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Weather Salem ' " Portland 6a Francisco U as 67 Mew York 79 JOMYEfli) fesrsajte tW Crtwth af Oraesa Willmtt river Jl feet. FORECAST tfrom VS. weather bu reau. McMary field. Salem): Fair to day sad tonight. Hih today near SS and low tonight near 50. Expected low relative hum Kilty today near S3 per cent, Excellent weather for most farm activities today but winds will bt mod erate during afternoon hours. ' FOUNDED 1651 ICCJi YEAR 2 SECTIONS-36 PAGES Th Oroyoa Statesman, Scrlam, Oragon Sunday. August 13. 1950 PRICE 10c No. m Sou .For j3 Mhv. Prcix ;:,r , . ' . -. ' 1? -Slli 5Fu i fl( Ml Loon sessBsssMBseaw ) - f I mm DIP SB3333Q8 l This week at Lake Forest col legs near Chicago the union ol two councils of community churches will be effected, provid ing a means for integrating an es timated 2,500 churches now unre iw4 t oc)aWihcd denominations. The existing councils are the Na- tionai council ol vhiim j -,,,..,. nitti 200 member churches and the Biennial Council (negro) with 100. The community church is an outgrowth of local needs. In com munities where "the members of old denominations are too few to support a church they often go together to establish a community church, without denominational ties, to which all are welcome. Such churches have to be ex tremely tolerant They ' provide baptism by immersion, sprinkling or pouring water to accommodate the preference of the one being baptized. They may serve the Lord's Supper each Sunday after the practice of some religious 'bodies, or quarterly as do others. Their order of worship is apt to be an adaptation from various sources. Ritual and form are min imized. t The weakness of the community church has been its lack of asso- elation with other churches. It is outside the stream which a regu lar -established denomination has for itself. The creation of a new national council is evidently an attempt to overcome this sense (Continued on editorial page, 4) Painters Put Red Feather 'SioixFence I Two sides of the board fence around the new state highway building got a fast oat of paint Friday when more than 30 mem bers of Painters union local 724 donated their efforts for the bene fit of the Salem Community chest. ' Bed feathers and signs calling attention to the approaching fund drive will be painted on the fence next Friday by the same crew. ! Mayor Robert FJfstrom and County Commissioner Roy Rice painted the first board. The pro fessional painters then finished the Job in 25 minutes. The paint was donated by the fuller paint com - pany. H ;'. . . Indians Climb Dakota Peak to ray for Peace I STURGIS, S. D., Aug. 12-ifl3)- Two Cheyenne Indians have com pleted two days and three nights . of fasting and- prayer atop Bear Butte mountain, and are confi dent their "peace pilgrimage" will bring an end to the Korean war. David Deafey, Lame Deer, Mont, made the pilgrimage with his 28-year-old . son. Deaf ey was among Indians who prayed for peace atop the 4,422-xoot high mountain shortly before the end of World War H. -1 Bear Butte, which juts -out of the plains north of the Black Hills near Sturgis, has been a shrine of the roving prairie tribes since the dawn of recorded history, i Deafey made the pilgrimage from Montana in an old car which carried 12 members of his family and tents. - " ; Deafey and his son were the on ly ones to climb the precipitous mountain. They beseech ed the Great - Spirit to end the Korean war and bring peace to the world gain. - Western International I At Victoria S-S, Salem 4-1 f At Tacoma 7. Spokan S At Vancouver t-11. Tri-CitT 4-17 f At TaJdma 7. Wcaatch S (IS laa.) CoasiXearno At Honywood 7. Portland S At Oakland s. Seattle S ' " -At San Dteco S. Lew Aageles 1 , At Sacramento S. Sam yraaeiaco S ' National Learve - At Philadelphia S. New York 4 (11 At Boston 10, Brooklyn 1 At Plttsburt-h X Chicaro T At OnnnnU 1. St. Xouia 5 Americas Learse - At Kew York 7. Philadelphia J At Chicaro U. C3rrelaad 4 At Waahlartoa 1. Boston IS . At St. Leula-Oetrott, nl : ,; v. limy! .