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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1952)
Jounraal THE WEATHER. INCREASING CLOUDINESS to night with rain and moderate wind Tuesday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, 40; high Tuesday, 60. EDITION IX. y A . i V - - Wl Jfi Entered u second elasj 04tn Tear, INO. JU scatter at Salem. Oreion II. J . r.i J inr MO Price 5c iaiem, uregon, rvtonaay, reDruary ija lQooae M,sinM Capital niO Willamette to Crest at 18.5 Feet Tuesday I Only Major Flooding on Santiam and at ' Independence By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER . Secondary surges of water pouring into all valley streams as result of incessant rain and meltine snow over the week-end continued to bring up the rivers Monday. i At Salem the Willamette was up to 16.6 feet Monday morning, trra-rise coming gradually, ana a i mlw crest of 18.5 feet is expected 1 I . m arouna a.m. luesuay. nw stage here is 20 feet. Only major flooding reported for valley regions Monday morn ing wnc nn the Santiam in the 1 Jefferson region and on the Wil llamette at Independence. S Santiam at 16 Feet i The Santiam zoomed up to 16 'feet in the Jefferson area Mon :dav morning, three feet above ifiood stage. The stream was ex pected to fall slightly during midday and a secondary surge to move in later. In this area, however, major damage from flooding is washing along adja- iceni pasture iunua. '4 1 The Willamette flooded s -nriOBfi aDDroacn ai uie new x- denendence bridge, more than two feet of water blocking traf- 'i tfic there. (Concluded on Pace 5, Column 7) I " Hughes Winner In High Court I Washington VP) Howard l . - j j i Jiugnes, movie prouueer uu iu m dtistrisilist. won a multi-million , court victory ar supreme Monday. 4 The high tribunal set aside, JJ to 0, an order requiring ftughes to sell his 929,020 shares bf stock in the New Theater fcompany by Feb. 20, 1955". E, i 1 Hughes appealed to the high f i 4ourt to strike down the order. fisa Haying it would deprive him of ;S "some millions" of dollars I worth of property. O i The litigation developed from t I a 1938 government anti-trust hi flmt against a group of leading g 3 rhovie firms, among tham Ra t dio-Keith - Orpheum Corp., of I ( which Hughes is the controlling stockholder. The case against BKO resulted in an agreement f to divorce RKO's movie exhibi- W'i tion business from its film pro ! duction and distribution busi- , I ness and the new picture com- L , pany was created to handle the I f production and distribution end. f.H Mental Patient, Guard, Missing Klamath Falls, Ore. VP) ental patient, possibly hand uf.'ed, his guard and an air- lane pilot still were lost Mon ay in the snowbound high des fert country northeast of here I ;j jkvitn lime prospects oi search f 1 Starting for them. .ow-lying clouds blanketed V trfe area and kept search planes : from taking to th eair. More & ! clouds were forecast. lM i Snow three and four feet deep -J thoked the few roads in the M ferca, and limited ground search ' for the three men, lost Saturday I in a flight of a chartered plane I j from Boise to Roseburg, Ore.' I i in Aboard were Fred A. DeBlois 7, mental patient being taken H to the Roseburg Veterans hos- j pital after a visit at his home in ft. vi ...... t- i t-l kuise, a gucuu, ritui reieisuii nd the pilot, Norman Bryar, 26 ioise. Temperatures have hovered Ground freezing in the two f riights the men have been miss- 5, j Jng, but lifted above freezing i during the day. Rain squall iave been frequent. Paulus Favors Calling of an Extra Session Deputy Treasurer Wants New Taxes to Solve Problems By JAMES D. OLSON Calling of a special session of the Oregon legislature for the purpose of enacting a new tax revenue measure to be referred at the next November general election as the means of solving the state's expected financial difficulties, was recommended by Fred H. Paulus, deputy state treasurer, Monday. Paulus, speaking before the legislative interim tax commit tee, said that if the special ses sion was not considered wise the 1953 legislature could pass a revenue measure and refer it to the voters at a special election to be held while the legislature still in session. Governor Douglas McKay, who attended the meeting, said he realized the impending seri ousness of t h e state's financial condition and declared he would call a special session of the legis lature if the need arises. Warrant Basis Looms Should the voters reject the referred revenue measure, Paul us said, it would then become incumbent upon the legislature to reduce expenditures. And he said that unless one of these plans is adopted, there grave danger that the state of Oregon will be forced to go on warrant basis, as it did during the depression, because he said