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Forecast (from U. S. weather bureau.
WcNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy
with ahowers today and tonight. Little
temperature chance with hixh today
dear 55. low tonight near 40.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
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Crime Prober Asks
Senators to Reopen
O'Dwyer Fund Case
WASHINGTON, March 2S-UPhSenator Tobey (R-NH) predicted
today that senate crime probers will reopen their investigation of
William CDwyer's campaign funds if their, committee Is allowed to
continue its work. ' i ' v; :..::'' i;: , k
And Tobey, ranking republican member of the committee, said
be thought public pressure would force an extension of the commitee's
CRT
Well, what did you think of the
Easter bonnets yesterday? Jferxy
little things, weren't they? The
flowers that bloom in the spring.
tra la, had something to do with
the case, an fact they were so
numerous on women's hats it
looked as though spring had burst
out all over. Daisies, black-eyed
susans, lillies of the valley, violets,
roses (and some not in the garden
catalogs) topped the neat straws.
The weatherman thought it was a
carden too for he tilted his water
ing can just a trifle to give them
an unwanted drink. .
But milady's hats aren't what
they used to be. Some will re
member the gorgeous plumes in
the Lillian Russell era, and the
.hats of the Floradora sextette, and
the floppy brims of the Merry
Widow period. They are gone
with the styles of yesteryear. They
couldn't be worn now anyway
no way to anchor them to the head
with its Mary Martin crew cut
And how would one get in and
' out of an automobile with one of
them on?: they'd be about as bad
for the motor age as the hoop skirt.
Gone too are the birds that used
to perch on the crown of the hat
of the' lady of fashion. It took a
great crusade to induce women to
leave them off so as to stop the
slaughter of birds for millinery
adornment, but now only an oc
casional plume or bright feather
Is seen.
The change in hat styles is not
all that has happened to millinery
its economy has changed. At the
turn of the century and before
and after millinery was largely a
local industry. Shapes were bought
from the wholesalers and ribbons
and velvets and trimmings, and
then the hats were made to order
In the local shop. Nowadays hats
are the (Continued on editorial
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Easter Egg
Causes Crash
An Easter egg Sunday caused
' an auto wreck in which one Salem
child was injured and four others
were shaken.
- Police said the car crashed into
a walnut tree when the driver
reached down to retrieve the egg,
which one of the children had
dropped.
The children were returning
from Church of God Sunday school
with their teacher, Esther M. Tri
etch, 940 S. 22nd stn whom police
listed as driver.
, Bruce Anderson, 5, veterans'
housing colony, suffered a cut lip
and a head bruise, according to
city first aidmen. They .said Miss
Trietch suffered slight shock.
Officers said the crash damaged
the car's front wheel, fender, grill,
bumper, hood, body and radiator.
It happened in the 700 block of
South 19th street
BUILDING SEARCHED
- Police were flushing the Lives
ly building early this morning
following a custodian's report of
a prowler on the fourth floor,
first check indicated no doors
bad been forced open.
Animal Crackers
By WARREN GOODRICH
HyI How about giving ofnoboc'y
cUnco te bow'J" -
uie Deyona next saturaay, tne
day it will go out of existence
unless the senate votes it more
time. : , ' . ;. ..J i
Tobey said the committee will
seek new evidence to determine
which man was lying O'Dwyer,
ambassador to Mexico and form
er mayor of New York, or John
P.- Crane, head of the uniformed
firemen's association in testi
mony to the senators in New
York last week.
Crane said he handed O'Dwyer
$10,000 in October, 1949 when O'
Dwyer was running for re-election
as mayor. . Crane did not
identify it as a campaign; contri
butlon. i ;
' O'Dwyer flatly denied! receiv
ing the money. A New York grand
jury had ; questioned both men
about possible perjury charges.
Interviewed . on NBC's "Meet
the Press" television program,
Tobey said the - senators them
selves let the matter drop last
week "but not permanently."
Claims Murder
The fast-talking 'senator with
the big, booming voice said also:
1 He's convinced beyond per
adventure" that Abe Reles was
murdered : in a New York hotel
room while six policemen guard
ed him. Reles was the key wit
ness in a Murder, Inc., : slaying.
