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n OTS TBUG7, SI i M F Lli-iiljJjS U'CD LBQlg llelcolm Hawke, controller and chief auditor .of the state high tray department since June, 1S33, has resigned his position effective at once. Failure of the civil service commission to approve . recom mended salary Increases for his position and. for the auditors work ing under him is given as the cause for the resignation.: . Hawke plans to leave 'Wednesday night for San. Francisco to in vestigate certain openings in his Held. He is a certified public ac countant. i f I Hawke came to the department first in 1938 in ' the employ of an accounting srm t which was re vamping the accounting system of the department and was invited to remain the next 'year and estab lish the system His" duties cover the auditing of all - the expendi tures of the department. The present salary of the posi tion is $610 perj month and the highway commission recommend ed an increase to $700. Previously increases had been approved fur engineers and for other auditors in the department The civil ser vice commission- in refusing to approve the : recommended in- I creases for Hawke and auditors working under! him stated that Harry Dorman, state director of finance and business administra tion, had objected to increases which if carried! into other state departments might exceed ap propriations available for the pur pose. -----:"- : 1 ; f . -: The controller I is appointed by the highway commission and re spbn. .e to it The assistant, C H. Maison, is expected to handle the work pending action of the commission to fill the vacancy. lOlrt YEAB 12 PAGES Th Ortgoa Etotassiaxu Severn Oracjoar Tuesday, lfortxabtr 6, 1S51 PRICE 5c No, .Today the sixth session of United Nations general assembly opens in Paris. The usual preliminary flut terings and conversations of for eign ministers have been, in prog ress. Predictions; are offered that Russia will come forward with fresh appeals for peace; and Paris predicts that the western powers will have some special program to offer, though this is discounted in Washington. President Truman is booked for a peace-speech broad cast on Wednesday evening which is presumed to renew our desire j for settlement of the bitter quar rel of East and West ; So often have hopes arisen on the eve of conferences and sessions of U. N. bodies and so often hive they been dashed in the sequence . that one is skeptical of these ad vance notices. "Hope deferred maketh the Jieart sick." What is there that will perforate Russia's Iron curtain or our own curtain of anti-Russian suspicion? There must be at least , a modicum of confidence in the good intention or promise of another nation to justify negotiations for a settle ment and prevailing attitudes on both sides are' so rigid that one doubts if they can ever arrive at an agreement i - ' Some comfort may be, found in this, that as long as the nations are talking they are not shooting, which is something. But when the forum of the U. N. assembly is used as an amplifier to spread the prop aganda of hate around the world then that comfort loses part of its value. --1 , ". i . What then may we expect at Paris. Will it be just a repetition of past diatribe, a repeat perform- ' an.ee on issues in hopeless division, like admission, of red China to U. N.? Or may It be that Russia, seeing it has been stopped in com munist aggression in Europe and in 1 Korea and -noting the rising military strength of the west will sincerely seek some relief from (Continued on editorial page 4.) New Bridge Provides Extra Parking Dividend 2: ' " ' 1 j. i Court Test of A dividend of the new Marion streef bridge, now abnildlng. Is off-street parking fori about 7t ears. Tne area under the east approach from Commercial street U the river, has been paved, and the city baa marked sUlls for the ears. At present only about half the stalls axe used by Salem : motorists. (Statesman photo.) . . . . I : m - . i .. i Capitol Zone Changejbiie Elderly Pedestrian Q)ies After Traffic Accident Joseph C Mitchell 69, of 1173 N. 4th st. died early Monday after noon in a Salem hospital where he was as a result of injuries suf fered Saturday night when he was struck by a car at Portland and Silverton roads. (Story also on page 2.) , ; Mitchell suffered compound fractures of the leg and internal in- day by Fred A.S Williams, Salem juries. His condition had been only fair for most of the time he was Plans