1 The Statesman. Saint Oregon, Monday. November 21, 1949
Guard Given
Training Aids
During Drills
(Picture on page one.)
The well-trained soldier is the
least likely to become a battle
casualty that is the lesson
pounded home in weekly drills of
Salem's Company B, 162nd infan
try. f the Oregon national guard.
"Training counts," says 1st Lt.
Joseph Meier, company command
In a officer. "That was demon
strated in the last war. Most of
the casualties were counted among
men with little military training."
The 121 men and five officers
of Company B go through a series
nt training nares designed for the
m . .utima thtt (Annanv
riflemen mortar squad, recouess
artillerv and machine gun sect-
Ions.
Contour Man
A valuable training aid for the
rmeman ana mormt huu
"sand table." This is merely
roueh contour map mounted on
table. It depicts, in miniature,
hills, roads, creeks, fences and
other eround features.
ThU realistic raide is used to
supplement classes in squad tact
ics. Lieutenant Meier said. From
It the men get a better idea of the
tactical problem depicted.
Riflemen go through three
phases of training. They are first
year (basic), second year (Inter
mediate) and third year (advan
ced tactical). Indoor training, at
thing at the guard's two-week an
nual summer training session.
' Secrnitinr Campaigns
Although his company is up to
full strength, said Meier, recruii-
Ina campaigns are conducted per
iodically to line up men to fill
vacancies which occur from time
. to time in the group.
Salem's other national guard
unit. Company G, meets each
Thursday night at the armory un
der the command of Capt. William
Dyer. It conducts the same type
of training sessions as does Com
pany B.
"National guardsmen are now
getting some of the best training
ever given in their units," said
Lieutenant Meier. "There are
many veterans of the last war in
the guard who still remember les
sons learned in combat.
Salem School
Falls Victim
To Prowlers
Prowlers ransacked McKinley
elementary-school over the week
end. It followed break-ins at two
other Salem public schools a week
ego.
f Janitor Vernon Weaver discov
ered the incident at 2 p.m. Sunday
and notified police. He told them
It had happened sometime since
Friday afternoon. ;
Whether any valuables had been
taken was undetermined by police
when they were unable to contact
the school principal. The Investi
gation will continue today.
The culprits unlatched a base
ment door after breaking a pane
of glass In the door window. They
also broke another window but
failed to enter by that route be
cause it was nailed down.
All faculty desks were ransack
ed as in last -week's burglaries at
Bush and Richmond schools.
Veterinarian
Kills Prowler
PORTLAND, Nov. 20 -A1)- A
prowler killed while prying at a
.window was identified today as
Charles O. Cottom, 31, formerly
of Oakland, Calif.
. Police said Cottom was shot In
the neck and chest by Dr. Rowland
H. Kreutzer, owner of the canine
clinic and hospital. They quoted
the veterinarian as saying he yell
ed a warning before firing his
J32 caliber pistol. A .45 caliber pis
tol and . a clip of bullets were
found beside Cottom's body.
An investigation was underway
on the belief Cottom had an ac
complice who fled in an automo
bile when the veterinarian opened
lire
Hungary Holds
U.S.Gtizen
VIENNA, Nov. 20-(P)-Mrs. Rob
ert a. vogeier said today her hus
band, an American representative
of the International Telephone and
Telegraph company, was arrested
- In Hungary last Friday and is be
. ing held incommunicado.
; She said she did not know why.
- Mrs. Vogeier said in an interview
that her husband tnlrJ hr lact
Wednesday by telephone that he
was Demg lonowea constantly by
- Hungarian police. .
Vogeier, 38, is assistant vice
president of his company and its
representative in eastern Europe
- COLOMBIA REVOLT ASKED
BOGOTA, Colombia, Nov. 20-(P)
'An anonymous leaflet urging the
j army to rebel was distributed here
' today. It was the latest of a series
. of sheets seeking to stir up trouble
'for the conservative government
a week before the presidential
election.
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Severe Earthquake
Centers in Caribbean
MOBILE, All, tiov. 2MF)-A
heavy earthquake shock, so severe
t drove the indicator oil the
chart. Was recorded early today
d Spring Hill I college's seismo
graph, i I
The shock war believed to have
centered around the southwest
coast of Nicaragua.
Jump in Social
Insurance Tax
Starts Jan. 1
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By Charles : Molonr
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -(TV A
50 per cent increase in social in
surance taxes will go into effect
six weeks from 'today, raising
$667,000,000 more a year.
Beginning January 1, employers
and employes eaxh Jwill pay 1 Vz per
cent tax on wages and salaries up
to a wage or salary maximum of
$3,000 J The present rate is 1 per
cent. It has been in effect since
the system of . retirement and sur
vivors benefits was started 13
years ago. ,
The schedule of benefits will je
main unchanged. '
However, under a bill passed by
the house and pending in the sen
ate, both the premium and the
benefits would be higher.
