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64th Year, No. 70 SK?.riKToS Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 21, 1952
Price 5c
C apital
Crackdown on
State Bureau
Publications
Director of Finance
Dorman Hits
Propaganda Sheets
By JAMES D. OLSON
A crackdown on publications
issued by state departments, both
as to the size, content and grade
of paper used, has been launched
by Harry S. Dorman, director of
finance.
Dorman declared that too
many of the state department
publications were being printed
on expensive bond paper and
, carry material that he does not
1 believe is of interest to the gen-
eral public.
Dorman already has directed
the state department of forestry
to reduce the size of its monthly
publication and plans a confer
ence with officials of the state
' Agriculture department regard
ing its magazine.
Agriculture Magazine
"The current issue of the Ag
riculture magazine is devoted al
most entirely to pictures and ar
ticles regarding members of the
department staff from the direc
tor down to the secretaries,"
Dorman said.
"This may be nice for the em
ployes but I have serious doubts
if the running of these articles is
of any general interest to the
agriculture people of the state.
Dorman is also conferring with
officials of the board of higher
education in an effort to reduce
the number and size of publica
tions issued by the various
schools and departments operat
ing under the jurisdiction of this
board.
Monthly Publications
He said that the board of high
er education officials are very
cooperative and he feels certain
that some substantial savings can
be effected in the publications
cost of the board.
Dorman said that dozens of
state boards issue publications
monthly,, quarterly and some
just at various times.
"It is a case of taking one at
a time and endeavoring to ap
praise the value of each publi
cation," Dorman continued. "We
must confer with the officials of
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Williams Given
Two Big Jobs
Seattle m W. Walter Wil
liams has two jobs chairman of
the Washington State Republi
can committee and the National
Citizens for Eisenhower commit
tee and he intends to keep
them both.
He is due in Seattle Friday to
present his position to top Re
publicans, some of whom are de
termined he can't campaign for
Ike and lead his party at the
same time. They are the repub
licans who prefer Sen. Taft's
candidacy for the presidency
over that of the five-stargeneral
Williams told of his Eisenhow
er plans in Washington, D.C.
Thursday, then hopped a plane
to Seattle and a meeting with
state LrUF bigwigs.
He said in Washington that he
would divide his time between
Washington State and New York
City, where the Eisenhower of
fices are. His main job for the
general will be to whip up na
tional grass roots support for the
general.
Spring Greeted
By Cold Wave
As if winter were giving the
hearty horse laugh to all this
chatter about spring arriving,
thermometers in Salem skidded
down to 27 degree, five below
ireezmg, ior ine r naay morning
minimum.
Pretty heavy fog hung over
much of the city early this morn
ing, too.
However, sunshine and blue
skies were out by noon and there
was some hope spring actually
may be coming along.
Slightly warmer temperatures
are in the offing for Saturday,
and the forecast calls for partly
cloudy skies with some prospect
of a little more fog the early
part of the day.
New snow was reported for
the high mountains, and the
highway department sent out its
warning to motorists to have
chain if traveling any of the
pass routes.
Weather Details
Mftxlmnm Teiterdar. SI: minimum tmti
7. Total 24 -hour precipitation, trice; for
month, i.m; normal, J. SI. Sextan precipi
tation, 87.3?: normal, M.A9. River hlfht,
1.4 feel. (Report bj U. 8. weather barei.)
Steel Industry
Asks Price Hike
On Wage Raise
OPS Rules in Favor of
Union but Opposes
Cost Offset
New York W Steel Indus
try leaders are determined to
seek price relief which they
contend is necessary if increas
ed wages are granted, economic
stablizer Roger L. Putnam in
dicated Friday.
Putnam told newsmen after
i hour and one-half session
with 12 steel officials that the
industry leaders had "asked for
another meeting with the office
of price stabilization."
The meeting of the industry
leaders and Putnam followed
Thursday night's recommenda
tions by the wage stabilization
board that the industry grant a
package settlement to end a
contract dispute with the CIO
Steelworkers union.
