IT - 1 v 1651 101st YEAR 10 PAGES Tlw Oregon Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Monday, November 12. 1S51 . PBICE 5c No. 223 CKurchill To Visit Observer CCiiora 7! -"4 Saoodi Ml V A if f omeday this will b the Edgewater street ramp off the new Marion street bridge, la use possibly by next September. At a eves later date, you wont dare approach It from this eastward direction be cause It will be one-way off the span, after the entire brldre and approach project la completed by the state highway department. This picture shows workmen building the forms for the concrete, deck of the approach, on top of all the false work revlred In construction. (Statesman photo). Gale fury Lessens in Salem Area Sunday Storms in the northwest continued Sunday at slightly decreased tempo and with considerably less damage in the second day of lashing wind and rain for the area. Weathermen predicted continued taper Off SKIDDS to) cms RepubUcansifiave their guess ing game over Ike whether he will or whether he will not run for president. (They seem to have little doubt that he is a repub lican). The democrats have their guessing game too whether Tru man will or will not run for re election. The party politicos say he will, and the administration stalwarts say he must; but Tru man plays "Brer Rabbit" and he just don't say nothin'. Those convinced he will run again offer as supporting evidence the fact that he has built up no one in the party as his successor; that he believes he has done a food job; that if Taft runs Tru man is sure to take him on, for he regards Taft as his perennial adversary. Prophets of a Truman renun ciation declare that he Is tired and would like to quit, that his family objects to another term, that the adoption of the third term denial, though not applying to Truman, points him to the gate. Some say his announcement of sending an ambassador to the Vatican was a smart political move to discomfit his foes in the senate and regard It as a sign he Isn't going to be a candidate again. Meantime the southern demo crats are doing their best to make sure he will not be the party can didate. The opposition, this time is led by two of the south's most distinguished leaders and skilled politicians: Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia and Governor Byrnes of South Carolina. They are not having truck with the States' Rights party of 1948, nor are they becoming political pals of Sen. Karl Mundt and his coalitionists. They are working within the dem ocratic (Continued on editorial page, 4) SNIPERS IN SUEZ CAIRO. Egypt, Nov. ll--The British said today Egyptian snip ers fired on a military hospital in the Suez canal zone and charged that other Egyptians made a hit-and-run automobile attack on three parachute troopers. None of the hospital patients was injured. Animal Crackers y WARREN COODRICH r Junior! Yeg feawt fighting aiaTl Dm. r HAYPtN-PT Vm. Wit Jc3 ing off for today. Gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour;, were reported by Mc Nary field weathermen Sunday morning only three miles per hour less than: Saturday. Portland reported gusts to 70 miles per hour. ) But electric; ' power and tele- Ehone linemen and street crewmen i Salem were occupied mostly with continued mop-up of Satur day's damage. ?"Practically every thing that would blow loose went Saturday,? one tired worker said. Storm to Moderate Weather forecasters said the storm would moderate by today with showers and some gustiness and winds 15 to 20 miles per hour. Snow was predicted for higher elevations. ,i A totali of .68 inch of rain on Sunday by 10:30 p. m. boosted Sa lem's total for; three days to 2.57 inches of j rainfall, McNary field weathermen said. Telephone linemen continued to repair damage to lines and replace poles Sunday after working past midnight Saturday, it was reported by Manager E. A. Berglund, of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. A few men were on the job all night, be said. ' Phone Lines Out Telephone outages on Salem outskirts effected several families for comparatively short periods Sunday. In the Capitola area down poles shorted f lines to the wet ground Sunday evening. Other poles down in the Keizer district and on South Liberty street near Salem's edge put. a few families out of service for awhile. Tree limbs caused ' spotty trouble throughout the city, it was re- S)ited by L. M. Flagg, Portland