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Vcathj Hi. -.74 - 74 70 It' Mia. 44 48 BO 96 Precip. trac .00 ' J . trace Salem i. Portland San Francisco Chicago . New York 77 64 .Willamette rivet -4 feet .- f 0RECA5T (from : V weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy today, becoming partly-cloudy to clear, tonight and Monday. Occa sional light showeri today. .Cooler with a high near 68-70 and e low near 38-40. POUNDDD 1651 ICCth YEAR 2 SEaiONS-36 PAGES lb Oregon Stcrtesrnan, Salem, Orecjon, Sunday, August 6, 1950 Price 10c .1 No. 131 to.ExDort to omm JL C fj ... I-"! 1 , CearW it tee Grtwtii ef JOrtsoa j 1 vJy V ' JLT 111111.. . .'. 11 XII ff 111 II 1 ". . v- -rv.y I 111 fill II II tJ II II II II. II II II r XSP Qvx V v X yyy-w Northwest 'Power aaaw4 aasa. Concrete (BiiocE-xets -rStairt ILons.Job ; iFBSDSmig -"Detroit Paem By Charles Ireland . 5 . Staff Writer. The Statesmaa DETROIT. Aug. 5 A huge, gray bucket slid out over a rocky gorge Saturday and dumped 25,000 pounds of coarse cement, into a mighty gap In the North Santiam canyon. - . . - ; - Ym-r una ft shove a cluster of sDectators peered over a steep cliff and watched the scene where : Congress is all set to pass a bill expanding social security. Benefits will be increased, several million more persons ' will be brought under the act.-But even as it becomes law the feeling of acontamc insecurity grows. Tor who knows what the dollar will be worth five, ten, twenty years vanoa Mihm he comes to draw his retirement annuity? Those who have been getting twenty or thir ty dollars a month know how ni hiivinir rjower it has com pared with the same number of dollars when the act was passed over a dozen years ago. ti insecurity which. Is felt is nniv economic.- People feel - -uncertain about the whole frame f nr modern civilization. The challenge of communism is diS' turbing for it attacks the very fundamentals of our philosophy of livine. The failure of our polit ical and military leaders to guess "rieht on continuance of peace wakens confidence in govern merit Reverses in Korea shatter mmrjlacency and . show, we are not the supermen we thought aia were! i This gets on our nerves. In the midst of booming prosperity w are struck with inflation, in duction orders, possible rationing and price-wage controls, doubts about the future. The public gets jumpy, irritable; and may even adoot an uely mood. - i where has our defense money mru? Whv did e. not know - what North Korea was going to do? Why did we not have a strong military force in Japan? Where will Russia strike next? All these questions show our reaction, one of mingled condemnation ana rimiht and fear.; The truth is that we are living in an era vt icvvuuuuu, (Continued on editorial page, 4) Woman Cab Driver Addedr By Salem Firm One aspect reminiscent of war time Salem returned Saturday as Yellow Taxi company hired a woman cabbieCIt happened be f9iis of the imminence of man power calls by the military and industry, omciais saia. . -Oral A. Bloomfield, 2261 Haze! ave who took over the wheel, of a taxi for a busy day, drove for 1 rears during World War II in Pocatello, Idaho. Since then she has done other worn, including aome with the state of Oregon. Robert Lynn Clark, owner, said this was the first woman cabdriv er here since the war, when his comnanv had two. ,r f Of his crew of 30 men, mostly drivers, Clark said only a half dozen are under SO years of age, or most liable to military service. He added that he had been secur ing older drivers for some time to lower the acaaent rate. Shaped-Charge Anti-Tank Shells Speed to Korea WASHINGTON, Aug. S-WV ' ': Shaped-charge anti-tank shells for use In 105 millimeter artillery are . ; in use in Korea or will shortly ar rive there, an army spokesman said today. An army spokesman said. that each of the army's infantry di visions has three battalions with 105 millimeter guns. The weapons have an effective range of more than seven miles. The shaped charge shells in corporate a charge designed- to focus its effect so as to penetrate ; tank armor. It was developed - mntm. fKa akS4 af tVa aaMmJ wtafM war. -- - - , The spokesman said the she! has properties similar to the 3 inch bazooka, which . can pene trate heavy