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all Albanu Remotrat Herald 5 CENTS The Albany Democrat-Herald, Vol. LXXXI1, No. 146 MARCH 15, 1950 The Albany Herald, Vol. LXXIV, No. 136 Driver Asks Forgiveness of Injured Man wow 2 1 Kneeling over the man he struck down in Detroit, Mich, with his car, John Carrol asks forgiveness of Lebrun Nelson, The victim, wrapped in blankets and raincoat, suffered minor cuts and bruises, and refused to sign a complaint against Carrol.

(NEA' Telephoto.) Gubitchev Again Reverses Plans NEW YORK, March 15 (J.P) Valentin Gubitchev will leave the United States for Russia next Monday as originally planned, his attorney announced today. Attorney Abraham Pomerantz told Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan that the 33-year-old Russian has agreed to the government's stipulation that he renounce all right of appeal from his espionage conspiracy conviction when he leaves the country under suspended 15-year sentence. It was the second abrupt reversal of plans in less than 24 hours. Pomerantz announced late yesterday that Gubitchev would stay in the U. S.

and fight for reversal of his conviction: The attorney was accompanied in court. today by Yuri Novikov, third secretary of the Soviet embassy at Washington, who sat through the trial as Gubitchev's official interpreter. Pomerantz told the court that when he refused yesterday to accept the government's condition to the Russian's departure he was without authority to accept or reject for his client. Gubitchev was convicted with former Government Girl Judith Copion on charges of conspiracy to steal government secrets and send them to Russia. Both were sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

Apple In Lung Fatal To Child At Lebanon LEBANON, Mar. 15 (Special)Judy Kay Fry, year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Denbigh Fry of 521 East Vine street here, died Tuesday at the Lebanon Community hospital of pneumonia. The little girl strangled on a piece of apple March 10 that became lodged in a lung.

The object was successfully removed by an operation at Portland hospital, but she succumbed to the pneumonia attack that followed. Born March 21, 1949, at Lebanon, Judy is survived by her parents; a sister, Sherry Ann, grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B.

Fry of Portland and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Osterman, Lebanon; and several aunts and uncles.

She was a member of the Catholic church. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the St. Edwards Catholic church here, with the Rev. Carl Wachter officiating.

Burial will be in the Lebanon 1.0.0.F. cemetery, Plane Hits Snack Bar, Injuring 15 LAS VEGAS, March 15. (U.P) A P-51 Mustang smashed into snack bar at the Las Vegas air base while attempting landing today and 15 persons were injured. Air force officials said no one was killed but 10 of the 15 injured, including the pilot were in serious condition. The airforce said no names were available immediately.

The plane tore a big hole in the side of the snack bar in which "many" air base personnel were eating, according to an air force spokesman. The pilot was trapped inside the plane and had to be cut out, but there was no fire. Donations Speed Work On Park Donations from eight north Benton county residents have enabled the Men's club of Albany to near the end of the clearing job on the park they are, putting in in North Albany, Floyd Mullen, key man in the park project, reported today. On land a half mile west of the Ellsworth street bridge, between highway 20 and the Willamette river, the garden club put a crew of four men to work last week clearing out jungle of underbrush. The eight acres of land being utilized as a park was donated by two Seattle sisters.

"The response has been wonderful," Mullen, who has been soliciting financial aid for the clearing of the park, said today. "We haven't been turned down by anyone yet. When asked to contribute to the project, everyone has either given cash, materials, or offered to put in work on the park." In his acknowledgment of the donations, Mullen said that work is in progress putting gravel on three roads leading into the riverside park, and a road connecting the three driveways. The gravel is being donated by L. R.

Jones, of the Hub City Gravel company. M. 0. Wilkins of Cummings Transter, donatea a bulldozer for clearing work, and Floyd Ingram gave several days' labor to operate it. Cash donations were received from V.

G. Hurley. Han Arn tt, D. E. Nebergall, Ray Ch Russell Parker, and Reece Dov ay, he said.

Following completion of the clearing, the garden club will spray chemicals on the area to keep down growth of underbrush and other undesirable growth. Area Farmers To Send 34 Dairy Heifers To Germany A shipment of 34 dairy heifers, donated by Linn, Marion and Benton county farmers, will leave Albany for western Germany Monday under the Heifers for Relief program, Leslie Yoder, Harrisburg, field director for the organization, announced today. The dairy animals will arrive on qualified German farms late in May, after a trip from Albany to Lancaster, by train, a truck ride to New York, and a boat ride to Europe. The livestock will be accompanied by Yoder to Lancaster, and by Clarence Gerig, Crabtree, to Germany. Included in the shipment will be two registered heifers, one donated by the WCTU farm home, near Corvallis, and the other by Dan B.

