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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1953)
THE WEATHER. INCREASING CLOUDINESS eomlng cloudy with occasion fj wday. Little change J'- Iw tteimt, ; 4tj alga Tharsdsy, it. Court Decides Fees on Truths r. 4,52 - Safeway Stores v ; ' Win Right to Sell : " Milk in Salem . Br JAMES D. OLSON - Ia two Important dectiloni Banded down by the state sup reme eonrt Wednesday It held at one ease that the effective date of the weight-mile track fees Is November 4, 1952 and In the other that Safeway Stores may process milk and cream In Its Portland plant for dlstribn , tion and salr In Salem. The opinion in the truck ' case was written by Chief Jus tice Earl C. Latourette with Associate Justices Harold Warner and James Brand, dis senting. . . In his prevailing opinion the - chief justice called attention to the claim of the Portland Pen dleton Motor Transportation company,, the plaintiff that the State constitution provides any . ''measure referred to the peo ple shall taxe etteci and in come the law when it is' ap 1 proved by the majority of the . votes cast thereon. , and not otherwise." l,000,aeo Involved The defendant, Charles B. Heltzel, public utility commis sioner, had contended that the tax became' effective. January 1, 1992 by virtue of the terms of the truck tax act itself. ; : ! 'This matter is very import ant" Chief Justice Latourette said, since it involves nearly two million dollars in taxes. depending on the effective date of the act. , - "There is no question in our minds" the majority opinion read "but that the legislature ia the present case. fixed the effective date of January 1, 1052, with the idea in view that such date would be the , affective date in the absence of a referendum. : (Coneloded en Pas I, Column 4) II -.. f ATI noney ior uii , ; The house passed and sent to the senate Tuesday a 81.- Due Not 588,898 appropriation bill for "Oregon Technical Institute at Klamath Falls. In contrast to recent legis lative sessions when the bill was the target for bitter at tacks by labor unions, the bill passed with only a slight mur mur of dissent. V: ' Rep. Robert Dunlway, Port land, said "we're building up an institution at the wrong place. v Another Portlander, Rep. Maurine Neuberger, said that "the highest per capita educa tion costs in the state are at OTI.", The appropriation is for the two years i beginning next July 1. The school's budget for the current two-year period is $1,404,018. , Coercion Claim 01 Witness Rep. H. R. Weatherf ord, Wal lowa, a member of the house labor and industries commit tee, exhibited a letter Wed nesday from a Grants Pass Testaurant owner In which the operator says he was boycot ted for testimony he offered in support of anti-labor bills. The letter was read on the floor of the house by Rep. Loyd X. Haynes, under his right of "personal privilege." "I know the man who wrote this letter and he is a man of Integrity," Haynes said. "If witnesses . before legislative, committees are to be lntlmi ' dated by labor leaders, cer tainly this legislature must take some steps to put an end to the practice. The letter was from Dwight C. Battey, proprietor of the Cave shop in Grants Pass and president of the Rogue Valley Restaurant association. Contract Let for Dam Power House Portland (U.fO Midland Con structors, Inc., Huntington Park, Calif., submitted the low combined bid of $124,405 for construction of the Detroit dam power house 230-kilovolt trans mission line, the Detroit sub station foundations and struc tures and a part of the Detroit Albany 230-kllovolt transmis sion line, the Bonneville Power Administration reported today. 65th Stole Budget Balanced by Ways-Means Walker Warns of $40 Million Deficit r Next Biennium ; Senator Dean ' H. Walker told the ' senate Wednesday that the Joint ways and means committee will submit a bal anced budget for the 151-55 biennium. But he followed up with a warning that, unless new state revenues are .imposed, the state may have to draft a $40 million deficit budget for the 1955-57 biennium. .: :. "I do not want it said that; 'those old conservatives' are ; crying ' wolf again,' " Sen. Walker said, "but I think that the people of Oregon should be put on notice." . . Senator Walker, in an ex planation of the state of the budget, said the ways and means committee will come up with a general fund bud get very close to the $187, 000,000 budget recommended by Gov. Paul Patterson. ,.'.' $550 MUUon Budget (Concluded en Paae S, CMaaui I) Bill Loses Out ' The senate game committee voted $ to 2 Tuesday to let the game enforcement bill die in committee. The bill would transfer en forcement of the sports fishing and hunting laws from the state police to the game commission. Sens. Jack Bain, Portland, author of the bill and chairman of the committee, and Gene L. Brown, Grants Pass, voted for the biU. .