The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, March 31, 1950, Page 2, Image 2

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    Thj States menu Salonv Orocpn, Tjlday, March 31, 19S0
Truman Names
Pace to Army
Secretary Post
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KEY WEST,; Fla., March 20-P)
President Truman todaybitterly
denounced Senator McCarthy (R
VI is) and senate republiains as
sociated with him for frying to
sabotage the bi-partisan foreign
policy of the United Stf tea."
He described McCarthy, instiga
tor of an investigation of alleged
communism in the state depart
ment, as the Kremlin's greatest
asset in this country.
His "denounciatian came in an
action-packed press conference in
which he addressed sweeping
changes in his administration.
He said he k appointing Bud
get Director Frank Pace, fc, im
mediately as secretary of the army
succeeding Gordon Gray.
ITnlrersity President
Gray, whs has resigned to be
come president of 4he University
of North Carolina in September,
-was designated as special assistant
to the president of work until that
time on a bi-partisan program to
reduce tne aouar gap Deiween ex
ports and Imports.
The president also ' announced
that Secretary of the Ah Force W.
Stuart Symington is being named
chairman of the national seimlty
resources board, that Frederick J.
Lawton, now an assistant, win be
badget director and that special
Assistant Elmer Statts Is moving
up to succeed lwton.
He declined to reply to questions
as to whether Thomas K. Pmlet
ter, former ECA chief in London,
will succeed Symington as air
force secretary. -Jim
Fvadanental Differences
Mr. Truman said there were no
fundamental , differences on de
fense policy between the adminis
tration and General -Dwight D.
Eisenhower, "but he declared he
did not believe in the slightest that
defenses have fallen below the
dancer point.
Bat, it. was mostly on foreign
policy, and on the series of at
tacks on Secretary of State Ache
son and the state department that
the president devoted most of the
25-minute conference.
He praised the bi-partisan for
. eign policy cooperation of Senators
Vandenberg R-Mlch) and Salton-
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L. Stimson, former secretary of
war, another repubacan.
Ts Appotat Repahueaa
. He is seeking their advice with
the -view to appointing an out
standing republican as I amhana-
dor-at-large to succeed Philip C
Jessup as ace "trouble shooter"
far "the state department, the pres
ident said. . .
. He said he Instituted a loyalty
program in 1947 and only about
205 of nearly 2,200,000 employes
left the government.
- Mr. Truman said the real rea
son lor McCarthy's attack, and ha
associated Senators "Bridges fH
NH) and merry (B-Neb) with
them, is political, that the republi
can policy caaimfttee is backing
fnem, and that they; are trying to
find an Issue on which they can
win control ox congress this Tear.
XhHagDead Sana -
They are trying to ride a dead
horse called isolationism, be said,
after falling with such issues -as
"statlsm In New York and "the
welfare state." . ' '
.' They are perfectly willing to
sabstage the hi - partisan frlgn
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Truman.
! He described the attempt as a
fiasco.
He said he was fed up with
wbat going on. -
. Sharply, he added that the re-
senate had ?re-t McCarthy's
antics, but without the support of
level-headed republicans like Sen
ators Saltonstall and Mr. Sumson
and others. . -
flying Pants Turn
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into icaaj liears
; SALT LAKE C3TT-(fl5) -The
mavy may , never have thought it
would happen but name of its
surplus flying pants are becoming
Teddy bears. The-fleece. lined
pants make 'very cuddly beers.
Mrs. De Wayne C. Anderson got
the Teddy bear idea when her hus
band bought home 150 pairs which
he bought ea surplus end pi
to aeZL She cuts up the pants and
ews the pieces together in the
.shape of three-foot tall Teddies.
For noses, feet-bottoms and paws
she uses the dark brown hat"w
tram the pockets. She stuffs the
beers with upholstery batting. Fox
eyes from a furrier serve as eyes.
' And Mrs. Anderson says the
pants bring more money as toy
bears.
MILK STTJTJT
DENVER -(INS)- A survey of
milk drinking habits in Denver
Jound one family that takes six
dozen quarts a week. The samp
ling study, for the Denver Dairy
council, was carried on by stu
dents in the Denver university
marketing and distribution re
search class. Average consumption
was one quart -a day per. family.
Bias an occasional extra purchase
from a store. Square bottles are
referred by those who nave mux
delivered, while the store custom
er likes the paper carton. More
than half of the mflk drinkers did
not believe the price too high.
