The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, July 21, 1951, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Textit 4X J. ThM Statesman, ft, Oregon. Hotel Holdup . Suspect Held In Portland PORTLAND. July 20 -(V Po lice charged a man today with at tempting to kill a hotel clerk, and began questioning mm aoout an other snooting In wmcn a noiei clerk was wounded. The accused man was John Kelly Stephens, JO, who was ar rested because a patrolman view ed him on a street corner with sutpicion. He later was picked out at a do! ice lineup by the hotel ei-rk who survived last week's hooting, I 'The shootings came on success ive weekends. Two weeks ago Clerk Charles C. Vetter, 0, said man walked behind htm In a hotel lobby and said, "X want a million dollars." ; Vetter said he spun around, but before he could say a word, the man shot him in the stomach. The man fled after a brief scuffle. Last weekend Oliver L.; Pohll, 83. clerk In another hotel, said a man walked up to the desk with out saving a word fired a shot at him. The bullet glanced off Pohu's belt buckle. Pohll was bruised but otherwise unharmed. The man fled. - Detective Joe Blewett said Pohll nicked Stephens out of two police lineups. Police also said Stephens admitted using marijuana and dj inkinjf heavily recently. The de w-live said Stephens also admit ted trying to rob a drugstore this week. No money was taken in that one, either, because the clerk ran. and the would-be robber couldn't open the cash register. Blewett said Stephens was charged with assault with intent to kill PohU and with attempt to assault and rob in the drug store ee.: -Blewett quoted Stephens eeying, in the course of question- ins, that he had considered shoot in people to see how they .would react." - Bandit Suspect Held . VANCOUVER, B. C, July 2&- (VCivic Official Donald Mac donald was held today on charges of theft and breaking and entering a police sought witnesses to de cide suspicions he is the cat-burglar Casanova sought for four years.' -.. A trial date win be set July 24 far the 45-year-old head of the city's bicycle registration bureau nd a police officer here 18 years ago. - ' -: - Macdonald was beaten up on Wednesday morning , outside a Pairview district apartment by citizens who believed they had nabbed the "love bandit" - who preyed on women living alone, robbing them and then suggest ing they make love. . Police, who announced earlier t&at this possibility was being In vestigated and that victims of the efrnorous bandit were being called, have refused further comment on thi aspect of the case. - ' Detectives files on. the "love bandit" show 30 raids believed to be his work. In some of the cases tbe women victims were assaulted. SHEET SALE 'SET : I PENDLETON, July 20-V Breeders are expected to offer 390 head of rams for sal here Aug. 17, at the 25th annual Oregon Ram sale, sponsored by the Oregon Wool Growers association. CLUD i TUIME-MU : The Place with the Spaee" I TASTY FOOD I r !' and ;- -: '-; 9 Hal Moffett's i Orchestra ; H ML North ef Albany Oa the Old Jefferson Highway II Every SaL Iilgtl To Eddie's Sllvar String Bankers Between DaSas & Xlnga VaHT 1? ChlrVen la 0;e Basket ic Tdxkey tha S&tnr Ladles Free 713 9:53 Love CcHcnvccds j K Danco Every . ' 1 u Saturday Kight : I f 'Tc.T.my ICizzich-. (,: And IHs (j I " . WEST COAST U nAf.ELE?.S v near Then ea U " Tnea. M Sat. Eve. -y- Srrardar. InrflfltSf Bird's Eye l. View Helped By Glasses NEW YORK, July -MVThere are all kinds of pigeons in New York fat ones, thin Mies. ' old ones, young ones, beggars ana clowns. .. x But there's never been pigeon before like the one over on Broad way. He wears glasses. ; Thafs right, glasses the kind you wear to see better. He showed up July II on the window sill of Selby L. Turner's seventh floor Broadway office. Mr. Selby, an Insurance man. was dictating a letter. He stopped dictating, of course. Ha didn't say anything at first. There Just didn't seem to be anything to say. Weleeme Belief !) l-,- Finally, he asked his secretary to please take a look out the win dow and teu him what she saw, She said she saw a pigeon wearing classes. "Thank cody was seioy" nrst reaction. - r- r- g He ' paraded back and forth. peeked in. thei flew away" said the secretary, Mrs. Lillian Cassano. 