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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1952)
C apital js, THE WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT and Saturday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, 28; high Saturday, 52. AL TM11 reooats met! Ti 64th Year, No. 279 2S2?JIS& Salem, Oregon, Friday, Noveiw. c t, ivi2 (18 Pages Price 5c New Bureau Of Vehicles Stale Plan Interim Committee . Will Introduce Bill In Legislature By JAMES D. OLSON Creation of a new department of motor vehicles, to include administration of motor vehicle laws and collection of all fees, will be recommended to the 1953 legislature by the legisla tive highway interim commit tee. At a meeting Thursday in the state highway building, the committee approved a tentative draft prepared by the statute revision council, and directed that two bills be prepared for introduction when the legisla ture opens. The two bills will be submitted to the committee fpr final approval at a meeting in December. The new department, under the terms o the proposed bill, Mill take over the entire motor vehicle department, including registration of cars, issuance of drivers' licenses, collection of fuel taxes and administration of the financial responsbiility di vision, all now under the secre tary of state's offic. Would Collect Truck Fees In addition the new depart ment proposes taking over the entire collection of truck fees now under the jurisdiction of the public utility commission ers. Concluded on Page 5, Column 5) V. A. to Abandon 19 Hospital Sites Washington VP) The veter ans administration said Friday it is turning over to the general services administration GSA for disposal 19 sites on which it had planned to build hospitals now dropped from the construc tion program. One is in Ore gon, at Klamath Falls. An. official told reporters the action was taken under a 1949 law providing for disposal of surplus property because con gress adjourned on July 7 with out extending the life of the legislation under which con struction of the hospitals was authorized. Col. George E. Ijams of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who on Monday revealed he had protested to Veterans Adminis trator Carl R. Gray, Jr., against disposal of any of the sites by the outgoing administration be fore the new administration coming into office January 20 can set its policies. Sees No Need Of Tuna Tariff Washington U A domestic .funa canner says that if Japa . hese tuna production could break the U. S. market, it would have done so this year. Thomas Sandoz, president of the Calumbia River parkers of Astoria, Ore., said this year is "one of the most bountiful Alba- core white meat tuna productions on record Japanese production has been; particularly high this year, he said, "but instead of the market breaking, the price to fishermen! hs gradually but steadily in creased during the season." Sandoz testified in the fourth day of the U. S. Tariff Commis sion hearings on importation of fresh and frozen tuna from Ja pan. Heavy Frost Lifts Blanket of Fog Frost was very noticeable In Salem and area Friday morning, the fog lifting to permit more of a freeze. The minimum this morning was 29 degrees here, More clear and cold weather Is due tonight the mercury ex pected to go even lower than it was early this morning. Highways in the state are re ported in good shape with bare pavement generally. Some pack ed mow Is listed at East Dia mond lake and spots of ice were listed for some pass regions, in cluding Santiam and Willamette passes. Weather Details 4r,-. Tlll 34-har tmlplUllanf 91 lr msntbi 1.33 nrmt. .tl. csfft prt- dlut!n. I.Ml nrfeil, mvrr fefOftt, -4.1 IttL ffttrt y U.S. WMtfctr Allies Repulse Red Assaults All Along Front Fanatical Assaults on Frozen Slopes of Sniper Ridge Stopped Seoul W) Allied Infantrymen smashed .s fanatical Chinese as sault today on Sniper Ridge I on the Central Korean front ! and stopped lesser attacks else where on the battle line. In the air, American Sabre jets clashed with MIG-15s for the fifth successive day and pi lots reported one destroyed by Lt. Richard B. Smith, Jr., Med ford, Ore. He damaged oni Thursday. Allied fighter-bombers ranged over a wide area of North Ko rea. Pilots said they wiped out 70 buildings, seven guns and cut rails in five places. They also pounded the communist battleline. He said an estimated 750 Chinese stormed the frozen, for bidding slopes of Sniper Ridge but were killed, wounded or driven back by stubborn South Korean troop, who have lost and retaken the height 16 times in 33 days. (Concluded on Page S. Column 4 Wreck Piles.up Train, Chemauit Klamath Falls W Cars were piled up two and three deep Friday as