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n 0B2D7 DOB-. Pro s Fixed for Christmas use To GIs . Is Target : If Toy POUND0D 1651 Fixing Toy far Tots" here occupies Abel Grerr B1T club boys, hclpinr In Salem Excbaoxe clmb"- Christmas project. Pictured: a Foreground. John Gnodran; far left. Exebanr president Kenneth , Sherman; clockwise. Elmer Hansen, Frank Nieswander. Larry Chamberlain, Don McKensie, Elmer Wine car, Kobert Brnce, Toy- eirodeirs- & nosy ! ; ; As ;fBi-imej. Wears SalemJLxchanee club's program to furnish toys to underprivil eged children moved into the home 1,500 toys finished of the club's sell-set goal of 4,000. r Irvin Bryan, chairman of the drive, requested that more repair' CRT vw mu' i - - . The Jieliuver commiision mak ing a study of crime' conditions has been working the Pacific coast in recent weeks. At Las Vegas, Nevada, it uncovered some un savory sow bugs. The lieutenant governor of Nevada was found to be drawing a large income for fractional share holdings in some of the big, gambling and hotel companies . of that state; likewise a state tax commissioner. Nevada legalizes gambling so they were violating no law; but it does show an unwholesome link between or fidaldom and commercialized (and leealized) gambling. The commission then moved over to California. In that state a state crime commission lately pub lished its final report, naming names of those running big slot machine or bookie organizations. The Birgniar slant of this report was the item that there had been no prosecutions of gamblers and racketeers for attempts to evaae federal income taxes. In fact the commission imputed a tie-in be tween certain income tax officials and certain law violators by which the latter escaped prosecution, so It was insinuated, if they purchas ed shares of stock in a Nevada mining corporation (with no mine) which was owned by certain tax officials. - I ' , ; The Kefauver commission will pass up the northwest, according to its present plan. Judging by preliminary inquiry of its staff of inquisitors sen. xveiauver umiu the rambling racket up here is peanuts, so his committee will pass us by. While evidently ours isn't on the big time scale of Miami and Los Vegas and California we have our hot (Continued on Editorial page 4.) DEATH RATE AT NEW LOW CHICAGO, Nov. 23-(VOnly one mother in a thousand died dur ing live childbirth in the UJS. last year an all time low for a large cation. . Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH fWowt Shs rsBy bwHt Plenty of . turves ana 3 ia tbe nht ptecttT r- rt stretch this week, with more than able toys be donated to the drive. A particular need exists for girls' toys and for others that can . be placed in. good working order. Many toys, given the club have had to be discarded as unrepair able. Toys can be left for the club at any Richfield station and at Mar ion Motors, Toy and Hobby shop. Home Fuel Oil company, or Wil lamette Villey Transfer. They will be distributed before Christ mas through the Salvation Army. In the meantime, other organiz ations have volunteered aid and assistance to the Exchange in the project. Abel Gregg's Hi-Y club moved in on the club one evening to repair toys. Several women's sewing groups have volunteered to dress dolls that have been dona ted, i Salem retail firms have also given active support to the drive, according to John Lewis, in charge of that phase. An retail firms contacted have donated toys aamagea in transit, as - well as slightly soiled or shomvorn tovs. Some firms have furnished toys which were-in penect condition. Vietmiixh Reds Attack French SAIGON. Vietnam. TndnMn. Nov. 23-?VCommiinist-led Viet- minn rebels were reported violent ly attacking a French post 15 miles west of the coastal frontier fort ress or Moncay tonight. a x Tench military SDokesman announced warp lanes based at Hanoi, a provincial capital 150 miles southwest of Moncav. strafed and bombed the raiders in support oi me garrison at the post. Ten Mai. French headquarters said an other minor French cost onlv nine nines irom Moncay also had been attacked, but the rebels were re pulsed and the engagement broken off. . These assaults marked tha first Vietminh drives in the area of Moncay the coastal : anchor of the northern French defense lines In more than a week. New Storm Brines More Rain to State PORTLAND. Nov. 23-UPV-Rafn fell in western Oregon today as a new storm moved down from Alaska. i The weather bureau forecast showers tomorrow in the area with possible snow flurries in the northeastern part of the state. : btorm warnings were flvine rrom latoosft to Astoria and small craft warnings were tin south of Astoria to Cape Blanco ior winas ranging from 20 to 45 miles an hour. ECONOMY NORMAL TOKYO, Friday, Nov. 24--Japan's production index in Oc tober reached prewar levels for the first time since the surrender. General MacArthurs headquarters announced toaay. Max. SS Mln. Preda, Salem Portland . 