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Tht Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, September 18, 1950
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l The treasury's refunding opera
tion on September 15th didn't go
very well. Of the seven billion in
notes maturing holders called or
-, cash in amount equal to 20 per
"f cent of the totaL The maturing
J obligations were in different series
- with interest rates ringing from
one and one-eighth on certificates
to two and one-half per cent, on
bonds. Offered in exchange were
13-month notes bearing one and
one-fourth per cent, interest The
federal reserve bank took up the
slack by exchanging its holdings
for notes unwanted by holders of
the old issues. "
The interest rate, which the
treasury has held down to lighten
the budget for debt service, was
too low to attract purchasers. The
federal reserve banks had prev
iously raised their rediscount rate
: to one and three-quarters per
cent; prices of outstanding govern
ment bonds .. have been falling
. (which results in higher interest
yield). In the face of this buyers
held back on the issue of one and
one-fourth per cent notes.
T ! ; In another quarter the treasury
has had a setback, that is in sale
of savings bonds. In July of this
year redemptions exceeded sales of
new bonds by over 200 million
dollars. The reverse was true a
yearago. It is not that holders
have any doubt about VS. credit
but rather they wanted cash gen
erally to apply on purchases of
cars, homes, etc. To increase the
sale of savings bonds the treasury
" has raised the limit on purchases
of Series F and G savings bonds
by institutions from 100,000 In a
' year to $1,000,000,' '
1 What the treasury Is up against
In its financing is the bogey of In
flation. Wbea money gives prom
ise of losing buying (Continued
on editorial page, 4)
$465,500 Bid
On Santiam
Timber Tract
- A 'txioH Wd of 1465.500 on a
tract of North Santiam .timber
was received here last week at
an auction supervised by the state
forestry dpartmemv i -
T The Vancouver Plywood Co.
offered the high bid, wnicn was
o nnn o)v.va tha snnraised value.
nn a tract of eountv-owned timber
tn the Sardine creek area. The
fff k annrMrimatelv 20 Der
thousand board feet There were
two hids made. Thev will be sub
mitted, to the state forestry board
for final action.
i Seventy five per cent of the
nrmvMtt nf th Kalo will ea to the
miintr and 25 ner - cent will be
retained by the state, which has
administered the tract
i VsnnMimr Plvwnnd Co has
fhraarmartera control over the
present access road to the ara,
which was the subject or a recent
road rights' controversy.
; Removal of the timber will be
vera three-year period.
467 Casualties Added
To Korean War List
'WASHINGTON, Sept 17-(tfV
The defense department announc
ed a total of 467 casualties in list
number 98 released for publication
today. "
The list includes 88 killed in ac
, tion or died of wounds, 308 wound'
ed in action, 13 injured, 58 miss
ing, 1 prsoner of war and 1 man
returned to duty.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
"Ry south agam? Are you M6a'7
P3p
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ber,
Steel on
New List
By Sterling F. Green .
WASHINGTON; Sept. 17-()-Thirty-two
war materials in
cluding steel, lumber, industrial
alcohol and nylon yarn were
ordered under federal anti-hoarding
control, tonight.
The order is effective tomorrow
simultaneously with the restora
tion, of government curbs on con
sumers' easy payment credit af
fecting cars, furniture and house
hold equipment.
The national production au
thority (NPA), backing up Presi
dent Truman's $30,000,000,000 de
fense program, issued an "inven
tory control" regulation to pre
vent over-buying by business
men. It was unexpectedly broad.
The. NPA order will not affect
consumer buying though this
may be noticeably slowed by the
credit controls, which operate
separately. NPA exempted all
purchases for "personal or house
hold use" from the inventory reg
ulation. No eonsumer items we're named.
Thus, while stocking makers may
not pile up nylon yarn to excess,
women may buy as many, nylon
hose as they wish. Officials fore
see no shortage. Industrial1 alco
hol was named, but no liquor.
But factories and dealers were
forbidden to buy, receive, order
or deliver more than a "practic
able minimum working inven
tory" of the -following materials
essential to the "munitions drive:
Building Materials Cement
gypsum board, sheathing and lath.
- Chemicals Industrial alcohol,
benzene, caustic soda, chlorine,
glycerine and soda ash.
Forest Pordncts Softwood
and hardwood (excluding hard
wood flooring.' railroad ties and
mine ties); softwool plywood; and
wood pulp.
