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Weather Max. . 59 . 58 Mm. Precip. - SI 1.05 53 .78 56 trace .34 ,.00 48 .00 Salem Portland Can Francisco Chicago New York 71 62 65 Mn mi) Qmni to tke Grtwtk Ortgoa Willamette River -1.6 feet. i FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu Teau. McNary . field. Salem): Partly cloudy with scattered light showers today, becoming cloudy with rain to night. Slightly warmer today with a high Dear 84, lowest tonight near 43. POUNDED 1651 100th YEAR Solera, Oregon, Friday. October 6, 1950 PRICE 5c Abbot Damian Receives Blessings in Colorful Rites nAff.n nn V . - 4 r"At The Oregon Statesman, f fKifMi ftn rwteww3Miimvf.)r wkti.. v .v.- . ...... . . . n;, ; ',;ir iv -I Pv v is" 111 mm m, I 11- . .J " L - 'I jMi if f . i i 4fcf I Ik I i "ww 1 SHSETIB f Observing the heavy returns of xindeliverable voters election &hlets, Secretary of State ewbry is moved to ask the leg is la turesto provide some means to keep the lists of registered voters more accurate. Failure of deliver ies is attributed to change of adr dress or death of persons to whom they are addressed. The lists are supposed to be purged after each biennial general election, the names of non-voters being drop ped. But when voters move, their old addresses remain unless they report a change of address to the county clerk or registration offi cer. .-.!-:!-" : I do not know what the legisla ture may do to remedy this situa tion, which Is not new, .though returns may be greater now be cause the number of voters is lar ger. The only way I can see would be to require fresh registration prior to each election and that would be most unpopular. It is hard enough now to get persons to register even when registration is permanent, unless they fail to vote or move. ' 1 1 The obligation is the voter's own tQ register and to keep his regis tration valid. He can do this by voting regularly and by making the appropriate transfer of bis reg istration when he moves. County clerks can help, however, if they do a thorough job of pruning their lists after each general election. Americans move around a lot; and circulation managers of publica tions, ' especially monthly maga zines, are a ecus topi ed to gobs of returned copies undelivered be cause of changes in address. No matter how recent the list there are bound to be returns. What perhaps is more pertin ent is the question of the value of the' . V (Continued on editorial page 4.) Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH JjWThenan w a, higb-ck for HI Lightning Breaks Area Power Lines Ijghtning, accompanied by heavy rain and a hailstorm, played havoc with power lines in a large area east of Salem Thursday after noon, i At Salem, bucketsful of rain fell for the fourth straight day "with 1.05 inches recorded. Young Octo ber's precipitation at midnight totaled 2.99 inches, Veil above the normal of 2.84 for -the entire month in Salem. More is predict ed for today. The Mountain States power company at Stayton reported sev eral outages Thursday. lights were off in the Aumsville-Shaw area about noon when several transformers and fuses were struck by lightning. Another strike about 3 p.m., cut power for about 20 minutes on a main line that serves Scio, Mehama, Lyons and Mill City. Temporary Outages Mountain States officials said poles at Independence and Idanha also were struck by lightning, creating temporary outages. Portland General Electric offi cials in Salem reported two strikes on a power line near Estacada, causing lights to go off for two short intervals. In addition, a few lines were struck in the Silverton hills area and minor outages at Mt. Angel, Molalla . and Silverton also were reported. PGE crews were repairing damage almost as fast as it occurred, officials said. Roy Girod, principal at Aums ville grade school, reported two pupil, at the school narrowly es caped injury when a tree, struck by lightning, crashed into some swings the children were occupy ing on the school playground. Large hail stones pelted almost every -city east of Salem from Mt. Angel south to Stayton. In the Salem area, McNary field was without lights for a short time about noon when fuses at the transformers near the Eyerly Air craft corporation .were blown out. Portland got a heavy hail and rain storm and lights flickered when lightning hit power lines carrying power from North Bon neville to Vancouver. It caused an overload on other lines. Bonne ville reported the trouble was remedied in three minutes. 