Cannery Scandals . o! 1S59
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Ccaamj Local 670
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Ilarci 31st &C3 P. H Leslie Aidilcrizzi
Aclmtadon
Lee, Grant to
Meet Again
At Appomattox
WASHINGTON, March 30-P-Boberi
. Lee has accepted an in
vitation to meet UJS. Grant at
Appomattox courthouse, Va., next
month.
Rep. Abbitt (D-Va) said today
he was advised by Lee, a descend
ant of the confederate leader, that
he is arranging to jcome from his
home in San Francisco.
Grant, a descendant of the fed
eral general, has already agreed
to participate in the dedication
April If of the McLean surrender
house and the Appomattox national
historical monument. Grant Uvea
here.
Lee advised Abbitt that be plans
to fly here for the ceremony and
then fly back to his home,
Demos Ward off
Attempts to Cut
Foreign Aid
WASHINGTON. March 10-V
The administration got back in
control in the house today, and
warded off all further attempts
to whittle down the foreign aid
bffl.
The big vote on the $3,000,000.-
000 now is expected to come Mon
day. ; In contrast to previous days,
when the administration took three
straight lickings, the house today:
L Beat down, by 154 to 103, an
amendment offered by Rep; What
Smith (R-Kans). Smith wanted
to drop from next year's fund the
sum of $150,000,000 which is ex
pected to be unspent at the end
of tins fiscal year on June SO.
2. Approved $100,000,000 for
economic aid to the Republic of
South Korea.
Feeds far China
3. Gave new authority to spend
about $10000.000 at China aid
funds left over fram previous
authorizations.
4. Wound up the section which
deals with aid to western Europe,
Korea and China
Soil up for argument: 77,450,000
for relief of Arab refugees from
the Palestine war areas, and Presi
dent Truman's controversial Point
Four" program..
TaU Fees-
TPoint Tour," so-called because
it was the fourth point in a presi
dential foreign policy statement.
calls for $45,000,000 to help under
developed areas. Rep. Burleson
(D- Tex has termed this -Global
WPA."
Today's session was quite a con
trast to previous actions by the
house on the administration's xe-
Quest for $3,372,490,000. The op
position won tentative approval of
amendments which would
'- I. Knock a quarter of a trillion
dollars from the Marshall plan
fund for western Europe.
2. Block all aid to Britain tmfil
Ireland is rHit,
2. Earmark $lfl00fiOQJ006 of the
fund for the purchase of U.S. farm
surpluses.
Administration leaders hope to
reverse all these decisions.
Price of Haircut
Jumps Yearly
CLEVELAND tmS. Tha nrtr
of a haircut in Cleveland is 'one
dollar, but Samuel Bloch willingly
paid $10 for one and even drove
L400 miles to the barbershop.
It wu not men nnntr tHnt
brought Bloch from .his home in
Miami, Tbx, to pay the tenfold
fee at a Cleveland barbershop re-
eently. Bather. It was a promise he
made nine years ago. '
Bloch, at that time president of
the Independent Beauty Barber
Supply Co, was making a business
can at the barbershop when he
was stricken with a heart attack.
Acting cjulckly, Howard Geh
an. manager of the shop- and arf
staff gave B&seh whet emergency
xtrst aid tney could. , ; .
Bloch lav near death In ffc
pital for many days but finally
recoverea. lie eredited the
with saving his life and made the
nremise that Hnni tttm
uieveiana zram riortda.
He said he would visit the shop
once a year, and would add a dol
lar each year to his haircut pay
ment. For the first eight years he lived
in the city, but last year he moved
to Miami. Still, Bloch kept his
word..
He hopes heTl be back next year.
Barber. Gehman hopes Bloch lives
to be 100.
INTERIM GROUPS
CHICAGO -ONS)- Studies of
sxaie-iocal problems by interim
legislative committees have been
ramrjleted' reeentfv nr -mrm tmAmm-
way. in several states, according
to the American Municipal' asso
ciation. States having such com
mittees set m tn tm)T vmrntofnal
problems include Mississippi. Cal-
uorma, lowa, Minnesota. New Jer
sey, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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Prospects for
Irrigation Good
At Hood River
HOOD RIVER, Ore, March 30
CJF)Ajnple irrigation water is
forecast for the Hood Biver valley
districts this year in the report of
W. T. Frost here today to valley
fruit growers.
