? i nor? o IE ' I ' Ll'. '' ' PCUNDBB 1651 ' . I. . . - 101st YTAB II PAGES Hi Oregon S talesman Salem Oregon, Wdnwday, Angus 23. 1S51 PBICE 5c No. 1541 Mam Bidgvjay Beffuses ifto; i Beneu JnvestioaSon : 0f EBosiibing. Charges- ' TOKYO, Wednesday, Aug. 29-0P-Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway to day flatlx refused to investigate again the alleged .allied bombing cl the Korean truce city of Kaesong. ;f t I - 4' : ; But, in a message to communist, top commaaders, he left;th way open for renewal oi mice laucs. s Ridgway earlier had accused the J Speculators In poUtics have al ready startea wonaermg McKav will do next in poUtics In spite ot the fact that his term has three years to run. He mltfht run for the senate Guy rnrrtnn'i term expires in Janu ary l955 too. Or he might run for reelection. The governor has de clined to show his hand, which is proper because he has plenty to do in the governors omw now. An Interesting constitutional miMtion arises on his eligibility for another term as governor. The constitution says that no person thail be eligible to the office of governor more than eight in any period of 12 "years. McKay was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Earl Snell, a two-year period. He has been elected to a four-year term. That makes six vears. Could h run for another term? Or could be serve Just two years and then have to vacate the . OinceT - , a. The constitution says; "The of ficial term of the eovemoT shall he four vears." Once elected and inaugurated could be be displaced at the end of two years? Another crovision of the constitution says: sall officers' except members of the legislative assembly shall hold their offices until their successors are . elected and qualified." Un less there were a mid-term elec tion McKay would hold the office an additional two years. What about the office of secre tary of state? ; Earl Newbry was 1 A .1 A 111 . 4. a portion of the term of the late Robert S. Farrell, Jr, a little over three years. He was .reelected for a four-year, term in ms ana nas -"announced himself as candidate for reelection to another - four- year term in 1952. The constitu tion Imposes the same ' (Continued on editorial page,4) J Salem Woman Victim of Joke 4 Mrs. Elda Bradfield, 1790 - N, Capitol at, was apparently the victim of a practical joker Tues day, but neither she nor city po lice saw much humor In the flurry ox callers and telephone calls. r Mrs. Bradfield returned home about 5 p.m. and In rapid order these events transpired: Two dry cleaners called to pick up cleaning. A shoe shop called to pick up pair of shoes. A lumber company called to ask where .to deliver . load of lumber." A Jeweler .called In regards to an order for an ex pensive diamond.: They were all news lo Mrs. Bradfield, a primary teacher at Keizer school. i -Police said the practical Joker was subject to prosecution. They also reported to have a prime sua pect. Animal CrccUcra y WARREN GOODRICH it'll LI- Try TSow down, FatsoYou're ttfmq m (ut of house and homtil MlWl rni Waits . . , - r reds of faking the bombing. c f ! An allied liaison officer; deliver ed . Ridgway'i newest message to the communists at 90' aim. today at Panmunjom,; six mu e&st oi . The allied commander I declared that a further Investigation as de manded by the; reds "could serve no purpose other than to - continue this unjustifiable delay in the arm istice negotiations." r ; - - :The communists suspended the talks last Thursdayi asserting an allied plane bombed the truce talk site the day before. - I t : Ridgway again made clear that he was ready to send his negotia tors back to Kaesong "when you are prepared to terminate the sus pension of armistice negotiations.- k The allied commander said that on last Thursday night Col Chang Chun-san, communist liaison offi cer, had refused an allied request to continue - the investigation in daylight. ? ; i jf . " "The offer you now intake to permit a reinvestigation after this lapse of time could serve' no pur pose than to continue this unjusti fiable delay in the armistice nego tiations, j i 5 New Atomic f - --: -'. ' t , I - Due in Nevada WASHINGTON', A u f.! 28 -(JPh- oovernmeni- scientists are plan ning to set off a new series of atomic explosions on their scorch' ed testing site near Las Vegas. wev. " i The atomic energy commission (AEC) announced today ithat the highly secret experiments will start in tne near future and will Include detonations of both ordinary high explosives and the nuclear explo sives. :;. f i Radiation from some of the ex plosions will extend qve Nevada ana into other sections Of the coun try, AEC said, but there is no cause for alarm. ; s . ! 