... . . vp i n GD'SGcDBeMil- Si i 7 MM 1 M i i f-j Weather Max. - 7 . 69 .S3 Mln. Precip. 43 J 43 .00 SI T - SO JOO 55 M laka Portland San Francisco Chicago Hew York 74 wuumctt river 3.4 feet. Forecast from U. S. weather bureau. ItcNary field. Salem I: Mostly clear to day and tonlht with high today near M. Low tonight near 40. SALEM PRECIPITATION " Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 48.49 40 74 34.36 101st YEAR 14 EJed Ms U.S. FIFITH- AIR FORCE 1 HEADQUARTERS, Korea, May 9 ypy-The biggest allied air strike of the war was hurled today at : Sinuiju in northwest Korea and ' it smoked out the Russian-sup- plied Chinese air force en masse. A force of 206 fighters, includ ing F-80s, F-4Us and P-51s, - smacked Sinuiju with rockets and bombs. Above them flew 106 F-86 and F-84 )k fighters to cover the op eration. - Lt. Robert Dixon of Newton, - la, forced down when his plane ran out of fuel, said the commun ist jet fighters were out in strength. ."It's a massacre," he said, "and they are being massacred and .not us." Marshall Notes Soyietf Strength Near Korea , " ' "' " " " "By Don Whitehead! ' ' I .-I'?? : ' WASHINGTON, May 8-'-Seeretary o Defense1 Marshall grave ly warned today that Russia may enter the Korean war without notice but he declared this threat would be far greater if the nation follows the war plans proposed by Gen, Douglas MaeArthur.: ' --" . For the second day, the! 70-year-old secretary urged that this country not take the added risk of open conflict with Russia by step- (7jQe trtDODDIS '. Dan GoldT has resigned as re gional administrator for the jbu- reau of land management wmcu administers O & C lands. He, has accented a position as deputy idi rector' of the labor division of EGA in Europe and will have headquarters in Paris. ' It is no secret that he was forced out of his northwest post - by pressures on the department of the interior from northwest lumbermen " who" didn't like Gol dy's policies or way of administra tion. But . before Goldy resigned counter pressures from the north west were strong enougn to ootain from the secretary of the interior. Oscar Chapman, and from the cu rector of the bureau assurances that there would be "no change' in the policies previously promul gated. This relates specifically to the regulations on access roads ana we sianaarus oi wune iia tuv erinf cooperative agreements. Gol dy's successor is Roscoe E. BelL formerly associate director of the bureau in Washington, in ms statement on taking over the re gional office he identified the Gol dy policies as those of BLM and the department, which would be sustained. Such statements may be re garded as "pro forma" to quiet opposition. The test will come in administration; and Mr. Bell may be sure that many eyes will be on him to see whether he moder ates the policies by administrative deviation or interpretation. Goldy came to Oregon green hand insofar as forestry is con cerned (so is Bell for that matter). But he was- full of zeal, and as protege of Jebbie Davidson had gotten a full dose of argument over "who gets the timber" at the Eugene hearings on cooperative agreements. Goldy instituted nu merous changes in policy. He set up timber sale programs on an annual basis, with selection .- of tracts determined by bureau staff alter bearing requests of (Continued on Editorial Page-4) Animal Crackers By WARREN COOORICH 1 tK;k we thoJJ tale Junior te I vJ3T IT I MmrvTow 15 PHAVttl- l ". :'; 'j .- ! MUNDBD 1651 PAGES Tlx .11 B-se w iuleei I , - - ! Dixon, would not estimate how many reds were in the air but he said: There's plenty of them." He i had Just 1 enough fuel to make it back - to this advance base-ij : - r " . ,f- The first sketchy reports indi cated that the lumbers of red planes smoked out far exceeded those of any in previous- dog' fightS.' I - : ' I The first nanj over the target was JaJ. George G. Ixing, jr., of Lynchburg, jVa., who led a flight of45 planes against Sinuiju. ; "Wheh we arrived over the target e received intense anti aircraft! fire 40 mm, 90 mm, and 20 jmra, stuff," he said.