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OTP SSfflMDS TO GODS Th spearpoint of Russian poli cy la still Europe, and chiefly Ger many. The USSR has carefully avoided direct involvement in the Korean war, leaving that to North Korea and- comtaunist China. To Moscow Korea may be merely a diversion and a feint. While the I west took up the challenge of com I munist aggression in Korea it has avoided extending itself there. The west recognizes that the major battleground is in Europe and par- tlculary in Germany. . Germany's position is strategic. it is the key of the arch of Europe. When Germany was destroyed in the late war a void was left, poli tically, militarily and economical ly. East moved fast to till the void, but west was alert to the risk of Russian absorption of all of Ger many. Hence the unsatisfactory and temporary solution of dividing the country, which was directly at variance with the agreement of Potsdam. - The major effort of Russian strategy now is to head off the rearmament of west Germany. Russia has offered threats both to Germany and the west. Just now It is boldly waving olive branches toward west Germany. The bait is the attractive me el unification. Now German unity is desirable, both to recreate what was a very successful political, economic and cultural organism, and to establish a balancing force to reduce the friction between east and west The wartime plans for German dis memberment was absurd, giving promise of continued instability in Europe. But a unified Germany in corporated in the communist orbit would be well-nigh fatal to the historic free society of western Europe. How to keep Germany free and still not to recreate a militar istic Germany is a major problem confronting the nations of the west, The overtures of Premier Grote wohl of east Germany toward west Germany include offers of free all- German elections: to establish a new. unified government for Ger many. This indeed is inviting,, for Germans (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Blind Woman Regains Sight Through Fall DETROIT, Oct 13 -")- Ailing, 62-year-old Mrs. Mary C. Neuman fell down a flight of 12 steps to night severely bruising her fore head and right arm. But her cries were of delight when relatives reached her. " can see light! she excitedly exclaimed. "I can see! I can see!" Mrs. Neuman had been blind for 18 years, a daughter said. A fam ily physician could only describe the return of her sight as "mirac ulous. 1 Oblivious to her throbbing bruises, Mrs. Neuman sat up hours later, marveling at commonplace sights that fill the average homi such as a television set "I don't want to go to sleep," she insisted. "I'm afraid that when I wake up I wont be able to see. Bonus Application Office to Stay Open The bonus application office in the courthouse, staffed by Ameri can Legion post 136, will be open this week on Monday and Thurs day nights from 7 to 930, it was announced Saturday. Originally, it was planned to close the office last week. It Is located In Judge Joseph relian t circuit court room on the second floor. Fofrestal Diaries Todaj cn page 6. Egypt ! - it - r . ' Farouk Regime Receives Offer of Partnership I in Defense Plan Coolly l- ! By Edward Curtis , LONDON, OctJ U3-(flVrhe United States, Britain, France and Turkey today asked Egypt, the touchy leader of the awakening Arab world, to become the pivot of a new Middle East alliance against communism. : i ; f - i . , They offered her a full partnership in the regional defense setup agreed upon by foreign ministers of the North Atlantic treaty powers in Ottawa last month. ! Rushing legislation to throw the British out of Sudan and strategic Suez, Egypt received the offer coolly, i -j - ;S f King Farouk's government ap peared to regard with reserve any arrangements which would lead to establishment on 'the Suez ca nal of an international force, in cluding British, j to replace the British troops on guard there un der the! 1936 treaty of alliance. Ambassadors of the four! powers delivered the invitation to Foreign Minister Mohammed Salah El Dm at Alexandria. i - ; f Salah El Din stressed that Egypt will go ahead, nevertheless, with cancellation of the alliance ana the treaty of 1899 which provides for joint Anglo-Egyptian rule of Sudan. Egypt's parliament is ex pected to complete Monday night the abrogation ' of those treaties, despite a warning by British For eign Minister Herbert Morrison that Britain will use force: if nec essary to maintain her full treaty rights. ' ! ! Leaves Cancelled f Dispatches from the Mediter ranean island of Cyprus said all leaves have been cancelled ; for of ficers and men of Britain's 16th independent parachute group, a trouble-shooting force about 4,000 strong, amid reports they; might be sent to Suez i