Gapital.feJoiiirnal.
THE WEATHER
' with occasional rain late to
night. Showery Tuesday, eool.
er. Low tonight, 44; hlfh Toe,
day, 54.
FINAL
EDITION
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Skyscraper
Bill Killed by
House 38-21
Purpose Was Re-'
moval of Exemptions
From Building Owners
; By JAMES D. OLSON
..The fo-called "Skyscraper"
bill, the subject of debates In
every legislature for many
years past, was Indefinitely
, postponed In the house Mon
' - day by a vote of 38 to 21.
The bill which had for its
purpose the removal of exemp
tions from owners of buildings
who derive 95 percent of in
come from rentals came to the
floor with a "do not pass" rec
ommendation signed by seven
of the nine member tax com
mittee. Rep. Lee Ohmart of Salem,
chairman of the house tax com
mittee reviewed the history of
' the corporate excise tax adopt
ed in the 1929 legislative assembly.
He told the house that the
original bill was not a revenue
. measure and was aimed direct
ly at state and federal finan-
clal firms that were up to then
escaping state taxes.
14 Exemptions Sought
The original law, Ohmart,
said, provided for 14 complete
exemptions including among
others insurance companies and
labor organizations as well as
building owners and railroads.
"These exemptions were giv-
n because such corporations
were paying very high prop
erty taxes and did not have any
personal property to claim ex
emption on as did otner corpo
rations coming under the act.
(Concluded on Face 5, Column C)
3-Day Wait
At Altar Off
Oregon's, well-known wait
ing neriod of three days for a
marriage license is a thing of
-the past. A bill repealing the
section of the law providing
for the waiting period was
passed by both the house and
senate with lltue aeDate ana
Monday was signed by Gover
nor Paul L. Patterson.
The three-day cooling-off
period was placed in the law
to prevent hasty and ill-advised
marriages, but the intent of
the law was largely defeated
by applicants for marriage li
censes, eager to marry at once,
of going into the state of Wash
ington where the law does not
provide a waiting period.
The amendment to the law
also provides that physicians
making physical examination
of the applicants may charge
$7.50 instead of the present $5
fee.
The bill passed the senate
with only three members
voting - against it, Senators
Howard Bejion, Truman Chase
and Roger Lpennig.
In the nouse the bill
passed by 51 votes only nine
members voting against it.
iThese members were Reps.
; Kenneth Goodall, V. T. Jack
son, Robert Jensen, Roderick
; McKenzie, Maurine Neuberger,
! Robert Root, Henry Semon,
:Jack Steiwer and Monroe
Sweetland.
Recent Rains
Send Rivers Up
Rivers in the valley came
Bp considerably over the
. week-end following rains of
last week, but no serious high
water Is In prospect as yet.
II At Salem, the 'Willamette
was up to 9 feet Monday
morning, a boost of more than
three feet over the Saturday
reading. Moderate rises are
Hue in the midvalley and low
f regions during the next 12
to 48 hours, but the river at
Salem is not expected to go
beyond two more feet above
the Monday reading, a long
way from the flood stage of
10 feet. At Jefferson, the
Santiam was up to 10.8 feet
this morning, but was falling
later.
i Sain was general over the
week-end. In the 48-hour
period ending at 10:30 a.m.
Monday, .49 of an inch was
measured in Salem, .04 of that
during the lost 24 hours.
Monday brought mild tem
peratures, some patches of
blua sky and sunshine occa
sionally, but the forecast calls
for increasing cloudiness and
occasional rain by late to-
65th
House Voles to
Open to Public
Welfare Rolls
Ballot 44 to 15
After Hectic Debate
For Amendment
The H o a s e of Renreseata-
Uves voted 44 to 15 Monday
to open Oregon's public wel
fare rolU to public inspection.
The bill goes to the Senate.
The vote came after itt
hours of debate, during which
foes of the bill failed to get
the biU sent to the Social Wel
fare Committee for some wa
tering down.