.Frost is in charge of snow sur
veys for the soil conservation ser
vice and Oregon State college ex
periment station.
"Mountain snow over in Hood
Rhrer-Wasco county is now be
tween 150 and 200 per cent of
normal with more than usual
amount covering the low eleva
tions," Frost said. He said the
above normal stream flows -would
produce "excellent to abundant"
water supplies in the April-September
period.
County Agent Lee Foster report
ed valley orchard soil is saturated
with moiiture in the valley gen
erally. Similar wet conditions pre
vail in Wasco county, according to
Water Master James Mc Williams,
of The Dalles.
Yale Swimmer
NXW IhAVZN. Conn- March
30 -JP- John Marshal, amazing
20-year-old Yale freshman from
Australia, defeated the Olympic
champion, James MfTaine, by
yards tonight In the LSOO-meter
freestyle opening the national
AAU 26 th annual Indoor swim
ming championships. Marshall's
time of 18:37.0 set a new meet
record. The : former mark was
123S.4. set by Kiyoshl Nakama of
Ohio State in 1942.
Marshall was officially timed
at 400 and BOO meters as he sped
along, but his marks, although
sensational, were well short of
world records. They were 4:4Lf
for 400 and 9:45-5 lor S00.
Bend to Ballot
On Time Change
BEND. March SO-UVA straw
ballot on daylight saving time will
be taken here Monday.
The dty commissioners voted to
set tip a ballot box at dty hall to
get aa advisory opinion from the
people. They win be guided, but
not aovnd. by tne
Charlie Handles
15,000 Complaints
PITTSBURGH H&V Think
you've cot troubles? Meet Charles
A, -Snyder, head erf Pittsburgh's
Buieau of Sanitation, Snyder,
with bis two clerks and a steno
grapher, handled more than laOOO
complaints last year.
Many of the callers are apart
ment house dwellers who om
plain of unhealthy or unsanitary
conditions their iaxMkxrds refuse
to fix. Most of the troubles have
come up before, and handling
them is pretty xouch routine.' But
once in a while one comes up that
stumps Snyder and his whole staff.
like the other day when
young ex-GX phoned to complain
that his kitchen sink was full of
dirty dishes. Be pleaded with
siryuer
"Cant you jeome over here and
make my wife wash themT"
i A cow has been found to utilize
up to 22 pounds of chopped white
potatoes day in milk production.
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Woman Pays
rHeavy Fine
COLUMBUS, O, March SO-P)
The dty of Columbus netted only
88 cents on one $1 traffic fine
today.
Mrs. Martha Fowler paid the
fine. She attached six dimes, two
nickels and 30 pennies to the back
of the traffic ticket with tape.
But, said the traffic bureau,
before the dty could collect the
ticket, it bad to pay 12 cents
postage.
PJ5. Note to Mrs. Fowler:
The city expects to collect 12
more cents from you.
Navy Reserve
Party Tonight
Navy reservists of Salem's train
ing division 12-22 will hold their
spring ship's party tonight at Vet
erans of Foreign Wars haZL
Chuck MoJkey's orchestra will
play for dancing, from pa, for
members, their wives and guests.
and any other navy or marine vet
erans. Philip N. Winters 1j dance
chairman.
At regular training last night at
w . j . . . . fc. m fcyamt
the reservists prepared for annual
inspection of the unit, A party of
high officials from 12th navy dis
trict headquarters in Seattle will
make the inspection here April 12.
Rodney Petty was promoted last
night from seaman to SKG2.
St. Paul Girl
To Compete for
Slirine Queen
Jane Smith of St Paul will rep
resent Salem Shrine dub in a
statewide competition for Shrine
queen.
She was selected by judges
Thursday night during a Western
style dance sponsored by the Shrin
ers of No-name ballroom. Judges
considered poise, personality, voice
and public acceptance as well as
horsemanship which has been
Judged the night before.
Shrine officials announced the
derision was a dose one, with
Miss Smith tied with Doris Hale
of Salem before final selection.
Other contestants had been Con
ine Cross, Salem- Joan Usher and
Bonaie Flkkiugei of Monmouth.
Statewide cosepetitton for the
Queen's laurels will be conducted
at Al Kader temple's rodeo la
Portland next month. State win
ner wffl be seat to New York.
