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, -l . I. -"' ;f ' 'j v j 1 ; UX-i.--.-rl" - y k. v . ' :. Draws First Bonus Application jf jf POUNDDD 1651 101st YEAR W PAGES Th Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Saturday. October 13, 1951 PRICE 5c No. m u i. ' "V "V. 'NX Hi 7 I" . 4 - .. - . J 1 .' V'-.Y"' teOUNDOD! 1651 1 1 -' 6" - I J r 4 1 if Dallard A. Whitmore, Beaverton Jus his name wad by Got. Douglas McKay who drew his veterans bonus application first from the first of 19 sacks of applications Friday morninjr. Gov. McKay drew aDDlication after first drawinr a number to determine which sack would be opened. Pictured are, from WL WUllara Healy. assistant secretary of state; Walter Pearson, state treasurer; Fred Paulus, deputy state treasurer; Gov. McKay; and II. C. Saalfeld, bonus director. (Statesman photo). Former Veteran Bonus 00 TO) CEOS A cartoon by Ierblock in the Washington Post shows Prime Minister Attlee exclaiming to an other: "Good heavens What if we should win? The reference of course was to the coming election. Scattered about on the desk be fore the two were papers headed: Iran, Suez, Rearmament, Austeri ty, Inflation, Dollar Shortage. Well might Attlee raise the question. And well may the rival conservatives hesitate to take over the heavy burden which must fall on any British government. Even Churchill is rather coy in his pro-1 nouncements. He says he wants to put the "Great" back in -Great Britain; but his hint at forming a coalition government shows he has no illusions of the difficulties ahead. With signs pointing to a con servative victory and another sum mons from the throne to Winston Churchill to form a government we may speculate on the conse quences of this event on world politics. Churchill with his vast experience and his tense of drama will move promptly into the stage of world affairs. Already he has revived his idea of a meeting of the Big Three: Stalin, Truman and himself. With Churchill as PM and Eden as foreign ' minister firm hands at least would hold the tiller of British foreign policy. The Attlee government has been so involved with domestic mat ters that its record in foreign af fairs is vulnerable. Granted the tide has been running against im perialism, old style, -still the li ouidation of the old empire be comes a liability to the Labor party. It assented to the independ ence of India and Burma, con ducted an inglorious retreat from Iran, and sees impotent Egypt be coming obstreperous. Its manage ment of the Palestine question left both Israel and the Arab coun tries offended. Labor's foreign ministers. Ernest Bevm and Her bert Morrison, were not specially qualified for their posts. It will sot be surprising therefore (Continued on editorial page 4) Sinatra's Wife to File Suit for Divorce Soon BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Oct. 12 .n-Frank Sinatra's wife Nancy gala tonight she will file suit for divorce against the singer in Los Angeles Monday. Mrs. Sinatra's move, long-awaited by Frankie will pave the way for his marriage with Ava tiara ner. Animal Crackors y WARREN GOODRICH -a ."Since PeHr came home from camp. lie eets tie a pi?, sleeps Re e horn Cts vp wtia the birds t vArnvyPFC First With still no prospect of immin ent payment, processing of appli cations for the Oregon World War II veterans', bonus began Friday. A drawing by the governor put first in line a former army private first class who put In 2V4 years overseas and can collect the max imum $600.' J No. 1 was Dallard L. Whitmore, 42, of Beaverton, an auto mechanic with 60 per cent disability. The drawing by officials was from some 19,000 applications that arrived in the 10 days after filing was opened. No Salem or Marion county men were among the seven envelopes pulled td start the pro cessing. X . Gov. Douglas McKay, who drew Whitmore's application, comment ed, "He has the first IOU from the state of Oregon." This was born out later in the day as the state bond commission held for more study the proposal to use state funds to buy the $40,- 000,000 in bonds needed to pay the bonus. Administrative Funds The commission voted to guar antee enough funds for adminis trative costs to process the appli cations, and officials said they would renew efforts with federal authorities to 1 clear sale : of the bonds to private -investors. De fense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson had ruled against their sale as con tributory to inflation. An offering of bonds for $500,000 in adminis trative costs received no bids last week. I Whitmore, whose application is one of about 140,000 expected by bonus officials, enlisted March 26, 1942. in Portland i and was dis charged Feb. 28, 1946. He spent 2Vi years in the European-African- Middle East theatre as a PFC with the 701st tank destroyer battalion. His service entitles him to the maximum bonus, on