to test In court the legality of a zone change authorizing a service station at Capitol and Ship ping streets were announced Mon- Atomic Bomb Erupts in Huge Pillar of Fire ; LAS VEGAS, Kev, Nov. A strong, fiery, atom bomb the most Dowerful and. brilliant in the fall test seriesi at Yucca, Flat rocked the southern Nevada desert for miles today but no serious damase was reported. - Children were released from school in the little town of Cali ente. Nev. (population 1,000) as the atomic energy commission is sued a special- warning to the community, but a freak of atmos pherics spared the town. Tele phone lines were hit however, and service was disrupted briefly. Res idents watched the atomic display from the streets. . The fifth in the AECs present series, today's bomb seemed to have twice the . power of No. 4, which tested troops . In Exercise Desert Hock last Thursday. The bomb itself appeared to be a highly incendiary version of the so-called' nominal . A-bomb. (Nominal is the scientists' , term for standard.) i Dropped by a B-29 from an al titude of over ; 30,000 feet the weapon burst 1,500 to 2,000 feet above the test site floor. The white flash -. lasted . five full se onds. recoiled into a red ball and erupted in a column of flame that shot up several thousand feet This last phase consumed another five teconds.' ; t; : It was more' spectacular in Its unfolding - tnan tne : delayed re action type bomb exploded last Tuesday. . attorney, who said he ' represents more than 30 property owners in the vicinity. I ; Williams wrote his plans In a letter to the mayor, city building inspector. Nelson and Nelson, realtors who handled the Richfield Oil company's property purchase; the Richfield firm, and . former owners of the two properties on the corner involved. Damages allegedly incurred by other property ill the vicinity by installinx such ai business will be sought in action!; against the oil company, the mayor and building inspector and perhaps otners, said the attorney. He' said his challenge would be against the change of zone from residential class. II to business class III special, which he said the city zoning code; does not allow. as well as-othet alleged irregu larities in procedure. Although opposition was voiced, the city council On October 8. At the following meeting, advocating reconsideration j of the action, Al derman David OHara cited sev eral violations ofzonlng procedure which he said were common in other zone changes recently, as well as the change for Richfield. Most of them had to do with tech nicalities of notice to property owners, form of petition and otner procedural matters. Korea Vets in Airliner Crash Animsl Cra&cra y WARREN CO00RIC SIPS rCrACps ?tirg to feUe w'd Cotter convert IJaJajKlI ',. ,r : ' -i' ' - Dead Fish in Terugh PoseMkstery What has killed a large num ber of fish in the back-reaches of the Willamette slough? Mr. and Mrs. Jack Frohmader, owners or property - on soutn river road at the fringes of the slough, are doing some wonder ing about that these days and at the same time they're exceedingly thankful the weather has turned cold again.-: i j Saturday: morting the Froh- maders clambered out of bed to find their land. Including a corn patch. Infested by a wholesale de posit of dead 1 fish, reportedly numbering well mto tne nunoreds. The fish, said j to Include crap- pies, chubs, some small troute and various other types inhabiting the slouch, have been lifeless and ripening residents of the Froh mader soil for! three days now and they would . pose a ' strong problem from! fthe odor angle other than fori the downward plunge of the temperatures. why the fish,: died is an un answered question at the moment Manager Karl Heinlein of the Oregon Pulp and Paper plant says it's highly improbable tnat any discharge from the paper mill po luted the slough and killed the fish. Heinlein points out that the paper plant impounds its refuge matter directly Into the Willam ette river and adds that tests are made , both above and below the dumping points! three times a week to assure, sufficient oxygen content in tne water. So the mystery remains and meanwhile! the Frohmaders worry of the moment is what to do with this unexpected invasion ox finned carcasses. --";v - In New Mexico TUCUMCARI, N. M- Nov. 5-JP) -In blinding New Mexico snow, a chartered airliner , crashed and broke in two today .killing one of Its load: of 26 Korean war veteran. Nine! others, including