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I- --1 ; - . ... ! ' OtP SS3IDS am ioj i w m ma um BAM4a s sLa rmiL sraAaMaBi msm is ne wwii m wvom POUNDED 1651 100th YEAR 12 PAGES The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Monday, April 17. 1950 PRICE 5c No. SI w vyy ii i v: iv. r. 4 y yj) Travel Notes Touring by automobile is strict ly numbers game: Two play it: the driver and his wife. The lat ter eyes the map 0fend both eye the route numbers i. on , the tele phone poles: US 99 or 101; Kan sas 132; Vermont 77, or what ever number is "up'V on their route. Normally it's a very easy game to play, until riders get absorbed ' In the scenery or run into traffic congestion in cities;, then you may slip your numbers. Maybe you get off only a few blocks, or it may be miles. In either case it's a scram ble to get back on your own num ber. ' . . ; : i The only ammunition required for a motor tour of the USA other than money and a car that will run is a set of road maps. You begin lightly, with say a Rand, McNally highway atlas of the USA nd a state road map. The maps accumulate as you travel. As they are used up you file 'them in the i glove compartment 1 for reference as to where you ate lunch on the 17th or what motel you slept in after you left Richrriond. Or you may go armed with an AAA or oil company tourist bureau strip map of your entire tour; but , if you are a motor vagabond you aren't ' interested in so strict a routing just a car, a tankful of gas, time and a road map. i All of which leads up to this observation, that one of the mar vels of our time Js the highway system of the United States,! the extensive and complete network of paved roads linking every sec tion of 1 (Continued on editorial page, 4) i Rescue Averts in Mill Creek i A possible drowning was avert ed Sunday afternoon when 13-year-old Ronald Ronning, 1860 Berry st., rescued an unidentified Salem youngster who was being fcwept along Mill creek toward the Willamette river. , Ronriing told city police and first aid men that the youngster slipped from a rock while fishing Just east of the North Commercial street bridge. The lad was Car ried under the bridge by the cur rent. Ronning pulled, him out just before he reached the Willamette; Identity of the boy, believed to be about 8 years old, was not learned by police officers. Ron ning didn't know the lad, who apparently was taken in a pri vate automobile to his home. Heart Attack Fatal to Salem Arnold Meyer, Salem resident the past 17 years, died of a heart attack Saturday while on an open ing day fishing trip with his son, Arnold Meyer, Jr., at Elk City. He was (54. !' ' ; Meyer, who lived recently at SSS Hollywood ave., was born Oct. 24, 1889, at Grindlewald. Switzer land. He came to Portland! Jan. 9, 1910 and worked 20 yeairs for Portland bakery. He was! em ployed for 13 years with! the cherry City baking; company of Salem after he moved here in 1833. He retired in January, 1946. Surviving are his ; widow, Mrs. Margaret Meyer, Salem; ( two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Walker, Oswego, and Mrs. Gertrude Max well, Vancouver, Wash.; his son, in Salem; two brothers, Ernest Meyer, Agnew, Calif , and John Meyer, Zuch, Switzerland; and six grandchildren. Christian Science services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Tuesday .afternoon from the' Clough-Bar-rlck chapel. , .it , . J , SMALLPOX LN CHILE j SANTIAGO, Chili April 16 -Authorities said today they 8 lan to have all of Chile's 6,000, D0 population vaccinated because of a spreading smallpox epidemic. There are 1,381 persons in Isolation and a total of 1.553 cases. Animal Crackers 6V WARREN GOODRICH Wo, will r J look who't gtt Drowning Fisherman 1 Empty Raft Found. Sentenced for FRANKFURT, Germany, April 16 , N. 1S Air Force corporal from St Paul, Minn., leaves the courtroom at Garmisch-Partenklrchen, Germany, after a court martial board had sentenced him to five years in prison and dishonorable discharge from the service for attempting to give secret military Information to the Russians. An unidentified military policeman follows Mueller as he passes a woman spectator. (AP Wirephoto via radio from Frankfort to The Statesman). Seal Raids Fi?h Tanks In Seaside's Aquarium SEASIDE, Ore., April lftH-Nappy was as happy as a seal loose in