- ;t Body of Boy Seen On Peak. LONE PINE, Calif, Aug. 12-(P) The leader of i rescue party searching the slopes of Mt Whit ney for tobacco fortune heir Chris topher Smith Reynolds aofl Ste phen Wasserman reported tonight that he believes he has located "at least one of the bodies' in a snow bank. ; - The boys, both 17 years old, have been missing since last Sun day. Harold Gates, caretaker for the Los Angeles department of water and power at Alabama Gate, re ported this afternoon that he had spotted by binoculars what ap peared to him to be a coat at the base of the northeast section of the east face of ML Whitney. Several members of the Sierra club, veteran mountain climbers, moved toward the spot designated by Gates. Tonight, Ralph Adams, leaseholder of the Cerro Gorda mine where young Reynolds and his companion have been work ing this summer, said Gates had informed him: "I' feel 'confident I have located the bodies at least one of them." The rescuers camped tonight only a quarter of a mile from the west shore .of East Face lake. Darkness prevented them from venturing beyond that point. Adams said the party should reach the crevice where Gates be lieves the boys are buried in the snow early Sunday. The spot where Adams says he saw the coat was described by Sierra club members as the "most natural way to climb Mt. Whitney," the highest peak in the United States. Reynolds is the son of former torch singer Iibby Holman Reyn olds and the late Za chary Reyn olds, heir to the $23,000,000 Reynolds tobacco fortune. Was serman Is the son of William Was serman, Boston and New York broker. ' British A-Spy Tries Suicide LONDON. Aug. 12-flFV-WiHiam Ralph Wakeham, 35, has delayed a preliminary hearing on a charge of stealing a briefcase fulkof Brit ish atomic secrets by slashing his wrists in his jail cell. The hearing, scheduled for to day, was postponed. Hospital au thorities said, however, Wake ham's condition was not serious. The atomic data and a suitcase were stolen Monday from the train compartment of Frank M. Green less, an official of the British sup ply ministry's atomic energy pro duction division at Risley, Lanca shire, when he left the compart ment for three minutes at Euston station. . Scotland Yard announced yes terday the recovery of the bag gage. ', . - . Greenless reported all his papers were intact. Sen. Johnson Calls Controls on Prices Military Necessity WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -i?V Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) called tonight for immediate con trol of prices as "a military neces sity i Such action is imperative, John son added, because price increases on military goods within the last six weeks have reduced the, pur chasing power of our defense dol lars as much as 50 per cent in some Instances. . ....' The Texas senator quoted the secretaries of the army, navy and air force as saying the recent sud den price increases "are one of the major problems complicating our preparedness planning at this tune. : Vet Office Clamps Tight Time Limit On Construction PORTLAND, Aug. 12 (JPi Stricter building time limits for veterans seeking state farm and home loans were in effect today, but a more lenient repayment pol icy was adopted for those recalled to service. The Oregon department of vet erans affairs' advisory committee announced that those granted self-construction loans would have to complete 40 per cent of the work in six months. Before loans are granted assur ance must be given that the pro vision can be earned out, tn com mittee reported. Veterans recalled to service. who hold state . loans, however. win be given a three . months waiver of payments. Adjustments will be mad later. . To Symbolize Kore t x ' I ' w"'' My, -3 V :er SJ, . vi - H WASHINGTON, Aug-. 12 Plans . lixht bine United Nations flax, country as a symbol of support organisations were planning the United Nations Flag Campaign Ready to Roll WASHINGTON, Aug. 12-C-A campaign was being planned today to fly handmade United Nations flags in every town and city in the country as a symbol of sup port for U. N. action in Korea. Taking pact are the National Grange. 4-H clubs, the Federal Extension service and other farm organizations. The idea was originated by Al bert E. Johnson, director of pub lic relations for the grange. Guy L. Noble of Chicago, director of the national committee on boys and girls club work, offered help of 4-H and other youth groups in making and distributing flag pat- terns. The plan is to have women In farm organizations, extension ser vice, church and civic groups make flags and present them to their local communities. The U. N. flag is light blue. In the center in white is the U. N. symbol a polar map of the world embraced in olive branches. ROTC Protest ?Red Inspired9, Vet Chief Says WASHINGTON. Aug. 12-WV Commander Clyde Lewis of the Veterans of Foreign wars said to day recent student agitation again st ROTC training at several col leges was "communist inspired." Lewis said demonstrations against the military training pro gram had taken place at several colleges and universities. He did not name them. ' "No doubt the majority of the students engaging in these dem onstrations are Innocent victims of a communist inspired plot," Lewis said in a statement. - They should be disciplined. but it is far more imperative that drastic steps be taken to identify the instigators and to see that they are dealt with to the limit of the law. STILL ON CRITICAL LIST ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Aug. 12-tflV-David Walker. 