: : " ? . 1 , - I- ; - i . f - ffH 'TZPCD (DOS innn 1111 iCC2i YEAH 12 PAGES ! The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Saturday, March 24. 1951 F2ICE 5c No, 383 '.- $ -. : i Li ( . - n nnn ma Salem folk will take Dr. Boss T. Mclntire's word lor it. : When he says, as he does in an interview published in U. S. News and World Report that there is np truth in the statement that Roose velt was a "dying man" in 1944, they will accent his testimony. For Salem was the boyhood home of Ross Mclntire. He is a graduate of Willamette university and has many friends here who have full confidence in him. In the inter view Mclntire tpeaks from inti mate knowledge because he was the president's personal physician for 12 years in the White house. y Dr. Mclntire recounts the medi cal history of his famous patient through 1944: an attack of influ enza in early 1944 followed by a persistent bronchitis, but after a month in South Carolina Roose velt bounced back and by summer seemed fully recovered. To sup plement his own observation Mc lntire called in a number of ci vilian doctors as consultants. They advised Roosevelt to slow down and to follow strict rules for guarding his health, which he did. As to Yalta, Mclntire answered the reporter's question by saying FDR s mental zacuiues were as keen - there as ever. Yalta was very strenuous. After the Novem ber election something had hap pened to the old stamina: "He could bounce back, but not all the way back." The photographs which show an aging FDR are not reliable as an indication of failing health, said Dr. Mclntire. As a precaution against overloading the heart he had prescribed a diet to take off about ten pounds in weight, and Roosevelt liked it so well he took off another five pounds but that made him look wan and thin. Roosevelt had had no serious (Continued on Editorial Page 4.) Six Girls Now In Finals of Spell Lontest Statesman News Servte PEED EE, March 23 June Lin- dow, pronouncing the letters sure ly and clearly, won the semi-finals of The Statesman-KSLM spelling contest tonight. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindow of route 2, Independence, will carry the , banner of Buena Vista school into the finals of the contest in Salem on April 19. - June, an 8th-grader, sailed into the winner's bracket when Mary Jolene Eamons, 13, in the 8th grade at Valsetz, tripped on "woman," spelling it in the pluraL Nineteen Stops Both Both June and Mary Jolene had and were well into the word list when the latter missed the singular form. Previously, Roger "Brostrom, 12, 7th-grader at Airlie, went down on "polite," and Willie Birchell, 12-year-old 8th-grader at Pedee, inadvertently put an 'e" on inch. Judges in the contest were Prin cipals Eugene Brown of Buena .Vista and Catherine Cummins of Airlie, Ed Belknap of Valsetz and Dave Hoss of Radio KSLM. Words were called by Earle Headrick, KSLM manager. j I Given Dictionary Presentation of a Webster's new Collegiate dictionary to the win ners, and the certificates of merit, was by Wendell Webb, managing editor of The Oregon Statesman. The contest left six girls assur ed of places in the finals June lindow of Buena Vista, JoAnne ' Parker of Broadacres, JoAnn Mu eller of Greenwood. Joanne Keck of Ballston, DeAnn McClaughry of Labish Center and Frances Klen ski of St Luke's at Woodburn. Fight more finalists from the 7th and 8th grades of Marion and Polk . counties are to be chosen. The next semi-finals is at Mt. An gel at 7:30 pjn. Monday. JOHN CRANE SUSPENDED NEW YORK, March 23 -VPh John P. Crane, who says he hand ed out thousands in cash to New York politicians, was suspended from a national AFL post today when he wouldn't quit. Animal Crackers f By WARREN GOODRICH S;si'$ jutt tk refrigerator' ?ott fc defrosted rery wtl ' w. C-.h,HAYDU.iHHCDri, turn.. tu Airbdiriiie Hares 53 Persons ! Aboard Giant U.S. Transport LONDON, Saturday,- March 24-P)-A U. S. air,force officer at Shannon airport said early today the pilot of a search plane report ed sighting flares and wreckage along the Atlantic route followed by a huge U. S. airforce ; C-124, missing for 24 hours with 53 per sons aboard. - i The vast armada ; of ! search planes which had been sweeping the 800-mile stretch of ocean was sped to the area where the flares were reported, some 450 miles due west of Ireland. Two - weather ships the "Jig and the "Charlie" also headed for the scene. The luxury liner Queen Mary report ed it was in the vicinity. ' The .giant transport plane was last heard from early yesterday on its routine flight from the United States to Britain Aboard were 48 passengers and a crew of five. Among the passengers was Brig. Gen. Paul T. Cullen, deputy commander