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s f - Staff if (Story in Column 8) First to Register for VFW Convention POUNDHD 1651 lOOOt YEAR IB PAGES The Oregon Stcrtssncau Salem, Oregon, Wedneaday, June 28, 1950 PRICE 5c No. 92 Truman Orders Ships, Planes to Battle; V, v . tint t rriUr for the Veterans of ing camera) L. R. (Red) Henderson , Portland, department senior vice-commander; Joseph C. Haller, Mllwaukie, department Inspector; and Joseph II. Hopkins, saiem, encampment chairman. Signing- up the vanguard of an expected 1,000 delegates are Edith Alderman, department secretary, and G. O. Pike, department service nice, Logging truckers protest pro posed restrictions on routing and time schedules of their operations through Salem. I read their pro test in Tuesday- morning's States man then walking to work I saw a loaded log truck heading north then making a left turn from Cap itol street onto Center street Just after eight o'clock when the morn ing traffic flow is heavy. That dulled my sympathy for the log gers. The truck could have got onto Center street from 12th st. and then made a straight cross ing with the green light at Cen ter. I know of no group that have pressed their economic position any harder than log truckers. They object to closing roads even though continued operation would cut them to pieces. Many of them continuously overload theirtrucks and more would do so if they felt they could get away with it. Some hide out in the woods until the weighing station is closed to bring down their excess , loads. And when authorities enforce the law they put up a squawking about how important they are to the economy of the state. Logging and lumbering are the most important industry in the state and in many ways the most ruthless. They keep the public bowing to them quite faithfully. The whole state is kept conscious steadily of the fact that lumbering . Is our' chief source of income. True enough, but that shouldn't give log trucks the privilege of break ing down roads and bridges and disrupting urban traffic. Here in Salem at the rush hours, particularly on Center and Court and Capitol streets, traffic is badly congested. It ought not further to be snarled with logging trucks making left turns across major traffic streams. , r Let the log truckers show some spirit of cooperation and not try to bulldoze their way over the rest of the public. JDIW YM-- CearW to A fcvwta ef One Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "Now, as I wis yino keep Mwty from liwn mowvif mo ana mm, t- ' i j.; . .: n in"",- i. . " "-, - - . vflXvWWWM ss-Bsss-t Foreign Wars state convention here .now or roruana. tMaiesman pnoto.j Striped Invader Evacuates Home PORTLAND, June 27-)-Mrs. Mary Ager got her house backj from i skunk today. 1 The little, striped animal was chased under her home by a dog yesterday, and Mrs. Ager, holding her nose, departed at once. Even the skunk left today. Mrs. Ager returned after airing the house a number of hours. Patzer Wins Contract for School Work Work will begin immediately on addition of four rooms to Wash ington school and two rooms to Swegle, the Salem district school board was informed Tuesday night after awarding contract for the work to low bidder T. J. Patzer of Salem. Patzer's combined bid was $57, 606. Bids of six other local con tractors ranged up to $72,418. School officials and architects ex pressed satisfaction with the bid which figures at approximately $7.65 per square foot. After examining alternate bids the board decided to authorize four more rooms at Washington instead of two. The new school which-opened last year in the Cap itola district was overcrowded from the start, with its music room converted into a ninth class room. , (Additional school board news, page 2). Max. Max. Min. Min. 51 S4 48 -60 Precip. Precip. .64 .00 .00 .00 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago 7 77 68 75 90 New York es Willamette river A feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today and tonight. High today near 80; low tonight near 84. Agricul ture outlook. Weather favorable for most farm work today. SALEM PRECIPITATION Tail Tear Lart Year Normal 43.6S 414U 36.87 Youthful 'Failures Blind to Dangers of Initial Crime, (Editor's not: This la th sec ond In a aeries of articles 0a Salem's Juvenile d 1 1 a acy problem, a study which crew out of a rash of recent arrests of teenager. Tha first article, in yesterday's Statesman, dealt with soma general factors in the cause i crime. The series was prepared by Statesman Staff Writer Mar guerite Wright, Thomas Wright and John White). i Who- are these boys, in blue denim jeans and T-shirts, who stand behind the bars in the Marion county courthouse base ment, waiting for judgment of their crimes? 