the: basis -of $15 for each month of foreign duty and $10 for each month! of dom estic service. Six Enlisted Men Others In the first drawing were, fn order, Leonard L. Baker, Port land, who served 1 1n the army; Einar Carlson Moen, Portland, coast guard; Stanford Revenue, Klamath Falls, army: John P. Hof fert, Tillamook, army; Harold War. ren Kerr, Molalla, navy; George E. Fisher. Nelscott. navy. All but one of the men had over seas service and all but one were enlisted men, Those participating In the event yesterday, under direction of Wil liam F. Gaarenstroom, state direc tor of veterans affairs, and H. C, Saalfeld. bonus director,! included the governor; State Treasurer Wal ter J. Pearson; Deputy Secretary of State William Healy; Ray Dorris of Portland. William C Dyer, Jr. of Salem and F. R. Pendergrass of Portland, members of the veterans department advisory committee; J. O. Johnson, Beaverton, chairman of 1951 house military affairs com mittee: William J. Ashworth, Port land, state VFW commander. (Additional details on page 3.) Gambling, Prostitution in Vancouver Described at VANCOUVER, Wash, Oct 12- (JPy-A picture of big time gamb ling in this border city was paint ed today by a series of witnesses who paraded before the Washing ton state legislative committee investigating crime. i A representative of the state tax commission testified that a bookie joint and two quizo (bingo) places grossed a total of approximately half a million dollars last year. A minister, fighting to clean up the town, said he personally knew about the three establishments as well as a house of prostitution and numerous places that i conduct card games, football, baseball and basketball pools. He charged that local officials were doing little if anything to halt gambling and prostitution. Other witnesses testified that gambling places were licensed to 1 jr , ; f f f & 'TOTr-i Iff Mw Applicant Bonus Already Spent, Reports First in Order PORTLAND, Oct 12-!p)-DaI-lard L. Whitmore, 42, Beaver ton, the first Oreren veteran to get a bonus when it is paid, said today "It's already used up. Whitmore, a rray-halred ease worker for the Multnomah county welfare commission, is eligible for about $600, the max imum bonus. "We need the money," his wife said. "Yon see we're roinr to have a baby in March. Oar first, too." ! . Whitmore said he mailed his bonus application Oct. S, two days after the state beran ac cepting applications. Whitmore, 60 per cent disabl ed, served two and a half of his four years with the army over seas, He was-with the pioneer platoon of a tank destroyer Bat-. Uallon in North Africa and Italy. "I wasn't wounded Just worn at," he said. Evangelism Adds 200 to Church Rolls More than 200 persons are to join Salem churches on the next two Sundays as a result of a visit ation evangelism campaign this week, the sponsoring Salem Coun cil of Churches announced Fri day. . The project was In preparation for the preaching mission here October 21-26 by Dr. E. Stanley Jones, well-known evangelist and missionary to India for 32 years. He is" on evangelistic tour for the National Council of Churches of Christ Dr. Jones will speak the open ing Sunday at a 3 pjn. rally in First Christian church and at 7 pjn. youth meeting in First Methodist church. He will address the students of Willamette unl versity Tuesday, October 23, at 10 a.m., Oregon College of Edu cation Wednesday and Linfield college Monday. During that week he will preach every night at 7:30 in First Chris tian church, as well as at service clubs and other meetings. The visitation, led by Dr. Carol Rldenour of Seattle, Involved about 110 persons from elgh churches. (Additional news of churchct on page 12). INSANE CRIMINALS CAPTURED UKIAH, Calit, Oct 12-)-All four criminally insane inmates who escaped during a riot at the Mendocino state hospital near here last night were recaptured today. Northwest operate by the city. - ! The preliminary city budget for next year shows that the city an ticipates it will receive an esti mated $63,000 in license fees and taxes on the establishments. Dr. Wade Carter, minister of the First Congregational church, was the first witness to appear as the legislative council's committee on state and local government, open ed a two-day hearing into crime. Dr. Carter said he was offered a check for $5,000 for the Com munity chest in 1949 by a John McGillivray, apparently to stop his fight to close down gambling. Carter, president of the Com munity chest that year, said he told McGillivray that he would continue to do everything m his power to close up his joint and that If McGillivray wanted to give I the check to the Community chest, Education Division Tops Chest Quota Majek Confident of Goal A boxful of money lifted the enthusiasm at Salem Communitv chest headquarters Friday as the annual fund campaign neared an end with some $32,000 still to