THE WEATHER.
INCREASING CLOUDINESS
eomlng cloudy with occasion
fj wday. Little change
J'- Iw tteimt,
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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
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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.- :-'. ;;'
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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.
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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.
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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