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. ; " - .4. . . sm M&mrieMs i ' ; :.-:;!(... ... - ?! Homer Wins Series (Storr in Colnmn 2) Games On! t Opener, for . . :-. The ' . . - : - - - j 83tb TEAB 18 PAGES ; Th Orgoa SiatMmcm, Salm. Orwjoru Thursday. Octcr 6, 1949 PRICE So No. 101 -3 t 1 U-4 Vs. . 'it SEEDS UtDliD EE Her, far away from coal min ing and steel manufacture, we take iWUe note of the hjg strikes In these industries. In areas where these ore located, quiet prevails, the piir is clear, free from the smoke of Industry. Stores and theatres and taverns are open, but thre is little doing. All busi ness is on slow bell. The r effects of the strikes sjread out widely, however. Not only I will shortages appear we longer the strikes last, but the jparalysis spreads too. For a exam ple, the Baltimore and Ohio rail road, a, heavy hauler of coal and steel, estimates falling, off in its revenues of nearly $15,000,000 if the strikes last through the month iof October. The New York Central: figures on a drop of ?iz, 000,0001 In gross. .Thousands of railroad workers will bo f ur loughed,' In consequence. And automotive concerns like Packard and Briggs have begun layoffs of workers- because of th curtail ment of steel supply. Considerable of the loss may be recouped later, for the busi ness is merely deferred. The one who can't tet delivery of a car todav. lor example. wUl take de liverv when it becomes available. But ! other business lost is lost forever. The street transit sys tem hauling workers to factories will not recover losses or patron age when workers do not ride. All down the line income losses will be felt as long as the strikes continue. . , since no termination of the strikes is In sight the consequences may be serious, putting a real chill in the optimism that has been gathering since June. Even tually they will be settled, but both side seem disposed to. "hang tough! this time, so the shut downs I may be prolonged. The longer Ihey last the greater dam age will be done to the economy of the j whole country? Rarely do the principals gain by a strike. and tie public nearly always kses. i ' This ! government which has dodged applying Taft-Hartley act power to avert the strikes Is now '' attempting to settle them through mediation. Its efforts at media tion faAled In the case of steel; and in the prevailing mood of the principals one sees little prospect of early settlements. The govern ment may have to go farther than conversation to restore operations-In these vital Industries. NATIONAL PARK CLOSED ' & i The north and east entrances to Crater lake wert closed Wed nesday for th winter because ' of snow, the state highway de partment announced. Officials said this was arller than last year's closure. Animal Crackers 8 WARREN GOODRICH "Them txUed experts been $mokia'itl been Win' to tacca t!t mj life do they ask toe lot ttsUmonialt? HihT ' ' 'tSS ';f if H "3 ' V . T e ssW M V, H -MQi'J, - VV ?. !. I f " I NEW YORK, Oft. 5 Ilay ball! Amonr the 86.224 who witnessed the Yankees' 1-0 defeat of Brooklyn In the openinr came of the World Series teday were 1 MOO would-be bleaeherites whs braved rain and standinc room only" sftns to jam the Yankee itadium. Umbrellas and even tin cans (center) : were much in evidence under the stormy skies. (Associated Press wirephoto to The Statesman). (Other pictures and stories of series on sports pares). - 1 Pitcher's Duel m l By; Mighty Hit By Jack Hand YANKEE STADIUM, New York Oct 5 -OP)- Tommy Henrich's dramatic home run clout into the, lower right field seats 'leading off the last of the ninth gave the New York i Yankee! a opening World Series victory cjver Brook lyn today, ending a sifzling mound battle between Allie Reyn olds and Don Newcombe. The crowd of 66,224 which sat politely quiet through most of the stirring afternoon, let loose a mighty roar at the game-Winning blow.; I Up to that time, it was a spark ling pitcher's battle. Ooing to the last of the ninth, Newcombe, the Dodgers' huge Negro Rookie, had 11 strikeouts and Reynolds, the Yankee righthander, had nine. Newcombe allowed! only five hits but he made the! mistake of giving up the big one ; to Henrich. Thus the gallant Yankees who roared back to cop the pennant on the last day of the 'season with an exciting triumph oyer the Bos ton Red Sox, have prawn first blood in this best-of-sven classic. This was Tommy's fourth series homer and three of them came off Dodger pitching. One; in 1941 and another in 1947. Hi first came off the Chicago Cub I pitching in 1838. (Additional World Series news on Sports page.) Inquiry Shows Three Patients Slain by Inmate Investigation here j Wednesday showed that the thre patients at the Oregon state hospital, reoorted by the Citizens Action Committee of Portland as having been killed In 1942, were slain by an inmate or tne institution and not by an employe. . , Members of the committee stres sed these deaths at conference with the, board of control Tuesday when th demanded that "brutal rfy" 5 in Oregon's mental Institu tions