UNJG PCUNDZ3D 1651 r lQlst YIAB 12 PAGES -The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Jury 23, 1951 PEICE 5c No. 117 i 4th Fire at Liberty in 18 Days Destroys Boxes r I -1 LIBESTT flremea f the Ubertf streams ef water m a fire that V caanery en Liberty read Sunday . man photo.) j 8 ie in San Apartment! House Fire f SAN FRANCISCO, July 22-A?-At least elit persons ! were burned to death an4 23 Injured today in a quickly-spreadinf dawn blaze that destroyed a four-story apartment house. . r Eighteen other persons who lived in the building were missing but most of these were believed away for the weekend. It was San Francisco's worst blaze since a 1844 fire killed 22." ? i i I , ' OF UQJIID3 In the republican national con vention for 1932 Oregon will have 18 delegates instead of the previ ous 12. We get the extra six as a bonus", for voting republican in 1948. - , Thej shifting of size of delega tions, and of the convention, may have? an effect on the nominations for president and vice president. The total numberof delegates will be about 1200, against 1094 In 1948. That means it will take more votes to get the required ma jority for a nomination. The bonus system also will work to Senator Taft's disadvantage ( because the ' southern states, which he usually controls, get no bonus delegates. On the other hand. Governor Warren will benefit because of its population increase and addition al seats in congress. It will have 17 more seats in the convention, giving it a tie with the 70 from Pennsylvania. If California espouses Warren as is quite likely he has a substantial bloc of votes as a favorite son. New York loses some delegates but its 96 will still top the list. If Dewey controls the New York delegation and Senator Duff that of Pennsylvania and fol low through with their commit ment to General Eisenhower then the latter will get off to' a good start. Taft'S strength will be In the midwest and south. The republican national com mittee has scheduled its next meeting in San Francisco in J ami ary. Then the final decision will be made for apportionment of delegates, but the tentative deeds Ions outlined above are expected to stand. " " Meantime political gossip Is ac celerating on the presidential no . minations of both parties. At San 1 Francisco Sen. Taf t said he wouldn't be (Continued on editorial page 4) SEVENTH FOR MAUREEN HOLLYWOOD, July 22-i- Actress Maureen O'Suilivan gave birth to her seventh child at St. Vincent's hospital. The newcomer in an eight pound girl named Theresa. The gtu'n husband is film director John Farrow. , Animal Crackers gy WARREN GOODRICH . ."Wkat oftdrfJ dcterl I'm o e f DOC - MON (V" O hr WVQC W8 ,. r . .- - -SX -v-:.. , : K.;- ? :vx X::-;'' T :.' 1 " i i I . 4 ;- : . ( ' t ' - " : - . . .- -i . , - . " i t". -j "' ., ' ' ' ,' -, . f i ' . .. . : - Salera BcUhU rani fir department are ihtwa abore 1 timwfot destreyed er damaged teme MM afterBoen. It was the fourth fire '.' t Francisco The bodies of seven women -and one man were charred beyond tee ognition and firemen spent the day hunting through ; water-soaked debris for traces of others.? The Red Cross was checking a list' of the building's 67 inhabitants id an effort to identify the dead. 'r II Firemen Hurt r H Ten of the injured were Cresoen fighting the blaze . which 'raced through the 44-year-old jtenetacct like structure. Damage was esti mated at $40,000;- -i 1 1 ? , Cause of the: fire was undeter mined, but firemen blamed delay in turning in an alarm for the iugn loss of life. ? - M ' "The fire must have been burri ng at least 20 minutes beforrthe first alarm was turned in 'laid Fire Marshal Frank Kelly. I . In Niaht Clothes M Residents poured from. ? the building, most of : them in tkeir night clothes, carrying small bun dles of personal belongings !. t . . Many of the Injured suffered broken legs t; and ' back injuries when they jumped from windqws. One woman. her nightgowp aflame. leaped into a fireman's net from the third floor. ? ? ; Another woman jumped safely into a net and : then bounced against the side of the building. fratcuring her skuU. Sanni wiertensen, 46, feu and was injured