Introduced by the Legisla
ture's Joint Ways and Means
Committee, the bill provides
for monthly posting' with the
county cierKs ol all wellare
cases, including old age pen
sioners, relief cases, and those,
getting help under the aid to
dependent children program.
Anyone Can See Lists
Any person could see the
lists, provided he sign a pledge
not to use them for commercial
or political purposes.
(Concluded on Pte (, Column 6)
Oil Imports
Bring Protest
New York W The swell
ing river of foreign oil flow
ing to these shores is bringing
a loud clamor today from two
sources:
Coal mine operators and
workers object to the compe
tition of the foreign fuel.
Small American oil produc
ers and . even big companies
who have only American oil
to peddle are asking congress
to erect quota dams against
the flood of the cheaper for
eign product.
Oil Imports now top one
million barrels a day, about
twice the rate In 1948, accord
ing to the Independent Petro
leum Association of America.
American production, mean
while is being cut back, Texas
next month will allow only a
19-day statewide flow from
its wells. Texas has cut pro
duction in four months out
of the last five.
Rent Controls
To Be Extended
Washington 'VP) House
Speaker Martin (R., Mass.)
said Monday President Eisen
hower and Republican Con
gressional leaders have agreed
to extend the present rent con
trol law until October 1.
Rent controls will expire
April 30 unless extended by
Congress.
The present law provides for
rent ceilings on more than 5V4
million housing units, includ
ing those in critical defense
areas and in cities where local
governments have requested
ceilings.
Martin said on leaving a con
ference with Eisenhower and
Congressional leaders that an
extension to October 1 would
serve as notice to the individ
ual states that after that date
the federal government would
step out, except in critical de
fense areas.
The states would have to
take over if they care to con
tinue controls in less critical
areas, Martin said.
Beyond October 1, Martin
said, rent controls would be
authorized in areas determined
to be critical defense areas.
Red Czechs Assail US
For Subverting Regime
United Nations, N. Y. VP)
Soviet Satellite Czechoslovakia
ripped into the United States
Monday for allegedly trying to
subvert that country's commu
nist regime.
U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., immediately replied
that the Red Czech government,
which seized power in a three
day coup d'etat in 1948, was it
self the chief example of sub
version in modern times and
was in no position to accuse the
U. S. of it.
The bitter blast against the
U. S. one of the strongest ever
heard in the UN burst over
the UN's 60-nation political
committee as that group re
turned from a weekend during
which many delegates had tried
to assess reported "peace
moves" by the Kremlin. The
speech by Czech Foreign Min
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GOLD FISH
Vaughn Blankenship, . loser
of Willamette'! Freshmen
pay his bet.
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Seniors Su ffer Gibes
From Underclassmen
"Blue Monday" on the Wll.
lamette university campus was
a bit more restrained today
than is usually the case follow
ing the presentation of the an
nual Freshman Glee, but the
variety of pay-offs in connec
tion with misplaced Judgment
was as wide as ever.
41 States Draff
19-Year-0lds
Washington VP) Forty-one
states will draft 19-year-olds
for military duty next month,
and two others may have to,
an y Associated . Press survey
showed todaysru-sife
For 14 of these 41 states, it
will be the first draft of 19
year-old since World War II.
The survey of state selective
service directors also found
that all but two states Alaba
ma and South Carolina prob
ably will be taking 19-year-
olds in May. The Alabama di
rector said it will be June, per
haps later, before any will be
drafted in his state. The South
Carolina director said he didn't
know when.
The other three states that
won't take 19-year-olds in Ap
ril are Maryland, Vermont and
Virginia. New Jersey and Ten
nessee directors said "mayoe
not."
Thirteen states plan to call
19-year-olds to fill at least 50
per cent of their April draft
quotas.
2 Mountain Lions
Attack Trainer
Thousand Oaks, Calif. VP)
Two mountain lions sprang at
their trainer, bore him to the
ground and gashed his face
with their claws before 2,500
spectators at the World Jungle
Compound here.
