THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY with ihow.
era .tonl(bt; . .few .showers,
Partial el e a r I n f Wednesday.
Coaler Wednesday. Low to
night, J; hlf h Wedneaday, IS.
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FIN A I
EDITION
65th Year,
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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, April 21, 1923
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Plane Crashes
In Bay Killing
Airliner Unloads 44
At San Francisco on
Oakland Flight
Ban Francisco (At A huge
. plane unloaded 44 passengers
near here Monday night and
.-. moments later crashed into the
. bay on the short flight to Oak
land with 10 persons aboard.
Eight were killed. F our
bodies were still missing Tues
day, but two survived the
crash of the Western Airlines
&DC-8B. . ( .
An investigation was launch
' ed almost immediately by
t members of the Civil Aeronau
tics Board, who had just com
pleted an investigation of a
Transocean Air Lines crash
that killed 35 near Oakland
last month.
Only I Survivors
. They had little to work with,
but they questioned the two
, survivors,' Stewardess Bever-
lee Nelson, 27, of Playa del
. Reyk Calif., and Jerry Adams,
21, a passenger of Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Miss Nelson said she had no
idea what happened, but
:. Adams said the plane crew had
; been watching the far left en-
gine just before the crash.
; , "The crew had been shining
spotlight on the engine from.
i- .time to ' time," A d a m i told
' newsmen.
"It seemed like the plane
dipped the left wingtip. in the
. water, then righted itself. The
; plane veered off to the rightJ
ana ine wing cuppea again,
and we crashed."
Blinding Flash
Stewardess Nelson said most
: of the passengers had been put
off at the San Francisco air-
i port, down the peninsula from
here. Then the plane took off
tor the flight of about seven
miles across the bay to the
j Oakland airport. '
': (Ospetaded on Page 6, Column 8)
ate
, Talpeh, Formosa VP) Natlon
sJirt China Tuesday night an
nounced it will cooperate with
other Interested governments
in effecting the withdrawal of
guerrilla troops commanded by
Gen. Ll Ml from northern Bur
ma. 'Foreign Minister George
Yeh's statement implied that if
attacks on Li's forces by Bur
mese troops and "communist
elements" cease free China's
"persuasive power" might suc
ceed In effecting the withdraw
al. .
Burma's complaint to the
United Nations condemning
Chiang Kai-shek's government
on Formosa as an aggressor
comes before the 60-nation UN
Political Committee Tuesday.
Yeh's statement said discus
lions between Nationalist Chi
na and the United States have
been underway for weeks.
Most observers here have
said for some time that if the
Nationalists wanted to with
draw Li's troops from Burma
they could do so, even though
official spokesmen have dis
claimed all responsibility for
the guerrillas.
Indochina Reds
Near
Capital
Hanoi, Indochina W The
Communist-led Vietmlnh Tues
day drove to within 90 miles
of Laos' royal capital city of
Luang Prabang as French and
Laotian forces waited and
hoped for a big showdown
fight with the invader on a
broad plain.
One Vietmlnh division
which stabbed into Laos from
the east along the coast of All
ium quickly moved into the
little town of Xlengkhouang
after it was evacuated by
Franco-Laotian troops and ci
vilians. Just 18 miles north and
northwest, on the big plain
Des Jarrest, Franco - Laotian
troops, firmly entrenched and
supplied by air with all avail
able American-supplied weap
ons of war, waited for the
expected Vietmlnh strike.
., The enemy has already over
run almost one-third of Laos'
80,000 square miles without
serious opposition,
Weather Details
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Second Group
Of Sick POW
Gain Freedom
Prisoners Tell of Many
Being Killed by Blows
On Death Marches
'Fanmunjom, Korea U. The
second group of 100 Allied war
prisoners freed from Red pri
son camps told today bow
many of their buddies died un
der skull-crushing blows from
rifle butts wielded by North
Korean guards and from lack
of medical care on forced
"death marches."
They told too of semi-star
vation in commulnst prison
camps and deaths from malnu
trition and disease.
And many reported that the
Reds still are holding some of
the most critically wounded
and the most seriously ill. ,
An Ugly Report
Their reports were indivi
dual and unofficial. But they
added up to an ugly facet in
the repatriation of sick and
wounded.