Roth, Albany. Linn farmers have participated Halt Asia Grab, U.S. Warns Reds Movies Hit Proposed Morals Law HOLLYWOOD, March 15. (U.R) Movie bigwigs lashed back today at a senator's charges: that Hollywood is "depraving" American morals. The Motion Picture association of America denounced demands by Sen.

Edwin C. Johnson, Colo. for licensing controls on the industry as "a police state bill." And the motion picture industry council called Johnson's: attack "unreasonable." "In the past, unfortunately, there have been congressmen and senators who have brought discredit and shame to the highest body of the government in the world," an MPIC statement said, "but it would be reckless to attack the congress for the actions of a few." Senate Hearings Planned Johnson, chairman of the senate interstate commerce committee, yesterday in a senate speech denounced the recent romances of movie stars Ingrid Bergman and Rita Hayworth, calling the two "Hollywood's apostles, of degradation." He said his committee would begin hearings about April 15 on the serious moral questions by movieland's lurid headlines. The senator said Eric Johnston, "czar" of the motion picture industry, would be invited to testity." Hollywood does not need a certificate of character from anyone," said the MPAA. "Hollywood, like every other community, has its share -but no more than its share -of people who violate the moral "Totalitarian" Move MPIC Chairman Roy Brewer and public relations committee chairman Dore Schary said any licensing of motion pictures be a violation -of deep and well-rooted American principles and would be the first step toward totalitarianism." Johnson accused RKO pictures and Roberto Rossellini of setting "an all-time low in shameless exploitation" of Miss Bergman's latest film, "Stromboli." He called the Italian film director "vile and unspeakable" and called Miss Bergman a "common mistress." "Even in this modern age of surprises, it is upsetting to.

have our most popular but pregnant movie queen- her condition the result of an illicit affair play the part of a cheap, chiseling female to add spice to a silly story that lacks appeal of its own," Johnson said in referring to the Bergman picture." "Plenty of Censorship" RKO studio here quickly answered Johnson's broadside with a terse statement: "There is plenty of censorship in the United States today and even the most severe censors have approved They have seen fit to judge it on (its) contents, not on the private lives of the artists associated with it. "RKO hopes the country's lawmakers will be fair enough not to permit the injection of outside prejudicial considerations into their review of matter." GOP Club Meeting Date Changed to Wednesday The meeting date of the Linn County Republican club has been changed from next Monday to Wednesday night, Joe Hrdina, president, a announced today. The meeting, to be held at Sweet Home's Union high school, will feature talks by all Linn county Republican candidates and a speech by Bob Elliott, Portland, Harold Stassen's Oregon campaign manager in the 1948 presidential campaign. The affair will begin at 8 p.m., Hrdina said. SAN FRANCISCO, March 15.

(UP) -Secretary of State Dean Acheson bluntly warned Communist China and the Soviet Union today to keep hands off the rest of Asia. In a forthright enunciation of United States policy in the Far East, Acheson said that Compromise Urged For Housing Bill WASHINGTON, March 15. (UP) Senate housing sponsors offered a last-minute compromise today to meet mounting objections to the controversial cooperative housing section of the "middle income" housing bill, As debate raged over the prospective low interest rates at which housing cooperatives could get money from a proposed new mortgage corporation, Sen. Burnet R. Maybank, S.C., proposed that the rate be set at not less than four per cent.

No rate is set in the measure. However, some supporters estimated it would be as little as per cent. The cooperativefinancing corporation would set the rate as low as possible, depending upon its costs and losses. Critics of the measure contended it would compete unfairly with private lenders. The senate headed into the showdown vote on the "middle income" housing measure amid heated arguments over whether veterans want the proposed broad government aid to co-ops.

Maybank read a telegram from National American Legion leaders reaffirming their support. But Sen. Harry P. Cain, a critic of the cooperative section, said it is "wholly illegitimate" and "singularly evil." Cain, a World War II paratrooper, called it "special favors for special group." "As a veteran," he shouted, "I don't want to find myself in any such special group. Cain said the cooperative loan program would be a "disservice to the great bulk of the American people who will have to pay out of their pockets for a special, relatively small group." Pulls Out Of World Bank WASHINGTON, March 15.