eneral Electric superintendent Clear Debris f City street crews worked until near midnight Saturday and again part of the day Sunday clearing debris from Salem streets.' Clogged catch basins and fallen trees and limbs caused most of the trouble, i Snow on Santiam pass was re-1 ported Sunday but rain had re duced it to slush by Sunday night, state police reported. Three inches of snow Was s reported in Burns Sunday. ;; 1 Lightning from thunderstorms in the Coast Range mountains was visible in Salem Sunday night. The two-day storm Dlusxed Chinook pass In Washington with snow and more than 16 Inches of snow fell at Paradise . valley on Mount Rainier in 24 hour;. South Demo Revolt Doubted HOT SPRINGS, Ark Nov. 11 - (JP) - The Southern Governors conference opened today with pro Truman forces strongly hinting they are ready to challenge any move to split the democratic par ty in next year's presidential elec tion. I ;j . . . And there were growing signs leaders of the -states' rights demo crats may have decided this is neither the time nor the place to launch a "beat Truman" cam paign. ) Party loyalties with . young Gov. Sid McMath of Arkansas in the lead grabbed the early con ference spotlight with outspoken opposition to; any states rights democratic move similar to that which divided the south in 1948. "I don't think this - conference wQl.be the scene of any demo cratic revolt, McMath said at -a news conference. - MOSSADEGH. TO DEPART TEHRAN, Iran, Nov, 11 -WV Premier Mossadegh has cabled Tehran that he has completed his talks with American officials in Washington and will leave for home : Thursday, an official 'an nouncement said today . J i -1 1 Work on Bridge Now Centers in West Salem Two parallel highways will carry westside Salem traffic when the Willamette river bridge pro ject, now concentrated in West Salem, is finished, officials said this week end. The work is on schedule. One four-lane through highway is to be atop the gravel fill along the rivers The fill is essentially complete, and is being riprapped with large rocks to prevent its be coming again part of the Willam ette river. The other thoroughfare will be Edgewater street, for local traffic and business. What the parking situation will be there , is not yet under consideration by city offici als. The state highway department will require only that parking be denied within 200 feet of inter sections where traffic channeliz ing Is necessary including Edge water and Wallace road. By September SO , If steel to carry: the new span across the river's expanse arrives In April, according to its present fabrication schedule, it can be put Into place and the concrete deck poured, and traffic can' begin next September, according to Luther Jensen, resident engineer on the project He said the sched ule calls for readiness by Septem ber SO. ' The entire east approach has been completed to the river bank, except for painting of the pedest rian hand rails. All other approach work for use of the span should be done by April, said Jensen, leaving the following months for the steel work by American Bridge com pany. Complete Decking Current approach work is con centrated on the ; connection be tween Edgewater street and the new bridge. The decking is com plete from the river to the point at which the new through high way will split off southward. From that point westward, crews are preparing forms pouring the concrete deck for several hundred feet, carrying the approach to an earth AIL Tha row of piers now broken by the west approach to tha Cent er street bridge will carry west bound traffic from Marion street bridge to the highway on the fill. Under it will pass cars from Edgewater stret and Wallace road to the eastbound bridge. Here is what must be done or started next summer to imple ment the remainder of the river crossing project: Pave the gravel fill at the river side being allowed to settle this winter. It will swing in and join Edgewater at Patterson street, though eventual planning calls for the fill to be extended so the new highway will pass over Edge water and the railroad near their crossing. When Marion bridge is finished, remove west approach of Center street bridge, which will have a tighter curve when remodeled. This will permit completion of the new road's approach to Marion bridge and erection of a new Cen ter street approach. The ' latter contract has not been awarded. v