1 "He's been back seven or eight times, always with the glasses. Flnee-aes and AO"! J:.. ' Mrs. Cassano takes him light In stride. After 'all. you do see some pretty strange things on Broadway. "He's quite amusing,'? she said in a masterful bit ot understate ment. The pigeon's glasses arent Just ordinary, horn - rimmed ones. either. They're pince-nez the old- fashioned kind that ; are plncned onto the nose by a spring rather than anchored by the ears. "Ha doesn't wear them exactly where he would if pigeons wore glasses," Mrs. Cassano explained seriously. "He holds them in his beak. But In such a way that he can peer through them with bis eyes. Blaze Races Through Brush At Sunnyside luunua Kwa Ccrvte SUNNYSIDE Fire raced over nearly 30 acres of brush and tim ber, at - Crestwood Acres Girls Scout camp in the Sunnyside dis trict eight miles south of Salem Friday afternoon. The" fire spread to within one! quarter mile of the C. O. LaForge house when firefighters got it under control in timber on La Forge property. Shifting wind helped to stall the blaze late last night, reported under control. No buildings were reported de stroyed in the girls' camp area on George Veall property. Neighbors joined with Turner and Jefferson fire departments in battling the blaze. ! state forestry crew was withdrawn; after it ap peared to be under control, to fight a new forest fire In the Til lamook burn area. Soldier HI I At Frankfurt 1 PFC Ronald Watson; 21," sent overseas to duty at an ordnance depot at Fontont, France, a month ago. has been hospitalized with a mastoid infection, his family learn ed Friday.' , - - . - . His mother. Mrs. F. O. Raflsback, 2560 N. 5th st learned from him that he Is now in a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany,? for. medical treatment. Watson, a member of the S47th ordnance field maintenance com pany, was inducted last Decem ber from Salem and assigned to that outfit with several other Sa lem men after - training at Fort Lewi. Hla outfit la ;arfdrMsd through army post office 58, New York pty. Minor Fires Extinguished Two fires early Friday after noon caused little damage but most of Salem's fire equipment was moved in answering the calls. The motor ona power lawn mower at Harry IW. Scotf s cycle shop on South Commercial street ignited and caused smoke damage to the machine. A lew minutes later firemen were called to ex tinguish a pan of parrafin which bad ignited on a stove at tne Chauncey Lockwood borne, 368 N. Liberty at. . - ' All central fire equipment went to the two fires and the equip ment from north and south sta tions moved in to cover downtown while they were out. . j BEVDTS WIDOW VISITS PORTLAND. July 20-V-Here on a quiet visit with her daughter ; is the widow of Ernest Bevin. who was Britain's foreign secretary be fore hla death. , , .; ; REGisTEt i:pv; oid tlvj k::ieis (2 fjrcrpj) ; aquare. dances and callers wanted every afsrncca and evening. ' ' '. ' i CIIC CM STAT2 T&EL . 