Big Excavation Nearing Finish Within a week excavation will be completed for the city's big municipal water supply reservoir at Turner. It will probably be ready to receive water - some time In 1952, says City Manager J. L. Franzen. 4 ' The excavation is roughly of an S shape. It is 1600 feet from end to end, 200 feet wide 'and 22 feet deep. A total of about 400,000 cubic yards of earth and rock were removed and the ca pacity of the reservoir will be 100,000,000 gallons. In one area of the project much rock formation was encountered, which required a lot of blasting. This rock is being dumped at a place where it will be easily available for crushing if needed by the city. The next part of the project will be lining the excavation, either with concrete or asphalt. A concrete curb will be made completely around the reservoir. The big pond will be fenced but not covered. Forest Fires Under Control All fires in the state forestry department patrol areas of Ore gon are now under control the department reported Thursday. The fire started Tuesday af ternoon on Wiley creek in Linn nmintv. which was the only large " one, was not affected by the easterly winds coming up Wed nesday, the department said. Bv the time the wind started to blow that fire was near enough under control that it was not fanned into a new blaze, by the " slight wind that did blow. Re ports for Wednesday had pre dicted north to northeasterly winds in the state ranging from 12 to 18 miles per hour. Real Summer Weather Now Iran Premier Given Vote of Confidence Parliament Sanctions Oil Seizure As Mobs Riot Tehran, June 21 VP) Premier Mohammed Mossadegh won a vote of confidence from parlia ment today amid demonstrations against the Anglo-Iranian Oil company. Crowds invaded the company's offices and tore down its signs just before Mossadegh went be fore parliament with a warning that violence might follow if the legislators failed to support him. They gave him a 91-0 vote of confidence Mossadegh told parliament he will "proceed to take over the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. before the country demands it." He sought the vote of confidence as a token of nation-wide approval of his policies. No Compromise The premier said there would be "no compromise" with the British-controlled company. The government has taken control of its refinery and other operations in this country. No method for compensating the company has been determined. The demonstrators were in a holiday spirit as they entered Anglo-Iranian's Tehran offices to tear down its signs. The AIOC placaids were kicked to pieces while new signs bearing the name "Iran National Oil Co." were put up. Iranian flags flew from oil company offices. There was no serious damage to the offices, but the British em bassy said a protest would be made against police failure to halt the demonstrators. "Death to Oil Company" "Death to the oil company,' was one shouted slogan. Others were: "Down with the British and "Long live Mossadegh." The premier, in seeking the vote of confidence, had to call parliament into -session twice. (Concluded'--on Page 5, Column 8) British Forces Remain Alert vfl .oa r$ 'M " London, June 21 (IP) The British cabinet whipped together today its latest reports on the breakdown of oil talks with Iran, preparing for an expected bitter debate tonight in the house of commons. Apparently no new policies for dealing with Iran's moves to nationalize the $1,400,000,000 Anglo-I r a n i a n Oil company emerged from the cabinet ses sion. Britain appears to have de cided to keep control of the com pany's oil fields and its refinery the world's largest in Aba- dan unless it is forced out. A foreign office spokesman said a second appeal may be sent today to the international court of justice at the Hague. This ap peal would ask the court to slap an international injunction on Iran, telling the Middle Bast country to take no action which might further widen the dispute. Britain's Middle East land, sea and air forces remained on the alert. Foreign Secretary Her bert Morrison indicated in com mons yesterday they would be used to safeguard British lives in Iran if necessary. Mortar Shells Kill Marines Camp LeJeune, N. C, June 21 Two defective mortar shells fell short and burst into a com pany of advancing Second divi sion marines here yesterday aft ernoon, killing eight and injur ing 23. Witnesses said the mortar gun ners saw that the shells were de fective a split second after they were fired during a routine training exercise at this big marine base in eastern North Carolina about 50 miles north west of Wilmington. The gun ners leaped to field telephones and notified a forward observa tion post. But before the warn ing