the crew of three, were injured, . and all were shaken and bruised. But all safety belts held, preventing . a more serious loss- of life. i The dead veteran is CpL Donald E. Woremer of Allentown, Pa. The accident happened as the plane came -in for an emergency landing. The ship crashed on. the prairie j on the northeastern edge of Tucumcari municipal airport The plane a Martin 202 was chartered by the army from Trans- ocean Airlines to take the rotated soldiers from Oakland, Calif- to Indian ! Town Gap, Pa- and for Devens, Mass. en route to homes in the east Witnesses said the plane circled the field, lost altitude and hit the prairie more than 100 yards short of the runway. "A short distance from the ground it seemed a foot or so to me." said PFC Roland Graves of Essex unction, Vt, who was on the plane, "the engine began to sputter. The plane dipped sideways and at that; moment the pilot gave it everything he had. "The plane hit the ground with a terrific impact right wing first, then the plane split in two. ONE WAY TO GET BUSINESS GREEN BAY, Wis- Nov. 5-(flV It was1 quick service that John Ryan, 27, of Klngsford, Mich., re ceived today. The traffic accident barely I was over - before, a , big wrecker truck was towing his car to a garage for repairs. Ryan's car had collided with the wrecker. in the hospital. The condition of a seriously In jured Salem policeman, Ronald Wesley Wiebe, seriously injured in a collision at fog-bound Mission and South 12th streets, was re ported "as well as could be ex pected" at Salem General hospital. Thrown to the pavement when his patrol car sideswiped a traffic control pole, Wiebe , sustained a fractured pelvis, multiple fractured ribs, with lung injuries, bruised kidney, possible spinal fractures, and possible abdominal injuries.; Two other traffic- victims were reported in "fair? condition at Salem General hospital Monday. They . were . J amea Bur kholder of Aurora, burned in a buck wreck north of Sublimity Saturday night and Joseph Heckler, 64. of 1158 N. Commercial st, who was struck by an auto on North Commercial street Sunday night ' . ! i RoyHarlandtp Head Seal Sale Roy Harland, Salem attorney, will head the 1951 Christmas seal campaign, C. A. Shaef er, presi dent of the Marion - county tuber culosis and health association an nounced Monday. The sale of Christmas seals will be conducted from November 19 through December 25. Plans for the campaign were discussed by the board of direc tors of the association Monday night Speaking were Mrs. Edwin Sahnow, Mrs. L. E. Marschat Mrs. Mem Pearce, Mrs. Margery Wikoff, and W. W. McKinney. Sits Up, Talks LONG BEACH.! Calif, Nov. 5- The man who was dead . for 15 minutes and who! has been in a ama since he was revived a month ago talked today. ! Doctors in charge of his case had only one word for the situa tion that astonished them: , "mira culous." j ! . n The patient is Melvin E, Hew- tt 28. He has been lying peri ously close to actual death many times at the - Veterans - Adminis tration hospital, j , .; : i , . ' The medics had said he might never recover consciousness, but today he -came back to life and sat up in bed. , Dr. EL ; V. Edwards, hospital manager, said Hewitt was able to move his arms and legs and could see. He has no mental ca pacity at all, however." the doc tor emphasized, "and cant under stand when you speak to 'him.' Asked if Hewitt might ever re cover ' completely, the doctor re plied: "None of us want to say. Frankly, we didn't expect this much." ' ; . , ' j Hewitt collapsed on the side walk - in front of an El I Monte tavern October 4 after1 an argu ment with another patron:' Heart and breathing action : both had stopped. The friends rushed him to a medical clinic. - . I Three doctors said Hewitt had been dead -about 15 minutes. They I I A . "1 X : - L!. I. umnecuaieiy cut open im cnest and massaged his heart Then they injected adrenalin and ben zedrine, the 'latter to counteract any alcohol in his systems In a moment Hewitt's breath ing and heart action began again. WAVES FOR TONGUE POINT " ASTORIA, Nov. 5 - (JP) -For the first time since World War II, Waves again will be stationed; at the Tongue Point naval base near here. The navy announced that group of Waves is scheduled to arrive in the near future. More will follow when housing is available, the-navy said. .: ' I tie enies Authorizing Campaign vor Candidacy 1HNE BLASTS EHX 2 1 By Soger D. Greene : ' i WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 Gen. Dwight D. l Eisenhower today sidetracked any discussion of his political intentions "just now" and said he has never authorized any Ike-for-president boom. The five star general also de clared he did not discuss politics "not i a bit" during a private luncheon meeting with President Truman at Blair House this noon. Later in the day, Mr. Truman, Eisenhower and the nation's top defense officials held a full-dress conference at the White House. Press Secretary Joseph Short told newsmen the conference, lasting an hour and 20 minutes, centered on "problems of alloca tion - and production" for the North Atlantic Treaty organiza tion and for Eisenhower's Su preme Headquarters, Allied Pow ers In .Europe (SHAF). lit had been generally expected that the conference would dis cuss means to quicken the flow of U. S. arms to Europe In order to build up a compact fighting force SCRANTON,! pa, Nov. 5 - CSV j in western Europe ahead of Two explosions ripped through powder plant nine miles south of here today, killing two men and schedule. Eisenhower appeared cheerful but tired as he talked with news men at bis hotel (Statler) tonight after an exhausting nine-hour round of talks at the Pentagon, the White House and Blair House. He said he was planning to go to bed early. . ' Asked if the subject of politics had come up in his talk with Mr. Truman, the general replied: "No, sir." ' ; Earlier, a reporter had put this direct question to Eisenhower:: - "Have you ever given anyone any authority or go-ahead to undertake political activity in your behalf?' , . Without hesitation. General Dee replied: -' .-. .- "No." ;r .A It was a long, rolling "no-o-o,1 followed by a hearty laugh, ', A newsman then asked: "If anyone tries to talk poll- tics with you while you are here, will you let tnemT- "Not just now," the general re plied crisply. " So far, the general has refused to say even whether he prefers the democratic or republican par ty. ' ' Eisenhower said he plans to fly back to Paris tomorrow. He said he does not expect to see Mr. Truman again before leaving. Lon g Beach Dead Man County ComrikoMse Construetiom StaUed Shortage of Steel Delays ' trm . A ' J ' Cold Blamed For 136 Deaths v By The Associated Prws Four days of harsh and untime ly winter weather from the north ern Rockies to ihe Atlantic sea board had claimed at least 136 lives Monday. 1 i And for many storm-struck areas, more snow and bus-freez ing weather was forecast for Tues day, i - v;, I Approximately three-fourths of the deaths were the result of traf fic accidents on slippery highways. Fires from overtaxed stoves took eight lives In Pennsylvania, alone. Five persons were drowned In icy waters two Nebraska duck hunters, one member of ia duck hunting party j in Illinois, an Iowa farm boy, and a Massachus etts fisherman, i A death from freezing was reported as far south as Tennessee. - i - NewBuOding Marion . county's new court house project was turned down by the national production authority, at least for the first quarter of 19 52, the county court learned Mon day." V'v : . . Shortage of structural steel due to defense needs, is the latest rea son preventing construction of the building,' which has . been delayed before by the war and shortage of funds due to rising costs. ! ' County Judge Rex Hartley said the court will begin immediately to prepare a new application and documents to show the need for a new structure, in the hopes of get ting on the second quarter priori tics " r The NPAs letter denied the county's application for . a con struction schedule and related allotment of materials. The form letter gave as the reason that "quantities of controlled materials available for allocation to non-defense construction are so limited that only non-deferrable ' projects of the highest urgency can be authorized."