l i ! S I S t . - sC if if. i . - i ; ' ' . ! i " - -i . n I VJS-'X'yl ( WW - J h I I ' I ii . S.Y ""WW. I ' ' . -T5 I 7AH . 3TVs5 A V 1 .11-11 U. 5 i 4- V By the Associated Press California's Gov, Earl Warren formally tossed his hat into the ring yesterday in a bid for the ' republican presidential nomina tion in 1952. K . Senator Nixon R -Calif.) promptly termed Warren "the strongest . dark-horse candidate" in the slowly expanding field. - .Warren's entry , assured at least a I two-way race for -the , GOP prjze, with Senator Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) already well along in his campaign. Other possible GOP candidates still to be heard from include Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and former Gov. Harold S las sen of Minnesota. Commenting on Warren's an nouncement, Taft told newsmen with a smile: . - - iThe more the merrier." The Ohio senator said he had "assumed right along" that War ren would be a candidate, and he hoped the campaign could be conducted on a friendly basis. . The 60-year-old Warren said in A formal statement that the Tru .roan administration must be ban ished . "for the welfare of our country," but he cautioned: - -r "We cannot hope to win solely on the mistakes of the present 20-year (democratic) administra tion, many though thfy are." - Warren had said earlier that he favored a "liberal" platform. He plans to outline specific sug gestions for GOP policy in a speech at San- Diego on Friday, MacArihur to Pay Msit -to Oregon PORTLAND, Nov. 14 -rV The weather bureau' tonight forecast rain for Gen. Douglas MacArthur's brief visit here -tomorrow. - The general's party is scheduled to arrive' at 8:15 a.m. from Se attle. After a parade from the airport to the veterans hospital and return he will leave about 10 ajn. - f j ' " ' MacArthur will shake hands with some 340 1 members of Gov. fflKHDOOB rv caiMn Vnif nd7t,k club must eat heartily to draw' blood from brains to digestive tract in order to stand talks such as the one reported made by Dr. Ruth Alexander on Monday-night.' For Dr. Alexander lkf . at. the USA through very dark glasses: and exudes a gloom which would greatly depress anyone who is wide awake. This In spit of the fact that she has long been identi fied with a "Wake up Americal" crusade. Dr. Ruth (the Dr. U a PhD.) Is not only a staunch advocate of capitalism but apparently one of Its hired mourners. For she be wails its demise and admits she lias "failed" in her 14 years effort to guard its bulwarks. Socialism Is her bete noir, and evidently she bundles into the basket of social Ism every deviation from past norms, such as the income tax. In fact, as she told her audience, we are all "economic slaves, chained to a tax." (On this point she will find many to agree with here). ! Getting her speech by proxy from our Statesman reporter's news story I fail to get very much excited over the doom she sees in such early prospect. Socialism is In ; retreat here and elsewhere. Even the "welfare state" is run ning into a dead end. Actually our social and economic organization runs pretty much on the rule of trial-and-error. As problems arise we try to solve them individually rather than to draw up a blueprint for revolution. Even those horrid socialists, the British Labor party, came to a halt in their (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Gets life Term STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 144UP)-The Stockholm magistrate's court tonight ; sentenced Ernest Hilding Andersson, a Swedish nav al engineer, to hard labor for life for spying for Russia. The well-groomed Andersson, 42. had confessed to spying and admitted he had been a communist for 23 years, i ' Animal Craclxcro " & WARREN GOODRICH Td HI Jtfor to o cenb Uskekil knew wttidt end to tpees to." Swedish Spy IS .?. 'vv- : - " . i ' - J-'-: .',A ::..- '-.' J v , . SM m0ej iSHSslllftWi Jl.