trying to climb down a drain pipe from her third floor apartment with her five-year-old son, Martin, clinging to her back. The boy suffered: a concussion. Jane Powell Mother ;of Boy LOS ANGELES. July 22 -JPh Actress Jane Powell and her first child a seven pound, two ounce boy are doing nicely today, thank you. - I U' --f !: The youngster arrived last night at Queen of Angels hospital. In Drivate life Miss Poweu is Airs. Geary Steffen, wife of an Insur ance executive.' I i ;The Portland, Ore-born actress was Suzanne Bruce peiore ner marriage. She left Portland in 1942 after graduation! from Beaumont grade school. r Allied Negotiators Instructions from Gen. Ridgway By Kobert ' Cnnsea ' :; TOKYO. Monday, July The chief allied cease-fire negotia tor prepared to 5 return today, to Korea with last minute instruc tions from the supreme allied command. ."'! ;- -: i V--"L:'f ,: At Kaesong day after tomor row. Vice Adm. C Turner Joy ex pects to . receiver the communist reply to us unai oner on an agen da looking toward an end of the 56-weeks-old Korean .war. Since late Saturday, after, the Kaesong talks were recessed at the reds' request, Joy has been in closed consultations here with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway. From the supreme allied commander, he received explicit instructions en what steps to take if the reds con tinue to insist that withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea must be a subject, ct the" cease-fire agenda... v j:.-AU-..--.:.:, .,,-,-U---,. But there wis : nothing to Indi cate the red dfleates had acted similarly during the recess. The North. Korean and Chinese red delegates Saturday had asked the Far Eastern air force for a guarantee cf immunity from i air attack if the delegates " traveled over 1C3 miles- ct road next!) frcm prone boxes at United Grewera tir this area la IS days. (States- Fire i i Involves Boxes, Arson Feared By Charles Ireland Valley Editor. Tbe Statesman LIBERTY, July 22 The fourth fire in 18 days in the Hrubetz drive area today destroyed an outdoor stock of 8,000 United ' Growers prune boxes, and Liberty Fire Chief Norval Hirons declared that be suspected a firebug was in volved. .": Hirons said the fire started about noon, four hours: after his volun teer department stood by while grass was burned on United Grow ers cannery property. Hirons said two cannery em ployes made periodic checks of the area for four hours after? the de partment left. The grass had been burned - as a precautionary mea sure at the cannery's request, he added. ' : Doubts flare TJp The state police arson squad will be consulted regarding today's fire, the chief reported. He ex pressed doubt that it was caused by a flare-up from the grass fire, A. H. Randall, general manager of the cannery, said there were "perhaps 8,000" fruit boxes in the blazing pile. He said replacement cost for that many would be $4,000. They were insured. Pumped from Fond The fire threatened more than 20,000 other boxes stacked nearby. Liberty firemen controlled the blaze by pumping water from the cannery's pond. ! They were aided by Salem fire men who responded under the mutual-aid fire agreement Chief Hirons said they: were called as a precaution when Liberty firemen had to cut a fence and back one wheel of their truck over a bank to get close to the pond. Other fires since July 4 within three blocks' of today's fire have destroyed one house and extens ively dama'ged another. A third fire started near a barn and raced through weeds, but lively action by the Liberty department saved all buildings. ; i ' " - Cause of an the Ores was re ported undetermined. PETAIN UNCONSCIOUS ILE DYEU. France. July 22-00 -Marshal Henri ; Philippe Petain, 95-year-old former French chief of state, lapsed into unconscious ness tonight but doctors said defensive reaction had set in and that bis pulse had become more regular than yesterday. Kaesong to Pyongyang, North Korean capital, tot further in structions. ' Air force CoL A. J. Kinney told the reds such a guarantee could be assured if they supplied informa tion on just when" the trip would be made and described the con voy