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Journal FINAL EDITION THE WEATHER. INCREASING CLOUDINESS with rain late tonight and Wed nesday. Little change in temper ature. Low tonight, 18; high Wednesday, 55. 64th Year, No. 31 Entered u MOoad cliu matter at Salem, Oresou Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 5, 1952 Price 5c Capital Newbry Can't Cut Ike's Name From Ballot Neuner Rules General Stays on Democratic Primary Ticket By JAMES D. OLSON The name of Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower cannot be removed from the democratic ballot in the Oregon primaries by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, ac cording to an opinion issued Tuesday by Attorney General Ceorge Neuner. i,e general's name could be tak en from the democratic ballot, the attorney general ruled, would be by court order. Petitions bearing more than 1000 names of democratic regis tered voters for Gen. Eisenhow er were filed last fall by State Senator Thomas E. Mahoney, Portland democrat. Petitions to place the general's name on the republican ballot are now being circulated throughout the state by the Oregon for Eisenhower committee and will be filed on or about March 1, according to Rep. Mark Hatfield, secretary of the committee. I No Authority to Act Neuner informed Secretary of State Newbry in the opinion "that under the circumstances, (Concluded on Pare 5, Column 5) Independence Bridge Problem The Marion county court has authorized Hedda Swart, county engineer to discuss with the state highway department the possibility of coordinating two projects in connection with the Salem-Independence bridge and road. Repeated flooding of the Mar ion county, approach to . the In dependence bridge, in two plac- es, came in for considerable dis cussion between the court and the engineers. Since the im provement is tied in with the federal aid program, it will be necessary to consult with the state highway department when correction is undertaken. It is estimated that raising of the grade not less than three feet will be necessary to prevent flooding of the highway when the river reaches a stage similar to that of the past few days. The court is faced with the necessity of rebuilding a small wooden span on the grade leading to the Independence bridge. This proj ect had originally been delayed because of the knowledge that a relocation of the approach to some extent would be necessary. The state will be asked to conduct a survey that would re sult in a grade that would take care of the high water. Tied in with any grade raising will be the necessity of constructing dykes up stream. Rock for this purpose could be secured fairly close by at cost of about 92 cents per cubic yard. It is the court's plan that the reconstruction of the bridge apt-roach be tied in with the con templated improvement of the -Salem-Roberts section of the '.South River road. 8,000 Attend GOP Banquet (By the Associated Press) Republicans at a Lincoln Day rally checked their differences at the door Monday night for a mass attack on Truman policies, but eke where it was skirmish ings as usual among GOP presi dential hopefuls. The Lincoln Day shindig in Washington complete with $1 box suppers for 8,000, square dancing and group singing held intra-party rivalries to a minimum. But, like ants at a picnic, they were there all the same. Rep. Leonard W. Hall of New York sounded the battle cry against the Truman administra tion when he said: "No administration which at tempts to corrupt the people with their own money can it self be uncorrupt, and it should be removed from power at the first opportunity . . . No special candidate was plugged in speeches, but ban ners appeared boosting Sen. Taft of Ohio and Gen. Eisen flower. President to Be on Ballot N.H. Primary Truman Changes Mind and Will Oppose Kefauver (Br the Associated Preu) President Truman decided Tuesday to keep his name in the New Hampshire presidential pri maries after all. He'll take on Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee. But he still did not answer the nation's No. 1 political ques tion: "Will he, or will he not run again?" Only last Thursday Truman had said he wanted his name re moved from the New Hampshire primaries, to be held on March 11. Eyewash, he called primar ies then. But in a letter made public at the White House Tuesday, Tru man wrote New Hampshire Sec retary of State Enoch D. Fuller: Democrats Want Him ' Many good democrats in New Hampshire are of the opinion that my name should be left on the ballot. At their suggestion, therefore, I shall not ask you to take my name off the list." The president also elaborated on his opinion of presidential primaries. "My statement at my press conference last week was intend ed to explain that such primar ies do not bind the delegates," he wrote. Favors