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- J f 1 " . Ninety West Point Cadets Dismissed for Cheating on ay, ',T;i - By Wllmot Hcrcber WASHINGTON, Aug. I Ninety West Point cadets, in cluding football stars and other athletes, have . been fired for . cheating on exams in a scandal which .probably will wreck tbe Army's powerful gridiron, team. ; Tbe mass dismissals, announc ed by the army today, were the largest since tbe United . States military academy was founded . in 1802. Senator Byrd D-Va.) said he had been told by Gen. J. Law ton Collins, army chief of staff, that majority of the West Point football team was involved In breaking tbe academy's code of honor. The army was tight-lipped bout details of the misconduct of its student officers. Byrd re ported, however, that at a con ference of - senators in bis of fice, Collins said the cheating had been going on for four or five years, It was reported that the same questions were used for exams given at different times. Men w Starting next Sunday, Aug. 12th, direct airplane service will begin to connect Portland via Seattle with Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska. At these points connec tion may be had, with the network serving the other cities of Alaska. The new service will be instituted by Alaska Airlines, Inc. This com pany consolidated a number of independent lines within Alaska a number ef years ego. It has also flown planes to Minneapolis and Chicago and to Seattle on regular - schedules and to Portland on non , schedule (occasional) flights. Certificate to extend the Seattle flight to Portland on a ' regular basis was ordered Issued by Presi dent Truman, after the civil aero nautics board had turned down the application. The present per mit however is on a trial basis, to be considered again some two years from now. Portland Inter ests Joined .with Alaskans in vig orous support of the AA applica tion.' A todays ago a courtesy flight was made from Portland with representatives of the city and of business interests as guests. A special ceremony is planning at the inauguration of the daily serv ice on August 12th. ' - -. Visiting Salem Friday in the interest of the new enterprise were Raymond Marshall, chair man of the board of Alaska Air lines and Gordon Costello, Port land manager. They are anxious to get information to all the peo ple of Oregon about this new serv ice, in order to draw patronage to make it a success. Flights will be made In regular DC -4 planes. Departure time is S ajn. PST, from Portland, with arrival in Anchorage and Fair banks In the late afternoon of the same day. Cargo will be carried as (Continued on editorial page 4) Pole Refugees in Plane r : STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. S -AVA rattletrap Polish plane, scarred by bullets. . limped across the Baltic to a landing in southern Sweden early today with four young poies who said they were fed up . with communism. They asked asylum as political refugees. The four, three youths and a girl of 20, told of stealing the plane In the darkness from an air port near Pcxnan, of a fight with Polish military guards who sought to stop them -and or pursuit by Polish warplane which the finally eluded in clouds' near the Baltic They came down about dawn at the Bulltofa airport near Malmoe. Hints of unrest and the urge of these Poles to get out of Iron cur tain territory created speculation concerning a recent declaration by Premier Marshal Tito of Yugo slavia that a revolt Is under way In roiand. - - - Arums! Cracker? 8y WARREN GOODRICH rNow tfcet rWe tide r (seal yon do Sttie tomiiiin about pcur fpeafaaesf Exams; Gri&Team C Flee HL W HAYPQUCPaPV T ' hfc 0 i::m r:r-4 A f-: y ::y - y y who took them first passed the Questions on to cadets scheduled to take later exams. y 'This is a terrible thing," Sen ator Bird exclaimed. "It Indi cates that the moral fibre of the country is deteriorating. These -young men were supposed to represent tbe finest la young American manhood." 