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Air Secretary
Denies B-36
Deal 111
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' WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-UP-
Secretary of Air Sturat Syming
,,ton today hotly denied that the
multi-million dollar investment in
. the far-ranging B-36 atom bomber
. was based on "any consideration!
other than national security.
"An effort has been made," he
aid, "to show that air force and
J personally have done wrong in
the purchase of the B-36.
"It is not true," Symington
snapped. '
. ( , Assuming personal responsibility
for ihe decision to push the con-
4 troversial superbomber program,
, Symington declared that it was
: made solely for military reasons,
, He said there were no political or
. business considerations involved.
At House Hearing
.Symington gave this testimony
to the house armed services com
mittee which Is investigation the
B-35 project to see whether any
outside pressure was brought to
bear in the awarding of the plane
s contract to the Consolidated Vul
tee Aircraft Co.
The inquiry was launched after
Rep. Van Zandt (R-Pa) told the
house he had heard "disturbing"
tepor ts about top defense officials
ANE airplane makers.
Before Symington took the
land, Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, air
Isrce chief of staff, lashed out at
the "false rumors and innuendoes,"
which he told the committee bad
, ; damaged air force morale.
- Previdea Major Check
At the same time Vandenberg
' flatly declared that this country's
- possession of the atom bomb
plus the ability to "deliver if
provides the major check on "the
aggressive designs of Soviet lea
ders." The tall slender air chief who
has just returned from a military
. survey in Europe, bluntly told the
lawmakers:
"There is only one major mili
tary threat to the security of the
United States and the peace of the
world. It is pointless to talk In
riddles this threat comes from
the Soviet Union." ;
Vandenberg then went on to say
that "for the next few years the
B-36 provides the spearhead for
the ready-for-combat force in be
ing which this country must con
stantly have at hand."
Although he said he was not ob-
ligated professionally to defend
Symington "I raise my voice, as
ny man might, who hears a friend
unjustly accused."
Aviation Cadet
Exams Slated
1st Lt. William K. Mauldin of
. the IT. S. air force will be in Sa
lem August 24 and 25 for the pur
pose of giving aviation cadet
exams to those high school grad
uates who desire to apply for cadet
training.'
High school graduates, married
or single, between the ages of
19Vt to 26, are elgibile to take the
examination. Applicants passing
the initial tests will be notified
by letter as to the date to report
for physical and further screen
ing. hy the Air Force Board at Mc
Cord field. Wash. Transportation
by rail will be furnished by the
local recruiting office.
NEWBERG MAN KILLED
NEWBERG, Aug. 12-(P)- A fal
ling tree struck and killed James
' Thomas Montague, 22, Newberg,
near here yesterday. Montague,
who had been married only re
cently, was working with his
father on Parret Mountain.
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Baby Coughs
Vp 'Tinkle'
MILWAUKEE. Aug. t -UP)-
Every time five-months-old Jay
Wallace opened his mouth to coo,
bis mother heard a tinkle.
Then he began to choke. Hastily,
Mrs. Joseph Wallace pried open
his inouthj She found he'd swal
lowed a tiny bell, apparently off
a rattle. I H .
Mrs. Wallace rushed Jay to a
county emergency hospital. He
needed an! operation, she thought.
But Jay solved his own problem.
He coughed, out popped the bell,
and back home he went
Truman Asks
Senate Pass;
Reform Bill
WASHINGTON, Aug.
President Truman, threatened with
defeat of; his first ;two govern
ment reform plans, told the senate
today that if they fail the whole
vast reorganization effort "will be
imperilled." ) 'd
Right after his lettervwas read.
Democratic Leader Lucas of Illi
nois advised the senate he will
call up both plans Tuesday. The
senate executive expenditures
committee has acted unfavorably
on them.; j ,
Reorganization plan No. 1 would
turn the "federal security agency
into a cabinet rank department of
welfare. It Would take: over the
public health service, the social
security administration and the of
fice of education, now under FSA.
Reorganization plan ; 2 would
shift the bureau of employment
security, which handles Jobless pay
replacement, into the labor de
partment. Unless 1 house or ! senate disap
proves, the plans become effective
next week end anyway under the
reorganization law.: It gives con
gress 60 days after a plan is sub
mitted to kill it by adverse vote
of either- chamber. ?
Mr, Truman told the senate that
Former President Hoover "shares
my concern that their; rejection
would be a real setback to the ef
fort to reorganize i the; executive
branch of the government."
Medical groups opposed the wel
fare department plan in commit
tee hearings, contending the setup
might lead to subordinating medi
cal matters to welfare activities.