be stopped. ij Board of. control members re- Iterated Wednesday they would in vestigate any concrete evidence of brutality, submitted by the com mittee but emphasized they wanted facts rather than hearsay informa tion. Annual Fall Fair Dates Slatetl hv Men's Garden Club Annual fall fair o Salem Men's Garden club will be October 22 and 23, Chairman Joody Benner announced Wednesday. It will be In the former Sears store at State and High streets. , i uiuds in tne Aianon-rouc coun ty area will compete and all gar den clubs have been Invited to dis play exhibits. Individual horticul tural specimens will jjbe stressed in the ! show, according to Moody Judging this divisiop will be Dr, Fred Bock, Al Beckman and A. B Quaife. , Plants and gardeif products do nated by club menjbers will be sold throughout ; the Ishow with E. C. Daon in charge. Hugh Taylor will conduct an auction of those remaining at the end of the show. I v BIKE UDEKS WAIN ED . ; ' ' Bicycle riders .wbf peddle along city sidewalk at night without proper lights will find Salem po licemen on the watch for them in th future. Police Chief Clyde A. Warren Wednesday directed patrol men to be espeaalljf' alert for such violation. - j , i.i.M4aiMM( i ; v.MMtuir . : . w . Police Identify Amnesia Victim by Cleaning lag With the dry-cleaner's tag on a coat as their only clue, Salem city police quickly re-united a 23 - with her husband here Wednesday Tall, red-haired Susan Blackwell was brought to the station at Premier Quits Over French Wage Problem PARIS. Oct. 8 -OP)- Premier Henri Queuille resigned today as a result of wage and price prob lems growing out of devaluation of the franc. President Vincent Aur iol will announce tomorrow whether he wi$ accept the resig- natioik 1 Queuille has held together a co alition of radical socialists, social ists and popular republicans for IS months, the ' longest of any French government since the fourth republic was formed after the war. f ' QUeuille threw in the sponge when Daniel . Mayer, socialist la bor minister, wrote what was de scribed by well-informed sources as a i virtual ultimatum demand ing wage increases for labor well beyond what Queuille was pre pared to grant. The crisis, exploded after weeks of bickering over the issue ever since! France devalued the franc from .30 to .28 cent in step with Britain's cheapening of her pound Sept 18. '" j Democrats Launch Confirmation Fight For Leland Olds WASHINGTON, Oct. Democratic National committee launched a fight tonight for con firmation of Leland Olds for third' term on the federal power commission. i Earlier, the Senate Commerce committee had disregarded a plea from President-Truman, voting 10 to 2 to reject Olds nomination The senate still Jnust act. ' Democratic Chairman William M. Boyle, Jr., disclosed that he has sent; telegrams to all members of the National committee and to state chairmen and vice chairmen asking them to , let their senators know that "the people want Olds confirmed. TRANSPORT MISSING WASHINGTON. Oct. 5 - Wl - A two engined transport carrying nine men is missing and presumed down between here and Mobile Ala., the air force said tonight. Sixty-Year Member of lOOF j Honored by A young fellow by the name of William Sigmund was honor ed with a surprise birthday party by Chemeketa lodge 1, IOOF, Wednesday night Sigmund is 86 years old and for 60 of those 80 years he has been a member of Salem's Odd Fellows lodge. i s Marion County Judge Grant Murphy paid tribute' to Sigmund's 60 years of fellowship I Wednes day by saying; "This fellow re members when the farms around here were divided by crooked rail fences, the fields were ploughed by teams of oxen, and the roads were passable only in the sum mer." "In fact." Murphy continued, h 1 remembers when wheat was SO cents bushel, bread was S cents a loaf, a shave was IS cents and you still could buy a good 5-ccnt cigar." ' - - Sigmund is member of a pio neer Willameta valley faaaily that It year - old Portland amnesia victim night. 4 cm. without identity or knowledge of her name, address or background. Police said she discovered a ros ary in her pocket while walking in Salem and went to St. Joseph s Catholic church- A priest there talked with her and summoned a Catholic Charities worker who es corted her to the city hall. After questions brought no link with the woman's past. Police Chief Clyde A. Warren examined her coat and found the tag which bore the word "college." He called College cleaners in Portland and they identified the woman immed iately. Minutes later her husband was on his way to Salem. He told po lice his bride of two years had been at home this morning when he left. He also stated she had been ill with laryngitis for two weeks but was improved, accord ing to polices They concluded that Mrs. Blackwell had come to Sa lem by bus. Police said that she did not rec ognize her husband, but they re turned to Portland a short time after he arrived. Veterans Snan Flight Record YUMA, Ariz., Oct. 5-tfVTwo navy veterans Bob Woodhouse and Woody Jongeward