Li'ianon Slaying Solved :- VSXf Poll N DSD o,- 101st TEAB 23 PAGES . Hit Oregon' Sigtesxicau JSoIeta. Otxyon, Thursdor. Septexnbr 5. 1351 PEICE 5c t?0w la i ; Plane fife fflft.! 'rtl ffi! "Til (5 mS'fe if"rc& csrirmi tm ! . t - . V f ' ') i . ? " h If 1 " foUnoezd 1851 -1:1- ;4- - -- - -v:;' -; i-p :' 'It' -ute i f- m i :nn ' i- mm Mem mil Muss O o LEBANON, Sept. S State Police Pvt. Robert Rlffmaa pobtt te shot -hole fa door essiar of mountain bme whtra Jngnm was foand dead Tuesday morning. Ingram vu discovered stamped la reeking ehatr shewn la backgroand. Death mi canted by multiple head wounds from a shotgun blast, police said j ' i . j iXBANT, Sept S Archie Vlbbard. IS, (left) and Charles Kannoad Shires, 15, both of Sweet Heme, are showa la Uaa coaaty JU aft er beiax aesUoae4 today la eoaaeetioa with anotraa death of Her- bert Xnrram. -' "C-?"' - J!Th5 San Joaquin valley leapea Into - naUonal prominence Mm years ago astride John Steinbeck s best-seller, "Grapes of Wrath. Life magazine last week showed the other side of the valleys face tn an article on 'Shirtsleeve Millionaires.- They art the ones for tune favored who out of the ricn soil f the vaUey suitably water ed not only by H-two-O but by their own sweat (and that of theur laborers) have run their wealth up to the seven figure mark, most ly since the late depression. Cot ton.' beef cattle, grapes, potatoes - have paid off well. Or course ewernment price supports and aids and monetary inflation have -helped; but now they have arriv ed and the old San Joaquin has a different story to tell than it did when Steinbeck wrote- (Only the Dlifiht of the landless and ome imes Jobless farm workers is still deplorable in off seasons.) The article prompts the query: What does California have that Oregm doesn't have? Do we have a crop of post-depression and post world war millionaires up here too? Probably so, but pregonlans are' so phlegmatic they are more apt to hide than to flourish their wealth. - - - Our millionaire crop mostly has come out of he woods." For timber and lofting and lumber ing were the escalator to riches . lathis state in the last decade and a half. The one-time gypo-logger mar have run his shoestring into a sawmill and then into abig bank account Mills multiplied, and profit too. ome took out their cash by selling their nulls and timoer and settling with a 25 rr cent capital gains tax. Others ctared on- brought more J timber and gone into diversified manufacturing. Kywood'has beear. cuir-e a goldmine, dux xne m a uni que type of financing,' worker cooperative ownership, has divid ed the profits among a number f operations. , f Oregon has its farmers " who ' must brush the six-cipher class (Continued on editorial page 4) Anlms! Crcckcra X VVARRN COOOR1CH Tiit, csti I tnow pepp W a eo-ood oij i; I I '" IIH- "" ..cM ) j S" . t' - - - f k f . '; . ;);-r.-ji, 4 ! - , ' X.ai - 2 Siveet Home Boys Confess Slaying Man t Two boys 15 and 13 years old ednesday admitted tkilling a 70-year-old man near Lebanon and i miobotog tam of $861 it was an nounced by State i iPolice Capt. Ray ' iHowardLSi First degree ? murder I charges were filed by 'Linn county au thorities- at Al t bany against r' I Charles i Shlves, y : J 15, and ? i Archie Btraert lornm Vlbbard 13. The body - of Herberts i IngramJ was found by two loggers Tuesday at the elderly recluse's home be tween Lebanon and sweet Home Investigation indicated a shotgun had been f fired Into his head at two-foot range and Ingram's gun, apparently the murder iweapon, was found later under a pile of fence rails two miles from' the house. 'V ! '.' : ' 1" " Jl - State police arrested the two boys at Independence where they had been working in hopyard, after young Shlves forged Ingram's name to a $165 check, said Capt Howard, i ' i: - When questioned about the check, Shives confessed the mur-1 der and later the other boy also made a confession, Ithet-captain said. The boys were Identified 'as neighbors of Ingram who bad done odd jobs for him. 1 1 ti Capt Howard said the boys told state police and Linn county off! cers that they shot Ingram with his own shotgun after discarding plans to dump the old man, into a well OB to beat him with! a ham mer. Then they took Ingram's wal let which contained $50, said Capt Howard. ! 