Tha Statesman, Solom, Oregon. Sunday. April 17. 1349
Oregon Fire
Danger Eased
-By Moist Air
By th Aiaociated Prm
A blanket of moist air rolled in
from the coast yesterday (Satur
day), ending the severe danger of
the early forest fire season in wes
tern Washington and Oregon.
The , hazard was not over com
pletely, but foresters said all the
fires were believed under control.
The weather bureau said humid
ities would remain high over the
week end, but foresaw no possibi
lity of rain.
The largest blaze, northeast of
Vancouver, Wash., covered more
than a thousand acres. It was con
trolled after 58 men fought it. An
other spread over 400 acres 20
miles from Chehalis, Wa.h., but
1 was controlled.
The others were small, many of
them resulting from farmers'
Spring clearing operations.
' In the(Forest Grove area crews
Were called from the fire lines yes
terday afternoon as cooler weath
er lessened the hazards. The men
were placed on a stand-by basis,
however, in case of further out
jreaks. In Columbia county a 20-man
crew left the fire lines after bring
ing under control a 600-acre fir
Hear Chapman.
Navy to Move
Equipment to
Airport Soon
City Manager J. L. Franzen said
Saturday he had granted naval air
reserve authorities in Seattle,
Wish., permission to move equip
ment to McNsry field here imme
diately. Franzen's letter told the naval
men they would not hae4p wait
approval or a lease oerore moving
the naval air facility here. He said
they could occupy the premises
now and begin work on the east
aide hangar at the field.
The property here is to be leas
ed to the navy but final negotia
tions are being held up pending
approval by the navy's bureau of
docks. Officer in charge of the fa
cility here la 'to be Lt. Comdr.
Wallace Hug of Salem Executive
officer is Lt. Stanley Fallander of
Corvallis.
'Tears9 Appear
Again in Eyes
Of Plaster Saint
SYRACUSE, N.Y., April dJP)
Moisture appeared anew today in
the eyes of a broken statue of St
Ann when Shirley Anne Martin
kissed it, her uncle reported.
James Secreti, Jr., brother of
the girl's mother, said he saw li
quid appear in the eyes of the
three-inch tall piaster head "about
10 times when the girl pressed her
lips to the image.
Shirley Anne, barred by her
parents from making any more
public appearances, said it was
the first time the wattery sub
stance had materialized sine she
appeared on a local television
show Thursday night.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. David F.
Cunningham, vicar general of the
Catholic diocese of Syracuse, and
the Rev. Angela Strazzoni, pastor
of St. Peter's church, visited the
Martin home this afternoon, but
did not comment upon leaving.
Previously Msgr. ; Cunningham
had said that so far as he knew
no chemical analysis of the liquid
had been made.
Later in the day Mrs. Arthur
E. Martin, the girl's mother, sum
moned two newsmen to the home.
Mario Rossi. Syracuse Post
Standard reporter, and Ned Ryan,
special events director of televi
sion station WHEN, said after
wards that Mrs. Martin had told
them that liquid no longer form
ed in the statue's eyes when Shir
ley Anne kissed it.
The two men. said that while i
Mrs. Martin was making the
statement, however; the girl
pressed her lips to the image and
they saw moisture in its-eves.
Mrs. Taylor of
Springfield Named
Mother of the Year
Mrs. Sylvia Frances Taylor,
Springfield, was announced Ore
gon Mother for 1949 by Governor
Douglas McKay. The selection
was made by the Oregon mother
committee composed of 20 state
wide women's organizations. The
committee was appointed by the
; governor.
Mrs. Taylor was named by the
committee as the most represen
tative of the ideals of American
motherhood. Her four sons and
one daughter are recognized in
their fields of service in medicine
and allied professions. Mrs. Tay
lor was active in Red Cross in
both world wars and has given
service in the Veterans of For
eign Wars auxiliary, in church
circles and in community affairs.
The Oregon committee has sub
mitted Mrs. Taylor's name to the
Golden Rule foundation which
makes the annual selection of the
American Mother.
