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t . ' " 77) 1 Group Subpoenas Soviet Citizens De Third Still In!Soviet';' In Hiding DeniesSpying spite.. Russian NEW YORK. Aox. It Michael Ivanovlteh Samaria (above) is la hiding as Soviet officials de manded he be tamed over to them by the IT. S. government. Samarin has been interviewed by the FBI. (New York Times photo Tla (flp) Wirephoto to The Statesman.) V Frankly this columnist business is very confusing. In May wo had a big debate in Oregon between two presidential candidates on the subject: Shall tne tommumsi par ty be outlawed. Candidate Stassen aaid they should; Candidate Dewey said they shouldn't, or they would be driven underground- Measured by results in Oregon ana tne na tion, Dewey must have won the ar gument. Since then however, revelations indicate that the communists have had a very active underground though the party had legal status. A procession of confessed and penitent communists' have hit the sawdust trail and the headlines with stories - of -xommurust spy ing and transmission of secrets to the fountainhead at Moscow; and tales about present or former government employes in respon sible offices who .were pipelines of information or communist par tisans. AH of these deny the alle gations, or refuse to testify. - The communist party has never been outlawed; but the government has found ' indictments against dozen of its too leaders. Again, though .the communist party has never been outlawed, no communist is permitted to hold a federal job; and no union can get recognition from the national la bor relations board until its offi cers sign affidavits they are not communists. . Dewer said wo shouldn't out law the party because that would be an invitation to some govern ment to outlaw the republican or democratic parties and would bo a denial of political freedom of thought. Yet wo "outlaw" unions with commies in official positions, and wo put a bar against commies holding federal offices , Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are "civil rights' (Continued on editorial page) Cons Missing From Annex Two middle-aged state peniten tiary inmates were being sought today after they disappeared from the 'penitentiary farm sometime Monday night Their absence was discovered at the 6 am. check. The. escapees are Burt Blythe, 63, serving five years from Polk county on a charge of contribut ing to. the delinquency of a minor, and Cecil Arnold WoLfer, 54, serv ing 10 years -for rape, from Doug las county. Blythe entered the pri son Juno 19, 1945. V . Hota : were trusties and . were wearing overalls and jumpers. , Animal Crcchers By WARREN GOODRICH Too may coma out of th corner now if you promts act to est Any mora tUrch -- j Consulate WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -OP) Defying t Russia's bitter objec tions, the house un-American ac tivities committee today slapped witness subpoenas on two Soviet citizens for its red spy hearings. A third remained in the Soviet consulate In New York, but sub ject ; to possible subpoena if she emerges.! : m m somewnere in me usa, com mittee , agents handed orders , to a 40-year-old mathematics teach er Michael Ivanovitch Samarin (picture Sat left), and his wife, Who dropped out of sight after ne sougm an interview with the FBI Sunday. The committee hopes the two - can aid its inquiry into stones or communist intrigue. Committee Chairman J. Pan nell Thomas (R-NJ) said the subpoenas1 were served but didn't say , where. Soviet Ambassador Alexander S. Panyushkin has de manded of the state department that Samarin be delivered to Soviet officials for return to Rus sia. The department has politely aeennecu I , , : Appeal to Police . In New York, the Soviet Con sulate appealed again to police to una bamarin. The state department informed Thomas' committee that it could subpoena Mrs. Kosenklna if it can reach her, but that it cant enter the consulate without a warrant. Mrs. Kosenklna, 52, and like Samarin a teacher of children of Russian diplomats, sprang into the case last Saturday when she was "rescued" by the Russian consul from White Russians ( an ti -communists) at a col ony near New: York. In the; house committee hearing room itself, three more men who were wartime government off! dais denied accusations by Eliza beth T. Bentley that they had given her information while she was a courier for Soviet agents. Calls Her "Liar- William Ludwig Ullmann, with the government from 1935 to 1947 in various agencies, called her a liar. Duncan Lee (picture above at right), 33-year-old former ope rative for the office of strategic services, suggested she isnt ra tional, s ? Robert ;T. Miller formerly in the office of coordinator of inter' American! affairs and the state department, said she didnt ask him for