Officials predicted the taxes
will affect some 39,000,000 work
ers and 2,700,000 employers next
year, requiring employers and em
ployes to share equally in tax pay
ments as high as $90 a person per
year. The present maximum is $60.
Under the pending j legislation,
the number of workers affected
may ruse to 50,000,000 and the top
employer-employe; tax payment
per person to $108 before 1950 Is
over, they said.
The house-passed bill, which
senate 'committee is to take up In
January, would: apply the 1 per
cent levy to earnings up to $3,600,
thus upping the combined contri
bution of employer and worker at
that level another $18.
Thefhigher levy to go into ef
feet automatically on January :
results; from legislation passed in
1948 by the 80th congress.
Coffee Price
TolSufffigh
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -P-
The American housewife appar
ently will have to get used to
paying more for coffee.
With, prices now at an "all time
high," world supplies for the next
few yars are likely to remain
about the present levels, the com
merce department said today. It
assured that no immediate short
age is foreseen
The' department published a
3500-word . study of the world
coffee situation by Albert M.
Prostercnan and Alice M. Taylor,
of the food branch.
The4 two experts said the key
to the situation is Brazilian pro
duction which; has been going
down! since the depression years
when the South American country
burned bills of coffee It couldn't
sell, i : :
BRASS BACK RECRUITING
NEW YORK! Nov. 20rVGen
era! Dwight D. Eisenhower and
his wartime chief of staff. Lt. Gen
Walter Bedell Smith, Joined today
in asking more enlistments in the
organized reserve corps. The two
army! officers, appearing together
publicly for the first time since
the end of the war, spoke to 10,'
000 reservists at the Kingsbridge
armory in the Bronx.
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State Employ
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Ask Retirement
Act Changes
PORTLAND, Nov. 20--The
Oregon State Employes association
wound up its annual convention
today with resolutions. The princ-
pal ones were aimed ; at major
changes in the 1948 retirement act.
Delegates requested retired em
ployes be given credit for all serv
ice prior to the act instead of only
up to 20 years; that prior service
benefits be increased to $4, which
would pay out about half the em
ployes base pay instead of the
existing $125 a month maximum;
thai retirement be optional after
either 30 years service or the pres
ent allowable age of 65
The association said these
changes would encourage "young
men in their 20's" to enter state
service.
Another resolution called for the
1951 legislature to liberalize the
retirement act to include payments
made by the state in the monthly
annuity to beneficiaries of em
ployes who die before retirement
age. The state's share would not
exceed the amount of the annuity
purchased by the employer.
On working conditions, the state
employes asked standardization of
all employes, schedules to a five
day, 40 hour week. They said cur
rent work weeks vary Irom 40 to
46 hours. They also asked that
Columbus Day be restored as
legal paid holiday. This was taken
away by the 1949 legislature.
E. F. Chidsey, La Grande, was
elected president; E. A. Banford,
Salem, vice president, and Lois
Manning, Salem, secretary-treas
urer. New directors are P. M.
Brandt, Corvallis; James Banks,
Salem; Gordon Shattuc, Salem; J,
D. Wilson, Salem; Ted ;jones, Eu
gene, and William Lawless, Port
land. I.
Salem was voted the 1950 con
vention site. j
Princess in
Malta with
Sailor Husband
VALLETTA, Malta, tfov. 20
Princess Elizabeth got here in
time today to spend at least part
of her second wedding anniver
sary with her sailor husband,
Prince Philip. She had planned to
arrive last night, but fog delayed
her departure from London for 24
hours- !
Philip bounded up the landing
steps of the plane which brought
Elizabeth here from London as
soon as it landed this evening. He
gave her a. big hello in the cabin
before bringing her out. to face
the photographers.
Th princess greeted Malta's
governor, Sir Francis Creasy, and
Archbishop Gonzi, along with a
few naval personages, but there
was a minimum of ceremony.
The royal couple was taken to
Villa Guardamangla, which will
be their home during her stay
here. Among the vessels which
can be seen from the villa is the
destroyer Chequers, which is the
prince s home at sea. He is sec
ond in command of the vessel
The princess expects to rejoin
her year-old son. Prince Charles,
in London before Christmas.
ERSKINE STTIX CRITICAL
NEW YORK, Nov. 0-WVJohn
E r s k 1 n e, 70-year-old novelist,
teacher and lecturer, remains on
the critical list, Beekman-Down
town hospital said today. His wife
has said he was suffering from
high blood pressure. !