- - "Right across the Yalu river at Anrung Manchuria, we could see 80 Migk sitting on the field." , ping up the war against .China. He said the Soviets have massed strong ground and air forces in the Far East! and their entry into the Korean struggle would "be a very serious thing." j - . : With gthis warning, . MarshaH sharply ook issue with " MacAr thur whip testified last Week he did not , believe the bombing of China ' would draw the Russians into the Conflict or that the Rus sians coiild wage, much of a war in the Far East. j -A - At the ikame time. Marshall voic ed concern that MacArthurs re marks about thousands of casual ties in a .bloody Korean. 'stale-l mate" may seriously damage the morale of the United Nations' com bat troops. I t i He told the senate armed serv ices and foreign relations commit tees locking into "the causes of the Mac Arthur ouster that there is the ; "very real possibility" of Russia's entry into the Korean war. Not so Costly Marshall declared administration policy in Asia may seem costly and a stalemate in Korea may ap pear the! only end. But he added the cost cannot be compared at all to what-happens if we eet involv ed in what you might call an ato mic war i Marshall contended the best wav to win; we Korean war is to shat ter the rnorale of Chinese red armies with "terrific casualties" on the battlefield Chairman Russell (D-Ga) of the armed services group asked what the effect would be if the bombing of China provoked the Soviet to intervene Marshall replied: "Well, of course that would immediately in volve the defense oc Japan. Hok kaido in particular, attacks on our air ait oyer Japan, all over Korea, at the bases, probably Okinawa, and we couldn't accept that with out the ; maximum retaliation on our parti which inevitably means a world war, which means unlim ited losses for a considerably pe riod or time." lie said in nis oeiier sucn a war would not be limited to the far east but would spread through out the world. He declared these statements reflected the -views of the joint chiefs of staff who Mac Arthur has said were in accord with his;: war plans. Knew of Marx Link Marshall also r said there was never any doubt in his mind that red leaders in China were "Marx 1st communists ' wnen ne was there ln 1946. ! He gave that ' reply at senate hearings when Senator Bridges (R-NH)ltold him many state de partment officials were saying in 1946 that the Chinese reds were l-i'merely f Agrarian reformers." Marshall visited China. in 1946 as a ; special representative of President Truman. When I visited .Yunan.' in that mountain . fastness of theirs, - in their little theater building which they used -lor all sorts of pur poses, and they had some kind of entertainment prepared for me, over the proscebium arch was a large picture of Lenin and a large picture or Stalin." He said he heard Chou En Lai. the redt prime minister, assert "not once but a number of times that he I was a Marxist commu nist" t Practice JVTiat You Preach Judge Decrees LOS ANGELES, Mat I - LFvi Vernon Tronson . TwichelL author of TLiving Without Liquor", was fined $29 .today and ordered, as a condition of probation, to live without liquor for two years. The 4 ly ear-old Harvard gradu ate had r pleaded guilty to three Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, May 9, 1951 Mammoth Detroit Dam is V - - , A - i- 7j -'W " ---- - In. Vv -r V - - v V fi " Mammoth Detroit dam is rradually takinr shape. This recent photo shows its present stage of construction, portraying the "face" or downstream side. The "Antes" on the face are the outlets, for use In raising or lowering the huge lake behind the dam. The power - house is to be built in the foreground, on the Marion county side of the North Santiam. The "face" as shown is . 