O'Dwyer told the senate commit
tee he thought Reles was killed in
a fall from a window. ?f
2 New i York Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey should instruct his state
police to "enforce the law vhen
they have evidence in their hands
that it is not being enforced.
Tobey referred, he said, to wide
open" gambling at Saratoga as
described in a 1947 state police
report. , 1 "
3 The committee doesn't plan
to subpoena Dewey,' who has de
clined to testify before the group,
but: "I do think; that 4f? iwere
Gov.rDewey I would come down
and sit in with the committee and
have a talkf est." I
Asks Inquiries
Tobey said also that the com
mittee, if its life is extended, will
conduct investigations in New
England, Maryland, Washington,
D. C, and various other parts of
the country. S
"Washington, he said with em
phasis, "is one of the places that
needs investigation.
Two other members f of the
crime committee said, meanwhile,
that its future may hinge on
whether federal law enforcement
agencies are willing to take over
its much-publicized investigation.
Jewels Stolen
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From Apartment
Of Tyrone Power
LONDON. March 25-0?P)-Thiev-
es stole jewelry and furs valued
at between $28,000 and $56,000
from the apartment of Movie
Star Tyrone Powers and his wife,
Linda Christian, police said to
night, it
The Powers were In the coun
try for Easter at the time of the
theft. They live in the fashionable
Mayfair section of London.
- Police reported that Power had
lost his jewelry collection, while
his wife's black and white mink
furs were stolen. The actor is
making a picture here, s
10t Years Young March 28. 1951
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SILYESTON This picture was
spread to the se-ealled West XXiU dlstriet. The site new is covered
with heoses. The threshing rig in the 1S3S picture was being oper
ated by Elmer Hubbard, aa shewn. Za the white shirt la front raw-
City Park Swept
Clean of Eggs by
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Several hundred Salem child- .
ren Sunday afternoon found v
every one of. the 3,000 candy-'
eggs the Easter bunny had hid
den at Willson . park. And it
took them only 20 minutes.
Raindrops fell just as the hunt
ended. Nearly all of the kiddies '
were three to eight years old,
and most were accompanied by
.parents, s .v;, . ,
Sponsoring 20-30 club mem-,
bers saw that nobody got a bead "
start with the aid of a public
address system which was loan-;
ed.by city police.
Spellers from
6 Schools to
Vie Tuesday
FALLS CITY, March 28 At
least six schools will be represent
ed in a semi-finals of The States-man-KSLM
Spelling contest at
Falls City high school at 8 p. m.
Tuesday, March 27. (Another semi
finals is set for ML Angel on Mon
day, March 26.)
The winner will go to the grand
finals in Salem April 19 to com
pete with the winners of 13 other
semi - finals being conducted
throughout -Marion and Polk coun
ty schools. jSix of the finalists al
ready have been chosen. All six
are girls, i
The schools to send entrants here
and the names, ages and grades
of the entrants, are as follows:
Orchard j View Alvinr Brandt,
13, 8th.
Bridgeport Mary-Verne Al
len, 13, 8th.
Antioeh 4- Carol Sue Whelchek,
13, 7th. !
Guthrie i Opal Penrose, 14,
7th. !
Falls City Jennie Ames, 14,
8th. ;
Oakhurst Duane Fehrenbach,
14 8th. j ... I -., :
Every school in this county zone
certified a champion for the con
test except Oakdale. which still is
eligible to j send a contestant for
the Tuesday event. i '
LsJrhe,pell-down is open to the
public andi there is no charge Or
collection of any kind.
Host principal here is Herschel
Bond. Judges will include Evelyn
Lewis, Meda Foster, Anna Klie
wer and Gertrude Gragg. Repre
sentatives fof the sponsors will
pronounce ! the words and aid in
conducting; the event.
Autol SP Train
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Crash Hurts 3
ALBANY, March 25-UP)-Three
persons were injured today when
the car in which they were riding
was hit by a Southern Pacific
freight tram at a crossing here.
Most seriously hurt was Elmer
W. Keesee, Jefferson, the driver,
who suffered a head injury. Less
seriously hurt were his wife. Myr
tle, and Lester L. Borders, Albany.
They were under treatment at a
hospital here.
