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-. v.! - - l- ' '. 1- : '. IssM lolgosmi KoDtg Modus IPfctedG ' ' ' ' : : : : : : " . ' ' ' ' " 't't' ffn in Welsh Airliner Crash Solons b$7 SI Ml Rl SO Persons Perish To Give : : - '. . v 1 Worst Disaster in I History of Aviation CARDIFF, Wales, March 12-CTV-A low-flying airliner filled with ay Welsh football fans crashed 150 yards short of its home runway, today, killing 80 persons in the worst recorded disaster in aviation history. . i Three persons oi me io passengers u cw m iicru vu. DIP tPEDCEQCH f on vacation, tak Ing trip to the east coast and into the deep south, returning about mid-ApriLt Hi regular column will be interrupted, save for such travel letters as he may I irm anrl onDOrtUnltT IO - JJJU - -MM write. ' 2Ei iiiffineers Lost; Klamath Area Searched KLAMATH FALLS, March 12 ra-Pniir checked waystops in the Lava Beds National Monument area tonight in a search for two federal bureau engineers. Listed missing are A. G. Rib beck, 38, Sacramento, Calif., chief th federal reclamation bureau engineering office there, and Rudy Simonson, 28, weea, warn, inw left Weed Thursday evening. Po lio todav learned the two men had checked out of a hotel here early Friday. r Three Oregon air guard planes were lined up for. an air search due tomorrow. It is planned on a chance the car the men were rw in had Blunged off an icy moun tain road or into a roadside canal. Th en sin cr were to inspect the Tulelake section of .the Klamath Irrigation area. , j v ' Ground parties searching along the basin and mountain highways art directed by H. W. Thomson, Sacramento. He came here aboard a reclamation bureau airplane dis patched from the California head quarters to Join the air patrol. i Salem Youth Speaker' of Mock House One of the top positions In the annual Oregon Youth and Govern ment legislature, to convene in Salem April 28 and 29, went again to a Salem delegate, as Kent Myers was elected I speaker of the house at a preliminary session Sat urday in Eugene. Last year James Cooke of Salem was boy gover nor. ' . i !- In Eugene about: 50 HI-Y boys and Tri-Hi-Y girls from one of the state's four zones heard state officials teU of their jobs and of legislative procedures. - They also saw University of Oregon speech students demonstrate the handling of a bill as in a house of repre sentatives. Others elected Saturday includ ed Bill Reeves, Springfield, clerk f senate; David Blackmer, Salem, and Janet Elliott, Roseburg, re porters. Each zone elects two of the major officers, two reporters and several senators. Other dele gates, chosen by their home clubs, become representatives. Senators for this zone are Bob Meaney and Charles Wilhoit of Salem. Heike Ohling of Albany, Vic Sanders of 'Roseburg, Lynn Johnson of Eu gene and Bob O'Connor of Spring field. . ' j- :. Myers, a senior at Salem high school and a member of Abel Gregg Hi-Y dub, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur V. Myers. He is school yell king this year and is en the track and golf teams. Animal Craclcers By WARREN GOODRICH "TVorms? ear en no! i t. ; m. .' . V j: 4 OI Ulc snaueicu wretuge uc, Relatives and friends who had gathered to welcome the fans watched horror-stricken as the plane nosedived into the field scattering mangled bodies and luggage. The four-engined Avro Tudor plummeted to earth 15 yards from the nearest house in the tiny ham let of Sigginstone. It came down so sharply there were no skid marks on the ground. Amazingly, it did not explode or burn. 30 Seconds from Safety The aircraft was just 30 seconds away from its destination at Llan dow airstrip a wartime base which has been reduced to reserve status and is now headquarters of an auxiliary air squadron. The strip is just outside Cardiff. The plane was chartered by a group! of Welsh football -fans to take .them and bring them home from I Ireland where they saw Wales beat Ireland, 6-3, yester day in a match for the United Kingdom football championship. They celebrated last' night in Dub lin. Extra Six Seats Originally 72 seats were booked but, an airline official said,, just before takeoff an extra six seats were put in to accomodate half a dozen determined fans who were anxious to see the game. Banners and ribbons proclaim ing support of the Welsh football team were found scattered among the wreckage and the battered