! Judge Hartley pointed out that the county's application, submitted early last summer, stressed the age of the courthouse (built in 1873), its condition (deplored by both fire , and health authorities), its crowding due to growth of popu lation and govermental functions. -However, the NPA letter of de nial listed the project's aim only as "to house all county depart ments in one building," which Hartley criticized as picking out a nunor point . - - Tne county started collecting a building fund in 1944, when neith er men nor materials were avail able for construction. This was to be $75,000 annually for 10 years. At public urging, to this was added in 1946 a levy of $200,000 annually for three years. With greatly expanded populat- on and building costs, following World War II, the county found those funds would not erect the building, so another two-year levy totaling ,$350,000 was added in 1950 ; ' v When bids were called last April, the lowest was $1,919,000, some $400,000 above available money, so another delay was required. Then allocations - of defense- critical materials intervened, re sulting in the order announced yesterday. At the time the. bids were opened, such public buildings were not required to secure NPA authorization, but that was changed a few months later. The architect s plans called for the structure to include some 125 tons of . structural steeL it was reported. French Anti-Red Wins Nobel Prize OSLO, Norway, Nov. 5-V Leon Jouhaux of France, staunch 72-year-old ; anti-communist la bor campaigner, was announced tonight as .winner of the Nobel Peace "prize for 1951. He was credited in France with saving the j French labor move ment from being subverted by communist ! leadership. He has been a constant target of red abuse..' j:. A'-'EDiniDi) irasoiis' Aircraft Plant Blast Kills 4 LOS ANGELES, Nov.- 5 () Four men, Including a chief engi neer, were killed and. five were injured in an explosion at a Doug las Aircraft company branch plant today, the second blast at the plant within two weeks. A company spokesman said the blast was in an oven used for bak ing insulating panels for radar in stallations.' In a similar explosion at the plant October 26 one work er was injured. Company officials said today's blast occurred during test firing of an oven that had just been In stalled to replace the one which blew up last month. ; i By Francis W. Carpenter ' j PARIS, Nov. 5-(AP)The '.United States W ported ready tonight to submit a count of its atomic bombs and other weapons as part of an international : disarmament plan if all other countries Will do the same. The plan is part of a peace package with which1 th U. S. hopes to seize the initiative against j the Soviet Union in the sixth United Nations general assemble ooenln to morrow.- ' f In the first move to take the offensfw. h iir,uA France forward with a surprise proposal that the s United Nations appoint a "neutral International commission'' to maket : an investigation in both East and West Germany as to whether' it m possible to held genuinely free elections for ffntrarn. ment. This was the West's answer to the communists' German unity The United States, in advancing its authoritaviv for an atom bomb Count, still stands on its demands for foolproof in spection and verification of such a census. This stumbling block is expected to delay, if not prevent, any actual inventory of th aw.;. war chest. s The Russians and Americans never have aih-eed verify such a count, and an eastern European source tonirht ralln th new American plan a "big bluff." In short, few delegates expect Pus- sia to take the challenge. i . Reds Reject (J.M. Plan to Buffer DeadSioch MUNSAN, Korea, Tuesday, Nov. 6-VThe communists today rejected an allied proposal that final settlement of the Korean buffer zone issue be shelved pending settlement of other items on the armis tice agenda. - v.-.;.:;.;...;k:;.c ' ! v However, MaJ. Gen. Henry I. Hodes, chairman of the U. N.lcom tnand subcommittee, told newsmen after the two-hour and 25 m'muVm session:-.;.-;.";.-,.; . They have not given us anything like a final answer. ! The subcommittees will meet at Panmimsom again tomorrow. A Peiping radio broadcast asserted the allies were attemotina te . gain Kaesong by trick or conquest. ' , . ! The formal, proposal, made at Monday afternoon's meeting in Panmunjom, was that a 2 -mile-wide-buffer zone with some ad justmehts, be created wherever the battle line happens to be when an armistice is signed; and that a committee of three men from each side be assigned to work on this item while the full delegations get together on the other items or. the armistice agenda.