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O OG EI E2 o o o n3 o c l w CSoireap Yiraiou CiflBs40y.S. O JaVhdaviM aVssdKasi bytAassv -II Soldiers 60 GIs Injured as Train Cars Rammed SEOUL. Wednesday. Sept. 15 VPy The, army reported today 4 American soldiers were killed and a boat 0 Injured when their train was rammed by another 7$ miles sonth nlxht. At least two killed. of SeonI last Koreans were The wreck oeearred in U. S. eevpled Sooth Korea, a boat IS miles north of Taejon. A trail earryinc two' coaches of eeca " potion personnel to Seoul from Pmtan was rammed from the rear by a train en re-ate to Seoul from Mokop. Some of the soldiers were on the initial stare of their return trip to the United Staes. Others were reaming to day from fur lahs In Japan. The number of casualties was reported by army physicians. rushed to the scene aboard 2 Small Boys Drown in SiBverton Area Accidents SILVERTON' Sept. 14-(Special)-Two small boys were drowned near their homes in separate accidents here tonight. - Silverton police identified the victims as Richard Harris, 3. son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Harris, 513 Chester St., and Lester Richard Teter, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Teter, 1204 S. Water st. Harris was found by his grandmother floating in a water-filled OTP a This is the day set for Gover nor Hall's hearing of Governor Hall's charges against Governor Hall's appointee, Joseph E. Freck, lately discharged as ' member - of the state liquor control commis sion, i The occasion calls to mind pre vious hearings of note at the state capitoL The last was in 1931 when the board of control at the instance of Governor Julius L. Meier tried' Henry W. Meyers, superintendent of the state peni tentiary. The election of Julius Meier as governor ties in with another hearing, famous in Oregon pon tics. That was in early 1930, when George W. Joseph was tried on disbarment proceedings . before the supreme court, and Tom Man nix, another 'Portland attorney, was similarly tried on -sensational ; charges advanced by Joseph. Jos eph s suspension (Mannix was disbarred) prompted his enter ing the race for governor. In hard contest, with Joseph espous ing public power. "without cost to the taxpayers,' Joseph won the republican nomination only to -succumb a few months later while attending a military review at Camp Clatsop. Then Julius Meier, Portland department store executive and intimate friend of Joseph, enter ed the race as an independent, running on the Joseph platform. The election was a triumph for Meier . and for the grangers, public power advocates and oth ers who had supported him. One of the slogans: in the Meier campaign had been to clean (Continued on editorial page) Lake County Plains Ablaze By the Associated Press Strong southerly winds sent grass fires racing across ranch- lands in Lake county Tuesday while rains west of the Cascades eased the forest fire hazards in the western portion of the state. Rising humidities throughout western Oregon . and the lowest general temperatures in a week gave foresters a chance to take it easier after a week of extreme ly critical fire danger. The weather bureau forecast was for eastern Oregon to take the brunt of the new hazards which today kept ranchers and foresters busy? working on scat tered fires in south-central sec tions. ' . A.hayfield fire at the "MC ranch in Adel Warner valley, 25 miles east of Lakeview, burned up 300 acres of bunched and stacked hay. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "I suppose r re spotted Am but he won't fake anything but a shower now," a hospital train. Twenty bodies were removed from the twisted wreckage and brought to Seoul alone with It of the InjnredJ However, some of the Unin jured passengers arriving here later in the day questioned the death flgvre. They said that, although the wreckage had not been cleared, they believed there were not more than It additional dead. ' it ! One of the passenger. M. E. Penry of Flushing. N. Y said the impact sent one ear "right through the one ahead riding through at the level of the seat tops." Penry. custodian for the Kor ean national land administration. was among 3t passengers in the rear coach of the Pnsan train. Names of the victims were withheld -pending notification of relatives. septic tank in the rear of their home at 5 p.m. Firemen sum moned to the scene were unable to revive him with artificial respiration. He had been'playing outside the house about an hour before his body was discovered, but no one was able to determine when he fell in the tank. The partially completed tank was being built by the father. Two hours later young Teters body was grappled from 18 feet