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63rd Year, No. 173 ESfjrJSZtSS Salem. Oreaori. Saturday. July 21. 1951 Price 5c
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 21, 1951
$10 per Child
School Tax
Before Court
Lane County Districts
Ask Whether Levy
Is Mandatory
By JAMES D. OLSON
A group of Lane county school
districts petitioned the Oregon
Supreme court Saturday to de
termine whether it is mandatory
(or a county to levy a school tax
of $10 per census child.
This $10 county school tax
has long been in effect but for a
number of years the state met
the tax through use of income
tax revenues. The 1951 legislat
ure, fearing the income tax re
ceipts would not cover the var
ious state obligations heretofore
supported by such funds, voted
to turn back the tax to the coun
ties. The supreme court has set
Tuesday at 10:30 a. m. for a
hearing to determine if it will
lake jurisdiction. Previously, At
torney General George Neuner,
in an opinion, ruled that the
county courts in the state were
obligated to levy the tax.
57 Districts Protest Tax
The petition filed in behalf of
57 school districts in Lane coun
ty seeks a mandamus requiring
the county court to levy a tax
of $343,440 or $10 for each of
the 34,344 Lane county children
between the ages of 4 and 20
years as shown in the last school
census.
Although filed by the Lane
county school districts, the issue
is state wide, as any decision by
the supreme court, would effect
all counties alike.
Members of the legislature who
sponsored' returning the $10
county school tax to the counties,
pointed out that the basic school
fund had been increased from
550. per census school child to
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Scientists Flight
London,' July 21 VP) Britain
today abruptly cancelled the
passports of a British atomic
scientist who had planned a
flight to Moscow, and a foreign
office official.
The clampdown came in a new
re-screening by British security
officials following the mysterious
disappearance of two British dip
lomats two months ago. Donald
Maclean,' head of the American
department of the foreign office
and Guy Burgess, former second
secretary of the British embassy
In Washington, disappeared after
boarding a boat for France, May
25. They are feared to have fled
behind the Iron Curtain with
valuable secrets.
Neither of the two whose pass
jorts were cancelled today were
immediately identified. A for
eign office spokesman said the
scientist proposed visiting Mos
cow as part of a "good will"
group.
Other sources identified the
scientist as Dr. E. H. S. Burhop
of University College, London,
Who has advocated an approach
to Russia in an attempt to reach a
timuea agreement un utuuui;
control before the west steps up
Its race for the hydrogen bomb.
He is secretary of the British as
sociation of scientific workers
and worked on the atomic energy
project in the United States dur
ing World War II.
Army Airlift
DC-4 Lost Off
Gulf of Alaska
Plane Bound for
Korea Missing with
38 Aboard
Vancouver, B. C, July 21 VP)
A Korean airlift DC-4 bound
for Tokyo with 38 persons
aboard vanished today while
skirting the Gulf of Alaska on a
1,348-mile flight from Vancou
ver, B. C, to Anchorage.
The big, four-engined plane
carried a crew of seven and 31
passengers, most of them Ameri
can military men. At least two
of the passengers were civilians
attached to the army at Fort
Lawton, Seattle, Wash.
First reports listed three of
the passengers as United Nations
officials, but U. N. headquar
ters in New York said later that
no members of the U. N. secre
tariat or other officials were
aboard the plane.
Operated by Canadian Pacific
The DC-4, operated by the
Canadian Pacific Airlines on
charter for the Korean Airlift,
disappeared after radioing a
position report at 12:17 a.m.
PST, off Cape Spencer, about 80
miles due west of Juneau,
Alaska.
The missing plane had a fuel
supply for only 5 hours more
in the air.
Its route was along the coast
line of the Gulf of Alaska over
Yakutat to Whittier, and then
inland to Elmendorf air force
base, Anchorage.
(Concluded on Pare S. Column 5)
100 Mile Gale
Hits Minnesota
Minneapolis, July 21, (IP) A
roaring, 100-mile-an-hour wind
storm, acompanied by torrential
rains and lightning, ripped
through parts of Minnesota and
South Dakota last night.
Three persons were killed.