of the U. S. second air force, headquartered at ; Barks dale field, Shreveport, Lu - The pilot of a B-29 superfort radioed the hope-giving report of seeing flares and wreckage. His message was picked up at several points. A Royal Air force control officer at Uxbridge, Eng, said he also reported was a liferaft. what he (believed April Call in Half By C. Yates McDaniel - WASHINGTON. March 1 23-OPV- In a surprise move, the fermy to day slashed its April draft call from 80,000 men to 40,000. - The army explained that it was getting twice the number: of vol unteers and .losing far fewer men in Korea than was expected when the April call for 80,000 draftees was issued Feb. 1. H Defense officials said another factor in the draft reduction was the need for a greater proportion of junior officers to help the army train and absorb recruits. This need will be taken care of, in part, by a decison to order into active service 10,000 reserve ; officer training corps students who will graduate ; from college this sum mer. All these men will enter the army as second lieutenants. Despite the change in draft plans the army expects to meet its 1,600,- 000-man goal by June 30, It now has about 1,400,000 men: ; It hopes that volunteering will continue at the monthly! rate, of 23,000 established during January and February. If the May and June drafts are held to the April figure of 40,000 and the volunteers keep coming in at the current rate, the army will be only 11,000 short of its mark at the end of June. The anounced draft call for May is 60,000. No figure has been given for June. ; f ' i-1 CONTRACT BILL. SIGNED WASHINGTON, March 23-tfV President Truman today signed legislation authorizing the govern ment to renegotiate defense con tracts ; and recapture excessive profits. i l i - Possible Witness Probed in State PORTLAND, March 23 A discharged liquor commission em ploye said here today that the civil service commission i had refused to hear his appeal. I I j y-" ' ' The former investigator for the liquor commission, Bernard Kuen Jr, said the civil service com mission had told him he was not a regular employe, - therefore did not have a right to. a hearing. - Kuen,' discharged early this month, later testified before the grand Jury here investigating li quor commission activities. The commission, explaining ; his dis charge, said he once made accus ations . against other i employes, then refused to repeat them in a formal hearing. Vi v - The grand jury in vesication continued today with two liquor commission inspectors and a tav ern owner called into the grand jury room to testify Another wit ness was G. C Ackerman, an un successful candidate for sheriff at the republican primary last year. 'Another inspector, who testified Army Raise Mopes for Easter Egg Hunt Readied by i. These MEaater rabbits' will be hiding candy err small fry to find. They, represent Salem 20-39 elab which will sponsor its seeea tfannnal Easter err hunt for children one to elrnt years eld, starting at 3 p. m. Sunday. From left are Ralph Jackson, Dr. Roy Quick, president; William Rawlins. Den Schmidt and Nerril Crnxen, hairman of the hunt committee. (Statesman pheU). ! : Denver Area 1 i Gets) Atomic Energy Plant DENVER, March 23-UP)-A $45, 000,000 atomic plant for a major but secret; type of production will be built northwest of Denver. Construction.wiXLstartlate,next month and be completed next year. The plant, small in size com pared to giants at Hanford, Wash., and Oak j Ridge, Tenn., will be nestled on barren land against the foothills of the Rockies. Announcement of the plan caught state and city officials by surprise. They have been boost ing the state as a haven for atomic warfare, starting a movement by industry and military installations to the area. There were a few hints on the purpose of the plant. An atomic energy spokesman said it will not produce bombs or atomic weapons "as such." It will give off no dan gerous wastes nor will it use large quantities of water, gas and elec tricity both marks of basic pro cessing plants. The plant will be under the AEC's Santa Fe operations office. This is the office in charge of re search, of research, development, testing and production of atomic Weapons at Los Alamos, N. M., 400 miles to the south. The nation's uranium production center is in southwestern Colorado 300 miles away. : At his home in Ft. Collins, Rep. William $. Hill (R-Colo.) said he was informed the plant will be devoted to radiological research in connection with the Los Alamos laboratories. ! The plant will be run by Dow Chemical Co. of Midland, Mich, .i The plant site .covers 2,500 acres about four square miles. It is on aptly-named rocky flats. That's eight miles south of Bould er, home; of the University of Col orado and the new U. S. bureau of standards radiological laboratory. It's 24 miles northwest of the state capitol in Denver, second only to Washington in the number of fed eral employes who call it home. earlier, told District Attorney John B. McCourt he feared he might! lose nis jod as a result oz ms testi mony before the grand jury. He said William Hammond, liquor ad ministrator, and Hammond s ai sistant, Thomas L. Sheridan, ques tioned him more than an hour last night at the Milwaukie state police office. 