raise. Lugging a corrugated carton and all smiles, Carl Aschenbrenner brought in $4,071 late Friday afternoon, putting the education division over the top and raising the overall chest total to $88,000 or nearly three-fourths of a $120,000 goal for this year. , Aschenbrenner's was the second chest division to exceed Its quota. The $4,071 from teachers and students beat a $3,900 goal and four or five schools have yet to report. . This money box wasn't the only encouraging sign Friday, accord ing to Campaign Chairman xxiwara For a man with $32,000 to raise in the next few days, Ed Majek was full : of earnest confidence. Knowing from the experience of many a money drive how much work remained to wrap up; xne campaign, he said simply: "We'll make it!" Convince Prospects I All day long he urged his volun teer aides to join him in the per sonal pledge he voiced at a di vision leaders' meeting at noon a pledge to stay on the job until every prospect is seen or recheck ed, regarding a chest contribution. "The money is there u we jusx go out after it" he said. I But he warned against thinking only in terms of dollars and cents and the statistics of chest support. He urged chest solicitors to con vince their prospects of the human values involved in the work fi nanced by the chest Highlights Reported Maiek i emphasized that 1 the statewide chest agenices cared for 155 Marion county youngsters m the past year and" that the local agencies reached 10,000 Salem area boys and girls. i v "We just cannot afford to let down any one of these boys and girls by failure, to reach our chest goaL ne Declared. - j Here were Friday highlights re ported! by Chairman Majek: The women's division under Mrs. Fred Anunsen pushed to ward its $9,700 goal despite the difficulty of losing many a home contribution from families where the husband gave for the first time this year in his place of em ployment i (under the labor-man agement committee plan of busi ness firm solicitation). j Plan for 1952 ! One section of the women's di vision, a team led by Mrs. George Bagnall in north Salem, complet ed its canvass so enthusiastically that the women decided to start organizing now for next year's effort. They raised $754 this year, . Terminal Ice & Cold Storage employes averaged over $9 in their donations, and every j em ploye gave. : A' si contribution came from a state institution employe despite that his family was so hard press ed by the recent cost of an ac cidental injury that fellow em ployes took up a collection to tide them over. FTNNEGAN TO SURRENDER ST. LOUIS, Oct 12-()-James P. Finnegan, former St Louis in ternal revenue collector, plans to surrender here tomorrow morning on a federal indictment charging him with . accepting bribes and with misconduct in office. Max. (3 6S n .. 68 Min. S4 63 47 - 4S Predp, Salem ,; Portland San Francisco Chicago ... - 1 .07 1.00 M New YoTk 63 49 tI7411tmta rivmr .I S f(L rcau. McNary field. Salem): Rain this morning becoming showery before noon: partly cloudy with few show ers this anernoon ana unuui. miu today near 61; low tonight near 43. SALEM PRECIPITATION Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept. This Year 6.45 Last Year 4.88; Normal , S.7S Crime he should turn it over to the treas urer. I Subsequently a check for $3,000 was paid to the Community chest. It was lolowed by monthly cnecics of $1,000 each. Dan A. Johnson, secretary' of the state tax commission, testified that the Vancouver -Sports club (listed at the same address as the Esquire Smoke Shop) grossed S235.000 In 1949. $229,000 in 1950 and $124,000 during the first eight months of this year. . Officials of Western Union and the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company told the -committee about telegraph and telephone equipment in two of the establish ments. Western Union said its in stallation, a connection with the International Continental - Press Racing Wire service, probably will be removed In view of the com mittee's hearings. iYiajex. Multi-BiUion Military Bill Voted in Senate WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 -UPh The senate voted $56,937,808,030 today to run the army, navy and air iorce for a year. It was the largest military, ap propriations bill passed since World War II.. Senators approved the measure on a -voice vote and sent it to President Truman for his signa ture. The house passed it on a voice vote last week. The bill is a compromise of v two military budgets passed previously by the senate and house. The measure carries these sums for the fiscal year ending next June 30: 1 - Air. Force $20,642,785,006 Army $19,888,032,006 Navy J. .