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POUNDED 1651
The de?ih of Congressman Wfl
Ham Lemkie of North Dakota re
" rrjoves one of the leaders of the
once famous won-r-arusan league
, which led an agrarian revolt in the
- uriner midwest some Ahree decades
Founded in 1915 by A. C
Townley the league spread over
the Dakota prairies like wildfire.
It got control of countyoff ices and
thfn of the state of North Dakota.
It plunged the state into banking,
1 money lending, flour milling. The
' outburst of -socialism alarmed
in Knrth Dakota
and elsewhere " and the political
. ratti that deveiooea were uie
lnrsl concntions of the, 1920'S.
Bill Lemke was one of the lead
ers in the Non-Partisan league. He
was well educated (BA, irom un
iversity Of North Dakota; LL.B.
' frrtm Yali universitv). He Dractic-
' , ed law . in ..Fargo, served on the
Mputive committee oi xne ntr
- loacniP- and as attorney-" general
nf thV ctat in 1921 had charge of
drafting most, of the "socialistic leg
islation the league sponsored, ne
was elected, to congress eight
Lemke was.at the forefront of
farm-leeislationfAlone With Sen
tor ! Frazier. who also had been
elected with the endorsement of
the league in North Dakota he in
trodTired what became the Frazier
Lemke act for the relet of farmers
encumbered with indebtedness. In
1926 he went off en another- oo-
litical tangent, becoming the can
didate for president of the union
party which was sponsored by
: those "rabble rousers of the right"
Ppi t P.harlM Cnntrhlin' and Rev,
Gerald Li K. Smith. He was. electr
ed to congress the same year how
ever and has remainecKthere since,
- (Continued on ixutoriai r"age 4j
Highway Route
At Silverton
- A Salem - Silverton highway
route that would, eliminate a grade
crossing near Silverton was ap
proved Wednesday by the Marion
county court. -
The Silverton planning commls.
sion had "approved the route ear
lier. It would follow the north
side, of the railroad to an intersec
tion with James street, where it
would cross Silver creek on a new
bridge approved last week by the
state highway commission.
County Judge v Grant .Murphy
said it had noii been determined
whether the route was feasible
from an engineering standpoint,
however. The state highway, de
partment and the federal bureau
of-public roads also will have, to
pass on the route; he added,
. A route which entered Silverton
on the south side of the railroad
track after crossing it had been
' considered earlier in the prepara
tions fdr widening and realigning
part of the. road. ,
The court also was petitioned to
. oil portions of James street and
.Hobart road at Silverton. Mem
bers reported it was too late to
ready the roads for oiling tins
year-but that it . would be done
next year if funds permit.
Salem Cannery
es
Increased wages for Salem can
nery workers during thes 1950
season just gefting undef way,
. were announced Wednesday by Ei
I S, Benjariin, executive secretary
of Salem local 670, Cannery Work
ers union. He said a new con
tract had been signed with mos,t
locals canneries and negotiations
werjff proceeding favorably with
toe? others. " j -
X fPay will be up three cents per
hour on basic jobs and five cents
on classified work. "This will make
wages range from a bottom of 95
cents per hour for women to a
top of $1.67 per hour for men,
at the day shift scale. Differen-
. tialrare five cents per hour addi
tional -for .second shift and 10
cents ' for third shift. -
Various canneries have been
operating ( on rhubarb and spin
ach, are starting this week on
gooseberries and strawberries and
will be in full swing on the latter
&ext week.
Animal Cracltcrs
By WARRErj GOODRICH
"Do you belief that: stuff
bout bting brought by peo
pe?"-: '
Gets
Approval
nrr
Raised
Wag
100th. YEAH
llillcrest
JobFilled
Mrs. Lena Smithson, 52, of Chil-llcothe,-
Mo., was named superin
tendent oi'Hillcrest school for girls
Wednesday by the state board of
control. " '
She will arrive later this month
to succeed .Katharyn Loaiza, who
has resigned after five years in
charge." ...
The name of Mrs. Smithson was
placed before the -Jtoard by Gov.