The car was demolished.
; Deadline at 1 p.m.
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Because of the mechanical
work entailed in the publica
tion of Wednesday's 104-page
"Cavalcade of a Century' edi
tion, the deadline for classified
advertising for Wednesday's
Statesman will be 1 p. an.
Tuesday.
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Kite Iflying Gains Popularity
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Kite flying hall been a popular sport in Salem daring fairly nice days
with spritely winds. Getting their kites off to a good start are
'Jimmy Pero, left, 1460 D at. and Jimmy MeKinney; 1492 Center st.
The boys were playing-safe by flying their kites In a wide field
with no power lines nearby to endanger either their kites ec
themselves. (Statesman photo). i
Allied Colu inns Draw
Abreast
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TOKYO, Monday, March 26--Rain-pelted troops today moved
the main United Nations line so close to Korea's 38th parallel that
they Could cross it anytime at several points. if' ' '
I Patrols already have ranged two miles beyond it into North
Korea. Hit-and-run raiders struck the west coast this week end 50
miles above the old political boundary and near the port of Pyong
yang,! North Korean capital.
South Korean army headquar
ters said its troops already were
at; the parallel on the east coast.
Today's U. S.) Eighth army com
munique reported the South Ko
reans advanced Sunday against
scattered opposition."
Rain drenched the peninsula,
miring roads. The back-tracking
reds have been reported awaiting
the rain season a cover for their
hard-hit supply lines before at
tempting a counter-offensive.
Despite the unfavorable weath
er denying heavy air cover, allied
troops advanced Sunday even on
the western front north of Seoul,
where their line is within 10 miles
of the 38th parallel.
Allied commanders said the
reds in that sector were employing
delaying tactics. The enemy there
has dug defenses in depth all the
way to the parallel.
;Saturday, South Korean soldiers
and sailors darted onto the west
coast! at Wolsa peninsula, 50 miles
north of the parallel near Chin
nampo, Pyongyang's port city. Go
ing ashore from mine layers, they
killed 100 reds; captured 69 and
seized equipment.
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Is Walter Scenee. Between Seenee and Hubbard Is Charlie Wolfari
and at the right la Claude Welfard. On the water wagon behind if
Alien Ehlndler.
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1,000 at Early
Morning Rite
Sunrise services I attracted an
estimated 1,000 Salem-area resi
dents to the state capital grounds
early Sunday. Predicted cloudi
ness kept the sun from breaking
through, and a light rain started
to fall i as the 4 5-minute services
were ending. ; i . ; -l :
Young folk predominated In the
throng at the union service which
was sponsored by the Salem Min
isterial association! The Rev. Oscar
Brown, pastor of South Salem
Friends church, was speaker.
FOOD PRICE RECORD
PORTLAND, March 25
Portland's food prices hit a new
record high : in I February, - the
Federal Bureau of Labor statis
tics reported today. February
food costs jumped 1.6 " per cent
over January. .
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Argentina's
Duplication of
Sun Heat Said
Successful
By Howard W. Blakeslee
4 AnocUUd Ptcm Sdeae Reporter'
; NEW YORK, March 25lff)-The
Argentine claim of a new source
of atomic power seems merely to
enlarge on predictions made in the
last j several ' years by , numerous
American and European scientists.
.. These scientists; have said fre
quently that the same reaction the
sun juses to make heat, the same
that! would make - a hydrogen
bomb, namely fusion of two atoms
to make one new and bigger atom,
may become a source of power.
. This power plant would be a re
actor duplicating the principle of
the sun's heat. ! 1 ;
But without a single exception
all of the scientists said prospects
for success were very remote.
American comments are numer
ous. Possibly the only clue to date
comes from some ' American" com
ments, to the effect that it may be
possible : to produce these fusior
reactions on a tiny scale to iaoor
atories. " f ; ' '-
None held hopes for extending
the reactions to useful power. ;
The Argentine report, made
yesterday by President Juan Per
on and Dr. Ronald Rlchter, the
Austrian physicist who Is credited
with the Argentine discovery, dif
fer! from the previous predictions
only In one respect.: They claim
success. They fail completely to
give any reason for success. -
Cheap Power v. : "' :
Bichter said his new thermo
tron . would make ; power : more
cheaply than electricity, . This Is
an ! amazing prediction. However,
the Argentines claim they are in
the pilot stage. In industry,: pilot
stage means that the laboratory
work has been so successful that
real .trials can be made, and the
pilot plants make these trials.
