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-,.(,!. , ft"-' Si (PWlll mm si ifi fll Ord er P ears on's ' .' ... , ....... - ;.. Printing Bill Paid Treasurer May Be Charged Personally ' - Thera were indications here Thursday that State Treasurer Wal ter J. Pearson may have to pungle up $180.80 of his personal funds to cover the coat of printing 10,000 copies of a statement called The Finances of the State of Oregon featuring a photograph of a state check for $1,994,920 .signed by him. . j I The order was placed by Pearson with the state printer. UCDCDQH In days before World War I in ternational competition was in navies The ambition of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II to de velop a powerful navy led to the entente cordiale - between Great Britain and France. France suf fering from, the' blow at Sedan in 1871, feared the German army. Britain dependent on its overseas empire and trade, brooked on rival on the high seas. ' The competition is no longer in navies but In air power and in atomic weapons. The race is on between Russia and the United States for air forces the house has won out over the senate' in holding for a 58-group air force instead of a 48. And Tuesday Sen ator MacMahon of the joint com mittee on atomic energy divulged that the US. Is accelerating its production of atomic weapons. spending $300,000,000 on the job. This is the sequel to news that Russia had learned the trick of controlling atomic fission. So they re off, the USA and the USSR. The race is on more planes, more atom bombs, and still more planes and still more atom bombs. How will we ever know when we have enough? In the easy-go ing days before the first world , war it was easy to know how big a navy France or Germany or the USA had. Countries published the figures as to ntmiber of ships and their tonnage. But in the present veil of secrecy one doesn't know how many atom bombs we have or how many- Russia may have. The only- way we will know is when the bombs start falling God spare the day Thus far have we come in this civilized age. .-.V --War is iMk&&!fr; Same In which the stakes tt. higher and higher. At the "last players stake their whole pile. That is what a modern war would mean with both sides possessing atomic wea pons and the means of delivering them. The danger of war arises not only from possibility of aggression (Continued on editorial page 4) 'Hot' Pineapple Loaded, to Test Picket Lines THE DALLES, Ore, Oct. 20-(P) -A box car was loaded with 49 tons of Hawaiian pineapple today, and awaited the test of whether it could be moved past a CIO long shoremen's picket line. No attempt to ship the car was made today. Railroad officials said the necessary shipping documents bad not yet been drawn up. It was a key piece in renewed filans to unload a 2700-ton barge oad of canned pineapple tidbits. Yesterday Isleways, Ltd., pine apple owner, said it would move out 60 tons by rail. Those 60 tons had been unloaded before the Sep tember 28 riot which halted un loading. While a rail car was being load ed, a truck moved, into the termin al, took 11 tons and headed last Bight for a San Jose, Calif., can nery. There were no pickets. ' Today the pickets were on hand: two at the terminal entrance, two at the spur track and two more off duty. W. E. Mackey, union secre tary, said at Portland that only a token picket force would be used. He. said he was confident rail crews would refuse to cross the picket line. Last month when longshoremen set up a line across the spur track, train crews refused to cross it. Isleways, however, was gam bling on the rail car moving and ordered three more. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "fll . i hto vinttr comesf Copies of the statement were distributed from the democratic party booth; at the recent state fair and have been widely circu lated throughout Oregon. A sup ply of the j statements also was placed with the statehouse guide. Governor I Douglas McKay said he had refused :- to approve j the claim lop the reason he did j not consider it a "legitimate expense of the state." Assistant Secretary of State William Healy. in j the absence of Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry.f said he didn't think Newbry would aporove the' claim when he returns here early next week. Healy said the statement had all the appearance of a cam paign document. The document was defended by Pearson who said it was informa tive and gave the Deople ofj the state a better understanding of the state government. , Reo aires Two Votes j The state printing board is com posed of the governor, secretary of state and state treasurer and it reauires the votes