bodies. There were many witnesses as the heavily-loaded transport fait ered on its approach after com pleting its landing preliminaries normally. They reached the tangled , wreckage within seconds to find only five of the plane's occupants still alive. Two or these died later. Among the 80 dead were five women four of them passengers and the fifth the plane s steward ess. Plane Came Over Low One witness, Thomas Newman, 29, who was kicking a football around the field with his brother, said the plane came over him so low he had to run to dodge it. He said: , "When it approached it didn't seem to be more than 30 feet up and I shouted to my brother Took out, something's going to happen.' "It passed over us alright and then one or more of the four en gines seemed to stop. Then the machine dipped sharply forward and ita nose hit the ground with an awful crash. Wing Torn Off 1 "The right wing was torn off. and the fuselage was broken com pletely in two. "As we ran up one man came from the big crack in the fuselage. There was blood on his forehead and he said 'Quick, get some help.' "But there was help coming from all sides. I and others pulled out as many persons as we could, feeling that the wreckage would catch fire. Afraid ef Explosion j "We just dragged out the people and dropped them in the field a few yards away without knowing whether they were dead or alive. We rushed back to the wreckage as often as possible, constantly afraid that the whole mass would explode." j Today's accident overshadowed In numbers of dead the "black Christmas' crashes of Dec 23, 1948, when three airliners were trapped by fog and crashed at Shanghai, China, killing 70 and injuring 16. . i The previous record death toll In a commercial aviation accident was the 55 people killed Novem ber 2, 1949, when an Eastern Air lines plane plunged into the Po tomac river at Washington, D.C, after colliding with a .Bolivian piloted fighter plane. Truman 'One of Best Paid Men in World Today 9 Congressman Asserts WASHINGTON, March 12 -VF-Rep. Woodruff (R-Mich) says President Truman is "one of the best, if not the best paid roan In rthe world today." ! Woodruff figured it this way, In a statement today: ' - , "A private citizen, to match the standard of living now enjoyed by the president, would need an in come of between $3,000,000 and $3,500,000 a year." K j First off. Woodruff said,. Mr. Truman - has ' take-home pay of $110,000 a year. Woodruff said some $40,000 in taxes is taken out of Mr. Truman's basic $100,000 salary, but that he gets an addit ional $50,000 which is tax-free. "How many other men have a take home pay of $110,000 a year?" Woodruff Inquired. Then he listed presidential ser vices as follows: Forty-two "facilities" for travel, vacationing and entertaining including planes,. 35 White House automobiles, the yacht Willi ams- I burg; private puilman car, and 99th YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, March 13, 1950 PRICE 5c No. 363 - ' 1 i On the SidelinesBut Vital mmmmmti foyy;-v.;iwj.aiwi'l' , f ' ' ' ' 4 r- -A I -' 'h i nt . - fpjjaisssslsOX44jioceaSiiBv9WG' It will be lusty cheers for Salem Sf ' IB .... - - this week if the cheer leaders above havs their way with Salem for the coveted state championship trophy the rally squads should be In readiness to give an In urging the hoopsters on. At left is Kent Myers, 17, ef 2375 Madison st a senior who is yell king and really vp In the air about It. And winsome Ginger Currier, 17, of 1225 N. 14th st, also a senior and song queen should have no trouble getting loud singing eat of any pep squad. (Photos by Don Dill, States man staff photographer.) ' , Cloud of Gas Explodes; Fire Fatal to Woman ItUUkllilUli WUU., AAkU CP)-A cloud of gas, hanging low over thr highway at Oleum, ex ploded early today, killing a woman and seriously burning two men. Three automobiles were set afire by the blast. Highway Patrolmen Gordon Campbell and Neil J. McClintock said the gas apparently came from a leaking overhead pipe which carried waste from an oil refinery to a nearby dump. They believed It was ignited by exhaust or ig nition sparks from an antomobile. Mrs. Ursula Adams, of Ala meda, Calif- was killed. John Esta of Berkeley and Pvt. Burnett Hale, 21, of the Falrfield-Suisun airbase, were injured. Hale was burned pulling Esta from his blazing car. Esta told police he saw the cloud