'All' necessary precautions. In cluding radiological surveys and patrolling of the surrounding ter ritory. Will b undertaken to in sure that safe conditions are main' tained," its . announcement said. AEC added that "off-site radia tion" from previous experiments in Nevada was "far below" levels which could be harmful to humans, animals or crops... .'-4,, 1 : There was no hint as to the exact nature 0 the new, expert menu. i 1 ; v. Western International At ' &lm-Tri-Cl ty, rain, b At Tacoma 0-S, Vancouver AT SpokaneJVictoria, rain, i At Wonatchee-Yakima, rain. I "':': Coast Leagve ' I At Honywood-Seattle. rata.1 At Saa Diego-Los Angeles., rain. ' Only gmmes scbediuod. s American Leagne At ClevcUnd i. Philadelphia . At St. Louis S. New York X (10 Inn At Chicago 4. Washlngtoe s (10 inn. a wvirwi a, oiion . National Leagvel At Kw York , Pittsburgh X.. At Brooklyn 9, ClncinnaU L At Boston 0. Chicago 1. r At Phuadelphia 0. St. Louis 1. Series Blasts City Council to Tighten Business License Policies r.. By Robert E. Gangwmre I City Editor. Tne Statesman A sterner city licensing policy is in the makins; i around city hall these days. , . ? r Without much fanfare :the city council has established a license committee of three aldermen who already are indicating TthereH be some changes made. ; j ..---" Headed by Robert F. White, this committee has plowed into the new job of giving all license applica tions a closer scrutiny than ever before, then making recorpnenda tions to the dty council as a whole for final action.?-- t ,:-. One of the first changes is es tablishment cf a card Lis tystea to keep tab on license holders from one license to the next. "As it is," declares Chairman White, "about all the dty council has to go on is whether 4 license- applicant has a criminal record.' Under the card file being kept oy etty police department which works closely with, the licensing committee, various pertinent in orest Fwesz Robert WalkeiV Film Actor, Dies nOLLTWOOD. Aug. tS-(AF) Actor Robert Walker, J2, died last nifht at his heme. Police said atteodina- pbysMiaJM and av fire department Inhalater aqoad tried fatilely U revive h him after he became unconscious. - One of the doctors told the coroner's of flee that it i; was deatb doe to natural eaanes. He made his film debut in the tide role of "See Here, Pvt. Har trove.". - ! School Board -With Salem's' 1951 school con structlon program now in a race against school opening date a week fronTi Monday, the school district board of directors turned its at tention Tuesday to 1952 construc tion needs. " V f Coming into "focus but still In preliminary talk stages - are the south Salem hieh -school, a Mid die Grove addition and new ele mentary schools in east Englewood and in the South jzth street area All require architect's planning and -final board authorization. The South Salem High would re quire a bond issue vote of the public. The immediate elementary school expansion now believed .necessary might or might not be arranged so as to keep within funds on hand and due from this year's proceeds from the already- voted serial levy. :! That was the picture sketched in for the school board by Su perintendent Frank- B Bennett at Tuesday nights meeting n the public school, administration building. . The superintendent said his pre liminary studies indicated an east Englewood school should! have priority among elementary school projects, but he wanted the board and a citizens committee to sit down soon to a detailed planning session on the construction mat ter. - -- - . An east Englewood school would be located between the present Englewood, Washington and Lin coin schools, all of which are heavily populated because of the concentration of families in resi dential areas east of Salem. ; Even with a new 12-room schoo both Washington and Lincoln would need additional classrooms by 1955, on the basis of birth rate statistics, said Bennett. ! . (Additional school board news on page 2). j'.,-. Senate Groups Set Foreign Aid Figure WASHINGTON. Aug. 28 -(SV Two senate committees recom mended today that the - United States spend $7,535,750,000 build lng up the defenses of foreign na tions allied with it against com munism. - I