of two board members to approve a printing bill. Pearson is the only demo cratic member of the boards i The statement also contains this information: "The above check was signed for you by your state treasurer as one of the many huge financial transactions annually involving approxi mately $300,000,000 of state funds and securities, j " , "Your state treasurer Is i your I representative in disbursing all j funds authorized by law, tiesif i nating state depositories for safe keeping of : state funds, collecting interest earned by the state.! com piling statistics of indebtedness of the state and its subdivisions, en forcing the inheritance and gift tax laws and collecting the taxes due therefrom. Added Information "Your state treasurer also rep resents you as a member of the state board of control, the state bond commission, state reclama tion board, state banking board. state printing board and other ; boards and commissions. "Realizing that the business nf ! the state of Oregon is your busi-j ness, your state treasurer wel comes your inquiries and sugges tions, and extends to you an invi tation to visit him whenever pos sible, i "Compliments of r Walter J Pearson, state treasurer. J f ropriation Made for Child Guidance Clinic Resumption of a child guidance clinic for Marion county is a step nearer reality. The executive committee of the county health department has been notified that a $1,200 appropriation for this activity is ready for ap proval by the state board Of health. Dr. Willard J. Stone; county health officer, has announced that Dr. Horace Miller of Salem will operate the clinic for a half-day each week. The clinic Is expected to begin early in November, f A conference of state and coun ty health and school officials is set Monday to work out details of the service which, Dr. Stone said, will be designed particularly for preventive measures. Some gifts have been received for civic groups to aid the clinic and are to be used for special needs. The clinic was operated during the last school year by psychiai trists from the University of Ore gon medical school. A local psy chologist assisted between their visits three times each year. App County Tqx Statements Headed Your Way 'if M) " if V ' v - . . - I 1 wii- lRCp ... T -1 s , y - h : - I I v:s ' i ' I? - . - Ifsriea eonnty property ewners will be receiving their tax statements beginning this week end. Aheve. 41,v0t statements are loaded late a mall track Thursday morning by Sheriff Denver Ynar, Je.fi. Mailsnaa X. S. McKee. 431 McClay rdL, center, and Harold Demegala, chief deoaty tax eeUeeter. right Donegal sUted that there are still 4 J0 herd tnspecUea sUtements yet U be aceceaaed waiting for Iniormsuon from raaags disease aa4 TB reaeru by inspectors. Mtfh TEAR Ex-Pottcemnam -I : Recently iJFired Ilarley Cordray, pictured in the police uniform he wore until his recent dismissal from the city police force. Is under arrest on a charre of promoting a lottery in Salem. j Final Charges Hurled; Recall Election Today PORTLAND, Oct. 20 -fP)- The voters will decide tomorrow whether to recall Marion L. (Mike) Elliott, the ! 28-year-old sheriff who has become center of the- hottest political ( controversy here in recent years. - Elections Registrar James - W. Gleason predicted that nearly half the registered voters; in Multno- man county would go to the polls an unusually heavy vote for a special election. j Both the sheriff, a registered democrat, and his opponents took to the air tonight tp issue zero hour appeals to the voting pub lic. Should he be recalled anoth er democrat would be appointed to replace him. Two last-minute charges fur ther enlivened the affair. Thom as L. Gatch, retired naval vice admiral and chairman of the re call committee, asserted Elliott supporters had violated the state corrupt practices acU He said they had distributed unsigned post cards through the mail. The law requires election material to be signed. Two newspaper circulation em ployes of the Oregonian also charged that two deputy sheriffs in plain clothes attempted to co erce Oregonian carries into dis stributing papers defending El liott. The newspaper employes said they attempted to intercede, but that the deputies threatened ar rest, put the two in a county car and started for town. The news paper employes said the deputies apparently changed their minds after a few blocks and ordered them out of the car. A few car rier boys later reported they had distributed papers on demand of the deputies. POSTMASTER NOMINATED WASHINGTON, Oct 20-(iP)-President Truman has sent to the senate these postmaster nomina tions for Oregon! Ernest M. Charf dler, Siletz, Ore., in