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t e: Salem Remembers Its Dead JD0m Yi)i) GmtmI to the CriwA el Ongw ". it Tlx Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Wednesday, May 31, IS 50 PRICE 5c No. 64. KL YB JJoflveiniflDe P"-" : I ' 'f'.-M-" I 100th! YEAH " c 14 PAGES . s , v i ; - li)ll(Lfleu11Dlrti era5 m. - .m.n aria chnW US OC- easional "men of distinction ; Soon Salem wUlbea city of dis- tincUon, the only city in me wona, I presume, with a marble service tSiK sion and city council of a change of zone for the southeast corner f Center and Capitol streets tQ permit erecting service station there, but H must do wi uioiu iai aay services yesxeroay iiues to "harmonize" with the state cap- day) with a call for support of itol buildings across the street. the United Nations as a forum Spokane used to have a bank "where words can be used in ln a marble building they called stead of bullets." j Jt the Marble bank; but Spokane Speaking beside the tomb of didn't have a marble service sta- the unknown soldier in Arlington tion. The Greek and Romans did National cemetery, across the Po- lot of building with Sne marble, tomac river from Washington, but I do not recall irom my rcaa Ing of history that they ever used their marble to house gasoline silos and lube and washracks for motor cars. That was leit ior o- r lem, Oregon. Down Josephine county way there is the fameikHouse of Mys tery, a tumbledown wooden shack on a hillside which draws many visitors to witness its alleged con fusion of the law of gravity. Sa lem's marble service station will be a rival Tourist Attraction, none like it anywhere else. When the city gets a little larger and we have Gray Line tours 'the spieler can recite: "And on your right (one-way traffic on North Capitol remember, northbound) the only marble service station in the worm, aim uii j vui tn i highway department ofiice duuq- ... I lng also marble-coated.' I don't suppose the owners will welcome any suggestions from this quarter regarding the architecture, but I'm goingto offer them any--way. Willie the hew gas emporium should harmonize with the capitol group it should not be identical. I Otherwise the public will be con fused. They are apt to mistake the marble station as Just an an nex for -.. : (Continued on editorial page 4.) Threatened Strike May Check Traffic ASTORIA, May 30-AVThrough travel on the coast highway (UJS. 101) may be stopped Thursday by a strike of AFL workers on fer ries that link Oregon and Wash ington here. The Astoria Navigation' company,- "said the Inland Boatmen's union and the masters, mates and pilots had rejected a pay increase proposal. They" want a reduction from 48 hours to a 40-hour weekj with no cut in pay, saia T&omas Williams, company manager. Animal Crackers . 6V WAKEN GOODRICH "l (now yoa as&exf to marry yov uf tlit was yes- i2? v : hi f . . -. -' t ' L, i saletn'i new city hall flafpole was Memorial day observance,; and louowinf paraae ana iraaiuonai ceremonies at Marlon county courthouse. Shown at left, runninf up the new flag-, are James Garvin, color fuard; Clinton Hart, presi dent of Salem Firefighters local which gave both the pole and the fla; Fred Hunt and Clyde Buckholtx. fla bearers; color ruard James TurnbulL The tuards were from Capita! post S and Salem post 136, American Lesion In the photo at right members of the Huge Crowd Gen. George TTrtllflflV TV11 Hits llOliaay X Oil J118 pf,nr f . QO UeCOril - Illgll? d Victims of Traffic By The Associated Press; General of the Army George C. Marshall led the nation's Memor The nation's toll of accidental deaths soared to SOS Tuesday night as the four-day Memorial holiday neared its close. The total Included a recerd ' breaking slaughter on the na tion's highways. Highway ac cident took SIS lives. Eighty- seven persons met death by drownings and 122 died in mis , cellaneous mishaps. Ned IL Dearborn, president of the National Safety council, said "slam-bang' driving and "mass Indifference' had turned Memo rial day Into a "massacre."! Marshall said that another war would shatter the world, t "Whoever wins another! war, their generation will lose it . . . rMi-tnAii0 wtwor UIB IV VV& IV US fcV IT VI TV . 