President Truman had requested $8,500,000,000 for the program, but the foreign relations and armed services committees cut the figure by $964,250,000. The house sliced $1,001,250,000 off the bill when it passed it by a 260 to 101 vote on August 17. Thousands Perish In Manchuria Flood TOKYO, Wednesday, "Aug. 29 (AVMukden radio said today that floods two weeks ago , in ( Man churia killed 1.800 persons and 3,000 persons still were missing. The floods on August 13 and 14 washed out the main rail line between the big industrial city of Mukden and the port of Fairen. The broadcast said the line was restored yesterday by 21,000 work ers. formation as well as criminal files : will be recorded, including any ' complaints received . about a li censee and their processing, minor brushes with the law or sanitation authorities, changes in a licensed business or its neighborhood and other facts.- . ... Aimed at Taverns '.'-- u , .The alderman frankly says this card file system was aimed pri marily at beer tavern license holders. - - : White's committee includes' Al dermen Albert H, GiUe and Thom as Armstrong. They see the new system as a better way of foUowinz up on licenseej to tet tint they conduct their business according to stan dards of the law and the snore general standards of "public wel fare" which the council Is powered to consider. System Untried Athourh the card Ce system Is untried as yet, the aldermen's com mittee now is invest: jaursg license Scans Plans for Construction applicants. Capitol Tourists Ignore Rain r . :rxrp 1 "'71k - -,. t" r - ' ' . " TTTZ-' ' . . . J ,.. t - . . ' 'Jf -a. . . s - - - t , , v "r- ' -;r 5 i " V - i - - " -"' - ,-".f "-' r ' ' ' 'l S ... I i; , -x"-' . ' i I ' " J., . -;::-, v: . -I c.' - f-i , - Unimpressed by Salem's first heavy downpour in 54 days was this quintet of small fry on a tour or Oregon's capitoi Taesoay. The afternoon shower, second of the day, sent other pedestrians scurry ing for shelter of buildings and automobiles. The rain, accompan ied by a mild electric storm, did little more, than settle the dost and pat a slippery finish on roads and street; (Statesman Photo). Truman Lectures New Czech ..." L Envoy; Demands WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 APf- President Truman, In an unusual lecture to the new Czech ambassador. : today called on Communist Czechoslovakia to free. William N. Oatis, Associated Press correspond ent imprisoned on "espionage" charges. While anti-communist Dickets paraded outside the White House, iftr. Tniman declared that ever Czechoslovakia and Foreign Min ister Jan Masaryk was "mur dered,' relations with the United States have deteriorated. The best way to improve them, ha said, is to free Oatis. v '.. j Mr. -Truman had a four-muiute meetings with, the ambassador, Dr. Vladimir Prochazka, when the lat ter called to present his creden tials. Usually such ceremonies are confined to the reading of cut and dried statements. . ; j What happened this time,' ac cording to Presidential Press Sec retary Joseph Short, was this: t The ambassador said he hoped to make our relations more cordiaL The president replied that the best way to make our relations more cordial was to send our Associated Press Correspondent Oatis home, v. The president further said that relations between our two coun tries had deteriorated ever since Jan Masaryk was murdered. I Be fore that the president said that relations between the U. S. and the Republic of Czechoslovakia were wonderful -. ,": ' "S '" "He-mentioned the extreme friendliness of our political rela tions and the back and forth trade relations. But now the president said it -looked as if our relations would not bo what they' had been unless Czechoslovakia changed its policies. The ambassador made no response to those remarks." $ Already two or three new liquor license applicants" have . been turned down by the council on the strength of the committee's recom mendation. ..