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'ji. V ' : J 1l ' 9 A- i f .. . f'j.. 1 V ' -.4 -Hi C ? T - 1 ... " ! '''.'! n t mm)mmmmmimt$ llll rrtrrtT. TrtfTirtTt 100 V)i) ' GasnJ H t Crewtk f Ortywi (SEE dp an . - - ' pounddd ! - ',-";', ' ' ' A state penitentiary convict Saturday dashed from a straw berry patch at the prison annex : Into an auto that had stopped, on Turner road and sped away from a startled armed guard. , I . Richard Johnson, 29, serving his. third year of a seven-year sentence Xor-assault and. armed robbery in Lane county, was still at large late Saturday night. ; Prison guards .searched areas surrounding Salem i all day Sat urday and 'state ! police were alerted throughout Oregon but no clues had been uncovered; by midnight. , . f ' Johnson was hoeing strawber ries with a gang Under a gun- ' guard about 10 a. vaJ between the prison annex and f Turner road when a black or dark-blue Buick stopped alongside the field. John- State Sen . Bain Admits Mailing Unsigned Cards 'It's All a Mistake', Candidate Asserts PORTLAND. May 13 -(VD-State Senator Jack Bain today admit ted preparing and mailing anonymous post cards to democratic voters. The cards had questioned the motives of County Clerk ;A1 iBrown's candidacy for the democratic nomination for county commissioner. Bain is one of' the eight democrats seeking -the nomination. He said the fact the cards were not signed a violation of thej Oregon OtP Mora women will get more guis from more children today man on any previous Motners oay. ims because there are more mothers. and they have had more children. Today will be a Dig aay.ipr uiu hare ' - A sharo change in attitude to- ward parenmooa is noicu. iusK; . i ft 1 1 Tn.tA.l1 nt a snrtnuine iarauy auwi tinited States had for decades prior to the last war, families are larger. The decline in the birtnraie nas Ken nrrpsted and-the curve has turned upward. A "third child' trend is reported, and even a "fourth child" trend. More couples are having more children and hav ing them because they wanUhem. . tn nlaln this reversaL Better economic, conditions, better oDsxei- rical care, a lightened Duraen ui housekeeping ;seemto hjMped ma " , -- inz machine (and now the automa- tic washer), and electric refrigera- tion, and diaper service haye made the mother's lot far easierithan in the day of the tub and, washboard and coonstove. - Improved parental and obstetrl- cal care has exercised much of the old fear of childbirth and reuevea inrne of the discomfort of pregnan- , cy and confinement. The maternal I death rate is now so low m pios- pective mothers need nave mue fear of their own survival, oaoicsiuon and other problems. come on me lnswuxmem. yian, w, which smooths the financial load, The uD-to-date pregnant woman consults her doctor early and regu larly. The cost is divided into monthly payments and when the baby arrives he is all paid fori -i Folk are apt to think this spurt In babies came- with the second world war. It was most pronounced then. But Peter Drucker, who had an article Are We Having Too Many Babies" in the Saturday Evening Post for May 6. says: "The turn in the trend did not (Continued on editorial page 4.) Rural School; Vote Monday The voters of Marion county's rural school districts will,. pass i Monday night on the 1950-51 an nual budget, at individual district meetings slated for 8 o'clock stan dard time (9 p. m. DST). The budget is for $1,197,333, or $1,004, 797 above the 6 percent limita tion. In most otihe 77 districts, vot ing will be. at the schcolhouse. with ballots available to all voters registered in the district.- The consolidated budget is 528, 132 below the current year's: Each district will pay an equal millage levy, toward the fund. i If trie proposal rails to pass. each' district would be allotted its proportionate share of the $192,436 case figure (that within the o per rent limitation and would vote in dividually on the extra amount needed to operate. Max. . n . 6S Mia. Prerip. Jem - Portland Pan mncivco Chics fo 45 0 trace trace J09 . 