0 b will ; stand its own ruins," he said Asks U.N. Support ' The former secretary of state, wartime chief of staff and author of the Marshall plan for European recovery said that war is "better than appeasement and "far bet ter than submission to tyranny and oppression, because witnouf iree- dom and respect for human dig nity life would not be j worth living." i But he said the United States should continue to support the United Nations as a weapon "in the fight for peace," and as long as there is a forum for open dis cussion of international disputes, this country should be "the first to attend and the last to retire." Marshall continued: ! v ' fSome have suggested that the United States should take the lead in dissolving the United Nations and in setting up a new organiza tion composed only of like-minded nations. i. Truman Sets Note r "Personally, I think it would be unfortunate for the peace lot the world deliberately to upset the precarious equilibrium that now exists. ' . "Admittedly the United Na tions is an imperfect organization. But remember it does provide a forum where words can be used instead of bullets. And so long as this forum remains open, there are cracks in the iron curtain through which some of our ideas will penetrate. President Truman, on a holiday cruise aboard the presidential yacht, sounded the Memorial day keynote in a proclamation calling upon his fellow citizens to "unite in prayer, each in accordance with his own religious faith, foe divine aid in bringing enduring peace to a troubled world. Soviets Arrest 10-Mati Allied Police Patrol BERLIN, May 3(HiIVTb Rus sians arrested a 10-man western allied military police patrol on the lutobaha outside Berlin today, but released them shortly afterward. an American army spokesman said tonight. . The spokesman said the J four Americans, four British and two French were taken to Soviet headquarters at Babe la berg where they were immediately released. The Russians offered no explana- I boa for th Arrest. dedicated Tuesday as part of the Participates in Memorial Services Marshall Leads Nation Red Italian Vn ' . Irwiite to Anzw s ueaa LONDON, May 30 -WV The communist mayors of Anzio and Nettuno, two famous Italian beachhead towns in World War II, joined Americans and disting uished Europeans today in mem orial services to United States war dead.. In (Britain, France, Germany and Belgium tourists and Ameri can citizens living abroad stood side iby side 'with high ranking American military men and dip lomats to pay tribute and pray Two Infant Sisters Drpwn at Yakiina YAKIMA, May 30-tfVTwo sis ters, Karol Marie Boucher, 3, and Doris Ellen Boucher,! 2, drowned late i this afternoon f when they strayed front their home in a hop yard: and apparently fell into a drainage pond. They were the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bern ard Boucher, route 1, Moxee. The two children were last seen playing outside the house by the Boucher's housekeeper. Mrs. Jos eph Reeves of Yakima, the par ents, who were working in the hop vineyard, returned to the house an hour: and a half later and discover ed the children were missing. Navy Equips Plane with Turbo-Props WASHINGTON, , May 30 The nvay is putting powerful but fuel- stingy turbo-prop engines in two of its latest carrier-based attack planes, one of them rated official ly as being able to carry an atomic bomb. The air force also Is considering the use of turbo-prop engines to stretch the range of Its 600 mile -an -hour B-47 jet bomber and other planes. These developments were learn ed on good authority today al though neither, the navy nor the air force would confirm them of- ficially. The power plant beMg Installed in the navy attack planes is a 5.500 horsepower turbo-prop en gine built for the navy , by the Allison division ofs General Mot ors. It is already being used in a 60-ton navy seaplane built by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft cor poration and now undergoing flight tests at San Diego. The Allison engine consists of twin turbines geared to a pro pell or, plus a tailpipe from which escaping gasses provide additional thrust The engine compresses air, mixes it with fuel and burns the mixture in a combustion chamber. The expanded gasses drive the propellers by turning tht turbine blades and. In