FTP SfflXDOB U VJJ UUULD uuJ A slLaa aaaanslL sLaMeaaasat vfQrM 1 , 1M wrewn ft vtwgm 100th YEAE 20 PAGES The Oregon Startesman, Salem. Orecjon, Friday, May 19, 1350 PRICE 5c No. 53 POUNDDD 1651 t t In 1949 American medical gtfhools graduated 5,094 persona; tn 1905 they graduated 5,604. Yet irt the 44 year the population of the United States had greatly in creased. Better trained doctors with better organization of hos pitals, nurses, etc., can take care of more patients. But people de mand more medical care, especial ly older people who comprise a larger percentage of the popula tion Van fnrmprlv. It look "VeiT much as though we are headed lor adoctor shortage;: and many communities leel' the shortage right now. I . 1 The reasons for the ' decreasing number of doctors in proportion to the population are several. Prior to the report , of the Car negie Foundation in the first de cade of the century there were many medical schools, some, of them run 1 as commercial enter prises, grinding out doctors who were poorly prepared to practice. A large number of. these schools were closed within a few years, being unable to meet require ments for recognition as standard medical schools. New standards called for longer period of prepar ation, higher tuition costs and , tetter performance as a student. As a rseult fewer made the grade and came out as doctors. Economic Jnterest may have played a part, with the purpose of holding down competition in the medical profes sion. The effect has been, as may . plainly be seen, to keep quite sta tionary the output of our medical schools save under the accelera tion program during the war. One thing now which prevents expansion of instruction is the heavy cost that would fall on the schools. Prof. Harris, economist (Continued on editorial page, 4) en ee, Pal Sentenced To 15 Years TOLEDO. Ore., May 18 Rich ard Johnson, state prison escapee, and Peter P. Biziko, suspected of aiding in the break last Saturday, were sentenced to 15 years in the Penitentiary here ' today for -the armed robbery of a Newport cab driver Monday. . v Both men pleaded guilty, waiv ed lory trial, and were sentencei by Circuit Judge Victor Olliver of. Albany. "v. Louie Biziko, brother of Peter, was arraigned here today on charges of harboring the escapee in his cabin near Newport. He was granted time to enter a plea and was released on his tecognizant. The sentenced men were brought to the penitentiary by state police Immediately after the proceedings. In Marion county, Johnson faces charges of escaping from prison, and the remainder or a seven-year sentence started in 1947. Peter Biziko and Robert Roy Hooker are charged in Marion county with aiding Johnson in his escape from , the prison annex where he was working in a straw berry patch under armed guard. Johnson caught the guard by sur prise and fled to an awaiting auto parked on the Salem-Turner road. Police believe Biziko and Hooker were operating the car. Both are ex-convicts. " Hooker and Biziko were arrest ed by state police Wednesday in a Myrtle Point tavern on a tip from a local hardware dealer who bought a gun from the pair. Louie Biziko was jailed in Toledo Mon day night by state police. Hooker is being held In the Marlon coun ty Jail. Azores Crash Of B29 Kills 16 t PONTA DELGADA, Soa Miguel, The Azores. MsEy 18-MVA U. S air force B-29 bomber, breaking a i flight to Britain because of engine trouble, carried! 18 persons to death in a landing at the La gens air base early today. The plane came down on No. 16 runway of the base, an American installation on the island of Ter ceira, hurtled of? the runway and caught fire. fl I It was unofficially reported the plane collided With an air service motor car parked off the field. Animal Cracltcr; By WARREN GOODRICH "Go wtsh wtir far Utt todi or Dttttif nd 00 Escap ft4 lAVt MUt tWl 12 West Nations to Pool Uraoicial al8y Shoivs Tie Vote Dei iural School Budget Election 1,539 to 1,539 Tabulation of All 74 Districts A tie vote on the Marion county rural school budget w s revealed Thursday night on the basis of complete unofficial returns. ! The result, if upheld by canvass Monday night, spells defeat for the budget, according to Mrs. Agnes Booth, county rchool superin tendent Returns showed that 3,078 voters