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2 Th Statesman; - Salem, Oregon, Tuaadcry. March 13. 1951 Costello Helped Pick Mayor of Crime Probers , By Albert Parks NEW YORK, March !2-(JPhA Brooklyn republican told senate crime probers today he believed that Gambler Frank Costello's back- ins was needed in 1949 to dick a The testimony came from Charles Lipsky, who said he dabbled in democratic politics because the republican party had no chance of electing a mayor. The senate crime committee has tional crime syndicate. Costello I has denied it. Pid you believe it was neces sary to get Costello backing in the selection of a candidate?" Lipsky was asked. I did that," the witness re- 7829 De-Opening Tomorrow! (T7ed.) .Open at 6:45 -Starts at 7:15 M. w r J ENDS TODAYI (TOES.) Grab! and "FAREWELL LIZ 1 O PH. 3-3467 O Mat. Daily From 1 P. M. O STARTS TOMORROW! Guns! Guts! Glory! In Blazing Korea! What kind of a I'M ZACK ... o retread sergeant from the last war. If you're smart, you live; if you're dumb, you die. Me? fro comin' out of this alive! I'M THE CONORS ... but that was in the last war. If a guy's house is m danger he has to fight for it. I'M DSISC0LL...the chicken-fed lieutenant I had to kill a Red and earn the right : to wear steel pot. I'M TH0m0N.Mthe medic In North Africa I hustled trucks; in Germany I romanced a rifle; in Korea Tin jumping to the tune of, "Hey! Medic..!" I'M BUDDHA-HEAD... thi bazooka man. 1 was weaned in Europe against the Nazi Krauts and now I'm fighting for my life against Korean Keds. I'M BALDY.the replacement. The men en separated from the boys quick here. I was lucky and lived to talk about if. I'M JOE... a 6. L dogface. We live dog's life, eat dog biscuits, wear dog tags. I'M SHOW fiOUNDshort, because I didn't go cH the way with this outfit. s ill II 1 - HATS Off! To the roughest, . who ovor coforf fhomsotvo U. 5. IMANTRYI r 7 .3 W ft' ! Ik, Rlt CTO fcn VZJ1 .fcs Eri tt 3 - J a in i. liiTi-i O Tili YEATS JiVIIST CO-HfTl O Plus! A Truly Different, Delightful rsv Cartccn Chare cterl New Ybrty Told and Arthur Everett I democratic candidate lor mayor. named Costello as head of a na - . - .if plied. "That's why I : went to him. The democratic mayoralty plum was dangling at the time because Mayor William O'Dwyer had said he would not run again. He chan ged his mind, however, and ijwas reelected. A few months late? he resigned to become fambassadpr to Mexico. ' 4 Lipsky said Irving- Sherman, whom he called a pal of Costello's. had "done so much for Mayor O'Dwyer. Funds for O'Dwyer il The witness said he learned that Sherman raised funds for O'Dwy- ers 1945 campaign and' that Other highlights in the day's session included; ;f Testimony by a ' Long Island trotting track official that he paid Costello $60,000 over four years to rid the track of bookmakers. Bookie Frank Erickson and Un derworld Character:: Joe Adonis refused to answer ' most of i the committee's questions. They said their answers might Incriminate them. The committee voted to ask the senate to cite Erickson i for contempt for his refusal. He Is now serving two years for book- making, i a Lipsky said he was ODwyer's emissary in 1948 to try to f get - Dailey "CALL ME MISTER TO YESTERDAY outfit is this? toughest bunch of gvyi prMMtntiM 1 1 Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH q ' "'i,,lM, ' Dl bv HAYOCN.KENNCOr Sm4kM. JC "It's ky out today, dear. Better ipU on your chains. Costello to join. In a purge of the leadership of Tammany Hall,: the Manhattan democratic orgamza tion a purge he said was $ug gested by Mrs. Franklin D. Roos evelt, former first lady. ? Lipsky said he got together with Costello, Clarence H. Neal end former Judge Francis X. Mancu- so at the Copacabana, a night club. The trio spurned the purge $ug gestion and Lipsky quoted O'Dwyer as saying: "All right, we'll starve them out." Paid Oat $60,000 I Another witness, a golf -playing pal of Costello, testified he