Public members of the WSB
have estimated the settlement
at 18.8 cents an hour.
Strike is Postponed
The recommendation was ap
proved by the executive board
of the union and a national steel
strike set for midnight next
Sunday was postponed until
April 8.
The meeting with Putnam ap
parently was heated at times.
We used words we regretted
promptly and pulled them
back," he said. But He added:
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Warren to Run
In Wisconsin
Madison, Wis. U.R The Wis
consin supreme court today al
lowed Gov. Earl Warren to stay
on the state's April 1 presiden
tial primary ballot.
Warren's candidacy was chal
lenged by Max Folcyn, Milwau
kee, who "claimed there were
"irregularities" in filing the
California governor's slate of 30
delegate-candidates for the re
publican national convention.
Polycn charged that Warren
merely was a "stalking horse"
for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Warren denied the charge.
"We conclude that to lake
jurisdiction at this date would
be futile and we declined to do
so," Justice Edward T. Fair
child said.
"The petition is denied."
The court said because the
Warren candidacy was chal
lenged such a short time before
the primary, "we think it prop
er to refuse to take jurisdiction
and leave the matter to be de
termined after the event."
The justices said Polycn could
either come back to the su
preme court or take his chal
lenge to the national GOP con
vention" which will control the
qualifications of its members."
Polycn's attorney, Robert
Rieser, told the court earlier in
the week that there was a ques
tion "whether this is in fact a
delegates hiding behind War-
Warren slate or Eisenhower
delegates hiding behind War
ren's skirts."
Cowlitz Closed
Kelso, Wash. (U.R) The Cow
litz river today was closed to
smelt fishing until 8 p.m. Sat
urday to allow a spawning run
to escape. The closure affects
both commercial and amateur
smelt fishing. Catch for the sea
son to date is estimated at 200,
000 pounds.
Living Costs Drop For
First Time in 2 Years
(By the Associated Press)
Borne downward by a 2.1 per
cent sag in retail food prices,
the retail price index showed
the largest decline for. any
month since December, 1949.
A one-cent hourly wage cut
will be suffered on April 1 by
1,150,000 trainmen and non
operating railroad workers be
cause of the sliding cost-of-living
scale in their wage contracts.
The index, as recorded on
Feb. 15, stood at 187.9, com
pared with the 1933-39 yard
stick which is figured as 100.
The index, which seeks to
guage the retail prices paid by
moderate-income city families,
still was 10.4 per cent higher
than it was when Korea was in
vaded in June, 1950. It was 2.2
per cent above a year ago.
Economists with the Office of
Price Stabilization have esti
mated the index for March also
Access Roads
Funds Refused
Washington VP) For the sec
ond successive year, the House
appropriations committee has
cut out a $700,000 budget item
for the construction of access
roads in the Oregon and Cali
fornia grant lands.
Explaining its action, the
committee reported that "legis
latio nrelating to the distribu
tion of receipts from the sale
of timber made accessible by the
proposed access roads has not
been modified and it is still the
committee's opinion that the
federal government should not
share in further capital improve
ments without deriving a larger
share of the financial proceeds
of harvesting the timber than is
now provided for in the control
ling legislation."
By law, the Western Oregon
counties in which the timber is
located receive 50 per' cent of
the timber sale revenues. The
divisio nis soon to go 75 per
cent to the counties and but 25
per cent to the government.
W.W.P. Stock to
Be Distributed
New York (U.B) American
Power & Light company an
nounced today that it plans to
distribute to its stockholders its
entire holdings of Washington
Water Power company.
Directors earlier favored sale
of the Washington Power con
cern to three public utility dis
tricts in the State of Washing
ton. The company explained, how
ever, the -"board concluded that
it has become obvious that sale
. . . to the public utility districts
could not be consummated with
in the time contemplated by the
board in August when it de
clared that any such sale must
be one that could be consum
mated with reasonable expedi
tion."