Information. He denied he ever was a communist" and so did Lee. Refuses to Say But Ullmann refused to say whether he ever was a commun ist, or S whether he ever knew Miss Bentler. Ullmann was accused by Miss Bentley of having photographed secret government papers. He followed Lee who categori cally denied the assertions of Miss Bentley that he bad sup plied her secret information. The calm Miss Benuey men repeated the role she has played before in .the hearings since she spilled her- story of having quit Soviet i spy ring to pare ro secrets to the -FBI. She repeated her charges against Lee, adding that he had told her "something super secretw was going on at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Disabled Veteran Plays Hero Role, Dies from Shock HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 10 -HV Doctors at the Long Beach naval hospital told Paul Taylor, a 49-year-old war veteran, that he could go home yesterday. His heart was well lenough, they said, to stand normal life. Todav. the house behind which Taylor lived in k trailer, caught fire. I --i " - ' Taylor shouted the alarm then returned to his trailer and died from the shpek. Firemen put out the blaze which. thanks to Taylor, had harmed no one else. County Schools Despite Building; Lack Teachers Marion ! county schools . face shortages of teachers and class room Space, it was pointed out Tuesday as preparations were un derway for the fall term which will start in less than a month. County school superintendent. Mrs. Agnes Booth, said that schools throughout the county expect an overflow of pupils this year de spite a general building expansion program carried on throughout the summer. I . " - Mrs. Booth said 15 teachers are needed for one and two-room elementary schools in addition to two physical education instructors. Most county schools will start on September 13 while others will commence on September 20 after the late harvests., ; Largest project on Marion coun ty's schools expansion program is the Detroit grade and high school which is currently being built by the federal government to accom modate construction workers chil dren. Mrs. Booth expressed doubt as to whether the 13 -room struc ture will be completed in time for the fall term. . , Ready for occupancy will bo the . x ' i i i t i i i i n - Duncan Lee (sbeve) - rormer Of flee of Straterie Services em ploye, denies from witness stand at vnAmerieaa Aetmues eom mltteo hearlns at Washinston that ho ever gave highly secret information to communist drround as charred In testl mnny of Mtoo ISlsabetlk T. Bentley, self-confessed former a .rnt. (UP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) falling Logs Crash Woman At WiUamina Urt Ann Marie PenneH. WUla mina route 1, was crushed to death when a log rolled from a truck near her home at 820 ajn. Tues day, according to state-pouoe. Vernon Joseph Evans, DeLake, driver of an Oregon Pulp and Pa per Co. logging truck, told police h caw the woman walk across the road to the mailbox, then walk along the roadside reading a pa ner. He said he started to apply the brakes and that the strain on the trailer broke the chain noiaing the logs. Police said the. woman was killed instantly when the log hit her and crushed her against ti rrmmrf. The accident occurred about three-fourths mile west of Wlllamina on the Salmon River highway to the coast. Thm Polk eountr coroners of fice, investigating the mishap, de rlanwl th death accidental. Surviving- are tne wiaowcry iao Penneu of Wlllamina, ana two children. j avity Opens At Commercial Court Streets ! An intersection on downtown North- Commercial street startea to fall into an old-time ere cis tern Tuesday, and city crews rush ed repairs to keep from "losing" any cars. Traffic at the busy corner, com bined with hot weather, caused the pavement to drop in the center of the Commercial-Court inter section. City police Yaid cars naa been bumped" by . the dent for a day or more before the hole ac tually appeared. At 5:30 pjn. Tuesday the cavity m m ( was nearly a root in cuameier, while below was a hole about four feet deep and three to four feet in length, and width. A city engineer's crew enlarged the break enough to throw in chunks of concrete, topped with graveL Old timers recalled last night that the cisterns served as a "source of water for the handpumpers used to fight blazes. They . were con siderably larger than the . hole which appeared below the street, and it was supposed that the spot had been somewhat filled before paving began early in this cen tury, then, perhaps covered with planking which ; slowly rotted away. - .. ; : :" Short of Space new three-room grade school at Sublimity, and another three-room structure at Union Hill. Expansion projects completed during the summer include a