and ' slowed down. "There was a terrific flash of flame," he said. "Everything was on fire." Hale, driving behind Esta and Mrs. Adams, said: "There was a sudden explosion. My car was on fire. I jumped out I pulled a ball of flame a man out of another car." The third car set afire was driven by Charles Sherman, jr., of Hayward. He and his companions, Bob Sherratt, Barbara Wittrich, and Carolyn Herfield, all of San Francisco, .beat out the fire in their car. Sherman said flames shot up around his car as he drove into the fog of fumes. Dominick Angelo, of Crockett, said he avoided the flash of flame by a quick U-turn on the high way. . WORKERS BACK ON JOB NEW YORK, March 12 - (JP) American Airlines ground crew men streamed back to work to day, ending a nationwide 11 -day strike that crippled 80 per cent of the line's operations. vacation retreats in Key West, Fla., and Maryland. - An estimated staff of 665 per sons to run them at an annual cost of $1,491,540. A White House travel allowance of between $33,896 and $40,000, exclusive of .air travel which is Charged to the air force. The yacht Williamsburgh, "for which! crew costs alone are $190, 000 annually." . The president's personal plane, the Independence, costing $1,133, 000 to build and about $120,000 a year to man. The president's private railroad car, costing between $250,000 and $350,000. A destroyer escort for the yacht ! Williamsburg. Woodruff says it costs the navy $76,000 a year to operate a destroyer. Secret service guards and White House police costing $459, 200 a year. White . House salary costs of $998,254 a year for a staff of .225. high school's Viking hasketbaOers 'Over Exposure' Fatal to Husband BELLA IRE, O., March 12-(JP)- A 23-year-old farm wife told- authorities today she shot and killed her husband during an argument over his , wear ing only shorts before their 15-month-old daughter. Prosecutor William H. Ir win said Mrs. Alice Blake signed a statement that she fired a shotgun blast at her husband, Edward, 27, in their tenant farm home four miles west of here. He died in stantly. In the statement, Mrs. Blake said the argument be gan when her husband got out of bed to cover their, child. He was dressed only in a pair of shorts and she declared it was "indecent" to appear so before their daughter, the statement said. Opponent of Peron Held UENOS AIRES. March 12-vF -Argentine police today arrested Ricardo Balbin who was running against President Juan D. Per on's right hand man for the gov ernorship of Buenos Aires pro vince. They picked him up, just after he had cast his ballot. Peron's friend. CoL Domingo Mercante, was leading 194,428 to 119,468 with one-third of the re suits counted. The order for Balbin's arrest was issued by Federal Judze Is mael Tesaglia. las was based on a police report of a speech where in Balbin reputedly assailed Per on. Criticism of authorities is against the law in Argentina. EVACUATION SCHEDULED HONG KONG, Monday, March 13-CP)- American President Lines said today its Gen. W. H. Gordon will leave -here March 18 for com munist Shanghai to evacuate Americans and other foreigners. "By comparison," Woodruff ad ded, "President Roosevelt in 1945 had a staff of 53 costing $256,431 and President Hoover's staff total ed 37 at a salary bUl of $127,200. Then there are vacation re-r- treats at Key west ana Jsnangn la the latter a presidential 1 hide-out 70 miles from Washing-; ton in nearby Maryland. And in addition to the regular White House : fleet of about 25 cars, Woodruff continues, it is getting a "luxury fleet" of 10 new cars. These, he said, are specially- built limousines with "gold-plated doorhandles, vanities and per fume cases. What's more. Woodruff added, even the White House secretaries, who "once walked to work . now arrive in White House cars." All this, he said, not only makes Mr. Truman a top-pay executive but enables him to enjoy "services undreamed of by his predeces sors." "T 4t l'L A to Vikings at the state tournament In Eugene rooters. With Salem in a top spot Russians Elect Parliament on 'Peace Ballot' By Eddy Gilmore MOSCOW. March 13-P)-Rus- sians elected a new parliament of 1,302 members today as the climax to a campaign based on politburo pledges that the Soviet Union is following a policy of peace. The No. 1 candidate was Prime Minister Stalin. He headed the ticket of communists and -their non-party associates who were shooting for as near 100 per cent of the vote as possible. There, is only one ticket, and that approved oy the communist party. The complete vote was exnect- ed to be announced within a week. At the last election of a supreme Soviet (parliament) in 1946 the returns were complete in five days. All members of the Dolitburo. with! the exception of Stalin, de- 1 1 a , . . uvereu speecnes during ine elec tion campaign. Remembering Stalin's speeches on the eve of past elections, many foreigners in Moscow awaited his appearance last night. Early in the evening, however, it became ap parent ne would not appear at the Bolshol theater, where he made such a speech in 1946. An onera was presented mere last night (This dispatch contained no ex planation of why the 70-year-old prime minister did not speak). Acres of red bunting and thou sands of strands of electric lizhts decorated Moscow and the city was in a holiday mood. Bands played patriotic and folksy airs Loudspeakers broadcast light mu sic. Voters dressed in their best lothes to visit the polling places, rlanyl attended special parties afterward. The weather was bright and mild. From the mouth of the Danube to Bering Strait, ; and from the Baltic to the sea of Japan the vot ers wtre electing 671 members of the council of the union, the up per nouse, and 631 members of the council of nationalities, lower ! house. or ROSSELLINI WINS PRIZE ROME, March 12 -6SV Roberto Rossellini, Italian movie director, was awarded a one million Jire (about $1500) prize of Rome today for his picture, "Strbmboli," star ring Ingrid Bergman. i WOMAN -APPOINTED J WASHINGTON, March 12 - (ffi) Miss uertna s. AdJdns of Salis bury, Md., has been named to the long-vacant post of executive di rector! of the , women's division of the republican national committee Max. S Min. Predp. 11 traea 36 .00 38 .00 ,23 .00 40 XI Salem Portland San Franciaeo Chicago New York . 99 .29 FORECAST (from U5. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem ) : Cloudy, light rain today, tonight. High near SO. low near 40. SALEM rSECIPITATION This Year Last Year S4.7S Normal 2SJ1 Tire BaU' Seen in . V - .. AMITY, March 12 An unl-i ntified fiery object, night-time I dentified fiery object, night- version of the flying saucer, wa reported to have been sighted moving clowly across the skies near here tonight. State police reported that "near ly. 100 persons," saw the object which seemed to hang low about three-quarters of a mile north east of Amity. The A. A. Anderson family, liv ing in town, said they sighted the bright amber-colored object about 7 p.m. Anderson said it was "too large to be an aircraft light and was moving too slow; there was no engine noise." Within a few minutes, Ander son said, the apparition appeared to "speed up," and soon disappear ed. City Marshal James David son, said he sighted the lighted visitor just after 6:30 p.m. and tnat ne notified authorities at Mc Minnville. State police said they were checking on missing aircraft. Pen Inmates Blast Radio fCrime School' WETHERSFIELD, Conn., March 12 The Monthly Record published by a group of Inmates at the Connecticut state prison and circulated "outside," here, has taken up cudgels against radio "crime" programs. In an article entitled "15,000 Murders a Month," a writer-inmate says: "I object! I vehemently object! I get glassy-eyed with anger and my trigger finger jerks spasmod ically every time I think how the radio crime presentation Industry operates its debasing crime' schools."' The writer s&id he had listened to 50 radio "crime" programs in two weeks, one of which "gave details on how to snatch 75 G's worth of diamonds," while another "showed how to case a bank for, a 50 G stickup." ! Also Included, he said, were Erograms which "told how to lackmail recently widowed women out of 5 and 10 G's apiece," and gave "details on a 40 grand kidnaping plot, with a little murder and extortion thrown in." Calling radio crime presentation "the most blatantly debasing and most crime-inducing factor with which the American listening pub lic nas io contend," the writer- inmate turns to television and asks "When they get television so good that half-concealed blood drips onto the nursery floor, will you still allow it? Will you still uunit u is tnruitng?" Gnbitchev Still Undecided NEW YORK, March 12 -JFh rederal authorities still were waiting tonight to hear from Val entin A. Gubltchev whether he win accept the government's offer of release from a 15-year prison term on condition , that he go home to Russia. uubltcnev, convicted on a spy charge, has been reported unoffic ially as ready to accept the offer. Council to Tackle Issue of New Business at Capitol Zone Edge Whether new business should be permitted in the fringes of the capitol zone is principal issue be fore the Salem city council at its session in city hall tonight i Today's issue is over the spec!