place of S. E. Kuehn, retired. I - - -mo-Mr r - - fi, .23 PAGES Ex-Gon Aide Also Arrested Pair Help ftun y Store-Guarding Serv ice in Salem Harley Cordray, a Salem police man fired from the force earlier this month, was arrested Thurs day on slot machine charges. In a separate arrest after Cord ray was taken into custody, the ex-policeman's business associate Clifford M. Everson, 1823 N. 24th st, was charged with illegal pos session of firearms in connection with his work for the Salem Mer chant patrol which Cordray organ ized two years ago. Cordray, 39, was arrested after a secret indictment by the Marion county grand jury charging him with promoting a lottery. Fired from Force Prosecutors said they would seek to link him with a slot ma chine seized at a Salem used car lot October 6, the day Cordray was dismissed from the police force for violation of the civil service code. Marion County Sheriff Denver Young and city police officers said their investigation showed both Cordray and Everson are ex-convicts. City police allege that Everson served four months at Oregon state penitentiary for forgery. The Ore gon code prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony from owning or having control of a firearm capable of being con cealed on his person. Record Brought to Light Cordray's arrest brought his criminal record to light, also. He was committed to an Illinois state prison in 1934, twice paroled and twice returned for violations, and released in 1943 when his term expired, stated Police Chief Clyde A. Warren. " Warren said discovery of Cord ray's record was a factor in ' his dismissal from the force. Investigation of the case will continue, according to Warren and District Attorney E. L. Stadter. (Additional details on page 2.) Car Careens Into Children After Wreck Three youngsters were struck down when a car skidded into them following a collision at How ard and Capitol streets Thursday afternoon. Lois Gundersen, 12, of 190 S. 13st st., was taken to Salem Memo rial hospital with head and body cuts. Her condition was reported fairly good early today. Bruised but not hospitalized, in the accident were Wallace Dean Roth, 12, of 480 S. 18th St., and Richard Thurmon, 15, of 525 S. 19th st. Drivers of the cars involved were Roy Bloom, 4560 Liberty rd., a 16-year-old Salem high school student, and Harriet C. Ness, 1820 Cottage st. The cars collided at the intersection and the impact swung the rear part of Bloom's machine against the curb where the youths were standing, police reported. (Statesman photo.) The Oregon Statesman. Salem. Arrested MM o Mayer to Head New French Government By Harvey Hudson PARIS. Oct. 20-;P-Rene May er, a moderate political leader with a background of business ex perience, was confirmed tonight as the new premier of France. The national assembly gave Mayer, a member of the radical socialist party, 341 votes. This was 31 more than he needed to get the nod from the assembly for the complex job of trying to solve France's pressing wage-price pro blems. There were 183 votes cast against him. In 1932 Mayer was a vice presi dent of a French railway company. When the French railroads were nationalized he became a member of the directing committee. Mayer, 54, will now proceed to form a cabinet to succeed that of Henri Queuille, which resigned October 6 unable to resolve domes tic Wage and price issues. Rains Needed To Postpone Power Crisis T A COM A, Oct. 20-CP)-The northwest utilities conference com mittee tonight seconded Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville power ad ministrator, in a prediction that this region is heading into a cri tical power shortage. The committee met here today and came up with a report that good rains are needed in the up per Columbia river watershed dur ing the next few weeks to avert a! regional crisis. ' "The power situation In the re gion today is in a delicate bal ance," the 'committee report said. "Lack of rain may demand sharp curtailment in the use of elec tricity around the clock." Even under the most favorable conditions, the group warned, "it is emphasized that the power sup ply will.be tight. If there should be normal rainfall in the upper Columbia area before freezing weather sets in, utility system op erators hope to be able to squeak through the heavy winter load sea son without serious curtailment of power use." The ,; report largely duplicated similar sentiments expressed in written remarks of Dr. Raver which were read to the committee earlier today. 