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- - ' - " Four Cremated as Runaway 'Gas Trucks Mams 11 Autos i "-WURTSBORO. N. Y, July -()-A giant trailer truck, its brakes (one, careened down a iteep CatskiU mountain road to day and crashed into 11 automo- . biles. - r One of the Injured, Ted Levy t of Brooklyn, suffered severe burns helping rescue the victims. The mass collision took place on , busy state highway 17, the main route between New York City and the Monticello-Liberty resort area. Wurtsboro is about 85 miles north west of New York City in Sullivan county. -The tractor-trailer type truck was loaded with cylinders of pro pane tax, but they did not ex plode, i . ;-.:-;---v; Instead, police said, the bit ve hicle's fuel supply caught fire as it careened against the first of a long line of passenger cars, caught in its path like sitting ducks. I fire quickly enveloped the track and at least four of the cars. v ; Many of the deaths and injuries were due to 'the flames. One of i the cars was a taxicab from New York City owned, state police said, by the Header's Park way Mountain lines of Brooklyn. Three cf the dead, burned be- yong recognition, were in the taxi, although its driver, Ben Levine of Brooklyn, escaped injury. .The vic tims were also from Brooklyn. - The big truck, owned by Anita Oshinski of Maplewood, NJ, was starting down a mile-long . grade when it went out of control. . . - State police . said the truck lost its air pressure so that it had no brakes. Some eyewitnesses ' said the brakes seemed to be smoking. . The truck rushed xlowh the mountain road, gathering speed. Many of the cars it ripped into were, like the truck, bound in the direction of New York City. - lOIaf TEAB 12 PAGES Salem. Orjon. Monday. July 9. 1331 FSICE 5c Wo. Jet Show O atched By Stalin InlMirncaijBQoiiMis ..-'.-..'-.' i . tf.. .... ; I : teouNDno 1651- ulira Misfe Hulddti; $m May: : ! : , -y( fr . I -r-i-. - i : : r- r - . . S -i OTP o o A great shift in sources of rev enue for local units of govern ment has been taking place. For years governing bodies of cities and school , districts complained that they were limited to property taxes as a source of revenue. And property owners protested vigor ously against the imposts levied upon them. The steady agitation bas borne fruit. Although the pro- perry owner the taxing districts are finding more than one tax-leg to stand en. Some have become almost centipedaL in fact For example in the budget for the City of Salem, wltn a toiai esu mated receipts for this fiscal year of about $2,500,000, exclusive of bond service income, only S63G,700 is counted on from general and special property tax levies. Utner sources of income are iinea. cens fees, sewer service charges, City share of highway and liquor revenues, oumc uci uucu I self-supporting like the water bureau. ; The Portland city budget shows a rrand total of S27.000.000 in an-1 ticipated revenues of which only xs.ooo.ooo win ut oemrw property tax levies. There busi ness and professions pay license taxes. School districts expect to get about half their revenues from the state, none of which for this year at least will come from prop erty taxes, tnougn me county school fund wilL Counties get a substantial sum from the funds collected for high way purposes and a small amount from liquor receipts. .They also share in receipts from national forests and O & C lands. But counties still depend chiefly on croDerty taxes for their income.- Legislators in state and city - have been exceedingly ingenious in digging up new means of rais ing revenues. Still the general complaint arises that not enough money is provided. The one who can invent some new way of plucking the tax goose without evoking squawks will be welcome In every legislative hail in the land. -.. . Many Hundred O Hear Concert . A warm evening crowd of sev eral hundred persons greeted Sa 1mm miififnal hftni4a tirwt fnrrt of the summer Sunday night In wuison parx. A second program will be play- ed Thursday at 8 p.m. in the park. Provided by the Recording and Transcription Trust fund of New York, the two concerts will be all this summer unless the city coun cil Includes an appropriation in the annual budget at tonight's meeting. The fund was left out, but is expected to be reconsidered. Maurice W. Brennen led in varied program last night. . Max. - . 7 71 7 Mia. 4 S3 4S 4 10- atom ' . " Portland San Tnadteo - Jf JOO .00 a.41 .Chicago Mew York Winmett JUvtr -SJ feet FORECAST (from U. S. wtather bu rau, MrNary -field. Satem): Clear to day and tooirtit -with littla chnf in temperature. -High VoAkj ar U; low tonight near u. .