Crazed Veteran iulactiinGguns
Five tto Beath, Wounds Others
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VINELAND, N. J., Nov. 17-GP)-A
crazed 26-year-old war veteran
who machine gunned to death live
people, including three of his es
tranged wife's family and his un
cle, was captured tonight by New
Jersey state police.
Ernest Ingenito was reported to
have wounded at least four oth
ers during his rampage of death
in the tiny village of Piney Hol
low, a farm and scrub pine section
of south Jersey.
State police at the Malaga, N.
J., station said Ingenito was ap
prehended by two troopers at 1:25
a. xxl, four hours and 25 minutes
after he fired the first shots.
Ingenito gave up without a
struggle, police said, after a short
chase into T township, ad
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'IKJD LOQLri
Judrin by press reports the
delegates attending the Spokane
meeting of the National Reclama
tion association must have had a
rip-roaring time. Dead cats were
thrown -around in all directions.
Mike Straus, reclamation commis
sioner, accused the Texas and
California affiliates of sabotaging
the - program of the association;
and that brought a spirited reply
from a Fresno delegate who ac
cused the reclamation bureau of
autocracy. H. T. Nelson, regional
director of the bureau at Boise,
made a plea for the "basin 'ac
count" which embraces a pooling
of revenues and diversion of same
to further, irrigation where costs
exceed capacity of landowners to
repay. This would suck in the
famed "interest component" on
power project costs which NRA
officials have contended should be
returned to the national treasury.
President Polk of the association
called for greater local responsibil
ity and control; and Marshall Dana
brought in a committee report for
a basin development plan that
would be an alternate to valley
authorities, which NRA fights and
the interior and reclamation or
facials favor.
: Spokane must have been a real
battleground: Shades of, the Old
West, when men fought over wat
erholes and cattlemen shot down
Invading sheepmen! Who came
out the victor is not reported. The
probability is that the feud was
merely, intensified by we ex-
changes. - -.!'..-. y",
; The Dana plan looks pretty
fuzzy to me. It seems to contem
plate having present federal agen
cies build the works and then have
"men on the land" or states oper
ate the projects. "One must have
the full text of the report to see
just what was proposed; but I
: can't see any congress turning
(Continued on Editorial Page 4)
On Big Cliff
PORTLAND, Nov. 11-UPh-A low
bid of $324,176 was submitted by
the Shea company, Alhambra,
Calif., for work at the site of the
Big Cliff dam on the North San
tiam river, six miles west of De
troit, the corps of engineers an
nounced today. ; ;.'
The project includes construe-?
tion of a diversion tunnel and re
location of a section of railroad.
' Big Cliff is a re-regulating dam
about three miles downstream
from Detroit dam, now under con
struction. Ten other bids were submitted.
Government estimate for the
work was $368,168.
DENIES ATTACK REPORT
PARIS. Nov. 17-flPY-A French
air force officer, who flew aboard
the Soviet hospital plane ' which
carried French communist leader
Maurice Thorez to Moscow, today
denied that an American fighter
attacked the plane over. Germany.
Shea
Bid Low
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Animal Crackers
By WARREN COOORICH .
V3 ft WHATPCH-ICPPTliLil. tnc.
jacent to Vineland. They chased
him half a mile before the squad
car cut off his green Ford sedan
and brought him to a halt.
Police did not say if they found
the machine gun in the get-away
car.
The gunman killed his victims
in the homes of his estranged
wife and her father and then es
caped in a green, four-door Ford
sedan through a statewide police
dragnet.
State police, gradually piecing
together the story of death, said
Ingenito sped his car to Minotola.
another rural settlement, and
wounded several other persons.
The dead were identified as
Michael Mazzoli, 44, Ingenito's
father-in-law; Mrs. Pearl Maz
Mouse Seeks Senate
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Aid ora Tax
By Paul W. Harvey, Jr.
Leaders of the Oregon house of representatives want the senate
to help work out a joint tax program, in order to shorten the 1951
state legislature. ,
The ways and means committees of the two houses sit together to
make the appropriations. The
house leaders want the same sys
tem' for the tax committees.