4 m . .at 47 joe San Francisco 67 Chicago 30 1 . .04 M ' Mi New York 42 Willamette River 11 1 m forecast (from U. s. weather bureau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy with Intermittent rain tnri.v and tonight. High today near S8; low SALEM PaXCTPITATIOif tine start of weather year Sent. 1 This Year Last Lear Normal ami tjm sat 100th YEAB 20 PAGES China to .QooDftWair By Arthur Gavshoa ' London, Nov. 23-P)-I3ritain disclosed today a direct appeal to communist China to end the intervention of Chinese communist troops in Korea. It was a clear bid for a Korean peace. The action was announced as communist China's first mission Violent Deaths Mar Holiday, Tie Toll Mark By the Associated Press Boosted by a crash on the Long Island railroad, the number of ac cidental deaths over the Thanks giving holiday tied the 1949 rec ord toll. Total of accidental deaths be tween 6 pjn. Wednesday (local time) "and midnight Thursday (EST) was 181. This included 77 killed when two jammed Long Island trains collided Wednesday night near New York City. The 1949 record toll was 181. Actually, the traffic deaths for the holiday were far behind the Thanksgiving total fpr 1949--78 to 123. Miscellaneous deaths this year, weighted by the New York tragedy, totaled 103, compared to 58 last year. Fires took at least four lives one each in New Jersey and Michigan, and two in North -Carolina. An Illinois man died of ex posure. In Vermont, two young brothers drowned when their sled broke through thin ice on a pond. Four persons died in a highway accident near Harrisburg, Pa., in volving two cars and a trailer truck. The Thanksgiving holiday sur vey includes only persons killed Instantly ., or dying of . injuries wiwuivjewQurs,,,, Alter, acci dents,,. , 0. John Rogge Quits Peace Partisan Group WARSAW. Poland. Nov. 23-nyP) O. John Rogge, former United States assistant attorney general, announced tonight he has broken with the peace partisans because they have identified themselves with the foreign : policy of the Soviet Union. "The second world congress of peace partisans marked the end of one chapter In my search for peace," he told, American news men. "I must' now seek new ways." The congress ended a week's session here yesterday. Rogge ad dressed It several times, sharply criticizing the alignment of its peace policies with the foreign aims of the Soviet Union. Rogge did not indicate whether he will leave the American pro gressive party. He is a member of its executive committee. "The peace organization has settled down to a denunciation of one particular group in one par ticular state, the industrialists of the United States," he said. He recommended that future peace meetings leave aside in vectives and be composed of social scientists, anthropologists, psycho logists and economists who will give serious consideration to peaceful ways for changing hum an. society. - Peace Rumors Stir Hope On Nation's By the Associated , Press 1 Rumors of possible peace stirred fresh hope in Americans at home and on the filing line yesterday, brightening the nation's celebra tion of its mid-century Thanks giving day. Starchy grandmas and giggling children pulled up their chairs for the traditional turkey and trim mings in millions of American homes. Uncles and aunts and cous ins forked into the dressing and pumpkin pie in the great home coming holiday. The armed ser vices did their level best to dupli cate the feast for the men and women in uniform. ' Special morning church services attracted the devout, who Offered humble thanks for the blessings of this year. . " The peace talk kept floating around in the absence of any an bounced negotiations. It was based, for the most part, on some odd and unexplained de velopments at the front in North Korea; the release of 27 American prisoners of war by the Chinese communists; continued fadeaway i withdrawals by red fighting units; Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday. Norember 24, 1950 to the United Nations arrived in London on the way to New York to press charges before the secu rity council that the United States is an aggressor. The nine-member delegation flew on from London tonight. The delegation is to arrive in New York at 6:30 a. m. (EST). The foreign office said Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin sent Chou En-Lai, the communist Chinese premier and foreign minister, a message of assurance yesterday that the U. N. forces