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l POUNDED 1651 EiL n wni w ne wftwm M UrtyM 100th YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Saturday. April IS. 1950 PRICE So No. 18 t '- .1 ' 'ft M hi .; i'' :. ' it . NANCY MI1XER 1 j- V s MARLENE HARTMAN ... 1 V- DWYNN ANNE HERBERGER Cherryland Fete 3 Brunettes, Blonde, Redhead - , By Charles Ireland Staff Writer, The Statesman Three brunettes, a blonde and of Cherryland Drincesses chosen From a bevy 4 14 valley Sublimity, Suverton and St. Paul and two irom Salem. They are Marlene Hartmenn, St Boniface High school at Sub limity: I Patricia Mae Kirk. St. Paul: Martha Storruste, Silverton: Springfield SPRINGFIELD, April 14-UP)-Springfield voters apparently 're fused tonight to recall Mayor BC P. Larson. With complete returns In from eight of 11 precincts the vote was 893 for the mayor to 525 for his recall. The mayor, Involved In a fight oyer public power, ' was accused of Inefficiency and failure to live up to campaign promises. The mayor Is backing a plan to start a municipal power sy item to compete with Mountain States. The city council. In a move in terpreted as supporting the may or, fired City Manager Fred Cheatham last night. Cheatham often had opposed the 1 mayor ' In council meetings. COAST LEA GUI . At Portia nd-HoUywood. tain. At Lot Angeles 2. Sacramento I (10 ana l I t At Seattle S. Oakland 4.: 1 At Baa rranctaco 0, San Diego 10. Animal Crachcrs By WARREN GOODRICH mm you'rt ttrtd of berths, eft? but soon tre i htrt bscon tmi ptnvts mm ctndj bn." Backs Mayo MARTHA STORRUSTE nncedded Nancy Miller, Salem High school, 17, brunette, 5'5". Martha Storruste, Silver- ton High school, 17, blonde, 56". Marlene Hartman, St. Boniface High school, Sub limity, 17, auburn hair, 5'4". Dwynn Anne Herberger, Sacred Heart Academy, Sa lem, brunette, 5'3". Patricia Mae Kirk, St. Paul High school, brunette, 5W. s ( 1 v .J PATRICIA MAE KIRK Court Includes a red-head. That's the 1950 line-up here last night. beauties Judges selected girls from uwynn Anne iierDerger, acrea Heart academy of Salem, and Nan cy Miller, Salem High school. To Select Queen A queen will be chosen from these five at the Salem Cherrians Blossom ball next Thursday.; Nearly 1,000 attended the prin cess selection event at Salem High school. Girls were judged on ap pearance, poise and personality Each had been chosen to repre sent her school by classmates. Patricia O Connor, Sacred Heart student chosen queen last year, reigned over the festivities. She was attended by Cherrian King Bing Paul A. Hale. One Blond Girl Martha Storruste is the royal court's only blonde. Wearing a pale blue formal , she told Master of Ceremonies Tom Hill that she lik ed sports and dramatics. Her par ents are Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Stor ruste, Silverton. ' Vivacious Dwynn Anne Herber gen a dark beauty, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Her berger, 2405 Mason St. Nancy Miller, whose dark hair contrasted with her bright red frock, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Burr Miller, 450 N, 19th St. Both girls were favorites Of the predominately Salem audience. Patricia Mac Kirk, a St. Pau girl who likes to rid horses, ap peared in a dotted swiss red for maL A popular choice, she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kirk. Auburn-tressed Marlene Hart menn is Sublimity's attractive con tribution to the court. She said sewing was her hobby. Her par. ems are Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hart menn. A program! by the Paul Arm strong school of dancing completed the program. Deryl Myers was chairman ot the event st on Way to Oregon SAN FRANCISCO. April 14 -(AVAs radio silence hid the whereabouts of a helpless tug and Its crew of six, the coast guard, navy and air force readied a search tonight by six planes and two cutters, it will be mad to morrow 500 miles out in the Pa cific Two planes and one cutter al ready have searched 40,000 square miles of ftxan without sighting the tug. Omar, which sent out its first distress message Monday after engine failure. Not since last sight has a radio message been received from the tug. owned by a Portland, Ore, firm, and on its way from Hono lulu