Primaries Not only do I not object to such primaries, but I have long favored a nationwide presiden tial primary, so that the voters could really choose their own delegates." Meanwhile, members of the democratic national committee's executive committee met in Washington Tuesday behind closed doors. The committee was planning the national convention, but there also was talk for and against Truman's running again. Flood Crest m River Reached The Willamette river skirted the 18-foot mark at Salem Tues day morning, but all indications are that a. flood situation at this time is easing with no rain fall measured for the past 24 hours. The local river reader said this morning the Willam ette at the Salem gauge read 17.9 feet and may have gone slightly higher before levelling off. Flood stage here is 20 feet. To the south, the Willamette was said to be falling at Eugene, the key point for Willamette flood situations, although the river showed slightly higher levels at Corvallis and Albany. At Jefferson the Santiam was reported falling slowly Tuesday morning, the gauge there read ing 14.5 feet against flood mark of 13 feet. The forecast storm moving in from the ocean failed to mate rialize and weather forecasters say nothing worse than light ram is in prospect for Wednes day. As usual with higher water periods, cooler temperatures Were recorded Tuesday morn ing, the minimum at Salem dropping to 31, one degree be low freezing. The morning proved spring-like, however, following a nice day, Monday. The maximum for Monday went to 57 degrees and little change in temperature is forecast for tonight and Wednesday, al though the minimum is expect ed to be a bit higher than it was for this morning. Eden Accuses Laborites Of Anti-Americanism London VP) Foreign Secre tary Anthony Eden angrily ac cused some laborites Tuesday night of "anti-American preju dice" during a debate over Brit ish and American policies in Korea. In an uproarious scene in the House of Commons,. Eden out lined Britain's position in case a Korean truce is made and then broken. The Foreign Secretary also declared stoutly that "the American government and poo pie are as deeply anxious for peace in the far east as we are ourselves. The normally imperturablc Eden at one point clenched both fists, pounded the table and cried: Senate Group OK's Jap Treaty Washington (U.PJ The senate foreign relations committee to day unanimously approved the Japanese peace treaty and three Pacific mutual security pacts. The committee's resolution ap proving the peace treaty speci fied that the action does not mean approval of Russia's claims to former Japanese territory or of any concessions obtained by Russia in the 1945 Yalta agree ment. The committee also approved U.S. mutual security agreements with Japan, the Philippines and Australia and New Zealand. The committee also unani mously approved the nomination of David K. E. Bruce to be un dersecretary of state, replacing James E. Webb, resigned, and of Henry S; Villard of New York to be minister to the new North African nation of Libya. Bruce is now ambassador to France. Chairman Tom Connolly (D- Tex.) said the peace treaty will be brought up in the senate as promptly as possible, but ''not in any special, hurry." He said he will consult the senate leadership about calling up the treaty for the necessary two-third vote of ratification after the senate disposes of state hood for Alaska and Hawaii and the controversial tidelands oil bill. Airlines Protest Weight Limit Washington (IP) Non-sche duled airlines Tuesday turned to the U.'S. Court of Appeals in their efforts to knock out a civil aeronautics board order re ducing weight limits on passenger-carrying C-46 planes. U. S. District Judge James W. Morris late Monday denied an injunction application filed by C-46 operators. Albert F. Bietel, attorney representing the operators, told a reporter the case will be car ried to the higher court prompt ly. The CAB order, effective Monday, reduced maximum take-off and landing weights for passenger-carrying C-46s from 48,000 to 45,000 pounds. The re duction does not apply to planes carylng only cargo. There is in some quarters such anti-American prejudice that they will hardly listen to what I say." Eden's interruptions ca mostly from left wing laborites, Eden said he and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had made no new commitments when they talked with President Truman in Washington. Then Eden gave this reply as to what would happen if com munists break a Korean truce "The only undertaking, if it can be so described, which we have entered into is that, in that event, consultation would take place among the interested par ities including ourselves." Victim of Atlantio Storm The 2,600-ton freighter Miget, bound from Baltimore to Brazil with wheat, is pictured