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I i a POUNDBD 1651 100th YEAR 2 SECTIONS 40 PAGES The Org6n Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Sunday. April 9. 1950 PRICE 10c No. 13 My sterious Noises Baffle Britishers By Alvta J. Steinkopf LONDON, April t-Jf)-BiiXam are hearing strange noises in the ir. And at least one of them Ralph B. Cox, an elderly London bar risteris determined to find an explanation, a scientific one. He started mass observations, is seeking the cooperation of gov ernment scientists and has advertised in the Times. m i ! : I w I IF ..maah 1 ravel Bureau Prospects Good '. An all-time record number of vacation inquiries has been re ceived during the past month by the Oregon state highway travel Information department The more than 30,000 inquiries Indicate that 1950 tourist travel should be on a par with 1949's record-breaking volume. - v California has sent the most re quests for information, followed by Illinois and adjoining mid western states. Meanwhile, plans are progress ing for more than 150 rpeclal events ranging from festivals to round-ups for the coming tourist season. Salem's Cherryla.id festi val, Portland's Rose festival and the Hiss Oregon contest at Seaside are only a few of the feature at tractions. : April's events wii include Sa lem's annual Blossom day, set for April .18. Other April events will include: The Striped Bass derby, Coos Bay, March 1 - August 31; St. Helens Salmon derby, April 1 - 29; Coos Bay j Yacht club boat show, April 7-8; Annual Root feast and rodeo, Warm Springs, April 8; Northwest Shrine rodeo, Portland, April 21 29; Primrose show, Portland, April 22-23; White Water parade, Mc Kenzie river, 'April 23; Blossom time. Hood River, April 24 - May 10; and Music festival, Ontario, April 31, May 1-5. Doubt (last on Pearson's Plan For Successor PENDLETON, April 8-;P)-If elected governor Walter J. Pearson may not be able to appoint his successor as state treasurer, a Pen dleton legal expert said today.. Gene B. Conklin, former assist ant U.S. attorney for Oregon and author of "Plural Office Holding." published in the June, 1949, Ore gon law review, said "Oregon law is clear on this point." I "If the state treasurer should be elected governor, he would have to resign to the present governor be fore he could be sworn in," said Contain, j The Pendleton attorney - said Pearson earlier had voiced belief he could name his successor. 'Whirlwind' Tornadoes Hit Calif ornia LOS ANGELES, April 8-()- Kain and freak whirlwinds upset the pre-taster weather in south' em Calif ornia, today. The weather bureau didn't call the twisters tornadoes but said they were whirlwinds resulting from warm surface air rising rapidly through an upper, un stable cold air mass. One twister struck east Los Angeles. It partially 'unroof ed two warehouses, toppled a dozen pow er lines, smashed plate glass win dows, knocked down television aerials, tossed barrels in the air like toy balloons and ripped shin gles from a Union Pacific railroad roundhouse. There were no reports of in juries here, nor serious ones in BakersfJeld, 120 miles to the north, where another twister hit There ; it lifted two sheet metal fiarages from a house trailer sales ot and dropped them on a bus traveling along U.S, highway 99. . Traffic was snarled for a half hour. j - SLIDES DELAY TRAINS ASTORIA, April 8 JPy Two earth slides blocked the railroad line between Astoria and Port Ian today. Service was not expect ed to be restored until Sunday. The slides were at Rainier and Mayger. , SMALLPOX OrjTBXXAX GLASGOW, Scotland, April 8 (AV A 20-year-old hospital laun dry maid died today, the fourth fatality in Glasgow's smallpox outbreak. u COAST LEAGUE ! At Saa rraactaco S. Scramnto At Vom AaclM S. Saa OtM 11 At PortUad-OaUand. raia ! . At teatuVHollywood, raw I Reports Tourist "Unidentified continuous vibra- lory noise in ine aimospnere, tne ad said. "Will those who hear this Untetd me v Letters have poured in. &ome guesses have been eliminated. One writer thought jet motors might be responsible. But jets don't blow around a lot of air at 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, when the noise is loudest Some . thought radar might be doing the i trick. But the noise persisted, with or without radar. Cox says the noise sometimes howls, then moans, then whispers, "and it's a confounded nuisance.' He says it has affected the health of his, wife, who uses a hearing aid but has no trouble hearing the unearthly wail. The most fantastic speculation is that Mars is blowing whistles at the earth, or perhaps the little men in the flying saucers are com municating with each otlur i WI don't think it's anything that preposterous," say Cox. "There must be some scientific explana tion." Quads9 Mother fKinda Tickled And Disgusted? LOUISVILLE, Ala., April 6-JP) A white Alabama farm wife was "kinda tickled and disgusted too" when she gave birth to quadru plets today. ' But Mrs. Mackie O'Neal Single ton, 33, was only slightly less flabbergasted than her tenant farmer husband, said Dr. R. O. Norton, who delivered the four squirming baby girls. The Singletons already have six children, the yungest four-year-old twins. Farmer Homer L. Singleton, 33, "didn't have much to say about it," Dr. Norton' said. f Dr. Norton, who has been in general practice here for 38 years admitted he was "about as surprised as the parents even though he suspected it could be twins at least. "But I guess if you stick at anything long - enough," he con fided, "you're bound to hit the jack pot some day. Look like 1 made it this trip." The doctor said the babies are well-developed. At the Salter's hospital in Eufaula, Ala., where the quads were put in an incu bator, attendants said all are get ting along fine. The mother stay ed at home and was also reported in good condition. Tip of Finger Points to Thief COLUMBUS, O., April MP-A dead finger tip pointed today to the identity of a burglar suspect. The tip of a right-hand finger was found at a Columbus gasoline station March 24 after a burglary. Police preserved the tip in alcohol. Lawrence Ardister, 19, appeared today in the police lineup His right hand was bandaged. After the dead tip and the live right finger tip prints tallied, said Det. Sgt Tom Sawyer, Ardister ad mitted the burglary. No charge has been filed. . The finger was injured, police quoted Ardister as saying, when a station radiator fell on his hand. I ON FISHING BOAT LOST CHATHAM, Mass., April S-(JP) Almost home, a fishing boat with eight men aboard was lost off Cape Cod today in a howling snow-blinding gale. Politics on Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! (Batter's aotc: CaauaeaU ia this ser ies arc attt ay or far ta candidates witaaat restrictiaa. aa aar ar may a reflect ta aataiaa at tats aears sf. Today's subject: Alvin N. Whitlaw ( d ) Candidate for y SUte RepresenUtive (Marian) More consideration for the tax payer; mora supervision of the tax spender! This can be- come more than a slogan ill , . X enough demo crats are elected. No need to do without modern conveniences. In fact, wt need ly in rural areas. 1 We can have them and still airta waiuaw curb our rising taxes. We can accomplish this by better supervi sion of our tax dollars. The TJttle Hoover committee'' suggests nighter control" of our states finances by way of cre atine a new high salaried "job" Ne w Fair Job '' V-:--.- Mrs. Ella Wilson, a 35-year em ploye of the state fair here. Sat , urday was named manager of the Multnomah county fair. Mrs. Wilson Manager of Gresham Fair PORTLAND, April 8 -(")-Mrs. Ella Wilso- today was named manager of tl e Multnomah Coun ty Fair at Gresham. Mrs. Wilson, who retired last year after 35 years as secretary of the state fair, was appointed by a seven-member fair board, which was named earlier in an attempt to assure a fair for this year. The fair's . future became un certain when the old board of di rictors and the county got into a, squabble. A compromise was worked out with the old board naming three members of the new board. The county court named three more members, and the six then selected a seventh member. The county meanwhile is in vestigating affairs conducted by the old board. Mrs. Ella Wilson, who Satur day was named ' manager of the Multnomah county fair, ' served continuously either as secretary or manager of the state fair here ffrom 