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Sccno of Spreading Forest
iniXi CITY, Aug, tl Tba SanUara txnym (SarOIn creek) forest
fir chance! it boundaries aftea Friday that a completely ac
evrato dcseripUoa was bapooalble. Bat the main bias appeared ta
b ta the shaded portion of the abore sketch. Its inroads into Una
eonnty to tbe south were indefinite. And there were offshoots to
r to the northwest and east toward Detroit. The flre-fixhtinf head-
That what happen In Iran may
Affect us in America Is shown in
tMt extract from London corres
pondence in the Wall Street Jour
sal on the consequences of the
stoppage in oil production In Iran:
; "American petroleum companies
are likely to be asked to supply
.more oil; American consumers may
be asked to wt Jew IL .u-
; It Is the lsit "clause which has a
special significance. We have had
in the past rationing gas and par
ticularly in the second world war.
The present Korean war has given
an expanded market for aviation
rasolineand for heavy fuel oil but
so far our refineries have been
able to meet these demands in
stride.
- With the closing down of" the
largest oil refinery In the world
afAdaban (BOO.OOO bbL daily), a
shift must be made by its custom
ers to other sources of supply. Ku
wait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia will
increase their production as fast as
they can, but It will be some little
time before they can take up the
Adaban slack. Far eastern fields
Burma, Sumatra, Borneo are not
able to spare much production for
other consuming regions. So there
will bo a call for petroleum prod
ucts from the western hemisphere.
The article Quoted says some 200,
000 barrels may bo furnished io
Britain from this source of supply.
Since the United States Is already
on an import basis in petroleum,
this quantity will have to
(Continued on editorial page 4.)
Western International
A I lil.m 9 Snnkana f (11 Inn
- At Vancouver 3. Tacoma S (10 Inn.)
' At Yakima 4. Tri-Ctty S -
. if Coast jtMfw :'.
At Oakland -H. Port laud 1-1
At HoUywood I. Seattle S
At Eaa EHeao 4. Loa Angeloa 1
At Sacramento 8, San rraacisco f
American League
At Cleveland 0, New York S
At Chicago S, Boston 1
At Detroit T. Wasbinrn IS
At St. Lottla S. PbUatlelphU S
National Lea rat
At Brooklyn 1, Chlcafo 0
At Mew York . SU Louis S
At Boa ton s-S. ClnclnraU 1.1
At Philadelphia L Pitiabursh I
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Two Convicts
Sought After
DaringiEscpe
Two tf three convicts who late
Thursday, escaped from inside the
state prison walls in a stolen auto
were still at large early today de
spite police alerts throughout the
northwest, j - .; t
SUO. sought were Manning Alex
ander GaUahcr, 21, and Jttchard
M. Moore, 45. Moore was not miss
ed from the prison until after Wal
ter Noorlander, third inmate in the
daring escape, was recaptured near
Newberg Friday morning.
Moore was committed for life
for assault and robbery while arm
ed with a dangerous weapon in
volving a holduD of the Olds and
King store in Portland. His record
includes tnree previous convictions
for - assault and armed jobbery
dating back to 1821. 1
Prison Guard Realms ' '! -
Meanwhile, Prison Guard Henry
xieyaen xnaae jenown Friday that
he had resigned as an aftermath
of Thursday night's escaoe. Ha said
no nad asked Warden Georce Al
exander whether the warden want
ed his '-resignation and that the
warden had said "yes." S
Heyden was detailed to go to
the gate to let in a sawdnjt truck
Thursday night With him in a
prison car were Koorland. who was
anvuag. ana cauaner. As soon as
the sawdust j truck entered the
prison confines, the convicts drove
out through the gate in the car
and disappeared. 1 1 i i
warden Alexander said Friday
that Heyden had orders 1 not to
have prisoners go near the gate.
neyaen saia he had no such or
ders. :. , I . . .. i !
Prison officials gave full credit
Friday to two Cascade school
teachers for the recapture of dan
gerous convict Richard Eoff. Alan
Robertson, music department head,
and Charles E. Wallace, Journalism
teacher, recognized Eoff at Turner
and brought him to the Statesman
office where police were summon
ed.
I
WHOLESALE PRICES DOWN
WASHINGTON, Aug. ,24-JP-
wnaiesaie prices fell (U per cent
in' the week ended Aug. 21, the
bureau of labor, statistics reported
today. - . 4
Teen-Age Sex,
Bared by
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 24 !
