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1 ' ' I ' 1 . "" 8 f . V" i '." I j I ' 1 - ' Big Trees Get CooV Reception Here OUNDBD 1651 S9th TEAB 12 PAGES Tho Oregon Statesman. Saloxn. Oraon, Monday. July 18. 1949 PRICE 5c No. 121 f rr v ' . ; Uxy 2GQDOO0 tKDCDXE Secretary of tie Army Gray suspended from duty two major generals, one the quartermaster general, the other chief of the chemical corps. The action was based on evidence in a senate committee hearing that they had yielded to improper influence in the award of government con-i tracts. The army will now proceed to make a thorough investigation to see if the accusations are true. The inquiry by the committee was touched off by a series of articles in the New York Herald- Tribune exposing the so-called, five per centers the ones who represent business firms in nego tiations for government contracts and collect five per cent on busi ness awarded. One of these busi ness lobbyists made capital of his alleged pull with powerful offic ials in his own legging for busi ness. Of course if the government started shooting at all the chaps who claim inside pull and collect on it Washington would lose a percentage of its population. Of fice buildings there are full of ex senators and congressmen and r'hers representing business firms and organizations doing business; with the government. So great is the maze of the Pentagon for ex ample and of Washington bur eacracy that a business man from the sticks needs to hire a "guide" to show him around, even on legitimate business. Not all the business-getters (Continued on editorial page.) Hospital Drive Kick-off Meet Here Tonight Salem Hospital Development program will open Its general campaign tonight with a kick-off dinner at 6:30 in the Marion ho tel. At least 250 of .the 310 persons -ho have signed to solicit funds for the campaign are expected to attend tonight's dinner and receive a list of 10 persons on whom they will call for contributions. . Campaign director E. T. Frank lin will explain the technique of the soliciting program and the method of canvassing at tonight's meeting. Charles A. Sprague will discuss "Salem and Her Hospital Situa tion" at the meeting, and Dr. M. K. Crothers will express the view point of the doctors regarding the drive. General Chairman Ford E. Wat kins will review recent progress of the advance campaign which has raised $248,000 of the $1,000,000 goal to improve both local hospi tals. Alfred W. Loucks is in charge of tonight's dinner. 1 ' v Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH want 'Minuet in CJutt smngement for obo nd crm 1 i(a.ff I I I I N&lsitfli I H"" Ilot weather has curtailed togging In Oregon's forest areas, but log ging trains are still bringing out those logs already ent before low homidity called a halt to operations. Above is a hare log sending up a mighty splash or Water as it hits Willamette river slouch waters, and another of the forest giants can be seen following oh the ways. The scene is at Oregon Pulp and Paper company log dump on South River road. (Statesman photo.) ! Vaughan Ouster as 5 Percenter Sought WASHINGTON, July l7-(P)-ReP- Shafer (R-Mich) today de manded that President Truman suspend his military aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H.j Vaughan. i Shafer cited are army's suspension of two other major generals, Herman Feldman, the quartermaster general, and Alden H. Waitt, chief of the chemical corps, pending a senate investigation of army Mill City Air Show Popular; 150 Craft Visit MILL CITY, July 17-(Special)-Several thousand spectators , pack ed the Davis airport here Sunday and parked for miles along ad jacent roads to view the first air show held in these parts. The show featured stunt flying by Ted Galbraith, airport Opera tor, a parachute jump by Shorty Stark of Silverton, strafing by eight F-51 Mustangs from Portland national guard headquarters and other races and acrobatics byivisit ing planes. More than 150 planes bearing members of the Oregon Sportsmen Pilots' association and the JB9ers, women's aviation group, landed at the field this morning. N The visitors were honored at a breakfast , of barbecued beef and roasted corn sponsored by: Mill City Chamber of Commerce." J. C. Kimmel, president of the cham ber, was . master of ceremonies. Winners of prizes for the oldest and youngest pilots and other classifications are to be announ ced Monday. The afternoon airshow was un der the direction of Galbraith and Byron Davis, co-operators