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1 i I Our Juvenile Delinquents: . Urm tTTTT TfTTTTT 1 TT JD0J ma toend la tit dearth ef Ones Finns POUNDDD 1651 lOOth YEAH 14 PAGES The Oren Statesman, Salem Oregon, Tuesday, June 27, 1350 PRICE 5c No. 81 v t r 4 .4 l . ' . ! Modern Huck m j - 'f ' r I. Speed Down Roads To Crime and Jail , ' f- ' I - ""' ' '! l j j' f ; Why? The Answers Are Many; But Gasoline, Liquor Play Part (Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on Salem's juvenile delinquency problem, a study which grew out of a rash of arrests to teen-agers, some charged with felonies that would assure' an adult a long stretch in the penitentiary, statesman Staff writers Marguerite Wright, i Thomas Wright and John White collaborated in prepara tion of the series.) J They look like latter-day Huck Finns in their skin-tight blue jeans and their wrinkled white T-shirts, i Only these Salem youngsters aren't shuffling barefooted down a country road, fishing pole in hand. They're padding bare footed in the grey cells of tpe dank Marion county courthouse basement, looking through the bars. i , i Cruising down a river on a Hack Finn raft would seem mighty dull to these teenage boys. They would much rather cruise down a highway in a souped-up jalopy fitted out with shiny hubcaps, fancy skirts,-radio, foglights, spots and echo j pipes even if the car and equipment are stolen goods. ' Swiping watermelons, as Huck Finn might have done, is kid stuff to these lids, too, They'd rather heist a case of beer or whisky and get stupid drunk on a sandbar in the Willamette. They're our : Juvenile delinquents. Not punks, yet, most of them. Not tough criminals, yet, most of them. Not quite in the same class as the members of the teenage gangs in Chi or Harlem or Frisco gangs that'll sap a guy for the thrill of it, steal for "the excitement of the chase, pack knives and guns and brass knucks and kill for the kicks they get out of it. No. Not quite. Not yet. But give them time. Time on their idle hands. Time in jail or In reform school with more experienced fellows to teach them the finer points in car stripping or lock-picking. And sooner or later, these boys, . this raw material, may well develop into public enemies , and potential inmates of the penitentiary, j ; These are the boys who help constitute Salem's growing i Juvenile crime problem. Somewhere along the line each one of . "the 22 youngsters with which this study deals, got headed in the wrong direction. Something will have to change that course, or they face a bleak future 4of repeated violations and eventual 1 terms in Woodburn training school or in Jail. Where the trouble began and what can be done for prevention and cure of further delinquency is the purpose of this series of articles. t Juvenile delinquency crime by youth has been a popular subject for the press the lecture platform, bridge-table gossip and bull sessions. It is loaded with human interest. Sob sisters, male and female, dismiss it with such maudlin sentiments as "There are no bad boys, only "misdirected energy." It pro duced the inaccurate cliche that ,'fThere are no juvenile delin . quents, only delinquent parents." j 1 Probably the outstanding fact about anti-social be I havlor off boys and girls under 18 is that it is often oversim i . . : plified. If there Is one thing this study brought out, It is that there is no one reason why kids go wrong and there are no - pat answers to the Juvenile delinquency problem. . What are some of the' angles? What makes a Juvenile de linquent? What drives a boy of 14 to 17 to lie and steal, sass his teachers, defy his parents and try to outwit the cops? School officials interviewed felt that the child crime prob lem partly stems from the temper of the times: The prevailing materialistic philosophy of our society develops a false sense of . values in Its members. Material possessions such as fast, chrome-covered cars are a criterion of social standing. Par ents often seek to establish thejir place in the neighborhood with the ostentatiousness of their homes or automobiles. fi' ' - It doesn't take a teenager long to discover that stand ing with the fellows and admiration of the girls are, rightly or wrongly, often directly related to ownership of a car. And If a boy bent on impressing his schoolmates has no money to keep7 his jalopy in gas and accessories, he may get them from AU-Night Auto Supply I. e. any car (maybe yours). Materialism is only one aspect of the spirit of today. A Junior high school