paid the gambler $60,000 to rid a Long Island harness racing track of bookmakers. : It took Costello just two days to do the job, although he drew $15,- 000 a year for four years, added the witness, George Morton Levy, general counsel of Roosevelt race way. ! j During Levy j testimony, one committee member, Sen. Tobey (R-N. H.) alled "fantastic" ! his story about Costello's $60,000 race track lob. s I resent that. snapped Levy. nis xace flushed. "You can resent till hell free zes over.' Tobey shouted back as spectators gasped audibly. i Open 6:45 P. M. . NOW! DOUBLE FUN! i breht mnnniETT "Where The Big Flctwes PUyr 1 jigtYrrrtai Must End Tonight! I J "RATON PASS" tk. "Hunt, The Man Down" NEW Tononnou! 2 Top-Notch HiU! ' Ifj all about i gorgeous airline stewardess V : Andt ' : The Most Enjoyable Film Yonll See This Tear! . Extral - j Color Cartoon Warner News IL Reynolds .1 n, i -r- - ii wmp tAt Don't become a Chronic Sufferer. Don't become an Incurable. Stomach, Rectal! land Colon Disorders . prevent good health. . Tako no chanco-!"It may bo later than You Think." j Phono War Materiel, Mail Aboard Stricken Ship LIHUE, KAUAI, Hawaiian Isl ands, March 12-P-A spokesmar for the crew of he freighter An drea F. ; Luckenbach, which ran aground northeast of here last night, said today some $15,000. 000 worth of war material and possibly 5,000 bags of - mail ' foi Korea were aboard the ship. " (Castle & Cooke, Ltd., Hono lulu agents, and the coast guard in Honolulu said they had no re liable estimate of the contents ot value of the cargo.) Mitchell Henson, 22, of Savan nah, Ga able seaman designated by the crew as spokesman, told i reporter here the Luckenbach car ried tanks, plane wings and en gines and combat rations for trans-shipment from Yokohamr to the Korean war front. He said the cargo was in the flooded holds of the ship. A coast guard spokesman said an attempt would be made to pump out the grounded freighter and if possible tow her to Hono lulu. He said 460 tons of deck cargo would have to be 'thrown overboard because "speed is oi the essence." (The weather bureau in Hono lulu issued storm warnings foi the Kauai area today, adding ur gency to the planned salvage operations). Henson, on behalf of the crew, expressed high praise for acting Captain Frederick P. Dietrich of Seattle, Wash, the chief mate who took command of the Luckenbach when its original skipper was re ported ill and taken ashore at Honolulu earlier yesterday. ; Henson said Dietrich did a magnificent job in trying to save the' ship, passengers, crew and cargo." (Captain Cornelius Holtman, the ship's master, told a reportei from his sickbed in a Honolulu hospital: "The first I learned of the disaster was when I opened the paper today. It's bad time to be in the hospital. Frosh Class 'King for Day9 At Willamette The freshmen were King for a Day on the Willamette university campus Monday. It was traditional Blue Monday when prank-befs were paid off by the losing classes in last Saturday night s Freshman Glee, won this year by the freshman class. A sophomore from Portland, Richard Ruff, received a syrup and feathers treatment in one of the more drastic payoffs. Some students waded into the cold murky water of the mill stream but the last-placing jun ior class was spared the tradi tional dunking due to a new uni versity prohibition against dunk- lngs. There were odd costumes galore on the campus. Some of the win ners were carted about in wheel barrows and other conveyances. Most of the fun was confined to the campus and by nightfall there was nary a police report nor a state ' legislative eye-raising to show for the Blue Monday she nanigans. "Halls Of Slontezuma" Plus "Harriet Craig TOMORROWl Tacjcm Lot Song" Plus "Kansas Rcdders" i "In Technicolor! f I Ends Today Open (:45 MUSiCAUl PgWEU.omiBAN j1 CO-FEATTmK "Lady Without Passport" Rectal Specialist dr. H Royndi; f latorDfMthk Pnysldasi 1144 Cantsr & . Salatn Orasoa Open-Toed