of water at the foot of a falls on Silver Creek in ; the rear of the family home. Police said the youth had. been missing since about 2 pjn. , a i Besides his parents Harris is survived by a sister, Diane, and a brother, Howard. Both bodies were taken to the Ekman Memorial chapel in Silver ton. Wallgren Leacfs In Washington! ace SEATTLE, Sept. 15-(Wednes-day)-(5-Governor Wallgren roll ed early today to an ever-increasing lead that seemed to assure him of renomination, as Washington state's democratic standard; bear er. He was ahead by more than two-to one. - On. returns from 496 of the state's 3,456 precincts, the gover nor had 23,299 votes to former Gov. Clarence D. Martin's 10,320 Two other democratic candidates had a total of only slightly over 2,600. The winner of the democratic nomination was assured of facing former Gov. Arthur B. Langue, the republican whom Wallgren de feated in 1944, In the November general election, Langhe was run ning up a total of more than three to one above the -total of his six opponents. In the after-midnight total. Lan- guenad 27,477 to 6,400 for state Sen. John McCutcheon of Steila- coom, the runner-up. Wallgren, close friend of Presi dent Truman and the only man ever to serve Washington as a con gressman, a senator and as exec utive, is seeking his second term as governor. j These were the highlights of oth er state contests of leading Inter est: . House Speaker Herbert Hamblen of Spokane was pulling steadily ahead of state Sen. Victor Zednick of Seattle for the republican nom ination for lieutenant governor. Justice William Millard was leading in the rstoe for his supreme court seat, but his three opponents were all bunched together only a lew votes Dehind him. Towns Fall In Hyderabad NEW DELHI. India. Sept. 14- (AVIndian troops racing into Hy derabad from the west today cap tured Rajasur, a half way point on the Invasion route 85 miles west from the capital of the prin cely state. ; H This was announced by the In dian defense ministry, which re ported also the fall of Suriapte, a road town lying 78 miles from Hy derabad city on the east. Indian southern command head quarters said it expected the con verging Indian forces moving from the Rajasur area in the west and the Suriapet area in the east to effect a junction in six days, j r rimarv K NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES Effective October Ut subscription mteg for THE OREGON STATESMAN, daily and Sunday wiU be: ; I . BTCABBTERi i I1JD0 per xnonihj S12JDQ pet year, ' I BY MAIL WITHIN OREGON 75c per month? $400 for six months; $8X0 far one year. BY MAIL bf 17. si OUTSIDE OREGONi tlJDO per snonihJ $12X0 per year. Far edltrial eemnift see Fag Statesman Fablishins; Cem- i NINETY-EIGHTH YEAH Teachers ; j Added to . ! ' if' 2 Schools An: elementary teacher will be added to the staffs of both Middle Grove arid Swegle schools to meet heavy enrollment demands of the Salem school district, it was de cided Tuesday night by the dis trict board of directors. Authorization for the two addi tional teachers followed Monday's addition of a Grant school teacher and brings to six the total of elem entary school teachers added to the district since last year. Including the senior and junior high schools the net gain in teachers is eight. Suburban Gain Largest Superintendent Frank B. Ben nett told the board the two subur- ' ban schools show the largest en- 1 rollment gains this year, with Mid dle Grove gaining 75 per cent, from 48 to 84 pupils and Swegle gaining by one-third, from 92 to 123 pupils. Overall enrollment as the Dub lin srlmnis rinsed their second dav I of the school year was 6,552 pu- $ pils, including 3,3 IT In the el em- working youths of school age have registered for state-required night classes. ! High; School Count Rising The superintendent said, he ex pected further enrollment gains in the early weeks of school, partic ularly at; Salem high school where some Ipupils may not yet have re turned from summer employment. Count at the senior high yester day was 1,575 pupils, 53 more than registered Monday. Bennett said the libraries of both Middle Grove and Swegle schools will be used as classrooms and the new teachers will be put on duty within a week, probably -substitutes.! The additional teachers will be the fifth at Swegle and fourth teacher at Middle Grove (where additional classroom space was completed this summer). The oth er new grade school teachers have been i added to Grant. Garfield, Liberty and Bush. (Additional details, page 2) Frbck Hearing The -hearing on the ousting of State j Liquor Commission Chair man Joseph O. Freck will open at 10:30 a.m. today in the office of Gov. John HalL It Will be confined to the gov ernor's