Washington Water Power has
outstanding 2,541,800 shares of
common, all owned by Ameri
can. American Power & Light
has 2,342,311 shares of common
outstanding.
California Phone Calls 10c
San Francisco, (U.R) The
10-cent public telephone call
went into effect in California
today. The Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph company said
callers may use either a dime or
two nickels.
will show a cost-of-living
cline.
de-
Sen. Moody (D., Mich.), was
all ready with a statement, call
ing the February decline "good
news.
"Price controls, enacted by
Congress for the mobilization
emergency, have worked and
are working, despite a price
control law with certain built
in inflationary features," Moody
said.
Moody declared many will
base the slight drop as an argu
ment for suspending price con
trols, or dropping them entire
ly. Washington (1 The cost of
living as measured by the gov
ernment, dropped 0.6 per cent in
February, in the first decline
since last June, the Bureau of
Labor Statistics reported Friday.
Dedication His Excellency, the Most Rev. Edward D.
Howard, Archbishop of Portland, in Oregon, leads procession
of Bishops, Abbots, and priests into the new Mt. Angel
Abbey for dedication ceremony Friday morning.
Political Guessing Game
Puzzles Both Parties
(By the Associated Press)
The political
guessing game
about President Truman's
and
Gen. Eisenhower's plans con
tinued apace Friday as the ac
tive candidates for the presi
dency centered their campaigns
m Wisconsin and Nebraska.
These were the top develop
ments in the political arena:
1 A majority of 45 Wisconsin
newspaper editors concluded
from surveys in their own coun
ties that popular sentiment
Cut by House
Washington W The House
Appropriations committee Fri
day recommended $492,434,763
for the Interior Department for
the year starting July 1.
This represented a slash of
$133,567,037 below the $62
001,800 budget recommendations
of President Truman.
The sharpest cuts came in
funds requested for the Recla
mation Bureau, the Beureau of
Indian Affairs, the Division of
the Territories, and some public
power projects.
The reduction, carrying out
the recommendations of the sub
committee headed by Rep. Kir
wan (D-Ohio) represents a to
tal cut of 21 per cent in the bud
get estimates and a cut of seven
per cent below the current year
level of spending.
A committee report said it re
flected "determination to hold
to a minimum program period in
which the conservation of dol
lars is so important."
10 Die in Crash
Of Navy Bomber
Corpus Christi, Tex. W) A
four-engine navy patrol bomber
with 10 men aboard crashed in
to Corpus Christi bay Friday
shortly after takeoff from the
naval air station.
Navy helicopters and air-sea
rescue launches found no sur
vivors.
Two bodies had been pulled
out of the wreckage by mid
morning. Divers said recovery
of the remaining bodies would
be a' long, tedious process.
Identification of the dead
was withheld pending notifica
tion of the next of kin.
Like a huge thumb, the giant
rudder of the P4Y-2 stuck out
of the bay.
Personal effects of the fliers
floated to the surface. A win
ter flying suit, a baseball cap,
a navigator's brief case and
fuel cell washed ashore.
The crew of 10 included four
officers, two cadets and four
enlisted men.
Dallas Mill Slowed
By Mountain Snows
Dallas Deep snow in the
Falls City and Snow Peak dis
tricts have slowed logging op
erations to a point forcing the
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
to go on a three-day work week
at the Dallas mill.
The announcement was made
by Paul Morgan, resident man
ager of the mill, when work
crews were dismissed Wedncs
day for the remainder of the
week.
.favors Sen. Taft of Ohio for the
GOP presidential nomination
and Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee
for the democratic nomination.
The state holds its preference
primary April 1.
2. The New Jersey battle be
tween Gov. Driscoll and Taft
was heightented by a consolida
tion of Eisenhower forces in the
state and a suggestion that Dris
coll run for vice president on
the general's ticket. Official
word was awaited from the
Ohio senator before any action
is taken to actually keep his
name off the ballot.