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Band Member
Dies After Fall
EUREKA, Calif.; Aug. 12 -UP)-A
fall in Grants Pass, Ore., several
days ago was believed responsi
ble for the death today; of Richard
O. Sorenson, 37, of Portland, a
member of the Monte Brooks band.
The orchestra is playing at the
Humboldt county fair in Femdale.
Members of the band said Sor
ensen was thought not seriously
injured when he fell, but he be
came ill on his arrival at Tern
dale early this week. The body is
being sent to Portland.
Lebanon Delegates to
Attend Silverton Meet
LEBANON i This city will
send a large delegation of busi
ness and professional men to
Monday evening 's meeting of the
Cascade Highway association in
Silverton, it was announced Fri
day by the local chamber of com
merce, i
Guest speaker ; at the meeting
will be R. H. Baldock, state high
way engineer. Monday's meeting
WiU be the first time Baldock has
met with , the Cascade group.
The dinner meeting is planned
at -7 o'clock in the Silverton
Chamber of Commerce building.
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Government
Orders
Survey
Of U.S. Jobless
WASHINGTON, Aug. U-CSV
Government employment experts'
stepped tip their drive today to
whittle down the nation 'a jobless
total ; of some 4,000,000 persons.
The bureau of employment se
curity disclosed that it had sent
orders to state and local agencies
to report by Monday on the work
situation in their communities so
that "home front" projects can be
drafted with federal aid to relieve
hardest hit areas.
The plans were divulged by
Robert C Goodwin, head of the
employment security bureau, and
bis top aide, Louis Levme.
The agencies have been request
ed to survey their area and re
port on any community in which
seven per cent or more of the work
force is idle.
The bureau, which gets regular
reports from 97 areas, disclosed
that nine of those already have
shown 12 per cent unemployment
or more. Presidentia 1 Assistant
John R- Steelman, who heads up
the jobless aid drive already has
notified government procurement
agencies of the need for placing
orders in those nine areas.
Goodwin .Jold a reporter the
same procedure is planned event
ually for sections where there is
7 per cent unemployment. His
agency has also suggested that
state and local governments chan
nel their purchases to the "home
front" distress areas as part of the
overall plan for coping with the
jobless problem.
Goodwin said that the census
bureau figures of 4,100,000 unem
ployed as of July 8, probably
would remain unchanged this
month and next. After that, he
said there may be a slight decline
in the. number of people out of
work.
Steel Workers
Said Asking for
n
By Joe Hall
NEW YORK. Aug. 12-)-The
steel fact-finding board was told
today that steel workers, by their
fourth-round wage demands, are
asking for a depression and pay
checks that go up and down like
a rollercoaster.
irus testimony was given on
the second day of the period al-
Ioted the steel industry for pre
sentation of its case.
Dr. Jules Backman, a New York
university economist who testified
as an expert for the industry, at
tacked the ability-to-pay theory
offered by the CIO United Steel
vorkers to support a demand for
a : 30 cent an hour package in
crease.
He told the three-man preslden
tial fact-finding board:
"Adherence to this theory would
result in chaotic wage structures,
reduced corporate savings, impair
incentives and in turn reduce job
opportunities, create high wage
costs based upon temporary con
ditions, and cause wages to fluct
uate erratically."
Gity Inspection
Fatal to Portland
Punchboards
PORTLAND. Aug. 12 -UP)-With
one minor exception city officials
found no punchboards today that
could meet Portland s strict ques
tion-and-answer regulations.
City officials inspected mon
than a dozen types of boards. The
one board that drew legal approv
al was one not in wide circula
tion.
It was being used to help move
the product of a candy company.
The board offered a box of candy
to anyone who could answer the
question on any of its slips with
In 10 seconds.
Deputy City Attorney Darrel L
Johnson examined 12 other types
of boards and said none could be
approved. One of the city's -ma
tor punchboard distributors. C D.
Ventura, said he had never seen
a popular board which would
meet city specifications.
Green man Given
Lebanon School
Addition Contract
: Lebanon Harry Greeman,
Lebanon, has been awarded a con
tract for building an addition to
Green Acres school. His bid of
$74,300 was low among eight sub
mitted. ! Earl HalTs bid of $73,707 was
next low among the others which
ranged up to $95,000.
: An $85,000 bond issue for the
addition was passed recently by
voters in Lebanon school district.
Built two years ago. Green Acres
school has four rooms at present.
More class rooms, a teacher's room,
recreational shed and central heat
ing system will be provided by the
hew construction.
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ATLANTA. Ausr. U&-ttud&
finite improvement tonight from injuries inflicted by a speeding car.