armor. In addition, it cas a mucn greater range. CRT SUffiQQB moras Gov. Douglas McKay had pulled a lever to release we cwuwiu That was the setting as con struction started on mighty Det roit dam (after several years of preUminaries that included relo cating 15 f miles of highway and diverting k river through a 1,300 foot tunneL - , ; Several ' hundred residents of Oregon trekked up the evergreen canyon to commemorate the oc casion. They gathered about a sneakers stand on the edge of the North Santiam highway, high above the stacatto of workers' ack-hammers. Resident Engineer C C Davis introduced two score of dignitaries from around the valley. The work that had preceded the cement laying was outlined by CoL O. E. Walsh and CoL D. S. Burns of the army engineers, i r :- Al Bauer, manager of Consoli dated Builders, Inc said his firm expected to finish the Job ahead of schedule. t ' And Gov. McKay called it dream of the North Santiam com ing true. - Then the 40 dignitaries donned workers' helmets and descended by car to the floor of the gorge for the cement pouring. - : The first cement went Into the old river bed of the North San tiam at a point where the stream had been diverted. Another 200,' 000 big buckets will drop their loads before the high dam is com pleted in 1953. From now on the canyon will echo with the exhaust of trains puffing upgrade with 1M million barrels of cement and 3,500 tons of steel for the dam which is part of a $69-million dollar project. More than 700 men are employ ed on it at present, and the figure is expected to double before it is finished. (Additional details on page 12) 1614 Oregon Reservists to Get Gall Soon PORTLAND, Aug. 5-6F)-Some 1614 of Oregon's unassigned en listed army reservists are schedul ed to take physical examinations In the next two weeks in prepara non lor active duty. They will be notified by regis tered letter where to report for their examinations. No quota has been assigned to Oregon. But an army spokesman said all 1614 apparently would be called to duty by October 15. Three hundred will be examin ed here this month. Another 270 will be examined at Eugene, and the remainder to Fort Lewis and Fort Worden. . Woodburn Man 1 Oril Casualty List - ---- ' "- WASHINGTON, Aug. casualty ust wo. 55 on the Kor ean fighting today listed two men killed in action and two others who died of wounds. .The department of defense said another -71 were wounded. They included: : - . - -, " . Oregon Pvt. Max E. Corbett, son oi riariey js.: corbett, wood burn. - : 14 AD2 CRAFT DOWNED TOKYO. Sunday. Aug. 6 -(ff Allied aircraft destroyed or dam aged: 14 communist aircraft Sat urday, blasted Seoul's railway yards for the second straight day ana snot up 49 red vehicles in 465 sorties. Far East air force head quarters reported today. 50 Persons Hurt as Incorrect Switch Results in Train Crash HUNTINGTON, N.Yn Aug. 5 -(- A young brakeman opened a main line switch in front of a Long Island passenger train to day and sent it crashing into a freight parked on a siding. : Nearly 50 persons Were report ed injured, but there were no deaths. Police . headquarters estimated the injured at between 45 and 50, but said only three of them need ed hospital treatment Apparently none of the latter was critically Injured. The railroad said in a statement that "railroad officials at the scene' reported that none of the Aided Bombers WASHINGTON, Aur. 5-(ff)-Ed win W. Pauley, former special ambassador for President Tru man, today was credited with assisting the air force In Korean bombing raids by obtaining photographs and other data on Korea In 1946. Pauley Help ed Korea Targets WASHINGTON, - Aug. 5 -'(ar senate sources today credit a big assist on air force bombing of North Korean communist targets to Edwin W. Pauley, former spe cial ambassador for President Truman. : They said that photographs and descriptive data obtained by Pau ley in 1948 despite Russian pro tests have helped guide recent U. S. B-29 bombing strikes. Senators still are trying to learn the background purpose and per sonalities involved in the public testimony here Thursday on Kor ea by Pauley. The wealthy oil man and politician was billed as a mystery witness by Chairman Ty dings (D-Md) of the -senate armed