In recent sessions, the house
committee would hold hearings
and finally get its tax program
completed after a couple ' of
months or more. Then the senate
tax committee would hold its own
hearings, rewrite the house ver
sion, and send it back to the
house.
Then the house members ac
cepted the senate tax bill in order
to end the session. '
Hold Joint Hearings
Under the new plan, .the tax
committees of the two houses
would hold all their hearings to
gether and draft the tax bills.
Then the bills would go to the
house, because the constitution
provides that all tax bills must
start in the house.
The bills would go from the
house straight to the senate. Much
time and money would be saved.
. Senate leaders haven't yet said
whether they would go for the
idea. Some feel it is better to keep
the present system. They think
better legislation results if the
two houses develop their own
ideas.
But other committees of - the
two houses, such as highway, ag
riculture and fisheries meet
jointly. '
Short on Know How
The house is woefully short of
men who know about state fi
nances. Of the 11 men on the 1949
house tax committee, only three
will be back And only three of
the seven members of the 1949
house ways and means committee
will be in the new legislature.
Rep. John F. Steelhammer, Sa
lem republican who seems a cinch
to be speaker of the new house,
isn't saying who will head the
two financial committees.
But the answers are very plain.
Rep. Henry Semon, Klamath
Falls democrat who's been in the
house since 1933, probably will
be ways and means chairman.
Wilhelm Qualified
And Rep. Rudie Wilheln, jr.
Portland republican who has been
in the house for two sessions, is
slated to head the tax committee.
Semon, a 66-year-old . potato
grower; stands high .among the
republican leadership despite be
ing a democrat. He was chairman
of the committee in 1949 and 1945
and was vice chairman in 1947.
Wilhelm, 36, a Portland ware
houseman, is a bright, young man
who seems headed for the speak
ership, possibly in 1953. He's
never served on the tax commit
tee before. But he showed he
knows a lot about finances in
1949, when he was on the ways
and means committee, j
WATER SUPPLY CUT
COOS BAY. Nov. 17 -VPh A
water main break left Coos Bay
and North Bend temporarily with
out water tonight.
Foreign Students Visit Salem, Capitol
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FeirelsastBdents attendw the University ef Oregon at Eoxene are shown leaving the state eapitol build -inr
Friday morning as they made their first stop en three-day tour around the state. Oregon clrie
buildings in Salem were Inspected by the 20 foreign students from IS different countries. The group
wiU spend ene day la Portland visiting a newspaper plant, a. department store and ether points ef ln-
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zoli, 44, his mother-in-law; John
Pioppi, 46, his uncle; Mrs. Theresa
Pioppi, 64, his wife's grandmoth
er, and Marion Pioppi, 28.
Among the wounded were In
genito's wife, Tessie, 23, and a
nine-year-old girl, Jean Pioppi.
Other wounded, all reported in
critical condition as Newcomb
hospital in Vineland, were identi
fied as Mrs. Hilda Mazzoli, 34 and
her husband Frank, 35.
The shoo tine recalled the Sept
6, 1949, killing of 13 persons by I
xiowara unrun in tamaen, aoout
20 miles from the scene of to
night's machine gunnings. Unruh,
a war veteran, now in the New
Jersey state hospital for the in
sane, turned loose a German luger
on his unsuspecting victims.
Program
150 Delegates
Open OSEA
Convention
Voting. on a hopperful of 63 re
solutions will occupy the business
session today of the Oregon State
Employees association convention.
which opened here Friday. ,
The resolutions deal with civil
service, working conditions, state
retirement program and associa
tion affairs. A banquet for dele
gates, visitors and their wives will
be held at 6:30 o'clock tonight in
the Camellia room of the Senator
hotel.
About 150 delegates and visitors
registered for the opening session
Friday morning at the hotel. Open
ing address was given by Gov.
Douglas McKay, who told them a
pay increase was necessary for
state workers at this time.
"The increase is necessary,' said
the governor, "in order to keep
good people, satisfied employes and
to serve the public properly.
Gov. McKay praised state em
ployes for their outstanding record
of public service. He said he. has
not received many complaints on
employe-public relations.
" Association President E. F. Chid
sey reported the organization has
increased to about 5,000 members.
comprising about 45 per cent of
all state employes. During the past
year, he said, a life insurance po
licy for members has been started,
a hospital and health plan pro
gram is being advanced and vaca
tion time has been extended.