it was virtually certain that any revenue measure passed by the legislature would be held up for two years by referendum, dur ing which time the state would not have sufficient funds to meet its obligations. (Concluded on Fare 5, Column 6) I Arnhc (a Rrinn Tunic t iuuj iv isiiiiy iuiiu l Situation Before UN I 1 Paris, Feb: 4 U.R The 15 liauuu Aiau-uitiui. uiuv sum 5 ioday it would bring the fester- 'l ng Tunisian situation before iKe United Nations security ':A Council. I I Syrian Delegate to the U.N : : '3L . - . i. . ... . s Ahmad Shukalry announced the I decision to raise in the security kouncil the dispute between the s.j rrencn government ana rum- -1 I ian nationalists which has re- tulted in 70 deaths in rlotj since JalRiary 16. TfP'-'-i. 1 DJETOURSYUv'.i J 1d WEST, SALEM , Reserve Bankers OK'd by Group Washington (IP) The senate banking committee Monday ap proved President Truman's nomination of two new Federal Reserve board members despite protests from Sen. Douglas (D., 111.) that the selections are a Trojan Horse" move. The committee, of which Douglas is a member, unani mously approved Abbot Lowe Mills, Portland, Ore., banker, for one of the posts, but an nounced that Douglas had re frained from voting on the oth- e,r, James Lewis Robertson, now deputy comptroller of th currency in the treasury depart ment. The nominations now go to the senate for confirmation. Committee members said the vote was taken without contro versy but that Douglas might raise objections when Robert sons name is called for a sen ate vote. Ban Use of Copper In Lighting Fixtures Washington (U.R) The gov ernment today banned the use of copper in those parts of household and most other elec trical lighting fixture which have no function in transmitting the electric current. The ban applies to all such fixtures except airport, marine aircraft and train fixtures, Shortage Texas Grain 3.8 Million Washington (IP) Congressmen probing the government's grain storage program report that, in Texas alone, they turned up shortages valued at $3,820,000. The Agriculture department disclosed some time ago that there were shortages. A senate committee also conducting an investigation was told recently the Texas discrepancies might hit four million dollars.. A House appropriations sub committee, headed by Rep. Mar tin, D., Miss., released its re port Sunday, together with a transcript of closed hearings. It said staff investigators found Texas elevators and warehouses short 629,305 bushels of wheat and 84,488,500 pounds of grain they were supposed to have in storage. Total value was fixed at $3,820,000. . ' Protest Bombers Use of Lake Washington (IP) Sen. Welker, R-Idaho, protested Monday that use of Pend Oreille lake in Idaho for navy bombing tests would ruin one of the country's best trout fishing waters. Welker said he had learned that the Navy was planning "gi gantic bombing tests" in the lake. He said he is asking the Navy to pick some other lake which "doesn't include the greatest trout supply in Ameri ca. "I don't want to be in the po sition of interfering with the Navy in its proper tests," the senator told a reporter, "but I believe that, as a sportsman, I must object to the picking of the world's most famous trout lake for the tests. They certainly can find a suitable lake in another River at 16 Feet Floods Independence Road South River road in Marion county, about one mile from the approach to the new Independence bridge, is impassable today due to river flooding at the 16 foot stage. Lower, left: Road sign at Salem entrance to the South River road to Independence announced highway closure due to high water. Lower, right: Road to Brown's Island now deeply flooded by overflow from the Willamette. Morris Starts Clean-up Job Of Corruption Laughs Off Heckling as Hazing and Keeps Sense of Humor Washington VP) Newbold Morris, the Truman administra tion's Republican "cleanup" man, set up shop for his corrup-tion-in-government Investigation Monday, laughinng off a barrage of criticism from members of his own party. The six foot three and one half inch New York lawyer lik ened the congressional heckling to the hazing inflicted on new comers at many schools and declared: "This is, you know, an elec tion year and I intend to keep my sense of humor. If Rosen berg, Lilienthal and Acheson can take it, so can I. Laughs at Criticism These references were to An na Rosenberg, assistant secreta ry of defense; David I. Lilien thai, former chairman of the At omic Energy Commission; and Secretary of State Acheson. All have been targets of Congres sional criticism and inquiry. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 8) Find No Trace Of Winnie Judd Gales, Blizzards, Dust Storms Feature Weather (By the Associated Press) Three storms which brought I One had whipped up a bliz the country a wide variety of zard at Colton, Utah, Saturday U.S. Jets Better Than Red Migs States Lovett Washington (IP) Secretary of Defense Lovett testified Mon day that the United States now has better fighter aircraft than the Rusisan Migs. He indicated, however, it may take some time to equal and pass Soviet aircraft production. Lovett engaged in a crisp ex change with senators over rela tive Russian and U.b. air strength during a congressional hearing on the proposed $52,- 100,000,000 military budget for 1952-53. The defense secretary said any cut in this spending pro gram would increase, beyond the realms of prudence, the cal culated risks already taken" ir planning the program. weather over the week-end converged Monday, boding high winds and rain for Nev,'' England. Gunman in Uniform Kidnaps Girl in Germany Warns Against Steel Pay Hike New York (IP) Benjamin Fairless said Monday that if his United States Steel corporation forced to increase wages and hold its present prices, a 60 per cent reduction in its federal in come tax payments would result. Fairless appeared as a spokes man for the steel industry be fore a special six-man panel of the wage stabilization board set up by President Truman to pre vent a strike called by the United Steelworkers on Feb. 23. Spokesmen for the steelwork ers told the panel last Friday the union wants a guaranteed annual wage of about $3,000 and a package increase of 30 cents an hour, which includes pay boosts and fringe benefits. Since any pay increase per mitted by the WSB could not amount to more than four or five cents, Fairies said, the CIO was using the steel industry as a "battleground in a fight to wreck the wage control pro gram. He referred to a resolution adopted by the CIO at its na tional convention here last No vember in which it said it would "never submit to discriminatory wage freezes or unfair policies of any other kind which will threaten the standard of living and the hard-won collective bar gaining advances of free Ameri can labor." Frankfurt, Germany (IP) Pretty Mamie Ruth Shelton, the first American girl kidnaped in postwar Germany, was threatened with death by a gun man in U.S. uniform before he abandoned her in a stolen car on a lonely country road, she told investigators Monday. The red-haired, blue-eyed stepdaughter of an army ser geant said her abductor fled with her through the snowy countryside Sunday night after forcing out her two soldier es corts at pistol point. Miss Shelton's two compan ions, Sgts. John H. Ford of Odessa, Tex., and Herbert L. Evans, Roxboro, N.C., said they and the girl were return ing to Frankfurt from Hanau when a hitchhiker stopped them. When they stopped, they said the man told them he had "just escaped from prison" and was desperate. At gunpoint, he forced them from the car and drove away with the frightened girl. Authorities said the car also was found. The girl said the kidnaper. brandishing a .45 revolver, warned her, "don t move out of this car or you'll die," then van ished on foot about 8:30 p.m Sunday. Paralyzed with fright, the 18 year-old victim huddled on the front seat of the stolen Pontiac sedan until morning, she said When it was light, she walked to a main road and asked for help. Two military police corporals rescued her at Niederforffelden about 20 miles from the Frank furt suburb of Fechenheim where she was seized at 7:30 pjn. Sunday. that took three lives, and blank eted the center of the continent with rain, light snow and freez ing drizzle as it moved east. A second sucked dust thou sands of feet into the air over much of Texas before settling it with rain, and moved on over Arkansas into Tennessee. A third, with winds ranging up to 75 miles an hour, lashed the Atlantic coast and drove a 2,600-ton freighter aground off Cape Hatteras, N.C., as it took a northeastward course paral leling the seaboard. The result was rain over the middle Mississippi and Ohio valleys, southern and eastern Great Lakes region, and most of the middle and north Atlan tic states. The blizzard near Colton, Utah, Saturday stalled more than a dozen automobiles and when highway crews reached them Sunday, three occupants of one buried car were dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. Cartels Fix Prices Of Wood Pulp Wrecked Ship's Crew Landed Morehead City, N. C. (IP) All 26 crewmen of the freighter Migot reached shore safely in a single lifeboat Monday as hurri cane whipped winds broke the 2,600-ton Panamanian ship in two. The captain, Ludolph von Tan gen of Belford, N, J., said the lifeboat crashed just before it reached the shore of Portsmouth Island. The men jumped out and waded ashore. The freighter was abandoned at 2:55 a.m. about a mile and a half offshore as it started to break