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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1949)
7 Rain Returns to Salem 7 j Salem'i street looked Tck t norml Thursday with rain nutninc dnra the rvttera and mbrella-eUd Salem residenU harryinr to ( shelter like the twe pie tared above at the corner ef State and Lib erty atreeta. (Statesmaa phete.) Churchill Warned FDR Fleet Might Fall into German Hands NEW YORK, Feb. 3-P-Winton Churchill warned President Roo sevelt the British fleet might fall into German hands if Britain "was left by the United States to its fate," Churchill's war memoirs revealed today. Publication of the second volume of Churchill's memoirs. Their Finest Hour" was begun today by Life magazine. The New York Times also is serializing the mem " oirs. - The former prime minister tells of a personal message he sent to Roosevelt, at a dark nour or tne war in 1940 when the Germans were invading the low countries and France. The message said - Churchill's cabinet, just installed in office, . never would surrender but added: "If members of the present ad ministratior were finished and others came in to parley amid the ruins, .you must not be blind to the .fact that the sole remaining bar gaining counter with Germany would be the fleet, and, if this country was left by the United States tr its fate, no one would have the right to blame those then responsible if they made the best terms they could for the surviving Inhabitants. Excuse me, Mr. Pres ident, putting this nightmare bluntly." Utah Power Aided Oregon, Washington SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3-V Contributions of the Utah Power and Light company to the power short states of Washington and Oregon "prevented a possible breakdown of electric service in the two states" during January- That was the assertion today of George M. Gadsby, UP&L presi dent, in an address to his com pany's division managers and sales managers from Utah and Idaho. Gadsby said the Utan firm con tributed 40,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity- in January to the two northwest states "where the government has taken over the re sponsibility of power supply through its huge Bonneville and Grand Coulee hydro electric plants." DAIICE SAT. IUTE GLEIIWOOD New Adm. Inc. Tax Ladies 50c ' Before 9 o'clock GLEIIII WOODBY & His Orchestra Come as "U" "IT ft If T-t imnVilUTi fc4 fr trM WELCOMES YOU To our club danca Friday at 9:30 NO CHABGE. of course OLD TIME and FOLK DANCE CLASSES SOON TO BEGIN Si.,.' " - I v ; 4 ' MS v. !-, i'i 4fc ..'V. New Machine tto Blast Neutrons By Rennie Tar tor Associated Press Science Reporter BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. l-(JPh A tremendously powerful new atom smasher which may split the up-to-now indestructible little un its of matter making up the cores of atoms was unveiled today at the University of California. Cyclotrons and atom bombs dis integrate atoms by separating some of these little units, called protons and neutrons, from the nuclei. But they never have smashed a neu tron or a proton. -'Whether a neutron or a proton can be smashed is a question of top scientific importance. Until it if answered, researchers will no' know whether these things are the ultimate, indivisible particles oi matter. Without that knowledge they never can solve the myster ies of the insides of atoms. The new machine is called a synchrotron. It was described tc the American Physical society by its inventor, Prof. Edwin M. Mc Millan, one of this country's lead ing atomic scientists. The synchrotron is a potent lit tle rival of its famed neighbor, the university's giant cyclotron. It is only one-thirtieth the size of the cyclotron but already it has equalled some of the feats of its big -rival. Reserves to Sponsor Dance Members of the naval, marine, Sea bee and air reserves are spon soring a box social-dance at the VFW hall February 9, it was an nounced Thursday. Gene Williams orchestra will play for the dance from 9 to 11 p.m. Dress uniform Is required for the reserves and informal attire for the ladies. Tickets are on sale in the reserve units. Al Clark to Head Begonia Society Al Clark was elected president of the newly organized Salem Branch of the American Begonia society in an organizational meet ing at the YMCA Thursday night. Mrs. John Fletcher was elected vice president, Ellen Quail, sec retary, and . C. Hamilton, treas urer. George Candeaux, Dr. E. L. Brunk and Mrs. C. S. McCollam were elected to the board. Eighty-five persons attended this, the second meeting of the club. Plants were on display and explained at the meeting and slides were shown. New Shewing - Open :15 Seeen4 Big Feat are ex xnrsgj unximij Will Attemp I r I Girl Confesses To Implication In Arson Case A l-y ear-old "girl friend" of Willard Henry Hedridc admitted Thursday that she was with Hed- tick when he set the candle in tne cabinet at his 134S State st. jew elry store and later set the shoy Hedrick, held in the county jail on $2,500 bail and charged with arson, was to appear