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U.S. Official Dies;
Result of Came of
Russian Roulette
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 20
-U.S. District Commissioner
Richard R. Simmons, 35, died in
Home hospital last night after
accidentally shooting himself in
a game of "Russian roulette."
Simmons was in the bedroom
of his home rehearsing for a play.
He told his wife he was going to
try a game of "Russian roulette,"
but Mrs. Simmons thought he was
joking. He put a gun to : his
.temple, after spinning the cham
ber, and pressed the trigger. The
weapon discharged and he
crumpled to the floor.
Demos List 18
Possibilities in
Congress Race
McMINNVTLLE, Nov. 20-W
Democratic party leaders today
completed organization of a First
Oregon Congressional District
committee. They then listed 18
potential candidates to oppose
Rep. Walter Norblad In next
year's general elections.
The ten county session was at
tended by some 70 democratic
workers. Luis A. Martine-Lally,
Salem, was named committee
chairman; Lyman Ross, Aloha, is
vice chairman, and Mrs. Manley
J. Wilson, Warren, is secretary.
The list of possible candidates
to oppose the Astoria republican
are: W. W. Dillard, St Helens,
Washington county district attor
ney; Harry Dillon, McMinnville,
president of Linfield college; Mrs.
Elizabeth Genne, Forest Grove;
Edward E. Gideon, Salem, a con
gressional candidate in 1948; ; Roy
R. Hewitt, Salem, former dean of
the Willamette university ' law
school; State Senator R. D. Hoi
mes, Astoria; Albert T. Kemmer,
Beaverton attorney; Glen Lee
man, mayor of St. Helens; Dr,
Lloyd C. LaMaster, Oregon State
college faculty member; Robert
D. MacLean, Waldport, a state
tax commissioner; State Rep. I Ho
ward Morgan, Monmouth; Earl A.
Nott, Yamhill county district at
torney; Lyman Ross, Aloha, for
mer state senator; Stanley S
Skoko, Clackamas county com
missioner; Gordon Sloan, Astoria
attorney; Robert W. Thornton,
Tillamook county democratic
chairman; Manley J. Wilson,
Warren, a candidate for the sen
ate last year; Harlan M. Woods,
Tillamook county judge.
VA Reminds
New Insurance
Deadline Near
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20-(JF)-
The veterans administration re
minded ex-GI's today that there's
another insurance deadline coming
up Jan. 1.
Any World War II veteran may
take out a national service life in
surance policy, or reinstate a lap
sed policy, before that date simply
by providing satisfactory evidence
cf good heal.h, the agency said.
It added that less-than-total
ervive-incurred disability will be
disregarded in determining good
health of the applicant.
Starting January 1, however,
each candidate for a policy or a
renewal must demonstrate that he
is an Insurable risk. -'
The rules also become m o r e
strict January 1 for veterans 'ap
plying for the national service life
insurance "total disability income
provision."
This provision give veterans
extra coverage for a small addi
tional premium, in the form of a
specified monthly income in event
the Insured person becoming total
ly disabled.
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By James Streblg
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 20-
LfVEighteen survivors of a B-29
crash off the Bermuda coast spent
"miserable" 79 hours on storm-
tossed seas and some were dunked
in the water when, their rafts cap
sized, the plane's commander, said
today.
Lt. Col. John Grable of March
Field air base in California, the
commander, and other survivors of
the crash Wednesday about 400
miles northeast of Bermuda were
interviewed at Kindley field hos
pital. The bruised and salt-caked fliers
were delivered to the Kindley air
base by, the Canadian Destroyer
Haida, which had picked them up
from the chill waters of the Atlan
tic yesterday.
t Men Killed
Two of the 20 men aboard the
B-29 did not survive.
The tail broke off the plan?
when it was ditched out of fuel. Tt
turned nose down in less than a
minute.
One. of the men who was killed
was hurt by wrecked girders from '
the air giant The second escaped
injury but was unable to swim
against the heavy seas. The men
were lost because heavy swells
made it impossible to reach them,
Grable said.
14 Walked Off
Fourteen of the survivors were
able to walk off the destroyer.
Four were carried to the base hos
pital.1 One appeared to be suffer
ing badly from shock.
Lt. Cmdr. Edward T. G. Madg-
wick, Ottawa, captain of the de
stroyer, said waves 50 to 60 feet
tossed the survivors in their res
cue boat, which had been dropped
to them by a B-17. He said the
boat rose so high on the waves the
men stepped or were nanoed
across the destroyer's forward
deck without using a ladder.
Men Pretty Dazed
s Lt Cmdr. Alfred A. H. Kerley
ol Victoria, B. C, said the men
seemed pretty dazed when they
were picked up.
"We fed them soup and coffee
and they wolfed that down," he
added.
Reporters asked Grable how
conditions were during the time on
the sea.