Scores were injured. Property
and crop damage was extensive.
Power and telephone lines were
knocked out.
The lashing storm: -Collapsed
the roof of a crowd
ed super market food store in
suburban Minneapolis, killing
two persons.
Toppled a brick chimney
through the roof of a St. Paul
home, fatally injuring a four-months-old
baby.
Blacked out side areas as up
rooted trees ripped out power
and telephone lines.
Swept away a revival tent in
Minneapolis, spreading panic
among the 700 worshippers.
Halted or interrupted street
car service in Minneapolis and
St. Paul. Lifted one street car
from its trucks and turned it up
side down.
Demolished a grain, elevator,
a house and three trailer homes
Watertown, S. D. Flattened
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Conferees on
Controls Bill
Washington, July 21 (IP) A
12-man senate-house conference
committee will set to work next
Wednesday to hammer out the
differences between the two
houses on controls legislation.
The house members will be
Reps. Spence (D., Ky.), Brown
CD., Ga.), Patman (D., Texas),
Rains (D., Ala.), Wolcott (R.,
Mich.) Gamble (R., N.Y.), and
Talle (R., Iowa). Senators May
bank (D., S.C.), Fulbright (D.
Ark.,), Robertson (D., Va.), Cap
hart (R., Ind.) and Bricker (R.,
Ohio) will represent the senate.
Patman told a reporter the
house group "is determined to
press for a conclusion by the end
of the week."
"We want to wind it up with
only four days of conferences
and I think it is entirely possi
ble," he added.
ripening grain crops in the area.
Victims of the storm were
Michael Brinda, 38, of Minnea
polis, clerk in the damaged
supermarket, and unidentified
woman shopper, about 60, and
Terrance Malm, the infant hit
in tho chimney collapse.
Wholesale Prices Drop
Washington, July 21 fP)
Wholesale prices have dropped
for the seventh week running,
this time one-half of one per
cent, the bureau of labor statis-
reports. The bureau reported
yesterday on prices in the week
ended July 17.
Radar at Work Shorn
At Navy Exhibit Here
Many who have read about and heard about radar are today
seeing it in operation witching ' the navy pick-up buildings,
planes or any other objects.
A radar SP1M covering an area with a radius of 200 miles
and able to pick up a target moving up to 500 miles per hour, is
only part of the exhibits in the
r I giant U.S. Navy mobile display
ull Kecord of
rial of Oatis
Tax Collections
Top $50 Billion
Washingtbn, July 21 Federal
tax collections totaled a record
smashing $50,386,682,228.60 in
fiscal 1951, which ended June 30
the internal revenue bureau an
nounced today.
That was a solid 15 per cent
sain over the previous record
high of $43,800,387,575.90 in
the wartime fiscal 1945; 32 per
cent above the $38,957,131,768
collected in fiscal 1950.
And it was 19 times more than
the government collected only 17
years ago, in 1934 $z,B40,B03,-
828.
Individual income tax collec
tions reached an unprecedented
$26,302,461,995.91 in 1951, run
ning 25 per cent above the pre
vious record of $20,997,780,699
set in 1948. In fiscal 1950, per
sonal income tax collections to
taled $19,574,747,452.
Corporation income and prof
its taxes jumped to $14,358,670,
915.48 from $10,854,351,108 last
year, but fell short of the $16,
027,212,826 peak reached in fis
cal 1945.
Miscellaneous internal reve
nue, chiefly from excise (sales)
taxes, pushed to a new high of
$9,488,584,621.95, compared with
$8,304,897,891.63 in fiscal 1950.
Washington and Alaska, which
are combined for tax collecting
purposes, contributed $598,432,
536 in fiscal 1951 as compared to
$462,153,326 in 1950.
Lost 8-Year-0ld Boy
Found in Cascades
Madras. July 21 W An 8
year-old. boy, lost overnight in
the high Cascades, was found
ale shortly before 9 a. m. today.
He is Blaine Myers. Portland.
Excited by his first fishing trip
into the mountains, he ran ahead
of his father, Stanley Myers, of
Portland, and took the wrong
trail in the Olallie Lake area.