of the new airport. Army Pay Wait on Unity WASHINGTON, July n'-(JP)-The $302,000,000 military ; pay boost may be condemned to death in the senate unless the house passes an armed forces unification measure. j That was made clear today by Senator Tydings (D-Md). Tydings, chairman of the .enate armed services committee, said in a radio talk that senators are dis posed nof to act yet on military pay that members of his com mittee want the unification! sav ings to offset the higher co?t of raising salaries. ' Shriners Convene, Will Hear Trn nihil CHICAGO. July 17-iirVRed fezzes atop Shriners dotted Chica go's Loop Joday. They were the vanguard of thousands j more pouring into the city for the diamond iubilee con vention of; the Ancient Arabic or- dec. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. I Tuesday; Harold Lloyd, movie comedian, will be installed as. Im perial Potentate in the first bub iic presentation of hitherto secret rites.; j After the installation, an srsti mated 100,000 of the delegates, friends, relatives, wives and just plain 5 spectators will lister) to President Harry S. Truman, him self a Mason, deliver a 20-minute address, j The speech, being made by; Mr. Truman as president rather han as a Mason, will be broadcast by ABC nd NBC radio nets. j ASIITY GETS TANK AMITY, j July 17 -(Special)-A new 1,200-gallon water storage tank has arrived here lor us by the rural fire department. Pur chase of the tank was authorized several months ago. May contract handling. He said Vau- ghan was "implicated in the same case. He gave no details. Vaughan was not immediately available for comment. Names of all three generals were mentioned in a recent New York Herald Tribune news story which inspired thesinquiry into dealings of "5 percenters" who hire out to obtain government contracts. Feldman and Waitt were sus pended yesterday by Secretary of the army Gordon Gray because of evidence turned up by a subcom mittee of the senate committee on executive expenditures. Gray said a full hearing would be given each officer. Shafer, a member of the house armed services committee, said in a statement that Vaughan has "openly boasted" he knows at least 300 "five percenters." This ap parently alluded to a remark of Vaughan's to reporters when he returned July 6 from a vacation trip. The general said at that time that he knew "about 300 persons ! 1 lir i : a. ! 1 l ' I in v a:ningion wno engaged in contract operations. Judges'! Action Said Degrading WASHINGTON, July 17 -JP)-Rep. Smith (R-Wis), a lawyer, said today that Justices Frank furter and Reed set a "degrading precedent" by testifying as char acter witnesses in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss. Smith gave his opinion in mak ing public a letter to Chairman (Celler (D-NY) of the house ju : diciary committee asking an early hearing on Smith's bill to protect federal judges from subpoena as character witnesses. He said the two Justices had shocked the nation by an example of impropriety. They said it con ceivably could lead to paralysis of the judicial system if enough justices disqualified themselves by such appearances in cases which might come before them on appeal. Jobless Claims Show Decrease WASHINGTON, July 17-fJTV Unemployment insurance claims declined during the week end ing July 9 but the July.. 4 holiday was chiefly responsible, the bur eau of employment security said today. Continued claims, indicating un employment for at least one full week, declined 89,573 to a figure of 1.962.448. Initial claims, indicating new unemployment, dropped from 337, 419 for the previous week to 334,- The volume of continued claims has remained, for several weeks at a level about 1.000,000 greater than for the corresponding period a year ago.. WESTERN INTERNATIONAL ' At Salem 4-J. Spokane Ml At Bremerton 1-0. Tacoma l-S COAST LEAGl-B At Vom Angeles 6-1. Portland S-7 At San Francisco 2-1. Seattle C-4 At San Diego 11-1. Oakland 3-11 At Sacramento 4-5. Hollywood t-t. AMERICAN LEAGIK At St. Louis 15-7. Washington S-4 At Detroit S-S. Philadelphia 0-4 At Chicago 1-7. New York 3-3 At Cleveland 4-1. Boston 2-3. NATIONAL LCAGl'C At Philadelphia 1, Pittsburgh S At Boston 1-3. Cincinnati 4-3 At New York 1, St. Louis 10 At Brooklyn 4, Qiicago 2, fSedls FDay Becioon Dibelius Called War Monger, U.S. Imperialist By Daniel De Luce BERLIN, July 17-(yip)-The lead ing communist newspaper in east ern Germany denounced Lutheran Bishop Otto Dibelius of Berlin to day. It called him a