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- . f 7eather Max. 3 - 81- TO M Min. . Precip. 45 traea -47 J3 sa J7 ..... 5 M Ofntesnnn -i r rtTT'iiT-r. T r rt t i m G terse1 te t&e Grtwta tf Crejsa Salem.... Portland - Kan Frmncisco CMctn Mew York 70 FORECAST (from 17. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Partly cloudy today, fair tonight. Little change in temperature with high today near. 5 and low tonifht near 42. SALEM 1-RECIPITATIOV ' Since Start of Weather Year, Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 49.7S " 40.86 - 35.55 101st -YEAH 14 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem,; Oregon, Monday May 28, 1951 PRICE 5c 27a. C2 4rH Gives Prizes to Champion B a leers American n GIs Land! ! I : I i f - 4--''-i'-v Y" -; :; v" '; ' ' : r : ' I :v ';.-' ; 'Y'r. y pounddd : 1651 Y : . .YY-: ' Y'Y - : : Y-- Y-- J .: f j : f n lr-, r, n r " :": The bakers who demonstrated their skill Saturday In turning out cakes and muffins for the Salem 4-H spring show are shown here in the Portland Gas and Coke . company kitchen. In photo at right is Darlene Goodman, who won first place for her sponge cake. Top muffin baker was her sister, Janet Goodman; second from left in - the croup picture. Others who made muffins are, from left, Joyce Guthrie, Janet Goodman, JoAnne Bourne Dajrtene Clark, Marilyn Page, Janette Calrk, Linda Ficklin, Vondra Anderson, Darlene Schlotthaur and Lucille Wonderly. Misses Guthrie, Bourne and "Pare won "red" awards alonr with Nancy Diven, Nancy Crowe and Judy PahL who are not shown. f OTP 2QQCDO0 TKDCDXS The note of optimism which creeps into dispatches from Wash ington and is reflected in the -president's tone and attitude de rives not only from military suc cess In Korea. It appears to have basis in the results of tests of new apparatus developed around atom ic energy. First we had the series of tests on the Nevada desert whose power was so great as to crack windows 75 miles away and illuminate the skyline for hundreds of miles. Re cently we have had experiments on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific where again the reports indicate the tests were mgmy sausiaciory. There are two immediate objec tives in atomic research. One is the development of atomic power for tactical military operations. This would mean something like an atomic energy head on an artillery shelL This might be used by planes or artillery against enemy forces in the field and make it a practi cal weapon instead of just one for mass destruction. Another of course is the H-bomb or hydrogen bomb, also called the hell-bomb. This bomb's explosive power is the result of fusion rather than fission in the atom as is the case with uranium isotopes. The first requirement was to produce an extremely high temperature to stimulate the reaction of fusion. The A-bomb of plutonium has been rated as a possible "trigger" for this explosion. The tests on the atoll have been assumed to relate to this phase of hydrogen bomb experimentation. Reports indicate the tests were successful. If these assumptions are correct ' then our scientists have unlocked the secret to explosives of vast power. The H-bomb,, unlike the A-bomb, can be made in sizes as great as desired or as great as can - be transported. The destructive effect of a mammoth H-bomb is beyond comprehension, save as we draw on the experience of Hiro shima and Nagasaki as a. basis of measurement. Raw-materials for the H-bomb are abundant but, uranium Is still , the critical material for the "trig ger;" so it will remain (Continued on editorial page 4.) ' Animal Craekors By WARREN GOODRICH Com on in td look at my whit n. W- VeepBarkley's Fame Calmly WASHINGTON, May 27 -FV Mrs. Alben Barkley, wife of the vice president, today gave an in timate i ihsight into the homelife of the nations second family which was established only a couple of years ago through a widely pub licized romance. Discussing fier two daughters by an earlier marriage,.lklrs- Barkley said in a recorded radio inter view (MPS) "They are 'completely unim pressed py any feeling of high position. iThey love their dad, not because he is vice president, but because Jie Is a very sweet and wonderful mitn who has been so sweet to them." She added: that the girls Ann Hadley( 119 and Jane Hadley, 16 "are so crazy" about their "step father "that lit is touching to see them together." As tot hef ambitions for her daughters, Mrs. Barkley said: "I have never put any stress on the girls! being something, except to be a good wife and a good mother. lAnoS I consider that the hardest pob a woman can hold down." f 1 Alter finei giris unisn scnooi. Mrs.' Bafjkley said she hopes they will take secretarial courses so "they will be able to, whatever the circumstances, take care of them selves." fVVhen her first husband died in 1945,1 Mrs. Barkley turned to secretarial work to support herself nd her