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Arsonist Inmate
Of Sanatorinm
Set Fatal Fire
PHILADELPHIA, March 2HJP)
A 26-year-old convicted arsonist,
committed to the Belie Vista sana
torium for mental treatment, ad
mitted today he set the fire that
suffocated nine fellow inmates.
State Police Sergeant Charles
Taylor and Police Chief Andrew
J- White of Springfield township
said Nicholas Verna of Upper
Darby, Pa "broke down after a
three hour grilling and confessed
he was the firebug who started
last night's blase at the 47-year-
ttXd ilewtitartsynWa
Some of the men who died were
strapped to iron cots, in barred
and Mityl roonas.
At least SO other persons, in
cluding firemen, nurses and pa
tients, were injured.
Set. Tavlor arrested Verna at
Valley Porge General hospital at
Beamy nwniu sine wnere verna
and 12 others were taken after
the fire. Taylor said Verna was
convicted of arson in 1249 in Dela
ware county (Pa) court and com
mitted to Belle Vista.
Taylor and White said Verna
also was convicted of setting eight
fires in the Crozer. building in
downtown Philadelphia "several
years ago.
Verna was not hurt in the fire
which started in the sanatorium
basement and mushroomed into
the upper floors. He and the oth
er 12 patients taken to Valley
Forge all were ex-GIs and were
sent there for emergency treat
ment. Sick reefing
1 got a sick feeling and had to
ao sonaetninav' ne was tmrarel
The Police serreant said Verna
told him he went to the base
ment and ignited a towd on a
rack near the laundry chute with
lighted match.
Verna lived in a mom bv him
self on the ground floor of the
sanatorium and could go wher
ever he pleased. Tavlnr said. add.
ing that the inmate had the privi-
ege ok sjomg aome xor long week
ends. He generally left on a Fri
day night and returned' on a Mon
day night. Taylor said.
Upper Darby police helping in
the investigation said Verna was
graduated from Upper Darby
high' school in 1241 and the same
year was arrested on charges of
being a "Peeping Tom" Ha was
released in the custody of his
parents. They added that Verne's
father gave him a barber shop
when he got out of the army but
he set fire to that too.
What win be done with him
was undetermined. A conference
was arranged for tomorrow morn
ing among Taylor, White and Dis
trict Attorney J. strand whv
of Montgomery county.
nre uncovered
The fire was dlxmvmA uvt-
ly after 10 pm. last night.
"It was sickening," said Pire
maa Walter Bahrbach who res
cued 12 women patients, carrying
them down a ladder one at a
time.
"Some were screaming. Some
ere standing amund wttk
sive blank looks, not understand
ing wnat was going on, or so
scared they had no motimi
g lames starting in the base
ment sent clouds of smoke rolling
into unoer roams of th umtnr.
ium for treatment of unralMmt
senile, nervous and mental cases.
l wo nanents remain in rrHiMi
condition at Montgomery county
hospital.
Mrs. Theresa Shaw, nurc
at
the sanatorium, deaerihed W
staff members saved the lives of
Terribly scared'" patients.
"Soma were too old tn walk and
had to be carried from the bund
ing. Some straggled violently.
Scane laughed. Others stared with
Diana: races,- she said.
t DIE AS TRAIN DERAILED
MALAGA, Spain, March 20
()- Eight persons were killed
and 20 others were seriously in
jured today in the derailment of
a train at the BobadUla station.
40 miles north of here.
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Carnival Time
Slated Tonight
At Salem High
Ifs carnival fame again at Sa
lem TTjg
The auditorium lights wiU dim
at 730 tonight for "Fairyland
Follies", current version of the
inter-club event.
Selection of this year's cueen
wiU be announced in the opening
moments of the show. The spon
soring Civics club will follow with
the first skit K3nderela". Leslyn
Burdette and Berniee Isaiah are
managers.
The Spanish and Latin clubs
wfll present "Alice in Wonder
land", and the Salem Hi Radio
dub wfll provide a specialty, "A
Fairytale.'
David Rhotafi and Loyal How
ard are managers of "lire Flies",
title of Snikpoh and Palletters
entry. Home Economics and PhU
historiaa dobs will vie for hon
ors with "Four and Twenty
Blackbirds'.
Bob Meaney. Skip Zahleman
and Doug Bodgers win work in
a specialty before the next act.
little Black Sambo", by Qua
Dice and Commercial dubs. Bar
bara Pickens and Lois Chamber
lain art managers.