Douglas McKay, who said her
qualifications had been studied
carefully by the advisory commit
tee to the boys' and girls' schools.
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry
joined Governor McKay in voting
for Mrs. Smithson. The secretary
of state previously had recom
mended Mrs. Kay Kunkel, Stock
ton, Calif. '
- State Treasurer Walter Pearison
refused -to vote for either Mrs.
Smithson" 6r Mrs; Kunkel. " '
; "I am convinced1 we have more
competent applicants ' in our files
than either of these women," Pear
son averred.
Mrs. Smithson is a lawyer and
has had ' experience in" law work,
court reporting and "teaching. She
also once served as. superintendent
of . the state training school for
girls at Chillicothe. 5 , ;
Pearson charged the advisory
board had not interviewed some
of the 31 persons whose applica
tions were received by the board
of control and referred to the ad
visory committee for recommen
dation.'. Fire Fters
Open Annual
Meet Today
' -Today would be a good day for
a fire- least Chief W. P. Roble
and his Salem fire department
would have plenty of help on hand
to fight it.
The annual convention of Ore
gon, Fire Chiefs and the Oregon
State Fire Fighters begins at. 9:30
ajn. in the Crystal Gardens ball
room with approximately 800 fire
fighters from every section of Ore
gon expected to attend the three
day sessions here.
Speakers at this morning's
meeting will include Roble. Gov.
Douglas McKay; State Fire Mar
shal Robert B. Taylor and Alder
man Albert H. Gille of Salem.
Other events scheduled '.today
include a "gadget" contest thiifca
ternoon at Sweetland field withan
exhibition of drilling and a dem
onstration of special fire-fighting
equipment ' and a mixer, "Roble's
Riot," tonight. .
Delegates to 'the convention,
which will -include an organiza
tional meeting of rural fire dis
trict leaders, were registering Wed
nesday night at the Senator hoteL
Business meetings during the con
vention will be held at Crystal
Gardens and in the Salem city
council chambers.
Czech Treason
Trial Opens
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, May
31-ifiTi The main defendant, Dr.
Milada. Horakova, pleaded guilty
today to charges of high treason,
spying and sabotage at the trial of
13 Czechoslovaks accused of fifth
column treachery. -
They were charged with running
an underground spy network in
collusion with western diplomats
and other aliens.
Among .those they were accused
of working for was Laurence A.
Steinhardt, former U.S. embassa
dor to Prague who was killed in
a plant crash last March '28 near
Ottawa where he -was then serv
ing as ambassador to Canada.
' (At Washington the state de
partment flatly denied the Czech
government accusation. It' said the
charges 'were "trumped up" and
part of a continuing campaign in
the Ieon Curtain countries to dis
credit western diplomats. '
(A department official said none
of the Americans named was "in
anyway whatever 'involved in es
pionage or subversive work 'while
in Czechoslovakia.)
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
: At Tacoma 1, Salem 1 .
-At Vancouver" 7. Victoria
At Yakima 4. Tri-City
vAt Spokan 3, Wenatcbe S
COAST LEAGUE
At Portland 1 San Francisco (10
ton.)
At Seattle I. Los Angeles 1
At Oakland 20. San Diego
At Hollywood 3. Sacramento .1
NATIONAL LEACCK
No ganaes scheduled. , '
AMCUCAN UAGUK '
Ho fames scheduled
By Board
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Weakened
4
SEOUL, Korea. Jane I Power
. of President Syngman Jthee was
drained heavily here . today as
results 'of .Tuesday's election
neared completion.' Parties who
supported Rhee were badly
. beaten in the voting. -
1 . -
Rhee Power
Challenged in
Korean Vote
SEOUL, .Thursday, June
Independents became the power in
south Korea's . National Assembly
today with returns fi;om Tuesday's
election almost complete. " , ,
Non - partisan candidates w6n
121 seats enough to control the
210-member single house should
they stand together. Only 11 races
remained to be decided. Inde
pendents still could muster a ma
jority of five if they lost all these
contests.
The .rout of the major parties
was surpassed only by the voters'
rejection of Assembly incumbents.
