r . i- - Scene Set for Special Votes On Salem The scene was set last night for today's . special election in Salem and vicinity, to decide two . proposals to enlarge this city. Quiet characterized the pre election period in Salem, but a lively campaign was in progress "in a proposed annexation area of some 400 acres southeast of present( city borders. Residents and property owners in the southeast area 'circulated letters to the some 340 registered ' voters of the area; one group ' favoring the annexation and another opposing it In addition, the opposition bad a sound truck 'in the area making announce .jnents Thursday evening. To complete this suggested an- ChestWorfcers Overtime Funds collected by Salem Community Chest workers stood at $61470 Thursday night on the eve of a scheduled victory banquet. And from chest headquarters came word that Workers! will put in overtime sessions in an attempt to reach their $105,000 goal. Encouraged by "over the top" reports from West SaJem and the South women's division, Chairman Joseph A. II. Dodd hoped to reach Dtp SfflJOIB FOOD EGOS The senate ' comnuttee that heard the .testimony, relating to Senator Hickenlooper's charges of gross inefficiency against Chair man Lilienthal.of the atomic en ergy commission has made a re port exonerating the latter. While the Iowa senator protests that the committee has hot acted: on the report as prepared by its staff, there is no doubt as to its atti tude. Hickenlooper couldn't sub stantiate his charges. ; , Unfortunately." the' commission cannot make a full report to the )ublic on what It I has accomp ished. It is still bound by the rule of silence for security rea sons. From what has been divulg ed, it seems that a. great deal has been accomplished, primarily with respect to improvement and pro duction of atomic" boiftbsV' When the commission took, over from army engineers' the! "Man hattan Project,'' W found the Plu tonium works at Hanford pretty well broken down. They had been pushed to produce materials for the Nagasaki bomb and the works were in bad shape. The AEC has rebuilt the plant there and Is producing a superior bomb, as the latest tests showed; and has a stockpile of bombs, number not revealed. Since news ibroke of Russia's cracking the atom it is reported that effort will be made to speed up our own production. . The world, however, is greatly Interested in the possibilities of adapting, atomic fission to power generation for "peaceful purposes. The commission has so far done little on this problem. Recently, however, it announced its inten tion to erect reactors at Arco, Idaho, north of (Pocatello, for ex perimenting in power production One reactor will test materials and methods; another is designed for, a navy power plant (Continued on editorial page 4) Freight Rate Reduction to es nxxmir.n rw it -a, a Spokesman for railroads serving the Pacific northwest announced today the roads have approved freight rate reductions sought by apple growers in that area. Recommendations made by exe cutives of the transcontinental railroads would cut rates 15 to 25 i cents a hundred pounds on apples .shipped from the Pacific north 3 west to points east of Chicago. t elude the major railroads serving a urn uvmuuuuciiwi turn 111 the Pacific northwest. They are asking the eastern railroads to Join them in making the rata cuts. Animal Crackers : Br WAKREN GOODRICH ' "Left get oofs here 4 feci postthtlf AiktdF Apply to Appl Area A HI- nexation, a i majority favorable vote is necessary in both the city and the special area in volved. . j !jj Also on the ballot will be the proposed merger of West Salem with the city of Salem. Only a majority of the Salem voters who cast ballots today is re quired to make the merge ef fective, as the West! Salem elec torate already has approved it. City Recorder Alfred Mundt predicted a light vote in the city, noting that Special Selections and annexations traditionally draw few voters to the polls. "But I wouldn't be surprised if 80 per cent or more of the registered voters vote in the southeast area," he said. 1 1 . the $80,000 mark in lime for this noon i no-host banquet. It will be at the Marion hotel for all leaders and workers.; . . v ,v The chest will bav to renew its plea for funds and Call again on people who havent been reached by volunteer jworkerfc said - Dodd. He urged such persons .to make pledges now, either by phone, mail, to neighborhood workers or to the midnight radio show The West Salem report showed $2,632.50 collected . and workers still busy. Rex Gibson! and Junior Eckley are leaders,. The south; sec tion of the women's group, under Mrs. RobertvWilson, Jr reported $2,536 in with a promise of more to come. . ;!i Latest totals reported by other divisions were: Automotive and transportation, $7,533.50; contrac tors and builders $3,920.60; educa tional, $1,275.33: general gifts 85.