' Her husbaijtt, John R. Marsh, reported irom me nospiuu mi we
is definitely better compared with last night"
He added that the shy, modest autnor oi me wona-iamea wni
With The Wind" was only partly conscious 24 hours after the careeing
vehicle struck her and dragged
her IS feet I
i But, he announced, aha has ral
lied sufficiently taj permit removal
of an oxygen tent and,-lend
stronger hope for her recovery...
Marsh described bis wife as in
a -state of extreme snocx., ne
said her physicians are waiting for
this condition to wear off before
making X-rays and deciding whe
ther an operation I is necessary.
They were walking to a peach
tree street theatre! near their home
last night when ! the automobile
slammed her to the pavement The
police said the driver was drunk
and on the wrong side or. tne
street !
She was taken j to city hospital.
Miss Mitchell was placed under
an oxygen tent in a room adjacent
to the -woman's ward. Her per
sonal physician reached the hospi
tal shortly afterwards.
Two hardworking internes and
half a dozen student nurses at
tended the author during the night
giving a blood transfusion. The
others were given today and Miss
Mitchell was reported lightly im
proved.
Two 'of the smith's foremost
brain surgeons also were in at
tendance. Several other phys
icians dropped by to offer their
services. Three doctors took their
meals in her room to keep her un
der constant observation.
Hospital attendants said Miss
Mitchell was too ill to be moved
even for X-ray' much less to a
private hospital. !
The 43-year-old Miss Mitchell
'98 Vets Set
State Reunion
In Portland
A state reunion of Spanish-Am
erican war veterans of the Second
Oregon volunteer infantry regi
ment will be Sunday. August 14.
at Laurelhurst park in Portland.
The program will include an ad
dress by Col. Carl Abrams, Salem,
president of the state organization.
Heading the Salem deelgation will
be Brank Card, a member of the
executive committee and first-sergeant
of K company, all of which
was from Salem.
Gov. Douglas McKay and Mayor
Dorothy McCullough Lee also are
scheduled to appear on the pro
gram. About 1,500 are expected
for the reunion. They will cele
brate the 50th anniversary of their
discharge, Aug. 7, 1899, at San
Francisco, Abrams said.
Others planning to attend from
Salem include i Clyde McClung,
Gerry DeSart; Bert Fromater,
Richard Churchill and Arthur
Welch.
RoadBid Far
Under Estimate
PORTLAND, t Aug. 12 -VP)- A
surprisingly low bid of $26,440
was submitted by w. Glenn Sex
ton, Portland, today for surfacing
a section of roadway and con
structlon 4,300 feet of the relocated
county road No. 360 near Lookout
Point
The Army Engineers' estimate
for the job was $40,394. and the
14 other bids ranged up to $59,946.
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MrTtt Mitchell showed de
in private life Mrs. John Marsh
suffered a possible skuu frac
ture, internal injuries and an in
jury to one leg. Her face was
badly bruised.
A family friend said an in
terne reported blood had run in a
thin, weak stream from Miss Mi
tchell's left ear. normally a sign
of a skull fracture.
A charge of suspicion of man
slaughter was entered against the
driver of the car which struck
Miss MitcheU Hugh D. Gravitt,
29 but it was dropped at a re
corder's court hearing.
Charges of speeding, driving on
the wrong side of the street and
being drunk remained.
Judge Orders
End to Church
Of Golden Rule
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2-Ph
Nearly four years of litigation vir
tually ended today with the sign
ing of a judgment dissolving
Christ's Church of the Golden
Rule.
The erouD was once headed by
Arthur L. Bell, former director of
the controversial mankind united.
which at one time was charged
with sedition.
Superior Judge Clarence L. Kin
caid signed the judgment on the
basis of a stipulation presented
by Attorney Russell E. Parsons,
representing Mr. and Mrs. Bell,
and Asstt Atty. GenL Kenneth E.
Lynch.
Parsons said the step clears tne
way for bankruptcy court to turn
over some $400,000 in remaining
assets of the Golden Rule church
to BeU's present organization, Ec
clesiastical Society of Christ s
church of the Golden Rule. The
attorney said it operates in north
era California and southern Ore
gon.
A suit brought by then Attor
ney General Robert W. Kenny in
October of 1945 attempted to dis
solve the original church. The
complaint accused the Bells of in
ducing many persons to turn over
their assets to the church on pro
mise of lifelong security.
A receiver was named in the
case, but shortly afterward a peti
tion of bankruptcy was filed in
federal court and a referee took
pver the organization's assets,
then valued at $3,000,000.