4. y". . Maj. Gen. Frederick A. Irving, ' the academy's f superintendent, -acknowledged that the action taken against the 90 cadets was "stern and uncoraprornising," but he added in statement issued at WesUPoint:?. J " t. Alter Weighing all faev tors most carefully, I, and the responsible heads of the army, are convinced that there should be no compromise solution that would preserve the vital honor system of West Point, which is the very heart of the academy. r The army's announcement said the names of the discharged ca-. dets will not be released "so that no undue criticism of the in dividuals concerned will result" There will still be football at . Pajoir i WASHINGTON, Aug. S-(P)-The national production authority today banned the start of all new construction until Oct. 1 unless the projects use Only minor quantities of steel, copper and aluminum. Most residences may go ahead, as well as small stores and even some amusement places hitherto prohibited. ,y But the order will "freeze" tern porarily the start of new factories, office buildings, schools, hospitals and public buildings. - Builders whose projects exceed the permitted limits may apply for metal, to be delivered after Oct 1, under NPA's allocation system. known as the controlled materials plan or "CMP." But they may not get it Applications filed promptly should be acted on this month, NPA said. I Near Sheridan ftatetaua News ferric DALLAS. Aug. 3 A freak log ging accident hear) Sheridan: today claimed the life of Theodore Ray mond Stout, 13, son of Mr. and rs.- Raymond R. Stout, Sheridan route 1. 1 r ..- -. Polk County Coroner Paul Boll- man said the boyiwas killed this morning wnen loggers loppiea a huge fir tree that sent the top of second - growth tree crashing down on him.:: - 5 The loggers' did not know the boy was nearby.! Bollman said they had stopped their power saw and sounded a warning just before toppling the tree. jBut they heard him cry out when he was hit Theodore's brother, John Stout 16. was with him but was not in jured. Coroner Bol'nan said Theo dore died en route to a hospital of a fractured skull. The fatal mishap occurred on the Stout family's property, 1 miles east of Wallace bridge, the coroner reported. The loggers were employed by the Smith and Stew art Tagging Co. of Tillamook, he said. ' ' . ' Parachutist - i 4 . To Drop into , Crateiilkke -. TILLAMOOK. Aug. S -tfV The operator of a Tillamook self ser vice laundry said today he is go ing to parachute into the blue wa ters I Crater lake.; " - He is Jack LangwelL 24-year- old ex-p-ra trooper. He said he will make the jump at psa. Sunday, weather permitting. lie said he will wear a life pre server. Two mends will be boat ing on the lake and they will pull him out of the, water; he added. ' "The lake is such a beautiful spot that when I first saw it I said I'd like to jump into if he ex plained.; Langwell will fly to Xu gene Saturday and leave for the lake Sunday. I I - r Toppled Tree Crushes Boy Waxey Gordon -Once Beer King-Begs Police I to Shoot Him in NEW YORIC Aug. S-(5V Waxey Gordon, high-riding beer baron of the roaring 2(rsV begged for a po lice, bullet to end his life when he was arrested as the alleged czar of a million dollar a. year dope ring, police disclosed today. - The notorious prohibition era racketeer, a coe-time public ene my No. 1 who once toured in an armored car with bodyguards, fell to his knees as federal agents and city police nabbed him on a dark east side street corner last night Grovelling before Detective Sgt John Cottone; of i the narcotics squad, the paunchy, 63-year-old Gordon begged: I : t :" 1 k "Please kill me, John hoot me. Pm an old man and Fra through. Dont take me in for Junk (dope). How else can I live? Let me run, John, and then you shoot me V. . Three others men were seized with him. They and Cordon were 1 charged with, having ilJO.CCO : , ...y:y r , O . - , yyy f rippled West Point this fall. Army sources said Irving has prom ised that the team will play out its' schedule even if West Point were to lose every game 100 to 0 - Collins was said to have blam ed an over-emphasis on football for the unexpected breakdown in tbe academy) honor ., system. Byrd quoted him as saying thai the cribbing started among the football players, who found it difficult to keep up with their work while spending so much time practicing. The cheating, since it was re ported to have 'extended back four or five years, cast a cloud on much of the postwar record of a mighty football team which has often been romantically nicknamed "the black knights of the Hudson."