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Henry L. Stimsoii, For m$mm .. AT'-fc Vv-2--w irv-l- fh-P-sP-t I 'li-5 n . ...... COLD SPRINGS HARBOR, N. Y, Oct. 20-C5VHenry L. Stimson, 83, former secretary of state who was called back to service as World War II secretary of war, died today of a heart attack. 1 He held government positions tinder six presidents including cabinet posts under four. A re publican, he was secretary of state under President Hoover. ' Stimson was taken for a drive in the area around his farm home here this afternoon. He became ill In the car and was driven home. - He died shortly after lie was taken into the house about 4 p m. (EST). . His wife, - the former Mabel Wellington White,, was with him when he died. They were married in 1S93 and had -no children. Stimson's heart had been bad since shortly after he resigned as President Truman's secretary of war in 1945. He had an attack soon after he left the post ; In addition, he broke his hip three months ago and was in the hospital for a month. A native ; of New York City, Civilian Economy Cut by Shift Of Critical Supplies for Defense CRT PuOfflOB Senator Richard li Neuberger of Portland is definitely an idea man. He can think up more things that usset staid political apple carts tnan most; anyone else. In the legislature he is what the doc tors call an irritant, or in more common phrase, a cockleburr un der the saddle blanket to the "old bosses' of political power. Thursday night Neuberger came up and talked to the Public Af fairs forum, which i an organiza tion of junior level executives in state departments who are inter ested in problems of government. He really got a lot off his mind in relating the sins and deficiencies of Oregon's government This was d nrav th"r anneared to him The legislature,"" Neuberger feels, does its -business in quite I v.n),,,. B7v Witness at I hearings are never, sworn; no true j lAMcistira tnvKffatinn are held: I ttSTbSrSt need for a legisla frnr hm-eau nronerlv I tive reference Bureau properiy staffed and open of evenings, iie criticized nepotism, the hiring of taffl and onen of evenings. He legislators' wives as secretaries, Vnit aA under tne scale OI xens-l latorr pay it couia naraiy oe con- demned. He would staff all major tH lawer and a researcher. rn .hmiM nxinir that all i-4i. inhhvtt reHster and report on their expenditures, said m-,,k-. h rftd the doff rac- ing lobby, where county fair of- ficials and Four-H club support- ers rallied to defend pari-mutuell Kouc thir nrvaniza. I tions benefit from the proceeds- yet they never register as lobby- let. He would ban recommenda- inn bv a legislator as a condition of employment citing the practice of the dog racing interests 01 nir- ine employes who are recom mended ' i (Continued on Editorial Page, 4) Police End T-n AA-rrrn A o lllCLBljBTlllGllCB Boy's Spree A small Independence bov had it large day in Salem Friday spend- ing $133 police said he took from m tnntnwi twits . When intercepted by a police- man in the business district about 4 p. m. me 11-year-oia naa pur - chased a $70 bicycle, two pair of frioaau, nw " . a small arsenal of B-B shot He had acquired a following of two saiem boys, agea o ana 1 SSrTt KrJEZrJZ tt foTWn! le fl.?;! shakes. Police said he had about $20 left when taken into custody. "he lad was released to his par ents, i Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH r '' .,r i "C4I that &Pr .. . - - HENRY L. STIMSON . Dead at 83 Stimson was a Wall Street lawyer all his life, except when he serv - By Willard H. Mobley WASHINGTON, Oct. 20-yP)-The government cut into the civilian economy today for defense supplies of rubber, one special variety of stainless steel, and molasses to make alcohol. Mandatory orders from the national production authority: - 1. Restricted rubber companies, effective Nov. 1, to about the amount of material they were, using before the Korean war and far less than they have been consum ing since the fighting started. At the same time officials renewed assurances that no tire shortage is in sight. 2. Set aside for the defense pro gram ,t,he whole production of stainless steel containing columbi um, a corrosion-resistant alloy es sential in Jet engines and import ant for such products as surgical instruments and chemical equip ment. The molasses move, made by the commerce' department at the re quest of the agriculture depart ment, was an order to stop exports, holding in this country an import ant source of industrial alcohoL In a related operation also af fecting civilian supplies, the army entered the commercial market for 30,000,000 pounds of raw wool. This is the first step in a 100,000,-000-pound program for reserves of wool, woolen garments, fabrics and knitting yarn!.. , The commodity credit corporation will be the buy ing agent fits into Picture The action on molasses fits Into the rubber picture since alcohol is consumed in great quantities by the svnthetic rubber plants which