He was found at View Point,
above Horseshoe Lake, some 11
miles from the point where he
disappeared.
Henry Debruin a forest service
man, found the boy, who Was re
ported in good condiiion. For
est service men led the search
after the boy became lost at 1:30
p. m. yesterday.
Telephone Strike Hits
Salem on Monday
Over 200 telephone workers in Salem will be on strike early
Monday morning if the general telephone strike occurs as now
threatened with little hope of settlement over tne weeK-end.
Just how seriously effected the service in Salem will be Is
matter of guessing.
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J. G. Byrne, chairman of the
strike committee of Local 9204
of the CIO Communication
Workers of America, indicated
that everything but local calls
would be pretty hard hit. On
the other hand Assistant Man
ager Bruce Pickett of the tele
phone company said local serv
ice would be normal and long
distance service kept "at a very
high level" by substitution of
supervisors and managers for
the regular worKers.
At 6 o clock Monday morning,
said Byrne, pickets will be plac
ed in front of the main exchange
on State street, the office build
ing at Court and Winter, the
maintenance garage at 240 South
Cottage, and the construction
garage on South 25th street.
They will be on patrol all day,
Byrne said the only workers
not involved in the strike will
be six toll repeatermen who be
long to the Order of Repeater-
men and Toll Test Boardmen
which is an independent union
"However," he added, "we
expect them to respect our picket
lines."
The employes who will be out
include all traffic, plant, com
mercial and accounting employ
es. This involves long distance,
information, repair and other
services.
"It should not affect local
calls," Byrne said, "because the
dial service should be able to go
on for some time without maintenance."
Servicewomen at Work The three women members of
the armed forces with the U. S. navy mobile display showing
here Saturday and Monday work in the office of the unit,
which is housed in a bus, also used for transporting the per
sonnel. Left to right the women are Julia Porter, storekeeper
1c, U. S. navy; Tech. Sgt. Althea Partch, U. S. marine corps;
and Ruth Shawver, yeoman 1c. Standing at the right is
Chief Verlin M. Coontz, of the Salem navy recruiting office,
who has made most of the arrangements for the exhibit in
Salem.
-The
Washington, July 21 VP)-
full record ,pt the trial and con
viction of Associated Press cor
espondent William N. Oatis In
communist Czechoslovakia has
been receive'd by the state de
partment from American Am
bassador Ellis O. Briggs in
Prague.
Department officials said to
day that it showed no evidence
of what any government in the
world outside the iron curtain
would call espionage. Oatis, who
was arrested April 23, was sen
tenced July 4 to 10 years im
prisonment on a charge of spying.
The Oatis case is unique
among trials of foreigners in the
communist countries, depart
ment experts said, because the
record shows so clearly that the
defendant was judged guilty of
doing well the job which he had
been officially admitted to the
country to do.
Throughout the bulky tran
script of the testimony the com
munist prosecutor treats routine
news inquiries from Associated
Press offices in New York and
London as "instructions" for es
pionage. Oatis is pictured as the
head of an espionage network.
His news reports, though pub
lished for the world to read, are
referred to as if they were se
cret dispatches to a hostile government.
Much of the questioning set
forth in the transcript is con
cerned with or relates to the ar
rest earlier this year of former
Czech Foreign Minister Vladi
mir Clementis. This was a ma
jor news story of the period.
Combat Vets
Back from War
San Francisco, July 21 (JP)
Two vessels brought 6,267 com
bat veterans home from the Ko
rean war today.
It was by far the greatest
number to return in one day
Most of them were home on the
rotation program. Others were
back for reassignment; still oth
ers, for discharge from the serv
ices. . .
First . in the harbor was the
transport Gen. William Weigel
which carried a record-breaking
passenger list of 4,321 military
men the largest single contin
gent yet to return. They includ
ed 66 combat veterans from
Washington state.
The General Weigel was fol
lowed by the navy vessel, U.S.S,
Telfair, which had been schedul
ed to arrive tomorrow. She had
aboard 1,946 military passengers
1,193 army men, 474 navy per
sonnel, 273 air force men and six
marines. '
Those on'rotation were to pro
ceed at once by ferry to Camp
Stoneman, across the bay from
San Francisco.
unit in Salem for Saturday and
Monday and open from 1 p
to 9 p. m. each day.