to reinforce the 10,000-man garrison. Military sources ' declined j comment; The group was dispatched from Lon don to Cyprus last May soon after the Anglo-Iranian oil rqw boiled Up. - . ! . , i In addition to the proposals by the four powers, Britain; alone sought a settlement of Egypt's de mands for placing the cotton- growing Sudan, a region of 8,000, 000 population, under Farouk's crown. I The defense move is a tacit ad mission 1 by Britain that she can no longer single-handedly carry on as the traditional guardian of the Middle East! TJ. 8. May Assist WASHINGTON, Oct IS JPh Diplomauc authorities said here today that the United States is prepared to make substantial contributions of i arms to a pro posed new regional defense setup for the Middle East : f Although these officials declin ed to speculate on bow far the U. S. might go in setting up air- bases and contributing troops for the defense of the area, they hint ed at the future possibility of di rect American cooperation in de fense of the Suez canaL i PENNY COLLECTING COSTLY MEMPHIS, Tenn ; Oct 3-JPy-A Memphis motor company wind ing up a week-long drive; today dropped 1,090,358 pennies into the copper-short national piggy bank The company offered a dollar bill for every 90 pennies brought in. It received $10,903.58 in pennies at a company cost of 51,211.60. SALEM PRECIPITATION Sine Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 6.S2 4.88 I 2.89 2 Key Witnesses Refuse to Talk To Washington Crime Probers VANCOUVER, Wash- Oct 13- (JP The Washington state legisla tive, interim committee's investiga tion into crime wound up quickly today when two witnesses refused to answer questions and were told they were in contempt rf the legis lature, f v i The two men j who refused to answer questions of George Kahin, the committee attorney, were John McGillivray and Frank J. Vottero. McGillivray was identified by earlier witnesses as a part owner of the Esquire Smoke Shop, a place where bets may be made on horse races and the Hollywood Quizo, a bingo parlor. Vottero is manager of the Esquire. i They acted on' advice of their attorney. Virgil Scheiber. Scheiber challenged the committee's ; juris diction to investigate anything not pertaining to state government or state agencies; questioned its au thority to probe into an individu al's private activities, and asserted his clients could refuse to answer on the ground that their answers might be self -incriminating. Sen. Albert RosellinL committee chairman, then ruled that the men were in contemp turf. of the legisla- IHleadl LightnerTop At Conference Statesman Sports Editor Al Lightner is currently in St. Louis, Mo., attending a National Collegi- , ate Athletic As- n sociation b a s- ketball clinic as represent ative of the Pa cific Coast con f e r e n c e. He went by plane Saturday. Lightner was selected by Conference C o m m i s -sioner Victor O. Al Llf htner Schmidt as the only Coast conference basketball official to attend the clinic. Com missioners from each of the con ference members of the, NCAA also are ; in attendance Object of the clinic is to co ordinate officiating so that rules interpretations ' will be the same in all parts of the country. Upon returning to the coast in midweek, Lightner is to head a clinic at Stanford university for the Coast conference southern di vision officials, passing along to them the decisions reached. An other clinic, for northern division officials,1 will be held at Portland Sunday, October 21. Women's Clubs Favor Milk PORTLAND, Oct 13-;P)-The Portland i Federation of Women's Clubs, made up of 72 women's or ganizations, voted to support a movement for repeal of the state milk control act The federation approved the re peal plan advocated by its affili ated milk committee, headed by Mrs. Vivien McMurtry. Mrs. McMurty said the repeal bill .already drafted, would elimi nate the existing milk control act except for those portions which provide a price floor for the pro ducer. It would repeal the present quota system and permit additonal producers, who meet sanitary re quirements, to enter the Portland market, she said. The committee expects to open offices in Portland by November 1. She said the com mittee hopes to obtain enough sig natures to put the repeal measure on the primary election ballot next May. 5 A few minutes before the two men refused to testify, Clark Coun ty Prosecutor R. De Witt Jones had denounced the committee for "vio lating a man's sacred right to pri vacy" and then stomped out of the room amidst a round of applause from the audience of Vancouver' ites. Before Jones walked out. Mayor Vera B. Anderson admitted that he was aware of gambling activ ities being conducted in this bor der city without interference from local law enforcement officials. He said the city licensed them to raise much needed revenue to operate city government He was proceeded to the witness stand by Walter H. Robinson, a Vancouver attorney, who told about warnings he had received in connection with his effort to recover $72,000 which a client Mrs. Marie Young, lost while play ing bingo between 1943 and 1949. Robinson testified that he was given "friendly advice" that he was engaged in a dangerous enterprise that could lead to bodily harm. He said Mrs. Young was threatened by agents for gambling interests from whom be was attempting to pOff Control Repeal recover tat money. Honey,Watch Out for Your CP f f J y V , - f .