'Tr f The 'inspector was Donald A. Schmidt, who did not disclose the nature of the Questioning. Sheridan, a former police lieu tenant recently named to the li quor commission staff, said he had questioned a few employes, but said it did not concern . testimony before the grand jury. i McCourt warned in a statement that "anything that smacks of in timidation of witnesses coming be fore the grand jury could result In a citation for. contempt of court." He also repeated a warn ing that persons who have appear ed before the grand Jury -or ex pected to should not comment on their testimony. Intimidation Liquor Inqiiiry Clears r" ..v.:. w.-.;: rX i. Xv Sunrise Service to Open Easter Worship Events Joyous commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ will begin in the Salem area with the principal events of the Christian year, will be observed in worship and pageantry throughout the day.' Churches anticipate their sanctu aries will be crowded for all serv ices. Salem's opening program will be the annual union sunrise service at the capitol at 6:30 a.m., spon sored by the Ministerial associa-! tion. Speaker will be the Rev. Os car Brown, pastor of South Salem Friends church. The service will include a pre lude by the 65-piece Leslie junior high school band, directed by Ray mond Carl; congregational singing led by Ronald J. Lush; prayer by the Rev. G. B. Rundstrom of Cen tral Lutheran church; selections by Salem academy choir, directed by Willis Riemer; trumpet solo, The Holy City," by David Doerk- sen; scripture by the Kev. Harold Black of West Salem Methodist church; benediction by the Rev. John Goodenberger of First Pres byterian church. The Rev. O. W. Clemens, pastor of First Church of God and asso ciation president, will preside. Boy Scouts will act as ushers and di rect traffic. The program was ar ranged by a committee headed by the Rev. Eugene ; Stowe of First Nazarene church. Other communities also plan sunrise services. 1 To accommodate the expected crowds, several churches have scheduled double morning services this Sunday. In Salem these in clude Court Street Christian, First Christian, St. Paul's Episcopal, En- giewood Evangelical United Breth ren, Christ Lutheran, St. John's Lutheran, First Methodist, Jason Lee Methodist and First Presby terian. - ; - . (Additional church news 'on pages 8 and 12.) j Brightwood Man Killed by; Auto OREGON CITY, March 23 -P)- joseph Lee Kossen, . 70, antique shop owner, was killed at Bright wood tonight when struck by a car as he pulled a wagonload of groceries along the highway. State police said the driver, Ken neth . Hellinger, 30, Portland, said he did not! see the man in time to avoid hitting him. He was not held. i . Typhoon Aims 110-Mile Winds Toward Eniwetok PEARL HARBOR, March 23-JP) -A typhoon with winds up to 110 miles as hour held steady on course today that - would skirt the U. S. atomic proving grounds at Eniwetok. , - The weather bureau estimated the storm as 390 miles east of the atoll in the Marshall islands. ' Max. ! 5 -C 71 ana. Pncif, 81 PwUaad Saa rraaciaeo . Chicago - si . :jdo 3 J0O . 3 r i- A3 Z2 XO 41 S5 New York Willamett Kiver J feet FORECAST from V. S. weather bu reau. UcNirr scmx. sajmi: coosta rabl ekjudiacas todiy. tooiffht and Sunday. Mild temperatures with hii today near M and low- tonight near 36. IALKH rKECITIIAIlun - IIbn Stark af Weather Year 8etC 1 This Year Last Year , - Normal S70S - MJ imm: Lb$t Salem 20-30 sunrise Sunday. Easter, one of the Salem Flyer Rescued After Korean Jump TOKYO,! Saturday, March 24- (A-Far East air 'force headquar ters today said five men who par achuted from a burning flying box car in Korea s big para troop land ing yesterday had been rescued. Two others, presumably the pilot and co-pilot, were believed to have lost their lives when the plane blew up after the five bailed out. Their names were withheld. The five! included Sgt. Gerrit Cooper, Salem, Ore. Apparently the pilot and co pilot were trying to land at Suwon air field when the plane blew up. The plane: j had been struck by enemy ground fire while dropping paratroops;! in the Munsan area northwest