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i i - ... . - . Next Glee Practice: 5 a.m. r-- , p- 1 V inn... v-:rr i f -J asft sa J J ' sl . POUNDDD &Zi lCCth YEAH TWO SECTIONS 22 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Orecjon, Friday, March 9, 1S5X PRJC5 5c GjOrJ'ucJi c 3 urn- bi 1j '. - I v . , , , I - ' V i . V I ; . . . ... . , , - " ; " . is--;--: ' - -- s , I r- ry rt i Early morning rehearsals en the Willamette campus lor the Fresh . i man Glee this Saturday proves too much for this bevy of freshman . rfrls. Victims of the 5 tuna, practice are, from top, Carol Emerson, ' Corbett; Jean Rankin. Santa Monica, CaL; Nancy Gore, Ketchikan, 5 Alaska; Sally Bergman, Portland; Lorranie Lauber, - Vancouver, Wash.; and Ilene Randolph, Oswego. (Statesman photo.) v . f , IIM' The" United Stetes News and WorlT Report in its current issue says simply but bluntly: , -"ttarrv i s - Truman will retire mm th- nresidency on Jan. 20, 1953. Mr. Truman will not ask for tion in 1952 and will not head the party ticket in the No vember election of that year. r The U. S. News professes no in formation "straight from the horse's mouth," and its prediction is doubtless more of a conclusion of its own rather than any tip-off from the White house. It is not unique either, for this is the opin ion of other lniormea ouservna in and out of Washington For one thing the democratic nauonai committee is not busy running in terference. to block off other can didacies as it did in 1948; and that is a pretty good sign' Mr. Truman isn t planning on running again. The News" reports that Mr. Tru- man is proud of his record as president but feels a younger man snouia la&e sover. c vau starting a new term at age 68. The recent ratification of the 22nd amendment, , limiting .a - person's tenure in the presidency had noth ing to do with his decision not to run, says the News his mind was m&de up before that. . The News further" says that the present plan is to delay announce ment of his intention' to stand aside until just before the nation al convention in 1952. It is very doubtful if that, resolution will stick Once the political Warwicks are convinced "Mr. .Truman , will not be a candidate they will start sorting names for a winner. And they cant wait until the middle of 1952 to do this. The pressures on the president to express his (Continued on Editorial , Page 4) SEEKS WIFE AT 100 ROME, March 8 Matteo Laera, a farmer of Monopoli near Bari, celebrated his 100th birth day today and announced to . newsmen:;I"m going to re-marry soon. He said he felt very lone ly" since his third wife died last year. - - Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH . To hit nJ bgy 3 Jy.- Four Charap AHded to List eU Lablsh Center DeAnnl Mc Claughry, 12, daughter of Mri and Mrs. Fred McClaughry of route 7, box ZSZ, Salem. "was spelling , champiott-of La- bisltCenter school todaj. DeAnn, an 8 th- rader. wasi cer tified to ?T h e St a t e s m a n - r-1 I) KSLM division semi- finals at Keizer, March 16, by her prm- oelma McClanthry cipal. MariefHei- singer. j Her teacher is Mrs. Shir ley Newberry. - Second place -at Labish Center was won by - Gaynelle Metheny. whose parents are Mr. and! Mrs. Don H. Metheny of route 1 box 175, Brooks, and 'third place by Janet Pearsall, daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. Harlen Pearsall of jroute I, isrooKS. Both Gaynelle and Janet are 12 years old.5 The former is ut the 8th grade, the latter in the 7th. . i . ... - 5. .i Alrlle Twelve-year-old Roger Brostrom, son of . Mr. k and SMrs. Julius Brostrom of route 2.1 box 229, Monmouth. ? is thisiPolkl county school's spelling -Cham-; pion. , ; j Roeer. ; a ' sev- certified ; the it winner '. iby his f s teacher and prin- I cipal, Catherine I C u m m ins.' and f ui IT trTvriA m 1 the ' s e m i-finals Eor Brtmm at Pedee on Friday, March 23. Phillip Lewellyn. 13. son .of Mr. and Mrs. i Albert Lewellvn , of route I. box 214. Monmouth. Won second place at Airlie. Phillip is in the 8th grade. . s ' Guthrie Opal Penrose J 14- year-old seven th-erader of route 2, Dallas, will represent this :Polk county school in I the semi-finals t of The States- v7 ( f man-KS t M Spelling contest fat Falls City .the v f night of Tues- ,y i day, March 27. 