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.11 .. Y Flying Saucer? Well, It's Anyone's ! Guess-But It Was Off Oregon Coastij 100th YEAR 24 PAGES Tho Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, April 21, 1950 PRICE 5c No. 25 Demand UoSo Get Out of Trieste Budenz Calls Lattimore unist, . I ' v ' POUNDBD i 1651 1 . j Connvn i i ; a ' 1 a Bern (Girl Chosen I (Clfoeiriiy Fete Queen ' By Charles Ireland Stall Writer. Tha Statesman " With tears In her brown eyes, Salem's brown-haired Nancy Miller stepped from an excited circle of five valley lovelies to be honored as queen-elect Of Salem's 1950 Cherryland festival Thursday night, i She was the first Salem girl chosen for the coveted title since the Cherrians resumed the festival three years ago. "Unfortunatly, there can be but one queen," said King Bing Paul GtP QJJJDJLRJC1J toqoogb Louis Budenz, ex - communist who was depended on by Sen. Joe McCarthy toi corroborate his charge that Owen Lattimore was the top espionage agent for Russia In the United States made his ap pearance before the senate inves tigating committee Thursday. While he rated Lattimore as a com munist it was on the say-so of other high communists while he was associated with the party. As to the espionage charge Budenz said it was not "technically accu rate." Lattimore of course has vig orously denied that he was a com munist sympathiwr. So, as in the Hits-Chambers affair, the matter boils down to who is telling the truth, Lattimore or McCarthy or Budenz whose evidence was really second-hand. McCarthy can't be challenged in court over his char ges made under senatorial immun ity, but the other two may be, and should be if there is any way of proving that either has lied under oath. : ,- : .-,'; . , We need however to get back to the principal issue raised by McCarthy, namely, that the state department is infiltrated with com munists. So far he has named only one name of a state department employe as being a reft sympath izer, John S, Service,, who has re turned to appear before the de partment loyalty board. Lattimore for example has never been a, member of the state department staff; except for brief and special work a number of years ago. He has had ideas oh what our policy toward China should be and has submitted them to the department, as have many others either volun tarily or at j department request Even if Lattimore is or was a communist that does not corrobo rate McCarthy's sweeping charge against the state department As far as the China policy is concerned that was largely the determination of General Marshall as secretary of state after bis visit to China, and was pretty well sus tained by the report of General Wedemeyer who was sent out on a special mission a number of years later. It cannot and should not be laid to the door of Secre tary Acheson. He is in the unfor tunate position of being the "re ceiver in bankruptcy" of our China policy which failed not the one who Incurred Its liabilities. Bids Opened for Lookout Pk Dam PORTLAND, April 2MAVA low bid of $18,699,531 omewht below the government estimate was received by the army engt- neers today for construction of Lookout Point dam. ' That dam, ion the middle fork of the Willamette river, will be the fifth ma)or link in the Willamette valley dam network. The struc ture's total cost will be $63,000.' COO or, if power facilities art aA ded 174,800.000. Animsl Cracttcrs Bf WARREN GOODRICH Wale up. Htnrfiif bsbf$ trtvs2 tot your; A. mie as ne announced we Judges' decision before a crowd at tending the Cherrians' Blossom ball at Crystal Gardens ballroom. - And through the crowd flutter ed comments that, right down the line, the 1950 royal court is one of the most attractive in festival history. . The other members are Marlene NANCY MILLER Cherry Fete Queen-Elect Hartmann of St Boniface school, Sublimity. Patricia Mae Kirk. St. Paul; Martha Storruste, Silverton, and Dwynn Anne Herberger, Sacred Heart With Queen Nancy they will attend numerous events through out the 1950 season. Their official chaperone, Mrs; Arthur Weddle, will accompany them. Queen Nancy appeared in the red, strapless, taff eta-and-net gown in which she was chosen a princess last week. She wore a rhinestone choker and a gardenia at her waist Her parents, JL Burr Miller himself Cherrian and Mrs. Miller, were in the audience. During the ball Cherrian offi cers were installed by Rex Kim mell and Milton L. Meyers was honored as the oldest past King Bing. Dave Hoss was master of ceremonies. Rail Firemen Plan Walkout CHICAGO, April 20 -- Rail road firemen, assured that en gineers will not replace their striking members, went ahead to day with plans for a walkout next Wednesday on four of the na tion's biggest railroad systems. Alvanley Johnston, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers, said at Cleveland that his members will not stage a sym pathy strike but neither will they replace any striking foremen. The Firemen, who called their strike In Chicago yesterday, an nounced they would set up pick et lines against the N.Y. Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe and Southern rail systems. Local Weathermen Still Optimistic Salem, blessed with three con secutive days of genuine spring weather, could look forward to a couple of more, the McNary field weatherman forecast Thurs day night . A high of CS was predicted for today to match Thursday's high and the forecast was for slightly warmer readings oa Saturday, ,, ..... .,. ... :V ,.. I: '",,VA - :.. . ' - T v o,,' , : V i I ; . -V . 4 - 1 " 'X -.. 1 ) Truman Orders 'Truth Campaign' To Show U.S. 'Dedicated to Peace' By Sterllac F. Greea i WASHINGTON, April 20 -JF President Truman announced to day he has ordered a global "campaign of truth to show that this country "is wholly dedicated to the cause or peace.' , 1 The president revealed bis de cision in an address to the Amer ican Society of Newspaper Edit ors an organization that has repeatedly urged th government to weld its overseas information program into a more potent cold war weapon. ..:( 1... Mr. Truman said he has di rected Secretary of State Acheaoa Clai lm Broken LONDON, Friday, April 21 -(&) Russia has demanded withdrawal of occupation troops from stra tegic Trieste and elimination of what Moscow called an "illegal Anglo-American naval base" there, the Moscow radio said to day. I 1 Further, the Soviet Union de manded the immediate establish ment of a civil regime or the Trieste free territory and accused the United States, Britain and Frar.ee with violating the Italian peace treaty provisioi-s concerning the territory. The demands were contained in a Soviet note broad' -st by the radio a few hours after it Was handed to the diplomats of the three western powers in Moscow by Deputy Foreign Minister An drei A. Gromyko. ' j Although the note made ho mention of Yugoslav troops, it did indicate that the Soviet Union en visaged a free territory taking in the zpne now occupied by Pre mier Marshal Tito's soldiers, j 5,000 Troops Each ' The United States, Britain and Yugoslavia each have 5,000 troops in the free territory, an area of 205,200 acres which includes the port city l Trieste itself and ad jacent rural areas. The entire area was part of Italy before World War II. j Moscow, declared the United States and Britain have trans formed the Trieste area "into! a military springboard . . . which constitutes a threat to the peace and security of Europe." The note concluded: ! "The Soviet government con siders it necessary: I "1 To operate immediately the provision concerning the tempor ary regime for the free territory of Trieste. To Appoint Governor "2 To appoint immediately i a governor for the free territory of Trieste. "3 To set up in accordance with conditions of the peace treaty a provisional government cour4 for the free territory of Trieste.) "4 To determine the date for operating the permanent statute of the free territory. ; i "5-r-To eliminate the illegal An glo-American naval base in Tri este. I "6 To withdraw British and American troops from the confines of the free territory of Trieste. "j Troops Withdrawn ! The note stated that under the Italian peace treaty "all foreign troops should have been with drawn from Trieste already by the end of January, 1948." A governor for Trieste has not been appointed because the Rus sian and western powers in the U.N. have been unable to agree on a candidate. WASHINGTON, April 20 -(JPh American officials said tonight that the United States and Britain are within their legal rights in maintaining troops ! Trieste. AFL Seamen Strike Looms ! NEW YORK, April 20 -UPh- AFL men who work America's vast ring of seaports today threaten ed a complete, national shipping tieup if deck officers strike Satur day. . ;:4. : The AFL Masters. Mates and Pilots union has set a Saturday midnight strike deadline in a pro longed contract dispute with AO shipping companies. ; The AFL's maritime trades de partment threw the full weight of Its 250.000 members behind the planned walkout The department is made up of seven separate unions that service ships either at sea or in port, i to develop a stronger Information effort to combat the "deceit dis