charges that Freck im properly sold stationery to the li quor commission, and that Freck drew too much money in compen sation for his services on the com mission. IThe governor will pre side at the hearing. The governor fired Freck days ago. 10 194 Enrolled at Detroit Schools DETROIT, Sept 14-(Special)-A total of 194 pupils were enrolled in Detroit high and grade schools; today, the second day of the sem ester. ? Of jthe' number 168 are enrolled in grade school and 34 in high school. Largest class in the grade school is In the second year, with 32 pupils In attendance. This year's enrollment is only slightly more than the 194? total, but a sizeable group of students now employed in harvest work is expected to return to school with in the next week. Coed Dies in Wreck En! Route to OSC CORVALLIS, Sept. 14 A 17-ye!ar-ld Los Angeles girl, en route to 1 enter Oregon State col lege, was killed seven miles short of her destination today. She was Martha Helen Judge, 17, a! passenger in an automobile driven by Claire Cassidy, Port land. IThe car sftidded.on wet pave ment sideswiped a truck and hit another car head-on. Weather Max. 73 71 73 73 Min. M S8 Precip. .1 .18 .00 J0O M Salem; Portland 3 San Francisco Chicago J 61 71 New York: 81 Willamette river -3J feet. FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. MeNary field. Salem): Parti v cloudy with a few light showers to day, with soma clearing Thursday. High today 73. low tonight 48. Light rain will not Interfere with most farm activ ities. ! i! Slated Today 12 PAGES e Willamette Freshmen Arrive ae'::;5ovops;: - if t f - - U - I I I s I - - I : ,: . - t 0! I .'" ; z - 1. : --' Signs of fall opening activity at Willamette university Include the arrival of aew students. Shewn while putting away their clothes and unpacking bags are. stadinr. Bill Bissell, Ashland, who will be a freshman in music Sittinr is Bob.Hearn, Portland, a freshman in Journalism. (Photos by Don Dill, As Willamette university students began arriving on the local campus ' Tneesday for this week's orientation and registration, this was a familiar scene. Patricia Rice of Silverton, a newcomer with armload of supplies, stops at the registration desk in Lausanne halL a women's dormitory, to receive room assignment from Senior Helen Larson of Bend (left), the house president, and Helen Olson, th head resident. WU Students Repopulating Campus, Dorms The first of Willamette univer sity's expected 400 new students arrived on the campus Tuesday to begin filling four dormitories in preparation for the fali term, classes of which start next Tues day. Women occupied Lausanne and Frederickson halls and the men Baxter and Laurel. First meals are to be served this morning and orientation be gins today with a general assem bly of all new students set for 9 am. President G. Herbert Smith, Dean of Students Ray mond A. Withey and Registrar H. B. Jory will preside. A psychological examination will be held at 10:15 a.m. and an orientation assembly at 1 p.m. Dr. Withey, Miss Olson, coun sellor of women. Dr. Ralph Pur vine, university physician and George Hurt, president of the stu dent body will take charge of the afternoon meeting. New State Cannery Works Round-the-Qock The new state cannery at the state penitentiary is now operating three eight-hour shifts, the state board of conrol was advised Tues day. The processing Includes all kinds of vegetables and fruits pro duced on state properties. pounddd 1651 The) Oregon Statesman. Salem. Statesman staff photographer.) East Oregon Ore May Be Uranium; Further Tests Due PENDLETON. Ore., Sept. -A possible find of uranium-bearing ore in eastern Oregon was re ported today by an Idaho prospec tor. Fred Miskler, of Cascade, Idaho, said an engineer at the atomic en ergy commission plant at Rich land, Wash., believed the ore was radio-active and advised him to send samples to Washington, D. C, for further assays. Miskler said he struck the ore on the north fork of the John Day river of Oregon 12 years ago. A "white material' in it baffled as sayers at the time, he said. Recent; stories of uranium-bearing ores revived his interest in it, so he brought out a sample for the Richland engineer to inspect, Mis kler said. OSC to Construct Small Cyclotron CORVALLIS, Sept 14-P)-Ore-gon State college plans to con struct a small cyclotron here within the next V years. The state board of higher edu cation today accepted a $3,000 grant from the National Research corporation to finance prelimin ary work. President A. L. Strand said an other $20,000 would be needed to complete : construction. The machine will be- used to train science students in nuclear physics. ; 4 j 1 - Oregon, Wednesday, Sept, IS. ftirSlkir Tear Gas, Rocks Fly In Foray SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14-GP) An angry crowd of 3,000 CIO strikers and strike sympathizers fought a two-hour rock and tear gas battle with police today around a Richmond strike-pick eted oil refinery. When it was over with 12 per sons injured and tempers still high, law enforcement officers pondered a request to have the national guard called out. It was the first mass violence of Cali fornia's 11 -day-old refinery strikelj over wages. More trouble was feared by police tomorrow when AFL main tenance workers again appear to pass through the CIO picket lines at Richmond's Standard Oil com pany refinery. 