-.-- William Smith, of the Oregon Wildlife Federation, urged the committee to approve the bill. "We are faced with a choice of the present system . which has as its objective arrest, ar rest and -more arrest, or a sys tem of education with coopera tion of the public in carrying out enforcement,'" Smith: said. The committee unanimously recommended passage of the recommenaea passage m we bill to close the Coquille river to commercial fishing. ' It killed a provision that also would have extended the ban to three miles off the mouth of the river. . French Premier Arrives in U.S. New York '() Premier Rene Mayer of France arrived in the United States Wednes day and called for American- French solidarity in the face of "common problems." . He told a news conference at Idlewild airport that the two countries have "common goals and so do we have com mon concerns. "We must examine our com mon problems in this spirit of solidarity which has always inspired relation between France and the United States," he said. Mayer and a large delega tion of French officials came to this country to discuss Ameri can military and economic aid for France and Indochina." They arrived aboard an Air France plane.. President Elsen hower's personal plane, the Columbine, waited to take the party on to Washington. Bodies o f Four Women Found in London House London W) Discovery of a fourth rotting female corpse Wednesday in a London House of Death" apartment spurred a Scotland Yard hunt for the quiet little clerk who had. rented the lodging. , The bodies of three women were found walled-up In a pantry in drab Notjing Hill district Tuesday. The fourth, like the first three still un identified, was under the floorboards of the same room. One of the dead women was believed by police to be the wife of the central figure in the general manhunt under way, 55-year-old John Chris tie, the last tenant of the apartment. A police poit-mortem indi cated the first three women found, all between 25 and 30 years old, had been strangled. Capital it JcmmM Year, No. 72 SWatS ; Solom, Oregon, , MASN0UA SU66BTS smNG ' Capitol lawn tree, a white Chinese magnolia (magnolia ' denudata) now in bloom suggests that spring is at hand ia tliis locality. Oldtimers used to say that when this white ' magnolia bloomed the state legislature would soon adjourn sine die. "Them days are gone forever." v Taft Clears Washington ! Sen. Taft (R., Ohio) ;told the Senate Wednesday he is convinced Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen, am bassador - designate to Russia, is "a completely good security risk in every respect." Taft 'opened an adminlstra- tion speechmaklng drive for Senate approval of Bohlen by telling of his examination of an FBI summary of its field report on the nominee. . , To Speed Up Washington W A National Production: Authority commit tee meets today to ease the way for television set" manufactur ers to begin making color re ceivers, i It meets as house investigat ors call Frank Stanton, head of Columbia broadcasting System, for his view on how soon color TV will be generally availa ble. H. B. McCoy, acting adminis trator of NPA, let the house commerce committee know yesterday there is no further need for an order issued in November, 1951, barring the manufacture of color TV re ceivers for home usef The ban was eased last year to permit production rf there was no interference with de fense work, however, and trade sources have said the full revo cation order is expected to have no practical effects for quite a while nobody plans to move very fast." V The group also heard a Ra dio Corporation of America of ficial testify that his organiza tion is ready for the color era of 'television to begin immedi ately. I ' Power Lines Snapped, Trap Man Inside Cab Portland ) A bower shov el, operated by Jack R. Eatch, 36, snapped three power lines Tuesday. The broken lines fell on his shovel, trapping him in side. . ; : f Eatch escaped by Jumping away from the cab without touching the rest of the ma chine. Police with shovels and crowbars '. searched o t rj e r rooms and began digging in the garden patch behind the house. ' " Three of the women were believed to have been dead several months, and the other a few weeks. v The new discovery brought to six the number of violent deaths in the grim house in recent years. A woman and her son were murdered there in 1949. Tenants of the building, oc cupied by a , mixed lot of white and Negro families, told police neithej Christie nor his wife had been seen for a months. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "It is thought Christie may be able to assist us in our inquiries." As Good Security Risk . Mil Bohlen He and SenJ Sparkman (D., Ala.) spent three hours going over the summary at the State Department Tuesday. Taft said they examined 16 pages of "so-called derogatory Information," and that he could see nothing to "create the most remote guilt by 'associa tion accusations , you. could think of." Accusations, Taft said, had to do with complaints that Bohlen was friendly with people,' or had people in his home who might be "considered baa se curity risks." ., , , But, he said, ha oould find nothing that would establish any prima facie case that Boh len had ever done anything which would "make him a bad security risk,"-; - Xarll.TaA MA rGUnj the Senate would aonrovto BohH len overwhelmingly. ,s , :? Critics of the nominee con ceded that "-', in President CIO Atlantic City. N. J. P) - Walter P. Reuther and his three top aides in the , CIO United Auto Workers were re' elected without opposition Wednesday a far cry from the union's faction-battling early days. Back into office with Presi dent Reuther went Secretary Treasurer Enfll Mazey and Vice Presidents Richard T. Gosaer and John W. Living ston. ' . Reuther's nomination to his fifth term touched off a 30- mlnute demonstration marked by parades, dancing in the aisles, balloon-popping and other hoopla. It was' noisy but mild, too, compared with some in the past. When, further nominations were called for there was no response from the UAW con vention's 3,000 delegates. . Draft Calls to Ease off in July Washington AJ.B Draft calls will ease off in July, a Penta gon manpower expert said to day. . Maj. Gen. E. C. Lynch, chief of the Defense Department's office, of manpower require ments, said In an interview that present plans call for 450,000 men to be drafted in the fiscal year starting July 1. This would mean an average of 37,500 men drafted month ly, or about 12,500 less than the monthly average maintained during the current fiscal year. With lower draft calls, Lynch said the nation should be "roughly in balance on man power" with enough men In the draft pool to meet military demands without drastic change in deferment policies. CUT SHIPYARD PAYROLL Washington (U. The Navy announced yesterday that ci vilian employment at its ship yards will be reduced by a to tal of about 3,000 persons by the end of May. Affected by the cut will be personnel in 10 shipyards In the United States and one In Hawaii. J - Reuther Ago Wednesday, March 25. 19" 20 Pagis , Price Sc W WVIIVWMJ I TIMIII eff I..C 10 fif Controls Only In Emergency Wonts no Detailed Standby Economic Authority V WaskdngtM The Btsen bower . administration .salt Wednesday the President wonld "accept" authority to clamp a It-day treese en prices and wages la an emergency bat wants a detailed standby eco nomic central law. Acting Mobilization Director Arthur. Flemming delivered to the Senate Banking Committee the administration's , specific requests for extension of mobi lisation powers. '. One Year Extension . ; Flemming asked: I. A one-year extension, un til June SO, 1954, of priority and allocation powers suffi cient to protect production for the military and atomic pro grams.' ' 3. Abandonment of the emer gency power to requisition and mnitomn private property needed for defense, and elimin ation of the requirement that scarce materials be allocated i among civilian users, except In special cases.- 3. Extension of the authority to aid industrial expansion for defense by loans, loan guaran tees .and long-term purchase contracts.- :-'. ;;' (Ceaetaded ea Page i. Mean ) Czech Refugees Frankfurt, Germany ( Six Czechs who fled their Red- ruled homeland by seizing an airliner In flight said Wednes day they were lucky to escape being shot down by Czech Mig or antiaircraft guns , at the German border. ... In a news conference mark' ing. their first public appear ance since their daring flight to freedom on Monday night, the refugees told a dramatic story. ; .: . .'r- -. - They would not ' disclose completely how they pulled off ; their coup, because they said they did not want to han dicap others who might try to flee the same way in tne fu ture.' .: ...'. i" The desperate adventure was plotted by these four per sons: - .v.r The airliner's pilot, Mlroslav Slovak; former Royal Air Force Pilot Helmut Cermak and, his wife, Hana; and Bo zidar Medic, a Yugoslav tele vision engineer, who had mov ed to Czechoslovakia to fin ish his TV training. Two others - joined them, however, in accepting . free dom when they found it. They were Bohumll Suran, an arch itectural engineer, and An- tonin Volejnieek, an econom ics teseher. To Reorganize Farm Bureau Wsshlngton VP) President Elsenhower sent Congress a re organization plan for the Agri culture Department Wednes day, saying it would Improve its operations and save the taxpayers some money. The money saving "cannot be itemized at this time," he said, but the reorganization will "further the better man agement of the affairs of the department." 