- L Cc request for a business zone at the southeast corner of Capitol and Center streets limited to use ior a new service station. The change involved, from I-C capitol zoning to a class III-X business zone, carries the endorsement of the city planning and zoning com mission. A city ordinance bin proposing the change- will be up for final passage. ''"' The city council already has received objections to the pro posed change from the state board of control, state highway commis sion, state capitol planning com mission and Salem long range planning commission. Objectors say the capitol zone ' -' ' - j LEOPOLD m OF BELGIUM Waits for Invitation ILUCIU1311C1U3C I'v IcOlia lga 1U l&SUC JAC! To Dr. Sander CONCORD, N.H March 12i -flP) The New Hampshire Medical so ciety refused today to take! dis ciplinary action against Dr. 'Herr mann N. Sander. j It did not wholly close the door upon such action, however. After debating the Sander case for three hours it was said disciplinary ac tion is the province of the county meuicat society concerned." j Neither Dr. Norman W. Crisp, of Nashua, president of the Hillsbor ough County Medical society! nor Dr. Lloyd L. Wells of Manchester, ts recertary, was available! for comment, however, on this phase of the rtatement. In r.ne sense, the medical society meeting was another hurdle suf mourited by the 41-year-old Can- dla physician who only last Thurs day was acquitted by a Manches ter jury cf murder in the death by air injection of Mrs. Abbie Borroto, his - cancer patient. The state society could have rec ommended disciplinary actiojn to the county society. Such action might have been censure, suspen sion or even expulsion from mem bership. But the state society re frained from any such suggestion. It did, however, condemn mercy killing, or euthanasia. In strong terms. In its disapproval it Includ ed "any process for relieving suf fering by the deliberate termina tion of life." " I Wheel Flies From Hot Roi Kills Snectat WALL TOWNSHIP. N. J, W wheel torn loose from a "hot rod" racing car spun into a crowd of 3.500 spectators today. killing one person and Injuring another. The car, one of a field of super charged jalopies competing at the the Monmouth county airport raceway off route 34, careened wildly close to the crowd before it was brought to a safe halt, ' Its driver, John Chapman of Metedecenk near Point Pleasant, N. J., told state police his ancient racer had blown two tires, send ing him into a sudden swerve and causing one of the wheels to fly loose. ! . ' The wheel crashed onto 17-year- old Albert A. Jester of Avon, N. J ?m HIatI In mn amhulanc! en route to Fitkin Memorial hospital The wheel struck a glancing blow at a 1 15-year-old boy Nrho was taken i to the hospital in a second ambulance and was there for observation of a injury. I POPE P117S nONOEED held peck VATICAN CITY. March 1-iAP) -Flags bedecked Vatican City to day on the eleventh anniversary of the coronation of Pope Pius XII. Congratulatory telegrams arrived from many parts of the world. iThe anniversary wUl be celebrated in St Peters Basilica tomorrow in the presence of the Pope. fringe should be held to resident ial, apartment and semi-public type of construction. But the property owners seek ing the change, George. Rhpten and S. F. Speerstra, and the zon ing commission have pointed out that the small corner lot is suited best for a service station and al ready has lain vacant for many years, and that Capitol street is rapidly becoming -a business thoroughfare anyway. The council wiU hold Its offic ial public hearing on the zone change request before taking final action during the meeting which wUl open at 730 pjh. Another . public hearing is scheduled on proposed legislation to prescribe Portland road setback lines which would prohibit any construction