t 1 0 I T . ! " ' . " t .ii - . - ' j feared tt tk Crswta el Crt POUNDBP 1651 Measure Gmns in Mduse 1 Both General Ridgway and-Gen-eral Van Fleet, have been guarded In their report of the smashing of the initial spring offensive of the Chinese red army in Korea. The latter hailed the event as a great victory, but warned at the same time that another and perhaps heavier punch was coming. It seems to be developing now. Behind a smoke screen the reds rl 1 pushed across Coyang river on the ! central Korean front and have I been able to maintain their bndg 1 head. In North "orea forward movement of equipment has been observed, revealing a build-up of forces and supplies. Work of lay ing out airfields also progresses m enemy territory. Before long we shall see a fresh thrust to crack the UN lines close to the 38th par allel. The great mystery of the Kor ean war has been the withhold ing of planes from the red armies. It is known that they have planes and that Russia has planes in ad jacent Siberia. But not large scale commitments of planes have been made. The occasional flights of Russian-made jets have held to North Korean territory. Thus, the allies have not been able to deter mine from the pilots in planes knocked down whether they are flown by Russians or not. The airfield activity would seem to presage the use of planes to sup port the coming offensive. Much speculation has arisen also as to the relations between red China and Russia. It is freely assumed that Russia has been the -prime instigator of the North Korean attack and eficourager of " red China's intervention . Gen. Marshall also states that Russia is the principal supplier of military (Continued on editorial page 4) Ex-Pen Official Charged with Gran Felony charges of grand larceny Involving the alleged theft of $3, BOO were added Monday against Frederick. Beck, Salem, dischar ged head of schools at the Oregon statt penitentiary. , Beck, arrested last Tuesday .on charges of introducing benzedrine into the prison, as rearrested Monday after Mrs. William Homer Berry, wife of a convict, had filed a complaint against the former city juvenile officer on the .new charge. Beck waj freed on $3,500 bond Monday afternoon. He will appear in district court today at 10 a. m. to enter a plea to the larceny charge. Beck's attorney, Bruce Wil liams, said Monday night that Beck would plead innocent to the grand larceny charge, eck plead ed innocent last xnursaay to ine charge of taking the benzedrine into the prison. He was free on bail of $1,000 while awaiting court trial set for June 6 at the time of his second ' arrest. The $3,500 mentioned in the larceny charge represents the to tal amount in currency mailed to Dupree Poe, a convicted murder er, by Mrs. Berry at her husband's request. State Police Captain Ray Howard said. Three thousand dol lars .was included with a $1,000 check In a registered letter which Beck signed for at the Salem post office minutes before his first ar rest. Capt. Howard said the other $500 had been sent to Beck's ad dress previously. It was also ad dressed to Poe, police said. State police said Beck had sign ed a statement at the time of the first arrest saying he received the $500 and after retaining a $10 fee, sending the remainder to an un known person at an unknown id dress. Mrs. Berry, complainant in the larceny case, told police she had sent the money to Foe at her hus band's request. Berry had asked for the money in a reported at tempt to obtain influence to se cure his release from the prison where he is serving a 20-year term lor rape. Animal Crackers gy WARREN COODRICH iC: h fwyt the wyl Beys Kve d Larceny . ... ' ..... , WASHINGTON, May U-JP)- The house: ways and means com mittee tentatively voted a $614, 500,000 increase toddy in taxes on cars, trucks, cigarets, television sets and a long list of household ap pliances. Contrary to earlier unofficial re ports, however, the federal tax on gasoline was left unchanged at 1 cents a gallon. Total prospective additional re venue from the 1951 tax bill now stands at $6,325,000,000 with sev eral excisetax fields remaining to be ? explored. President Truman asked for a $10,000,000,000 reve nue increase this year. The committee voted to raise the cigaret tax: from 7 cents a package to 8 centsffor an estimated $177, 000,000 additional income. The treasury had asked for a