the government is hurrying back into production. Totbe djed spirits;- stitute announced that in tne RFC I suiuie .uiuuiwicu - conference it had offered to deli onience , f aT ver 10,000,000 gallons of grain al- cohol over tne ?e iwo rnonua ine siaiemeuv a w1" um. muuui w ma any pwuun I sumer suDDlies or drinking spirits. " said Ithe government may need 1 more next year out uuuiicu i that the grain alcohol normally produced by institute members Is more expensive tnan industrial ai- cohol from other sources. . awwenea rroaucBon in wona wru oeverage uia- tniers stopped making whiskey and turned out about 41 per cent of the great flow of industrial al- cohoL . - . xecnmcaiiy loaay a ruoucr miu limits tire manufacturers and oth- 1 er sucn users 1 amnnnL ox naiuox xuuuu uij consumed in the year preceding June 30. It sets consumption of all rubber, including synthetic, at 84 ner cent of the base years use. NPA o 111 dais, nowever, saia w adlustments expected to. be grant ed in rxoial anneals cases will push actual use up to approximat- Uly the pre -Korea level, which averaged around so.ooo tons 01 na rural rubber a month. British Atomic Scientist Reported off for Poland I . sr. . .... i . . n 1 KUMxi, saturaay, uciodct Uiv-The Italian News Agency I Ansa said today that Prof. Bruno 1 pontecorvo, Italian-born British atomic 8cientist, has left Italy by I plane for eastern Europe wun a Polish visa in his British pass- tr - Pontecorvo became a British subject after World War II, when he 'worked on atomic research p".1" He came to Italy last month on a vacation. Restrictions Lifted In Forest Districts AH restrictions on fires in Ore gon forests will be lifted Sunday, midnight Gov. Douglas McKay decreed Friday. He announced through the state forestry department that ; burnine. campfire or other per mits would not be required after thai . date. The order opens an Oregon forests to the unregulated use of fire. ' -' . Max. - 60 ' 70 Mia. Freip. Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago , 81 M 49 M 60 10- 54 - JtA 63 .00 Nw YorK Willamette Rivr XM feet FORECAST Itrom V. S. weather bureau. McNary field, Salem): Partly cloudy, today and tonight with early mominf fog. Highest today near 62. Cooler tonicht with the lowest near U. IALEN FBKliriTAiiun Sine start al waalhar year Set. 1 This Year Last Year xiormu 2Jt - ed in the cabinets of Presidents Taft Hoover, Roosevelt and Tru man. His first public office was as United States attorney for the southern district of New York from 1906-09. He ran for governor of New York on the republican ticket in 1910 but was defeated. The next year, President Taft called him to Washington as sec retary of war and launched him on a career that was to brine him international attention. Stimson returned to the cabinet in 1929 as President Hoover's first and only secretary of state. Roose velt called him back to service in 1940 as a republican cabinet mem ber to his old post of secretary of war. He held that position throughout World War It As President Roosevelt's war secretary, Stimson backed Ameri ca's first peacetime .draft, helped win its extension, ' fought for lease-lend to- Britain and urged use of the U. S. navy to protect pre-war shipments to England. Four Named To Civilian Defense Staff Selection of four new members of the Marion conty civilian de fense administrative staff was an nounced Friday by Col. Mark Hil lary, director. He also issued a plea for volunteer clerical help, needed immediately to care for preliminary directives. F. B. Crandall, traffic engineer with the state highway depart ment, was named to the county coordinating council, which com prises the county court and three laymen. The others were announc ed earlier. Deputy assistant director or ad ministrative officer for the entire county program will be Man ton Cart, well-known Hubbard area farmer. Assistants assigned by the de puty for personnel, D. H. Cameron, were r. Gordon Shattuck and , , . ; Gene Huntley, both personnel of- colonel Hillary said that the campaign for volunteer worke for defense would be Uuathed through member or- aW.n f th YaAnA X- triotic Societies. Second Hurricane Na TrinvMa fVoo MTAMT Via rvt 2lJPUW5nds and tides began to rise along the Florida west coast early today as a gun hurricane approached the I Tamna Bav-Tarnon Snrinn area. The storm packed winds up to 90 miles an hour near the center and residents of low, beaches were aavisea 10 evacuate. mil nm - cmmJ - s&mmL - a Five of i t Vn, , v 4 ...... Vf-"..C:3 -w-JrJl -11 -w - . ' 1 -- : i ' v . NEW YORK. Oct 2ft Annette Dionne extends her hand as the greeto Vice President Alben BarUey from her place in the receiving line with her four famous sisters at annual Alfred E. Smith, me mortal dinner in Waldorf Astoria hotel here last night The ether Marie, Emilie and Cecile, At 100th YEAR 12 PAGES Lumber Mills Close in Face Of Price Drop PORTLAND, Oct 20-tfVSmall Pacific northwest lumber mills be gan closing today in the wake