1,044 Registered At Willamette U Willamette university has 1,044 students enrolled this fall, Regis trar Harold B. Jory reported Thursday when final registration figures for the semester were re leased. , The figure includes 29 special students. Men outnumber women 680 (to 364 on the campus. : BASEBALL WORLD SERIES New York a, Philadelphia 1 COAST LEAGUE At San Francisco 2-5. Portland 3-3 At Los Angeles 6. Seattle 0. r At San Diego 4. Hollywood 4 Only games scheduled. ITS! Flax Textiles Firm Expands A $47,000 building permit for construction at the westside Ore gon Flax Textiles plant was is sued Thursday at the city engin eer's office. Clyde Everett, plant manager, said the permit was for construc tion of an addition to the main building. E. E. Batterman was list ed as the builder. The firm is lo cated at 859 Seventh st. The expanding Salem industry, which makes rugs and other flax products, recently added to its production a flax base rug with deep wool pile facing. Train Strikes Stalled Auto A passenger train struck a stall ed auto at Chemawa' crossing at 9 p.m. last night but nobody was hurt. A witness told a state patrolman the occupants abandoned the car in plenty of time. The car was reg istered to Beningo DeLeon, Ger vais route 1, but police said there was no one at the scene when they arrived. Front end of the car was demo lished. The southbound train was delayed 35 minutes, according to a Southern Pacific spokesman. Chest Workers Strive For Mid-Mark in Drive Salem Community , chest needs new contributions of some $11,500 this morning if its fund-raising campaigners are to meet the chal lenge of Co-Chairmen Carl Hogg and A. C. Haag for reaching the half-way mark today. Volunteer solicitors had raised by Thursday evening a total of $44,006 toward Salem's 1950 chest goal of $111,000. The drive is slat ed to continue until at least Octo ber 13. A third campaign division pass ed the halfway mark Thursday when E. Burr Miller and Otto J. Wilson reported $5,790 toward an automotive division quota of $10, 700. The women's division with ard uous house-to-house convassing underway only a few days has taken in $2,715. Campaign leaders and solicitors will meet at noon today in the Marion hotel to report their pro gress. The next report will be BIT. ANGEL Colorful, impressive ritaal at St. Mary's Catholic church Thursday saw the Rt Rev. Abbot Damian Jentes, OSB, coadjutor abbot of the Mt. Angel Benedictine monastery received the ab- ' batial blessings of the Most Rev. Archbi shop Edward D. Howard, Portland, at upper left, where Abbot Damian in white robes approaches the altar. At right, Ab bot Damian remains kneeling, center, d urine the singing of the psalms and the litany of the saints. At lower left, a gen eral view from the congregation shows the many priests, and dignitaries. Abbot Damian replaces the Rt. Rev. Abbot Tho mas Meier, OSB, who retired from act ive service due to failing eyesight. (Pho tos by Don Dill, Statesman staff photo grapher.) (Story on page 16.) Elderly Woman Killed by Train Near Hubbard HUBBARD, Oct. 5 Mrs. Clara Alfretta Porter, 77, Hubbard, was killed about 8:40 a.m. today when struck by a southbound Southern Pacific Shasta Daylight train just south of the Hubbard depot An eyewitness reported Mrs. Porter, who lived with a daugh ter here, had been walking south between the tracks and sat down to rest facing the east. She ap parently fell backward into the path of the train. Marion County Coroner Leston D. Howell said the death appar ently was accidental. State police officers and Marion county sher iffs deputies also investigated. (Aditional details on page 6.) Unemployment At Low Mark Unemployment In Oregon reached its lowest peace time lev el in history, the state unemploy ment compensation commisison reported Thursday. Only 12,420 persons were ac tively looking for work this week compared with 14,820 a month ago and 26,000 in October, 1949. Slightly more than half of the job seekers were women. Most of the remainder were older work ers and others unable to meet the requirements of the 3,000 unfilled jobs listed at 29 local employment offices in the state. VARGAS TAKES LEAD RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Oct. 5 Former Dictator Getulio Vargas held a better than two-to-one lead today as returns dribbled in from Tuesday's presidential election. Tuesday at a similar luncheon. Community chest solicitors are stressing that everyone give his "fair shares" and attempting to take the chest message to all work ers and residents in the city. Ex planation of the extent of charac ter building and welfare activities financed by the chest has "sold" the chest program to many new contributors this year, according to campaign officials. They cited one example of