could be relayed, the shells exploded among, the forward group of the weapom. company. Bitter members of the com pany told a reporter they did not blame the mortar section but felt that defects in the am munition could have been noted by careful inspection. General Clifton Cates, marine ccrps commandant, was visiting the base when the accident took place about 1 p.m. (EST). He ordered an immediate investiga tion and a board of inquiry was appointed. The casualty list was expected to be made public today. A pub lic information officer said that of the 23 wounded, 12 were in serious condition at the base hos pital here. There were no officers among the casualties. The ranking man in the group hit by the mortars was a senior non-commissioned officer, who was killed. Signs New Draft Bill President Truman signs into law a new draft bill that includes for the first time a start toward universal military training. Secretary of Defense George Marshall (right) and Mrs. Anna Rosenberg (center), assistant secretary of defense, were among military, congres sional and other leaders who witnessed the ceremony in the president's White House office. The new law lowers the draft age from 19 to 18 and requires 24 instead of 21 months' service. (AP Wrephoto.) ICLynn Brumbough Governor Girls' State Elected governor of Girls' State Thursday morning was K'Lynn Brumbough of Gresham, who was nominated by the "Nation alists" to take the place of Honey Gilmer of Grants Pass who was taken to the hospital for an emergency operation Wednes day night. Pat Wuner of Grants Pass was the candidate from 3the "Federalists." Inauguration of the governor Salem and vicinity continued to enjoy real summer weather, Thursday. On Wednesday the mercury soared to 89 degrees for the warmest day since septem ber 21. The forecast calls for continue fair and warm weather tonight and Friday. Thursday, bringing In summer officially, is supposed to be the longest day of the year. How ever, Friday will have the same length of daylight, but the lirst day of summer always popularly la considered the longest aay. Showing results of the dry l spell, the Willamette river was ' a bit lower Thursday, measuring 2 feet at the local gauge, 5 New Polio Cases Reported in Oregon Portland, June 21 (P) Five new cases of polio were reported in Oregon last week, the state health bulletin said today. Three were in . Lane county, one in Clackamas county and one in Washington county. Malheur county reported a case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Portland reported three cases of diphtheria among county jail prisoners. Truman Declines to Intervene in UAL Strike Washington, June 21 (IP) President Truman said today he had no plans to intervene in the strike of United Airlines pilots. He told a news conference that he had no plans for such an intervention at the present time. He did so in response to a ques tion about what he proposed to do. Some 220 daily passenger flight.- and 132 transport flights House Finishes Vet Legislation Washington, June 21 (IP) The house closed its books on veter ans' legislation for the year to day after passing yesterday a group of measures that ultimate ly may cost billions of dollars. "It's up to the senate now," said Chairman Rankin (D., Miss.) of the house veterans' committee as the last of the pending meas ures cleared the house without a record vote and with little op position. "We have no other bills in our docket," Rankin told newsmen. "There may be others later, but I know of none at this time." Rankin wouldn't comment on the possibility of a World War II veterans' bonus bill, but there has been talk in house corridors of such a measure if separate bills for veterans' benefits fail to be enacted. Eleven bills cleared the house in rapid order yesterday after administration forces failed by two votes to obtain the two thirds vote needed under the rules to block their considera tion. Some of the measures spe cifically are opposed by the pres ident's budget bureau. The estimated recurring an nual cost of the bills would be $358,000,000 as long as they stay on the statute books If they get there. In addition there would be an initial outlay of $335,000,000 for new hospital construction and a $20,000,000 charge against the government insurance fund. Armory Spot to Be Beautified were grounded Tuesday when 900 pilots and co-pilots struck. The national mediation board gave up its efforts to settle the dispute over wages and working conditions and called on the Whie House for emergency ac tion. Under usual porcedure the president will appoint an emer gency board to Investigate. A work stoppage or changes in working conditoins are barred by law from the day the emer gency