war monger and an instrument of American aggression. Apparently presaging a bitter struggle in the Soviet zone be tween communist and church of ficials, a full page in Neues Deutschland, central organ of the Socialist Unity (communist) party, was devoted to an attack on the bishop. - In a Whitsundy pastoral letter. Dr. Dibelius claimed last month that the east German communists were marching down the same political path as the Nazis did un der Hitler. He asserted the New People's Police resembled the Gestapo, elections were rigged on a Nazi pattern, and tens of thousands of citizens had disappeared myster iously. An editor of the communist or gan countered today with a de mand that the Berlin bishop turn his criticism to the United States and western Germany. The editor, Wilhelm Girnus, claimed the Soviet zone was a land of peace and justice, while Nazism still survived in Allied zones and German resources there were exploited Dy foreign capital ists. The communist newspaper also accused the Lutheran bishop, who was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis in 1937, of having tried to hide from the world the truth about Nszi crimes in 1933. China Commies Renew Move For Changsha CANTON, China, July 17-0IV The Nationalist military news agency reported tonight that strong communist forces had started a drive apparently aimed towards Changsha, central China strong hold 400 miles north of Canton. (This might signal the end of the two-month lull on the central China civil war front. (An Associated Press dispatch from Red-held Nanking quoting the communist radio at Peiping reported Red - troops had driven Into Hunan province from both southern Hupeh and western Kiangsi. Changhsa is Hunan's capital. (The Peiping radio reported capture of the important Yangtze ports of Ichang, 600 air miles west of Shanghai, and Shasi, 50 miles beyond.) The offocial central news agency said 5,000 troops of the one-eyed Communist Gen. Liu Pu-Cheng had taken Anfu. 130 miles south east of Changsha, and were driv ing on northwest. Simultaneously, pro-government dispatches reported four Red di visions had stormed and taken Ichang. Idanlia Mill Buys Gates Loading Site GATES, July 17-(Special)-The Idanha Lumber company has pur chased property from Albert Mill sap for use as a railroad loading site. Lumber companies using the Southern Pacific branch above Gates must find other means of transportation after August 15, when the railroad line will be abandoned because of dam con struction in the canyon area. Club Plans By TUllie L. Madsen Farm Editor. The Statesman. Steps to organize a Marion county herd for state fair showing were taken Sunday at the Marion County Jersey Cattle club meet ing held at the Lewis Judson home in Salem. Nearly 50 members at tended. Neal Miller, . president, with Leonard Lee of Salem and Fred Davis of Woodburn, will form the committee to make the arrange ments for the county herd. Report was also made by Ted Hobert, secretary, that more thaa 200 head of Jerseys had been signed up in Marion county to ward the procuring of a state fieldman. This brings the state total up to over 1,000 head, re ports showed. Efforts are being made by the state directors to ob tain a fieldman by autumn. Pope Forecasts Decay for Anti Church Regimes BERLIN, July 17-;P-Pope Pius XII told German Catholics today that all government which shuns faith in God is doomed to decay. r The special message to 650, 000 Catholics of the Berlin Diocese and the Russian zone avoided any reference to com munism. But it was liberally sprinkled with hints that anti church regimes are only pass ing events without permanence. The message was broadcast by Vatican radio for a golden jubi lee celebration by the Berlin Diocese of the Pope's ordination to the priesthood. As Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, the present pope served as Papal Nuncio to Berlin for years. McMalion'May' Reveal Secret Confab Report WASHINGTON. July 17 -OP)-Chairman McMahon (D-Conn.) said today he probably will report to the senate-house atomic energy committee tomorrow on what went on at the super-secret Blair house conference. The conference at President Truman's temporary residence across from the White House was held Thursday evening. Called by the president, it was attended by cabinet members, high rank ing military and atomic officials and congressional leaders in for eign relations and the atomic pro gram. McMahon was accompanied, to Blair house by some other mem bers