daughters. Ann how f is attending Sophie Nowcomb college in New Orleans and "Jane is just beginning to go ton.: -1 -1 . , ! RITES SET ATOP DAM rOTrrjhE SAM. Wash- Mav 27- -Coluee ! dam's Memorial day marchers aren t going to De satis fied with just a parade through downtown streets come Wednes day. Veterans organizations of the area and other groups win con duct their Memorial day services atop Grind Coulee dam. Family. Takes Flying Tackle by Third Division Plugged Chinese By William C Barnard TOKYO, May 21-iPy-How it can be told how the U.S. Third div ision took a midnight ride' and made the greatest flying tackle of the Korean war. Two Republic of Korea (ROK) divisions collapsed on the east central front at the outset of the reds illfated mid-May offensive. The fighting Third, under ;Maj. Gen. Robert Soule, then put the flying tackle on 25,000 Chinese communists racing southward. - Censorship today permitted identification of the Third as the division whjch prevented the reds from making the most jof a tre mendous breakthrough. " Here's what happened: On Wednesday, May - 16, - the Chinese: smacked Into the east central front with 123,000 menv. The biggest blow hit the UJS. Second division, east of Chunchon, and two ROK divisions on ; the Second's (east) flack. The ROK divisions were routed. Chinese streamed southward. ' An emergency call went out for the Third division in reserve on the western front. ? The division answered with a dramatic, 70-mile ride across the peninsula. ; The observer on the east central )! I' - ' ? Si f I ,1 ? . 4 x' i SSi) ; i ! ( - i X. V M jr. I "if? t r- 1 Youth Burned In Plane Crash i j . ! 1 PORTLAND, ,May 27-iiP)-Law-rence K. Colville, 15, Portland, suf fered extensive body burns Sun day when a plane! in which: he was a passenger crashlanded and caught fire near Beaverton today. Pilot of the plahe was Lawrence E. Harvey, 52, Portland. He suf fered only minor scalp burns and cuts. Harvey and a bystander pulled the dazed boy from the burning plane. Harvey said the plane lost flying speed when caught in a downdraft. On landing inja field it struck a graded roadway, broke a fuel line and caught fire. Lincoln Ellsworth, Expl Dies orer. NEW YORK, May 27-(P)-Ex plorer Lincoln Ellsworth, 71, who claimed 381,000 I square miles of Antarctica for the United States in 1939. died at his hotel last night of a heart attack. f Ellsworth conquered both the north pole and the Antarctic. His last major trip of explora tion was a flight into, the ! interior of Antarctica in 1939, when he made the territorial claim; fpr the United States. 1 f He was a lieutenant commander Hn the U. S. naval reserve at that time. j f Breakthrough front saw the beaten, disorganized South : Koreans j many without weapons, streaming away from the onrushing enemy. . 4 ; Then there was the sudden, heartening sight; of the Third di vision, heading for the front. Hun dreds and hundreds ; of vehicles. bumper to bumper, rolled , by jeeps, trucks, tanks and artillery and the grim men of the Third. First in line was the 15th infantry regiment. 1 It hit -the Chinese on May 17th and 18th. The Seventh infantry regiment and 65th infantry Puerto Rican regiment followed, j The Third division hit the line near Soksa, 18 miles inland from the east coast. Repeated bloody engagements completely j stalled the amazed reds. Members of the enemy units had fought the Third on the western front early in May and had not expected it to show up on the east, i - i t The division took Soksa, mopped up,, took command of a strategic pass through, a 5.C00 foot ridgeline, a pass ; -dominating ' north-south movement through a wild and ter ribly rugged region- - i ;. ., Now the reds are running every where. And the Third division has turned from hole-plujir to pur suit. InEurope ! ! BREMER HAVEN, Germany, May 27 (JP) A former German who survived Hitler's concentra tion camps led 1,300 American sol diers ashore here today to ! begin a big reinforcement of U. S. troops guarding western Europe. ; They were part - of the fourth infantry division, the first to ar rive of four new American divi sions being sent to Germany to bolster this western defense line against the threat of communist attack. . I j Top commanders of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's North Atlantic command welcomed the troops as they marched off the U. S. trans port General Patch to the cheers of a waiting crowd. j j You come to preserve the peace, said Gen. Alphonse Juin of France, commander of all al lied army forces in the central sector of Europe. I 1 German-Born The first enlisted man ashore was German-born Private Edwin Sternberg of 6513 Three1 Chop road, Richmond, Va. His ; Jewish birth cost him four years in a con centration camp. Emigrating to America after the war he was drafted and sent back to his home land as a soldier. i I Despite the blaring band and the glittering