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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
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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.)
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