(U.P) Soviet-controlled Poland quit the world bank and the international monetary fund today, accusing them of discriminating against non-Marshall plan countries and supporting "American capitalism." Poland's decision was made known in letters to the bank and fund from Polish ambassador Jozef Winiewicz, The Russian satellite country's withdrawal from the two organizations- the first since they were established at Bretton Woods, N. in 1944 -is effective immedlately. Poland's action reduces membership in each organization to 47 countries, including Czechoslovakda, Yugoslavia and Finland, Russia never joined, Child Screen Star's Story Questioned HOLLYWOOD, March 15. (U.P) A juvenile judge set out today to learn whether child screen star Lora Lee Michel was telling the truth or acting when she charged that her foster parents starved her SO she'd stay small enough for movie roles. Nine-year-old Lora Lee ran away from the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Michel Monday night and showed up, barefooted and in pajamas, at a friend's home in nearby Burbank. Hysterically, she told juvenile Michels had underfed her and that she was exhausted from playing rigorous movie But after a hearing yesterday, Juvenile Judge A. A. Scott said he was concerned about the difterences in the tiny blonde girl's stories.

He said he wanted to get them straightened out. "Lora Lee is a precocious, emotional child who could get a lot of people into trouble," Scott said. "I can't tell when she's acting and when she's telling the truth." The little star at one point accused her foster parents of whipping her, Scott said. But later she told him: "They've been wonderful to me. They've never whipped me but they have threatened to several times if I was girl." CLAIM PROMPTS ANSWER Dismissal of a suit brought against them by the Sweet Home Sand Gravel is asked by Mr.

and Mrs. Matt A. Thrill on the ground that they have filed a bankruptcy petition and the gravel company's claim should be deferred for adjudication along with other claims, the Chinese "can only bring grave trouble on themselves rulers into aggressive or subversive adventures beyond their In a major address before the Commonwealth club of State Department Aide To Face Loyalty Board $1,200 Given In Red Cross Drive Red Cross drive receipts here passed the $1,000 mark this morning, had hit $1,200 by noon, and were expected to mount to $1,600 by nightfall, G. L. (Bert) Harger, city chairman reported.

After completing the day's tally last night Lebanon business area chairman John Lockwood reported that the drive there had netted more than $700. The Albany quota is $8,100, and drive officials hope to make it within two weeks. Lebanon's quota is $4,100. Harger said the Jaycee soliciting team has made the best showing over the three-day period since the drive was launched here, as far the number of completed rounds goes. The junior chamber, Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs are in a four-way race in handling the business area for the Red Cross.

Kiwanian solicitors were low at noon today, and it they remain so tonight, they will keep a Billy goat awarded daily to the low team, for the second day. County Chairman T. M. Snyder said that Scio drive officials have postponed their drive until March 27.0 Truman Relaxes As Ocean Calms WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN SEA, March 1 15. (U.P) -President Truman forgot about his seasick pills today as he and his vacation party cruised in calm waters down Florida's east coast.

The high winds and waves that kept party "horizontal" aboard the yacht Williamsburg for two days had disappeared. Only occasional showers were expected to mar the placid, warm weather today. Sun permitting, the president planned to spend as much time as possible on deck. The Williamsburg, in company with the escorting destroyer William C. Lawe, was scheduled to reach Key West at 6:30 a.m.

tomorrow. Mr. Truman will go ashore two hours later to begin three weeks of rest and relaxation before flying back to Washington. During the night the Williamsburg steamed quietly down the Georgia coast. The president and his staff, feeling chipper after long battle against seasickness, enjoyed dinner and a movie in the main salon.

Gates Gives Notice Of Incorporation Election While most of the prospective town of Gates is located in Marion county a small portion of its area lies along the south bank of the North Santiam river in Linn county, With growth stimulated by construction work on the Detroit dam, located a few miles upstream from this community, one of the oldest in western Oregon, steps toward incorporation have been deemed necessary by local residents. Accordingly County Clerk R. M. Russell has been notified of the impending Gates incorporation election April 14, that if necessary he may segregate from the general list newly registered voters entitled to ballot in the Gates election. However, because the greater part of the proposed municipality lies within Marion county the election will be conducted under Marion county authority.

WASHINGTON, March 15, (U.R) State department official John Stewart Service -a target of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy will be ordered to return from India to appear personally before a department loyalty board. The state department said today that Service will be instructed to return here as soon as he lands in India. He sailed from San Francisco March 8 to take a new foreign service post there.

Further Action Recommended The department disclosed that the civil service loyalty review board yesterday asked it to take further steps in the Service loyalty case. The civil service agency returned the case to the department several hours after McCarthy, Wisconsin Republican, charged yesterday that he understood" the agency had done so 10 days ago. McCarthy, who charges that there are 57 Communists in the state department but has named none as such yet, said the civil service agency's loyalty review board had disagreed with the department's loyalty clearance of service. Recommended Appearance But the state department said that the civil service commission merely recommended that service appear personally before the department's own loyalty board. The department's loyalty board had cleared Service's case without a personal appearance, Meanwhile, Chairman Millard E.