when misfortune struck. - Tuglo Railroad Walkout Pending WASHINGTON. April 14 -JFl- The brotherhood of liremen and enginemen said today its dispute with the railroads over an extra man on diesel locomotives may lead tp a strike call any time. A committee of chairmen of firemen and enginemen on major railroads will meet in Chicago within the next few days to de termine the extent of the threat ened strike and the date a walk out might be called. The announcement given out here, came from Union President David B. Robertson in Chicago who said a last minute effort had failed to negotiate a settlement with representatives with the nation's railroads in the long standing dispute. Similar negotiations were being held in Chicago by negotiators for the brotherhood of locomotive engineers. Officials said that strategy has not been determined as yet whether to strike all of the rail roads at one time or to walk out on a few of the lines. The 110,000 members of the brotherhood of firemen and en- ginemin authorized a strike in a referendum several months ago. Neuner Asks Coordination of Traffic Laws A coordination and clarification of Oregon's traffic laws was asked in Salem Friday by Attorney Gen eral George Neuner. Neuner told a meeting of the Oregon state safety commission, "There is too much variance in traffic regulations." "Speed limits range from 20 to 30 miles an hour in different com munities. This results in con fusion and opens the field for many traffic violations and high way accidents," Neuner said. Lee Brown, assistant superin tendent of state police, agreed with Neuner. "It is the exper ience of state police that in some zones the speed limit is too high and in others it is too low," Brown said. Brown also complained that state departments were too lenient in reprimanding employes who persist in violating road laws. Neuner declared, that "any pro gram approved by the safety com mission should be submitted to the legislature for final action." Representatives of the state highway commission, industrial accident commission, public util ities commission and state health department also spoke at Friday's meeting. Clifford Knodel of Al bany, commission chairman, pre sided. (Additional details on page 4). NEWPORT ASKS HOSPITAL NEWPORT, Ore., April 14-;P)-A Lincoln county group applied to the federal government today for S53,ooo to be used in construction of a hospital here; Max. -53 52 -.59 Mia. Preeip. Salens. 3 .j 41 .01 39 .00 M JDOU Portland San Francisco Chicago 40 New York 49 17 .OS Willamette River 4 t feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau, McNiry field, Salem): Partly cloudy wun a few snowers toaay, Cloudy tonight with rain a rain Sun day. High today near 63 and low to- nignt near 42. SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year Last Year Normal 39.03 : 37.50 32.55 Politics, on Parade . . . e el i II Who's Running fdr What in the May Primaries! (Baiter's : Comments la this ttries arc mi4 ay or for tas -aidatei wHhont rrttricUon. sad mar or may sot reflect Uw opinloa st this B.wsppr). Today's j subject: H. K. (Fanner) Jones (r) Candidate for State representative (Marion) To the Editor of The Statesman: Thank you for asking me to appear in your "Political Parade" column. Rather than a statement. I prefer a letter, frank and friendly, to the people X hope will support me in the May pri mary election. I served vou In three recent' 1 sessions as your- , Marion county rep resents tive.f The r e c o r dl, r snows that l m. J worked honestly and untiringly V .V 4 Expert Says Half Of Astoria Hoipjies In Peril of Slide ASTORIA, April 14-p)-The skidding hill which has wreck ed or damaged 21 Astoria! houses can't be fixed, a state highway Commission expert reported to day, ll He added a still gloomier finding: The entire north slope of the city a slope that holds half Astoria's houses yil' prob- ably will eventually begin skidding, too. ! The latter threat isn't imme diate. It's a slow geological process, and may take 500 years. -. ij The report came front Lewis Scott, assigned here by Ore gon's governor to find out what can be done about the slide that has been wrecking the Coxcomb Hill section since Jan uary. I Scott reported that the