Only 28 pf the 175 members who
sought re-election were returned.
Position Not Clear '
Where President Syngman -Rhee
stood today in his fight to crack
the whip over the Assembly was
not clear. Parties jtvho supported
him took a bad beating. But so
did the opposition parties. j
The pro-Rhee Korean National
ist party won only 22 seats, a loss
of 49 from the 71 they hold in the
present house. !
Of the non-partisans about (13
are regarded as "middle-oi-the
roaders." That's what bitterly anti-red
Rhee calls those who believe
peaceful negotiations . will bring
about unification of the southern
Republic with communist north
Korea. i
Actively Opposed j
Some Independents were ac
tively opposed by Rtfee's forces.
Three new assemblymen, In fact,
were under arrest on election day.
es against them ranged from
suspected communism to election
law Violations .Communism, how
ever, was not an election Issue.
Most candidates oppose the reds.
The test will come after June
19, when the new 210-member
National Assembly meets. The op
position is expected to introduce
again a bill to strip Rhee of power
in favor of a prime minister. The
latter would be responsible only
to the Assembly.
FOREST FIRE SPREADS
GRANTS PASS, May 31 -(&)-
A forest fire burned into virgin
timber on the slope of Johnson
mountain today. It broke? out in
slash operations of . the Evans
Lumber company near Powers. :.
FERRY CLOSURE SEEN
ASTORIA. Ore.. May 31 -JP)-
The state ferry between Astoria
and Megler, Wash., seemed likely
to close down at 6 a.m. tomorrow,
as today drifted by with no settle
ment of a labor dispute.
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Displays of fire trucks and fire rightist; equipment are aU set up st
Crystal Gardens hall for opening ef Oregon state conventions of
fire, chiefs and firemen this morning-. Registration and renewing
- ef eld acquaintances will take np most of the morning, but problems
f city and rural fir fighting and prevention will eeenpy the con
Th Orvcon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Thursday, Jan
Defense
Backing
Sought
.' By John Ml Hightower '
' WASHINGTON.' May' 31
With President Truman's full
backing. Secretary of State Ache-
son called on the nation today to
support the dovetailing of Ameri
can land, sea and air forces with
those of western Europe, That, he
declared, is the only way to match
Russia s growing might.
- Acheson began his home front
battle for what he called "balan
ced collective forces" under the
North Atlantic treaty in an ex
traordinary speech before a joint
gathering of house and senate
members in ,the library of con
gress. " . !
Acheson went before the legis
lators to report on his cold war
strategy talks in London . earlier
this month. After the formal' talk,
he submitted to questioning, and
this made the-occasion unique.-It
was the first time a secretary of
state has engaged m such igive-
and-take with a joint session of
Critics Have Inning
During the Questioning, some of
Tiic critics had their innings. Rep.
Judd (K-Mmn) . wanted to know
why .the United States was; not
exertmg "total diplomacy" to pre
vent the Chinese communists from
replacing the Chinese nationalists
in -the United Nations. "
Acheson replied that this sub
ject had provided a long debate
between him and Judd. He said
the state department has taken the
position that it will vote to keep
the nationalists in the U.N. but if
the majority of U.N. members vote
otherwise then' the United State
will not exercise the veto.
The mission of U..N. .Secretary
Trygve Lie to Moscow came up for
discussion several times and fin
ally Rep. Rankin (D-MBs) boom
ed at Acheson from the back of
the room:
Rankins Hits Lie '
"Isn't it a fact' that Trygve Lie
is a known communist and that he
is behind a movement to seat the
Chinese communists in the Unit
ed Nations?"
Acheson said that no one in the
government had questioned lie's
good faith. The rest of his answer
to Rankin was lost in the General
hubbub, with both men talking at
the same time.
After the session a number of
legislators praised the secretary's
speech, while Senator McCarthy
(R-Wis), a chief critic of Acheson,
told reporters: "The red dean of
JSTashington is still m form,"
The whole theme of the address
was that the western nations have
to get a lot closer together in their
economic, political, and military
operations than they now are.