-Hw6SBSSSSSSSMilSBBl GOV. EARL WARREN Seeks GO? Nomination Senator Nixor) told reporters on capitol hill in I Washington that during his recent extensive speak ing tour he found "strong grass root support" fqr Gov. Warren in Montana, Colorado, Kansas, Mis souri, r Michigan New . York ? and Massachusetts. I " : r : . Warren was the GOP candidate for vice : president in ' 1948. He is serving his; third term as gover nor of California and ! has held pouueal office for 31 years. ' Brief Douglas McKay's reception com mittee befoire the takeoff. The gov ernor and state civic and military leaders will paricipate in welcom ing ; ceremonies; and the parade, expected to attract thousands de spite the early hours and the fore cast of rain, f --' McKay and Mayor Dorothy Mc Cullough Lee Will ride in the lead car with tne general. ' SEATTLE Nov. 14-UrVGen Douglas MacArthur welcomed home today some of the troops he once commanded in Korea, while a political tempest echoed from his sharp blast at the Truman admin istration- lait night. ! At hit docksfde welcome to the ; PORTLAND, Nev. 1 The weather? bureau said to night there was a possibility that fog might delay the ar rival here tomorrow ef General Douglas MaeArthnr. ; : - If there is 1 enough, wind to clear away the fog the general's plane should he able to land en time from Seattle by 1:15 a. m. In any easej however.' the plane's arrival Is aeS expected to be delayed later than 1 a, m. ' i ) - troops here, he told the most-deco rated soldier aboard: ' ; i "Whatever criticism there may be with 'reference to the Korean war, none pertains to the fighting men." ; ' . Replies to Critics After the ship-side appearance, the MacArthurl party traveled by motor caravan so miles to Tacoma where he made what some listen ers; interpreted! as a response to critics of last 1 night's nationally broadcast speech at the opening of beatue s centennial celebration. "When 1 left New York," he commented In a brief, Informal talk at Tacoma, "a friend said, 'Oh, politics?' and I answered, no, Americanism vi General MacArthur paid tribute to Sen. Harry P. Cain, Washington republican, in Tacoma, where Cain once was mayor. "I don't think you people In this part of the world understand the great record your distinguished senator is: making in the other world," the general said. Criticism Hear! - Sharp criticism of the general's Seattle speech -came from Wash' ington's two democratic congress menHugh Mitchell of Seattle and Henry Jackson of Everett Mitchell and the president of the Seattle chapter of Americans for democra tic action also 'criticized the Uni versity of Washington for allow ing, on the campus, an address which they branded as political. Dr. Raymond B. Allen, the uni versity president, offered today to provide a i similar rostrum for democratic speaker. He expressed the hope, however, that it would not oe an oixice seeker. Dr. Allen commented; that "speakers who fare worth hearing will inevitably say things' with which some will disagree.' ' . After his brief talk at Tacoma, MacArthur and. his party toured to Madigan Army hospital at Fort Lewis and through the Fuyallup valley. I . Despite a heavy rain .thousands of Puyallup, Sumner; Kenton, Ken and Auburn residents turned out to cheer the party as it passed. In several Instances, cat -calls were heard from the crowd. Boos, all but muffled by loud cheering, came from spectators in Tacoma, Kent ana Aucurn. - t SILENT EGYPTIANS MARCH CAIRO,!Ef ypt, Nov. 14-tfV Thousarid of Egyptians turned out today for a silent, peaceful anti British demonstration which Cairo newspapers hailed as the greatest In the city's history and "mora vio lent than the road of guns. ' ! I - - . Today 101st YEAH CMbsi Dares BM. 5,500 250,000 Korea ;290 Allies Slain ! By BUI Shinn PUgAN, Korea, Nov. 14-WVThe U. S. Eighth army today charged the. Reds, in ; acts of - "barbarism unique even in" the Communist world," have killed . about 5,500 American's and 290 other allied prisoners of war. -t That grim record, compiled since the outbreak of the Korean war, did not -include South .Korean sol diers,: for whom exact casulty fig ures are hard to obtain. But the army indicated approximately 11, 000 of them were killed. As for civilians, the army cited estimates of 250,000 Korean non combatants slain in atrocities. ."The exact figure. will never be known," the army added, i The figures were announced at a press .conference by col. James M. Hanley, chief of s the Eighth army's judge advocate section. He issued a formal statement and then amplified it. i "The Chinese forces in Korea have committed most of the com munist atrocity killings of U. N. prisoners