trou ble is a flow of mud. which can not be stemmed until the slide builds up at the toe of the hill enough to stabilize the earth. Henrv Fond 9 as J w Socialite Wife Ends Own Life BEACON, N. Y., Aprilj ll-(JP)- Actor Henry Fondas Isocially- prominent wife, being treated for a nervous disorder, killed herseif today by slashing her throat with a razor blade. She had been in a sanitorium more than two months, j She was Mrs. Francis jSeymour1 Brokaw Fonda, 42, descendant of Revolutionary war pioneers. Her first husband, a financier left an estate of millions. j Fonda, who had been living apart from his attractive wife, hurried here after her suijeide. Af ter a simple funeral service the body was cremated. j The actor then returned to New York and went on stage ! as usual in1 the lead role of the hit show "Mr. Roberts" at the Alvin the ater on West 52nd street Fonda last December authorized a statement that arrangements were being made for ai divorce. His name was linked with that of 21-year-old Susan Bjanchard, stepdaughter of Theatrical Pro ducer Oscar Hammerstein, Mrs. Fonda was descended on her mother's side from! Samuel Adams, a Revolutionary war figure. Truman Gives Curley Pardons WASHINGTON, April, 14--President Truman disclosed to day he has granted a full pardon to Boston's 75-year-old ex-Mayor James M. Curley for two federal felonies, involving mail fraud in 1942 and impersonation in 1903. Curley had already served his time for both offenses 4- a total of seven months in prison and the pardon was regarded as chief- ly a gesture to followers of the longtime stormy petrel of Mas sachusetts oolitics. The White House said! the par don was granted yesterday, but it was not announced until Curley ailed from New York this fore noon on a Holy year Plgramage to Rome. STRIKE POSTPONED NEW YORK. April l4HvP)-AFL ship officers on the eastj and gulf coasts agreed tonight to delay for one week a strike which 'had been set; for midnight tomorrow, for the best interests all the people of Marion county and the state. I gave special service to the aged, infirm and underprivi leged. All legislation designed to make Oregon a better I state to work and live in had! and has my unqualified support.! As a farmer and iruit buyer, I naturally was and will be alert and aggressive to all legislation affecting rural Marionj county's well being. Regarding educational legisla tion, I know that the state cannot remain great or become greater unless our educational system is maintained and improved. Marion county elects! four rep resentatives and two! senators. Half the county's population is outside Salem, and half the tax able resources are outside your dty limits, yet nearly every can didate is a city resident. For com plete representation, vote for at least one rural candidate. If you approve my record, 1 will be grateful if you cast one vote for me. (Temerrew Gene MaJeeki.) Freeze Covers East U.S. By The Associated Press Power-mad spring is on one of her worst binges of modern times. Flexing her unladylike muscles, she took a fresh swipe Friday at already damaged peach buds and strawberry blossoms, dumped snow on ball parks that just open ed for the season and froze up earth that should be feeling the bite of the gardners spade or the roll of a golf ball. All time records for cold this late in the spring tumbled in seven states Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Alabama and New York. Sprang fever gave way to spring shivers in the east, midwest and south. The army and air force rushed weasels to North Dakota to reach families and catties isolated by snow and ice. Spring's Jekyll-Hyde antics sent the mercury plunging to zero in Bemidji, Minn., and to 10 above in the Pennsylvania mountain area. The freeze line dipped into South Carolina, northern Georgia, north ern : Alabama, northern Arkansas and Kansas. The peach crops in northern Georgia and the Carolinas were virtually written off as a $16,000, 000 complete loss. Peach growers in southern Illi nois als suffered a loss. Some took a cue from California citrus grow ers and burned makeshif t smudge pots. The killing frost set back the western Tennessee straw berry crop while earlier frosts damaged peaches and strawberries in Ark