three cent hike.,: An unsuccessful effort has made to exempt economy brand cigarets from the increase. If the committee's recommenda tions become law, the tax on pas senger automobiles and motorcy cles will rise from 7 per cent at the manufacturers level to 10 per cent I The manufacturers' tax on trucks and buses would go up from 5 to 8 per cent; The committee rejected the treasury's proposal, to increase the 10 per cent manufacturers excise rate on household electrical, gas and oil operated appliances to 25 per cent. However, the base of the tax was broadened to take in the following additional appliances: Mangles, dish washers, clothes dryers, electric razors, floor polish ers and w&xers, electric and pow er driven Jawnmowers, hedge clip pers, belt driven fans, dehumidi fiers, door bell chimes, electric food choppers and meat grinders, electric ice cream freezers, home movie projectors, automatic tim ing devices, , and electric pants pressers. f The committee voted to hike the rate on radios, television receiv ers, phonographs, phonograph rec ords and musical Instrument from the present 10 per cent to 25 per cent. The tax! writers voted specif ical ly ; not tof tax sewing machines washing machines and garbage dis posal units. The existing 10 per cent tax on refrigerators, quick freezers and air conditioning units was ieit unchanged. Eagleton to Face? Charge Statesman News Service INDEPENDENCE. May 14 A preliminary hearing for David W, Eagleton, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, will be held at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday before Justice of the Peace W. A. Wiest. The charge was filed following an incident on Main street Satur day night when Tcm Camden and Bill Goddard suffered minor wounds. - (Initial reports gave tha name or. the person charged as Joe San celle. The name was in error). Auto Break-In Costs Tourist Over $600 ! " " i - Third of a series of auto break- ins at north Salem motels was revealed Monday night by city police, i : -Vacationist Jack Stower, Shelby, wont., reported the theft of sports equipment and clothing valued at more than $600 from his 1951 Hud son parked near his cabin at the Rose Gardens motel, 3350 Portland rd. . U Police said a wing window on the auto fhad been forced to get into the car sometimes between Sunday night and Monday morn ing. U ' ' Listed as missing were two sets of golf clubs, a 35 mm Buccaneer camera, a DeJur light meter, a pair of golf clubs, a woman's buck skin jacket, woman's shorty coat. man's jacket, pair of Bausch and Lomb binoculars, an electric iron, a woman's suit and a white eye shade. The value of the items was set at $635.25 by Stower. IMacASrlhur Eyes Northwest Visit Late in August SPOKAKE, Mar 14-UVGen. Douglas IMacArthur will "make every effort to be in Spokane on August 24". for a state American Legion convention appearance, he informed Legion officials today. The general was 'invited last month to speak at the Legion's evening drum corps show in Spo kane's memorial stadium. Conven tion official John MacPhee said MacArthur asserted in a letter that he will try to Include Spokane In a speaking tour now being plan ned. TOO EARLY FOR STASSEN ; NEW YORK. May 14-fAVHarold EL Stassen, president of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, said to day it is too early" for him to sav whether he will be a candidate for the republican presidential nomi nation, in 1352. 101st YEAR 11 Perish As Ships Collide NORFOLK, Va., May j 14-(flVA collier rammed a navy i seaplane tender loaded with high-octane gasoline off Cape Henry today, and the navy said tonight thatvll men were killed all aboard the tender. Nine of the victims were trapped in the engine room of the tender USS Valcour by blazing gasoline after the naval vessel collided with the colli ar Thomas Tracy. Naval spokesmen said that sal vage crews had been unable to enter four compartments below decks to search. ! The navy declined to speculate on whether any more bodies might be found in the four compart ments not yet entered, i If the entire assigned comple ment of the Valcour's 215 officers and men were aboard--which is not likely a total of 25 men re main unaccounted for, an Atlantic fleet spokesman said. The Valcour was enroute for operational exercises in the At lantic and was loaded with 70,000 gallons of aviation gas. Fifth