1915 to 1949. An Oregon resident since she was 5 years old, Mrs. Wilson was first employed at the fair on a temporary basis in 1905. She be came a regular secretary in 1915 and held that office until 1922 when she was named fair man ager. Mrs. Wilson managed the fair from 1922 until 1933. At that time she returned to the post of secre tary when the fair board was re organized by the state depart- 4ment of agriculture which in 1931 had assumed control of the event. She resigned last summer. Easter Holiday Accidents Few By the Associated Press The nation's Easter holiday got off to a safe and sane start Sat-j urday with an assist from the weather. - Cold weather over large areas of the country kept pleasure driv ing at a minimum. From 6 p.m. Friday to 3 p.ml Saturday (local time) only 57 per sons had been reported killed in traffic accidents and 14 in miscel laneous mishaps. ; This is below the daily averagi for the first two months this year Traffic deaths have been averag ing 78 a day. However, this fig ure includes deaths days or weeks after the actual accident- Parade . . . a legislative auditor to "checkt on the spending of departments and furnish the legislative assemf bly his information. Legislator should have ability to do theijr own "checking. j The old-age pension plan as outlined in Walter J. Pearson's platform will do away with c workers. This will be a direct sa ing that can be applied where it belongs to the welfare of senior citizens. I believe that the overlapping duties of the county sheriff and the state police can be stream lined so each will do a better serv ice. J In my own business as a feed and seed dealer, I have found that one can only "spend a dol lar once. Do it the right way and one will have no regrets. Do jit the wrong way and one goes into debt. This applies equally to a small feed store as well as the sovereign state of Oregon. j I will apply the same business principles I have found successful in Whitlaw's Feed & Seed store on South 12th Street in Salem. (Tamerraw E. E, Baring.) 1 Easter Events Varied By the Associated Prcsa Joyous Easter hells ring out a message of hope today to a world beset by anxiety and fear. In formal worship and private devotions, Christian millions throughout the world commemo rate the long-ago invent that sym bolizes the triumph of life over death the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the tefmb. Holy year pilgrims to Jerusalem and Rome, sunrise! worshippers on American hillsides, secret cele btants of solemn rites discouraged in some countries join in the com memoration. i Easter Parades In a different vein, Easter pa rades on New York's Fifth avenue and other great streets of the wes tern world provide an after-church display of 1950's brightest spring fashions. j! Cold and windy weather was forecast over the Northern half of the country, with rain or snow in pirts of the middle west, Florida and the Gulf states were expected to have fair and mild weather. A few scattered showers were indi cated for the southern Rockies and most of the Pacific coast. Roots in Faith The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America declared in aji Easter message that "our Amer ican faith in democracy has its his tdric roots in faith' in God." Madam, you'll yvear that new bonnet in Salem's 1950 Easter parade today at your own risk. The weatherman predicts that occasional light ;: showers may dampen more than one young maiden's sprightly new hat. The clouds are scheduled to abate Eomewhat Monday and temper tures today will; range from a high near 59 to a low near 36. No great civilization of man kind has ever yet been built on an ajtheistic basis," said the council, representing 27 denominat ions. here is no reason to believe that materialistic philosophy can pro- ide an enduring j foundation for ciety today." - ". Pope Gives Blessing J In Rome, an Easter throng of rtiore than 500,000 Was expected to fill the great basilica of St. Peter's and the square before it when Pope Pius XII celebrated pontifi cal mass (1 a.m., :PST) and gave bis blessing to the city and the world. ;; . With thousands of holy year vis tors thronging the city, bells of nearly 500 