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t The Statesman.- Salem; -Oregon.' fridayy- Sept- 22. 1850 Cave Dwellers' Homes Found In Aleutians AD AK, Alaska, Sept. 2MV Tbe homes of ancient cave dwel lers have been found by Univer sity of Michigan scientists on an unnamed rook in the Aleutian Islands. The discovery was reported to the naval operating- base here to day by Ted Bank, former Univer sity of Idaho football coach who beaded a University of Michigan expedition ending- its second sum mer in the islands. He said the tiny Islet with the caves lies a Quarter-mile off the southwestern tip of Tanaga island. The scientists tentatively - have named it "Michigan Rock." Bank and two companions reach- ed the rock after a four-hour struf- ge through tide rips In a ruDoec re raft from their field camp on They found several ancient Al mt.t hiirUl sites on the rock, bat said their big discovery came when they entered the cave ana reamcu Ik had been used as a permanent dwelling place by many genera tions by cave aweiiers. They said more recent Aleuts used caves usually as storage or burial vauns, dui uvea u u underground sod-covered huts. "Conditions in the cave sug mted it will nrove to be extreme ly- old," Bank said. "The discov ery is more important than the several ancient burial sites we un covered. The exnedition members, dig ging into the hard-packed floor of trie cave, xouna cusnncx layers ot organic material, including sea urchin shells, fish bones, sea otter bones, whale bones, grass matting used for wrapping mummies, and parts of wooden boat frames. Bank said top portion of a human skull, unusually thick, also was .found. Specimens of the various earth layers. ' indicating successive oc cupations of the cave, will be analyzed this winter In laborator lea in an effort to determine how long ago' they were laid down by amaen. man. ACTRESS WEDS PUBLISHES t. NEW YORK, Sept. 21-P)-Film Actress Madeleine Carroll was f married recently in Spain to the o-year-oia publisher of Life magazine, Andrew Heiskell, a spokesman for the magazine said 1 2-7823 Now! Starts at Dusk! -Cartoon Carnival! ' Diana Lynn . v-. CSicrdes Coburn . V- ! Oiarlotte - Greenwood - In Technicolor - -PEGGY" Vincent Price Dies Dnw "Bazoo of Arizona" Appendectomy Stalls Wedding Wedding bells won't ring for Nellie Ferguson and Joseph Mon- dell here tonight because he is in a McMinnville hospital recuperat ing from an emergency appendec tomy. , Confronted with the prospects of a churchful of guests and no groom, the bride's mother Mrs. Charles Ferguson of Salem ap pealed to The Statesman last night to inform friends that the wedding has been postponed. The groom is a resident of eu gene. GI Prisoners Identified in Korea Photos .i't'.IMt''' .-- i' V Mac neturns To Tokyo After War Survey By Russell Brines TOKYO. Sept. 21 -V Assured the Seoul front, was stabilized, General MacArthur returned to Tokyo tonight from Korea. He appeared weU satisfied with the progress of the drive on the Korean capital, and a spokesman said the general was not called back to Japan by any emergency. MacArthur visited briefly aboard the battleship .Missouri before re turning to Japan in his new Con stellation plane, "Scrap" name taken from his title, supreme com mander of a'lied powers. Upon leaving the mighty Mo he said he had a "funny feeling," but did not explain It. It was on the Missouri that MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender Sept 2, 1943, Unarmed flans The general's plane, unarmed and unescorted, flew over 120 mi les of enemy territory on the trip back to Japan from Kimpo air field. 12 miles northwest of Seoul. As the big wing winged home ward, UJ5. marines were reported fighting their way into Seoul and Brig. Gen. Courtney Whitney said the front was stabilized. MacArthur visited the Inchon. Kimpo and Seoul fronts after di recting last Friday's beachhead landings from offshore. Back at the Tokyo airport, the general greeted his troop com manders and embraced Mrs. Mac- Arthur. . He walked to his car with an arm around his wife, smiling broadly. Ashland Crop Loss Laid to Rain Preventer ASHLAND, Ore- Sept 21 (JP- A local grain farmer, charging major crop loss because "rain had been shot from the sky to prevent hail damage to pear crops,' threatened court action today. H. i. ciaycomb. farmer and re tired businessman, said he was circulating petitions asking for funds to brine suit against any "individual, company or corpora Hon responsible for this