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Storm Fails to I. . h - - - T' rJrJ' w $ ' - v --y i DALLAS, Nov.. 28 Rain dampened plant for a parade hut It didn't dampen the enthusiasm of these three little Dallas (iris when flying Santa j Clans paid an early call at Dallas Friday in connection with Christmas opening. The beaming youngsters! are from the left Emily Jo Friesen, Sharon Van Brocklin and Darlene Friesen. Emily Jo and Darlene are the daughters of Mr. and; Mrs. Henry F. Friesen of Dal- - las and Sharon Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Van Brocklin. Bad weather forced the Santa Clans reception Into the armory after parade plans were canceled. (Statesman photo.) $116 Million in Projects Scheduled in Northwest : - ;- ' -,- - ' : . . I f 'Army, to )pen Bids on 7 Detroit Bam projects Bids for seven portions of the Detroit dam project oo the North Eantiam Tiver will be opened during; the first half p 1950, according to a schedule released Saturday by the corps of engineers. The com prehensive schedule for the north Pacific division shows new con struction work totaling approximately $116,000,000 to be contracted during the period. People have been deeply stirred over the orgy of sex crimes chron icled In recent weeks. Letters to the editors, telephone calls, con versations with acquaintances and callers Indicate the high degree of local Interest, aroused particularly over reports of local offenses. The natural Inquiry is, What can we do to avert such crimes? ' No single, simple answer to that question is possible. If there were, surely it would have been found long ago. Literature of the ancients tells of crimes of rape and Incest. Civil law and moral codes have not succeeded in eliminating these offenses. In recent years the num ber of reported cases has increased and the late wave of murder of victims has been so atrocious as to shock society. We are then driven to fresh studies of this phase of human relations. : The subject of sex, long held in considerable taboo, lately has at tracted much scientific attention. Dr. Alfred Kimsey's -Sex Behav lor of the Male" . was a report based on interviews and dealt pri marily with the normal rather than the abnormal aspects of the sub ject Dr. Sigmund Freud's theories in psychoanalysis emphasized, and probably overemphasized, the in fluence of the libido in develop ment of the mind. We still have far to go to build up dependable body knowledge of the psychology as well as the behavior of sex. One axiom is that the sex im pulse is both instinct- (Conttnued on editorial page 4) Bridges Asks For New Judge BAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26-(V Counsel for Harry Bridges moved today to disqualify Federal Judge George B. Harris from continuing to hear Bridges' perjury-consplra cy trial. - 5 Australian - born Bridges, head of the CIO Longshore union, is charged with perjury in swearing at his 1943 naturalization hearing that he had never been a commun ist He and two union aides are charged with conspiracy to de fraud the government (A digest of Bridges' life and career appears in' today's Oregon Statesman feature section.) ' la an affidavit accompanying the disqualifying motion and filed with the federal court clerk. Brid ges accused Harris of "expressed Bias and prejudice against the de fendants' Willamina Area Denied New Bridge ItaUsuua Kwi gtrrlce I WILLAMINA. Nov. 26-WIlla mlna will get no new bridge over the South fork of the Yamhill ri ver on its east side in the immed late future. The state highway commission lent this information to City Re corder S. J. Ellis today. The com mission said funds are not avail able for the project and that re alignment of the highway would Bypass the bridge. - The present bridge Is so nar .row that it is Impossible for two trucks to pass on it : 3D3 Halt Scuitifs Arrival in Dallas -. I I ! Only one of the Detroit Jobs is estimated to be in excess of $1, 000,000. the powerhouse, for which bids will be advertised In May and opened in July. The seven jobs total about $4,000,000. The others, and their planned bid-opening dates, are a 325-ton bridge crane, February 8: outlet gates, January 13; IS permanent houses and utilities, January 10; Big Cliff powerhouse turbine of 28,600 horsepower, February 24; Big Cliff powerhouse generator Of 18,000 kilowatt capacity. May 12; Big Cliff; powerhouse' bridge crane, July 14. i $ l One other project in this