in district court Friday to enter plea. Police expected the self-confessed arson 1st to wave preliminary hearing and plead guilty to the charge. The girl, who Hedrick befriend ed at Monmouth several months ago, told juvenile authorities and city police detectives in a signed confession that she saw Hedrick place the candle in the cabinet with cans of cleaning solvent, and then accompanied him to Portland. Pending possible charges, the young girl is being held in the ju venile ward of the county court. Hedrick was arrested Tuesday after a fire destroyed the interior f his State street store. He ad mitted in a signed confession that he had set the blaze to collect $4,000 insurance when he found he was unable to meet a payment on the store. Cushing Wins Speech Contest Stearns Cushing. jr., speaking of the topic "Dropped Torch," won top honors and the right to represent Capitol Toastmasters at the area contest at a speech test at the Gold Arrow restaurant Thursday night, With the honor, Cushing was awarded the trophy in the club's annual speech contest. He, with George Moorhead of Salem Toast masters, will represent the Salem clubs at the area competition in CorvalHs, March 12. Other finalists in the contest Thursday night were Earner Am undson, E. A. Brad field, Dewey Davis, Robert Fortner, and Wil liam Taw. Presses Still Roll, Portland PORTLAND, Feb. S -(- The presses of the two metropolitan newspapers here continued rolling today, despite the expiration of a strike deadline at 9:30 o'clock last night. Press crews, who have dead locked with management over wage demands, reported to work at both the Journal and the Ore gonian today at the direction of the union's committee. A meet ing of the publishers and the un ion was set for 1:30 tomorrow afternoon. Ray Summers, vice president of the AFL Web Pressmen's un ion and chairman of the scale committee, said the men would continue to work "until further notice." Youthful Hit-Run Motorists Take Victim to Doctor Police were hunting for two youths who were in the car which struck Joe Brown, 944 N. Com mercial st. at the intersection of Center and Capitol streets Thurs day afternoon. The pair took the injured man to. a doctor and then skipped on the pretense of going after identi fication, city police reported. Brown suffered a leg injury in the accident which occurred as he stepped on the curb at the north east corner of the intersection about 2:50 p jn. The car was driven east on Center street and had made the turn onto Capitol when it struck him, Brown reported. He told po lice that both men were young about 20-23 years old. He could not recall the make of the car. fPGBEGORY PECK 1 Bern U Kale! MINE BAXTER Born to Love! RICHARD WIOMARK Born to IS j V-tL J V 1 Rot Arthur Embezzlement Case Loss May Hit $250,000 State Corporation Commission er Maurice Hudson said Thursday that the losses in the Johnson brothers ease in Portland may reach $250,000 or more. The Johnson brothers, Arnold and Roy, were indicted Tuesday by the Multnomah county grand jury. They are charged with em bezzling from their customers. Hudson said the securities and exchange commission probably will make an investigation. These two highly respected dealers ' In securities," Hudson said, "used their reputations to inculcate themselves into the confidence of their customers. But, Hudson continued, the Johnson case should not be con sidered a reflection on the entire profession. This is only the second instance over a period of several years where a registered dealer in se curities has broken faith with the state corporation department, Hudson said. While there have been several prosecutions against certain promoters of dubious se curities, Hudson said the involved persons were not registered deal ers. "It is my intention," Hudson said "fo see that the securities act is' strictly enforced andT" in this I ask the help of all law abiding citizens.' Investigate be fore you invest, was Hudson's advice. He urged that any viola tions be reported to his office promptly. . . Hudson said because of his in vestigations the case involving the Johnsons was lefeifed to the dist rict attorney of .Multnomah coun ty and indictments followed. Boy E. Johnson was presumed to have - burned to death in a fire which destroyed his automo bile on January 24. AFL Offers to Compromise On Labor Law MIAMI. Fla, Feb. S -(jF)- The AFL leadership today outlined an area of possible compromise for use In case tne administration labor law plan hits a snag in congress. William Green, the federation's president, said he felt sure the AFX. will have "no serious ob jections' to continuing three Taft-Hartley law provisions now proposed to be repealed by the administration bilL These three are the require ments for non-communist affi davits from union leaders, for filing union financial reports, and guaranteeing employers "free speech" rights in relations with employes. Green told reporters 'the AFL's executive council, in mid-winter meeting here, was generally sat isfied with the administration plan to repeal