principal pointed out that young people are definitely overstimulated. They are affected by the general rest- lessness, the frantic search for excitement and the avoidance of thought for the morrow which characterizes much of the Ameri can urban population. Juke box jazz, ; lurid comic books, unreal- lstic "home was never like this" movies, radio programs that in- spire criminal ideas despite their pious declarations that "crime doesn't pay" all contribute to "the modern tempo that has the kids hopped up. No wonder the daily routine of chores at home, attendance at school and odd jobs seems unbearably dull. Not only are many youngsters too high-keyed they are also troubled with the (familiar and perennial woes of i adolescence: Over-sensitivity to criticism, extreme self -consciousness about such physical difficulties as uneven growth or pimples, desire for independence but need of guidance; G owing awareness of the opposite sex, iand so on. Thus, we ve short boys who compensate for site by acting rough and tough, and we have children who will take no suggestions or orders from parents but will slavishly follow "the gang." Economic "pressure is another and perhaps a key fac tor in the juvenile delinquency problem. Sometimes the parents cannot even provide adequate food, much less fancy clothes or allowances for recreation. Sometimes parents who could afford to hand out more spending money just refuse to do so. So there are cases of boys and girls who shoplift most of their school clothes, who break into homes or schools looking, for money. Even if these teenagers want to work to earn money and most of them say they want jobs society is not geared for them. Except on farms and when the father owns his own busi . ness, a boy can rarely go along on the job with his dad these days. , Generally only unskilled labor is open to youngsters: Harvest . work, pin-setting in bowling alleys, shoe-shining, delivering pa- pers or merchandise, mowing lawns, and so on. There are not enough of these jobs to go around. i The lure of easy money tempts those with no affinity I for work, and with few scruples, to, try their luck at burg lary, gambling, etc. But besides economic Insecurity, prob ably most juvenile delinquents suffer from another kind of Insecurity. They lack inner resources, they lack a sense of personal and social responsibility, they lack long-range goals. These youngsters seem ,to have no objective in life, no ambitions for "when I grow up." They don't really know what I they want except for immediate demands. They live in the . present and seldom contemplate the road ahead. Thai's one rea son why it is hard for them to, see themselves in prison some day. I-., ' " . Almost without exception, kids in trouble with the law have not the slightest respect for the law or for authority of any kind. They neither respect nor obey their parents, nor their teachers. They have only contempt for policemen. They seem in tent on, they seem to get the biggest enjoyment from, giving their parents and teachers, neighbors and the police, a bad time. IIow much these attitudes are due to aftermath of war would bo difficult toj determine. However, it is certain that the Insecurity of children Is I part of the price we are still paying for World War n, one school principal said. Today's teenagers were In their formative years during the war and In many eases were let shift for themselves while both parents worked. And as the twig bent, the tree grew. Then, too, during the war a 17-year old was considered a man. Today's 17-year-olds remember their older brothers or ; friends in service, able to get beer and cigarets and women by Virtue of their uniforms even though some were beardless teen i. agers. Now 17-year-olds are kept in school, expected to act their j age, and denied the "privileges" provided for men. Besides home and school there is another factor to con sider. There are persons whose mental and personality make up' are simply deficient,1 not normal, perverted. They" are the black sheep in otherwise fine families. They are the ones who may know right from wrong, but who are not bothered by wrongdoing, who seem to have no conscience. They do not re spond to reason, and punishment likely worsens them. They are potentially the most dangerous of the Juvenile delinquents, the most difficult to deal with, and the, most to be pitied but not : pampered. They are the bad boys, the really bad boys, who vast ly complicate the juvenile problem and for whom society must ' ;. make some provision. (Next: Some Case Histories) Council Permits Sale, Shooting of Fireworks Shooting of fireworks in Salem will be legal this Fourth of July, the city council ruled Monday night, i The aldermen at their city hall to permit both sale of fireworks on mum i North Carolina is rated as one of the most progressive states of the old South, sometimes being called the Yankee state of the south for its industry and thrift. But North Carolina democrats are not far enough advanced to return Sen. Frank G-raham to the United States senate Instead they voted for Willis Smith, a conservative lawyer, one-time president of the American Bar association. As in the Florida senatorial campaign attack was made on the incumbent on two fronts: the fair employment practice bill and al leged red sympathies. The Caro lina campaign wasn't quite as bad as that in Florida but it was plen ty rough and bitter. Graham as well as Pepper of Florida had in dicated opposition, to compulsory non-discrimination in employ ment, but that wasn't enough to satisfy the voters. Graham was vulnerable because of the numerous left-wing organ izations he had joined or sponsor ed. No communist himself he was such a liberal that he often failed to discriminate between the mere ly liberal and the pink or red front organizations. However Graham was a man of such high character and sincerity that his defeat is highly regrettable. Granted that he was a bit fuzzy as a practical 5 an he had been president of the niversity of North Carolina still he gave voice and leadership to many worthy causes. Smiths victory is a victory for conservative democrats, but hard ly for the extreme states' rights segment of the party. Thus it is another setback for Truman and the labor-democrat coalition. New Airport Building Open For Tenants J Salem's new airport administra tion bu'lding is ready to open, but is awaiting its tenants, City Man ager J. L. Franzen told the city council last night. i The council agreed to a lease arrangement with United Air Lines for $1,500 annual rental of a 1,013 square feet space in the building. UAL also pays over 3, 000. for landing rights. Franzen said UAL is awaiting arrival of furnishings and the weather bureau, which gets Its space free, must clear some paper work through Washington, D.C., before moving in. Salem Cham ber of Commerce and city officials are planning a dedication cere mony at the building August 6. BAKERIES STILL STRUCK PORTLAND, June 28-P)-A meeting today failed to settle Port land's bakery strike. AFL drivers settled their differences with bak eries, but a meeting on the bakers' differences deadlocked. No further sessions are scheduled. , MB Stock Market Hits Skids; Four Month's Gains Lost NEW YORK, June 26-W-Stock prices tumbled $1 to $7 a share to day in one of the worst overall declines in twenty years. j -.H . Traders, jittery over the Korean threat to world peace, threw their holdings on the market in a series of savage selling .drives. Sales, volume hit a ten-year high and the market was the broadest on record. . - In five hours of plunging prices, the sains of the last four months were wiped out -:-- Roughly $4,000,000,000 i was whacked off the market value of all stocks listed on the New York stock exchange. The 1949-50 bull market, which finished last week with lusty snort, never looked sicker. Fear that the Korean war might spread . over the world was the major factor in the market's crack-up. Traders took the view that in the event of war Industry would not be allowed to make the profits it did in World War No. 2.' meeting amended a fireworks ban July 1, 2, 3 and 4 in the city and snooting oi nreworics on juiy only. But the amendment is effective only this year. .After this holiday, the recently passed ban will take effect, prohibiting both sale and use of firecrackers within Salem in the future. ;-i The amendment retains a for mer ban against shooting of any fireworks in the downtown fire jsone. ! Aldermen agreed to amend the ban when they learned that local merchants had stocks of fireworks on hand at the time the prohib' iting legislation was passed. Wilson Trial Witnesses' Stories Clash VANCOUVER, Wash., June 26 -W)- Surprise witnesses offered conflicting stories today on wheth er Utah and Turman Wilson were in a Portland theater the night 18-year-old Jo Ann Dewey was kidnapped an killed. The brothers, Utah, 20, and Tur man, 24, both asserted they saw a double-bill movifr March 19 and did not get back to Vancouver until hours after the Dewey girl had been snatched from a