pennants which dec orated the big U. S. port here, there was a grimly earnest air about the troops as they poured off the ship in a drizzling rain. They stood stiffly at attention in military formation before an im posing array of generals who flew here to greet them. j 6 Divisions When all four of the new Amer ican divisions arrive, the United States will have six battle-ready divisions in Germany. Combined with, the troops of other western allies, this will make a total west ern force of at least 13. divisions in this vital area. j At present, there are only two complete American divisions in Germany, a little over three Brit ish .divisions, three French divi sions, one division from Belgium and brigades from Denmark and Norway. ; j State Policeman's Fishing Line Snags On Stolen Safe I NORWICH, New York, May 27 -tfVState Policeman Louis Freer can t dodge his duties even on his day off. ! J Freer went fishing near this central New York city today. His line snagged a safe. City ! police identified it as one stolen from a gasoline station last January. I They said papers and an undis closed amount of jewelry were in the safe, but about $1,000 in cash was missing. , ' I So was a major part of Freer day off. i Korean Has j Draft Trouble r I WITH THE U. S. MARINES IN KOREA, May 27-P)-A frightened and tired communist soldier gave himself up today at the First Marine division command post. He was a North Korean. I "What are you doing in the Chinese army? he was asked. . "I went to China to avoid being drafted in North Korea," he said. "Then the Chinese drafted me. Collins on Europe Inspection Tour j PARIS, May 27-P)-GeheraI J. La wton. Collins, U. S. army chief of staff, arrived here today for a two-week inspection tour of Eu rope. ' . . "'"''-' I i ' Coigns, who touched down! in a military aircraft, will see Gen eral Dwight D. Eisenhower, chief of the Atlantic army, then visit military centers 'in -Europe. j He precedes by several days, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff. i, UfiHI' Western International At Salem 0-3. Spokane 4-0 At Tri-Oty 2-3. Wenatcbco 10-11; (Only games scheduled). j Coast League . At Portland 2-0. San Diefco S-3 At Seattl 4-7. Sacramento 0-2 At San rrandaco 7-3, Los Angele S-2 At Hollywood S-a, Oakland 2-2 : - Aaaeriean League - H . At Cleveland 2-4. Chicago S- At New York S-4. Philadelphia 0-7 At Detroit 2-3. St. Louis 2-S At Boston S-7. Washington 2-1 ; National Leaxae ! i At St. louU S. Cincinnati 1 f . At Philadelphia New York 1 . ' At Brooklyn. Boston, rain At CbJcaco. Pitttburgb. raia mm Escape Routes Slammed Shut On Communists By Don Hath TOKYO, Monday, May 28-(Ph Hungry, beaten Chinese Reds sur- ! rendered in wholesale lots" on the Korean warfront today. The allies slammed shut escape corridors on thousands of other woeful com munist soldiers. The UJS. 24th division captured 2,000 Reds largest single Chinese bag of the war on the central front northwest of Chunchon. "When the final count is in, you will find that -the tfap netted well over 2,000," a spokesman said. Other allied forces surged back into Hwachon, seven miles north of parallel 38, and seized two other road centers Sunday. The Reds still were on the run clear across the mountainous peninsula, except for sporadic attempts atgarguard actions. Abandon Shells The communists flight north of Chunchon was so hasty they aban doned 30 truckloads of artillery and mortar shells. An allied of ficer said the Reds were so badly disorganized tifey might not be able to mount another offensive for three months. The sealing of the escape routes across the Red border on the east- central front evidently had be wildered one of the main forces used by the Chinese in their ill starred second spring offensive. The mid-May drive had carried southward from Inje, some 28 miles inland from the east coast. deep into South Korea. The Reds shattered two South Korean divis ions in an initial success. - But the allied forces, recoiling like a steel spring, snapped sud denly back behind terrific artillery and aerial bombardment. Red casualties soared above an estim ated 60,000 by last week. They began streaming back over the bloody ridges to North Korea. Many Trapped - Field dispatches said an entire Chinese -division between 6,000 and . 