7esthcr. Portland Max. Kin. Prcein. . m - Jtn . 4 41 JD1 ' . U - - 47 4 t M IS , M Can rranciaco Willamette Blver 1.7 ieet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau, McNary field, Salem): Consider able night and morning tog, otherwise partly cloudy today, becoming fair to night Highest today near 50. the low est tonight ivear 32. ' SALEM PRECtmAnON SUrt ef Weather Tear, Sept 1 This Year Last Year . Normal HM . 18.S1 89 ' Ni sy ' " it r ! " Nr- wVC Jiy 7 II II -1 I II. X I J I I I I I I 1 1 'I I . ' VVVWV UUV UL ! , - Ae ' - ; .v-.. ! - ., . , : " r ' -. . UNDBD I03J ----- '':- ; - .. i IDJor ') Cwrd tt titt Growtk tf OrrM . lOIifTEAB 2 SECTIONS-34 PAGES Th Oregon Slatesmcm. Salem, Oregon, Thursday. Norember 22, 1951 PRICE Sc No. 2C3 Soy Meets Princess Story Involves American Margaret Rose, Young . PARIS, Thursday, Nov. 22-fl) -Princess Margaret . had an un cheduled meetin&r with a young American from Chicago at the swank Hertford hospital bell here last night. - The brash midwesterner 24- 'year-old Charles "Chuck" Nor- ris didn't get to dance with the - princess, but he did jget two smiles from her. - Norris a civilian employe of the U. S. army finance section "here, was getting ready for bed at 10 o'clock last night when he - picked up a paper showing a pic- ture of the princess. "Wow what a beautiful girl! -he said. r The paper said, she would pre side at the charity ball, which attracted more than a thousand of France's blue bloods. "I've got to meet that girl. .She's really beautiful,' Chuck thought. ...:? ;:!. , , Digging out his tuxedo from among protecting mothballs, he borrowed a black tie from the .French family with whom he - lives. He took . a taxi to the fashionable Rue Faubourg ' Ste. Honore, where y the glittering dance was taking place, dug 8,000 francs ?( $23) out of his pocket for his ticket and went in. i Inside he stood on the side lines and admiringly watched Princess Margaret as she danced with a . succession of young French noblemen. At Intermission, when she had gone to supper. Chuck decided he Just had to meet her. Princess of the British royal family generally meet no one not formally presented to them. Chuck either didn't know or didn't care. He walked up to a little knot of male admirers surrounding the - princess, stretched out his hand, and said: "Excuse me, your highness, I should like to present myself. I am an American and my name is Chuck Norris." "I am delighted to meet you," said Margaret with a smile for the handsome young American. But she declined to dance, ex plaining she was "booked up." 0F TKDOEiQCB On this Thanksgiving Day of 1951 X think the American people should first be humble and ashamed of themselves before they can be truly thankful: Ashamed at their greed and covetousness; ashamed of their strife and con tention; ashamed of their pride and arrogance when we think of how richly our land : Is blessed as compared with others, of how bountiful - is our patrimony, we should indeed be most humble. .'- Yet our papers are full of com plainings: Against the high cost of living (forgetting the generally high incomes); against higher taxes (forgetting .eras-greater de mands on government for service) ; against competing groups : over relative shares of the income dol lar, -t- . -k ". . By every yardstick it is easy to determine that no people "ever had it so good." We know that when we think of conditions in other countries, lack of food, bad conditions of health, poor hous ing (with exceptions, of course). And when we compare the lot of most Americans today with that of their forerunners a half cen tury or century ago,' the improve ments are quite beyond compre hension. 1 In the matter of food. Life mag azine in its last issue had a story with pictures showing the differ ence in quantity and variety of foodstuffs consumed by a work er's family today and in 1900. In the latter year the food consisted largely of (Continued oh editorial page 4). Clewed Reds Say Plane Violated Frontier; Fog Stalls Search BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Nov. 21 -AV Hungary, and Romania charged today their frontiers were violated by a U. S. military plane which vanished Monday after re- KrUng it had been fired upon by rder guards of the Soviet satel lites. The charges were the first ack nowledgement by the two govern ments that they knew - anything about the incident. Fog over the craggy mountains end woods of the Yugoslavia Italian border region today hamp ered the air search for the plane, a C-47 transport carrying diplo matic cargo and a crew of four to Belgrade, which is believed to have made a crash landing in the area. - Anlmcl Crackers y WARREN GOODRICH wMi tW Titt ff or tfw le Us tserew m C-Sr " . - REP. CECIL KING Heads House Tax Probers Taxi nquiry Chief-Cleared By Committee WASHINGTON,! Nov. 21 - (ff) - A house investigating group today cleared its chairman, Rep. Cecil King (D-Calif) o rumors that he intervened improperly in three southern California tax cases. After two days of hearings be hind closed doors, Rep. Combs (D-Tex), acting chairman of the house ways and means subcommit tee, 'issued a report stating: The subcommitte has unani mously concluded that the rumors concerning actual or attempted in' tervention by Rep; King in these matters are completely without foundation." I -a , King's committee is In the midst of a sensational probe of the na tion's tax collecting sxptem. , Meanwhile the internal revenue bureau disclosed that Frank Wil cox, chief of audits in the Okla homa City collector's office, is the subject of a special investigation. The chain of Investigations al ready has been extended from Washington to the bureaus In New York,' St. Louis, Boston, San Francisco and Detroit.. -King himself asked for an in vestigatlon of reports concerning his activities. 1 Student Killed In Chemistry Formula Blast HOUSTON, Nov. 21-(ff)-A bril liant high school student nick named by his teacher as "my ex ploder" because he liked to blow up things, blew himself to death today in his school's chemistry lab. He was trying to make a rocket formula in a pickle jar. ; j The resulting tremendous ex plosion blew the hand off another brilliant student and possibly blinded him for life. It seriously injured two other chemistry pupils in. Lamar high school. - The explosion shook the neigh borhood. Killed wac Ted A. Strong! jr.. 17. Blinded and with a hand torn off was David Billman, 16. Suffering multiple cuts and burns were John Cramer jr., 17, and William; Calvin Montgomery jr., 17. f. The teacher. Miss Francis Hol- lingsworth, said all the youths ex cept Montgomery were in her fifth period chemistry class; from 1 to 2 p.m. but said, "I didn t ?ee them mixing anything." j Mont gomery was in another chemistry section. . . i "His parents (Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Strong) were at an open house at the school last week," sh re lated. "I told them I called him my exploder because of his great interest in explosives." Young Strong, she said, assur ed here he was in no danger. "He told me he would not fool with anything that he wasn't able to handle, she said. Federal Advicej Sought on What to Do with Rainfall FALLBROOK Calif, Nov. 21 (AVThe 14,000 farmers of the Fallbrook area sought an opinion from the attorney general today on what to do with a welcome rainfall. i They are being sued by the federal government over their water rights. So a committee sent Atty. Gen. J. Howard McGrath in Washing ton this telegrom: ! "Water now falling all over Santa Margarita river watershed. stop. Assume you claim; it for government, stop. Please wire in structions what to do with it stop. i Red Jet Threat Growing A 3 'What'll You Have, White or Dark Meat?' 3i r LPDsitrQ Versions Differ on 2 Points WASHINGTON. Nov. 21-WVf The chief of the -United States air I force spelled out today the "sober-1 ing lesson" of swiftly expanding! soviet air' power as revealed in Korea,, where American control oft the air is being "seriously challen- ged by ' Russian - made planes flown by Russian-speaking pilots. I In a remarkably detailed and frank news conference based on his recent visit to Korea, Gen. Hoyt .Vandenberg read a 4,000- word formal statement and an swered a barrage of questions. Of the air situation there, he said there had been a significant and "even sinister change." He cited these points: 1. The Chinese communist air force has developed in North Chi na, and Manchuria about 1,500 planes, approximately one-half of which are MIG-15 jet fighters. The MIG "in many respects can out perform our own F-86"; it has out climbed the best airplanes that have been tested against it and performed in combat at altitudes approaching 50,000 feet ;2. The MIG can fly "at speeds in excess of the speed of sound" vol miles per hour at sea level. Thus it is apparent the Soviets "al ready have large numbers of mil itary aircraft capable of super sonic flight" - - S3. "Overnight China has be come one of the major air powers of the world." 