of the joint atomic committee, including Senator Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), bitter critic of the atomic energy commission. But more than half of the. 18-member unit did not attend. The committee has a meeting behind closed doors scheduled for tomorrow morning. Asked whether he would report on the Blair house conference at that time, McMahon told a reporter: "I am still thinking about whether I should, but I probably win: Tomorrow's meeting has been called primarily to let the com mittee get started on a private study rcf charges by Hickenlooper that the atomic energy commis sion had been lax in the security clearance of persons engaged in the atomic program. Economic Aides Flayed by Byrd WASHINGTON, 'July 17 -4JP)-Senator Byrd (D-Va) demanded today that congress quiz Presi dent Truman's top economic ad visers to find out whether their "fanciful ideas" are "made in America.' The Virginian blamed members of the president's council of econo mic advisers "this strange group of men for Mr. Truman's recent warning against deep cuts in fed eral spending. "These men who seem to be dictating the administration's ec onomic program are not elected officials," Byrd said in a radio interview. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the council has taken the position in the past that it should confine itself to making reports to the president and should not go be fore congress either to champion or oppose legislation. At his re quest, the joint congressional com mittee on the economic report has heretofore excused him from tes tifying. The other council mem bers. Leon H. Keyserling and John D. Clark, have appeared before the committee, however. County Jersey Uerd Floyd Bates, Salem, president of the Oregon Jersey Cattle club, an nounced that the state directors' meeting had been changed from the third Wednesday to the first Wednesday of each month, start ing in September. IThe August meeting will be sr two-day jour ney to Grants Pass with the busi ness meeting August 13 at the home of Jens Svinth, state secre tary, formerly of Salem. Sunday, August 14, a picnic, and tour of Jersey farms in that! area will be featured. s . George Gen teman : of the Polk county club was a special guest Sunday. j The Marion county August meeting was postponed one week to August 28 at the Calvin Mikkel son home at Auroral At this time official presentation of the cham pion cups won in. the junior di Baclk IB LytteirauD Elstop Loyalty Pledge Read at Masses Defies Commies By Richard Katschke PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, July 17 -)- Defiant Czechoslovak catholic priests rejected today communist government demands that they desert Archbishop Josef Beran and the Vatican. "We stand loyally by our Bish ops and our Archbishop in their fight and will continue to do so even if it means persecution,' said a resolution read in Prague's big St. Ignatius Roman Catholic church at services this morning. "We hope our catholic faithful will do likewise. Churchmen said the resolution was read at masses elsewhere in the capital and in the provinces. It was proclaimed as tension mounted over the government's campaign to control the church. Justice Minister Alexei Cepicka Friday called Archbishop Beran, Czechoslovakia's highest-ranking catholic, a traitor. He disclosed a law was being drafted to require government approval of all ap pointments to church posts and to take over church property. The priest who read the resolu tion of defiance to the congrega tion packed in St. Ignatius church called it a statement of the ma jority of Czechoslovakia's Roman Catholic clergy. S He said the resolution was adopted yesterday alid termed it a proclamation dictated -solely by "our consciences and not on or ders from the hiearchy (church ruling body)." . Not. only did the priests' resolu tion pledge loyalty to the church hierarchy but it charged the gov i ernment with deceit and fraud in setting up a separate "Catholic I Action' movement Under state control. The resolution went on to ac cuse the government of deliberate ly violating constitutional guaran tees of religious freedom. Cepicka, catholic-born ibn-in-law of PresideJHKlement Gott wald, had,; denounced the Vatican as "the greatest enemy of our state." Cepicka said priests who carry out the Vatican decree ex communicating all catholics sup porting communism would be tried for treason: Forest Fires Under Control In Northwest By The Associated Press British Columbia forests