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v; , j j ; : . ' ' " " f U LP I mo um t " - - , ' i -t. J . - M'.-.'.-.'.i . . ' . ; x; ..' .ff -i Census-Takers on -Mi 100th YEAR 12 PAGES Tho Orocjon Statoaman, Salem, Orogon. Saturday. April 1. 1950 PEICE 5c Now . POUNDBD 1651 ""1 Travel Letter No. 1 ' ST. AUGUSTA, Fla. Florida is ' California with moisture. Its sandy soil is underlaid with limerock sukl overlaid with tourism. Ponce de Leon of Spain discovered Flor ida in 1513, but the vital discovery ;s and invasion were made j by the Yankees a little -.over a quarter century ago. The resulting boom and bust were an Important pre liminary to the 1929 depression. Florida's recuperative p owert, . however, were more than adequate . and it seems to have caughi-up and passed the Imaginative 1920s. You can tell Florida when you reach the state by its tropical re sort appearance. Housing is" bel ter a welcome change from the negro shanties of South Carolina, many of them with wooden clos ures, for windows instead of glass panes Georgia is a little better with enough sawmills to provide considerable employment. ' . 'But Florida shows the' Impulse of northern enterprise and capital. It diligently exploits its attractions and makes caring for tourists a major occupation. And tourists from the thickly-populated states to the north move southward in winter like migrating birds. On our way here at the end of the win ter season these bird's of passage were streaming northward; cars and house-trailer parks abound at all the tourist centers, r - But Florida has more than the tourist business for Its support: (Continued on editorial page 4.) House Passes One-Package Foreign Aid Bill WASHINGTON, March 3MSV The house, in a sweeping rever sal of its earlier' actions, today passed and sent to the senate a $3,000,000,000 foreign aid bill. The vote was 287 to 86. f The huge, one-package bill was trimmed or some of the money . President Truman wanted, and his plan to develop backward areas of the world was cut almost la half. But the administration won these two hotly contested points:, 1. An amendment which would have barred all aid to Britain until Ireland is united was knock ed out ' by a 226-to-60 standing Vote. :V ..' ; - 2. A provision that $1,000,000, 000 of the fund be earmarked for surplus UJ5. crops was eliminated, - 198to 70. But the administration : lost a couple of other decisions. A $250,000,000 cut In Marshall plan funds stayed In. 7 The plan to develop economi- f.cauy backward areas was slashed ' from a requested $43,000,000 to $23,000,000. The vote here was 117 to 78. i Here's the way , the bill now lines up: - , $2,850,000,000 for th Marshall plan nations of Europe. $100,000, 000 for the Republic of Korea. $ 100,000,000 for Formosa, Na tionalist China and southeastern Asia. $27,450,000 for relief of Arab refuges from Holy Land wars. - $23,000,000 for development of backward areas under the "point lour" plan. i to Construct Civic Auditorium SUBLIMITY, March SI Resi dents of Sublimity this week vot ed to build a 72 by 100-foot civic auditorium on the site of the old Sublimity grade school Work on tho project will begin in about a month.;.. ' The auditorium building will be faced with masonry and will house a 48 by 100-foot auditorium which can be divided Into four sections by sliding doors. The project will be financed by Ciblic subscriptions and donated bor. No estimate of the cost hag been made. Plans were drawn by lUlph Lulay. Joseph Schreve and Xrvin Schumaker are on the fi nance committee. ' AnxnizI Crcchci? By WARREN GOO0RICH To were bitten by mm?3 Uekl How saany timt mmst J t'l fow arccarf ftere tJuft HOT mwsT Sublimity 'f DOG "I t3i i I n fl H-P u u- 13 j-N As eenaas cnomeraton 1esiB their full-scale ' canvass of Salem area l homes today, each will show credentials to notify householders he Is representing the U. 8. gevernment in the official Census. Above, Mrs. Faith Wyeoff shows her yellow Identification card to Mr. S. - R. Kela at her home, 185 N. 13th mt. In prelimtnary canvass Fri day. Under