Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, March 20, 1953, Page 1, Image 1

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    THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with show
ers tonight; mostly fair, mild
Saturday. Low tonight, 15; hick
Saturday, 53. . ,
FINAL
EDITION
65th Year, No. 68
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Restrictions
On Billboards
Being Dratted
Ban Planned by
Senate on All Ore
gon Thoroughfares
By JAMES D. OLSON
Rratrlctlon on billboards
on Oregon throughways and
new highway! is being pro
vided In bill being drafted
for the senate natural re
sources - committee, accord
ing to Sen. Fhll Hitchcock of
Klamath Fairs, chairman.
Sen. Hitchcock told mem
bers of the house highways
committee in a meeting late
Thursday that his committee
had a bill regulating bill
boards on all Oregon hlgh
' ways, but members of his
committee felt that the bill
was faulty and hence a new
, bill is being drafted.
The Klamath Falls senator
declared that he did not be-
lieve that there was sufficient
: time remaining in the present
- session to give proper consid
eration to regulation of all
billboards - on Oregon hlgh
' ways.
. Plan Licensing '
"We are inclined to believe
: that the best method of con-
trolling billboards and ellmln
, ating obnoxious ones, would
be through legislation provid
ing for licensing billboards
and setting up zones in which
' certain types of billboards
' would be either permitted or
disallowed," Sen. Hitchcock
' said.
"I believe that to accom
plish this purpose will take a
careful study which might be
performed by a research coun-
cil that I understand may be
set up by the present legisla
ture." '
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column ()
Newbry Hits
At Neuberger
' V Secretary of State Earl'T.
i Newbry accused Sen. Richard
, L. Neuberger, Portland dem
ocrat, Thursday of making
"partisan and untruthful poli
tical attacks" on Newbry. .
, In a letter to Neuberger,
Newbry added that Neuber
ger has falsely suggested that
Newbry originated the idea of
using the secretary of state's
name on printed matter of
his office.
Neuberger is sponsoring a
hill restricting the use of offi
cials' names on documents.
Newtbry said in his letter
that he only has been follow
ing a long-established custom
; In printing his name on docu
ments. Newbry said that Neuber-
ger asked for samples of all
printed matter on which
Newbry's name appears,
i Newbry wrote Neuberger
that the purpose of the re
i quest "is simply to dramatize
: your purely political inter
I est In this subject."
Spring Arrives
Ahead of Time
Spring arrived at 2:01 p.m.
Friday in Salem, some hours
ahead of the traditionally ac
cepted date of March 21. The
hour varies, however, says the
weather bureau, some years
. the official spring day coming
on March 20, in others on
March 21.
Anyway, there was little
change in the weather to mark
the coming of the year's most
colorful season. Clouds, show
ers and some fair weather con
tinue in the forecast for to
night and Saturday here.
One-fourth of an inch of
rain descended on Salem dur
ing the night, exactly .25 of an
inch being measured in the 24
hour period ending at 10:30
a.m. Friday.
Forecast for. tonight is for
clouds and showers, and for
Saturday, mostly fair weather
and mild temperatures.
The five-day forecast out
Friday calls for temperatures
to be about normal or slightly
below, and for rain, the preci
pltatlon due the fore part of
the period.
Rainfall for the month so far
has not reached a point above
normal, 2.92 inches being re
' corded for the first 20 days as
against a normal of 2.83 inches
for the period.
Weather Details
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Purchasing by
State Under
Sellers' Fire
30 Merchants File
Complaint Against .
Dorman's Methods
Governor Paul L. Patterson
Friday promised Investigation
of complaints of a number of
Willamette valley businessmen
on state purchasing methods.
These men, numbering about
30, conferred with the governor
for more than two hours Thurs
day afternoon.
Complaints made against the
purchasing department, a divi
sion of the department of fi
nance and a dminist ration,
ranged from discourtesy on the
part of some employes in the
purchasing depar tmentto
claims that the state is losing
money on unwise purchases.