1 DAfiCS PAVUJC71 ;j r Verne t. OsSrandar '4 4225 Center SJreat rhona4-3T:i fc i Seize U. S. Oil Properly HONG KONG, Saturday, July 21 -CP)- The Peiping radio an nounced today seizure July It of all property of three- American oil companies in red China. The companies were Standard Vacuum, Caltex Ltd, and Chung Met Cathay Oil Co. The reds last Dee. 29 ordered seizure of an American inoueity in China. The oil companies had been under strict red control since then, apparently had not been physically taken over until July la. -. - -, ' The Peiping broadcast said the Shanghai military control com mission. ' announced the . seizure July Hat a, meeting of oO firm managers in Shanghai-, and that ill oil stocks were bought up by the red government on a compul sory basis. The broadcast said the action was "unanimously acclaimed" by Chinese employes, who : immedi ately raised the Chinese red flag over Shanghai's American owned gasoline stations and American oil tankers in the harbor. (Whether any such tankers actually remain in the harbor is open to question. The reference probably was to small river oil barges). - SAN FRANCISCO. July 20-4P) -The San Francisco manager of the Cathay Oil company, one of three whose China - properties have been seized by the Chinese reds, said today that no American oU had reached Shanghai since May, 1949, as far as he knew. The manager, George Schlenk er, said a trickle of ou had been imported to red China via Hong Kong In the summer of 1949, but so far as he could determine there had been none since, and stocks inside China are very low. His understanding was that most' ly lubricating oil waa left Crown Prince Wilhelm Dies HECHINGEN, Germany, July 2(W?VCrown Prince Friederich Wilhelm, frustrated eldest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II of world war one, died today at his little villa far removed from the Berlin pal ace he hoped to occupy as em- peror of a new imperial Germany. The heir-apparent of Germany's last Kaiser died after a long ill ness, within sight of an 80-room Hohenzollern castle he. lacked the money to live In. He was 69. Crown Princess Cecilie. separ ated from Wilhelm for many years rushed here from Bad Kissingen but did not arrive in time. A spe cialist listed arterial sclerosis as the cause of death. ' A great grandson of England's Queen Victoria. Wilhelm Uved out two of the most destructive wars in history and two shattering Ger man defeats. DeatH Takes G. Parsons; Rites Monday George Parsons, longtime Sa lem paper mill worker, . died Thursday after a long illness. He was 76, but had worked until six months ago. Funeral services are set for 2 pjn. Monday at Virgil T. Golden chapel, followed by Interment at Belcrest memorial park. The Be v. Dudley Strain will officiate at sex- vies. .. , " He was a Salem resident 23 years, having moved here from Albany. He was a member of the SaiemEatfes lodge. Surviving are the widow. Mrs. Malinda Parsons, 1057 Saginaw st.; daughters, Mrs. Gertrude Steen, Albany, and Mrs. . Frances Forrest of Tacoma; sons Delbert, Ralph and Robert Parsons, all of Salem, and Roy Parsons of , Ta coma; sisters Mrs. Clara Alexan der, Lebanon: Mrs. Lillian Simp son, Portland; Mrs. Lottie Simp son, Salem; Mrs. Stella Tarter, Se attle; Mrs. Beth Halloway. Mrs. Ida Halloway, Mrs. Edith Kelly and Mrs. Winnie Cade, all of Al bany; brothers Fred Parsons, Al bany, and Charles .Parsons, .Tur ner; 13 grandchildren. Old Tbna Banco . Every Over Western Auto 253 Court L DICTS OHCHISTBA Ada. G3c lac. Tea . -7 C" j i i : Red Chinese r' 1 tm-mM - I 1 "iBeer Ban Ordered ! I On Or rrnn f ittititti r ' FOSTLAND, July 20 -(frLHo more beer win be sold in the area around the University of Ore gon campus after this year; the state liquor commission deckled today. ' The commission announced no beer licenses would be issued aft er Dec. 31 for the Eugene area bounded by Patterson treet on the west, 21st street on the outh. Vil la rd street on the east, and the Willamette river on the north. The