Attendants fired a fusillade
of blank cartridges at the
beasts, frightening them from
the trainer, Edward Yost, 46,
and permitting him to stagger
from the cage Sunday.
Eight stitches were requir
ed to close the wounds.
ister Vaclav David dashes hopes
at least temporarily.
L. N. Palar of Indoesia asked
U.N.'s 60-nation political com
mittee to move up a Polish item
called "methods for avoiding a
third world war" to top place
on the agenda.
U. S. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., labelled the Polish
plan no matter what its title
"an insincere and rather
cynical proposal"
Polish F o r el g n Minister
Stan islaw SkrzcsHewski said
he was not prepared to dis
cuss his own plan at this time.
On the contrary, he declared,
Poland was ready to go ahead
with Czech charges of Ameri
can espionage activities behind
the Iron Curtain. Discussion on
that subject was originally
scheduled for Monday.
Salem, Oregon,
SWALLOWER
of a wager on the outcome
glee, swallows a goldfish to
This was the day when the
losers paid the winners, and
while the seniors did not offi
cially take to the Mill stream,
nevertheless, they were given
a place of prominence. A num
ber of gowned seniors were
placed in a boat in the center
of the gymnasium floor where
they were the victims of gibes
from their more fortunate un
der classmen.
The old favorite gag a
young man giving a girl an egg
shampoo was in evidence as
was the one where a fortunate
male has the chance to kiss a
number of coeds.
Students presumably went to
class on schedule during the
forenoon, but once the book
work was out of the way. they
assembled In. the gymnasium
for the antics. Many of the pro
fessors were on the sidelines
but President G. Herbert Smith
was in Berkeley, Calif.
Dr. Ralph Purvlne, school
physician, reported that as far
as he knew the mill stream was
as full of germs as ever and at
no time had he agreed to re
lent concerning the inadvisa-
bility of forcing the losers to
plunge into the stream. There
were no restrictions on wading
through.
HST Says Reds
Break All Pads
Los Angeles VP) Ex-Presi
dent Harry S. Truman told re
porters Monday that "It was
my experience the Russians
broke every agreement they
made."
The former President's re
mark came after he declined
to comment on a question of
whether peace chances were
better with the Malenkov re
gime in power in Russia.
Truman is on "my first real
vacation in 30 years," he told
newsmen on board the Presi
dent Cleveland. He, Mrs. Tru
man and Margaret sail Tuesday
for Hawaii.
"I'm doing everything I can
not to embarrass the new ad
ministration," Truman said,
This came after he was asked
about the Armed Services am
munition shortage.
"I know all the facts, but
I'm not In a position to com
ment," he said.
More Quakes
In West Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey VP) Furth
er earth tremors Sunday shook
down many of the houses at
Yenlce and Gonen which had
withstood the heavy quake last
Wednesday.
The Red Crescent Turkish
Red Cross reported no further
casualties but said the area in
Western Turkey now is com
pletely unfit to live in.
It broadcast an urgent ap
peal for 2,000 tents, as a foot-
deep snowfall and continued
cold weather added to the dis
comfort of refuges.
Four U.S. Air Force planes
brought 10,000 blankets, and
medicines from Istanbul air
port to the stricken sections
Sunday. An Istanbul and two
Danish refugee planes were ex
pected here Monday. ,
Monday, March 23, 195?
Office of Hiss
Reservoir for
Job Seekers
Over 457 Americans
Sent UN and 49
Got Posts
Washington W) A security
officer described the State De
partment office of Alger Hiss
Monday as "the reservoir
irom wmen names of more
than 47? American job seek
ers were sent to the United
Nations. -
William L. Franklin, special
assistant to the department's
security director, testified to a
House Judiciary Subcommittee
that of 49 who landed jobs
with the U. N. at least five
became "public issues."
By public issues, Franklin
said, he meant they were ac
tual or scheduled witnesses be
fore a New York grand jury or
a Senate subcommittee both of
which investigated charges of
Red infiltration of the United
Nations.