Transfer of all state purchas
ing to the finance department
from the board of control was
made when the department of
finance was created by the 1951
legislature.
Patterson's Remarks
The governor told the group
no completely new set-up could
be expected to work perfectly
in 20 months and said be fav
ors the basic principal of con
solidatlon of state departments
with the view of saving money.
(Concluded on Pago 5, Column 1)
Delay Hearings
On Surcharges
Hearing on the surcharge
issue before Public Utilities
Commissioner Charles H. Helt
zel opened Thursday, and then
was postponed to allow an
amended complaint to be
served on two additional pow
er companies. : . 1' ",
The complaint was brought
by State Rep. Monroe Sweet
land against the Portland Gen
eral Electric company.' '..
.- He seeks to have the com
pany absorb its extra costs of
steam generation, instead of
allowing it to get the 20 per
cent surcharge.
Sweetland also asks an in
vestigation of the whole rate
structure.
The amended motion made
by Sweetland sought to in'
elude the Pacific Power' and
Light and Mountain States
Power . companies. So the
hearing was delayed to allow
service of the complaint on
these companies.
The two latter companies
have 20 days to answer the
complaint.
Heltzel said he wants to
hold the hearing before the
legislature goes home.
Liquor by Drink Bill
Sent to Governor
The liquor by the drink bill
awaits only the signature of
Gov. Paul L. Patterson before
it becomes law.
The senate and house, with
out any argument, accepted
Thursday the compromise
worked out by a conference
committee. Gov. Patterson pro-
bably will sign it early next
week.
Sale of liquor by the glass
will start as soon as the liquor
commission can license the out
lets.
New Bill on Labor
Relations Offered
A new labor bill which spon
sors hope will bring agreement
between labor and employers,
made its appearance in the
house Friday.
The measure is sponsored by
Representatives Russell Hur-
son, Robert Root and Lee Oh-
mart and Senator Eugene
Brown, none of whom were
signers of any of the other
labor bills which have been
keeping the labor and indus
tries committee in a turmoil
for the past few weeks.
Features of the new bill are
that it would prevent organi
zational picketing and would
Include a section from the
Taft-Hartley law setting out
what Is to be required from
the employers
While sponsors of the other
labor bills involved in the 'con
troversy would make no for
mal statement, lt is understood
that they are willing to see
in
Turkey Quake
Istanbul, Turkey . (UB Re
curring earthquakes, accompa
nied by rain, snow and bitter
cold, "had brought death today
to at least 1,103 persons in
stricken northwest Turkey.
Unofficial sources said more
than 2,000 were injured, many
of them critically. Thousands
were homeless and suffering in
the bitter weather. .
Food shortages and smashed
water supplies . combined with
the freakish weather were be
lieved likely to add to the
mounting death toll.
A total of 998 persons was
reporter" 'ad in i the Yenice
area r some 180 miles
southwe. of Istanbul. It was
estimated, as many as 400 addi
tional bodies would be found in
the debris of homes and mos
ques. The Istanbul observatory re
ported 14 new quakes in the
past 24 hours, two of them se
vere.-: v .- -
Seven temblors were record
ed in .the 24 hours following
the first shock Wednesday. At
least five ci them were serious,
Seek Bodies of
Plane Victims
St. John's, . Newfoundland
VP) Search continued Friday
for the bodies of two missing
victims of a U. S. bomber crash
on Newfoundland's isolated
east . coast as rescue parties
awaited clearing weather to
bring out the remains of 21
known dead.
Their burned-out plane was
one of two American bombers
downed Wednesday in New
foundland with a possible toll
of 33 lives.
Twenty-three of the men
were aboard a huge 10-engine
RB-36 that smashed into a hill
in rugged, heavily timbered
country about 50 miles north
of St. John's. The other 10 were
crewmen of a B-29 Superior
tress from which wreckage
was found floating in the
water of St. George's Bay with
no sign of survivors.
Both planes were on train
ing flights and crashed in foggy
weather.
