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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1947)
ODD OOO1 OOPO Otb ODDO'O ODO boo Q DO ooo OOO ooo o a an . - ' .:. -i , ; : Fmsorxsih) fo)l Test Model Ex sion Achieved At Siberian Town POUNDDD Binfolb Claims am plo By Mel PARIS, Nov. ll-W-The rightist newspaper L'Intransigeant today printed a copyrighted dispatch purporting to come from Russia which said the 6oviet Union was making atomic bombs and that Soviet scientists had exploded their first test model in Siberia on June 15. 1 The story was datelined "Prague," Czechoslovakia, and car- iSMBGB .lug) ODDS i Once the late President Roo sevelt played on popular preju - dice with caustic reference to the '."fine print" on an insurance pol icy, .implying that this seldom read matter took awa many of ; the claims which the policy-holder ! thought he had. ' i But the government itself now Invokes the "fine print" for its : own protection the "fine t print" of the Federal Register. It seems that, an Idaho farmer seeded his ground to winter wheat and insured it with the. federal crop insurance agency., Some 400 acres of the crop was "winter killed so the farmer reseeded it to spring wheat Came a drouth ' and the yield of the 400 acres was cut; then the farmer tried to col lect on his insurance. ; The government resisted paying the crop insurance on the ground : that the land had been reseeded to spring wheat, this in spite of the fact that the county ' agricultural conversation committee which act ed as agents for federal crop in surance had advised the farmer his spring crop was Insurable. The government took its defense be- , hind the fact that a regulation had been published in the Federal Reg ister which prohibited insuring spring wheat on reseeded winter wheat acreage. i The Idaho supreme; court held the government liable, but the UJ5. supreme court in a 5 to 4 decision f freed the federal crop agency from the claim. In his dissent Mr. Jus tice Jackson wrote: "To my mind Jt is an absurdity to hold that every farmer who in- cures his crops knows what the siTederal,Regis'(er contains or even j knows there is such a publication. I If he were to peruse this cooumin ous and dull publication ... he -would never need crop insurance for he" would never get time to plant any crops." The "fineprint' is wicked busi ness for private corporations, but at least it appears in the policy which the insured receives. The government though makes valid the "fine print" in a publication which few farmers .ever see! Oklalioman to Take Charge At Chemawa R. M. Kelley, for the past nine years the state superintendent of Indian education in Oklahoma, ar . rived here this week to j become superintendent of the Chemawa Indian school, t , Kelley succeeds M. W. Evans, who leaves Chemawa after four years- to. take over the superin- tendencyof larger Sherman insti tute at Riverside, Calif. The new Chemawa superinten dent is a graduate of the Univer fity of Colorado who took graduate , work there and at George Wash ington university. His 20 years of government service - included an assignment with the XJS. office of r .education and a five-year term as . superintendent of the Haskell In- dian institute in Kansas before he went to Oklahoma City to super' ' vise the state's Indian education. iMr. and Mrs. Kelley ate residing .Jn the superintendent's cottage at (jnemawa. Their son, Kussell, is a student at Oklahoma A & M, Still- well, Okla. Chemawa Indian school reopen ed in September after a last-min ute congressional appropriation in the summer, saved it from exunc tkn. Animal Crackers ' ' 8y WARREN GOODRICH "He smokes Luckks." Most iried the byline of "John Griggs" which the newspaper explained was a pseudonym because the writer was still in Russia. : , L'Intransigeant said the author was "neither an American nor British." An Associated Press dispatch from Prague said weak tremors were registered on seismological appartus at Strasbourg, France, Vladivostok, Moscow, Tashkent and Sverdlovsk in Russia, Pasa dena, " Calif., Alma Ata, Outer Mongolia, and Stuttgart, Germany on June 15. Disturbance Recorded The royal observatory outside London, reported the recording of a "very faint" disturbance the same day, but none of these re cordings coincided with the hour of 10 a.m, at which L'Intransi geant said the explosion took place. " " ji The Associated Press dispatch from Prague said the tremors reg istered at various places in Asia and Europe were at 6:21 p. m., Greenwich mean time. Stuttgart said tremors were noticed, at 120 a. m. and 8:35 p. m. and were typ ical of earth tremors rather than bomb shocks. - f L'Intransigeant's story appear ed just five days after Soviet For eign, Minister Molotov declared in a speech on the anniversary of the bolshevik revolution declared the secret of the atomic bomb had ceased to exist." -i Heard for 29 Miles The story said the