the enumerator's arm. Is her census portfolio of ques tionnaires, i it - t ' - ' . - . - - - (: . -4 . , ' H - ... (iph v-:v I A U'W4 ' pry " ' I Prepared for any situation, this census enumerator, Airs. Walter Slembler, 1797 Center st. (right), found two girls preparing to move ,U a new location. Bat she interviewed Ruth Bisckoff (left) and Joyce Lulay on the spot as their lease did not expire until last "midnight. t ; ! i Ea Salem aa elsewhere, census takers will be pounding city pavement, j riding country reads and otherwise seeking out the population today asi the 17th decennial U. 8. census begins In earnest. Familiar sight j will be the approach of an enumerator with his portfolio, as pic 'tared. Albert Blade, 1105 S. llth st is en his rounds. (All photos by Den DiU, Staiesaun staff photographer.) CenoiiG Starts Today; ! Full Cooperation AsEted : Population, census taking begins officially today in athe Salem area as it does throughout tho United I State. :M",.;r .- , '-jf j ' In the five-county Salem! dis trict, this every-decade question! ing la now tho task of 285 fellow citizens who are to call on every home In the area. ''The Job Is expected to i take about two weeks in city areas and about four weeks in rural sections, according to Cornelius Bateson, who is supervising the Salem dis trict Bateson said he was confident that 1 the whole-hearted coopera tion i shown enumerators In their practice operations will be contin ued, i Tho welcome has . been re ported warm at tho doorsteps of houses on both city street: ana country ..road, . ..;.-...:, j 'f . More than that, the farms, where more detailed Information is sought, have .been ready i with the answers almost without ex- cestion. he added, Agricultural r tur I ? schedules were mailed out saveral days ago to give farmers jn op portunity to fill in the blanks, sav ing! both his and the census-taker's tune. : V, In a proclamation Issued Fri day, Mayor R. L. Elfstrom c. Sa lem declared' the census "is of vital significance for the economy I of our country. It will have the ef fect to reflect a true inventory of our population, housing and agri cultural matters. Such information will be of inestimable value in planning for the future of our country. It Is important tnat if the census Is to be complete and serve its full purpose, all citizens cooperate m every way possible with the, census takers.1 HOUSE PLANS EXCESS WASHINGTON. March 31 -WV Tho house snouted throurh with out debate today a resolution giv ing u a recess starting at tho end Of business Dot ThundiT anH continuing until noon Tuesday, Apru is. Bridges Case Jury Debate SAN FRANCISCO, March 31 The federal court jury deliberating the government's charge of perjury against longshore leader Harry Bridges retired for the night to night at 9:40 pjn, PST. It, receiv ed the case at 12:42 p.m.j ' The jury of eight, men and four women decided to call it a day about half an hour after they had sent in a request for a copy of the court's instructions. The trial, which opened Novem ber 10, was the longest criminal trial in this federal court's history. .In 1945 the Australian-born CIO Longshore union leader swore, at his citizenship hearing, ! that he wjasn't a communist. Last May the federal grand jury indicted him on a charge of perjury, ij ;Two fellow-officers in the long shore union, J. R. Robertson and Henry Schmidt, were indicted for conspiracy. They were ; Bridges' citizenship witnesses. Perjury carries a maximum pen alty of five years in prison or. a $5,000 fine, : or both. Conspiracy conviction could result 1 in two years or $10,000 or both. But more than that, a conviction would lay Bridges open to proceedings for revocation of his citizenship and deportation to his native Australia. Mother Kills ' ... , IT : , li - : Child Makes Suicide Try CHEMULT, Ore., March 31-() A six-year-old boy was killed near here today in a gasoline sta tion rest room with an Automatic pistol that was found beside his seriously wounded mother. State Patrolman Jim Ayers quoted themotfter, Mrs. Lola Pat rick, 