tortion and lies" of Soviet pro paganda. ' ' j, I He asked that newspapers con tinue to cooperate in letting all peoples - know that the United States "has no purpose of going to war except in defense of free dom." ,i - I-: I "We must make ourselves known as we really are not as Russian propaganda pictures us," the president said. j "We must pool our efforts with Chose of other free peoples in a sustained, intensified program Treaty Paying Calls 4 . " Sir! Oliver Franks,, British am bassador to the United States, Who will be in Salem May 4. Gjreat Britain's Ambassador To Visit Salem Sir Oliver Franks, British am bassador to the United States, will make an official visit to the state capitol here 'May 4. The ambassador will be the guest of Gov. Douglas McKay at a luncheon at the American Legion club. He will be6accompanied by Lady Franks and by James Mc Donald, British consul at Portland, and! Mrs. McDonald. Sir Oliver is a former Oxford university professor and was with the British Ministry of Supply during World War II. FHA Reduces f -' - Interest Rate On Mortgages WASHINGTON, April 20 -(O The! top interest rate on new federal housing 9 administration home mortgages will be cut to 4 Iper, cent a Vt of one per cent drop effective with ap plication received; Monday. This was announced tonight shortly after President Truman signed without comment a bill providing for an expansion of nearly $4,000,000,000 in the fed eral housing program. Senator Maybank (D-SC), who heads the senate banking com mittee, hailed the interest cut with a statement it will save new home owners at least $5,000,000 a year. " Senator Maybank said the rate reduction will "make it easier for the little fellow to pay off that new house and should also re duce pressure for increased rents." The new AV rate drops the FHA interest top halfway to the 4 per cent rate charged for mort gages guaranteed for the veter ans administration. The VA said it plans to stand pat on an even 4 per cent Persons getting FHA insurance on mortgages will, continue to pay an insurance premium of H of 1 per cent, making the maxi mum annual cost-to them 4 per cent compared to an even 5 per cent in the past TRIES FOE TAN", ENDS WHITE KLAMATH FALLS, April 20- WHDoyle Scniffman, 17, who wanted to be tan, was very white today instead. He fell asleep un der -a sun lamp and stayed there all night. Today his burned head and shoulders were wound in white gauze. SCHOOL TAX SSES THE DALL ADrtl 20 -4JP- Voters approved a $138,568 special school tax levy, here today by a 382-to-2S7 vote. I promote th cause of freedom against the propaganda Of slav ery. , " "We must snake ourselves heard around the world in a great campaign of truth." Some 900 editors and their guests stood Xo give him a 15 second round of applause at the close of the address. They inter rupted only once with laugh ter, when Mr. Truman said: There Is too much nonsence about striped trousers in foreign affairs. Far more influence is ex erted by the baggy pants of the managing editor." PA General Disputes Char WASHINGTON, April 2Q-VP)- juouis i. uuaenz, lormer com munist leader, swore today that Owen Lattimore was a member of a "communist cell" and helped betray China to the Reds, but a onetime U. S. military intelligence officer scoffed at such charges. Brig. Gen. Elliott R. Thorpe, who was Gen. Douglas MacArthur's counter-intelligence chief during World War II, said he had In vestigated Lattimore three times, and he; declared: f ' "My strong conviction, I based on careful examination, is that Owen Lattimore is a loyal Ameri can citizen ana is in no way an agent of the communist party nor of the U.S.S.R." Gen. Thorpe was brought forward as a witness by attorneys for Lattimore, ; after Budenz had , testified for four hours before a crowd of more than 500 spectators at a senate hear ing. Burst of Applause Budenz left the stand amid i burst of applause. He had been called at the request Of Senator McCarthy (R-Wis.), who has charged that the State Department is infested with Reds and who has called Latimore, sometime de partment consultant, the top Sovi et spy in this country. In another development, a Washington law firm representing Lattimore sent around to news papers a sworn affidavit by Dr. Bella V. Dodd, of New York, say ing she had been a member of the chief policy-making committee of the communist party from 1944 to 1948, and declaring: I, have never met Owen Latti more. I never heard of him until the present controversy. Budenz's testimony included: 1. An assertion that Soviet Dic tator Stalin's chief aim is "to con quer