shattered the world endurance flight rec ord at 7:15 p. m. tonight. The two pilots sailed past the old mark of 1,008 hours without a' falter and reaffirmed their plans by radio to stay up one more week, until Oct. 12, Columbus day. At 7:14 p. m., one minute before the record was equalled, every light in the city was turned off. Then as the time arrived, the lights came back on, and fire whistles, police sirens and auto mobile horns were blown in cele bration of the event. Overheated Stove Sets Trailer Afire Fire caused by an overheated wood stove destroyed the trailer home of Charles Moore at 1730 Water street Wednesday night. Firemen were; summoned at 6:14 p. m.' Moore told them that be had kindled a fire and then gone to a shower room at the trai ler court. When he returned the trailer was ablaze. Birthday Party included a former county Judge. John Sigmund. Murphy recalled that it was John Sigmund who said, when asked if he weren too old to run lor office again. "A Sigmund isn't old until he i well past 80." 1 Wednesday night's party includ ed community singing, musical entertainment and refreshments served by Rebekah lodge 1 st Salem. 1 Sigmund, a past noble grand of tne Chemftketa lodge, joined th organization July 3, 1869. He has represented the lodge at dozens of state functions -over the years. He and his wife, the former Lucy Barzee, to whom he was married Jan. 5, 1891, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1941 and are now looking for ward to their In 1951. 60th anniversary Sigmund was ouiet and thought ful through Wednesday's party. Ha could say only, "I hope the next sixty yars are just as good." Escaped 'JapDsi7 WiDDnainni oves Up. to. Eenitentiary Community Chest's Collections Third Pact Nations Set Machinery For Strategy WASHINGTON. Oct 5 -(&)- The 12 North Atlantic Pact na tions at a Single session tonight set up machinery to work out their joint military strategy against aggression.. After hearing an American warning to any "would-be ag gressor" from Secretary of De fense Johnson, the new overall defense committee of the treaty countries agreed on eight major groups which will do the actual defense planning spade work. Clears War for Arms The session lasted five and a half hours. It cleared the way for a billion-dollar flow of Amer ican arms to strengthen western Europe by formally accepting also the principle of "integrated de fense. Congress specified this princi ple must be adopted before the release of the bulk of the funds in the new $1,314,010,000 arms aid bill which President Truman is to sign tomorrow. Topping-the new military plan ning agencies which, were set up is a 12-nation maitary committee, on which the, United States Is represented by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, joint chiefs of staff chairman.' Bradley also is on a three-nation U. S.-British-French "standing group" which will have some of the functions of a high command. Committee to Meet The military committee was surrimoned to its first meeting to morrow afternoon. Another new agency, a military production and supply board, was tentatively called to meet in London In De cember. Other agencies formally set up and given directives were regional planning groups. Johnson was formally acclaimed chairman and ' the U. S. took a dominant role as the foremost political and military officials of the pact governments tackled the task of massing their resources to resist any attack on western Europe or the north Atlantic. Social Security Bill Approved WASHINGTON, Oct 5-W-The house voted today for a bigger so cial security s y s t e m covering more people, paying higher bene fits and to cost after 20 years, three times larger payroll taxes. On the shutdown, only 14 votes were cast against it There were 333 for it The administration measure sailed through overwhelmingly after the house first slapped down, 232 to 113, a proposed substitute offered by 10 republicans. Like the administration bill, the GOP plan would have expanded social security but at a slower gait! . The house vote sends the meas ure on to the senate. With lead ers aiming for early adjournment of this congressional session, the senate plans to put off considera tion of the bill until the next ses sion, meeting in January. . The bill would: - 1. Extend did age and survivors insurance to 11,000,000 more workers, raising the number cov ered from 35.000.000 to 46.000.000. 1: Boost benefits by 70 per cent or more. J. Create new disability incur ance. . 4. Increase payroll taxes grad ually over the next 20 years to 3 per cent on both worker and hi employer. 