of Seoul. - SETS PAN-AMERICAN DAT WASHINGTON. March 23-WP- President J Truman today pro claimed Saturday, April 14, as Pan-American day. It will mark the 61st anniversary of the found ing of the Pan-American Union. Vj. ' . - " ; -2, ,.. . t I I If Tears Young March 28, 1951 The Oregon Statesman 'if Salem's eld East school (Washington) tarned ent many a grsdoste while it st&l went a fnrther thaa the tth grade. The above 1SS3 ' phot Is owned by Mrs. J. Kay Fawk ef -EickreaH (nee Ermine CushneU la the pietare). Shews in the ZTsdosUon photo (left t right) are: Front row (first person anidentlfied) Eva, Adair, Ada Davis, Marrnerite Aldersoa, Laura Hammer, Annie Talbett, Helen , Matthews, IXaad Kress; second row Corlis EUrr, Lis Ilarris, 1Z Area Airp JLame :.. . Mac Extends Peace Talk Offer to Reds . TOKYO, Saturday March 24- -Allied paratroopers and ground forces forged a solid front today 20 miles north of Seoul, seizing most of the Reds last-stand territory below the 38th parelleL . General MacArthur,! flying to the front today, said . the daring operation virtually ended all or ganized Red resistance anywhere in South Korea. His troops were as close as two miles to the arti ficial boundary for North and South Korea. . . More than 3,000 men, with ar tillery and supplies, parachuted Friday at Munsan, eight miles from the 38th parallel. They sought to cut behind and kill Reds. But they killed only between 150 and 200. Eiehty-seven Reds were cao tured. Enemy opposition generally melted in favor of flight. Find Few Enemy . j I An armored task force .which speared up the main Seoul-Pyongyang highway and linked up last night with the paratroooers at Munsan also found few Reds. I Allied! planes j flew a record smashing 1,254 sorties Friday three-fourths of them In support of the biggest paratrooD drop of the Korean war. An air force sum mary today said this display of air power exceeded by 132 the prev ious sortie record of March 16. Last night planes tore into 17 Red supply trains, : knocking out seven, j - . ; General MacArthur said In a statement,' Issued before he left by plane for Korea; that Red China's hopes of winning Korea with sheer masses of manpower have been bloodily-crushed. He expressed readiness to meet In the field with the enemy's com mander-in-chief and discuss means of ending the bloodshed. : Troops Roll Forward , But the U.N. commander made It clear that the U.N. objective of a unified. Independent Korea is the only acceptable formula. Allied troops rolled forward Fri day for gains up to six miles. They killed or wounded 3,420 Reds boosting to about 185,000 the en emy's casualties since the allied offensive began last January 23. The main concern appeared to be eliminating an enemy salient that dips south between Chunchon. 45 miles northeast of Seoul, and the new UJi. position at Munsan, 21 miles northwest of the capital Turk Troops Attack ' i , Turkish troops attacked and captured two hills in stiff fights 15 miles northeast of Seoul. They drove a Red company off each hi. Farther to the northeast, Amer ican troops repelled a Red attack last night near Hangye, a town now In allied hands. It is 15 miles southeast of Chunchon. . Old East . t ; By Charles Ireland : .r : I StaXt' Writer, The Statesman mCKREALL, March 23 Fire of blast-furnace intensity tonight destroyed the Burlingham-Meeker grain plant with loss an owner' estimated at $500,000. Cause was not immediately determined. About 125,000 bushels of grain went up in the blaze which quickly enveloped the plant, located at Deny a mile east of Rickre&II ' on the Salem-Dallas highway. , Firemen crouched behind huge metal shields , as they battled fte confine the blistering blaze to the seed plant. ' i : -A battery, of fuel tanks 150 feet from the fire was threatened. They belong to the Farmers Union Oil Cooperative association. Fire men poured water on them for more than, an hour. The tanks have a capacity of ; 95,000. gallons. ; i ' ! believe they might have' ex ploded in: another 10 minutes," said Walter Steele, oil co-op man ager, and one of the first at the scene. - .v . , . - ;.' Dallas firemen wer summoned to the blaze about 7:20 p. m. after a passing motorist turned in the alarm. - - - - ' 1 Fjre trucks from Salem, Inde pendence, Monmouth and Falls City, also responded. .Highway traffic was rerouted for i several hours. . : . . Started In Grain Bins Witnesses . said they .believed the fire broke out in one of the plants 55 grain bins. Fire Chief Walter Young, Dallas, said the plant was a mass of flames when equipment arrived. Firemen pumped water from RickreaU creek, south f of " the plant, and a ' mill pond located north of the fire scene. The fire scorched