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1651 " f s- I- lOCJx YEAR - 1 .r. 16 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Orogon. Wednesday, June 7 1950 PRICE 5c No 71 sevett .ary POUNDS I e 1 Ko Claims yictory in Pri ! 4 t I: Vacation days are hitting their stride today as the first week of the Salem and Marion county school kids. And tne aid are losing no that they can, for they knew that summer vacations are all toe Mill creek off South ZZnd street bridge. From lert, KODDy ana Jimmy cou, z s. zjra si.; lerry Lemon, 410J5. 23rd st; Garth Ash, 1960 Market St.; Herby Shipman, 645 Hickory st; and Billy Hazel, 2130 N. 4th st. (Statesman photo The query raised in this column last week about the cost of primary elections, particularly to candi dates and their supporters, has brought one response,! from Sme who "also ran." This candidate for a legislative; seat , feels that too much money is being spent, far more than the legal minimum of $100 to the individual candidate. The legal limit now is 15 per cent of a year's salary of the, of fice sought, or $100. The proposal suggested is to raisethis legal lim it to $300 and make that the total that may be spent by the candi date and his committee. The au thor of the proposal calls commit tees a blind which should be eliminated. f Lifting the amount that a can didate might spend would certain ly be realistic because of the les sened buying power of money. But it is hard to see how individual citirens could be prevented from spending their own money in sup port of a candidate, whether thouffh a committee or as individ uals. Denying them that privilege gives a great advantage to the can didate whose name already is well advertised. (I notice a third Glea son was nominated in Multnomah ' county. His brother is now county commissioner and previously had served in the legislature, drawing votes, so it was claimed because his name was similar to that of the registrar of elections in that coun ty). The committee arrangement does permit covering-up of contri butions, stooge names may be us ed; and rare it is' that any expense account is scrutinized . The best that can be said of the corrupt jiiacucn ait u . (Continued on editorial page 4) NOMINATION APPROVED WASHINGTON, June 7 (Wed nesday) P) The senate early today approve dthe nomination of John A. McCone of California as ' undersecretary of the air f dree. Confirmation was by voice vote. I COUNTY SHOWS GAINS ASTORIA, June (HVThe pre- liminary census report listed Col umbia county today with a popu lation of 22,725, a gain of 9 per cent since 1940. The county seat of St. Helens was placed at 4.703, slightly less than a 10 per cent gain.. Animal Crackers : By WARREN GOODRICH "Af tabor, son whenever you see the boss with a customer. OtP S3MEQS JUL, Mm - ttSZMmJ-i, 'mFK' rv.ru. ' gj y - . ; . f ; ' by Don Dill). Sweet Home Driver Slain In Battle with Policemen Statesman v T.VTRAWn'W .Tun ft Tpr? Svlvmtir 24. Swppt TTrmp Hied, here early this morning from gunshot wounds sustained in a fight with two Sweet Home policemen who were driving. Claims Edge For Speaker Rep. John Steelhammer held the inside track in the race for the speakership of the house of rep resentatives today. The Salem attorney said more than a score of republican house nominees, many of them with little or "no opposition for election in November, already had pledged him their votes ... contingent Upon his own election for another term. Steelhammer ran third in Mar ion county on the republican pri mary ticket. The county elects four representatives. It has not had a speaker of the house in more than two decades. !The speaker is second in line of succession 'to the governor the circumstance which put former Rep.1 John Hall in the governor's chair when Gov. Earl Snell and Senate President Marshall Cornett were killed in an airplane crash in 197 Thirty-one votes out of the 60 house members are required for election as speaker. Only other' known serious con tender is Rep Giles French of Maro, who has claimed 14 pledges. The speaker presiding officer of jthe house ordinarily is chosen at a caucus the night preceding the opening of the legislature, with formal ratification on the house floor the next day. 1 Steelhammer said he had pledg ed no committee appointments. He also said he favored limiting com mittees to five persons except for taxation and ways and means, which he said