naval district headquarters said the collision resulted from a steering and power failure aboard the Valcour. The tender veered across the course of the jTracy and the collier rammed the ; navy ves sel amidships. Navy public information officers said the gas apparently spilled into the engine room and ignited, Shortly after the entire starboard (right) side of the ship was aflame, Gasoline spilled into the water and burst into flames covering an area of 100 yards. Railroad Hails Stolen; Loot of Thefts Varied i City police were seeking an en ergetic thief Monday who stole 700 pounds of steel railroad rails from Salem Sand and Gravel Co., 1405 N. Front st., sometime! over the week end. j Police said the rails were all In 8- to 10-inch pieces. Investigations of thefts from a parked auto, larceny of a boat and of a shrub were also underway by city police. j Bob Ausmus, Albany, : complain ed that a .32 Mauser revolver, a set of golf clubs and German-made binoculars were taken! from his car parked at the Rose Gardens motel on Portland road sometime Sunday night or Monday morning. The shrub, an azalea plant, was dug up and removed! from the front yard of the E. A. Russell res idence, 2325 Maple ave4 Friday or Saturday night. The theft was re ported Monday. ' Mrs. Laddie Gale, 1485 N. Sum mer st., reported the loss of the rubber boat. She told police it was taken from the back yard of her home between Saturday and Sun day evening. Monmouth Man- Nephew Missing On Umpqua River ELKTON, May 14-CP) A fisher man and his nephew were missing in this area today. It was feared both had drowned in the Umpqua river. - They were Allen Adams, 29. of Monmouth, and his nephew, Don ald R. Smith, 13, of Elkton. Adams truck was i found 1H miles above the Elkton bridge. There were marks where a boat had been dragged to the water. Adams sister, Mrs. Wilbur Hugus of Eugenesaid a man fish ing from the bridge Saturday re ported he saaw a boat and a hat floating downstream that day. Oregon Strawberries Reach Portland Market PORTLAND, May li-WV Fields near c&noy produced- tne xirst Oregon-grown strawberries for the market here today, ;two weeks earlier than a year ago. The price for the part of a flat was $4 a 12-cup fill, , the same price as last year when the same area also produced the first ber ries. The grower making the deliv ery said he could possibly offer as many as 10 flats by Thursday or Friday. . Tempermental Cows In Draft Deferment Plea SACRAMENTO. Calif, May 14- MVThe cow is a very tempera mental animal -and can hold back the milk. It needs a very skillful man te get the milk. r So argued State Senator George Hatfield. He won senate approval today of his resolution asking draft officials to seriously;, weigh the matter of granting deferments to skilled milkers. . 12 PAGES All Iti Takes Is Axe HandleMotor, Buggy Wheels ID This home-made motorized buggy m II.'. man photo.) "if Overpass - j : i J f . " i I -:: - 'fl '" l"l 'll'lill 1' I 1 1 ! 11 1 1 H 1 1 1 1 II I II I 1 1 1 1 1 I II I III 111111,11111111111111 ill! ! ) I l' Dill I III I I 1 T 1 11 l UTT T T I ' l I' f 'IT City Cooflincil (SacCimig By Robert City Editor, An overpass to separate the railroad tracks was urged by fcaiem city council Monday night in a resolution directed at the state highway commission. i Alderman Earl Burk said early plans for the new Marion street bridge had called for such an overpass, but it was eliminated to save expense. The resolution ne sponsored stressed growing industrial and traffic, between Salem proper arid the westside and the hazard and delav caused bv the railroad cross ing over Wallace road near Edge water street. j The resolution mentioned also that seven Oregon legislators re cently "went on record asking the highway committee to re-examine its plans with an eye to grade sep aration at Wallace road. j Polk County Backer f Backing the resolution before the council also was Emmett T- Rogers of Polk county. i ! Aldermen Monday night aimed a recommendation at another1 state body, the capitol planning commis sion, when they voted to bring in May 28 a bill to repeal the, stop gag ordinance requiring any struc tural changes in the capitol zone to clear through city council. "That should instigate some zon ing action," commented Mayor A. W. Loucks after the councilmen mentioned that the. state planning group has asked for a