- y.s "Army had been expected tc field one of the strongest team: in the nation this fall. Its 195C team won eight games and lost only one a 14-2 upset to the navy. And the team ' suffered relatively light graduation losses. - (Additional deails on page. 7). JHHs CbBisftiriLflcfteoDu Wing of Jets To Move to English Bases WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 ine air force announced today it will move a wing of its fastest jet fighters from the state of Wash ington to a base somewhere in England. - : The wing is the 81st and includes two squadrons at Larson Air Force Base at Moses Lake and the 116th Squadron: at Spokane's Geiger field. The air force said the trans fer will take place "soon." The 81st is equipped Twith the F-88 sabre jet fighter-interceptors, a lightning fast plane that has bat tled the . Russian MIG-15- in the Korean war. It is the fastest jet fighter the air force has in ooera- tion. - - --t It win be the third fighter wing assigned to Europe to bolster west ern defense, but it's the first F-86 outfit to be stationed there. The other two are In Germany and use F-84 Th underlets. A medium bomber wing and the 12th fighter escort wing are now on rotational duty In England, The 12th uses F-84s. . . . Allied Troops Off Hill Tops TJ. S. EIGHTH ARY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Saturday, Aug. t-vrT-ueiermined allied lim ited attacks yesterday threw Chi nese communists off two 1,000 foot hills overlooking the strategic Hwachon-Kumsong road on the central front . Chinese communist " resistance was stubborn but faded as the attack mounted. On one hill, al lied forces counted 156 enemy dead and - wounded,, an eighth army spokesman said. There were small clashes on the eastern front Fifth", air force night fighter bombers destroyed or damaged 16C communist vehicles on supply roads leading to the front Heav iest night traffic, pilots reported, was north of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, and the VWonsan sector on the east coast MICROWAVE LINE PLANNED PORTLAND, Aug. S -V Con rtruction of a Portland-Seattle microwave relay- system, which could be equipped to transmit tele vision programs, will begin next year, tie Pacific Telephone and I Telegraph Co. announced today. worth of pure Heroin at under world market value. In the drama-packed round-up, Cottone said one of the other pris oners, Samuel Kass, 33, made a wild attempt to bribe him. The detective said that as Gor don begged for death, Kass press ed $2,500 In cash and two diamond rings worth $3,000 into Cottone's hands. , . . "Oh, my God, you got the old man. Kass was quoted by the de tective. "Take this, . ou can have everything I got but let Pop go. If that isnt enough. III give you $25,000, and if that isnt enough, 111 give you xaonl" . But police promptly carted Gor don off to jail,' where hi remains for lack cf $250,CC3 taiL ' Gordon could be imprisoned for life if he Is tried and convicted in New York, according to U. S. At torney Irving IL SaypoL Having been impri led three timet be ' : - ' - --! '- I ; - ' -.- ' ' ' ' - ! pcunddd 1A5I . ; - , lOlat TCAB 12 V By Korean Losses; Rift Cleric Today, Artilleryman til ' 1 :H '' r- sJr-v, A- vCfetir -: ' t - rvr? Kf-... .. ,:,r . c w:iffii i . Meet Harold Godkin, Sxkm store clerk who puts aside his merchandise today la favor ef two weeks' army reserve training at Fert Lewis, Wash, along with 4 ether men of Salem's 929th field artillery - battalion. He's mixing paint here in Ids' Job at Gil Ward's store; at camp hell be traininx ss an artil lery section chief. The Statesman will fellow his, and his eotfit's training experiences la a series ef special photos and articles from the 929th. (Statesman photo.) 50 Reservists For Training Fifty men of Salem army re serve units will leave Sunday for summer training at Fort Lewis, Wash. . A Joining other reservists of the 104th (Timberwolf) division at Camp for two weeks, the Salem units will get artillery and infan try training fin the field. Going; from here in a planned troop movement via bus are com pany E of the 413th infantry and four batteries and headquarters of the 929th field artillery. They leave at 8 a. m. Sunday from the reserve armory. Among other outfits scheduled for training at the same time are other batteries of the 929th from Monmouth and Enterprise. Also in training with the 104th will be Capt' A. Si Brown, assistant nnit instructor for the organized army reserve in Salem. Lt CoL Roy C Edgertoa com mands the 929th; Capt Robert W. Hartley commands the local infan try company, ' No Progress In Truce Talk ; i- . KAESONG, Korea, Aug. United Nations armistice negotia tors reported "no progress" today at the 19th armistice conference and Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy "not ed for the record" a red. violation of the half-mile conference site neutral zone. ' . ' - The incident that provoked Joy's notation was the passing of an estimated company of armed Chinese troops within a few hun dreAjrards of the U H. house near the conference building Itself. The delegations will meet again tomorrow. - Dope Arrests fore in New York, one more con viction would make him a fourth offender, subject to a life sentence. Saypol said Gordon has. been operating an international dope racket for "several years.