should have seven members "committees should not be large enough to be debating societies." No representative would be on more than three committees and the chairmen of taxation and ways and means would be on only two, under Steelhammer s plan. Co nsrressmen Back Gall for Disarmament 7 WASHINGTON, Jurie 6 -(JP) Eleven congress members today urged the United Nations to call an 1 immediate disarmament con ference as a move td avert the threat of hydrogen bomb warfare. Seven democrats and four re publicans signed a resolution call ing for a world peace crusade and declaring: ,:' .. . -m-::.. The prospect of, the hydrogen bomb propels the peoples of the earth into danger above and be yond anything hereofore conceiv ed by man." :, Four of the signers are mem bers of . the senate-house atomic energy committee, including Sen ator'McMahon (D-Corm), chair man of the Joint committee, and Reps. Price (D-Ul), Henry Jack son (D-Wash) and Cole (R-NY). Qther signatories were Sena tors Magnuson (D-Wash), Ful- bright (D-Ark), Morse (R-Ore), Sparkman (D-AIa), Gillette CD Iowa), and Hendrickson (R-NJ), Steelhammer 1.R , T , annual summer vacation begins for ume getting in an ine inn ana piay t short. Above is a sextet fishing in News service attempting to arrest him for reckless The shooting took ulace about) 2:45 aan. in downtown Lebanon, I where Sylvester led the Sweet Home patrolmen after driving I through Sweet Home and Lebanon 1 "Many sharks were In the vi at speeds up to 75 miles an hour, cinity of the life rafts," he said. The chase started , at Sweet Home wnere patrolmen Aioen Us bora and Karei Hyer attempted to stop Sylvester as he sped tnrougn town. 1 ne omcers pursued Sylvester to Lebanon, where his I 1949 car apparently froze up from fceing driven at excessive speedy ine omcers saia uie scuiue ue- 1 gait vviicu ujavcoki a iuavu v submit to arrest. They managed to force Sylvester into the patrol car, but when Hyer was walking around the car to climb behind the wheel, Sylvester slid over and drove the car away. Osborn. attempting to make SyL vester stop the car, drew his gun. When oyivester attempted to wrest the pistol from him, Osborn fired three shots, two entering Osborns' abdomen and one going wild, The battle was witnessed by Lebanon Policemen John Richard t ,v, nr.nk. orated thestory of the Sweet Home riff fs The T.inn rraintv mrnner said it was apparent that Osborn acted in self defense. Svlvester is survived bv his mother. Mrs. Eva Svlvester of Lebanon, and a brother, Bert of bweet Home, funeral services will be announced later by the Howe-Huston t uneral home. Neuman Low On Detroit Job PORTLAND, June (WjSVF O U r bids for construction of 15 per- manent residences and two garages at uie uetroii. aam Housing area were taken under advisement to- uay of ine armjr engineer. The project includes construction of streets, sidewalks, water lines, sewer and electrical systems, ine nousing area is on tne norm sraeito stay. We've enjoyed working of the North Santiam highway, with him, and working conditions aooui a miies east oi ine aam siie. have improved greatly. The re Neuman company- of Salem was signation came as a complete sur low for the residences at $198,528, prise to most of us; tfiough we dui was xar in excess ui i" gov- eminent estimate of $154,137. School Heating Projects Let ToBernardi Contracts for installing two school heating plants were award ed Tuesday night by Salem dist rict school board,' which also call ed for bids for additions to Wash ington and Swegle elementary schools. The latter projects are contingent upon passage of the building bond issue and special tax at a June 19 election.' , . The changeover from wood to oil-heating at Richmond and High land schools goes to Fred L. Ber nardi of Salem on his low bid of $73,093. Four other bids were en tered. The project includes some structural work, to be sub-contracted, which Superintendent Frank Bennett said would turn small music rooms into full class rooms in both buildings. : In order to allow completion In time for use this falL the board called bids for additions of two . . : classrooms a( owegie scnooi anq either two or four at Washin gto n wnicn was overcrowded by. th ume was nnisnea last lau. (AQ- EireaEs , j . - I 3" (SirasliD Downed Plane Holds Fate of 20 Occupants MIAMI, Fla., June C-Thir- ty-seven survivors of la twin-en gine plane which plunged into the Atlantic were safe aboard a navy destroyer today. I The bodies of eight others were recovered. Little hope : was held that the remaining 20 , occupants would be found alive. 