-; . , " - L - 1 This week , the committee L re ported it had refused a new pawn broker license to an applicant wno had already leased a building and moved equipment here. In this ease the committee had been dele gated the power to act by the full COHncIl. X.;-::.i V:.;: -.; j . Chairman White explained that some reports from other cities in which the applicant operated-had not been favorable, and that ques- ticnj had been raised over the pro posed location and the advisability of licensing a pawnbroker who conducted similar business in other cities. -i ! The committee's function is not limited to investigation of a license applicant. A broader Job is study of license fee revisions that have been frequently suggested j by members of council or budget com Oatis Freed - since the reds seized power In ons As Funds Voted OLYMPIA. Aug. aWflVLegis- lative action was completed to- nicht on the state's $680,000,000 budget bill, enabling the state to start paying its bills again. Governor Langlie signed the bill tonight after it was rushed tnrougn the legislature today with a speed new, to this special session.." The senate passed the bill 34 to 9 and the' -house quickly concurred : in two senate amendments by a vote of 70 to 18. The legislators : turned immedi ately to the second important function of the session raising money to meet an anticipated $30,000,000 deficit. State Auditor Cliff Yelle said be will start immediately to write checks to pay welfare grants, state employer salaries and various contractural obligations of the state. Virtually no" checks have been written since last Monday when the state supreme court ruled .the former appropriations bill unconstitutional. mittees, i ' Fees' Said Too Lew- Many officials have -been out spoken in the feeling that most of Salem license fees are "way too low, They cite, for etanv - hotel fees are based on 29 cents per room per year, and that pawn shops pay soo a year. .... "And our police department has to have "a man make a complete check every day for possible stolen goods among items handled in a pawnshop," Chairman White said. - Another point of law under the committee s consideration has to do with licensing taverns. The state law says the license holder should be the person actually op erating: the establishment, not an absentee owner. White pointed out, adding. "We are determined that the city of Salem should see that this is carried out." Licenses Xenewable Most licenses are renewable an- Lnually or whenever the licensed TTJ7 1 e . wasningt Checks Good if emrm Logging Ban Eased; Storm Guts Power Very welcome rain put a dam per on the Sardine creek forest fire Tuesday, sending North San tiam residents hack to their homes and loggers back to the woods. A few hours after the rain start ed falling all oVer the. parched northwest, Oregon State Forester Dwight Phipps ordered the log- gingi ban lifted in eight Oregon counties. However logging was still banned in all forest protective districts west of the Cascades be tween 2 p. m. and 9 p. m. when ever the humidity falls below 35 per cent. - Detroit area .residents.- chased from their homes last week by the spreading Sardine - creek blaze, were told they could return Tues day, State Civil Defense 'Admin istrator Jack A. Hayes reported. The North Santiam highway was re opened to travel. Work was ex pected to resume on Detroit dam immediately. " Destroys Hops The rain, and - accompanying tn under and winds, was-not all blessing though. The. storm de- Salem's summer-long drouth disappeared under .51 of an inch of rain Tuesday and the weatherman forecast more show ers for today. The rainfall was the first for the city since July f 'when .17 of an inch was re corded, and was more than has fallen In the three previous months combined. Most of Tues day's total feU daring the three boor period after 2 pjn. stroyed an estimated 88 acres of late ! hops in the Independence area; L. H. Dalkenberg, owner of one of the hardest hit acreages re ported. Dalkenberg reported the loss of 4S acres; other ranches in eluding that of Mike Walker re ported lesser losses. The lightning caused spotty out ages in Portland General Electric company power service through out the Salem area Tuesday night. Worst hit was the Mission Bottom area where a small substation transformer was blown. Part of the Keizer area was darkened for about an hour when a tree limb tangled lines, blowing many fuses. Strikes in the airport area also caused temporary outages. All services was restored by 11 p. m company officials reported. Many Accidents Several auto accidents were also blamed to rain-slicked highways. Two persons were injured, one of them hospitalized, because of the mishaps. Mrs. Ella Hatch, Albany, was in Salem General hospital with injuries suffered in an acci dent on' North River road which occurred . during . the afternoon's first shower. But along the Crelines in the Santiam canyon there was only