1 They look like the nice kid; next door, or the iaa wno deliv ers your newspaper, or the boy who picks your strawberries, or maybe your own son. By far the majoritr of Salem's youth are tops. But somewhere, for some reason, a growing minority got on the wrong track. ', 1 Take, for Instance, Jim, at 1 the oldest of the group bat men tally one ef the youngest lie eannet read er write, except his name, Jim's mother (she and the fa ther were separated) moved to Salem when he was a baby. He left school in the fourth grade, when the teachers decided they could do nothing with him, ac cording to his aunt An only child and ill for a long time as a youngster, Jim was pampered by his mother who was away from home a good deal because aha Tuesday were (left to rirtat fac Arrives for State Meeting Vanguard of officials figuring in the Veterans of Foreign Wars state convention here this week arrived in Salem Tuesday. The registration booth set up In the Senator hotel was ready to register the flood of delegates ar riving last night and today. A "dugout" on North High street will be opened for informal gath erings of delegates today. Joseph Hopkins and Mrs. Don Stupka are in charge of registra tion of VFW and auxiliary dele gates. Mrs. Joseph Hopkins is sec retary and Mrs.- A. L. Aeschli- mann is in charge of Information at the headquarters desk. Officers who arrived early In eluded L. R. Henderson of Port land, department service officer. and Mrs. Myrtle Tripp ' of Cor- vallis, state auxiliary president. An unexpected visitor to the convention turned up in the per son of Anthony J. Winnagel 79 of San Francisco, Calif., one of the founders of the VFW. Winnagel said he was on vacation and "just dropped in." (Story also oa-page 2.) ' r MM Western International At Yakima 6. Salem 8 At Vancouver-Spokane, rain ,At Cictoria 9, Tacoma At Tri-City , Wenatchee Pacific Coast Learne At Sacramento 13, Portland B . At Seattle M. San Diego 4 At San Francisco 7, Los Angeles t At Hollywood 4. Oakland 8 , National League At Brooklyn 3. New York 10 At Boiton 2. Philadelphia S At Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati At Chicago 3-1. St. Louis 3-4 American League : ' At Detroit 9. Chicago 3 , At New York 3. Washington 4 4 9 ln At Philadelphia S. Bo-ton T (11 Inn.) At St, Louis 4. Cleveland a 1 had to work although there was a small monthly income from the father's pension. An uncle, who lived next door, tried to help rear the child and discipline Jim when necessary but the grandmother always took the child's side. So Jim grew up as he pleased, without the discipline of school and little at home. While he did o8M jobs occa-. sionally, Jim never held a regu lar Job. He was gregarious and liked playing with other chil dren. He joined a Boy Scout troop but never advanced above tenderfoot rank. Sometimes he went swimming at the YMCA, sometimes he went to dances sponsored by the junior com ' munity club, and he was inter ested in a rifle club the neighbor hood boys planned to organize. Guns always fascinated Jim; that's why he Joined the na - tional rnard. He shewed more enthusiasm for army service than anything else, his aunt said, and he was very disappointed when ha failed to make the grade and had to nit going to meetinr. Meanwhile, he ran areand with the neifhborhoed beys, many younger than be, . . ? ' Thaf a when Jim got into trou ble. "He's not a bad boy," the aunt declared, "but he's easily led." If someone baa an idea, he'll go along i even If the project is burglarizing a school. So he VFW Vanguard Cong ress, CBiiiia, Philippines To deceive U. S. Aid By Roger D. WASHINGTON. June 27 -UP- American planes and warships into Invaders of south Korea and ordered : a. j " . it . . r agauisfc reu conquest in uie lar racuic, Congress appeared almost solidly united behind him. Mr. Truman's announcement, creating a new U. S. foreign policy. served grim notice on the Kremlin to leash the armed forces of world communism or reckon with American firepower. f Perhaps for the first time since the end of World War II hostili ties, in speaking of communist aims, the president used the unadorned U.N. Endorses Policy, 7 to 1 LAKE SUCCESS, June 27 -(JP)- President Truman's bold act In dispatching military aid to south Korea and drawing the line on communism in east Asia won the backing of the U.N. security council tonight. The 11-member council voted 7 to 1 for an American resolu tion endorsing the president's decision. India and Egypt said they were not participating in the vote because they had not received instructions. Yugoslavia voted against it. The council thua for the first time applied sanctions tinder the strongest sections of the U.N. charter. Warren A. Austin, chief U. S. delegate, who earlier told the council it was the council's