26, assaying before! she was rushed to a Klamath Falls hos pital: -I just couldn't gd on like this; I Just couldn't. I'm not fit to live." - ' I I: . The patrolman said the told him, "I didn't want to leave him behind.? : -' ; N- j! The boy, Lyndell Patrick, died immediately of a bullet wound in the chest in the locked rest room of the service station at Beaver Marsh, seven miles south of here on the Dalles-California highway. Mrs. Patrick also was shot in the chest. i j They came to Beaver Marsh with Shelby Edison Stillwell, 35, of Sheridan, Ayers said, j Stillwell told Ayers Mrs. Patrick was di vorced from her husband! and had been living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hayworth of route 1, Jefferson. He said she had gone to San Francisco by bus with her son, and then telephoned him to come and get her. Stillwell did SO.1 '" ' 'Ij i . When they stopped on the re turn trip at Beaver Marsh, Still well told the officer, Mrs. Patrick apparently called the boy i Into the rest room with her. Then he heard the two' shots and a scream. He said he could not account for the shooting. Treasure Found at .Goering'g Lodgei MUNICH, Germany, March 31 -(Ph American investigators have uncovered a hidden treasure in the cellar of Hermann Goering's former hunting lodge in the Ba varian mountains. - ', ! Clarence M. Bolds, state com missioner for Bavaria, said the treasure, was found in a chamber but he refused tify It It-- ; concrete to iden- Politics on Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! (EurV : Ceauatats la this ertes y rifetjtae ea MtM wttkat rcstricttom. Misuy r auy Mt rnctxU eputtoa ef UUa Joseph Singer (a) Candidate for. j Stat Representative (Pelk) ; 1 was prompted in filing my candidacy not only by tho desire to promote the interests of the demoer M i c ; party and the common jman,. but because of' tribute, within my lit etlm msmm est n mmr. ment Since our ' government is based on demo cratic principles. I feel that we, as individuals, should feel obli gated to take part in Its func tions. ' i : i j ., iU :. I was born in Bismark, N. D, Dec 4, 1900. I lived on a home stead until 1809, then moved to . - .. r U. S. Tells Greece To Reform jRuk Or Lose ECA Aid ATHENS, Greece, March 31-CP)- U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady called on Greece today to put her political and economic house in order if she expects to receive further, American aid. In a strongly-worded letter to Premier Sophocles Venizelos, the j ambassador warned that continuance of American aid will depend on "basic and bid ing ; decisions" by' the Greek government that will insure successful utilization of Mar shall plan funds. American embassy sources said the letter was unpreceden ted in U. S. relations with Greece., Police Arrest v Local Boxer Dean LeRoy Abney, 20, of Jef ferson, : professional boxer well known to Salem audiences was arrested Wednesday on a charge of receiving and concealing stolen goods. j Abney, along with George Wright and Donald William Er ickson, both of Aumsville, was taken Into custody by a Marion county deputy sheriff and a state patrolman. Wright and Erickson, both 18, are charged with burglarizing the Aumsville tavern and coffee shop last week of about $200, all in rolls of nickels. , ' Abnew said he did not take part in the burglary but, in his signed statement he admitted helping Wright and Erickson dispose of the money. The fighter was scheduled to appear in the main event of next Wednesday night's professional boxing card at the Salem armory. Chairman Howard; Maple of the Salem boxing commission Friday suspended Abney, pending inves tigation of charges against him. : The 18-year-old Aumsville pair both admitted implication in the burglary in statements signed at the sheriffs office,, Deputies said they took about SI 68 in nickels from . the Aumsville and another $35 from an adjacent coffee shop. About $18 was recovered, depu ties said. , The burglary occurred In the early morning hours of March 22. Wright .and Erickson, both formally charged with burglary not in