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- -. - T . . . i- . - - t . , - ' ' - - . : Caravan Participants Climb Over Detroit Dam n r PCUNDDD .1651 101st YEAR 18 PAGES The Oregon Stateunan, Salenv Oregon, Thmtdaj; Jun 14. 1951 PRICE 5c Kb.. 73 us (gbgdctg -I 1 t A 1! 7 June is the month of the rose, and this June has been particular ly favorable to our Oregon roses. The bushes have- been bursting with bloom. The pests have been less pesky, or is it just more dili gent spraying, with better sprays? All agree that the rose shows have been unusually good in the abun dance and quality of the rose ex hibits. ' This year Satumia displaced the Peace rose as the grand champion at the Portland rose festival how we dote on the new, patented roses at the same time that we cherish the old standby. Where is the white to beat the old Frau Karl Druschi for example? But have you heard of the old est rose in Oregon, or the Mis sion Rose? Dr. John M. Crane of Portland who is in town to at tend the "Oregon Methodist con ference, and who is a real author- lty on northwest history, dropped In the office yesterday and tola me about the roses 6t pioneer Oregon., - According to tradition the first rose in the Oregon country was a bush brought in by a captain of a vessel visiting the Columbia, some time in the 1830s, who gave It to Dr. McLoughlin at Fort Van couver. The doctor planted it and it bore pink flowers that were quite fragrant. In 1837 when the Rev. Jason Lee and Miss Anna ' Pitman were married at the Meth odist mission on the river north of : (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Tells of Cancer Cure for Son v WASHINGTON, June 13 Senator Tobey (R-NH) placed be fore the senate today a letter say ing that his son, who was strick en, with cancer about three years ago, has been restored to good cealth after being treated by a lied ford, Mass., . doctor. . The letter was written by the ion, Charles w. Tobey, Jr- who requested it be placed in the Con gressional - Record in - hopes " it would spur further research into the type of treatment he received. The letter did not go Into de tails about the treatment but men tioned the use of "anti-biotic agents." Such agents include pen icillin, streptomycin and others used in the treatment of various ailments. The senior. Tobey told the sen ate that when his son was strick- n, "not much hope was given.' But ; he said that - following treatment given by Dr. Robert E. Lincoln. of Medford, his son has been able to carry on his law business and to live a normal life.-- Animal Crackers By WARREN COODRICH 1Ctnd on," Hi r SWF108 'IMP 0318 Senator Tobey Mm m - - - - - n " v . - 4 M) A -SW. - 'fc -XV T" '"III - - f v-v;".- TV--:, , ': ft :.-r-"r, 7 c'. . ... afcaiM . NiS O .fZH.fr7, . , N' '331- -i 1 ; rr5jfW 1?- Climbing' ever the lower face of through the tunnels inside, was a highlight of a tour Tuesday spon sored by the Willamette Basin Project committee. Only the men members of the earavan were allowed to go to the "bottom." About a third of the scheduled 1,450,000 cable yards of cement have been poured. Top photo shows the present stage of construction. (States' man-Lsrsen photos). KicEirsuoimd, Oin Pa'ih ol? Tornado RICHMOND. Va' June 1S - 6PV 230,000 late today, toppling trees, estimated $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 - No fatalities were reported, but half a dozen persons were hos pitalized, with serious injuries. - vThe damage estimate was made the local Red Cross disaster com mittee. ! I i. ! The twister moved in from the southwest at about 4:1 p.m. spin ning across much of the city's mid dle, i n - - i Live wires from fallen poles made some sections of : the city hazardous. I ! S Police! designated part of the west end section as a disaster area. Teams of Red Cross workers were dispatche dto the area. The weather bureau said it was the first; tornado to hit the city in at least? 10 years but some ob servers believed it might have been the first ever to strike Rich mond. I ; ! PhilSIieridan Days Slated This Week End (Picture on page 8) " SHERIDAN, June 14 Record crowds are predicted for the an nual Phil Sheridan Days - and Rodeo Friday, Saturday and Sun day. Committee chairmen were winding j up their preliminary work today. The Phil Sheridan Days program is booked for Fri day and Saturday, the annual rodeo Saturday and Sunday after noons. ! I Outstanding cowboys are send ing in their entries, and most of the community s residents are busily engaged In preparing float entries in the Phil Sheridan parade Saturday morning. The annual event gets under way Friday at 1:00 pjn. with the Junior parade,; followed, by the urogram in the city park. Friday evening feature l is the Pioneer Mother's banquet. Named as General Phil Sheri dan is Andrew Riggs, Grand Ronde Umpqua Indian. -His wife, a Chinook In&an, is the Pioneer mother. : He will head the Satur day parade and his wife will be the honored guest at the banquet at which Marshall Dana of Fort- land will talk, i - - Among the features of the PhU Sheridan rodeo will be the exhi bition rides by Mildred Mix Mor ris, . Chandler, Ariz world's champion woman bronc rider. 