The unit, which has had as
many as 600 people pass through
the exhibit in one day, arrived
in Salem Friday and this after
noon a special showing for state,
county and city officials was op
ened to the public.
In addition to its many dis
plays the unit has its own power
unit so that it need not depend
on any municipality for its lights
or operation of electrical equip
ment. The van carrying this unit!
weighes 44,000 pounds and is
the heaviest of any of the vans.
The longest trailer or van in
the unit is that upon which is
mounted the FH-1 jet fighter,
which is the fighter being used
on the carriers in Korean waters.
It is not just aluminum, cop
per, rubber and steel used in
construction of war equipment,
the public discovered when it
saw a material exhibit arranged
by the navy. This display shows
the many materials used in a jet
plane and then connects them to
the part of the plane where they
are used.
There is a jet engine, too, with
sections cut-away to show how
it works and also a 20 MM gun
cut-away to enable those visiting
the exhibit to see how It func
tions.
uiu you ever wonder how a
Geiger counter works? The ex
hibit has a section given over to
that.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 5)
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Now riaging in
TillamookBurn
Blaze Spotting in All
Directions Fanned by
Self Made Winds
Oregon's oft-blackened Tilla
mook Burn has another fire roar
ing through it that since start
ing in an active logging opera
tion Friday afternoon has cov
ered an estimated 3,000 acres.
Spotting in all directions and
fanned by self-made winds that
twisted snags out by the roots
the roaring blaze, which is about
18 miles east of Tillamook along
the head of Elkhorn creek, Sat
urday was reported as sweeping
on uncontrolled,
An estimated 200 men, includ
ing state forestry crews and log
gers, were on the fire, which
Friday spread so rapidly that
firefighters were unable to dig
trails.
Fire Traps Map Party
Friday afternoon R. M. Kal-
lander, head of the state for
estry rehabilitation program and
other members of a mapping par
ty when trapped by the flames
were forced to abandon a jeep,
All escaped unhurt and the jeep
was recovered undamaged Fri
day night.
Saturday morning district
Warden Edward Schroeder
Forest Grove told the Associated
Press that the fire had quieted
down some after burning
through felled and bucked tim
ber during the night but that the
blaze was still spreading in a
northerly direction and there
was little hope of checking
Saturday.
(Concluded on Pie 5, Column
300,000 Reds
Ready to Strike
f Truce Fails
By RICHARD APPLEGATE
8th Army Headquarters, Ko
rea. Sunday. July a. ui.ra
Allied front line officers warned
today that the communist army
has completed a troop and supply
buildup capable of launching i
300,000-man "double-cross of
fensive" during the four-day re
cess of cease-fire talks.
Chinese strength along the
battlefront was described by an
8th army briefing officer
equal to the force the Red army
threw into its abortive spring
offensive.
He said this meant there were
300,000 Reds on the front ready
to strike and about 350,000 more
in reserve and in rear areas.
Asks Renewal of
Iran Oil Talks
Indictments for
12 Job Sellers
Tehran. Iran, July 21 WO W
Averell Harriman was reported
to be urging the Iranians and the
British today to renew their oil
nationalization talks which
broke down last month.
A definite decision one way
or another is expected tonight
when President Truman s spe
cial envoy meets again with the
Iranian parliament's joint oil
board.
Chairman of the board, Allah-
jar Saleh, told newsmen after
meeting today that Iran is will
ing to resume talks with Britain
but insisted that the British first
must accept all the provisions of
the nationalization law aimed at
taking over the British-control
led billion dollar Anglo-Iranian
Oil company's operations. This
the British have thus far not
been inclined to do.
Harriman has kept a discreet
silence on the progress of the
talks but informed sources said
he is hoping some compromise
might be reached if he could
only get the disputants sitting
down at the conference table
again.
British Ambassador Sir Fran
cis Shepherd called on Harri
man this morning. The two am
bassadors are believed to have
discussed the proposed renewal
of talks. Immediately after
wards, Harriman arranged to
night's meeting with the par
liamentary board. He is expect
ed then to press for another Iran
ian-British conference.