were pocked with 120 fires Sunday in the wake of a lightning storm, but in Washington and Oregon crews have succeeded In throwing lanes around burning tracts. The most destructive forest fire of the season in British Columbia, fanned by a 60-mile an hour wind, wa quelled Sunday night after de stroying 2,500,000 board feet of logs and scorching an esimated 5,000,000 board feet of downed timber. The fire covered 700 acres near Cowichan lake on Vancouver island. Cooler weather eased tempor arily the brzards in western Wash ington and Oregon Sunday. Fire lanes were completed a round a 1.000-acre scorched tract in southern Oregon's Illinois river where some 60 farm families fled their, homes Friday. Eastern Oregon still was con sidered dangerously dry, but cooler temperatures and high humidities have given federal forest crews a chance to corral the . 5,000-acre burned sector in Malheur national forest. The area was fired by lightning a week ago. TO HIRE MILK MAN ' Members of the newly organiz ed state board of agriculture will meet here Monday to consider, among other things, applications for the job of milk marketing administrator created by an acj of the 1949 legislature. vision of the spring Jersey show will be made to Victor and Ron ald Barnick. Of interest at the meeting was a Jersey issue of the Pacific Homestead published in Salem on June 15, 1916, and displayed by Warren Grey, of Marion. Announcement was also made of the importation of 2S head of Jerseys from Jersey Island by Rex Ross of ML Angel. One of the animals goes to Floyd Bates. Sa lem; Ross will retain two; L. S. Lorenzen and Frank Finicum, both of Dayton, each will get two; Mrs. Antoinette Vanderbeck of ML Angel, will receive one, and one goes to a Washington county breeder. The others are consigned to Washington state and British Columbia breeders. - J - The cattle will arrive here around September 10, Ross said. eirami Asks Seizure PRAGUE, July 17 Alexei Ce picka (above), Czechoslovakia's communist minister of justice pictured Archbishop Josef Beran as a traitor to the state and la a speech to the central action committee of the National Front, proposed a law which would give the red government a trangle-hold on the Roman Catholic church. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman) Charles Hall, Ex-Governor Aspirant, Dies Charles Hall, 68. a slate sena tor for 16 years, candidate for the office of governor and father of Charles W. Hall of Salem, died in Portland Saturday night. He collapsed of a heart attack at the pharmacy he had managed the past year, according to an As sociated Press dispatch. He had lived in Portland since 1934. He was state senator from Coos and Curry counties. Hall was an opponent of Gov. Ben Olcott for the GOP guber natorial nomination in the 1922 primary,, when the Ku Klux Klan was a major Issue in the election. He lost and Olcott later was de feated by Walter M. Pierce, demo crat nominee. In 1930 he sought the nomination again and in 1934 entered the primary but later withdrew. A native Pennsylvanian, he came to Oregon in 1901, taught school and was engaged in sev eral business ventures. He had a drug store at Hood River, was founder and president of the Oregon-Washington Telephone com pany there, later formed the Coos and Curry Telephone company and had lumber and shipping in terests in Coos county. He or? ganized the southwestern OregonJ bank in 1917 and was president until 1920 when he purchased a portion and became president of the First National bank of Klam ath Falls. His public service work includ ed memberships in the state Fish and Game commissions and the State Land Settlement commis sion. He was also an organizer of the State Chamber of Commerce. Masonic lodge members will conduct funeral services at the Portland Crematorium Tuesday. He is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Warren Reid and Mrs. Jerold Herburger, both Port land, and two sons, KeithV of Washington, D. C, and Charles of Salem. Gov. Dewey to Speak To Lion Club Today NEW YORK, July 17-UP)-More than 25,000 Lions flocked into New York today for the 32nd annual convention of Lions International. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey was scheduled to greet them officially tomorrow but one of his assistants said that Dewey would make "an important speech, much more than a greeting." TYPHOON niTS KYUSHU TOKYO. July 17 (JP)-A typhoon caused one death and destroyed 79 houses in the are a of Kago shima, southern Kyushu island, national rural police headquarters said today. The U. S. air force weather wing reported the typhoon had blown itself down to tropical storm size. Mas. ss - S3 - 5 Ml, rreelav SaJesa - Portland San francisco Chleaco Si U M .no .00 trace New York a Willamette river 1.7 feet. FORECAST from U. S. weather bu reau. MeNary field. Salem : Increas ing cloudiness today and tonight. Highest temperature todar, near S4 decrees: lowest tonight. S3. Weathee excellent for farm acUviUcs winds moderate. SALEM IMttCTF ITATIOH . (Scot. 1 to Jul III - This Year . Lart Year Normal 1J HtM Ml 0 y " 7 Gai i ID Raid Nets 7, County Seven men Were arrested early Sunday morning a the result of a surprise gambling raid conduct ed in Detroit and Idanha by the Marton county, sheriff and disiriet attorney, eight deputy sheriffs &nl two state policemen, - Fred Johnson, Detroit, an4 James Carl Manascoj Idanha. were arrested on charges of operating gambling gamfes. Both men were released on payment of $250 bail. Arrested and charged with Ram bling were Joseph Addison Wright, Clifton VeaL Harry Wellington Rutherford, Arthur! James Ed wards and Wiluam Scott Manning, all of Detroit! Rutherford, Wright and Erfwarria' All paid $100 bail and were re leased Sundays i Fellow Investigations District Attorney E. O. Stadler. jr., said the raids were conducted after several weeks' investigftticn by Sheriff Denver Young and hi deputies. i f Stadter ;saicT the raiding party entered tferee ttaverns simultane ously in Detroit and Idanha at 12:30 a.m., Sunday. A poker game was interrupted in Carl's porl-" room in Detroit and the particip ants were arrested on gambling charges. Manasco, the proprietor, was charged with operating the game and arrested on, a Salem dis trict court warrant. No evidence of gambling was discovered in Jjert's poolroom in Detroit, but the proprietor, John son was arrested on a district court warrant. Stadier said the warrant was based on a complaint from a reliable private; party alleging pre vious gambling gmes.' Evidence Seized Two gambling tables and 11 chairs were confiscated from Bert's poolroom and heH 4s evidence at the sheriffs office. ! The officer aUo raided the Spillway tavern in Idanha and ccnfi.scated teen illegal punch boards, but no arrest? were mrie. Young said he Drevinuslv huA warned travern awr.ers in the De troit area that gambling will not be permitted and said he intends to follow through wjth more raids if necessary. : Stadter said? the raid was pnrt of a county-wfde campaign to eli minate gambling. , Hi said he x pects to make jnore frequent trin to the Detroit area and anticipates more help frofn sUte police new that the highway has been im proved. J The men arrested Sunday will appear in Judge Joseph Felt on ' district court h."re thu morning. DETROIT, July- 17- (Sperial) Two Albany resident were hrs pitalized at Betid after an auto mobile in whi(?h' they were rs wngers plunged off the Santiam highway about three miles west cf here this afternoon. Howard Lucav jaweler, snd Mrs. Dorothy Butlec wer taken to the hospital; by a Detroit tnv bulance. Although, the extent of their injuries was not known to night they were reported as not being in critical condition. Dorothy Butter, daughter of Mrs. Butler, was driving the auto when its brakes locked on a curve. Mat police said. The car plunged cvei me nan. ais in the r, bdl sustaining onlv cuts ;mnrt hmitM were Fred Butler, 17, son of Mrs. outier, ana joon sweet, 18. All occupants of the car were Albany residents. Th arriri-r occurred about 5 p.m. ENGINE BALKS AGAIN LONDON, Monday,! July 18-T-A Pan American Airwayi strato cruiser plane, bound for New York with 43 person! aboard, develop ed engine trouble over the Irish Sea and returned to London air port early today. It was the fourth time in 11 day that! Pan Ameri can rtratocruisers have had to turn back from trans-Atlantic flight because of engine trouble. Mondays Ar Good Days! j Washing or n washing Mondays for years': have been grossly libelled. They're not always blue. . . Starting today. Monday is "Red Tag Day" for! a group cf Salem merchants who feel it is a good time of the week to en courage shoppers as youH see elsewhere in this istue. In fact, there hia growing belief that the first fpart of the week sometimes has been a bit overlooked irf merchandising. And now that The' Statesman is a COMPLETE, 7-DAY newt, paper, an additional- opportuni ty to balance the scales is here for everyone. - Ml- Wreck Injures 2 from Albany