10,000 men was believed trapped southeast of Hwachon, In the area generally north of Chun chon. It was a short distance west of that area that the U.S. eighth army reported more than 2,000 Chinese -hard-hit and hungry had given up. The 8th army communique re ported "large" numbers surrender ed elsewhere. One field report said American GIs fed some of the hungry pris oners and then turnea them loose in the hills to encourage their com rades to quit. An Eighth army briefing officer reported Red casualties continued heavy. Gaps Closed Two'U.S. second division armor ed forces within one half t hour bottled up both north and south ends of an important escape route into North Korea for thousands of Chinese. With only slight opposi tion they seized the road junction of Inje, four miles north of the 38th parallel and Hyon, four miles south of the pre-war boundary. The swift movement caught the tag end of the large Red column streaking north through Hyon. Al lied artillery, machineguns and small arms, slaughtered the trap ped column, estimated to number between 5,000 and 10.000 troops, a pooled field dispatch reported. inje is 28 miles inland from the east coast, Hyon 25 miles. - Farther east the U.S. Third div ision was disclosed in action for the first time In the current of fensive. Last week it had plugged a dangerous gap. in allied lines at Soksa and now was sweeping northward across the Naerichon river near the parallel. Back in Tangysaur On the' extreme east coast South Korean Capitol division troops were back in Yangyang, eight miles north of 38.. . The mounting debacle to Chinese and North Korean troops across the entire 125-mile Korean front led some high officers to estimate it would take three months or more for the Reds to mount any new of fensive. AP Correspondent Jim Becker quoted one high officer as saying The Chinaman knows it will take them a very Ions time to re organize after the disaster. Of course, he is still capable of- stag ing stiff delaying actions. GEOXGE SICUAEDS DIES DETROIT, May 28-(Monday)- -Vf?-itaaio suraon owner ueorge A. Richards, storm tenter f a dispute with the federal commu nications commission over news broadcasts, died early today. 2Ie Britain Sidesteps Iran Ultimatum TEHRAN, Iran, May 27-CTV The Anglo-Iranian Oil company made a conciliatory gesture to day by offering to send its res ident manager to listen in at one meeting only of the oil national ization board. The billion dollar British com pany thus replied by half meas ures to the Iranian ultimatum that it help carry out , its own nationalization, by Wednesday or be taken over I without consulta tion. ! Members of the oil board de clared AIOC's j appeal yesterday to the international court of jus tice to appoint an arbitrator in the world-shaking dispute was ''ridiculous" and the "desperate act of a drowning man." "The Anglo Iranian Oil com pany no longer exists," said one member. j . Austin Tells 'Peace' Propagandists 1 By A. I. Goldberg UNITED NATIONS, N. Y May 2 7-P-Warren Austin, chief U. S. delegate to the iUnited Nations, advised communist peace propagan dists tonight to go peddle their papers in Moscow -and Peiping. He used more diplomatic language. But that was the main idea in a long letter he wrote to Frederic Joliot-Curie, French atom scien tist and communist leader. The U. S. delegation made tfte text public Man In Downtown Salem Wreck A downtown Salem auto wreck hospitalized Frank Shank, 56, West Slope, Ore., with undetermined back injuries Sunday night. His condition was reported "fair" early today at Salem General hospital. Police said Shank was riding with Frank F. Meury, Forest Grove, in a 1951 Chevrolet which collided with a (1949 Pontiac driv en by Peter S. Gretsch, Willamina. Mrs. Gretsch was treated for a sprained ankle.! ' The accident happened at Cen ter and Commercial streets at 7:58 p.m. Witnesses told police one of .1 . L -1 1 ! A. T .1 uie u rivers ran rea ugui. xeiuier was cited. S 300000 KILLED IN MAY TAIPEH, Formosa, May 27-(P) The China Union Press today .esti mated that at least 300,006 persons were executed in communist Chi na's great purge thus far in May. REMAINS IN COMA ' HOLLYWOOD, May 27-OP)- Comedienne Fanny Brice was still critically ill today after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage last Thurs day. She has remained in a coma. Injured Guardsmen Train at Adair - ( 4 ... - i , r - Hemhers f Ealem Billons! toarJ Ritardar far week-en.1 maneuvers at Cxrr j Adair (abeet 35 went). Seated La foreground is T. f ft. - left, are Pfe-'s XUbert L Xlarris. L. Charbozteaa. Darm i-asrer. . nobert Ilizatrlek. all tress EaleBV (SUtesssaa s&eta Communist front organizations called mass meetings throughout the country for Tuesday "to fight imperialistic - oil companies." All these moves seemed : to presage a new crisis for wispy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh crisis in which westerners here saw a possible coup d'etat growing out of the present in stability as the greatest danger. Supporting AIOC's appeal to the world court at The Hague the British government reserved the right to take measures to preserve her present status In Iran. The government owns 53 per cent of AIOC. If Britain moved her parachute troops, presently destined for Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean, into southern Iran to protect her .pro perty aad nationals, Russia might make a similar move in the north. oft' Red here at about the time the letter was due to reach Joliot-Curie in Paris. Austin's letter