churches' pealed at noon yesterday to mark the end of Lent, r Other great bells rang out their message of a risen Christ in the Arab-held old city of Jerusalem, where the colorful, annual holy fire ceremony was enacted on the traditional site of Jesus tomb. Unlike last yearji when the me mory of Arab-Jewish warfare was still fresh, hundreds of pilgrims from the western world are in the Holy land. Hashemite Jordan Ar abs promised to open the ancient Jaffa, gate today so that pilgrims might visit the holy selpulchre. Many and varied observances were on the Easter calandar. in the United States. : Some 75,000 persons were ex pected at sunrise services in Mia mi 35,000 in the; Orange Bowl stadium. Provision was made for at least 20,000 at a dawn service in Indianapolis. Congregations of 35.000 at the Garden of the Gods near Colorado Springs and 13,000 at the park of Red Rocks, near Denver, were expected. In the Wichita ; mountains near Lawton, Okla., 100,000 were to watch scenes from the life of Christ portrayed by a cast of more than 2,000 in a natural amphitheater. Brother Refuses To Appeal Verdict On Mercy Killing ALLENTOWN. Pa . April 8--Counsel for Harold IMohr, convict ed yesterday of voluntary man- -'-, SIS U1C VHiCT.l II1TTI killing of his brother, said today ne wiu not appeal me verdict. Harry Creveling.! Mohr's attor ney, said after a conference with the Mohr family, "?there definitely will not be an appear." President Judge; James F. Hen- nineer of Lehirh eoiintv rourt haH not set a date for sentencing pend ing the Monday deadline for an ma t4 J. 4 L a I it appeal. Mohr is liable to a maxi mum sentence of II years and a maximum fine of j $6,000. 1 tft;G fflGB0ffl6Q I Max. - ss i Mia. Precip. .is 41 .53 t .19 29 .00 as 10 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicato New York S3 SS FORECAST (tram US. weather bu reau. McNary field, : Salem : Partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional hftit how erf today. Imprtrtrine to scattered cloud in cm tonight and Monday. High today near S1-SS and tew tonight sear as-ia. . . .. iaum rucmTAnow . a : Last Year a?Ja This Year saJt Normal 3203 McCarthy Waters IDown CBnairges Odd Speech IRUdddms Seroate 8mmMDi)ii4y Easter Bunny PUnninr their Easter err hidinr pars are members on tne baiem start searching for the errs at 3 I I . 1 ""i 11 " pi" I ? 1 ' - -, , i iiiiiiMnMnniin an,, m ami mn iihimihi imumm hi hi . van suuivan, ieii. ana dod sanastrom, wniie in aaca are bod liray, Leo uoire. mis win oe one or tne photo). Dinner to Fete Salem High's Speech Team Salem high school's speech and debate team, state champions for 1950, will be , honored Tuesday night at a testimonial dinner given by Salem's Toastmistress and three Toastmaster clubs. The title was won last week at a tourney in Eugene. The dinner will be at 6:30 o'clock in the ' chamber of com merce, with Richard Schmidt, pre sident of Willamette Toastmasters club, as toastmaster, according to Mrs. Marion Curry, president of Toastmistress. The program will i include short talks by club members to recog- 1 nize the students' accomplishments and responses by the high school group. The honor euests will include Amanda Anderson, 'coach, Gilbert Bateson, John Bone, Jim Humph rey, Eunice Peckenpaugh, Eugene Poindexter, Frank ViTaris and their parents. Superintendent Frank B. Bennett, Assistant Sup erintendent Harry Johnson, Prin cipal E. A. Carleton, Assistant Principal Gurnee Flesher, State Superintendent Rex Putnam and Mayor R. L. Elfstrom. The Salem school board has been invited to attend. Cabinet Official to Run for Senate r- "War! ; (Jn Urailliail 1 Ian WASHINGTON, April 8 -CP) The way was cleared for a possi ble test of the Brannan farm plan at the polls today. Albert J. I . . ;rTi.. w i ivp snn r; : vrii a unoersnrrc- . race for the U. S. senate in Iowa. Loveland has said that he will use as one of his major talking points the farm plan put forward by his boss. Secretary of Agri culture Brannan. . Love land is seeking the demo cratic nomination for the senate i seat now held by Senator Hick- erJooper. republican. If Love land should win the nomination, the ensuing election campaign could provide a significant