53 4S .14 58 New York 74 S3 Willamette rivr S.t feet. : FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight with a hi(h today Dear M and low tonight near 43. Cloudy on trie coast untu noon, be coming partly cloudy with periods of unshine thia afternoon. - Agricultural outlook: Weather excellent for all farm acUvillea today except wind will bin-, der dusting . and spraying operations Curing aiternooa noun. IAUM PRECrPITATlON This Year 40 ' Last Year 40.03 Normal son dashed for the car and Jump ed in the back seat The driver sped toward the state tuberculo sis hospital and hasn't been seen since the escape. - t ? - Deouty -Warden E. C. Halley riaid. ""It " hapoened " so louickly that the guard (LeeHughes)' just couldn't do anything -about It" -Johnson, who entered the pri son. Feb. 10, 1948, had a good conduct record prior to his es cape. He previously had served a one-year . sentence for . non-sup- "port on a' commitment from Deschutes county. , r " . The escapee is- 5 feet i7 inches tall. : weighs . 137 pounds - has brown eyes, dark brown -hair and a dark complexion; He es caped while wearing regulation . prison clothing, i corrupt practices aci was a mis take.- His wife reported she. had dumped 850 in a mail box before the senator could sign them. There's nothing wrong with the cards," Bain said, t'l just for got to sign them." But he admit ted some of the card about 100 went out with the typed name .The cards questioned whv Brown Should want to give ud a $6,600 job as county clerk for one paying $5,700 as commissioner. Before Bain admitted author ship of the cards. Brown demand ed an investigation which Dist rict Attorney John B. McCourt started. Truman Aslis River Agency Tiffs Cease ABOARD TRUMAN TRAIN, Truman May 13 -AJP)- President voiced a sharp warning today to warrlng state and federal agencies to wake up and settle their dif- ierences over river aeveiopment. Speaking at Fort Peel, Mont, k, departed lrom a prepkred ad j v .4L Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio val ieys must cooperate or developed areas elsewhere are going to take the population, they are going to take aU the industries, 4they are going to take every single thing we had. ' I ' xhe Missouri-born president also criticized federal agencies for srrannincr ovr mntml f Wwf velopment, particularly inT his own Missouri vaUey. He said it involved reclamation, flood control! naviga Detroit Dam To Feature Fete Court, Talk by Morse ; : ' ; . Kite:1 ' z ' 1 '- ' - J - -J ' A! V Public inspection of the Detroit dam' siie will be possible next week end. Saturday the works wilt oe open i im the public In bservsnee of Armed Forces day. Sunday an informal caravan of Cherrians, members ' of the court and Gov. Pouclas McKay and Sen. Wayne L. Morse will make the trip to the dam site. Above Is general view of the progress made to date, and at lower right, as they will view the project j Sunday, are Queen Nancy Miller, Princesses Dwynn Anne Herberger, Martha Storms te, Patricia Mae Kirk and Marlene Hartmann. Public Invited to DETROIT 3-24-2 pge 1 with pix ' An inspection tour of Detroit dam, featuring the royal court of the 1950 Salem Cherry land festi val and a post-election address by U. S. Sen. Wayne Morse, has been announced for next Sunday, May 21. W. M. Bartlett. chairman of the tour sponsored by the festival as sociation, said there would be no concerted caravan of cars, but that everyone was invited to be at the 2 22 Czech Oiisted By John M. Hightower ; WASHINGTON, May 13 -(&)-The Uqited States today ordered a wholesale ouster of Czech diplo mats from this country and charg ed that Czechoslovakia's Soviet satellite government is unable to control its own foreign policy. TheJ American counterstroke, following a Czech ejection of about1 140 U. S. diplomats this weekri (will send an estimated 22 out of the 33 Czech representatives homeward "within a reasonable time." : The Prasue eoverenment was ordered to close its consulates in Pittsburgh and Cleveland,, leaving only the Washington embassy and the New York- consulate to operate at a reduced