150 feet high about a Germ Warfare Waged in Korea TOKYO, Wednesday May 9-P) North Korea's red radio at Pyong yang today called for the arrest of Generals MaeArthur and Ridgway by the United Nations on what it called : charges of waging germ warfare in Korea. .The unsubstantiated charges flatly denied by U.N. sources were coupled with an admission that smallpox was on the increase in communist-controlled areas. The broadcast, as heard in Tok yo, said there were 3,50Q new cases of smallpox' in April and that 10 per cent died. The Ypongyang radio charged that General MaeArthur, before he was replaced as U.N. commander by General Ridgway, ordered germ weapons from the Japanese. The broadcast claimed that se cret files captured in Seoul con tained orders for South Korean troops to spread disease germs. HULL SAID IMPROVED WASHINGTON, May 8 -"Some improvement" in the con dition of former secretary of state Coxdell Hull . was reported this afternoon by physicians at Naval hospital. Hull, 79, is suffering from a respiratory infection and heart trouble. . , - v oses McKay Opp Of Supreme Court Building As long as state wards are living in antiquated buildings, there is no justification for construction of a new state supreme court struc ture. Gov. Douglas McKay declar ed at a meeting of the state board of control i Tuesday. - ' The governors statement fol lowed a suggestion by Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry that the state is badly in need of office space' and other buildings would be required to meet the increasing demands. : ; "Members of the supreme court are getting along fairly well and X am opposed to building any state monuments . at this time," Gover nor McKay said.- J The governor said the state's fi nancial situation ; is serious and added that all "governmental frills" should ' be eliminated. He opposed spending $1,770 for record storage cabinets in the state labor commissioner's office pending fur ther investigation, :' The board directed its secretary to obtain bids for construction of an addition to the employes dor mitory at the Eastern Oregon state hospital at an estimated cost of $110,000. Plans .were prepared by Leslie D. Howell, Portland archi tect. The new addition would pro POUNDDD Sabotage AttempiTJatDle On Train in Salem Yard A rceent case of attempted sabotage of a freight train in Salem came to light Tuesday. - i -- - The Statesman learned that a quantity of foreign matter was found in the journal (axle) box of at least pne freight car and pos sibly more. It was learned, too, that the federal bureau of investigation had been drawn into the case, but FBI agents in Portland last night made no direct comment.. Southern Pacific officials, too, were mum, but one opined that "it might i have been; a childish prank." .).- .' r. In response to a question as to whether the incident occurred inJ connection with a car of war ma terial, The Statesman ' was told that "virtually every freight train has at . least some so-called war material."' I President Truman Has Quiet Birthday Dinner WASHINGTON, May 8 HPt President ! and ' Mrs. Truman ar ranged a quiet dinner with their daughter Margaret at the Blair House j tonight in honor of the chief executive's 67th birthday. f The family affair topped off an anniversary of gifts and a sur prise luncheon given Mr. Truman by 25 members of his staff in the executive : office private dining room. - , : - - vide quarters for 24 employes. Also asked, were bids for . pro viding life insurance jof $5000 each for state police officers and guards at the Oregon state penitentiary. This insurance -was approved: by the recent legislature. Morton H. Caine; Portland arch itect, was employed to prepare plans for two additional floors at the Oregon state tuberculosis hos pital here along with a new dor mitory for employes of the insti tution. Cost of the projects was estimated at $509,000 to come out of the $2,000,000 institution build ing fund . approved by the 1951 legislature. " : Plans for remodeling the dining room at the state school for the deal at a cost of $25,000 and con version of the old hospital build ing at Faicview home into a school will be prepared by William Wil liams, Salem architect. r -' Deferred- was - the - purchase of property in the state capitol area north of Center street pending an appraisal : by the , state highway commission.- The recent legisla ture appropriated 250,000 for this purpose. It was suggested -that a part of the property, when pur chased, be used as a parkins lot for state employes. Construction 1 I twill PRICE 5c Gradually Taking Shape worses f. third of the height It eventually will reach. Its length at the top will be 1425 feet, from one side of the river te the other. The newly-located highway 222 is about 309 feet almost directly above the point at which the photographer was standing. Waters of the North Santiam temporarily are flowing around the dam site through a tunnel under the cliff shown. " 1 - u- - - .