I Thm Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Thgredar March 25, 1842
2 Survivors
Tell Story of
-47 Crash
VANCOUVER, Wash., March 24
(P)-The last of eight plane crash
victims were brought here today
from the icy mountain peak
where they had crouched during,
am agonizing day and night in the
Vain hope of rescue.
The two bodies carried down
Davis Peak today were found be
yond a ridge, to which the men
had apparently stumbled in an
effort to summon help. Waist
deep snow surrounded them.
The only two survivors of the
Sunday C-47 plane crash Maj.
John B. Harding, Portland, the
pilot, and Pfc. John M. Belmonte,
East Boston, Mass. told the
heart-breaking story of how they
and their companions saw search
planes circle overhead but could
not signal them.
In Barnes Hospital.
Harding and Belmonte, who
stumbled down the mountain and
contacted help Tuesday too late
to save the others are in Barnes
hospital here with feet frozen so
badly some of the toes may have
to be amputated.
Air force officials said the plane,
which crashed Sunday en route
from Fairfield-Suisun, Calif., air
base to Portland, was apparently
sucked down by a violent down
draft. The horror-filled night and day
after the crash, with one hope
after another fading, was re
counted by 1st Lt. Patrick Toomey,
casualty officer of Fairfield-Suisun,
from the stories told him by
the two men still alive.
Harding, Belmonte, and an of
ficer who later succumbed 1st Lt.
David H. Greiss, Vallejo, Calif.
pulled their companions from the
burning plane. Most of them were
still living.
Huddled Under Wing
'They huddled under the right
wing of the plane, warming each
other with their body heat," re
counted Toomey. "There was
heavy rain -and snow; the plane
was rapidly being covered by
snow.
"All night they huddled there.
Early Monday morning Maj. Hard
ing who had a broken bone in
one leg started for help. He
couldn't go far, due to snow drifts
up to his waist."
Throughout the day Harding j
and Belmonte. least injured of!
the group, tried to reach help. At
intervals searching planes, flew
overhead. The group tried, vainly,
to signal; snow and r2in quenched I
their fires. They had no food; not
first aid equipment. i
Late Monday Harding and Bel- j
monte struck out once more, and
this time struggled down to a
shack. They were found near
there the next day (Tuesday).
Eisler Given
1-3 Year Term
WASHINGTON, March 2-JP)- I
Gerhard Eisler was sentenced to- j
day to one to three years in prison J
for making a false statement about
his communistic associations. j
Justice James W. Morris of dis- j
trict court allowed the defendant ;
to remain free on $20,000 bond
pending appeal.
The house un-American activi
ties committee has labeled the
German-born Eisler as No. 1 com
munist in the United States." He
was convicted of concealing his
connection when he asked the
state department for a permit to
leave the country.
Eisler also has been sentenced to
a year in jail and fined $1,000 for
contempt of congress. Meanwhile
Eisler faces deportation action by
the government This case can
move forward while the court con
siders the applications for new
trials.
Tots Try Walking
16 Miles Home, in
Wrong Direction
McPHERSON, Kas., March 24
(JPy- If a lad can't find his mama,
the best thing to do is go home
that's the way Larry Emmert, 4,
and his brother Gary, 5, figured
their personal problem.
They came 16 miles from Mar
quete to MePherson with their
mother this morning to shop. Once
there, they got separated from her.
Mrs. Ruby Emmert, the moth
er, appealed to police. By after
noon planes were searching for
the boys, and police and Boy
Scouts were scouring the city.
Then the sheriff got a call from
a fanner's wife east of town. Lar
ry and Gary, she reported were
trudging along the road "going
home."
They had. walked five and one
half miles in the wrong direction.
Marquete is northwest of MePher
son. Too Late to Classify
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ROME, March 24 Premier Aleldo de Gasper! of Italy (top) ad
dresses an estimated 70.0$ people In the public square at Bologna,
Italy, ielllnr them that Rassia and four other Cominform countries
had founded a "special secret committee" to "synchronise the
conduct of communists in Italy and France. Below Luigi Longo.
secretary of the Italian communist party and Italy's No. 2 com
munist after leader Palmiro TogliatU, addresses an election rally
in Piazza Santo Apostoli. Rome, attacking the government of de
Gasperi in stumping for the popular front communist-socialist
bloc (AP Wlrephoto to the Statesman).