of war since the entry of Red China into the. conflict late last year" Hanley stated. I Claim Compliance ; " "r . "This la in sharp conflict with the Chinese claim of compliance with the Geneva convention for the treatment of war prisoners.". (Secretary of State Acheson in a speech before the United Nations assembly in Paris Tuesday de nounced the Red China regime for international conduct "so low that it .. would take considerable im provement to raise it to the general level of barbarism.") w ' i - Hanley said Eighth army records showed the Chinese had killed 2, 513 American prisoners, 10 British, 40 Turkish, five Belgian and 75 others "of unknown nationality." The remainder of the victims were slain by North Koreans before or after the Chinese entered; the war. He estimated the Chinese had killed at least 2,643 non-Korean prisoners and the North Koreans about 3,147. j Went- Massacre ' The worst massacre of U.N. pris oners was blamed on the North Koreans. Hanley charged 1,250 Americans were led out and shot near the Yalu river boundary of Manchuria in northwest Korea be tween September 16 and 18, 1950. The prisoners," he said, "were transported from a prison camp near Pyongyang (Ncth Korean capital) and shot in groups after being fed rice and wine, according to the report of the incident." The largest number of Ameri cans known to have been" killed by the Chinese Was a group of 200 U. S. marines. The marines, captured In the bitter fighting around Changjin reservoir In northeast Korea, were slaughtered last De cember 10, Hanley said. The figures compiled by the United Nations command are far from complete," Hanley added, "but show a record of killings and barbarism unique even In the Com munist world."- INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. U-Wh The American Legion's state com manders and adjutants demanded today that the United States fight an all-out atomic war in Korea in retaliation for the murder of some 5,000 Americans held as prisoners. The legion leaders also demand ed that the conduct of the war be taken from the hands of the state department and given to the mili tary. National Commander Donald R. Wilson said. - -ti Britain Prepares New Sudan Policy .. LONDON. Nov. 14-flVBritaln is expected to announce definite olans soon for giving self-govern ment to the Anglo-Egyptian Su dan before the . end of 1952, in formed officials reported, today. They , said this would clear the way for the Sundanese people to choose between complete inde pendence, union with Egypt : or some sort of association with this country. . . Tito to Receive More, Bigger U. S. 'Weapons I BELGRADE; Yugoslavia, Nov. 14-P)-The United States agreed today to send more and bigger weapons to Premier Marshall Tito's communist army. Tito and U. S. Ambassador George Allen signed an agree ment for American military aid which provides that a U. S. ad visory mission will be stationed in Belgrade to see the weapons are properly distributed and used. Civilians P PAGES Ths) 1TD 5 0 V U.S. Four Students SpeaIc for i Democracy1 in SJaycee Contest " M ' t'"" P iiiitii,,.,iaii...iiWityCT(iiiai!W ,. v. j , . . .. . M ' ' ' . - w ' 5 - f ..y-A 'i 4 w4i - i "i 1 y -Jz -JF'" vV'';P--lt" " A ill I" sM-f if - ? rr "1-3 ' -. Dolores Gottfried, left, 17-year-ld Sacred Heart academy senior, will represent Salem in the annual "Voice of Democracy" contest spon sored, by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Competing against of Stalin Ailme Heard nt BERLIN, Nov. lMVRumors circulated in Berlin tonight that Soviet Premier Stalin's health has deteriorated in the last month.. The rumor was attributed to a tipster on the staff of the Soviet control commission, but western officials were unable to obtain any information which - might support it. Stalin, who will be 72 years old next month, - is believed making his usual winter visit to a Black Sea resort to escape Moscow's cold weather. r j He was absent from the tribun al atop Lenin's tomb when the Soviet armed . forces paraded through Red Square in Moscow on Nov. 7, the 34th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. - According to the rumor here, Stalin's heart condition, from which he has suffered for years, deteriorated so much that on Oc tober 18 four doctors