board is appointed until 30 days after it turns in a re port. In Chicago, David L. Behncke, president of the AFL Air Line Pilots' association, declined to predict the union's rection to yesterday i move. Earlier in the day he had termed "ridiculous" a charge by the mediation board that the walkout alreday was illegal. The board made that statement Tuesday in a telegram ordering Behncke to direct the pilots to return to work. Behncke said in a statement, that UAL could end the strike quickly by meeting with the pilot negotiators to "complete a satisfactory employment agreement. UAL President W. A. Patter son said the company was offer ed substantial Increases in wages but would not accede to shorer work hours. The pilots' demands, he said, would cut their time in four-engine planes 'from &5 hours a month to 70, ,ii Sight Says Truman No Proposals Made United Nations by Red China Washington, June 21 (IP) President Truman today dis counted rumors of Korean peace proposals. He told a news conference questioner that no peace proposition had been taken up with him by the United Nations. He added he believed a thing of this kind would come to him if any action were contemplated. Mr. Truman had very little news at his first press-radio con ference in two weeks. He fired "no comment" re plies in quick succession to questions regarding Iranian oil, congessional committee actions in toning down his inflation con trol proposals, and senate votes cutting 10 per cent from request ed appropriations for federal personnel. He said control and appropria tion bills are still in the forma tive stage and he will withhold comment until they are passed Silent in Candidacy He also declined to throw any light on his 1952 political in tentions or to mix again in the MacArthur controversy. A reporter asked if Jonathan Daniels, Raleigh, N.C., publish er and democratic national com mitteeman, had shown anything more than sharp reportorial in stinct in predicting at the White House Monday that Mr. Truman would run again next year, The president, grinning broad ly, replied the reporter had stated the case exactly. (Concluded on Page S. Column 6) Salem's Army Reserve armory has received word from Oregon military hedaquarters that bids are to be asked on placing of a sidewalk to tile flag pole, plant ing a lawn at the armory and landscaping the area. The bids, according to infor mation given the instructor for the Army Reserves here, Capt. Andrew J. Brown are to be plac ed separately and must be in the hands of Brown by Wednesday, June 27. Brown has all infor mation and specifications. It is not designated what type of grass shall be used in plant ing the lawn. Persons placing bids are to make their own rec ommendations. Required in the specifications for the landscaping are: 14 Nor way maples; nine birds' nest false cypress; eight Parnay cot ton Easters; 12 Tramric bavin Junipers; two Chinese photinia; three Portuguese laurel cherries; three pyramidal eastern arborvl- itae; and one larlstinua viburnum. was at 1:45 p.m., Thursday in the senate chambers with Gov. Douglas McKay swearing Miss Brumbough in as governor. Other state officers elected are Madelon Michuelson of Ti- gard, secretary of state; Marijo Stump of Prineville, treasurer: Marilyn Manser of Portland, at torney general; Hanna Sue Han sen of Grants Pass, labor com missioner; Gerrianne Porritt of Eugene, superintendent of pub lic instruction; Jean Hartwell of Salem, chief justice; Arta Ohl- ing of Albany, Gertrude Gumore of Toledo and Norma Thome of Portland, associate justices of the supreme court. (Concluded on Page 5, Column Morse Praises Firing of Mac Klamath Falls, June 21 (IP) President Truman's dismissal of Gen. MacArthur was upheld and lauded today as not only the right of the president but his duty under the circumstances, by ben. Wayne Morse speaking be fore delegates to the Oregon Federation of Labor convention here. Sen. Morse's talk was the highlight of the week long con vention, and he plunged into the ticklish "MacArthur incident almost as soon as he came through the convention hall door. Speaking as a member of the senate committee inquiring into the dismissal of MacArthur as United Nations leader in Korea and the Far East, Morse said the secret record communications between Washington and the general throughout the Korean fighting clearly showed Mac- Arthur "was not in sympathy with the military or foreign po licies " of this country. An all-out war in Asia, Morse said, is a world war. And the United States isn't prepared for that. Morse declared he doesn't support President Truman in the MacArthur incident, but that he supports the presidential office Chandler Resigns As Czar of Baseball Cincinnati, June 