5 ? f - ' (Additional details Son page 17.) Policeman Fintis HaPPyEndingi f To Search for Boy 1 When five year old I Bobby Brans, 753 N. Winter st, was missed from his home "about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, rescuers Immedi ately thought of nearby MU1 Creek and railroad tracks. ' - City police . and thers i scoured Uhe area fruiUessly. Then Sgt Wal ter Esplin left the night desk to Join the search because he couldnt stand the waiting, his captain said. The search was an hour old when Esplin found Bobbys-sound asleep, wrapped in a blanket in his own basement ; 1 . S ! s -. Coast League At Portland t. Lo Artf eks: . ' At SeatU 4. Oaktsnd S ' At Hollywood S. &crrDjto t IS taa 1 " - v . ; . , At Saa Xraneweo s. sa IB eg? S , , , - American Learae? -. i At NW Yrk 1. Boston i At ClevcUnd S. Detroit S i - ' -At PhiLMlelphia 4-. WashiSJ-.Ott 1-7 At St IXHUS-Oucaf o. rata. j , -f ; H Xstional Learme 1 1 . At bMUjni a, PbiiCIfht a At BfU S-l. New York 3-4 At Chicago 3-t, St Umis 24 (1st II taa.) . . . - i r At Xtttaburga S, CtadBaatt $ - III I.I HI 11 I I . 1. i.i li . .. .-- , ., . 1, 11 4 Contract Awarded By C. Yates McDaniel ' : WASHINGTON, Sept 5-tfVAt- omic powered flight moved anoth er step from the- laboratory to ward the factory st : tday with the award of a contract for devel opment of the first airplane. ' - The air force confined the dis closure of its plans to a statement that the aircraft's frame will. be developer1 at the Consolidated iVultee corporation's Fort Worth, Texas, plant, v -v----.. There was no detail 01 any na ture, but the bare- announcement was a signal that theoretical work has advanced to the stage where experts are convinced they can have a plane with virtually limit less range and no refueling prob lem. - - -. -I Officials in close touch with the development , work, however. stressed the belief that, actual flight with the new power still is years away. . - ,i : Engineers now lieve that .it will be po&ible to construct an at omic engine ; and its protective sheathing to weigh not more than 100 tons. This is the approximate weight cf the power plants and fuel supply of the new B-52 heavy bomber and the latest all-jet B-36, so an atomic powered plane might not have to be much bigger. 1 Blood Day in Ifs blood day in Salem again today, with - scores of donors signed up in. the Red Cross blood collection program, r for appear ances at the downtown armory blood center between noon and 3 pjn. f .- . ; . . Officials of the Marion county Red Cross chapter are aiming for a 2l)0-pint co lection today, to meet needs both locally and among the armed services overseas. They ask particularly for "O" type blood which is the most needed In the military quotas. ". Among industries, offices and clubs providing donors today are Oregon Pulp & Paper, expecting to have 40 on hand, and the state industrial accident commission, 10 Durins; Winter i Portland General Electric and two other large Oregon power companies Wednesday asked for temporary electric rate increases to offset the expected additional cost off steam-generated power next winter. ! Portland General Electric, Paci fic Power and Light and Moun tain States Power company, told Public Utilities Commissioner George Flagg that they want tem porary surcharges of 5 to 25 per cent according to how much ex tra steam generation is needed. PGE estimated the average sur charge at the outset would be 24 per cent but these probably would decline in 1952. They estimated the power com panies of Washington and Oregon would have to spend $5,000,000 extra for steam generation : this winter because of the huge de mand for power and the predic tion that stream flow will be so low that hydroelectric plants will