an aquarium. - In fact that s where he was when they found Nappy, a 7 -year-old seal, in the morning. Ordinarily Nappy is kept in the seal en closure at the aquarium here, but somehow climbed a four foot wall Having mastered the climbing technique, he climbed into the fish tanks and ate his way happi ly from one to the other. By morning he had cleaned out the perch tank, eaten seven yellow-mouthed rock fish from an other, and swallowed a dozen bass from a third tank. .nroute ne killed Jour sable fish, and play fully tossed three rockfish amongst the surviving bass. Despite this stomach full, of choice specimens, Nappy still felt playful and aquarium owner Ar thur Enson chased him around some time before finally lassoing him and dragging him back to the seal pen. -Enson said he would see that the door to the seal pen stays. closed in the future. Storm Flags Fly on Coast SEATTLE. April 16-OF)- The weather bureau, in an advisory is sued at 830 a.m. today, ordered southeast storm warnings contin ued from Tatoosh to Cape Blanco and changed small craft warnings to southeast storm warnings through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and inland waters of Wash ington. The forecast called for south east winds 40 to 50 miles per hour off the Washington coast and 30 to 40 m.p.h. oft the Oregon coast and through the strait and Inland waters, shifting to southwest and decreasing by late afternoon. NewbergArea Crash Fatal NEWBERG, April 16-tfVTwo automobiles collided on Spring Brook road near here tonight, kill ing Mrs. Maude C. Jones, 70, route 1, Newberg. Her husband, Amos George Jones,, 67, who was driving, was hospitalized at Willamette hospital here with possibly serious injuries. The driver of the other car, Maurice H. Eide,-17, route 1, New berg, escaped injury. The collis sion occurred a half-mile off high way 219. BAT AREA SHAKES ! BERKELEY, Calif., April 16 -(T- A sharp earthquake jolted a small area-east of San Francisco bay today. Max. Mi. Tnetp. M 4 M .SS 1 trace 71 44 .00 S3 31 M U M 00 Portland San Francisco Chicaf o New York fORXCAST (from U. S, weather bureau. McNary field. Salem) : Partly cloudy with a few widely scattered showers today and toruf ht. Hlfh today near SI and low tonight near 43. SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year Lait iir Kormal I aaj xiim 32.73 Espionage Try c mm Gnstav Adolpb Mueller (left). Nappy walked through a door and and got into the fish section. Gunman Killed By Victim in Abduction Try NEW YORK, April 16 -(&h A gunman who tried to abduct a young couple early today was shot to death by the man whose hands he had tied an off-duty police man he failed to search. Police said Patrolman Anton Stayduhar, dressed in plain clothes, was sitting in his car with his girl friend, Miss Ann Sandles, about 4:30 a.m. They were parked in front of her home in Ridge wood, Queens. Stayduhar said the gunman opened the car door and pointed a pistol at them. The gunman tied Stayduhar's wrists with laundry cord and ordered him into the back seat after taking his wallet. Then he got in the front seat beside Miss Sandles and drove off. "He tossed the wallet to Ann," Stayduhar reported. "He told her, 'you can have this I want you, baby'." In less than four blocks, how ever, Stayduhar had loosened his bonds and .reached for his service revolver. He fired four bullets into the gunman's neck, killing him In stantly. Politics on : ' i -. o , (niter note: Cmnnb l thii r les are nude bv or for the candidate without retrlttk, and may or may not rrtleet the opinion of this sew- MP") Today's Subject: Ivan G. Martin (r) Candidate for State representative (Marion) To the voters of Marion county: Having been your republican state representative for five legislative sessions, should you return me to that office, I will again serve you faithfully and to the best of my ability. I I consider de velopment of na tural resources, good roads, ade quate schools, protection of wild life, adver tisiiur Oregon Iran Martla and our products and the encour agement of industries, pay-rolls and markets among prudent In vestments; the care of disabled veterans and the aged in need our sacred obligation. Wi! ' : If i J ; J k if jf H tJKr' Poland, ir . Bishops Sign Pact ! By Ormonde Godfrey WARSAW, Poland, April 16-(P) -Roman Catholic schools