Russians set off a 12 4 -pound bomb at 10 a. m. on June 15 and that the explosion was heard for 20 miles around the proving ground not far from Irk utsk. It added that small' bombs were being made at a newly created city In far Siberia dubbed "Atomgrad" from radio active ores mined in Uzbekistan, Karelia, the Ural mountains, and the region of Lake BakaiL in Siberia. j-j The dispatch said about 280 so viet scientists- and military men witnessed what was- , called the first explosion, in soviet history of uranium 235. - German Scientists Aid ' The Russians are being aided br a number of German scientists at Atomgrad" the dispatch contin ued. - . i The story said that although the Russians believed they were about five years behind American scien tists, they were working on a "pro ducing belt" technique at their nu clear research center. (The report was received in si lence by officials at the atomic en ergy commission and elsewhere in Washington. Some scientists have reported that tests to detect atom ic explosions by seismographs and by recording radio activity in the upper atmosphere were not very satisfactory. i (Several leading American at omic scientists at Chicago express ed skepticism, Dr. Edward Teller at the University of Chicago Insti tute of Nuclear studies declaring today's report "does not make much sense," Eclipse Duein Salem Toddy When the sky begins to darken this morning, it won t be more rain clouds (probably) or the end of the world, but a partial eclipse which will obscure more than one fourth of the sun's light 'The dur ation, according to Associated Press, will be from about 10:06 a. m. to 12.-03 p.m., with the best time to look at 11 a.m. (used smoked glass or a-jhoto negative). Amount of sunlight eliminated here at the peak of the eclipse will be a "shade more" than Portland's 28 per cent. CHOLERA DEATHS MOUNT CAIRO, Nov. llr -tJPh The death toll in Egypt's cholera epi demic passed the 10,000 mark .to day, but health authorities said the end was in sight and! announ ced a partial lifting of some re strictions, t Romania Reds Decree Life in Solitary for Opposition Leadei BUCHAREST, Romania, Nov. ll.-if-A military tribunal of the communist-led Romanian govern ment today found 75-year-old Ju- liu Maniu guilty . of high treason and sentenced him to solitary confinement in prison for the re mainder of his life. Eighteen associates of the for mer premier, head of the national peasant party, received sentences varying from life at hard labor to one year in jaiL Of four tried in absentia, two received life senten ces at hard labor. " Counsel for -Maniu and his as sociates lodged formal appeals from the verdicts. ? Maniu, the Catholic leader of the- anti- communist opposition, was sentenced to an additional 10 years on other charges that in cluded entering Into relations with foreign powers --the United NINETY-SEVENTH YEAH rn 1M Census Shows Need For Added Schools 5-Year Plan Studied by School Board By Winston II. Tartar , SUff Writer. The Statesman Anticipated growth of Salem's school population from 6,488 to over 10,000, purely on the basis of present census figures and con tinuance of the present birth rate without guessing at immigration, appear to make necessary addition of several new classrooms and oth er facilities, starting immediately, members of the district school board were told Tuesday night. Indications were that a tentative Re-elected ATLANTIC CITY. TC. J- Nv-ll (flVWalter Rether,wh was re-elected Tuesday, as president of the CIO United Auto Work ers, Fishting a left-wing grenp. Renther was supported by CIO President Philip Murray.. (Story oFage 2) Nip Mine Sunk; Five More in Shipping Lanes ASTORIA, Ore., Nov! 11-;P)-The coast guard . sunk another derelict mine off the Oregon coast today, but warned that at least five others were bobbing in coastal shipping lanes. The cutter McLane sunk the latest mine, pushed across the ocean by the Japan current It went down after rifle bullets pierced its shell 40 miles west of Cascade head. It was the sixth mine destroyed on the Oregon coast in the last few days. Five others have been reported off Oregon and Califor nia shores, where . other cutters are searching the waters. There have been no known casualties . f rqm i the scores , f mines that have drifted over since the close of the war, but there -was speculation today that a mine caused the disappearance of the tuna clipper Zarembo III off the Oregon coast two months ago. A Seattle boat, carrying six men, it had reported regularly by radio until September 13 when the reports stopped without even a distress signal. The ship last reported from a point 118 miles off the Oregon coast, opposite Cape Blanco. States and Britain to overthrow the regime of communist Premier Petru Groza. Both the United States and Brit ain had protested the arrest Maniu steadfastly denied all the charges brought against him in the 14-day trial .that opened October 28. NEW YORK, Nov. ll.