4. The communists are trying to push their airfield building pro gram southward toward the place where the ground armies are lock ed in battle, i 5. While the U. N. air force' at present still retains superiority over the communist air force, its activities are limited by the "ground rules." It can not get at the takeoff points of enemy fight ers, destroy them in ereat num bers and gain actual air supreme acy which means the enemy be comes incapable of effective inter- lerence). ; - : ! Vandenberg, obviously refer ring to the ban on U. N. attacks on red air bases across the Yalu riv er in Manchuria, . spoke . of the "unusual and indeed unique lim itation governing the scope of the air war." He said that "under the ground rules established at the outset of the Korean war, it is im possible for us to gain air suprem acy, i ! ' - . . I : Soviet Protests U. S. Financing Underground j MOSCOW, Thursday. Nov. 22-UPi The Soviet government officially- protested yesterday that the United States is financing underground activities aimed against the USSR. iThis, it declared, is a violation of the Litvinov - Roosevelt agree ment of 1933 which established diplomatic relations between com munist Russia and the U.S. The Moscow press today pub lished the text of a note contain ing the accusation which was hand ed to JJJS. The note declared that the UJS was guilty of "a' new aggressive act" against the Soviet Union in the passage of the mutual security act during the last session of con gress. It said the act provides funds for persons and armed groups act ing against the USSR. J "v. - - ' v '';-' "jf - ''v -I-.-:':" i a ; . if : . ' I"-. lA i - c' '4 'A v. i tf j ' ' l- - - ' t . " ) r r 'X-fr vs t hr. t ' mm ir wiiiiii mrwii I m wiH iwiiiimi ''"'iiiihiiiiiii Mi llllfu'' h' i 1 -v-r I rnnosed ManyPeopl&H Reasons to Here Feel Thankful Tdddy A By Conrad Q. Prsnge Staff Writer; The SUteaman Lots of people are thankful to day in Salem for other benefits besides food and a holiday. Take Mrs. Sylvia Boaz of Gates. She is thankful over the recov ey of her young I husband. Bob, from the effects of a near-fatal auto accident near Gates. Boaz lay unconscious at Salem Memor ial hospital for nearly three weeks with severe head injuries hover-, ing on the brink of life and death. . His wife and three small chil dren and numerous' Salem rela tives waited anxiously for some flicker of returning - awareness. Finally earlier this week Boaz came out of the blackout. He probably won't stuff himself on Thanksgiving turkey, but he is fast on the road to recovery. "This will be a real Thanksgiv ing for us," said Mrs. Boaz. And even some football coaches are thankful that' the season is nearly over and some are even full of thanks to Lady Luck for their teams performance. One of these is Leo Grosjacques who began his coaching career this fall at Sacred Heart academy. His team won the Capitol league championship. Tm thankful for the material I had," says Gros jacques, "and I'm even more thankful for the material I can see for the basketball season." Circuit Court Judge Joseph Fel ton, into whose courtroom come the community's family troubles, thinks that young people : should be especially thankful today "for the wonderful country they are living in and for the fine' schools and churches." Sitting down to their first Thanksgiving dinner in America today will be the displaced Eston ian family of Mrs. Reet Kailvee and her four daughters. They ar rived here last December to make a new start in a strange land. They have much to be thank ful for, says Mrs. Kailvee. Friends say the family has done "wonder fully well" in the few short months they have been here. The widow mother works at the state school for the blind and this summer her daughters ages 10 to 16, all worked in the fruit and other crop harvests. Recently, they bought a house which is their prized possession. fI, too, have everything to be thankful for by living in this wonderful country," said Ardo Tarem, another displaced person, who came to Salem over two years ago. "Already we have half -paid for a home and have bought a car. That is more than you could do in a lifetime in any country in Europe." Grateful to a "community which takes an interest in its human problems," is Marion Bowen, ad ministrator of the Marion county welfare department Thanks to the generosity of Salem groups the department is distributing about 1,500 pounds of food to 24 temporarily unemployed families for Thanksgiving all the dona tion of Parrish junior high school students. The food supply will be shared by 41 adults and 127 chil dren, -'.. ...-.' i In addition, eight separate groups are providing food baskets icx complete dinners to seven other families, totalling 11 adults and 43 children. These are the sift of B'nai B'rith. Brownie and If Dad has trouble carvinr this day's turkey he might give J. B. Crary, a eaU. Top Crary chef at Wil lamette university, not only carved but prepared and roasted nine of the Thanksgiving birds for the . 