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t Tho Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday. July 15. 1950 : Walking Man Starts Hike - i i , - , 11 - x , Military Feared Giving Arms To South Korea, General Tells -.!.;.:''-- tvb ATcnrr.ES. Julv 14 -MP- The South Korean eovernment was not given heavy military equipment before the war broke out chiefly because It had strong oesire 10 auacjc norm rorea, on, ucu, 11 am L. Roberts said today. The head of the U. S. military mission in rkorea xor zo mrauu told a news conference that the South Koreans "believed the best de fense was to attack." "This placed us in a 'skittish' position," the 59-year-old officer explained. "To prevent the South Koreans from attacking, we gave them no combat air force, no tanks, and no heavy artillery." Korean Ambassador John Myun Chang said in Washington that President Syngman Rhee pledged on his "sacred honor" South Korea never contemplated an at tack on its communist northern neighbor. Dr. Chang made this reply to Gen. Roberts statement. The state and defense depart ments declined Immediate com ment. Officials said however In the earily stages of the Korean crisis the character of the American arms supplied to South Korea was based on the expectation , that the republic's forces would be called on to meet only two demands preservation of internal order and dealing with small scale border actions. The South Korea repub lie was considered in effect a ward of the United Nations and there' fore safeguarded to some degree from Invasion by prospective U. S. support. Just returned from the Far East for reassignment to nearby Fort MacArthur and retirement in September; Gen. Roberts said the South Korean soldier is "fine and brave- and that the weakness lies with the officer group. 1 He believes that young Ameri can officers and battle-trained non-coms could "soup up" the Korean troops tremendously. He considers the troops well trained. The general said that when American troops pulled out a year ago, they left the Korean govern ment sss,0G0,000 worth of military supplies, including 20 liaison planes, 128 anti-tank guns, some 90 almost obsolete cannons, small arms, ammunition and consider able j captured Japanese equipment. "In the light of what happened," he added, "the equipment was in adequate and not well balanced." BLOODHOUND JOINS HUNT MEDFORD. July 14 -UP- A bloodhound was pressed into serv ice today in an effort to locate 1 16-year-old youth missing on 1 fishing excursion near Prospect since Tuesday. There was little hope, however, that, the- youth. Thomas William Richey, would be found alive. I Work Starts on Atomic Power Plant for Subs , WASHINGTON, July 14 -UJV Constmction work will start next month on the first experimental atomic power plant for VS. sub marines. Senator McMahon an nounced today. McMahon, a Connecticut demo crat who headi th congressional atomic energy committee, declar ed: . "Tremendous improvement in submarine performance is in the offing." This dry-land model of the nu clear engine which scientists hope will give American submarines greatly increased speed and range is to be built at Arco, Idaho. The Argonne national laboratories and the Westinghouse corporation are cooperating on the project under the direction of the atomic en ergy commission. The cost has been estimated at $25,000,000. Research and development work preliminary to actual con struction has been under way three years. Arco is the site of the AEC testing station for reactors (atomic engines). A J second experimental atomic engine, incorporating a different system of design, Is to be built at West Milton, N.Y. Work on that power plant, also intended pri marily for submarines, has been assigned to General Electric's Knolls atomic power laboratory, Schenectady, N.Y, -"- At Arco and West Milton, the idea is the same- to use the heat of atomic fission to produce steam, which it is intended to shoot through conventional steam tur bines. These in turn would drive submarine propellors. tsut, as McMahon noted in a statement: "With equal ease this steam could be used to drive elec tric generators for the generation of commercial power. WestjAccuses Russ of Lying About POWs ' .-, , WASHINGTON, July 14 The three western powers charg ed in substance today that Russia lied, in saying she had freed all German war prisoners. They chal lenged Moscow to permit an on-the-scene investigation . of Its treatment of World War II cap tives. , ', ... The United States, Britain and France renewed their prodding on the issue in separate but similar notes which had the effect of a counter blow against communist . I 4Ua TTiaatrnMaja, mJU The United States told Russia bluntly that this government is "unable to give credence" to. ' Soviet announcement that all the millions of Germans the red army captured have now been set home except for 13,549 still held as war criminals, or for Investigation or medical treatment. Corrup tion Blamed for Gate's "Walking Man" was ea the road again Friday, this time helping publicise Mill City's coming air snow ay carry in a suit from a Salem women's clothing store to Jean Byal, 15, Gate's queen candidate. Paul A. Smith Is the walking man, and though the Is Bearing tt years of age he thinks that he is a better walker I haw than h waa 20 vears are. He is pictured In downtown Salem i at the start of hta bike. He thought that be would average six to ! j seven miles an hour durtar toe bum nice, amim was runner daring his youth, but In 1905 began developing his walker's gait i . . . a long, loping stride that