a Great Northern freight train was derailed at Chemult in southern Oregon. None of the crew was injur ed, but several cattle in three of the IB derailed cars were killed. Gene Obiatt, Great Northern superintendent, said he had no idea what caused the derailment. The train was being pulled by a three-unit diesel over the Southern Pacific mainline. Crews from Eugene and Kla math Falls went to work imme diately clearing the tracks. Oviatt said passenger trains can be rerouted over the old and slower Siskiyou route into California. Six freight trains were waiting between Eugene and the point of derailment. Thuie Airbase Connecting Link Copenhagen, Denmark Vft Jonn M. Redding, U. S. assistant postmaster gneral. predicted Friday the U.S. Air Force base at Thule in Greenland will be come "one of the most important cross-roads of the air age." He envisaged a modern city of a half million population at Thule withm 10 to 15 years. Redding was a passenger on the airliner Arild Viking on its trail blazing flight across the polar ice-cap from California to Europe. The American - built Scandinavian Airlines System plane arrived here Thursday night after a trip that took 28 hours and 7 minutes from Los Angeles. The flying time for the 5,852-mile hop was 23 hours and 38 minutes. One of the two stops was at Thule. Without use of that far' northern base the flight to blaze a trail for commercial flying across the bleak polar regions j would ha ve been impossible. The new route cuts off about f ourjwouid be paid in a lump sum hours flying time from the U. S. equal to $80 as increased vaca West Coast to Scandinavia. 'tion benefits. Turkey Growers in Tussle With Thieves Oregon turkey growers are finding it necessary to organize against the depredations of thieves because of night raids on the flocks, which have become serious, especially in the Willa mette valley. On a night two weeks ago turkey rustlers raided a yard about eight miles from Salem and hauled. away ISO head. Re cently in the McMinnville dis trict it Is estimated 500 were stolen from a flock of 4000. Rustling is more serious there because of the hilly country the situation has attracted the attention of Life magazine which this week has a two-page feature about the turkey rust ling problem' in Oregon and Washington. Among the illustra tions is a picture of Harold Davis of McMinnville, president of the Oregon Turkey Improvement as sociation, checking a map with Deputy Sheriff Ford Hagan in an attempt to detect routes traveled Governor Douglas McKay at his desk opening a portion of the flood of telegrams from all over the world congratulating i him upon his selection by President-Elect Eisenhower as secretary of the interior in his cabinet. McKay Gets Wires From All Over World The girls in the governor's office agreed that Thursday was the hardest day of their lives. Gov. McKay's staff was worn out Friday after the hectic day on which their boss was named as the new secretary of the in terior. McKay Rapped By Sen. Morse Atlantic City, N. J. u-R Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, who bolted the republican party toi support Adlal E. Stevenson, Fri day described the three cabinet appointments of President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower "as very good for the reactionary forces that are out to plunder the peo ple." Morse, now classifying him self as an Independent, said Or egon Gov. Douglas McKay, named secretary of the interior by Eisenhower, "is a well re cognized stooge of the tidelands thieves, the private utility gang and the selfish interests which place materialistic values above human values.' The senator was in Atlantic City for a con vention speech. Delays Decision On Coal Wage Washington OT Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam said Friday he will bold off until next week a decision on whether to approve a $1.90 daily wage in crease for soft coal miners. The Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) has ordered it held to 51.50. Putnam told a reporter his mind was pretty well made up but that he had not yet come to a conclusive decision. It was learned, meanwhile, that a compromise plan on the wage boost had been rejected by mine union President John L. Lewis and Harry M. Moses, who is president of the Bituminous Coal Operators association. Officials close to the situa tion, who refused use of their names, said this was the plan: The 40 cents which the WSB cut from the dailv waee oackatre by and possible hideaways of tne thieves. Sam Speerstra of Salem. Dresi- dent of the Oregon Turkey Growers association, has this to say: The rustlers seem to be peo ple who know something about the turkey business. They oper ate by truck and