Radio Stolen
From Bedroom
Theft of a portable radio from
a bedroom at his residence was
reported to city police Saturday
night by Ray Mittendorf, 2130
Myrtle ave.
Mittendorf told police he had
left the house about 8 p. m. and
returned at 9 to find the house
broken into. The burglar broke a
glass pane in a rear door to gain
entrance. One bedroom was ran
sacked, but nothing apparently
was missing except the radio, po
lice reported.
Mrs. Helen McLeod, 1015 N.
Winter St., reported to police ear
lier that a purse Containing $10,
a compact and personal papers had
been stolen from her residence
sometime Friday night.
Frank Minto, Former
Salem Police Chief, III
Frank A. Minto, former police
chief, was reported resting wall
Saturday at Salem Memorial hos
pital after being taken ill Friday
Afternoon.
Minto, who resigned from head
t the police department in March,
bi$ been suffering a heart ailment
for some time.
Lion Cub Breaks
From Zoo: Crowd
Dispenses Rapidly
TULSA. Okla April 15-6TVA
100-pound lion rub broke from
zoo attendants today and scattered
a Saturday crowd all over Mo
hawk park.
He was captured a short time
later.
The escape occurred as zoo di
rector Hugh Davis was transfer
ring the animai from his cage to
a crate for shipment. The cub sud
denly rolled overy clawed at Davis'
trousers and leaped ; from a re
straining net.
As the lion wheeled and dodged,
frightened men, women and chil
dren scrambled madly for safety
amid screams and yells.
The cub bounded into a sur
rounding woods where he was
treed and captured.
'CEASE FIXE SIGNED
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April
lt-P) -Secretary-general Trygve
Li announced tonight that Is
rael and Syria have signed a
cease-fire agreement as a prelim
inary to further armistice negotiations.
Thor Lodge's
Folk Dancers
Plan Program
The Leikaring (folk dancing)
team of the Thor chapter of the
Sons of Norway lodge will give
a public exhibition of dancing
Saturday night at t o'clock at
the Salem YMCA.
Provision wiH be made for audi
ence participation in part of the
program. Mrs. O. H. Lunda and
Darrel Lunda will accompany the
group on piano and clarinet.
Thor lodge installed officers at
Saturday night's meeting of the
group at the Woman s clubhouse j
Installing officer was Louise!
Arneson, past president of Thor j
lodge and a representative of the I
lodge's second district and the
supreme lodge. Installing mar
shals were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Quamme. j
Officers installed were: Al
Moen. president; Orris Lunda. vice'
president: Theo G. Nelson, coun-,
"elor; June Moen, secretary; Meryl i
Simonsen, assistant secretary; j
Hjalmar Gann. financial secre
tary; Marie Solie, treasurer; Astrid
Gann. social director; Olivia Engh,
assistant social director; Ansel
Solie. marshal; John Norby, as
sistant marshal; Christian Far
nam, inner guard; Bernard Ben
son, outer guard: Theodore Jen
sten, general director (3-year
term); E. F. Arneson, general di
rector (2 -year term).
REDS TO FREE KENNEDY
MOSCOW, April 18 -Jfy- The
United States embassy said today
Alton C. Kennedy of Beaumont,
Tex, will be released from a So
viet prison Wednesday after serv
ing a three year sentence. Kenne
dy, who was second engineer on
an American ship, was convicted
of hooliganism while his vessel
was docked in Odessa.
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QUAKE IN NEW ENGLAND
PROVIDENCE, R. I, April 1
An earth tremor, which Proi. I.. ,
Don Leet, seismologist in charge
at Harvard university, described j
as a "normal small New England t
earthquake, shook homes in sou
thern Rhode Island tonight.
FLOOD MENACE REDUCED
PENDLETON, April 16-(P)-Th
flood menace in the Umatilla riv
er Isn't much of a menace any
more. Warm weather, gradually
melting the xnowpack, has great
ly reduced the danger of a sud
den flood.
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