covers much ground. (Statesman fcOto) 1 . . U ' : - - -. - ' . ' . " . ' ' 1 1 .7 , - ' ' 1'. Documents Oaim Commentator Lewis Offered Advice to Hitler WASHINGTON, July 14 -( Senator Humphrey (D-Minn) to day produced documents in the senate purporting to show that radio commentator Fulton Lewis, jr., offered Hitler advice in 1940 on how to end the war between Britain arid Germany. : Lewis issued a statement terming material in the documents "falsehoods out of the whole cloth, "And Senator Humphrey Knew, and had proof of that fact when he gave them to the press," Lewis added. Lewis previously . had denied giving advice to Hitler and him self had made public one of the documents, along with copies of letters to support his denial. He said today Humphrey also had copies of those letters. s Lewis said that Humphrey, in "carefully withholding" what Lewis called the "repudiation" of , the document, demonstrated the senator's "ethics and intellectual integrity." The documents say Lewis pro posed to the nazis thatx Hitler ap peal to President Roosevelt to bring pressure on Winston Churchill to end the "sertseless pigheadedness" of England's re sistance to Germany. ' Humphrey said in a statement put into the congressional record that authenticity of the documents has been confirmed by the state department. , Humphrey said he asked the de partment about the documents be cause of a June 21 story in the New York Post which described Lewis as a volunteer adviser to Hitler in 1940. Humphrey's letter to the state department said; "The charge hat a prominent radio commentator secretly col laborated with nan agents and of rerea xree advice to Hitler is a shocking: one," Humphrey " demanded that "the full truth about this matter? bo revealed. In reply, the state department confirmed the existence of docu ments mentioned in the Post story, it said they had been seized from the nazi foreign office by allied xorces in uermany. wr o ivorea tns Cabin Looted Near Aurora near A break-in of a cabin Aurora was being Investigated Friday by Marion county sheriffs deputies. The owner, F. M. Ferguson. Aurora, told officers the dwell ing, located about IM miles north east of the city, was almost com pletely stripped of contents some time between June 20 and Thurs day, "-Dozens of pieces of furniture and kitchen equipment were stol en, in addition to miscellaneous tools, deputies said. Burglars gamed entrance by smashing front window. Independence Voters Retain Parking Meters Stattsmaa News terries INDEPENDENCE. Julv 14 Voters here today balloted 237 to 143 to retain sparking meters in independence in a special elec tion called by the city council. The vote ended a long-standing controversy. Business men sought ouster of the meters because of complaints by farmers - shopping here. Mayor Ross Spencer and half of ' the city council worked to retain the machines. Local mill workers aiso iavored the meters. Whj Suffer Any Long er Wfeea etfecn fan. use r Chet remedies. Amazing lueceit far COM ran la China. Na matter wltfe what allnents yea are affllcted ilterders. siaulUs. heart, longs, lie. er. fcldaeye. tarn, eoaatlpattom. nicer, euketea, rbenmatlira. call aaS U4. See fever, skia. female romplaiata CHARLIE CHAN i CMNE8R HERB CO. IS4 N Cemaeretal Phone t-183 SALEM. ORB office Hoara tut, Taes. aa Sat, ealy. IS PORTLAND, Ore.. July 14-UPV- A Marshall plan representative to day blamed espionage and corrup tion for South Korea's plight Stanley Earl, labor concultant to the Marshall plan mission in Korea for the past year, said on arrival in this country that hunger and lack of confidence by South Koreans in their government set up the North Korean invasion. EarL former CIO secretary for Oregon, said he would go to Wash ington next Wednesday to report to EGA officials and to suggest to congressmen "a full and complete investigation of the Korean fias co." He made a number of charses In an interview. Among them: The South Korean army was shot full of graft and corruption. Xjne government was unable to cope with North Korean espionage. The U. S. dealt too much with bankers and top brass, and failed to help Koreans set up an effec tive democracy. Inflation put the average South Korean close to starvation. Most are .apathetic about the war. "If the average Korean under- sxooa wnat existed as a govern ment in outh Korea to be a de mocracy, it is my opinion he would oe inclined to turn to something eise. jtiunger makes communists,' JMri saior- Earl said ho would suggest that congress subpoena every ranking U. S. officer in the Korean mission to get the full story, which he said had not been passed on to congress. some 01 our diplomats are too much above the people. You can't instill democracy with cocktail parties xor the big shots and con zerences with the bankers. Some body's got to get out and talk to me people," Ho said. Grocer Slays Benefactor DETROIT. July 14-WVA man who borrowed 910,000 from two women to finance his grocery-meat market reportedly confessed to day the strangulation slaying of one 01 mem. Chief of Detectives Jack Harvill said Sam B. Sampson, 42, admit ted killing Mrs. Vivian Stanley, attractive 37-year-old housewife during a scuffle in his car. Her body, clad in night clothes, was round in a weed patch Thursday. narvni said Sampson was irri tated because Mrs. Stanlev had hired private detectives to follow him and the other woman who had lent him money, Mrs. Ruth Ran- ain. The best temperature fpr the storage of Irish potatoes is given as w degrees. Dr T.T.UumJX.D. 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