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Tills was the scene of death sod starvation which erected City policemen Monday nlrht when called to
the home of Mrs. Melissa Shattnck, 1337 N. Winter U The top photo shows the bed on which Walton
Shattnck, 42, was found near death of malnutrition and exposure. At lower left is pictured the
stove on which decayed food, some of it apparen tly consumed by Shattnck, was found. At lower riht
la the closet trunk in whicJi pouce
4 The Portland Oregonian one day
lice of Chief Justice Hall S. Lusk,
showing a bucket catching the drip
from rainwater leaking through
trie root, xjus was not pea
or trick shot. The roof of the old
buildinsf is noted for its sieve-like
character, and repeated efforts at
The delect is typical or tne
structure which has become quite
obsolete for the housing of the
state supreme court, a coordinate
division of state government: It is
wrongly placed to begin with, the
heavy volume of rail traffic on
12th street and of vehicular traf
fic on Twelfth - and State streets
mnst riisturbin. Conferences
just adjourn while heavy trains
rumble by.
An architectural survey was
made for the alteration and reno
vation of the building. The estim
ated cost in 1949 was $147,499.r I
hope that the legislature will not
appropriate money for this work
hut instead will authorize con
struction of a new supreme court
building. Eventually a new build
.ing will be required; then the pres
ent building could be converted
for other uses. To spend at least
1150.000 for rather temporary re-
construction would be largely
money thrown away because later
the building would neea to oe re
modeled for use as a general office
building.: '
As the work- of the court grows,
more employes will be needed,
such as law clerks. If the court
lor
(Continued on editorial page, 4.)
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
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750 Cash Found
Iti Littered House
By Thomas G. Wricht
Staff Writer, Th Statesman
A 79-year-old mother was
found dead and her 42-year-old
mentally-ill son near death of
malnutrition -and exposure Mon
day night in their unheated two
story home at 1337 N. Winter st.
where later several hundred dol
lars were discovered cached in a
closet. '
Deputy Coroner " Charles Ed
wards said he estimated that the
woman, Mrs. Melissa Shattuck,
had been dead about 10 days.
Her son, Walton M. Shattuck,
was taken to Salem General hos
pital where his condition remain
ed "extremely critical" early this
morning.
The tragic situation was dis
covered by a neighbor who had
become suspicious at not seeing
any activity around the house
for several days.
C D. Hawley, who resides at
1305 N. Winter st, adjacent to
the Shattuck home, said he be
came worried about the pair af
, ter he had not noticed the woman
about for several days and had
not seen lights in the house. Mon
day night shortly after 7 pjn. he
decided to investigate and after
getting no answer to his knock,
checked the mail box. He said
a card in the box, postmarked
over a week ago, raised his sus
picions so he entered the house
by a rear door.
Found Woman Dead
Hawley told police he found
the woman dead in her bed and
the man half -on, half -off another
bed in a comatose condition.
Hawley returned to his house,
which he rented from Mrs. Shat
tuck, and called police.
First Aid Captain Charles
Charlton who checked Shattuck.
when he arrived at the house
minutes later, said the man prob
Governor Refuses to
Proclaim Bird "Week
DENVER, Nov. 20-(l)-Acting
Gov. Charles P. Murphy refused
today to yield to entreaties of bird
lovers that he proclaim this nation
al bird week in Colorado.
The - republican rancher said,
"after all, this : is Thanksgiving
week, when a lot of Turkeys will
be killed, and pheasant season
opens Sunday. I don't think we
ought to discriminate against tur
keys and pheasants during bird
week." .:
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ro RECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field. Salem): Partly
cloudy with few shower today, in
creasing' cloudiness with rain late to
night. High today near 55; low tonight
near 40.
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ably would have been dead in a
half -hour had he not been found
Shattuck was taken to Salem
General hospital by first aid am
bulance.
Evidence indicated that the son
had eaten of decayed food, ap
parently cooked by bis mother
before her death. Bits of food
were found in several rooms of
the house and in the bed where
Shattuck had been discovered.