Giving Country Back to Indians
Not so Funny They Want It
PORTLAND, Ore., March 24 -JP)- The old gag about gjving the
country back to the Indians may not be quite so funny after aU.
The Indians are putting in their claim for it.
E. Morgan Pryce, regional director for the bureau of Indian af
fairs, listed a few claims today, topped in acreage at least by what
the Paiutes of Nevada, Idaho and Oregon want.
Under a treaty of 1863 the gov
ernment gave the Indians a few
reservations in Nevada and scat
tered small tracts. That's not what
the treaty provided, the Indians
say and they want the mone
tary value of millions of acres of
land in northern Nevada, south
ern Idaho, southeastern Oregon
and, possibly, a corner of Utah.
Boundaries Uncertain
The boundaries were not defi
nite, Pryce pointed out, and at
torneys engaged by the Indians
following a recent meeting at El
ko, Nev., probably will spend a
year poring over old documents
and maps before they try to pin
point the lands over which the
roaming Paiutes once hunted and
fished. Because they say the gov
ernment didn't live up to its trea
ty obligations, they should have
the 1863 value plus interest
for all of it, they declare.
When their case finally gets to
the Indian claims commission, it
will joiri a host of others. In Ore
gon alone there is the claim of
coastal tribes for $12,000,000 for
2,770,000 acres plus $66,500,000 in
interest for 93 years; the claim of
Warm Spring and Wasco Indians
for the . value of part of Mount
Hood national forest; and the
claim of Paiute Indians for the
value of large parts of Malheur
and Harney counties.
Seek Redress
Indians in Washington, Califor
nia and other western states also
are seeking redress for what they
say are treaty violations, Pryce
said, and the same thing is going
on in other parts of the country.
It started when congress set up
the Indian claims commission and
gave descendants of the original
inhabitants five years to make a
showing of what the government
does, or does not, owe for the land
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it took.
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Angled Meters
Prove Confusing
To Car Parker
How many times this has
happened since the installation
of parking meters in Salem is
hard to say, but it at least hap
pened again Wednesday after
noon in front of the States
man office.
A car drove into a parking
space and another drove in
alongside. The driver of the
second car immediately jumped
to the curb and obligingly in
serted a nickel in the meter
guarding the space occupied by
the first car!
Before the first car's driver
could alight from his car, tho
second driver ran down the
street and became lost to view
in a nearby garage.
Ch in-Uppers
Gill Meeting
A business meeting of the Chin
Up club of Oregon has been called
for Sunday, April 11, at 2 p. m. in
the Sacred Heart hall. Southeast
11th and Center streets, Portland,
Beth Sellwood, Salem, club presi
dent, announced Wednesday night.
Miss Sellwood said that sever
al constitutional amendments may
be made at the meeting, and urged
all members of the advisory board
and board of directors to attend.
ATTACKS KILL 37 JEWS
JERUSALEM, March 24-0T"-Arab
attacks on convoys and a
Jewish hilltop fortress north of
Jerusalem killed 37 Jews today.
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Jurisdiction
Of Constable
Undecided
Problems regarding legal eligi
bility and jurisdiction of the Sa
lem district constable can be set
tled only by a law suit. Marian
County Clerk Harlan Judd said
Wednesday.
On the advice of District Attor
ney Miller B. Hayden. Judd is
operating the constable election
under the assumption that the
Office of constable shall be voted
upon by Salem residents and
those voters living in the area
outside of Salem included in the
former Salem justice of the peace
district.
When a Marion county district
court was set up by the 1947
legislature, the old Salem justice
district was abolished, but no
mention was made of the Salem
district constable. In the county's
other districts, constable positions
were made appointive instead of
elective."
An opinion of Attorney General
George Neuner last month advis
ed Hayden that the office of Sa
lem district constable was elec
tive. Neuner also added that the
office could be voted upon only
by residents within the city of
Salem.
