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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1950)
Gromyko States TTQJlJjQQj poundbb 1851 ; - ; j V , J ; " V laHMMHMMMMMa - , . 1 This is July Fourth, the nation- "Ytisso the day in the great midwest when corn snu. -knee-high. Remember the rhyme. Knfee high by the Fodrth of July? Reports, indkate that alter, a ' slow start from a cool, wet spring n is making the height which , tradition say. it should to insure big corn crop. Much lower than that knd it may run into frost, al though corn geneticists! have been breeding varieties with earUerma turities and frost damage has been slight in recent years.5 . I Also! reports are that another bountiful corn crop is in prospect, - perhaps another three billion yield to make the granaries bulge. Though the' U3. treasury may . - o inv-r that Drospct it does insure an abundance1 oUhe rin- . Arin ffrnsm In the UoA. j w. Ho not oroduce much field corn in the Pacific northwest growing season is too short, cli mate west ol the mountains too niphta not hot enough in XlUUlf 1 "C - 1 . . summer or frosty enough! In the fall. So we are not conscious of the Importance of corn as a f cereaL ,vt Paul C. Mangelsdorf. profes sor of botany at Harvard -says In an article in July Scientmc mer. rmrn U the backbone of jOur crrirulture. It is the most efficient plant ithat we Americans have for trapping ine energy vi u and converting it into food. True we consume only small amounts Ccontinued on editorial page; ton to Vote on Issue for Dam , I statesman Newt Service CTT.VTrnTfiM Julv 3 -Silver nn' linnff-dcbated water! project was hearer a showdown tonight ' after the city council voted to hold a snecial band election on dam nrinnal for a dam. .' , . voters 01 we ciiy wui u w polls probably late this month to decide; on measures which -would finance construction of a dam at one of two sites on Abiqua creek, six miles above Silverton. Plans also call for construction of a fil ter plant at a later date. ! Engineers estimate construction of a dam at the upper site would .cost about $41,000. The second site, 3,500 feet downstream, would cost an estimated $44,000: Exact dat for the election was not set tonight, but. city officials hoped to hold it sometime lata in July so construction, if approved, could get underway this year. Mayor Enrol Ross presided at to jiightls meeting. .1 By The Associated Press Holiday fatalities in Oregon In creased to five today. Three came on the , highways, two in drown ines. ' .' A tire blow-out was blamed for a Crash that killed Orvin Thomas I Cary, 37, Redmond, near Bend on Sunday: . A Sunday traffic crash on Mount Hood proved fatal today lor Mrs, Isabel P. Kunz. Tacoma. ' A' head-on collision fatally in lured Charles S. Longfellow, 63, Lakeview. near Scottsburg l in ' southwestern Oregon Sunday. ' Earlier two chUdrerVj drowned. Kerry Michael Wilkiris. 1. at Medford, and Ronald W. Miller, 11, Oregon City, at Oceanslde. NELSON WINS AWARD EUGENE, July 3. -() Bruce E. Nelson, Woodburn, was awarded the biennial Arthur I P. ). Pratt scholarship for graduate study, the ? University of Oregon an: nounced today. The youth grad uated this spring, . majoring IjC'in chemistry. j Animal Cracftcrs : By WARREN GOODRICH l bh. ch. kXvbrw comes frndp's ey-witatss accooat tt th f int Fourth dJalir Silver State Holiday Deaths at 5 : 100th YEAR 10 He's Ready He's loaded for the Fourth of July, today, as are aH the kids of the land. Bill Robb, 13, heads for his home at 931 Saginaw st with an armload of fireworks to celebrate the 174th anniversary of his country's declaration of independence. BUI is rejruiarly a Statesman carrier, but has been working- In one of the fireworks stands on South Commercial street to make a Uttle extra "shooting money," and here he Is, ready to shoot the works. (Statesman photo). State Population Jumps 39 Per Cent in Decade By The Associated Press ; Growing Oregon now totals 1,511,188 in population, an increase of 39 per cent In the last decade. this gain for the state with the may add slightly to the total. The gain was 421,504 from the 1940 total of 1,089,684, creating the possibility that Oregon would gain another congressman. , At present the state has four. In