of Douglas fir lumber price drop. The price break not yet much reflected in retail prices forced four mills to close In western Ore gon. One company said it soon would close four of its eight mills near Salem. Several others cut operations to one shift The larger lumber operators ap peared confident prices soon would settle, and at a still-profitable level. Small operators admitted, however, that the decline would chase many marginal operators out of the market Framing Lumber Hit Some grades of Douglas fir ap peared little affected, such as fin ishing lumber. Framing lumber, however, suffered a drastic drop. Green 2x4's which sold as high as $35 a thousand feet in August were-down as low as $45 at one Lmill here. Experts said the break was less drastic at mostttulls. There was no early count of how many men had been laid off. J. W. Grannan, assistant state em ployment office supervisor at Eu gene, reported a noticeable drop in labor orders from sawmills. "We think it is due to the mar ket drop," he said. "Next week should show us definitely wheth er there is a curtailment of opera tions due to the change in the lumber market" . . Shingle Mills Close Some 2.000 men were Idle in British Columbia as 30 shingle mills closed because of the falling shingle price in the United States. They- hoped to reopen in two weeks in anticipation of a more normal market Hardest hit in the market col lapse, called the "worst in his tory by C. C. Crow, editor of the Pacific Coast Lumber Digest was green dimension lumber such as 2x4's and 2x6's. Finishing lumber has dropped only slightly. H. J. Cox, former secretary manager of the West Coast Lum bermen's association, said at Eu gene that he was not worried. He said the industry went through a similar market decline every year. Divers Identify Corsair Parts ST. HELENS. Oct 20-VTwo navy tugs, using divers and. sal vage equipment today began" at tempts to raise a navy Corsair plane from 35 to 40 feet of Colum bia river water. The body of the pilot identified by the navy at Seattle as Lt. (jg) Edward Dale Slopek, 27, Seattle, had not been recovered. The plane plunged into the riv er late yesterday. Slovek, on active duty with the organized reserve, is survived by the widow and two children in Seattle. a Kind in Receiving Line vr V t v 1 "' fi"1' .... r right It Francis Cardinal Spellaaaa. Thm Oregon Statecmcm, Salem, OrecQo, Satardcrr, Three . American Survivors Relate Horrors of 160-Mile Death March ' By Tom Lambert PYONGYANG, Korea. Oct 20- (aVThree tattered American sur vivors today said Un estimated scores of U. S. prisoners of war "died like flies" on a terrifying 160-mile death march from Seoul to Pyongyang. The trio said 283 began that horror march, under guard of bru tal North Korean reds. They in dicated comparatively few sur vived, but did not know the num ber. The trail of those survivors now leads 150 miles farther north to the Manchurian border. The three who escapde said the American prisoners were beaten Pravda Spikes 'Peace' TallEt Bid ID u lies Says U.N. Secretary Under Attack LAKE SUCCESS, Oct 2HJPh Russia's Jacob A. Malik said to day American Delegate John Fos ter Dulles told him Trygve lie has followed a "double-faced policy" as U. N. secretary-general but that the Americans had to sup port Lie because of many promis es. -: Dulles promptly- replied - there was "no truth." in Malik's remarks and accused the Russians of try ing to discredit Lie. This development came during a day which saw Lie's stock for an extension of his term as secretary-general rise and saw security council members doom an Indian attempt at a compromise. Five of the 11 security council members expressed themselves against the Indian move or were known to be opposed to it. They were Cuba, Yugoslavia, Britain, United States-, and Norway. A sixth, Ecuador,, announced it would abstain but that it still backs Lie. A majority of seven is necessary to pass the Indian plan. Faced with such opposition, the Indians were considering with drawing the attempt when the council meets tomorrow at 11 a.m. EJS.T. for another session on Lie. Despite the improvements in prospects, It is anybody's guess whether Lie's term can be extend ed, as the U. S. wants to do, or whether the Russians will sue ceed in knocking him from his $40,000-per-year perch atop the U. N. secretariat Malik last week vetoed the re appointment of Lie for another five year term. quints are (left to right) Yvonne, (AP Whlrepbete te the SUteaaaav) . . .... . t ; FOUNDBD 1651 Lois and shot by the Reds strafed mis takenly by an American pilot who thought they were a red army column . . . exposed, starved and given no medical attention. The surviving prisoners may in clude 90 others who made an origi nal total of 373 moved north from Seoul. Those still alive were ship ped north of Pyongyang on Oct 14. The fate of Ma. Gen. William F. Dean, missing commander of the U. S. 24th division, remained a mystery. The three survivors today said