-fvTVFor mer Romanian Premier Nicholas Radescu said tonight the senten ring of Juliu Maniu, 75-year-old Romanian peasant party leader, to life imprisonment was "the roost odious of all the crimes perpetra ted by, the soviet-appointed re gimes in the countries now bleed ing to death under their heel." Radescu, who arrived Sunday from Lisbon, said in a statement the life sentence was "in fact a sentence of death," , in view of Maniu's ag -v--' I im iii.ii mi i ii i.piuiaiii tm.i . if" ''' - mv' ' -ii - : - :m ''S ' ' f-f f . 1 tit -: " ti ( V'" r f ! 1 V 12 PAGES five-year program would approx- imate at least the $2,000,000 cost estimated recently by school offi cials. This picture of population growth, by the time children born in the past year finish high school, was presented by Superintendent Frank B. Bennett in presenting data secured on the district-wide census, all of which has not yet been tallied and classified. The first draft, Bennett said, shows 9, 843 or 550 more children in the 4 to 19 -year -old grouping than a year ago, with most of the increase on the city's fringes. Relief In 194S Essential The superintendent reviewed and discussed with board mem bers various proposals for hand ling the increase in children, for possible building replacements and forfinancing. Considerable furth er action, is expected at the next meeting, - since relief for several crowded buildings is deemed es sential by the fall of 1948. While Junior and senior high school pupil loads are not expect ed to increase beyond present Ca pacity for at least five years, bar ring greatly boosted immigration, the grade school group's rise in that time is estimated at 25 per cent Bennett estimated increases as follows: Grades, now 3,168 en rollment, up to 4,800 by 1960; jun ior high, 1,66a up to 2,600 by 1962; senior, high, 1,660 up to 2,800 by 1964. Capacities Listed The district's present classroom capacities, on a desired load basis of 25 pupils per room, is 2,600 in the - grades, 1,000 in junior high and 1,600 in senior high. Emergen cy load capacity is estimated at 3. 845 grade, 1,785 junior high and 2.000 senior high. In the census of all age groups throush 19. most year-units ran ged from 500 to 700 as a city total, but in the group which has not yet celebrated a first birthday, the count is 902. Low point is in the 10-year-olds. In addition, the district has 370 dwellings vacant or under con struction. (Additional details on page 2.) Traffic Light Set at Capitol, Fairgrounds Traffic sienal lights at Fair grounds road and North Capitol street will go into operation to day, state highway department officials said Tuesday night, with the hope that they will ease the congestion and hazards at that heavily traveled, five-street Inter section. . Engineers will be on hand to day to check the lights' operation under actual conditions and to ad just the timing of the , three-phase timer to observed needs; A separate signal is employed for each entrance. Fairgrounds on the south. Myrtle avenue on the west, Tile road on the east and Capitol from south and north (Fa cific highway). A painted chan nel will be used to separate south bound traffic, since cars continu ing south on Capitol street will use one signal and those chang ing to Fairgrounds road will fol low another light. Sets of "walk- wait" lights are also provided for pedestrians. The signal installation, to op erate from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. cost approximately $4,200, split evenly by city and state. Fishing Equipment Takes Lengthy Detour MISHAWAKA, Ind, Nov. 11 (AVJohn Harkins had been won dering why he didn't receive the fishing equipment he . ordered from a St. Louis hardware store in March, 1946. . Yesterday it arrived, by way Of Bombay, India, and London. The last two letters in "Indi ana" had been omitted from the address. : Weather Max. SS 52 59 39 Kin.1 44 46 41 2S Pred. galea ; X Portland San Francisco Chicago trace .06 M M SI New York 57 41 Wlillamette river 10J feet. FORECAST (from U.S. - weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today becoming mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday, with occasional light rain. Highest today near 60, low- eat tooigni . Tbm Oregon Statesman, Salem. Throngs Review Salem9 s Armistice Day Parade t i - i ' '!