Bills, Coins Found,
Police with Assistant County
Coroner Charles Edward check
ed the cluttered downstairs rooms
of the old house and discovered
bills and coins in a closet trunk.
Police estimated the sum at over
$750. Bank books found in the
trunk, indicated that accounts
had been closed for several years,
Walton Shattuck had been a
patient at Oregon state hospital
for many years, but after his
father died his mother secured
his release and cared for him in
her home, relatives said.
The Shattucks had occupied
the North Winter street home for
many years, neighbors reported.
Up until a few months ago, rooms
and apartments had been rented
on the upstairs floor. Neighbors
said they had last seen Mrs.
Shattuck about ten days ago at
which time she appeared in good
health. Mrs. Robert Shattuck,
wife of another son, said they
had visited there about two
weeks ago but had not been in
contact since.
Surviving Mrs. Shattuck are
other son, Benjamin Shattuck.
Salem; daughters, Mrs. Tillie
, Overfield. Salem, Mrs. Ruth
Overfield, Silverton, and Mrs,
Joyce Sprankle, Gerng, Nebr.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later from the How
ell-Edwards chapel.
Corvallis Woman
Pleads Innocent
To Murder Charge
CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 20-CP)
-Mrs. Sigrud Hansen, 53, pleaded
innocent today when arraigned
before Circuit Judge Fred Mc
Henry on indictment on a charge
of first degree murder in the
death of her husband. .
The husband was found bat
tered and dying in an apartment
house garage Sept, 10. Mrs. Han
sen was arrested in Eugene Sat
urday after a secret indictment
by the Benton county grand jury,
Judge McHenry set a tentative
date of December 12 for her trial.
Because of her health, she 'Will
be confined, at the Multnomah
county jail quarters for women
until the trial. She had been or
dered to a Corvallis hospital Sat
urday night by a physician who
explained Mrs. Hansen long had
suffered from high blood pres
sure.
Chinese
Soldiers
Fear U.S.
TOKYO. Nov. 20-JPhThe shock
of allied firepower has demoral
ized Chinese communist morale, in
Korea, General MacArthur's head
quarters said today.
The word comes from Chinese
communist prisoners, who also
deny they came to Korea as vol
unteers, headquarters reported.
Red China insists only Chinese
"volunteers' are fighting in Korea,
An intelligence spokesman said
these statements were gained from
interrogating approximately ISO
prisoners from one division of the
Chinese communist 38th army.
The captives said the army's
morale had been high before it was
hit by the allied sledgehammer in
northwest Korea November 5.
Chinese soldiers had not expected
anything like this blow, the
spokesman said.
In their wars with the Chinese
nationalists, the officer observed,
the Chinese reds could not have
felt the firepower force of "a mod
ern army."
Low Strafing New
Strafing attacks and fire bombs.
the prisoners said, were parti
cularly demoralizing. They said
they had been strafed before, in
the Chinese civil war, "but never
from a low as 50 feet.
Not only did they deny volun
teering, the spokesman reported,
but they said they did not know
any Chinese who . did volunteer.
They seemed a little surprised by
the entire question of "volunteers.
The prisoners said no units in
their division of the 38th army
were integrated with North Ko
rean troops. This belied another
claim , of the Peiping radio that
Chinese and North Koreans were
fighting shoulder to shoulder.
Mutual Dislike
Actually, the prisoners added.
there was very little contact with
the North Koreans and even, this
much was marked by mutual dis
like and suspicion.
The 38th army got no help from
North Koreans in maintaining sup
ply lines from the Manchurian side
of the Yalu river. Supplies, the
prisoners said, were an unexpected
problem. They had never encount
ered complete superiority in the
air and the consequent harras-
ment of convoys. Food was always
short.
Early In October
Dates of movements of the 38th
army, the spokesman said, show
that Communist China began pre
paring to put Chinese troops into
the fight during the first weeks of
October.
The army, comprised of three
divisions of 9,000 or 10,000 men
each and some special units, orig
inated at Changchun, capital of
Manchuria. It probably entrained
for Mukden about October 10.