within 40 feet of the center line of the street from liana avenue north to city limits. The state highway commission has re commended the setback. buff Verdict By Joseph E. Dynan . " BRUSSELS. Belgium. Mondav. ' March 13 Exiled King Leo pold "III was declared .winner to day in a plebiscite on whether he shan return to the Belgian throne. However, hfs margin of victory In ' yesterday's balloting was slim. He received 57 per cent of the valid ballots. However, some 151,1300 ballots were declared in- Valid. If the invalid ballots are counted, Leopold received only 56 per cent or the 5,236,740 votes cast. These percentages are Imnort ant The king had announced he would abdicate unless- he received -aj .3 at wdsi sj per cent oi uie votes. . The results brought un the Ques tion as to how parliament would construe the returns. Actually, the plebiscite was onlv advisory, being designed to show parliament how the people feel about Leopold. Parliament itself must make the final decision on ine King's status. The final official complete tab-' ' ulation, announced by the Interior J ministry, showed: - No (against his return). 21S1 - Ml. ' Invalid, 141,477. -1 Lead Dropped' . For a time during the counting, i ; Leopold's margin ran as high as' 70 per cent That was while the pro-Leopold Flemish-speaking districts of northern Belgium were being tabulated. His lead was cut down steadily as late returns from the anti-Leopold French-speaking provinces to the south came in. The king lost the Brussels vote by approximately 30,000 ballots. ' ine interior ministry said the king had carried 21 of the coun try's 30 districts and seven of its nine provinces. . Lost" Provinces This also may have a bearing on how the overall count will be construed when parliament finally determines the king's future.. The liberal party, which holds the balance of power, has said it would oppose Leopold's return un less he received a simple majority in both the Flemish and French speaking sections. The final count showed he lost two of the south ern provinces. .' ' There was every evidence that while the pro-Leo poldists consid ered, the plebiscite a triumph, the anti-Leopoldists have no Intention of accepting a 57 per cent Icing. Interior Minister-- Albert de Vleeschouwer, a social Christian, said he believes his party should ask parliament to bring back the king. ,V Meeting Called A cabinet meeting has been caL led for 8 ajn. (3 ajn. EST) today, at which de Vleeschouwer said the ' question Is 'likely to be discus- ' sea."' premier Gaston Eyskena, also a social Christian, expects to Ieace Tuesday to call on the king in Switzerland. ' Leopold has been living In exila In Switzerland since World War II- Many Belgians objected to the king's surrender of his forces te ine nazis and becoming their prisoner early In the war instead ' of choosing to carry on the fight with a governmtnt-in-exile. Race Relations Workshop Due ! Herein April Further preparations for a race relations workshop to be conducted here April 21 to 23 were made Sunday afternoon by valley units of the Fellowship of Reconcilia- -tion, sponsors, In conference with Dr. Orval Etter, far west secretary for FOR. ' Emphasis will be placed, on the raising of questions regarding racism and the providing of infor mation on Salem and Oregon race -: relations problems or develop ments. Topics by speakers from over the state and by panels will include the "myth of race, the price of de mocracy pays because of race practices,' the costs of segregation, . anti-semi tism" as weu as tech niques and the1 use of liters tursr in inter-racial work. - The group, meeting in . First , Congregational church, also heard William McReynolds, formerly ol Salem and now studying for the ministry at Berkeley, Calif., tell of his experiences in English and German work camps the past, year. " Mine Reaches Oregon Shore SEATTLE, March 12 -Wh -A drifting Japanese mine . washed ashore on the Oregon coast today 45pniles north of Coos Bay and is being guarded by coast guards men . from the Florence lifeboat station, the 3th naval district re ported. - The mine, spotted by a civilian, is several miles from any building. It is the third to drift onto Pa J dfic northwest beaches since Jan, L , headed by Lt Cmdr. Robert. W. W . mm. 4 a uan, was oraerta to leave ai am tomorrow to detonate the ex- plosive. . , ,,- -i ' j