Taft declared he was pulling
out of the New Jersey race be
cause Driscoll "had broken his
word" in endorsing Eisenhower.
The governor said Taft stepped
out because of his "successive
setbacks in New Hampshire and
Minnesota."
3. An Associated Press poll in
South Carolina indicated the
state's eight electoral votes may
go to the republican candidate
if the democrats nominate
new deal" candidate.
MacArthur as
GOP Dork Horse
Washington (U.R) Gen. Doug
las MacArthur is the man most
discussed here as a compromise
presidential candidate if Taft
and Eisenhower forces deadlock
the republican national conven
tion.
Some of the top republicans
m town are convinced Mac
Arthur will be nominated. The
general, himself, disclaims presi
dential ambitions. He has asked
that his name be kept out of
presidential primaries, and
New Hampshire he counselled
his friends to support Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft, R., O.
So, MacArthur is not acting
like a candidate. But he talks
like a candidate. In a series of
speeches since President Tru
man fired him from far eastern
command, MacArthur has blist
ered the administration. He is
against the president's methods,
foreign and domestic. Mac
Arthur will continue his anti-
Truman campaign Saturday in
a speech before a joint session
of the Mississippi legislature.
A Taft-Eisenhowcr conven
tion deadlock is far from im
possible. Before the president
ial primaries began Taft gener
ally was judged to be far out in
front in the race for republican
presidential nomination. New
Hampshire and Minnesota pri
mary returns have established
Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower as
a strong contender.
There is no sure winner yet
in sight. The issue may easily
Dc in doubt until the last roll
is called at the Chicago conven
tion next July. Former Gov.
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
is in the race hoping for a dead
lock and to become the com
nromlse nominee. So is Gov.
Earl Warren of California.
Farm Bureau Asks
Milk Control Change
County dairy chairmen of the
Oregon Farm Bureau Federation
asked Friday for changes in the
state milk control law.
But they wouldn't say what
changes they requested. They
announced the changes would
make the milk law "more work
able and more beneficial to the
producing dairymen."
Chinese Cross
Intolndochina,
Fight French
Lovett Reports Same
Type of Red Build-up
As in Korea
Washington VP) Secretary of
Defense Lovett said Friday the
U.S. has been told some Red Chi
nese forces have crossed the
border of Indochina to join Com
munist-led natives fighting the
French.
It is "always possible," Lovett
told the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, that the develop
ment could lead to the same type
of Chinese buildup that preceded
their entry into the Korean war.
Rep. Mansfield, D.-Mont., had
asked Lovett about testimony
Thursday by Secretary of State
Acheson "to the effect that
some Chinese Communists had
crossed the Indochina border" to
join the fighting,
We have been so informed,1
Lovett said.
Foreign Aid Program
The two cabinet members
were called before the committee
to answer questions about Presi-
dent Truman's $7,900,000,000
foreign--aid program.
Their statements marked the
first official American report of
involvement by the Chinese Reds
in the bitter fight for Indochina,
gateway to Southeast Asia.
Chinese Communist forces
have been reported building
strength for weeks near the
Indochina border.
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PU Urges Order
On Truck Rates
Public Utilities Commissioner
Charles H. Heltzel today auth
orized trucks transporting house
hold goods to adjust their intra
state Oregon rates to conform
more closely with charges for
similar transportation in inter
state commerce.
Heltzel said the authority was
granted to enable the carriers to
earn sufficient revenue to cover
increased cost of operation and
continue to furnish adequate
and satisfactory transportation
service.
The adjustments, Heltzel said,
consist of both increases and de
creases, with the increases pre
dominating. Heltzels order today came
after a formal hearing was held
onan application of the carriers.
The commissioner said little or
opposition was recorded
against the changes.