fast aground on Cape Hatters, North Carolina. The captain and crew of 26 abandoned the ship when it started breaking in half. (AP Wirephoto) Ask 40 Hour Week at All State Institutions A 40-hour week for employes at state institutions was request ed by Forrest Stewart, execu tive secretary of the State Em ployees association at a meeting McCarthy Again Assails Nash Milwaukee VP) Sen. McCar thy (R., Wis.) repeated his ac cusations against Philleo Nash, "A'hltc House staff distant, in a convention address Monday as serting "there is no immunity here." His repetition consisted of reading his original statement as it appeared in the Congressional Record. Nash, a Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., cranberry grower, was originally attacked in a senate speech last week when McCar thy accused him of communist activity. Nash and his sister Jean said they would sue him if he made the charges again with out congressional immunity. Nash, reached at Washington Monday night, would only com ment: "My lawyer has this Mc Carthy statement under study." And at Wisconsin Rapids, Miss Nash said she was leaving the matter up to her brother. McCarthy told members of the Wisconsin Seed Dealers' associa tion that he was repeating h i s charges "in answer to the cro codile tears df the bleeding heart elements of the press and radio." Steelworkers Get Most Pay New York (U.R) A witness for United States Steel Corp., testi fied today that steelworkers had received greater pay increases than wage earners in other ma jor industries. Dr. Jules Backman, a N e w York University economist, told a special steel panel of the wage stabilization board that even the eight raises paid by General Mo tors in the past two years had failed to put automobile workers ahead of steelworkers in total increases. The six-man panel was ap pointed by President Truman to conduct hearings here in an at tempt to avoid a strike by the United Steelworkers of America (CIO) against U. S. Steel set for Feb. 23. The union has asked for an 18 cent hourly increase, plus fringe benefits, which steel industry spokesmen testified could not be paid without raising prices. Backman. beginning his sec ond day of testimony, said the granting of the union's demands in full would increase the steel industry's hourly labor cost 30 percent. "That amount is more than 10 times as great as the annual in crease in productivity that might be anticipated on the ba sis of past experience," Back man said. "Clearly, increases of such magnitudes cannot be justi fled by or paid for oue of in creases in output per man hour." of the state board of control, The institutional workers arc now on a 48 hour week. Stewart contended that al though the state had carried on an extensive building program resulting in modern buildings and equipment, the type of em ployes had been allowed to de teriorate. During the winter months, he contended, the institutions get good help, but when spring ar rives, such employes leave for better pay and conditions in pri vate employment. As a result, he declared, the turnover in help at the insti titions is high, and actually is more expensive to the state than if the 40 hour week was insti tuted. He declared that the majority of institutional employes would prefer a 40-hour week rather than a wage increase. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 6) 5 Die in Crash Blast ol B-29 March Air Base, Calif. (IP) Five men died Tuesday as a B 29 bomber, coming in for a landing, crashed and burned on highway a mile and a half short of the runway. Witnesses said the big craft clipped a power line as its pilot tried to land on the highway, then hit with a roaring explo sion. They said a blast "like an ato mic mushroom" followed the crash. Despite that, six others aboard the plane escaped death. How seriously they were hurt could not be determined immediately. The air base withheld the names of ail those aboard. The State Division of Forestry first reported that the craft hit a house, but said later it was wrecked on the highway. The scene was on Perris Boul evard, on the outskirts of the town of Perris, a farming com munity south of here. Blast in Auto Kills Sportsman San Mateo, Calif. VP) A tre mendous explosion as Tom A. Keen entered his automobile Tuesday killed the president of the International Totalizer com pany which makes the odds- flashing "tote" boards for race tracks. Police said the mysterious blast apparently occurred when the wealthy 56-year old sports man stepped on the starter of his Cadillac in the garage of his home. The concussion was so great that hundreds of residents called police. Officers said there was no in dication that Keen, who form erly was engaged in dog racing was in any trouble which would motivate a revenge bombing The blast blew Keen through the back seat. It demolished the car and blew out one wall ol the garage. ..nea Nations Delays Action Korean Issues Assembly Adjourns After Approving ' Western Plan Paris (IP) The sixth general assembly of the United Nations adjourned Tuesday after voting a final overwhelming approval of the western plan to postpone discussion of Korean political issues until an armistice. President Luis Padilla Nervo of Mexico banged the final gavel at 2:14 p.m. after receiving trib utes from Secretary General Trygve Lie and many leading delegates for his handling of the three months session. The assembly also expressed gratitudes to France and the French people for their hospi tality. The last formal act was to observe a minute of silent prayer. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Stranded Fliers laken to Bend Bend, Ore. VP) Three men who survived a forced landing in snowbound desert country and then two nights awaiting help, were brought to safety here Tuesday. Sighted from the air late Mon day, the men were brought out by an Air Force rescue team from McChord Field via a seven- hour trip with a special tractor through snow two and three feet deep. Hungry, but in good condition, they were taken to the highway near Ft. Rock, and state police brought them on from there. The missing men had been on a flight from Boise to Roseburg. One is -a mental patient, Fred A. DcBUois, en route to the Rose burg Veterans' Hospital with guard, Paul Peterson, and the pilot, Norman JBryar. Fires at Wife Kills Himself Eugene VP) A wife's report that her estranged husband had fired at her with a shotgun at dawn Tuesday brought police swiftly. When they arrived, the husband was dead of a shotgun blast in the heart possibly the result of stumbling in pursuit. Police Capt. Harold Skip worth said the dead man was Irvin Watson, 54. Mrs. Watson, Skipworth said, told this story: She left the family house to go to work at 6:30 a.m. Tues day, and saw her husband in a parked car across the street. He fired a shotgun blast then start ed after her. She darted be tween houses and into a neigh bor's where she called police. Watson s body was in a back yard through which she had fled. Skipworth said Watson's shotgun could have been dis charged accidentally in a fall, or the death could have been suicide. Auto Insurance in Portland Higher Portland VP) Some auto mobile insurance policies arc going to cost more in Portland. Insurance companies said Monday that for class No. 1 cars in the Portland area the rate would go up $1.45 for policies offering $10,000 insurance for one injury and up to $20,000 if more than one person is injured Rates arc unchanged for the basic $5,000-$10,000 bodily in jury policy. Hush-Hush Fliers Blackmail Ransom Washington (IP) The senate armed services committee Tues day got a hush-hush report from Secretary of State Acheson on why the United States decided to pay Hungray $120,000 for the release of four American fliers. The committee heard Ache son behind closed doors. Sen. Lyndon Johnson, D., Tex., the acting chairman, said after wards the members would "no doubt give consideration to the information provided." Johnson added that the com mute had decided not to make public any of that information at this time. Sewage Plant To Be Seeded Coming Spring Before a sewage disposal plant can produce it has to be "seeded." Salem's new plant on North River road won't be seeded, says City Manager J. L. Fran- zen, until along about May, when covers for the digesters are expected to arrive and be placed. To seed a sewage disposal plant you go to some other city that has a plant in opera tion and borrow a load of sludge, which you dump into the new digesters. That seeds the digesters with bacteria. There's a lot of complicated machinery about a sewage disposal plant, but what real ly does the work is bacteria. For awhile after the bor rowed bacteria have been in troduced you have to heat the digesters artifically, for which Franzen has an old boiler spotted on the job. But once the bacteria gets working they make their own heat. Also from then on the plant does its own seeding. Motors that will move the machinery at the new Salem plant were scheduled to get their first turnover, or limber-up, today. But the plant won't be going until spring. Italy to Build Ships for Allies Rome (IP) Italian sources say the U. S. Mutual Security Ad ministration is planning to or der 25 to 30 million dollars worth of small naval ships eight subchasers and 10 landing craft from Italian shipyards. America's European Allies would get the ships, the inform ants said, to bolster Atlantic Pact forces. The orders, they said, would go to Italian shipyards "if the price is right." The U. S. o'mbassy hero con firmed that a U. S. navy team of engineering experts is in Rome discussing with Italy's Ministry of Marine "the possi bility