addition, develop tiilplpe thrust. Max. JT1 Mm. 41 43 Frectj. Portland San Iranctsco it Chicago JM It JJ n m jm erk Willamette S feet. rO&ECAST (from V. S. weather b reao. McNary ceid. Sales): fair and warmer today and totught with a hiictt totU nar aa and a low toalirht er 4a. Frtafe wind will errwialiy " farm acttrtti tedsT. . SAUUt raxcirrxAiioi This Year Last Ytar Hernial national guard firing squad frame to World War I dead. Large crowds sive Memorial day parades and programs to be presented in Salem for several years. Bright sunshine ed flags on the courthouse steps presented a colorful spectacle. Bands of Salem senior high school and bugle corps of Capital post and and music (Statesman photos.) MarOrS Joitl . r-k a that a third world conflict be avoided. In Italy 'a American militaiy cemetery at Anzio, where 7,862 GI's are buried, the mayors of Anzio and Nettuno marched ot the flagpole with huge floral wreaths from the people of the two towns, -Tne Americans were Dravejderson, pastor of First Baptist boys," said Mario de Franceschn church. Thousands of Salem area mayor of Nettuno. "I saw them neht. I hope there win never oe another war.' That's the hope of humanity." Japanese Reds Stone Soldiers At Tokyo Rally TOKYO. Wednesday. May 31 -iJPy-Five. American soldiers were stoned' at a Japanese communist rally yesterday. None was injured seriously. General MacArthur's headquarters promptly began an i ..j J .u.-T t . tack on VS. troops,-and the Allied commander was expected to issue a statement today. Eight young, sullen Japanese were arraigned in a military court this morning. They were arrested in three street brawls that follow ed the Red demonstration in Tok yo's Imperial Plaza. The Japanese were charged with assauiung live u. soiuiers ana wilfully disobeying orders of Ai lied occupation authorities. Indi - cations were that they will be given a speedy hearing before a three-man board of American f- waited through preliminary cere ficers. . I monies on the courthouse aauare. As yet there was no official word that the Allied commander would issue a statement But it was believed he might act to nip any bolder Red moves. Japan s communists have" been chided by the Cominform for not getting tougher. The communists had boasted they would have 100,000 out tor the frankly anti-American rally. P turnout was only 5,000 or so. But the crowd made up in tough - ness lor lack or numbers. The trouble began, said a reli - able source, when members of a communist youth group snatched a notebook from a Japanese plain clothesman. The five VS. soldiers, there as observers, stepped in. Yugoslavs Close Albania Legation BELGRADE. Yugoslav. Mar 30- JPiTh Ynmslnf mvernment said v - - tonight it has temporarily cioseaimr . TVTl. I? its legation in neighboring Albania. jVOte Y OrK. IvelUTXl The action was taken, the offi cial news agency Tasjug said, be cause "of discriminations and HI treatment'" of Yugoslav citizens as a result of the saixan cold war between the Moscow -led comin- form and Premier Marshal Tito's government. Yugoslav diplomatic beaaquar - ters wUl be opened again when Albanian authorities change their attitude toward Yugoslav dipkan- . .. AMBASSADOR KTCALLED WARSAW. Poland. May 30-t-F) Poland has recalled Jaa Wenda, her ambassador to Yugoslavia, the cidal radio axnoasced tocisiL rites at the courthouse monument witnessed one of the most exten heightened the occasion, and mass Willamette university, drum and Salem Eagles lodge provided color in Services Political, Religious, Racial Tolerance Asked in Address By Conrad Prange Staff Writer. The Statesman America's millions of war dead cry out to the living to halt racial and religious discrimination, petty politics and communism. This was the theme of the Mem orial day address delivered from the Marion county courthouse steps Tuesday byJDr. Lloyd T. An residents witnessed the annual Memorial parade and, under blue skies, traditional wreath-laying ceremonies. We must not lose faith with the war dead," said the Rev. Mr, Anderson. "We may gain a num ber of lessons from their heroic sacrifice. If we do not, then they truly have died in vain. Doty of the Living First of all, said the castor. is the duty of living Americans to develop a society with