(Additional details on page 5.)
Ankeny Snubs
School'Merger
Staieimaa Newt Service
ROSED ALE, Nov. 17 Ankeny
voters Friday turned down a pro
posal to consolidate their school
district with Rosedale.
Rosedale residents favored the
consolidation 15-8 while the mer
ger lost in the Ankeny district
24-14. Approval by both districts
was needed to effect the consoli
dation. STORM WARNINGS UP
SEATTLE, Nov. 17 -JFy- The
weather bureau tonight ordered
storm warnings changed to small
craft Warnings along the Wash
ington coast and continuance of
small craft warnings on the Ore
gon coast southward to Cape
Blanco.
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Rainfall
River
Threat
Slight
A month's rain in three days
had the , Willamette valley gulp
ing for relief that wasn't in sight
early today. -
But river experts expected no
serious flooding in western Ore
gon despite the prolonged wet
spell. i '
The storm total gained another
1.5 inches in Salem Friday to
stand at 5.85 inches at. midnight
a shade t under the normal total
of 6.06 for all of November.
River Rise Slows
Rise' of the Willamette river
here slowed to a crawl yesterday
and Elmer Thomas, Salem river
reader, doubted that its crest
would be much over 15 feet. He
said the Willamette was already
receding at Eugene.
One of Friday's hardest down
pours greeted homeward workers
at 5 p.m., and two rush-hour ac
cidents sent ambulances into the
traffic melee.
Max Vogan, 17. of 663 N. 20th
st, was struck by a semi tractor
at Union and North Capitol
streets. He was hospitalized brief
ly for treatment of a foot injury
and -.bruises. Police listed the dri
ver as Charles A. Foster, Salem
route 4. box 1014. He was not
cited. "
Engine-Car Collide
A mother and her four-year
old son escaped injury when their
car and a Southern Pacific switch
engine collided a few minutes
earlier at Trade and South Church
streets. Police said the occupants
were Mrs. Harriet G. Horner,
Salem route 4, box 18 A, and her
son, Richard.
While the valley absorbed more
rain, a heavy new mantle of snow
closed the ML Hood . Loop high
way (for .the winter) and the
McKenzie pass between Eugene
and Bend. Snow plows worked
in relays on the Santiam and
Willamette pass routes.
No road closures were report
ed nearer Salem, but some routes
were under water in spots. A bus
stalled when it struck a puddle
east of Stayton on the Santiam
highway. Passengers were trans
ferred to another bus.
Pumps Continue
The Four Corners Community
hall was surrounded by water
which seeped inside to a four'
inch depth.
Street crews continued their in
termittent battle with surface
water in Salem. No pumps were in
action late last night, but equip
ment stood by at Trade and 24th
streets and Madison and 17th. .
The Salem weather bureau pre
dicted more showers today with
rain again tonight and early Sun
day.
A Washington, D. C, weather
forecast : capped that Friday by
predicting above-normal precipi
tation in Oregon from mid-November
to mid-December.
COFFEE PRICE WAR ENDS
PORTLAND, Nov. 17-jP-The
coffee price war came to an end
here today, but the law suit that
grew out of it will not be dropped,
a spokesman for the Oregon Food
Merchants association said. Name
brand coffee, which dropped as
low as 59 cents a pound, sold today
for 83 cents.
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Total Near 6 Inches in Stor:
(SnvpBDairD Uses
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NEW YORK, Not. 17 Plx, Inc a New Terk picture agency which distributed this picture, sayi It came
from its photographer, I. R. Lorwin, In SeouL with eapUon describing it as ahowina- South Koreas com
munist collaborators retting off
aeaw by ruing squad under sentence or military court In Seoul.
UM. Troops Airier
SEOUL, Saturday, Nov. 18 -UPl
U. S. tanks, churning through the
snow of northeast Korea, today
lost contact with diintegrating
enemy forces trying to block the
road to the border, hardly a day's
march away..
A field dispatch, said North
Korean communists between the
seventh division and the bomb
devastated city of Kansan, 21
miles from the Manchurian bor
der, -had fled. The Americans
hope to reach the border within
three or four days by a slow,
cautious advance.