HJfy- A 19 year old girl has given
information that :iay lead to ex
posure of a teen-age sex, drug and
organised theft' ring. Prosecutor
Graham W. UcGowan said today.
The girl has told, UcGowan said,
of ' participation by a b oil t .. 1C3
youths in midnight debaucheries
in a woods near the South Bend
city limits known to the ; young
sters as "hot rod heaven.
The girl's story, McGowan said,
has .been substantiated by two
teen age boys and a 20-jrear-dd
girL t ; --1 , i : , ; , -
No arrests haVe yet been made.
The prosecutor said investigations
by the St. Joseph county: sheriff
and 'South. Bend police are con
tinuing. ' - i ..
McGowan said the 19-year-old
girl told him boys and girls from
14 to 21 years of age meet in "net
rod heaven where they drink
heavily, take narcotics, indulge in
sexual indecencies and receive in
stxuctions from hoodlums cn how
and where to commit theits to ob
Firo in Santiam
Count?
qnarters was at little Sweden. While the fire Jumped the rirer and
hirhway 222 between Detroit and Big Cliff damsltes, reports indicated
there was no blaze In the immediate ricinltieo of the two projects.
The major blaze appeared to stretch about 3 miles east and west and
about 4 miles south and covered around Ut99 acres. .
Six Americans Killed
In French f Train Wreck
; METZ, France, Aug. 24-(ilVSbt
Americans were killed early today
in a train collision that took a to
tal of 20 lives and injured more
than SO persons. The death toll
may: go higher.
Other victims were French sol
diers and civilians. .With the Amer
icans they were passengers in the
next, to last car on a. Frankfurt
Paris train. It was rammed by a
Basel-Calais express while stand
ing outside Sandry-Sur-Nied sta
tion about 4 a.m.
Foreign Arms,
Economic Aid
WASHINGTON. Aug. 24 -WV
Two senate' committees unani
mously approved tonight a S7,-
533,000,000 program of military
and economic aid to bolster for
eign nations against possible com
munist aggression. i '
The committees rejected. 14 to
4, a move to attach to the bill
authority for construction of the
St. Lawrence seaway. r ;
Sending the measure to the sen
ate for debate beginning Tuesday,
tho foreign relations and armed
services committees divided au
thority over inilltary, economic
and polnt four assistance three
ways. The house previously had
voted to lump all under a ; single
mutual security administration.
Under the senate committee bill.
The Pentagon would direct up to
$8,013,000,000 in military spending
and the economic cooperation ad
ministration (EGA) would handle
most of the 41,522,000,000 econom
ic assistance. The state depart
ment would 'direct the relatively
small "point four program of aid
to underdeveloped areas of the
world. -1 ..a . i
MeCARTY DUE TODAY ;
PORTLAND, Aug. 24 -(- Ar
rival here by United Air j Lines
plane is scheduled tomorrow at
5:30 p. m. for Sen. Joseph R. Mc
Carthy (R-Wls). He will address
a republican picnic here Sunday.
Crime Ring .
GirVs Testimony
tain money. !
According to the girl s story the
prosecutor said, the youths gather
from the nearby Indiana cities of
Elkhart, Goshen and Argos, and
also from Niles. Mich. f
The girl was picked up last
Tuesday nlsht rear hex home by
Deputy Sheriff Willitm J. Locks.
"She was higher than a kite but
it wasnt from whiskey, beer or
Wine." the deputy said. -
' The deputy said the girl told
him a IS -year -old usher in
South Eend theater had given her
"some cacsules." -.- - !' !.-
i The usher v -as questioned. Locks
said, and told ef being given-the
capsules fcv a lashaw&ia i youth
known to tim only as "Eed" and
ef being instructed to give them to
the girl who would idenuzy ner
Self by a stzsal,. -
The girl also tela him, Locks
said, that "Red and at least six
other men handle narcotics which
are brought from Kentucky in the
tail lights cl autci,.::3 sad
motorcycles.
Gains Approval
The Orexyaa Ctotcacax. Sclaa, Orsscn,
Canyon
u-oirces
Evacooae
Fire Threatens
Detroit Dam
Construction
The Sardine creek fire raced
through tinder-dry slashing in the
Detroit .dam area Friday to force
evacuation of three communities
and alert others. The four-day-old
blaze had spread over an : esti
mated 3,200 acres and posed a tiew
threat to the dam construction.