The stories of brutality, mal
treatment and of sick and
wounded left behind came to
light as the Reds announced no
(Concluded on Page I, Column 6)
Daylight Time
Sought Again
Portland VP) Daylight sav
ing time hours of work will ap
pear in the Pacific Northwest
again this year; despite Oregon
and Washington laws against
the clock shift.
A half-dozen Portland firms
have announced they will
change work shifts Sunday,
when British Columbia and
many communities across the
continent shift their clocks.
State laws in Washington
and - Oregon forbid official
shifting of the clocks. But there
is nothing to stop individuals or
firms from opening and closing
an hour earlier. '
The Portland City Council
will hold a hearing next week
on changing city work hours.
In Seattle the big Boeing
plant announced its work shifts
would be advanced an hour
June 15, affecting about 30,000
employes. Some other Seattle
firms were reported ready to
follow suit
Streamliner
Wreck Kills 5
. Dillon, S. C. VP) A 17-car
streamliner toppled off its rails
near here Monday night and
mashed up into a mess of twist
ed steel.
Officials said at least five
died. Three bodies were remov
ed from the torn cars. Only
one; the fireman, was identi
fied. One newspaper reporter who
made an early estimate of 10
or 12 dead said he had seen
six bodies.
More than 125 injured were
rushed .to seven hospitals in
nearby towns. Rescue squads
stood by Tuesday as huge
cranes tugged at the cars
thrown about like matchsticks.
Passengers aboard the Atlan
tic Coast Line's Miami to New
York Flier were pitched about
shortly before midnight. Gen-,
eral confusion followed.
Those able to move grabbed
clothing, pocketbooks and bag
gage. They rushed out through
the frosty night, some bare
footed, some half clothed. -
Lipman, Wolfe Acquire
Sites, To Build Here
Salem's phenomenal business
expansion was again indicated
Monday when another large
Portland concern announced its
intention to build in downtown
Salem and establish a retail
department store.
This announcement was made
by Lipman, Wolfe tc Co., Port
land store whose history dates
back to 1850 and which is now
part of the nation-wide Nation
al Department Stores.
Only five weeks ago Meier &
Frank of Portland announced
purchase of the Old High School
block for a department store
location and numerous proper
ties on adjoining blocks for car
parking. It will begin construc
tion in 1954 when the Old High
school is vacated by the coun
ty. Lipman, Wolfe & Co. have
purchased one property here
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Freedom fioad
AreaBombedx
ByllB-29s
Seoul, Korea (U.R) The "off
limits" sign was off the Free
dom Road irea today and
American Superforts bombed
a newly reconstructed airfield
near Taechon in Northwest Ko
rea. '
Eleven B-29's from Okinawa
droned over the airfield, near
the spot where Allied sick and
wounded prisoners had stop
ped last week on their way to
freedom, and dropped hun
dreds of small bombs on the
runways and revetments.
Results of the heavy attack
were not observed.
The attack on the Taechon
airfield was the first in that
area since last week when pi
lots were told to stay away
from the vicinity of Freedom
Road, the 200-miles-long shell
cratered highway that leads
from the Yalu River to Pan
munjom. '
Large Smelt Run
Reported in Sandy
Portland UP) One of the
largest smelt runs to reach the
Sandy river in years was met
Monday midnight by hundreds
of dipnetters.
The run started Sunday and
continued through Monday,
which is a closed day.
The river's banks were lined
with net-holding fishermen
when the season opened at mid
night. and acquired long-term leases
on two others, all in the city
center. Construction will begin
this year.
Purchased outright Is the
property on North Liberty
street now occupied by the Ge
vurtz Furniture company and
owned by the Cross estate. Ac
quired by long-term lease
agreement is the A. N. Gilbert
estate property at North Liber
ty and Chemeketa, adjoining
the Cross property. It is now
occupied by Sams Used Car
Lot. Both these properties are
directly across the street from
the First National Bank and
will be location of the new
store.
Also acquired by long-term
lease agreement, 25 years, is
the Otto Klett estate property
at North Commercial and Che-1
(Concluded on Page t, Column 7)
BACK FROM CAPTIYITV
. - The first American POW to be released - by the Reds,
Carl W. Kirchausen, aided by an MP takes his first step as
a free man at Panmunjom, His home town waa listed as
Washington Heights, New Vorkt (UP Radio-Telephoto)
30 Freed American
PO W Arrive in Tokyo
Tokyo W) .Thirty Ameri
cans freed Monday from Com'
munist prison camps arrived
here Tuesday on the first leg
of a journey to homes most of
Spokane Walks
After Bus Strike
Spokane W Hundreds
huitchhiked or walked to work
and to school again Tuesday as
a strike of AFL drivers and
shopmen left this city of 160,
000 without normal bus serv
ice for the second straight day.