the effectiveness of carrying the chest message directly to the citizenry. Employes of one small firm, after hearing the chest message, sub scribed $100 among them. Last year the same group had donated only $2 to the chest. Besides contributing to support of 13 statewide agencies, the Sa lem chest finances locally the Boy Scouts, YMCA, Camp Fire Girls, Catholic Charities, YMCA, Legal Aid clinic, Salvation Army and Girl Scouts. Dimaggio 9 s Homer Nicks Powerless Ph ill ies in 1 Oth PHILADELPHIA. Oct. Joe DiMaggio's big bat, noiseless during the first game of the world series Wednesday, and for the first four trips to the plate in today's second game, spoke .with a roar in the tenth inning to provide the New York Yankees with a 2-1 vic tory over the Philadelphia Phillies their second one-run win in a row. DiMaggio cracked out a tenth inning home run, a mighty wal 21 Lost on Mine-Sunk U.S. Ship U.N. to Air Formosa Question U.S. Proposal Backed bv Votes, 10 to 3 . By Francis W. Carpenter LAKE "SUCCESS. Oct 5-TPV- Overriding objections from Na tionalist China and the Soviet un ion, the U. N. assembly's steering committee today recommended a full airing of the question of For mosa, the last bastion of Chiang Kai-shek's government The 14 -member committee vot ed 10 to 3 for an American pro posal to give the issue right of way in the assembly. In addition to Russia and China, communist Czechoslovakia also voted against the proposal. The committee chair man, Nasrollah Entezam of Iran, did not vote. The full assembly is expected to approve tomorrow or Saturday the committee's decision. Hearing Voted The steering committee also vot ed for an assembly hearing of fresh Soviet charges of American aggression against China. The vote was 11 to 1. China was opposed; Iran, and Cuba abstained. The Russians already have com plaints against American bomb ing of Chinese territory before the security council and the as sembly. To get the new charge before the assembly, the Russians took over as their own a complaint from communist China that Amer ican planes had again violated Chinese territory and an Ameri can warship had fired on and searched a Chinese merchant ship. Calls for Debate Warren R. Austin, United States delegate, called for a ful debate delegate, called for a full debate opinion can judge the facts. Nationalist China and the So viet union are , bitter opponents in the U. N. and their strange com bination against the Formosa is sue came from differing motives and not on purpose. T. F. Tsiang, Nationalist China, said the assembly had no right to discuss the question. He maintains Formosa is Chinese territory. Jacob A. Malik, Soviet deputy foreign minister,' called the Amer ican proposal an "insult" to the great Chinese people. He said President Truman had attempted a "grab by ordering the seventh fleet to cover Formosa during the Korean conflict He, declared ap proval of the item would be the same as saying the U. N. has the right to question the status of any island in any country. To Study Question Secretary of State Achejon said at his news conference yesterday he hoped the U. N. would set up a group to study the whole ques tion of Formosa and offer a solu tion. ; The committee also recommend ed that the assembly discuss a Yugoslav proposal for the con demnation of any country refus ing to accept a cease fire order from the U. N. at the start of hostilities. In another important action, the 60-nation special political commit tee condemned Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania as wilful violators of peace treaty promises to safe guard human rights and freedoms. The vote was 39 to 5 and the item now goes to the ull asembly. OSC ROLLS AT 5.811 CORVALLIS, Oct. 5-p)-Ore-gon State college registration pass ed predicted 5,800 this week, but the total -was 13 per cent under a year ago. Registrar D. T. Orde man reported 5.811 registered on the 11th day of the term. He ex pected a few more later. RENT CONTROLS LIFTED WASHINGTON, Oct 5 -JV ngne woods, the housing expedi ter, today lifted rent controls in eight; cities on the basis of action taken by local governing bodies The cities included Molalla and Pendleton, Ore. lop into the upper left-center field stands, to provide the margin of victory. The blow came off Robin Roberts who had pitched the Phil lies to the National league pen nant last Sunday in a 10-inning game with Brooklyn. Allie Reynolds, veteran Yankee righthander, pitched today's win. He was touched for seven hits. Two double plays pulled him out of bad holes in the eighth and Thief Admits Sharing Loot With Charity Group Theft of a Salem woman's bill