-- "X Clearing skies brought eat the crowds te review the Armistice day through Salem's downtown street and ended at the county courthouse where traditional ceresno nles i honoring war dead were carried onC Flanked by volunteer cyclists and small marchers, the only military nnit In the parade was the national guard company B! (top picture) commanded by 1st IX Burl Cox In the lead. To standards of patrlotoie and veteran group. Another eye-catcher was the Leslie Junior high school band (mlddlo right) paced by high-stepping, student majorettes. Part of the spectators crowd at the court house square ceremonies (lower right) have surrounded the massed colors and the national gmard nit along the High street fringe shown (lower left) placing floral doughboy on the west side of Drive Slated as Building Plans The Salem Deaconess hospital announced Tuesday through its board of directors the maturing of plans to raise $1,000,000 for ex pansion of its hospital facilities. Architectural work on designing a new 200-bed ward to be erected on ground across South winter street fronting the present build ing is said to be well advanced. A director for the financial can vass has been secured and will arrive in Salem early in 1948. i The board in its statement re ferred to recent proposals for a consolidation of the financial campaigns for the Deaconess and Salem General hospital which last week : announced its plan to raise $1,500,000 for a new hospital, and indicated it was agreeable to such a consolidation. For lack of such an agreement, however, the board announced it would make its own oppeal for funds. , , . Statement on page 12. Visliinsky Claims U.N. Out of Bounds NEW YORK, Nov. llHAn drei Y. Vishinsky, Russia's depu ty foreign minister, said tonight "a machine majority rounded up by means of lobby diplomacy forced the United Nations to con- sider matters beyond its jurisdic- t,": ' 1 , , , , visniniiy. in an iwuit ire in an fore the 30th annual dinner of the Foreign Press association, saia "The U. N. organization is com pelled to deal with questions that are not at all within its jurisdic tion and are not provided for by the. charter. The Korean question and that of revision of the Italian peace treaty are two of them," U.S. Blocks Red Anti-Franco Move LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 11 -iJP) The United States opposed today a demand by the Soviet bloc that the United Nations take all pos sible economic action short of actual war to force the fall of the Franco regime in Spain. , Charles Fahy,- American alter nate delegate, told the U. N. that the U. S. was against any action which "would initiate change by violence. He said Instead that the Spanish people "in due time and in their own way" will take steps to regain their place in the fami ly of nations. Hospital Spurs Ore Wednesday. Nor. 12. 1947 . the rear of the marching gnardsmen of the black. We men and girls of patriotic and veterans grops are offerings at the foot of the War Mothers' statue of the World War I the courthouse block. f: a Armistice Day Speaker Backs A rmed R eserves By Conrad Frange Staff Writer. The Statesman National strength through parti cipation in organized military re serve units was stressed by Ma). Leonard Hicks, commander of Sa lem's marine corps reserve unit, in an Armistice day address Tues day on the Marion county court - house square. Maj. Hick's talk climaxed Sa lem's 29th traditional observance of the end of World War I and in honor of war desd. which included a parade and brief ceremonies at the War Mother's memorial $tatue at the west entrance to the court house. "Let us honor the men who died in battle by maintaining our mili tary strength so that their sons may live," the major said. Point ing out that this nation's armed forces have been unified "polit ically," Hicks said that members of the: forces who died in battle had already achieved unity of their organizations through self sacrifice." Urging community interest in reserve units, the speaker main tained that "preparing for any eventuality in the best way to pre serve our way of life." Hick's spoke to a large gathering on the courthouse square which had just witnessed the laying of floral offerings at the foot of the memorial statue by auxiliary or ganizations. T . . ' ! Guard Unit Tires Volleys As the courthouse clock chimed i 1 1 o'clock, silence was observed as salute vol lies were fired by a na tional guard unit and taps were sounded. Just as the bugle notes were fading the sun suddenly came out from a cloud bank which had hid den in all morning. The Salem High school band played the na tional anthem and the Rev. Louis Kir by, pastor of Leslie Methodist church, offered the invocation. ' Participants in the parade which left Marion square at 10:20 a.m., lined the High street side! of the courthouse square facing the me morial statue. Robert K. Powell, of the Federation of Patriotic So cieties, was Armistice day chair man. Onlookers Line Parade Led by the grand marshal, Lt, Col Eugene Laird of the army re serve,, the- colorful, three-block long line of marchers (complete with bands and prancing j major ettes) streamed down Commercial street, turned east on State street and wrapped itself around the courthouse block. Heavy crowds of onlookers lined the path of march. Price 5c FLO parade Tuesday as It marched can be seen the massed colors and The first section included the Salem High school band directed by Vernon Wiscarson and