land pub lications are guaranteed equal rights with state schools and the lay press in an agreement be tween Poland's Romaii Catholic bishops and her communist gov ernment detailed by the Polish press agency today. j j The bishops have agreed to ask the Vatican for formation of dio ceses in former German! territories Poland took over under the Pots dam agreement and to oppose all activities inimical to Poland, "es pecially the anti-Polish j and re visionist move of part of jthe Ger man clergy." I Settling Differences i These were among the high lights of the 19-point pact, settling various differences outstanding since World War II. It was signed Friday. " j (Vatican sources said the re ported agreement had ; "hot been heard of" there. They! said it "seems strange" that an agree ment should be reached iin Poland while Adam Stefani Cardinal Sapieha, leader of the Polish Episcopate, is in Rome on a holy year visit. A Vatican expert on Polish affairs said he doubted if the Polish bishops had (authority to sign such an agreement. Anti-Catholic Campaign j (Poland, like most iron curtain countries, has been conducting an anti-Catholic campaign ! for years. Almost all Poland's 24,000,000 in habitants are Roman Catholics.) The agreement was signed 25 days after the government seized the church's large Polish estates, a total of 700 square miles of farm lands, including livestock and buildings. A week before the government had announced the release of Bishop Kazimierz Kowakskl from house arrest in Pomerania upon his pledge of a "correct! attitude toward state authorities." The bishop had been accused! of oust ing a priest who supported the government's action inj taking over a church charity; Organiza tion, Caritas, last January. (Additional details on page 2.) Dead Snakes Decorate Tree TROY, N.C., April j 16 -P)-Twenty-one dead snakes 'i'ere dis covered hanging from ja locust tree near here today. Hundreds of people came to view the sight, and some said the snakes probably were impaled on the tree, by birds. The snakes hang tall downward, the heads impaled on the locust thorns. The tree Is about 15 feet high, and the reptiles ha!ng from the topmost branch downward to branches four feet from the ground. The snakes are jfrom 14 to 25 inches long, of different va rieties. A watch will be kept on the tree In an attempt to clpar up the mystery. ' GENERAL'S WIDOW DIES DETROIT, April 17 -(&)- Mrs. Clara E. Knudsen, widow of Gen William F. Knudsen, died early today .at her home here after a long illness. j Parade . ! ! : . l Lower taxes imperative. With a growing national debt! of over $260,000,000,000; with thej average farnjily paying $700 annually in "hidden" taxes (as reported in News-Week); in a perilous time with mounting re-armarrient ex penditures; with Oregon tax-payers (now annually paying over $500,000,000 in local, f state and federal taxes, I deem (it j impera tive! that we adopt a program of ecohomy. consistent with pro gress; eliminating ;i extravagance and waste to lighten the oppres sive tax load. I would! appreciate discussing other ; matters, includ ing' tny legislative record (191? 22) but the sagacious I Statesman editor said "only 250 words' so I can only say, grew up a farmer, came to Salem 1898 (population then 4000); store clerk; city editor Capital Journal; graduate Willam ette and University of California; member Willamette Law faculty two years? Commercial club; Christian church; Maccabees; Elks and Cherrian bands many years; tax payer; lawyer, supreme trus tee! of fraternal order 16 years, and now (proven by my 'picture), the senior candidate for the -House" (Temorrtw Ucltari Sever in) Chrysler Makes 'Final Offer' in 82-EDay-Old Strike; Union Wary Pension Plan Of Comp romise f By Glenn Engle DETROIT, April 16 -iJP)- Chry sler Corp. made the striking CIO United Auto Workers a big con cession tonight in what it called its "final offer" to end an 82-day-old strike. The union rejected it but left the way; open for a com promise. UAW President Walter Reuther said the auto firm's latest proposal was "a major step" toward settle ment of the pension dispute. He conceded ithat Chrysler had of fered to set up an actuarially sound pension plan to provide $100 a month pensions, including social security. The union reject ed the offer as inadequate on other grounds. 