great He claimed that pear-growers were robbing the area of Its na tural rainfall by sending up plane pilots to break up cloud forma' tions before they reach the Rogue river valley to prevent hail storms which has caused serious damage in years past Ciaycomb estimated Lis damage at $4000 and said 500 others de pendent on rainfall for their crops had suffered similar damage. His petitions called upon farm ers, stockmen, dairymen and lum bermen to estimate their losses and contribute funds on a com parative basis. The best attorneys available would be hired, he said. Rainfall has been light In the area this year only 2.85 inches from April to September, com pared with an average of 4.31 in ches. - But ' pilots who succeeded in Dreventina hail storms in the re gion the past two summers denied they were responsible for the lack of rain.-1 - . "The fact is, that most rain fell during June, the month when we were busiest fighting hailstorms. Harvey Brandau, a former navy pilot, said. "There was a total of 1.27 Inches that month, nearly twice the normal June rainfall He said material used for seed ing clouds does not prevent rain. but merely checks the growth of hailstones. Two grange organizations in the region are on record opposing any aerial operations against the clouds. But another favored hir ing its own rainmakers to "milk the clouds. RainmaJdng experiments are to be. conducted in three eastern Oregon dryland counties this fait NEW YORK, Sept 21-(flVFirst photographs described as from a North Korean prisoner of war camp gave new hope today to a number of American families that their missing men still are alive. Families across the nation huddled around the pictures and recognized a son or a husband who officially is listed only as "missing in action." The photographs were distrib uted by the Associated Press. They were obtained from Eastf oto, a New York: picture agency, which said it received them from the China Photo Service in Peiping, China. - Captions on the pictures, mail ed from Peiping the second week in September, gave purported names and hometowns of some of the prisoners. - The Associated Press showed the pictures to the families in the United States in an attempt to confirm the iden tifications. 'Yes. that's Billie," said Mrs, William H. Stansbury, of Kansas City, Mo- viewing one of the photographs. Her son, William, 19, was re ported missing In action July U - "It's a relief to know what hap pened to him," she said. "You Just are peared anything. It's a lot better now." Her husband declined to con firm the photograph as that of Billie, but other members of the family shared Mrs. Stansbury's confidence. Mrs. Ruth M. Soria, of San Bernardino, Calif- said she rec ognized her son, Edward, 19, in one photograph. He was reported missing July 3. "It's wonderful." she said. "He looks good." Hailstones Break" Indiana Windows LOGANSPORT. Ind.Sept 21- (")-Hailstones bigger than golf balls broke thousands of windows and piled up on the ground like snow here late today. . So many leaves were knocked off trees that sewer drains were clogged, flooding streets and base ments. One vegetable greenhouse re ported 3,000 glass planes broken. The temperature dropped from 80 degrees to 58 in 20 minutes. 3 Men Hurt In Car Crash Three men were Injured last night when the car In which they were naing crashed into a power pole while making a turn from Silverton road to Lana avenue north of Salem. Harland Miller. 20. 1965 N. 5th st, received leg injuries; Harold Snead, 39, 2505 Brooks ave- in curred broken ribs: and Lawrence Fisher, 19, Sale mroute 6, box 42 1A sunered racial cuts. The car was demolished. Power to the area was severed for a short time due to the accident ; Draft Notices d to him," she said. "You Just I fi 1 l 1 STSS S 2 5 Prepared for 25 County Men Bride-to-Be Flees Whistler PARADIS. La.. Sept 21-4PV-An 1 8 -rear-old -girl bride-to-be. ter rorized by a phantom whistler who! have moved without leaving for- Selective service notices will ro to 23 more Marion county men within the next few days, for in duction October 4, the draft board announced Thursday. The board also reported orders for 244 men to take pre-lnduction physical examinations during Oc tooer. The induction call aPDarently will affect mostly 22-year-olds, since the 38 men due to report septemDer zs will be 22- and 23-year-olds. These are the first two calls received by Marion county. Groups bound for physicals will comprise 86 on October 6, 86 on the 