Max. Mia. Predp. lika Portland San Francisco , U S M S3 4S M 63 40 7 jOI 64 SO M Chicago Mew York M 45 40 FORECAST (from T7.S. weather bu reau. MeNarv field. Salem): Partly cloudy with occasional showers today ana lonignt. unit ensure u tem perature with the high temperature near m ana Mrw near ew. I IALE1I PMClPrTATlOX Since ttart ef Weather Tear fpt 1 Last Year Normal Truman KEY WEST, Fla., No. 11-flP)-President Truman and Prime Min ister Winston Churchill of Great Britain will meet, in Washington early in the new year. Presidential Secretary Joseph Short disclosed today that the meeting probably will take place in January. " - Short said there had been an exchange of cable messages be tween the president and Churchill, who recently was returned to power in the British elections. Short was asked if French Pre mier Rene Pleven of France also would attend. He said he "hadn't heard of that." ' There was no lnriirntinn that the Washington involve any others than the presi- aent ana the prime minister of Great Britain,' beyond top mem bers of both governments. He was asked if there had been any suggestion that Premier Stal in of Russia mlsht loin th u liberations. "I've heard nothlnff alnnar that line," Short declared. Short's assertion followed up a previous statement bv th dent that the president and Churchill would not meet in Key West where the president expects to remain for weeks, working on his "state of the union" budget and economic messages. There was speculation Church ill might address a joint session of congress. Police Protest Vote Result With Tickets YONKERS, N. Y., Nov. lMJP) The battle of the traffic tickets threatened today to boomerang on Yonkers police. Since the voters last Tuesday turned down a proposed $500 a year pay boost for the coppers, the officers have issued 1.934 traf fic summonses compared with only 73 on Monday and election day. Now embattled citizens are con sidering another' election on po licemen's pay this one a refer endum to repeal a $500 raise voted two years ago. "Any move in this direction," said a former member of the com mon council, who refused to be quoted by name, "will stop this spite drive in its- tracks. The whole city is stirred up." ; Official action already has been started to find out why the police have been so zealous in their traf fic enforcement duties. Lost Seattle Hunter Found In Roseburg ROSEBURG, Ore., Nov. U-4JPI- Richard W. Slunaker, 20, Seattle hunter missing for a week, was located today in a Roseburg, Ore., hotel. City police took him Into cus today after he had telephoned his father-in-law, George Senty, ' in Seattle at 11:45 ajn. and told him of his whereabouts. Slunaker told his father-in-law he was in a "dazed" condition, his car was broken down and that he was flat broke. He said he had no Idea how he got to Roseburg. Police will hold him here until his father-in-law arrives. ' Slunaker was the object of a widespread search in Grays Har bor county last week. He had gone there after elk and was sup posed to have returned to his home last Sunday. When ha did not appear, his wife became alarmed and a search was started. Scores of persons joined in tha hunt. Other hunters in tha area had reported seeing Slunaker's car abandoned on a side road. However, later it was reported to have been 'removed. At that time the search was called off. Johnson Mill Sale Arranged NEW YORK. Nov. 11 -WV Ar rangements have been made for the acquisition oil;. JJ. Jonnson Lumber Corp.. large Pacific north west concern at Toledo, Ore., by Georgia-Pacific Flywooci company, officials announced today. ; Negotiations for the sale.' which is not yet final, were reported by George R. Birkelund, chairman of the board, and Robert F. Johnson, president, ox the Johnson, corp., and by Owen R. Cheatham, presi dent of Georgia-Pacific. Cheatham said stockholders rep resenting over 85 per cent of John son stock .have indicated they will accept the offer of $80 per share made by Georgia-Pacific The of fer was made by letter Saturday to holders of the other & per cent ox tne atocJc. VV1 V- SEOUL, Korea, Nov. 11 A hat too big for his head shades the eyes of "Willie- a 5-year-old "adopt ed Korean boy as he site on the : shoulders of Conrad Lanteline i ef the Canadian army, to watch a show near the front In Korea - as Canadian Brigade troops are entertained. ,(AP Wirephoto ie The Statesman). i ' Armistice Day Parade Due This Morning Armistice Day still a symbol of peace will be observed in Salem today by a . parade of patriotic groups, and a holiday in public offices. i i I i The five division parade includ ing five marching bands will high light the day's activities commem orating the 33rd anniversary of the signing of the armistice clos ing World Wari I in 1918.! Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea, state adjutant general, will be grand marshal for the parade which will form on North Commercial street near Marlon- square at 10 ajn. Marchers will be reviewed by Gov. Douglas McKay and Mayor Alfred Loucks enroute- to the courthouse square where a traditional armis tice day program is scheduled. Marion County Judge Rex Hartley wiU give the principal address. In case of rain the program will be moved into the Salem armory. : Public workers In city,' county and state offices will enjoy a holi day along with the county's school children. The post office Will re main closed and no mail: will be delivered. I i Most Salem stores announced intentions to remain open today but will halt' business during the parade and armistice program. Robert W. Holweger, president of Salem Federation of Patriotic Orders and chairman of Armistice day activities,! joined with Govi McKay in asking Salem citizens to display flags' in honor of the day. I : ; j Korea Naval Action Mounts U. S. EIGHTH ARMY I HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Monday, Nov. 12 -(JP)- Communist shore bat teries Sunday splattered shell fragments on ; the cruiser Toledo during a three hour gun! duel at Hungnam. Meanwhile deep-stab-' bing Eighth army patrols on tha central Korean front stirred up Chinese ground resistance. ' Far East Naval headquarters announced in Tokyo that j the To ledo was not! damaged and there were no casualties to Its! person nel, i -) i i It was the heaviest day of ac tion for the flagship of task force &5 since the ! Inchon landing on Sept 15,. 1950. ! Red shells i soma coming as close! as 35 yards fell on each side of the Toledo and her escort ing destroyer, tha USS Halsey Powell, before the two warships succeeded in ' silencing the com munist fire. I I Scott Forecasts Civvies for Ike NEW YORK, Nov. 11 0P)-Rep. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) said today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower might return to civilian life short ly after the first of the year and make his position dear, on the presidency. -1 Scott said that January SI, the deadline for filing in the nation's first primary; in New Hampshire, was "a good day to keep in mina." i Scott onetime republican chair man, la a plugger for Eisenhower for president. Crosby Finances Work On Method to Tape TV i By James R. Bacon " ' HOLLYWOOD, Nov. ll-(P)-Research financed by the golden voice of Bing Crosby is at work today on taped television a method of recording pictures on magnetic tape. A lazy way of TV programming, Hollywood sees the new inven tion as the thing that could lure Bing himself into television. The method is similar to theh tape recording of radio shows that now allows Bing more freedom to fish and golf and otherwise lead the life of Crosby. Engineers of the Crosby enter prises estimate that another six months will see commercial use of the process which,, they say, will equal live television. Old Movie Recorded This reporter witnessed a dem onstration in which an old movie of poor quality was received in the Crosby lab on a standard television set. The telecast was recorded on the magnetic tape and the tape was then fed through the TV receiver. The taped picture was hazy but nevertheless convincing. In com mercial use, the tape recording would be made directly from the television cameras. t Engineer John T. Mullin said the biggest hurdle getting the picture on tape has been con quered. No Major Problem "The degree of quality in sound and picture offers, no problem but time," Mullm said. Mullin, along with Engineer Wayne R. Johnson and Frank C. Healey, e x e cutive director of Crosby Electronics, , created the process. Healey says that the artists Will love it because "television show can be made in takes just, like movies and many radio shows." If a line is fluffed, the picture can be erased from the tape and done over. Brother Larry Crosby would not disclose how much of Bing"s money went into research but did say more than two years of lab oratory work