of undertaking a program of construction in Italy of naval vessels of specific design. British Peace Offer to Egypt Cairo, Egypt (IP) A British peace offer to Egypt was report ed Tuesday. It included British evacuation of the Suez Canal Zone, a plebis cite for the disputed Sudan and an Arab Security Pact as a basis for Middle East defense. The peace formula was re ported by the newspaper Al Misri, organ of the Wafdist par ty which launched the Egyptian campaign last October to get the British out of Egypt and the Su dan, Al Misri said London had handed the formula, suggested as a basis for new Anglo-Egptian talks, to Iraqi Premier Nuri El Said. Nuri El Said, like King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, has been trying to mediate the conflict between Britain and Egypt. The paper gave no hint of the source of its information, latest in a series of reported concilia lory moves which have blos somed since disastrous fire riots here 10 days ago brought re placement of Wafdist Premier Mustapha Nahas Pasha's govern mcnt by an independent cabinet headed by Aly Maher Pasha. Report on "We got from Acheson his story of what happened and a somewhat detailed report of each move by the state depart ment leading to the release of these men," Johnson told re porters. Another member who asked not to be named described the situation as "delicate" and said publicity could have a harmful effect. In reply to questions, he said there had been some discus sion of what might happen if a similnr case were to develop in the future. Allies Warn Against Hopes To Speed Truce Communist Tactics On Armistice Termed 'Operation Quagmire' Tokyo VP) The U.N. com mand cautioned Tuesday against expecting quick agreement on a Korean armistice. Tokyo headquarters describ ed communist truce tactics as "operation Quagmire." 'Recent minor compromises" at Panmunjom, the U.N. com mand said fit "the communist see-saw of progress." They don't necessarily involve any change in "their main program of bargaining inertia." No Major Agreements The command pointed out Red negotiators "have agreed to none of the really major points of dispute. They have instead conceded in points of theory or in instances where their concessions actually cost them nothing." The U.N. views were express ed in an "unofficial Information bulletin" containing material selected from "voice of the United Nations Command" broadcasts to Korea. No Need for Briefing The bulletin was released after Tuesday's negotiating ses sions at Panmunjom adjourned. So little progress was made that allied spokesmen indicated there was no need for the cus tomary briefing session to the press. It came on the eve of the first full meeting of the five- man truce delegations in two months. They will hold a plen ary session at 10 a.m. Wednes day, 5 p.m. Tuesday PST, to be gin discussing the final item on the armistice agenda, recom mendations to belligerent gov ernments. Airmen Bomb -; Red Supply Base Seoul, Worea VP) American airmen Tuesday blow up two communist ammunition depots and razed two big supply cen ters, the U. S. Fifth Air Force reported. The supply centers were less than 50 miles from Panmunjom. site of Korean truce talks. F-51 Mustang pilots said the bombs and rockets tauched off fires that could be seen for miles. Returning airmen said the two centers near Sinmak and Nam chonjom were reduced to blaz ing ruins. The ammunition dumps were blown up by marine F-4-U pi lots. Altogether, the Fifth Air Force said, the day's explosive attacki leveled almost 130 Red supply buildings and revetments and cut rail lines in 65 places. A total of 592 sorties were blown. American F-86 Sabre jets ex changed firing passes with some Red jots out of a formation of 100 MIG-15s. The Air Force made no report of damage. Blames Russians For Massacre Washington VP) Col. John H. Van Vliet has explained to a congressional hearing why he is convinced the Russians, not the Germans, were responsible for the Kathyn Forest massacre in World War II of some 10,000 Polish war prisoners. The American officer is the author of a long-missing secret report of the slaughter. He said the Germans showed him and several other war pris oners the bodies in 1043 in an effort to prove the Russians had committed the atrocity shortly after the Soviets captured the Poles In 1940. Soviet propagandists have long claimed that Hitler's armies killed the Poles when the Ger mans overran Katyn Forest, 33 milcs west of Smolensk, Russia, in 1943. Van Vliet told a special house committee Monday that he saw the bodies-stacked in eight layers "like sardines in a can." Weather Details Mailman yeiterflaf, M: minimum ! day, al. Total precipitation: Of fnr month: I.W: normal. .91. Season pre cipitation, fl'.'.fMli normal, 2S.H3. Rlvrr hrlihl, 17.9 feet, (Report by VS. Weather Ilnreau.)