had split down the middle 139 to 1,539 on a 11,004,787 portion oi tne combined rural districts' budget which is in excess of the 6 per cent limitation, The entire midget -is $1,197,233. : Protest Against Keizer Only a third of the districts voted for the measure. Mrs. Booth interpreted many of the unfavor able votes as a protest against in clusion of the large Keizer district in the rural school district. Keizer favored the budget by 620 votes. Returns from there im? mediately following the Monday night election were largely respon sible for the wide lead the budget held in early returns. - s Wednesday, with 47 of the 74 districts reported, the budget still held a 329-vote margin, but a de luge of unfavorable - votes from outlying districts were reported yesterday to close the gap. Voting in nearly every district was lopsided whether lor or against the measure. Detroit sup ported it 263-2, while 24 districts voted unanimously against. Big gest "no votes came from victor Point (180-0) and St. Paul (182-1). Returns From 68 Districts The county superintendent's of fice reported returns from 68 dist ricts yesterday which showed the budget leading 1508 to 1504. The Statesman contacted school elect ion boards at - Evergreen. Scotts Mills, Union, Oak Glenn, Gervais and Raybell school districts to complete the unofficial tabulation. If defeat of the budget is con firmed, each school district will vote separately on its own budget. The comparatively small portion of the budget within the 6 per cent limitatioa would be prorated among the 74 districts. First class and union high school districts are not included in the rural school budget. (Latest re turns on page 6.) Baruch Asks War Plan Laid NEW YORK, May 18-()-Ber- nard M. Baruch called Washington the Capital of indecision" tonight in warning anew that the United States can lose any future- war by failure to plan mobilization now. The financier and "elder states man" also denounced what he termed the "shocking immorality" of proposing a standby manpower draft law without providing at the same time for the wartime draft of money, farms, factories and mines. Baruch'a address was prepared for a Columbia university seminar on economic mobilization. Coulee Dam to Release Flow PORTLAND, May 18-(VThe army: engineers began letting the water out of Grand Coulee re servoir today to make room for storing up Columbia river flood water1 later. The action will make a flood crest at Vancouver about 1.4 feet lower than would otherwise occur. The army engineers and the bu reau of reclamation said the wa ter level of the reservoir would be lowered five feet. Then, when the- flood surge comes, t the reservoir will be filled up again, keeping -1,-275,000 acre feet of water ouf of the flooding river. Max. - M - 60 63 Mia. ' 37 41 42 44 Predp. trace .01 M J00 M lilrm Portland San Francisco Chicaro 64 56 Mew York 80 Willamette river 3.1 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy early today with light showers; decreasing in afternoon and Improv ing .tonight and Saturday. High today 60-E2. Low tonight 3SV40. Showers and moderate to fresh winds will hinder some farm opera uoas today. Improv ing Saturday, t IALIM PKBCtPITATIOir This Year 4AM Last Year . ' 413 Normal Voter Ponders rz r On his way to vote this morning Is Abe Friesen. 472 University tt, as are thousands of other citizens over the state. With pamphlets, cards and folders from candidates, plus a copy of his morning- paper under his arm, Friesen will make his final decisions before casting his ballot. Fair weather should bring out a good share of Oregon's registered Voters. But the morning after the primary probably will hear results bemoaned by many who never bothered to ro to the polls. (Photo by Don Dill, Statesman staff photographer.) ; Yanks Speak Well of Chinese PEARL HARBOR, May 18 -(E)- their 18 months in Chinese communist captivity as "a better deal than we could possibly have expected." Both : said they got considerable treatment and never were of fered violence. They are marine Sgt Elmer C. Bender, 27, Cincinnati, and William C. Smith, Long Beach, Calif., navy chief electrician's mate. i They spoke at a press confer ence. It was the first time they had talked to American reporters since the communists