POPE'S CHAMBERLAIN
DIES
Vatican City W Msgr. Al
berto Arborio-Melll dl St. Elta,
chambarlain to Pope Pius III
and president of the Heraldic
Court of the Pontificlal com
mission, died Friday at the age
Ol 73.
three of the former bills tabled
by the labor and industries
committee.
This committee will hold a
public hearing Saturday to be
followed by an executive ses
sion at which action will be
taken on the bills.
Only one of the old bills
which probably will get com
mittee consideration is House
Bill S89 which provides that
any union represetning per
sons In this state may sue or
be sued. Bills slated for ta
bling are House Bills 298, 590
and 591.
Under the new bill, read for
the first time in the house
Friday, provides an election
must be held and the union
get approval of SI per cent
of the employes before picket
ing could take place In effect
a ban on organizational picketing.
(Concluded an Fag Column I)
TO THE RESCUE
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' Navy Airman Richard D. Donovan of Emmetsburg, la.,
(in white asbestos suit, right center) moves in to rescue -unconscious
pilot, Lt. Edwin L. Kummer, from the wreck
age of his F4U Corsair aboard the aircraft carrier USS .'
Oriskany after accidental explosion of bomb during land-
ing operation in Korean waters.' Firefighting crews move '
in at left. (U. S. Navy radiophoto via AP Wlrephoto)
Poggi Bemoans fate
As New Arrest Lo
By VIC
Joseph Poggi was free for
one short moment Friday after
it was ruled that he had been
illegally imprisoned in Ore
gon State -, penitentiary for
nearly 20 years. . . -
Given 8 Months
New Yorkj VP) One court
Friday delayed sentencing
playboy Minot F. Jelke-for
forcing young girls into pros
titution, but another court gave
him eighth months in jail xor
illegal rxjssesslon of guns.
Th
- . . -i
to , an oleomargarine-fortune,
and son of a socially-registered
family, was scheduled to hear
his penalty in both cases. - '
But General Sessions Judge
Francis L. Valente postponed
sentencing in the sensational
compulsory prositution case,
hinting anew he may give
Jelke a suspended sentence.
In the two-count illegal gun
case, a three-judge special ses
sions' court 'imposed two four
month terms in the workhouse,
to run consecutively.
County Salary
OK'd by Senate
With only one dissenting
vote the Senate approved a bill
Friday to permit county courts
and commissions to fix sala
ries of county officers.
The salaries now are fixed by
the Legislature.
The Senate passed a similar
bill in 1951, but it died in the
House..
Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton, the
lone dissenter, said the bill
would give the county courts
more authority over the sala
ries than the Legislature has.
Ellis argued the bill would
let county judges and commis
sioners to fix their own sala
ries, while the legislators can't
set their own salaries.
Order Probe in
Burgoyne Case
A Douglas county grand
jury will investigate the Feb
ruary 1 fatal shooting of C.
D. Burgoyne at his home near
Riddle, Gov. Paul L. Patter
son announced Friday.
Gov. Patterson, after a con
ference with Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton, said
Thornton would submit all of
his findings to the grand jury,
Burgoyne was killed by
Douglas county sheriff s offi
cers who besieged his home
after Burgoyne refused to sub
mit to arrest on a charge of
threatening a neighbor.
The govumor said that
Thornton, who Investigated
the case a few days ago, found
enough facts to warrant a
grand jury investigation.
A group of Riddle citizens
asked Thornton to make the
investigation, charging that
the sheriff's officers used
more force than was neces
sary. They said the officers
fired 1,000 to 2,000 shots into
Burgoyne'a home.
oms
FRYER
Then he was taken into cus
tody by Deputy Sheriff Harvey
Frankum of Salem and taken
to the Marion county sheriff's
office to be turned over to
Clackamas county authorities.
In that county he will face
court action under the habitual
criminal act the same charge
under which he had been im
properly held, , according to a
ruling of Marlon County cir
cuit Judge Rex Kimmell.