In Mukden the troops got win
ter clothing and some queer in
structions. The gear indicated they
would be in the field for several
months, at least. Among the in
structions were orders to destroy
all letters or papers identifying
them as communist army regulars.
They were forbidden to frater
nize or talk with Koreans in Man
churia, and were told not to speak
Chinese in the presence of Korean
civilians. The American spokes
man said he did not believe they
knew any language except Chin
ese, but they got such orders any
way.
WINS CAR BREAKS ANKLE
DENVER, Nov. 20-UPhSgt. N.
D. Sanford of Lowry air base was
told he had just won an auto
mobile. Letting out a whoop, he
dashed from the telephone booth
to tell his buddies. Sanford forgot
the booth is on a platform. He
called for the car today with a
cast on his broken ankle.
State Interim Tax Board
Cigaret Tax to Pay for
More economy in state govern
ment and use of a cigaret tax for
financing the veterans' bonus were
recommended for consideration of
the 1951 legislature by the legis
lative interim committee on tax
ation at a meeting Monday in
Salem.
This was the last meeting of the
committee before drafting its re
port, r
Rep. Giles French of Moro pre
viously had suggested a surtax on
incomes, tentatively at the rate of
15 per cent, which, he said, would
raise approximately $4,500,000 a
year. No action was taken on this
suggestion. .
It was estimated that a three
cent per package cigaret tax would
produce $5,000,000 a year. A pre
vious cigaret tax law ln Oregon
was declared unconstitutional by
the state supreme court and many
payments tinder the act had to be
refunded by the state tax commis
sion. There was little opposition to a
Plan for Lancaster Bypass EaOirte
Abandoned; Meiv foad Surveye
A new truck by-pass highway
east of Salem, which would dis
card Lancaster drive as route
choice, is under survey by state
highway crews. '
The new route, survey for
which is about half completed, is
still in the long range planning
stage, according to W. C Wil
liams, assistant state highway
engineer. It is included Ln the
greater traffic plan for Salem,"
and plans for its completion are
"very tentative."
Striking out southeast from the
Pacific highway at Hayesville
school (just north of Salem) the
proposed route would lie about
one-quarter mile west of Lan
caster drive. It will pass just west
Central Reno
Floods as River
Tops Sandbags
RENO. Nev.. Nov. 21-JP) - A
sudden surge of the Truckee riv
er sent millions of gallons of wa
ter pouring over hastily erected
sandbag walls into downtown
Reno this morning.
The river thad been building to
a climax all day but its sudden
rise about 10:30 p. m. forced many
theater and night club patrons
to wade through water as deep
as three feet at places.
First street, one of the main
thoroughfares, was turned into a
torrent. Women in high heeled
shoes and men in dress suits
were unable to leave the swank
Mapes hotel at First and Virginia
streets without wading in . ankle
deep water.
. Across the river to the south,
water was seeping into the plush
Riverside hotel, gambling casino
and bar. Patrons remained at the
tables and Proprietor Mert Wert-
heimer jokingly said he would
provide bipboots if necessary.
Men, women and in some cases
even children worked rapidly to
protect other business establish
ments. So quickly had the river
risen that few had a chance to
prepare in advance.
An unidentified man dropped
dead as he worked to save stock
in the basement of a department
store.
Automobiles were stranded
throughout the flood section,
many with their lights on and a
few with motors still running.
At First and Lake streets the
muddy water poured in one front
door of a flashy Cadillac and out
the other.
Emergency crews worked at
log jams threatening to destroy
several of the eight bridges which
cross the river inside the city
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umiis.
Morse Brings Oregon
Chickens to Washington
WASHINGTON, D. , Nov. 20
-Pr-Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore)
brought his own Oregon fryers to
Washington when he returned for
the short session of congress.
Instead of his show horse,
which he usually brings east with
him, the senator loaded his trail
er with 21 frying size chickens. He
put them on a friend's farm near
here, and will kill them as his
family hungers for them.