89.000 Idle The dispute over pensions and other issues has idled 89,000 Chrysler workers since January 25. The union's rejection did not completely rule out possibility of an early settlement. The negotia tors went back into session to at tempt to thrash out differences on the company's offer. After con ferring for one hour tonight, they recessed until 10 a.m. (EST), Monday. In a statement tonight, Reuther said: : "We are glad at this late date that "it (Chrysler) has finally agreed to provide pensions for their Workers on a basis guaran teed by a sound pension trust fund." Reasons Cited Among the reasons listed by the UAW for rejecting the Chrysler offer were: The union claimed under the company proposal a worker would lose credit towards a pension if he were laid off for two years or more. The UAW also objected to com pulsory retirement at age 68. It said an employe should be allowed to work past 68 if willing and able. The company offer also was termed inadequate as to hospital-medical-lnsuranice benefits. Chry sler agreed to pay half of the cost of hospital and surgical benefits, but the union insisted the com pany stand all the cost. Manila Agents Nab Leaders Of Guerrillas , MANILA, Monday. April 17-UP -Manila police said today their intelligence agents have nabbed three leaders of the communist led Hukbalahap guerrillas. One man seized in lightning raids, police said,, is Lazaro de la Cruz, alias "Commander Bull," son-in-law of Mariano P. Balgos Balgos, secretary general of the communist party in the Philip pines, is reported fighting in the field as a huk commander. Police said de la Cruz was seized in his Manila residence where communist documents, newspa pers and propaganda leaflets also were found. The other two arrested were identified by Police as Varona Y Dioso and Juaniito Santos Y Cruz, both leaders of a huk squadron operating in southern Luzon pro vince. The department of national de fense said a "major battle" is de veloping in central Luzon where the army and air force is combing in& forces against the guerrillas. Field correspondents of Manila newspapers reported yesterday 2D to 30 hukswere killed near Caba natuan, 75 miles north of Manila. Water Pistol War Greets New Year In Rangoon, Burma i RANGOON, Burma, April 16 -(JPH- The little squirts of Rangoon bad a field day without fear of adult reprisals today. Barefooted urchins, stripped to the waist, commandeered the city's mains and happily squirted water on elderly citizens who had to take it, according to custom In celebrating the Burmese new year. j The water festival will continue until tomorrow, which is the Bur mese New Years day of 1312. The dousing of Rangoonites symbolizes the washing away of everything worthless. Men and women, as well as the youngsters, engaged in water duels from dawn to dusk. Leaves Hop oooij snppjiy k Draws 4,226 Entries More than 4,000 persons entered guesses in The Statesman's fun contest regarding Salem's 1950 population, a compilation showed Sunday. The exact total was 4,226. Deadline for receiving entries was midnight Saturday. Heaviest concentration was between 50,000 and 60,000, but there were 73 below 40,000 and 38 above 100,000. Entries were received from distant points such -s Ohio, Iowa, South Dakota, Oklahoma and all western states. Thirty eight guesses either neglected to fill in figures or names of entries, or were impossible to read. The person whose guess is the closest to the official figures expected to be annbunced within the next week or two, will re ceive $25; next closest $10, and third closest $5. In case of ties, prizes will be split or a coin tossed, whichever the judges decide. 40,600 and under 73 40,001 to 41.009 18 41,01 to 42,000 1 . 18 42,001 to 43,00 19 43,001 to 44,00 24 44,001 to 45,00 31 45,001 to 46,001 32 46,001 to 47,006 40 47.001 to 48,00 70 48,001 io 49,000 90 49,001 to 50,000 162 50,001 to 51,000 126 51,001 to 52,0 208 52,001 to 53,000 279 ! 