markings. i - A FEAF spokesman said today no further request has been re ceived. - - : I Sunday 15 Okinawa-based B-29s bombed Sariwon, : due south of Pyongyang and on the main road the delegation would have to travel. , ? i However, there was the possi bility the red delegates had taken advantage of poor Cjtcg weather and driven to Pyongyang without making another request for free dom from attack. ! Joy : was accompanied to the conferences with Ridgway by two other cease-fire ! delegates. Rear Adm. Ariel gh Burke and Air Farce Hal. Gen. Laurence C CraiJe. In Moscow, Pravda published a warning that if the United States breaks off the Kaesong talks and attacks the reds that the com munists would turn the attack in to a final destruction of the in- Cannery New texventiosist arcis." Airliner ' Search Mounts JUNEAU. Alaska, July 22-WV Search planes took to the air in dirty weather late today to make the first aerial hunt since a Tokyo bound Korean airlift DC -4 ; van ished early Saturday along the rugged Alaska panhandle coastline with 33 persons aboard. As hope faded for the occupants of the craft, military authorities announced the names . of the 29 Americans aboard, disclosing that two "high-rated" civilians were among them.. One is CoL Audley H. F. Ste- phan of Rutgers university, who helped - balance Japan's postwar occupation budget. He was en route to Tokyo again to help the army with finance problems on Okinawa. The military did not say which of the threeecivilians aboard were high rated." but another was Glen R. Clauson, 28, of Seattle, an expert on the Far East His family declined to disclose his mission on grounds of military security. Planes Search Sixteen ! planes were able to make the first searches today. With gradually improving weather forecast for tomorrow, the hunt was expected to widen to use of a large number of planes and sur face vessels. . . The search today was limited bv the fact that each flight had to be monitored to keep the planes from running into each other in the soupy weather. Planes skimming the icy waters off the Alaska panhandle were unable to complete their missions because of poor visibility. How ever, the r cloud level ended '"at 8,000 feet, allowing planes to search the tops of mountains in the area where, the missing craft made its last report Three coast guard cutters were sweeping the seas. The Canadian government also offered surface craft and planes." j ' Sirnala Dlseatmt -.-' s Meanwhile, search officials dis counted the theory that-weak ra dio signals picked up late yester day might nave come from the missing chartered f our-enained Canadian Pacific airlines plane. ; The 17th coast euard district directing the hunt said listening posi monitor similar faint sienals nearly every day. Their oriein is not Known. Scant hope was held for those aboard the lost plane. The Alaska panhandle area, one of the wildest on the North American continent, is notched, with deep fjords and towering peaks that rise from the water's edge to 15,000 feet or more. (List of persons aboard on page 4.) Trail Around Fire) Completed Firefighters working at top speed Sunday completed a ditch fire line around 4he forest fire in the Tillamook burn area. Foresters estimated that 1500 acres of timber had been destroyed in zsoo-acre sector since the out break Friday on Loughlin com pany holdings.- All but about 20 acres in the FJkhorn river area were held Sunday within fire lines.'.'-' - i !-;, . Steep slopes in the Elkhorn river canyon made final trailing auiicuit. firefighters were low ered down into the canyon by ropes to make the traiL Power machinery proved useless in much of the rugged northern portion. Completion of trailing gave for esters, hope for complete control. Meanwhile, Dwight-L. Phipps, acting state forester, suspended all permits in a portion of the Tilla mook burn area. Permits for areas south of the Wilson river highway were suspended at midnight North of Ihe highway, logging will be permitted -, between 1 ajn. and 1 p jn, when the humidity is 35 per cent or more. "" ? - The weather 'bureau forecast that humidity would rise to 35 per cent today. We Rented It I - T7e jrt 2S telepbaa eaBs and rented it Immediately." That was the comment of the person who recently ran the following in the classified sec tion cf The Statesman; Tor Sent Houses: Uafuqpished new two bedroom home, near Swegle school. Gardes road, large ut&ty, double garage. WU1 tease. Phone .