Farther northeast South Korean
forces 90 miles from Siberia went
over to the attack with resistance
in front of theem also evaporat
ing. On the western end of the 250
mile U. N. line, intelligence offi
cers said 100.000 Chinese and
North Korean reds appeared to
be retiring to mountain defenses.
The enemy was believed to be
setting up a 60-mile east-west
line anchor near " Taechon, ' 45
miles from the Yalu river boun
dary with Manchuria.
Behind the front war flared In
central Korea. South Korean po
lice routed 30 red guerrillas who
had set the town of Kapyong on
fire and put its 8,000 civilians to
flight in the wintry weather.
A tank column of the seventh
division, smashing a communist
ambush south of Kapsan Friday,
kept on going although its pro
gress was slowed by a three-inch
overnight snowfall. :
The storm brought relief from
the freezing temperatures which
had gripped the northeast front
for days.
- (Additional details on page 2.)
PLANE LANDS SAFELY
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 17-VP)-A
Washington air national guard
plane limped safely into Portland
on one engine tonight after run
ning into icing conditions in the
Columbia river, gorge.
Daily Bible selections made
by the American Bible society
for the annual Worldwide
Bible Reading program, begin
ning Thanksgiving, again will
be presented on The Oreron
Statesman's Saturday church
page, starting today.
Passages for each week
ahead in the one-month em
phasis will be listed each Sat
urday in
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Flegel Not to Run
For, Office Again
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PORTLAND. Nov. n-fflVAus-
tin Flegel, defeated democratic
candidate for governor, will not
again be a candidate for public
office i
That's what he told Multnomah
county democrats last night after
thanking precinct committeemen
for their election help.
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Gollazo Enters
Innocent Plea
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 17
I plead not guilty, your honor."
Thus spoke Oscar Collazo to
day when called upon to plead
to an Indictment carrying the
possible death penalty fcr his
part in the Nov. 1 attempt of two
Puerto- Rican revolutionists to kill
President Truman.
The six words were all Collazo
said during today's brief pro
ceedings before U. S. District
Judge Henry A. Schweinhaut.
Judge Schweinhaut set no trial
date but, in effect, rejected Dec.
13, a date favored by U. S. Dis
trict Attorney George Morris Fay.
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Independence Driver
Injured in Mishap
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Jerry Kesten, 20, Independence,
was injured Friday when his auto
overturned on the Salem-Dallas
highway near Eola about 12:15
p. m. i
condition at Salem General hos
pital Friday night. He incurred
head and knee injuries according
to attendants. His car was badly
damaged.
Vandenberg
For Foreign Relations
; WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. -fa5)
Senator Morse (R-Ore) pressed his
fight for a seat on the senate for
eign relations -committee by pro
ducing today a letter from Sena
tor Vandenberg of Michigan.
In it VandenbeOi top-ranking
republican on the committee, told
Morse the path is now clear for
you to cash your IOU on a seat"
Vandenberg added that he would
be happy over such an outcome.
A fight appeared to be on be
tween Morse and forces backing
Senator Knowland (R-Calif ) : for
the coveted committee ' vacancy
in the new congress. The outcome
may have an . important bearing
on the course of foreign policy.
Vandenberg has been a leader
in an effort to carry out a bi
partisan foreign policy. 'Morse
November 18, 1950
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(AP Wlrepnoto to The Statesman.)
Trap Fails
Aid for Tito
WASHINGTON. Nov. IT -65V-
President Truman said today the
acuity of Yugoslavia to withstand
an attack by Russia or Its satel
lites "would be dangerously weak
ened if the drouth-stricken coun
try doesn't get prompt relief aid
rrom the united States.
In a message to key congression
al leaders ; of both parties, the
president also said that Tito's ef
forts to control subversive ele
ments In bis country may be "se
riously, if not fatally undermined',
unless such aid la forthcoming.
The president Is expected to ask
congress to supply some $80,000.
000 in aid to Yugoslavia, in addi
tion to some $20,000,000 in stop
gap aid which is already being un
dertaken.. In a message to key congres
sional leaders, the president has
Kinted out that "Tito controls the
gest fighting force In Europe,
except the Soviet union and these
forces constitute an Important ele
ment in the defense of western
Europe against Soviet aggression."