An oboe solo by Ann Glbbens
wm precede the final skit. It wfll
be "Arabian Nights", entry of the
Vlkettes and French dub and
managed by Nancy Taylor and
Nancy Miller.
Judging the program wfll be
Ann Boentje, Mrs. Chester Downs,
Mrs. Vera . Miner, Mrs. Leslie
Burdette, Dr. Chester Hsmblin,
Mark Hatfield and George Birreu.
Berniee Imlah and Leslyn Bur
dette are general chairmen.
Mayor Recall
Vote Assured
In Springfield
SPRINGFIELD, March 80 -iffy-Mayor
B. P. Larson today denied
charges of lack of cooperation and
failure to keep his campaign pro
mises listed in recafl petitions filed
against him. '
An election for the voters; of
Springfield to indicate whether or
not they want Larson recalled was
set Thursday for April 14.
Larson is accused of failing to
cooperate with the dty employes
and dtixens. failing to comply
with the mandate of the voters at
the election last June on the city
manager form of government, and
lacking qualifications to properly
nil the position.
"X deny each of the charges in
the petitions," Larson said. "When
I sought the office of mayor I
knew I would have to beer the
vicious attack and personal abuse
directed at ma by special interest
groups and the private power lob-
by."
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which moves horses and wheels,
Man Arrested After ;
Auto Found Ditched ' ,
Delbert Lawrence Davis, Mon
itor, was arrested on a charge of
being drunk on a public high
way late Thursday night after he
had' been found alongside his
ditched car by state police.
Davis was released on $50 balL
Police said the car was only
slightly damaged in the accident
which occuiied near Monitor
about t:30 pm.
Prosecution
Siuns Up in
Bridges Case
SAN FRANCISCO, March Z0-VF)
-Prosecutor F. Joseph Donahue
this afternoon finished his argu
ment to the jury in the Harry
Bridges trial with a plea for "an
American verdict."
Donohue's last words wound up
the courtroom activity of the today-long
trial in which the gov
ernment tried to show that the
CIO Longshore Union rhfp ftsto Bed
when he swore at his naturalization
trial that he was not or ever had
been a member of the communist
Prty.
Judge George B. Harris wfll in
struct tiie Jury tomorrow morning.
and then the talesmen win start
their deliberations.
Donahue told the fury that
Bridges "wanted to become one
of ns in order to destroy us.
The prosecutor said "I can see
no way whereby anybody . can
escape the conclusion of Mr.
Bridges membership tn the com
munist party."
Fugitive Caught
After Hitching Ride
With State Police
Charles Henrv Griffin T.vmtt
Wash., was held in the county
tail Thursday because he tried to
hitch a ride with the wrong driver.
He is wanted hrr Waahinrlm m.
thorities on a burglary charge.
vxTuxm was arrested by state
police on a fugitive warrant from
BelUncham. Wash- after ha tti
hitched a ride with an off-duty
state patrolman. Be was fined 22
and costs in district court on the
hitchhiking charge.
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LISBON, Portugal, March 20
UP)- A crane on a truck carry
ing seven workmen struck a high-
tension electric line on the out
skirts of Lisbon today, killing
five of the men and burning the
other two badly.
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State Hospital
Flii Epidemic
Fatal to 48 '
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CLABINDA, la March 30
The Iowa state mental hospital
here has been struck by en epi
demic of influenza which has
cssjsed XX deaths rlnca last Sat
urday arkf48 deaths in the 'last
This wast disdosed today by Dr.
Norman B. Bender, head. f tkj
ltistltatkai which Is xurrentl
housing 1,488 patients.
About 3 patients were report
ed on the sick list today. Dr. Ben
der said there is no fori tertian lho
epidemic has reached Jis peak.
The hospital superintendent
said it Is the most virulent stego
of the disease he has kaowa.
Those who have died, he said,
were mostly aged persons who
suffered from Debilities other than
Pay Scale in ;
Couity Below
State Average
Workers m Marlon county, who
are covered by the state unem
ployment program, were averaging
about $242. per month in wages
late last year, the state unemploy
ment compensation coininisaion re
ported Thursday. ...
This was $20 per month below
the state average. Highest on the
list for this county (compiled for
the third quarter of 1949) were
construction workers, at 2334 per
month. '
Next came automotive supply
workers, 2293. Others near the top
of the salary list include printers
2289; wholesalers,. 2225, and lum
bering, 2222. About the middle of
the list came food processors, 2213.
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