six-room addi tion to the Keizer grade school and installation of inside plumbing in numerous rural grade schools throughout the county. Mrs. Booth said work will be gin immediately on construction of a two-room addition to the Sa lem Heights schooL The job may be completed before the new term, she said. - - - Still to be constructed are two schools for newly formed union high school districts union dis trict 8 at Hubbard and the Turrter Aumsville district on the Crawford site between the two cities. Both buildings will cost about $200,CC3 and work is ! expected tar start early this fall. - . The remaining buildlne not yet started is the new Mill City grade school for which a $101,700 bond issue was approved recently. About 18.C0O pupils were en rolled In county schools last year, Mrs. Booth said, and an increase of 20 per cent is expected this term.1 IICiETY-QGHTB YEAH - 30,000 South Br th Associated PrM Big turnouts by ' Negroes, who were voting freely in a democratic primary in South Carolina for the first time since 1876. marked bal loting yesterday in three state pri maries. ' . ' Some 300.000 democrats, includ ing an estimated 30,000 Negroes, decided a five-man contest for senator and. scraps over, three house seats in South Carolina. Three house incumbents were un opposed for renomination. Senator Burnet R. .Mavbank of South Carolina appeared assured of renomination. on the first bal lot. May bank ran up 128.289 votes against a- combined total of 116, 969 for four opponents with lJSOt of 1,559 precincts reported. There were no reports of race clashes. IT(Dp East-West Parleys Enter Tough Bargaining Stage 1 r By The Associated Press Diplomatic sources in London reported last nirfit that the East- West talks in Moscow had reached both sides seeking concession rom the other. British informants said a basis ' for talks on all Germany bad been held up by failure to reach a formula for settlim? the im mediate problem of Berlin. A plained the western powers "of fered exactly nothing. British sources said there will be further meetings at the Krem lin seeking to bridge the gap between eastern . and western plans for restoring order in Ber lin's chaotic currency situation and lifting the blockade of the city. . In Moscow, diplomats of the U. S., France and Britain met again to plan new steps in the negotia tions. The Moscow radio,1 heard in London, adopted a. more concilia tory attitude toward the United States than has been evident in recent months. " Celebrating the anniversary of Russia's entrance into the-war against Japan, the commentator said "collaboration between the two countries (Russia and the U. S.) is just as essential today as it was during the war." Weather Max. . M . M .S3 . SB . II Min. ss 60 SS S3 Freeip. .M JOO JOO J00 Salem Portland Saa Francisco Chicago New York Willamette rivr -3.1 feet. -FORECAST (from D5. weather bu rivr -3-1 reau. McNary Xlaia. saiemi: txeem for morning cloudiness, generally fair weather will prevail today and to morrow, warmer today witn mh near S2. low near 97. High tomorrow near 80. Good weather for all agricultural activities. SALEM PRECITITATION (From Sept 1 to Aaz. 11) This Year Last Year SS.T3 - Average 37 JM 4X00 oDoiiirD'Seeirs HJooSDtdl 'SiBverfioira TeoniraiG (Doaar V "IIJ- i SILVE2TON, Aug. 19 Pictured here are Dr, W. E. Crodrlan (left), president of the Eilverton Janior Chamber of Commerce, helping cut down the cost of labor on two new tennis courts that gToep la completing for SUveron's public. Mayor C II. Dkkerson (center) and Everett Cramer,; axe also assisting. CLarscn photo for The Statesman.) 1 ' ' 12 PAGES Thm Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday, Aujust ft, 1343 Doinipwfis Negroes Mark Carolina Ballots . Closest challenger to Maybank was W. J. Bryan Dorn, third dis trict congressman who gave up his seat to make the race. He had 59.846 votes. J V i In Arkansas' runoff democratic gubernatorial primary, Sidney S. McMath, Garland county prose cutor, took a 1,400 vote lead over former Attorney General Jack Holt with 520 of the state's 2,238 pre cincts reported. McMath had 22,- 963 and Holt, 21,150. In both, states, democratic '.nom ination amounts to election. In Idaho, Compton L White, democratic congressman for -14 years until 1946, appeared to have started a comeback. Unofficial early returns from is to 392 pre cincts in the first district gave him 703 votes to 329 for Burais B. Brigham, a political newcomer. the touch bareainina- stare, with Russian diplomatic informant com estaurant Wins Council Okeh ( Sanction for a strike against Salem restaurants, which is sched uled to start within two or three days, was voted Tuesday night by Salem Trades and Labor council. Approval had already been re ceived from the international headquarters of the Culinary