-4 KEIZER, Oct 13 Take "It Trom Penny Garrison (above), a family event for a three-year-old. Penny and her mother. Mrs. E. Reed r& were among several hundred Keizer residents who attended touched off a drive for a new community hall. (Statesman photo Entertainment Device Limitation 'Surprise' ! To Tavern Operators Most Marion county law-enforcement agencies and tavern oper ators said Saturday they were taken by surprise by a ruling which will sweep taverns clear of virtually all entertainment devices. The order came from the-Oregon liquor control commission which Friday interpreted an opinion from Attorney General George Neuner. If the ruling holds 'tavern patrons, after next January 1, will be sipping their beer without benefit of shuffleboard or other up-till-now-legal entertainment. , i Neuner cited a section of the Oregon liquor law that licensees "shall not be permitted to have any entertainment for customers other than radio, television or phonograph." And the commission interpreted "p h o n o g r a p h s"j to mean juke boxes. ; Sheriff Lists Devices i Marion County Sheriff Denver Young said that the only devices which taverns in this county have been permitted to operate are shuffleboard, bowling games and non-pay pinball games. These would have to be dis carded by Jan. 1, 1952, under the new ruling. '; Frank Marshall of Salem, presi dent of the Marion-Polk County Tavern Owners association, said that taverns did not derive much revenue from the games. They are there mostly, ; he said, "for the amusement and relaxation of the customers." i He said he did not know just what action, if any, will be taken by tavern owners regarding the new order. j Purchases Cited I Another tavern operator said the abrupt order was unfair I to some tavern owners who had pur chased the amusement machines. Some of them cost about $80 each. The liquor commission said t it will ask Neuner if the new order forbids beer licenses in cardrooms, pool halls,. bowling alleys and sim ilar gaming places. None of Salem's bowling alleys have beer licenses. T. W. Church ill, acting Salem city attorney, said Saturday he was not familiar with Neuner'i or the commission's order or Salem's city ordinances regarding tavern operations. I Only exception to Neuner's rul ing are outlets holding club or unrestricted licenses, which permit dancing and other forms of enter tainment ' Mental Health Board j To Convene iri Salem ; PORTLAND, Oct 13-CflVThe state board of the Oregon Mental Health association from 10 counties will meet Wednesday in Salem un der a new policy of holding some meetings outside of Portland. - i Special guests at the meeting will be Governor McKay and Dr. John Haskins, manager - psychiatrist of the veterans hospital at Roseburg. CIVIL SERVICE ASKED ' WASHINGTON, Oct IS-(P)- Senator Wiley (It, Wis.) demanded today that collectors of internal revenue be put under civil service to end what he called "political fixing" In the nation's tax gather ing system. i j 50.008 BUILDINGS RAZED : KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct 18- HVA government survey reported today 50,000 buildings were - de stroyed -or damanged by the Au gust hurricane on this island. :::. i.lt: ''" , .nit if "?Wf " - - , It Chest-Aided Man Helps Collect Funds A man who was aided by a Com munity Chest-benefited agency is now soliciting for chest funds at the Detroit dam site. He told his story Saturday to Campaign Chairman Ed Majek. . The young man is an engineer on the dam project. He was or phaned when a lad and later de veloped into a "problem child." "He told mej" said Majek, "that an aunt finally sent him to St Mary's school for Boys at Beaver ton. There, he said, he found the best home he ever knew. The care he received straightened him out "St Mary's school receives money from the Community Chest fund. And in this case a boy was probably saved from a probable path to a penitentiary by early and proper care. Dollars contrib uted by the citizens to thee Com munity Chest make this sort of thing possible." The young engineer Is happily married and still maintains fre quent contact with his "home" at Beaverton. "He ' found out that no chest solicitation was being planned lor the dam workeres so came to Salem for material and instructions. Although the annual fund cam paign is . nearing the end Majek said the drive could not finish until the last $32,000 is raised. Solicitors were turning in re ceipts Saturday and were continu ing their efforts, he said. Rural collections are continuing this weekend at a "very good pace." Scouts to Collect Paper Today Boy Scouts will cover the city today to pick up paper, sale of which will provide funds for Camp Pioneer. Scouts of all troops will gather at the courthouse this afternoon and begin collections at 1:30 pjn. Sixteen trucks and drivers have been donated .by local firms to aid. in jthe drive. Papers and magazines should be left on the curb or, in case of rain, on porches. FXNNEGAN SURRENDERS ST. LOUIS, Oct 13-flVJames P. Flnnegan, genial friend of Pres ident Truman, surrendered today on: a federal indictment charging him with accepting' bribes and with official misconduct as an in ternal revenue collector. Finnegan quickly posted a $5,000 bond. - Clean Dress9 - style turkey dinner is ' quite an Garrison (right), 4580 N. River the Friday night dinner here. It by Charles Ireland.) 2 Men Hurt In Wreck Near Independence Statesman News Service INDEPENDENCE Two Inde pendence men were injured, one seriously, when the auto in which they were riding went out of con trol two miles north of here Satur night, crashed into a telephone pole and overturned into a ditch. State Patrolman Gerald Carnahan reported. i Injured were Gene Russell, 26, driver of the vehicle, with a pos sibly fractured back and knee, and Roy Lee Johnson, his passen ger, with possibly fractured ribs and lacerations of head and face. Both men were taken by City Am bulance service to Salem General hospital were Russell was reported doing as well as can be expected." Carnahan said both men were thrown clear of the auto and Rus sell was found. 80 feet beyond the demolsbied auto. Johnson told po lice that the auto hit a chuck-hole when they pulled right to make way for oncoming cars, j Enfield Appointed Highway Counsel PORTLAND. Oct 13-UPlTh state highway commission yester day appointed Clifford W. Enfield, 32, saiem, as its chief legal coun sel. Enfield, first assistant counsel for two years, succeeds Joseph M. Dever who died September 30. He will be paid $700 a month. China Beds i . U. S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Sunday, Oct IMAVA three-division allied at tack gained up to three miles Sat urday all along a 22-mile front in central Korea but the reds lashed back in the west with their first full-scale rocket attack of the war. Eleven red counterattacks strck allied lines in west-central Korea. Fighting tapered off in the hilly east but the Eighth army communique said the U. S. Second division "attacked and secured the high ground on the northern part of Heartbreak Ridge." The central attack, "the third stage of the allied summer and autumn offensive, ground forward against only moderate j Chinese communist resistance. i , " 3"he 'three divisions, the U. S. 24th with the South Korean Sec ond and Sixth on the flanks, seized hill after bill on the front south' of Kumsong, 30 air miles north of parallel 38. The rocket attack in the west saw. 300 rounds of Russian-made rockets fired within a period of an hour against a sector, held by the U. S. First cavalry i division in the Yonchon area, 35 miles north of SeouL The rockets appeared to be of the 132-MM Katushka type, fired Pre-Parley it n , By D.Harold Oliver WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 - UPV under hot attack in the senate's nounced unexpectedly tonight he democratic national committee. Boyle insisted he had always and propriety" and gave health post he has held a little more than two years. " The former Missouri and Wash? ington lawyer had been accused of accepting $8,000 from the Ameri can Lithofold corporation, a St Louis printing firm, for helping it obtain $565,000 in RFC: loans. He insisted he received only $1,250 from the concern and it had no thing to do with any RFC loan. Backed by Truman Boyle had repeatedly told re porters he did not intend to resign. President Truman stuck by him, telling news conferences he' be lieved Boyle when he said he got no fees for interviewing in behalf of RFC borrowers. ! Boyle made known his decision in a letter to the president dated Oct 9. He said his weakened phy sical condition, resulting from stomach operations last fall, was not a major consideration until' now. He added, however that with the 1952 campaign coming on, the continuous work that would be required of. him would put too much of a tax .on his physical endurance. Sighs of ReUef . There was no immediate com ment from the White