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-'..!.'- 1 ,.".. . . ' ; . ., i - ii . 1 m t r 71 IHldDspDal- ' ; -1 Midwest Storm Toll 22; Mercury Soars in East By The AuocUUd Press Tht death toll from mid-conti-nt (ales rose to 22 Tuesday as cleanup crews began repairing damage to communication lines and property. The storm that bright winds of hurricane velocity to some midwestern areas blew itself out over the Hudson , bay area. The death list showed seven were dead in Wisconsin; one n Iowa, two in South Dakota, three in Illinois, four in Kansas, three In Wyoming, and two in Nebraska. Oliver (Red) Hahnenstein, form er triple threat halfback at North western university, was electro cuted at Aurora, 111.. Tuesday while working on a storm weak ened power line. Hahnenstein, a Unchecked Red Drive Wears Canton Capital CANTON, Oct. ll(;p)-Chinese communist troops in ap unchecked drive today thrust to wjlhin 40 miles of this dying nationalist capital. ' Canton was In its last days or hours as a capital. The next will be Chungking, the wartime capital 800 miles to the northwest. DtP UJULUJ0 rocDCu Dr. John McLaughlin, who as head of the Hudson's Bay com pany was long the untitled ruler of the Oregon country, was a sub scriber to The Oregon Statesman. At least the Inventory of bis es tate at the time of his death. In 1857 lias as one of his debts: "Ore gon Statesman $5,M which was probably the price of ytars Cbscription for the weekly pub hed then. This Is Just one item gleaned from the article on the McLough fla fcatate, written by Dr. Brown Barker, which appears In the fall number of the Oregon Historical Quarterly. Dr. Barker in a searcn at the Clackamas county court house discovered the original doc uments In the probate of Dr. Mc toughUn'i estate, his will, the In ventory, accounts of the execu tor. It U a find of real historical Importance. , Dr. McLoughlin probably first Jubecrlbed to The Statesman when t was established by Asahel Bush in Oregon City to 1831 where the white-haired doctor resided after his retirement from the Fur com pany employ. He evidently j pes tered Bush about his complaints ever the way he was treated on Us land elaims in Oregon City, for Bush refused to give him newspaper space to relate his troubles. The Statesman editor evidently eame to hold McLough lin Wt high esteem for In its Issue f July 11, 1887, this Item ap peared: "Illness of Dr. McLoughlin We lean 'that Dr. McLoughlin has been quite ill recently and on Thursday of last week It was thought could not survive. He however revived (Continued on editorial page 4) Korean Reds Vary in Zeal Mrs. Induk Pahk, Korean lee turer at Willamette university Tuesday, explained why Koreans may yet make a fruit salad of communists within their borders. She outlined the three types of Korean communists this way 1 Apple, red outside but white Inside; t Tomato, red clear through, and S - Watermelon, (most dangerous), green outside but red inside. Through Christian education ' cried Mrs. Pahk, "we'll squeeze the apples, crush the tomatoes and slice the watermelons." (Photo and story also on page S.) Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Stutff in hv9, isn't itr IraiisilKy Chairge : ! v ! - ; - Oregon's board of control Tues- I 1941 graduate of Northwestern, was a lineman for the Western United Powers company. Temperatures dropped 20 de grees in some midwestern areas in the wake ot the i storm, but unseasonable heat still prevailed in the east and gulf states. Tem peratures were in the mid-eighties in much of the eastern seaboard area. New York's 85,1 was the hottest Oct. 1 there ih history. Showers and thunderstorms occurred in a j narrow! band from northern 1 Ohio soiithwestward through Illinois, Indiana, Okla homa and northern Tfxas. A snowstorm isolated 70 hunt ers 100 miles west Of Missoula, Mont.. Tuesday night Federal foresters were called iin to clear a road to th area. ine Lninese ioreiga oince d- ruptly wound up its business in the middle of the afternoon. That was about the time reports circulated that the communists! had seized Tsingyun, only 40 miles to the north. . M I Canton technically! still is the capital, but that is all. Everyone intending to get out is too busy pacKlng to attend to oinclal bust ness. I Acting : President Iii Tsung-Jen is expected to fly to Chungking tomorrow. Tne formal prociama tion of Chungking as the capital is