15-year- old evangelist Injured in a water ski accident, remained on the crit ical list at Mound Park hospital today. Editor of Atomic Stumbling Over MADISON, Wis, Aug. 12 -(5s) Publication of the atomic energy commission's new book on "The Effects of Atomic Weapons" was hampered by the commission it self, the chairman of the book's board of editors charged tonight Dr. Joseph O. Hirschf elder a University of .Wisconsin chemist, made the statement simultaneous ly with the issuance of the offi cial publication. -, Preparation Of the book, he de clared, "was made exceedingly difficult because of the lack of active support of the- atomic en ergy commission.' A commission spokesman said in Washington there would be no comment on Dr. Hirschfelder's statements. The scientist, who is a consul ant for the Los Alamos labora tory, accused the commission of having "very little appreciation of the technical difficulties connect ed with atomic energy problems" "This," he said, is the result of having professional administrators with i inadequate or no sdentif c training at the top leveL Appar ently, they do not realize the de an Support were underway today to fly the pictured above, to every city in the for UN action In ; Korea. Farm campaign.! 'His Is Not to QuestionWhy- GALLUP, N.M, Aug.l2-C)-The army has a fighting soldier on its hands in one Zuni Indian boy but never mind the questionnaires. An enlisted reservist, the Indian gave the army this answer to a questionnaire: "If you keep on sending in lots of the questionnaire you are mak ing me nuts ... so don't send me any kind papers. I know I have to go and I m ready." Chinese Reds To Indochina SAIGON. Indochina. Aug. 12-UPi Official sources said today com munist China has begun a com prehensive program of military aid for Ho Chi Mtnh's Moscow-recog nized guerrillas. The French-language newspaper Echo du Vietnam published the details in the form of a communi que, saying the Chinese commun ists are cooperating in these ways with the Vletminh party headed by Ho: 1. The Peiping reds have pro mised to supply the guerrillas with arms without charge. 2. A Chinese communist mission of 300 members was due to arrive in the guerrilla-controlled zone at the end of July. Responsible sour ces said the mission did arrive and is largely engaged in propaganda work, i i 3. Uniformed Vletminh troops have transported rice supplies into China. (Sales abroad would help finance the revolt) 4. More than 20,000 Vietminh troops .'are being trained in two camps ' in Yunnan province and three other training centers are set up in Kwangtung and Kwang si provinces. NAVT CALLS UP DOCTORS PORTLAND, Aug. 12-(ff)-The navy office here reported today six reserve doctors in Portland have been called to active duty. Five are junior grade lieutenants. Lt. Alfred S. Hott is the' only one who saw duty in World War II. TO BLOCK NAVIGATION v PORTLAND, Aug. 12-OTVCol-umbia river navigation will be blocked at the McNary dam site for 60 days beginning September 18 to allow work on a coffer dam. Send Supplies Weapons Pamphlet Tells of A-Com 1SSI0I1 sirability of compiling and ana lyzing the .. technical effects- of atomic weapons." i Hirschfelder said that one time the commission ordered atomic experts to stop work on the wea pons for a period of six weeks "apparently as a result of polit ical pressure." He continued: "I Was discouraged from bring ing together groups of chapter authors with technical experts to attempt to settle once and for all some of the confusing technical problems which arose in connec tion with this treatise. "One of the principal difficul ties which arose in the prepara tion of this treatise was due to the extreme compartmentalization of the atomic energy commission. . . . Because of the compartmental ization we found that experts on a particular subject were not aware of the research in the same field which had been obtained in other laboratories which pro foundly affected their technical viewpoints. "There is a great deal of rival ry between the central offices of the atomic energy frpmirrlrn la A J TUT CJa A.uvaiice may oei on Evacuation of Pohang Airstrip U.N. Members Said Providing Ground Forces LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 12-WV The moves of United Nations members to reinforce U. N. ground force troops in Korea are going on quietly but effectively, a U. N. source said today. 