Judge Kimmell signed Pog
gl's release order Friday morn
ing after ruling Thursday that
Poggi had been illegally held
far beyond a five-year-sentence
for burglary the charge on
which he was tried in Oregon
City in August 1928
i widd inmiiffn nil Biuuntauj
Poggi, through nil srttene,
bltliSonTn
Marlon ; county circuit court
in January, contending that the
action in Judge J. U. Camp
bell's Clackamas county cir
cuit court 24 years ago was
sufficient only to convict him
of burglary. ; t
: Judge Kimmell agreed, hold
ing that Poggi was convicted
of habitual criminality on his
own . testimony that he had
been previously convicted of
three burglaries. It was up to
the state to prove that Poggi
had three prior felonies on his
record, Kimmell held.
Shortly after the decision
was announced Thursday, Dis
trict Attorney Winston L.
Bradshaw went before Clack
amas County Circuit Judge
Philip K. Hammond in Oregon
City and got a bench warrant
for Poggl's arrest on his release
from prison. , - '
Poggi was elated Thursday
when he heard the news of
Judge Kimmell's order and be
came justifiably unhappy when
he heard of the subsequent
order from Oregon City.
(Concluded on Page 8. Column 4f
Sub Hideout
Said Success
Groton. Conn., VP) Navy
brass and 23 men who took
part in it, agreed Friday that
"Operation Hideout" was a
success but for different rea
sons. 1 -.
Navy officials said they got
the answers to highly impor
tant questions during the two
months an officer and 22 en
listed men were 'buttoned up"
in the submarine Haddock.
Life aboard the atomic sub
marines of the future will be
less difficult because of the
exDeriment. they said. Such
subs, one of which is building
nearby, are expected to be able
to remain submerged Indefi
nitely. The 23 volunteers, sealed in
the Haddock since Jan. 19,
emerged from the v e s s e 1
Thursday afternoon to be pro
nounced in good physical con
dition. The 22 enlisted men were
certain that the tests proved
'you can believe your superior
officer when he promises you
all the beer you can drink."
KUHLENBECK SHERIFF
Toledo. Ore. Iff1) W. H.
Kuhlenbeck was sworn in as
Lincoln county sheriff Thurs
day, Former county welghmas-
ter, he was appointed on the
resignation of Sheriff Tim
Welp.
Allies Study
Red Proposal
On Air Safely
Propose Conference
To Avoid Clashes
Along .Frontiers
' Bonn, Germany OP) Allied
official Friday studied a So
viet suggestion for a British
Russian conference aimed at
avoiding air clashes along the
East-West border in Germany.
British sources described the
Red reply to a Western protect
as somewhat conciliatory but
there was no reaction from
American or French, quarters.
The suggestion was made
Thursday night by Gen. Vas
sily Chuikov, Soviet command
er in Germany, in otherwise
rejecting a joint protest from
the Western occupation powers
against hostile action by Soviet
fighter plans toward three
British aircraft last week,
Chuikov proposed a confer
ence of "competent", British
and Soviet military representa
tives "to work out adequate
measures" in order to "avoid
such disagreeable air inci
dents," the Soviet news agency
ADN reported,
(Concluded en Page 5, Cohunn 5)
Writer Attacks
lozid as Falsifier
Washington W Mrs. Hope
Ridings Miller, a Washington
writer and public relations
worker, told House investiga
tors Friday she failed to report
on her regular income tax re
turns a $2,500 fee she received
in a tax evasion case. -Mrs.
Miller said she receiv
ed the fee in 1950 but reported
it only last week in an amended
tax return. She appeared be
fore a subcoromittee ol the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee which-has been investi
gating the ease; --: .-.1 '
vMrsk MOlej salqV the money
was xor a punuo relations serv
ice in the case of Garry D,
Iozla, ; Italian-born " business
man of Paterson, N. J., who re
cently was r convicted of tax
evasion. He pleaded guilty after
a long fight against the charges,
She also described as "really
the most- vicious untruth
Iozla's testimony that she had
received $2,500 in cash as well
as a $2,500 check in the case
a total of $5,000.