Hayden. however, informed
Judd that the -attorney general
had not been told that Marion
county court had not attached the
old Salem justice district terri
tory to any of the other surround
ing districts. Hayden instructed
Judd to consider the constable
office as embracing the territory
of the old district
The old Salem justice district
embraced roughly that area
bounded by Chemawa. Central
Howell. Turner and Rosedale. It
also includes the cities of Salem.
Aumsville, Brooks, Macleay, Quin-
aby and Claggett.
Judd said that if the Salem
constable office were confined to
the city of Salem alone it might
affect the resident eligibility of
candidates for the position. He
added, however, that no existing
statute covered this contingency.
mree men are In the race for
Salem constable incumbent Earl
Adams, James Garvin and Ervin
Ward.
3 Men Die in
Furnace Blast
BETHLEHEM. Pa., March 24
W) Three men were killed and 14
injured tonight when they were
trapped by a slippage of hot coke
from a furnace at the Bethlehem
Steel corporation works.
The company declined to give
the names of the men killed or
; names of the men killed or i
ured. Three of the injured I how-
?r, were listed by St. Lukes!
inj
ever,
hosnital suffering from third rip-
gree burns.
A rnmnanv spokesman said th
accident happened while one of
the furnaces was being blown out
preparatory to being shut down.
He explained the hot coke slip
ped out of the tuyere (pipe) and
spread around the furnace, trap
ping the men.
Witnesses said the flash from
the hot coke could be seen 20
miles. Two other gas furnaces in
the immediate vicinity were shut
down and there was no extended
damage, the company spokesman
said.
Army Supports
Nome Seawall Plan
WASHINGTON, March 24-(V
Nome, Alaska, is strategically im
portant to national defense and
should be protected from storms
that threaten its existence, army
and air force officers testified to
day. Congressmen and Alaskans also
testified before a house public
works subcommittee considering
to authorize building a $1,837,000
seawall to protect the town.
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Papanek
LAKE SUCCESS, N. T, March 24-CP-Jaj rananck (seated right) addreoaes the United Nation ge
emrity Cenneil at Lane Sneeesa. N. Y declaring that KnosU engineered the eowntst grab In fcls
natlTO CsochooloTakla. "God help see. I shall nrovo this to yov." asotrtsd the aaan unseated or the
Csech government from the seemrity roaneU. Seated left Is Andrei A. Gremyke (dark glasses), soviet
delegate, rananek was voted a seat at the table by a f to t vote despite UiUr ebjeetleao from Bae
sla and the soviet Ukraine. (Ar Wlrephoto to the SUIeamaa).
Ike to Squelch
Demo Hopes
WASHINGTON, March 24 -0P)-Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, re
tired army chief of staff, will not
be available for a presidential
nomination on any ticket, has
friends said today.
This was in reply to demands
from a number of democrats that
the five-star general be given the
democratic presidential nomina
tion instead of President Truman.
Friends said the general Is
aware of recent moves to revive
his name for the presidency in
both democratic and republican
quarters.
But they said his position was
made known irrevocably last
January 23 when he wrote a New
Hampshire republican supporter
that he "could not accept" a nom
ination and "my decision to re
move myself completely from the
political scene is definite and posi
tive" They said he may be forced to
reaffirm that stand if reports con
tinue that he has not "closed the
door" entirely to a nomination.
Klamath Storm
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(JPi- Klamath county
March 24
recovered
I f1rom , heavy "owfall
! hlch al.tMJUsse' dlrupUd
power but aided crops
The snow, which piled up to
levels ranging from' nine to lt
inches yesterday, was melting
rapidly today. All schools except
Merrill and Bly resumed: power
returned to norrnal; and roads
were open, borne summer nomes
in the Lake o' the Woods region
were damaged, however.
Grain growers hailed the un-
seasonable snow as a "million
dollar storm." bringing needed
moisture to the Klamath basin.
EUGENE DISPUTE SETTLED
EUGENE, Ore.. March 24 -0P-A
two-month old wage dispute
between AFL carpenters and gen
eral carpenters here has been set
tled by union acceptance of a $1.95
an hour offer by the employers.