1 j The security council procedural deadlock that opened when Rus sian Delegate Jakob A. Malik as sumed the presidency August 1 has neither halted the miltary measures and relief steps taken by the council in June and July nor slowed the pace of nations that have since offered fighting men, ships, planes, food and medical supplies. ; Fifty-three of the 59 U. N. members are supporting the U. N. campaign to throw back the North Korean invaders. The big problem now is to eet the offers collected and put on the Korean front. Transport and sup ply difficulties figure in this. The U. N. informant said the first news that the men of other nations are fighting alongside' American GIs and South -Koreans under Gen. Douglas MacArthur's U. N. flag may be a brief an nouncement that "the troops of X country today did such and such. The next day, he said, there may be a similar announcement of troops of Y. country, and so on. He would not say how soon that will be. Two British correspondents, and Col. Unni'Nayar, India's alternate member of the U. N. commission on Korea, were killed when their jeep hit a land mine near Taegu yesterday. Nayar was the first commission member to be killed in the Korean conflict. Wreck Fatal To Albany Man Statesman News ferric ALBANY, Aug. 12 Earl LeRoy Kessler, 23, Albany, was killed to night when thrown 75 feet from his car which crashed off high way 20," about two miles east of here. A companion In the auto, John Pease, Lebanon, was not hurt. Deputy Coroner Walter Kropp said the car apparently dropped onto loose gravel and went out of control, rolling over four or five times. State police confirmed this opinion. The victim, a World War II vet eran, was the son of Mr. and Mrs Clyde A. Kessler, Albany. Europe Defense Chief Suggested WASHINGTON. Aug. 12 -UP) Strong sentiment is reported de veloping among North Atlantic treaty nations, with some support here, for - the creation of a su preme military command over western European defense forces. French officials, whose govern ment has requested more Ameri can troops in Europe, have in formally told American represen tatives the commander should be an American. Britain and other countries are said generally to share this view Washington and the outlying lab oratories, and considerable jeal ousy over their respective per rogatives," the Wisconsin chemist said. "On this account we were often slowed down because of matters of protocol." Hirschfelder is director of the U. S. naval research laboratory at the university ox Wisconsin- He said-the commission "has been caught in a vice between the desire to be effective and the need to defend itself against un scrupulous - noliticiana. This has led to confusion. Apparently the atomic energy commission turned over all of its vested responsibil- lues relative to civilian defense to the national security roumrrM board. But it was not until the puDiicauon of "The Effects of Atomic weanons" that th tionai securities resources . board was provided with the technical information .needed in order to mue adequate clans. "The organization of the atomic energy commission must bt streamlined if it is to work ef fectively in the difficult eara i aneaa,- Hirschfelder concluded. Bureaucracy Police IDrageiei for Escapees Fruitless s- Weary sheriffs deputies, aided by city and state police, were still searching early this morning for three dangerous prisoners who escaped Friday from the Marion county jail . Ever possible lead was checked Saturday but each proved fruitless as officers continued the hunt for Kenneth Orval Smith, Richard Philip Tungate and Donald E. Flodstrom. A-Blast in Sky Use for Bomb By Elton C. Fay WASHINGTON. Aug. 12-tiPr- Atomic weaponeers have many ideas, tried and untried, about us ing nuclear energy to kill men and destroy places but they still think the big boom in the sky is the best They say so in an official book issued tonight "The Effects of Atomic Weapons." This coldly-worded, grim little book is directed chiefly to telling civilian defense agencies what to expect and do in an atomic at tack. But woven through the book, directly or by implication, is the latest and most comprehensive survey of American progress in the atomic weapon field. The reader comes up with these thoughts: - ' 1. The "air bum" like the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki prob ably will create greater destruc tion over a wider area than any other method of using atomic en ergy underwater, surface or subterranean blasts or the dis semination of radioactive poisons. But an underwater or underground explosion might produce more cas ualties, especially if a population is untrained and does not know what to do In atomic attack. 