religious and racial freedom and with pol itical tolerance. He pointed out that the "angel; of death showed no discrimination. Second, he stated, American . , T C''7y,jr"Z'''t Y,I iepcZt 5 t . cneaP P0""8- l.e mS? cnt!5. generation to guide this country s 'r' r. rZC? betrayal of J'Iheded " He next sounded a 'call to corn- Dat communism and other forms 0f totalitarianism. "Iron curtains are going down on even sections of our own nation, he said. He noted that America was the "last bastion and citadel against corn- munism." War Not Answer He hAApA that "war i not the ju.ai hswer to men's problems." Hi- talk was delivered to but a small Mil of the crowd which had i A colorful parade, which was des- I cribed as "the best ever held in Salem," by Brig. Gen. Carle Ab- rams, erand marshal, wound its way though downtown streets, it included military, veteran, civilian and school children units. iflaroole Dedicated The new flamoh cresented and erected by city firemen at the city halL- also was dedicated. Earlier Tuesday morning Salem Marine 1 corps league conducted naval. 1 merchant marine and marine corns 1 rmnnial rites on the Willamette J river bridge, where wreaths of I flowers were cast on the waters. Traditional rites for the dead of J civil, Spanish-American and two world wars were conducted at City View cemetery. : Laying of wreaths on the war Mothers memorial ; at the court' house square took place after the parade. rfcl, 1J:,T CtV-c V!!. lUUV UHaJVCao - i J OAK RIDGE. Tenn. May 30-6? Several score strikers voted her today to return to their Jobs to- morrow with the tmderstaiiGxag that a decision would be handed down on their grievance by the national' arbitration committee 1 within the next 15 days. Work on some $250,000,000 in obstruction croiects was halted fcere Friday after some 4300 work- era Kit uctr jvu. xum wuutu strike called without szrcarenl 1 sanction of union officials be2an I Wednesday when about 755 labor- ea ud hodcamers Quit work oa two atomic projects costing about J227,CCfl,CC0. Zip-Gun Battle Rages Through Holiday Crowd NEW YORK, May 30-tffVTeen- aged negroes met in vicious gang warfare today, scattering Memor ial day crowds in Brooklyn with guns, knives and fists. Two gangs "The Nits" and the "Greene Avenue Stompers" clashed first in a zip-gun battle in the street amid a throng of pedestrians returning from a holi day parade. An off-duty patrolman, William Sieefriend. 33. shielded his three- year-old daughter with nis body, drew his gun and broke up t the battle. None of 1 the bystanders was hurt as they ducked for cover in doorways. Suffers Scalp Wound One of the brawlers, Felton Harris, 17, suffered a slight scalp wound. He and another 17-year-old were arrested but the other 14 gang members scattered. Later the two gangs reformed in Prospect park where they were joined by two other gangs the "Gay Nineties? and the "Chicos." The more than a score of youths resumed the fighting, brawling through the park and bowling over strollers in their path. Cornell Williams, 15, a high school, boy, was nicked behind the ear by a bullet. His injury sent him to a hospital but his condition was listed as good. The second battle flared be neath the very noses of special police assigned on a tip that trou ble was brewing at the park. 16 Rounded Up However, police waded in to day and rounded up 16 of the brawlers, including Harvey Charles, 18, seized after a chase. Officers said at least two 32 caliber revolvers were used in the second battle, as well as knives, bayonet canes and zip guns the latter pipe lengths fitted with strong rubber bands or springs to fire small caliber bullets like a regular gun. Ten of the young gangsters were accused of conspiracy and unlawful assembly as a result of the second battle. No charges were placed against the other six. Youth Rescued After Bridge At Drain Falls DRAIN. Ore., May 30-WVA quick rescue by Police Chief Ver non Pouncey saved a teen-age boy from almost certain drowning to day when a bridge collapsed, drop ped three horses and riders into Elk creek and trapped the bey. Pouncey, his son Donald Ray, 16, and Le Roy Farley, 13, were on a Memorial day ride when the bridge gave way, seemingly at both ends, and plummeted them 25 feet Into the water. The