expected; about Saturday. Premier Yen Hsi-Shan, however, suddenly turned up jon Formosa, the island provence I built into a fortress by Chiang Kai-Shek. He recently has sided with Chiang in policy dlspuites with LI. An official announcement said the premier went tot Formosa for consultations with Chiang. Giant Grape Vine Marches Fabled 'Stalk9 Biatesauui News; Service DALLAS. Oct 11 f (Special) A giant grape vine.3 with all the growing ability of Jacks famous beanstalk, is taxing the gardening ability of Polk County Assessor E. C. Dunn these days. The vine, 12S feet long, was planted at the Dunn 'home 85 years ago. All efforts to curtail its growth! in recent years have fail ed, according to Dunn. A few years agoj he trained it across tne back lot, along the north side of the garage and then through a cherry, tree in the yard of his neighbor, C J. Enstad. It is now more than half way across the Enstad back porch. Supported by a trunk 8 inches in diameter, the vjne is produc ing fruit at the rate! of 150 bunch es peri yard. Dunit said he will harvest about 300 pounds of grapes from the vines this year. two Die of diphtheria MEDFORD, Oct! 11 -UPi- Two deaths: were attributed today to a diphtheria outbreak among Med- rord children. Dr. A- Erin Merkel, county health officer, said the sec ond death was that of a five-year-old gfrf. a 13-y earmold boy died In the weekend. 1 Stricken Boy's Counting eut the f 112.95 collected fond 'are four seungsters whe 5 aBswAajBSssflskssjcaBissaBiaiat Z) h i rii,i.M5 1 , - v r ! Eu I " ' - 'f ' V ft, TT- .C,,J - . i . it their classmate was by helping provide eare for future victims of the disease. Seated In the center Is Jim Robertson. th grade, 805 Plymouth dr who first jsugegsted that students collect money for the Iron lung instead ef for flowers for the funeral ef John Keinwald who tied last month as the result f polio. Others are. left to right. Sherrill Friesen. 4975 Arlctte dr fourth grade; Richard Green wood. 8638 N. River rd, eighth grade, and Delia Mao tekuh, 4852 Rickman nL, fifth grade. (States man paoto;. (story on page s;. day countered charges of brutality in the state mental hospitals. Doug. Douglas McKay and other members approved a report from William Ryan, coordinator of state institutions, which ; cited findings by coroner's juries in the past which had cleared the hospitals ot any neglect in several deaths which a Portland "citizens action commit tee" recently indicated had been due to brutality by hospital staff members, i 1 Incidents Cited f All incidents mentioned by the committee occurred before June, 1944, the Ryan report stated. One charge of the committee was that Jim Butler, a patient, was "murdered" in 1948 by being attacked and kicked by an Oregon state hospital attendant j Ryan said the attack occurred in June, 1942, and Butler underwent an operation a short time later and recovered. Records show be died on May 29, 1948, from coronary heart disease and not from any in jury received while a patient in the hospital. Patient Blamed Commenting on the charge that Jack Leavy, Levi Hogrin and Sol Green died as a result of electric shock treatment March II, 1940, Ryan said the record disclosed these patients were strangled at ni. t, while asleep, by Wylie HilL another patient. - j ' Another 'charge of the commit tee was that Irwin Wakefield was beaten to death because he argu ed with an attendant. Ryan said Wakefield was killed during an at tempted" eicape by three patients and attendants who fought against the escape were exonerated by a coroner's Jury. j Ryan also refuted charges that food served in the Oregon mental institutions is not up to standard. He said the food standard; at both state hospitals has been increased during the past three years. Denies Heat Lack j A statement by the committee that patients sleep without blan kets was denied by Ryan. He said ample bedding is provided and every ward in the hospitals is steam heated. ; The report further stressed that the medical staff at the Oregon state hospital here has been dou bled since 1940 and funds for the purchase of drugs has been In creased materially. "Another significant item of In terest" Ryan said, "is the fact that voluntary admissions to the Ore gon state hospitals are steadily on the increase." During the period 1948 through 1948 voluntary ad missions were 20 per cent of the total intake, whereas, since 1948, the