the past a new representative has been allotted a state each time it grew about 300,000 in population. -All bat four of the state's counties shared in the increase. East ern Oregon, however, made only aUght gains. The bi boom was in western Oregon, particularly i In the lumber belt. Lumber more than doubled Dauglas county's population from 25,728 to 54,064. That made it the seventh largest county. In 1940 It ranked 12th in site. ' Lumber also boomed Lane county nearly 80 per cent, moving Lane ahead of Marion into the No. 2 position in the state. Lane grew from 69,096 to 124,948, while Marion, now No. 3, increased from 75,246 to 100,378. Still the population leader by a large margin Is Multnomah county, which includes Portland. The total there is 468, 571, nearly a third of the i state, total. The growth was 113,472 since 1940. - Clackamas county, fourth In 1940. retained that position. It has 86,574 residents compared with 57,130 ten years ago. Fringe growth from Portland boosted Washington county, which moved into fifth place with 61,221 compared to the 39.194 In 1940. Washington displaced Klamath county, which made m, gain of only 1617 residents to m total of 42,014, In ninth place. The four eastern Oregon counties showing a loss in population were Baker, Wallowa, GUlam and Sherman. . - This is how Oregon counties ranked in population in 1950, com- parea wiin ivw: 1M 1150 Ceanues IMS ISM 17 19 Rank Total Total 22 20 1 I Multnomah . 359.09S 468.571 24 21 2 Lane 69.098 114,948 20 22 t I Marion 13.246 100479 19 23 4 4 Clackamas 57.130 86.574 23 24 Washington - 39.194 61421 25 25 T Jackson 7 36413 57431 29 28 12 7 Douglas 23.728 94.064 27 . S Linn 30.485 53.623 28 9 Klamath . 40.497 42.014 28 29 g 10 Coos . 32.466 41.588 30 30 11 11 Umatilla 26.030 41.178 32 31 10 2 12 Yamhill 26436 33.410 36 32 18 1 13 Benton 18.629 31.524 31 33 13 14 Clatsop 24.697 30.571 33 34 21 15 Josephine 16401 26413 34 35 15 16 Polk 19.989 26.184 35 36 16 17 Malheur 19.767 23.136 14 IS Columbia 20471 22.723 50 Oregon Men Fighting in Korea PORTLAND. July 3 Sev-H eral hundred Oregon men are as signed to army combat divisions in the Far East command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Army and air force recruiting offices here reported today that 230 men sent overseas the first six months of 1950 had requested assignment in the Far East com mand. Of these, about 50 went to combat units now in Korea. - -. Max. -89 83 as Mia. Preeip. S .80 W JOO 94 JOO Sale , Portland .... San Tranc-M Ctucaco New Yot Willamette river A Sect. FORECAST (from U.S. weather bu- reau, McNary field. Salem): Generally ay in tfte interior: foggy ana cloudy along coast. Hixa today a ion coast S6-58: I Inland 88-90. Low tonight SO-S-. ' CM-litkHis continued excellent I for all farm activities today and Wcd n'dTAIOS PUCTPrTATION This Year . LatVea Formal 4X68 41.7a PAGES to f Shoot the Works' Today .4" ' " mil. I , V .A 1 Preliminary census reports showed possibility, that final returns in faU Deschutes Lincoln Tillamook Union Baker Wasco Hood River Crook , Grant ,' Wallowa . Lake Harney 18.631 14.549 12463 17,399 18497 13.069 11.580 5.533 6480 7.623 6493 8474 4401 2.042 4437 2.974 2.844 2421 21492 21.180 18.536 17498 16.067 15.511 12.761 S423 475 7412 6.637 6.078 S.997 Curry U Jefferson Morrow Wheeler Gilliam Sherman 8.505 4.73 3488 2.807 2460 TOTALS 1.089.684 1411J88 Public Pools Open Today Public gwiniming pools will be in !th full splash of operation all today at Leslie and Olinger parks, despite the closing of organized public playground programs for the holiday. , In the tradition of Independence day, family recreation is expected to take the place of public recre ation for a large share of the Salem area population. For local families staying In the dty today, the swim pools will be open on regular schedules. Hot weather of the past week has brought out - near-record crowds, with 2,009 swimmers counted one day at the Olinger pool, accord ing to Vernon Gilmort, director of playgrounds. ; " . - Plans soon will be complete for special beginners swimming classes, to start next week, Gil- xnore .said. The Oregon Statesman. Satan. Oregoru 'Mysterious Object' Seen In Alaska Sky WASHINGTON, July 3-0?VThe air force has received