- 542.75; governmental, $7,518.78; in dustrial, $7,976.87; mercantile, $10, 234.75; professional. $6,054.00; ru ruaL $345.00; utility, $1,043.20; women's divisions north, $1,045.10: central, $3,690.32. m Community chest funds help sud- port the YMCA, YWCA, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts, Girl Scout. Sal vation Army the Legal Aid Clinic and Catholic Charities. Modi to Form New cli nment PARIS, Friday. Oct. 14-UP)-The national assembly early today ap proved socialist Jules Moch as the next premier of France by the narrow margin of two votes. An official announcement said 311 votes were cast in Moch's fa vor and 223 against.: He needed a bare minimum of 310 votes. The announcement of the tally came after almost three hours of turmoil occasioned by the protest of an absentee vote. Moch's mar gin was the lowest vote of approv al given oy me assemDiy to an in coming premier iriy post-war France. t ' !li Moch, 56, now Is free to form a new government to: succeed the cabinet of Henri Queuille. - Que- uille, leader: of the radical social ist (moderate) party, resigned as premier October s after a split de veloped in this government over how to solve France's mounting wage-price crisis. IB Bank in Mill City To Move into New Building Nc&aeek l) Statesman Nwt Servte MILL CITY. Oct ! 13 The Mill City State bank will move into its new building neat week, marking another major business develop ment in this rapidly : growing city. The new f building is of stucco and frame construction and will also house Baker's Jewelry store and the Mill City Furniture store. It is located on highway 222 in the center of the business district : Shirley's Beauty shop will move into the old bank building and Hendrickson's Variety store will locate in thf Dawes building, which housed the furniture store. elan Sessions bov&r ShitleyiTeiple-Jolin Agar Marriage To End on Hollywood Divorce Shoals HOLLYWOOD, QeL 13-jF)-Shirley Temple's rnarriage to handsome John Agar ended on the Hollywood shoahi today. The little Miss Marker of yesteryear filed suit for divorce; "For two and a half years we have been; trying to make this marriage work." 21-year-old Shir ley, onetime child idol of movie goers, told: reporters. "We have both tried hard, we really did. But it just didn't work.;,' We reached a 'decision last night John is no longer living in our home." vi - 1 j Even blase filmland inured td such things was surprised at the split-up. Only a year ago, Shirley bad said: "We haife never ex-t changed a single harsh word, two nnexations "-4 The recorder's office at city hall t was besieged with callers Thursday inquiring where to vote.. Mundt stressed that, for this election Salem voters will vote at only one place in each ward plus a special polling place in the Kingwood area of Salem across the river (but not including the city of West Sa lem) at; 1094 Kingwood dr. Salem polling places are at Grant school, Washington school, city ball, state heating plant, Mayflower hall, Salem high school and Leslie Junior high school, j , , In the. southeast annexation area, the polling place will be a garage at the Walling residence, 2830 S. 12th st. i Aulee Puts Stop To Talk of Early General Election LONDON. Oct 13 Prime Minister Attlee put a stop today to Britain's big political j guessing game by announcing there will be no general election in 1949. The announcement came as a neatly timed wet blanket smack in the middle of the three-day annual rally of the conservative party, the major opposition to Att lee's labor government ! Winston Churchill and other conservative leaders had called for an early vote as a test of the gov ernment's economic policies. Att lee gave the nation his decision in a formal statement after' the first meeting of his full cabinet