1 Opal, who is t president of: the ! Guthrie 4-H club, I was certified as school champion opal PMrm by . her . teacher and principal, Anna Kliewer.: i : t Gooseneck Winner . of I the spelling championship of . Goose neck school in Polk county is 14- year-old Delmar Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hamilton. who was ' certified to the semi finals at Buell on March 30 by his teacher and principal. Iris Bjrky. Jjeimar is in the eighth grade. He lives on route 1, Sheridan. Second place was won by iVir- ginia Hammons. 13. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olen Hammons, and third pUce by Shirley Keller: 14. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Keller, all of route 1. Sheridan. Both Virginia and Shirley are in the 7th grade. '-''; . ITALIAN TOWN SHAKEN L'AQUILA, Italy, March 8--strong earthquake early this morning destroyed several houses at Campotosto, a town near here in the Appennines. There were no casualties- " Sp Contest I k M Heavy; Red Claimed by Allies By Don TOKYO. Friday. March 9 - OPV munists Thursday in their renewed ous North Korean counterattacks front. - . f The Chinese and North Korean casualties boosted the. red losses for the first two days of the new allied offensive to. more than 17.000. ! : The allies had ground out gains of up to three miles in the west ern sector, of the flaming 70-nule perate counterattacks in i the east.' Thousands of North Korean in that eastern assault. ; They ; charged across the snow - flecked hills with guns and grenades : A.U. S. 10th corps spokesman pulsed after "bitter fighting. No attack in the mountains east. But reported moving down toward that j- Atield dispatch, said the North Koreans' flung themselves' at .the allied 1 in es late yesterday. The attacks roared on until the reds spent themselves against allied lines this morning, i . , Three-Mile Cain in Han Bridgehead ' ; ' ' General . MacArthur's 'war summary . reported the ' allies drove ahead as much as three miles Thursday in the Han river bridgehead 15 miles .east of the rubble that is Seoul. ' . j - . - Resistance had ranged from light to heavy along the front as the allied troops ! hammered ; deeper into the Korean hills.' Their objective appeared to beinot only to kill but to forestall the expected communist counterof f ensive. r . t i';-- . -: . MacArthur said U. N, warplanes mounted more than 1,000 sorties or Individual flights, a newf record, in support of the grinding ad vance.-- . i ! "-.l: : r -' I ' ' i - The allied attackers also had the benefit of the massed artillery which had blasted the enemy defense positions at the outset of the renewed drive three days ago. In the west, the U. S. 25th division fought through .Chinese com munist mortar and machinegun fire and secured commanding high ground presumably five; miles north of the tha wing Han-river, t Allies Continue Advance The infantry was steadily expanding and cementing its menacing bridgehead across the river ; 15 miles east of SeouL It. reported Thursday night was quiet. : i i 1 In the center; the allies' continued their slow - advance, intent on killing as many of the eriemy as possible and avoiding traps. The heaviest fighting broke out in tne east, .wnen xne worm Koreans stuck at the lines of the U. S. second and seventh divisions and the South Korean fifth and seventh divisions. -1 - One counterattack hit the second division nine ; miles east of Hoengsong, which: is In the center of the front. The -attack touched off heavy fighting until dawn, when the red assault! ended. Another struck the U.S S;' seventh division which- holds the adjoining sector to the east. The seventh had won three commanding peaks in the wilds north of Pangnim, about 25 miles east of Hoeng song. . - i . - -1 ''-'" 1 ' - ' " c - The seventh was forced back from one height, but it rallied and regained some f-the lost ground. ,J., . , .m. t Armed Youth Robs Salem Area Woman A Salem-area woman was: rob bed at her home ; late J Thursday nieht by an armed 16ryear-old youth who fled in the woman's car and was apprehended an hour later at Oregon City by state po lice. : -'l -It. - Police said Mrs.f Ralph Mereer, Salem route 5, reported the? rob bery about 10:15 p.m. after walk ing nearly a mile from her home on Macleay road to a neighbor's house near Pnngle schoqL Ji j Mrs. Mercer told police she re cognized the youth as a! lad' who lived " in the neighborhood. She said he knocked at the door, asked to come in then flashed, a gun at her. i - . - 1 ' M lt- After taking $20 and the keys to the car, a 1946 Packard,; the youth yanked out the telephone; wires in the house and fled. ! - I Police said Mrs. Mercer i was alone when the robbery, occurred. Her husband, a paper j mill) em ploye,' was at work.