-: The procesutor said Gordon got the narcotics! from the three con federates after it arrived on ships from Europe and the Tz East Gordon was the source of dope for the west coast Saypol said, and was implicated with, the dope racketeers there.; , ? Saypol did not name Gordon's alleged west coast partners. But a San Francisco federal grand Jury ; yesterday indicted three men, including two named as west coast heads of a big narcotic rine. . - Theyr are Abe - (The Trigger) Chapman, William " Levin, and Frank (Blackie) UcKee. Leave Sunday PAGE3 Th Orocoa fSsasseBssskw " f 1 t owiet ffielatidiis 1 Said W Princess Accepts PresidentVBid V - i . -;-- ".LONDON, Ang. t-JFh Prin cess HUsabeth and her has band. iW-dtika f Edinburgh, announ ced today they will be guests ef President and Mrs. Truman ia Washihgtoa Oct 24, 25 and 24. It is expected that their brief American visit may take in New York. An announcement made .at Clarence house, the London home of the princess and duke, said they accepted . "with great pleasure" an Invitation to visit the president It added that they wul stay at Blair house. .,4 . Coast-to-Coast TV Network , - . - Near Complete NEW YORK, Aug. 3-JP)-Tele- visiohl goes transcontinental Sept 30, just 25 and three-quarter years after the first coast-to-coast' radio hookup. ' The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. announced today it expects its $40,000,000 microwave radio-relay system between New York and the Pacific coast to go Into use for television on that date. The historic linking-up will take network television. Into the popu lous Los - Angeles-San Francisco region. It will give network tele vision, in turn, access to the fabu lous1 talent center of Hollywood. The connection will come in time for the World Series, as well as the Rose Bowl football game. It was for the Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day 1928 that the first coast-to-coast radio hookup was made..: " f The hew system of 107 hilltop towers spaced i about SO miles a parti relaying sharply focused radio beams from horizon to horiz on around the earth's curvature. will have much deeper signifi cance than television, however. It will provide a tremendous increase In the nation's transcontinental communications facilities. .. .. I Western International At Salem a, Weaatchee S At Vancouver S-l. Yakbna t-4 ..At Victoria S-13. Trt-Oty o-l At Spokane S. Tacoma 1 - ' i . i" Coast Leaxve At Seattle T, Portland S (U Inn.) At Um Ansclcs S. Oakland a At Sacramento S. San Dies At San rranctaco t Hollywood 1 ' f I Amerieaa Learee At New York S-X. St. Louis 4-t At Boston S. Detroit 1 . At Wathisxtoa 4. Chicaro T -At Philadelphia a. Oevcland S I National Lea rme ' At St. TMim s. Hot York 4 At OnriniuU S. Enwklra 4 (14 ma.) At PitUbursa 4. PhtladclpMa -At Cfelcaco X, Boston X rtfrttmnn. Salem. Oreejon. Saturday. Autyusi k. 1951' Tomorrow 3 t V - Bonus Bonds Sale Slated in Part of the bond Issue approved by the voters ' at the last general election estimated to total $40, 000,000 for payment of soldiers bonus probably will be offered for sale late this month, W. F. Gaarenstroom, director of the state Veterans Affairs department, said Friday. ' j He said the bonds would be of fered for sale regardless of the an nouncement by the I volunteer credit restraint committee that sol diers bonus payments are consid ered "inflationary and can be post poned." The law approved by the voters and for which tbe last leg islature set up administrative ma chinery, provides - definitely that the bonds shall be sold, Gaaren stroom averred. Gaarenstroom said the advertise ment seeking bids would be printed In at least two Oregon newspapers as soon as bond attorneys have ex amined the . issue and approved constitutionality of their -Issuance and sale. At the time similar bonds were offered for sale in West Virginia several months ago there were no bidders. " 1 Max. S3 Mia. Prceip. S . Jf Portland San rranciaeo 7 . S4 Chicaro " , , ,. T7 - -i ' fa ' i-M, to tt trace New York. Willamette riw -3.T feet. rORICAST (from VS. weaUier bu- raao. atcNarr OckL sajatni: mmut elaar except for wmt mornins cloud- uign today near st; ww lonigBt 7. 