1 Eisenhowers plan dealt mainly with the functional structure of the department, giving Secretary of Agriculture Benson more direct control 'over many operations now del egated to subordinates. , It would give the department three new assistant secretaries; It now has but one. However, Eisenhower said Benson in formed him these would re place existing positions and the total payroll in the office of the secretary would be less than it was at the beginning of the year. 1 The plan will go into effect automatically in 60 days unless vetoed by either the. Senate or the House or unless both branches vote to put it into ef fect earlier. SKELETON PRICE8 UP New York (U.B The biology department of City College re ported today that human skele tons are up in price. The de partment had to pay $220 each for two well-preserved skele tons imported from abroad. The same items cost $175 each in 1948. - ? a m J pL flV Britain's Queen Grandmother Vary is shown as she Mr ' turned to London last . September from an extended stay at Sandringham. The condition of the 85-year-old queen, i who has been 1U with a gastric ailment, took a sudden turn for the -worse. She died m her sleep last Bight, (AP Wirephoto.) . ... . ..:.'"' .'..'' ; Death of Queen Mary Not to Halt Coronation London UP) Queen Eliza beth II Wednesday decreed a month's mourning for Queen Mary, thus carrying out her grandmother a wish that noth ing interfere with Elizabeth's coronation in June.' i: Queen Mary died peacefully Tribute toQueen London UP) Prime Minister Churchill, ...dressed in solemn black,' Tos-in the -House of Commons -S.Wednesday ; and spoke with emotion of his af fection for Mary of. England, a queen through' 43 years of his public life. ; - The 78-year-old ; Premier, whose path had crossed Mary's repeatedly through two wars and in five reigns, paid tribute to the late, queen grandmother as a "gracious lady' and a pil lar of strength to the royal fam ily and the nation in troubled times. . v , . , . ... , . "She looked a queen, she act ed like a queen. Her death leaves a void in our hearts," he said. Queen Mary, by her per sonality, her example, and her bearing over so many years had endeared herself to the whole people of these Islands and throughout the vast re gions of the commonwealth and empire." 41,568 Refugees Flee East Germany Berlin U. ;West Berlin officials announced today that 41,568 persons had fled from Communist East Germany to the West so far In March, 1, 606 more than the record num ber which fled in February. The U. S. high commission said at the same time that more refugees are being flown from West Berlin to Western Ger many than now. are arriving in the city.. Wounded Survivor Tells of Bloody Battle Western Front, Korea VP) Here, in a crowded medical station, was the backwash of two horrible days of fighting on Old Baldy American sol diers, tired and wounded, but alive. Surgeons, on their feet for 36 hours, took them one after another. As the wounded waited, they told the story of the hlU. . "I told my men not to step off a path through the mine field, but many were killed or injured,", said a husky young lieutenant. Neither he nor other wounded in this story can be named. He led , his 40-odd men through the minefield at dawn Tuesday after more than 8,500 Chinese Communists smashed into the Western Front in the biggest attack in five months. He was assigned to take a hill near Baldy to back up a counterattack. fl W W ft in her sleep Tuesday night at the age of BS. The period of mourning after a month will allow, plenty of time for pre coronation -ar rangements and activities. Elizabeth, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh,-was among . the. descendants - of Queen Mary who drove slowly up to Marlborough House Wed nesday. - All were attired in deep mourning.' Their faces were heavy with grief and they bowed their heads as they walked. . Into : Queea : - Mary's home to discuss - runtral ar rangements. ,':-... Dake iaf Windsor Aloae ' " " ; Elizas: ana. -tuMWM stayed 40 minutes. tors included the Queen Moth er Elizabeth, Princess Margar et, the Duke of Windsor, , the Duchess of Kent, widow of Mary's fifth child, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.' Geoffrey Fisher. ;: The Duke of : Windsor Mary's favorite son who ' re nounced the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis. Warfleld Simp son, an American ' divorcee, drove up alone.: in New York, the Duchess ssid ' she was greatly distressed by the hews of the queen's death and had cancelled all social arrange ments. The Duchess had never been received by her mother-in-law.