plain doty to invoke sanctions, said the immediate effect of this "historic action should be to stop bloodshed and aggression In Korea." word "war." He said communism versive tactics to "armed invasion In Washington, the navy said the U. S. west coast undoubtedly will be shifted in general support of operations in the new war theater. The navy said American destroyers and other craft would prob ably be ready tomorrow to deliver slashing blows against com munist, seaborne landings, such as points in south Korea. Soviet Asked to Use Influence A direct move to have Russia end the conflict was announced by the state department late today. vr The department said U. S. Ambassador Alan O. Kirk delivered a note to the Soviet foreign office in Moscow, asking Bussia to "use its influence for the withdrawal of the invadmg forces and the cessa tion Of hostilities." t ; 1 . " Mr. Truman's announcement of America's answer to the red in vasion came from the White House just about on the stroke of noon, Washington lime. The president's historic order, committing the United States in the strongest terms since World War II, also directed the U. S. 7th fleet to protect Formosa against any invasion from red China. And he directed that American military aid be speeded up to the Philippines and Indo-China. Congressmen Hail Decision The president acted two days after the Russian-backed north Koreans launched an invasion of south Korea, which is supported by the United States. "The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that communism has passed beyond the use of subversion to conquer in dependent nations and will now use armed invasion and war," Mr. Truman said. The president's dramatic action,, greeted with bursts of applause on Capitol Hili, was keyed with these swift-breaking developments in the Korean crisis: . 1. In London, Prime Minister Attlee quickly pledged Britain's aid In the United Nations to the American moves to repel the com munist attack on south Korea. 2. Secretary of Defense Johnson told newsmen the president's order does not commit this country to send any land troops into action. Asked if mobilization will be required in the United States, Johnson replied tersely: "At the moment, no. Russian's Reaction Unknown 3.- Russia's reaction was unknown. Soviet delegates to the United Nations were close-mouthed, and cussed at a private luncheon attended by American and Russian delegates. 4. Australian Prime Minister squadron of heavy Australian Singapore. In London. Prime Minister House of Commons to read President Truman's statement, and in other world capitals the news created intense excitement. now has a record of three arrests and' this time he was sent to the state hospital for 30 days obser vation. His aunt thinks if he could get into the army, Jim would be all right But if he's allowed to run around, chances are hell commit more crimes, she says, because Jim doesn't stop to think of con sequences. - . Peter, 16, the youngest ef sev en children, will be a Junior in high school this falL He was nev er a good student doesn't like, sehooL and now that Salem high has discontinued Its auto me chanics course he sees little rea son for continuing school, ; School officials say his atti tude is negative, His mother says the school officials dlscriininate against Peter because his older brother has a Woodburn training school record. She also thinks , authorities are harder on a child who is not from a broken home and more sympathetic toward those whose parents are divorced. Both Peter's parents are cannery workers. " The mother Insists that Peter Is a good boy who just got into bad company.' She says he Is a trusted baby-sitter for his little nephews, that ht has picked beans , for spending money and that hit father gives him 60 cents a week allowance and sometimes extra money. She cant under stand why Peter was picked up United Greene President Truman today sned combat against the communist a general stiffening of defenses f , , had passed beyond the use of sub and war." some of its fighting craft now on the invaders have made at four the Korean conflict was not dis Robert G. Menzies announced that bombers was being dispatched to Attlee interrupted debate in the by the police, but she feels that "all that deviltry" started when he joined a Boy Scout troop. She suspects scout meetings were just his excuse to get out of the house and run around with the fellows. Scout records show Peter was a tenderfoot active one year. Peter and his older brother sometimes attended the commu nity church but they thought it has little to offer them no ping pong tables. They went to com munity club dances but these were discontinued for lack of support. They think the community should provide a teen canteen for dances, cake