1 SAJLXM PRXCrPITATIOM. Start of Weatkcr Tear ScyC This Tear - Last Year 43A4 . Normal 4M run t4iirf Late Month Self-Injection of Snake . n rwrr Career of Wprla nenownea scieniisz ANN ARBOR. Mich, (Aug -A world renowned scientist killed himself with a hypodermic dose of snake venom late today , be cause he could not bear the dis grace of being fired from the Uni versity of , Michigan faculty for mishandling funds. ? - , Dr. Malcolm H. Soule, 54, was found dying by his wife. Alma, in the basement of their fashionable home here. The quick acting ven om, mixed with morphine, killed him in a matter of minutes. The suicide occurred! three hours after the university's j board of regents informed him his resig nation would not be accepted and he was fired, and would be prose cuted. On the record, apparently only $437X5 was involved. . The board said Dr. Soule bad made restitu- rtion for that amount University officials declined tonight to ampli fy how funds were mishandled. Dr. Soule had been chairman of the department cf bacteriology Seen i .. . A ussia accused To Undermine 1 By Wiulaia TOKYO. Saturday. Aua. 4 JuPu clared in effect that "Russian strategy' was responsible for the Korown war Dut someuimg went wrong; with the reds' chesf game." ; The declaration was in the fiorm of a long and unusual staiemrat issued by the civil information and education section of general bod quarters. Strongly-worded, i ended with this: , -r'-Vfe'redi'have. been so busy looklnig Tor cricij in the structuW or uie aemocracies mat they have ting on is swaying and slowly crumbling. iThe sUtement accused the Russian; strategists Of a "scheme to weaken China" by Involving Pelping.ln the Korean war. Chinese eosa-" muhlst losses, in Korea have been heavy ? -j , , About art hour after the statement was issued, tho section tried to withhold publication, saying there were typing errors tharmut-t ew cortected. j i ' j. i . ; . : Later, however, Lt Cot Donald R. Nugent, head of the sectM, toldi newsmen' the request: was made because the statement was in-' tended as background material for editors, not as a press release., ! In anycase, the section withdrew its withhold request and one of the strongest allied blasts at the communists since the outbreak of th Korean war Was in circulation. i "1 IThe statement issued at a tunc deadlocked, also implied that Red j 'Letting China take a hideous pounding from the United Nation does Sino-Soviet relations ho good at an," the statement said. I fit may hiean that China eventually -goes the way of Yugoslav la's communist Marshal Tito, if her regime holds up, which is doubtfuL Tito; got tired of being kicked around by Russia and declared his Im -independence. The result has been a blood feud that has almost tors the communist orbt apart. s . ! j . i ...(. . 1 ' '' War in Korea Supposedly Soviet Trap "So now that the communist aventure in Korea has gone awry,1 what does this mean to the men that planned it? It forces them to make a drastic change in future; operations." ; The statement was reminiscent of one issued June 25 by Gen.' Matthew B.jRidgway, supreme allied commander. On that first anni versary of the war he taunted the communists with the failure of Bis Sia to give nore aid to Red China. . j r , . . j fThe communists like to think they never make mistakes,' the itatement said at the outset j j s , They delight in setting up an elaborate global chess 'game, wira' the (tree world as an opponent Then the reds enjoy preparing such Cunning trap that no matter which way the free world moves it cant ,winJ The war in Korea was supposed to be such a trap. ? ! p 'The calculating, twisted intellects of the communist leaders no .thought up the invasion of Korea reasoned that no matter Whether the) jwarjwas long or short, they would win. Here is how they figured jL:, !If they had a war that lasted only a: couple of weeks, they would lose little and gain a whole country.: But if the United Nations wrnt to the aid of Korea, they would then proceed to drain away its strength luntii finally the free world woo Id be so exhausted from fiehtinx thai little war that the reds would step "And also, the reds figured! a of China, and this would be good, Russia's vulnerable southern frontier The statement said that instead of draining the free workrs strength, the Korean war awakened much stronger and more alert than The scheme to weaken China continued, fit is true Red China Is In when she entered the Korean war. Says Chinese Died While Russ Watched I ! .