53,001 to 54,000 368 i 54,001 to 55,000 37 Total. Rlt. Angel Holstein Sets World Production Mark By LUlie Farm Editor, MT. ANGEL, April 16 Honor a great dairyman and a great cow. "The latter is impossible without the former," Harold Ewalt, Oregon state college extension C. J. Berning hand-milk Nugget Holstein cow, to a world record producer at 5:30 this afternoon. "Cows are like people, iwalt concluded. "They produce best when they are contented. To make a world- record producer takes three things. First, she must have background. A cow without high producing ancestors won t make It. Second, she must have prpper feed; and she must have a dairyman who is of a kindly disposition and who un derstands proper care." : More than 80 people caned at la9 tlXLi A fijuiViJa tv wavti mvo Just north of here, Sunday after noon to view the' large five-year- old give her final milking to make the 27,546 pounds of milk and 1,- 172.6 pounds of butterfat tnat brought world dairy fame to the little town. "That," said S.1 B. Hall, nation al president of the American Holstein association, who was present for the event, "would fur nish a family with one quart of milk daily for 37 years." In spite of having been on ex hibition throughout the day, and with strangers mulling around to make her nervous. Nugget at her final 5:30 test-milking completed her 50 pounds of milk for the day. This, Berning stated, was but 10 pounds under ' her little-better than 60-pound daily average for the year. Nugget too was the first Ore eon cow ever to yield more than 1,000 pounds of butterfat in 805 days. She broke the record of her relative, Model Segis Prilly Gel sche, also Berning-owned, which produced 1026 pounds of butter fat in a year. . Ed Grimes of Harrisburg, pre sident of the Oregon Holstein as sociation. Floyd B. Wohlberg, su- nervisor of official testing in Oregon, Roger Moores, secretary of the Oregon Dairyman's asso ciation, and Mayor Jacob Berch- told, Mt. Angel, were among those present to assist In the celebra tion. . , 80 in Collapsed Building in Israel TEL AVIV,i Israel, April 16 ijf) A four-story building housing some 80 persons collapsed tonight in Jaffa. Six persons are known to be dead. Many others are be lieved to have been crushed to death beneath the debris. Rescue workers dug into the wreckage and thus far have brought out 20 Injured, most of them in serious conditions. The building was originally two stories high, hut the previous own er added two more floors. It is be lieved that the foundations gave way. An acute housing shortage ex ists in Israel. wmm. rflAKT IXAGUX At Portland S-r BoQywood M At toe Angeles 0-4, Ssers a ... SVstMfiaM 1-4 San i$ato iH 1 Dso M At MSUM-vajuana train 55,001 to 56,000 370 56,001 to 57,000 317 57,001 to 58,000 251 58,001 to 59,000 t 209 59,001 to 60,000 185 60,001 to 61,000 L... 107 61.001 to 62,000 112 62,001 to 63.000 . 88 63,001 to 64.000 69 64,001 to 65,000 4 58 65,001 to 70,000 ..T. 220 70,001 to 75,000 . 88 75,001 to 85.000 . 94 85,001 to 100.000 48 Over 100.00 ?.... 38 Unreadable or faulty ...... 38 .4,226 L. Madsen The Statesman was paid today at Mt. Angel to specialist, remaricea as ne watcned walfcer Korndyke, a five-year-old John Maragon PerjurvTHal Opens Today WASHINGTON, April 16 -()-The perjury trial of John Mara gon, the former bootblack who made friends at the White House, opens tomorrow in federal dist rict court? Maragon has pleaded innocent to charges of lying about business and financial affairs to a senate committee that Investigated oper ations of five percenters persons who represent others In deals with the government for a fee that us ually is five percent. This is the Inquiry (hat brought out Maragon's friendship with President Truman's military aide, MaJ. Gen. Harry H. Vauehan. It also brought out that Vaughan received seven deep freezers for himself and friends as a gift from a Chicago perfume firm that em ployed Maragon. Both defense and prosecution say the trial should last about two weeks. . ' t His lawyer, Irvln Goldstein, has subpoenaed Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) as one of his witnesses. Now making headlines with an other Investigation that he stir red up with charges of communist infestation of the state depart ment, McCarthy was one of the first last year to demand Mara gon's prosecution on perjury charges. U.S. Listening on Cyprus Isle to Sounds from Behind Iron Curtain By Stanley Swfnton KARAVAS. Cvnrus (Br mail) -4Vrhe United States has big ears on in it tsnusn. uimna ana they are listening to what goes on boning the iron curtain. In the communist ' lands, from Siberia to Albania, radio stations blare out their propaganda. Soma are