1 The pilot, Joseph Halsey of Seattle, Wash- co-pilot William Holleran and. the steward i were among inose rescued irom uie plane, owned by Westair company lot Seattle. Sixty-Five Aboard The 37 were picked up by the destroyers USS Saufley nearly 10 hours after the plane crashed into the Atlantic Nearly 275 miles east northeast of Miami, j . Sixty-two Puerto Rican migrant workers and three crew members Were aboard. The pilot of a navy plane in the search area contacted Halsey aboard the destroyer and quoted him as saying he was "doubtful that any other survivors "would be picsea up Sharks In Vicinity He said that "none of the pass engers understood English and so couldn't. understand ditching in- structions. but did not mention any attacks. All survivors were reported "in good condition. Halsey said that one eneine of the converted C-46 tyoe Diane "un expectedly failed due ! to mechan- icai trouble and the second eneine then began to lose oil pressure, causing failure. Roble, Mayor To Confer on Resignation Salem Fire Chief William Roble will meet with Mayor R I Elf strom today to discuss Roble's 1C""""."U"' vuiucicuib uuuis wiib eu inouced - $3r, Rob.1.e Tuesday right h uv uwimu, memwi ua uum- erous private citizens iiooded mm with requests to stay on the iOD. Roble, chief here since Jan. I, 1947, resigned effective July 14 citing "disloyalty by a small group within the department" To Await Conference! I have nothing definite to say at this time," Roble told The Statesman Tuesday night. "We'll just have to wait until I find out what the mayor has to say City Manager J. L. Franzen was among those asking Roble to re consider bis action. ("I've asked Rill to think it over thrvrnushlv I hef ora makin a final dArisinn Franzen stated. "In the meantime. rVe tossed his resignation in my i desk. Want Roble to Stay Representing the Salem local of the National Association of Iir fighters, Capt P., Clark said last night: "We want Chief Roble i knew ol some discontented Indi viduals three or four in the de partment Some of them had ap plications for the chiefs job be fore Roble was appointed. Clark added that jthe firemen felt it "would be selfish to expect Roble to stay here if he can better himself, but we do want him to stay." If Battalion Chief iE. L. Smith should succeed Roble, as the laer recommended, Clark said Smin "would find pleny of cooperation on the basis of his capability and likeability in about 26 years in the department, ' TRAILER KILLS LOGGER CORVALLIS, June 0JP)-A log ging accident killed Rudolph Quet schke, 48, Wren, today. He was run over by a logging truck trailer. Max. -S3 . -62 ; . S9 87 J Mia. Precip. Salem , , , ' Portland Saa Fraadaco Chicaro 4 51 , JOO JOO New York A 87 M Willamette river 3 J feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary neld. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight; Uf htly .warmer with the high near 88, low ;johi w. wrcuier tu u wniiiw w I farm activities except for fresh winds M which win hinder dustiog and spray- M aTijtM ruciminox (xhit Year Laat Year Normal SEWS nc4Dinnis Saved Motorcycle Riding Class Goes Aivry; Instructor Injured A cowboy said he'd stick to his horses Tuesday after a spill that sent him flying, and his teacher to the city first aid station. The instructor, Dallas Rogue- more, 3710 liberty rd., was treat ed for leg and arm bruises by first aid men, after his cowboy pupil failed to hold down the bucking cycle at the state fair grounds. While the bronc buster (name unknown) escaped unharmed, he is definitely not sold on the steel horses. "I'm going back to my horses, he told the first aid men. Light Rainfall Ends 20-Day Valley Drouth The Willamette valley had its first rain in 20 days Tuesdaywhen a hundredth of an inch fell in scat ;ered afternoon and evening show ers. Weather bureau officials iri Salem said the precipitation wasJ not sufficient to hurt strawberry crops or interfere with haying op erations. Tuesday's rain was the first measurable precipitation since May , 17. A trace was recorded May 18 and 29. 