the Taft-Hartley act and restore the new deal's Wagner act with a few changes. One thing the AFL wants. Green said, is specific legislative language to permit craft workers to set up separate union bargain ing units in plants now consid ered as single bargaining units. And he said the council here is studying the administration's bill provisions respecting second ary boycotts and jurisdictional disputes to determine if the fede ration wants more specific woffl ing. Otherwise, Green said there seems to be a sympathetic reaction a friendly reaction to most of the sections offered as amend ments to the Wagner act. Of course we are unanimously for repeal of the Taft-Hartley act." But while the AFL may be willing to continue the non-communist affidavits, the CIO is not. CIO President Philip Murray is personally against keeping the re quirement that union leaders must sign the communist disclaimers before their unions can get cer tain labor law privileges. So is is John L. Lewis, head of the mine workers union. NEW TODAY A Great CembinaUea 2 Outstanding Hits caa!sr B8I T HAXC Of Y8UI IUKD ABOUT KI uum TOO $.- Till iECISICKJ or gllRISTOPHEfl I Bosr nrr rir-rerafESbFRCT fcy SAMA1S StacaOWOAU EXTRA! Warner's Carteen Seasatien! TIGS IN A POLKA Warner News "SUPERMAN SERIAL Every Friday mmd Satsrday Matteetl mm (- nil ai m m Ground BreaksQifi "Penhfe i ii m ilium '" " ii,,'. e'iiMt.MjijWn ' tmmmym-mmmmmm n.i 1 1 'ir-yy; i .11 ' 1 im 1 A.;-r' CARBONDALE, Pa, Feb. S-The lrregalar black line numlng ander booses shows depth te which grevnd In the coal mining- town of Carbondale Psw drepped late a idle anthracite sniae. Fearteen hemes were damaged and 60 persons were made hwiatlcis. The earth sacced as saaeh as 4t feet la seme places. (AT Wlrepnete te Tne Btatesmaa.) Elk Dinner Call in Colorado Area ! f i - hc ; t l-y s DENVER, Colo, Feb. 2 This herd of elk, ail balls, planres threah deep anew la fllxht from a C-47 air force plane which had hut drepped hay from a height of about 1Z5 feet ever the Corral Creek area aboat 190 miles west ef Denver. Colo. The feeding project was carried eat by the Colorado gaasa and fish department te halt the elk forays apoa rancher's precieus haystacks la the valleys. CAP Wire phete te The Salesman). TO C ETHER AT THE TAPE George Gaida (right), ef VHlanova College, closes with rash to catch Frank Fox of Set on Ball College the finish of the 600-yard Proat Memorial race in the Knights ef Columbus annual ladoor track aad field games at the Boston Gardea, g2S .. . v- - I ' F I 1 1 f' TOM Doers Opea C:4S Tealght Continaeas Shews Satarday aad Saadayl v r KT1 y i it vv (Ft? 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The deciding element must be our estimation of what secures Norway's interests and ', best con tributes to prevent war Lange said the breakdown last ' week end of talks on a ScandinavL ' an defense pact means -;that Nor way, Sweden and Denmark will have to solve security problems in the way each believes best serves her own purposes Sweden sought an alliance based pn neutrality; Norway favored affiliation to a wide security system, aithln the framework of the United Nations, "With regard to Norway," Lange said, "the situation is that we have not yet received any invitation to join talks on an Atlantic alliance. "The stand of the Norwegian government is that, before we can decide if we want such an Invita tion, we must make further inves tigation on the question. As soon as these investigations i are con cluded, the question of Norway joining in negotiations will be put before parliament.''. j; T Bobbie Bufris , Concert Set j Saturday lit Y ; A wee bit of Scotland will be injected into Salem Saturday night in the Burns concert honor ing the 190th anniversary of poet Robert Bums, at the XMCA be ginning at pjn, Charles II. Fowler will give In troductory remarks and Claude Kelis will act as master of cerer monies for the program.'; Selections are: l L. BaciiiM SeUe- I r Z. Croup StnctDC. LeWr trntnem Smart Accocnpantat Miaa Ruth Bedlora , riow GnUy Sweet Alton ; Loch Lomond i S. Scotch Character f Sonet 'Donald Harris Accompanist alias RuUi Bad ford 4. Duet "Hunan Tower" Winamctte Unlverltjr Student Sharon Cunier, Richard Taw f. Address "Burns" . i. Jv Fitzslmons f. Piano Selections. Mrs. Ruth Bedford I. Highland Dane . .. . .... Pupils of Prof. John Black 8. Duet -r- The Crookit Bawbe Willamette University Students Sharon Currier and Richard Taw t. Scotch Character ' Songs Donald Harris Accompanist Miss Rut r Bedford " 1. Bar pipe Selec- I tions Duncari MacJCenzle International Melody i Auld Lans Syne i ' I Mat Daily From lf.M. NOW SHOWING! HLte ! rai V Ce-IIit! -Flame" the Doe "ISIGHT WIND- Opens :45 F. M. NOW SHOWING! SfATAalNO AOVfNTURf .. or of roaeM jobs laswiua Ce-Thrillerlf Tit4 os u mim ASOAt a IUNKIM SUM Newt Opens C:45 f. M. I ceiot st tfcwmtotet 1 ILjujw"" f r " -'t'"' y-,i"-"-uj; Ce-Hlt! Bob Mitcham NEVADA s KARTOON ! KARNTVAL f Wm ! I J-"fails is ill i;iiiui l - f I ii''"'saissaasasaf mmqm'pr-s-' f Tomorrow At 12:30 with Reg. Shew