mighty transmitters, such as Radio Moscow, aimed at the out side world. Others are squeaky little voices intended only to be heard at home. On the green flatland here, be tween craggy Cypriot mountains and the blue Mediterranean, Is "big ears" officially a U. S. for eign broadcast information serv ice monitoring station. Hare some of the world's most expert radio monitors listen 20 hours a day to programs in 17 language. Iliey hear 800.000 words a day. Ten per cent of it is worth record ing. About 25,000 words art worth rushing to Washlnfton by cable. Gone In Baltic; Linked to PB-4Y Condition of Raft Raises Question Of Prior Rescue By Brif It Mangor COPENHAGEN. Denmark. April 16-(iP)-The British freight er Beechland picked up in the) Baltic sea today a derelict Ameri can life raft which a TJ. S. air fore spokesman considers to be escapo equipment on an American navy privateer plane that 1 vanished mysteriously April 8. y The captain of the Beechland radioed that the food pocket on the raft had been opened and was empty. He said the second com pressed airtube also was empty. These might indicate that the rait had been occupied. No messages were found on the raft, which was described as very clean. The condition of the raft raise the possibility that the men who occupied it had been rescued, per haps by a Russian ship. "We think the raft belonged the missing privateer," U. S. Air- force Captain L. E. Curdes said. "but we cannot be completely surfV of it until we have the raft here, first Concrete Clue That may be a day or two. Bui the raft appeared to be the first concrete clue to the fate of tho plane and its 10 -man crew, tho subject of world speculation slnoa Soviet Russia announced last Tuesday there was a gunfight over Latvia, three days before, between an American bomber and a Soviet fighter. 1 The 1.813-ton Beechland, east bound in ballast from London to the Finnish port of Kotka, radioed that she found the yellow float, but sign of life, about 45 mile east of Stockholm. The spot is 200 miles north of the Latvian city of Lepaya (Lt- bau), which the Russians named in describing th purported serial clash. It is 350 miles northeast of the Danish Island of Bornholre, the center of the air and sea scinch over vast areas of the Baltic since) last Sunday. Search Called Off - Despite the discovery of the raft. tho U. S. air fore called off tho hunt tonight as scheduled.- Bad weather limited the opera tions today. Fog closed in. Tho weary air crews war called back to Copenhagen's Kastrup airport before dark. Surface vessels plow ed back to port through ch-ppy seas. To Airmail Raft The Beechland's master plane to airmail the raft to American authorities here as soon as the ves sel touches -port. He expects to dock at noon tomorrow. Later, a plana crew report seeing a life raft at a point In an often-searched area bitwesa Bornholm islsnd and fouthem Sweden, but the search there to day proved fruitless. A Danish minesweeper helped airmen covet the area. , 1 U. S. air fores officers say they fear the navy plane was a target of Russian fighter fire, sinca no other American plane was in tho Baltic area April 8. Mule? Train Record Frighten. Mule Team ) NEWARU, Ark.. April 16-(Pr-A team of mules rain away wtth a wagon the other day. Farreil Conner, secretary of tbo Independence county chamber of commerce, says they were fright ened by the lusty strains of MMuto Train" coming from a Juke box. In Washington, tho lnformatfoe. is analyzed, sometimes some llttlo local station may lot slip socrot. But most of the importance Ua fc trends. From such broadcasts of these the United States had sottj hints of the Tito-Stalin break lorsj before it happened. "Our lob Is to lists, to tho pro grams and then get fha Inform tion out fast' said 0. XHis Par ter, former ftilladelphia mwsdo perman who is acting head of tbo station. Porter, llko all tho staff mem bers, is tight-lipped about the -lotion. While not aoortt, policy h$ been to avoid publicity since opened in April lt49, after beiirj delayed by comatuaist-led striko during coutnicttcov "Big ears" u reportea to t one of eight such Buaitorinf stations Buaitprin; tko CWt ta Uo British hero since Britain rules , thii -populated Ulaxd. matataiaved n M State. Liaison wi ii dose. 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