-' . -. IAXXM rXXCITTTATlOH Staa Start of Weather Tear lev. 1 Ttala Year - - Last Year Normal Anlmsl Crackers Cy WARREN COOQRICH II OA KUV( i t24f dear, your bticj&i art ittiiovJk Lash - - MILWAUKEE, July with heavy rain and hail, ripped early today, leveling nunareas oz tearing down communication and Newark Fire Damage Set AtFiveMiUion NEWARK, N. J, July tVPh at a propane gas storage plant was reported under control today. almost 24-hours after a series of explosions rocked the Newark area and flung huge gas tanks into the air like toys. Shattering explosions of about 100 tanks filled with the highly inflammable cooking gas continu- throughout most of yesterday r educing much of the surrounding area to nibble. . iAt leas u were injur. Several were hospitalized. Deputy iFire Chief Joseph Hig- ginM estimated total damage to liJit iand other nearby plantl at 15 000,000. iaii available firemen In New- rir and surrounding communities could oniT stand bv helnlesslv for aaveral hour a the roarinr blast land roasting heat .kept them more Lthan a half mile away from the scene at f the Warren Petroleum Sales corporation. .- f Cause of the blast has not been determined. Control Votin : InHoiKe36day o i .... A ; . -.'.--.. V ; I WASHINGTON, uly 8 -(flV The house starts voting on economic controls extension tomorrow with the administration fighting uphill on nearly! every front in its effort to keep strong curbs. The big battles promise to come over these two issues: L An amendment sponsored by the agriculture committee to pro hibit all price rollbacks on farm products, rescinding even the live beef cut ox 10 per cent already in effect I ' t A proposal by the labor com mittee to revise the makeup of the Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) so as to give public members con trol, and to take away the WSB's authority to handle labor disputes. In addition there is strong sen timent among some of the law makers to kill the whole program of direct controls on the economy, or at least to loosen the reins dras tically. 1 Bright Spot Near Moon - C.L- Xr. C. hi om, nu uutei The clear air Sunday gave the Salem area a good view of a bright spot near the moon which later, gratifyingjy, turned into the eve ning star rather than a imng disc. The phenomenon Is reportedly common at this time of year, with the planet Venus . as the evening star, but calls to newspapers and weather bureau are numerous as to its cause. - -s, QOV. DEWEY AT PCSAN PUSAN. Korea, July 8-OPV-New York's Gov. Thomas E. Dewey ar rived from Tokyo today for a tour i of the war fronts. They Carried Envoys to Kaesong . . . STOTJ1V Jsly -t Crewmen pes envoys for prellnunary trace eBfereaee wl'Ji res lie beUeepter, an n-is. trampenea in enre fScert, A smaller tlaae earrfel zstchaxla azl cezlci8s rrmtsJL (AT TTirephoU tU radi I . from Taky to Tia atesmaa)s n SCtDGDSQOI) of hurricane force, combined into Wisconsin Saturday night and Duncungs, . uprooting trees and power lines. - The storm left in its wake one dead and at least four injured. Many sections of the state, lashed by winds as high as 88 miles an hour, were without light and pow er all of today. Unofficial ; esti mates of damage run as high as a million dollars. I The nnlr fataTitv rrortrteri van Otto Gutknecht, 83, Rockfield, who died of a heart attack at the height of the storm as wind blew over a barn on the farm where he lived. The Wisconsin Telephone Co. reported 4,500 telephones were put out oz service In the state and 300 long distance circuits developed trouble. Church Destroyed Trees and branches falling against buildings, autos and wires caused the most damage, but lightning, especially in the Madi son area, was blamed for much destruction. i Our Lady of the Woods Catholic church, across Lake Mendota from Madison, was completely destroy ed by fire during the storm. Fire men said the 70-year-old struc ture was hit by lightning. Wont damage reported so far was in Rusk county, in northwest ern Wisconsin, and in the Madison area. ? Residents of Rusk county said at least 30 farm barns had been demolished. Many buildings were uprooted, including two school buildings, a large locker plant and a garage in Ladysmith. Hangars Carried Away - 1 . ' Two hangars were destroyed at the Rusk County airport, and four airplanes smashed. One hangar wax ripped from its foundations and carried to a nearby highway. A plane remained inside through the trip. - ! ' In Lafayette county, In i the southwestern j part of the state, heavy rains deluged farm lands for more than 14 hours. The down pour forced the Pecatonica river over its banks at Darlington, put ting practically the entire town of about 2,000 under some water, ine Pecatonica, which has a flood stage of 10 feet, stood at 15.8 feet this afternoon. Wind gusts as high as 88 miles an hour blew out windows in the control tower at the airport at the state's capital city at Madison. The city a power supply was knocked out. Dies in River I 'McMINNVTLLE, July 8-(ff)-Clen