the United States." Promises List 2. A promise to give the Senate committee, headed by Chairman Tydings (D-Md.) a list of federal employees "I know to be com munists" within two weeks. Near the end of Budenz testi mony. Senator Green (D-RI) said the onetime communist leader had disclosed nothing but "hearsay" about Lattimore Budenz had acknowledeged he never know Lattimore personally and had never seen him 'at a com munist party meeting. But he said Earl Browder and other red lead ers had referred to Lattimore as a communist and that' Lattimore definitely was under communist party discipline. In New York, Browder said "I never made any such reference" to Lattimore. He called Budenz1 statements false and added: "I don't think I ever discussed Mr. Lattomire in my life with any one." - Parish to Send Priest to Rome St Joseph's Catholic parish Thursday night surprised Its pas tor, the Rev. T. J. Bernards, with a gift designed to send him to Rome for the special Holy year celebration. The local priest, pastor of St. Josenh's for 16 vears. received a check for $1,500 from the parish. presented on its behalf by the as sistant pastor, Father O'Calla ghan. A social program and music provided by Sacred .Heart a cad emy students followed. Some 250 attended. The church committee which led the virtually spontan eous gift campaign included Mrs. George Hemann, Mrs. Henry Kropp, Mrs. Patrick Mejstrik and Mrs. Charles Schmitz. SP to Discontinue Pullman Car Route Lack of patronage will force the Southern Pacific company to dis continue its overnight Pullman sleeping! ear service operating; be tween Portland and Coos Bay through Salem, according to offi cials. The service will be halted from Portland on April 29 and from Coos By April 30, according to J. H. Pruett, jr., passenger agent In Portland. Chair car service on the same runs will be retained, he saw.?.. ' . EXCISE TAX CUT ASKED WASHINGTON, April 20-JP)-The House Ways and Means com mittee today brushed aside Presi dent Truman's tax recommenda tions and. in its first action oa the new tax bill, voted a $75,000,000 slash in manufacturers excise imposts " I - . I . . . ' - - - . j 1 1 11 1 .u.iiiu. 11 11 '" - ' ,-hmhii 1 in. 11 ,11 -uutmnmm wll'-i" If you look closely at this picture, you MAY be seeing- the first authentic photo of a so-called ttftmg saucer if there is such. It was taken March 12 at Pacific City on the Oreron Coast and came to light in Salem last night Rand Herrmrn of Pasco, Wash., formerly of Salem, gave it to Larry Soulier. D strom's art director., for display in the Elfstrom Art galleries. Herman taid he was lost ready to take a picture of his wife, Zelma, high-jumping on the beach when he heard a swooshtng sorad. looked up to see a vapor-trailed or exhaust-trailed object, snapped the object with his camera acta! 11000 of a second. Hainan Battle In Fourth Day; Claims Differ Br Spencer Moosa . TAIPEI, Formosa, April 20-(P) The Chinese nationalists tonight reported heavy communist cas ualties in the fourth day of battle for Hainan island and again boasted the red beach forces soon would be wiped out (The communists, however, said they had Jroken through "line after line" of nationalist defenses and on Monday captured the hamlet of Fookshan, 25 miles southwest of Hoichow, bland capital. Fookshan, which appears on some mips as Fusnan, is ten miles inland and 40 miles by road southwest of Hoichow. f The red claim, broadcast by the PeiDing radio and ! heard in San Francisco by the Associated Press, made it clear this was the long-planned major campaign to conquer Hainan. - (When communist military ope rations go awry, they never men tion them. Their treatment of the Hainan invasion with, such fan fare indicates strong red opti mism.) ! Nationalist dispatches recorded the arrival of defense reinforce ments from Formosa, saying this had greatly strengthened the na tionalist position on Hainan. mANRE ANNOUNCED , The general delivery window at the Salem postollice win .open ai t us. instead of 7:30 a.m. start ing Monday, Postmaster 1 Aioeri Gragg announced. Politics bn Parade . . . j - Who's Running for What In the May Primaries! CMMMtl 1 ta UkU restrict!, e iTwZj Mt reflet th ptli f Uta awasr). Today's subject: B. E. (Kelly) Owens (r) 1 Candidate for Stale represeiaue (Marten) Born in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1887. Attended grade schools in Los Angeles, Calif, end Indepen dence, Oregon and high school in Independence and Salem. En listed in Marine corps in 1917 and ipent It months in France in first World War. On returning home attended busi ness college in Portland. Mar ried In 1820 ana m. . Owns have one son attending sity of Oregon. Worked for a major Unlver- efl com- pasy ! IS years. Moved to Salexa jj.Zr-,?. f:y,." t 'tt , if . 