reports that a number of persons sighted i mysterious object today near An cnorago. Alaska. A spokesman said tonight that such reports have been received but that the air force does not know what the object was. "Several people have reported seeing a mysterious object in the sky," this air force spokesman said. So far we have had only sketchy reports, with no details We have no idea what it was. He said the reports auoted both air force personnel and civilians as saytog they had seen the object This officer said he could not attempt to describe it on the basis of present Information here, be cause it was "variously described by various people." The air force conducted a two year inquiry Into reports of so- called flying saucers and conclud ed that they could be attributed to Tnisinterpretation of various conventional objects, a mild form of n$ass hysteria or hoaxes." Redwoods Fire Area Evacuated SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July S -tfP)-Immediate evacuation of the thousands of campers and visitors in the California Redwood (Big Basin) park was ordered tonight as a fire raged among redwoods on its soutnwest edge. t There were 2,500 campers and an undetermined number of visit ors in the park. Officials emphasized that the fire, which waso fit of control and spreading through wild, remote ttmberland, presented no immed Late danger to the park tourists. However, they wanted the area cleared to give the firefighters more freedom of movement. .The state highway patrol plan ned to send in cars to aid. in re moving the tourists. CRTJISOt SINKS SHXPS TOKYO, Tuesday, July 4-W)-The UJS. navy announced today that an American light cruiser had sunk six North Korean vessels. bringing to eleven the number sunk by this same cruiser in two days. - TTTTTTT-f TTITrr'TTTf Cmni to JU trwr el Tuesday. July 4. 1950 Infantrymen Push Forward i - i ToSuwonArea -TOKYO, Tuesday, July 4 -(JP)- American troops went into action against' North Korean forces yes terday for the first time, General MacArthur s headquarters, a n nounced today. A spokesman said a detailed an nouncement would be issued shortly on this first combat for American infantry since the end of World War II. The officer said the Americans last ought . reached the area of Euwon. 23 mjles jiiuth of con- Cjue'K. Seoul. i Meanwhile, a tauk-led North Korean column was -reported fighting nearly 75 miles southeast of Seoul on the eastern sector of the 100-mile-wide front1 Headquarters said "the situation . is fluid north of Euwon with no definite front being established." It added: "There -has been little change in front Lines of other sectors." Base at Pnsan ' The communique announced es tablishment of a Pusan base com mand under Brig. Gen. Crump Garvin. Pusan is a port city in the far southeast of the Korean peninsula nearest Japan. The base command solidifies the American beachhead in South Korea. American Supply lines are functioning so well thatjthe com munique reported regular ship ments of cigarettes and toilet ar ticles. Copies of Stars arid Stripes, the army newspaper, are being flown to troops in Korea. Ma. Gen. William F. Dean's United States army forces in Korea (USAFIK) now ihas been established officially as a major command under MacArthur's Far East command. One U. S. F-80 Jet- fighter was shot down by communist tank fire yesterday eight or nine miles north-north wiest of Suwon, the communique said. The Tlane crashed and exploded. ; Contacted Tanks This indicated American forces might have come in contact with a tank-led North Korean column. This is the closest point to Suwon that official reports have placed invading armor. American bombers and U. S. and Australian fighter planes were in pctlon over the battle area yester aay. B-ze ugnt oomoers hit a railroad overpass seven miles southwest of Seoul and strafed troop concentrations . preum ably in that same area.: fighters, the communique continued, flew 34 missions in the Seoul area, blasting moving tar gets with rockets and machine gun. Tanks Captured Unconfirmed reports ! to advan ced U. S. headquarters . in -Korea said eight Norhern tanks and armored cars were captured by South . Korean troops J near Che chon, 75 air miles southeast of conquered Seoul. ' I