a dwelling, are being, held in the county Jail on $2,500 bail each. Abney was released Friday night on payment of $750 boll. All three are scheduled to ap pear this morning in Marion coun ty district court to plead to the charges; Czech Priests ; PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, March 81 -(JP)- Two high-ranking Roman .Catholic clerbymen plead ed guilty to high treason today, the official Czech news agency said, as the country's first mass trial of churchmen opened. Ten ' clergymen t are charged with high treason; espionage for the Vatican, anti-state activities and plotting the armed overthrow of Jhe present communist-led regime. The news agency. Identified those who confessed guilty to high treason as Abbott Bohumil Vit Tajovsky of the monastry at Zelvia in central Bohemia and Abbott Augustin Machalka of the monastery at Nova Rise. Tho news agency said Abbott Mach alka also confessed to the espion age, count' ' r Parade . . . my present farm home In Pclk county where I have been locat ed for 40 years except for six years In the U. S. Navy. I am married and we have two chil dren. I attended Polk county and Salem schools, and took exten sion work from tho University of Oregon.' My occupation since 192? has been that of a rose nurseryman. However, I have devoted consid erable time to writing and to the study of human nature and the reaction of the individual to changing economic conditions; My work has appeared in a nunvf ber of Literary Reviews, etc Consequently. I fed that a humane approach to the problems of government is fully as im portant as a cold, statistical con sideration of 'the needs of state power. I would say that my whole hearted interests lie chiefly with tho average citizen, and my aim. theref oreA would bo to work for tho mass population instead of the privileged - few. The demo cratic platfotan. in which I firmly believe, has always been dedi- ccated toward lhat end. (Teaaorrew fraak Farsaer). Dean Abriey, Plead Guilty eniiug Jo Ann Dewey Case Suspects Claim . Persecution Becauseof Police Record SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 3W-One of the two short poker-faced -brothers accused of slaying an 18-year-old girl in Vancouver, Wash., told police he was in the vicinity of the crime at the time it was committed. But e denied involvement as did his brother. ;. U.S. Marshal, Hayden Saunders said the men!' Tunnan G. WJlson, 24, iand Utah Eugene Wilson, 21, indicated! they would not fight return to Washington on kidnap-murder charges. The fugitives fell into a police-FBI trap last night. They had been sought since the nude, viciously beaten body of Jo Ann Dewey was found in Wind creek, uay. sne naa Deen dragged screaming into a car by two men on a Vancouver street a week earlier. 1 A fingerprint on a bottle discovered at thessite of the abduction led to a search for the brothers, both former convicts. ! - City Detective Robert E. Doyle said Utah Wilson told him that he was near the jabduction scene at the time. But Utah added: . "1 don't know anything about papers." ; ; The brothers were given a preliminary hearing before UJS. Com missioner Adellia C McCabe today on the federal charge of Illegal flight They were remanded to custody after the federal warrant and locked up in the county jail. i ' Police said the brothers had $550 In $10 bills. They added that Utah told them the money came from a series of 50 burglaries for which he was sent to the Washington reformatory in 1942. "The money belongs to me because I earned, it by doing time In prison. City Detective . Doyle Later newsmen were allowed to talk with the brothers. Turman ! charged he has been hounded by police since he was convicted of j rape in Oregon in 1942. M "I have done nothing wrong," he continued, "but I realize that leaving town just before this crime Sheriff, Aides Arrested VANCOUVER, Waalu, March SI -(if)- Sheriff Earl Andersen f Clark ceunty and-two deputies were arrested tonight ei ' charges of voluntary Intoxication and creating a disturbance." They appeared at the sheriffs office