- .- r.--:-' iaamathSP Wreck Called 'Sabotage' -t .. -....; ,- - : " KLAMATH-FALLS, May MV A freightt train piled up '20 miles south of here today in what One railroad official said was "a, clear case of sabotage." . ' "- - . A switch- was mysteriously thrown open. An 80-car Southern Pacific train, swerved onto a spur track and crashed into an empty tank car standing there. . The locomotive and 17 cars were demolished. The cars spilled off the tracks and narrowly missed two 20,000 gallon gasoline storage tanks. Six crewmen; were injured. Five were released after treatment at a hos pital. The. other, head brakeman Henry M udder, was kept at the hospital with back injuries and a probable broken arm. A railroad official .. said a lock on the spur switch was broke, and the switch, thrown open. A reflec tor signal was changed to show green for the freight train ap proaching on the main line. The official declined use of his name. The crash was near the Oregon California border. U.N. Orders In Palestine LAKE SUCCESS, N. May 8 -CflP)-The United Nations security council tonight ordered an imme diate cease-fire in the fighting along the Syrian-Israeli border. The vote was 10 to 9, with Rus sia abstaining. f The problem was complicated, however, . by Syrian denials that Syrian troops were Involv I in the armed clashes. Syria's Farris Q Khoury said -that although his government was not directly con cerned in the, fighting it accepted the cease-fire.' . ASES TRUMAN EUN AGAIN I " WASHINGTON, May 8 -OV Chairman William Boyle of the democratic national committee said he told President Truman today that a majority of democratic par ty leaders over .the nation "have expressed the hope that he will run again kx 1SJ2." - No. 43 O'Dvvyer'sPal in ury NEW YORK, May 8-(P)-Iemo-cratic Politician James J. Moran, an old friend of E-mayor William O'Dwyer.was convicted " today of lying to the Kefauver senate crime committee about his relations with a Brooklyn racketeer. 1 A, jury of . seven women and five men found him : guilty of perjury, after deliberating about an hour and a half. . . - - "I have nothing to say," Moran told newsmen angrily, after, the verdict.' ..t..' . His attorney said the decision probably .would be appealed. - ; Federal Judge Charles A. Dew ey set Friday for sentencing. The maximum penalty is five years in prison and a $2,000 fine. ' Moran was given his freedom under the same $25,000 bond he posted originally. m His four-day trial was the first to grow out of the dramatic hear ings here last March of the Ke fauver committee. Moran was convicted of lying when he swore to the committee he met Brooklyn Numbers Racke teer Louis. Weber no more than half a dozen times during Moran's heydey as a pet of the ODwyer administration. . ' t . It was a quick, comedown for the 49-year-old : Moran. One of O'Dwyer's last acts last summer before leaving city hall to be come 'ambassador , to Mexico was to give his long-time aide a cushy $19,000 a year lifetime post as city water commissioner. - f Moran was ousted' from this post after the Kefauver hearings by O'Dwyer's . successor, r Mayor Vincent Impellitteri. NO FLOOD ON COLUMBIA PORTLAND, May 8--Th e Columbia river freshet Is expect ed 'to be mild barely exceeding flood : levels in the- Vancouver, Wash .-Portland area this year, the weather bureau .said today. . c J WESTERN INTERNATIONAL , At Salem 4. Wenatcboa 0 , I At Spokano S. T aroma 4 i At Victoria a, Vancouver T (11 tea.) I At Yakima U, .Tri-Cuy $ ; !- - CAST LEAGTJS ' ' ' : At Portland S. Lm Anrla I At SatU 10, Oakland 1 -I At Saa rraadaco 4, Saa Diego $ f At UoUywood 4. SacraoMnto S 1 NATIONAL IXAGUS Aft Brooklyn -I, Oicafo I - t At Kw York S. St. Louis S . . .: At Philadelphia S. PUtaoorsn t ; At Boston aTctnrinnatt 1 .