1 rH,i wGarii:QQ I Max. ss Freeif. JTI 9t trace trace a SateM . Portland San franciaco 41 4 M SS 63 8 Chicaro New York 4 ., . - -Willamette rrcer feet. FORECAST from tf. S. weather bu- McNary field, .salami: raruy I cloudy with a few Ubt sbowers today . a a i . t ... and toitleht. litu efaance In tem perature withi the highest today near SO and lowest tonight near U. Weather win be mostly favorable tor Sana activities today. i sALXsc rucmrAxioN r This Tear J Last Year Kona 14 S-WZ Salem Community chest chalked up the first one-third of its $105, 000 goal Wednesday on the second day of general campaigning. Evening reports from all but two of the chest campaign divis ions showed that $31,365 had been raided. : Leading the field in funds raised from the Salenv public were Dave Holtzman's mercantile division With $8,000 of its $16,200 quota; William Shinn's industrial division with $5,533 of a $13,600 quota; Francis Smith's professional di vision, $4,507 of $11,600, and W. L. Phillips, jr., automotive, $3,882 of $10,550; Robert White, general gifts, $4,533 of $9,900. Noontime reports are being made daily by division chairmen and workers in the 350-volunteer campaign force. General Chair man Joseph A. H. Dodd has urged all helpers to take part in these no-host luncheons at the Marion hotel. Dodd also urged Salem's clubs and civic groups to call upon the chest campaign office for Speakers to appear before local meetings. Under the campaign s payday plan for workers wishing to give the equivalent of one hours pay on each of five paydays, good re sults have been coming in, an nounced Dodd. Terminal Ice & Cold Storage Co. employes subscribed to this plan 100 per cent. Workers at W. W. Rosebraugh Co. set their own quota at $96 and then over subscribed with $122. Employes of th Dr. Pepper Bottling Co. also exceeded their quota in sub scriptions. Longer Hours For Banking Starts Monday Longer banking hours will go into effect Monday at the Salem branch of the First National bank of Portland, Manager Guy N. Hickok announced Wednesday. New hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Employes and officers of the bank will begin a five-day week at the same time, said Hickok. "We ' have felt for some time that our staff should have more' time for recreation, and we feel that our bank .should have bank ing hours that meet the con venience of .as many people as possible," ' he said. The longer hours already are in effect at all Portland branches of the bank and 11 upstate branches. Officials of Salem's two other banks Said no changes are being made In their hours. The Willam ette Valley bank is now open on Friday nights. CRASH BLAME FIXED ONTARIO, Calif., Oct. B -(yP)-Blame for a bus-train crash which killed 16 and Injured five persons was placed today on th soldier bus driver, on of the victims. HOUSING BILL SHELVED WASHINGTON, Oct 5-JP)-Tht senate tonight shelved until next year a. bill designed to spur con struction of moderately priced homes. 3 Destitute Ex-Paratrooper Seeks Salem Job To Pay Fare Home for Wife, Four Children By John White Staff Writer, Th Statesman A pair of blue-eyed blonde lit tle girls and their two young bro thers sure hope daddy finds a job in Salem this morning. It was a long walk through the rain Wednesday, from Portland almost to Oregon City. A thought ful stranger picked them up and drove them into Salem Wednes day night, but they were still tired and they hadnt eaten all day... The little girl eant see why mother and daddy dont take them back on the train that was car rying them horn to South Caro lina. ; They're too young to know that tickets cost money 'and there isn't any money. Daddy Is 13-year-old ex-paratrooper, Grover Hipp, from Greenville, S. C. He's a short-order cook but heU tackle anything to earn money so his family can get homeC His pretty young wife knows why ther can1 get back on the train. She knows Eippa had to Drive of Goal Navy Captain Admits Second Defense Blast wlsHINGTON, Oct. 5 - (A) -Navyj Capt John G. Crommelin, embattled critic of the unified de fense! setup, was revealed tonight to bej the man who gave the press confidential documents charging that the navy's moral was shat tered and th national defense im perilled. . Crommelin's action, designed to get a hearing for a widespread navyj feeling that the air force is elbowing the navy too far out of the dens picture, has started two j investigations. Heating Ordered The house armed services com mittee has ordered a hearing with top-level admirals as witnesses. Aii& Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, chief! of naval operations, has di rected an investigation into the release of the documents.. He call ed tiis release a grave infraction of regulations. Crommelin has indicated he ex pect a court martial, and- specu lation tonight was the he will get It although Denfeld had no im mediate comment. Second Development The Crommelin disclosure was the I second development of the day bearing on the tug-of-war be tween the navy and the air force. Earlier in the day, the navy an nounced that Cedric R. Worth, ci vilian naval official who wrote the now-discredited memo blast ing the air force's B-36 super bomber program, had quit his Job over! a month ago. The navy's disclosure came be latedly a few minutes after the house armed services committee demanded that Worth be fired. The memo, which was circuiatea anoaymously at first, charged that the B-36 was obsolete and that po litical connivance was responsi