Iron and Steel Fig iron; gray;
iron costings; carbon and alloy
steel; rough forgings; iron and
steel scrap.
Other metals and minerals
Aluminum; Columbium; cobalt;
copper and scrap containing cop-
per; magnesium; manganese;
nickel; tin; tungsten; zinc; other
non-ferrous scrap.
Robber Natural rubber and
latex; all synthetic .rubbers.
Textiles Burlap; cotton pulp;
high-tenacity, rayon yarn; nylon
staple and nylon filament yarn.
The list may be lengthened or
shortened, as conditions warrant
"The purpose of the order is to
make clear that national interest
demands there be no accumula
tion of materials beyond what is
needed for immediate production,"
said NPA Administrator William
H. Harrison. "
"It Is the responsibility of both
the purchaser and supplier to as
sure that the spirit of the order
is lived up to."
The other federal action due to
take effect on Monday, is the fed
eral reserve board's "Regulation
W" controlling retail credit It
brings consumers a little closer
to the war effort'
.-The government hopes this ac
tion, announced September 8, will
put the brakes on free-wheeling
consumer credit. Credit volume
already has rolled past a record-
breaking July total of $20,300,000,'
000 outstanding.
Down Payments listed
Minimum down payments are
decreed, as well as time limits
within which installment plan
purchases must be paid off. They
are as follows:
1. Down payment of at least
one-third on automobiles; time
limit 21 months. ' . -
' 2. Down payment of at least 15
per cent, and an 18-month payoff
limit on refrigerators, freezers,
radio and television sets, phono
graphs, cook stoves, ranges, dish
washers, ironers, washing ma
chines,1- clothes driers, sewing
machines, vacuum cleaners, air
conditioners, dehumidifiers.
3. Down payment of at least 10
per cent and an 18-month time
limit on furniture and rugs.
4. Down payment of at least 10
per cent, and a 30-month payoff
limit on credit for home repairs,
improvements and alterations.
Items costing less than $100 are
exempt from the down, payment
rules but are covered by the time
limitations. Cars costing over $5,'
000 and other items costing more
than $200 are fully exempt
Prune Drier Filled
With Grain Burns
SUtcsnuji News ferric
RICKREALL, Sept 17 A
prune drier filled with grain was
destroyed bv fire this afternoon
at the D. Bernard farm Just north
01 KickrealL
Dallas firemen stoDned flames
from snreadins to nearhv houses
during a three-hour battle which
oegan aDOut 2 pm. a large grass
area was burned over. Cause of
the blaze was not determined.
Con trols Fall on
It's Full Steam
17:
Weather Aids
Progress of
New Bridge
Motorists stalled In bumper-to-
bumper traffic on the Marion-Polk
bridge can tJet some consolation
these daysTby glancing at the pil
ings being -driven in the Willam
ette river just north of the bridge.
Every time a pile-driver strikes
a blow, it s another step toward
completion of the new Marion
street bridge. Completion will
mean one-way travel on each
bridge and speeded-up traffic.
Aided by abnoramlly dry weath
er during July, August and the
first half of September, crews are
progressing at a fast clip. State
Bridge Engineer G. S. Paxson re
ported Saturday that all pilings
are slated to be driven by Wednes
day or Thursday of this week.
The next step involves pouring
concrete seals to make the struc
tures water-tight Workmen are
hoping weather conditions remain
dry so that all concrete piers will
be finished before fall rains begin.
Another sign of progress was re
lated Saturday when Paxson said
bids for structural steel on the new
bridge will be opened at a state
highway commission meeting
scheduled September 28.
Actual construction of the new
bridge began about July 1. Two
crews of the Lee Hoffman com
pany have been working six days
each week to speed work. More
than a year of planning and de
signing preceded actual construc
tion.
The new bridge, when complet
ed,, will be a part of the Baldock
plan to speed traffic through Sa
lem. Plans call for one-way west
bound traffic over the new bridge,
while eastbound cars will use the
present Marion-Polk structure.
Jolson in Korea
To Entertain
V.N. Troops
QUARTERS, Korea, Sept 17-(-
ai j oison, -6Z years young," was
entertaining troops in Komi to
day, just as he did in all theaters
of war during World War II.