area is breakwater, mooring basin and mooring; wall at Depoe Bay, to be opened about February 15. Other Oregon projects for work on which bids are slated include McNaryj, dam, Bonneville dam, Umpqua river jetty,! Meridian re servoir. Cottage 3r0ve reservoir, Fern Ridge reservoir. The tabulation by the engineers was issued principally for conven ience of, contractors 2-Car Wreck Sends Mother, A Cottage Grove mother and her five-year-old son were treat ed at Salem General hospital Sat urday following a two-car colli sion at the intersection of Liberty and Norway streets shortly after noon. J . If Frances McGuire, 26, was treat ed for a head bruise and her five-year-old son, Darrel Dean Mc Guire, was checked for possible Injury to his recently operated on eyes,, Both were released after ex amination, i; f The two were passengers in a car driven by Warren Dale Mc Guire, Cottage Grove, when it collided with a machine operated by John Edward. Phares, Eugene. Both icars were considerably dam aged Sin the accident city police reported. The driver; and four oth er passengers of the McGuire car were! uninjured. I i . ; . Law Strikes Close t&Mome You might call It a court battle. but not! in the ordinary sense of the word. Gloria Robinson, deputy Marion county i district icourt constable. was scheduled to appear in Salem municipal court Monday after she had posted $73 ball for alleged J, .i i l l' 2 f pirung , violations- Miss Robinson! was required to post that amount to get release for- her Car after it had been tow ed away on city Dolice order Sat urday. She told police she thought her car was exempt from over' time tickets because she used it for court business, Soil to Hospital Interfraternity Meet Asks Members To End Race, Religious ! By Sterllnr F. Green WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -(JPh In an abrupt reversal of its stand, the National Interfraternity con ference today utged college fra ternities to erase; from their char ters any1 racial or religious bars to membership. ! Twenty-four hours after the is sue was I ruled off the conference program," an anti-bias resolution was brought to 4 vote. It carried, SO to S.jNlneteen fraternities did not votei I I Most of the 88 fraternities be longing to the conference have no restrictive membership laws. But the conference ii; sensitive to cri ticism which has Arisen when some Burglary Nets Loss to Burglar KLAMATH FALLS, Nov. 28 (JP)- A burglar broke into a dry cleaning firm here :and wound up with a net loss., : Surprised by Owner Loulyn . Lambert the intruder ran down the street with $1 in pennies. But he left behind a pair of pliers, a ball point pen, and one glove. Missing Girl Searchers found no trace Sat urday of a 20-year-old girl who jumped from the center span of the Marion-Polk bridge about 12:45 a.m. The girL identified- as Geral dine Menard, 642 Edgewater st, apparently leaped from the bridge following an argument with a male companion, William Town er. The pair, with another couple. had been on a party Friday night, but the girl left prior to the incident ... . . v. , 1 .jy . Edward Noeske, 713 Klngwood dr., who was walking across the bridge at the time, prevented the girl from crawling over the rail ing once, only to have her break away and go over the north side. He was not a companion of the girl, as stated in a previous story. Kenneth Pinner, 391 Gerth St., also walking across the bridge, witnessed the lead as did Steven Walcott RickrealL Walcott saw the girl Jump as he drove his car west across the bridge and noti fied police, who made search of the river immediately after. Wreck Sends 7 to Hospital THE DALLES, Ore., Nov. 26-) A two-automobile collision south of Biggs in Sherman county sent seven persons to a hospital here. One of the injured was critically injured. State police said Fred Woitt 28, Madras, driver of one car, was un conscious from a cerebral conces sion. Riding with Woitt were Mr. and Mrs. George W, Pomeroy and their daughter, age 11, of Madras. In the other car were Warren Kaylor, 29, Malin, the driver, Mrs. Kaylor, their son, Lee, age 10, and Mr., and Mrs.