House. But many prominent democrats privat ely heaved sighs of relief. They said they felt that whatever might be said in defense of : Boyle, he had become a party liability at a time when unity and strength for the coming campaign was needed, i They were hoping .that Boyle's departure would help to deprive the republicans of an issue. But Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) serv ed notice tonight that he would press for a continuing investiga tion of what he termed "influence and immorality in government" ; Some -politicians figured the Boyle resignation would Increase the pressure for the resignation of republican national Chairman Guy George Gabrielson, whose name also figured in the senate RFC in quiry. From Hospital i MICHIGAN CITY; Ind, Oct 13 -ff)-A four-day-old baby disap peared tonight from the nursery of St Anthony's hospital in Michi gan City. I Police Capt Arthur L. Menke said the child, Lawrence Lyons, was found to be . missing about 6:10 p.m. ; The baby, child of Mr.! and Mrs. James Lyons of Michigan City, was one of 15 babies in the nursery - l$e lockets; d ession in banks from trucks. The reds used such rockets last month and again about a week ago on the western front, but not in such numbers. U. S. Eighth army headquarters announced, meanwhile, ' that the week of war ending . Friday had cost the communists nearly 16,700 casualties. . ; i ! MUNSAN, Sunday, Oct 14-flP)-Allied and red liaison officers failed to agree today in a 35-min- ute meeting at Panmunjom on terms for , reopening the Korean armistice talks but an allied spokesman reported "some slight progress.' The reds refused to bow to a United Nations demand to reduce the size of the security area around Kaesong, former site of the talks, from five miles (8,000 yards) to -3,000 yards. i The major issue was the extent of tne area which would be zree from hostile attacks when the red- susnended talks are resumed. Brig. Gen William P. Nuckols said this was not the only unre solved matter but "if agreement is reached that both sides have a 3,00O-yrd security zone, then I think the liaison officers would be well on their way to coming up with a finalized paper." Baby Taken lh . i i it". 5 ... - William M. Boyle. lr' rwenUr "influence" investigations. an is quitting as chairman of th" : i; conducted himself ."with honer as the reason for quitting the 1 -,ir- "-NT V X 7 WILLIAM BOYLE, Jr. -Demo National QiaJxrHjijte SANTA FE, N. M.. Oct. 13-OPV- Scientists think they have caused I a snowstorm and two cloudbursts in the nation's first state-spo-sored ralnmaklng study. That carefully-qualified dam was made today by cloud-seeders at New Mexico Institute of Min ing and Technology. They added they make "not positive claims f results." . ! The snowstorm I occurred Mi Feb. 26, 1951, in 8,000-foot moun- tains northeast of i Santa Fe. ft began to snow downwind 25 min utes after the silver iodide gen- -erators started. These stove-like generators heat the chemical o .. the ground and it floats Into the air like smoke, is The snow gradually spread to other sections at the same time the silver Iodide smoke was en tering those clouds. Light to mod- erate snow fell for; two hours in. that locality alone.! ! "It is believed that any observer" who! might have witnessed the events of February 26 would have been convinced beyond reasonable doubt that they had indeed. 6eea snow, fall which would not have fallen . . except for the seeding," the report said. ' ' On June 1, 1950, it began is rain near Socorro a few minutes after 750 pounds Of ammonia were released while a silver Iodide gen erator was operating. In 30 min utes, the scientists said, the rain ; assumed "cloudburst proportions." f A total of 1.14 inches of rain fell. The other cloudburst occurred on July 21, 1949, when 450 pounds " of ammonia were released from a hill near Albuquerque. "A few minutes after 'the' ammonia reached the target cloud torren tial rains began," they reported. "While it cannot be concluded that the ammonia contributed to the heavy rainfalls (of : those dates), this possibility should not be ig nored." . -1. 4 . Schaefer Named General Manager Of Western Paper Charles Allan Schaefer, assist ant general'manager of the West ern Paper Converting company for the past year, has 'been ap pointed general manager to suc ceed the late Lloyd Riches, the board of directors announced Sat urday. .".' 1 - Schaefer Joined the company as personnel manager in 1946 after serving several years in the ar my, Pacific area. He was a cap tain. He first came to Salem from Portland in 1941 in the selective service office prior to entering the service. , ! Mr. and Mrs. Schaefer and daughter reside at 1310 Strong rd f i a 1 1. 1 fci in. i j i i 4 , nainmaionff 4 Success Cited In New Mexico