test of farm belt sentiment toward the Bran nan plan. SLEIGHT OF BALLOT ROCHESTER. N.Y, April 8-0P) Tellers counted eight more bal lots cast than members present at a Rochester magicians club meeting. A second election went off without hocus-pocus Given Egg Hunt canfpaim for an all Salem Easier etr zn-iQ club and the taster rabbit himself. Children under nine ran p.m and prises will be awarded those who find the most. Kneeling are first aii-baiem taster erg hunts Willamette Valley Mail Route Slated PORTLAND, April 8-4)-Bids will be opened here Thursday for a temporary star mail route from Portland down the Willamette valley. The route will be from Portland to Oregon City, Canny, Wood burn, - Salem, Albany, Junction City and Eugene. The truck will carry mail accumulated here be tween 9:50 and 1 a.m. ; Farm Jobs to Open Monday Jobs for 50 to 75 workers probf ably 'will be available in straw?, berry and hop fields around Salem Monday morning, according to W. H. Baillie, local manager of the state employment service. Baillie said farmers are a month behind with these crops due to wet ground and that only a heavy rain this week end would change the picture. . I Most of the demand is for work ers to hoe strawberries and hops and dig strawberry plants, he said. Growers provide transportation for the workers who are loaded at the employment office. South Cottage and Ferry streets. County Official Failure to Aid Jo VANCOUVER, Wash., April 8 (Jp). Sheriff Earl Anderson, un der attack as the result of the Jo Ann Dewey kidnap-slaying case, hit bac at one of his de- j tractors today. He tookway a special deputy i --- -- - . ! sheriffs commission irom coun ty Commissioner Claude R. Bone, accusing Bone oi lailsire to aia the l-year-qld Dewey girl the night of March 19, when she was seized bn the streets of Vancouver. Bone was One of a number of persons who saw two men slug -the girl, push her into an auto mobile, and drive away. None of the witnesses : made any attempt to interfere. The Clark County sheriff made public a letter to Bone in which he said Bone failed to aid the girl, failed to report the abduc tion or to give descriptions of the kidnapers and their car. The letter , said three sheriffs cars were nearby at the time, and a prompt report might have result ed in interception of the kid napeni; : i Instructions " I ... w n hunt this afternoon In Willson enairman of the event, left, and ia several -years. (Statesman Movie Morals Probe to Start WASHINGTON, April 8 Senator Edxin C. Johnson said to day that the senate commerce committee will begin an investi gation of movie morals with pub lic hearings May 15. The Colorado democrat, chair man of the committee, said in a statement the hearings will be concerned with "the exploitation by Hollywood of. public scandals involving the private lives of per formers." He has proposed legislation re quiring the licensing of movie ac tors and of films shipped in inter state commerce. Lower. Cdlumbia Area Told to Repair Dikes PORTLAND, April 8 -(JP- The army engineers warned the lower Columbia river area today to re pair dikes before the annual flood period comes along. Col. Donald S. Burns, district engineer, said much work already has been done by the 60 drainage ! and dike districts, but said several 'still needed more repairs. Chastised for Ann Dewey J The girl's body was found in the Wind river a Week later. Utah and Turman Wilson are held in jail here, accused of the crime. Bone said he felt the sheriffs action was in reprisal for his proposal yesterday to have the county court demand Anderson's resignation. None of the other commission ers seconded Bone's motion. Bone said there had been much talk that the sheriff mishandled the investigation of the case. Bone added he would give up his special deputy's commission Monday, but would keep his badge, which he said he under stood was not county property but a gift paid for by the sheriff. Anderson meanwhile faces a charge of improper action in of fice. A resident of Jo Ann Dew ey's home community of Meadow Glade signed a complaint earlier accusing the sheriff of manhand ling a man who volunteered in formation he said might aid in the Investigation