1 the new Detroit dam. and peeking Virginia - A tornado cut across this city of tearing off roof tops and leaving an damage. by Robert O. Glover, chairman of Dynamite Cap Blasts Boy's Hand Statesman News Serrlc SWEET HOME Larry, 8-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Nonemaker, who reside on 19th avenue, had two fingers and part of the third on his left hand blown off when a dynamite cap exploded in his cap. He also received an eye injury. The caps were evidently left in the garage of the None maker home by a former tenant. The boy was treated at Langmack hospital here i-and then sent to Portland to an eye specialist. Cattle Streams Back to Market. CHICAGO, June 13 m An other good batch of cattle stream ed to midwest livestock markets today, starting more scarce steaks, roasts and hamburger on the way to American dinner tables. tor tne second day in a row, receipts of cattle at the nation's 12 principal markets were on a par with a year ago. Drug Hearing Tells of Youths Taking Dope in School Rooms NEW YORK, June 13 A lurid story of teen-agers boldly doping themselves in New York City school rooms was told today at a state hearing seeking ways to blot out the drug traffic. -1 The . story came from the thin voices of' the children themselves via 'tape recordings in the crowd ed hearing room. One 15-year-old boy said he and five. other junior high school pepils ''sniffed' heroin in their classroom while the teacher lecturing. A irS-year-old told a traestloner from Attorney General Nathaniel X. Goldstein's office he began smoking marijuana at the age of 13. Later he and other boys took heroin by hypodermic injection in. the school lavatory, be said. Another teen-aged pupil Inform ! New Plane Moves Wings in NIAGARA FALLS,N. Y June 13-WV-The U. S. air force an nounced today that the Pell X-5, first . aircraft with wings whose degrees of sweepback may be var ied in .flight, would begin mgni tests soon at Muroc, Caul. ' It was understood that the ex perimental aircraft would be used for tests in the trans-sonic speed range from about 600 to about 800 miles an hour. ' " i The X-5. built by the Bell Air craft Corp, is Jet-propelled rath er than rocket-powered as was the Bell x-1, first airplane to, fly fast er than sound. ! 18 Apply f o Warden Post A total of 18 applicants for po sition of warden at the state peni tentiary here have been received, the state board of control revealed Wednesday. . ; I " Approximately half of these came rrom residents or uregon with the others widely scattered from other states. It was predicted that employment of his official would be - delayed fori several months pending investigaiton and interview with the several appli cants, i Board of control members made it clear here Wednesday that while George Alexander is referred to most frequently as warden he ac tually is superintendent of the prison. Janploymeni or a warden I was urged by the board of control at the last legislature because of the increasing institution load due to larger population and expansion of prison industries. Position Filled The position of penitentiary school supervisor already has been filled, lie is J.rParker Uneberry,- until recently principal ;of Rich mond public school here.! He suc ceeds Frederick Beck wno is un der indictment for grand larceny. Officials said Lineberry was high ly recommenaea vy oueiu scmuui district officials. i The new law under which ad ditional prison workers! will be employed becomes' operative July 1. I - Approximately a dozen applies tions also have been received for the position of recreational super visor recommended by a senate committee which investigated the prison during the recent legisla tive session. Virtually all of these applications came from, Oregon men. : Officials said a food service su pervisor has been selected. Em ployment of this man,! officials said, probably would - save the state a substantial amount of money during the next biennium. Two prison chiefs are yet to be employed under the new , law. The penitentiary kitchen is l now in charge of inmates wnicn, olii- cials averred, has not been en tirely satisfactory. ' To Employ Dentist There also will be employed prison dentist probably on a full time basis. The current dentist is employed only part-time. Also to be employed is a hospital techni cian. He will devote his entire time to prison hospital service. The last legislature also author ized employment of 15 additions guards who will be required upon completion of the new cell block and other construction.' Shorter