SHIGEMTTSU RELEASED
TOKYO, Tuesday, Nov. 2l-(!Ph
Mamoru Shigemitsu. Japan's war
time foreign minister, was released
from Sugamo prison today. He was
parolled from a seven-year sen
tence as a war criminal despite a
Russian protest,
motion by Sen. Eugene Marsh, Mc
Minnville, that no state property
tax should be levied until all other
sources of revenue were exhausted.
Any mandatory provision was el
iminated and all revenues would
go into the state general, fund.
French had suggested that the
question of repealing the state
property tax be referred to the
voters through constitutional
amendment.
French stressed that many large
state-wide organizations in Ore
gon had expressed themselves in
favor of repealing the state pro
perty levy which has not been
imposed for 10 years.
Deputy State Treasurer Fred
Paulus told the committee it would
be dangerous to repeal the state
property tax law, without certain
restrictions, for the reason that
such action would Impair certain
state obligation bonds and the Ore
gon bond market.
At a previous meeting the com
mittee voted to recommend repeal
of State street Four Corners. From
there, in a wide arc it will go al
most southwest and connect with
the Pacific highway about five
miles south of Salem.
Near Fa or Corners .
At its northern terminus it
passes along just eat of Hollywood
avenue land west of Fisher road.
It crosses State street about one
quarter mile west of Four Corners
and then swings a bit easterly to
lie west of the Salem-Aumsville
highway south of Four Corners
and just east of Paradise Islands
farm, j
The route then swings south
and - west again east of Hillcrest
school for girls, crosses Boone
road about one-half mile east of
Pringle ! school and connects with
the Pacific highway near its in
tersection with Reese road south
of Salem.
No Established Route '
The 200 - foot right-of-way
would not be located on any es
tablished route and will skirt east
of McNary field. When the sur
vey is Completed, says Williams,
the next job would be to purchase
property along the right-of-way.
He indicated this might begin
soon, j
Lancaster drive has been elim
inated as the main by-pass route
because; said Williams, "it is a
county road of restricted width
and because of its many business
houses the expense of widening
it wou-4 be terrific.'
"Many routes were studied In
that area before a survey was
ordered-! The new route would
pass largely through open fields
and its estimated 94,000,000 cost
is far below the expense of bring
ing Lancaster drive up to the
standards of an inter-state high
way.
Free-Way Highway
The new route when completed
would, 1 according to prescribed
plans, be a four-lane free-way
highway. Cloverleaf grade separ-
Hospital Burns
In Zero Cold
JUNEAU, Alaska, Nov. 20-(ff)-Scores
of patients were evacuated
safely today when fire destroyed
the Alaska Native Service hospi
tal at Bethel, ln the Yukon val
ley, in zero weather.
None of the patients was in
jured bet one hospital employe
was hurt during removal of the
invalids.:
Hugh iWade, area director for
the Alaska native service, said a
report received here from Dr.
Duncan Chalmers, head of the
hospital,! said the $300,000 build
ing was a total loss.
Dr. Chalmers asked for immedi
ate aid la providing suitable quar
ters fori 27 patients deemed in
need of immediate hospitaliza
tion, j
Wade said he had no Idea how
many patients had been in the
structure but knew that everyone
of the institutions 70 beds were
filled as lit was "the busiest hos
pital in the interior.'
Bethel, is approximately 1,000
airline miles northwest of Juneau
and 600 miles southwest of Fair
banks. It is the center of a large
ly native area which recently has
been the scene of a severe typhoid
fever epidemic.
Wade isaid that so far as he
knew none of the patients in seri
ous need of care was a typhoid
victim as the epidemic had been
brought t under control several
weeks ago. Earlier, reports had
said the hospital was filled to
overflowing with 300 typhoid vic
tims, j -
Vets' Bonus
of the state property tax law al
most in Its entirety.