ble for its continued construction. Thei Worth charges blew up when he recanted most of them pub liciy. Carl to Seek Speed Record CHICAGO, Oct t -m- U.S Marine Lt. Col. Marion Carl, ac speed pilot landed at Glenview naVal air station today with plans to (take-off tomorrow for an at tempt to break the world's speed recprd. Sari studied weather report said he will decide definitely by boon tomorrow whether he will try! to break the 670 mile an hour record hfld by the air. force. The flight coarse will be from Glen view to the Cherry Point N.C, natal air station. The marine flier set a speed record of 650.8- miles an hour in 1947-1948. cash In the train ticket to pay foij medicine and lodging while she was seriously ill in a Port land hospital the past two weeks. the family had Intended to keep right on going through Salem on their way home Wednesday. There was Hibb and hi wife and the children. Bob, 12; Peggy, 10; Judy, 6; (and little Donald, 5. But the stranger who took them into Salem suggested they go to the Marion county sheriffs office and see if they couldn't get help for the night The children were cold, wet and hungry. A thoughtful deputy directed them to St Joseph' Catholic church. They weren't Catholic but that didn't make any difference to Catholic Charities who provided them with meal tickets for Wed nesday night and this morning and found, them a room to st soma sleep, i - iThis morning tha family will sea the county juvenile officer who will try to get Red Cross help. (Hipp is eager to get work. He recently was discharged after ser ais years serrlca as a paratrooper Cold, Hunger Reason Given For Surrender! By Charles Ireland Staff Writer. The Statesman Oregon prison escape William John Perkins surrendered to the law Wednesday night at his par ent's horn near Silverton. - Th 24-year old convict phoned the penitentiary at 8:10 pjn. and , told Prison Captain Walter Bab son to come and get him. State police and another prison captain accompanied ; Babson to appre- -hend him. Cold and Hungry Perkins told newsmen he de cided to give himself up because It was just too cold, and I ain't a stealin' man." Sporting a heavy growth of beard and wearing th blue work-clothes he escaped in, h said he had been living In stubble fields and eating apple and whatever els he could find since he escaped. He said he Jiad never been but of Marlon county. 1 went to my folk Tuesday night, but I didn't ask them to keep me. I just got discouraged and decided to turn myself in," Perkins said. "My parents said turning myself in was ' th best thing I could do. j Planned Escape . The only thing I stole was a gunny sack," he added. Perkins, who escaped with two other convict, said the break had been planned two days before they escaped on September 22. H said he split with the others near our Corners an hour after th reak and never saw them again. Lart Richard Railsback was captured there th same day. Leo Gilbert Williams was apprehended October 1 at Monument In Grant county. i- Perkins was returned to a cor rection cell at the penitentiary after questioning at state police headquarters in Salem. He ' 1 serving 40 years for rape and sodomy. State police sergeants Robert Baker and Charles We ems and penitentiary Captain Xllsworth Herder were other members of the party who apprehended Perkins. Blood Testa I To Untangle f Baby Mixup I RAVENNA, O , Oct. I - UP) - St Thomas hospital in Akron today announced it could tell "conclus ively" from blood tests the cor rect parent for two baby boy born at a Ravenna hospital. But the Akron hospital declined to identify the youngsters born September II to Kent O., mothers who shared the earn hospit room. Mrs. J, P. Shanley and Mrs. Ro bert Strayer ar th mothers of th blond and black-haired lad born within a few hours of each other. Dr. Edward Meacham of Kent delivered both children. When he called at the Shanley home - ha found a scratch on the blonde's right chin and a tiny bump on th back of Its head. That indicated an instrument delivery to th doe tor, who recalled that th Strayer child and not the Shanley boy had been instrument delivered. and had saved enough money to get his family home from Spo kane, Wash., where they had been staying. Everything was fine ? un til they reached Portland. ! Then Mrs. Hipps developed a serious mastoid condition ' in one ear. She was hospitalized more than two week. She needed roed-1 idne. The children needed a plac to stay. t Hipps. cashed in th train tick ets. When his wife left the hospit al the bill were all paid. It wa then, Wednesday, that th family started lor California in an, effort to reach a warmer climate for the long trip home' They got as far as Salem. Just In case he can't get a job. several persons have Volunteered to donate money to get the chil dren home. Most pecpl dont think ;that will be necessary. c Someone in Salem must have m -job for a military service veteran, a short-order cook, who wantf I desperately to earn that fari home. . f :- j Bobby, Peggy, Judy and Don i aid sura bona so. ,j ft'