they were told in Seoul that Gen. Dean was in Pyongyang. But in this red capital they were told aliCt Report Lie Corvallis Price War Cuts Bread to Cent CORVALLIS, Oct 20-UP)- Bread was selling for a penny a loaf as a price war continued here today. Sales were limited to one loaf to a customer. The war started when indepen dent stores started matching low? er chain store prices. The price for 1-lb. loaf fell from 23 to 10 cents yesterday, and dropped to day to 1 cent at some stores., ' Heart Disease Takes Life of , Chicago's Kelly CHICAGO. Oct 20 -OPH Ed ward J. Kelly, democratic political boss and former mayor of Chicago, died today. He was 74. The taU, red haired civil engi neer, who helped the late Franklin D. Roosevelt make third term pre sidential history, collapsed sud denly and died of heart disease in a doctors office. He had gone there for a periodic checkup and had Just told the doctor: "I never felt better in my life." Kelly was democratic national committeeman from Illinois and the brains of the old Kelly-Nash Chicago, machine one that used to grind out half a million votes for any man "Big Ed okayed. He was mayor of Chicago from 1933 to 1947. a 14 year stretch unmatched by any other head of the nation's second largest city. He was an audacious political master who rarely made a bad guess. His friends said he was so smart he even knew when to quit In 1946 he did that When they told him he couldn't win a fifth term and he might take the whole ticket down to defeat with him. he retired and helped elect demo cratic Mayor Martin H. Kennelly. Buf he remained active in poli tics. He' helped quash an Illinois anti-Truman revolt ana neipea President Truman win nomination at Philadelphia la 1948. German Army Topic of Russ PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia, Oct 20-tfW. M. Molotov of Soviet Russia and foreign ministers of seven other communist nations met here today with the announc ed purpose of discussing "the re militarization of western uerm- any," .which the Soviet govern ment has warned if will not tol erate. - - tV The Czechoslovak news agency and the Moscowadio announced the meeting tonight It was called bv the. Soviet Union. The countries represented nere, other than the Soviet Union, are Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovak ia. Poland, Romania. Hungary and East Germany. Among those pres ent is the communist woman chief of Romanian foreign affairs,' Ana Pauker. The chairman of today's meeting was Czech Deputy Pre mier Zdenek Fierunger. YUGOSLAVIA ASKS U. 8. AID WASHINGTON, Oct 20 -(ff)-Yugoslavia asked the United Stat es formally today to supply the ntrTa niiinia cairulAtea is needed m tninA rH bronsht on hV m avra drousht. BlocMeeting October 21; 1950 Dean had died in SeouL - The three liberated Americans, long-haired, bedraggled, but hap py are Air Force Capt William Locke, 30, of route 2, Enfield, N. C; whose wife and daughter are at High Point N. C; army Lt Alexander MacAroumis, 27, of 548 Fletcher St, Lowell, Mass., and Sgt Takeshi Kumagai of Hono lulu. . They escaped from the Korean reds Saturday when friendly Ko reans told them of a trapdoor in the school house which was their prison here.. . They: hid out until American and South Korean forces arrived in Pyongyang yesterday. Staissen's Bid urd MOSCOW, Oct 20 -iJPh Pravda put the skids today under Harold E. Stassen's bid for a face-to-face talk with Prime Minister Stalin on world peace, declaring Stassen himself "understands fully the ab surdity of his demands.' The official . communist party newspaper dismissed as a dirty. ciumsy election campaign trick the letter Stassen, a republican leader who is president of the University or Pennsylvania, dispatched to Sta lin through the Soviet embassy in wasmngton Oct 2. Stassen had said he sought the conference in an effort to stop "the anii toward war." pravda called him insolent ridiculous, a slander er, a shameless warmonger and a feverishly active political cam paigner with a "thirst for self ad vertisement The letter was de scribed as an advertising essay in tended to play on "the attraction of peace for American voters" in the coming congressional elections. (In -Philadelphia Stassen said that he does "not accept the Prav da story as an answer to my Octo ber 1st letter to Premier Stalin . . . I will await an answer from Prem ier Stalin. If he is' sincere in his expressed desire for world peace, he will answer me in due time.") Senators Pledge ' Further Efforts On Alaska Defense PORTLAND. Oct 20-MVThree UJS. senators returned from Alas ka tonight pledging further ef forts .to keep -military defenses there. Members of a senate armed ser vices subcommittee, they also in spected other Alaskan defenses. Sen. Lester Hunt (D-Wyo) com mented that his reportto congress would "emphasize the need for adequate defenses in Alaska and for closer understanding on the civilian front Republican Wayne Morse of Ore gon urged immediate statehood for Alaska, and