ratio has Jumped to 80 per cent, Ryan said. i "People do not voluntarily ad mit themselves to a hospital which they do not consider good," Ryan told board of control members. Lebanon School Bans Initiations LEBANON, Oct. 11 i(Speclal) An ultimatum banning all future freshmen initiations was issued today by School Principal James W. King. The order. King said, was prompted by this year's initiation in which a large number of un derclassmen were injured. Some were strapped, paddled and burn ed and others were thrown into the South Santiam river. King said an annual get-to gether party would replace ini nation activities. ! Argentine Train Crash Kills 25, Injures 75 BUENO AIRES, Oct 1 1 -UP- A speeding suburban train crashed into a freight train in Buenos Aires tonight, killing at least 25 persons and injuring 75 others, i President Juan D. Peron, his wife and cabinet ministers hurried to the scene of the crash near the President Peron railway station. Friends Aid to Iron Lung-Fund f V - I V - by pupils f Kelzer grade school for the Salem Eagles club Iren long decided that the best way te memorialize the polio death of ene ef lifiirf jsTsf 'ir " . f ; i- - - ,j.-;r.' 1" - - ;- r ;- j : I -x xy': V - '-. 'v : ; r- i 1 j l 89tb TEAS 14 PAGES Th Oregon Sioteaman. Scdraa. Oregon, WedWday, October 12, 1949 PRICE So Ncs 207. Fleet Cuts Sam Dang B-36 Claimed Easy Target Of Russ Rocket By Max Beyd WASHINGTON, Oct 11 -(JPh Admiral W. H. P. Blandy declared tonight that proposed cuts in the navy seriously imperil the na tion's security. He urged a restudy of the stop-work order on the Supercarrier United States. Blandy said that in the case of the Atlantic fleet which he com mands, projected money cuts will reduce its force .'dangerously be low" minimum estimates. He - declared that disclosure of an atomic explosion j in Russia is one factor which makes it advis able to re-examine Secretary of Defense Johnson's decision to stop work on the supercarrier. It was estimated to cost $185,000,000. Defends Supercarrier Blandy appeared at a night ses sion of the house armed services committee, currently hearing the navy's side of the inter-service dis pute over the importance of the air force and its big B-36 bomber. Earlier navy witnesses had told the committee that Russia can shoot down the B-36 with guided rockets and said that even if the pride of the air force should es cape them its "barbaric" atomiz ing of cities would strip the U. S. of self-respect. Blandy told the committee the carrier which Johnson killed was "a ship designed to be part of a force which could pick its own fight at a time and a place of its own choosing." Concerned on Defense "With the Carrier United States, our ability to command the sea would have been strengthened and improved," the fleet commander said. "Its lack places an arbitrary limit on that ability." Blandy declined to say exactly what numbers and kinds of ships would be taken out of the Atlantic fleet because of the , reduction. So far as his command is con cerned, he said, he was told what ships were to be decommissioned, and wasn't consulted on that Cuts In the navy this year, he said, were intended to "bleed us down" for more cuts next year. Blandy said he does not con sider navy morale to be at "a dan gerously low ebb," as others have testified. He f aid he prefers the word concern. Asks More Freedom He said that "certainly" he thinks the navy is concerned and very much disturbed over the way things are going in the defense setup and what is happening to ap propriations. He proposed that the army, navy and air force each should deter mine the weapons and devices needed to execute their own mis sions "without being dictated to or out4voted by officers of other ser vices." s And he suggested that o long as one service stays within its ap propriations, it should not be pre vented by the others from obtain ing additional weapons or forces. TRUMAN GREETS NEHRU WASHINGTON, Oct 1 1 - -Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Of "neutral" India arrived today aboard President Truman's person al plane for his first look at the United States. The president greet ed the Indian leader at the airport in an elaborate welcome. Critic 1 WASHINGTON. Oct 11 Admiral W. IL P. Blanding criUcised enU la navy building fonds tonight as dangereu to the defense of the United States. Option Okehed On Wellington SchoolBlock