haul the birds away alive. It is suspected they have a small processing plant of i their own tucked away some where. Nevertheless all the legi timate processing plants have been alerted and are continuous ly on the lookout. Any quantity of birds that comes in from any one not an established grower is carefully checked. "That is one step in what we are trying to make an organized defense effort against the thiev es. Another is to report ail thefts immediately, and another is to induce the growers to brand their; birds. (Concluded on Put 5, Column T They were snowed under by telegrams from all over the country, and from such far away places as Tokyo, Brazil, Guam and Europe. And they were bothered throughout the day by reporters, photograph ers, newsreel cameramen, ra dio announcers and television crews. They could take things eas ier Friday because the gover nor went to Portland for two days. I never thought 1 would have a worse day than when we gat the flood of telegrams and letters last spring on whether the governor should declare daylight saving time," said Miss Leolyn Barnett, one of the sec retaries. But Thursday was even worse than that," She said . nobody had asked the governor for a job in the department of interior yet, but: that one present employe of the department sent a. telegram of congratulations which sounded like "apple polishing" to her. Spending Totals $350 Billion Washington OT The federal reserve board said Friday the nation's total spending this year will be a record 350 billion dol lars. But it said the 1952 in crease will be substantially less than in the past two years. Total expenditures and total production are showing a con siderable rise in the last quarter of the year, the report said, "reflecting strengthening of business and consumer demands and probably some increase in national security expenditures.' Defense spending is now about treble what it was before Korea, the federal reserve said. It said defense expenditures this year will equal about 15 per icent of the national total. The increase in security outlay in 1S52 has been substantially smaller than was anticipated, but is now picking up, the re port added. In the third quarter of 1852, according to the federal reserve, security spending, including atomic energy, military and economic aid and stockpiling. was at a rate of about 52 bil- ion dollars a year. Triggerman Now in Custody Los Angeles 1.R With dead pan Mobster Leonard C, Mocerl accidentally in custody, police Friday sought answers to un solved gangland executions dat ing from liquor bootlegging days to the modern Mafia. The nation's most wanted triggerman" was the tab given 45-year-oid Leonard the Lip by Capt. J. E. Hamilton of the Los Angeles police intelligence unit. He'd give officers the slip 20 years since indictment on four mob killings in Toledo, O., dat ing from l3t to 1833. Officers think there might be some recent chapters such the Bugsy Siegel murder, the killing of Mickey Cohen's attor ney Sammy Rummel and the double slaying of Tony Brancato and Tony Tromblno in Hotly wood a couple of years back. Detroit police also want to! ask some questions concerning the demise of hoodlum Jack George whose body was found stuffed in an automobile trunk Humphrey, BrownelI,$tassen Named tor Key Posts by Ike U. S. to Accept India's Korean Compromise United Nations, N. Y. m The United Slates and seven other countries were reliably reported Friday to have decided to accept India's compromise plan for settling the Korean prisoner-of-war deadlock, sub ject to two changes. The question of what to do with Red prisoners, held by the U, N., who say they don't want to go home has been holding up an armistice. The eight countries Austra lia, Britain, Canada, Colombia; : Denmark. France, the United States and Turkey also have decided to recommend that the Indian plan be given priority over all other Korean resolu tions in the U. N. general assem bly. India's POW Proposal T , , , j, . , 1 India proposed that boih the U. N, and the Reds turn over to a commission made up of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Swit-: zerland and Sweden. ; If this commission deadlocked, it would elect or ask the general assembly io choose an impartial umpire. The eight decided Friday to recommend that the- Indian reso lution be amended to provide that if the four did not agree to art umpire within three weeks they wouid hand the problem back to the assembly. Political Convention Under the Indian plan, the prisoners still on the commis sion's hands at the end o 80 days would have iheir fates de cided by a political convention called on Far Eastern problems under terms of the draft armi stice agreement eaiready adopt ed, The