-Lee Bowling, and daughters, 9 and 8. Details were not learned tonight police said. The cars were operat lng In opposite directions. Sammons Treasurer Of Sen. Morse Campaign PORTLAND, Nov. 2MjF)-E. C. Sammons, president of the U. S National Bank of Portland,, today was named treasurer of Sen. Way ne u Morse's campaign lor re election next year. - , Asked whether he expected op position in the primary election, Morse said he was "organizing my campaign to meet it if it should arise." chapters, after pledging negro members, were penalized by their national Greek - letter organiza tions. An undergraduate movement which started in New England caused the conference turnabout The northeastern schools ' were joined by some of the midwestern "Big TnH universities and other colleges during the three-day meeting here. The students heads of Inter fraternity councils on their respec tive campuses have no vote at the Interfraternity meeting of graduate delegates. But they held a rump caucus, and drew up a resolution. Official delegates then Searchers Fail ToFindBodyof Army 38 Navy .0 - . - .. . , 93tb YEAR TWO SECTIONS 40 PAGES ' Tb Oregon Statesmim, Saltm, Ortcjon, Sunday, Nortmber 27, 1949 PRICE 10c j No. 253 ale '.Claims 10 Loves op NbrtStwe inni-polhi. Woondl Power Failure Near Silverton Laid to Wind High winds with gusts up to 58 miles per hour buffeted the Salem area Saturday night on the crest of the season's worst storm which was wrecking havoc throughout the northwest. ) No major damage bad been re ported in the city from the gusty winds which were accompanied by frequent downpours. Only .38 inches of rain had fallen to 10 pjn. Saturday but in the next hour and a half to midnight .30 inches felL Transformer Blows The high wind was blamed for a power failure in the Silverton area where poles carrying. 1200 volt lines blew over creating a short and blowing a transformer The short set a pole afire on Para dise Alley road "and blacked out a large area for several hours. Re pair crews were attempting to re store power latef Saturday night Only inconvenience reported in Salem was inability of city patrol men to keep flare pots burning around street excavations. Despite the unlighted projects, no acci dents were reported. A tree was blown across the Santiam highway between Detroit and Idanha, but traffic wai able to get around it state police re ported. While western Oregon was pla gued with wind and rain, moun tainous areas to the east were Warned of possible blizzards. As sociated Press reported. Snow had begun falling above the 4,000 foot level Saturday night Winds Batter Coaat Steady winds of SO miles an hour with gust up to 65 battered the Oregon coast all day Satur day. The Columbia river ferry-to Megler, wash-, was closed and one tanker was held at sea off the mouth of the river. 'Power break downs blacked out Astoria twice during the night Some easing of the storm In the coast area is expected today. But another storm, bearing down from .... Aiasxa, promised to take over where the one from the south left oft Strong winds and more rain were forecast for the northwest Youths Held, Thefts Cleared SILVERTON, Nov. 28 Theft of shells, money and other items from the Izaak Walton League club house in the Bethany district November 5 was cleared up today with the arrest of five Silverton juveniles. The youths had broken a win dow at the club house and broken a padlock to. get at the stolen items. Two were lodged In the juvenile detention ward in the Marion County courthouse and the other three were retained in Sil verton for further questioning. GOP PUBLICIST DIES WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -(&) wiuiam c Murphy. lr.. 51. di rector of publicity for the repub lican national committee, died early today of, a heart seizure. A veteran Washington newspaper man before his employment by the republican organization in 1843, Murptiy also was a con tributor to several national pub lications. - Restrictions! took over, bringing the issue to the conference floor. The version finally adopted rec ommends that fraternities which restrict membership no a sectional or religious or other qualifying group take such steps si they may elect to eliminate such selectivity provisions. The statement emphasizes that many fraternities have no such barriers, that the Interfraternity council has no authority over the rules of the affiliated fraternities, and that membership questions are strictly matters for the frater nities to decide. The resolution, therefore, is purely advisory. Notre D. . . 32 So. Calif. ... 