conference with city zoners over permanent zoning in the area north of the capitol. The stopgap law was pass ed to protect that area until the state legislature could act on pro Dosals to extend, state property north from Center street. I Petition Filed The council move last night was Dromoted by its approval of S. A- Wheatley's petition for permission to change wooden steps to concrete at 725 Court st. Congestion of Front street traf fic drew council attention, witn tne result that parking was limited to one hour between State and Ferry on the east side of Front street and the city ' attorney was in structed to check on laws prohibit ing overnight parking of freight cars. Action on a long -pending city tree ordinance was called for by Alderman Thomas Armstrong who said the city tree commission had ignored several calls for its report to the council on the bill he pro posed to regulate planting and re moval of trees in city parking strips. ;- 'i The council formally thanked by resolution Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Lar sen for their donation of property Just south of Salem for.establish- ment of a city playground, i f (Other council news on page 2.) Vestern International, - At Spokane S. Salem fl - : At Wenatche 3. Victoria I (11 tan.) Only games scheduled. - - No games scheduled. - American League ..: I At New York 11. Cleveland 4' I At Washington T. Boston (11 inn.) Only games scheduled. ; National S9 It. A. ilIswJL The Oregon Statesman, Salem, is the handiwork of Carl Hills, right, who put it tocether of odd sarts t.j D A iTn Ik nt i . m a . . .zL.T I Plaini Wilms E. Gangware The Statesmaa Wallace road bridge approach and Coast-to-Goast Record Set by Light Plane NEW YORK, May 14-7P)-A baby monoplane, with a 47 - year - old father of nine children at the con trols, today finished a storm-buffeted, coast-to-coast flight in the fastest time the distance has ever been flown in a light plane. Max Conrad, the grinning pilot, set his 990-pound craft down at La Guardia field after flying from Los Angeles in a non-official 23 hours, four minutes and 31 sec onds. "I was wondering where all that gas came from during the last eight hours, he said as he stepped to the ground, tired but smiling. "I really did not expect to make it." Thunderstorms and headwinds up to 30 miles an hour tossed his small Piper pacer about during mucn or tne trip, but his non-stop hop bested a 13-year-old official speed record for light planes. When Conrad left Los Angeles, he had 166 gallons of fuel in the two regular wing tanks and two portable tanks with pump attach ments, and two five-gallon cans in the cockpit. Over Cleveland, he had thought the supply wouldn't last. - But he got here with enough fuel for about five more hours fly ing time. " DenflDDus: odd Shops, Leaves Average -(Sost; yiniclhaGiiGGG By Conrad Praage ' - Staff Writer, Tba Statesman A new set of government price regulations governed the sale of beef in Salem markets Monday morning but meat dealers were skeptical about the new prices lowering the family meat budget. "Some cuts are up and some are down,! said one dealer, "and in the long run the consumer pays the same." - - A decrease in the cattle supply at the Portland livestock; market was noted, .. ' The regulations have frozen meat prices at vaxieus levels un der direction of the office of crice stabilization. The gimmick seems to he, according to most dealers contacted Monday, that the OPS celling prices on some cuts of meat are higher than the prices at which these cuts have been sell-! ing on the local market. One example is hamburger. The Oregon. Tuesday. May J 5. 1951 ' 11 1. 1 .Ait yea t Wni.twt"- J- .... V lis I db Home Made Auto Kiii, To Baggy Carl Hills, 18, a Sacred Heart academy student, claims his home made car will do eight miles an hour. 1 ' A , And that's not bad for $30 Which Carl says is about what it cost to assemble it from an old buggy, a two-cycle,! three-horsepower dragsaw motor, and an axe handle that provides a sort of Joy stick to steer with. Carl, who lives nine miles south of Salem in Sunnyside district, went to the public! library and looked up pictures of old cars be fore starting to work on his horse less buggy. It's patterned after a mcdel that was snappy about 1900, but he says he doesn't remember the make. I The vehicle burns gasoline mixed with oil, starts by flipping a ilywheel and Is noisier than a game of cops and robbers, j Car, had his contraption towed to the police station Sunday after noon to see what was still needed to operate it legally alongside sleeker but less provocative, mod els. I . - " Police suggested license plates, rubber tires on the buggy wheels and, oh, yes brakes. 