North Korean communiques previously reported this eastern most column had captured Wonju, which is only 20 miles -west of Chechon. ? The main communist Invasion force was reported gathering for a new southward drive on the front; six miles north of Suwon. which is south of Seoul and well to the west of the latest reported red push. I The communist forces In the Wonju-Chechon area are those which fought straight down from the border across i the mountains northeast of Seoul, i No important communist advan ces there were reported overnight However, the weather turned bad today over South' Korea, reserict- ing aerial activities. Reapportionment Initiative Ready for Filing of Petitions; Other Plan Lags Orje. legislature reapportionment plan is due for final filing as a voter's Initiative measure today, but a second plan for reapportion ment appeared doomed for lack of petition signatures. More than the, required 23,582 signatures appear on his petitions which will be filed today, it was reported Monday by A. Freeman Holmer, Willamette u n I v e r s I ty professor and backer of an initia tive proposal known as the "bal anced reapportionment' plan. - That plan. Is based on both coun ty representation in the Oregon legislature and on population. Each couny would! have at least one representative,: .but no more than 15. Number of senators would be increased to 38. with no county allowed more than nine. . - 'A reapportionment proposal backed by ortanized labor was ST Marines Ordered As Reinforcement By Soger D. Greene WASHINGTON, July, 3 JP)- American marines today were or dered to Japan in- response to a request by General Douglas Mac Arthur for reinforcements in the Korean war crisis. The navy said the famed "Devil Dogs" and marine air units will move from bases in California. Simultaneously, the air force ordered B-29 superfortress bombers flown from Pacific coast bases to advanced U.S. bases in the Far East described as. the first aerial reinforcements since the invasion of south Korefa. Air force quarters indicated that the full strength of the 92nd bomb wing at Spokane, Wash., and of the 22nd bomb wing at Marcn ield, Calif., will join the Far- East command. The SDokane wine has 30 B-29s, and March field has 45. A navy spokesman said the ma rines were being ajspatcnea in reply to MacArthur's call for ad ditional combat manpower. It is expected they will start moving across the Pacific in a few days. Invasion Springboard In another development. Am bassador Wellington Koo reported to the State department that prob ably" 200,000 communist troops Chinese and Korean are in north Korea, the springboard Jor the in vasion of south Korea. Koo said this ' estimate came from Chinese nationalist sources. I He said the Chinese communists have a "large group" massed on the north Korean border, ready to enter the battle if needed. Koo also reported that between 400,000 and 50,000 Chinese com munists are drawn up along the coast of red China, ready to launch the long-threatened inva sion of Formosa. Fleet to Protect President Truman last week or dered the U.S. 7th fleet to pro tect Formosa against communist invasion. The island, 100 miles off the Oiina coast. Is the last strong hold of Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's Chinese nationalist regime. In announcing the dispatch, of U.S. marines to the Far East, the defense department did not say whether they would be thrown immediately into the $out Korean war to bolster American! Infantry already moving into action there. However, with their training for combat, it was assumed they will get into the fighting tone In short order. Ordered to Report The navy said marine troops and air units from the fleet marine force at Camp Pendleton and El Toro, both In California, were or dered to report to Gen. MacAr-; thur in Japan. Camp Pendleton is headquar ters of the 1st marine division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Graves Ersklne-. El Toro'ls headquarters of the 1st marine air wing. About 22.000 leathernecks are stationed at Camp Pendleton, ln eluding three combat battalions. The air wing at El Toro includes fighter., dive bombers and attack planes. 