Reds Release .
American Flier
HONG KONG, Thursday, June
1 -(JP)- American Pilot James
McGovern,. held in Communist
China for almost five- months,
was returned to Hong Kong yes
terday. The flier from Elizabeth, N. J.,
was brought to the border of this
British colonyyesterday by arm
ed Chinese red guards. He was
brought immediately to this city.
V: McGovern had been in red cus
tody since last Dec. 3 when his
transport plane crash landed on
a flight from Hong Kong to
Kunming China. He was a pilot
for civil air transport, an airline
run in Nationalist China by re
tired U. S. Maj. Gen. Claire
Chennault.
Equipment Displayed as Convention Opens
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Seeks Aid
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WASHINGTON, May SI Secre-
tary of State Dtean Acheson,
who went before congress to
day. to ask support of a onion
of American and European
military for defense in the cold
. war battle with Russia.
Truman Asks
New Health
Department v
WASHINGTON, May 31 -P)-President
Truman asked congress
today to let him setup a new de
partment of health, education and
security under a cabinet-rank sec
retary. The scope of the proposed
new department would be about
the same as that of the present
federal security agency, headed by
Oscar B. Ewing.
Congress rejected a somewhat
similar reorganization p r o p o s al
last year.
The president also made a new
effort to reorganize the treasury
department,is.trengthening the line
of authority" from the secretary of
the treasury to 'the subordinate
officers who head the j, various
bureaus and divisions in the de
partment. . ,
Both new plans will go into
effect life 69 days unless rejected
by a majority of the Senate or
House. Mr. Truman acted under
the powers granted him in last
year's reorganization law, send
ing up separate 'messages urging
approval of each proposal.
Four Escape
Umatilla Jail
PENDLETON, Ore., May 21-JP)
Four youths pried a hole In the
Umatilla county jail ceiling today
and escaped, unnoticed by officials
and clerks working in offices near
by. One was recaptured within an
hour. The other three were believ
ed to have made a getaway In a
car stolen from State Sen. Carl
Engdahl, and to have gone to the
Helix area, north of here.
Recaptured was Leonard Smith,
20, who picked out a dead-end
hill street for his escape and turn
ed around f4ght into a policeman's
arfns. The others were Jimmie
Wayne Williams,- 20, Frost,' Tex.;
Thomas Pierce, .-. Jr., 20, Kansas
City, Mb., and Donald Edward
Cummings, 14, Wallul, W?sh.
REACH DP AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON, May 31 -(")-
Senate-house conferees who have
been tussling for weeks uover dis
placed persons legislation reached
final agreement today on a com
promise bill boosting the quota to
tal to 349,000.
vention reers daring their three
the meet will be a big banquet
n
Soble says that the local fire laddies are ready to make tola the -most
outstanding convention the Oregon men have had. (Statesman photo)
I 1950
Jajpanese Reds
To Protest
10,000 Blue Shirts
Avraid
IAJBECK, Germany, May, 31--PJ-Ten
thousand German youths
homeward bound from Berlin's
communist rally marooned them
selves -tonight in a dreary camp
just inside the iron curtain.
They refused to comply with
western Germany's police and
health regulations, preferring in
stead to leave no record of the
fact that they had hailed Stalin in
the Whitsun rally in eastern Ber
lin. ' Cold and begrimed, the blue
shirted members of the communist-controlled
free German youth
(FDJ) lighted campfires and piled
bundles of straw in open fields for
beds.
Police said most of them were
anxious to get home and were
willing ot comply with the regula
tions, but the active communists
were doing the thinking, for the
whole crowd.
They were camped at Eiehholz,
Salem Budgeters Study
Salary Increase Bids
Items which- could be reduced to allow $10 monthly salary in
creases for city, employes were outlined-to the city budget com
mittee 'Wednesday night at a meeting abbreviated because of light
attendance, The group will meet again, at 7:30 p.m. Monday in city
hall., , : i '
The salary sub-committe had
recommended the boost, and a 5
cents per hour, more for hourly
wages.' Increases "for department
heads, proposed by the city man
ager, were unchanged by the com
mittee. ;
Most of the transfers to effect
the proposed pay boost are of
small amounts in repair and sup
ply items. The emergency fund
would be cut from a proposed
$13,500 to $10,000, as compared
with $40,238 for the' current "year.