up. The vessel, owned by Carras, Ltd., of New York City and carrying wheat from Balti more to Brazil, drifted within Washington, U.R) House mo nopoly investigators reported to day that the price of wood pulp, chief ingredient of newsprint and other paper products, has been jacked up by a "Scandinavian cartel." There is also "hearsay evi dence," they said, that Canadian pulp producers have engaged in price fixing activities and that the U.S. producers were asked by individual Swedish pulp mills to join in agreements to elimin ate competition. The investigators, members of a house monopoly subcommit tee, said the international price- fixing deals were made by the cartel representing mills in Nor way, Finland and Sweden with the help of American agents. The subcommittee said the American agents, with others, formed the Association of Am erican Wood Pulp Importers which "has discussed prices at its meetings, recommended uni form pricing practices to its prin cipals abroad, and served as a vehicle for transmitting the col lective pricing decisions of Scan- dinanvian producers to their agents in the United States." The subcommittee charged that the association also tried to prevent importation of any paper from Scandinavia that might dis turb its alleged price-fixing Phoenix, Ariz. (IP) The search for Winnie Ruth Judd, red-haired trunk murderess of 21 years ago, spread throughout Arizona Monday with police ad mitting they were baffled by her disappearance. Officers from border to border have been alerted to watch all points of entry into the state and particularly roads leading into Mexico where some think she may be headed. 'We have no clues. Sheriff L, C. Boies of Maricopa county stated, "and none of the usual tips received have panned out. Winnie Ruth, 48, dubbed the Tiger Woman" after she kill ed two women and dismember ed their bodies in 1931, has elud ed capture since escaping from the state hospital for insane Saturday night. Kefauver Sure Of Winning Out (Br the Associated Press) Senator Kefauver, D.-Tenn., confidently predicted that he could win the democratic presi dential nomination even if President Truman seeks re-elec tion. But he said he does not think Mr. Truman "wants the job' again. Kefauver said on a radio pro gram he is not running for sec ond place, and if Mr, Truman runs again and offers his back ing to Kefauver for the vice p r e s i dential nomination, he would not "be interested at all." The President, who has not revealed his 1952 plans, figured in two other developments Senator Aiken, R.-Vt., said he thinks the president withdrew from the democratic presiden tial primary in New Hampshire "because Senator Kefauver would have beaten the tar out of him." Court Hearing For Torturing Washington (IP) Tomoya Ka- w a k i t a , a Japanese-American sentenced to death for treason, was granted a supreme court hearing Monday. Kawakita, born in Calcxico, Calif., was accused of brutally mistreating American war pris oners while he was an interpre ter at Japan's infamous camp Oeyama. After the war, Kawakita re turned to California and was spotted by a former GI in a Los Angeles department store. During his trial in U.S. Dis trict Court in Los Angeles, the government called more than 30 witnesses against Kawakita. Most of the witnesses were former prisoners at Camp Oeyama. Kawakita was accused of strik ing prisoners, compelling them to work when sick, and helping duck an American in the camp cesspool. Witnesses said Kawaki ta's treatment of prisoners was so brutal that several died or went insane. Kawakita's appeal said the Is sue to be decided was whether he had renounced his American nationality upon returning to Japan before Pearl Harbor. Allies and Reds Move Closer To Armistice U.N. Spokesman Says Foe Also May Have Hopes of Truce Munsan, Korea VP) A United Nations Command spokesman said tonight the Allies and Com munists "have moved closer to an armistice" in Korea. He added that the Reds also may "have hopes of an armis tice." Brig. Gen. Willliam P. Nuckols, the spokesman, said agreements reached by staff of ficers working on truce super vision and the subcommittee on prisoner exchange mean "we have moved closer to an armis tice." Final Section Up He said Communist accept ance of a U. N. proposal to start immediate negotiations on the final section of an armistice in dicates "they have hopes of an armistice. Truce negotiators scheduled a full dress session Wednesday to start work on the fifth and last agenda item. And there were optimistic predictions from an Allied member of the prisoner exchange subcommittee. (Concluded on Page S, Column 8) Poor Salmon Catches Astoria (IP) The winter sal mon season opened on the Col umbia river last week, but fish ermen Monday reported poor catches. Weather Details Mftilmim yciUrtfm?, IM: tn In Imam Is iT. Ml. TtrUI M-hour DrfetplUlioni ,S7 for manlhi 3.?; normal. .12. Res ion pr- rlnltallan M nariml. 