Hiss was assistant director or
director of the State Depart
ments onice of Special Politi
cal Affairs in 1946 when the
names were submitted. He is
in jail now, serving a term for
lying about passing docflments
to a wartime Soviet spy ring.
(Cencladed en Fate 5, Column 4)
Alcoa to Spend
$2,700,000
Vancouver, Wash., VP) The
Aluminum Company of Amer
ica announced Monday a $2,
700,000 expansion project at its
plant here.
Two big extrusion presses
for producing aluminum alloy
bars wll be installed to produce
alloy for further fabrication in
to rod, bar and wire.
C. S. Thayer, Northwest
manager for the firm, said the
new installation, - requiring
about 15 months to complete,
will create 200 new jobs. It will
increase overall employment to
800. . - ' -
New building's for the equip
ment will cover approximately
80,000 square feet. Thayer said
construction is to start as soon
as Aloca receives final govern
ment authorization.
The new equipment will be
capable of producing up to
three million pounds of strong
aluminum alloy bars a month,
Dr. Poling for
Probing Pastors
Philadelphia VP) Dr. Dan
iel A. Poling, prominent Bap
tist minister, said he believes
that clergymen "of all faiths'
should be investigated for pos
sible Un-American activities.
Dr. Poling, who leaves
Thursday for a tour of Japan
and Korea, said in a sermon
Sunday:
"I was asked during the
week if the church should be
investigated. No, I said, not the
church, but the preachers, yes.
"I think that the clergymen
of all the faiths should be in
vestigated, just as I think that
certain educators should be in
vestigated, because there are
false prophets among us."
The minister's remarks came
three weeks after the House
Un-American Activities Com
mittee rejected a suggestion by
its chairman to investigate
whether there has been Com
munist infiltration into the
churches.
Dr. Poling, who is chaplain
of Philadelphia's Chapel of the
Four Chaplains and editor of
the Christian Herald, plans to
spend Easter with United Na
tions troops either in Japan or
Korea.
Tornado Strikes
Southern States
(Br Onlttd Prui)
Tornadoes that whirled
across the south, peeling off
rooftops, felling trees and kill
ing one person, blew them
selves out today.
At least seven persons were
injured by the twisters, two of
them critically, and property
damage was heavy.
Tornadoes h 1 1 Louisiana,
Alabama, Arkansas and Ten
nessee yesterday One of them
killed Sfc. Harold L. Gomez,
24, near Leesville, La., then
tore a path 120 miles long
across the state.
Another tornado hit one mile
south of Bessemer, Ala., de
stroyed hangar and 12 private
airplanes.
MOOT-5 riMO-
tzmffy Demands
Bohen Submit to lie
Detector Test on Data
Washington VP) Sen. Mc
Carthy (R-Wls.) called in the
Senate Monday tor Charles E.
(Chip) Bohlen to submit to a
lie detector test on certain
security information he said is
in Bohlen's files.
McCarthy, fighting Bohlen's
nomination to be ambassador
to Russia, came out with this
as the Senate moved through
the first of what is expected
to be three days of hot debate
on Bohlen.
He, Sen. Bridges (R-NH)
and others have been pressing
for President Eisenhower to
withdraw the nomination.
Chinese Reds
Stage Attack
On Old Baldy
Seoul, Tuesday W) A fierce
Chinese assault by up to 3,500
men hit allied positions around
Old Baldy on the Western front
early Tuesday. ,
The Eighth Army said the
Chinese jumped off Monday
night against allied positions
about 8 pjn.
From there It built up to a
heavy blow in the early morn
ing hours.
Allied troops fell back from
nearby Pork Crop Hill and
fighting still was raging on Old
Baldy at last report.
Old Baldy, 11 miles west of
Corwon, overlooks one of the
main invasion routes to Seoul.
It was by far the heaviest
fighting of the year.
The Chinese struck first
Monday night with two com
panies, about 350 men, against
two forward positions on the
lower end of T-Bone Hill and
were driven off in an hour
and 45 minutes battle.