Tydings of the senate subcommittee investigating McCarthy's charges said the state department has "indicated a complete willing. ness" to give the committee the loyalty files of employes accused of pro -communism. SCHOOL ELECTION SET ON KINDERGARTEN PLAN Registered voters of Albany given opportunity to express visability of establishing here This was determined by the after a discussion precipitated IC. Of C. Name Manager Friday Selection of a chamber of commerce manager to replace Walter Underwood, whose resignation will become effective April 1, has been scheduled for Friday, T.

M. Snyder, chamber president announced today. Snyder said that to date more than a dozen applications for the chamber managership have been received. The decision is expected to come at a board of directors meeting to be held Friday morning at the Hub restaurant. Underwood turned in his resignation to the board Feb.

17. He will be employed by the Earl Smith and associates firm, specialists in financial and membership drives, following ihs resignation. Pedestrian Hurt In Traffic Accident A 66-year-old pedestrian was slightly injured last night while crossing Lyon street at Third avenue, when he was hit by an automobile driven by Mrs. Charles M. Wright, 730 Calapooia street, police said this morning.

The injured man, Thomas M. Acheson, 839 East Third avenue, was taken by private conveyance to the Albany General hospital where he was treated for facial lacerations, then released. According to Chief of Police Ray Maddy, Mrs. Wright told police that she struck Wright just after he had dodged a second automobile, She said, Maddy asserted, that Acheson then was in the path of her car, and could not get out of the way. It was then too late for her to stop, she said.

Mrs. Wright had just turned south off Third avenue onto Lyon street when the accident occurred. BRIBERY CHARGE STANDS SACRAMENTO, March 15. (U.P) A motion to dismiss a four-count bribery charge against. pension promoter George H.

McLain was denied here today by Superior Judge Raymond T. Coughlin. school district No. 5 will be a majority opinion on the ada kindergarten system. Albany school board last night by a request from representatives of several women's organizations, spearheaded by the Junior Women's club, for specific action.

Members of the board expressed interest and even favor of the proposal but raised the question as to whether or not the school district at present possesses sufficient physical facilities or financial resources to finance such a project. Consent to Ballot Board members expressed the opinion that the board itself should not take positive action until "it has first discharged its duties to the existing seven elementary grades, growth of which is demanding full' attention of school authorities. Nevertheless the board consented to place upon the ballot at the regular school election June 19 a measure calling for a yes or no vote on the question. This was determined after Mrs. T.

W. Sahlstrom had quoted from letter she had received from Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction stating that such a vote would not be binding but would still leave the board with discretion of taking action and determining whether or not finances and facilities would permit. Allow Playground Use The board last night also granted permission to a group of Waverly school area residents headed by Everett Richards, to clear up the eastern portion of the old Burkhart school property and convert it into a public playground. The board also discussed the landscaping program which is being carried out on the new Sunrise school Garden club, grounds by Sunrise the Princi- Sunpal George C. Timmons and school board committee composed of Orville Wiseman and Ben Pharis.

Arthur Palmer reported on the high school panel conducted at the city hall Saturday under sponsorship of the local American Association of University Women. Other school events last night were preliminary meetings of the board and lay members of the school district No. '5 budget board, which will hold a series of joint meetings prior to determining the 1950-51 district budget. Quick Approval Of Potato Giveaway Looms WASHINGTON, Mar. 15.

(U.P) A straight give-away plan for solving the surplus potato crisis went to congress today with good chances for swift approval. Chairman Harold D. Cooley, N.C., of the house agriculture committee, said he will seek a house vote on the proposal tomorrow. Senate action may come early next week. The plan for the government to shoulder freight costs in giving away for charitable purposes the remaining 1949 potato surplus came out of an 11- day wrangle in a house-senate conference committee.

Wheat Increase Rejected The conferees also agreed on adding some 1,250,000 acres to the controlled 1950 cotton crop and on stepping up peanut acreage by 100,000 acres. Both would add to the costly government price support program. if they are led by their new borders." California, Acheson declared: "We now face the prospect that the Communists may attempt to use China as a base for probing for other weak spots which they can move into and Acheson referred to southeast Asia, where communists are engaged in guerrilla fighting, and apparently to South Korea, which is being subjected to increasing red pressure. Aid Promised Foes of Reds Acheson promised the free nations of southeast Asia that if they undertake to resist communist aggression this country will help them "In some situations it will be military assistance," he said. "In others, it may be grants or loans, such as recent $100,000,000 credit to the Republic of the United States of Indonesia.