be putting out less power than usual. -, i, - . . ,-r If Flagg grants the request, he would determine from month to month how much the surcharges should be. l ConsEscape From an 5 ' two state prison inmates es caped from . a run guard while on picking prunes in the Sunny-' aide district about 2 pjn. Wednes- They were Virg3 U Schapa nasky, 23, serving a two-year term for obtaining money tinder false pretenses from Umatilla county. and Jarnesx T. Smith, 23, serving three years lor robbery from Multnomah county. Deputy . War den E. C Hauey said. ; A state police road block near Jefferson was run at high speed late last night prison . officials said, presumably by one or both of the men. "i.. , ... - ; , 1 TRUMAN IS MISSOURI INDEPENDENCE, Ma, Sept .5 -VPh Harry S. Truman returned to his home town again today after addressing the opening ses sion of the Japanese peace con Today Electric Rate Raise Asked win? ference., tt San Francisco jester dar . .'; . - Gromyto'sTry To Delay M eet !, By Robert Eansoa I - SAN FRANCISCO. Sept 5-Pr- Soviet Russia, steam-rollered i in an attempt . to stall the Japanese peace conference, charged tonight the treaty nations have been asked to sign an "aggressive military alli ance wixn tne umtea aiates. i v Andrei Gromyko. Russians dele gate, said the proposed text was hot a treaty for peace, but a treaty for the preparation of a new war in the Far East" , ' 'i Gromyko's efforts to .stall the conference by . demanding that Communist China be invited to at tend were voted down by resound ing margins. . ! i ; Dean Acheson, VS. secretary of state, was. named president of the conference. ( M Even more 'reassuring-support of the American and British spon sored treaty was found in the 4t to 3 1 adoption of rules of procedure which would prohibit Russia and all other delegations from talking for more than one hour each, r - Only Poland and Czechoslovakia voted with Russia in opposing the rules. -.' j j - :--..: finale Set Saturday ! ! ? Thefe was a major effort under way - to ! get the - conference - over With so the signing i could take place as scheduled Saturday after noon. i - Jf - i The scowling Gromyko : came to the gold plush opera house podium with the caustic, critical attack that - American delegates t to the peace conference here had ex pected, but with this speech, Gro myko apparently had shot his bolt His cohorts from Poland, and Czechoslovakia, who vainly backed him on . the morning fight, were still to he -heard from, but it Was evident that the Iron Curtain coun tries had lost their chance to delay or disrupt the treaty signing. Near the end of Gromyko's talk, Percy C Spender of Australia, the acting president of the conference, interrupted the Russian and warned him he was making pro posals. . ! . , : Amendments are forbidden I by the rules. i ! 1 "No! I am making a statement in explanation of my position," Gromyko shot back. ; Proposals Listed . Gromyko then turned to the microphone and finished his blis tering attack, which actually in cluded the following amendment proposals: .-.-!" 1 f -. 1 Sakhalin should go to Russia. 2 The sovereignty of Japan control Ryukyu islands, instead of UJ5. control, ; , i f 3 All armed forces withdrawn within 90 days after treaty 4 A reparations conference set 5 Participation of Red China. ' 6 Ensure freedom! of speech and worship, etc i j 7 Ban all military organizat ions. ; ' ' - 5 , 8 Prohibit Japan from joining a military alliance against r any World War Two enemy, j 9 The treaty is "preparation of a new war in the Far East" . 10 Limit Japan's armed forces. 11 Limit military training, f 12 No mass warfare weapons. 13 --Demilitarization of the. Strait of Tsushima.