services committee. Discussing Pauley's visit to Kor ea, several senators told a report er privately today that tne in formation he brought back has Droved of value to the U. S. air force. Pauley himself testified that air force and other military lead ers have been using the data. As TJ. S. Representative Pauley in 1946 was serving as TJ. S. representative on war prepa rations. He and his party insisted on making a spot check of Japan ese-built plants and industries in North Korea, then as now in com munist hands. The spot check was desired because Russians had looted other captured areas. Pauley said It required "ex treme pressure" before the Ame ricans finally ' were admitted to North Korea by Russian officers and then Russians ran trains ahead and behind them filled with armed guards. "Not a picture could be taken without an argument before, and dire threat after," he said. "But we did get some pictures of the plants we were inspecting and the type or guards we were unaer. Checked en Plants Pauley said his staff checked on "chemical plans, power Installa tions, various mines and steel works, a spinning and weaving company, etc." Although Pauley's photographs and data now are aiding the air forces on bombing raids that was not foreseen when the group vis ited North Korea, - i v - We were going there for just one reason, he testified. A sur vey of Japanese assets in North Korea by qualified, technicians and engineers was urgently need ed", to . guide the .United States policy toward reparations in the far east' ....... HARRIMAN tS TOKYO - TOKYO, Sunday, Aug. 6-(ffJ-W. Averell Harriman arrived in Jap an from Washington today for conferences with General Mac Arthur on the political situation in the Orient passengers had any apparent in juries. The brakeman was identified by police as 22-year-old Robert Col gan, who had swung down from the freight after it parked, to ad just the switches connecting the main line.- He broke down and sobbed -at police headquarters as he signed a statement saying that he had taken the conductor's wave as a signal to reverse the switch. He told police he could see the oncoming passenger train, but that he thought he was following or ders when he changed the switch and sent it onto the siding. Supply Data on Raver !, . " - - ' Reveals Proposal PORTLAND, Aug. 5-)-Bon-neville Power Administrator Paul J. Raver confirmed today that a plan is under consideration to tie the Bonneville system's lines into those of California's Central Val ley project. i , Raver's statement followed dis closure of the program yesterday in Sacramento, Calif., by Recla mation - Commissioner Michael Strauss. V.- -.'.' . He said, however, that the only power that could be exported from the northwest is that generated between midnight and 6 a.m. daily and on Saturdays and Sun days. There is no present demand for this power, called residual, in the northwest, he said. : The plan, now under consider ation by the interior department, provides that all power that can be used in the northwest be re served for the area. Raver added. It has only reached the stage of considering possible methods of operation, justification and terms under which power could be exchanged with California, he said. - Demand for Power - SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 5- Cl-The first effect of the Korean war on California's Central Valley project will be a demand for more power, U. S. Reclamation Com missioner Michael W. Strauss said yesterday. He told newsmen that the best immediate source of additional public power for California would be a tie-in between the CVA lines and the Columbia basm gener ators at Grand Coulee and Bon neville dams. Richard L. Boke, reclamation bureau regional director, said such a. tie-in would make a net addition to power capacity. He said this would mean making use of power generating water which he said was going to waste in the northwest He said that as much as .700,000,000 kilowatt hours could be added. May Import Water Strauss also talked of the pos sibility of importing Columbia river water into California. "We can now see the day,1 Strauss declared, "when the water supply will be exhausted In the area south of here. One hundred and sixty million acre feet of Co lumbia water wastes into the ocean each year, and it's normal to look for water where water is." Gasoline for Planes Sent To Formosa Br Soencer Moosa TAIPEI, Formosa, Aug. o-P)- Tne u. s. navy tanker Cimmarron unloaded full cargo of gasoline at the Formosan port of Keelung today for war planes guarding this nationalist headquarters is land against communist attack. The tanker was escorted by the U. S. cruiser Juneau and two de stroyers. , . . ...