260 hungry menj at Baxter halL . Among the items going Into the holiday dinner served Tuesday night were the turkeys weighing 230 pounds; 60 pounds fresh frozen peas; 125 pounds of mashed potatoes; 20 loaves of bread for dressing; and 32 mince meat pies. (Photo by j Don Dill, Statesman staff pho-J tographer.) a 6,000 Inmates, Patients At Oregon Institutions to Receive Turkey Dinners Thursday will find most Salem area residents Including more than 6,000 inmates and patients at state institutions, gathering about festive tables for Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings - I Nearly all stores have announced they .will be closed for the day and business will be at a virtual standstill. Students and staff of Salem public, parochial and private schools will enjoy a two-day holiday with no classes scheduled for either Thursday or Friday. Willamette university classes and offices closed until Monday. Public offices will be closed ex cept for essential operations in police and fire departments. Special Salem church services for the day include Protestant service at 10 a. ra. in First Pres byterian church, special masses in the Catholic churches and a 10:30 a. m. service at St John's Luth eran church. Largest consumption of turkey. mashed potatoes, gravy and all the rest is expected at units of the Oregon state hospital where 3,000 will share the holiday dinner. In mates of the hospital will follow the Thanksgiving theme on Friday also with a program featuring "The Courtship of Miles Stand ish." . Programs are scheduled at some other state institutions also. Hill crest Girls' school will enjoy a three-day holiday schedule. A play is scheduled for Wednesday night. In addition to Thanksgiving dinner Thursday, the 68 girls at the school will enjoy Sunday hours. An all-school dance is slated for the evening. Friday will be (turned over to special parties in the cottages, and girls will work on dressing dolls for the Exchange club's Christmas toy project Turkey Dinner About 1.421 Inmates of the state penitentiary will be treated to a complete i Turkey dinner Thurs day, Warden Virgil J. O'Malley said. No special recreation pro gram is planned for the day. The 100 inmates at the penitentiary annex will also enjoy turkey din ner while 50 trusties will spend Thanksgiving ' at the Tillamook bum camp. Twenty are already at the camp and the remaining thirty are scheduled to leave for the camp today. - Cottage parties and the big tur key dinner Thursday noon will fill Thanksgiving schedule for the L350 patients at Fairview home. There will be 360 pounds of tur key and "everything that goes with it" for the 200 patients at the state tuberculosis hospital. Most students at the deaf school Deco Salmon Seized i i At Army, Base SEATTLE, Nov 21 -(V Sixty thousand dollars worth of salmon which the federal government charges was misbtanded and de composed was seized today at the army! : quartermaster center in nearby Auburn. The U. S. marshal seized the shipment on a complaint sworn out by U. S. Attorney J. Charles Dennis after pure food and drug inspectors said it was of an in ferior grade and "too far decom posed to be fit for human con sumption." . j The Romeo Packing company of San Francisco was named as the shipper of the 2,566 cases of sal mon. : Officers of the army quarter master market center said some of the salmon was intended xor shipment to - troops in Korea. n i reaJrew Tri-Y groups, Parrish ninth grade Y-Teens. Chi Omega sorority, Ja son Lee and First Methodist churches and the Willamette cam pus YWCA. And a little 1-year-old girl in Finland will have cause to be thankful today, although she prob ably does't know this is Thanks giving i day. The Woman's Bible class of the First Methodist church this week announced it will con tinue to "sponsor" - Naiij-Liisa (Mary Elizabeth) jSalakka. That means, says Mrs. B. T. Kumler, treasurer j of the class, that the local groups send money to an international agency which in" turn supplies the girl with clothing, shoes, and food and tex tile rations. ' "We're thankful that we can do it" said Mrs. Kumler. Even the 20 odd prisoners in Marion county jail can look for ward ' with some measure of thankfulness to the turkey dinner with all the trimmings they will set today. . t- .. - So, nearly everyone win have something to be thankful for to dayexcept, maybe, turkeys. By William Jordan M UN SAN, Korea, Thursday. Nov. 22-i!p)-Allied truce negotia tors at Panmunjom today offered . the communists a devised version of the red Iftoposal submitted yesterday.- - -, it - -,: , An allied spokesman said the reds indicated : they would' accept most of the revised proposal but that, disagreement remained on two points. The allies inserted a positive clause providing that troops would -not be withdrawn from any de marcation line until the full armis tice is signed.:.? 