An option to sell the old Wash ington school property at Center and 12th streets was authorized Tuesday night by the Salem school district board of directors. The option, for six months, was granted to George H. Graben horst, Salem realtor who was in strumental in starting the Capitol Shopping center, a retail business development undertaken by Pac ific Mutual Life Insurance co., in two city blocks adjacent to the school-owned block on which the 66-year-old Washington school stands. A possible selling price In ex cess of 100,000 was indicated pre viously. School board members said they did not know what development the real estate firm has in mind, and Grabenhorst himself was not available for comment The old Washington school has been twice abandoned to class room use in recent years. At pres ent the building houses classes which soon will move to the new Washington school now being built in the Capitola district. (Ad ditional school news, page 1.) Election Board Posts Set for i WoodburnVote Utcsmaa Newt tcrvtc WOODBURN Appointments for election boards for the special city ballot here October 21 have been posted by City Recorder' Mark Thompson. The election will be held for two proposed charter amendments, one to make the office of city recorder appointive by the city council and the other for a bond issue of not to exceed $10,000 for construction of a fire storage shed east of the railroad tracks. Election board members will be Mrs. Jess Fikan and Cedric Scharft judges; Mrs. Estella An derson, Mrs. Joyce Engle and Mrs. Bertha Bentley, clerks, for the East side area; Mrs. Gertrude Beach and Mrs. Alice Beck, Judges: Mrs. Agnes Jones, Mrs. Mabel Wright and Mrs. Virginia Austin, clerks, West side area. Residents of the city west of the railroad tracks will vote at the Woodburn library, while those liv ing east of the tracks will ballot at the Lutheran halL according to notices posted by the city recorder. The polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 pjn. . Stricken Teacher In Grave Condition Gretchen Kreamer, Salem school teacher, was reported gravely ill at Salem Memorial hospital early Wednesday. She was taken there Tuesday noon following a cere bral hemorrhage. Miss Kreamer is elementary music supervisor in public schools and an instructor of vocal classes at Parrish Junior high school. She lives a 1250 Court st Max. . SI . SI . n - M SaJefa ; ; Portland - ; Saa Francisco Chicaf o 4 Jt4 1 M 4 M Jot JOO Nw York Willamette river -a fet. TO RECAST (from U. g. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy uus mornuii becoming fair dunnc af ternoon and tonlchC-High today OS: this mo becoming fair during; af low tonight 38. AaTicutturo outlook Condition favorable for most farm activities today and tomorrow, SAUat PRECIPITATION This Tear . Last Year X 1.71 . . f J ' 4-41 . a .i si - m . i t r a i w u Murray Sees Early Victory For Workers By The Associated PrM Philip Murray predicted Tues day his 454,000 . striking steel workers will win an early victory. Renewed government attempts to settle the 11 -day-old strike will begin in New York Thursday. U. S. Conciliation Director Cy rus Ching is arranging meetings with Industry leaders. The first talks will be with Bethlehem and, Ching said, by the middle of next week he will have if erred with three or four other major produ cers. Ching earlier got John L. Lewis and the coal operators to agree to resume their bargaining talks to day (Wednesday). The service will keep a close watch on the progress of these negotiations. Murray made the victory fore cast in a talk before 15,000 cheer ing strikers at Youngstown, O. It was his first speech on a pep stumping tour of major steel cit ies. On another labor front, CIO leaders saw signs of a move by left wing unions to split away and form a third rival labor camp. The move began to take shape when the farm equipment work ers union's executive board re portedly voted at a secret meet ing in Chicago two weeks ago to merge with the United Electrical Workers. Two New Polio Cases Listed Two new cases of polio were reported at Salem Memorial hos pital Tuesday. They are Barbara Ijlirte, 4, Lyons route 1, and John Crawford 22, of 444 N. 14th st. Neither was considered In critical condition. Five polio patients are now at the hospital, and four of them are in the acute stage, attendants stated. Others are Stuart Clark, SH.of 2615 Hulsey ave .: Nell Beedle. 