since the government slashed the value of the pound. Brothers Slain, Rancher Held In Coast Feud TOLEDO, Oct. 13 (Special) An old, family dispute over a boundary line was under investi gation Thursday after two bro thers were slain on a wooded trail in the Nashville area 40 miles northeast of here. The bodies of Melvin Longyear, 25, and Charles Longyear; 22, were found by a sheriffs posse after a rancher told Sheriff Tim Whelp where to find them. Norman Homer Edwards, 50, drove to the sheriffs office last night about dinner time to report the incident The Associated Press quoted him as saying: i "Get the coroner and an am bulance and go up the Siletz river and get the Longyear boys. I hurt them about noon. You'll find them if you go up the trail on brush creek. It was either them or me." Edwards was Jailed,! but no charge was filed against him. The sheriff said he was considering a possibility which he did! not ex plain that Edwards might not have fired the fatal shots. He said Melvin was shot bet ween, the eyes and Charles in the back of the head. The sheriff said the Edwards and Longyear families had been dis puting for years over a j boundary line, but the matter never appear ed to be of feud proportions. State police were assisting with the in vestigation. Timber Cutting Bids Rejected DETROIT, Oct 13 (Special) AU bids for clearing timber for power distribution lines from the Detroit dam site to Detroit were rejected today by the Benton-Lincoln co-op on grounds they were too high. Bidding on the 30 -foot wide strip approximately seven miles long were Cascade Electrical Con tractors, Inc., Corvallis, $31,395; Thompson, Henrickson Logging company, Detroit $46,800, and Baker Seabold and Seabold, Hills bo ro, $72,000. New bids will be called for with in two weeks, the co-op announced. STEEL TALKS PROCEED NEW YORK. Oct 13-Hyp-Fed- eral mediators reported tonight they found "basis for further dis cussion" in exploratory talks with the Bethlehem Steel Co. on efforts v teiuc u i-uaj tunc, careers in one family works out ' wonderfully for us." - The divorce suit followed a fam iliar Hollywood pattern, charg ing "extreme cruelty and grevious mental suffering.' Attorney George Stahlman, who filed 4 it, said there is no community prop erty. Apparently Shirley, who re putedly made a million before she was in her teens, and Agar had kept their finances separate. She asks custody of their only child, and return of her maiden name. j f Agar, 28, declared: ? I have nothing to say other than that I hope the thing can be handled in a dignified manner.; I haven't thought it out dearly as yet but I do not think I will contest $3th TEAB jnl elpless p .- . : $my PeDoEbeiraes FaSe off 3. 3, Federal Jury Resumes ! Talks This Morning ; NEW YORK, Oct.. 13 -WV A federal jury was sent to bed at 10:21 pjn. EST tonieht leavingi the late or the nation s 11 top communists still in doubt after about five hours of. deliberation?. ; The jury was directed to re sume its secret debate at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. j The jury got the historic case at 3:53 p.m. this afternoon. , They argued it in private until 5:40 pm. when they went to din ner. Then they resumed delibe rations at 7 o.m. and continued to the overnight adjournment. : In all, they were closeted for five hours and 8 minutes with out reaching a decision. As the hours rolled by, eight Of the 11 defendants idled in the first floor courtroom or In the", corridor outside. Three still are behind bars during off-court hours for contempt of court. Before the jury went to the Hotel Knickerbocker at 120 West 45th street for the night, it had twice sent out for : evidence used in the nine-months trial heavy books on communist tactics and logic. ; Their second request for the book "Problems on Leninism" led to a 58-minute discussion by . at torneys in the judge's chambers. However, the judge eventually decided to let the jury have the book. Federal Judge Harold R. Me dina gravely handed the case to the eight women and four men jurors after instructing them that neither the communist party nor its textbooks were on trial "Do not be led astray by talk about thought control or putting books on trial," he warned, "No such issues are before you "here. "And, you are not to pass on the merits of communism, -capitalism or