fold and $51 was cleared by city police Thursday when a grade school girl admitted taking it and returned $21. f Here is how she accounted for the rest: New nightgown, $1; candy and soda, $24; community chest $5. Leivis Barks Back at Letter By President WASHINGTON, Oct MVJohn L. Lewis growled today that if he were dog catcher he would throw a net over the "pusillanious, pups' in the state department That was his reply to President Truman, who was quoted yester day as saying "I wouldn't appoint jonn ia. iewis dog-catcher." The coal mine chieftain wrote off the whole idea as impractical. "The president" he said, "could ill afford to have more brains in the dog department than in the de partment of state ..." If he were dog-catcher, Lewis observed "Naturally the first duty . . . would be to collect and impound me saa aogs, the intellectual poodle dogs and the pusillanious pups which now infest the state department." Lewis' acid comment were oc casioned by a letter written by Mr. Truman more than a year ago to an old friend, Colorado State Senator Neal Bishop. The latter, made public in Denver yesterday, disclosed that the president didn't consider Lewis suitable timber for for a pooch pincher. Casualty List Tops 20,000 WASHINGTON, Octy4 5-Sh An incomplete total of 20,756 American casualties in the Kor ean fighting was announced by the defense department today. The cumulative total represented only the losses where the next of kin had been notified up to mid night Sept. 29. The total was 8,536 killed in action, 294 who died of their wounds, 13,659 wounded (some of whom have returned to duty), and '4,143 missing. Among the miss ing, 177 army men and 16 air force personnel have returned to duty, and 71 of the army total and two from the air force are known to have been captured. SALEM PRECrPITATIOV . Since start of Weather Year Sept.,1 This Year Last Year Normal 3 83 1M 2.06 Austrian Reds Resistance Tactics Collapse , Railway Traffic Rolls By Richard O'Reran VIENNA, Friday, Oct 6-WVIn an apparent admission of defeat communists called off their two-day-old strike last night and with in a space of minutes communist mobs released their stranglehold on the country's railway traffic. Demonstrators who occupied the Wiener Neustadt postoffice filed quietly from the building.' From all over the soviet occupation zone reports indicated that communist resistance to the government of Chancellor Leopold Figl had col lapsed. Thus Austria survived its first major political crisis since the end ninth innings when the score was tied. New York scored first today, in the third inning. The Phillies tied the score in the fifth with their only run in the two series games now played. The teams switch to ' Yankee stadium for the third game tomor row. (Full details in today's sports section.) . Mine Swe eper Magpie Down WASHINGTON, Oct 5 P The 136-foot American mine sweeper Magpie was of ficially list ed today as sunk by a floating mine off South Korea with 21 men missing. u The navy said 12 survivors were picked up by a sister ship and taken to Pusan, South Korea. The Magpie was the third U. S. ship to hit a mine in Korean waters where new Russian-madel floating mines have been identi tied. Such mines are outlawed tinder the international Hague Conven tion because of the. danger of their arming into ships of neutral na tions. . The navy said the Magpie, i wooden-hulled craft struck . the mine on her starboard side on Sunday and sank about two miles off shore near the city of Ch'uk san- dong. This town is about 90 miles south of the 38th parallel. u : i j: .. . i . uic iui&uicu uiviuing iine Devween North and South Korea. The Jap anese, when they, occupied Korea, called the town Chusan-do. Her commanding officer. Lt Warren R. Person, of Pacific Grove, Calif., was us tea among ine missing. In earlier incidents, the U. S, destroyers Brush and Mansfield were damaged by colHding with mines. After emergency repairs, both ships made port in Japan.' Eleven men were killed, 10 In jured and three missing at the ex plosion that tore a, hole in the bottom of the Brush on Sent 27. Three days later,, the Mansfield nit a mine with Injuries to seven crewmen. Total casualties from the three ships now stand at 11 killed, 17 injureVi and 24 missing. Czech Coal Aline Blast Kills 36 PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia. Oct 5-WVA coal mine blast near Selz- ska Ostrau killed 36 miners yester day, the Prague radio reported to day. . J . . Many other miners trapped by the blast later were freed by res cue workers, the broadcast said. The explosion was in the Michalka mine in Czechoslovakia's biggest