State Mediator William Sam-
Ish, called in during wage talks
between AFL . Bus Driver's
Local 1015 and Spokane City
Lines, said a union-management
meeting to seek and end
of the dispute has been tenta
tively set for Wednesday.
The walkout, affecting some
45,000 bus patrons, started at
midnight Sunday after collapse
of the wage talks.
Samlsh said the union is de
manding a 16 & cent hourly
wage increase and other bene
fits; the company has offered
an 8 Vi cent pay boost with an
other two cents to be added
Oct. 1.
Oil Anti-Trust
Suit Started
Washington UP) Attorney
General Brownell Monday
filed a civil anti-trust suit
against five major American
oil companies, charging they
had participated in an Interna
tional oil cartel.
The action, filed in the fed
eral district court here, is de
signed to substitute for the
criminal anti-trust investiga
tion involving these five com
panies and others which for
mer Attorney General James
P. McGranery put before a
grand jury here last fall.
Brownell proposes to drop
the criminal inquiry for "na
tional security" reasons.
The grand jury proceeding
involved more than a score of
companies here and abroad.
Tuesday's civil action named
as defendants: .Standard Oil
Co. of New Jersey, Standard
Oil Co. nf California. Knronv.
Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., The Tex-
I a Co. and the Gulf Oil Corp.
them haven't seen for two
years or more.
Some smiled as they came
down the ramp of the big trans
port plane. Some waved. Some
just chewed gum. '
All should be on their way
eastward across the Pacific
within a few days. The Army
has set no departure date.
They were the first return
ing war prisoners to reach
Japan. With the 30 Americans
were - four Turkish - soldiers,
one Greek and one Filipino re
leased by the Communists in
the first exchange of sick and
wounded captives of the Ko
rean War.
They are resting in starched
white sheets in peaceful Tokyo
hospitals.
A four-englned Globemaster
plane, capable of carrying 136
litter patients, sped the 36 ex
POWs to Japan from Seoul in
about four hours. ' The plane
landed at Tachikawa Air Base
outside Tokyo.
As stretcher bearers carried
the first man down the ramp
camera flash bulbs popped and
movie cameras whirled. News
men were not allowed to talk
to any of the men, but officials
said interviews may be per
mitted Wednesday.
Ike's Vacation
Ends With Golf
Augusta, Ga. W) President
Eisenhower endr his vacation
Tuesday after one more round
of golf.
The President arranged a
game with fellow club mem
bers at the Augusta National
Course and planned to leave
for Washington by plane in the
afternoon. .
Eisenhower and Sen. Taft
played MonCay what the Sen
ate Republican leader describ
ed as IB holes of "ragged golf."
Taft said no scores were kept
and that he and the President
had 'a very pleasant game."
The Ohioan flew back to the
capital late Monday after tell
ing newsmen the President
played much better than he did
in the round they shot Sunday,
shortly after Taft arrived from
the capital.
Former golf star Bobby
Jones, president of the Augusta
National Club, disclosed that
Eisenhower had an 86 Sunday
reportedly his first score be'
low 90 since he took office. He
had an 84 here in November as
President-elect.
Senate Seeks
ise
On Labor Bill
By PAUL W. HARVEY, JR. ,
(Auocltud Prtu Comtpondtnt) .
The Oregon Senate's Labor
and Industries Committee re
commended 4 to 3 Tuesday an
amendment to the House-passed
antl-plcketing bUl that wUl be
more acceptable to the House.
The action quickened hopes
that the 100-day-old - Legisla
ture will adjourn Tuesday
night " '
As the House passed the bill.
it wquld ban unions from pick
eting any firm in which the
union was not recognized as
the bargaining agent.
The Senate committee origin
ally voted to ban picketing
which, is done to influence
workers to join a union, but
Tuesday voted 4-3 to add the
house provision to the bill.
The Senate is expected to
pass it Then it will go back to
the House, which probably will
vote for the Senate changes.