'But the weather bureau predict ed the forest fife danger will be gin increasing again today through out tne state, it forecast warmer temperatures, falling humidity and some cloudiness in the afternoon and evening, . All fires were reported under control Tuesday after a second straight day of moist weather and cool temperatures. So cooL in fact. the snow fell in scattered portions of central and southern Oregon. The. snow helped bring the Modoc National forest fire under control in northern California. In central Oregon it was measured as much as one inch deep. Some rainfall also wetted timber there. Rain also was reported in the area of the Little Fall creek fire in Lane county, 30 miles east of Eu gene, a hat stubborn blaze was again reported under control. SENATE OKEHS NOMINATION WASHINGTON, June 7 (Wed nesday) -OP)- The snate early to day approved the nomination of Dale E. Doty of Calnfornia as as sistant secretary of the interior Action was by voice vote. Captive Slot Stabbornlv re&lstlnr fa the last. tnta a vaeless pUe of jnnk. The fruit and bell variety slot machines, costing about S259 each, were seised is a raid en Salem Eagles dob about a year are. and the piaball was taken from a Detroit tavern, rained at about $600. Deputy I C Zahar, (left). Is tossing the Innards from one ef the machines on the Jnnk pile, while Ervtn Ward, center), wrestles the mechanism eet of another and Sheriff Denver Young pries the slot off Its base. Recovered from tho machines was flllM In nickels, dimes and quarters, which win be returned to the Eagles dab. The ecras haa deposited on tho Lights Dimmed For 35 Minute Period in NW By The Associated Press Failure of insulators on a newly energized Bonneville Power ad ministration primary line between Grand Coulee dam and a Wen- atchee substation broke apart the Pacific northwests power pool Tuesday night 1 The western pool system units. with few exceptions, were inter rupted for 35 minutes while BPA engineers pieced the giant grid of public and private transmission lines together. Portland and neighboring cities were apparently! the worst mt. Some private systems were with out enough frequency to carry lights, industrial and commercial users. . , Like the rest of the north west, Salem was inconvienced by Tuesday evening's power' failure, bat no! serious results were reported, -j ? Electric clocks lost about five minutes during the 35-minute lac Dinners being- prepared in electric ranges grew cold and some electric motors became overheated. . Teletype communications, serv ing newspapers and radio statiqns, were knocked out 1 The break started at 5:55 pjn. (Pacific daylight time) and ser vice was almost normal by 6:30 pjn. (DST). 5 Coulee at the time was generat ing 1,400,000 kilowatts of power. Frequency dropped to 55 Cycles per second over the system gen erally, BPA said. Funds Voted WASHINGTON, June 7 (Wed nesday) -(JP) The senate voted early today to authorize an addi tional $2,000,000,000 for govern ment support of farm prices after beating down a republican attempt to cut back immediately the level of price props. Senator Williams (Del.) and seven other GOP senators offered the proposal to lower at once the level of price supports on such crops as wheat, cotton and corn. It was defeated on a 50 to 18 roll call vote. The senate then went on to pass a bill which increases the borrow ing power of the commodity credit corporation by $2,000,000,000 to $6,750,000,000. Final passage of the bill on a 46 to 5 rollcall vote came at a session which dragged on past midnight (EDT). Machines Yield If slot machines and one Dlnbal! Crop Support i i. ..... "Vi 1 n l v; rr'J. ft i . ... . . . mtm . "-"....' - f Leads V 1 v. James Roosevelt, son of FDR, who Was running ahead of Gov. Earl Warren for the democratic nom ination for governor in Tues day's primary election. Six Juveniles 1 Confess Beer Burglaries " Several, burglaries were solved and a beer stealing ring broken Tuesday when Salem juvenile authorities lodgeji six youths in the Marion county jail. I , Late Tuesday night, city police and Juvenile pfficer Allen McRae were seeking four other youths Who were also active in the burg lary ring. A story of drinking sprees fi nanced by burglaries and beer thefts was unfolded as McRae questioned the boys, three of whom are 15 and the others 16. AH but one boy was on probation from previous larceny sentences. - McRae said the ring had stolen at least. 