- I " AZZZZCXX LEACUS ? At Chicaro 4, Phlla4!?bia t . , ' At Detroit , K York (lllnn ) ' Culy games scheduled. Per Beck's Statement Says Benzedriiae, ' : Money Delieredl; - C;" ' . By Thomas Wrisht ft EU Writer, The Statesman ; ! Frederick Beck, former city juvenile officer and an institu- tional school supervisor at the state prison since 1949, said in a signed statement Tuesday that he had delivered stimulants arvd ! money to convicts and had accepted 10 per cent of the money involved. The statement was made .to Capt. jlay Howard tr d other state police after Beck was taken into custody. J Beck was arrested by state po lice,, on a charge of taking benzed rine inhalators to Convict Jackie Bishop, a few minutes after he had signed for a registered letter cod taining $4,000 and addressed to a life termer at the prison. Warden George Alexander said Beck's arrest culminated a -long vigil by . state police and ' prison officials to trace channels by which money, material and letters had been secreted in and out of . the penitentiary. .. .... , Beck, held for several hours in the Marion county jail on - the chanrge of introducing benzedrine into a penal institution, was freed on $1,000 bond Tuesday night. With City Police i A one-time school teacher, Beck was with the city -police depart ment for three years and later operated a cafe in Salem before taking the supervisor post at the penitentiary on January 4, 1949. Beck was . nabbed just before noon Tuesday by State Police Lt. Farley -Mogan just after he had signed for , the letter containing $3,000 in cash and a $1,000 check. The letter was addressed to D Sp ree (Buck) Poe, 54, who is serving life in the state - penitentiary for the slaying of a Silverton police man. .' V . ' T f i The letter was addressed in care of Beck's home at - 234 N. 21st St., Salem. To Provide Influence .V Warden Alexander said the $4,000 was to be delivered to Poe to provide him with Influence supposedly to free William Homer Berry, 46, serving a 20-year sen tence for rape. The money was sent by Berry's wife at Reeds- port and the check . carried Mrs. Berry's signature. Warden Alexander said appar ently Dupree had convinced Berry that he could' get him out of the penitentiary if he could get the money to buy influence on the outside. Berry had his wife sell their property, at Reedsport, in cluding some timber land, to raise the $4,000. .- -Threatens Legal Action Poe mdlcated"that- be - might i take legal action to save the $4, 000 placed in his account at the penitentiary, Lt Mogan said. The five, benzedrine inhalators carried into the prison by Beck were delivered to Jackie - Bishop, young Oklahoma gunman, serv ing a term for armed robbery. They were found in Bishop's cell Tuesday . morning, Alexander re ported. -' .- 1 - Lt. Mogan said he had watched Beck's house Monday night and had seen the package containing the inhalators delivered to Beck. In the signed statement Beck said he did not look into the paper sack container, but was aware of Its , contents. He also carried in four packages of razor blades for another prisoner at the same time, Warden Alexander said. - , . . Illegal' Letters . , ; . At the time of his arrest Beck had id his possession three letters Illegally carried from the: peni tentiary, state . police said. All of the letters were written by Berry. : Poe was described as a perpe tual . troublemaker . by Warden Alexander. Poe was sentenced to the penitentiary - from - Marion county for the slaying of Silverton night policeman James Iverson on May 1, 1C31. Poe with two other accomplices were attempting - to rob a safe at Silverton when the slaying occurred. . Poe was at one time -on the "Committee of Six" prison in mates who allegedly stirred up agitation through (he legislature for the , discharge of Alexander. He was forced off the committee by the convicts themselves, Alex ander indicated. Alert Pat Oat . Police did not disclose the Iden tity , of the person who allegedly delivered the benzedrine inhala tors to Beck Monday night. How ever, an alert , has been put out for his arrest on the same charge as that against Beck. ' .