'Vision' FiUs German Town THURN,.Germany, Oct 20 -W)-Police said today a motorcyclist was killed and 40 persons were injured among throngs crowding into this village to see a report ed vision of the Virgin Mary. Seven little German girls who say they have seen the vision nightly since October 9 were join ed today by an adult who said the Virgin Mary had appeared to her also. - . Police estimated the crowds flocking to this village have num bered 35,000 to 40,000 daily since the vision was first reported. Thurn, 20 miles north of Nuern berg, had a normal population of 618. Mercury Ties Record Low Another generally fair day with the temperature barely touching the freezing mark tonight is the weather forecast for Salem today. The temperature had dropped only to 35 early this morning af ter a chilly 28 early Thursday tied the all time low temperature for October here. At Eugene the mercury fell to 24 degrees, lowest October mark in, history there. Klamath Falls reported 18 degrees, a new season low. 1 Bend was the coldest Ore gon town with 12 degrees. Si WHISKY UP IN FLAMES NICHOLASVILLE, Ky Oct 20 -AVTire swept a large distillery warehouse at nearby Camp Nelson tonight, destroying 18,000 barrels (about 800,000 gallons) of Bourbon whisky and causing damage esti mated by a company official at IIOOJDQO. Oregon. Friday. October 21. 1949 on DoDSttaDDs Yugoslavia dqd over IKteMedl Soviet Vishinsky, Austin Vote at U.N. t ' "" ? 14, Sl- NEW YORK, Oct 20 Russia's his ballot in today 1 voting at United Nations General Assembly for seats on the Security Council. Following him, ballot in hand, is Warren Austin, U.S. delegate. Despite last minute protest of Vishinsky, Yugoslavia won Security Council seat over Soviet-sponsored Czechoslovakia. Vote was 39 ta 19. AP Wirepboto to the Statesman.) Truman Asks Tax Hike; Budget Cut WASHINGTON, Oct. happy about deficit spending, made it plain today he will ask con gress for higher taxes next year. He told his weekly news conference that he will recommend ways to orevent the government operating in the red, and if there is any other way to do it than by increasing taxes he would like to know it. ReDublicans and some demo- crats immediately responded with a call for a reduction in expendi tures rather than a tax raise. Questioned about the prospec tive $5,000,000,000 deficit for the year ending next June 30, the pre sident said it was not his fault. He added that the republican 80th congress passed a rich man s tax cut bill and there are what ne called fixed charges of $35,000, 000,000 in the budget which must be met. He said he will recommend to the January session of congress means of meeting the government's money needs and it may mean a revision of taxes. A reporter then put this ques tion: "Your remedy may, if your study shows it, call for an increase in taxes? The president replied, with per mission to quote: "Certainly, we've got to find money to run the government and that's all there is to it." Fortunes Fly With Gypsy ROSEBURG, Oct 20 -(vFV- A gypsy woman was being hunted by state police today along with the $6,000 which three people said they left with her, The three complainants told po lice they gave the woman money to tell their fortunes. Upon being told she could produce a better fortune if she kept the money over night they left it with her. The next morning, they said, she was gone. State Police Sgt. Lyle H. Narrell said the gypsy was known as Mary Williams, and was accompanied by a man and four children. Ike Tells Military Chiefs 'Make Unification Work' WASHINGTON, Oct 20 -VPh General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower told the nation's quar reling military i chiefs today that a unified America "can lick the world" and he counselled them to stop "name calling.' , : 1 Setbacks must be expected In unification as in war, Eisenhower said, but he declared with great earnestness: -I Just, believe that from this moment on we can make unifica tion work." Top nary, admirals hare accused the army and air force of "ganging PRICE 5c Andrei Y. Yishinsky (center) easts Pleas Heard Lottery harge or 20-(iT)-President Truman, saying he is un Rosebraushs Hurt as Car Skids Off Road Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Rosebraugh, former Salem city councilman and his wife, were injured Thursday night when their car skidded off the Wallace road about five miles west of Salem and crashed into a telephone pole. Mrs. Rosebraugh, 76, of 490 E. Miller st., suffered two fractured ankles and was taken by Eddie's ambulance to Salem Memorial hospital. She entered surgery im mediately but her condition was regarded as "good" late Thurs day night. Rosebraugh, 75, a member of the city planning and zoning com mission, incurred facial cuts but was not hospitalized. The accident occurred