- , . Far results. It's ' The Statesman's Clcbsif icd Ada Tillamool Burn Immediately Cfu jdren in Stayton Spotlight jmmm, ... . . ...... 1 . , f n --T t , i 4- STAYTON Children donned1 all CP 1! t1 r . J ." . types or pets to participate in the annual Bean festival parade here Saturday. Sweepstakes winner was the weddlnr cake float - (top) en which Snxie Aymonr groom. Winner la the pets division was Snxie Nicholas (lower). with ner large come. The festival Irian Optimistic j Over Oil Talks 1 TEHRAN, Iran." July 22 -UP- Deputy Premier- H ossein Fatimi said tonight that the Iranian gov ernment is "optimistic" about chances of reopening talks with the British. - 1 The statement was made after "further progress" was ; reported in a meeting between President Truman's special representative, W. i Averell Harriman, i and j the Iranian parliament's oil national! zation board. r,(!.ra vYrrrt;i6Ql Max.; - tl 83 68 Kin..: Precip. Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago 49 jM 8 .00 4 jOO 67 - 11 n i .11 19 88 New York FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNarr field, saiem i : Motuy clear today and tonight. Little change in temperature, with the highest today near M ana tn lowest lomgni near su ! SALEM PRECIPITATION -1 ; (tut mt Wsathcr Tear. Seat. 1 This Year. Last Year - Normal 49.S4 43.73 i '37 JO Bustle at Fairgrounds Denotes Preparations Underway for 9-Day-Long Oregon State Fair r By LUlie L. Madsea i ! Farm Editor. The Statesman . In case you " havent heard It yet, Oregon is" going to have a state fair late this summer. In case you don't believe this, come out to the grounds in Salem and watch the hustle and bustle al ready, started. - ! - - Oregon's fair is going to be two days longer than usual. These two days are in answer to the numer ous complaints that Labor day has hm fv rmwHpd for an vone to see anything other than the crowd. Folk wno worx: nve or six aays week and woald like to see the exhibits rather than the crowds have been out of luck, they ealim. By the last Sunday of the fair, rhi hit were beginning- to Wilt This year the fair opens on Satur day,.. septemDer ' i, ana cme through to September: 8, at mid night - Leo Spltzbart, manager of this S8th annual event, in talking over the exhibits this week end, said he though it was going to be "a great fair." He was even confident that "the fair's good farm friends will find farm equipment exhibits most interesting and rather; ex tensive, too, and he added this was "in spite of changes in pro motional and merchandising poli cies pf some major distributors and manufacturers. j Asked about these changes. Mr. Spltzbart explained that certain ;v. ,t 2 . . ;v, II I i i I i rjx ' t - V' sorts ef costumes and brought an and Billy Roach were the bride and closed Saturday. Phone Dispute Negotiators in Session PORTLAND, July 22-(SVNego-tiators scheduled an all night ses sion tonight in an attempt to avert a state-wide telephone strike call ed for 6 a. m. tomorrow morning. Arne Gravem, international rep resentative of the CIO Communi cations Workers of America, said "unless things bog down, we will continue negotiations until the strike deadline." Seven contract provisions, In cluding a controversial no-strike clause, are in dispute, he said. If the strike occurs about 4660 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company workers throughout the state win be off the job. Company officials said no seri ous service delays were likely in the event of a tieup. manufacturers and distributors had told him they favor exhibiting at county fair levels or in only the largest state expositions in areas where the rural population is ex ceptionally heavy. ? "But to give our farm friends every advantage of keeping up with what's new in the way of equipment . designed to making farming easier, we have offered to let T"fmfaeiiirera