answered an ap peal from the French scientist to support appearance of a delega tion from the. communist-dominated World Peace council before the U. N. to argue its program. The council recently framed a new Soviet-inspired "peace pro gram" in Berlin. "If your delegation honestly de sires to make a contribution to peace," Austin wrote, "I suggest that it visit Moscow and urge the Soviet ruling circle ( repeat circle, singular) to abide by the (U. N.) charter and the other in ternational agreements to which it is pledged. . - "Your delegation could then pro ceed to Peiping, and urge tlffe ruling circle there to end the ag gression in Korea, withdraw its forces, and let the Korean people organize the independent, unified and democratic nation the U. N. seeks for them. ; "In Moscow, you could urge the leaders of world communism to. abandon their declared aims of taking over other people's coun tries by. the . well-known totali tarian tactics which led Hitler to disaster. "Tell them there will net be a war unless they decide to precipi tate it; that the peoples of the world want real peace with free dom as defined in the U. N. char ter; but that they will not pay blackmail to aggressors. - i 'J 1 i Corr-any G sr-pear as t!;ey Iz'l Druce Tclsner. la bakrrecz2, frssa f China Plansj ToHoUTilet v Military Reins TOKYO. May 27-fff-Red China announced with much fanfare to day a sweeping treaty for the "liberation" of Tibet but which, if effective, gives It a military stranglehold on! that gateway to ' India. ; The terms called for control of Tibet's national? defenses by the red army. They also featured a sly red attempt to divide the country by establishment -of a Chinese as a rival of the rulinj Dalai Lama. j Peiping radio rolled out a fiood tide of words on Just how red China "will certainly help the Tibetan people in wiping out the influence of imperialism in Tibet." A note of uncertainty on just how Tibet will accept its libera tion" was detected in a state ment issued by China's army com mander-in-chief; Chu Teh: "It is hoped that the local gov ernment of Tibet will carry out the agreement on the measures for the, peaceful liberation of . Tibet ia earnest and do all it can ; to help the people's f liberation army (communist) march Into Tibet. Red Military District By treaty, Tibet became a mili tary district of : red China under a red general's command the mo ment the treaty was signed May 23. i j . The communist commander-in-chief. Gen. Chu Teh, witnessed the signing. f r; . By Peipings .'own account: Red troops will stay in that "roof of the world'' land about the size of France and Germany which they invaded last fall. (As monitored in San Francisco, this treaty provision read bluntly: "The local government Of Tibet shall actively . assist the neoDle's liberation (communist) army to enter Tibet and consolidate the national defenses.) t To Join Red Army I Tibetan troops will be Integrated in the red army, E Red China takes over Tibet's foreign affairs and trade. 5 Tibet will banish "imperialistis influence and revert to red China.- There also was a hint that Tibet would be partitioned between rival lamas. 1 . - One treaty provision was that the status and power of the Dalai Lama would continue unmodified. With his government of priests. the Dalai Lamar fled Lhasa at the outset of the communist invasion. He went to Yatung on the Indian border. .1 But the treaty at the same time promised reinstatement .of the Panchen lama who has been ia exile under tutelage of red China. Before he left China he had con- trolled west Tibet and the Dalai Lama the east, i f i Using a dazzling display of fire works, the red army routed Ti betan's troops last October with out even a fight. The red venture never was completely ended. The reds set up a border government for Tibet ia the neighboring Chinese province of Sikang. ' ; A Tibet delegation has been la Peiping for weeks negotiating fot some degree of autonomy. Peiping radio called the sweep ing treaty provisions a peaceful settlement j i Rail Franchise On Docket Again v Salem's city! council win hart its annual consideration of the . Union street railroad franchise ft its meeting tonight at liCO in tiij . halL I Ud for first reading Is an crdin ance bill extending for 10 yet-j Southern Pacific railway's irzr chise for operating alcnj U- ttret It provides lor revocauca ty ti city on one year's notice. - Music Festivala Return to Vienna VIENNA, liay 27-.TVAEtk- Vienna made a new bid today 1 recapture its ons-tiinr glcrr as tLj music capital of th "wcrli. It resumed last 't;r ft lapse cf 14 years, tht VI. .r.a i'es tival Weeks, a' fala, nca-stc? ss ries of musical, cultural aad ra cial events that will lzzX vz. June 17. 1 JA3 cc:rrzzzic:r ArrD tIAKILA, Hay 27HT--.3 I lrlnes r:Ll izsist Cut a J;-cosf:ssic3-c? fwar r-' - I du!?d la ti preset! j c: . forUicorr.Ir.g peace treitj, a t ; ; said today, -v