any other isms." The 11 defendants, the elite of the communist party on this side of the Atlantic, are charged with conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U. S. govern ment Conviction carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for each man. How ever, a guilty verdict almost cer tainly will be appealed. Suspension of 19 Higli School Boys in Effect Nineteen Salem high school boys were suspended for the remainder of this school year Thursday when Principal E. A. Carleton passed on to them an order of the Salem school district board of directors. The boys were suspended after the school board decided Wednes day they were members of a secret organization of the type banned by state law. School officials identi fied them with an "American Boys club" or "ABC" group. Carleton told all 19 boys, most of them seniors, they might com plete the week of school if they wished; meanwhile, they were to turn in their locker keys and other school property. Attorney Lawrence Osterman and Reginald S. Williams have been retained by parents and re latives of 18 of the 19 students to contest the school board action. NEW HARRISBURG MAYOR HARRISBURG, Oct 13-(yP- This town had a new mayor today. He is Clay Stone, who succeeds F. S. McEldowney. The latter re- signed to. accept a post with the son conservauon i service. Shirley's divorce suit" , Although Shirley's voice sound ed calm and matter-of-fact when this reporter talked to her, she later a friend reported was put to bed by her doctor "with a bad - case of nerves." Hollywood has buzzed with rumors for several weeks that trouble was brewing. But ' they kept up appearances to the end In public their marriage seemed the storybook affair it started out to be. The wartime romance between America's sweetheart and the tall, good looking air force 'ser geant put her back in the spot light she had vacated when awk ward adolescence hobbled her screen career. 2 Sacfiotaat 28 Tag Th siini tomi Avjailts Am val If Ked Mm ; Talbot Hop Yard Fire Kills Girl, 3 JEFFERSON Linda Lenora Spence, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Spenee burned td eeath Thurs day when fire swept threugh a. row of eight cabins at the William Krebs Hop farm, .three miles north west ef Talbot Sam Taylor, a workman at the farm who attempted to rescue the girl. Is showing in specting the ruins ef the cabins Detroit-ldanha Sector Rejects Merger Plan Statesman Newt Servt.eo DETROIT. Oct 13 (Special) Voters in a special election today voted 206 to 99 against the proposed merger of Detroit and Idanha. The 2 to 1 defeat of the proposal came after a heated campaign over the consolidation move. Because it has not been decided whether $138,850 in Construction Permits Issued Permits for $138,850 In con struction were issued in Salem Thursday. The city engineer's records showed an $80,000 build ing in the Capitol Shopping center topped a list that included two new duplexes and two, new houses. The building at 410 N. Capitol street will house ah Owl drug store. It will be two stories; Pa cific Mutual Life Insurance Co. is the owner. Two new duplexes in Mapleton addition are planned by Bresto, Inc.. Salem builders, who obtained permits to erect5 them at 2680 and 2685 Broadway st. Cost was listed at $13,400 each. New dwelling permits went to D. N. Sermon, for a $19,800 house at 1018 LeFor dr.; and Herman Boese, for a $9,500 structure at 890 Glen Creek dr. Jess S. Juarez Obtained permission for $2,500 alt erations on a house at 450 E. Lin coln st Collejrian Wins 'All-American' Another in a long series of "All- American" ratings by the Asso ciated Collegiate Press was added to the Willamette university Col it TV.nr day. The campus newspaper is is iwT 'T' " " " . V. sued weekly by the student body. Eric Bergman of Salem was edi tor for the semester judged, that of last spring. The judges paid spe cial compliment to the cartoons of Ed Fitzsimons of Salem. The Collegian began rating as Ail-American early in the 1940s and has varied from it only to re ceive the higher Pacemaker rank ing. This year it was judged with colleges of from 1,000 to 2,499 stu dents. Ceiling Falls on Church Choir YORK, Neb., Oct 13-6?V While choir members rehear d the an them, "Lord Have ITercy," the furnace blew up and the choir loft ceiling fell down. It happen ed at the Evangelical United Brethren church here last night Fire i Chief John Deprez said the explosion occurred when the janitor, A. R. Caldwell. 