The first big-time entertainer to
reach the Korean fighting area
said:
"I've been trying to get here
since the war started. And here
I am."
Jolson met Lt Gen. Walton H
Walker, 8th army commander,
soon alter his arrival.
"I know you're busv. seneraU
Jolson said, "but I hope youll be
aoie to come to one of my shows."
"I hone so too." Walker renlied.
"but you know I've got a show of
my own."
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piers for the Marion street Willamette river bridre. Here a crane
hoists a long piling Into place as a steam pile driver at work en a
pile in number two pier blows its exhanst into the Mind. In the
background it a barge loaded with round pier forms. Smaller nhoto
shows forms in place on the east bank of the river at the foot of
Marion street where seme concrete already has been poured. Con
tractors hope to have all the piers completed before heavy fall rains.
(raoios by Don Dill, Statesman
Defending Force Throws Back
'Enemy' in Alaska War Games
- ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept 17
-(tfVDefending forces threw back
the "enemy" late today from high
ground .commanding Elmendorf
air force base runways. The
counterattack came in the. final
phase of the Alaskan war games.
Badly mauled defenders rallied
as the month-long test of Alaskan
defenses, named . "Operation
Dutchdoor," reared a climatic
finish. Action has been concen
trated since Friday night around
Elmendorf and Fort Richardson,
headquarters of the "Alaskan air
command. -
F-80 Jet fighters, which had
lost air superiority during day
to the aggressor's F-82 Mustangs,
gave . close support to defending
group troops in their closing as
sault ....--.
More than 1,000 green-uniformed
enemy paratroopers smashed
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down woodland roads yesterday
to seize hieghts overlooking the
airdrome. They fought their way
within range of the runways with
"burp" and machineguns, bazook
as and artillery.
Four tanks were captured and
their guns were turned on the
defenders. Other tanks from the
defense force fought back savage
ry out were unsuccessful in an
attempt to retake the hills. .
seiore the counterattack was
launched by ground units, friend
ly jet fighters strafed the heights
and spewed gasoline jelly - fire
bombs. Aggressor casualties, the
oretically, were heavy.
' Elsewhere around the air base,
defenders shook, off wave after
wave of infiltrating enemy ground
troops and daily paratroop v at
tacks.
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Lightning
Fires in
Santiam
Four fires were started by light
ning Sunday in timber stands on
the linn county side of the San
tiam canyon. Three minor-flare-ups
were quickly extinguished
but a fourth blaze was still out of
control late Sunday night
The most serious fire had cov
ered about 13 acres of timber by
late Sunday at Tom Rock on Tho
mas creek about 10 miles south
east of Mill City.
About 40 men. directed by Dis
trict Warden Mel Crawford of the
Linn County Fire Patrol associa
tion, attempted to trail the blaze
all day Sunday. Linn county and
state forest service men were aid
ed by crews from the ML Jeffer
son and Ercil-Wilson lumber com
panies of the Lyons-Mehama area.
The blaze was detroying timber
reported owned by the Mt Jeffer
son company.
The three minor fires were in
Avery and Green company virgin
timber tracts southeast of Mill
City. - All were reported under
control by Linn county fire war
dens.
Meanwhile, in Salem, the state
forestry department Sunday lifted
the logging ban in the Tillamook
burn area of northwest Oregon
because- of improving, weather
conditions. The closure had been
ordered September 12.
The weather bureau said the
week end of cooler, damper air
was expected to change today.
Humidities may edge to below the
30 per cent hazardous level in
some sectors of western Oregon,
particularly in the Willamette val
ley. NewRivetless
Plane Wings
To Cut Cost
DAYTON. O.. Sept 17 -WV
Rosie the riveter may look ask
ance at the aircraft wing of the
future.
For a new forging process de
veloped by the air force elimi
nates the need for riveted rein
forcements in airplane wing
panels.
Officials of the air materiel
command at nearby Wright-Pat
terson air force base said today
the new process uses specially de
signed dies and a vertical hydratr
lic nress to forge one-eighth Inch
thick wing skins. Reinforcement
is not needed.
The air force pointed out that
conventionally - made wings may
use as many as 15,000 rivets to a
single surface. Their cost plus ex
penditure of valuable manhours
in installing them, is wiped out
completely by the fast new forg
ing method. '
The method was developed by
the air materiel command's In
dustrial planning division the
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., and the
Wyman-Gordon Co., of Worchest
er, Mass.