parties, talent shows and so on. That would keep the boys from getting bored and rest less, give them something to do othert - han their present past times: Car-stripping, beer par ties, chasing around, Peter doesn't have a car and ; his only reason for going along: with other boys on tire-stealing expeditions was that he didn't want to be ''chicken,, he ex plained. He's a small, younger-thah-his-age-looking boy whom .the girls think is "a cute little doU," accordintrto the brother. Evidently, he had to prove by thievery that he was just' as tough as the other boys. Peter spent nearly two weeks in jail awaiting trial and learned his lesson thereby, he says. This was Peter's first booking and the Nationis Back ..." r - Scene of Battle Again n.i l la . .vy MUS-TIQUroi TOKYO, Jane 27 Eyes of the war lULU 1 KIUAIOR I VUICK J W T 1 I MONGOLIA n ' 0 n raw XJf'X K0p jr!M&" -li CHINA''Z?$ii uJ" JAPAN T,KT '$smoKu v lJa gv, p,Km c "" ? ward the Last China sea, to the north of which lies Korea, where a sudden outbreak of hostilities caused grave concern, and to the south of which is Formosa site of embattled Chinese nationalists, which the United States has now said It would defend." The above map shows the geographical relationship of the new danger sone to the all-too-familiar islands of World War: II aaaanlt Iwo Jim and Okinawa and the Philippines. Seventh Fleet Put Under rj-acArthur - ' k ' ' By Lelf Erlckson ' PEARL HARBOR. June 27-WP)-The navy today niaced the Sev enth fleet under General MacArthur's operational control and created a new racine task force to be headed by the jet fighter-eauiDDed car rier Philippine Sea. . A Pacific fleet spokesman said the new task force organizing on the U. S. west coast will be based on Pearl Harbor in close support of the Seventh fleet The 27,000-ton Philippine Sea will carry two squadrons of new Grumman Panther jet fighters, he disclosed, as well as Douglas sky raider attack bombers. Panther jets were first assigned to regular duty aboard a carrier in the Pacific when the 27,000-ton Valley Forge became the spear head of the Seventh fleet in May. She also carries the Douglas bombers. ' The Pacific fleet spokesman de clined to speculate when the new task force would get under way for Hawaii . It will be made up also of two cruisers and a destroy er squadron and a full seatrain of supply ships which will enable it to undertake a long range expedi tion when necessary. The Philippine Sea carrier task force, based at 1 Pearl Harbor, would place a sea striking force in close reserve for the Seventh fleet It also would be available to move to any new danger point in the western Pacific other than Korea. The Seventh fleet has the car rier Valley Forge, the cruiser Ro chester, and a squadron of de stroyers. Judge gave him probation with Instruction to get a Job, get no driver's license without court permission, and continue school this fait Peter hopes to join the navy when he reaches 17. Sammy, 17, is a farm boy. The list ef Items he admitted stealinc would be enough to send an adult to the penitentiary, bat Sammy got probation because It was his first time before the judge and because the Juvenile officer felt Sam's parents could keep him in hand henceforth. . Saml a handicapped by , a speech impediment; it has made him '-kind of anti-social," his mother says. - When he was a small child, the teachers would just let him sit in the back of the. schoolroom and did not try to work with him, but when the family moved to Salem he was placed in a special class 'and tha mother feels that Salem teachers helped him a great deal. 'For a year and a half the parents 'took him to a doctor three times a week . but . they , could: afford to do no more. . . r JBecauM of the stuttering Sam , stayed behind in his school work , and' hesitated to Join in any group activities. He did go to Sunday school and church with '.the fsunily (five children) until he was old enough to have a car. TJntH lit get Lis ear, Sam eel dam west eat, rarely tnlxed wii-i KAMAfUTCi - wearied world turned today to Nationalists Agree Terms On Cease Fire TAIPEI, Formosa, Wednesday, June 28-(jp)-The Chinese Nation alists today ordered their air force and navy to cease attacks on the communist mainland in ac cordance with c U. S. request President Truman had ordered U. S. warships to protect Formo sa against red attack and at the same time asked the Nationalists to cease offensive operations. Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh welcomed the presi dent's order for warship protec tion as "a most welcome sign of comradeship in the fight against communism.' Asked if he thought the move might lead to a new world war, Yeh said he didn't think the Rus sians wanted to involve them selves in an international conflict But he hastily added that was his personal opinion and he might be wrong. Land in Jai ether beys, and gave his parents part ef the money he earned as well as helped with the house work and farm chores. He work ed in hepyards, a shoe shine shop and the cannery to earn money to buy the ear, and that Is when the trouble began. Working in the cannery he got In with a bad crowd, his mo ther said. The parents warned him but Sammy had discovered by then that he enjoyed the com panionship. He felt It was the car that made him popular. that made people ignore his stut tering. In fact he even seemed to talk better after he got the car. But traveling with the bad boys and dependence on his car influenced Sam to steal tires, skirts, radios, and so on, for his car or, to "fence? for money. His ' parents . say Sammy has .- been taught iiight from wrong and that the time he spent in jail ought to teach him that he can' get away with doing wrong. . The family wants to stick by htm, try to help him and the Judge - gave him probation condition he makes resUtutiea for the stolen property, gets Job, and behaves from new en. Sam's mother believes that the boy could have vocational school training and get a job in a garage as auto mechanic, it would be his salvation. (Next: Mora Cast Histories) Action - Invad ers Lose Hold On Seoul TOKYO, Wednesday, June 28 (ff)-South Korean troops, backed by bombing and strafing U.S. Jet fighters and light bombers, today drove the communist invaders out ' of Seoul, reliable reports said. General MacArthur's headquar ters announced that 500-pound bombs were rained down on the troops frpm the communist north i who plunged Korea into civil war i with an invasion Sunday. The swift jets . and attack bomb- ers of MacArthur's command wn ' thrown into the swaying battle -t " the express orders of P-Mnt Truman, who acted to halt near a conflict leading the world to tta brink of war, . GHQ Set Up In Korea - An advance echelon of MacAr thur's general headquarters wae set up in South Korea. His gen- erals were in continuous confer ence. : ' ' A Moscow broadcast ' had said that the northerners knifed into Seoul, capital of the U. S.-spon-sored South Korean republic, at four points this morning. But an American informant said that later reports indicated a southern counterattack had thrown the tank-led troops from the red north all the way back to the key city of Uijongbu. This city sits astride the inva sion valley 12 miles north of Seoul. Southern Korean -reports yesterday said the city had been : recaptured. Accounts early today indicated the reds had swept back through the city and on to tha limits of Seoul. Naval Unite In Action The American informant who said he was in communication with the South Korean army, declared a counterattack pushed the north erners out of Seoul at about 11:3Q ajn, (6:30 pjm., Tuesday. PDT). Somewhere along south Korea's sea frontiers the U. S. naval units based in Japan also were in action. Despite this, Kim Yong Ju. Ko rean minister in Tokyo, said tha ii. . a normerners naa lanaea on an un specified section of the southeast coast. He added that it was "ex pected" these invaders would be repulsed. Kim last communicated with Seoul late last night. At that time, he said, he was Informed that north Korean fighters had bombed and strafed Seoul several times. Breaks in communications with Seoul left in doubt whether Presi dent Syngman Rhee and his gov ernment still were in the capital. The Moscow radio said Rhee .had fled and there was rioting in Seoul. There was no confirmation. On Wartime Basing AiacArxnur a Drier Headquarters announcement of U. a. warplano attacks said: Headquarters of the far east air force announced today that F-80s and B-28s are carrying 600 pound bombs on bombing and strafing missions. The airplanes are armed with 50-caliber ma chineguns. -Already, American Mustang fighters guarding the air evacua tion of American civilians from Korea had shot down four Russian-made north Korean Yak fighters that tried to interfere) Tuesday. Key American air bases in Ja pan were under wartime precau tions Antiaircraft guns, long eat up, were ready for instant action. Pilots, ground crews and all of ficers were on wartime alerts tor any emergency. Other Korea Newa , Para Congressional Support Oregon Congressmen War Risk Calculated "Sold by 10 A.MI? A few days ago this classified ad was run in The Statesman: l-OR SALE: Milk-strain Hereford heifer. IS months, sin ahap. r The heifer was told before ten o'clock the first morning the ad appeared. The advertiser wrote in: "That surely was -a quickie." I So it was. Other ads bring quick results too. Here is the marketplace for livestock, fur niture, product, tto tie. 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