- .'.-' There was speculation whether the gasoline is for the Chinese nationalist air force or for Ameri can air units assigned to the de fense of Formosa. General Mac Arthur has said he would supply both. , . : . The " first of - the American planes for -this, duty six jet fighters - arrived Friday. While the Cimarron unloaded, work was speeded, on extending Formosan airfields for American use. ;-. 'v The number of fields being en larged" was" secret . Most of the work consists of lengthening run ways to accommodate jet fighters and heavy bombers. . The nationalists announced they had turned back an attempt July 28 by several hundred reds to seize Tien-Ao Shan, tiny island about 180 miles south of Shang hai. , . , The defense ministry said 17 communist junks were beaten off in the three-hour attack and re turned to their base at H aim en on the red-held mainland. Government spokesman - Shen- Huan declared In a statement that the nationalists definitely will fight for Quemoy if communists should attack that 50-square mile island off the mainland opposite Formosa. He denied a report that Mac Arthur had recommended the is land be abandoned and that this would be done shortly. The reds have repeatedly shell ed Quemoy from the mainland re cently. On orders of President Truman, the U. S. seventh fleet is patrol ling the- Strait of Formosa, be- i tween. Formosa and Quemoy. MirttfoKinraira-P Salem Marines These packing cases hold the gear n- duty, which begins Tuesday. Temporarily assigned to the Salem navy-marine reserve armory, they are to leave at an undisclosed date for Camp Pendleton, Calif. Fifteen officers and men have already reported for packing and processing work at the armory. Shown here from left are Sgt Donald I Barnes, 2470 Myrtle ave.; T. Sgt Dick Kelm, 2370 S. 12th it.; Set William T. Baldwin, 1810 Cross st, and HN William J. Dodd, .4670 unit (Statesman photo.) Five Young Persons Die in 2-Car Crash ROSEBURG, Ore., Aug. 5-(JP)- Five young persons were killed and seven injured in the head-on crash of two automobiles on a highway straightaway near here last night - ' Three of those killed were teen- aged youngsters, returning from a church service at Sutherlin, 13 miles north of here, to their homes at Glendale. They were Brenda Stackhouse, 12; Don Farthingham, 13, and Willie Ernest Morns, 16, driver of the car in which three other youngsters, all injured, were riding. Two of the six occupants of the other car, which was north-bound, were killed. They were Ernest Earl Arnold, 21, Sutherlin, the driver, and J. Robert MusgreVe, 22, Oak land. Ore. The four taken to a hospital In cluded Kenneth Rose. Sutherlin, neck and back injuries; Bobby Mc Kissen. Oakland, cuts and broken right leg; David Lakey, Drain, scalp wound, and Jose Antonio Martin, Van Nuys, Calif., cuts and bruises, -s f . . . , Youngsters riding the Morris car who were treated at a hospital were Margaret Ruth Farthingham, about 12, Glendale, face cuts; Al Farthingham, 15, broken arm and cuts, and Louis Morris, 15, Glen dale, face cuts and pelvic injuries. The cars ' crashed about 11:30 pan. on a straigm sireicn oi we Pacific highway. Woman Bean Picker Given DiamondRing Statennaa Newt Service . WEST STAYTON, Aug. 5 A woman bean-picker received a diamond ring from her employer here yesterday in recognition oi 20 seasons of "faithful and un complaining" work in the bean fields. : . Mrs. Eva Cook, 67, of Mehama accepted the ring from J. J. Keu deU as 75 bean pickers paused briefly at the Keudell ranch on Bean Alley road. "Mrs. Cook is a fast and faith ful worker who has never com plained about how good the beans are," Keudell said. "She still picks around 300 pounds a day and held the championship for four years when she first staned. Mrs. Cook has never missed a