21 VP) A. B Chandler resigned today as base ball commissioner effective July 15. The former Kentucky gover nor and senator who had held the commissioner's job since 1945, made his announcement at t-a conference with Warren Giles, president of the Cincinnati Reds and a member of baseball s exec utlve committee. Baseball club owners twice re fused to renew his contract which would have run until May 1 1952. Deny Truman Controls Power Hurley Says FDR Soured on Yalta Treaty Washington, June 21 (IP) Patrick J. Hurley told senators today that President Roosevelt, shortly before his death in 1945, gave him a mission of trying to soften the terms of the Yalta agreement. Testifying at the senate s Mac Arthur inquiry, Hurley quoted Roosevelt as saying: "I would like for you to go to London and see Churchill to ameliorate that agreement. It has got some things on it. I would like for you to go to Mos cow and see Stalin." Hurley said he went to Lon don and talked with Churchill. He left London to fly to Mos cow, "and when I landed in Tehran I received the word that Roosevelt had died." Hurley, former ambassador to China, said he suffered his "sad dest defeat" when the state de partment said after Roosevelt's death it was "irrevocably com mitted" to the Yalta terms. The Yalta agreement was an understanding reached by Roose velt, Prime Minister Churchill of Britain and Premier Stalin of Russia in a meeting at the Russian town of Yalta in Feb ruary, 1945. It was agreed there that Rus sia should have certain conces sions in Manchuria and should also have the islands north of Japan. Red Pressure On High Court Washington, June 21 VP) The senate banking committee today approved a wage-price control bill denying President Truman most of the broad new control powers he requested, and for bidding price rollbacks beyond the average for Jan. 25-Feb. 24. Chairman Maybank (D-SC) said the action was taken by a 12-1 vote of the committee. Sen ator Dirksen (R-Ill) casting the lone dissenting vote. Maybank said he will present the bill to the senate tomorrow and that debate on the measure will start Monday. Senator Moody (D-Mich) said he and others will wage a fight on the senate floor to knock out the restriction on rollbacks, Maybank announced the com mittee had stricken out a pro posal to create an agency to help small business and industrial enterprises get a fair share of defense contracts, with an agree ment to report out a separate Dili to do the same thing. By a vote of 7 of 6 the com mittee beat down an effort to knock ott the rollback curb, Maybank said, and by an 8 to 5 vote it rejected a proposal by Senator Douglas (D-Ill) to scrap me entire measure and approve, instead, a one year extension of the existing price-wage control law. Washington, June 21 VP) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Rob ert H. Jackson told a senate subcommittee today that com munist groups frequently try to put pressure on the nation's highest court. 'I don t know whether it ! lack of respect or just plain ig norance," he said. "They are the only organized group that tries to make a campaign against the judiciary that I know of." Jackson appeared before a la bor subcommittee conducting a hearing on ethics in government. He showed the senators a batch of telegrams which he de scribed as "this morning's crop" from the communists. The messages, he said, re ferred to a meeting in his cham bers this afternoon at which he to hear a plea of 11 top com munist party leaders. They arc asking to be permitted to remain out of jail pending a further decision by the high court in their case. The tribunal recently affirmed the conviction of the 11 men. They have petitioned for re hearing which cannot be decid ed by the court until its fall term. Allied Patrols Enter Kaesong In Push West Other Forces Driving On Pyonggang Encounter Reds Tokyo, June 21 (IP) Allied patrols roamed far beyond their lines today on the western front, where officers predicted the Reds would launch a "limited offensive" by Monday, first an niversary of the Kortan war. United Nations patrols twice entered Kaesong, 25 miles northwest of Seoul on the main highway to Pyongyang, capital of communist North Korea. A thousand Reds in the hills made no move to intervene. This is the most westward push of allied units since Reds swept across parallel 38 in the April 22 offensive. Three other UN patrols reach ed to within four miles of Py onggang, bumping into Chinese outposts. Powerful Chinese for ces were reported grouping be hind these outposts north of Py onggang, northern tip of the iron triangle. Pyonggang is 92 miles southeast of Pyongyang. Probe Red Strength All along the quiet front UN scouts probed for Red