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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.)