74, at tempted to re-light the pilot light on a sax furnace. Caldwell suffered burns on the chin and arm but choir members escaped injury. Damage to : the furnace and church was estimated at 13,000. i ! Oregon Stat man, Salem, Oregon, Friday. October 14. 1949 ; : 4t . j ,S.a a short time alter the fire. (Statesman photo.) a small Detroit area was included in the territory involved, the re sults will not be official until con firmed by county election officials. Proponents of the merger con tended the merger would lead to improved street and water facili ties. Opponents said the Santiam canyon cities, six miles apart, were too far separated to make the mer ger practical. Detroit proper will be under water when the Detroit dam basin is filled in late 1952. DP 'Filibuster' Halts Plan for Adjournment WASHINGTON, Oct. 13-fP- Democratic leader Lucas tonight. abandoned hope of congress ad Jquming by Saturday. He said a senate "filibuster" against legis lation to liberalize the displaced persons law was responsible. The Illinois lawmaker said Sen ator Cain (R-Wash.) had made it clear that he and other opponents of the measure intend to talk at length gainst it. "It's a filibuster, of course," Lucas said. He talked to newsmen when Cain was more than four hours along in a speech against the bill. Congressional leaders had been shooting at adjournment by Satur day evening. On the other side of the capitol. Democratic Leader McCormack told the house the outlook now is for congress to adjourn Wed nesday or Thursday. The DP bill, already passed by the house, was pried out of the I juuiciarj cunuimice jeswiudjr uj 7 to 3 vote despite the opposition of McCarran. It was sent to the floor without recommendation. It increases from 205,000 DP's who may come here in two years to 339,000 in three years. Truman Asserts ILS. Defenses Adequate, as Navy Issue Rages By John B. Owen j WASHINGTON, Oct 13-UP)- President Truman today described the nation's i defense as adequate, although the navy's No. 1 officer complained ; that naval aviation and the marine corps are in danger of being scrapped. i Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, chief of naval operations, made the com plaint before the house armed services committee, investigating a bitter row in the high command over grand strategy. Denfeld said that under the unified defense setup, the army and air force can actually control the navy, and often do. He said also that the air force has argued for complete elimination of the carrier task force, the "most pow erful instrument of modern war fare." Tht army, h said, has urged - Top oomioiniiioiniosft ! Burns 8 Cabins -1 fill; Daughter of Farm Worker Dies in Fire atatesmaa Kewi Serrlf JEFFERSON, Oct 13 (Spec ial) The 4-year-old daughter of a transient farm worker was burned to death today In a fire that destroyed aeight cabins at the Williams Krebs hop farm three miles northwest of Talbot. The victfm was Linda Lenora Spence, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Spence, who had been working n the farm about three months. The blaze broke out in the Spence cabin about 10 a.m. while the parents were in the ranch laundry a block- away. Three other small children playing in the cabin with Linda escaped un hurt. Jefferson . firemen found the girl's body beside a bed in the cabin ruins The father told fire men he built a fire in the cabin at 4 a.m. but had put it out be fore leaving for the laundry short ly before 10 a.m. The blaze spread rapidly, level ing seven adjacents unoccupied cabins before firemen could reach the scene. The family was preparing to leave for California when the tragedy occurred. The young vic tim was born in Albany, but the family has been living in Cali fornia recently. 