Richter said the atoms he uses
are different than those considered
by scientists elsewhere. : This Is
possible but surprising, because
American and other scientists have
considered using just about all of
the" light-weight atoms, and have
found theoretical , reasons ; why
some atoms might succeed.
Millions of Degrees
Richter and Peron speak; of at
taining the heat of the sun with
out any explanation of how to get
It I In the U.S. the sun's surface
heat was long ago exceeded by the
heat of arcs in vacuum bulbs, but
nothing has been said to indicate
this heat reached the millions of
degrees claimed by, the Argentine
report. , k . ;
Peron dragged In cosmic " rays.
saying that the energy of X-rays
and of particles in the thermotron
showed that the sun produces cos
mic rays. These run cosmic rays
have been known to all physicists
for some time. They are mostly
the nuclei of hydrogen atoms. ' . ,
They would be expected to ap
pear to atomic fusion.
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Sea-Search for ;
Plane Continues
SHANNON AntPORT, Ireland,
March 25-P-The U. S. navy sent
three warships tonight to join one
of the biggest air-sea searches in
history for a U. S. air force Globe
master which disappeared in the
Atlantic on Good Friday with 53
American airmen aboard. - -
Today about 35 planes, a Brit
ish submarine, an ice breaker and
two weather ships criss-crossed
the search .area, but found no
trace of the Globemaster. Hope
faded fast that any of those aboard
would be found alive. -
Easter Week End
Toll Exceeds 200
NEW YORK, i March 25 -TV-
More than 200 persons lost their
lives In accidents Over the Easter
week end throughout the nation.
Shortly before the holiday ended
total . accidental L deaths reported
were 202. Highway accidents were
responsible for 144 deaths. -Miscellaneous
mishaps, such as - fires,
drowning and plane crashes,, ac
counted for 53 others. . - L v ;
Salem Produces
Good C Samaritan 1 1
City police said Salem produced
a good Samaritan on Easter Sun
day, -i ':k'." -
A stranfer found a billfold con
taining tSO cash on the sidewalk,
promptly took it to the police sta
tion -and didn't even leave his
name. Policemen: contacted the
grateful owner.. :
Report Fits
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BUENOS AIRES. March 25 Pre
sident Joan Peron whose an
nouncement af the utilization
f atomic energy In Argentina
drew - skeptical comment today
around, the world. ; ,
Spain 'Ready I
To Sign' Arms
Pact wth U.S.
WASHDTGTON, March 25-V
The Spanish government is report
ed ready to sign a direct military
alliance with the United States
modeled after the North Atlantic
defense pact. ,t ' t : - -: j
' Generalissimo Franco, officials
said, has Informed American Am
bassador Stanton Griffls of this
during informal talks in Madrid, r
The Spanish leader Is also re
ported to have expressed willing
ness to consider a trlagular defense
alliance linking -Spain, Portugal
and the United States. ! .
Both these offers, however, were
said to be conditioned on a firm
American guarantee ; the f United
states will ship Spain enough arms
to modernize its armed forces. ;
Fire Chief Crawls
To Mouth of Oil
WeU to Quell Fire
A heroic fire chief crawled through
u io tne mouin ox a naming oil
well tonight to shut a valve and
possibly save an entire business
block of this oil center from going
up In flames, f - i
While other : firemen thror
wall of protective water with their
noses aneaa of Fire Chief Bill Mc
Bride, he crawled Into the Intense
heat to close the valve. Th n
was amid office buildings and de-
panmenx stores. .
! When the valve was shut, the
flames died out almost at tmr An
explosion of a treating iunit. at
the well's mouth started the blaze.