16, of 1570 Park st; and Dale Esch, 453 Gerth ave. Another polio vic tim, 2-year-old Lynne Blackwell of Brooks! route 1, was dismissed after a 10-day confinement. Donors Exceed City's October Blood Goal The monthly 100-pint goal was exceeded for the first time in eight months Tuesday during a Salem visit of the bloodmobile unit from the Portland regional blood center. A total of 109 pints of blood was donated by the 124 persons who appeared at the mobile unit sponsored by Red Cross. The bloodmobile will be In Woodburn October 27 and will make its next monthly visit to Salem November 8. NAVY CLEARED IN DEATH WASHINGTON, Oct ll-UP-The death plunge of former Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal did not result from any naval negli gence, a navy court of inquiry re port said today. Mayor Elf strom to Quit County Legislative Changes Looming State and city politics was surg ing into over-tht-coffee- conver sation In Salem this week. On tho city side of the ledger. Mayor R. L. Elfstrom, who has served as Salem's chief executive for two terms, confirmed Tues day reports that ho would not be a candidate for re-election. Elfstrom, credited with a ma jor pact in obtaining and solidify ing the city manager form of government for Salem, is known to have been urged to run for a state legislative post; but he said he had reached no decision. Many names have been dis cussed as his possible successor, including Alfred O. ; Loucks, Sid ney L. Stevens, Councilmen Dan iel J. Try and Albert Gille, Mayor Walter Musgravo of West Salem, Dr. E. X. Boring, E. J. Church and State Rep. Douglas Yeater. Conversation on state politic has cantered largely around Mar lon county's legislative delegation Sens. Allan Carson and Frede rick Lamport and Reps. W. W. Chadwick. Frank Doerfler, John Stoolhammor and Tea tor, sul erous to Defense Council Oversight Gives Employes Columbus Holiday PORTLAND. Oct. lMJVCJty employes will get tomorrow off be cause of an oversight by the city council. The council intended to follow the lead of the state and the coun ty In ruling Columbus day no long er a holiday. But not until last week did the council realize it had failed to re peal an ordinance making the day a holiday. By then it was too late to hold a meeting. 1 7 Chest Leaders Set Three-Day All-Out Drive Three days remain for Salem Community Chest's all-out fund campaign, and $48,000 remains to be subscribed to meet the $105,000 goal for minimum requirements of local and state Red Feather ag encies. Chest officials counted another $4,500 toward the goal Tuesday, With note attached, a dollar bill arrived at the office of the Community Chest from one of Salem's old age pensioners. The note stated that If his pension Weald allow him to give more. Al Stewart would help much more, but he never let a worthy cause go without helping "Just a little bit" bringing total collection to $57, 078. Drive Chairman Joseph A. H. Dodd has called on his volunteer solicitation force to wind up the campaign by Friday. , . Best progress was being made by the south women's division, which had 80 per cent of its $2, 530 quota, the automotive division with 71 per cent of its $10,550 quo ta and the governmental division with 66 per cent of tht $9,500 quota. Voter Eligibility Troubles Detroit Merger Election Statesman Newt Service DETROIT, Oct 11 Some per sons were denied admittance to what they thought was a public meeting here Tuesday night re garding the Detroit-Idanha Incor poration election on October IS. : Admission Was by card only, and Constable J. C. Fowler was on hand to see that only those who received cards got in. About 200 attended the meeting, i The situation also is a headache for election board members. ; The proposed new city limits lie within the Breitenbush precinct put do not include all of the pre cinct. And many names on the "poll books do not indicate whether the voter lives inside or outside the area to be incorporated. : Marion County Clerk Harland Judd said Tuesday that the elec tion board at the election would have to decide which voters are eligible. The election will take place at Detroit high school from 8 am. to 8 pjn. publicans. j Senator Carson told The States man Tuesday he did not plan to run again "I like the technical work but I can't afford the lux ury' of 97-day sessions. (There has been considerable street-corner discussion that