Jackson, Miss., July 21 U.R)
A federal grand jury here slap
ped "job-selling" indictments
on 12 pro-Truman democrats in
Mississippi including the lead
ers who took over patronage
during the 1948 states' rights revolt.
Most of those named in the
alleged conspiracy to make cash
a requirement for a federal ap
pointment also figured in the
earlier senate subcommittee in
vestigation which laid the
groundwork for the grand Jury
inquiry.
They include Frank Mize,
chairman of the state democratic
executive committee, and for
mer National Committeeman
Clarence E. Hood
The special 22-man jury con
vened here July 9 and adjourn
ed Wednesday after hearing 147
witnesses. Its findings wore
made public late yesterday. The
indicted dozen will be arraigned
September 5, U.S. Attorney
Joseph Brown said
In addition to the conspiracy
charges, the 22-page, 34-count
indictment cited five of the
group for perjury in connection
with their testimony at senate
hearings in Jackson and Wash
ington under subcommittee
Chairman Clyde R
N.C.).
Prince Tallal
Furious at Naif
Cairo. July 21 W Prince Tal
lal, the anti-British eldest son of
murdered King Abdullah of Jor
dan, was reported to be furious
today because his younger bro
ther. Prince Naif, has been nam
ed regent, and thus the apparent
successor to Jordan's throne.
The Egyptian news magazine
Akhbar El Yom, reporting this
in a dispatch from Geneva,
Switzerland, predicted Tallal
would make a surprise vist to
Jordan. If he does so, a dynstic
struggle might ensue which could
plunge the whole middle east in
to strife.
The magazine declared, how
ever, that Tallal, 40, would not
succeed to the throne 'because
of his nervous state," even
though members of his entour-
aee were addressing him as "His
Maiesty. the king."
(Some weeks ago, the Israeli
press declared Prince Tallal had
been taken to a hospital in Beir
ut after shooting Brig. John
Glubb Pasha. British-born com
mander of the crack Arab le
gion. Officials in Amman denied
the attack. Alter ADdunan s as
sassination in Jerusalem yester
day it became known that Tallal
had left Beirut for a vacation in
Switzerland.)
Red Chinese
Obtain Recess
n Truce Talks
Korean Armistice
Delegates to Meet
Again on July 25
Munsan, Korea, Sunday. July
22 (IP) Red China's two armis
tice negotiators took the lead
ing role from the North Ko
reans for the first time at Kae-
song Saturday and obtained a
recess until July 25.
The Chinese, hitherto staying!
in the background, began call-'
ing the signals after the allies!
firmly refused to include the
subject of withdrawing United
Nations troops from Korea on
the proposed agenda.
An allied staff officer said
that at one point the Chinese
Reds' whispered conferences in
terrupted a statement by North
Korean Gen. Nam II, the chief
Red delegate.
Held Political Topic
Air Force Brig. Gen. William
Nuckols, who briefed orres
pondents afterward, slid the
chief allied delegate, Vice Adm.
(J. Turner Joy, told the Reds,
troop withdrawal was a nolitical
topic for higher level discussions
later.
(Concluded on Pago 5, Column 6)
Arab Legion to
Crush Revolts
Jerusalem. Palestine, July 21
(U.R) The crack Arab legion is
ready to crush any attempt to
caDitalize on the assassination
of King Abdullah, the official
Jordan radio warned today.
The British-led legion, best
fighting force in the Arab world,
was alerted for incidents within
and outside Jordan.
Jordan's frontiers were seal
ed. A 24-hour-a-day curfew in
the Jordan-held "old city" area
of Jerusalem was lifted for the
day but will go into effect again
at Sunset tonight until dawn
tomorrow.
The official Jordan Ramallah
radio, north of Jerusalem, gave
the warning that the 15,000-
man legion commanded by
British Gen. John Bagot Glubb
was ready to crush any attempt
by violent or subversive forces
to capitalize on Abdullah's
death.