ROK Repulse
2 Red Assaults
Seoul VP) South Korean in
fantrymen hurled back two
sharp attacks by some 100 Chi
nese on the muddy western
Korean front today the 1000th
day of the stalemate struggle
on this Asiatic peninsula.
The Eighth ' army - reported
troops of the Republic of Ko
rea First division smashed as
saults by more than two pla
toons of communists in a drif
ing rainstorm near Little Nori
Hill, west-northwest of Yon
chon. The heafy rains up ot two
inches in some sectors and a
thick haze covered the battle-
front. Sporadic patrol clashes
were reported on the central
and eastern sectors,
Allied fighter-bombers for
ih aomnri rinv were hnmnered
in hir hw. nffiiinct nmrnn.
nlst troops and supply facUl-
ties.
Churchill and Tito Said
Agreed, Defense Plans
London VP) Prime Minister
Churchill and top British eco
nomic and military officials
yesterday agreed with Pre
mier Tito on a Yugoslav plan
to block Soviet aggression in
the eastern Mediterranean.
Although no exact details
were disclosed, informed
sources said the plan involved
increased' . British economic
aid to Yugoslavia and the sup
ply by Britain of powerful
new weapons, including jet
planes and heavy tanks, to
Tito's military - and naval
forces.
After the meeting, the Yu
goslav leader told newsmen:
"We examined the general
situation in the world, espe
cially the question of defense
against aggression. We reach
ed the same toncluilons in
Clark Sees No
Early End to
IndochinaVar
Thu Due. Indochina VP)
uen. mstx ciark declared Fri
day that the United Nations
forces in Korea and those of
the French Union in Indochi
na are fighting "one war" in
which he sees "no indications"
of an early end.
The U. N. and U. S. com
mander in chief in the Far East
told newsmen at a training
ground for the Vietnamese
army Just outside this little
town 12 miles east of Saigon
that he was impressed by. the
"intent interest" shown br the
French in helping the Viet
nam government build up an
army wnicn one day may be
able to defend its own country.
Asked whether he thought
the conflict in Indochina might
end quickly if the Korean war
was terminated, Clark replied:
"There is no indication from
where I sit in Tokyo whether
we are going to wind up the
war in &orea." ,
Curran Attacks
T-H Labor Law
' Washington,' VP) Joseph
Curran, president of the CIO
Maritime Union, said Friday
the Taft-Hartley Act under
mines the hiring hall system
and fosters the "archiac and
outrageous" practice of em
ploying seamen off the docks
In "shape-ups." 1
fin testimony for the House
Labor Committee, Curran said
the nation's basic labor law
"has operated to destroy the
union hiring hall . . . The most
important single labor rela
tions device ever to be devel
oped in - the maritime indus
try." V ' ...-,:'
The law, he said, would "re
turn seamen to the scandalous
and horrible conditions . . . of
the shape-up." -.-i"
The committee is in the
midst of hearings on proposals
to revise the law, passed in
1847. Before its enactment, the
hiring hall' was considered
closed shop which requires
employes ta join a Union or
lose their lobs and. some.crit-
ics contend it still is, although
the act outlaws closed shopsv
Bowles Admits
New Delhi, India VP) Re
tiring U. S.. Ambassador Ches
ter Bowles ..confirmed - Friday
he had recommended that the
Voice of America not give "ex
cessive treatment" to a n 1 1
communist statements by In
dian leaders. ' '
Bowles said he feared such
emphasis would cause the In
dians to make "balancing'
statements against the United
States as part of their policy
of keeping neutral in the cold
war.. . . ' ''
Two Voice officials in Wash-
lngton Thursday told the Mc
Carthy - Senate subcommittee
investigating the government
radio that Bowles had urged
the Voice "refrain from undue
emphasis on antl-communist I
propaganda." K
The outgoing envoy, who
leaves here Sunday for home,
said he made his suggestion
during a conference last June
12 in Washington with two
Voice representatives and
't'here was no effort on my
part to soften the attack on
communism as such."