level. Furthermore, the state depart ment declared in a coldly angry statement "this government is ex aminiag the situation not only with rfespect to the present but al so fori the future" a clear hint of possible further moves against the Czechs. . r - ' - The statement asserted:" "It is all too apparent that such actions of the Czechoslovak gov eminent are not dictated by the interests of the Czechoslovak peo ple or for that matter by the in terests of the present regime in Czechoslovakia. They follow a set course which appears to have been prescribed for the state of eastern Europe and indicate the inability of the Czechoslovak government to follow an independent policy. Bible Gives Theme Fori Mother's Day For la Mother's day message that tlBS "EtbV kVU illll W V M Ull and never could," Gov. Douglas McKaat referred Saturday to one Biblical .Ten Command- of the ments. He words said the most applicable for the occasion were: "Honor they father and thy moth er, thtit thy days may be long! upon the land which the Lord thy God gveth thee." He reminded that they are from chapter 20 of the Ibook of Exodus. NATIONALISTS RAID TAEpEI, Formosa, Sunday, May 14 -JR- A new commando-type raid on the communist mainland 140 miles south of Shanghai was reported today in official Chinesel nationalist dispatches. 100th! YEAR Envoys Public Inspection Tour j pen House'' at Damsite Sunday, May 21 dam by 3 pjn. for the festivities.1 The army engineers and Con solidated Builders, Inc., contrac tors, will entertain in honor of the court, who will be introduced by Sidney L. Stevens, association pres ident Bartlett said a concession stand will be erected to serve coffee, sandwiches and cold drinks. Band music will be provided, and Salem Cherrians will attend as a uniform ed group. SECTIONS 40 PAGES1 Friends of Baron Find New 'Handle' Hard to Handle OXFORD,: Eng., May' 13-W3)-Lord Lawson of Beamish was a coal miner and labor leader for 42 years before King George VI made him a baron last Feb ruary. They get "this lord and lady businessman mixed up, the 68-year-old ' peer confided;' . in a speech here.- For example, he said: ' ,;!;. "People come along to' me and say 'Well, you see my lord, then they get to .'It's this way,? Mr. Lawson,' then it's Tell me, John,' and in the end it's 'see "here, Jack." -, ce ies m Auto Crash SUtesman Newi Service INDEPENDENCE. May 13.- i Haskell Sterling Russell; 20, Inde pendence, was ' killed Instantly early this morning when his auto crashed ; into the" concrete Oak Point bridge, about three .'miles south of the Independence Y. A passenger in the auto,' Wil-J liam luj ivijrcxs, ao, iiv"iJ"", inWrred only minor injtaries. He was treated lor cuts and, bruises at Salem General hospital and was released. S The accident occurred about 1 a.m. at the same bridge where Harvey Thibeau of Independence was killed or drowned in an auto accident last February 28. State police said Russell was driving toward Independence when the auto crashed j into the concrete bridge railing, s The car was demolished. Polk County Cor nripr J. Paul Bollman saidt death undoubtedly came mstaflUyr Rus sell was slumped in the tear when Bollman arrived. 1 RusselL born May 16, 1929, at Van Buren. Ark., had I lived in Independence for about six years He was discharged in 1949 after a three-year hitch with ithe army, Survivors include! Russell's mother and step-father Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Davis. Independence; three brothers. J. D.. James and LeRoy RusselL all of Independ ence; and relatives in oher parts of the country. - I Funeral services are tentatively set for 2 p jn. next Thursday at the Walter Smith funeral home in Independence. Mr. Davis of the engineers and Mr. Murray of the contractors are handling arrangements at the dam. and they and other dam personnel l will outline the construction pro gram and answer questions for vis- Itors. ' - ' :'- Others participating In the pro gram will include Gov. Douglas McKay. Albert Bauer of CBI, Gen. Thomas M. Robins, i Col. O. E. Walsh and CoL Donald' S. Burns of the