Wahus, 19, an air force cor poral who was married less than , a week ago, drowned today In the Yamhill river near here. i. He was on emergency leave from Forbes air base, Kansas, to visit his father, a patient in the Portland Veterans' hospital. . He was swimming with his sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw, Aurora, and his wife. Donna Lou, at the time of the ac cident. His home was In Sheridan. AIR CHIEF IN GERMANY "WIESBADEN, Germany, July 8-PV-Gen. Hovt S. Vandenbere. U. S. air force chief of staff, arrived today on a visit to American air headquarters in Europe. Ufare ena af te ttc- Urs wlici Sheridan " By Thomas P. Whitney r MOSCOW. July I -kJPh- Prime Minister Stalin watched a streak ing parade of new, very powerful and very fast jet fighter planes at the Soviet air force's big show to day. : - ; Some western observers who saw the planes on display for the first time said they appeared cap able of supersonic speeds (760 miles an hour at sea level, about 660 miles an hour at high alti tudes.) The air show, postponed from last Sunday because of bad weath er, took place at Tushino airport. on. Moscow's outskirts, with Prime Minister Stalin watching from a balcony of the Chkalov Air dub. At his side were W. M. Molotov, Georgi M. Malenkov and Lavrenti P. Beria, vice chairmen of the council of ministers, several other Politburo members and leaders of the Soviet armed forces. - Stalin's son, Lt Gen. Vassili Stalin, commanded the military section of the show. One of the new planes could be the LA-17, the work of Lavochkin. A British Royal air force review a month ago said the LA-17, a tube like single engine jet fighter, makes a back number out of the MIG-15, which has seen action along the Yalu river in Korea. Four Injured In 2-Car Crash At Intersection Pour persons were, injured, none sOjriously, in a two-car collision Sunday evening at Fifth and Market streets, city police report ed. . 'Mrs. ' Ethel Sundvall, Salem route 8 box 794, most seriously in jured, was listed in "good" condi tion at Salem General hospital where she was resting last night with chest bruises, attendants said. Others injured were her two small - sons, Leonard Sundvall, 7, with head cuts and Lynn Sundvall, bruises on the right leg, and Floyd LeRoy Nulkey, 4310 N. River rd, driver of the other car, puncture wounds on the left forearm, police reported. Mrs. Sundvall's husband, LeRoy Julius Sundvall, driver of that car, was not injured. ..- Both autos suffered fairly heavy damage, according to the police report. Sundvall's cari was damaged on the left side and rear while the car driven by Nulkey was . damaged in the iront end. Neither driver was cited. All injured were taken to Sa lem General hospital by City Am bulance service and the dry first aid car for treatment. Only Mrs, Sundvall was kept for rest and observation. Woman Hurt in Fall From Moving Auto f Mrs. Wade (Violet) Tucker, for merly 'of Independence, was slightly injured Saturday night when she fell out of a car on the Monmouth Independence high way. State Patrolman Leonard Crisler reported. She was taken to Dallas hos pital for treatment and, released Sunday morning. ' The car was driven by her husband, Crisler said. They were said to be living now at Elk City, near Toledo. . carried Cs tiree Cniied Karens Allies Qaim in Big By Stan Carter V S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Monday. July 9P-Swarms of communist vehicles jammed North Korean roads last night, only a few hours after completion of arrangements for cease-fire talks aimed at end ing the year-old war. Aerial observers counted nearly 8,000 vehicles moving in all direc tions on all main roads. In the war s southernmost maior jet battle, just north of the reds capital of Pyongyang, allied pilots chalked up another victory Sun day morning. They downed three Russian-type MIG jets and dam aged two with no loss to them salves, the U. S. fifth air force said. I Planes Escape Trap Thirty-two. U. S. Sabre Jets and photo plane escaped unharmed Sunday, afternoon from a trap set by more than 60 MIGs over north west Korea: The Pyongyang radio asserted three U. S; planes were downed Sunday. . On the eround. United Nation forces launched two limited ob jective attacks against red resist ance that ranged from light to heavy, v , South of Kumsong, on the cen tral front,! the allies advanced 3,000 yards against stiff resistance. Another allied force, northeast of Yanggu on the east "central front, advanced 3,000 yards -to within half a mile of its hill ob jective, but withdrew before a fierce red counterattack at dusk. Allies Prebe Front - Elsewhere, allied soldiers kent Chinese and North Korean forces off balance with aeeressive na- trols that 'probed deep into no man's landi The air battle was fought little more than 100 