Heltzel said his order does
not grant the full relief asked,
particularly in rates and charges
applicable to small shipments
for short distances. But he said
it is his openion that the extent
of the increases authorized will
result in sufficient revenue to
offset the increased cost to
which the carriers have been
subjected.
The public utilities commis
sioner today also granted the
Portland Gas and Coke Co. auth
ority to borrow $2,500,000 from
Mellon National Bank and Trust
Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., bearing
interest at 3 per cent a year.
Governor Dies
Vatican City W) The gover
nor of the Vatican City, Mar
chese Camillo Serafini, died
here Friday after an attack of
angina pectoris.
Fruit, Produce Firm
Will Build New Plant
Pacific Fruit & Produce com
pany, with a Salem branch lo
cated at 531 Trade street, will
invest approximately $200,000
in a new building to be erected
on Hines street just west of the
main line of the Southern Pacif
ic company.
Announcement to this effect
was made Friday by Sid McNeil,
Salem manager for the concern.
Construction on the new plant
will start as soon as blueprints
can be finished and the contracts
let.
The building will provide al
most double the space available
at the present location and it will
be one of the most modern of
the company's plants on the Pa
cific coast. It will include a num
ber of innovations that have
proved worthwhile elsewhere.
The tract of land, 176 by 233
feet, was secured in a trade for
a vacant lot now owned by the
company at the northwest cor
ner of Church and Trade streets.
Grabenhorst Brothers, realtors,
Russian Church
Raps Alleged
Germ Warfare
Moscow (JP) The campaign
against alleged U.S. germ war
fare in Korea is being whipped
to a high pitch here.
Izvestia, the Soviet govern- i
ment newspaper, Friday publish
ed a declaration by Patriarch
Alexei of the Russian Ortho
dox church and three leading
metropolitans condemning al
leged bacteriological warfare in
Korea.
Soviet press reports repeated
previous charges in Pciping that
the United States is now using
poison gas on the Korean front.
Moscow papers reported a con
tinuing wave of protest meetings
throughout the Soviet Union.
"Wrath and Indignation" was
the headline over a story of a
meeting at Alma Alta. "Mon
strous Atrocities American Im
perialists," said the headline
over the story from Khabarovsk.
Plan Rescue of
Cougar Hounds
Darrington, Wash. (fP)
Friendly help was slated today
to replace the triple enemies of
cold, hunger and angry eagles
that have beset three cougar
hounds trapped two weeks on a
4,000 foot mountain ledge.
Six skilled mountaineers made
plans to scale precipitous, snow
covered Mt. Push, 60 miles
northwest of Seattle, at day
break to rescue the still-yelp'
ing dogs.
They became stranded on the
ledge while chasing a ' cougar
15 days ago. A fourth dog es
caped by leaping 100 feet to
safety and landing in a tree or
brush.
Numerous attempts have been
made to reach the dogs but
would-be rescuers have beenj
turned back by an 800 or 900-
foot ice-sheathed cliff which it
is necessary to descend.
Meanwhile, Cleo Riddle, own
er of the helpless hounds has re
ported the dogs are still alive
and fighting off attacks by an
gry eagles.
10,000 Chukars
To Be Raised
Portland VP) The Oregon
Game Commission hopes to raise
10,000 Asiatic Chukar partridges
for release in Eastern Oregon
next fall.
The Hermiston game farm is
being converted to handle 7,000
and the remainder will be raised
at the Ontario game farm, the
commission said.
In the past two years, the
commission has built up a breed
ing flock of 1200 Chukars. A
trial plant of 270 Chukars was
made in the Warner Valley near
Lakeview last October and sur
vived one of the severest winters
on record for the area, Norman
Minnick, game agent, said.
Gas Company Gets
Permit for Loan
The Portland Gas and Coke
Co. was granted permission Fri
day to borrow $2,500,000 to fi
nance improvements.
The permission was given by
Public Utilities Commissioner
Charles H. Heltzel, The money
will be borrowed from the Mel
lon National Bank and Trust
company of Pittsburgh, Penn.
conducted the negotiations.