1 ' i Carl, who says he had his fun building the buggy, is ready to sell it if he. gets the right offer.; Did the gentlemen say two hundred dollars? Or get a horse! Carl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hills, Salem route 9, box 468. Max. Mln. Preclp. S3 43. M - 59 4 ; Trace -70 47 .OO 4 n .oo - 68 4S ' DO - Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York Willamette river - S.T feet McNary field. Salem): Fair today and tonight. Warmer today with high near iu; tow tonight near . SALKM FECrprTATION Since Start of Weather Tear Scot. 1 This Year -.- . last Year i Normal 49.47 40.7S , 34.7S Beeff (SIhiainises IPcoceG Bod SaCoc official celling price on this popu lar commodity is set at 70 cents a - pound. But most stores were selling it last week at from 59 to 69 cents. - And Monday morning most markets "Were quoting ham burger at close to the ceiling tag. On the other hand grade A rib steak was forced down from about 89 cents per pound to the new ceiling of 76 cents. Also reduced in price Monday were rib roasts and plate and brisket cuts. Boosted in price was ground beef, round steak, sirloin tips and roasts and pot roasts. Ceiling price on one cut of pot roast is now S7 cents while the average price here last week was about5 cents. '-. Dealers said, however, ; that competition and other . factors would prevent meat from hitting ceiling prices In all instances. "I have been getting about $1X3 per pound for . grade A sirloin steak," said one dealer. "Tie new PRICE .Britisli TTh II sTn TVO sTh If Iran cCtLJL OL ILiLO By Tom Ochiltree j LONDON, May 14-(AP)-TroubIe-sbooling troops of Britain's crack 16th independent parachute brigade group rushed tonight to assembly areas at Aldershot near London, under orders to get ready for an undis closed emergency assignment. Are they intended for Iran? Strong indications are that the Labor government intends to take firm measures if Iran insists on nationalizing the huge British oil interests there without first try ing to negotiate a settlement. The; alerted 4,000 paratroopers known as the "fire brigade' be cause ot their training for use in emergencies could have an im portant part in these firm meas ures. - No Departure Orders Military sources, said that the group, made up of three para chute battalions and attached units : of airborne artillery, engi neers, signalmen and a field am bulance setup, has , no departure orders. The sources said the alert was routine war office business. But the London Dailv Minfar said the troops are being issued tropical uniforms and equipment and will soon get innoculations against tropical diseases. The Iranian oil crisis threaten ing seizure, of one of Britain's biggest sources of petroleum, also interrupted Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison's Whitsun holi day. ' - ; . From his vacation spot on the Isle of Wight, Morrison kept in close touch with the foreign of fice by telephone. He also put the final touches on a new British note protesting Iran's rapid moves to carry out a law nationalizing the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil company. Firm Net Expected That note is expected to be firmer in tone than earlier British communications.: It was understood the United States is being kept informed on all developments. - " TEHRAN, Iran, May 14 -JPh Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, suffering a heart ailment and up set nerves, barricaded himself be hind locked doors in . the parlia- ment.building today. He said he would stay there to await ' the showdown- on oil nationalization and to thwart death .threats from "rascals." . ; ; George Neuner In Hospital Attorney General George Neu ner was reported resting comfort ably at Salem General hospital Monday night where he was taken after collapsing while at work on Monday morning. .". Neuners physician said the col lapse was probably due to over work. Neuner was taken to the hospital by City Ambulance service- ; - He will remain; in the hospital for