0 Re-Arrest U.S. Aide im Solon Tells Atomic Secrets to Britain WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 HP- charged tonight that David E. Lilienthal is the ringleader in a "nefar ious" plot" to give Great Britain the secret of an American supers atomic bomb. ; Johnson asserted that working of the atomic energy commission, and publications in this country. All of them, Johnson said, are "ac tively engaged in a conspiracy. The senator also linked the Washington Post to "this unwise scheme." He made his charges in a letter to the Post replying to a Post editorial critical of him. Johnson made the letter public. . Lilienthal could not be reached for comment " To Print Comment At the Post an official said the newspaper was reserving comment today but that it planned to print the letter and an editorial regard ing it on Monday morning. Johnson s accusation came after a high government official had said privately that the senator's discus sions of atomic weapons on a tele vision program were a big factor behind President Truman's crack down on talk about defense secrets. Mr. Truman yesterday ordered Attorney General McGrath to tighten the safeguarding of atomic and other security information. The president's action is under stood to have been directed mainly at Johnson, a member of the senate-house atomic energy commit tee.'; - ! Repeats Stand Johnson repeated today, how ever, that he does not believe Jus telecast remarks had anything to do with the presidential directive. And he said again that he talked about nothing which had not been disclosed previously. ; On the I television program, which emanated from New York on November 1, Johnson took the position" that there has not been enough secrecy about this coun try's atomic program. During the telecast he said the United States: 1. Had developed an atomic bomb six times ' more ; powerful than the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. Super Bomb en Way 2. Has made much progress in work on a bomb 1,000 times more potent than the Nagasaki weapon. 3. Is well on the way toward de velopment of a device which would explode an enemy bomb before it reaches the target In an editorial November 21, the Washington i Post criticized John son for his television remarks. In his letter today to the editor, Johnson said "probably the Post is nettled by my statements that certain politicians, scientists and publications in this country, head ed by David E. Lilienthal, are ac tively engaged in a conspiracy to disclose to England the secret pro cesses relating to the manufacture of the so-called super bomb." 70 Students Suffer Food Poisoning At Klamath Falls KLAMATH FALLS, Nov. 26-(JP) Some 70 grade school youngsters were recovering today from food poisoning, which the county sani tarian said apparently occurred at the Altamont elementary school. The turkey dressing served during the Thanksgiving dinner at the school, was being invest! gated to determine whether it was the cause. County Sanitarian John Edge said some youngsters fell ill at the school, and other had to be put to bed when - they reached home. One first grader collapsed in a yard, a few blocks from school. No dangerous Illness was re ported. Max. Min. "Precip. . Sf St JS .si sa js - SI tZ trace . SS IS JOO . M 28 JOO lalem - Portland San Francisco , Chi earn New York Willamette river S feet TO RECAST (from U.S. weather bu r a. SicNary field, Salem): Contin ued cloudy today, tonic ht and Monday with bowers and qualla today. Show n Monday. High today near 6S. Low ocugnt near . SAUM' PKECtPITATION This Year Last Year Normsl tJ23 IIM I.7S Oklahoma. 41 OIda.A&M.O 'Y 4Po ' to Give Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) i - ,r with Lilienthal, retiring chairman are "certain politicians, scientists te Forest Fires In Mississippi JACKSON, Miss., Nov. 26 -(JP)-A total jof 784 separate forest fires had burned over 13,952 acres ! of woodland up to dusk today ; in Mississippi. ' - State Forester Albert Legett said many small fires .with unes timatedj damage also are buring in "unprotected' counties, where no community-state-federal con trol plan is in effect ' - The state forester renewed his plea fori residents of affected areas to volunteer as firefighters. The entire crew of 300 men of the state department is on the job already.! Farmers "burning out" ' boll weevils j have caused some of the fires, Legett asserted. Careless hunters and smokers also were blamed: I The fires are largely In central and east Mississippi. Mrs. Barkley May 'Outrank Husband Soon WASHINGTON, Nov. 2Hff) Vice President Barkley soon may be calling his