1 Western International No games scheduled. Coast League Wo games scheduled. National League at vhnrfiinhi 1. Boston S. At New York J. Brooklyn 1 ill inn.) At Cincinnati J8. Pitt-burgh 8. At St, lAUU-cnicago. run. American League At Cleveland S. St, Louis 4. At Chicago 4. Dttrptt 8 At Washlnrtoa 1. Nw York S. Only games scheduled. considered by statehouse observers and others Monday as having little chance to get on the November el ection ballot Deadline for filing the completed petitions signed by at least 23,582 qualified persons is this Thursday. Backers of the plan, however, did not concede that suincient peuuons wouia oe Lackin. . , A -""i The only state lnlttauve measure ! filed to date is a proposal for bonus payments to Oregon war veteran., sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Lcgkn.'- - - Three additional initiatives have been proposed but have not yet ap peared at the atatenouse in zmai petltHmrf-Unf. Whether any. of these la near the inquired number of signatures baa sot been learned in statehouje circle. One would give persons accused T tnsaslty the tight of Jury trial to deter- mm PRICE 5c No. 93 Jail Escapee Succumbs to Gun Wounds Jack J. Holt, city jail escanee wno'was snot by a Salem police man June 17, died at Salem Gen eral hospital early Monday of pneumonia, hospital authorities re ported. It was expected Monday that Patrolman Arch Wilson who fired the shot which critically wounded the 47-year-old ex-convict would face routine charges of either hom icide or manslaughter. Police of. ficials pointed out at trial action necessary if Wilson is to be cleared of Holt's death. Holt was shot by Wilson when the escapee pulled a toy pistol as the officer attempted to recaDture him. Holt had walked away from the city Jail the morning of June u, snortly after being made a trusty. Wilson spotted Holt in a taxi- cab and when he approached, wit nesses said Holt Dulled the nistol. Wilson fired three times, one of the shots tearing through Holt's stomach and liver. The wounded man was apparently recovering unui sxricaen Dy pneumonia. I he dead man is survived bv his widow, Mrs. Opal Arm Holt. Sal em; a , son, Larry Holt, Alameda, Calif.; 1 a daughter, Barbara Ann Holt, Salem, and two step-child ren, Marvin Carter and Delbert Carter, both of Saleiri. runerai services will be an nounced later from the Howell- l-dwards chapel. Holiday Death Toll Hits 514 Accidents ' killed at least 614 persons more than one every ten minutes up to late Monday night in the four-day Fourth of July holiday. Traffic again was the big kil ler 336 deaths. And the worst day for traffic mishaps is expected to come Tuesday on the fourth it self. Drownings took 109 lives and miscellaneous accidents accounted for 68. Fireworks, one the biggest lethal agent In the Independence day celebrations, claimed only one life, in New Hampshire. Coast Cool, Salem Sizzles Salem area residents who pick the coast for celebrating the Fourth of July will find the tem perature 30 degrees' cooler, the weatherman predicted early today. Stay-at-homes will have to con tend with temperatures nudging the SO-degree mark and clear skies. But foggy and cloudy con ditions are forecast for the coast area with the mercury staying down around the S6-53 mark. ; The fair weather is expected to continue at least through Wed nesday. mine sanity; one would prohibit sale of alcoholic beverages d- , . ... , . . ... , vertised within the state; the third rnnlit "lttilfaa servira rrmrrihii- .. - ttons of Oregon citizens as a basis of credit Issue." . Six measures will be cn the ballot. In addition to initiatives. These stand referred trom the 1949 state legislature. They pro vide $600 annual salary and mileage at 10 cents for legislators; fldng for higher education- buHdings: increase the veterans home and farm loan Tuna; autnor- izee the coventor to establish day light saving time If . bordering states use it: levy of property tax to . Increase basia school support fimd: a 150 minimum pension per month and right of state to file claim against any property owned but not used as home of the pen sioner. GSlEOS Policy LONDON, Tuesday, July 4- (AP)-Russia today de manded the imme dials withdrawal of American armed forces from Korea. A lengthy statement by Soviet Deputy Foreign Min ister Andrei A. Gromyko