thanks Ict the storm which dump ed a half inch of rain on the stub born Sardine creek blaze. The fire was under control for the first time since its start a week mtzo. Mopping up of spot fires was un - derway. ' I The damn weather also took the edge off the Vincent and Hubbard creek fires in Douglas county. In Washington, all forest fires were reported under control. First Saow Reported i irst inow of the season .was reported in several widely separa ted - areai Tuesday. Four .inches fell on the slopes of Mt. Hood dur ing lot day. Brushes of snow were noted on the upper Breiten - bush, at -Marion lake, at Crater lake and. on ML Rainier In Wash ington. ' Eight counties reopened to log ring : at midnight Tuesday were Lincoln, .Polk, Benton, Clatsop, Columbia, Washington, 'xlllamook and YamhilL . Foresters remained cautious despite the improved conditions and the weather bureau warned ttiat the relief from the dry spell might be brief. Weath ermen predicted that most rain clouds would be gone by Thurs day. t business has a change of address or ehanre of ownership All 11 - Mnvt .r. mrA wihrth ,rT 7 ' i wen, aiter Tecummenaaaon zrom dry officials and, in rsre cases, public- hearing. Sometimes, pro- test, from affects rlHyr. are re- ceived and weighed along with the Za .w.tK Jk- license application. . Among businesses and individ uals now licensed by the dty are auctioneers, auto wrechers, bill posters, billiard and pool rooms. bowling alleys, card root as, dance halls, food handlers, pawn brokers. taxis, buses, garbage, utilities.!..,.: rocnif houses, toft drink jdls- Mnsers. theatres, circunes. . sirn hanging and electric ehms, milk cis tri outers, peacuers. solicitors. vending machines, fortune tellers. rOBiCAST itmrn u. a. wwum- tm A nominal spplicatlai fee is 1 paid by liquor hcense applicants, SBd tonigbt. High uxuy sear U: low but the state gets tne iunse iee, then returns to the dties som. its liquor revenue, to otlset city enforcement costs. Oregon hired new prison warden ToesdayVirgil j J. O'Malley, 48, ho has bera associate warden of tht California atate prison at Soledad. " LJ H O'JIalley replaces George Alexander as harden bnt I the latter was named simultaneously to the newly I flln Tuut ftf nriuni annvrinlmilMil i i Alexander remains in control e the penitentiary, it was Indicated by the board of control which said O'Malley would have charge of the custody of convicts but would be subject to Alexander's orders. Board members after selecting O'Malley Tuesday at an afternoon meeting in the state house, said they hoped the appointment would end trouble at the prison, where a recent sitdown strike ended with board assurances that a new war den would be appointed as soon as possible. . . i 13 Years In Prison Work. O'Malley. who has been in pri-' son work IS years and in the army 18 years ; before that, takes over in two ; weeks. . " ' " CMaUey will get $7,900 a year while Alexnder gets $100 ' more than that. During legislative criticism last spring the board started .looking for a warden and received 37 ap plications for the job. The board interviewed four applicants Tues day, including O'Malley. O'Malley has a wife, a 14-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. sergeant Major After! serving a year in the navy he joined the army in 1920. He left the army in 1936 after rising to the rack of sergeant major. In that year he became a correction al officer in New York City, serv ing in that capacity three years. inen came three years as a New York state correctional captain and two years in the New York state department of correction training office. O'Malley came to Walla Walla, Wash, j and served 2? years as assistant superintendent of the Washington state- prison. He then was manager of prison industries at FoLsom. Calif., for a vear. as sociate I warden in charge of cus tody at the California Vocational institute for 3 years and then a similar; job at Soledad. O'Malley, a native of Mechanics ville, Iowa, has studied criminolo gy in courses at New York uni versity and the City Caller nf New York. Alexander has been orison war. dea here 13 years. Control Board To Cut Junkets By Officials The state board of control de clared Tuesday it is going to crack oown on travel by state officials. However, it voted 2 to 1 to let Dr. Irvin Hill, superintendent of the Fairview home for feeble minded, go to Lander, Wyo- to present a paper, it will be read at the j Mountain States