dark street. They face double charges of kidnapping and murder. Surprise Witness i The defense produced the first surprise witness, blonde Betty Lyon, 18, who testified she worked as an usher at the Portland theater On one night only March 19 and remembered seeing the broth ers. ' I The state promptly produced a rebuttal witness, Robert Butts, jr., manager of the theater, who said Its wasn't so. His records showed she worked only on the night of March 22, he said. Butts then produced his rec ords, and they were placed in ev idence. The state also put two police men on the stand, who said Mrs. Lyon had told them in earlier in terviews that she had not worked March 19. Mrs. Lyon in her earlier testi mony had another version. Points Out Men She? pointed out in court Utah and Turman as two men she had seen in the theater on the night of March 19. She was positive about the date, saying' it was the only night she worked on the theater Job. , Mrs. Lyon said she heard them talking to the head usherette and looked at Utah two or three times because he seemed to resemble someone she knew. She identif ied Turman by his voice. TO STAY INCORPORATED DELAKE, June 28 -(Special)-Residents voted 153 to 111 against a measure to disincorporate the city of Delake here today. Max. Min. Precip. 51 trace ' 53 trace 45 M . Salem 77 77 Portland San Franciico Chicago , 73 75 .00 70 .00 New York 94 Williamette river 1.1 feet. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu reau, McNary field, Salem): MosUy cloudy today, tonight and Wednesday. High today 74-76. Low tonight 48-50. Conditions favorable fori most farm activities today; fresh winds will nam per others. SALEM PRECIPITATION This Year 43.66 Last Year 41.59 Normal 36.84 After Pearl Harbor the market broke sharply. In a few months, though, prices turned upward and continued upward during the war. Traders today evidently figure! that pattern would not be re reated. Brokerage quarters said the bulk of the selling came from the general public In addition-there was heavy profit-taking prior to' today's break the market was near the crest of a one-year rise. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks dropped 4 points to 75.1. The break was the largest since Sept 3, 1946. : Only three times. since 1930 other than today, has the market on average taken larger nlunge. . A record 1,250 individual issues appeared on the ticker tape. Pre vious record was L232 on Jan. 12 this year. Today only 89 advanced while 1.124 declined. Sales amounted to 3,910,000 shares, a peak since May 21, 1940, This compared with 1,700,000 Friday. VS. AAF Forms Evacuation Airlift Americans Taken Aboard Ships, Planes TOKYO, Tuesday, June 21-(Jfh The United States today set up the biggest airlift since the Berlin blockade to evacuate Americans from flaming south Korea. A U. S. fighter shot down a Russian-built plane that tried to "in terfere," General MacArthur s headquarters said. About 200 Americans arrived in Japan by planes this morning snd headquarters said a total of 1,500 would be out of Korea this after noon. More than 900 already were well on their way to Japan in two ships which sailed from Korea yesterday. MacArthur warned that U. S. planes will provide "complete" air cover until "all Americans" are out of the invaded country. Be fore the evacuation began, sources here said about 2,000 Americans were in south Korea, including 500 officers and men of the U. S. military advisory mission. Whether the mission is being evacuaated entirely was not an nounced but the mention of seme U. S. officers aboard evacuation craft indicates at least some of them are coming out. Among the 500 remaining after today's operations will be military men, businessmen, state depart ment. Economic Cooperation ad ministration and other officials and missionaries. Most of these are men. South Koreans Win Air Fights ITAZL'KI AIRBASE, Kyushu Island, Japan, June 27-i-Tw of 10 American fighter planes given the South Koreans enter ed hostiftlities today and shot down two North Korean fighters. The action occurred about 9 a.m." at Kimpo airfield near SeouL The South Korean F-51 Mus tangs engaged the Russian made Yak fighters in two separate dogfights. One North Korean pilot crashed with his ship and was killed. The other bailed ont and par achuted to the ground. Eyewit nesses said he was shot to death as he reached for a pistol strap ped to his leg. Loading of Arms For Korea Starts TOKYO, Tuesday.. June 27-P)- General MacArthur's headquar ters said today loading of war ma teriel for south Korea has begun. Korean pilots have arrived to take delivery of 10 American fighter planes. Headquarters announced yester day that the United States had authorized transfer of 10 F-51 Mustang fighters for the aviation- short Korean republic. It also an nounced air and naval escort will be supplied to assure safe errival of war aid shipments to south Korea. , Whether shipments of supplies to the little U. S.