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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).
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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
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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
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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.
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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;
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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.
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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
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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
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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..
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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
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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.
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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
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