Held Unconstitutional -
The Senate committee adopt
ed the House provision with the
belief that it probably is un
constitutional. But committee
members said that if the courts
knocked out that section as a
violation of freedom of speech.
then the rest of the bill would
remain in force, just as the Sen
ate originally wrote it.
(Concluded an Page 6, Column I)
County Relief
Fund Reduced
A realignment of the state
funds available for distribution
among the various counties in
connection with the relief pro
gram means that Marion county
will receive $10,000 less from
this source than had been an
tlclpated. ' .;'
This was the principal devel
opment brought up Monday
during the monthly meeting of
the Marion . county welfare
commission. :
The commission expressed
confidence that the reduction
in state funds would not ma
terlally effect the situation lo
cally in view of the law adopt
ed by the legislature which
spreads the responsibility over
a broader base in the matter of
giving financial aid to depend
ent relatives.
The county has been able to
effect savings in a slight reduc
tion of the old age assistance
case load and a shifting of a
portion of the load to the so
cial security program.
Showers Forecast.
Normal Temperature
Showers' but normal tem
peratures are due for the val
ley regions the next few days,
according to the five-day fore
cast from the weather bureau
Tuesday.
The forecast for tonight and
Wednesday is for showers, al
though partial clearing and
somewhat cooler temperatures
are in the offing for tomorrow.
Due to the warmer weather
some of the melting snow wa
ters are coming into valley
streams, the Willamette at Sa
lem being a nearly a foot high
er Tuesday than It . was on
Monday. The measurement
was 1.1 feet here.
lomprom
$700,000 for Capitol
Buildings Approved
The Oregon Senate held a
night session Monday to clear
the decks for Tuesday's battles,
the night meeting ending . at
11:15 p.m.
Both Houses passed a bill to
construct two buildings near
the Capitol for $700,000. They
will house the agriculture and
purchasing departments, and
also store cars In the new
state automobile pool.
The House completed legis
lative action oa measures to
require more signaturse in in
itiative and referendum peti
tions, extend the soldiers' bo
nus application deadline to
next Dec, 31, permit seizure of
abortion establishments, direct
the governor to take steps to
save the educational television
channels that have been al
located to Oregon, increase sal
aries of supreme court justices
3 Candidates
Announce for
Speakership
The speakership race for the
1955 legislative session became
three-man' affair Tuesday
when Rep; Lee Ohmart of Sa
lem announced that be would
be a candidate for this import
ant POSt -: . :.'..-.' IT.
Already in the race are Rep
resentatives Dave Baum of La
Grande and Carl Francis of
Dayton. Both of these solons
announced their candidacies
last week and have been ex
tremely busy attempting to
gather support for their re
spective races. ' : ':.
O h m a rt's a n n ouncement
came as a surprise as many of
his friends had urged him to
become, a candidate for -the
state senate In the next elec
tion. Even with his announce
ment of seeking the speaker
ship it is not believed that he
has abandoned all hope of go
ing to the upper house. , ,;ti
Charges of assault, and bat
tery were filed Monday against
two 14-year-old Salem boys
for the beating of two 11-year-
old boys Friday night in the
300 block of North High street
as the younger pair and a com
panion were on . their way
home from the movies.
The two boys admitted Jump
ing out of the car and attack
ing the two younger lads
whom they did not know, be
cause of the suggestion of some
other youths who were stand'
lng by the ear talking to them,
They said an older youth,
in whose car they were sitting,
told them not-to do Jt but they
wouldn't listen- to him. When
they came back to the ear, be
gave them "the devil", for do
ing it and took them home,
they related, - i -
Assault and - battery, com
plaints were signed by fathers
of Larry Lane, 539 E street
and Robert Perry, 829 North
Summer street, the two youths
who were attacked. Larry suf
fered a cut completely through
his lip when struck by one of
the older boys."' -
The two 14-year-ords were
turned over to county juvenile
authorities.
a , ,
Holdovers lo
Hear Dismissal
....
Washington VP Sen. Mundt
(R., S.D.), said Tuesday he
sees some signs that the State
Department is speeding up the
dismissal of holdovers from
the Democratic Truman admin
istration. , (
"Several recent steps pro
vide encouraging evidence that
the change-over is being ra
pidly stepped up," Mundt said
In an interview.