- i ; I ' I? The youth who staged the hold- ud was on probation here for ju venile delinquency; police report ed. They said he was armed iwitn a .38 service revolver. M H ; The youth surrendered to -state police without violence after I they spotted the stolen car. He is being held at Clackamas county jail. Marion Forks; to Get Daily Mail Delivery ; Mail deliveries In Marion coun ty have been extended to Marion Forks and the fish hatchery, postal authorities at Idanha saidThurs- day. .- i- The ' area will ;have delivery three times a week until June 16. From then until September 16, de liveries will be on a six-times-a- week basis. I These words will ffgvre in The Statesman - KSLM i Spelling Con test for prizes, now underway for 7th and 8th grade pupils of Marlon and Pa Ik-eo on ties: ! f - laundry linen loss married mining national fasten ! minute ! quite, ' whole i j ankle i captain I newspaperman easier porch ability -arithmetic f advertisings couldn't epparenti a i i - ! Learn toSjselll Huth - - Allied troops wiped iout 6.000 com' offensive and then smashed furi which exploded along a 25 - mile i front before hurling pack the des : t -. i reds struck United Nations divisions ; 'Vf'"-'- .. , ! ':' . i-""- said : the enemy onslaught was re Chinese troops were reported in that Chinese communist forces have been sector from North Korea. ' t - in Center Recall of Reserve, Guard Officers Set i PORTLAND, March 8 (P) Col. John H. Rodman, Oregon military district chief, said today that some 150 company grade officers will be recalled to active duty front Ore gon's national guard and army, re serves. - . . Members i of the' organized re serve corps who were deferred under reserve officers training programs, : members of the ORC who have served less than two years, members of volunteer re serve units and volunteers from any reserve program may be call ed up, he said. ; i Kentucky Solon Crash Victim WASHINGTON, I March 8 (JPh Senator Virgil Chapman of Ken tucky died on the operating table at Bethesda naval hospital today seven hours after his automobile collided with a big trailer-truck in a fashionable residential section of Washington at 3:20 a.m. (EST). The 55-year-old i Kentuckian, a democrat, was a j veteran of 25 years in congress. 1 His death reduced the democrat ic majority in the senate to a one vote margin, 48 to 47. : : -Since Gov. Lawrence W. Weth- erby of Kentucky is a democrat. presumably another democrat will be named to succeed Chapman, un til a special election is held in 1952. Chapman's term expires In Janu ary, 1955. By Lester F. Coor ; Staff Writer. Th SUtcsman Oleo-weary Oregon legislators listened Thursday as dairymen and margarine spokesmen battled to no decision for the umpteenth time this session.; f -The Jatest butter versus margar ine contest took place in a public hearing conducted , by the house food and dairying committee-and the senate agriculture committee on three bills seeking repeal of Oregon' colored oleo' ban now kicking around in the legislature. This time .the committeemen wanted some scientific data, and they got it from an Oregon State college expert who brought along an impressive array of test tubes and margarine samples to settle the margarine color question. ' But . subsequent testimony be fore the committee seemed to prove two points: : I. The dairy and butter industry doesn't want sales -of colored mar garine legalized in Oregon wheth er its under Mahoney, Hounsell i or Munsell plan. . i Snow Fla! 5 Vnnsaally large anew flakes characterised Thursday's mid-day snew : storm. Fnriously falling ; snow limited visibility, made treacherous . 'going en sidewalks and; streets and virtually - brongbt downtown bnalneM to a standsttlL Above ,ls the Intersection of State nd Lib erty street as pedestrians buriied throuch tbe wet, fluffy down pour. (Statesman photo.) . ' f .'