Women, children and elderly
persons, all those not fighting the
fire's advance, . were ordered to
leave the area early yesterday af
ternoon by U.S. . District Forest
Ranger S. T. Moore of Detroit.
The evacuation f olloVbed a . plan
prepared Tuesday by ' ; Marion
county civil defense officials. '-
An estimated 200 or more per
sons were involved at Aiongoia,
Fisher's Camp and Detroit ranger
station. Most had i left by- last
night A number had left Detroit
and Idanha, where residents were
warned to pack belongings in cars
ready to leave on a moment's
notice. ' ;
Douglas Blase Trailed
Oregon had only one other fire
out of control Friday, covering
21,000 acres on Vincent .creek, in
land from the south central coast
The Hubbard creek fire north of
Roseburg was trailed after black
ening 10,000 acres.
Construction and army engineers
officials , at the damsite said ; the
fire was only about a mile away
from them, in a sort of half-circle,
in the late afternoon. Work
stopped so crews could wet down
equipment and buildings to pre
vent their being set afire by wind-
carried sparks.
Heavy smoke and a layer of
ashes plagued the lower canyon,
around Mill City, part of Friday,
but by afternoon the wind
switched to come from the west,
clearing the air there but pushing
the fire toward the dam and
Detroit- - f
After Jumping highway 222 and
the North Santiam river between
Detroit and Big Cliff damsite late
Thursday night, the fire ate south
ward in Linn county toward Mon
ument peak and raced eastward in
slashing on both sides of the river.
Phone Lines Down
Telephone lines were down to
Mangold and only emergency
phone calls were getting through
to Detroit. The highway," closed
Thursday morning between Ni
agara and Detroit, remained
blocked, jiot only officially, but
also by the shower of burning
logs. Late Thursday night the road
was reportedly a. "bed of ; hot
coals. One trudk managed to get
through Friday 'morning. to de
liver gasoline for vehicles
ployed in the battle. -
Late Friday afternoon, Howard
Dean, assistant VS. ranger, called
the situation "serious with con
siderable spotting of new fires due
to the Wind. He said the Cre had
appeared less wild on the Marion
county side Friday than previously.
The state forestry department
had dispatched men and supplies
to the canyon area until its re
sources were exhausted at Salem.
Material was being brought from
Portland. - -
Following closure of Mongold,
where most of the firefighters had
teen getting fed. the state and
Clackamas-Marion Fire Patrol as-
sociatinn were aettin2 nt a head -
CCC side-camp.
(Aditicnal detail on cae 2)
PCUNDDD 1651
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Four Portland
Burned Graft
By Jerry T. Baalch
OAKLAND. Calit. Auk. 24-OP)
In a flash of flame and a thun
dering roar, fifty men, women and
children died today as a plane
burst on a fog-shrouded hillside.
Everyone aboard the United Air
liner perished.
The j bit ship carried 44 pas
sengers and a crew of six. The
flight started last night in Boston,
PORTLAND. Ang. 24-GPW
Four Portland businessmen were
among the 50 persons killed in
the crash of a United Air. Lines
plane at Oakland. Calif., today.
Two ef them. Dean Johnson,
57, and his brother, Ernest E.
Johnson, 53, were president and
vice president respectively of
the CL D. Johnson Lumber Co-,
men of what once was the
nation's biggest sawmilL .
The; other victims were Erie
P. Van, 46. Portland manager ef
the Peat, Maiwick. Mitchell
Co aceoontinc f irnv and Rob
ert T. Petrie, 53, western divi
sion sales' manager for the
BlackfClawsen I Co, a paper
snaklng. machinery firm.
with stops at Hartford and Cleve
land and a non-stop leg from Chi
cago to Oakland,
Several hours after the plane
was shattered into fragments
about 20 miles from the Oakland
airport; an FBI announcement in
San Francisco said: "The FBI is
making an inquiry , to determine
whether sabotage has been com'
mltted.
The only whole body that I saw
was tnat of a tow-neaded boy,
about five years old. His skull was
crushed. , -:'
By mid-day men from the sher
iffs and coroners office, had as
sembled perhaps: 30 bodies they
couldn t be certain.