in Korea "in no way endanger legitimate Cbl interests in the area.' Make Stand Clear i The British idea ' was to make it crystal clear that the U. N. forc es regard the Chinese Manchurian frontier as inviolate, though the Peiping radio said a week -ago similar statements from President Truman and Secretary of State Acheson "are not convincing any one here." " ' ; A foreign office spokesman said Britain still is consulting with the United States, France and British commonwealth nations on possible ways to end the Korean war. The delegates from . Peiping, headed by the short, square-faced Wu Hsiu-chuan, gave no clue dur ing their stopover of two hours and a half in London whether they have powers to negotiate with the west on Korea. Confine to Objectives i In his message to Chou, Bevin promised that U. N. forces in Ko rea will confine themselves to their stated objectives restoring peace to the war-shattered coun try, uniting its northern and south ern segments and giving it inde pendence and democracy. His reference to China's legiti mate interests in the frontier area presumably referred primarily to the wide network of electric pow er sources hi North, Korea, which feed Manchurian industries. . . R. H. Scott, ton man in the British foreign office's far eastern department, greeted Wu warmly on the arrival of the Peiping dele gation by plane from Prague. f Unity9 Alive, Happy in Zoo At Ankara Unity, an exalted turkey sent to Turkey on turkey day, i 1949, by Oregon turkey growers, was one bird who had nothing to worry about Thursday in far-off Turkey. Gene Malecki of Salem escorted Unity on a much-publicized flight from Salem to Ankara and pres ented him to President Inonu of that country. Malecki then had Thanksgiving dinner with the president and his family. Unity, a huge, Oregon broad breasted bronze torn, is the object of much attention at the Ankara zoo. He is doing fine, according to a letter received by Malecki from Emrullah Sari, a Turkish turkey grower. ; Firemen's Thanksgiving Dance Has Good Crowd A public dance sponsored by the Salem fire department drew a good sized crowd to Crystal Gardens Thanksgiving night. Proceeds had not been totaled Thursday night but half of the amount will go to the Marion county chapter of the polio foun dation, according to Fire Chief W. P. Roble. The balance will go to the firemen's activity fund. Thanks Day their seeming reluctance to ex change fire with the cautiously ad vancing United Nations forces. ' The bracing early winter weath er that great sections of the nation enjoyed on the holiday was turn' ing into bitter cold as i an artic blast swept down from Canada into the northern great plains, The cold 'wave was expected to hit the midwest and parts of the east oy tonignt. President Truman enjoyed quiet day with his family at Blair house in the capital. - ; United States marines - shared their, turkey, with a bunch of hun gry native youngsters in North Korea. . ! In, similar style. German or phans and the children of dis placed, persons were invited by American GFi in Frankfurt Bonn and elsewhere to tie into a meal of stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce ana an xne mnimings. Other celebrations - were held by Americans in London. Paris Brussels. Rome. Copenhagen and even behind the iron curtain, in Moscow ana Prague. Inmate Bends Jail Bars with Brute Strength, Escapes EVANS CITY. Pa- Nov. 23- JPy-A powerfully built man es caped from the vans City jail today afer bending bars and tearing out a mesh screen in his cell window. State Police Corporal Ray mond Malloy said Walter Lee Johnson, 36, a negro of New Kensington, Pa., used brute strength to force his way out of jail. The man stands six feet' three inches and weighs over 210 pounds, Malloy added. The state policeman - asid Johnson was jailed on burglary charges. ... r CHICAGO. Nov. 23 -MV Two top government officials said to day that industrial expansion holds the key to a sound war time economy.. . The two Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the national secu rity resources board and Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. ChaDman addressed the national CIO con vention. Symington said "the struggle for manganese" needed to make steel from low grade iron ore typified the strategic materials problem. Chapman charged that "faint hearted apostles of a scarcity eco nomy" were "endangering the country's future." Meets Complaint Much , of Symington's brief speech was devoted to meeting a rompiauii wai nas inreaaea throughout the CIO convention that labor has not - been given enough influence in America's mobilization program. He empha sized labor's representation on the mobilization