Also referred to the legislature
was consideration of elimination
of exemptions to the personal
propertyj tax and change in the
method of collections so that all
kinds of property -would pay. A
business tax was discussed in lieu
of the personal property exemp
tions. t
The committee report also will
recommend legislative considers
tion of a proposal to repeal pro
perty offset provisions ox the cor
poration excise tax law. .-
Another recommendation pro
vided for a fixed' assessment base
on which counties must levy for
public welfare. Any increase would
be restricted to 0 per cent a year,
The ledslature also will be ask'
ed to study a proposal providing
that when measures creating new
expense iare presented, provision
must be suggested for. raising the
required additional funds.
Yukon Valley
Suggests
d
ations would be at crossings of
Garden road (Market street) and
Center street. Overhead crossings
would be built at intersections
with other roads such as State and
D streets and Silverton road.
Just over 10 miles in length.
the proposed route is expected to
handle 20 to 25 per cent of traffic
which now goes through Salem.
Highway engineers say this will
provide adequately for the heavy
truck traffic and will alleviate
congestion on Capitol street now
the main north - south route
through Salem.
Estimates on right-of-way costs
have been placed at about $450,-
000. Survey work has been under
way for about two months.
Rear Portion
Of Rainbow
Inn Collapses
A wall, apparently weaken
ed by construction work adjac
cent to it, collapsed early Tues
day morning tumbling tons ef
brick and mortar into the rear
half ef the Rainbow Inn, 163 S.
Commercial st,
John Buechler, Janitor for the
tavern, was the only person in
the bunding where only min
utes before several people had
been eating and. drinking. He
was unhurt. , The wall collaps
ed at about 12:30 a. hl, half
hour after the inn closed for the
nlrht.
Concussion, caused when a huge
section of the roof dropped, com
pletely shattered one of the plate
glass windows at the front of the
tavern. , -
Wrecking of buildings adjacent
to tRe one where the tavern is lo
cated to make way for a parking
garage apparently contributed to
the weakening of the walL A sec
tion approximately 30 feet long on
tne soutn siae ox the structure col
lapsed inward on kitchen and sto
rage facilities and filling much of
the tavern with debris arid dust.
Firemen were called when at
first it was feared an explosion
had caused the wreckage of the
building.
Ferry Found-
In Hop Yard
Near St. Paul
Claude Smith of St Paul wlshea
that whoever owns that i&n
ferry would come and take It out
ox ms nop yard.
The craft, which rancher Smith
says floated Into his yards from
the Willamette river with the high
water about two weeks ago, is a
real, big-sized auto ferry. It's
sona oia, inougn. .
"It's still floating around out
there in one of mv low fields."
said Smith Monday night. "I'd
luce to get n of it," He wrote
a letter to the Marion count
court asking the court if it claimed
the ferry. "- '
Marion County Judge Grant
Murphy said that all of this coun
ty's ferries are accounted for. He
said the court didn't know who or
what owned the stray ferry.
Withdrawal of
os in
Korea Asked
SEOUL, Nov. 20-(ff)-The com
mander of 1,200 Philippine troops
who . volunteered for duty in the
Korean war protested officially to
day that his men were not being
used as r single fighting unit and
asked that they be withdrawn, r
Colonel Mariano Azurin. com
mander of the Philippine army's
10th combat battalion, also com
plained that his men were not
supplied with winter gear, and
that the Korean winter was too
cold for the fighters from the trop
ical Philippines.'
Azurin, a graduate of the U3.
armored combat school at Fort
Knox, Kyn directed his protest to
the Philippine government through
the UJS. Eighth army and General
MacArthur's United Nations com
mand in Tokyo.
Eighth army sources indicated
any - decision finally would be
made by Utf. command head
quarters since the question was an
mternauonal one. -
SEOUL, NOV. 2H3VTh com
mander of 1200 Filipino troops
who protested against the manner
in which his force wag being rosed
in the Korean war, has been re
lieved . of his command, reliable
sources reported today. He has
been ordered to return to X-UL-U-a
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Red
Units
In East
Isolated
- SEOUL, Tuesday, Nov. 21-V fc
American forces pushed all the
way to the Manchurian border to
day in northeast sKorea where all
communist resistance was report
ed disintegrating.