engineers. Inde penden Tht Orejoa Statesman, More of, Winnipeg Flooded WINNIPEG, Man.,May 13 (S) Violent rain squalls ;ascompanied by 30-mile .winds lashed Winni peg tonight, whipping up a tide in the flood-swollen!' Red river. that put heavier pressure on the dikes protecting the icity. . V At 9 p.m. (EST the river, stood at 30.2 feet a rise of an inch in three hours. Twenty additional city blocks were flooded. . Brigadier, R. E. A. Morton said n said I P two I the I t si M that if the river yent up more feet to 32.8 feet army would begin mass evacua tion of the city s population to army camps throughout Caaada. He said essential workers remain ing would be fed arid housed by the army. . " , Already -more itoan. 70.000 r of Winnipeg's 350,000 ! inhabitants have ,iled. The Red! Cross evac uated 20Q seriously ill- patients in two special trains- to hospitals in Regina, Saskatoon and Cal gary, . .;".'! - - The others left In hundreds of special railway coaches attached to regular , and special trains, in planes, buses and thousands . of trucks and private crs. " The army called diking crews from a losing effort to ooen the bridge, linking central Winnipeg and St. Boniface, its sister city to the eastj Floodwaters Douea across toe pavement at the Winn the work at the bridge 'was en- dangering nearbv dikes. Hundreds of blocks elsewhere in greater Winnipeg have been flooded since the river smashed most of the city's dikes a week ago. VTe tut Wires to Halt Race News EL PASO. TexMay ILWjTVA Sheriff! officer scaled a Dole at the New Mexico border tonisht and cut Western Union wires serving- an Anapra, to. M., news service. Sheriff Joe Campbell said this disrupted ' race news service to the west coast and Mexico. The wires were cut about S n.m. (MST) after County Attornev Er nest Guinn decided the act would not vioiaie state or federal laws. rnus, Campbell said, continental press service's relay of racing news over the nation was interrupted in transmission, to the west coast Mexico, and Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. ' , i According to a report of the f ed- f-c-i commsioni umrti utatc news service si Anapra, about four miles west and slightly north of here, acts as a relay station to points west. Campbell said, he hopes the ac tion taken here will i?et a preced ent, throughout the nation. "If .the wire service and news dissemina tion part of horse race betting can De sxopped," he said, "I'm sure organized gambling in the country can be curtailed." I Campbell said that if the Wes tern Union r wires are restored they'll be cut again in the morning.- !';. '. j ' - Campbell stood at the foot of the pole and directed Sgt. jEarl Ham mock of the sheriff's department highway patrol in the cutting. He took care that it was all done on the Texas side of thf border and that an end of the severed wire did not 1 into New! Mexico. I Pacific Northwest Census Near 5 Million SEATTLE. May 13-flPV-The re- gional census office reported today the population count for 1 the .four Pacific northwest states is nearing 4,787,000. . , The totals released by Supervisor Gene H. Harris are; Washington ! 2,230,000; Oregon 1,462,000; Idaho 563,000; Montana 532,000. WCSTUtN DtTERJf ATIONAI. " At Salem , Spokane S At Victoria 7-S. lacoma t- At Vancouver 4-. Trl-Oty 8-20 At Yakima 2, Wenachee - '- - COAST IJEAGUE " ' At Portland 1. Sacramento S At Hollywood ?. Los Angeles At San Francisco 1. Oakland ft 1 At Seatti J, Saa .Qiefo X r . ; i - NATIONAL LEAGUE At Chicago 4. Pittsburgh 3 4 At Brooklyn 3. Boston 12 At Philadelphia 1. New York 1 'At St. Louis 4, .Cincinnati 3 ' AMttlCAN LXAGCS At Detroit 1. St. Louis (11 Inn.) At New York S. Philadelphia 3 At Cleveland S, Chicago 3 -At Boston 6, Washington 4 I Texas Deniities BASEBALL Salem Oregon. Sunday. May 14, Census Winner it t I to i r i itm.iim-.-.i.. . . 7 "V V v ' . . . m lit Earl R. Anderson cf - 3310 Fisher guessing Salem's 1950 population - . ' V . at 1 .JT in-- 'i . . .... 