advisory board. Symington said government of ficials have found it more -difficult to operate what might be called a 'gray mobilization than an all out mobilization." Chapman said the steel short age is the result of the short sighted policies of a few men who. lacking confidence in the future of America, have refused to ex pand steel facilities at the pace our economic growth demands. Appeal Rejected Without a dissenting vote, the convention rejected an appeal for reinstatement from -the marine cooks and stewards, one of 11 un ions kicked out of the CIO on charges that they were commu nist dominated. ' This union, claiming to repre sent 10,000 workers on the west coast, was 'expelled along with eight others by the CIO executive board after last year's convention ousted two others. None of the others appealed. U.N. Shelves China Plaint LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 23-WV The U.N. political committee de cided today Nationalist China's complaint that the Soviet Union engineered . the communist civil war in China should be sent to the little assembly for another year's study. In effect, this would put the charges on the shelf, but keep them alive. American backers of the move were happy the committee' did not drop the case completely. The committee voted 35 to 17 with seven abstentions, for a Syr ian proposal that the little assemb ly take over the complaint once more and report back to the 1951 general assembly. A combination of American and middle eastern votes accounted for the majority and the full assembly is expected to approve the committee action shortly. Eleven Venezuelans Arrested Over Order CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 23 -7P)-The Venezuelan government today ordered the 11 national committeemen of the - democratic republican union party (URD) placed under arrest for 15 days for Issuing a manifesto during the present governmental crisis. After the assissination of Lt CoL Carlos Delgado Chalbaud 11 days , ago the l government sus pended constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech, press and assembly. The authorities said xne URD manifesto violated the sus pension decree. tT TTT'tTTT TT'fTTTTH'T xsi w KM MMIUi at Mljsa Expansion Said Key to War Economy PRICE UBtcpDiry WTraDiniTiragecly By John Randolph NEW YORK, Nov. 23-P)-New York City counted 76 dead and 333 injured today in the Long Island railroad's Thanksgiving eve crash one of the bloodiest in the nation's history. . Even before the last of the wreckage of the two, passenger-jam med commuter trains was cleared away the mangled bodies remoy ed, a public outcry demanded hi' vestigation and drastic remedy. Queens county District Attorney Charles Sullivan, in whose Juris diction the : wreckage - occurred, promised prosecution if he. found evidence of criminal negligence." Acting Mayor Joseph T. Shar key termed recurring mishaps on the railroad "a crime and order ed the line to reduce the speed of all trains to 25 miles an hour in the city limits. , , Cut Short Vacations ; . -. Mayor" Vincent Impellitteri cut short a Cuban vacation to hurry home. Before starting back he an nounced appointment - of ' a four man city committee to probe the disaster.' - . j , : - " -; - - r A state public service commis sion investigation was ordered by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, vacation ing in Miami.' Fla. Dewey termed the wreck "shocking" and said he lad directed the PSC to look into the circumstances . of the wreck and of the entire management of the railroad. Shortly after ordering the In vestigation, Dewey ended his va cation and booked plane passage for New York to take personal charge of the PSC inquiry. He called: the crash a "heart rending demonstration that drastic action is necessary for the safety of the oeople of our state who use that railroad." Trustee Ouster Sought J. Russel 'Sprague.' county- ex ecutive, of Nassau county, whose residents are among the chief users of the Long Island railroad, said he would seek the Immediate replacement, of the railroad's two present trustees. He said in a statement me countr would aDDly to the U.S. district court for the removal of David E. Smucker and Hunter L. Delatour, the railroad trustees. In their "Dlace. sprague saia. would be asked the appointment of a single new trustee "of nationally recognized experience In railroad management and operation. Motorman Questioned The shattering collision killed more than twice the number who died only nine months ago and only 10 miles away on the same line at suburban Kocxviiie centre. The toll then was 33 dead and 123 injured . the state's worst until last night , i A motorman In that collision