Furrows, gouged by the four
massive engines showed that the
plane hit about 15 feet below the
crest of a hilL some 1,500 feet
high, i . . i . -
The if our engines, sheared of
their propellers.! their cowlings
and other accessories, were rock
eted over the hill and into a steep
ravine, j into which most of the
bodies also felL
Debris from the - plane - was
found as far as a mile distant
from the fire-blackened hillside
scene. Mail festooned the .scrub
oaks that dot the pasture land.
Some of it was a dressed to Korea.
Rescuers, following a tortuous
path to the mountain top, found
themselves walking among pieces
of airline silverware, ripped sec
tions of the fuselage, twisted bits
of aluminum and chunks of seat-
padding and insulating material.
logCi
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There may be wCJ eaUle portrayed la the TTilJ Illcodk eomic
1 nua vbt. fnt ki wnn Smrr nelfera emiettr vraride a eomfertable back rest. The seese Is one
I ; m.t m t.u at iK rrni iTa.rin Hnntr S-ii rinh, fxir at the
I comics are Dennis Dumler, cester. 1213 N. l!ia st and Jhn Lee,
Jerseys at the fair. (Fhsi tj
Cd aklDiid Dirflioiioir
Cost of Living Rises;
Wage Boosts Called
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-aV
The government's cost-off living
index edged up to an all-time
high with a rise of 0.2 per cent
between June 15 and July IS.
As a result, nearly a million
auto and farm equipment work
ers will receive a penny-an-hour
pay increase. ' ,
At least 2,000,000 other work
ers have agreements .tying their
pay to the U. S. index, although
not all of them will get an ad
Ridgway Calls
'Malicious
TOKYO. Saturday, Aug. 24 - (W
brusquely told the reds' Korean war Commanders their charges of
allied neutrality violations at Kaesong were just a pack of "malicious
falsehoods' but offered to resume the iruce talks.
IX was the toughest-talking i
commander had yet handed the
communists.
He said the latest charge that
an allied plane bombed the Kae-
song area Wednesday night was
so "obviously manufactured for
your own questionable purposes
that no reply was merited.
.The communist high command
suspended the talks Thursday over
the alleged incident and demand
ed a "satisfactory reply.
The supreme allied commander
offered to resume the red-sus
pended .talks when the commu
nists say so. ; I
; Red leaders In effect had de
manded that Ridgway knuckle
down and admit that a U. S. plane
tried to "murder the ; red dele
gation.- ' , : :i ' ' '
Whether Rldgways blunt retort
would be accepted as the "satis
factory reply" remained to be
seen. j
One by one Ridgway ticked off
the series of red chargesi That the
allies fired on Panmunjom, a point
six miles east ef Kaesong; that
the allies killed a red patrol lead
er in an ambush August 19; that
an allied plane dropped fiery jel
lied gasoline and high : explosive
bombs on the Kaesong area Aug
ust 22.
All these charges, Ridgway said
firmly, "are rejected without qua
lification as malicious falsehoods
totally without foundation in fact"
But his statement ended, as had
Kim's and Peng's latest harsh one,
on a somewhat softer note:
"When you are prepared to ter
minate the suspension of armistice
negotiations, which you declared
on August 23, I I will direct my
representatives to meet with yours.
with a view to seeking a reason
able armistice agreement
We Cows are Civilized
"1
Eoa E-L Utcsmaa sUTX phofcagraher.
PHICE 5c
1
last-ESI
justment from the latest figures.
F6od prices i turned upward
aftef a slight decline the pre
vious j month. They reached an
Index: of 227.7 per cent of the
1933-1939 average. The July 15
average for food was 12.1 per
cent higher than In June 1950.
Announcing the new figures.
the bureau of labor statistics re
ported the cost-of-living index
on July 15 was 185.5 per cent of
the 1935-39 average.
Falsehoods'
- Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway today
f
odified Tax
M
n
By Senators
; WASHINGTON, Aug. 24-VA
neW tax increase bill that would
notj raise anybody's income taxes
as high as the house voted to boost
them was approved tentatively to
day by the senate finance com
mittee. , r - ' '
' For most people, apparently, the
increase voted by the committee
would be 11 er cent, as conwaiwa
to the 12 V4 per cent increase ap
proved by the house.
The i committee also voted to
permit the government to take no
moire than 88 per cent of the big
incomes. The present top is i
and the house had voted for 90.
Corporations Next
The ' committee will turn to
morrow to corporation tax boosts.