and dealers pretty much set their own rates for exhibit space." - - Dick Richards, assistant fair manager, is a busy man in the livestock division which is his pas ture. He reports that judges have been selected and entries are being received . First entries in the beef cattle department were those of Copper Hereford ranch, Chehalis, - Wash. The request was for stalls for JO head. Brentford Miller, Jr, Wood burn, beat others in the swine de partment entering 17 head of .his registered Berkshires. Ronald , Hogg, Salem, has tfie distinction of being the only home town judge in the livestock de partment He has judged sheep at the International Livestock show at Chicago on two different occa sions, as well as at the Denver show and the Pacific Internation al Livestock event at Portland. He will be assisted by Leonard Hig- einson of Sardis, B.C, wno will 'Judge the mutton breeds. ' !s.-U-.r-..lj. rifllw Ml llTllll "l T-fll i'TI -fli "j I ' f - .Jf ... i Stay , Admiral Succiunbs While on Tour ; Of Western Europe Defense System NAPLES, IUly, July 22-WVAdm. Forrest P. Sherman, 34, U. S. chief of naval operatios, died unexpectedly here today After two heart attacks. He was on a tour of Europe's Atlantic Tad defense areas and had planned to leave this afternoon for hem. He first was. stricken early this morning. A navy medical officer and a Naples doctor were called and he appeared to rally. But several Hours later, the sec- j ond and fatal attack struck Sher man. Mrs. Sherman and Adm. Robert B. Carney, American com mander of allied forces in southern Europe, 'were at his bedside. - Sherman, a descendant of Johii and Priscilla Alden, had been boss of America's navy since Decem ber,: 1949. He replaced Adm. Louis Denfeld in the bitter squabble over unification of the army, navy and air force. A brilliant flying ad miral," he vaulted over the heads of nine other admirals to take the navy's No. I post, the youngest, at 53, ever to get the job. ... . The body ,.was removed to the 17. S. S. Mt Olympus, Adm. Car ney's flag ship, in Naples harbor. A naval spokesman said it would be returned to the United States at once for burial. Wea Devetioa " . " Although- some of his fellow of ficers were critical of him when he took. the navy's top1' job after the firing of Denfeld, his leader ship won him the confidence and devotion of the whole navy. Griev ing officers and men aboard the Mt. Olympus were stunned at the news of his death, as was official Washington.. The ) admiral came here after visiting Madrid, London and Paris on his. defense tour. Defense of ficials in Washington said his work on the Spanish negotiations was finished and would be carried en at lower: levels. The . defense department said Adm. L. D. McCormick, vice chief of naval operations, will take over Sherman's job temporarily until President Truman decides on a successor. i Survivors Listed . Besides 'his widowj Adm. Sher man is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, the wife of Lt Cmdr. , John Fitzpatrick, formery assistant naval attache in Madrid. Born In Merrimack, N. H he graduated second in his class from the naval academy in 1917 and ser vice in World War L H became pilot in 1922 and from then on served In naval aviation. Sherman skippered the Aircraft Carrier Wasp and showed great I bravery When a Japanese subma rine sanK it on trie Solomon is lands in 1942. He took part in the Japanese surrender aboard the Battleship Missouri in Tokyo bay, then returned to Washington as deputy chief of naval operations. Later' be became commander of the V. S. Sixth task fleet in the Mediterranean and was called from that post to take the chiefs Job in Washington. Western International At Tri-City 1. Salem At Wens tehee 4- . Yakima I At Tacoma 1-2, Spokane 1-1 (Only games scheduled.) Coast League At Portland 3-4, San Francisco 7-1 At Los Angeles 4-3. San Diego S-8 At Oakland 1-10, Sacramento 6-0 At Seattle t-2, Hollywood 3-1 American League At Cleveland 6-3. Philadelphia 4-1 At Chicago 6-5, Washington 7-11 At St. Louis 0-3. New York -7 At Detroit 9. Boston 10 - National League At Brooklyn 9. St. Louis S At Philadelphia 