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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.
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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
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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 - -
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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
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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.
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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
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Oregon. Friday. October 21.
1949
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DoDSttaDDs Yugoslavia dqd
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Vishinsky, Austin Vote at U.N.
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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.
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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
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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
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