"But there was criticism of
the technique used from the
viewpoint of the peculiar situa-
tion existing in India," Bowles
I Mid. :
urea test accord on how to
preserve peace in Europe."
But a Yugoslav source said
Tito will have achieved his
main purpose if .he has' con
vinced British leaders that his
country should receive a great
er share of Britain's limited
supply of arms and aid. Brti-
am already has agreed to give
the Balkan nation 4H million
pounds $12,600,000 in eco
nomic aid for the year ending
in June.
Tito apparently stressed
that Yugoslavia's ability to co
operate in defense of the east
ern Mediterranean is directly
proportional to the help she
can get from Britain and the
United States. He said, his
nation badly needed jet planes
to match the Soviet-made
Mlgs now being supplied to
Red satellite Bulgaria, Ro
mania and Hungary,
Dulles Forces
Showdown on
Bohlen's Case
Secretary Denies ,
Clearance Made
Over Aide's Protest
Washington W A sharp
new controversy flared up Fri
day over the nomination !
Charles E. Bohlen as ambassa
dor to Russia,
Sen. McCarran (D.. Nev.)
charged it was "cleared" over
objections from the State De- .
partment security officer but
Secretary Dulles disputed that
McCarran fired his charge
in a senate speech. Dulles told
a news conference later in the
day there are no differences
between him and the security
officer, R. W. Scott McLeod,
over the selection of Bohlen.
Standi Fat for Bohlen
Dulles declared also:
1. He has no intention' of
suggesting that the president
withdraw Bohlen's nomination.
2. That the ease is an acid
test of the orderly processes of
government. In this instance,
he said, Bohlen has been un
animously approved by the sen
ate foreign relations committee
which Dulles described as the
proper body. - , ; . j
The implication of these re- -marks
appeared to be that Dul
les would object strongly to any
attempt by Sen, McCarthy's
senate investigations subcom
mittee to go into the Bohlen
appointment. -McCarthy (R,
Wis.), is trying to get McLeod
before the group. '
(Concluded en Pis S, Cslassa I)
Of Entire 1MB
Washington (A The Na
tional Lumber Manufacturer
Association rapped the Nation- :
al XJibor Relations . Boar Ci -
Thursday, calling for "new per
sonnel in the boara xrom up
tft bottom.!....! ir. J
,The association asserted the
NLRB Is violating the Taft
Hartley Labor L w. Repre-
senatives of the association,
which says it represents 1,509
employers, testified before the
House Labor Committee. -
The- association said these
employers hire more than 100,
000 men in Oregon and Wash
ington. .-".'.
E. H. Card, personnel man
ager, of the Coos Bay Lumber
Co. in Coos Bay, Ore., said
stricter provisions are needed
for jurisdictional disputes.
He described what he said
was a long jurisdictional dis
pute at the Juneau Spruce
Corp., In 1947 between the CIO
Woodworkers and the: Welt
Coast Longshoremen.
Reed to Fight
For Tax Slash -
' Washington VP) Rep. Reed
R., N.Y., said Friday he has not
given up his fight to cut in
dividual income taxes by 10
per cent on June 30. And he
declared he is confident House
leaders will bring his bill to
the House floor "In the very
near future."
"I have not surrended to
anyone in the tax reduction
battle," Reed said in a state
ment. "I shall fight more vig
orously than ever to fulfill the
pledges of the republican
party."
Reed's bill has been approv
ed by the tax-writing Ways and
Means Committee which he
heads but is bottled up in the
Rules Committee.
House leaders have indicated
a disposition to keep it there
at least until appropriations
bills are written and they know
more about prospective gov
ernment expenditures. ,
Hotel Destroyed
At Prineville !
Prlneville VP) Fire swept
through the Inland Rooms
Thursday night, burning out
the interior and bringing
smoke and water damage to
three ground-floor establish
ments.
On the ground floor are Don
Neat's gun shop, Mrs. Edna
Perron's beauty shop, and Pat
Gillander's restaurant. Dam-
age to them was extensive al
though firemen held flames to
the upper story.
The building has frame In
terior with brick and concrete
, walls.
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