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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
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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
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. 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
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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. ' -' .
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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.
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Sine start al waalhar year Set. 1
This Year
Last Year
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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. ' . .
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