heavy timbers of the bridge pinned young Farley in the wa ter with his head and shoulders submerged. The police cniei was able to loosen the 12 by 12 inch beams and free the boy, who is in the Sacred Heart hospital, Eugene, with a leg injury. Young Pouncey had gone for help and it later was learned be had a broken leg. Two of the horses were killed in the accident. First Local Strawberries Reach Markets; Prices By LUlie L. Madsen Tarra Editor. The Statesman Around a hundred crates of Oregon grown strawberries reach ed the Portland market in time for Memorial Day dessert. A few markets offered Oregon berries at Salem late Monday. The first Oregon strawberries of the current season were only me-drom-sized and lacked some of the usual sheen but were well flavored. Retailers reported pay ing around $4 crate for tbese, as well as for the best quality California berries arriving from northern parts of that state in fairly liberal quantities by truck, aircraft and express. First arrivals of local strawber ries on the local markets a year ago wholesaled at from S3 to $3.25 a crate. Even though they arrived fully IS days earlier last year. they Drought 79 cents to a dollar a crate less than this season's deliveries so far. By the end of May, local strawberries had drop- ced to S3 and SXSU a crate. Reports from the heavy Silver tea Hills ted ScotU lZs straw River Flooding But Far , Below t' Stag PRTLAND. May SO -UrVTwo years after the Vanport flood, the Columbia river again was over flood stage here today but far below the disastrous proportions of 1948 In fact there was some hope the Columbia basin would escape damaging flood levels this year, despite the earlier threat of a heavy snow pack in the mountains. The melting snow, instead of coming down all rivers with a rush as it did two years ago, has been flowing away gradually. The Col umbia stood at 18.7 feet here to day, compared to almost 30 feet two years ago. , William Lemke Collapses Dies At Farso Hotel FARGO, N. D- May 30-CflVRep William Lemke, veteran North Dakota congressman and 1936 Union party candidate for presi dent, collapsed in a hotel here! to night and died on the way to the hospital. Lemke had been In congress since 1933, with the exception of one two year term. He was at one time a leader in the Nonpartisan league, now a faction of the republican party in North Dakota. As state attorney general in 1921 he had charge of drafting laws establishing the Nonpartisan league industrial pro gram in the state. Lemke later broke with the non partisan group and this year had the endorsement of the reoublican organizing committee, an opposing faction. e was an active member or a number of farm organizations, in cluding the Farmers Union and the Cooperative Exchange. Smuts Victim Of Pneumonia JOHANNESBURG. South Afri ca, May 30-UrVField Marshal Jan Christian Smuts has developed pneumonia, an official bulletin said tonight. He is 80 years old. The bulletin said South Africa's elder statesman and war hero is responding to treatment and his progress is satisfactory, Smuts cut short week-long ob servances of his birthday Sunday s of his birthday Sunday of illness. At that time it orted he suffered from a because was reported back ailment attributed to sciatic sciatic ays nerve. Smuts was prime minister union of South Africa from 1924 and from 1939 to 1948. He is a political opponent of the present prime minister, Daniel F, Malaxu Lane Forest Blaze Nearly Extinguished EtTOEVE. Mav 30-JPUThe Lit - tie Fall creek blaze, the first large forest fire of the season in western Oregon, was nearly extinguished today. Fire fighters reported only mop ing up remained on the once-stubborn blaze, which several times lumned fire trails to destroy be twecn 650 and 800 acres of tim - ber, Above 1949 berry areas still remain "excep tionally good." Growers In these regions say that to date berries look as good If not better than ever before. Whether this will some nlni arrive. If thel11"" nauons i wpewu w vm dry weather continue, the first pickings may be very fine but the season will be apt to be some what shorter. Blossoming in these areas has been very heavy and the berries arc ' developing well, growers said Tuesday. No picking win start for a week or 10 days