informed the Soviet council of ministers that an operation might be re quired. Polk Demos Issue Call to Candidates Statesman News Service i DALLAS Polk county demo cratic central committee is asking potential primary candidates to turn out for a meeting next Tues day, evening In Rickreall grange halL The session was called by Chair man Marcel Chris man of Sheridan for 7:30 p.m. November 20. Host committeeman will be Joseph Sim mons of Rickreall. : Speakers will include County Recorder Tracy Staats and Asses sor Joe Dunn. In Berlin Area 7;500 See IHIigh Wire Artist Talte Fatal Fall BALTIMORE, Nov. 14 -AV Evy TrostL 17-year-old high wire art ist, dropped 60 feet to her death today before 7,500 horror-stricken circus spectators at the Fifth Regi ment armory today. Her father, Arturo Trostl, leader of the trio, "The Great Arturos, watched her fall as she danced with a 24-foot balancing bar near the center of the wire. He was standing on the platform at the end of the wire. He slid quickly down a rope and was one of the first to reach her crumpled body. Evy was still conscious. She kept crying: "I can't breathe Daddy. Help me. It hurts. The crowd 5,000 of them chil drenremained in frozen silence for a few moments, then seemed to release a mass groan. The few who broke from the stands toward where she lay were quickly herd ed back by firemen and police men. " - An ambulance rushed the girl to Maryland General hospital. Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, November 15, to Break off Aji? I t . 1 I i 1 1 aiers ijaep SacredHeart Girl Winner in Speech Contest 'Dolores Gottfried, a Sacred Heart academy senior, won Salem's con test Wednesday in the Junior Chamber of Commerce "Voice of Democracy'' competition. A record ing of her talk- will be entered in the state meet here December I. . Miss Gottfried, 17, defeated Paul Ward and Ray Cook of Salem high school and Dolly O'Neil of Salem academy. She is to give her talk to" the Salem Jaycees at a luncheon meeting November 27. , . " Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John P. i Gottfried, 1066 Shade st! the winner has a special interest in singing. She is a member of the Cecilians singing group at the academy, where she takes vocal lessons, as well as being a member of the Pep club and active in jour nalism. ' . i ' ' USAF Plane Wreck Found PARIS, Nov. 13-6?VA U.S. alr force C-82 flying boxcar, missing with 38 U. S: military personnel aboard, was found in the moun tainous, area of southwestern Fran ce today, the French pews. agency reported. It was not immediately known if there' were any survivors, j ILLUSTRATING THEIR POINT ' PULLMAN Wash., Nov. 14-JP) -There's nothing like illustrating a point The Washington State college - student newspaper today carried a story ' announcing "an important prbfreaders , meeting" tomorrow. where she died a half-hour later. Her father collapsed at her death. The hospital doctors. and offi dais of the Shrine circus tried to have him admitted, but he refused He made a hurried telephone call to his wife in Tampa, Fla., and made arrangements to fly home tonight. r ! ' x , The third member of the famous trio, Eric,' was a cousin of the girl; He was on the platform at .the other end of the wire, j ; .The - Trostls originally., came from Vienna. The family report edly has been acrobats and per formers for generations in Europe. Evy began learning on the high wire when she was 10. She start ed on the road with her father and Eric three years ago. She was doing a Spanish dance with a balancing pole on the high wire when she lost her balance and fell to the floor. ' . Fellow-performers said Evy was to have left the circus at tne end of this week and return to school in Tampa. ' POUNDDD 1651 j ' i orlcd Miss Gottfried were center! photo, Paul Ward, left, 'and Ray Cook, Salem high school seniors; and Dolly OTfeil, Salem academy, right. I (Photos by Don DilL Statesman staff photographer - V . Agrees Files of Tax Fraud Suits ; , WASHINGTON, Nov. 14-(flVSecrecy barriers which for -years have hidden federal operations in crumble , today under hammering newspapers.. . - ' These were the main breaches in the walls: . ' 1. Rep. King (D-Cal), chairman of the house committee which has produced evidence of corruption and misconduct