al liance.', A. B. Pederson, culinary alli ance business agent, said 90 or more restaurants : would be in volved. Some firms have signed new contracts with the union. The strike was voted three weeks ago following negotiations. which have continued. The union requested a 10-cent per hour increase for waitresses, cooks, cooks helpers and dish washers. HOP CROP INCREASED PORTLAND, Aug. 10 The department of agriculture today reported a national hop crop of 50,838,000 pounds i compared with earlier estimates : of 48,553,000 pounds. Hop traders here said the increase was a surprise. " t. utvR Strike V 4 KieDp mm WMW. 0 Farm Output to Exceed Even WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 - CP) - Farmers are on a record-smashing food production spree which may help bring down the spiraling cost of living. . . An agriculture department re port on crop conditions as of Aug ust 1 predicted today that total production this year will top any other year including the big war years by 8 per cent. In this astonishing volume. Is prospective record corn crop. This means; officials said, that in time there will probably be a downturn in prices of meats, dairy and poul try products now the chief wor ries - of budget-pinched house wives. Included were forecasts of the second largest wheat crop on re cord, record crops of soybeans, rice, peanuts and pecans; near re cord crops of oats, flaxseed, grain sorghums, dry beans and citrus fruits; and above-average volumes for all other crops, except rye. buckwheat, dried peas, sweet po tatoes, apples and pears. - Com was the big news of the re port. This crop was put at 3,508,- 000,363 bushels an increase of 177,501,000 bushels over a month ago, and a boost of 256,050,383 over the previous record of 3,249,950,- 000, in 1946. A very short Torn crop of 2.400,- 952,000 bushels last year forced producers to cut down on livestock. This accounts largely for present short supplies and high prices of meats, dairy and poultry items. Officials said consumers should begin; Jo benefiLfrorn the big grain cropsnext spring. Casket Factory Worries Pilots SANTA BAFBARA, Calif, Aug. 10 -(TV A casket factory lomming up alongside the main ramp at busy Goleta airport is a ' depress ing sight to fliers. At least, the airport commis sion so decided today. It instructed Manager Richard It instructed Manager Richard A. Harding to try to effect remove ai or the concern to, a less con spicuous spot. , t Two-Car Collision Near . Junction City Fatal EUGENE, Ore-! Aug 10 -4JPr- George Washington Hof ess, 71, insurance broker here, was killed tonight in a two-car collision on Highway 99 south of Junction City. Coroner Phil Bartholomew said that Hof ess was a passenger ' in a car driven by William S. Fisher, of Coalinga, Calif. The - second automobile was driven by Wll? liam Ralph Kilen, ; Raymond, Wash, a sailor. - 'i m iMiiniis Big War Years Triggcr-Happy Firemen 'Put Oiit Along with Blaze J INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. m It takes less than a whiff smoke to get action from Speed -way city eager fire depart ment. - The station telephone rang . today. ' . - 1 j .3 44 We have a fire at the motor speedway, somebody rial and . . : The firemen departed with out further discussion,! roared Into the speedway, and began pouring water- on a ! blazing grandstand. , "Quick work, said speedway superintendent jack Former, Jr., -but we Just wanted you. to watch the fire. We're burn ing the wooden stand to make room for new steel one So the ' firemen restrained themselves while the blaze was rekindled. FairviewHorae ct Completion - ' - f Fairvitw home's new children's cottage will open by September IS instead of'Janiscry 1, Dr. IrVin Hill, institution superintendent, announced Tuesday. The cottage, under construction during the past six months, was not scheduled for completion un til the first of the year. The struc ture win provide housing for 96 feeble minded patients under the age of six years and will include its own play rooms, kitchen and dining room. Complicating the opening. Dr. Hill pointed out. Is a lack of funds to operate the building from Sep tember 15 until the legislature convenes in January. Hill said W,- 405 win bo reauired to par salar ies of personnel of the new cot tage during the period. -However. Dr. Hill said the de ficiency will not curtail Fairviews budget until Juno 1. 1949, tw months before the end of the cur rent 1948-49 blennium. He said he will request the legislature to make a deficiency appropriation for the fund shortage to provide money to operate the new cottage until the end of the blennium on July 31, 1949. - . .: ! Previously Dr. Hill had request ed the state emergency board to appropriate funds for the deficien cy. The board informed Dr. Hill t could not authorize the expen diture because an emergency would not exist in Fairview's bud get until it was" completely with out funds. Ltj CENTENNIAL WAGONS sfol PORTLAND, Aug. 10-CAVDaji of the pioneers were revived on the streets here today as stage coaches and wagons paraded an invitation to the Oregon Terri torial Centennial program at Ore gon City on Thursday. HSILVERTON,1 Aug. . 