strength. Rain clouds forming over Ko rea cut air attacks down to the lowest figure this month. The fifth air force reported only 186 sorties, most of them in the ear ly morning darkness before storm clouds blanketed the country. (Concluded on Pare 5, Column 6) Timber in Marion Offered for Sale Portland, June 21 (IP) Near ly 30,000,000 board feet of tim ber will be offered for sale by the bureau of land management next month. The bulk of it will be offered in sales early in the month There will be sealed bids for one tract in the Mcdford dis trict July 3; oral bids for three tracts in the Roscburg district July 2; oral bids for two tracts in the Salem district, July 2; and oral bids for one tract in the Eugene district, July 2. Stalemate Continues In Maritime Strikes New York, June 21 (IP) The CIO National Maritime union and operators of east and gulf ships tried anew today to settle a work stoppage that has tied up shipping for six days. A joint meeting of seamen and ship owners broke up in a deadlock last night with management offering a 44-hour work week at sea and the union dc-?- Red Refugees Flock to Allies Somewhere In Korea, June 21 VP) The Climate of freedom has lured nearly 15,000 w a r -weary North Koreans to United Nations territory in the past few days. These tired, disheveled people are streaming into UN-held Chorwon from as far north as Wonsan because the word has spread that UN forces are evacu ating all the civilians from the battle area near the 38th parallel. They have joined the 8,000 bedraggled people who stayed in rubbled Chorwon during the struggle for possession of the Reds southwest "iron triangle" bastion. "Nearly all of the people have been living in caves and they are filthy," says Lt. Thomas G, Houghton of Boston, civil assist ance officer who is supervising the evacuation. 'But surprisingly enough, thev all seem to have plenty to eat. And only about one in 100 is really ill." Houghton's civilian assistance teams have worked three davi and nights in Chorwon collect ing the people. Many bring their precious livestock and car ry their possessions on their backs. The tiniest of the children paddle alongside their parents. The pitiful people arc loaded onto trucks and taken to a South Korean civilian camp. Big Tax Hike Before House manding 40 hours, comparable to the current 40-hour work week in port. A union spokesman said the length of the work week at sea "is the main thing holding us up." Union and management nego- tiatars met separately today with federal mediators available to both sides. The work stoppage, which be gan with expiration of union contracts at midnight last Fri day, involves 50,000 members of the NMU, 7,000 of the Na tional Marine Engineers Bencfl cial association, and 1,400 radio operators, members of the Am erican Radio association. San Francisco, June 21 (IP) Federal Conciliator Omar Hos kins, still wearily seeking a set tlement of the ilx-day-old strike by CIO radio operators, sched uled another meeting with ship owners today. Hoskins, dog-tired after al most 12 hours of fruitless nego tiation with two factions, met separately with the striking CIO American Radio association late yesterday. Joint negotiations collapsed completely earlier when the ra diomen walked out of the meet ing. They have tied up some non- military vessels in Pacific coast ports in demand for a $63 monthly wage increase that would put them on a par with second mates. They now earn an average of $352 a month. 'We are back where we started," Vice President Philip O'Rourke of the radiomen said after the joint session collapsed "The strike will continue." Washington, June 21 (IP) Rep. Dougliton (D-NC) asked the house today to approve a $7, 200,000,000 tax increase, and MH1U 11C U1U11 L M'C JIUW 11IC fctlCS could be boosted any higher. The 87-year-old North Caro linian heads the ways and means committee which drew up the bill, due to come to a final vote in the the house late tomorrow. He endorsed the huge propos ed increase, largest in American history, as urgently needed to finance the nation's defense pro gram. But he told his colleagues solemnly: I consider it unlikely that we shall be able to increase sub stantially the yield of the fed eral tax system beyond what is included in the present bill. "I say this in all frankness and sincerity, for I consider it essen tial that we face up to the fact that any higher tax rates on eith er Individuals or corporations or excises would be exceedingly burdensome and difficult to impose." Weather Details Maximum yeiterdar, t mtnlmvm i fifty, 47. Tolal 34-hour protpltUnl for month j ,01 1 normal, .. Seaam ra etplUtlon. 40.77 1 normal, M.4. Biter hdiht. -a feet. (Report by U.S. Weather Bureau.) J