attractive bride "Ma dame President. Undeif time honored tradition, the newt Mrs. Barkley can become president not vice presidenU-of "the senate ladies, if she wants the posiitlon and title. This is an exclusive group made up of wives of United States sena-t tors who devote part of a day each week when congress is in session 1 to Red Cross or other charitable work. . i I The top office always is offered to the wife of the vice president or the other top-ranking senate officer, put is not always accepted. We certainly hope Mrs. Bark ley will take it" one senator's wile active ii. the group said. "She is charming and it would give all of us a chance to really know her. "We usually meet about 9 o'clock in the morning Tuesdays and work until S o'clock that afternoon roll ing bandages, knitting or doing some similar work," she said. "We each bring a sandwich or box lunch for ourselves and eat that to gether."! Truman to Get ! Empty Stockings j LONG BEACH, Calit, Nov. 2 UPh SeVen thousand empty stock ings wiljl be sent to President Tru man thks Christmas by workers of the Long Beach naval shipyard. Jack Horner, manager of Long Beach jRetailers associated, said the stockings would be enclosed with notes saying "our stockings wii be empty this cnristmas un less he rescinds a navy economy order closing the shipyards June 30. I Bills Directed Prepared for Bills ! directed at taxlcab pany operations in Salem, com as : an outgrowth of the recent morals 784 Separa : 1 case involving several drlvers,fsswre detail in applications, photo- have been prepared for dty coun til action Monday night by City Attorney Chris Kowitz. One proposed order would call owners jof the three cab companies, Yellow,! Capitol and Shorty's, and the drivers charged with statutory rape orj contributing to the delin quency of a minor, to appear De cember! 12 to show cause why they should riot lost their licenses. ; Also drawn, la the bill ior an -' Rice . . , . ..21 Bay or 7 1 I CAv aiemni Area Storm Washes Out Bridge at Vancouver. B.C. By The Associated Press Gales and torrential rains lash ed the Pacific northwest from Bri tish Columbia to southern Oregon Saturday, claiming ten lives and washing out a bridge to isolate thousands in suburban West Van couver, B. C Gusts tip to M miles an hour were reported between 6 and 7 p. m. (PST) in Aberdeen, Wash, on storm-tossed Grays Harbor near the Pacific ocean. Six lives were claimed In the capsi7ing of a tugboat near Trial island, a lighthouse post 10 miles northeast of Victoria, B. C. The seventh life was believed claimed in West Vancouver, an across-the-harbor suburb of Bri tish Columbia's largest city of a half-million population, where thousands were stranded. Police reported an unidentified workman, helping in repair work on the washed-out bridge over the ordinarily sleepy Capilano river, fell into the turbulent stream and was being sought They had no other details. In Tacoma an elderly pedestrian was killed during a blinding down pour of rain. Earlier Saturday, a tug boat crewman tumbled into the Co lumbia river and drowned. He was identified as Ray Ana kin, Trout- dale, Ore. At Ever son. Wash an unidenti fied man was instantly killed when he walked Into a . downed power line. SmaU Ships Assist A smau armada of harbor craft assisted in the Vancouver, B. C emergency and tonight police said only about 150 persons still were marooned. Meteorologists said 1.8 Inches of rain feU in the 12 hours up to 9 am In Vancouver proper and "probably three times that much" fell on West Vancouver. Falling trees clogged highways and tore down power and tele phone wires outside Montesano, Cosmopolls and 10 miles north of Quinault Charles Hoffman, general fore man in charge of operations ior the Pacific county public utility district at Raymond, said winds of 53-60 miles an hour knocked 38 trees across power lines dur ing the day. Banters Cling to Snag Four duck hunters, three of them from Seattle, narrowly j escaped death in a storm-whipped bay South of Mt Vernon. Two reach- ex. Baiciy iu uicix bhulu biuii through high waves. Two others clung to a snag for 11 hours after their boat capisized before they were rescued. Winds estimated In excess of 40 miles an hour through .Tacoma and outlying districts Saturday night causing damage of several thousand of dollars. CONSTITUTION FOR INDIA NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 2MA) -The constituent assembly adopted by