air miles from Kae song, where the cease-fire prepar atory la iks were held. . The fight shaped up when 15 to 20 MIGs jumped 32 DroDellor- driven F-51 Mustangs returning from a mass low-level strike on the Kangdong airfield, about 20 miles northeast of Pyongyong. The Mustangs radioed a large flight of Sabre jets in the vicinity. As the American jets streaked in, the red planes tried to break off and head north for the safety of their Manchurian bases. The Sabre jets followed as fas as they could before low fuel, forced them to swing south. j. In the red "trap" late Sundav afternoon, thirty-two Sabre jets and an RF-80 photo jet in the Sin- uiju area were attacked by about twelve MIGs. i As the Sabres prepared to at tack the twelve red lets, pilots observed 50 more MIGs circling above them, ready for a diving at tack. The Americans headed southward immediately. LOS ALAMOS FDUJ CHECKED LOS ALAMOS, July 9 -JPh A flrest fire i which endangered buildings housing top- secret atomic work and destroyed 73 acres on the fenced Los Alamos project is under control. The fire broke out Saturday and for a time was licking its way towards lab oratories, cradle of the atom bomb. . . They Victory Battle of Jets ELOUL, Jaly Tw cf the tiree U. N. ecaxe-flre emissariet, CeL James Marrsy f the U. S. Larirs Corps, frea AJexaadria, Va-, (left) and CoL Andrew Kinney f the U. 8. Air Force, frtm AUaxU, Caw get Instructions en sew Ui field radi they took f Saeseng for preliminary talks with eon vnnists. The teacher la IZzU John Gerstner (center) f Colsmbns, O. (U. 8. Cignal Corps phot vi radia from Teky and AP TCrczhoto to Tta CUtesmaa). America For Korean Truce, Fears New Threats By John M. High tower . WASHINGTON, July 8-VState department offidals appeared reasonably hopeful today that this wul lead eventually to a cease-fire concerned about how and where east-west conflict. In the grand strategy of this world-wide struggle, Russia seems at the moment to have been forced on the defensive all along the line. It is therefore expected that the reds shortly will try to find some new place for aggressive action by The official willingness of the along with the armistice talks is regarded here as a tou -minded adjustment of the reds to reality, not an indication of any basic change in their overall aims or character. The reality as American policy makers see it is that the communists found, because of United Nations military power, they would have to pay a higher price than they were willing to pay to spread communism throughout Korea by force; hence they are willing to negotiate for an end to the fighting. Next Move May Be on Diplomatic Level Some authorities here think it a diplomatic move as the next major play in the struggle. If so, it is believed that Russia may in the near future accept the pending invi tation of the United States, Britain big four foreign ministers in Washington this summer. -. Such a development would attack western power unity, try promote its own peace propaganda line. The peace angle would fit in nicely with Rus&ia'role, built up in the past two weeks, as a peace maker in Korea. Should the Kremlin's choice dals here consider unlikely but possible at the moment, or should the truce talks turn out to be merely buildup in Korea, then the question danger points where military action Iran heads the list of these resources and internal weakness, alization dispute with Britain. Many Danger Areas Reds May Exploit There are other danger areas which! the reds could seek to exploit, depending on their priority, of projects and what they think they might get by with at any particular Yugoslavia, and southeast Asia, where the Indochina war goes on and could be rapidly expanded if the Soviets and Chinese wished. The point is that while attention is currently fixed on obtaining peace in Korea, this project is regarded at the White house and in the state and defense departments as merely one part, however important it may be, of the overall pattern of conflict with Russia. It is this point of view which has caused top administration officials to stress repeatedly in recent days that the world and the .greatest gain for Soviet communism which could come out of Korean peace-making would be a letdown in the rearmament program and the general drive for out the free world. - Burglar Gets Good Supply Of Swim Suits i Someone should be well supplied with bathing suits, city police opine. ' Three dozen assorted men's, women's and children's swim suits were reported stolen from the Chin-Up Club Rummage store at 427 Ferry st, among $45 worth of clothing missed In a weekend checkup. The inventory followed a police report that the door was found unlocked after hours during rou tine door-check by patrolmen. QUAKES HIT PHELD7PINES MANILA, July 8 - () - Two sharp earth shocks