- I ; i "Many of (communist leader) Mao's best troops are dead or crip pled; and now lying in hospitals. Much of his equipment la lort. Eat Russia's strategy has made the Chinese reds less sure than the Kiem lin is a friend. i t . "After all, China fought and bled while Russia looked on. To Maa Tze-Tungv this could hardly look like bosom comradeship.") The statement also predicted that the free world would net Wt down its guard against communism. I ' I "The Jree world," It said fhas awakened to the danger of com munism and when the reds call off the tension the lull will not coma. The people of the. democracies will be watchful and armed, waitinc quietly, hopeful, yet waiting. They will be praying for peace, but they won't count on it, because when a communist changes his mind it c4y means that he may change it back again some time. -1 - "Tho communists, bolstered by their mountains of Marxist tea- , books, have always hoped thai the problems of the free world, ag gravated by red threats and maneuvers, would shake the foundations -of the democracies and finally send them crumbling into the laps ef tyranny. But here again the reds have been foiled." I Tbe statement closed with a prediction that the communist systeea would collapse "of its own weight and rottenness." j "They have been so hard! at work undermining other countries that they: have overlooked the jnollow shell of their own regime," the statement said. I. :j . . I - - " "They cannof survive, these reds. Look through the history becks. No rule based on fear, tyranny, hunger and war has ever succeedett. While democracy forges ahead, correcting Its own mistakes, tho com -munists sit .like vultures. j ' .-' T ' ' "The reds never settled down to show the world that they ccuM make it better than the democracies could. Instead, tbe communirta proceeded to rip the world apart, to set it back a hundred years, erase the freedom that' men have fought for through thousands t ytaisr - -I i - v it n !! Since 1835-: - : j The handsome, , scholarly j re search scientist was still conscious When his wife reached nun. Ap parently! he had fallen prostrate at the foot of the stairs after in jecting the poison into his blood stream. S - ' ' ' A bottle labeled "snake venom" and' a hypodermic needle were found in! another part of the base- ment'-j - - - '' 1 Mrs. Soule went to the base ment when he failed to respond to a call for dinner. ! . i Before lapsing Into unconsdoua- ness, he! whispered to her: - lit wont do any good to call physidans. There Is no known antidote for this snake venom." j Coronet Edwin C Ganzhorn gave a finding of suicide, i !Dr. Soule left a note addressed to his wife. With it was a letter from tho university board of gents Informing him he had been fired for mtthandlinf of depart ment funds. No. U3 i I of fta Cliinese ii C Barnard General hVadnuartorV trua not noticed the perch they are i4- wheri the truce talks in" Korea China; might split with Russia. - in and. take over. ' . i long war would slash the strength H because a strong China! or Soviet - is the Kremlin s nightmare. lt "and now the democracies are - they were a year ago."; had rotten spots too,, the statement much worse shape than she waa ' ' I : s , FBICE 5c PossiMe Venom Close. ' 1 O . . The coroner said the snake ve om apparently naa oeen piraoa up by the scientist on one cf hie many trips into tropical countries. In his suicide note, Cr- SouJe said the disgrace to- himself and his family resulting from his dis- f : . 1 missat was more vu , ne couia bear. Besides his wife he is sur- vivedj by two daughters who re now touring Europe i Upon finding her husband pros trate, t Mrs. Soule summoned Dr. Cyrus- Sturgis, head of internal medicine department at Univer eity hospiut and - Dr. t John M, Sheldon, head of the hospitaTe allergy department He Waa dead, however, by the time medical Jd reached him. ' -'- !' ' ; : - The university's board of re gents issued a terse announcement this afternoon that Dr. Souie had been dismissed. ; . A v The ditTr" clouded a rrU Hnt career for the bacteriologist, widely ' known as an expert n tropical diseases and leprosy. ' I