-sponsored re public's fledgling air force which was not disclosed officially. Truman Backs Efforts of y.N. WASHINGTON. June 28 -WPV- President Truman threw the "vi gorous" support of the United States government today behind the United Nations effort i to end the sudden week-end war in Kor ea. The overshadowing and as yet wholly unanswered question was whether this nation is prepared to dispatch its fighting men to the trouble zone if the U. N. fhould decide on a showdown test of strength to enforce its peace or ders. No said the conference of re publican senators in effect. Ur.ani mously they declared that the as sault of , northern Korean com munists on the republic of south Korea must not be allowed to In volve the United States in war. The republicans a aid, however, that this nation should provide military supplies and other asrist ance. (Additional details on page 2) Other Korea News ' y, : 'Ko-u I Page Congressional Reaction European Reaction , Possible U. N. Action , Oregon Residents in Korea Area "Fighter Downs Red Plane; i Korea Envoy at 14 LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y Jane 26 to the U. S., is greeted by Trygve Lie (right h secretary general of the United Nations, at a special emergency meeting of the U. N. Security Council which ordered a cease fire in Korea and also de manded a rollback by invasion forces. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). Loggers Protest Plan to Limit Truck By Robert E. City Editor.jBie Sawmill and logging truck operators hopped on the Salem city council Monday night in protest against a proposal to keep log trucks off city streets at rush traffic hours. Spokesmen for some 50 loggers meeting with the council at city hall, made it clear they wanted no part of the restriction on operating hours. They declared it would hurt Salem business all around. The council for its part killed a resolution to establish a log truck route and restrict hours, intro duced a substitute measure with less restrictive hours and talked about re-studying the matter with a committee of interested parties. Backs Restrictions Alderman Albert H. Gille,, ad vocate of the restrictions on grounds of traffic improvements, introduced an amendment to exist ing city law to prohibit log trucks from operating over city streets from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. and from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. That law al ready empowers the city engineer to set routes. The original measure would have fixed a route through Salem and prohibited log truck travel here from 7 to 8:30 and from 4:30 to 6. Give Arguments These were principal arguments from the loggers and mill at torneys: Salem Is already one of the most restrictive cities In relation to log trucks; reduction of travel, hours would eliminate one or more trios Into Salem per day and might mean the difference between marginal and probitabie operauon for each logger; mills would find operating costs higher through hiring more trucks or putting on extra shifts for late receipt otiogs; the proposed legislation discrim inates against logging and mill industries: many loggers would take their, logs to other cities in stead of Salem. Some truckers also complained about routings, "especially through Salem. Herbert E. Barker, Sa lem! Trades and Labor council secreaarr. called the proposed re striction "Idiotic" ana saia ne op posed it on behalf: of mill work ers anxious to retain their jobs in Salem. Present Pleas Loeeers who snoke Included Cecil Clark, Floyd Brown and E. fi. NeaL Attorneys represented Oregon Pulp and Paper, Capital Lumber & Fuel and West Salem Lumber, Minden Lumber, Capitol Lumber firms. Alderman Walter Musgrave voiced bis opposition to the re striction, saying: "Salem will have to become conscious of Its need to criva something to Industry, not always rob it" Alderman Thomas Armstrong urged caution and ask ed that logging and mill Interests designate committeemen to meet with dry officials and local bus iness enokesmen to go Into the subject further. The proposed amendment will come up at the July 10 