a voice vote today a constitu tion making India a soveriegn re public. The assembly already had approved a London agreement by which India may stay In the Brit ish Commonwealth, though a re public. ' CZECH 'SPIES TO DIE PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia,' Nov. 28 -VP)- Four Czechs accused of spying for the United States were sentenced to death and: IB others drew prison terms today. Two of the death sentences were com muted to life imprisonment. at Taxi Firms ion ordinance tightening requirements for obtaining cab-drivers' licenses. This would include, said Kowitz, graphs on applications and In each cab, and requiring each driver to stay In or beside his cab while waiting for fares, rather than "loitering" nearby. The council also Is to consider a bill for Interim zoning of the recently annexed West Salem area, pending preparation of a perman ent ronfog plan for both West Sa lem and Klngwood Heights, which came into the dty earner. ei i. e Louncii ACt ! i s t i LSU . . ... !. 21 Tulanc . .1.10 (Additional scores on sports page.)' Mukden i " I y! 1 Blockade By Navy- Proposed Assistant to Consul Ward Arrested as Spy WASHINGTON. Novi 28 -Off Chinese communists have sudden ly seized another American dio lomat at Mukden Angus Ward's top aide. A republican congress man Immediately proposed that the United States navy blockade) the China coast until jhe Js !re leased. - f ,-' ' - YThe communists arrest of Vice Consul William N. Stokes in con nection with "spying charges" was made known today byj the state department. It ordered "the strongest protest" to the red com manders In the Manchuriao Hty. That was not enouah for Ben. Judd (R-Minn), a member of the bouse foreign affairs committee. He suggested the blockade. , "We should have beeun a' naval blockade a year ago wheri thev first started this line Of action.1! said Judd. a former medical mis sionary in China. Failing this, we should have mobilized 1 the forces of world ooinion -something we didn't try until a few days ago." - i j t Asks Pressure Brooghtf -If. The state department; last week asked 30 nations to bring pres sure on the Chinese reds before they freed Angus Ward, Mukden consul general. ; What effect this appeal had was not clear,! Rep. Mansfield (I-Mont)j who also Is a member of the foreign affairs unit suggested' that the state department immediately lay the case before' the United; Na tions and ask prompt I action to get Stokes freed. f I f Stokes was the' chief lieutenant of Ward, who was released only this week after a month's! im prisonment by the communists on charges which the state depart ment declared . were i entirely trumped up. f l Unexpected Move ' , i i The new seizure' eame j with stunning unexpectedness at a time when American officials believed the worst was over in the Ward"' case. They had assumed It would be only a matter of days before Ward and his staff would be) allowed to leave Mukden. U Rep. Judd told a reporter he was not demanding direct ; mili tary action against the Chinese communists. But he said: i There are types of action that can be taken snort of j war and we had, better take those stepe if we want to keep the respect I the Asiatic people.' 1 'Yi Course of True i i Love Doesii'ti ! I Run Smooth I! TAP AP.nZA. Snaln. Nov. ik-(jn Everyone knew Salvador Sanches had a fierce, quick temper. But n one believed he would go complet ely berserk In an argument with his prospective in-laws. ! He was quarreling ! with bis nrth.arf', fathr nvmr Itie 4fawrv he thought he should receive. When the lamer rerusea to agree to his terms, Sanchez shot and klU-Va Mi his weetheart and her father. mother, aunt and one brother. He seriously wounaea two ower Bro thers and himself. - . ! 1i Sanchez was taken to a hospital under heavy police guard. . ' ;l - Death Beats ! Santa to Boy WILMINGTON, Del-! Nov. 2. (AVThe premature Christmas par ty planned for seven-year-old Eu gene Metts in Memorial hospital was cancelled today, j i Death beat Santa CUus to the youngster's heart- : N A tree was being decorated, presents were being wrapped when little Eugene barely; conscious but anxiously awaiting the party succumbed to leukemia, a - blood disease. ' i ; The youngster. waxtaken to the hospital Tuesday night The party was planned for 4 p. m. today aft er a radio station broadcast; Eu gene's last wishfor a Christmae party. t ? Death, however, came to Xugene at 10 a. m. 1 ; 1- i ) I Y 4