1 ' - - &i i v '- " test. And Saturday he also received a $25 check, shown above, and the congratulations of his two daughters, Mary Ruth (left) and Marts Rose, for winning first award. The flowers In the background are Anderson's hobby. Anderson missed Salem's official count by only 37 persons. (Photo by Les Cour, SUtesman valley editor.) Two Men, Turner Woman in Top Rank of 4250 Guessers on v Population of Salem for 1950 Earl R. Anderson of 3310 Fisher road, "just kind of had an idea" a lot of the Salem area's growth was outside its incorporated limits. So he was awarded a $25 check, Saturday for winning first place in The Oregon Statesman's population guessing contest Anderson, a semi-retired veteran of overseas service in World War 1, entered a guess of 43,027 just 37 short of the official total of 43,064 announced yesterday as Salem's 1950 count. A $10 check for winning second E' lace went to Mrs. Ora McTigret, ox 158,; Turner, who guessed 43, 127 an over-estimation of 63 per sons, and the third prize , of $5 went t6 Richard McQuiston of 2355 Claxter road, Salem,, for a EUeSS OI 43.UUU JUSX 04 spon I the official total, i S More Than 4250 Guesses More than 4250 persons entered guesses I in the contest. The 10 runners-up to the three winners, none of, resides within the Salem Evelyn Gordon, 325-S. T7th st. City limits,' were: Salem" f 43.135 71 off). Mrs. M. Boitz, Stayton (42,980 84 off), - Georgia Bird, 110 Washington st, Dallas (43,210146 off) Wj S, Buck, 318 E. Miller st, Salem 4337173 off). Paul A. Smith, box 394, Mill City (42,876188 off). . Mrs. si D. A. Jenkins, box 44, Mnnmotith f 43.262 198 off). Sheldon Anderson, route 2, box 169. Woodburn (42.832 23Z toll) Norene Kreeer. route' 1. Jef ferson i 43,300 236 off). Mrs. Steua Brown, 44 1 rat si Ralpm Y42.809 255 off). Mrs. T. C Anderson, route 7, box 425B, Salem (42,798 266 off). : ; Came Here From Nyssa The contest . winner resides on an acre nlot on Fisher road with j his wife, a nurse at Salem General hospital, ! and two daughters, Martha Rose, 11, and Mary Ruth, 7.. The family moved to baiem from Nyssa five years ago. Ander son was a farmer until ill health forced ; him to cease heavy work Now his maior hobby is flowers. He is a native of the Hillsboro area. He entered The Statesman's contest. "iust for fun" and com mented Saturday "it's a lot of fun -to win S2S. too.".. - The contest broueht entries from practically every community in the valley and from more than a dozen states. . Most of the guesses were from 53.000 to 57.000, only a few score being in the 42,000 to 44.000 brackets from Which, the winners were chosen.4 : ' . :r - ResDonse to the contest, on the part of Statesman readers is be lieved to approximate a national newspaper record in regard to the proportion of subscribers repre- KUKU. . . . . ' . . i i COMSICNISTS OUTLAWED :i CARACAS. Venezuela, May 13 - (JP- The covernment tonight out lawed tna communist cany in Venezuela." PRICE Talks Off Only 37 St. A , u, ; '-t mrfatii, MmVut MmmtaertimsiAiii vaMiS Jii'l road, Salem, had a 1ot of fun" in The Oregon Statesman's con PAA Airline Strike Ends NEW YORK, May 13 -flFU A strike of 700 Pan-American World Airways flight attendants, sup ported by - 3,000 maintenance workers, was called off today 17 hours after it ; started. The walkout which began last midnight was cancelled in late af ternoon when both sides agreed to submit disputed issues to arbitra tion. .. An airline official said the strikers had agreed to return to work immediately. . LIE MEETS WITH GROMYKO MOSCOW, May 13 -JP- United Nations Secretary-General Try eve Lie conferred for an hour today with Soviet Deputy Minister An drei A. Gromyko. Lie is holding a round of con ferences with top Russian officials in an effort to ease east-west ten sion. '. ... on 1S50 - if a j -? " f I hi Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! f Editor's note: Comments In this series are made ky or for the candi dates without restriction, and mar er may mot reflect the opinion of this newspaper). r Today's subject: ; Robert F. Magnire . i : - Candidate- for ' ; .. ;.. State snprense coart Robert F. Maguire, who is can didate for position