At present, said the air force,
the largest vertical hydraulic press
in this - country, an 18,000-ton
giant at the Wyman-Gordon Co.,
plant, is being used to turn out
the experimental rivetless panels.
Newberg Area
Blaze Fatal
To Caretaker
A 70-year-old man was burned
to death early Sunday in fire
that destroyed his home on New
berg Sand and Gravel company
property just south of Newberg.
Dead is Harry Thomas, who liv
ed alone as caretaker on the prop
erty for many years. Deputy Cor
oner Charles Edwards of aMrion
county placed the time of death at
about 4:15 aon. .
Firemen from St Paul were
called to the blaze but the house.
which bordered the Willamette ri
ver, was gutted by flames when
they arrived. Chief C. S. Kerr said
cause of the fire had not been de
termined
Thomas apparently has no known
survivors. The body was taken to
Hodson'r funeral home at New
berg pending arrangement of fun
eral services.
WEATHER .
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rcau. McNary field. Salem): Partly
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. r BY DON HUTU
TOKYO, Monday, Sept. 18-(AP)-U. S. marine,
pressed against the Han river near Seoul today and held
Kimpo airfield after bloody night-long fighting beat
back fiercely attacking North Koreans, f
The field, 15 miles northwest of Seoul, the 500iL
year-old Korean capital, was seized Sunday night with :
little opposition.
jAP Correspondent Bill
savage
nana to nana ngnung,
started
soon alter the field was
captured. The marines were cut
off for 10 hours before finally
hacking an opening for reinforce
ments and supplies to get through.
. Another marine spearhead was
along the Han seven miles from
Seoul. Army combat engineers
tried to bridge the stream whos
regular spans have been bombed
out by allied nlanes. . .
Behind the two marine thmct
at Seoul and Kimno fresh 7th it s
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infantry division troops began
landing In burned-out Inchon port
from Japan. Teir landing boosted
U.N. forces in the new west coast
beachhead to upwards of 40.000
fighting men. - .
Down on the southeastern frnni
150. miles from Seoul Ameri
can. British and South Knnan in
fantry vigorously foueht 130.000
reds- manning th i9.mUa
defense perimeter.
Sporadic red counterattarW
were repulsed by the allies. There
was evidence of commun!t with
drawals in some sectors there.
AP Correspondent Willi am
den reported from II. s nth
headquarters in Korea that patrols
ux U1C u.. 2eCOnd division nn th
central front had cros.-vl tn tv.
west bank of the Naktong river.
Their
bridgehead across the river which
has been a defense harrioi. f-
weeks.
A 2nd division imnVKman ot1
the North Korean 2nd division no
longer existed as an nmnnMi n.-t
on the east side of the Naktong. -
The SDOkesman said th TT C
division had killed or wnundmi
14.000 North Koreans sine it mn
Into action on August 25. -
ueneral MacArthur, United Na
tions commander, personally tour
ed the Inchon beachhead, riding
wyct ueons-sirewn roads from the
battered port through dangerous
sniper country.
Equipment Rolls
U.S. army engineers rolled their
neavy equipment to the frontlines
in the face of enemy fire to throw
a bridge across the Han near Seoul.
Aiuea armor . drove . toward the
Capital. Which fell tn tha Pof. nn
June 28. three dava after tha mr
started. - ,
A second steel tentari naiu4
northward to occupy Kimpo air
field at 8:05 p.m. Sunday (6:05
ajn. EST). Warships poured a
withering fire into the airport area
and aircraft strafed and bomheri
before the final marine assault
took the airfield.
Red resistance st itimnn stif
fened for the last few miles but
collapsed under a mightknockout
punch by the hard driving marines.
One marine 'officer said In the
final stages "the Reds were run
ning so fast we couldn't keep up
witn mem.
Surprise Continues
General MacArthnr'a tiMilnnar-
ters said the North Koreans have
not yet recovered sufficient equil
ibrium from tha surprise amphib
ious landing at Inchon Friday to
organize more than sporadic re
sistence. Officers at the front told AP
Correspondent Russell Brines the
communists had been trvinff to
delay American attacks by coun
ter thrustA including hit tank- lad
assaults which were smashed.