eight powers decided to support a suggestoin voiced Thursday by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden that, instead, they be turned over to a special V. N. body. Snyder Admits Tax Case Action Washington W Secretary of the Treasury Snyder, It was dis closed Friday, has acknowl edged to house tax investiga tors, that he acted personally to speed up a 20 million dollar tax case, but only in the interest of more efficient administra tion. He said "at no time did 1 ex press Interest In the result of the case." Snyder explained his interest in expediting a multimillion dollar excess profits tax claim by Universal Pictures, Inc., in a letter to members of a house ways and means subcommittee.! investigating the internal rev enue bureau. rjVM!H fnr ihr firs! Ijjt , Fri- dav bv committee sources. At the same time, a committee member, Rep. Curtis R., Neb,) demanded that Snyder appear in person before the group "be fore he leaves office." Truman Budget Cut to S 80 Billion Washington ). President Truman's budget for the next fiscal year has been pared with in the last two weeks to a fig ure in the neighborhood of $80,- 000,000,000 reliable sources dis closed Friday, That is- about $5,000,000,000, 000 less than the fiscal 1954 budget was expected to total on the basis of preliminary esti-j mates earlier this month. Informants said the iowcr figure reflects a slowdown in defense spending, which constt fntes by far the biggest items in the budget, Mr, Truman will submit the budget to congress next Jan uary, just a few days before he surrenders his office to President-Elect Eisenhower, Eisen hower. Eisenhower wilt be free to revise the spending requests as he see fit by sending supple mental messages to congress. kucFSfZJi Herbert Browne!!, Jr., of New York selected for attor ney general Ike Going Only to Korea Will Not Visit Japan CV, LULU slt,, JLl, AWV UlKmiUHU 1 VI, iVidS11?.. . . .. r ijie.t iion, and he directs"! sirainsrv i n.,wM. iw tC,m rea, and will not visit Japan ar any other countries when he makes that journey. Smith, ranking member of thei Senate Foreign Relations Com-! mittee, had a long talk with Officials Close Alaska Bank Anchorage, Alaska W The Union Bank of Anchorage was closed at noon Thursday by the Territorial Banking Board and two of iis officers later wer ar rested on seven charges of fail Ing to abide by banking laws. The charges, aii misdemean ors, were made against Andrew Hassman, the institution's presi dent, and Rep. Stanley McCut- chcon, long-time power in terri torial democratic affairs and a national committeeman for his party, Both posted bond of $3,000 ana were released immediately. The seven charges, returned as indictments by a federal grand jury, accuse Hassman and Mc- Cutcheon of making loans in ex- cess of lenal limits, failure to hold meetings of stockholders and failure to obey bank borad orders. An order posted on the bank's doors said it would remain closed until further notice. Judge Anthony Dimon of the Third District Federal Court la ter appointed George Jones, An chorage accountant, as tempora ry receiver for the bank. Meleor Fleshes in Southwest Explodes Kjr The A&wctatwl Prets! A meleor flashed across the smiifiwestern skv iast niKht and suddenly riisinlesrated in a blaie of white light turning night into day at some places. It was seen in at least four states. The Oklahoma City Weather Bureau said from the varied re ports it had received there was no doubt the firebaii was a me teor. Reports of the object came from Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Colorado. Wm. Green AFL Chief Dies of Heart Failure Washington VP AFL President William Green died Friday at his home at Coshocton, O,, AFLfcut," hcadauarters announced. The announcement said Greentbeen in dally touch with Wash died at 32:22 p.m., t-SST, ol hearttmgion noaaquariers up to failure. He was IV ana nan oecn inursnay, president of the AFL since lB24.j He had been ill during He was the second ton labor leader to die of a heart aiiment'New York City to September, Gov. Douglas McKay, Prest witbin two weeks. icamc here briefly after the con- dent-cicct Dwight D, Elsenhow- CIO President Philip Murray dicd at San Francisco Nov. S. Green had gone to hia native Coshocion from Washington early in October, AFL headquarters here said It was advised Green suffered a heart attack Thursday night and that he "sank rapidly dur - i Harold E. Siasscn of Minne sota, director of Mutual Se curity Agency , .... 1 ne conversion msiniy son- cerned the Far East, he sssd. Smith visited Korea in 3949, before the fighting started, and again last year, He said fie gave Eisenhower his vi.ews on the actions neces sary for ending the war. Sum marized, they were: 3. An economic blockade of Red China. 