-; ;r --t; -Faneral at St Paul's The funeral probably will not be held at Westminster Abbey because of the coronation build ing work in progress there. The services may be conducted at St. Paul's Cathedral in London or in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Queen Mary will be burled beside her hus band. George V. in St. George's Chapel, ancient burial place of Britain's kings and queens.- Months ago the stern-willed old grandmother. In speaking to friends about the coronation, said: "Nothing must Interfere with It. Nothing." Weather Details M a-xiMaM FMUrtUr, Mi minim mm W- 4ar. IS. Total M-hoar rMiitatri .411 far neatht 4.41 1 naml, t.44. Icaaast rMlltailon M.07I aomal, J1.7T. Blvar helchl, t,4 feat, (Resort 7 U.S. Weather Unreal,) . . - - "I don't know whether ' it was a Communist mine field or whether it was ours," the lieu tenant said. "I went first and told my men to follow me. We hadn't gone far when one of my run ners stepped on a mine. It kill ed him and injured my radio man. I was wounded In the neck but decided to keep on. "We got no fire from the hill we were taking and it turned out no Chinese were on top of it. 4 "But my men were blowing themselves up on the land mines. Finally one of the men in the platoon who was right back of me stepped on a mine. I don't know if it killed him, but the explosion got me in the back and arm and put me out of commission. I lay there for awhile and finally a medic took me back to an aid station." F I tl A L CDITIOCV UIi-J Lw-j Rc:I Allies On m C:lj'y Two UN Attacks ; Repulsed in Blood- ! iest Battle of Year v reeal () Fighting ia a Mia of American fire, Chlaeaa Bed broke ap a two-petal V. I. at- : tack Wednesday la the Maedy tree ease of Old BaMy. At nightfall the Americans were back where they started, about 125 yards down the bare, windswept Western Front hill. The righting, bow in its third day, was vicious and deadly. One officer said the Ameri can! drew Red fire "every time they popped their heads up." As darkness fell, infantry fighting eased off while the big guns of both aides slugged it out. j." ' Taylor at Front Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,, commander of .the Eighth Army flew from a forward ob servation post. This Is the first big action sine Taylor succeeded Gen; James A. Van Fleet atx weeks ; ago.--., ' T-V:" : The Reds swept over Old Baldy Monday Bight and me Americans have been trying to get tt back since. One American attacking force pushed off during the morning toward a Red trench network on the northeast and was stopped eold. (Owleflia ea Page 5, gills Sweat it Out Caged in Tank , Western Front. Korea W) Caged in their tank for a night and a day. five Americans sweated it out' on Old Baldy as dozens of Chinese crawled on top, trying to crack the steal .manner Wisi Bveryuung xrom grenade, to mortar snails. - vy linoui xooa or water, tne tanker fought back and stuck lVKm.TJi!j It out until ordered to quit the . The Chinese began dropping mortar rounds on the tank . All night and day. . But only four or five hit the tank. I: "We couldn't see anything to tire at," jjowe sua. ; "Most ex the time the Chinese were in trenches out of view.- So we Just sat there until 8 o'clock last night talking on the radio." Then they received orders to abandon their tank. ; "We had io an out the hatch on p. ne oouia near sniper came close to Us," Morris said. Thev crouched and walked down the hilt y : Applegate Held Hong Kong iff) A report from Macau Wednesday said Communist Chines while sail- . ing In a yacht off Hong Kong were being held on Tongkawan Inland. 10 , miles north of . luacau. -.- i : The report said travelers to Macau related that the Com-' munists were holding the men on the island pending instruc tions from Canton or Peiping. The three Americans were. seized last Saturday along with the 42-foot yawl Kert. . t They,' were identified as Richard Applegate of Medford, Ore., a correspondent for the National Broadcasting ' Corp., and owner of the yacht; Donald . Dixon of New York, Interna tional News Service Correspondent,- and Benjamin Kras ner, Broklyn, a ship captain. A Chinese trader who travels back and forth across the fron tier was the source of the in formation at Macau. He said he saw the three American and three Chinese huddled to gether in the island's market place under military guard. War's Casualties I Now Total 131,524 Washington (U-R Announc ed American battle casualties In Korea now total 131,524, an increase of 280 In the past week, the Defense Department announced today. The new total includes 23, 298 dead, 95,454 wounded, 2, 316 captured, 9,061 missing and 1,395 previously missing but returned to American mili tary control. ' The report covered casualties' whose next of kin had been notified through last Friday. On Tongkawan