11411 Rlr 100 yards ox shore and broke iniheiint, im feet, ruinr Rtpori bj u.s. yg Wealhtr Barea.) Butter and Guns Both Assured Washington W) The United States came closer to all-out mo bilization this winter than the public realized. Mobilization officials now say it would have mean the closing down entirely of the automobile and all consumer hard goods industries, layoffs by the millions in non-defense industries, countless shortages of things people buy, inflation ary pressures. The decision was in doubt until around Christmas. Then President Truman decided to take a calculated risk that Russia would not strike real soon and spread the expanded defense program over four In stead of three years. Now, officials say, we'll have butter with the guns through out unless new fighting breaks out. Before Mr. Truman made up his mind, the military had been allotted much of the na tion's strategic materials. Now it is giving some of it back to industry. California N.G. On Battle Line Seoul, Korea (IP) The newly arrived 40th division, Califor nia's old national guard outfit, was identified Monday in ac tion on the central Korean front cast of Kumsong. The Eighth army reported the 40th tangled with the Chinese Reds Sunday in a bitter, hour- long patrol action. It had been announced earlier the division had been In Korea about two weeks, but Monday's report was the first of a specific clash. It was the day's biggest patrol clash on the snow-coverel front. The mercury skidded to 15 de grees below zero and allied in fantrymen elsewhere huddled in their bunkers. The bitter cold and strong winds limited ground action and air strikes. However, a flight of 19 Sabre jets spotted about 50 Migs high over northwest Korea and re ported scoring hits on two of the Red jets in a brief exchange of firing passes. Gov. Stevenson to Speak Portland (U.B Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois will ad dress the annual Jefcrson-Jack-son day dinner here May 10. Monroe Swcctland, democratic national committeeman, also said he still planned to file the name of President Truman for the Oregon preferential primary election May 16, unless some thing entirely unforseen hap pens." Oil Workers to Seek Pay Hike Kansas City, Mo. (U.W Leatl. crs representing 275,000 oil em ployes mobilized their groups today in a united union front for an all-out fight to win a 25 cent an hour industry-wide increase. Delegates from CIO, AFL and independent unions concluded a two-day Joint meeting here yes terday, by reaffirming their in tention to demand the wage hike and other sweeping con tract adjustments. Union leaders agreed that all locals should take strike votes, immediately, call in the federal mediation service and prepare for further action. Two permanent committees set up to coordinate negotiations consisted of J. J. McKina, rep- resenting the independent unions, V. O. Cottengim and O. V. Clover of the AFL unions and O. A. Knight of the VIO Oil Workers International union. Egyptian Premier to Seek Solution of Crisis Cairo, Egypt W Premier Aly Maher Pasha declared Mon day he is trying to create a "healthy atmosphere" in order to reach a better understanding wth the powers of the free world. He made the statement in an exclusive interview as Egypt gradually returned to normal. Leading Egyptian newspapers were filled with reports on the form the British-Egyptian nego tiations are likely to take. "It is my wish," said the Pre mier, "that healthy atmosphere for a better understanding pre vail between Egypt and all the powers of the free world. "The Middle East Command and the Inter-Arab Security Pact will be matters for dis cussions with the Egyptain Na tional Front. Both these qucs tions will naturally be in the framework of the charter of the U. N." The Egyptian National Front is a bloc of all parties which the Premier is trying to cement in support of his independent gov ernment. Maher Pasha said the fore most economic policy of his gov ernment Is to lower the cost of living, which he regards as i major cause of Egyptian dlscon tent. Martial Law Rules Southeast Korea Pusan, Korea VP) The gov ernment Monday proclaimed martial law in a section of southeastern Korea as an anti guerrilla measure. Defense Minister Lcc Kl Poong said civilians were warn ed against helping communist guerrillas. Lt. Gen. Paik Sun Yup, com mander of anti-guerrilla forces, said 19,000 guerrillas were kill ed or captured In a two month campaign in the Chiri moun tains of southwest Korea. Grave Digger Dies tn Grave Pontiac, Mich. (IP) John Gar ner, 73, a grave digger, fell dead of a heart attack as he dug a grave Monday, Hit body fell into the grave.