released them May 3 at the north China port of Tsingtao. From there they went to Jlonk Kong on a British steamer and were flown on to Pearl Harbor. "And the Chinese people," said Bender, "are getting a better deal under the communists than they were under the nationalist gov ernment." j Smith, breezy, and happy he is en route home, fully backed up Bender's story. "We ate !as well as the Chinese did," Smith said. "They certainly went out Of their way to give us as much as they could of all they had." I They insisted they never were f ocedj to : work and were not re quired to j attend communist in doctrination lectures or classes. Both hedged when questioned about a Peiping radio broadcasts saying they had signed confessions that they j had spied on the com munists. ' They would not say they had signed confessions, nor would they deny it. "The only pressure if you could call it pressure to get confessions from us .was oral," Ber-der sid. "They gave us the idea we'd be there from now -on if we didn't talk." i Camp to Open The Salem farm labor camp will opeii June 5, Jt was decided Thursday night by directors of Salem Agricultural Housing, Inc. Accommodations for 150 fami lie will -remain open to migratory laborers jand their families until September at the camp property east of the Salem airport. Single apartments rent for $5 per week, double apartments for $7.50, with water, wood and light furnished. The housing corporation repre sents Salem area farmers, food processors and businessmen. BOLIVIA. RIOT BLOODY LA PAZ. Bolivia. Mar 18 -UPi One person was killed and eight injured tonight "as soldiers and police, dispersed some 300 anti government demo nstra tori in this strike-bound capital. Final'Decision - ''''- ' .: i v - mmm i in' -: f j -T- -""t ' x u A-: 'if " I 'K -A r j Red Captors Two U. S. airmen today described Fire in Store At Silvertpn Statesman Newi Service SILVERTON A near-disas trous fire was averted in Silverton at 3 a.m. Thursday when the night officer E. J. Jackson discovered smoke oozing from the alleyway back of Steelhammer's drug store Firemen arrived in time!-to put out a fire between the walls up stairs in the Rex Albright offices. Origin of the fire was not determ ined. Damage was confined chief ly to water in the , drugstore be low. The department answered i call Thursday afternoon to check a chimney fire at the Silverton armory.. EXTRA DEPUTY ON DUTY An extra man will be on duty at the Marion county sheriffs of fice tonight tp receive ballot boxes brought in from the county prec incts, Sheriff Denver Young re ported. The elevator will be in operation also to facilitate taking the boxes upstairs. Doubled Life Span Said With 10-Year, $3 PASSAIC, N. J., May 18 -(JP) An American Chemical society meeting was told tonight that the b'uman life span might be doubled to . 120 years within a decade . if $3,000,000 could be spent on spe cial research. I ! , Dr. Thomas S. Gardner. Jwho Is associated with Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N..J, told the chemists that the human body was breaking down -well before its full life potential was realized but . that scientists appeared sot to know how to stop it-: ! 1 . "Careful estimates indicate that as little as $3,000,000 under com petent supervision over a period of only about 10 years offers posi tive hope of doubling the human life span, Dr. Gardner said. H said the research was need .. . , Economic Pri Polls Set For Vote Given, a decent break in the weather, more than 350,000 voters will go to the polls in Oregon to day to climax one of the liveliest non-presidential primary cam paigns on record. Best apparent guess is that around 50 per cent of the elector ate will cast ballots compared with about 65 per cent In the pres idential primaries of 1948. But a 55 to 60 per cent turnout seems expected in Marion county where legislative campaigns jiave been hot and heavy. Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (8 a.m., to 8 p.m. Pacific Stand ard Time. . Most of, the pre cincts will have counting boards at work during- the day but by state law no returns can be made public until after polls close 9 pan. Daylifht Time. ; Following is a list of candidates (by inadvertence, the' name of Gene Malecki was omitted yes terday from the list ; of Marion county republican aspirants to the house of representatives): Governor of Oregon Republican: Douglas; McKay. Democrat: Austin F. Flegel, Wal ter J. Pearson, Lew Wallace. U. S. Senator Republican: Dave Hoover, John McBride, Wayne Morse. Democrat: Howard Latourette. Louis Wood. 1st Dist. Congressman ' Republican: Walter Norblad. , Democrat: Roy R. Hewitt, L. T. Ward. Stats Supreme Court Austin Dunn, Robert Maguire, Walter Tooze. Labor Commissioner Republican: William Kimsey. Democrat: Howard Morgan. Marion County Senator Republican: Steve Anderson, William W. Chadwick, Frank A. Doerfler, Fred Lamport, Richard L. Ryman, K. G. Thompson, Doug-, las R. Yeater. Democrat: Arthur L. Davis, Frank Porter. ' Marlon Representative (4) Republican: Ed. (Doc) Boring, George E. Emigh, jr., Lloyd Girod, Mark O. Hatfield, Roy L. Houck, H. R. (Farmer) Jones, Gene Ma lecki.'Ivan G. Martin, Lee V. Oh- mart, B. E. (Kelly) Owens, Rich ard D. (Dick) Severin, John F. Steelhammer. Democrat: Ward Graham, Pres ton W. Hale, Lawrence J. (Larry) Koch, Josephine Albert Spaulding, Alvin N. Whitlaw. , County Commissioner Republican: E. E. Rogers, A. J. ZielinskL Democrat: Andy Burk, A. N, Vistica. ,. County Recorder Republican: Herman Lanke. Democrat: Henry Heyden. Salem Mayor Harry Collins, Al Loucks, Wal ter Musgrave. . Salem City Judge Elmer Amundson, Peery Buren. Salem City Treasurer Paul Houser. Salem Aldermen , Ward 2: Albert GUle, Don Mad ison. .. Ward 4: Dan Fry.: v Ward 6: Tom Armstrong, Elmer Church. Ward" 8: Earl Burk, Firm to Construct Doctors' Quarters Plans to erect new doctors quarters near Salem General hos Dital have been announced by the Clarmar company, of which P. D. Quisenberry is an owner. The buildings will be adjacent to the medical center near the hospital. Eventual construction of four structures is planned, each of which would house two doctors 1 suites. ! ed in the field known as geronto therapeutics,; a branch of science concerned with slowing down the aging rate and preventing the de velopment of old-age ailments. He said in a talk prepared for a Passaic valley meeting of the American Chemical . society that this research would be the "final approach to a solution of the prob lem of lengthening the life span." ' Dr. Gardner , told the chemists that the major cause of death as a person grew older j appeared to be the deposition of j a substance called cholesterol in- the blood vessels, heart, muscles and other orgaas. ) He said , research has indicated this can be prevented by the use of substances already, known to science but that further study was marv Kail Blast Ordered To Ease Pressure On Winnipeg Dikes Half -Inch of Rain on Weather Forecast WINNIPEG, Man., May 18 -UP)- The Canadian army tonight ordered a section of a north-south Canadian National Railways line blown up to relieve pressure on a six-mile flood dike protecting a large but sparsely settled section of suburban greater Winnipeg. Sappers were called in to blast the roadbed in the Fort Garry district. The objective was to let district. The objective was to let flood waters, threatening to crack the dike, flow back eastward to the swollen Red river. The drastic action came as southern Manitoba's floodfighters, barely holding their own, faced a threat of heavy thunderstorms throughout the Red river valley. The weather bureau forecast a half inch rainfall in the valley. At the same time.the river rose a hundredth of an inch here in one hour this afternoon. The reading, which had stood at 30.25 feet since Tuesday rose to 30.26. Earlier, D. M. Stephens, Man itoba's deputy minister of resourc es, has reported a drop of 1.3 inches in the level at . inundated Emerson, on the international bor dor. There had been a cimilar droD at Morris. 