No. 3, justice of the supreme. court of Oregon, was bom in To ledo, Ohio. , He received his com mon school edu cation there; had to go .to work, studied s h o rt -hand and typing in I nieht school. J. amrf finaTW ent a i civil service Job in! Washington, D. C which en abled him to at- Kekert Magotr tend and graduate from George- No. 43. .; 1 : - ..... . j(. -'., '1:1 -. i Section of UP to Join Tie-Up CHICAGO, May 13 -(iiP)i Both sides in the locomotive firemen's strike met together, with a govern-, ment mediator today but the con- ference broke up without a settle-: ment. . l There was no indication when a new meeting aimed at, reaching an agreement in t he disput would be held. The strike, meanwhile, spread in the east and west. . Francis A. CVNeilL jr., chair-. m?fn of the national (railway) me diation board, did: say, however. that more such conferences would be held later. ' . v ; But even as the union represen-. tatives were attending the confer ence, the Brotherhood of Locomo- . tive Firemen and Enginemen ex-; tended its strike to the southwest ern district of the .Union Pacific' railroad and sought to cut the Pennsylvania railroad's operations In the east and south. The move had the effects ol stretching, the . strike operations from coast to coast although on ly a relatively few trains are in-' volved in the new strike develop-. ments. ' .. . ' v " ; . At Los Angeles K. B. Walton, acting vice president of the Fire men s Brotherhood said the men are being pulled out at 6 p. m. Pa cific daylight time, "because the Union Pacific has been helping the Santa Fe operate by. allowing the trains to use their yards." A PRR spokesman at Philadel phia said 21 freight trains were operated west andi north of Har risburg today 11 more than yes terday. Normally, , the PRR operates some 1,500 freights north and west of Harrisburg. ' The strike of 18.000 firemen was called Wednesday . against parts of the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Santa Fe and Southern rail systems. The union is demanding s secpnd fireman on big diesel locomotives and a fire man on little switch diesels. - .The four-day strike already has forced some 200,000 persons int idleness. (Additional detail on page. 2) MillsSignMth CIO, Except for . - - 1 PORTLAND, May 13-W-Mort of the Pacific northwest lumbey industry came to terms with tho CIO Woodworkers today, but tho union ordered a strike Monday against'' the' big Weyerhaeuser Timber company. The industry, which has boon working at record (levels to meet housing demands, ran into other grief, though. That .was a short age of freight . cars, caused by railroad strikes east of this re gion. - The strike ordered against tho Weyerhaeuser firm will idle-a p-" proximately 9000 workers. Plants involved are at tuamatn rails and Springfield, Ore., Longview, Everett, Raymond, Vale; MacDon ald, Wash., and in Puget Sound boom operations. . Most other lumber employers met the union's demand for ' a new contract granting health and welfare benefits. It will involvo employer payment of . 7 cents per man hour to insurance and hospital associations. .Also grant ed are the 'three paid holidays, a compromise from the six asked by the union. t Parade . . . o ", town University Law School. He had the good sense to coma immediately-, to-Oregon in 109, and the better sense to stay here. He started in practice in Medford, 10c TUT 1 wevern was appointed United States attor ney and later chief deputy, dis- , tdct - attorney , for Multnomah- . county. "Hal been an is master' in dianeery I6r the United States . courts in Oregon, the first presi-. dent of the Oregon State Bar, an member of the board of governors ' of the American Bar association. and, without solicitation, ins JS41 was appointed by the president of the United States as one of tho judges of the Nazi War Crimea trials in" Numberg,' Germany, an , returned to the United States te , 1949. . . '".'- - When Justica'J. O. Bailey e cided to retire from the supremo bench, Maguire offered himself as ' a candidate to succeed him. . Tomorrow Walter Toose).