-:;: " " "..!. I ' Accuse. U.S. ! - He charged that . the! United States was using Japanese material and labor and producing goods for use in the Korean fighting, where it was used under an illegal U,N. banner. ; : t " i ! ". - I : Gromyko charged In summing up that: the treaty contains no guarantees against Japanese mili tarism; clears the path for Japan ese participation in an aggressive military bloc in the Far East; lacks provisions for the estobllshmentof democratic rights In Japan; and will permit the resurgence of pre war "f ascist1 rule; violates -the rights of the Chinese people's re- Gjblic and added that it violates . S.-British agreements concern ing the making ot peace, in the Far East ' r-u, ,. At the close of his speech, dele gates on the floor applauded po litely. But the audience cooed. I Gromyko- strode briskly to his seat ignoring both reactions. - Gromyko placed special empha sis on the proposal to limit Japan's home security forces; M- "Japan must not have any bomb ers, he said, looking at the Jap anese delegation seated across the 'fin: - ait. 77 7S Portland - Saa fr&nciaco Chicaro ,,, ., ..,..;! 52 ' : AO- : SS trtcm S9 SO New York S3 JCft Winncttc llVff JJ feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. iicNary tlcJd. Salem): Geoeraily lair today exeeot for late Bixnt aad arly morni&f ekiudiJMsa. LiUie char? tn tempetar wiu um mgneax vximy aar It and th lewst torn rha near SO. SALEM FRXCEPITATIOM i Itac Start of Weather Year. Scot 1 This Year 4 '- 7-astYear; i Uortnal BeatenDovn . :. j i - : JOO - ; -! OS Pendleton Roundup Girls Greeted by Mayor t s- I ' . V ? i . One' of the more pleasant duties of Salem's mayor is to escort visiting lovelies daring their 'stay : In this city, as Mayor Alfred Loucks does above with the Pendleton Roundup court harrying to a luncheon . held in their honor by the governor's mounted posse. From left are Princesses Kathleen Folsom and ' Thelma Harvey; Queen Julie King, Mayor Loacks, Princesses Jean iAstnka and Crearh Brennaa. AU ; the girls tre IS years old. (Statesman photo.) r ' ' I ' ' " Iniuiic tiontb Ordered i NOGALES, Aria, Sept John Clark, president of the ln- dependent International Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers union tonight ordexed all locals affil iated with the anion to "take all : necessary , steps to have the ; membership return to soon as possible.' work as; l DENVER, Sept &-JP)-A federal district court order was issued to day to halt a strike strangling the vital copper, lead and zinc indus tries. Union officials Immediately recommended that locals comply by going back to work. ; U. S. Circuit fJudge Alfred P. Murrah of Oklahoma City signed the order under! the Taft-Hartley act, after President Truman had asked the justice department to take action. The strike started August 27. j '"' L I The temporary restraining order was termed "unfair and unjust" by the striking International Union of mine, mill and smelter workers (fND). It 1 effective until sept. 13, at 2 djb- MST. A hearing on a preliminary injunction will be held 24 hours prior to mat. , -. f t mm End Copper Strike Liquor Board Meinber to Movje f Into Role of State Administrator wmiam A. fttnffham. ' Portland automotive executive and himself A member of the Oregon nquor control commission, was selected Hr the aranmissian -Wednesday to become the new state liquor ad ministrator. , t He will step, into the $8,000 job October I, succeeding the recently resigned William Hammond. A re placement for Bingham on the liquor commission will be named by Gov. Douglas McKay. . i Robert L. Elfstronv new liquor commission chairman, said Bing ham accepted the position at the insistence of the other commis sioners VTiHIarn Spangler, Klam ath Falls; and Elfstrom. , a Bingham, 57 and an Iowa native, was with the Coca Cola company for 25 years. He has been Vice president ef Lee Cosart Motor Co. since ' 1943. . " .. "With a background of i more than 20 years as a successful busi ness executive, Bingham has' the moral toughness, the directness and the innate sense of fairness to do the job we want done, Elf strom said. . He added that lor same time he had thought of taking sotneoce from the city ball in Portland- This apparently was a reference to city commissioner Fred L. Peterson. But" Ellstrom continued, "...I 4 . Fair's Grand Livestock Awards Made .