hours of current employes also made a number of additional guards necessary. INDIA OPPOSES FORCE UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, June lS-COT-lndia has turned down U.N. request to earmark troops for a collective security force and has suggested peaceful! negotia tions should be the rule for settl ing international disputes. ed the hearing via the; tape re corder that he was a horse race "bookie'' for the other pupils and that a student friend of his was a dope peddler. He said the stu dent peddler grossed $300 to. $400 a day selling drugs to other pupils --and, lost much of it on horse bets. , . t v Q -Three to four hundred dol lars a day? ... You think he was telling the truth? . A He lost enough money to me so ho should be telling . the truth. v ' A student . of one high school was asked how many of his class mates used marijuana, In his opin ion. " ;. r ; . "About SO per cent of .the col ored guys, about 40 per cent of the whites," he said, Penitentiary State, National te Opposing Views PORTLAND, June 13-flVThe head of the national grange today advocated meat rationing to re place price controls. :. ' ';' ''; Herschel "Newsom, national grange ! master, , told " the state grange convention that price con trols will not work because they are built on a political approach. "Nobody can defend beef prices at 150 per . cent of parity. The present political program of price controls and rollbacks just won t work because' it does not recog nize -the basic equity and justice of the problem, he said.' v The fact is that the nation has more ' money than meat, and ra tioning ; is necessary,- Newsom as serted. . - Earlier the grangers had heard state Grange Master Elmer Mc- Clure urge support of the price controls. Ignores; Justice ; Newsom said the present con trols ignore . equities and justice for tne- zarmer. . ".uici Jo tin son (national eco nomic stabilizer) ; called me in re cently and said ' that despite all of the equity and justice on our side, ceilings would have to be held, even on . those commodities below a fair price, Newsom said in an j interview prior to his speech.! . "I believe it is a bit dangerous not to make provision for what we .think likely will happen in coming montns,:! but , it is . even more dangerous to use this politi cal approach, it weakens our economy at a time when we must strengthen it," he said. Delegates, who voted Morton Tompkins out of office as state grange master last year, also re fused to seat him on the execu tive committee. Luke Reif, Powell Butte, won an election for the seat, polling 144 votes to Tompkins' 130. Takes Ne Stand " . ' -- 'l The grange took no stand on the controversial proposal to cam- paign against the school reorgani zation act passed by the recent legislature. A public hearing on the matter was called for tomor row. - j Without a dissent the grange proposed a statewide vote in the election of 1952 on daylight sav ing time. Labor leaders earlier had assured the grange of their support in a campaign to outlaw fast time. Another : resolution urged re strictions on imports of flower bulbs from other countries. - :j Mayor Asks Salem - Remember when there were flags on every home on patriotic holidays? j; Well, today Is Flag day. And Mayor Alfred Loucks, in a statement reminding of the former generous displays, said last night. I hope every home which has a flag puts it out on Flag Day and I hope lots' of homes have flags." Loucks said several persons had chided him for the dearth of flags on Armed Forces day, and had suggested a concerted effort be made for a more general observ ance of patriotic holidays. - "I am certainly in favor of get ting our flag, right out in the open," Loucks declared. "People are right who say we need a more postive attitude toward patrotism and toward recognition of the things for which our flag stands. hope more and more we'll pay the homage and respect due our na tional banner." : FURNACE BACKFIRES A downtown :' tire alarm was touched off Wednesday night when a basement furnace backfir ed at 237 N. Liberty st. Firemen checked the furnace, reported no damage. Main floor of the build ing is unoccupied. - Western International At Salem , Yakima At Tri-Oty e-S, Vancouver 7-3 ' At Spokane 8. Victoria 1 " At Wcnatchee 10. Tacoma I . . . ' Coast Lmtb ' At Portland 1. Hollywood U At Oakland 1, San Diego 3 At Seattle . Saa rrancisco 1 At Loa Angeles 9, Sacramento 1 National Learae. At Chicago . Philadelphia At Cincinnati 2. Ne York ' At St. LouU 4. Brooklyn T At Pittsburgh-Boa ton. rala ' i " ' V ' American Leagu At Boston S. Detroit At Wamhmgton-Chicago. rata. -At New York-St. Louis, rain. At Phuadeiptua0Tcland, rain. Display Flags Mac:SeesMlii In Feace 1 alk; W eclem Asks Riiss RailroadfBoni General Favors Taking Risk of Starting War ' - By Roger D. Greene WASHINGTON, - June 13-TAV Lieut. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer urged today that the United States bomb the Husso-Chinese railroad in Manchuria even at the ''calcu lated risk" of igniting World War III. . . The railroad, jointly controlled by Russia and Red China, is used to funnel supplies to the Chinese armies fighting in Korea. American and allied planes are now forbidden to bomb targets north of the Yalu river frontier between Korea and Manchuria. Testifying for the third straight day at the senate's MacArtbur in quiry, wedemeyer said bombing the Manchurian railroad "might result in war with Russia, but he declared: It is a calculated risk that per sonally I would recommend we accept. Disagrees with Admiral Wedemeyer also said he dis agrees with earlier testimony by Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, that a U. S. naval blockade of Russian-con trolled ports in Manchuria would be "an act of war." Sherman had said he favors a United Nations blockade of Red China but opposes the United States undertaking it alone. Wedemeyer has come out for a naval blockade of Red China and the shelling of Chinese coastal cities by U. S. warships alone if necessary.. .. '. . Senate Hearing The three-star general an ex pect on China, gave his views to the senate armed services and foreign 'relations committees in their Joint inquiry into the dis missal of General Douglas Mac- Arthur as Far East commander. Wedemeyer finished his testi mony at 1:42 p.m. EST. Former Secretary of Defense Louis John son is expected to take the witness chair at 9 a.m. tomorrow, the ninth witness in the hearings on Far East policy. Before leaving the witness 1 1 CT . ... cnair, weaemeyer suDmitted a formal outline of what he termed my strategic concept." : Among other things, he pro posed the creation of a new fed eral agency to devise "global plans and actions i inherent in world leadership. ' . Aga Khan May Visit 1 Washington WASHINGTON. June 13 -ttPV- lne extremely rich Aga Kahn. father-in-law of Actress Rita Hayworth, may visit Washington late this month. It was learned today -that the wealthy spiritual head of the Is mail! Moslems, whose son Aly is being sued for divorce by Miss Hayworth, has cabled ah inquiry of the availability 4l a suite in the Wardman Park hotel, a resi dential hotel In northwest Wash ington. ,., ... ... ... . : ..... Methodists Told Imp roving in South Churches (Picture on Page 5) ' Greater unification in racial re lations within the Methodist church is unfolding in the south, Dr. Ezra Cox said Wednesday at the 89th annual conference of the Methodist church being held this week on the Willamette university campus. Dr. Cox is head of the board of missions and church extension for the west coast and has trav eled extensively in southern states. Methodistism is facing the problem of raciaT relations which exists within the church in the all-negro Central conference, he said.' Although it was necessary to form the negro conference in 1S39, it is becoming less necessary as the south itself is moving in the direction of complete unification and more equal rights for negroes. The Methodist church has been the only institution strong enough to take a lead in solving the prob len, he tald... Another trend in the Methodist church cited by- Dr. Cox was greater concern shown for youth ral Weakness ;7-: fill ttW ' ' ' ' vvi-- r' , . Black in Power DUBLIN, Ireland. June 13-V Eamon DeValera ( above) be came prime minister of Ireland a rata today. He was elected by the lower house of parliament (Story en page 2.) U.N. Rubs Out Iron Triangle.' Reds Retreat ! V TQKHp, Thursday, June 14-V Two powerful allied columns pac ed by more than 100 tanks struck boldly across the central Korean plains Wednesday, rolled into abandoned Pyongyang and rubbed out the communists' once-vaunted "iron triangle. " h .' - A delayed field dispatch said the Chinese reds began a mass withdrawal Wednesday along the central front It said the enemy appeared to be falling back on Kumsong, main town on the high way between Pyonggang and Won san, the east coast port rubbled by months of record naval bombard ment. :A The allied columns, with dough boys riding the tanks, struck out Wednesday morning from the two towns at the base of the triangle, Chorwon on the west and Kumhwa on the east. The tanks met virtual ly no opposition. They returned to the Chorwon-Kumhwa line after troops scouted high ground north bf Pyonggang and found It desert ed. ' ? f ' i AP 'Correspondent Jim Becker said officers expressed amazement at the apparently complete with drawal of the Chinese from the triangle. Where once the commun ists had massed ten of .thousands of troops for powerful strikes deep into South Korea. SENATE REJECTS PLAN - WASHINGTON, June 13 tfV The senate rejected today, 36 to 35, a proposal to slash the annual and .sick leave