regional conference Of the American Asso ciation on Mental Deficiency. The trip win cost $123. Gov. . Douglas McKay voted against the trip, -asserting Hill could mail the paper and have somebody else read it. He also be- I lieves that the association should I Day for the trip, 1 - Secretary of State Earl T. New- bry and State Treasurer Walter J. I Pearson voted to let Hill make the trip. , They said Oregon snouia I contribute that amount toward improving care of the feeble minded' on a national scale. State: Finance Director Harry Dorman opposed the trip, assert ing he'sp runing down the amount soent tor , out-of-state travel. Dorman said that the boara ot higher ; education spent $134,000 1 for out-of-state travel in the past two years, but that he cot tne leg- islature to reduce his by $40,000 for the current two-year budget period. iThe $40,000 is being cut by stopping professors from going to meetings to read papers, Dor- man added. Dorman . added later that the I higher education board has "been I very cooperative with me in the I program to cut out-of-state trav- eL" The board, Dorman said, has never abused the travel privilege. out Its out-of-state travel budget is larger than other departments because; more xt Its employes must travel. mj Henry Ford Suryive8 Polio 1 DETROIT, Aug. 28 -CPV- Mrs. 1 Hem7. rd.11 rovertn I a mud attack of polio at the Ford home In Crosse Pointe. I Her husband, president of the fJ0- Mow Co? disclosed today . ac 'ora nospixai a k ago hunoay and was re leased last Friday. He added she has suffered no crippling! effects from the disease. I : Mia. rrs. portind sa rrudt SiYork I w,;i.mi sr .is vomszn f fr,- . mft". Itj,,, Yar Lan fear - vrmi M O i 4C1S - S?. 1 sa 7 a-T . S4 ' 5 New Warden d- I. V.' 4 T' k4 w- - 4 Ygfl 'J. b-MaBey. appelated' xaesday as new warden el Ore-, go state prison. : Says Logsdon Shared fronts - ' Mi! OREGON CITY. Aug. 28-VA Molalla tavern owner testified to-' day that Lonnie Logsdon, Clacka mas county coin machine operator, was paid a third of the winnings from a dice game at this year's Molalla buckeroo. j j f -s Frank Lowes, in whose tavern the game took place, testified at Logsdon's trial on a misdemeanor i-1 i . imouo( cuarge. t 1 1 Logsdon later testified that be, shared in profits from f "various games and amusements at the buckeroo, but be said he was not aware that the money earn from the dice games. . t - The jury's verdict lis -expected tomorrow. lit The charges against Logsdon grew out ox last spring's grana jury investigation of gambling in Clackamas county. Some; 100 ma chines, many of them belonging to Logsdon, were seized in a mass raid on taverns and night spots. ' Rejected Suitor Bites Off Tip of. Sweetheart's Nose S M : : ' DARNSTADT, Germany, Aug. 28HP-A rejected suitor flew into a fit of jealousy today arid bit eft the tip of bis sweetheart's nose at a village festival near here. The girl was brought to a Darn stadt hospital for treatment. An hour later her father arrived with the missing part of his daoghter'a nose. ' f Doctors said they didnt know whether it could be replaced, Flight of Hughes r Plane Delayed LOS ANGELES, AuJ 2S-(f Launching of Howard Hughes eight-engine "flying lumberyard" was postponed today "for a much as three months," a spokesraaa said. - I it The plywood monster; largest plane ever built, was to have been launched by September I under terms of a contract , with the RFC, which helped finance the con struction, j f I The delay announced today nas the approval of the RFC, the spokesman said. Hi. Batter Production In - Oregon Drops Sharply PORTLAND. Aug. 2-VBut- ter production in Oregon for July . declined 27 per cent compared with last year according to a re port for the U. S. department z agriculture. - -; s i r The report said 1,400,000 pounos were produced in July of this year compared with 120,000 during the same month of issu. . t j . MXS. TOWNSEXD DIE8 Mrs. Wilhemlna Bogue Townsend. 82, wife of Dr. Francis B. Town send, old age pension 'advocate, died today after an illness of more than a year. She suffered a stroke In DM and had been : declining since then. . , . f i t QUTJLXKO XX U. . j SAN FRANCISCO, Aug; 2S-(V . President Epldto Quirino of the Philippines arrived from Manila by air today oa a Journey that will take him to Washisgton, D. C, where he and President Truman will witness the algnicg: et a Unit ed SUtes-Fhilin tne motual de fense pact. ; I ' Tavern (hvfte -i