Shoe Provides Clue to Hospital Runaway police had one leood clue Mon day for spotting an escapee from the' Oregon state : hospital. Hospital authorities reported Monday morning that Raleigh Piper, i 40, had been missing from the. institution since 9:30, a jn. He was described as 6-foot 2-inches tall, 160 pounds, brown hair and eyes. He was wearing blue over alls, a blue shirt: and the toe of one shoe had been cut away, au thorities said. - : One-Third of Quota Raised By Red Cross (Picture on page one.) The American Red Cross fund drive in Marion county was over one-third of the way to its goal Monday with the reporting of $17,618 collected. Most of 35.5 per .cent of the $48,985 quota was reported at the report luncheon Monday noon by the advanced gilts division headed by Earl Gooch. The .division total ed $11,031, or 102! per cent of Its quota, : the first time in several years that the group has reached its goal so early in the drive. Gooch and his; workers -were commended highly for their suc cess by Robert 11 ELfstrom. gen eral chairman of the Marion county campaign, i Also taking bows at the lunch" eon were members of the women's division who reported 45.8 per cent ot their $7,100 goal. The women, soliciting; in residential districts,- had been hampered through the first week of the cam paign by bad weather, but their report was ahead of expectations. Other divisions turng in pro gress reports included: Educational, $450, or 34.7 per cent of a $1300 goal; governmen tal, $1681, or 32.2 per cent of $5, 200; professional, $570, or 27 per cent of $2100. I . : The next report luncheon meet ing is set next Monday at the Marion hotel. Elliott's Bride-to-Be Hustles from Divorce Court to Marriage Office EVERGLADES, Fla, March 12 -(AVMrs. Minnewa Bell Ross anc Elliott Roosevelt, i very excited, applied to Collier County Judge S. S. Jolley today for a marriage license. , They drove here from Key West where Mrs. Ross earlier in the day was granted a divorce from Dr. Rex L. Ross, Jr., of Santa Monica Calif. - They will return' Wednesday afternoon .for the license after complying with .Florida's three day waiting law.) They brought Always in A pleasant dinner with good companions rank among the truly fine things of life. It is only natural that you find Olympia served often in such good company, as a complement' to fine food ... as the light refreshment beverage of a pleasant evening. The Remembered Mark of Hospitality" for threa generations, Olympia is ; ? YOURS TO ENJOY -Tiff 1 J'-1 ' irrr-.,v, 'f J, Council Gives Fluoride Plan tion ; ' (Council news also on page 1 ) Proposed addition of fluoride tt Salem's water supply, as a denta. health measure, got a cool recep tion from .the Salem city counci Monday night. . : Aldermen laid on the table t report from City Manager J. L Franzen estimating that putting t fluoridation plad into effect would cost the city $17,476 the first year ana ?8,470 annually thereafter. ; ' There was no enthusiam ex pressed for taking the matter uj; in ; connection with this year's midget. ; Franzen Was absent due to r heavy cold, but his prepared re port .circulated earlier among a dermen showed an anual cost of $5,226 for the needed sodium sill co fluoride and $3,250 for opera t ing - expense and depreciation, pius an. uuuai cost ox jsj.uuo lor a building and equipment. The flu oridation plan has been endorsed by the Manon-Polk-Yamhill Den tal society.' i j j : - Budget consideration for in creasing the staff of the city at tomey was ordered; at the city nau meeting last -ugnt at the suggestion of Alderman Robert F. White. He said work of the attor ney's office has been increasing steadily and bis is one of the few City departments not recently ex panded. . . t; ; if White's motion came, after the attorney was directed at Alder man Albert H. Gille's instigatior to make a study of the city char ter for possible amendments "tc remedy some of the situation! which nave