2. Radiological warfare (the spreading of radioactive material without necessarily using a bomb explosion) has possibilities, but also definite handicaps. One of its greatest possibilities is use as a psychological weapon, frightening populations or soldiers with the fear of a "mystery weapon" which they can't see. Under Surface Blast 3. A subsurface, man-made earthquake" blast of an A-bomb would produce impressive results but not as effective as an airbust from standpoint of general dam age and death. The damage area resulting from a bomb dropped from high altitude and penetrating to 40 or SO feet before exploding would be about one-half to two- thirds that for an air bust How ever, it would have particular value in attacks against under ground installations. The damage to a city above a buried rock strata (New York is such a city) would be greater than to one built over deep layers of light soil. 4. An underwater burst (such as the second test at Bikini in 194C) would pay off in several ways: The sinking or damaging of ships by the shock of the explosion; the lethal spray of the explosion; the destruction by high waves Close to the detonation. Element of Surprise 5. The tactical use of atomic weapons against troops in the field - depends on: What typo Is used (bombs, radiological poison, radiation), where lt is used, and how much of the element of sur prise (to catch men before they get to shelter) is attained. Radio logical warfare by firing artillery shells loaded with atomic poison into enemy troops might be one method of tactical use. The offi cial book didn't discuss the artil lery shell project, but there has been reference to such a weapon in some military quarters. The book and the men who helped compile it give consider able attention to the matter of ra diological warfare. The book has this to say about it: "Radiological warfare could be used to prevent the occupation of a particular area causing immed iate casualties and destruction. Contamination of a city, for lex ample, might perhaps deny its use for habitation and close down its industries without causing: the tremendous havoc produced by ex plosive and Incendiary bombs." UAW Asks Ford For Wage Increase DETROIT. Aug. 12-flVThe CIO United Auto Workers today asked the Ford Motor Co. to reopen its waee contract covering 115,000 workers throughout the nation. The union wants an Immediate waee hike and other benefits. : In formal request to the com pany, the UAW Ford department director. Ken Bannon. said wazs negotiations could be re-opened prior to next Jan. 1 if both parties Still Rated Top agree T commie Most intensive searching was done early Saturday morning in fields near Fan-view home after the sheriffs office received a tip that three men were spotted in the area. Two sheriffs office cars, two state police cars and three city police cars spread a dragnet around the area and beat the brush from midnight until about 2 a.m. but the escapees were not uncov ered. . The escapees sawed through an east window at the county jail during the Friday afternoon rush hour and disappeared without leaving the slightest trace of their escape route. City police cars were alerted, state police patrols were pulled in close to I the city and sheriffs deputies, -' armed with shotguns, searched throughout the city. Even the Salem police aerial patrol join ed the search. Each of the escapees has served time in either state of federal pris ons and all have FBI or police rec ords dating back to 1941. B-29s Bomb 17 Miles from Russian Area TOKYO, Aug. 12 -UP)-;U.S. B 29s roared within IT miles of Russian territory today and dump ed 500 tons of bombs on military targets in the north Korean port city and rail center of Najln. Nairn, one of the best ports on the east coast of Korea, is 17 miles south of the meeting place of the borders of Korea, Manchuria and Russia s maritime territory. It IS 110 miles southwest of Vladivos tok. On this northernmost mission of the war, the B-29s struck by ra dar in heavy overcast The bomber crews said on their return to bases in Japan and Ok inawa that they were unable to see the results of the attack. Ex-Diplomat Doubts Soviet Has A-Bomb SPRINGFIELD, O., Aug. 12-tfl3) Dr. Wallace Murray, former am bassador to Iran, said today he believes the Russians are carry ing out a "super hoax" on the world concerning Soviet posses sion of the atom bomb. In an interview, he said fear of the atom bomb in the hands of the United States is deterring the Soviet Union from moving into middle - eastern countries' and starting World War III. Murray, a former bpnngiieia, resident now lives In Wash ington. He retired in 1948 after 30 years in the state department foreign service. He was amoassa dor to Iran twice, from 1922 to 1925 and from 1945 to 1946. Murray based his belief the Russians do not have the A-bomb on the recent communist-backed Stockholm peace petition asking that the A-bomb be outlawed. Why would the Russians seek to outlaw