in the internal revenue bureau, reported that President Truman agreed to open justice department4 files ' on tax fraud prosecutions to the commit tee. The aim is to see whether the department's hands are clean. - , 2. Internal Revenue Commis sioner John B. Dunlap told: a news conference that he has rec ommended to President Truman and Treasury Secretary Snyder the creation of a special commis sion to study "too much secrecy" in operations' of his bureau, j 3. The commissioner also an nounced that he has ordered a house-cleaning in the alcohol tax unit, with reports of "irregulari ties to be investigated by outside men" from the narcotics bureau and the secret service. Version of Case 4. Therori Lamar Caudle, assist ant attorney general in charge of tax prosecutions, gave out his de tailed version of development of a case against officials of the Gulf Coast Tobacco company. He de nied stories published in the Pro vidence Evening Bulletin and St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he had attempted to discourage prosecu tion. He declared he pushed the case vigorously. i There have been frequent com plaints from congressmen that the secrecy rules regarding tax . af fairs were too broad, and strong objections have come from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The ASNE in April this year took special note of the alco hol tax unit situation, suggesting that the policy of silence i could promote abuses. Scandals Force Issue The scandals that have come to light in the tax collection study by King's house ways and means sub committee form the lever that has pried the locked files open. That group's hearings record covers sit uations that led to the resignation, suspension or discharge of more than a score of tax agents, most ft them income tax men but some in the alcohol unit. Six of the lot were collectors of internal reven ue and two of those have been in dicted. Now the committee has turned principal attention to tax prose cutions. King has said he wants to know why "so many" cases refer red to the justice department by tax officials have been dropped at "higher levels.' Max.: .sa - Min. 41 38 58 41 7 Precip. Salem ,; Portland San Francisco Chicago , ,. New York M trace .00 J2 so 48 Willamette River J lect FORECAST (from U. 8V weather bu reau. McNary held. Salem): Partly eioudv with a few brief showers today and tonignl High today near S3, low tonight near sz. SALEM PKKCIPITATIOW Ibm start mt wathcr Tear. Beet. I This Year Last Year Normal liOS 1243 r 1951 PRICE 5c istice Talks V Slai: to the field of tax collection began to by -congressional investigators and to Resort Towns Perhaps the winter In the sun ny southwest isn't quite up to pat as far as two escaped Oregon convicts are concerned. Both gave themselves up, one in Nevada and the, other in Arizona, the prison learned Wednesday. .. Earl O. Jones,. 60. who escaped June 19, 1943, gave himself up to police in Phoenix, Ariz"Tues- day night prison officials said. Alfred Hebert, out since Novem ber, 1950, turned himself in to Las Vegas,' Nev. officials. Jones entered the penitentiary from Clackamas county May 29, 1934 to serve 40 years for rape. His sentence was later commuted to 25 . years. Jones was at the state prison farm at the time of his escape. Hebert came to the prison from Coos county in January. 1950 to serve four years for larceny, i - Warden Virgil O'Malley said he would send a guard to get both Jones and Hebert. Margaret Allergic To Beasts; Causes Circus to Move 7$ NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14-CflV Shrine circus animals were ousted from municipal auditorium today because Margaret Truman is al lergic to animals particularly elephants. - A large contingent of seals, horses, dogs and elephants which arrived early tor the circus open ing Friday were quickly removed from the auditorium after secret service men told of Miss Truman's allergy. Miss Truman gave a concert at j the auditorium tonight while the animals were parked in cages on a nearby parkling lot. K , India Asks Big 4 Rule Out War PARIS. Nov. 14-OPr-India ap pealed today for a joint "no war declaration by the iig four foreign ministers. , Sir Beneeal Rau of India and delegates from several smaller countries urged In speeches be fore