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly
cloudy today, tonight and Sunday.
Shower today with rain again tonight
and early Sunday. High today 48-50.
Low tonight 38-40. . -
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llnr start at weather Tea Scot. 1
This Year
Last Year
normal
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Truman
Letter Boosts Morso
probably has been more often in
Vandenberg's . corner than .. has
Knowland.
. Morse has the ' advantage - of
seniority, a point cherished by the
senate. The attitude of Vanden
berg has been a big question
mark.
Morse claimed this was answer
ed by the . letter, , which: read as
follows:
"I do not need to tell you that
I am happy over your richly de
served Tuesday victory. I never
doubted the outcome. X should say
the path is now clear for you to
cash your IOU on a seat In the
foreign relations committee.
"If I succeed In returning in
January which X expect to do.
at least on limited term X shall
I be entirely oomfortable and hap
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Wire Users
Complain of
Supply Cuts
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17 -i-V-
The national production authority
today notified the copper and
brass industries it has drafted an
order curtailing the civilian use
of copper. The cut, not announced,
reportedly will be 25 or 30 per
cent..- , '
The action will reduce suDDliea
for manufacturers of radio and
television sets, makers of cars '
and household appliances, and the
electronics and communications
industries. -
At the same time. NPA received
complaints from the telephone.
telegraph, radio and cable indus-
tries that they are not receiving
sufficient wire and other supplies
to keep up "ordinary maintenance
of the nation's communications
system.
Request Priorities ' -
They asked that NPA rece-
nlze the essentiality of the com-'
mumcauon industry and grant 11
a priority eiiner just Deiow tnai
of the military or equal to it. ;
NPA Artminicti-stn William IT , .
Harrison assured representatives
of those industries at a meeting
that his agency "somehow" wiU
channel enough supplies to main-'
tain present communication net
works. He served notice, however,
that NPA can make no guaran
tees of aid in expansion of the
industry. ?
The industry spokesman told
Harrison that nearly all branches .
of communiations . have back
logs of demand still unfilled -as a
result of World War IL ,
Percentage net Revealed -
Harrison balked at- the idea of
a priority, but said NPA can and
will issue special,"directives
when necessary to take care of
emergency or hardship cases la
which a breakdown of communi
cations is threatened. In soma
cases these might take precedence
over military orders, he said.
Although the pending copper .
order will affect the communica
tion firms, the discussion of it to
day centered in a session of NPA
officials with the brass milL cop
per and copper wire mill and cop
per f orgings industries.
Tha order Is necessary, Hani
son said, to assure that available
supplies, of copper products art
equitably distributed among civile
lan users after stockpile and mill
tary needs are taken care of. Tb4
order will curtail the sale
civilian copper by e certain
centage of the amount
by each company in the first
of 1950.
Driver Hurt
In Collision
James E. Byers, 31, 24S0 N. It
st, was injured when his ca
collided with a parked auto in thd
2300 block of N. 5th st FridaJ
night, city police reported.
His condition was reported
"good" at Salem General hospital
early today. City first aldmejj
said he incurred lip laceration! .
and possible chest injuries. Policy
said a second parked car wai
damaged In the accident 1
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coniiunavi
halt
Four Added to Naral
Reserve Surface Unit
Addition of four members 14
Salem navy organized reserve
surface division 13-28 was an- :v
nounced Friday. It brought the
unit's enlisted strength to 68. An
other 98 have left for active duti
The new members are Pat 1.
Smith, Aumsville, the only vet
eran; James R. Moullet Suvertonj
Everett D. Farlow, Salem, and
Jack I Ayres, Lebanon.
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py to see you in this committee"
position (where I nave no couci
there will be plenty of Jobs fct
us to da together). T ;
"Good luck! ' - - - -
"With warm personal regards
and best wishes, ' cordially and '
faithfully, Arthur H. Vandenberg :
The committee seat at issue will
be filled by the senate republicans
committee on committees. The va .
cancy results from increased re;
puuiu.au yunu iu .uw uw .
gress. .Whereas .the present ratie -u
eight democrats and five rets
publicans, the new committee wO
remm niw usuivvii . aiw
six repubUoans. - . -
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