charged also that the Uni ted States was making war against the Korean people and carrying out "direct aggression' against both Korea and communist-led China. The statement, distributed by the Soviet- news agency Taos, claimed the U.S. was seeking to gain control of all of Korea for its use as a military and strategic bridgehead in the far east. Gromyko said President Tru man's order to the U.S. navy to neutralize the island of Formosa meant the occupation of "that part of the territory, of Chlna'Vi by American armed fortes. This, ha added, "constitutes direct aggres sion against China.' Truman's promise of arms to the Philippines, the statement said, was "aimed at interference in the LONDON, Tuesday, Jnly 4 (P-Russia called on the United 1 Nations security council today to order American armed forces out of Korea He said, "The United Nations will only fulfill its obligation to maintain peace of the securi ty council' demands the uncon ditional Cessation of military intervention and the Immedi ate withdrawal of the Ameri can armed forces from Korea." 11 i internal affairs of the state' . . . and at fomenting internal strife. Role of Gendarme 1 The American promise of aid to Indochina showed the U.S. is "fo menting war against the Vietnam people" and has assumed the role of gendarme over the people of Asia," the statement continued. "The United States of America has committed a hostile act against peace," Gromyko declared in de-7 manding the American withdraw al from Korea. Gromyko declared, that the Un ited States, by ordering Its military and naval forces to support South Korea, had "embarked on the road to open interference in the inter nal affairs of Korea.'? (In Washington, press office Lincoln White said the state de partment would have no Immed iate comment on Gromyko's state ment.) . f Road of Intervention ' The statement declared that the United States had embarked on the "road of armed intervention ln Korea." it continued: "Having taken that road, tha United States government violated the peace, and by so doing, dem onstrated that not only is it not ' striving for the consolidation of peace but, on the contrary, is the enemy of peace. "The United States government . is revealing step by step its ag gressive plana in Korea. First it announced that United States In- . terference into Korea's, affairs would be restricted to the mere sending of military, and other materials." ( Sent Ground Forces "Then it was announced that air and naval forces would also be I sent but without around troops. ' Subsequently they announced the sending of United, States ground forces to Korea. "It Is also known that first the United States government declar ed that American armed forces would take part only In operations in the territory of South Korea. However, only a few days later the American air force transferred its operations onto the territory of North Korea and attacked Pyong yang 'and other towns. "All this shows the UJS. aovern ment is drawing the United States' Into war to an ever greater ex tent but, being forced to consider the Unwillingness of the American people to be drawn Into a new military adventure. It is gradually . Rushing the country step by step into an open war. Cites U.N. Backing Gromyko charged the United States had attempted to Justify its actions in Korea by claiming IS was acting under the Instruction of the United Nations security council. ; M -It is known that the United States government began armed Intervention In Korea before meet ings of the security council con vened on June 27, without consid ering what decision the security council might take," he said. J,f,07-fAS ment bad confronted the United NationTwith an accomplished fact, .tl 1 i lUUUI() "Only after the accomplished fact did the security council set Its seal to a resolution proposed by the I United States ffovenunent approving the aggressive actions undertaken by that government"' , Gromyko repeated previous Soviet charaes tnat xne security eemeff fcfe wWbm and deciding vote. NOETD XOKZANS FEOTKST: . LAKE SUCCESS, July t Qmtrmmlst north Korea charged the United ' States today with "bare-faced aggression and pro tested violently to the United Na tions against "American annea to temntioaln Korea. . In