of the case. Lattimore Says Talk Amounts To Retraction WASHINGTON, April 8 -OIV Senator McCarthy, to a new at tack on the state department, to day omitted his specific charges of spying and communism, and tne department asserted he was i. w "bleating like a lamb." And Owen J. I tlmr.rr rierlavw ' ed that the Wisconsin republican senator's speech amounted to a re traction of his accusation that Lat timore Is the top Soviet secret ;' agent in the state department In a -public speech at Passaic NJ., where he did not have the immunity from suits which sur- rounds remarks in the senate. Mc Carthy noticeably softened his charges against Lattimore and two state department employes.; Generalised Statesmen ta I For example,- he said that Lat- . timore, Johns Hopkins university Far Eastern expert, is "selling our state department a pioaram identical to the planks in the plat- form of the communist party." Tonight John E. Peurifoy, the state department's security chief. issued a statement faying: "Senator McCarthy roared like .' A a lion when he wore the cloak of 1 congressional immunity. Now he -m discards his immunity, strikes the ' pose of a hero and bleats like a 1 lamb. Also Dropped Charges "When he dropped his cloak of 1 immunity, he also dropped the substance of his first charges." Those accusations were made originally in two speeches on the senate floor, one last February ' and the other a little more than a week ago, and before a senate committee where he also had im munity. 'iv--'f,: .' Peurifoy did not refer at all to -' Lattimore, who the departnient says has never been employed by it. . Did I Repeat Specifically, McCarthy did not repeat today his charges that Lat timore, whom he has called a top . architect of UJS. Far Eastern pol icy, is a Russian espionage agent and a communist party member or a former one. McCarthy In his speech renew ed his attack on Philip C. Jcsiup, right hand advisor to Secretary of State Acheson, and John S. Serv ice, U.S. diplomat. He failed also to repeat some of his Charges against Jessup and, Service. He dared them to euaiA him for libel. Refers te Jessop Peurifoy did not mention either man by name in his brief state ment, but in an obvious reference to McCarthy's previous Charges about Jessup, he said: "The man who Senator McCar thy, first charges with 'an unusual affinity for' communist causes is now a man who was once con nected with an organization the senator does not like." He referred to the Institute of Pacific Rela tions which expressed opposition to Chiang Kai-shek. 1 And of the Service case, Peuri foy said: "The man whom Senator Mc Carthy first tried to libel as one of a group of 'card-carrying com- munists now is described in carefully-phrased innuendo. Beard Reviewing Case "In that . Innuendo the enator conceals the fact that this man was reinstated in the department of state by former Secretary of State (James F.) Byrnes and Un dersecretary of State (JoMphK Grew, both ef whose letters en the subject were made public by them at the time. As the senator ; ought to know, this case is new being reviewed by the president's', loyalty board.' Lattimore has repeatedly chal lenged McCarthy to repeat his charges in some situation where he. does not have congressional pro- : tection from libel suits. "Of course." he said alter Mc, , Carthy's speech today, "the sen- J ator did not repeat his charges. He knew better than to make them ; in an unprivileged speech. "HMinr Behind laasaealty' "Again the senator weaeled . Lattimore said. "He knows that the charges are false, and he is frantically trying to hide behind his senatorial Immunity while pre tending to come out in the open. . . . He must have, a low opinion of the Intelligence of the Amer ican press and the public." Lattimore declared that if Mc Carthy "were a man of his jvord. he would perform en his twice-. repeated promise to resign from the senate. That Is the best possi ble way in which he can serre his country. Lattimore was referring to Mc Carthy's statements that he would resign from the senate if the day ever came when he would net make off the senate floor free from congressional immunity i f any charges which be voiced fcly congress.