. fs-; I I.'J -4;'.-r; TV rtment ane Purchase of a 1 new four;- place airplane, principally for observa tion In the campaign against forest diseases, was announced Thursday by the state forestry department. It will be stationed at Salem air port. O"-:;- - f. The plane will be brought here from ; Portland, ;as soon - as " lhe weather breaks, by A1 Larsen of the department s i n s e c t control section - : s The craft is art Il-metat,Cessna 170, of high-wing design with 145-horsepower motor and r serv ice ceiling of 15,000 feet., ; i For Bodwerm Product ' , I Forest officials said the- plane will be used next summer almost entirely, in the spruce bud worm control project, : to cover approxi mately 1,000,000 acres - of forest land, t The department's need in this field was demonstrated dur ing the past two years, when the state had. to lease a private plane for most of the summer and fall, thev said. . -1 . ! Flying, will start In the early spring to check areas to be treated. later to check the work of con tract pilots during spraying oper ations and to check on new out breaks and determine the i effec tiveness of control programs. ; To Carry Personnel. It also will be used somewhat to carry personnel and supplies to fire-fighting crews. It JS cap able of carrying . 500 pounds in addition to the pilot and "bomber who would -drop supplies to spots inaccessible by other means. ; Pilot Larsen is a graduate of University of Idaho school Of for estry: and during World War II flew "i bombers and . transports in Africa, Europe and the south Pa cific, . . f ' i ' Max. . n . 3S : 47 . 41 ' . . Mia. Precla. 31- -! 34 : SI ; S2 -" 41 i ' J00 30 I J0O 3S .00 Portland San .Francisco Chicafo New York . FORECAST (front V. S. weather bu reau. McNary new. Salem):; -aruy cloudy with a- few scattered showers of rain or rain and snow mixed today and -tonight. High -today near 40 and low tonight near 28. . - ,.-!- II , - : - SALEM PRECIPITATIOSr w , Siaee Start Of Weather Tear SepC 1 This Year Last Year , ;.Normal 44.82 34-07 ... , " I 2S.4X . ' 2. Margarine interests don't want any color restriction hooked to a , repeal of the margarine law and they definitely oppose a tax on oleo. ' ;, ' The hearing was actually called to hear proponents and opponents of ; Rep. John Hounsell's bill to allow sales of colored margarine controlled by a new-famous "color spectrum plan worked out In 1903 by a scientist named MunselL.' ; But A before the meeting was over, most of the conversation turned to a bill by Sen. Thomas R. Mahoney, Portland , which has passed the senate and would re peal . the oleo ban outright no color catch attached. i . " Dr. G. A, Richardson, dairy re search expert at Oregon State col lege, gave them the business on the color situation. To demonstrate his point he stood in front of - a table on which reposed 12 cubes of margarine, a large lump 'of but ter and a rack cf test tubes con taining carotine color samples. One senator said the place look ed like a combination of a deli- Depa Buys Airpl :cs wore ronovDaii oizg Mm I Starts Relocation y Of Detroit Station ; PORTLAND, March 8-(P)-The UJs. xorest service has begun work on relocating the Petroit ranger station, L. K. Mays; assistant reg ional forester, said today. He explained the present site would be flooded by the Detroit dam backwater by the fall of 1952. -New site of the station, he said, is about five miles above the dam on the North Santiam highway, adjacent to ' the army engineers' maintenance headquarters. Drivers End; Week Walkout SAN FRANCISCO, March 8-(JP) -The strike of Greyhound bus drivers in . seven Western states ended tonight. , Buses - will begin rolling again at 5 a, m. Friday. , -; Officers of the1 AFL motor coach employes announced union members had voted to return to work under a 10 per cent' wage increase formula.; With returns in from all but two locals,1 they said, the vote was 92 per cent in favor of the. settlement, I The strike began last Friday. Following announcement of the vote Greyhound dispatchers here immediately i started ? notifying crews to report for work at 5 a. m. (PST). The order was pass ed along to dispatchers in other cities. ; ' j - ii - The strike had affected opera tions in California; Oregon, Ne vada, Arizona, New Mexico, UtaJ. and Texas. U j ; . ; ; " Under the 10 i per cent agree ment,' long distance drivers will have mileage rates Increased from 6.6 ; cents to 7.23 , cents a mi'.