"Miserable," was his reply. He
said one raft capsized on two dif
ferent nights but fortunately all
the men got back aboard.
Prayed a Lot ,
Asked whether any of the men
had showed religious zeal, Grable
said:
"No one turned evangelist, but
we all thought a lot and prayed
that we would be picked up."
"What are you going to do?"
they were all asked.
"I think we are all going to the
church, and then maybe we will
celebrate a bit," Grable said.
"What was the main topic of
conversation?"
" 'Move over and give me a lit
tie room,' but nobody said please."
Carried Men Each
Grable referred to the fact that
the six-man rafts carried nine men
each because a ' third raft had
lammed in the tail section and
was not recovered.
The survivors were not thirsty
because lt had rained a good deal
of the time. They also had equip
ment to purify salt Water for
drinking. They lived on emergency
rations, which are mainly hard
candy. When they were picked up,
they had one day's rations left.
Grable said he felt they were
certain to be picked up because he
realized planes and 'ships were
searching for them.
U. S. oil and gas wells now pro
duce about two billion barrels of
crude oil and six trillion cubic feet
of gas yearly.
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Sir Harry Lauder
On Recovery Road
STRATHAVEN. Scotland, Nov.
20-P)-Sir Harry Lauder sat ud in
his bedroom today exactly three
months after it was announced he
was critically ill with a blood clot
in his right leg and a kidney ail
ment '
His physician. Dr. John Stew
art, is now confident the 79-year-old
comedian will recover, j
Lauder is cheery. Jokes with his
physicians and Is enjoying his pipe
again.
Strike Thins
Truck Travel
On Ohio Road
CLEVELAND, Nov. 20
Truck traffic on Ohio highways
thinned out today. The AFL
Teamsters union started a strike
of some 8,000 workers employed
by Ohio firms in long-distance
trucking.
Because of reduced week-end
Operations, the walkout called lajfct
midnight will not have full eff
until tomorrow and perhaps la
For the first few hours of
strike several terminals dispa
ed vehicles as usuaL No picket
ing was reported.
The AFL Ohio highway drivers
council ! and the Ohio over-the-road
employers' association set up
headquarters in the same down
town Cleveland hotel (Carter) to
plan strike strategy.
Representatives of these two
groups had negotiated here from
last Tuesday until a stalemate
yesterday afternoon. Then the
union called the strike it origin
ally set for last Thursday.
The union is asking 25-cent
hourly pay hikes, company con
tributions of one dollar a week
for each employe to a health and
welfare fund, and changes in
working conditions.
Snow Sifts into
Lakes Region
CHICAGO, Nov. 20-iP-Light
snow sifted into the eastern Da
kotas and most of the Great Lakes
region today. There was sain In
parts of northern New England
and western New York.
Elsewhere, much of the nation
had fair weather.
Chilliest morning temperatures
were reported in northern Min
nesota, with the low reading, 14
degrees, at Duluth.
It was warm in most of the
south from coast to coast.
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Republicans to
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -WV
Republicans set out today to fire
party spirit for 1950 with huge
fried chicken box supper stripped
of formalities.
While ,the democrats have hired
a ballroom in the swank Waldorf-
Astoria hotel in New York for a
$100-a-plate dinner as a fund-
raising Kickoif tor the coming
elections, uop leaders announced
plans for a $1 or "bring your own"
supper In Uline arena here.
The democratic dinner will be
held December 2. Vice President
Barkley will make the principal
speech and his new bride will be
an added attraction. The an
nounced goal is $500,000 for the
next campaign.
But, the GOP said today it!s
going to be no stiff-shirt affair for
them this time. Their Lincoln
day box supper February 6 has
been tuned to recent pleadings of
some oi tneir leaders that the
"Grand Old Party" direct mote
appeal to tne "average guy.
They're making lt a big show
ror tne utu man. Instead of a col
lection for the campaign.
GOP National Chairman Guv
Gabrielson today appealed to
party members over the country
to help make it a demonstration of
party spirit" for the congressional
campaign.
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cil toaay acceptea Lady Nancy
Astor as Its first candidate for its
new Flagpole of the Month award.
ine councu, representing 30,000
persons in the film industry, stated
that Lady Astor was nominated
by Hollywood elamor rirls. ront
targets of her criticism. I
"We are awfully tired M people
who use attacks on Hollywood . . .
as a device for setting thir nnmM
into the papers," a council spokes
man explained. "Flagpole sitting
has been the most obvious resort"
of the publicity seeker f and we
can think of no better reward . . ,
than to give them their Own flag
pole to sit on." i j
The spokesman said the flag
poles will come in various
from toe toothpick variety for
people with midget minds to the
five-foot economy size for people
wiiu can 1 nana mgn jviaces.
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