The committee voted to put the
increase into effect Nov.' 1 this
year. The house had fixed Sept
The senators also voted to make
thej new levy expire Dec 31, 1953.
This was to emphasize its char
acter as a temporary defense tax.
i the plan tentatively approved
today gives the taxpayer two op
tions. He can take the smaller, of
thejse: ; -
L He can pay an additional tax
equal to 11 per cent of his present
tax . ?. :.; '.. . - .
X. ne can pay eight per cent
of what taxable income he has
left after deducting the tax he
pays under present law.
Nov
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being se aviUy read by the yomag
state falrrroonds. Enrrosaed In the
Salem route 4, whe is shewing his
Charges
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Coloado Dam '
Project Scene
Of Explosion
WONDER VU. Colo- Alia 24-jrn
-Eight men were killed and "at
least 10" injured today when light
ning struck explosives on a con
struction . project near, this tiny
mountain community. ; : .
The blast, which came at about
1:40 p. m. (MST) at the site of
a 12 million dollar project of the
Denver water board on south
Boulder creek, rocked the sup
rounding countryside. - t ? " -
Injured Man Dies -
T. L. McDonald, job superintend
dent for the Macco-Puget Sound
company, project contractors, said ,
"as near as we can ascertain at
this time there are only eight dead
and approximately 10 injured. -At
Denver meanwhile, St An
thony's hospital reported an un
identified man received at tike hoe.
pital from the blast scene had cue4
and another was in critical conda
tion. The hospital said more in
jured were being received. Thro
omen were reported in a Boultfs
hospital. V:- i . j. , t ...
Premature Blast -
McDonald said "10 or 12" cases
of dynamite were discharged by
the lightning.' Four men working .
on top of the canyon wall were
killed almost instantly, he said.
Four others, he added, died under
a mass of rock that crashed down
on the canyon floor, j ; rr
At the time of the blast tht)
men were loading powder in holes
that had been drilled on both aides
of the canyon from bottom to top.
Lightning : apparently struck ost
both sides, setting off dynamite)
charges about 60 feet from ths)
canyon floor. . r
it on
Against Reds
U. S. EIGHTH ARMY. HEAn.
QUARTERS. Korea. Saturdav.
Aug. 25 JP)- Allied forces ia
tne words of their commander,
ready to fight "with hate and
eagerness dealt the "reds air
and ground blows Friday.
The biggest air battle in weeks
between 48 communist and allied
panes ended with two red jets shot '
zrom tne sues, un the eastern
front. South Korean infantry drove
the reds from two hills and re
captured two others in the weeks-
Old -battle of the hills." f
A brief fight also flared y ester
day just south of the r Kaesong
neutral zone. - , ;
The largest action, however, was
in eastern Korea. There enemy
resistance slackened after days oi
rugged fighting. ;
South Koreans clambered atop
the four hills on tbe front west oi
Kansong, east coast dry . 28 miles
north of the 38th parallel
"The enemy cannot defeat the
eighth army," Lt Gen. James A.
van Fleet said in an Interview.
He can bring In a million troops,'
but 111 be damned if he can sup
port them" ;. -
Van Fleet said his men's attitude
wiU turn to bate" and "they wUl
be tough fighters'! if the armis
tice conference breakdown should
prove final.
Scrap Shell
Blasts Three
SEATTLE, Aug. 24-OFV-A shell
in a scrap metal cargo from the
Philippines klllled three men in a .
Seattle waterfront blast today.
Three others were injured.
The fatal blast wax at the Ames
Terminal company yard, on the
West Duwamish waterway. Work
men said the blast occurred while
powder ; remnants v, cre being
burned from - the 1 : li e tx tv.s
shells with, acetylene torches. -
A foreman, at the scene told
Deputy Coroner James P. Adams
that the "primer charge appar
ently had been left tn the shell
that exploded.
The scrap metal cargo includes
57 millimeter and 5-inch shells
and 1,000-pound bombs. Workmen
said they were supposed to have
been cleaned cf all dangerous ex
plosives before leaving the Fbil
ippines. . . . 1-' h
NOTED EVANGEUST EIT3
PASS-a-CPJLLS; Fla, Aug. 2
-CJVEodney "GjTfy" Smith, Jr
70, retired evangelist died cf S
heart attack cn a f..ir.g trip to
day
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