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Th Oregon Slatesmcm. Salem, Oregon, Thursday. Norember 22, 1951
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Here
Feel Thankful Tdddy
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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.)
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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.
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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.-
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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.
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Water f
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New
Dam
Over
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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.