use of the bomb if they had such a weapon?" he said. Streetcars Idle RT. LOUIS. Aug. 12 -WV St Louisans buckled down to the job of providing their own transporta tion today as all buses and street cars were Idle. l There was little hope the tran sit system would operate before Monday1 iz then. Vance Julian, named by Gov. Forrest Smith to operate the com pany when the state seized lt Thursday night, said there will bt no further negotiations and no attempt to operate vehicles until everyone goes oacx to wore. Lyman E. Winder, elected yes terday to head the group of strut, era, said the men wont ' work until they get contract and the seven-cent raise. In St Louis U'liensive; Ordered 60.000 Reds TOKYO. Sunday. Au. The Korean communists' greatest offensive since the Invasion of South Korea appeared developing today along the thinly - defended Naktong river line. General MacArthur's headauar- ters said some 60.000 reds were moving into, attacking positions. worth Korean tanks and artil lery rumbled forward along a 20- ' mile front north and south af Waegwan, river town 12 air milea northwest of the communications hub of Taegu. At least 12.000 communists had filtered across the Naktong in what American headquarters said was a "confused" situation on' this most critical ironti Some tanks also were across but how many was not clear. The reds already had cut the main supply route 25 miles south east of Taegu with road blocks at two points. Taegu is 55 air miles northwest of iPusan, major port A spokesman at MacArthur's headquarters said the long-expected all-out red push was "due any minute now.T Both MacArthur's and Eighth fanny headquarters said the drive might have started at dawn today when the reds made two new crossings of the Naktong. However, American troops at tacked these reds totalling an es timated 600 to "800 and there were no immediate reports of North Ko rean reinforcements. Battle for Pohanc On the other side of the hard pressed .United Nations beach- . head, Americans and South Ko reans battled to wrest the east coast port of Pohang from the reds. American planes were forced to quit using the sir field six miles southeast of the second 'most im portant U.NJ port when the reds brought it under mortar and ma- chinegun fire. Here Is the latest situation an along the front as outlined by spokesman at General MacAr thur's headquarters and by infor mation from U. S. Eighth army headquarters in Korea: Northeast Front Enemy ma chinegun and mortar fire forced U. S. planes at least temporarily from Pohang air field. Ground troops stUl battled the enemy; around the field. Twenty-five mi les to the north. South Korean forces were attacked by a battalion of North Korean horse cavairy south of Yongdok. Northern Front Enemy troop concentrations were noted au along this mountain una sirctcn ing north of Taegu, but so far only limited attacks had been made on the South Korean de fenders. 1 i - . . - . Northwest front undetermin ed numbers of enemy troops war across the Naktong with wms seven miles north of Waegwan ot ia miles northwest of Taegu. as last reports the enemy had about 1,600 troops and iz tanxs across, but seven tanks had been de stroyed. ! .. . Western front The oiggesv enemy bridgehead eight square miles was being steadily re inforced in the Changnyong area, 29 miles southwest of Taegu. This and the one northwest of Taegu are the most menacing. The American 24th division was be- 1 ing reinforced by elements of the 25th division from the south in an attempt to drive the division or so of red Infantry and artillery here back Into the river. There were numerous imanar crossings between Changnyong and Waegwan, but they were re ported being wiped out Newest crossings were two mnes sou in of Waegwan Sunday by 200 reds. and by a force up to 400 north of Kaepo, IS miles southwest t Taegu. '- Southern front The Ameri can offensive reached its objec tives by seizing heights near Chinju, 55 miles west of Pusan An estimated 1,000 red troops were trapped southeast of Chlnja by U. S. marines and army in fantry. A force of trapped reds had surrounded about 100 American ! artillerymen. A relieving force of marines, in turn, had the reds surrounded and were wiping them out Field commanders said they expected the job to bo finished by Sunday night In the Chinju sector, near th southern anchor of the 140-mile front, desperate communist troops had thrown a road block across the main road - supplying the) army's 85th division and fifth regimental combat team. : The red tactics apparently were .: designed to harrass the Ameri cans who have snapped shut a trap on some LOOO North Kor-. cans in the area. iaudc Mtxcrrnxnoir . This Tsar, last Tear 17.4 In Position for Huge Attack