7-0. Chicago S-l At Boston S-2, Pittsburgh 3-S At New York 3-S. Cincinnati 7-S Wbi1 Tfnes't address la Salem. his own sheep ranch is in Polk county, and also coming from Polk to judge Jerseys is Walter Leth, a familiar figure in the Jersey show rings hot only in Salem but elsewhere, including British Co lumbia. Leth is now representative of the Resource Development council of the Pacific Northwest Land-grant I institution. lutein the beef cattle will be E. J. (Ez) Fjelstedt livestock spe cialist at Oregon btate - college. Fjelstedt is a graduate of Utah State college, where he specialized in animal husbandry. For many years now i he has managed . the Ogden Livestock show, one of the top shows of its kind. One of the highlights of his career was tfie managing of the great San Fran cisco World's fair livestock com petition. Besides judging Aberdeen-Angus, Herefords and Short horns, he wtil do the judging of the showmanship classes in . the 4-H competition. v Exhibitors of Milking Shorthorn cattle will see their entries judged by the president of the American Milking Shorthorn society, Rich ard .V. Keim of Nampa, Idaho. This Is Mr. Keim's second year as judge here. , : :"- The Oregon state fair is again recognized by the American Guernsey Cattle dub as one of its approved fairs for 1951, and Har W ' - - : ADM. FORREST SHERMAN I Chief ef Navy Operations Die Truman Terms Sherman Death 'Great Loss' WASHINGTON, July 22 -A President Truman! said of the' death today of Forrest P. Shermaw, admiral and diplomat, ' that tttm country's loss is great.' ; And Secretary of State Dca Acheson called the naval mem ber of the joint chiefs of staff "a statesman who saw beyond the military problems to the. object-, tves of national policy ,'. --To Sherman , the two men had entrusted ' a : diplomatic-military mission of great importance, ex ploratory talks with Spain to ee whether she could be brought into the western world defenses against Russia. . , ' t , i There had been ho warning ef Sherman's death .his friends said. At 54 years, he appeared hale and hearty-. In a statement radioed from the presidential yacht U Williamsburg cruising on the Potomac river t . day, Mr. Truman ; said he was "shockerand grieved" at the -, miral's death. He said too that ' 'Ihe country's loss is great and m is mine.' Francis P. Matthews, who ha been secretary of the navy but baa been named U. S. ambassador to Ireland, said: i "I am Inexpressably shock and grieved by; Admiral Sher man's death. His loss to the world at this time is irreparable. IIk loss to our country and to the navy is tragic His loss to me as a trust ed adviser is irreplacable." GERMAN PRINCE DIES HECHINGEN, - Germany, Jury 22-JP)-The body of Germany former crown prince , Friedrtea Wilhelm lay in state today in tt chapel cf the big castle which he could not afford to live in. The one-time heir-apparent to the throne cf the old German empire win be buried i. Thursday with Protestant services - old P. Ewalt extension dairyman at OSC, wiU Judge.' A corn-belt hog raiser mm . Ashland, Neb., Guy E. MtBey nolds, wtil place most of the swine at this year's fair. McRcyneWa raises Hampshire and is a direc tor of the Hampshire Swine Reg istry of Peoria, I1L ft - " , Professor A. W. Oliver from v ftate college animal husbandry department will iudge the 4-H swine entries ahdi also the hm showmanship classes and the 4-H . nt feedlntr contest. The latter ie sponsored by Valley Packing com pany, saiem. r 4 - All breeds of dairy goats will be judged by Dr. Ralph Bogart, another OSC animal husbandry specialist Angora goats will fee Judged by Don Kessi of Harlan. J. A. Hay, superintendent el Colony Farms, Essindale, B. C, wiU judge Holstein and Ayrsbire cattle. Hay has judged a number of Holsteins. both in this country and in Canada. ; Colony Farm maintains the largest Holstein Yrd in Canada. . -. " Rex Ross, 'r.gel Jersey breeder, will ; the P.rown Swiss cattle ; . .-.a fair, and t'.a Red Polls, a t purpose breed, wtil be placed ty tie beef jucfc, Fjelstedt i Richards reminds livestock fcli who plan to enter the competition at the state fair that entries cteze on August 13. .