70 cases of beer from railroad freight cars parked near the Wadham & Co. Grocery com pany warehouse, 1780 S. 14th st., and from the warehouse itself. The beer burglaries occurred since the night of May 29, and most of the cases were taken af ter the youths broke into the box cars. The boys1-told McRae they drank the beer during parties held on a sand bar near West Salem on the Willamette liver. Subsequent confessions by the boys cleared burglaries in which $94.50 was taken from Parrish junior high school June 2; cigarets and beer from O'Brien's market, 915 Market st; whiskey, wine and beer from the home of Supreme Court Justice George Rossnsan, 910 N. Capitol st, and Several other house burglaries. FLOOD CLOSES UNDERPASS VANCOUVER, Wash June 6 -(P)-The Vancouver underpass at the Interstate bridge to Portland was closed today by high water from the Columbia river. Last Jackpot xnjhine are shown being amashed Warren Ahead For GOP . By The Associated Press James Roosevelt claimed victor last night in his bid for the demo- cratic nomination for governor of California. Gov. r Earl Warren moved toward victory for renomi- nation by the republicans. In South Dakota. ReD. Francis Case defeated Senator Chan Gur- ney for the republican senatorial nomination. 1 Roosevelt made his claim with only 2,114 of California's 18,002 precincts reported in yesterday'i primary. Both Roosevelt and War- ran ran the republican and demo cratic tickets under the state's crossfiling system. Returns from these , Drecinctsr gave Roosevelt 68,409 on the dem ocratic ticket to 53,172 for War-i ren. But the gpvernor was Out in -' front on-his own republican tick et. The vote early today: Warren z,o, Kooseveit 9,436. Rep. ' Helen Gahaean Douela. New Deal democrat, pushed ahead of Manchester Boddy, democrat. uu ep. xucnara n ixon, repub lican, ( for the democratic senator ial nomination. In 1.721J precincts Mrs. Douglas had 39,954 votes to 25,994 for Boddy andT 14,935 for wixon. on the Republican sidev Nixon took a big lead of 33,514 to Boddy's 9,513 and Douglas 6,627. South Dakota voters gave Caso a safe margin over , Gurnev 1,349 out of 1,946 precincts. Tho vote was Case 37,810, Gurney 32y 778. Guerney. seeking his third year term, conceded defeat befero midnight. ,.v The state s democrats were fav oring John A. Engel for nominal tion for senator on the basis of: returns from, 1,235 precincts. Engel had 12,219 Votes to 8.950 for Dr. John S. Tschetter. 1 State Attorney General Sigurd Anderson was ahead in the race for republican nomination for gov ernor of South-Dakota; . ) f In New Mexico, Rep. John K. Miles took a lead in a three-way race for the democratic nomina tion for governor. In 175 of 910 voting divisions, Miles had 9,760 votes to 5,678 for David Chaves jr., and 4,548 for Lake Frazier. Reds Purged TOKYO, Wednesday. June By Japanese Japan's attorney general predicted -today the government might damn " new controls on the communists. The government yesterday purg ed on General MacArthur's order . all 24 communist party polltburo members from public life. Attorney General ,. Shunkjchi Ueda .told the Japanese press it might be necessary also to expel Reds from civil service, the teach ing profession and key industries. He said the next session of par liament, which may be called lata this month, would consider new controls. - Seven of ihe purged Reds are members of parliament Ueda said they will be permitted to attend sessions the first three weeks, to wind up personal business. Japanese newspapers reported the 24 purged Reds were meeting secretly. . t , BEE STING FATAL . PORTLAND. June 6-0PV- Tho death of a 61-year-old man a few minutes after being stung by m hornet was disclosed today. Tho Clackamas county coroners off ico made arrangements for a postr mortem examination' of Antoa Broms, Portland businessman who was stung Sunday while on an outing. - - ' " ' - ' ' Western International; At Salem-Victoria, rata 1 At Tri -City-Vancouver, raia At Tacoma 7. Wenatcha 1 At Yakima-Spokan. raia Coast Learao At 'PorHand-IxM Anfetaa. raia At Seattle , San Frandso 1 At Hollywood , San Diego 3 At Oakland , Sacramento 1 National Learna ' At Chlcaro T, Brooklyn (10 Jaa4 At Clneinaatt S. Boaton ' At Plttaburch 4, New York 10 ! At St. Loula S. Philadelphia American LeaxM At Waahlngtoa S. Detroit II At Boaton 4. Chicago 8 At Nw York X. Cleveland 18 At Philadelphia S, SC Louis 6 D.4 . jooifl mn Sosratj Is tU trwwik of tnm ana Rep. Eatoa (R-NJ). a:uonai aetaiis on pact 2.) i i 40J ojM asja city dump for burning; (Statesman photo). - ' ..