In still other cases, the need, may be for technical assistance." Acheson said "these are not new principles nor is the application of them to the Far East a new departure." But he emphasized that "our help can only reinforce the efforts which others are prepared to make on their own behalf." Blames Nationalists He lamented the fact that U. S. help "on a massive scale" did not bring recovery and peace to China, whose conquest by the communists he blamed. on failure of the nationalists. "As old friends, we say to the Chinese people that we fully understand that their present unhappy status within the orbit of the Soviet Union is not the result of any choice on their part, but has been forced upon them," Acheson said.

At the same time, Acheson said that the Chinese soon would see the aid promised them by Russia under the Russian-Chinese treaty won't meet their needs. Tells Trade Conditions He said that American trade with China is tar more important than soviet economic help to China's needs. But he set forth conditions under which the United States could trade with red China. "Trade requires certain standards of conduct," he said. "Ships, planes, and traders must be re ceived under conditions of security and decency.

Contracts must be honored. There must be some medium of exchange reasonably regulated." Under those conditions, he said the United States would sanction trade with China. However, he warned that the United States "does not propose that Americans should sell goods that may be used to harm "Nor does this government propose to give credits or gifts," he added, "to those who declare their hostility to us and all we stand for." Salem, Jefferson Win at Tourney EUGENE, March 15. (U.P) Salem and Jefferson of Portland today won their opening round games in the 32nd annual Oregon state Class high school basketball tournament at University of Oregon's McArthur Court. Salem's Vikings, bidding for their seventh tournament title, beat a game Scappoose quintet, 48 to 42, in the second morning game today.

Jefferson previously walloped Dallas high, 51 to 34. Salem took an 8 to 0 lead early. in the first period. Scappoose closed to 12-9 at the end of the period. The game was close until near end of the Half when Salem drew away for a 24-18 halftime lead.

Business Slow At Tax Office Up until noon today business was slow at the department of internal revenue, despite the fact that the deadline for income tax returns falls at 12 o'clock on the dot tonight. R. B. Harryman, in charge of the unit's office on the second floor of the postoffice, said the office would be kept open right up until the deadline at 12 p.m. Last night the department's two local representatives stayed on the job until 9 p.m.

to facilitate tax filings. Harryman said that the bulk of tax return filing was completed by Albany residents several days ago, and at that time the local office was swamped. This morning however, for long periods of time there wasn't a soul, other than the two tax officials, in the office. in Heifers for. Relief shipments to Japan and Europe since 1945, and played a part in the shipment last year of a boatload of goats for Okinawa natives.

Collection center for the animals is the Notziger seed company in Lebanon. The heifers will be trucked to Albany over the weekend for rail shipment to the east coast. A dedicatory ceremony, presided over by Dr. Edward Wolfe, Portland, pastor of the Sunnyside Methodist church, and Oregon director of the relief program, will be held at the stockyards of the Southern Pacific depot Monday at 2:30 p.m. Distribution of the livestock on the German end will be handled by the relief organization, who will cooperate with German tural authorities.

But the conferees struck out another provision which would have upped the wheat crop by a 4,500,000 acres. Cooley said this would be handled in searate legisJation later. For potatoes the half-billion dollar problem child of the postwar farm program the committee compromise proposed: 1. Instead of dumping the mountain-high surplus from the 1949 crop, the government should pay freight charges to give them away to any non-profit user for relief or charity here and abroad. The agriculture department said this would raise the loss on the crop from $80,000,000 to $100,000,000 for the year.

Under present law, the government is barred from paying freight charges. 2. To start a program, partly effective in 1950 and stronger in 1951, for controlling production and sales of potatoes. Producers would be deprived of price drops if they let another surplus get out of bounds. If potatoes go under controls in 1951, it will be the first crop strait-laced by government restrictions outside of the six socalled basic crops -corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco, rice and peanuts.

Cotton Acreage Increased The cotton compromise was designed to correct "inequities" allotments of acreage for the 1950 crop which came under, controls for the first time in eight years. It is expected to raise the total crop to approximately 20,250,000 acres. Besides adding an extra for 100,000 acres for peanuts, mainly bama and Texas, the conferees agreed to let peanut growers plant unlimited quantities of peanuts for oil. However, price supports will be paid only on allotted ages. Weatherman Says: WESTERN OREGON-Rain tonight and Thursday, High temperature 48 to 58; low tonight 40 to 48.

Southwesterly winds. ALBANY WEATHER Maximum temperature in Albany yesterday, 54 degrees; minimum temperature morning, 39 degrees, River stage at 8 a.m. today, 5.4 feet, down 2 feet since I yesterday,.