-1' " U .1 ' i - V. ". I v By :iJllle Im Bfadsen ': v Farm Editor. The Statesman STATE FAIRGROUNDS. Sept gon state fair reached its peak today as open class Judging nearea an end and grand champions were selected in virtually all breeds of swine, cattle, sheep and horses being shown here. In one of the .big special stock -t contests, the coveted sheep bell award was made to Kenneth McCrae Monmouth, for showing the best fToday at tlie Fair Thursday, September t a.m. Gates j open.' : t am- Health contest,! boys. It ajm. Health contest; girls. : 11 ajn. Free acts, adjacent to machinery building.' " 1 Hi a m. Horse ractog, includ ing Quo Vadis Chariot driving. 1:30 pjnV, Horse racing, in cluding Quo Vadis . Chariot driving. j i j ; 2 pjn. Free 'acts, adjacent to . machinery building. ' 4 p m. Jersey I breeders din ner, Golden Pheasant - ; 4:30 pjn. Present a t tern o f "Oregon's Grassman of: the year," agriculture pavilion. 7 pjn. Free acts, adjacent to machinery building. ; j , 4 k ' g pjn. Combined horse show f and rodeo, stadiunv ' . ; i S pan. Helene Hughes Tulip- Time revue, grandstand. became convinced It would be bet ter to have an administrator re moved as far from politics as pos sible. Bingham has no political ambitions.' , - - j tnniaa A. Cinghaia af Peraaad. mhttvm la aew state ilSSSr Ld - miiiistraior. J . , l ; . .,i j . i : : j 1 in Z r 1 - - , I- 4 v f Champion 5 livestock interest at the Ore pen of one breed - or sneep. ne showed four . beautifully formed, uniform Cotswolds. It was . the first time that breed was a win ner in the bell contest sponsored by American Sheep Breeders mag azine and Judged -locally, i Interest remained high in the youth work, the entertainment features and exhibits other than stock Wednesday, when 26516 persons attended the fair, i Last year's Wednesday crowd totaled 30.020. Paid l attendance today was 16 ,573, down from last year's Wednesday total paid of 22,016. Crowd at Races - t;: . i In the popular horse races, a large crowd turned out to watch the Governor's handicap and oth er races. The day's pari-mutuel betting total was. $77,748 in nine races, compared with 1950's Wed nesday total of $77,810 in 10 races. For the second time in his act ive 4-H work of recent years, Jer ry Wipper of -Turner turned the well-nigh impossible trick of cap turing both the championship and reserve championship in 4-H fat lambs. The Southdown cross he showed was his third grand cham pion lamb. His reserve champion was a purebred Southdown. Turner Girls Win i t Two Turner girls,; meanwhile; were in on the day's 4-H honors, with Pat Ahrens showing the top pen of three - arket lambs (South-1 down cross) and Margie Drager won a top frozen food scholarship for freezing 48 containers of fruit canning 99 quarts and 31 pints of fruit and making 74 jars of lams and jellies all during the eve-; nings of recent weeks when she was bean-picking by day. ? I In other 4-H highlights today Joyce Mount of Salem won a 4-H summer school scholarship for ex hibiting a winning cotton work dress, while similar scholarships went to Peggy Ragan, Pendleton, school dress and play clothes; Mar ilyn i Morrison, Tro:tdale, school, dress, blouse and skirt; 1 Helen' Weroster, Portland, best dress; Carolee Wyalt Eagl Point party dress, nd Doris Pierson, The Dalles, tailored dress."; - ! i Livestock judging hot and fast to the 4-H division. Freckled Ver non Haley, 17, Bonanza, showed his sleek Hereford steer to beef showmanship championship and the Albert Riney trophy, lie won out over Gary Cooler, 13, Dallas, who became Junior championship in his second state fair appear ance, ' 1 t : (Additional details on 1 pages 2, J, 4, 18, 17) i i , .