earae up under the city manager xprm ox : .govern ment." ; He did not elaborate, but the proposal was similar to suggest ions at a recent council meeting that possibly some provision should be made for the appoint ment of pro tern aldermen tc serve during long absences of i council member. This was prompt ed by Alderman Daniel J. Fry' present four -months trip abroad. Civil defense was discussed be fore the council by CoL Mark Hillary, county-city director of de fense, and at his recommendation the council voted to take the Keizer, Labish Center and Lake Labish school districts into the city defense setup..' The council also appropriated from the emergency . fund $275 tc finance installation of a marine type warning horn atop the Ore gon Pulp & Paper Co. sulphite plant, in connection with the de fense program. ' Hillary said thii horn, deep pitched ' and steam operated, could be heard nine miles, including inside houses. along the required blood test cer tificates. - xne coupie - said ,tney piannec to be married by Circuit Judge George E. Holt of Miami, Thurs day. n GoolRecen JL WL' Koutney Treated By First Aid Men ' - ' i l : Edward Koutney, 445 Columbia st was treated by Salem first aid men Monday for a cut hand in curred when his auto collided with a ' City Transit lines bus in the 3800 block of Center st. Koutney was driver of the auto which crashed into the rear of the Four Corners bus. Both - vehicles were towed from the scene. 'Commies' Riot Iii Barcelona BARCELONA.' Spain, March 12 -fP)-iThe worst violence since the Civil war exploded In Spain's sec ond largest city today. .The gov eminent blamed "communist agi tators" with setting off a general strike against the high cost of liv ing, which spread like wildfire to surrounding, industrial cities. By nightfall, Barcelona had be come calm, again, but only after troop reinforcements were wheel ed in to help police break up mass demonstrations in which automo biles were, overturned and burn ed, streetcars and buildings were stoned and all work- except in es sential public services stopped. ' Some sources ' said more than 100 persons were arrested and an undetermined number were in jured by police clubs and gunfire. Portland Shipyard Receives Contract For Nayy Barges PORTLAND, March -(ff)-A Portland shipbuilding firm has re ceived a $1,700,000 contract from the navy department for the con struction of 23 steel cargo barges. H. J. Sundt, general sales man ager of Gunderson Brothers En gineering corporation, said extra men would be employed as re quired for the construction of the plain flat cargo vessels. - " Liaht V p Paul Armstrongs ., - s ar skk. i m.. a i t: I ! '. -1 : ; - ' i .. Gradual River j Rise Forecast 1 .! if''1! Salem had some genuine relief from the unseasonal March weath er Monday when temperature! climbed to a respectable 19 de grees. - - ! i Rain and the rising mercury put an end to an 11-day cold spell in which an all-time March record' of 10 J9 inches of snow felt. The total also gave ; Salem Its ninth snowiest winter fin weather bureau history. j fj i I The combination of melting snow and the .40 of an inch rain reported to 10:30 p. m. Mon day were expected to cause mod erate rises in valley streams dur ing the next two days, No flooding Is expected. i j j Biggs Slide Area j To Remain Qosed ! i 1 i I ! ! THE DALLES, March U-VP The state highway department said today that the Biggs Junction slide area will be closed if or at least two more days. H i The area has bean closed sev4 eral times since January when a slide blocked the highway,) 1- De Sure - To Hear T i - . i CHAIITEIIS - - " " i- i FRIDAY MARCH 1BTH SALEM HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 8:13 RM. tf lou'im it - Senior High School Auditorium 14th and D Street I tonight, 8 P. f,l. " -Hi.' V-: ' . " -1-1 . I Pick vp- Complimentary Ticke1 ' at ' Steven's Jewelers A ftsaots wncoai tOwWA.i.lil'tfiiiplii OtTKFtA IllWWa COM AMI $1J'?f'.,'s fAi