ansas. Weather forecasters said "ex tremely cold weather" would hit thei midwest and east again Friday night. Salem Pilot Hurt in Crash CORVALLIS, April 14-UP)-Be11 Demain, 27, Salem, was injured today when his plane overturned upion landing here. He was taken to a hospital with a cut forehead and shoulder in juries, but was not badly hurt. Demain, a pilot for. Ace Flying Service of Salem, had come here to dust crops. Mis plane apparently hit one wing as it landed. The wing snap ped off, and the craft nosed over. State to Take Over Public Service Building Today The state's hew public service building, recently completed here at a cost of approximately $2,000, 000, was accepted by the board of control Friday as of Saturday noon. This was announced following an inspection of the building by the board of control Friday fore noon. ' The structure is five stories high, of concrete and steel con struction with marble exterior. It contains 100,000 square feet of useable space. Contract for the building was awarded to the Sound Construction company on May 18, 1948; Moving state departments in to the new building will start Mon day. Housed in the new structure will be the state unemployment com pensation commission, public uti lities commission, state industrial accident commission, civil service commission, state police, state board of control and audit division of the secretary of state's office. A cafeteria is located in the base ment. ' Under the contract with the Sound Construction company the company assumes responsibility for repairing any defects. found in the building within one year from the time of its acceptance. Officials said moving operations Would require three weeks. They're Buried! If you haven't entered a guess as to Salem's 1950 population, you can still do it today. The deadline for entries in The Statesman's contest for $40 in prizes is midnight tonight Asked why it was Inadvert ently announced the contest was to end last night, the depart ment conducting the contest said we got so buried in guesses we even lost track of what day it was." So there's still time. I (Just for fun, the contest de partment took a poll of States man staff members, who are not eligible for the prizes. Their guessses ranged from 43,000 to 1,000. And maybe they're all wrong). Time and the census-takers- Will tell. ILLS "ifODHSOo 250 Register At Conclave of Soroptimists More than 250 women from the northwest registered Friday for the 30th annual northwestern re gion conference of American Fed eration of Soroptimist clubs being held this week end at the Marion hotel. S i x t y-n i n e SoroDtimist clubs from Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho and Canada are represented. Featured speaker on the open ing afternoon session was Dr. Clifford Patton New York, UN, ESCO liason officer, who will be the main speaker at the luncheon this noon at the Legion club. Dr. Patton gave a general i over-all explanation of UNESCO, which is working for peace, a world com munity, and world understanding. The aim of UNESCO is the work ing together of all agencies in education, science and culture. The speaker stated that inter national understanding begins in the home and school. UNESCO is in nations all over the world, but goes in only when invited. It is a non-p olitical organization and only five years old, with; over 55 governments as members. Dr. Patton was introduced by Anne Sprague, regional chairman for UNESCO. . " Presiding at the three-day ses sion is Alice Dowell Jones, Port land, regional director. On today's agenda are business sessions this morning at thei hotel with officers to be nominated, afternoon busi ness sessions at the Legion club, a formal banquet tonight at the Chamber of Commerce with Gov. Douglas McKay the main speaker. His subject is "It's Everyone's Job." A breakfast Sunday morn ing with Mayor Dorothy McCul lough Lee of Portland as the speaker will officially close the convention. - (Additional details in women's section; picture on page 5). PHILIPPINES FIGHT RAGES MANILA, Saturday, April 15-(JP)-A battle between Philippines army units and 300 Hukbalahap guerrillas is raging 50 miles north of Manila, national defense head quarters said today. . . s ' . net i , v , w w-s i " " s - Tissj - .SHIM i I . , r r-. fcr Tzzr . . I aSsSSsm. ..yyMtMMsstjfCJ . .