Republican Leverett Saltonstall. of Massachusetts re marked that Alaska's . security means a great deal to the UJS. - Called Abs Pbrm'an 0 ffe r s Second Pay Boost Plan for Stato A second plan within two days' for state employes' pay " increases was suggested Friday by Harry Dorman, state budget department director.. -: The increase might range as high as $30 a month on an across-the-board basis. It would be based on cost of living and would be in addition to the state civil service commission proposal for equaliza tion salary and wage adjustments. The latter-plan was released Thursday. . . There would be an average wage increase of $10 a month, for state workers; under the civil service commission, plan. ' The across-the-board increase Suggested by Dorman would con tinue until June SO, 1951, the last day of the current biennium. in the meantime the 1951 legislature would ' have an opportunity to study the entire salary and wage I prolect" "In conscctuene of the added ' compensation,'' Dorman said In a PRICE 5e No. 2S3 ver ByMacArtlmr TOKYO. Oct 21 4(V General MacArthurs intelligence -officer estimated today that 28,000 North Koreans nearly half of the tm organized strength north , of the 38th parallel were caught behind T 4,iuu American paratroopers in Friday's air drop. The officer said some of these reds undoubtedly .would filter in to the hills and melt away in small bands. But he said none of the secondary ; roads still open would permit any 4 flight with ' heavy - miinmpnt. - The officer estimated that the total red force in North Korea is 63,000. . He described the operation as "practically perfect" Reds resistance was overcome before It could get started, the ef- : fleer said. Roads leading from Pyongyang to Sukchon and Sun- chon have been secured, he added.' Resistance in Pyongyang was reported flickering out , American tanks have crossed the Taedong and are Jn the former rea capital, xne only action re- ported was caused by pockets aad snipers. - The ' British common wealth brigade is. mopping up the western sector and preparing; to push on north soon afterward. Intelligence has written off as having ceased to exist the two ' North Korean corps headquarters organizations, ine omcer . eateu .-. Commanding generals are believed to have escaped. But officers said : that no messages, captured orders. L prisoners statements or any other ' information over past two weeks has indicated headquarters sua are operating. . . . ' They said it appears that the organized enemy units are being controlled entirely locally without r VVUUOA UOUUflU ICte -'l . U. S. first cavalrymen sped 30 miles north of Pyongyang today . and linked up with 4,100 Ameri can paratroopers, clearing the way for three South Korean division reported massing for a sweep to -the Manchurian border. The linkuff solidified position " first seized Friday by the para troopers within 80 miles of that border. : ' : " The South Korean sixth division t-s had linked up with the paratroop ers Friday a few hours after the air-drop. The paratrooper opera tion slammed the doors of escape on ivorm K.orean , rea troona around ' Pyongyang, their . fallen ---capital. ' The South Korean sixth, eighth and seventh divisions, were ex pected to make the push north. . "The war is "very definitely ', coming at an end," General Mac Arthur said after watching two . battalions of the 187th regiment 11th airborne division, drop front 120 planes on the North Korean highway hubs of Sukchon and . Sunchon. Both are about . 30 miles north of Pyongyang. ; The twin purposes of this first paratrooper action of the Korean war was (1) to seal off northward , routes of escape for any reds be tween those points and Pyongyang and (2) to effect the resone, if, possible, of any American pris oners of war. : . . Bad Weather thwarted plans to trap an even larger force of reds : hr maa-ina thai rtrflTI ThundaT while the US, First cavalry and the South Korean First division wre entertnff Pronmnr. POLIO CASES REPORTED PORTLAND, Oct 20-VTwo nnr mim nf fnfantfl ; nralvt) were reported to the city health bunMti tnrfav. hrinsina' the year's : total tn 87 in Portland. letter to state department heads. "Employes should do their utmost to keep the departments Jn such shape that additional help will net . be required. "Unless we are able to pay, a considerable part of these t added costs from uniuiea positions and from savings already accom- . plished through this source, the whole plan will fail for lack t funds. , Even on - this basis,' Dorman averred, part of the money would have to be acquired from the state emergency board. state departments merit increases have been given automatically I or flm. urimI in thm (fonartmcmtl Ti accomplish our plan merit la creases," Dorman continued. Those people deserving increases should get them but the worker wag uua uui, uj ium w amount and quality of work ac complished truly merit an la crease should not be granted this conaaeraaon. ' . . Nearly 0