the United Nations general assembly that the- United States, Britain, France and Russia get to gether in the U. N. Rau reminded the assembly that Trench President Vincen Auriol tuffested the chiefs o: states of, the four powers get to gether lor lace-to face taixs. Opeh Two Escapees Prefer Pen VI f ! i - i it He, 61YT 1 IWACCeD ion i to 1 Issues in Sight By William Jorden MUNSAN. Korea J k Thursday. Nov. 15-iflVA Moscow - trained Chinese truce negotiator; Wednes day - virtually j dared i. the . United Nations to break off ! the Korean armistice talks and try to change the front lines by. force of arms if they could, f H : K - The challenge came from Maj. Gen. Hsieh Fang, Chinese red sub-: committee chairman ; and " former military attache in f Moscow. It prompted no immediate reply. tiowever, the seriousness of the badly snarled r buffer zone issue after a five hour five minute sub committee session led the U. N. commanad to declare "no mutual ly acceptable! solution sight," u.; :'L-' f was n Neither side appeared in anr mood to back away from the stand it has taken. 1 I t w Asks Belt Tightened ! ' , The , red Peiping- radio. In truculent broadcast 1 today, de clared that it the talks break down "we are prepared" to smash United Nations attacks. 1 It urced , the Chinese people to tighten their belts and strengthen' their cam paign in Korea "until the enemy is wuung . to accept peace." The broadcast sineled out Vieo Adm. C. Turner Joyj chief U. N. negotiator for special attack, ac cusing him of trying to "wreck finally the whole armistice ne gotiations." 3 - j " ' Nevertheless, joint ! sub-coi-mittee - talks " af Panmunjom re sumed today for the 22nd time. The U. N. communique, hsued Wednesday night, said there was ' only one remaining issue on the buffer zone question ;but it was a vital and fundamental one. The fundamental issue was thier Whether to stop the fighting now on land and sea and in the air or after: agreement is reached en the. exchange of prisoners anel oiner agenda Items. Said Trematore ! ine aines contended i tnat sus pension of all types; of military operations now would be "prema ture." It said the U N. command was "unwilling to leave these mat ters In indefinite abeyance.' Gen. Hsieh who I left his post as Chinese red mihtarv attach in Moscow to join the communis cease-fire team last month sart: If you want to vaunt vour military strength, boast of so called military pressure on our side, you have freedom to stay away from the conference and try to change the line of contact to your satisfaction-"! - The line of contact is the shoot ing line across Korea. Some 500,- 000 or more men on either side of that line awaited orders from their commanders that would send them back into full-scale fighting anc Ditter winter campaign; , 1 . ' i SEOUL, Korea. Thursday. Now. lS-GPJ-AlHed observers reported Chinese communist troops dragged away "hundreds of dead and wounded" Wednesday night after unsuccessful t a n k- infantry as saults on two allied hill position on the western Korean front An allied officer told AP Cor respondent Milo Fameti the Chi nese ripped clothing off their owi dead and allied casualties. It looks like they're runnlmt out of caulnmmt inH I iWhl tne oincer said. ; Boys School ASTORIA. Nov. il4-6tVCirrutt Judge Howard K. Zimmerman ex onerated the state iboys' training school at Woodburn of brutality yesterday! and sentenced three es capees tor five years in the state) prison. i - j Two othe boys earlier told the judge they had been mistreated at the school. The judge said he asked an investigation, in which their stories were found false. Sentenced to prison were Rich ard Wolfram, 15, James Malonev 14, and Richard Jackman, 18. They were convicted of 1 stealing tm automobile at gun point near Jew ell in their flight from the Wood burn school. ; , . -Till :jr: II : table aoiut Exonerated Mossadegh Asks for 0120 jliUion U.S. Lo&a . - r i -. : ..... . WASHINGTON, -Nov. 14 HV Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossa degh today renewed his appeal for American financial aid to stave f 2 a "grave economic crisis" in ki . oil-rich country. -i Informants ' said i Mossadegh k seeking a U.S. loan of $120,009,- ' 000 to cover the next 12 months including $50,000,000 Immediately. t.