-. Hourly rates for local drivers will go up from $1.43 to $1,573. Station employes, who have a large num ber of grades and classifications will all get 10 per cent raises. The top grade will-be Increased from $314.30 per month to $345.73. RED PURGES . CHARGED TAIPEI, Formosa.1 March 6-(JPy Chiang ' Kia-Shek's nationalists charged today the Chinese - Reds purge .of dissidents had. brought death to 210,000 persons in three southern' provinces ? alone through January...-- ., , i . - i f., n catessen and chemistry laboratory. Another said the display made him hungry. C p. :,. ri -:'",--; y Richardson explained that caro tin is the natural yellow . color that makes butter I yellow. - It is chocked full of. vitamin A, and is used by both the butter and margarine Interests to make their products look natural. ' ? H - Richardson pointed out that Oregon butter this Week contains 6.8 units of Caroline, but that ad ditional carotine is being added to bring it up to 13.4 units of yel lowness. .';.' -.; f J"-' " The research man's testimony showed 'that the 12 samples of margarine on the table ranged frorar 6.5 to J5 units of carotine. This means that ' 9 of the 12 samples could be lold in Oregon under the Hounsell-Mun-sell plan, which would limit mar garine to 12 units of carotine. All of which means that oleo couldn't be as light-colored as butter. K. C Eldridse, Portland, a spokesman for tae margarine in I day T Soap' Price Gut Ordered biv Price Director WASHINGTON, - March 8-P)-Price Director Michael V. DiSalle tonight announced a .cut in the price of soap.-; f ; 'V -- The office of price stabilization (OPS) is ; expected to ; issue the soap order: tomorrow. 5 Though DiSalle didn't announce the details, officials said the order will bring a cut of one cent a bar in the retail . price of 5 much but not all household soap. DiSalle made the announcement in a speech at the Georgetown university 1 law : school; where he was graduated in the class of 1931. . : ,;! ' ' . Signed Order Tonight : In discussing, recent ' actions of the OPS, jhe remarke d that "housewives will be glad to learn that our latest , order. Issued - to night; rolls back the price of soap.' Actually: he signed the order to night but bis staff does not plan to issue the text until tomorrow. ; It is reported that the order also will roll-back the price of tallow. . , Witfe respect to soap, the order is. said to require; soap manufac turing companies to peg their prices at the levels, of last De cember. i - .- 4 ' l-; Rollback for Some -! ; Officials said this would mean a . rollback for companies that have raised prices since Decem ber, such as . Colgate and Procter Gamble. At least ; one large company, Lever Brothers, has not raised prices since then and would not have to make a rollback, it was said, i . r t;v ' ., Whetherr a particular retailer will " be forced to - reduce soap prices by a penny a bar will de pend on whether that retailer has passed on recent increases to his customers.; - ; r::i-' l ' y ' Some retailers were caught by the Jan. 25 price freeze and had to absorb the increases; These will not have to cut their prices. . Union Chief Acquitted Of Contempt Congress WASHINGTON; March B-WVA top official of the left-wing Un ited Electric Workers (UE) was acquitted today on a contempt of congress charge. . M . - The acquittal came from Feder al Judge F; Dickinson Letts in the case of James J.. Ma ties, UE na tional .organizational director. terests, said his 'people are "un alterably against the color plan. . The masses of people have the right to buy I colored margarine as well as other products that are colored," Eldridge told the com mittee. "We favor Mahoney's bill and think it's the one that should be passed - - - ; - ; Mahoney also had his say on the subject, yj"'-'' "': f J;.;-. ' "' ;If you don't ' give the people the right to buy colored margarine without ; any , color restrictions there's -going to - be -an initiative brought into play that will repeal both the margarine ban and milk control, Llahoney predicted. If the