300 Enter Plant About 300 AFL and independ ent unionists made it into the plant today - by slipping through a rear gate while the riot cen tered on other cars driven up to the main gate as a decoy. The 12 injured, all with minor hurts, included two policemen and a state highway patrolman. The roaring fight raged down Standard avenue in front of the Richmond plant and on adjoining streets. The rioters hastily set up barricades. The 105 police, fseely using tear gas guns and bombs, tried vainly to enforce a court order against mora than four pickets to a gate. Five-Pound Rocks Rocks as large as five pounds went whirling through the air. Strikers picked up police tear gas bombs and hurled them back. The windshield of one police car was caved in by rocks. Striking CIO oil workers and their sympathizers held an open air mass meeting after the rioting and were praised for their con duct by their leaders. 4 Eskimos, LocalPenguin Flytp Texas PORTLAND, Sept lMFour Eskimo natives from Kotzebue, Alaska north of the Arctic circle were flying tonight to Texas to help a Dallas oil man collect on a wager. The women, an Oregon' penguin and a moth-eaten polar bear hide were loaded Into a twin-engined airplane that Pilot Lew Leach bought here to speed to Dallas be fore a Wednesday deadline. The plane has been christened "Noah's Ark." Leach is trying to save his boss, L. L. Home, about $20,000 or so. Friends of the oil man bet he couldn't deliver three Eskimo women In the Lone Star state by tomorrow. It was Leach's Job to turn the trick in a few days. The Eskimo women were locat ed In Seattle by a Post-Intelligen cer reporter. They are Mouy Blatchford, Alice Walker, Mrs. Daphney Welch and Mrs. Clinton Gray. Mrs. Gray is along as a chaperon. i TB TESTS DUE IN EUROPE NEW YORK, Sept. 14-;p)-Fif- ty million children in 11 Europ ean countries will be tested for tuberculosis in the next 18 months by a United Nations group. Dr. Henry F. Helmholz said today. Judge to Block Move to Bar Power Franchise A move to prevent Marion County Clerk Harlan Judd from placing a proposed Salem. Electric franchise measure on tne aiem city ballot appeared headed for failure Tuesday. Marion County Circuit Judge E. M. Page revealed he would up hold demurrers filed in behalf of Judd and City Recorder Alfred MundL His actions Tuesday came after he heard attorney arguments last week brought by Portland General Electric company and Jo seph Randall seeking to keep the measure off the ballot. The suit was-filed against Judd, Mundt, the Salem city council and several other defendants. It sought a court order enjoining Judd from placing the measure on the bal lot and Mundt from advertising the measure to the voters. Whether Judge Page's action actually assures the measure a 1948 Price 5c Victory Snack 1 - i SKOWBEGAN, Me, Sept. 14-Kep, Margaret Chase Smith. 54, en Joys midnight sandwich and a rlass of milk in Skowheraa, Me, as she tabulates the returns that indicated she won a senate seat in a! sweeping republican vic tory In Maine's general election - first la the nation. (AP Wire phot to The Statesman).! British Plan Rearmament, Added Defense LONpON, Sept 14 -ff)J- The British government announced to day a! three-phase rearmament program to prepare itself and oth er western European powers against; dangers of the present In ternational situation. I- - The World position "gives; cause for anxiety," Deputy Prime! Mint ister Herbert Morrison declared in a surprise statement on defense at the opening of a special 10-day session! of parliament. !' j To meet it, Britain !wilJ slow down demobilization of its veteran troops, (speed up recruiting for the armed I forces, and accelerate im provement of air defense, I armor and infantry weapons, j I Production of Jet fighters win be nearly j doubled. An ait ministry spokesman said Britain! will send jets as bulckly as possible not only to all of its overseas stations but to whichever of the other four western European pact! countries arrange to obtain these fighter types. Trance, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg are in the alliance.