was tried on second degree man slaughter charges, and acquitted. Sullivan questioned tne surviv ing motorman of last night's crash, William Mcrphy, 81, at length following the accident but did not disclose what he had learned. The motorman of the second train died at his controls. I Police Start Of Stores City police are going to start their ; own J "business directory Monday. But it .will be confined largely to small stores, shops and service stations which are apart from Salem's main business dis tricts. , I . . Officers renort that lt is fre quently difficult to reach the own m or manaeer of such establish' ments in event of late hour fires, break-ins of other emergencies. So they are starting their own file of names, addresses and phone numbers of managers and assist ants. The sttrvey will be done by patrolmen on their beats and will nrobabiy require several wetu to complete! according to officers. Directory Aerial Searchers Sight Of Missionaries' Plane MORANJ Wvo- Nov. 23 -4JFh Aerial searchers spotted today the wreckage of a chartered airliner which crashed against the side of lofty Mount Moran. The plane carried 21 persons. "I Carl J. Petersen of Afton, Wyo piloting a four-place plane, said he saw the wreckage clearly sev eral times In what appeared to be a melted spot in the snow about 1,100 1 feet below the top of the 12.594-foot peak. Petersen said he could see the tall section of the fuselage. He said it had a brown rudder with yellow horizontal stripes. Searchers said that tallied with a description of the missing plane, an airliner of the New Tribes Mission, -j ' - , h The- plan disappeared Tuesday night over, the Teton Mountain range.- 1 - ' " " -" ; " ' -' - The probable location of the No. 243 Snow-Laden Cold Front Chills Midwest By the Associated Press A snow-laden cold front put a bitter chill in Thanksgiving day from the Rqpkles to the Appala cmans. it was ' the most severe cold spell of the season.,., -.-.j Sub-zero temperatures were forecast for. a dozen states In the heart of the continent, from Mon tana to Michigan and as far south as Missouri and Kansas. The sweep of the cold wave. bitterest over the great plains reached to western "Pennsylvania, northwest Florida, northwest Tex as and the eastern Rockies. . . Accompanied by Winds . -. : ' Brisk winds heightened the dis comfort Water-town. S. Dak . reported seven degrees below zero and a 33-mile wind. Nine inches of ' snow fell ' at Land OTLakes, Wis., eight inches at Calumet, Michv and six inches at Duluth. - . ; California had a heat wave. Aptly named Thermal, Calif, re ported 93 degrees. The snow area covered - the Dlains and Great Lakes regions. Falls generally - ranged: from one to two inches as far east as Ohio and as far south as northern Ten nessee and Arkansas. Sab-Zere Forecast Low temperature of 8 to 15 be low zero were forecast for north' western Wisconsin, 10 to 20 below for northwestern Minnesota, and similar readings for sections west ward to the Rockies. : Zero or below was In prospect for the area from Nebraska and Kansas to4 Indiana, 15 above through Tennessee, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.. The weather bureau said lt would drop to 23 in parts of, Mis sissippi and Alabama, and. to eight above in west Texas. The - east coast had relatively mild weather, but the cold wave will cross the Appalachians late Fridayy the weather bureau said. Girl In Collision Donna Patzer, 17, of 3208 Bea con ave, was injured Thursday night in an intersection smash at Edgewater street and Wallace road. . Miss Patzer was released from Salem General hospital after treatment of her left arm which was fractured. Police said she was riding with Wyatt R. Surgeon, 1975 N. 5th st, who was driving west The right side of his car was damaged. Officers listed the other driver as Virgel Alfred Dunn: 3580 S. Commercial st, driving south. His car sustained front-end damage. Neither driver was cited. 15-Year-Old Booked on Drunk, Uniform Charge A 15-year-old Salem youth who city police said was both intoxi cated and illegally wearing a U. S. army uniform was arrested on a downtown street 'Thursday nieht - ' . ' The lad was booked as a delin quent and taken to juvenile quar ten at the Marion county jail. wreckage was fixed when resi dents of Moran and other commu nities along the eastern shore of Jackson lake reported seeing a fire burning on the side of Mount Moran, which rises precipitously from the western shore of the lake. Petersen said the wreckage he sighted was in almost exactly the spot in which the fire had been reported. ' .. v 1 Officials of the Grand Teton National park reported they re ceived word also from the leader of a ground searching party that what appeared to be plane wreck age had been sighted at the same spot through binoculars.