Other cuts from the budget's first
draft would be in park improve
ments, $9,624 to $9,024, compared
with current $4,797; fire depart
ment tools and equipment, $1,500
to nothing, $1,250; fire department
from $2,450 to $1,250, 52,450; hyd
rants, $5,245 to $3,765. $2,450: new
traffic signals $10,520 to $9,800,
$10,560. . (
In addition, the proposal would
cut the number of firemen to be
added from six to five and of
policemen from eight to six.
The recommendations would
affect about 215 salaried employes.
A boost for the municipal judge
from $2,760 to $4,000 annually was
urged in a letter from W. W. Mc
Kinney, who will retire from . the
position at the end of this year. He
said the new judge shCuld have
more money because .of the vol
ume of work now handled and,
the increased seriousness - of the
cases. He noted that 17 persons
charged with driving while intox
icated were in the court during
April. On some days, he said, the
court levies fines equal to half the
annual pay. -
Bruce Williams, attorney, as
sumed. . "the committee position
from which Rex Kimmell has re
signed. CROMMELIN RETIRES
PENSACOLA, Fta., May 31-(P)
Navy Capt. John G. Crommelin,
caustic critic of Pentagon policies,
retired to private life at his own
request today. Papers terminating
his navy career were signed at the
Pensacola naval air station by
Capt. B. K. Gaines, commanding
officer. J , .
- day stand In Salem. Feature ef
Friday night. Salem Chief William
PRICE 5c
GaU
to Come Back
just outside Luebeck, a British
zone city in Shcleswig-Holstein.
Here and at other zonal border
points the young west Germans,
who took part in the Berlin rally
were met with scorn and in some
cases hostile outbreaks. Anti
communist western Germans made
no effort to conceal their disgust
over the blueshirts. Police rein
forcements were rushed to bonal
border points.
The, FDJ members in the'no
manV land, some of them as
fyoung as 12, said they feared to
register their names in the belief
they "would be blacklisted and
fired from their jobs in their
home towns in western Germany.
The violence be'gan last night
when several thousand anti-communists
tangled with members 'of
the free german youth (FDJ, who
were singing the Internationale,
and burned their blue shirts and
flags.
Construction
Of Dwellings
High for Month
1 -!'
j Home construction in Salem
boomed for the third consecutive
month during May when permits
for 51 new dwellings were-issued
by the city engineer's office. .
! May's total showed a drop from
the near record 60 in March and
95 in Aprils but the total estimated
cost of May homes, $415,500, com-r-
pared closely with $431,350 and
$441,560 totals in March and April
respectively.
i Permits for seven new homes
were issued Wednesday to boost
the month's total. Rich L. Reim-
anlKoMained permits for six $4,750
homesNin the 2400 block of Helm
street, and Ann Swartzenberger
was authorized to construct a $5,
600 dwelling at 415 South at.
May s total permit valuation for
ail construction was $520,935, a
slight drop from April's $522,900.
May's figures included $458,575 in
new construction and $62,36.0 in
alterations. ,
5 A break-down of May's permits
included garages, $4,775; public
garages, $15,700; stores, $21,000;
office buildings, $1,500; alterations'
to dwellings, $26,975; alterations to
non-residential structures, $35,085.
Sublimity Fire
District Voted
! ' 1
Statesman Newt Servlca
i SUBLIMITY! May 31 Voters
this week balloted 28 to 6 to form
a rural fire protection district for
the Sublimity area, a count dis
closed today,y
i Directors elected are A. M.
Minden, H. ,H. Peters, Fred Hot-
tmger ana eitner John Basl .or
Marion Hunt, who tied. The tie
willjte decided by a drawing.