$15,877,891,000 Defense Dpt. S 529,100.0O The armed services had a carry over of $37,000,000,000 from previ ous years. Thus they will have about $94,000,000,000 to spend this fiscal year. It is estimated, how ever, that they will use only about $40,000,000,000. The balance, will be committed for aircraft tanks, guns and other weapons which will not be delivered until after June 30. The bill has a provision in it to cut from 17 months to 16 the mili tary service of some World War II veterans recalled to the service in the Korean crisis. Second Vote Close After disposing of the defense measure the senate passed and sent to the president a bill provid ing s 1,042,867,887 for the opera lion of the state, commerce and justice departments and the fed eral judiciary in the current fiscal year. The vote was close 31 to 27. Now congress has ' only four more major money bills to nan die before its autumn adjourn ment Members are hoping to get away by the end of next week. Abortion Jury Hears Doctor PORTLAND, Oct. 12 4JPi- Dr. Roscoe C Wilson, a Salem phy sician, testified today at the trial or tn George H. Buck, Portland, charged with manslaughter by abortion. Dr. Wilson testified that he had round Mrs. Viola Cole Friday. 23 Salem, pregnant on examination in October, 1950. When he exam ined her again on Dec. 13 he found her pregnancy had been terminat ed, he said. Mrs. Friday testified yesterday that she had gone to Dr. Buck's office In Portland in December and that he performed an abor tion. Tfce case was recessed until Monday so the prosecution could produce its final witness, another pnysician. Yonr Commrjnitv Chert Supports Drive Wholeheartedly Mrs. James C. Stone Ce-chalrmaa Women's Dir. Among other things, the iCommu n i ty Chest supports organizations in which your and my chil dren partici pate every o ay. as a mother and a i. membar of our communi- ,ty, the Chest - ' has made me believe In it wholeheartedly. Goal $120,608; Drive Oct t-ll Strafing L.nar Stop Talk ! MUNSAN, Korea, Oct 13-(P) Allied and Red liaison officers today agreed to meet tomorrow td try to clear up all matters delaying a resumption of the Korean cease-fire negotiations. MUNSAN, Korea? Saturday. Oct 13-(P)-An allied team today in vestigated a communist charge that U. S. planes strafed the Pan-munjom-Kaesong neutral zone a charge that has jolted hopes for resumption of the suspended Ko rean truce talks. A radio message received here at noon (7 p. m. Friday; PST) said only that the investigating party ror me unuea nauons command was returning from Kaesong to anmunjom, six miles to the east t gave no other details. Preliminary Inquiry Allied liaison officers made a preliminary investigation of the charge as soon as it was reported Friday night The reds asserted that U. S. planes in a strafing at tack killed a Korean boy. j But even before the investiga tion, the Peiping radio; declared: i Observers here (in Kaesong) believe that this new serious pro vocation created by the American side gives rise to deep: misgivings as to whether the American side still has the slightest sincerity in preparing for the resumption of armistice negotiations.! ; The new communist charge latest among many - was that three American fighter - type planes, frying from the southwest wheeled over Kaesong and strafed an area to the northwest and the six-mile road stretch eastward to Panmunjom. i , To Cut Civilian Goods Output WASHINGTON. Oct 12 -pU The government is going to cut down on the manufacture of many civilian items, but believes there will still be enough for normal needs. This report came today from Manly Fleischmann, head of the Defense Production Administra tion (DPA), who announced that the use of metal in making house hold appliances and other con-; sumer goods will be reduced by about 11 Vi per cent beginning January 1. "The outlook is that; production of such civilian items as refriger ators, stoves, radio, television ses and home appliances of all kinds will be reduced," Fleischmann told a joint meeting of four con gressional committee, i "But because generally ample supplies of these products are now on dealers' shelves" the supply should be sufficient to meet nor mal consumer needs.. fT bovernment Salem theatres played best Friday to a movie Industry good wm delegation. Pic tared here at the Elilnsse theatre: (left to right, front row) Victor Jory, character actor who was raised In Salem; his father. E. A. : Jory. 425 Hoyt t; screen writer Frances Goodrich, Gvn Douglas McKay, starlets Celleea Miller as Linda Douglas, beth f ermerly of Portland; second row, writer Albert Hackett actor Joseph CaHeia. Mrs. Arthur Adamses and Albert Forman; 'top, Arthur Adamson, Portland theatreman, and Wallace . Cewea and Lee Ilcndersea ef the Ferman Theatres In Salem. (Statesman photo.) (Story en : pare 2.) Lowering Rivers Draw Hints xf Power Shortage :- i TACOMA, Oct 12 -(JPh J. H. Gums warried northwest power users today that distribution of steam generated power will be gin sometime next week, barring a heavy rainfalL The defense electric power ad ministration official said river levels have fallen