10 If you dont ,have money to pay for all the labor you need, you wok it out yourself or talk your friends into doing it The Silverton Jun ior- Chamber of Commerce did both in completing the two ten nis courts' they built' for the public When they first planned them, raising the $1,400 needed seemed easy. The members asked for contributions and help from other groups. Active solicitation was made by junior high school pupils under their principal. Woody ; Mason. - Responses also came from the Rotary club, the Junior Woman's club, the Busi ness and Professional Woman's club, the Lions and the Silverton Woman s club. But funds were still far short. A lot of labor was needed. Labor was costly. The Jaycees, assisted by other business men. turned in and mixed and spread the cement needed. Concrete was poured this week a ad materials for the 12-foot fence are on hand and nets will bo installed at once to make the courts available. As soon as entirely completed. hopes are that tennis matches may be arranged for the courts. situated near the municipal pooL Not, the Jaycees say, that their membership will have time to play. They have to figure out some way to raise the $500 still la arrears on the project. rrpje Price So ITo. 123 cVC NoShowdovn Anticipated in State Projects By Lester Conr tatt Writer. The Statesman Shipments of Washinirtnn .f- cement will enable Salem's larse acale constructionj operations to continue uninterrupted for the next few weeks, tt was Indicate Tuesday. Local cement -nrorfi Construction COmnan-r . ff!.ifii. said the cement shortage whirh closed down several projects Jat week is still cUrtaiUng some ope rations. Rut , they added that cement imports wfill keep build ing at near-normal if railroarf cars are available for the ship ments. e The RierV Gravel company, Jcurrently sup plying ready-mix to contractors In charge of five tarro tat nr If Mid no slowdown, was an ucipated for several weeks. Using Waahlngton Cement Walling Sand and Gravel com pany, furnishing several con tractors , engaged J In five sute building projects? and iri other operations, said they have been able to continue at a rtnr. rnal pace because S of imports. ine gravel companies said the ,tat5f Oregon recenUy purchfes- ea. ib carloads of sark mcnt from Bellingham, Wash. The csrs arrived late last week Snd early this week. The fack cement is trucked to the firms' mlxina plants where it Is prepared for pouring at x the various state building projects Dorena Dam Blamed Heaw. demands'1 f fh rr-T Dorena dam project on the Wil lamette river near Eueene is blamed for. the f local cement shortage. Company officials ex plained that local cement con tractors 'are completely depend ent on the Oswego cement pi nt for their supply. They pointed out that the Dorena project Ss using a major part of the plant's production. v At the same time the lor si gravel companies said they will get no cement from the Oewefo plant during the I last week of August when the i, company con verts to grinding grade 4 cement for the Dorena project. Outirie shipments, - they indicated will suffice during this period. Sepplylng Cement ; River Bend Sand and Grsvel company Is , currently supplying cement for construction of the five-story. state office ? building, the treatment hospital at the state hospital, the Salem shop ping center and the state cotUge farm dormitory building. Walling Sand and Gravel com pany is supplying dement for con struction of v-all and cell blocks at. the state penitentiary, three projects at Ilillcrest school for girls, the cottage i at ralrview home, the ward building at the state hospital, the new navj.1 armory and for remodeling tt the city halL . . Lyons Votes J School Funds LYONS, Aug. 10 - (Special) - Funds to purchase a school bus and a building site for consolidat ed district 29, as well as transpor tation for pupils, were approved tonight In a district; election. The site, for whl:h $3,000 was allotted, is between fight and nine acres on the highway between Ly ons and. Menama, pear me ein club. The building Is expected to bo ready for use by September, 1949. The electors voted 43-5 to ue $3,000 for a bus to transport pup's In the district. j Thursday nlht Twin Cedars district is to vote whether to con solidate with the district, which will vote on acceptance. The dis trict, formed last spring, now in cludes Fox Valley, McCuIIy Moun tain, Oakdale, Lyons and Jordan. L