power poles in the area and broke out on a railroad water tank 'near the plant. The tank was not destroyed. ! ! . A locomotive ' removed ' three freight cars threatened by the fire. Destroyed facilities of the grain plant included front offices, a 40 foot elevator, seed-cleaning de partment, a new 90-foot elevator, fumigating rooms J and t storage space. j :: i Partially Insured I ! PhU Meeker, Amity, ah owner, estimated damage to the buildings alone at $125,000. The, 90-foot elevator was : built last summer. It was of heavy frame construc tion, with aluminum siding. ' ! "jThere were 1,000,000; feet I of lumber in that building alone," Meeker said. i I "Our loss is partially insured, a fire; like this is never completely insured," Meeker said, j j No customer will lose a cent," he added. The plant served at least 400 farmers in a wide belt around RickreaU who brought their grain here for processing and shipment. Modernised Plant . !- ; 1 "Most of the grain on hand was white oats,"barley nd wheat, Meeker said! He estimated the grain on hand at 3,000 tons, valu ed (roughly At $65 a ton.! ! The plant was considered one of the most modern in this area. It contained much new, automatic equipment. Ten men are employed there. - Jj-' ' vy " I . . v Flames from the fire were vis ible for many miles and attracted scores of onlookers. It was still burning at midnight and firemen estimated it .would smoulder !for several days.! - i j .J ' Gordon Burlingham, Forest Grove, is the other owner of the plant. It was formerly owned by State Rep. Frank Farmer, Rick reaU. ' : -j , A ' ! Sen. Engdahl Stricken With Heart Ailment 1 j PENDLETON, March 23-M-A heart attack struck State Sen. Carl Engdahl, 65, here last night. He was hospitalized, and no visitors were allowed today. j t 'Attendants ; said his j condition was favorable. " L: ! ' Engdahl was stricken shortly after arriving home by train from the Easter recess of the state legis lature. ': ;.;"; . -7 ' J School Well Photographed f I, i. '-'j - t r - Canders, Jessie SmISa, HaUIa ZTortloci, Cop Cans; tLlxd row Cr3 Denton. - - - - Fleming, Mary Alikea, - - - Salmon, Lenere Ereais. T.Ilanlo Evans, Ermine Bashaell, Craee Cleaver. Jay IeCormick, Eraas, Archie IXeCnUoch: back row Chen Eir'tleton, Cheter 7'i rhy, Charles OTlynr, Ernest TTUon, Hex Davis, Ed Thorax LUlon Flanondon, - - - Savage, TheophU Il::ac;t. !!.....-;.,: ' " NPA Orders 25 Cut for Tires, Tubes WASHINGTON, March 23-(TV- . The national production authority tonight announced a 25 per cent cut in deliveries of tires and tubes f for new passenger cars, effective"? April 1. .. ! I ; The control agency also disclos ed inventories of distributors. In- -eluding wholesalers and retailers, will be limited after that date to : 30-day supply. I 1(.The -NPA." said manufactures ; wiU be allowed to deliver only : 75 per . cent as many tires and tubes to passenger car makers during the second quarter of tbis year, for use as original equip- . ment on new cars, as they did dur- .; ing the first quarter. 1 Officials indicated the cut was ordered because of mounting de- i fense use of rubber and a loss ! about 4,000 long tons in the prod- ", liction of synthetic rubber expec-t- ed in April. Fires and other oper ational difficulties at synthetic plants were blamed for the loss in expected production.. S t The NPA advised the rubber in- v; dustry that the amount of rubber available for civilian use in April wiU be about 7,500 long tons lea than the monthly average during " the first three months of this year. I Figures made public by the gov-1 rnment, agency indicated military ! use of rubber in April will jump ) to 14,000 long tons from a month Iy average of 8,500 long tons im the first quarter. . t : The tire and tube deliveries lor ? hew passenger cars may be cut! deeper than the redtictionalready Ordered in steel for passenger car 1 production during the second quar-J ,ter. . -- - -I The NPA recently ordered pas-';-tenger car makers to use 20 per cent less steel in the second quar ter of this year than they did in s the average quarter in the first ; half of 1950. , I Police Catch K wo Escapees j wo Woodburn training school escapees were apprehended In Ei- Irene Friday, less than 24 hours after they attacked a guard at the Institution and fled. i State police said the pair ws, pabbed at the Eugene railroad yards where they had broken into a : boxcar containing a military khipnent and taken clothing and ' $hoes. - ' l The boys wer clad only Sa T-shirts and overalls when they escaped. Authorities presumed they had reached Eugene by "hop ping"' a train.. - i? Police said the boys were Law rence Porter, 16, Coos Bay; and Orville Hanson, 15, Portland. - r