41 miles south of Winnipeg, in the heart of the flood area. But Stephens said it may be at least two days before the drop is felt ot Winnipeg. A wind-whipped, six-inch flash I rise in the level of the river at one point menaced a new area of suburban Fort Garry as greater Winnipeg faced the still critical situation. Army engineers released an es timated 147 truck loads of earth, shattered houses, floating furni ture and other debris which; had hindered the movement of ! the water under the closed Norwood bridge, linking Winnipeg and St. Boniface. It was-hoped the removal of this obstacle would help improve the situation upstream. Submergible Theatre Due MARINELAND, Fla., May 18 -(JPi- The operators of marine stu dios said today they planned a the atre in Texas which will go up and down in water like a sub marine. The announcement that the. 125 seat theatre would be built at Springlake, Tex, was made by W. F. Rolleston, vice president. About $100,000 will be sunk In the submergible theatre which will feature an aquatic . animal show beginning on the surface and concluding under water. After presenting the surface show, the theatre will take on ballast like a boat and sink to the bottom of the lake at San Marcos. End toeHaziiig' In Sheridan High Ordered Statesman News Service SHERIDAN, May 18 Sheri dan high school's school board or dered an end to all "hazing" to day after two students were in jured in a lettermans initiation last week. Ed Papen and Dick Kunzler suffered third degree burns during the initiation in slide down a steep bank along Mill creek near Buell. They were nude at the time. A physician who treated them re ported they will be unable to sit normally for some time. The annual initiation Is a tra dition of long standing with the Letterman's club. The injuries oc curred,, the club reported, because the "creek bank was unusually dry and hard this year. Possible, Million Research required to determine best dos ages for human beings of differ ent ages. . Dr. Gardner said he already had increased the life span of fruit flies by 48 per cent by the use of substances which he de scribed as pantothenic acid, pyri doxine and sodium yeast nucleate. Dr. Gardner said the human life span had increased from 18 years for primitive man, through 25 years for the man in the ure sian and Roman civilizations, to 37 years in the United States only a century ago. By 100. he said, it had in creased to 49 years here In the U. S. and now In 1950 stands at 7.5 years. And, he said, "the po tential life span has sot been ap proached.'" MiMtary Might iiooa waters, threatening to crack Solons to Test Bookie's Story For Perjury WASHINGTON, May 18 -() Senate gambling probers disclos ed today they are running a per jury test on the story told them by Frank Erickson, race bet big shot. Senator , McFarland (D-Ariz) said if an evidence is revealed it will be? laid before the fed eral prosecutor. " The test deals with Erickson's testimony concerning his relations with Frank Costello, reputed to be another top-flight figure in the gambling world. Erickson told thesenators his only business thesenators connection with Costello was their joint interest in some Texas oil wells. In New York, Assistant District Attorney Alfred H. Scotti has stated thaf among records seized in Erickson's offices there was evidence that Erickson had held two $25,000 promissory notes signed by a Frank Costello. U of 0 Political ! Rally Climaxed By Near-Riot EUGENE. May l$-P-A stu dent political rally at the Univer sity of Oregon turned tonight in to a near-riot to which police and firemen were called. It all ended without Injury, al though there were some wetted down students and a few irate police. One campus political group staged a parade in advance of voting for student body officers, Monday. Detractors appear, and soon the parade was absorbed in a milling, shoving crowd of sev eral hundred. Police arrived on a fire truck. They attempted to restore order while firemen connected up hoses, just in case. But then someone started letting air out of a police car that also had reached the scene. And someone else started whittling on a fire hose. So the firemen turned the hose on the whittler and his brothers, and the police rushed the tire bleeders. , The affair broke up at 11 p.m. without arrests. Easing of Red Probe Hinted WASHINGTON, vMay 18-P)-Senator Tydings (D-Md.) said to day the task of investigating al leged communism in the state de partment is impeding legislation "vital to national security. Without saying so specifically, Tydings indicated he may devote less time- to the 10-Weeks-old in quiry into charges by republican Senator McCarthy that reds have swayed this country s foreign pol icies. Aides later said they expect Tydings to