2. A complete agreement with in the United Nations to provide coordinated action with respect to the Chinese Reds. Smith explained he meant mainly "cutting off aii trade and Intercourse with Red China, 3, Formulating a plan "espe cially with the British" to de termine "where we go from here if the truce talks fail." 4. Use of Chinese National ist troops, now exiled an For mosa, in fighting the Reds, Rosenbergs to Die January 12 New York W Federal Judge Irving R. Kaufman Friday set; the week at January 12 far the execution of Julius and Ethel HosenberE, convicted a t om i ef spies. . Last week the United States surname court refused for a second time to rehear the case of the husband and wife pris oners. They were convicted March 2B, 1951, of passing atomic secrets to Russia, and far many months have been confined in the death house at Sing Sing prison. In rejecting the Rosenberg appeai, the supreme court also denied a petition signed by 50, 00Q persons asking permission to file a brief arguing tor a new trial. fiosenberg, 34, and his wife, Ethel, 36, were sentenced lo death last year, the first death sentence meted out by a civil court to civiiians under the espionage act of 5317. Transport Docks at Seattle Seattie W The transport Ma rine Adder arrived here Friday; with 2,8 10 soldiers from the Far East. It brought home 3? Oregon men and 31 from Washington, sing the night." It quoted doctors as saying "bis heart just gave! ! Headquarters said Green hadi aru National uonvenuon m vcntlan and then went ta Coshocton home. Funeral services were set ten iativeiy for next Monday Coshocton. The MU fcxecuttvc Council jwaa expected to meet aoon to tfe - tide on a successor. j (Concluded m ple j, Colamn ) Sfassen Picked As Director of Security Agency New Tfark m Gen. Bwfgst D. Eisenhower Friday designat ed George M. Hamnhrev. erf Cleveland, Ohio, secretary of the treasury. He named Herbert Browne!!, Jr., of New York, attorney gen eral, and Baroiri E. Stassen, for mer governor of Minnesota, di rector of the Mutual Security Ag ency, Detroit OT General Motors Corp. confirmed Fri day tnat Charies E. Wilson will accompany President elect Dwight JX Eisenhower to Korea. A spokesman said there were no other details to an nounce. Brownell, New York lawyer. was a leader of Eisenhower's iicampaijrn for ih& COP nomSm- election campaign. Sias3&n is nw presMenl o &e 5inht,Breitv nf Pmwi, also was a key figure in Eisen- bower's nomination. Humphrey Corporation Head Humphrey, 82, is president of the hi. A, Hanna Company oi Cieveiand. He is a director of. numerous large corporations. It was the second day ia a row Ithat Eisenhower handed out a new list of appointees who will take over key posts in his ad ministration. James Hagerty, the general' I press secretary, announced the new designations. The following are some of toe I positions heid iy Humphrey In Jndusiry; , . (Cte&idd c-n Pxa Sv C&nunn 3 Lodge Has No Plans for Future New York M5 President elect Dwight a Eisenhower re ceived a report Friday from hit chief Washington liaison man, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (fi ftlass.) and presumably gat tii latest ward an the Korean sllu& Hon. Lodge, who has been ai worit in Washington an the initial stages of dave-tailing the new administration witn prooiems oi ii" o!d, was asked before he en- tared a conference with Eisen- hawer whether he was satisfied with his liaison worts. "No man is ever satisfied," replied, "I da the best I can. Still a lot more to do." Ashed about his personal plans, he repiicd: "I have no plans." Living Costs up Fracfionaiiy Washington Ml The govern ment reported today that living cosis went up fractionally in the SO days ended Oct. 15. Its in dex Inched up one-tenth of one point. The iitiie change from Sept. JS means that about one million workers in the automobile and aircraft industries wilt take . pay cut of one cent an hour ef fective fee. 1 owing to ffving cost declines in August and Sep tember. A cost-of-living clause of tlscir union contract calls far a wag revision every three month based on changes in index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It also means a rut of $5 Quar terly in the cost of 3iwing bonus far salaried workers of General Motors. The BLS reported its index on Oct. 35 was 390.9. This com pared with JSS.B on Sept. 15. - I iHcKay Io Attend if, t , "witjOygrnOfS rj66n3 hisjer's choice for secretary ot tn- terror, said Friday he wouid si- - tend the conference oi governors at in Phoenix, Ariz., ifec. i-iv. ( McKay U chairman ot the can- terence. j He aiso said be wouid attend iltc dedication of the Davis dam sncar Kingman, Arlfc, Dec. Id JS I i