Acclaiming; this success, fha
Tenth corps commander said the
enemy in east and west Korea is
divided now, with all "significant
forces in the east isolated. That ie'
the area closest to the Soviet Si
berian frontier.- I
But 'the Chinese and Korean ,
communists gave multiple signs of i .
intent to put up a big fight in
northwest Korea. :
Red truck convoys streamed
down from the direction of the
Yalu river, boundary between
Korea and Manchuria. They mov
ed toward troops fortifying a
mountain defense line. - I
. The reds appeared determined
to bar United Nations troops in the
northwest from - pushing - toward
the Yalu's big Suiho reservoir. It
feeds power to the industries el
Chinese communist Manchuria.
The arrival at the Manchurian .
TrvtrHor in nnrtheact TCrn-pa n
achieved -tiMr HTMSniin. SO t
miles inland from the east coast.
The 17th regimental combat
team of the U. S. Seventh division
reached the Yalu at 9:45 a. m. -
(4:45 p. ire, Monday PST),
Opposition Negligible '
Enemy opposition had been vir- .
tually negligible since Sunday."
The Americans had more trouble
with the elements, driving along
snow-covered mountain roads into''
the teeth of wintry winds. They
covered the last two miles this
morning, bringing tanks and ar
tillery with them. - .
The combat team's commander.
CoL Herbert B. Powell, told AP.
Correspondent Tom . Stone no at-'
tempt will be made to fire artil
lery shells across the Yalu river
into Manchuria unless the reds
there "fire at us first"
Ma j. Gen. Edward M. Almond,
whose 10th corps includes th
Seventh division, said the com Die-'
ted push has "divided enemy held
territory and isolated all signiff- .
cant forces east of 127 degrees,
east longitude." .
Split Penh-tula
The north-south 127th meridian
splits the Korean peninsula, run- .
ning through eoui.
Tenth corps forces also were
enveloping two reservoirs south-
west of Hyesanjin. Others were
driving up the east coast toward
the borders of Manchuria and So
viet Siberia.
The South Korean capital divi- .
sion, gathering momentum on the
east coast drive, was reported .
within 25 air miles of the port at
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60 air mile beyond ChonEin.
American planes and guns of th
U. S. heavy cruiser St Paul and
Destroyer English helped reduce
the opposition.. f
U. S. marines made no report ef
opposition today as they moved
up the east and west shores of the
Chanel in reservoir.
Area Liberated
General Almond said his Tenth
corps has liberated 23,000 square
miles of territory from the reds in
less than a month.
The advance elements of Mat
Gen. David G. Barrs Seventh di
vision at the Manchurian border,
had to be air-dropped supplies in
the last stages of their push. But'
big convoys of men and supplies
were moving up to bulwark that
position. S?
But It was a different outlook
at least for the moment in north-
west Korea. United Nations troops
were no closer than 50 miles to tba
Yalu river boundary. And there
were ample signs of trouble ahead,
A first corps spokesman said "A
considerable amount of communist ,
vemcuiar trainer nas been spotted
by arial observers moving south
ward from the Yalu river.
Bringing Supplies . ,
These convoys were believed
bringing reinforcements and sup
plies ior a communist defense line
running east from Taechon. The
uino power project, one of the -largest
in all Asia, Is 45 air muee
northwest of Taechon. '
Spotter planes for the U. S. 24th
division artillery saw an estima
ted 700 communists digging de
fonc Twcittona five miles sou-h-
east of Taechon. . . -.
Another, major red force waa .
observed digging: positions on high
ground about five miles northeast
of Yongbyon. That Is 16 miles east
and slightly south of Taechon.
In that vicinity, a U. S. First
cavalry division element was driv-
en back by an estimated 400 reds.
Artillery planes reported a con
siderably larger conmunist force
was nearby. Two air strikes were
delivered against these red late
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MATTHTEWS IS KOKEA . '
SAN FRANCISCO, &OT. 20-tg
-Secretary of the Navy iTancis I
Matthews flew from Japanto K04
rem y -steru- ior am ------
naval forces off Wonsan, the navy
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