ret. cowers believed. Heavy pick ing will not start in tne mus zor 14 days or more, it was said. Indications are that the market will hold up well this season. Fresh market prices for Califor nia's rather larse strawberry crop have remained favorable, but pro cessors have obtained some ber ries as harvest moved northward. It was noted, too, this week, that gooseberries were offered to val ley retailers at 14 to 13 cents a Bound durtna the week In com parison to the 10 to 12 cents of a year ago. Free German Youths Beg p Truce in Riot HELMSTEDT, Germany, Wed- neSday, May 3M)-Milling thou- sands of red -hating residents of Helmstedt fought pro - communist German youths in the streets last night v AUC aiiU 1 CUS TOd VikWIJUWh Their opponents members of. the communist - controlled Free Ger man Youth (FDJ) begged for a truce after their blue shirts were ripped from their backs and heap ed on bonfires along with their blue flags. Thus the violence Berlin escaped in the massive communist Whitsun rally finally erupted in this Bri- tish zone town. It !- was the first disorder stemming from last Sun day's show of strength by the communists in eastern Berlin. . Waiting Transportation p The trouble began when about 2,000 FDJ members from western Germany found themselves tem porarily marooned here for lack of transportation oh their homeward trek from the Berlin rally. With the slogans of their com munist leaders still ringing in their ears, the FDJ Youths con fidently marched from the railway station to restaurants loudly sing ing the Internationale. Townspeople out in droves to witness the influx of -the highly publicized blueshirts resp o n d e d with Deutschland Uber Alles, the : former German anthem. The sing ing changed to jeering then to L us i ugnung. Battered and beaten the, out numbered FDJ members promised to leave their blue shirts behind or as many of them as they still possessed and get out of town promptly if their opponents would guarantee their safety. No serious J injuries were reported. Blocked off Streets For a time Kelmsted ters blocked off streets around the main body of FDJ youths in a park near the railway station. A smaller group of about 40 or 50 were hemmed in a s restaurant. Police escorted the group from the restaurant, and the townspeo ple began to drift away from the park. Then a number of special buses began arriving without 'no tice. There was no interference as the blue shirts swarmed aboard. The buses took, off for various west German Cities. Police said they, did not know-who sent them. iteguiar trains also neipea carry away FDJ members. Police est imated that by early today the number of blue shirts had been reduced to fewer than 1,000. p TIT lV QrllH1C UUV - mUUUu Agree on Pool PARIS. May 30-4PV-Six Europ ean nations have agreed to pool their coal and steel wealth "for the common goodV the French foreign office said today. Delegations from the six na tions Belgium, Luxembourg, It aly, the Netherlands, France and 1 western Germany are to mm I next month to work out details ot the merger and put it into effect. A French foreign office spokes man said Britain so far has refus ed to accept "clearly and definite ly" the idea, of a common pool of coal and steel production. France still hopes she will Join, 1 however. MORE REDUCTIONS HINTED WASHINGTON. M a v 30 -lAV. Postmaster General Donaldson hinted today; at still more drastie cuts in mail service unless his de partment gets back; at least part of the money the house cut from its appropriation. , i . r ASMS AID BILL DUE WASHINGTON. Mav 30-I4V A request for. about j $1,223,000,006 1 more for arms aid for non-ccra- .seht to congress President Truman. Western Xatenuileatal At Tacooa 11-1. Salem S-. At Victoria Vneonrer S-S. At Spokane S-tL Wen i tehee S-i. ' At Yakima 12-i. Trt-Oty a-L Ceast League At Portland I-. San rraaciaee S- At Seattle -. Lee Angelas S-S. At Hollywood t-S, Sacrament 4-S. At Oakland U-U Sea Piece J4. National Leagme At BreokJya T-S. Philadelphia S-C At Pittsburgh il-i. St. LouJa 17-a. ; At Beetoa f-l. New YwkTtt. At QUeac M. Cincinnati 4-4. Amerkaa Learue At Detroit e-a. Cleveland 4-X. At Philadelphia S-S. Waahtortoe 4-1. .At New VMk 11-J. Boeten 7-X. At U Louis s-a, CUeage 14-U. ' Thursday, by E -