1 Much of the original wording ef the communist proposal. was re tained in the XJJs. command ver- - sion. ; ."'s:V-r I i ' The reds and allies met for al most two hours Thursday and then recessed until 3 D.m. (1 a.m-' EST). - I - . - There appeared to be two orin- cipal differences in the communist and U.N, "command proposals. Time Difference IV. One was the specified time for the shooting to end. The other .was a formula for evolving a new pro-- - visional cease-fire line if agree- , ment is not reached on other agenda items within 30 days. An . allied spokesman said the U. N. command version was based on the proposition the reds made yesterday, "withsminor clarifying clauses." ' t 1 v . : ' He added: "Where the meaning was clearer (copy) in the com munist draft no change was made. even though the language was not completely laiomauc Jtngiisn." The . red . proposal, submitted during, a two-hour subcommittee session Wednesday, resembled in ! most respects an allied formula for ' truce by Christmas proposed last Saturday. ; -. Agree in Principle v . (A Pieping ; radio commentary ' heard in San Francisco said the '. communist delegates stated' at -Wednesday's session that "ther : agreed in principle" to the allied proposal of November 17, but not ed the Allied proposal was not in the form of a formal agreement (The Red radio, quoting from a dispatch from Kaesong, said th ; communists asked for a comDlet and formal agreement on the buf- er issue that would include: 1. Es- - ta Wishing the principle for fixing the demarcation line and demili tarized zone; 2. The immediate de- erminauon of the buffer zone's lo cation; 3. Possible revisions of the-cease-fire line; prior to the final signing of the armistice agree ment) - . 4 I While the reds5 agreed verballr not to demand a pullback of troops until the final truce was signed, sealed and delivered, the U. N. command wanted that assurance ' down in black and white.1. and state school for the blind will be permitted to go home for the Thanksgiving holiday. Superin tendents at the two schools said the 10 or 12 unable to have dinner with their families will have a full Thanksgiving menu at the school along with school personnel. Prisoners at the city Jail and county jail won't be left out of the Thanksgiving day scene, Po lice Chief Clyde A. Warren and Sheriff Denver Young promised Monday. Turkey dinners are scheduled at both jails for Thurs day noon. Thursday athletic activities will be at a minimum with Gervais and Creswell holding, the only sports spotlight for the day. Teams from the two schools vie at Ger vais Thursday afternoon in the semi-finals of the state "B" foot ball championship series. Alben Barkley Visits Japan TOKYO, Thursday, Nov. 2-(JP) Vice President Alben Barkley ar rived by plane today on a sur prise visit. to Japan. ? On hand to greet thim were Gen, Matthew B. Ridgway, su preme. United Nations command' er. Prime Minister Shigeru Yo shida of Japan, Ambassador, Wil liam Sebald and other dignitaries. Korea War Slows On Thanksgiving I SEOUL, Korea, Thursday, Nov. 22 -VPh Relative quiet-settled across the chill Korean battle front today as the Thanksgiving holiday brought allied forces bite of turkey . and thoughts of home. . ' The U. S. Eighth army com munique Wedneday night rioted a slowdown in fighting. It reported largely patrol actions on the west ern, central and eastern xroms. 77 Water f ours New Dam Over r Near Silverton Statesman Newt Service SILVERTON, Nov. 21 Water poured over Silverton's new city water-supply - dam for the first time today, just! 10 years after the old dam washed away. Water also flowed into the new mains, built in connection with the dam, late this afternoon. The $85,000 project got under way last May with S. P. Lord and Co., Portland, as contractors. It is located four miles east of Silver- ton on Abiqua creek. City officials recalled . today that the old dam: went out during a heavy downpour on the day before Thanksgiving in 1941. Re ber Allen and Ted Burton, .then mayor and city manager respec tively, spent that Thanksgiving In stalling a diesel pump which the city borrowed : from Salem. ' - Norblad Plans Salem Speech U. S. Rep. Walter Norblad will speak in Salem f Monday . at a chamber of conunerce noon lunch eon meeting in the Senator hotel. He Is scheduled to arrive from Washington Monday, morning. He returned just this week from a tour of military abases in Europe and Africa, where he studied mili tary expenses with a subcommit tee of the house military affairs committee. S . . The first district congressman will locate an office in Salem dur ing his stay prior to convening, of congress in January. His secre tary, Mrs. . Dorothy Woodring, will have charge of the office.