council, meetlnc for cossible final dis position. U.IV. Meeting ' Mynn Chanr, Korean ambassador Operation Gangware Statesman and attorneys for several mills, Typographers Call Strike at Klamath Paper KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., June 26 -4JP)- A mechanical innovation, teletypsetters, brought on a strike at the Klamath Falls Daily Her ald and News today. The AFL Typographical union called the strike In demand for Jurisdiction over the teletypesetter operators. A similar strike begain at the Roseburg, Ore., News Review. Type normally is set by an ex perienced operator on a linotype rnachine. With a teletypesetter. paper tape can be perforated from a separate keyboard. The tape then is fed to an electrical device that will operate the linotype ma chines. The three teletypsetters here have been operated by three girls on an experimental basis. Man aging Editor Bill Jenkins said the union was denied jurisdiction. He said the newpaper, which has about 15.000 ' circulation. would attempt to continue opera tion. He said that pressmen, ster eotypes and engravers had indi cated they would stay on the job, Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "South In the winter, north In the summer, south In the wo-ter-Hutsl tm gettin' out oi this NtT Reports Vary In Attempting To Locate Rhee By Russell Brines TOKYO, Tuesday, June 27- (AP)-A Korean spokesman said today an armored communist spear head had been hurled back from the sates of Seoul. and the U. S.-backed South Korean government still was there. This conflicted with pre vious reports that President Syng man Rhee and his entire cabinet had fled south. Earlier General MacArthur's headquarters said that tank-led red troops had en tered SeouL , - (Associated Press correspondent O. H. P. King in Seoul also report ed that Rhee and other top offl- cials left this morning.) The Spokesman asserted the southern defenders had counter attacked successfully on the cru cial central front A reliable American source said he had telephoned ( Seoul and had been informed th6 invaders now were 13 miles north of SeouL Planes In Action ' A Korean news agency reported received here said the South Ko reans already had sent' 10 fighter planes sent from Japan as part of U. S. aidInto action with "fine results." The agency also asserted the key point of Uijongbu, 12 miles north of Seoul, had been recap tured. The tank-led red attackers had anven aDDroximatelv an straight down the UHonirhii vsiio. to the suburbs of SpohI MacAr thur's headquarters had reported. xjui me spoKesman maintained that the counterattack had driven me reus oacK to the city of Chang ing, which is between Seoul and Uijongbu. The latter is 12 miles north of Seoul. Shoots Down Plane MacArthur's headquarters also announced that tt s tv,-. plane shot down a Russian-mad Yak plane over Seoul's Kim airport. The Diane. North Korean air force, ran afoul l inua,I H01"611" which MacAr thur had thrown over the airport iuieci uie evacuauon of Amer icans. U.S. Ambassadnr .Tnhn t i ..JT'ory group. "V'" piannea to Joint the Kbrean government in its" 20 miles south of SeouL was being Set tin mrrA a. v broadcast , wm rean Earlier. MaeArthi ters said the situation in the South New Airport W mc that time to be near Kimpo air port IS milaa nnrtVivut c- , iiJ0. ?.lan" totermittent ?i.,Mikmb airport said. w . ""iiimj nPfiffUmaJtha Mrlal stacks pn the air field came after Amer icans from tfi mKa. k-J I safely evacuated to Southern Jap- Willi On the third riav nf K vvi. surnrise lnvaiinn th V " front was crumpled. as tne armored unit, which had cracked throueh th tt , South Korean army, halted at the outskirts, its commander demand J?at the Southerners surrender. me aeiense ministry in a subse quent broadcast called for battle uV Seoul's streets, with citizens aiding the military. Second Incident 1 .IT !!?: VS- Mustane fighter With Rum an.fnirfa o-7 presumably fromt he North Kor- f . . iorce was tne second aer- uu incident in as many days. Headquarters said the Muttanj was one of a number of rlnaZ sent to ; prevent any outside at temnt to disrunt thm - w " w mm m mm MV V . I American!. It added that the VS. fighter fighter which Interfered with the evacuauon enons." f : i "Several other Yak fighters were In the air in the area but did not make serious threats to interfere. I the announcement added. ! A Yak-i fighter yesterday el tacked a Mustang as it flew over Seoul. Observers saI4 the Mus tang escaped damage aral drove off Its attacker by turning and fiykog toward It r