of federal civil service workers. MASONIC MEET OPENS " i PORTLAND June 13 HPH The Grand Masonic Lodge of Oregon opened its annual meeting here today. ; -- . Race Relations in the past half century. K " Other activities saw the elec tion of Mrs. Jesse W. Bunch as lay delegate to the General con ference to be held during April, 1952, in San Francisco, Calif. One more lay delegate and two minis terial delegates are to be selected this week for the San Francisco meeting, governing body of the church. . r Earlier Wednesday, ministerial and lay delegates to the Oregon conference were officially fwel corned by Gov.J Douglas McKay and Mayor Al Loucks. ' The town and fellowship dinner Wednesday evening featured a talk by the Rev. Howard Buck. Dr. J. Richard Sneed of Los An geles gave the second of a series of conference sermons at the First Methodist church, closing the days activities. Today's . conference meetings open with an 820 a. m. devotional period in Waller hall with com mittee meetings and reports sche duled to begin at 9 a. m. and conference meetings to continue through tht day. -1 eyer , bed First Line of U.S. Defense Said on Yalu By Don Whitehead ? AUSTIN. . Tex., ?. June 13 HV Gen. Douglas MacArthur today bitterly accused U. S. policy mak ers of appeasement in Korea n4 of "moral weakness" by talking of a peace settlement.; - r He told an audience of acone 20,000 Texans that America's first line of defense is the: Yalu river at the Manchurian border and Bof the Elbe river in Europe- He charged U. S. foreign policy appears to be influenced from abroad and by fear of what ther nations might think or do. ; In a speech bristling with -defiance of Truman: administration war policies, the; five-star en- eral called for stronger measures against- the, enemy in Korea . to end the war "rapidly and decisive- ly." . : f "I should be recreant, more over, to my obligations of citizen ship did I fail to warn that h policies of appeasement on which . we are now embarked carry with in themselves the." very incitatioo to war . against us," he said. "It the Soviet dies strike, it will Toe because of the weakness we now riienlav rather tVian th T-rrr4K we of right should display..., , MacArthur spoke., from the front steps of the state . capital -- v...lir i . i . . . ering of the legislature, which c cupied chairs in front of him. He had been invited ! to speak before the legislature, but it concluded its session last Friday. Many mem. Ders - returned to ; near . the gen eral.- , . .. i . ; Parade In Houston :j The general almost immediate ly flew to Houston, where he led a parade which Police Chief L, D. Morrison estimated was wit nessed bv 500.00 nersons. Soma viewers stood two;' hours along the parade route to see MacArthur. : - A swirl of torn newspapers and telephone books fell around tb. general at points along his pa rade route. There were no tun- ultuous cheers, i; i - In Austin, the general brought out many points; previously as serted in testimony in Washing ton and in other speeches. , Again MacArthur challenged the administration claim that .to spread the war against : China might draw Russia into the coo flict and touch -off world war three. " u . - ; Bulldozing Operation 1 ..' ' MacArthur said "there is n. slightest- doubt in my mind"5 but that Russia has been engaging in the "greatest 1 bulldozing di plomacy history has ever record ed. . : -' ,: - ; He contended the Soviets have succeeded not because of mili tary strength "but in the moral weakness of the free world." He said: "It is a weakness which has caused many-; free nations to succumb to and embrace the false tenets of communist propaganda. It is a weakness which has caused' our own policy makers, after com mitting America'! soaa to batUe, to leave them to the continuous slaughter of an indecisive cam paign by imposing arbitrary re straints upon the support wt might otherwise, provide them through maximum employment of, our scientific superiority, wbicTJ " alone offers hope of early victory. Short af OhiertivM i "It is a weakness i which now causes those in authority to strongly hint at a settlement of the Korean conflict under condi tions short of the objectives our soldiers were led j to believe were theirs to attain and for which so many yielded their lives. MacArthur's explosive speech I was the first of five speeches h. will make in the major cities of the lone star state during the next three days and iit clearly indi cated the general intends to wag tion.war policy in the future, i Max. S2 S S3 ti ! Mia. ' SS Sale Portland Saa Frandaco S3 SI Chicaco IS ; SI New York M ' - X FORECAST (from U. 8. weathey Ims reaa. McNary CkL Salem): Far to day and tonight but not much Ha In temperature. Bicn today utmt low tonight near U. , ; . . . SALEM PRECmTATJOW . Slaee Start Weattecr Tea . t This Tear Last Tear Jnaf a.n , um n