sent people fleeing from their homes in the southern Philippines this after noon but no casualties or serious damage were reported. Set Stage for Peace Talks Hopeful week's armistic talks at Kaesong in Korea. They remain deeply the Kremlin will strike next in the .. either military or diplomatic means. communist high commd to go likely that Moscow will decide on and France for a meeting of the give Moscow a new opportunity to to delay western rearmament and go to the use of force, which offi a . cover for a Chinese military before offidals is what are the might flare up. because of its strategic position, oil now accentuated by the oil nation time. Among these axe Germany, greatest danger to the western greater strength and unity through Lake Victim's Body Found SEATTLE, July 8--The coast guard said early today that it had recovered the body of Albert W. Thompson, 21, of Neskowin, Ore, from Devils Lake, Ore., after near ly 11 hours of dragging opera tion. The coast guard was called in for assistance by the Oregon state patrol after young Thompson dis appeared in the lake waters. His mother and father were on the lake shore at the time, coast-guard officials said. Dragging operations began at 2:30 p.m, yesterday and the body was recovered at 12:30 am to day. KAN TO SEND TROOPS WASHINGTON, July 8 - (ff) - A defense department spokesman said tonight that Iran is planning to send forces to join the United Nations in Korea. Ridgway Flies To Seoul for! Parley Qieck SEOUL, Korea; Monday, July IMiTVGen. Matthew, B. . Ridgway . took off from Tokyo today tea Seoul to be close by for consult-. tions when his five-man negotiat ing team meets with the reds at Kaesong tomorrow to discuss Korean cease-fire. ' - i The supreme allied command left Tokyo by plane in company of the chief negotiator, Vice Adm. C? Turner .Joy, who planned to. confer each day with Ridgway -ter the Kaeson sessions, r . This was the first disclosure that . Genreal Ridgway planned to muk . himself more available for ih -conferences aimed at trying te end the year-old war. i , ,t Armed Reds en Guard 4 Cool and at times argumentative lianson officers of the reds and!; allies met Sunday in Kaesong, dty the allies had called ja ; no man's land but which had armed red soldiers in Its streets. The , officers agreed to- r pea " high-level armistice talks at Kae- A song tomorrow. i f " ' - Circumstances of the Sunday -meeting resulted in 'a bitter pro- ' test at Seoul today by the allied corps of correspondents. They ar ' gued that barring them from Sun day's meeting while red news rep- i presentatives were present gav , the communists a propaganda vio- , tory. The allied correspondents al so charged the military had mis- . led them on Kaesong's status. The upshot was a plan,syet te be approved, for allied correspon dents to , be present at Kaeson Tuesday. 't i i-j" C- The chief allied Jiason 'cf f Jeer said the mission Sunday rwas ' "100 per cent success" in arrang ing for the high level conferences. ' But one allied representative; said i several disagreements' had to be ironed out at this first ma t ing and indicated there were timet when he thought the talks1 would fall through. I j The conferees, meetinr in st house on Kaesong's north side, did not shake hands. Nor did they sa lute. The allies declined red tf fci of vodka and beer. - The allied delegation flew ma Kaesong, three miles south of par allel 38 in western Korea, in tv helicopters, landing j at a led- marked area which i was a under armed communist guard, j Plans Unannounced I Tuesday's armistice' talks at a duration not "Vet determined will open in the same once-rich Korean home where liaison groups met Sunday. -1 Travel plans for I the envoys have not been announced. Ncr has any time been announced for th meeting to begin. " ! J Kinney refused to go into de tail regarding the Sunday talksv but said the tone .of the 'parley was one of military courtesy. "That's a cold way of not being exactly hostile," he explained ft a press conference. i "There was plenty of disagree ment at times. There: were: many points that were not understorxL A meeting of the minds had to be reached; and was reached," he said. He refused to be more spe cified - .. ( ...v.": Reds Offer Food . He identified the top red nego tiator! as a Colonel Chang of th North Korean army.! Chang di most of the red talking. A Lieu tenant Colonel Chai, : who repre sented the Chinese, had a small voice in the proceedings. A Lie- tenant Colonel Kim of the; Norta Korean army kept entirely silent. Kinney's fellow members we CoL J. G, Murray, U. S. mariaa corps, and CoL Soo i Youn g Ls of the Republic of Korea army. - The : pilots, who stayed wftfc their planes, said the reds mats no .- menacing , gestures however. 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