- . High Court Clears Way For Bail Cuts for Redo WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-(flVThe supreme court spoke out today against America adopting "principles of totalitarianism" and cleared the way for a possible reduction of the $50,000 bonds set for 12 per sons accused of communist activity - The lz are in jail in los Angeies, xor lacs oz tne required bona. They include William Schneiderman; referred to in court records as the acting head of the communist party in this copntry. - ; ; Chief Justice Vinson, speaking for the supreme court, ordered the case returned to the U. S. district court in California and declared that $50,000 was too much bond to ask. f Conviction on the charges, he said, could result in imprisonment of not more than five years and a fine of not more than $10,000.; -; Vinson said government prosecutors asked the courts to assume, "without the introduction of evidence, that each petitioner (for lower bail) is a pawn in a conspiracy and will, in obedience to a superior,, flee the jurisdiction.' : ' v . - The high court had been reminded of the case of the four top red leaders who Jumped bail to $20,000 each in New York. . t - - ' Yet, Vincon wrote, "to infer from the fact of .indictment alone a need for bail in an unusually high amount is an arbitrary act. Suck conduct would inject into our own eystem of gogevrnment the jvery principles of totalitarianism, which congress was seeking, to guard against in passing the statute under; which the petitioners haveibeea mdicted.'' He referred to the Smith act, making.it unlawful to s con spire to teach and advocate overthrow of the government" ': Russian-Born Cuban Smuggler Delivered by Air to U.S. Agents MIAMI. Fla Nov. fWVRus-! sian-born Jorge Gregorio Simono-; vich, Cuban smuggler long wanted j by U.S. immigration authorities, was under arrest here today after ah. aerial delivery that sounded like a chapter from .a mystery thriller. : Border patrolmen acting on an anonymous telephone tip seized Simonovich at an abandoned air field north of Miami. He told them he had been kidnapped by . three Americans in Havana and flown to the field. He was charged with illegal entry. : Immigration authorities nave tried for a long time to get him into this country for trail on three Indictments , charging smuggling conspiracies. The Cuban govern ment refused to extradite him. One of the cases against him involved the landings of 34 aliens, mostly Chinese, in Florida by air; another an attempt to land three aliens by boat, and the third a plot that was smashed before any aliens actually were smuggled. Four other men are serving sen tences in connection with these cases but Simonovich remained free in Cuba. . . ,' Assistant U. S. Attorney Ernest L. Duhaime, who will prosecute the 50-vear-old Russian, remark ed: "It's nice to get the nest instead of the ants that crawl out of it." A U S. judiciary subcommittee, after hearings in Miami last year, released testimony which depicted Simonovich as the mastermind of most major smuggling , projects between Cuba and Miami. A man who refused to Identify himself telephoned border partol men yesterday and told -them a man they . wanted was soon to land at abandoned Prospect field. Agents who hurried to the field found Simonovich alone- walking along, a runway. The plane that landed him had flown away. Simonovich. who was placed un der $75,000 bond after a - hearing before a U. S. commissioner, toia newsmen in his jail cell tonight that he was shanghaied by U. S. "government men."; : : But Savoretti said immigration authorities were just as mystified as Simonovich about how the short, slender Russian got here. 9 "All I can tell you for sure Is that we didn't have, anything to do with It. no matter what Simo novich says," the - immigration chief asserted. . , Helps Stop Reverse Gear to Runaway Car 4 PASADENA, Calif n No. MJPh Brude F. Dawes, 28, was cruising along in his car today when b spotted a runaway auto careening toward him at 50 miles an hour. And here, police reported, ia what Dawes did: . - He lined up the other car along his hood.. He slammed his gears into reverse and floored the ac celerator so that he was speeding backward . in the same direction as the runaway. - 'r - He let the. runaway smack his front bumper, then braked i to a stop. Damage - to both cars: was confined to scratches. ' i . SAleat ' Portland San rraodaco . Chicago New York Max- M M n -30 44 Mia. 31 ' 35 ' 11 32 M feet i a xe FtVdev Willamette Hiver rORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field, Salem) : Increasing cloudiness today becoming cloudy wtwa -rata tonight. Highest temperature ts tfay near 56; lowest tonight near 4ft, SALEM FKECIPITATIOM i Since Start of Weather Tear, Sept. 1. This Year Last Year Normal 10.61 12.15 . i s.a injuring a thlrtLi - ---.ill