5 I Photo Offered for Display XThat may be the first photo of a flying saucet came to light in Salem last night. Rand Herrman, Pasco, Wash., amateur photograph er who formerly resided in Salem, said he took tk photo March 12 at Pacific City. Herman gave the photo toj Larry Soulier, director or tiistrom s Art galleries. Boulier quoted Herrman as say ing he destroyed the negative on the advice of friends. He saved three enlargements. . The photo was taken on a murky day in light rain in the late after noon, with a 45 R. B. Graflex equipped with a Cooke F3-3 lens and with shutterispeed at 11000 of a second. Rand said. ' He also said it appeared to him the saucer had some sort of win dows (not visible in the picture); that It seemed to have holes in the edges, and that it appeared to be only around 2,000 feet away so that it was distinctly apparent to him that it was not a balloon or dirigible and that any such ugbter-than-air object could, not have been fast enough- to have left such a trail anyway. Rand also was quoted as say ing that by the time his wife had centered her attention toward the object it had disappeared but that the white trail still was visible. Marriages Eml Up In Divorce Court PORTLAND, April 20-W)-Aft-er 21 yerrs of marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Marriage wound up today in circuit court, where they became the divorced Marri ages. in 1831. entered the auiomooue hutinrss here in 1935. and nave operated with our firm, Herrall Owen eo since then. A member of AI Kader Tempw of the Shrine, Masons, saiem Cherrians. Elks, American Legion, 40-8, VTW, DAY, Marine Corps league, and Military Order of the Purnle Heart. In view or unsettieo ana con fusing conditions and the under" mining elements at work in this country, I strongly leei n is tne duty and should be the desire of every true American to enter ac tively into political Iiie in so iar as he is able. Individually we are stockholders in the greatest de mocracy ever conceived. There fore,, it Is imperative eacn oz us actively strive to protect his in- 1 am seeking the office of state representative and as such I am interested in the agricultural, in dustrial and natural resources of our commonwealth. If my ambi tions are successful, X promise to do my utmost to be credit to Marion county and the State of Oreeon. . I Dens.) A. "C2 'A MUM-" (Pkota copyriciiUa ly laa Rci in Salem Warnings of Given In Northwest 1 By The Associated Press Flood warnings were "out in that Pacific Northwest today, (Friday) ! Dut they were too late for owners of several cottages on Havdem 1 Lake in Northern Idaho. I Rising water was standing two i feet deep in some of the summe homes and cabins that ring It lake near Coeur D'Alene. Idaho. Owners of other homes had pumps j : working on a 24-hour basis te j hold back the flood. 1 E. M. Tobler. who keeps read I ings on the lake level for the U. S. Geological Survey, said the Hay den water level is more than tw feet above the peak reached last j year on May 17. I And from the army engineete in Seattle came high water war- : ings to residents" of river valleys ! in Washington and Northern Ida- ho. i Power company engineers re- i vised their estimates of water to come off the Spokane river drain age. They predicted cautiously that the river flow might equal that of 1948. II Weather Is the key to the situ- tion. Sharply wanner weather ac companied by extended rains max. bring floods to some areas severe as those of two years a. Nearly ' all forecasters : agree that ' dangerously high water is a cer- tatnty. For the last month, cool daye and colder nights have held bach . the normal runoff from snow to the mountains that Is deeper usual. These are the dancer named by the army engineers: The Kootenai, St Joe and Coenr D'Alene rivers la Idaho, end the Yakima, Okanogan. Meth low. We- nateheo and Eatlat rivers la tral Washington, i I Resident of these river were advised to stock un en bags and look to their river dikea. Max. M' Portland , i ,.. 43 ee . - m as ;.: jm 4i m 8a rraacteea - .IS - CUcuo . 4 Nw York S4 wmamatta river 4.1 rORXCAST (from UJ. wmumt W. reau. McNary field. Salem): fitnaratry iir woajr. MaiSnt aaa tonwiMbi Hih today na SS. Lew toaJaM wt ; a. Cooxiaiosa wtu be excoJaae i. mort tatm actlrtty today but wtaae will Umtt duatlag and speayiAC -; rattan to oarly momNff toowra, 1 SALBM ntCffU&XMJl This Tear Left Year rniial Floods I