away from the peaks to which heavy rains late In September . swelled them. They are getting perilously near to a point at which hydroelectric power will not be sufficient he declared. Four Fearedj Lost in Boat Plane Mishap ! SEATTLE, Oct 12-W-An eld erly couple from Van Nuys, Calif., was swept to sea tonight and two persons attempting to rescue them were also believed lost in a series of mishaDS at the mouth of the Ro&ue river. ; on the southwest Oregon coast. , . The Van Nuys couple was iden tified by 13th district coast guard headquarters as Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Grant about 60. The coast euard said their boat, a 19-foot outboard, became disabled while they were fishing near the river's mouth. i Then came this sequence of events: Sweat Out to Sea The Grants anchored and Andy Moore, a fisherman, put a line aboard the boat The small craft capsized, however, throwing the Calif ornians into the water. ( They were swept to sea by the extreme ly turgid waters oi tne wina whinned river. . iww- Vance Scott and Roy Radar took off from a nearby airport at Gold Beach. Ore- to assist in rescue operations and their plane crashed about 900 yards onsnore. it was badly wrecked and water was run ning so high that no otner rescue craft could reach the plane. The coast guard said it be lieves all four .persons have been drowned but the fate of Radar and Scott will be determined when the high seas wash the plane wreckage ashore. j Bold Little Hope ! ' "They may be alive and badly injured aboard the wreckage," a coast guard official said, "but we don't see how they could have survived." i The Grant boat capsized about 5 p. m. and the plane was wrecked an hour later. It was estimated at 8:30 p. m. it would take another hour or more for the wreckage to be washed ashore. Coast guard vessels cannot cross the bar at Rogue river except dur ing periods of extremely high tide and local boats are not big enough to take into the boiling surf, of ficials said. VIRGINIA FIELD WEDS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif- Oct 12 -MVBlonde Virginia Field, Bn tish born movie actress, was mar ried tonight to Actor Willard Par ker in a three minute ceremony. Movie Stars Starlets Visit Salem i : y . ; - I Gains Up To Mile - ' v.r :i : Reported U. S. ARMY HEADQUARTERS. KOREA, Saturday, Oct 13-Ay-Three Allied divisions opened an attack today along a 22-mile front -in Central Korea and gained up'to a mile against feeble Chinese Red resistance. I i i The whole-Korean front ex ploded in the heaviest fighting since last May, with Allied units suffering reverses at points in the east and west Friday. ' Today's limited objective attack in the center was south of Kurn song, a Red stronghold 29 miles north of Parallel 38. The; U. S. 24th Division Scored the mile ad vance, j e Sooth Koreans Attack The other two I divisions In the attack were South Korean Second and Sixth. I The heavy stab was made in the direction of Kumsong, which has been under air and artillery fire since last August - i I First reports on the progress of the assault were; fragmentary. The attack struck an area where the Chinese reds only a week ago had launched unusually heavy counterattacks. These, were beaten off by South Koreans. . In western Korea, the First bat talion of the U. S. 23rd regiment was driven off a Heartbreak Ridge peak just southwest of Hill 851. A communique today called the lost height a "dominant hilLS .Hill 851, the major peak cap tured Friday, still was held by the U. S. First battalion and a : French battalion. The U. S. Second : battalion joined with them in ef- forts to dig the last surviving North Koreans Out of. their bunk-' ers.:-. i' - . . An Eighth armj briefing officer said savage fighting still raged and Heartbreak Ridge could not yet be considered "secured."; Tanks Hit Defenses : Allied tank forces ranging be yond Heartbreak ran into the first heavy red anti-tank defenses they have encountered there. , The reds used bazookas and anti-tank guns as well as mortar fire in halting the tanks and forc ing them to pull back. , This new red resistance strongly indicated that communist resis tance in the Heartbreak area was by no means collapsing. : Today's central front push, was ., called a "limited objective" attack. In this same general area. South Korean troops northwest of Hwa- chon struck Chinese positions and in a series of raging attacks drove the reds off five hills almost as fast as they could run. " From dawn Friday until dawn today, the Korean front rocked with the most action since May's big red offensive. i PLANE HUNT ENDED McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash- Oct 12-4)-The air force ) has called off the search for John Stenhouse, Vancouver, B.C., busi nessman who vanished last Satur day on a flight from Belllngham to Beaverton," Ore., in a small plane. L 00 'or H59 - r Z A