It was made plain that the
warning applies not only to Jor
danians but to any ambitious
elements in neighboring states
who' might attempt a coup now
that Jordan's "strong man" is
gone.
Allied Patrols
Stab at Reds
U.S. Eighth Armv Headnuar.
ters, Korea, July 21 JP Com
munist forces today continued to
Doister irontline positions but
there were no indications an at
tack was imminent.
An Eighth army spokesman
said that "all alone the front
the enemy now has probably as
much as he had for the April
22 offensive."
United Nations patrols stab
bed close to main Red lines and
met blistering attacks.-" Several
withdrew. There were many
short, sharp clashes, especially
on the central front and east
ward.
Increased communist frontline)
trength appeared to be no morn
tl.an bolstering of defenses. U.N.
air observers have SDotted n
significant movement of Red
troops or supplies behind the
front.
Rain hampered air operations
but medium and light bombers
attacked North Korean targets
using radar to sight through the
clouds.
There was no ground contact
Friday around the neutral zone
of Kaesong but patrols sighted
Red forces building new defenses.
There were two small clashes
west of Chorwon, western an
cor of the onetime communist
iron triangle" buildup area.
United Nations patrols moved
about the former assembly area
without contact and returned to
their own lines without menac
ing the Red-held city of Pyong
yang, northern tip of the triangle.
East of the triangle, sharp
close-up actions were frequent
and bitter.
Crest of Flood Laps
Over St. Louis Levies
St. Louis. Julv 21 UP) Muddy flood waters lapped at the door
step of this city of 1,500,000 people today as the rampaging
Mississippi uncoiled for its highest level here in 107 years.
At mid-morning the river carrying tne record aiscnarge oi
the Missouri stood at 40.1 feet. A crest of 40.5 is expected to
night. That would be just .9 of
foot under the all-time high
set June 27, 1844.
Despite the impressive read
ings, authorities offered assur
ance there would be no repeti
tion here of the disaster wrought
by the Missouri in the Kansas
City area.
St. Louis, sometimes called
the mound city," snuggles on
high ground In the arc of the
great Mississippi. Industries
along the waterfront area, how
ever, are vulnerable and many
already have been flooded at a
cost which may run to several
million dollars.
Except for this flooded water
front, however, there was little
excitement in town and life went
on as usual.
An estimated lVi million acres
of land were flooded as the Mis-
Hoey (D., souri five miles wide in places
1 surged across the state to its
juncture with the Mississippi.
As the Missouri crest passed
into the Mississippi, Maj. Gen,
Lewis A. Pick, chief of the army
enginers, reported the billion
dollar flood had cost 41 lives
in Kansas and Missouri.
Reporting to a senate subcom
mittee in Washington after an
on-the-spot survey, Pick gave
the following breakdown cover
ing the two state area for the
period up to last Tuesday.
Two million acres flooded, 1
074,000 in Kansas and 926,000
in Missouri; 818,000 persons dis
placed, 368,500 In Kansas and
150,000 in Missouri, 17 bridges
swept away in Kansas.
The Missouri smashed nearly
all the flood barriers near its
mouth, spilling the flood over
thousands of additional acres in
the area where nearly 60,000
acres already was flooded.
House Approves
Army Building
Washington, July 21 (IP) The
house armed services commit
tee today approved $5,767,000,
000 military construction pro
gram aimed at shoring up de
fenses at home and abroad
against any Soviet aggression.
The air force gets the biggest
share around $3,480,000,000
including about $1,000,000,000
to build a chain of overseas
secret bases girdling Russia.
Approximately $1,368,000,000
is earmarked for the army and
$786,267,000 for the navy and
marines, mostly for work on
camps and other Installations In
this country. Secret projects are
included also in their programs.
Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.)
told reporters he plans to call
up the legislation for house ac
tion within a few weeks.
In submitting the program to
congress a month ago, Secretary
of Defense Marshall said the
work is "urgently needed" and
called for fast action.
He also warned it will be nec
essary to ask approval later ot
still more projects. As it now
stands, the construction program
is the biggest since World War
II.
Today's committee action sim
ply authorizes the work. The
actual money will have to be
provided later,
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