decision came after a com mission study f the beer prob lem there, prompted by com plaints that beer was being old to minor students. Reds'-Buildup Korean Front ' Br Geerre A. MaeArthnr U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS. Korea. Saturday, July 21 -4&h An eighth army spokesman said today the enemy probably has as many troops at the front "as he had for the April 22 offensive." His statement bore out the find ings of eighth army patrols roam ing wen in advance of United Na tions lines. Patrols ran Into strengthened oositions. Across; tne rugged rcont, small . , a . . r . - near U. N. lines was described by the snokesman as lifht. In the west, Friday afternoon a allied patrol was forced to with draw after a 20 minute fight northwest of Yonchon with an enemy company. : Around Kumsong on the central front, there were several brief en gagements and northwest of Yang- gu, farther east, a five hour fight raged before U. N. units pulled back to their main line position. Rain reduced air operations but fifth alrforce fighter bombers still mounted 13 effective overnight sorties. -w BoBBbert used radar to attack railroad yards in North Korea but were unable to observe results. fin Washington, the army said red casualties through July 13 to talled 1,213,544, an increase of 10,- Bio over tne previous week, j Peiping radio broadcast the un confirmed claims that the reds killed more than 19.000 allied troops between June 21 and July 10 and shot down or damaged 225 allied planes. Hop Control Board Sets Sales for 951 . The 17. S. hop control board Fri day approved sale of 232,500 bales f of the 1951 hop crop, of an esti-i mated total yield : of more than 300,000 bales. ; This was the report from Yaki ma last night from Paul T. Rowell of Salem, managing agent for the board. " , The quantity of hops to be mar keted is less than last year's 250, 000 bales, said Rowell, because brewers are using less hops this year. jr.- -"-v The decision means that on the average a hop grower can sell only 77 per cent of his crop. Reported on I: ..... 111 "F Starta Tamarrew Cont. L4S I Catering Service V""""1 1-! ! Orders To Go! ) yrj Open 4 bjk. . S sjb. DaQy jj fri4& XOiVa t Open si Keen Sat 8am. tessnsBs-i bbshb33 - - - - ' Fins Technieelar Feature 222 No, Commercial i -THE TAINTED BULLS Hollyucod Doul Soi, July 21 ' ' ' if III Titt Trhls 0 P. II. SniS3G dCkniijtLpeBW CRes3xnps tctA CTTWTsiKAei Zlrrcr a Dull Hositst AH TmSzj TES HILUIIATIOIIAHY , EI A ETTUHn CHALLCIGS MATCH IIACS . A3 &e Loadiag ITcriwast Drfvers V73 Pezfaca v tx Oreoa's Flacl Jdepy Ciacsir? Derhy, ? i i 1 1 1 I 1 Optometrists Offer Free id to Youilp .' Three ; Salem ratometrists of fered free glasses to a 17-year-old boy in need Friday, following an appeal by Municipal Judge Peery T.;Buren through The Statesman. -Judge Buren said the boy who appeared in his court on a vagran cy charge had Tun away from a disagreeable Michigan home life, Hoping to start a new hie in Ore gon forestry worknThe Judge was impressed by the bbys ambition and set out to help him find a job. One of the youth's big obstacles. and major reason he left home, is need for new glasses and an eye operation, said the judge. SuH under the helping hand of the Judge and sympathetic dry police officers, the boy Friday wai preparing to uxe advantage oc one of the offers of spectacles, j ? Meanwhile, Judge Buren talked with a few prospective employers for the boy, for whom some part time work had been found to tide him over. n sea coast oz Canada, one of the longest in the world, com prises 17,883 miles of max and 41,809 miles of islands. ENDS TONIGHT! Open t-Starts at Peak! Fres Pony RJdesJ BOB HOK THE LEMON dbop nrr Win. Powelf fa ' -DANCQ?G IN :, THE DAEX" ) NEWLY AIR-CONDITIONED L J$bi j Valeat't Oaljr Baaaa OwatS Taaatta' . BaUyweed Kids Matinee Tomorrew 1:11 to 4:11 T. M. 3 Cartoons Serial Saedal Matteee Featara -BOWFJtT BUCKAROOS With the Bowery Boys Also -. . Benson's Birthday Cake .