was entailed. Fatal Head-On 2-Car Wreck Said Deliberate SUFFOLK, Va., Nov. 11 -(P)-A 35-year-old man was killed near here early today in the head on collision of his car with another car occupied by his wife and a young soldier. Clarence O. Thomas, of Ports mouth, died in the wreck on U.S. route 460 five miles east of here. Said State Trooper N. C. Dav idson: "To me, it looked like a case of one car deliberately crashing into another."; Thomas was alone in one car. In the other were his 28-year-old wife, Pauline, and James Wilkins Breakfield, 26, of ; Portsmouth. Witnesses told Trooper Davidson that Thomas speeded past the Breakfield car, suddenly made a U-turn and swerved into the lane in which the other car was com ing. . : ! Hospital attendants in Ports mouth said Breakfield is in satis factory condition and Mrs. Thom as in poor condition. Hospital rec ords show that Breakfield's wife gave birth to a son there last Tuesday. : . i CHINA INCREASES AID HANOI, Indochina, Nov. 11-flP)-A French army headquarters spokesman declared ' tonight Chi nese communists are increasing their aid to Vietminh forces in Indochina. . - Missing Scientist Rumored Held By Russia as Spy for Truman ! ROME, Nov. 1 l-P)-Two Rome newspapers gave a new twist to the Bruno Pontecorvo mystery to day by saying the missing British scientist had been arrested by the Russians in an effort to plug a leak of their atomic secrets to President Truman. ' : The papers, II Tempo and Mo menta Sera, quoted unidentified Russian sources in Stockholm of saying 38-year-old, Italian - born Pontecorvo, who disappeared more than a year ago with his Swedish wife and three children, had been arrested as a western spy in the Soviet Union. It Tempo and Momento Sera said the Russians believed the United States had a spy among their top ranking atomic scientists and that Pontecorvo may have been the source of information on which President Truman based his an nouncements of atomic explosions In the UJ5.S.R. i An official of the ministry of supply in London, which employed Pontecorvo at Its chief atomic re Judy Garland Collapses in Midst of Show NEW YORK, Nov. ll-(P)-Act-ress Judy Garland collapsed back stage at the Palace theater tonight and her doctor said she was suf fering "nervous exhaustion." He ordered her taken to a pri vate sanitorium for "a few. days." The singer now appearing twice a day at the Palace in what critics had hailed 'as her comeback after several illnesses in -recent years. Dr. Udall J. Salmon, her physi cian, said he had forbidden her to go ahead with the evening per formance after he examined her shortly before 9 p.m. However, he said, she Insisted that "the show must go on." She appeared on stage for her opening number in the variety show. Later, members of the audi ence said, she appeared to become ill, then asked for water, and fin ally left the stage. Reds Demand Verdict Now on Armistice Line MUNSAN, Korea, Monday, Nov. 12-i"P)-A U.N. command spokes man today said allied and com munist truce talkers made abso lutely no progress at their Monday morning session. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckols told newsmen after the two hour session that the reds had insisted the allied proposal on a buffer line separating the two forces was ! "not loyal to the agenda." i The allies have offered to draw a cease-fire line wherever the battle line might be when an arm istice is finally agreed upon. The reds want a line marked now. "It is more and more apparent" Nuckols said, "that what they de sire is a line and zone across which military action cannot take place. They are seeking a defacto (in fact) cease-fire by indirection." Casual Bump Brings Deatli FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 11 David Shubia, 37, of Fowler, was strolling along a sidewalk with his family last night Suddenly, an unidentified stranger bumped into him and cursed. j "You wanna make something of it?" the man snarled. Subia was speechless from sur prise. Then the man whipped out a knife, stabbed Subia twice and ran into the darkness as his victim slumped to the sidewalk dead. Police Lieutenant E. F. Kraschel said the assailant evidently was drunk. A quick search was un availing. search '. center at Harwell, com mented: "It is intriguing that such news if it were true should have percolated through the iron curtain." . . - ' Finnish police and officials said they had heard