- i CAR PRICE RISE DUE - , i I WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (JPH Price Director Michael V. DiSalle said today the nation's auto mak ers will probably .be granted a 0 to 8 per cent boost in the factory Price of new cars. DiSaUe's agency i'a ur 'w1'-"11 orwjr u u- i sued late, Fxidax Russian-Xype rri i n . t lamisoeenin Korea Again ! v 4 '! ! I ' By Tom Bradshaw i -". TOKYO. Thursdav. Send 8 Gen.' Matthew B. Bidgway today hurled - a blistering ' criticism ' at the red's Korean war commandm and challenged them to switch th suspended talks away from Kae SOrg.';:f;'':: - . i i -- '' '-"- .; ' The sunreme allied mmmmHw refusing to give an inch ton do. mands the reds say are required to gi tne tauu going again, let fly his sharpest statement! t He not OnlT. flat v deniftd rnm. munist charges of allied air and groun violations at Kaesong kmt ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Korea, Sept C -JPH II as dream of Chinese tank sapported troops made a llghtnlag attack today lagalnst aa allied ; forM -west of Yonchon, 35 miles north of Seeat : "f; - , An allied tank and Infantry force battled west to aid the attacked troops. After several hours .f fighting, the task foreo still was some distance from taa assaulted nnit suggested they were "Initialed end yci wriraiea oj your lOTCeS. i . Z TA n., RidKwT recommended that his liaison officers meet with reds six milea port ,f v ,.,,. - ana chose some other site; in too interests of achieving "a Just and honorable military armistice. xie auiea commander made tbo SUezestion nnl f, . - .w .uvu, UICS Russian-type tanks were report ed -rumbling along ; the iKoreaa ' warfront for the first .time .stoecT ' last winter. i . -,- , -4 h . S . return sharpened silled belief -that "70D.00O reds, Judinf ' thousands of Caucasians and back ed by at least 1,000 planes, were massmg for p a new offensive against th an!. . ir T Berates Commies rlr-'llV: ! , iudgway belabored the redaj constant i.n..ti... t . the long .series of heated exchang es which followed suspension of th talks two weaks ago. : tie saia he suspected they "hava ulterior motivM nt breaking off negotiatiWi an mimuiih io pin xne Diame on thm allies when the reds are at fault , nis suggestion that another site be chosen recalled his original stand for the' talks io be held aboard the Tlanfch kncnlfot mVit Jutlandia off the northeast coast i;narges fliaao r-rf , s The reds broke ott th talks, charging . that an : alliedi plana bombed Kaesong the nlghtibefore. Since then the reds have made a series of such charges 4- all denied by the . allies.- n : ,f ; :f; Eight T-34 ;tanks, the-standar Russian! tank! in .world war H, were spotted by ground and air observers in the vicinity of Yon chon, 35 miles north of SeouL - Allied fliers saw two ?of the " tanks firing on United Nation infantrymen. , t, ; . The hard fighting presently is in the east. - , t ? j "Bloody Ridge Falls Bitterly-contested "bloody rid- , ge, 16 miles north of parallel 38, fell with surprising ease to U. S. Infantrymen in that sectoir Wed nesday. The occupation ended a 17-day battle. - v . i The victory went to the U. a. second division , the veteran outfit which broke the back ol the reds last offensive in May. "Bloody ridge" is .eight milea north of Yanggu, a town ah equal distance north of parallel 33 in east-central Korea. Tha ridge la 3,000 feet high and a; mile long. It Wit an imruSrfani v!4a. i the limited offensive which has carried tbo allies' five miles for ward over the ridges and peaks north of Yanggu. , -i Kansas Area. 0 es i KANSAS CXTY, i ept.5VTha turbulent Kansas (ICaw) river waa on a rampage again i today from Topeka to its mottthl at jKansaa City where weary people Still ara digging out cf the nation's costliest single disater-4h 2hi biliica dollar flood cf earl:r July, f : Flood - wracked North Topeka was again a ghost town after tta 3,000 residents were evacuated as a precautionary meastrre.l . Metropolitan Kar.s::s City's in dustrial areas got r - : today, fc. another overilow is Ui Kan sas Inched up toward a c-c-t cf 31 feet twe feet over clke capacity due at noon tomorrow. -: This mark would b far t hort of the 515-foot i crest cf t.jnaaa moth July overflow. ;,. : j ;,. Evacuateda Flo 1 Taa ditis JO !-' i 'j -. ?. t ti