-- SssSSsSILSSS "aategj-'SSsBSSSSSSBBSSSBSBlS) im - M V. Sg: Scfej , 1 .. mm mmmmmmmlmJimIIM Oregon's new Pnblle Service office building will le tamed ever te (he stale UUf. Tke anflolng la ... a.a.aa a a III e.l1BIS.i J M - m located in the eaaitol aaadrancle tease 'I . - Vi-P ' . . . . .L -. m.. .. .4. lira sneTe - - SSrt? StCaetty KJtine. Mrs. M. O. MeBee. Mr. ZtTz w.. - rtw.s iljsp. Matien MaleahT. fJ.rZwrrr !7C.,i trumrt Uem (SUtetasaua 1m(.) ROay FioiriniDslh) Wavy7 iradlley May Upset 'Balanced Forces' Theory; General Admits Alaska 'Weak Spot' CHICAGO, April lHHen. Omar Bradley said today th United States may have to sacrifice a bit of sovereignty and furnish north Atlantic area defense a navy or air force greater " than "we would normally be willing to provide.? Thus, he said, it may become necessary in future years to upset the theory of a balanced army, navy and air force, and to a i 'a. a - at I ue me size oi eacn unu 10 uie joint defense plans of North At lantic nations. The possibility arises from a suggestion by a small nation that a central body within the At lantic treaty framework should decide how fast and how much each nation's armed forces must be expanded, he said. "Traditions will have to give way to reality," Bradley declared. Bradley is chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff. He did not name the small nation or say what was done about the sugges tion. He addressed more than 1,000 Chicago business leaders. Later, answering a question from the audience, he said Alaska is a weak spot in American defense, but "undercover agents" are the greatest menace to U. S. security. "Even our kids in school are being corrupted by these agents," he said. In his address, the former chief of staff of the army recalled the history of the Atlantic pact and the recent Hague conference of the defense chiefs of nations which signed it. Out of this conference has come the possibility that American de fense plans would be ranked second to those of the western world, he said. He added: "With such an arrangement, of course, a small bit of sovereignty is relinquished. "But when I think that national pride and sovereignty are., often paid for with the life and blood of soldiers, I feel we must accept the more difficult alternative Which comes with this joining of hands in collective defense." BUILDING SETS RECORD WASHINGTON. April 14-P)-A record - smashing home--building boom is in progress. The bureau of labor statistics reported today that 110,000 homes were started In March, which topped all previous figures. no no da an ,na non opposite the state library building. (Statesman yketee.) 9mtM mpvm VtfLr rt hm the " Z LTr. S v ia i.t.. .vi wi tla SGto meeea e ttlH te Um new eTflce bmlMlmc where SMvtng ta will kegta after Says Federal Agents Nab Gangster In Kansas City KANSAS CJTY, April 14 -V The government moved today against Kansas City's underworld, seizing a thousand cases of contra band liquor and arresting Charles (Moonface) Carrollo, a formes gangland chief and Charles Bina gio's predecessor as north sicU political boss. E. E. Ahlfeldt, head of the fed eral alcohol tax unit here arid , close friend of President Truman, -and a dozen of his agents took Carrollo and three other men by surprise as they were unloading j truck of whisky. The spot was Just a mile froa the Truman Road Democratic lub headquarters where Binaggio and his top henchman, Charles Gar gotta, were slain a week ago. Binaggio took over the north siri when the government sent Car- ; rollo to prison in 1939. Ground Broken f of Woodburn Schools Statesman X Ssrvlci WOODBURN, April 14 Work on Wood burn's two new m hoot buildings is under way. 'Ground was broken Tuesday at the site of the high school building on th northwest corner of St.. Paul and Boone's Ferry roads. All the footings for the paro chial school have bean poured, and work on the frame is pro gressing. Both buildings are ex pected to be completed by nx fall. Both ara being built by Henry B. Mason Co., Portland. o on 0 . ft. : - ' ' . t 1 ! state r- Aste ItoUJ. GeneTtere Ashfsrd. Traeks will meal twnitm Img wi4 bi ... 3 ' -'V 1 iA'i '7