Plans call for direct unloading
from railroad cars directly into
cold storage rooms of the new
plant through five doors. Track
age will be available for a maxi
mum of four cars. In addition
there will be space for the load
ing and unloading of trucks and
for ample parking room for the
concern's fleet of motor vehicles
and for customers.
The outside dimensions of the
new building will be 130 by 130
feet. Construction wil be of re
inforced concrete of one story.
It will face Hines street from
the south and will contain 3800
square feet of space devoted to
refrigeration. The balance will
be used for general storage and
for office facilities.
The Salem plant which has
been at its present location for
more than a quarter of a cen
tury, currently has a staff of 29
persons. The property is owned
by the Derby estate.
Reds Propose
Release of All
POWin Korea
Suggest That Both
Sides Agree and
End Deadlock
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Red
truce negotiators proposed to
day that both sides agree to
release all listed war prisoners
without further squabbling
over missing captives.
The communist "compro
mise" proposal provided for the
freeing of only the 11,559 allied
and 132,474 Red prisoners
whose names already have been
exchanged. Of the allied pris
oners, 3,198 are Americans.
It in effect would write off
at least for the present 53,000
additional allied troops, includ
ing 1,398 Americans, who dis
appeared in Eed captivity and
44,000 communist prisoners al
legedly held but not reported
by the U.N.
Rejected by Allies
Allied representatives shrug
ged off the proposal. They
said it contained "absolutely
nothing new." Moreover, it
reiterated the Red demand for
forcible repatriation, if neces
sary, of all listed prisoners.
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More Red Jets
Bagged by UN
Seoul, Korea CP) American
Sabre pilots destroyed or dam
aged 13 to 18 Red jets in a
series of fights Thursday cli
maxed by history's longest jet
battle.
Darkening skies prevented
exact assessment of results o? .
40-minute dogfight over
North Korea. But pilots of F-86
Sabre jets said they damaged at
least three Mig-15s and possibly
eight. " - ' - :
In two earlier engagements
Thursday the Sabres reported
they shot down five Migs and
damage., five.
In the 40-minute battle 28
Sabres tangled with 40 Migs in
a fight running over 70 miles
from Sinanju to the Yalu river
border with Manchuria. The
longest previous jet battle last
ed 35 minutes.
The fight brought the Sabres'
three-day record to at least 31
and possibly 36 Red jets hit, in
cluding 11 shot down.
The air force said the bag of
Red warplanes now stands at
232 destroyed, 39 probably de
stroyed and 426 damaged a
total of 697.
Russian Forces
Japan's Menace
Tokyo, Saturday (ff) Gen.
Matthew B. Ridgeway declared
Friday Japan's "greatest prob
lem" was the threat of strong
Russian military forces already
assembled north of this island
nation.
The supreme allied command
er told a group of Japanese
newspaper executives the Rus
sians had completed the station
ing of strong forces "including
many fighter planes" at two
points facing Japan.
One massing point was given
as near Vladivostok, the big port
and base in the Siberian mari
time province. The other was
on Southern Sakhalin, formerly
held by the Japanese. Sakhalin
lies north of Japan.
The editors said Ridgway as
sured them he was "not upset"
by unfavorable comment of
some Japanese on the Japan
U. S. security pact.
Korean Capital to
Remain at Pusan
Seoul, Korea (U.R) President
Syngman Rhee of South Korea
said today he had given up his
announced plans for moving his
capital from Pusan to Seoul.
Rhee told the United Press
he now plans to move back and
forth between the two cities.
Pusan has been scat of govern
ment since the North Koreans
first smashed southward.
Rhee was in Seoul to present
citations to Maj. Gen. Thomas
Cross of the U. S. Third infan
try division; Maj. William Don
ahue, pilot for Gen. James A.
Van Fleet, and to the 73rd tank
battalion which was among the
first units back in Seoul in Sep
tember, 1950.