no such rumors from refugees from Russia or any other source. The Rome newspaper story was a completely new assessment of Pontecorvo's role. More than a year ago British Supply Minister George Strauss admitted that he had no definite information but said he had "no doubt" the miss ing researcher had skipped to Rus sia. ' Only a few months ago the United States s2nate-house atomic energy committee declared Ponte corvo the second most deadly spy in all history, ranking only below his reputed bosom friend, Klaus Fuchs, in passing; valuable atomic secrets to Russia. Fuchs, a tier man-born British scientist is serv ing a 14-year prison sentence in iJiglana. ' . International Ransoms Pay Dollars to Reds OA e rlAXNUloUU, wov. u-ijfy-Sen. William F. Knowland (R Calif.), aid today he has asked tha state department to Investigate a huge shakedown racket through which the Chinese communist gov-' ernment is reported obtaining mil lions of U. S. dollars, j Meanwhile leaders of the big" Chinese colony here took steps to halt the flow of money. They aay the reds are forcing Chinese citi zens to obtain dollars from their American relatives or friends ta kmj iiuca, wxci aim rents av face execution. i At least three residents of Saa Francisco's Chinatown are report-' ed to have killed themselves im despair recently after sending re peating payments to save relative from death, t To Go to U. N. Knowland said he will ask tha state department to place the isstta ' before the United Nations as a "menace to international morality and basic human rights." He called : the communist de mands "outlaw acts" and declare "international kidnaping cannot be ' permitted any more than kidnaa- ing in any community." i Asks Registration - ' . ' Lee Dai-Ming, editor of the In- : fluential Chinese eWorld here, ' called oh the .Chinese Americans - of San Francisco, who are r "equeeze" victims to register so a plea could be documented fas presentation to the U. N. Reporting s the three suicide . here, C. S. Mong, editor of tha - Chinese Times, said "It's the only way out." 1 . -i- l; "A man here whose wife was . arrested by the communists . iai p&iu ruisuins unui we cwn pay no more. He killed Tiimself rather than live in the knowledge that he had failed, for lacki funds, to save her from torture aoA death at communist hands." Peron Holds BUENOS AIRES, Monday, Nov. 12-lPt-Prptripnt Juan D. Peron. seeking ire-election for a second term, swept to a commanding lead early today in unofficial return from yesterday's general election. With 23 per cent of the esti mated 6,000,000 votes counted, Peron t was leading with 65 per cent of the vote. In his first elec tion in 1946 he won 55 per cent. The latest unofficial tabulation for 6,748 of the nation's 36,223 pre cincts gave Peron 902,745 votes ta 479,306 for Dr. Ricardo Balbin, candidate of the Radical party, chief opposition to the Peronistaa. The morning newspaper Uemo- cracia, spokesman fori the Pero. government, said the unofficial to tal, with one-fourth of the vote counted; was 1,103,049 for Pero and 526,514 for BalbinJ i La Nation, the only big inde pendent newspaper left in Argen tina, reported a general Peronist victory in the election. ; Leaders of the Radical party, chief opposition to the Peronistas, privately ad mitted defeat. ; ' : ' At midnight ships : docked at Buenos s Aires blew whistles t celebrate the Peron victory. aves A Marion county Jail trusty walked s away from kitchen duty about 5 pjn. Sunday and was sttill at large early this morning, th sheriffs office reported. He is Louis Percy Tucker, 31, at Westfir, serving six months far' petit larceny. He was convicted of attempting to steal a wallet at a Portland restaurant last month. Tucker, as trusty in the kitchen, was allowed outside freedom whil working until 6 pjn. j Cabrielson Asks v Pacts Renounced NEW YORK, Nov. 11 Rv publican National Chairman Gu$ G. Gabrielson today called for de nunciation br the United State of the Yalta and Potsdam agree ments. XI- a AAA Tnrwilnl9n.liMt. cans at an ; anti-communist rally that the agreements permitted, es tablishment of communist govern ments in Poland and Yugoslavia gave Port 'Arthur and Dairen t Russia, and threw open Manchuria to Chinese communists. - "Isn't it about time that we de nounced all of these1 once-secret i agreements?" ha asked.' ...i Large Lead in Argentine Vote County Jail rwt i Til irustvLe - - -; s i j s