- Petersen said only the tail sec tion of the plane was visible. The remainder of the fuselage appear ed to be buried in the snow. An air force search and rescue plane from McChord Field, Wash Sc raered llnjiired TOKYO, Friday, Nov; 24 (AP) A knockout off env siye by 100,000 United Na lions troops to end the war quickly gained up to eight. miles in the first hours to day in northwest Korea. : On a personal visit to th: front, General MacArthur. - told his officers: I hope to keep my promise to the GIs to i have them home by Christmas." r - un tne west end of the north- ward-moving U. N. line, the U. Sv 1 24th division advanced eight miles ' unopposed toward the vital rail' and highway junction of Chong-: ju. It is 45 air miles southeast of - ' the Manchurian frontier. : Near the center, the 17. S. ond: division." movinsr'alonr tkaf Chongchon. river, gained six mile V in tne vicinity of Kujang, More than eight allied divisions ; Americans,. . British 'Common wealth soldiers, Turks and South Koreans j umped off in the big ' winter drive at. 8 a. m.- (8 p m, Thursday EST). . v t An estimated 100.000 Chines and Korean communists had been reported in the area but mysterW us red withdrawals were report ed earlier In the Week. -; - " - -Files From Tokyo A The U. N. offensive is aimed U smash ahead' to the ' border el Manchuria at the ereat'Yalu river hydroelectric developments. General MacArthur. solemn-' -faced and carrying a brief ease,' "j case, flew from Tokyo .to an ad vanced . base in Korea and bur--ried by jeep toward the. front to 1 watch the all-out drive. j . j Re said the massive push should"1 fend the war; and restore peace and unity to Korea." It besaa while unconfirmed rumors soe- gested a negotiated peace possibly was in the making Swarms of of . U. S. . fifth afar i force fighter-bombers and jets' : formed an umbrella over the ad- vancing U N. troops. A - con centra ted air assault was made on 1 Taechon, 47 air miles southeast of i the Suiho dam on the border. Rocket - attacks started hue fires at Taechon,' believed to harbor enemy troops, and supplies. Three Corps In AcUon v-1 ; Reports from U. S. eighth army headquarters in Korea said three allied corps two American and one South Korean took part ia -the new offensive. They are the U. S. first and ninth corps and the ROK second corps. -"- In the U. S. first are the 24C and first cavalry divisions, the 27th British Commonwealth bri gade and the ROK first' division.' The U. S. ninth has the 25th and second American divisions. -: " The ROK second is compose f the sixth, seventh and eight South Korean divisions. Red Forces Withdrawing AP Correspondent Leif Erick- son reported from Korea that ini tially the new eighth army offen sive was expected to roll forward speedily and against scant opposi tion. ' He said communist forces in the last few days have been withdraw -ing to defense lines as much urn ten miles north of the foremost United Nations positions whll XX N. forces have been building us their power on the northwest front ' , ,' t ' - - : - i A special communique signed by MacArthur said the United Nations massive compression en velopment in North Korea against . the new red .armies operating there is now approaching its de cisive effort" American forces at the Manchu rian border in northeast Korea have closed the right jaw of a giant pincers. "This morning the western sec tor of the pincer moves forward in general assault in an effort ia complete the compression ana close the vice," MaeArthur's head quarters announced. "If successful, this should for all practical purposes end the war, restore peace and unity to Korea,' enable the prompt withdrawal of United Nations military forces and, permit the complete assumption by the Korean people and nation of full sovereignty and interna tional equality." . Wreckage on Mountain brought six more men here to -aid in rescue efforts. Three mem bers of the squadron already wer with the ground party Park officials expressed doubt . the searchers could reach the sit of the crashed plane tonight ? They expected to set up a basa camp part way up the mountain, halt there overnight, then continue on tomorrow - - ' Searchers scaled to the 9,009 foot level yesterday, then turned ' back because of a severe snow storm. Snow lashed them and they . tied r; themselves together wita ropes" for safety. - The snow in tlmberetUreas wa -waist deep. , -Aboard the mission plane wera nine men, four women and eight childrenTOne of the men was Pau Fleming, the director of the xnis , don -which has Its beadquarterf in Chlco, Calif, - T