- : . - Benzedrine is described as a synthetic "stimulant which .can be . used to obtain the. same ef fects as narcotics..' .' - f ! Bridges for Sale , In Detrqit'Area 7 PORTLAND, May HV-Flve railroad bridges are up for sale in the Detroit dam reservoir area. The army engineers said they would open bids on the bridges May 25 in Portland, high bidders to get the structures, built of tim ber. One is known as M. P. 749.75 railroad, bridge.. The others are known as the Breltenbush, Hansen creek, .Dry 'creek and Boulder creek, bridges. ' v-7 -r Head of ITouse Foreign Affairs Committee Die's WASHINGTON, May 8 HJF Rep. Jchn Kee - (ET-V. Va.)f 73, chairmaan cf - the' house foreign affairs committee, died of a heart seizure today. ' " . - Ilea ecZzr-sed . while presid&i over a dosd-docr tesslon cf tLi ccrrlte tils fsreaoca. Ka a 1577 nL:ut:j litar. Empl oyes of County to Gci L ... ; : J $15 Pay Hike . By Conrad G. Pranre Staff Writer. The Statesman Marion county employes Tues day were granted a general salary increase of $15 per month rr . those on a monthly salary and 12 cents per hour, for hourly employes. . The compromise wage boost was granted by the county buJr t ' committee, which expects to cfm-' plete its annual deliberations to day, A greater' part of the jie- posed 1951-52 county budget bas ' already been approved and Cr- ' ty Judge ReX ; Hartley said ' hoped to "complete and bale the budget" today. ' ' t " ; The wage hike came at the nd of. two . day's consideration -. f county employes' salaries. A r ' posal of committee member Ju n ton Carl of Hubbard which wi 14 have granted increases of $15 j ' month and 10 cents an hour v. a defeated by the committee. ; ; Robert Massey, county md ' crew man, argued for a gret-r increase based on the cost of liv-.. ing. County Commissioner L. Rogers proposed the 12 i nU per hour amendment which placed into motion by Carl. ' Come Out of lload Fund Commissioners Roy Rice and Rogers warned, that the total craft of the increase would be some thing over $30,000 and wowld probably come out of the rtm& fund. In other budget grants Tuesday the committee approved an ap propriation of $1,000 for care I the Odd Fellows cemetery in Sa lem, which was placed uittier county jurisdiction by the 1te legislature. JuJa Hartley thUl the appropriation would I ."enough for us to take over IJ.e grounds and spray weeds until we can decide what to do with Vm cemetery." :i Commissioner Rice said ho fav ored creating a county - wile cemetery - district -which would levy a special tax for the upk p of all old cemeteries in the county. The committee trimmed fetout $10,000 off the county health -partmcnt's budget request. The committee agreed to county xaiw ticiQation in the department butt get of up to $47,661 which rep resents the limit of the depart-, meht's allowable six per cent in crease. : ' I Money Cut Of r " !; . In reconsidering the Salem coo stable's budget, approved Mo '. day, the committee lopped cl $1,450 from the $10,970 request . 1 1 Other budgets approved inclutt ed the county school superinU-fni- ent's office, $22,609, increase cf , $555; herd inspector, $20,000; and ' juvenile department, $16,940, in crease, of $1,100. Also approved, were varieta , public assistance Items Includ-a 3 , aid to . the . committee children, $2,500; indigent soldiers, $l,C:i(, blind, $3,795; dependent children,. $37,125, decrease of $10,965; gen eral assistance, $49,575, decrease Of $16,725, and aid to totally dis abled (new legislative law) $23, 300. , Justice of ! the peace district budgets approved include ri tenbush justice, $1,193; JeL'&s wa Justice, , $1,650, and conaULl $260; Ml Angel justice, $300, and constable, $280; Silverton juai:c $4,190, and f; constable, $1,C:. Stayton justice, $2,653, and c -.instable, $383; Wood burn jue'Jce, $3,810, and constable, $340. Last Year Fla Crop Harveoted I KENNEDY, 'Minn; May $KT Farmers .near this northwet- 1 Minnesota town are reaping v. .... j they sow." .-k . ; . i ' Last fall's flaxseed crop Is bt! - harvested as spring aeedlni t" under way. Wet weather and e: snow prevented the harvttt 1; falL ' - ' The loss in oil because cf tl-1 delayed harvest, is ctbet ty c price rise. Flaxseed has f tzt r about $1 a bushel since U:i I , The farmers now are gettlci $ i.l -to $40. ,-.:-. f7hiteHonc3Tc!i Blail on LlacAr:! - WASirn;GTo: i:;y ; White Ilousa' ssll t:i. received C3,c:3 1::.- -grt 13 t'-cs I"reilw--t moved Cta. MscAru.. eastern czrzr- anJs. A f-pcier .-j t'J.l a c ri a'-c:t i-i ttr czzt UzcAtLL'g j : .1 t. cczt rr . counts o intoxication. l '.-.., . ,r 1 " e .