ARRESTS FOl' CHINA PLOT
SHANGHAI.. Thursday, March
23 -(P- Mayor K. C. Wu said
today an ambitious Chinese com
munist plot to stir up trouble here
has been foiled by 40 arrests.
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Negro Shot in
Food Strike at
Texas Prison
SUGAR LAND. Tex.. March 24
0f- A negro prisoner was khot
to death by a guard at Central
Prison farm No. 1 near here to
night after 200 negroes went on
a "food strike."
"He should not have been shot,"
declared O. B. Ellis, general man
ager of the Texas prison system.
Ellis, called the county sheriff
into the case to investigate.
The prisoner, Ernest Williams.
22, of Baxter county, was shot
when he tried to escape gas which
had been sprayed into the dining
room in which the 200 negro pri
soners were locked. c
The general manager said a
guard told him that Williams was
trying to raise a window and get
out of the dining room, and he
fired. There were two empty shells
in his gun. Ellis said.
"There was no chance whatever
for Williams to have escaped." El
lis said. "The window had bars
on it. Even if he had raised the
window, he could not have gotten
out."
Ellis said two cans of sickening
gas and two cans of tear gas were
sprayed into the dining room as
a disciplinary measure. The pri
soners had been told in advance
that this would be done because
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The trouble started about 8:30
p. m. when the prisoners refused
to eat and threw their plates and
food on the floor. Ellis was called.
He said he sampled the food and
considered it all right.
Salem Elks Ixxlgc to
Honor Harry Wirtliner
Harry Wiedmer, recently elected
Salem Elks lodge secretary to
serve his SSrd consecutive year,
will be honored by lodge mem
bers Thursday night. He has been
a member of the lodge since 1910.
A crab feed is one of the high
lights. Mat. Daily froaa 1 p.m.
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Pekkala Meets
With Molotov
MOSCOW. March 24-(4-rinn-ish
Prime Minister Mauno Pekkala
met briefly with Foreign Minis
ter V. M. Molotov tonight to start
off delayed negotiations for a mut
ual aid treaty between their
countries.
Pekkala, who has been 111, ar
rived today accompanied by his
physician. At S o'clock tonight he
sat down with Molotov for a 15
minute talk. The actual working
conferences on the treaty will be
gin tomorrow.
Socialist to
Speak Here
Norman Thomas, national chair
man of the socialist party, will
address a public meeting In Sa
lem April 2. Wendell Barnett,
Brooks, in charge of arrange
m o n t s, announced Wednesday
night
Barnett said tentative arrange
ments have been made with Wil
lamette university officials to
hold the meeting in Waller hall.
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Rearmament
WASHINGTON. March 2 4-01 V
A high treasury offk-ial said to
day an extra two to three billion
dollars ran be spent on military
preparedness without a major lm-
pact on the U. S. economy pro
vided taxes are not cut.
But ho added that If expendi
tures three or four times that sire
should be necessary. U would force
return of controls on a seals even
broader than during the last war,
along with more taxes, to block
inflation. i . t
Principally that would mean
compulsory draft of labor to dU
rect workers to essential Jobs. In
addition to the rationing, pch-e
ceilings and other controls of
World War If, h aald. !
The official discussed possibil
ities on condition that he not bo
named. He said the administra
tion has not yet settled nn the sUo
and composition of the prepared -nesa
program It Wants to launch
as a stop-Russia tnove. I
Other government analysts aald
rearmament plana under discus
sion might well boost government
spending $3,000,000,000 above tho
139.700,000.000 budget estimate for
the fiscal year beginning July 1.
and they might even shoot It up
$3,000,000,000. . I
Marine Reserve
Unit Inspected
CoL Roland Davis. Portland,
commander of Oregon's marine
reserve forces. Inspected Salem's
marine reserve unit at their regu
lar weekly drill session at the Sa
lem airport Wednesday night.
Col. Do vis. currently on a tout
of inspection of units throughout
the state, said he wf well pleased
with the progress made by Salem's
-B" battery, and complimented
the men on their appearance.
Two new memliers signed at
the session are i William Weston
Ames and Irwin Colquette Smith,
both of Salem. I
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