season since she started picking at the Keudell ranch. She makes the 30-mile round trip from Me hama daily during the month- long bean season.' , r SALKM PmXCIMTATIOH This Year Last Year 4U6 Normal 4X86 S7JJ Prepare Gear V-v-' Vv ?! i- 'J that Salem's marine corps reservists will take with them on active Portland rL, a navy hospitalman FBI Wise to - ... - Russ Officer9 DENVER, Aug. 5 -flPV- Rob ert Stapp,- Denver-Post reporter, today bedecked himself in the uni form of a Russian officer and strolled the streets of Denver. Stapp returned to his editor and said that he hadn't attracted much attention. The editor, however, informed Stapp that 10 minutes after he'd left the Post building in his "odd feathers, J. Russell Kramer, agent in charge of the FBI office here, had phoned to ask: "Do you have a reporter out on the street7" Stapp had been spotted by fed eral agents within a block of the Post, building. Bridges Sent Federal Judge SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 5-ffV- A; federal judge' ordered Harry Bridges to jail today as "danger ous to the security, of this coun try." . ; The judge, George B. Harris, then denied motions of Bridges' attorneys for a stay, to permit him his freedom over the weekend. A U. S. marshal's deputy took the president of the big CIO long shore union to jail. Judge Harris revoked the $25, 000 bond under which Bridges has been free since last April when he was sentenced to , five years in prison for perjury; A fed eral jury decided he "swore false ly in his 1945 citizenship hearing by denying he was a communist Since then an order has been signed stripping the Australian- born Bridges of U. S. citizenship. "It .was- not unexpected, the dock union boss said after Judge Harris had ruled, and as the dep uty marshal was waiting to take him to the county jaiL "I believe right now anyone, who speaks his personal opinion on the subject (Korea) is in danger." . . He had opposed intervention by the United States and United Na tions in the Korean war. Western International At Salem 0-0. Victoria "s-S At Yakima S, Vancouver S At Trl-Oty 11-S. Spokane lt-S ' At Wena tehee 20. Taeorna IT Coast League At Porfand 7. Oakland t At Saa rraneiaco S. San Diego 7 At Loa Aug ales S. Sacramento 1 At Seattle S, Hollywood S National Leagae At New York S, Pittsburgh At Philadelphia a. St. LouU 1 At Brooklyn S, Cincinnati 4 At Boston S, Chicago (U Inn.) American League At Detroit 9. Washington S At Chicago 7, Boston 13 At Ctereiaad 4. New York S -At St Louis. 4. Philadelphia 0 To Prison by Slop Acirs for Departure t :- SL attached to the marine reserve Molotov Said Cohering with Chinese Reds TOKYO. Sunday. Auff. 8 -P) Soviet Vice Premier V. M. Molo tov today was reported without confirmation - conferring with Chinese red leaders on an inva sion of Formosa, which was de scribed as "imminent" A' JTananese antl-cnmmunfst r ganization reported that Molotov had been in the Chinese commun ist capital several weeks. Renorts sent to the United States and Britain said the Aus tralian mission here had trans mitted documents to Canberra on Molotovs talks. W. R Hndtrsnn. chief of the mission, denied these reports, ne.saia tne mission nas not seen or communicated any- Uating the Japanese information. The Jananese organization said its information came from its agents in China. Molotov was reportedly in con ference with Mao Tze-tunff. Chfn. ese communist leader, and KVu"- chi Tokuda, secretary general of the Jarjanese communist nartv who disappeared from Tokyo two montns ago. The. three were said be roV- ferring on .three main Issues: 2 tfiE". Japanese conununists would, at; .v... -'ui"vi ui American military installations in Janan.' These unverified renorts also said a "Far Eastern eominform headed by Mao, had been desig nated to direct ' and coordinate the. entire plan. TVTxl T7 liortli Ivoreans 1 " VA - Report U.S. Destroyer Hit LONDON. Aug. 5 -C"Pi- A North Korean communique., broadcast by the Moscow radio, claimed to- mm j uuii icu cvbsuu oaiienes naa scored hits on an American de- stroyer last Wednesday. The communique carried this report: "On Aug. 2 an American de - stroyer opened artillery fire on the town of Chunmunchin (Thu gunri). However, a coastal bat- wasngnung its way out and tery of the people's army put iW0? ..t up down the fire of the destroyer. tolpJextricatiniJ Receiving four direct hits, the en- V1 E?1? cavalry division swap emy destroyer burst .Into flames Patro1 Punches with the north and departed southwards." . Koreans beyond the Naktong, wvst I - a."'