' At the same time, about 850
Chinese hit an outpost in the
White Horse Mountain sector
of the central front. Fighting
was continuing. . . ,;
1959 More Japs
Repatriated
Maizuru, Japan VP) A sec
ond repatriation ship, Taka-
sagu Maru, arrives today from
Shanghai with 1,959 Japanese
nationals stranded in China
since the end of World War II.
The first group of 2,009
men, women and children ar
rived in a pelting rain early
today from' Chinwangtao,
Manchuria, aboard the Koan
Maru.
By midsummer, some 25,
000 Japanese some held as
long as 16 years are sched
uled to be returned from
China.
Swarms of newsmen who
boarded the Koan Maru today
Irom fishing launches heard
conflicting stories of life in
communist China. Some re
turnees wept for Joy at the
sight of their homeland. Oth
ers defiantly spouted Red
propaganda.
However, Mayor Tasuo Sa-
gane of Maizuru, who met the
ships, said the passengers were
the most orderly group yet to
arrive at this huge repatria
tion center from a communist
country.
Baruch Pleads For
Stand-by Controls
Washington VP) Bernard
M. Baruch said Monday that
if war comes and finds the
government unprepared to
clamp on Immediate economic
controls, "there will not be
person alive who will not
bitterly rue this tragic, need
less neglect."
Urging that the administra
tion and congress get together
on a standby economic con
trols law, or that congress do
it alone if necessary the New
York financier and adviser to
presidents said:
The next war, and all of
us pray it will be avoided, is
likely to explode In a big
smash. Cities may be all but
obliterated. Who knows
where congress will be?
You face a simple Issue,"
Baruch said in a statement to
the senate banking commit
tee. "Are we to take the ele
mentary precaution of writing
into law now what we know
would have to be done in
event of emergency?
"Or shall wa neglect this
Price 5c
But at a forenoon meeting
with Senate Leader Taft
(Ohio) Eisenhower made it
plain he was not going to do
that but would see the contro
versy through, according to
Taft.
McCarthy said the data in
Bohlen's file which gives him
concern covers 16 pages and is
so secret he could not discuss
it on the Senate floor without
violating security.
These has been no official
word as to the nature of the
so-called "derogatory informa
tion" in the files. However,
Sen. George (D.-Ga.) said it
concerned "anonymous letters.
rumor and hearsay" about Boh
len's reputed association with
what George called "dissolute
persons."
Dulles has said there is no
thing in this Involving any
question of Bohlen's loyalty
and security.
Sen. Taft asked McCarthy If
he did not know that J. Edgar
Hoover, head of the FBI, was
"entirely opposed to the lie
detector or polygraph." placing
no confidence in it.
(Concluded on Pre 6, Column I)
Rene Mayer to
See Eisenhower
Montellmar, France, VP)
Premier Rene Mayer, flying
Tuesday to the United States to
see President Eisenhower, says
France is ready to help build
a United Europe "providing its
stature as a world power is
recognized."
The premier spoke at a ban
quet after laying the first stone
for a 60 billion franc (174 mil
lion dollar) dam on the Rhone
River. '
Speaking of the proposed Eu
ropean army pact, on which
France has delayed ratification,
Mayer said:
"I will speak in the name ol
a country, which Is ready to
participate -tn'-the-'eonstructlon
of a united Europe providing
its stature as a world power
is recognized and that It Is
guaranteed the means to carry
out its missions without giving
up any of its duties, without
compromising the French
Union."
Tito Thinks Reds
Seeking a Truce
London U.R) President Tito
of Yugoslavia today was report
ed convinced the new Soviet
rulers want a truce In the cold
war to consolidate their own
rule.
Diplomatic sources said Tito
told Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and other British of
ficials the new Kremlin bosses
are mediocre compared with
the late Josef Stalin.