-.. Far. v Libbv Crom. Pam Hinkle. Sal- lv Haves. Jovce Yeater. Irene Fisher. Rito Crisman. Paul Bond. Connie Ashton, Corky HilL Ronald Head, Casper Schnell, Clarence Chrisman, Barbara Hudd. Janice Lyons. Dorothy Hartman, Bob JarvilL Donald Boston, Marco xiano, Larrv Stevens. Kent Herbert, Lynn Jackson, Betty Blakely, Crystal Stephenson, Linda Mor- ley, juddie Baker, uiuy uu-. le, Carol Page, Janet Chapel, Janice Cook. Eve. Skew Starta f .00 T. M. Ends Tedayl r? n 3i vt S U FAIIOUS 1-223 FAY IATL0U3 Salem Dnemjm Hurt inMishap Leslie Bollerjack, 23, of 2010 Warren st, suffered a broken leg and possible internal injuries in an industrial accident on . Warm Springs Indian reservation, bis wife learned Friday. ' Details of the Thursday accident were not known but he was re ported to have been working as a lineman on a crane for a contrac tor f- building Bonneville power lines across the reservation. - BoUeriack worked in Salem about a year for Salem Electric, his wife reported. Ha had been working on the Bonneville project only a short time. ENDS TONIGHT! (Sat) - AIXXONOmONXD !- ' i L " Ytsl t.: .... i p1 0 JCl ZrftffiS FARLEY GRANGU t f itX!Z RUTH ROMAN gJ y-w RORERT WAUCER ( J 1 2ND HT0--4 . . Jane Traxae Kenny ' Baker In "StarMust and i i'71 ENDS TONIGHT! (SatJ i - A ACf; A HITS Maddened Convicts In Witdest 2ND AGI ACTION HIT!, Joe lOrkwood; Jr. James Cleason Humphrey -JOI PALOOKA IN THI SQUARED ORCLE Continwovs Dairy Phono 3-3467 A- I2W To::.oniio7! 2 to? 1 V I I I MM 1 - i u - n nsnnz: i ; - Ph. t-XIZl Cms. starts Tcuorjiovfl 2 outsta!:d:::s tciatsi; J:L-acn sad the Heroes ef C?e 42ad Combat X - t.j-5-; Lj fsTET?1 f f? Jamea STT.YAST YOU COTTA STAY IIATPT Y6utli:Escapes Slate Hospital Donald Lyons, 19, escaped Fri day from the Oregon state hospital in Salem, and police were alerted by hospital authorities who said be had criminal tendencies but was not considered dangerous. Lyons had been committed from the: Wood burn Boys school, two months ago. ri r :; r-v;: 'Lost Parents' Receive Reprimand from Police A search for lost parents" took Salem city police on a midnight touc4&everal local taverns early Friday after an 8-year-old boy had JQrV DovflUs In "Ad IN TH HOIT and CA$A MANANA" 3 n un C) i , I " NEW TOMORROW! ' ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S Sweef ; Mutic - - - "PASSAGE WEST Telmftofer lUJilUUUUV. THI The tfl ZfT' 1 I VI 1I ws-r J III in . i u i j a. m . ------1 I Extral-DISNEt CARTOON -"Buhhlo BW T m I 1 1 . I MUST END TONIGHT! CSat.) 1 And - 1 F. At. O J mmum- swws-ssa j -THIOV SXT Jean I Jeanne Jaan I rcr7A.::3 j J rCASa III C2AIM GEE - 3 . . , ASS. .- I . -V--- , y. been found waiting tor1 the talks outside a local theatre at closing time: 4;.;.' l- : Within an hour the parents were located, reported by police and re united with their son, according to the report of police officers. ;i h To Late to Classify BOY LOST 1st faM mitt at LasUe fteld. Mama "Liady- printed oa back. cau a-Mia. Swimming - Keating I Dandag llaygread Eaalpment - ideal foil nones ct rtATUHAL SUSHOUimiTIGS 3 Unea Oat Oa TsrMr Read 3 CmHiiumm SaI. H Sun. 3 -Alsol- Color Cartoon Warner Newt and RY OF THI CONGO v Mr 1 1 WW And! t- Cartoon Fox News ENDS TONIGHT! (Sat.) 2 FIRST RUN HITS! -FlYING MlSSllT -A YANK IN KOREA iiotqi iutsi ir iisuiiifit iiiin:flj '!hlllljff(!!i)l Warner News samson and dculmt VYHIN YOUXS SMIUNO tvniiam Elliott with Karl Windsor - - j. a p v awemti fl f m Iff and "RED CANYON nuiiam y HOlCiTl V V i!:v.-n" i 1 -In- f -APArr;.'.r rr res f:cgy I o O o o J 1