dairy Interests insist on holding the line, the people are going to rise up and take away all reasonable restrictions.' Mahoney also i announced that he would ask the senate to kill his milk control repeal biH In to day's session In order to make way for other proposals to modify the law without' eliminating most cf its provLricas. Sclioo ISIOB layed Another wintry day and mere snow loomed over the valley early 1 today and left saiem school u-' thorities in a quandry as whether ' to send school buses out on high-" ways that threatened to be ex tremely slick. ;, a No decision concerning school a nd buses " will be reached until ' a few hours before school time : tnis 'moraine, Salem School Su- perintendent Frank B. r Bennett " said Thursday night. State pohce . reported highways - getting slicker by the hour early this morning as temperatures sagged' slowly toward a predicted : low. or 26. It was 30 at 1 a.m. s Measured 2.5 Inches . i ? The snowfall , Thursday mss- j tired 2.5 inches and .more was taM -ing intermittently early this morn-" ing. The storm total of 8.8 inches , had completely outdistanced the ' former March record of two inches of snow, . . . ; Salem school buses operated normally yesterday, ; except that . doe to. threat of more snow, the Rosedale- bus returned 30. students : shortly after they reached school in the morning. t Forecast Rain, Snow I Today's mid-valley forecast calls . for rain or snow-rain showersj high of 40 degrees and a -low to night ot 28. ; 1 -Yesterday's storm socked Port- , land harder than Salem, dumping . more than seven Inches of snow at the airport there in less than j!2 hours.- . . Planes were i grounded traffie ; was at a standstill during the height of the storm, and numerous schools jwere closed in that area or dismissed early. -. 5 Telephone service between Port land and some f: coast points was brokenTbe Oregon coast; also te ported some electric lines broken by a heavy snowfall. 55 Above At Pendleton I ; Pendleton reported a freakish; 53 above as a lew pressure area mov ed In, but moit Ore;aa cities ie- . ported temperatures as j low or lower than Salem. 3 Seattle had another 3 inches, of snow, but Bellingham remained Washington's record-breaker, with 22 inches on the ground Thursday. : 'The only heartening note was the prediction of the district weather bureau- office In Seattle that the storm front would grad ually begin to break up this wetk ' end. J . Deputies Halts ; Near Riot at School Meet PORTLAND, Mar. 8HP-Muit- nomah . county sheriff's deputies tonight moved In to halt a near riot developing out of a special -school board meeting at the eur- , Durban Rockwood school.? About 100 residents .of the res trict showed up at th3 meetlij to oppose the dismissal of E. I Simons as principal. -"- Chairman Herman L. 4 Greene and Vernon R. Kile seek to release Simons and name a successor. . A third member, Lester Mi-Tracy, opposes the action. Green said to- . night's meeting was called to in terview applicants fcr the post. 1 None was interviewed, however, after the 100, persons appeared. Deputies Howard Frew and Jack Elliott told the board it had bet ter "lock up and go home be fort there Is bloodshed." r The board complied. 1 - LEAVES BIG ESTATE 5 j PORTLAND, Marcti S-.TV-The estate of the late John It. Smith, Portland Industrialist, was apprti. ed at $1,429,059, recordj on t-Ii ' in probate court here today revtsL : Lyle Hammack, Portland, i a spokesman for the butter industry, denied a claim made by.-EIdrki stating -that the butter indujtry was satisfied -with Mahoney's margarine bill because it wouli protect restaurant patron. . (Mahoney's bill would 1 requl r restaurants using margarine to t -vertize the fact and serve it ; ia traingular-shaped pats. Tre ttnm requirements are contained in t.".e federal law). -I did not tell Mr. XT 'dJ, I had approved the till," liiinrrcls told the committee. "I wc-;' i have to study any mararia bi.l care fully before I made ar.y etatr - tnt about it." - y : Hammack ' indicate! ttzt ' t i butter industry wouli Uka- to t ?. j the whole marsarise question cut, I Ie said ha believes rr ; x : r n should be taxed if fr 1 - 3 decides to allow it to I j c Ecth ths t-1 1 ccct at 10 a xi. tcJ;y. (Other ler'-ilctiva x. . ' , Wee Be -ii,