12th and 72 on the 17th. .Thursday was the day for "in duction" of men listed by the board as "delinquent" because they have not returned questionnaires or has threatened to kill her, fled her home tonight hoping for a night of untroubled sleep. The unkown whistler, who be gan serenading Miss - Jacquelyn Cadow with eerie funeral dirges last February, has vowed to stop her October 1 marriage to 26-year-old State Trooper Herbert Belsom. . -But the girl's mother. Mrs. Clif ford Cadow, told reporters tonight my daughter is going to get mar- riad October 1. She is going to have a big wedding and nobody Is going to stop her." She said Jacquelyn had fled the house and she refused to divulge the girri whereabouts. warding addresses. Only 20 Marion county men remained on the list. out of 45 earlier i noted. Their names were turned over to the federal bureau of investigation. KOREAN EXECUTED TOKYO, Sept 22-UrVThe South Korean government an nounced the execution of South Korean Col. Choi Chang Six, former chief of the republican army engineer corps, on convlc Hon of negligence leading to large losses of life and property. -.- --- t t '-Trr. MtllITHtttlll1IIV WfV, . kwuui ijau r&iiE . - . , f opinion is anewreoora sua PRINEVTT.T.K, Sept 21-UPVLeo Hahn, manager of the Prlneville Land and Livestock company, said today he had hold a block of near- purebred Rambouillet ewe lambs for 35 cents a pound. This in his Watches Battle During the flight SCAP passed over a battle at a bend in the Naktong river, near Taegu. Lt Cot Anthony Story of St Louis, MacArthur's pilot explained that "the old man wanted to take look." Whitney said the general re turned to Japan to tackle problems of SCAP and the Far East com mand, as well as to direct the southern offensive in Korea. His key officers expressed the opinion tonight that the allies have the initiative and hold-a firm position in the Seoul area. . Whether MacArthur will return to Korea was not clear. It has been assumed that he would want to enter Seoul when the city falls. Lt Gen. Lemuel C Shepherd, commander of fleet marine forces. Pacific, predicted that it would be at least a week before Seoul is secure enough for a victory par ade. "They (the North Koreans) could have made it tough for us. said Shepherd, "but we're on the north bank of the river (Han) now, and we're going to stay there." Shepherd also returned on Mac- Arthurs plane, and probably will leave Friday for Honolulu. He did not name 'the Durchaser or the number sold. - . " . What astronomers call a local" star , galaxy) is one belonging to the same group as the Milky Way. CABTEMBER "TOTED f ' v WASHINGTON, ' Sept 21-SV j The senate tonight confirmed De- ; los W. Rentzell of Texas as a mem- . ber of the Civil Aeronautics board. Dears Open at 8:45 PJkL First Shaw at 71 PJL STARTS TODAY! t Mighty MG1I Tachadeeler Bits! is Two tort Stories. ..Four Bif Stars.- c thi tnie-Gft dnma'of songwriters Kalmar and Ruby, who hits spanned 8 Rtetime of romance ano lawnonci nrt tll? ..ml niUIfiMUb v1"' s 15 HIT TUNES! mwaunuwotor THAT CiBir . 1 VARNA M U7VU KEENAN WYNN GALE ROBBINS GLORIA DE HAVEN 2nd Big MGM Hit! THOSE WILD WONDERFUL DAYS! cotoatr Extra! BUGS BUNNY CARTOON WARNER "Hin BUly Hare" News Merles Are BETTER Than Ever! IIET7 TODAY! I Tep-Noteh Treats! m tmii Mil . m ti::ui : 2nd Ace Hit! Warner Ni And! Color Cartoea Fa Truman Eye Price Controls MS Mat Dally frent 1 F JL Nowl HUarlousl laMM M 1 i COXAID O'C0""0I k Co-Hit: More Fun! WASHINGTON, Sept 21-C- Fresident Truman disclosed today the government , is considering price controls, but has reached no decision. He said he is moving cautiously to avoid the mistakes in the han dling of anti-inflation controls in the last war. The president expressed concern at his weekly news conference over the increase in prices. When reporter observed that most wages are not rising while prices are going up fast Mr. Truman greed this os so and said the government la working on plans to meet it Gee-Gee Runs Second But Sets a Record SPOKANE, Sept 21-VKs- diddle, a se te 1 shot ran second in the third race today and set a new record at Flayfair race by paring $50 M to place. Ten 2 place ticket had been sold. Ka- diddle paid f 13.40 to show. Come Sonap won the featured Tot Coar DAlene purse In 1:12 3-5 for six farlongs. She paid S1L30, 15 and S3.80. A crowd ef 2,127 bet I95.4M. Opens 6:45 P. M. Mow Showing! Shown to Adults Only) CUH.... KTIIrrj tjisa. 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