to have the warrants served on them by Coroner Roy Spady. Then they posted $10 cash bond each, and were freed. This left the sheriff free to leave for Sacramento tomorrow, where he would pick up Turman and Utah Wilson, charged with the slaying of Jo Ann Dewey. No hearing date has been set on the charges against, the sheriff and his deputies. . I ; j 1 The action grew ont of statements that the sheriff and dep uties, Arthur Swick and William Scott manhandled Colin Cree when he volunteered information he said might; aid In solving the kidnaping of lf-year-old Jo Ann Dewey. H i The complaint was signed by Grayson Crult 45, a deacon of the Seventh Day Adventist church at nearby Meadow Glade, who was at the home of H. E. Cusic March 25 when the officers came there to talk to Cree. ' I- .- , ); : T .- , Mrs. Wilson Ebferids Her Sons CAMAS., Wash., March 21 -W)- Mrs. Eunice Wilson, tall, dark, husky mother of the Wilson brothers, said simply today: j 4tAll my boys are good boys." x . - : . Mrs. Wilson lives about six miles north of here in a heat tiny house. She said she 'reared eight children on county relief because the father, Mose, is "never at home tohelp.' ' ; f She is Sunday, school superintendent for her small community church. ;! f Two of her sons, Utah'and Turman. were arrested in Sacramento last night on first degree murder and first degree kidnaping charges in the slaying of 18-yearold Jo Ann Dewey of Vancouver, Wash. Two other sons, Basal and Glenn, are serving time In the Oregon state penitentiary after 'a 1942 rape case conviction in Portland. The fifth son. Grant is considered by neighbors to be the family "white sheep." Neighbors said they would stake their lives on his honesty and integrity. It was information from .him which led to the arrest of Turman and Utah. '' 1 , . "I Just know that my sons are not guilty," Mrs. Wilson said In an Interview today. "I leel it in my heart The boys' records are be ing held against them. Turman has been working in a mill and working hard. Utah his been helping me on my 10-acre farm." 1 -.j- ; 1 " She said the boys stopped going to Sunday school and church when Utah was 12 and Turman was 16. v ;' i She looked at the gold star hanging In her window. Irs for her son Lester, killed in the Sicily Invasion, i Then she Said: "Down deep Utah and Turman are both good boys. They both got good grades In school. I tried hard to give them a Christian up bringing. "l ' ( ! , "All myjbdys are good boys." UtaEs Bride Waits for Outcome vAnarrnrnn wh Marrh one of two brothers charged with murder in the death, of Jo Ann Dewey, puff ed on a cigaret today and said she'd stick with her bus- Dana ai iesi lor we um oom. . i . . , Petite Lucille Otoe Wilson, 17, said the charges filed against her 21-year-old husband and his brother, Turman, 24, came as "com- eH fifTMin Via ttm in w another's acartment she said she hadnt seen Utah since Wednesday stayed In a Portland hotel lor a supposed to be a honeymoon ; r-Tl j Tu.k honeymoon had been delayed. The except for the usual utue mar IH stick by Utah until I find he " the rirl said. "I don't know Ann Dewey); was abducted. They 100 HeThusoand dSsW have a ck. AmiA tttah a an ardent in the daytime and tame home at WelfareFund SwitchMade - : .) 6' ; - f : . PORTLAND, March SHV The state welfare commission to day transferred ' $60,000 from its general assistance funds to meet county welfare commission budget requests for the period ending June 30. The action come as the commis sion began a study of county re quests for 1950-51. i Lna Howard, welfare adminis trator, told: the commission some of the county budgets woum nave to be revised- Some, sho said, were too blgbi and others too low. Meair droinnie . ' -1 , v near Stevenson, Wash, last Sun it except what I read in the news . -..- ' - quoted Utah as saying. . did not do us any good." r . si .