about 6 p.m. at a dip in the highway bo tween Salem and Dayton. Rose braugh said he was driving east toward Salem when he was sud denly blinded by headlights of an oncoming car. His auto skidded into loose 'gravel along the road and crashed into the telephone pole. The pole came to rest over the front end of the Rosebraugh auto which was badly smashed. Port land General Electric officials said no power ailure was re ported in the area. State police in vestigated the accident ud" under the unified defense set up to deprive the navy of its of fensive power. Generals in turn have lashed back at the nary leadershio. Testifying with Eisenhower be fore the house armed services committee today, Gen. Mark Clark urged the ruthless elimination' from tht nation's military estab lishment of those who do not be lieve in unification of the armed forces. , - . - , mar lose the next war.1 Clark warned, nf we dont settle this unified command business. CooooudD fojectoooii East-West Rift Widened by 39 to 19 tote By Francis W. Carpenter j NEW YORK, Oct. 20-avTho United Nations overrode Russian protests today and elected Yugo slavia to a security council seat that the Soviet Union icovetcd for satellite Czechoslovakia. ; Tw6-thirds of the U. N. nations in effect gave a vote of confidence t Marshal Tito's regime, and re buked the cominfornv The Vote was Yugoslavia 39, Czechoslova kia 19. : It deepened the east-west rift and left Russia to moke good en her prediction that "painful conse quences' to the U. N. would follow election of Yugoslavia.; What lhe consequences may be probfcUy will not be clear until the reorgan ized security council meets in Jan uary, with Yugoslavia taking the seat now held by the Soviet Uk raine. Three security council sats are changed every year by vote;c! all 59 nations in the general assem bly. I f U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said he sees little danger of a rift in the U. N. because Ce- choslovakia lost out. ; ' No Walk-Out Planned In London, a spokesman fr tho Czechoslovak embassy said ihk-re was no prospect of ' pro - Soviet communist nations in the II. . N. walking out as a result of the -election. He added: "No doubt this is what many western countries would like us to do." American support 1 was a ,fcig factor in Yugoslavia's victory; It was a calculated support aimed at strengthening Tito in his strug gle with Moscow. The vote came less than a day after Yugoslavia declared that Russia had moved troops into neighboring cominform countries, toward the Yugoelav frontier. ; Vishinsky Protests The voting provoked a red -fa ced outburst from Andrei Y. Vish insky, Soviet foreign minister. Speaking in Russian, he said: "The Soviet union delegation ie clared with full determination that Yugoslavia shall not, cannot, be considered as a representative ef the eastern European countries, and that the introduction of 'Vuge slavia to the security council shall be considered by the) 'Soviet union delegation as a new violation e the (U. N.) charter,! undermining the very foundations of coopera tion in the United Nations." Ienoring President Carlos P. Romulo's steady Ravelling to shut him up, Vishinsky shouted J from the rostrum that the election was illegal, a violation of the charter. and a violation of a gentlemen a agreement among the big powers. 1 Judge Jails j 1 Own Janitor WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o4f-tl District Court Judge Matthew r. McGuire has to shave with cold water tomorrow he can console himself with the thought ithat it , is in the interests qf justic. The man who tends thej boiler at the judge's apartment house building was convicted today el operating a gambling racket The Judge refused to release sua on bond pending sentencing to morrow although the defendants attorney explained that a number of tenants would be unconveniene- ed. i Albany Maki Falls Into Elevator Shall : 1; ; lUlnau tfw SrrU ALBANY, Oct 20 A fan down a 20-foot elevator shaft brought critical injuries to Lloyd Peterson of Albany about 10 p.m. Thursday. It happened at the Ne- bergal Packing plant where he was employed. i f Peterson, about 30, was taken te Albany General hospital with fractured skull, scalp arid face lacerations and bruises. 1 Mix. .ST . M 3 lira -.. Portland 8n Francisco Chicago I. Nw York . tt .es se . 17 .at SO Will met t rlvwr .!. Iert. rORXCAST (from U. 8.1 weotaee bureau. McNary field. SaWm): Cnr ally fair today and tonight xret foe omo hi(h cloudinc. Hishfaboet at today; low tonight U. Farm! mcttvtom will bo favorod .today by fronUwuo fair weatber. ' ; I SAXJEU PRXdPITATTON . nil Vmi Lost Year i Kenaal gJt .4.41 I Ufu. I- . .. t