continue as chairman of the senate subcommittee which has been investigating McCarthy's charges, but to spend more time on defense legislation in the next few weeks. - WESTERN INTERNATIONAL At Wenatchee 4. Salem 0 At Trl-City -. Victoria -7 . At Spokane-Vancouver (rain). At Taeoma 5, Yakima J. COAST LEAGUE At San Diego S. Portland S. At Sacramento 0. Seattle 3. At Oakland 5. Hollywood S. At Loa Angeles 14, San FranrUco II. NATIONAL LEAGUE At Brooklyn S. St. Louis S. At New York 10. Chicago 4. At Boston-Pittsburgh (rain). At Philadelphia-Cincinnati (rain). AMEUCAL LEAGUE i At Detroit IX. Boston IS. At Cleveland 4. PhlladclDhia At Chicago S. Washington t. tUsuy game acoecuiea.! Defense Council Due Soon " I: tnvrmv t.. "j,o J n. , western nations tonight Agreed tF pool their i economic and military might into one vast arnied force. cemrajiy xhrected to resist Soviet aggression. " Atlantic Dact foreign rrimstra ended a four-day session with a six-poini program designed to speed up western preparedness and overtake - Soviet militarv might. They agreed in principle to th American military concept lo . . ..i . . on ine . creation or balanced collective forces." This- meant that each of the 12 nation will contribute specific units to the central western armed force -and not try to maintain expensive overall military estabbshments . each self-contained in all arms. The ministers set up an overall council of deputy foreign minis ters, meeting year I around to pul the collective security program into force. This council will havej a permanent powerful chairman who, it is understood, will be an American. U. S. To Bear Cost The bi2?est sharp nf (Went costs is expected to be borne by the United States and there ar indications the U. S. share will cost more than the $1,000,000,000 Demg given out this year. W Each of the 12 countries, how- 1 ever, was committed by the coun- cii io Dear a snare in proportion to its resources Outside the Dact meetinp thai United States 'and Canada gave nouce tney intend to share in Europe's economic problems in 1952 when the European recovery ends. ! The American representative on the deputy council of foreign min isters will be chosen by President Trunian following Secretary of State Dean Acheson's return to Washington. Immediate Start Due It was stressed the new council for defense must be set up Im- , mediately and start to function. WASHINGTON. May 1S-UPWA top governmental official said to day the United States may have to exDand its air force and naw to support the newly announced 12- power aeiense oi western Europe against communism.! He said that under the plan, American nlanea and ihm IT S navy will carry the major burden of sea defense. American ground forces will not be reduced to off set the air-sea Increases. House Group Volea Rent Lids. Subject To Local Approval WASHINGTON, May 18 -(JF)- A one-year extension of federal rent controls but only in cities and other localities that want to keep them was approved by the house banking committee today. The vote was 13 to 4. The new bill would renew the federal rent powers, but with a stipulation that rent ceilings would be lifted automatically next De cember 31 in all localities where the governing body or the citizen do not vote to continue the con trols on to June 30, 1951. Special Election Bureau Set Up To Count Votes Complete with special tele phones, tabulators and scores of additional workers, The Ores oa Statesman's election bureau will swing into action promptly at 9 o'clock ,(DST) tonight. Fifteen special messengers in Salem and three-score correal pondents throughout Mar l en county will' bring in the pre cinct counts, which will be ob tained through the cooperation of counting boards as their work progresses. The . tabulation will be con tinuous until early tomorrow morning when the latest avail able returns will be a part of your Saturday Statesman. As public service, The Statesman tonight will - make its compilations available . to both Salem radio stations. (By law, however,, no returns can be totaled or made public until after polls are closed.) Tour Saturday States: also "will include the latest available state-wide return gathered by' The Associates? Press for which The Statesmaav "covers' this part ot the valley. T