(Jin- The bride of Utah Wilson, when be left with bis brother. "We couple oi oays, . sn auueu w - J. i . V'a.w ' in ViDMuwr Xecember 4. but their marriage had been happy, though, , " - 't i . . .7 out what the outcome is going to where they were the ngnt sno no told me they weregoing to Silver- Job. she saidbut "U was fcoktag." fisherman, who usually went tuning night i j i liax. SCin. Pwtlp. je :i i T 47 AO SS ;; AS Portland l Saa rraadace Chicaeo H Ye ZS , rORICAST tfrom V . j nmv. McNary fi! MartljJ cloud today toad toalgfet wttfc liht rataTiittannlttanUy today and Hciib Ins mwwf hbisbi. rua may m sea mw wuiu aw w-m: SALKM MUtClWTAIlOlt This Yaar itast Tear ST.TI sue nti TXANSIT STBIU TLAKNTn SAN rRANCISCO. March II SypUnM to strike the San Pran- dsco municipal railway system at 11.-01 sun. Sunday were announ ced tonight by President Henry S. Foley of the CIO Carmen's union. , j ,... - dlOuiiflfis Home Building Sets 4-Year Mark in Salem r Construction of more new hornet within the Salem city limits waa authorized durinff March than dur ing any month in the past four years. v u.-. v i The city engineer's office Issued building Dermits for 80 dweliinn Slated to cost a total of. $431,350, no zor an aaaiuonai tnree dup lexes valued at $28,550. Engineer's office records, which date back to 1929 on home con- strucuon figures, list , only : two months in the past 21 years which are comparable to March's record total. - ; k 3 - j One was January of 1940 when construction of 88 dwelling units was authorized. The other month was last October when 1SS units were authorized." An apartment house, however, accounted ior 101 Of this total i 1 . . I Last month 24 home building permits were Issued and 10. were granted; during January. (Additional details on page 4.) Merger Issue Stymies CAB Airlinellearin. ; WASHINGTON, March 31 -WV . The civil aeronautics board today i adjourned its hearing on airline f service affecting Salem, Ore., and ; other Pacific northwest cities. -Examiner J. Earl Cpx said tho 1 hearing would be reopened either when CAB receives an applica- -tion f or merger of West Coast .Airlines and;, Southwest airway ' or when all parties are-satisfied ! that the rumofed merger will not ' take place. , t - ' : - - 3' i Robert Henry, coj&nsel . for Wert Coast said details of the reported merger would be' made publie within six weeks or not at all. ; i Testimony this afternoon waa , E resented by three United Air nes officials showingwhy United should not stop operations at Bel lingham, Wash., and Salem, Bend and Klamath Falls, Ore. 1 Ray W. Ireland, United vice- president , questioned CAB's au- 5 thority to order United .out of the ' four towns. An order of that kind has never before been issued by ? .the board."- . , Salem, as a state capital, needs a transcontinental airline, he said. He added that Salem U the eth i largest producer of freight traffie for United on the West Coast' He pointed out i that United tv regular Portland flights from the south all pass over Salem anyway and that United needs Salem a -an alternate destination for Port land.!.", f- . : - i. ! : . 3 Eyerly Given Aware) I Foror vtJi Potw 1 A gold star award was made by Gov. I Dourlas KfcKav fa If -Eyeriy in recognition of his ser vice as rounder and captain of the Oregon mounted posse, v i Eyerly headed the posse until recently when Holly Jackson be came captain. Walter Leth was master of ceremonies for I tho Thursday night program recogniz ing Eyerly. K -.. , . COAST LKAOITSI At Ballrwe e. PerUaad S. At OakUsi , iMttle f U balan) Al fsa Mace Saa rrastacell AS Ittftawli Lm Aalaa 1. Religious Events Given Emphasis FoknofyWeek The meaning and background of three religious events, as wen as details iof their observance next week in the Salem area, are j presented in "Passover Palms -Pass ion on today's church page in The SUtesman, page 12. A similar article next Saturday will tell about Easter, climax of the Christian year. And beginning Monday mora, ing. The SUtesman will present each day a Gustave Dore pic ture and the Bible story of that lay in the week between Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and His resurrection, These features, concerned with all religious faiths, in BASEBALL i. -v i " 4 :- i il i 1 . I s ' I