coal field in Silesia. The official Czechoslovakia news agency, blaming a "local explo sion," said workmen from mines nearby joined in the rescue work and "so proved the great solidar ity of miners, the foremost build ers of socialism. - REPORT POLIO CASES PORTLAND, Oct 5-)-The city Health bureau said two now polio cases, reported today, brought the city's total for the year to 73. of the war - - a crisis that started as a communist protest against the government's new wage and price agreement and mushroomed into an attempt by communist extrem ists to paralyze the country and perhaps bring about the under mining of Figl's regime. : - The great mass of Austrians withstood every threat of the com munists. The reds are small in number but they had the full sup port .of the powerful Russian army of occupation and its 45,000 sol diers. Western diplomats saw in the rioting and turmoil of the past two days a threat to world peace. In War Zone Red Prisoner Toll Reaches 40,000 Mark TOKYO, Friday, Oct 6 -AV Communist forces today strug gled under punishing air blows to bolster a defense line in North Korea against 175.000 United Na tions trops massing on the border. Two big enemy convoys were' spotted rushing to imperiled points Thursday nieht U. S. fifth air force pilots, at tacking throughout the night re ported they destroyed or damaged 84 vehicles and 101 boxcars. Rnilil.IT : rMlfilin The large-scale supply move ments and information from cap tured reds rmintpH ,m tfia nmm .. nists disregard of General Mac Arthur's ultimatum . surrender MacArthur announced in to- dav's war tiimmanr that n finn ; reds the equivalent of four full strength red divisions have been captured since the war began. Most of them were seized during the latter stages of communist de feat in South Korea,. In the last three da vs. nrisnnr I tntalloH U. 028. ' - . - ; But rprl fnrrpc in MnT-fV Vnr till chnuiod fiotit i Defend Wonsan ' Already red advanrp rtnst Vtv engaged South Korean third divi sion -trnoTvt mnre than KA mil inside North Korea on the east coast ... : . The reds were dug In to de fend the east coast industrial city of Wonsan, 50 air miles ahead t the South Korean forward ele ments. . ,. . One big convoy broken up was headed east toward Wonsan from the red capital of Pyongyang.! An other was disrupted while movinsi I south of Pyongyang toward the west coast sector of the 38th paral- let The menace to the teds in thai sector is posed by American forces which liberated i Seoul, Korea' capital. AP Correspondent Hal Boyle bui u. . luuiuuuien ana jn rines, brigade of British and Australian troops and South Ko rean forces have been building up for the past week along the 38tB parallel. It is the artificial boun dary that divided North and Souta Korea- Rendezvous Ordered - ' ish commonwealth brigade to hew positions neax lhe boundary. Presumably the reds, having lost their bid to conquer South Korea, wil try to set up a last-ditch de fense line lor North Korea wher the peninsula is the shortest dis tance across. That is between Won san on the east coast and Pyong yang on the west . Prisoners taken by South Ko reans on the east coast said they had been ordered to rendezvous at Wonsan. A captured red. oficer said the communists would make, a stand there. A field dispatch said red pris-1 oners understood that Russian ad visers were aiding North Koreans in preparing defenses for that port. Death Claims Dudley Malone CULVER CITY, CalLC Oct. t -VDudley Field Malone, inter nationally famed lawyer and for mer collector of the Port of New . York, died tonight at Culver City hospital. He was 68 years old. Death came of a. heart attaekv hospital attendants said. He hadt entered the hospital yesterday and had been troubled with a heart condition for about 12 years. Malone, prominent in democrat ic party circles from the days ef Woodrow Wilson through the r- J made his home in nearby West wood for 10 years. He was associ ate of the late Clarence Darrow fas the famed Scopes evolution trial in 1925. . In recent years he . served mm counsel for 20th Century-Fox Sta- TheyVsaid the communists sough, to take over the government or a ' least set up a rival regime. Th western occupation powers--Britain, France and- the United States --were prepared to resist the reds with force if necessary. This would almost certainly have involved the Russians, who sup ported the communists throughout The communists in calling fX the strike said they did so becauaa of "western pressure. , The strike was - not effective The mass of Austrian workers who are anti-communist stayed on ttm 4K V--j4a last effort to disrupt tot country.