The Yugoslav marshal, high
in world communist circles be
fore his break with the Krem
lin in 1948, was said to feel
Soviet power is now a balanced
triple partnership with Georgi
M. Malenkov, Lavrentl Berla
and Vyacheslav Molotov.
Tito was quoted as saying
Stalin fashioned them into use
ful tools but none of them has
real genius for leadership.
vital measure of defense and,
in doing so, increase the risk
of war, add to the toll of
dead and wounded if war
does come and make infla
tion certain, all needlessly?"
Baruch had been invited to
give his views to the senate
committee, which is consider
ing various legislative propos
als for some sort of standby
controls law.
Present authority for wage-price-rent
controls and alloca
tions of scarce materials is due
to expire variously on April
30 and June 30. President
Eisenhower has said that ex
cept for some critical areas, he
wll ask neither for their con
tinuance nor for standby au
thority. Eisenhower has al
ready decontrolled wages and
prices.
Chairman Capehart (R.,
Ind.) of the senate banking
group has been plugging for
standby authority to freeze
prices, wages and rents for 90
days after the start of a de
clared emergency.
RFC to Quit
Business on
June30,1954
Ike and GOP Chiefs
Agree to Kill Huge
Lending Agency
Washington, VP) President
Eisenhower and GOP congres
sional leaders agreed Monday
to let the reconstruction fi
nance corporation die June
30, 1954.
That is the date the govern
ment's big lending agency is
due to go out of business un
der present law. Some con
gressmen want the RFC to be
abolished at the end of this
year.
Congressional leaders said
liquidation of the agency al
ready is under way. -Announced
by Martin
The decision was announced
by House Speaker Martin (R.,
Mass.) after the congressional
leaders' regular : . Monday
morning conference with tee
president. '
Martin said about SO per
cent of the RFC officers
throughout the country will
be closed within 40. days.
The small loan functions of
the RFC. he said, probably
will be transferred to soma
other government agency. De
tails wiu De worked out by
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey and Secretary of
Commrece Weeks, Martin add
ed. ,
Only Small Loans
Meanwhile, he said, RFC
will grant no loans over one
million-dollars.
Earlier, the chairman of the
banking committees of both
the senate and house said the
RFC should be kept in exist
ence until mld-1954.
Service
Under Ike's Fire
VliankMnM UU sr i t.
Intends to fid the government
Civil Service system of any
federal workers who are "in
competent, dishonest or dis
loyal."
He declared there are onlv
a few such federal emnlovei.
and added: .
"I intend to see the govern
ment rid of all such persons
previsely because that is the '
only way to make the merit
system itself work."
' Eisenhower set forth- his
views in a prepared statement
after witnessing the swearins
into office of Philip Young as
a member of the Civil Serv
ice Commission.
After the White House cere
mony the President immediate
ly designated Young, who has
served as dean of the Graduate
School of Business at Colum
bia University, as chairman of
the Commission.
In his statement, Eisenhow
said the appointment of
Young to head the agency
brings into office "a man of
stature and capacity ..."
Plane with 11
Abbard Missing
San Juan. Puerto Rico VP)
The U. S. Navy announced
here Monday a PBM Mariner
seaplane with 11 men aboard
has been missing over the At
lantic northwest of San Juan
since Sunday.
The plane left San Juan Sat
urday night on a mission in
connection with the Navy's
current training exercises in
the Puerto Rico area. It was
last heard from Sunday morn
ing about 450 miles northwest
of San Juan and was believed
on its way back to Its base.
The PBM is a two-engine
"flying boat" used for general
utility purposes.
More than 40 ships and 21
planes were searching the sea
Monday over an area covering
16,000 square miles.
The plane and crew belong
to Patrol Squadron 34, normal
ly assigned to Trinidad, but
moved here for the training
maneuvers.
BURKE FOR U. S.
ATTORNEY
Washington (P) President
Eisenhower Monday nominated
Lloyd H. Burke to be U. S. at
torney for Northern California.
He succeeds Chauncey F. Tra
mutolo, who is resigning, the
White House said.
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