a squad of national guard Company B un der the command of 1st Lt Burl Cox. - Massed colors and standards of most of Salem's patriotic organiza tions and their auxiliaries, follow ed by, members, paced the second division. The rest of the section in eluded a marching unit of Salem Boy Scout troop V and cub pack 11, the Leslie junior school band led by Raymond Carl, formations of Leslie students and various aux iliary groups in autos. Students in Formation Parish' junior high school band led by Carl Tbelen, preceded the last line . of march, followed by rarrish and senior high school stu dents in formation. Members of the following or ganizations took part in. the pa rade while their auxiliaries took part in the floral ceremonies at the courthouse: Daughters of the American Revolution, Woman's Relief Corps. Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Daughters oi union veterans of the Civil War, American Gold Star Mothers and auxiliaries of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Span ish-American War Veterans. VFW West Salem post 661, Meadowlark post 6102, and Navy Beaver post 1 49, American Legion, posts 9 and 136, Disabled American War Vet erans, Salem Marine Corps league, Navy Mothers and American War Mothers. s (Other Armistice day news, page 4.) " Monroe Sweetland Buys Yaquina Bay News NEWPORT. Ore, Nov. 11 -ttp)-Purchase of. the Yaquina - Bay News by Monroe Sweetland, pub lisher of the Mola 11a, Pioneer, was announced . today. The new publisher has moved his family to Newport and expects to divide his time between the two publications until later. Counterfeit $10 Bills Grculatcd in Oregon PORTLAND, Novvll-fp-Trea-sury agents reported today that counterfeit $10 federal reserve notes are being circulated in Ore gon. The notes bear check letter "F, face plate number 399 and back plate number 1177 and are of ser ies 1934S. No. 188 mm - i . .t Airliner WASHINGTON. Nov. United and American air lines to night ordered grounded their DC- transports shortly after an Amer ican DC-6 landed In flames at Gallup, KM.-.-. I United announced fn Chicaen that its DC-6S will remain out nf service "until any possible hazard nave oeen eliminated from the) planes." . r . In New York. American an nounced suspension of DC-6 night services enective at midnight. The two companies acted vol untarily. W. A. Patterson, president of United, said in a statement that The fire experienced by another ir line gives evidence that a firo hazard still exists." A United - DC-6 crashed in flames at t Brvce Canvnn iTfnh unung 3i persons. ATaeea uoura mt Fir Patterson said investigation of the Bryce Casyon accident had rnited Air Uaea schedules through Salem will probably not be affected by the ground ing of DC-Is, the Portland UAL office said early today. Slight possibility was expressed that m the aaaaller eraft on the const ran might bo pulled off to make eross-eoaatry trips. made it nossihle tn T tlaTe that fAiirtA ! of the fire, but not Its point of origin. ; -. Both companies announced they would eontirtu niwntinn. ..i,u two-engine DC3s and four-engino GALLUP. NAf, j Nov. 11 Flames which burned a hole in tho belly of a big DC-6 airliner dra matically interrupted its eastbound flight this afternoon, but all 25 persons aboard scrambled out "ffly ft n emergency landing at the Gallup airport. The plane was American Air-, lines flagship Wisconsin, flying from San. Francisco' to New York with stops scheduled at Tulsa and Washington. Capt Evan Chatfield of Tulsa, the pilot, said the fire was dis covered when ho , was no mora thaM h. : . . mm. ' uLuuits uui ox o&uup, and he quickly circled in from; the north. j Partially Blinded by Smoke Although partially blinded , by smoke which filled the cabin and cockpit, he set the big ship drwnj 100 yards to the side of the regu lar runway. Passengers were) praised by the pilot for remaining calm and behaving "beautifully. Witnesses said Gallup "firemen extinguished tho blaze with che micals IS minutes after it was on the ground. An American Air lines spokesman in New York said wo a u(ui lire in mm rear cargo section and the pilot, following instructions, set tho plane down when one of its eight smoke warning devices went off. SANTA MONICA Calif, Not. 11 -Ufh- The Douglas Aircraft Co. tonight "joined with two major airlines in voluntarily ordering a temporary suspension ot DC-6 service. Iii Florida Tornado ELGIN FIELD. Fla Nov. 1MT) Two widely separated tornados in jured 21 persons and caused se vere property damage in north west Florida today. At the army's big proving here, .13 soldiers' were injured, two seriously, when two tempor ary wood and tar paper barracks collapsed in one of the storms. Eight other persons were hurt and a dozen houses leveled in Ebro, a village 40 miles to tho east in another gust. QUICKIE "The food here Is awful - but th waitresses they get with States want ads! . Lands, in Flames r - t.