!!"""!!! II Conductor Would Rather Fight Koreans GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug. 8 (TV-Streetcar conductor John Sy minrton loined tha armv vester- i the Koreans can be any mora of- fensive than some or the Glasgow puouc. ' . Reds Believed Feeling Out U.S. Positions WITH THE TJ. S. 24TH DI- , VISION IN KOREA, Aug. i-UPl . . An estimated 800 eommantet . troops crossed the Naktonr riv- ' er today. Fighting still was rag ing this afternoon, eight bonis 'later. . The reds crossed near Chirh- i;' yen, on the front southwest af the big supply base of Taego. - The battle involved at least 1 an equal number of Amerlcaaa. I TOKYO.: Sunday Aue. 6-UfU Small North Korean patrols knif ed across the Naktong river today i along a 40-mile front after a bat talion attempting a crossing in strength was wiped out yester day on the north. Aside from the aggressive pa trolling on both sides of the ner vous, 140-mile front there was no activity. The Reds were be lieved to be feeling out allied po sitions for a big blow, expected hourly. ' . . i An Eighth army communique said the Reds were building up strength on the northweit part of the front opposite the hinge pe smon. between the South Korean army defending the northern line and the U. S. troops holding tha longer western line along the Nak tong. ' -V ; So far as Is known, the Nnrth Koreans have been unable to get tanks or infantry in any strength across the wide river barrier. Beachhead Shrinking But the two maior blows are expected to fall farther south of reinforced U. S. positions in , the shrinking beachhead of southeast Korea. The beachhead now is SO miles wide bv about 100 miw long. '' :k" ,1 Nevertheless, the Eighth armv said the enemy was throw intr ele ments across the Naktong at the ninge position, which is about 35 or 40 miles northwest of Taegu. The latter is the frontline supply city 55 miles northwest of the beachhead port of Pusan. It was in the hills, to the north of Taegu that the enemy battal ion, possibly 500 to 1100 men. walked into a South Korean iron the communique said. ine boutn Koreans, well dug into hill positions, let the battal ion through, then closed in and -annuuiatea ir in the words tot the communique. l.uoe Dead In 24 Honrs LSS- uaj- General MacArthur's headquar- ers had killed 1,000 of the enemy in the past 24 hours. This pre sumably was on all parts of the South Korean front Major patrol activity marked the front where the Americans hold the river line from a point north of Taegu southward nearly 100 miles to tha south nuiif k Korea. a U.B m .M A field dispatch said enemy and affi rivuthw? JZT. frto kTreaTfoTceVSrS i rivers wesi Danic the eighth arm I reoorted. " Platoons Crocs : Associated Press f!nrrenAn1en O. H. P. King with the 24th said two enemy platoons ox from 50 to 60 men crossed tha rivv in Kota and rafts near Chirhyon, 33 miles souuiwesx ox xaegu. They vanished ' into the hills before they could be I11110 hm before they cou brssgnt under ttack. Three other enemv natml. Three other enemy nafmla wm ' seen crossing the river on this part oi ine xront. xne eigntn army com munique said one company 't communists had "penetrated" the area but was being repulsed. Tbie presumaDiy reierred to an cnesoj river crossing. c i xne other big enemy attack is expected along the south coast, j where the 25th infantry division uviui wuuuw bdoui m miiei wen of Pusan. Four enemy divisions are massing there. Fighting Way Out The army communique said erne 1 American company -attacked a I town, found it unoccupied, and la - 1 returning iound it was cut oft It and northwest of Ta.ffu. Thatm was no evidence of sizeable en emy buildup on this sector. MacArthur's release said the whole front had remained rela tively stabilized during the past 24 hours. Like the enemy, the Americans were taking advantaga cf this J longest lull in the Korean war lo I increase their strength for, the tij ..- Davue vj coma.