several days for a complete checkup. ... .. , , , New Secret Military Headquarters Readied WASHINGTON, May 14-flV The department of defense an nounced today secret military headquarters are being set up out side of Washington for use if Pen tagon and other defense offices are damaged by enemy forces. ceiling price is $1.17. But obvious ly I cant go that high because the customers won't stand for it." Also kicked around consider ably by meat dealers was the regulation which eliminates . the sale of boneless top sirloin and beef tenderloins and the one pro hibiting the display of ground round steak and rolled rib roasts. One dealer interpreted the regu lations to mean that cube steaks also could not be displayed but another, dealer did not hold with this, Interpretation. A meat dealer In a large Salem market said he had received no new price list atvtost of meat to the consumer c:-.. all! ' - i How about customer reaction to these changes? Well one dealer put it this way: - "Housewives, reading! about, ts new meat prices, rushiri here ex pecting to sae drastically reduced tags. Instead they find some cuts axe. reduced in' price, others are 5c No. 43 Alert ' TVO iTV TV Al ft I ; Tl inteQi Marshall Says lice, Ridgway WASHINGTON, May 14 -UP-Secretary of Defense Marshall tes tified today he believes the na- . tion's top military !;men stand solidly against Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's war plans t for Korea. Marshall said adoption of th MacArthur policies might cripple ' the buildup of Europe's defenses. The defense chief insisted the MacArthur proposal td bomb and blockade Red China and use Chin ese Nationalist troops might draw Russia into the conflict and touch off a third world war. And he named Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, commanding the North Atlantic pact forces in Eu rope, and Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who succeeded Mac Arthur, among thosel he believes support the Truman administra tion's present limited-war pro gram. Marshall gave these views to the senate, armed services and foreign relations committees as he ended his seventh day of testi mony in the Inquiry into the fir ing of General MacArthur. The next witness at 8 a. m. EST, tomorrow, will be Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. s MacArthur told the committees 10 days ago that "every officer J have talked to" shared his views on the Korean war. He said Ridz- way's official reports would show agreement also. ; But Marshall took issue with him on this score during a day in which Chairman Russell (D-Ga) of the armed services group said secrets "of possible value to Rus sia" already have leaked from the hearing. .. Russell pleaded with his c ol- leagues not to . disclose highly secret testimony which censors have deleted from the public transcript. Russell said at least two news paper stories have been based on evidence which was not in the released transcript and he called this "a dangerous course." He did not identify the stories. TOKYO, Tuesday. May 15-OFV- Red troops poured southward la two areas of Central Korea today under cover of a driving rain, add ing to their buildup for a new of fensive. . i The communists might be ex- Dec ted to unleash lt In the unfav orable weather Ideal for consealr ment and for their light transpor tation system; unfavorable for al lied tanks and planes. The reinforcements were spotted in the Yanggu and Chunchon areas. There was light to moderate rrv tact all along the front. But Uia reds were concentrating on the two ?. points in the mountainous central and east-central areas. increased and, per hrps, one cS their favorite cuts eliminated en tirely." , Another section ct the nsry regulation which Is causing t heated .words - is the one w! i prohibits .the. sale ot locker tesi (In the whole or half Tceef) at rc-. tail markets. Individual cuts l be bought at rcr-x rrlcrt tt ?? retail market but a c'. cf I -for instance, must be purt!; r i i a locker plant. Prices ef lctc beef remains unchsr-cd. One dealer tiid toat thi tr regulations will lower tie ever; : lif and when the government en acts lower ceiimss on rr to livestock rrowers. ilea 1 ; The new prices, which t::- Is to effect tlcnday, ccrr:r-. : rsW. ris?ra tv M j port the prices ia tc'r t;rc. (Story . cn. test cel:3 r ate Oppose Mac Rain Aids Red Korea Buildup