Carson might run for the state supreme court but the senator said Tuesday he had not decided oh that point). Senator Lamport regarding be ing a candidate for another sen ate term, said he has "not made up my mind on it yet Tho terms of both Marion coun ty senators expire next year. In addition to Mayor Elfstrom, the name of Carl Hogg has come up for frequent mention in regard to the senate posts. Also, two and perhaps three of Marion count's ' four state repre sentatives seamed In the senate running all except Rep. John Steelhammef who - has indicated ho will seek another term in the house where, he has been men Honed considerably for tho speak orshlp. . . " - ' i Representative Chadwick, floor loader la tho. house at tho last I Surprise Note Proposed at j U.N. Session LAKE SUCCESS. Oct. U-tJTn The Soviet Union demanded to night a full count of atomic bombc and other arms in the war chest of the 59 members of the United Nations. . It was the first suets proposal from the Russians , sinco President Truman on Sept 23 said there was evidence of an atomio blast in Russia. ; j Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jakob A. Malik made his brief proposal at the end of a long, quarrelling session of the U.N. security council. ; j The United States did not 'tpeak todajr but Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan bluntly told Malik that he thought, the Russians should make some sort of concessions in view of their minority position on all arms questions voted on ia the U.N. : j Malik often has contended In arms debates that atomic bombs must be counted along wjth all other weapons but today lis the) first time ho has made a formal resolution on that point Earlier he had cast Russia's 39th veto to block approval of a reso lution of the U.N. commission for convention armaments- This re slution laid down a set of prin ciples to limit armaments, j Then the security council ap proved, 9 to 0, a simple jmotion to pass the declaration on! to th U.N. assembly for its information. The Soviet Union and the Soviet Ukraine abstained on that action. Andrei Y. Vishinsky, j Soviet foreign minister, attacked the western powers in another U.N. quarter during the day for supV porting charges of violations of fundamental human rights In Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania; The United States has called f0 the U.N. assembly to send the whole case to the international court of justice for a ruling whether the peace treaty provis ions actually were violated In tho cases of Josef Cardinal Mlndszen ty in Hungary and of protests nta in Bulgaria and Romania.! Woodburn Scliool Enrollment Total Reaches 744 High Statesman News Service WOODBURN -r School enroll ment figures for tho Woodburn consolidated district reached a to tal of 744 here this week; accord ing to Frank P. Doerfler, new pub lic school superintendent The high school enrollment reached 291 while tho grade school totalled 452. The faculty of the schools thla year totals 33 members, according to Doerfler. Thirteen new; teacher are included In the roster, six la the grades and seven In I tne high school. i 4 The enrollment figures are as follows: first grade, 69; second grade, 85; third, 52; fourth, 63: fifth, 59; sixth, 60; seventh, 62, and eighth, 62. In the high school tho freshman class is the largest with 86 members, followed by tht soph omores with 75. Junior; class has 65 and senior class 66. i at Term El session, already has committed himself as a senatorial candi date. 1 1 1 Representative Doerfler said Tuesday he was "very likely'' to run for tho senate "but! I cannot say definitely at this time." r Representative Yeater said ho had made no decision ) but wag "considering" the proposal that he be a senate candidate. ' In addition to Steelhammer, potential candidates fori the houso most widely mentioned include H. R. Jones, republican former rep resentative who lost to Steelham-. mer by ona vote in the! 1948 pri maries; Mrs. Josephine Albert Spaulding, democrat who ran a close fifth in the general election last fall when all four seats went to republicans, and Roy Houck who placed seventh in the 12 man republican primary race last . year. ;( I . Former Rep. Paul Jlendrickj. republican who was sixth In th 1948 primaries (between Jonof and Houck), said Tuesday hi probably would not be a candle date for tho bouse and doubted ho would run for the senate. i