Malheur Road
Strike Stymied
ONTARIO, Ore., Aug. 12 -(JPy-Neither
side budged today as a
strike of about 30 AFL roadwork
ers continued against Malheur
county. v
The county recently cut wages
for the workers, and about 40 of
them joined AFL unions. They an
nounced a .strike yesterday, and
set up a picket line. About thirty
failed to report for work. Six oth
ers went to work.
Charles Collins, a spokesman for
the AFL teamsters, said the work
ers would continue on strike .until
the previous wages are restored.
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U.S. Aims to
Reopen China's
Closed Door
LARAMIE. Wyoming. Aug. 12
-(AV-A state department spokes
man declared here tontgnt mat
the open door is in danger of be
ing dosed" in China "but we
must see that it does not remain
closed.
Francis H. Russell, director of
the state departments office of
public affairs, said that China's
communist conquerors "are faced
with many problems" which makes
it uncertain how completely and
how long they can dominate the
country.
United States policy, he declared
must be conducted in such a man
ner that the "closed door" will be
reopened "by the Chinese people
themselves in a renewed assertion
of their inalienable right to choose
friendship instead of imperialism,
assistance instead of exploitation,
and freedom instead of subjection
to a foreign power."
Russell's remarks were prepared
tnr delivery before the institute
of international affairs at the uni-
-.rit-r nf W to mini.
Russell reviewed tne nisiory oi
American efforts to help save
China from communism as the
r .. ...
story was told in the white paper
which the state department pu
WihH in Washington last week.
"There is nothing apparent, ne
said, "beyond the steps war. were
taken which tne unnea oibict
could have done to prevent the
debacle short of unlimited aid and
intervention with American troops
in combat.
Auto Workers
Strike Breaks
Into Violence
wttitfato. N. Y Aug. 12-UPh
A mass rally of union sympathiz
ers was staged today, at the Bell
aircraft plant and acts of violence
were reported for the first time
in a two-month-old strike of CIO
United "Auto Workers.
Police" said several persons re
rti thev had been beaten. Tires
on some automobiles were slash
ed and one motorist was arresiea
for 'deliberately blocking" a high
way hear the plant, police added.
A picket said his leg was in
ured as he was knocked down by
an automobile crashing the picket
line.
A crowd of union supporters.
estimated by a union leader at
7 500 and by a company spokes
man at less than 3,000, assembled
hear the plant this morning.
Hugh Thompson, regional oit-
director, said nearly all the 200
CIO locals in this area were rep
resented. . X
The rally was staged at the start
of the second day of the company s
effort to resume production de
spite the strike by UAW local 501,
which claims to represent 1,700
of the company's 3,000 employes.
A resolution adopted at the rally
criticized the company's use of a
state supreme court injunctions to
restrain picketing activities.
- "Ijibor in this country refuses
to return to the days of the labor
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tear gas and the bloodshed of open
industrial warfare," tne resolution
said.
Ray P. Whitman. Bell's flrrt
vice president, accused the strikers
of violating the injunction and
promised prosecution.
Whitman sal d there were 801
employes at work today.
Kooert Siegler. president of lo
cal 501, estimated about 400 non-
strikers entered the plant.
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COVE. Calif
A- ,12 -W- A Boston marine
scientist may dive deeper into the
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ui-ck oepuis or the ocean tomor
row than man has ever gone be
fore. Otis Barton. 48, Harvard-train-;
n!intr' hopes descend
6,000 feet in a cast steel balLl
called a benthoscope, dangling
from a steel cable. At that depth
water pressure would be 27,000 -000
pounds on the benthoscope.
Barton and Dr. William Beebe
of the New York Zoological socie
ty already hold the world's deep
diving record. 3.028 feet in a
bathysphere off Bermuda in 1934.
Barton hopes to nearly double
that depth tomorrow.
Vessels of the little fleet en
gaged in the project rendevoused
tonight at this cove on Santa Cruz
island. 25 miles south of Santa
Barbara. Early tomorrow they'll
put out to the spot In the Santa
Cruz basin where the deepest wa
ttr was found by electric fatho
meters.
The benthoscope will be lower
ed rrom a crane on a 100-foot
sieei Darge nearby.
Barton cat sit or kneel In the
sphere. 57 H Inchts in diameter.
It weighs 7,000 pounds and its
steel shell is l Inches thick at
its thinnest point. It is designed
10 withstand pressures down to
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -VP)-.
Attorney General Tom Clark's
nomination to be an associate jus
tice of the supreme court got a
9 - to - 2 endorsement today from
the senate judiciary committee.
Senators Donnell (R-Mo) and
Ferguson (R-Mich) voted against
recommending confirmation b y
the senate. Donnell wanted Clark
called in for questioning, and Fer
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