It was out 12 minutes later.
i Several other oil wells , were a
short distance awav. ThvonH bTI
nearby pipelines were shut down
wnen me lire oroxe out.;
BAiBTT FREED ON EASTER
i CHICAGO. March 25-01)-In po
lice court Easter Sunday morning
a charge of disorderly conduct was
dismissed against Miss Alice White
Rabbit, 23. I i
Eric Johnston Warns Against
Build-Up of Inflation Pressure
WASHINGTON March 25-0v4
Economic Stabilizer Erie Johnston
said today that if business profits
or farm prices keep going up, or
if laboring men ask for wage raises'
beyond the present 10 per cent
limit, it could "blow the roof off
Inflation." . : ; !
! In a television Interview. :: he '
again used tough language as . a
part of a developing government
drive to combat signs of a public
letdown in the anti-inflation fight.
Johnston said that sometimes the
people grow "hot and ;cold" in
accordance with what happens In
Korea' and what the Russians say'
at Lake Success. .
"Are we simply going to base
our whcla program on what the
communists do or say at Laka
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Statement Said !
Aimed Only f
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! BUENOS AIRES. .Argentina,!
March 25-(AVPresident Juan D.
peron, obviously irked; by skep-
jtical comments from abroad on his
government's , announcement yes- a
terday that Argentina had discov- ;
ered a radically new and cheaper j
way to produce atomic energy, f
said today his is not interested la
What the . United States or any
other country thinks, j ,
Foreign reporters however.
were allowed to get a ; first-hand
account of the discovery from Dr.
Ronald Richter, the Austrian-born
scientist who claims to have made
it.f The foreign press had been e-1
eluded from yesterday's official
announcement. : j
Peron, writing In the ; authorita-j
live and semi-official newspaper
Democracia, said: I -
TI am not interested in what the I
United States or any other country
in the world thinks." . I i
He said he 1 made the slartlin I
announcement "not for other coun-J
tries but for my country.' I
r Consequently, Peron said,
foreign newspapermen; were notV
invited to the news conference, j .1
1 wanted to speak to my people, te J
wnom i am responsioie, mus av-s
oiding the course followed by pol-
itieians and newspapers in other?
countries of i the world who lie?
knowingly and direct their lies to
their own people and abroad." I
Tney have not yet told the first
truth," he added, while I have
not told the first lie." j f
IDn Richter, now an, Argentina
citizen, told the reporters today he
believed UJS. scientists: are work4
ing on the same principle as his
discovery and may have a similar
discovery within their grasp. i
t numerous American ana Eur
opean scientists expressed every
thing from cautious surprise to
outright ridicule of the Argentine'
claim.;
Portlanders
Claim
J PORTLAND, March 25-(i!PV-Po-i
lice and newspapers here said they
recejved several calls today from
persons reporting they felt an
earthquake. j !
iA similar report came from F.
Bill Geitz, Red Cross disaster rep
resentative, who operates an un4
official seismograph in his down
town hotel room here. He said thd
Instrument recorded a tremor e
24 seconds duration at 8:59 a. to.
i There were no reports of danv
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School Vacation j
Ends-and Begins f
) Spring vacation ends this morn
ing for some Salem school stu
dents and begins for Others. '
I The 8,000 pupils in! the publle
school district will j return to
classes following a week's recess.
Students at St. Joseph's and St
Vincent de Paul schools and
Sacred Heart academy, about SCd
in all, will start their two-day
vacation this morning. j
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4 CORNERS CimrXEY FIRE i
FOUR CORNERS, March 25 A
stubborn chimney fire tonight sent
the Four Corners fire department
to the Fred Prentice residency
4254 Hudson ave. No damage waa
reported, but firemen used con i
sdderable water to wet down the
roof as a precaution. The "property
la owned by W. A Slater. .
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-or, course we re notlT t i :
j Johnston said business profits in
1950 were 30 per cent above 194)
in spite' of increased taxes, and
fwe simply cannot allow business .
profits to keep going up." ; ! I
i He said farm prices have gon
tip 27 per cent since Korea. I
expressed hope working men wl 1
not" ask for wage increases beyon j :
the present formula ; which per
mits ten per cent above the lev!j ;
of -January 1950. f " ' f
if Any of these thinf a, Johnston
Warned, could "blow the roof off.
1 To each cf the three groujs fc :
esked whether moderation is ncj
hih a price to pay to prevent t t
$nd stabilirt the economy? I don't !
tl-Jnk so. 2he alternatlva la 1e1L.
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