- i i -All hational service (wartime draft) Mdiers, sailors and airmen who are due for release fln the next few months" will serve three months additional. This: will keep 80,000 soldiers in uniform who would normally have returned to civilian; life by the end of 1948. FIRE MENACE ENDS i RAPIC CITY, S.D Sept. A fire which burned over more than four square miles I of the Black hills forest area land men aced the town of Pringle 40 miles southwest of here was brought un der control tonight. from Ballot place an the ballot still! remained iii doubt Tuesday. Another suit brought by the plaintiffs! testing the constitutionality of the meas- urealso is pending. I h j District Attorney Miller B. Hayr den and City Attorney Chris Ko wltz in contesting the suit at last week's) hearing contended that it was filed too late. It was i pointed out that Judd had already pre pared the ballot lists and certified them before the suit was filed. j PGE attorneys contended, how ever, that many acts remained to be done by Judd before jthe meas ure went to the voters. They charged that, the petitions were illegal in certain requirements. They also protested against the method of bringing the franchise measure before the voters. r ! Judge Page said he would is sue an official order sustaining th demurrers as soon as lone was drawn up and presented to him. : T1 :l - I " : I I'll I !! r - y '4 ' v - 1 xr ri i 1-3 Mb. : $! imL No, 153 ! airs Bridges at Head of Pickets j 'i SAN FRANCISCO. Sent. 14 fjn Harry Bridges and his CIO long shoremen picketed the army as a "strike breaker" today in the bit ter 13-day-old maritime strike. The tieup has piled nearly a quart ter million tons of essential lover- seas military - cargo in Pacific coast ports, i s I White - capped longshoremen, led personally by CIO Lonsshoro Chieftain Bridges, established picket lines at the army's Fort aaason ninng oince. . . ! The International Longshore men's and Warehousemen's union threatened to spread the I west coast labor warfare to foreign overseas ports by appealing to foreign waterfront unions to re gard army cargo as scab"; ship ping. ' l The union threat," which ac cused President Truman of being "behind the army move." had ma jor world-wide implications. I xe Keaist Move - "The program announced bv the army," the union statement said, -is direct strike breakinr and unnecessary strike breaking at that v me union intends to 'resist this strike breaking with all the resources at its command, includ ing a call to longshoremen ' over seas to refuse to unload scab car go at ports of destination." ) I Last week waterfront employ ers and steamship companies an- nouncea refusal to handle . army cargo essential to overseas ? bases and Marshall plan countries on tne basis they no longer "can do business with communism. Affidavits Asked I r Until Bridges and his union of-; flcials sign non - communist af fidavits, as provided by the Taft Hartley act, the shipping industry said it would refuse to deal with' waterfront unions even though ar my cargo was involved. Less than two-score individual stevedores had signed ud with the army at day's end under the army's first-come, first-served invitation to work its Pacifle overseas cargo. State Police To Remain at Dispute Scene Gov. John Hall refused Wednes day to grant a request by Stanley -Earl, secretary-treasurer of the state CIO council, that state po lice "be withdrawn from North Bend, scene of the CIO-AFL wa terfront tieup. f ; Answering a wire from Earl protesting that there are too many police on the waterfront, Hall tel egraphed him stating: ; The reported number of' state police present in North Bend is in accurate. No more are on hand than deemed necessary to preserve law and order or to protect against possible violence. All will be with drawn as soon as conditions war rant return control through local authorities." i Replying to a wire from J. W. Hull, chairman of the joint strike committee who said state police were serving the interests of James Lyons, owner of the strike-bound lumber carrier Rolando, Hall sta ted: v - I I . "State police are there under my direction, not for the personal in terest of Lyons or any other indi vidual."' Big 4 Resume Moscow Talks MOSCOW, Sept 14 The envoys of Britain, the United States and France resumed their conferences with Foreign Minis-' ter V. M. Molotov after a 15-day lapse today. The western powers were trying to bring the Berlin talks to a definite conclusion. I After a meeting of an hour and a half the shortest of ail the 10 Kremlin conferences the envoys went back to the British embassy smiling but -more non committal then ever. OUn SEIIATODS t i i