American tankmen and . naw
fliers were credited with destroy
ing six Red tanks, bringing their
tow day total to 16 on the Inchon-
&eoui ironu
Marine officers said the Reds
were handling tanks and other
equipment Very inefficiently and
communist morale appearea very
low. -
Many Supplies Land
AP Corresnondent Don White
head reported an amazing number
of tanks, 155 mm artillery pieces,
trucks and heavy equipment mov
ing into the Inchon beachhead.
uenerai juacArtnurs oiiice rur-
nlture for a new headouartera.
possibly at Seoul, was aboard one
amp. ...
One Russian-built Yak bomber
tried unsuccessfully to bomb ships
in the crowded Inchon harbor
Sunday. It was shot down by navy
gunners while soldiers cheered
their marksmanship.
A headquarters announcement
said 1,000 Red prisoners had been
taken around Inchon. Correspon-
ilanl nrinM minted funeral Mar.
Arthur as saying these prisoners,
plus battle casuaiues oi aooui in
same number, accounted for most
of the enemy troops in the Inchon
area. . . -
(Additional details on page 2).
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Demonstration of
Pole Climbing Fatal '
WINDER, Pan Sept 17-(ff)-Ber-nard
Penner, 28, yesterday show-
mA vknetntihn work-
ers how to climb telephone pole
properly. -.
Somehow, Penner contacted a
hlsh voltase wire. He was knocked
to the ground and died shortly
afterwards. '
Ross with the marines said
f TV e
ait lienies
Aspirations for
ee
WASHINGTON. Sent. 17-flAf
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) has told",
friends he wont "run" for the 1952 -GOP
presidential nomination.
If Taft is re-elected tn tha sen
ate in November, it would mean'.
his continued leadershio in what -
he likes to call the middlp-nf-th.
road wing of the republican party
out mat some or his critics label
as the GOPs conservative elements
The Ohio senator has maria it ,
clear to his- intimates that even
if he wins by a substantial margin
in his Ohio race, he is not going
to cam Dai zn actively for tha nm.
idential nomination as he did un
successfully in 1940 and 1948. He
stepped aside in 1944 for Senate
Bricker, then "governor who won
the vice presidential nomination. .
If Taft sticks to his derision this
would mean that if the element of
the party with which he is iden
tified wants him for a candidate, t
the. initiative will have to come
from outside and not from Taft
himself. , -
This would preclude the sort of
campaign for delegates outside of
Ohio that Taft and his friends have
put on in the past '. '
ermits
Sheep to Breed
Iwice
CHICAGO, Sept. 17-GP-A horw
mone injection which enables
sheep to breed twice a year was
revealed by researchers of Armour
co. Normally sheep breed once
year.
In use. tha Infection would m.
able a erder with 100 sheep to in
crease nrofits un to 11 JSOO a vm
and raise from 65 to 80 more sheep
tnan ormai, tha researchers esti
mate. : "
The hormone used la ennadntrn.
phine. It Is administered to ewes
and costs from 20 to 25 cent per
ewe. . .
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ur. rfau. a. uassner, proiessor
of endocrinology at the University .
of Colorado A. and M. experi
ment station at Fort Collins, Colo,
conducted experiments on 635
sheep under an Armour grant All
wa. sneep naa lamoea since Janu
ary and 320 of the sheep respond
ed to the hormone and were bred
second tune. .
A more elaborate series of ex.
neriment tn datarmlna tha W
timing, dosage and hormone form-
. a.
uiae is piannea oy Armour.
Most lambs were born between
January and April. A second crop
born in September will fit well in
to xne sneepman s scneauie, uar
vey L. Haydon, head of Armour'a
lamb division said.
Fire Station
Victim of Its
Own Devices
TRAPPE. Pa Sent 17-;JA-Th!s
small Montgomery community las
a very moaern lire station even
to electrically controlled doors. ,
Today a fir was discovered tn
the fire station. Nearly a score of
volunteer nremen tried in vain to
open the doors but they could only
D lircea a zew zeet zrom ine xioor.
. The flames had disabled the
controls,.
Tha volunteers stood heTnlasa aa
an ambulance was destroyed and'
a lire trues aamagea. - -
Firemen from four nearby com
munities saved the bulltin mrv-
fining the blaze to the ground floor
oz xne two-story Duuaing,
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