; The directors will proceed with
formation of the district and pur
chase of fire fighting equipment
when the vote is canvassed and
the district Is ordered activated
by Marion county court. t,
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Uniform Closing Hour
Set for Night Spots
I PORTLAND, May 31 -()- The
state liquor 1 control commission
straightened out th'e closing hour
problemtoday.
i With some establishments on
standard time and some on day
light time, the commission decid
ed to have them all close at once.
It ordered all taverns to shut at
midnight standard ;time ami 11-
censed., clubs at W0 ,a.m. standard.
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FORXCAST (from U.S. weather bu
reau. McNary field, Salem):' Gener
ally fair today and tohUrht with little
temperature change. Hign today near
S4-86. Low tonight near 4-ts. Agrt
ctutural onuook: JXistlng and foray
ing will be hindered by moderate to
fresh winds molt Of the day, however
other activities will not jpe hampered.
This Year
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Strike
Eight Arrests
Trials Rushed
For Attackers
...... K. Zf f 1 1 '
Of Soldiers
i. By William Jorden . .
TOKYO, Thursday, June 1 -(JPy
Grimly warning the communists
to "behave pr else," American oc
cupation officials today pushed
the trial of eight Japanese for
roughing up U. S. soldiers at a
red rally.
Japan's communist party called
for a general strike in retaliation
for the trial.. The party issued an
official statement demanding "in-'
mediate! release of the eight pa
triots." They wer spedily brought
to trial by U.1 S. occupation a.
thonties yesterday and the pro
secution completed its case this
morning.
The communist party asserted
that "the incidents this time were
caused by systematic and organ
ized provocations by spies of b
metropolitan- police board and
Trotskyite students." The same
charge appeared in , the party
newspaper Akahata.
Mob Outside Court
, A mob of some 208 screaming,
milling students was' outside the'
court building last, nieht as -the
Japanese were rushed to trial for
the MemoriaL.day attacks. None
reappeared today. . i
They fled when Japanese and
U. S. military police moved , out
against them. Then ' they surged
back -repeatedly, thejr shouts
echoing in the courtroom. They
dispersed before the court recess
ed near midnight . "
Orimness was apparent at Gen
eral MacArthur's headnuartpr.
The beating and stoning of five
American soldiers yesterday waa
regarded as a communist test and
more violence was eipected.
"The communists had better be
have, said one official.
Would Nat Permit Delay
Maj.. Gen. Charles A. WHIough
by, MacArthur's intelligence.!
cer, way more specific. Comment
ing that he had ordered the court
convened immediately after the
outbreaks, he declared:
"We do not intend to permit
any delay in the trial of peopaa
mno aeiy or iae iaction against
Arnericans .In uniform."
The eight Japanese filed sullen.
ly into the plain ! courtroom at
downtown Japanese police head
quarters this morning.
Ther eUred pleas of innocent
to charges of assaulting the Amer
icans and disobeying occupation
orders. They face prison terms up
to 10 years and Xioes of 75,000
yen (about $208).
Witnesses testified that three ef
the five Americans were kirkA '
and beaten while' on the ground.
Middle-Road
Driver Was
In the Right
A city policeman was primed to i
arrest a motorist Wednesday af
ternoon but when he took a second
look the "auto" had turned into
a Uniili.A.4 t..l. tt -
The patrolman was narked at
the Oregon Electric crossin g at
Highland avenue. He spotted av
southbound "auto" driving right
down the middle of the street.
along the rail tracks, so he parked
right in the path of the car and
waited. The car kept right on
coming.
When It was almost on too of
him he saw that the "auto" was
mounted on railroad wheels. He
backed up and scratched his head
while two Oregon Electric excels
tives breezed by in their spedally
construction auto-train. The offi-'
cer was reported still shaking Wed
nesday night ;
That Vacation
Time Is Herfe! I
The high-roads . are . callattg
these days. No matter where
they lead, you can keep up on
the news by. having your
Statesman go with you - and
you'd be surprised at how little
cost.
Another suggestion' too If
you won't have a vacation ad
dress, have yew neighbor save
yonr . paper! It'll give you a
chance to catch up when, you
get home and . there wont be
a pile-up of papers ba your
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