Mundt is a member of a
Senate appropriations subcom
mittee which planned further
public hearings on funds for
the State Department's opera
tions in the fiscal year tail
ing July 1.
He said last week that he
and other members of the com
mittee will Insist that Secre
tary of State Dulles stage a
sweeping turnover among pol
icy making officials.
and district attorneys, pro
hibit race track touting, pay
pensions to widows of supreme
and circuit judges, and create
interim committees to study
public welfare and the pro
posed state revenue depart
ment.
The Senate completed action
on legislation to have a mid
night to 4 a.m. curfew In areas
outside cities for children, to
tax house trailers, and have an
interim study of property
taxes.
An attempt to take the Co
qullle River closure bill away
from the House Fish and Game
committee failed 42 to 16. The
bill, passed by the Senate,
would have closed the river to
commercial fishing, but It will
die in the commltee. '
(Conetudtd en Page d Column 7)
2 Assailants
Nabbed by Law
Pleasure Lusey
By One Vote;
Long Debate
. By JAMES D. OLSON
By s single vote the stato
senate defeated the house-passed
tidelands bill amid charge
that the bill was 'a 'sleeper"
give away the last or Oregon's
publlo lands, much of which
has been "looted" in the past
Trie bill went down to defeat
after more than an hour's de
bate by a vote of IS no to 14
yes' with Senator Warren Mc
Mlnnlmee of Tillamook ab
staining from' voting because
he waa acting as attorney for
a landowner involved in a civil .
suit with the state land board
over a tidelands controversy.
Senator George Ulett, largo
timber operator in Coos and
Curry counties, was one of the ;
principal opponents of the bill, '
and it was he who branded the
bill as a "sleeper." For the first
time in trie present session sen
ator Ulett and Senator Dick
Neuberger of Portland were on
wv Hun iiuo u, wmiw vu m
controversial bill.
Neuberger Suspicion
Neuberger declared that the
people of Oregon were suspic
ious of the intent of the bill
because of the' great amount of
public lands "looted" in the
past, i t-- ':.
"This state was given the
greatest legacy in public lands
of all states in the union In ac-
cordance with population" he
said "and yet there Is little
left." ;i.;.H
In the closing debate Ulett
arose, and. looking at Senator
Neuberger across the senate
chamber said: ri-.
How do you Ilk me for a
(Caneluaed Page t. Column t)
U.II; Supports
Burma Demand
United Nations, If. Y. m Z
The U. S. Tuesday threw it
support behind Burma's de
mand that Chinese Nationalist
guerrillas get off its soil and
said it was actively working to
h.ln r Ulm .lu!.. .. . '
UUI UJ1B UUUI, - ' ' - '
' Chief U. S. Delegate Henry
Cabot Lodge, Jr., told the 60
nation Political Commltte the
U. S, was hard at work on a
three-point plan. It would:
-1. Require the active support!
of the Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment to influence the 12,
000 guerrillas in Burma to give
up. f : ' ' i
2. Stop military ', operations
between the Burmese army and
inose guerrillas.
3. Disarm the Chinese and
remove them to Formosa via
Thailand. Lodgo said Thailand
had agreed to this.' . , ,
Of Favoritism
Washington JPl Represen
tatives of the Pacific Northwest
Power Pool believe the Bonne
ville Power Administration is
giving industry preferred treat
ment, especially during power
shortages.
In testimony before a House)
Appropriations Subcommittee
made public Tuesday, Oregon
and Washington utility men
criticized Bonneville policies
they said cut back deliveries to
private utilities during periods
of shortage in order to meet
contractual demands of indus
try. '
The power pool is made up
of non-federal utilities, public
and private, whleh pool gener
ating facilities, with Bonneville.
T. W. Delzell, chairman of
the board of Portland General
Electric Co., said the most re
cent power shortage, during
which private utilities raised
rates to cover the cost of steam
generated power, "left us with
public relations scare, because
people do not understand wny
they should be put in the posi
tion of . . . footing the bill while
the Johnny-come-lately indus
tries served directly By Bonne
ville enjoy a preference."
CAIN PLEADS SUPPORT
Washington VP) Harry P.
Cain told senators Tuesday
that his defeat for re-election
as a senator in the last cam
paign should, not cause the
Senate to refuse him confir
mation as a member of the
Subvereslve Activities Control
.Board. ' ,':' ; ' .