0 Surviving besides the parents are two brothers, Denny Edward and Junior two sisters, Ronda Marie and Sandra Kay, and her grSndmother, Mrs. A. E. Wine in Oklahoma. The Howell-Edwards Funeral home in Salem is in charge of funeral arrangements. GRIPPE GRIPS VISHINSKY LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 13 -JP)-Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky was reported today to be ill with grippe. He has been in bad health since he came here last month for the fourth United Na tions assembly. its '"serious reduction." Right after the chief of naval operations had smashed at hand ling of the unification law and the navy's treatment in the penta gon's top levels, reporters heard from President Truman that he sees no reason to change funda mentals of defense policy. : : j Mr. Truman declined comment on testimony of Denfeld or other admirals . who have rapped air air force emphasis on the B-36 for atom bombing while they contend ed naval aviation is being neglect ed. He said the defense policy is adequate. i It is fixed, he said, by the Pres ident as commander in chief after consultation with the defense sec retaries and the chiefs of staff and is based on the advice of the chiefs of staff. I No, 201 I ! Quit Gty; Red Take Airport HONG KONG. Friday. Oct 14 1 - (AF) -Chinese command! troops have seised 1 Cantos'! civilian airprt aevea t ui) northeast ef the city, telephoned j reports from there said today: Eight. Chinese Air Lines plane were said to have been caught on the field, which ts "Whtte Cleod" airport j j Chinese press dispatches from ; Canton said the city was achef - ; sled to be turned ever to the j communists this afternoon. CANTON, Friday, Oct 14-. Intermittent gunfire today fangi through the center of Canton, which, has been abandoned by! its garrison. -j 1 Up until 7:15 a.m. Canton timsk however, it was established thai the communists had not entered this big south China city, i . I Resistance in the north has colt lapsed. The tense population ex pects red regulars to enter som4 time during the day. 1 ' There was little looting.; Policy were on the job. Markets whicll hurriedly closed last night reopen ed this morning. A few national ist soldiers were seen on Wai Of, the main street J Left on Highway The main body of nationalist went west on the highway. ! (Estimated to total about 80,000 men, they may be aiming at linkup with the 200,000-man fore of nationalist Gen. Pai Chung-Hsi Pal, who earlier in the week pull ed southwest from the front north of Canton, has his headquarters at Kweilin, 250 Grilles northwest of Canton. The swift communist advance might -prevent i such a junction and hem the .garrison against the seacoast in southwest Kwangtung province, i , ! I Most Residents Indoors .1 I Most of Canton's million resi dents stayed indoors; Families had organized all-night ! watches to guard against looting. HONG KONG, Oct. 13 -(V Abandonment of Canton has smashed a fatal hole in the nation alist air and sea blockade of com munist China. j j Only a few disorganized gov ernment units stand between red) China and British Hong Kong. Trade can soon start flowing from Hong Kong up the 85-mile stretctl of the Canton-Kowloon highway. This should make the blockade 0$ Shanghai and other red ports lit tie more than an annoyance, j Nursery Gets License Again PORTLAND, 'Oct. 13--SheW wood Gardens, which yesterday1 was ordered - to stop operating without a nursery license, got It license today. j j The state department of fegrif culture granted the license afteg an investigation. It was only ; yea terday that the firm was told nof to operate until the license actioQ was taken. Sherwood Gardens! bought equipment from the i defunct Sherwood Bulb Gardens, whictt took bankruptcy after losing its) nursery license. 14 Degrees I In Bend Area By The Associated Pre I Another cold day was forecast for the Pacific northwest today, after the mercury dropped beloW freezing in many areas. ! Oregon's coldest towns yesterday were Bend and Prineville, with 14) degrees. Potato diggers held off work . until the sun warmed th ground, to prevent the APtatoe from freezing. i f i Madras recorded 18 degrees ye terday. Baker had 18, Redmond, 19. La Grands 22, Lakeview 27. Med ford 31, Eugene 33, The Dalles 34L Salem 33, Roseburg 31, Portlan4 38. ' i I - Max. . M .a . 78 Salem - Portland , Saa rrmncisco Chicago . n i u jo . 70 j w Ji New York wmamctt river S of a foot; FORECAST (from UA wMthcr bo low clouds bfttng by nooaj rlr th ll.kr stlM fill, k . -4 arteroeoa wlta gradual taereaaiAg ni cIoudUteM tonight. Hign tooay near low -tonight near 3. Weather wtU favorable for most farm activities day. i 2 SALEM TECr-TTATIO!f This Year 2.72 lW Vear 4.M i K-nal MS . PRICE 5c Nationalists aa I 4 i JM '17.