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Ml KM Data DomMed. 1b Test.Series By BUI Becker LAS VEGAS, Xev., Dec. 2 CP-America's atomic weapons know how has virtually doubled this year. And its stocKpile of nuclear weap ons has kept pace.. - l The statements come from the man probably most responsible for this spectacular advance Dr. Alvin C. Graves, scientific director of all energy commission tests MHd-mannered and thought-ab sorbed. Dr. Graves weighed his words as he summed up trie aca- s epochal 1951 test scries in an ex clusive interview with this report er. "Our knowledge cf atomic weap ons has been incre5ed in the past year at a much greater rate than In any similar period," he said. 44 Our advance almost equals all previous developments since the first nuclear deto'nr.tion at Alam agordo, N. M in 1945." Dr. Graves wrapping up formidable two-month job on the fall series of seven explosions, no two alike i n d i c a t e d that the stockpile of A -weapons has in creased in just about the same pro portion. In short, the nation prob ably has twice as many A-weapons as it had a year ago. "It is reasonable to assume that we have more weapons similar to the ones tested here,' Dr. Graves said. "We wouldn't be shooting off the only models we have." has been in on the U. S. atomic program from its inception in 1942 made it plain that he was not saber-rattling. "I am not in the atomic business because I like to manufacture things that kill people," he said. . "I am thoroughly convinced that the reason we are not in a third world war now i. because of the work the United States has done In atomic enemy. Asks Larger Stockpile "Increasine our stockpile is our best safeguard for the future." Graves helped to build the first atomic pile (tiucIcf.t reactor) at Chicago in 1942, then went to Los Alamos to be?in work on the first bomb in April, 1943. He progressed from laboratory work to field su pervision. He has been scientific director pf all afemic tests since Bikini in 1947. He has sen'20 nuclear explo sions and effects without previous parallel. Graves merely nodded when this observer aid: "I guess we've had nothing but 'firsts' in this series." These apparently included: (1) the first bahv A-bomb, October 22; (2) a dlayed-reaction burst, October,30; (3) perhaps the best controUed, Wg bomb ever detonated Wot. 5; and r 4) pernaps the first . underground blt. November 29. Dr. Graves, who makes $15,000 a year as head of the A EC's weap ons test division, ?ays he has been offered twice that amount by big corporations to head their research staffs. "There is nothing that can com pare with this work no matter now much they offer." Graves said quietly. Graves is an easy-going six--inotM" who annear Inranihln of deception. Onlv 42, he bears phy sical scars of nuclear radiation. ! For three vears after a T947 lab oratory accident at Los Alamos, he was sterile from radiation ef fects. The mishap occurred when Dr. Louis Slotin brought two critical (charged) mas? of uranium to gether too quickly while holding them in his hands. Resulting atom is fession sent a charge of nearly WO roentgens double the normal lethal dose into Slotin's body be fore he pulled the brick-like mass apart. This act saved the laboratory and the lives of Graves and six others. Slotin died 10 days later. Graves, standine right behind Slo tin, received perhaps a fourth of the radiation dose Slotin got. He was in the hospital three weeks and home from work several months. He lost all his hair, and what he has today is pretty thin. "At least I didn't have to shave for three months," Graves is able to laugh todav. Tests proved there didn't appear much hope of any further addition to the Graves family. Then little Alvin, now 9 months, came along just about the time papa was set ting off bombs in last winter's Nevada test series. The Graves have one other child. Marilyn Edith, 6. But the physicist's work has left another mark. A radiation cataract, stemming from the same incident, is gradually dimming the sight of his left eye. He can read only the largest headlines with it BOLL CITY MAX HELD Richard Daniel MacKinnon, S, Mill City, was being held in Mar ion county jail Sunday night on charge of driving while intoxi cated. He was arrested by state police near Big Cliff dam on the Santiam highway. Musical Entertainment Every Night Rne Food No Cover VILLAGE INN 3057 Portland Rd. Walnut Meats Wanted! - Highest Cash Prieo Paid - Now a buying at our now baying statior Cottage and MIS its - Bring 'en. In oerty! WILLAMETTE GROCERY CO. .rf T PHONl 3-4146 I t Sakm, Oregon, MStoday, DrimW X 1351 Mormons Split Jurisdiction of Portland Stake PORTLAND, Dec. !-ff)-The Portland stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon), covering most of wes tern Oregon and southwestern Washington today was divided in to three stakes. Spencer W. Kimball and Delbert L. Stapley, Salt Lake City, mem bers of the church quorum "of twelve, arranged the division. Organized were the Columbia river stake, the Willamette stake and the Portland stake. Royle Hatworth will preside over the 3100 member Columbia river stake. The Willamette president will be announced to its 2600 mem bers in sessions tomorrow , night. George L. Scott will continue as president of the 3100 member Port land stake. He and his counselors, Richard C. Stratford and Louis A. West, have served for the past 12 years. Dali Gives Up Surrealism For Mysticism LONDON, Dec. 2 -(JPj- S panlsh Artist Salvador Dali today de clared himself done with the sur realism that made him famous. He said there would be no more paintings of limp and dripping watches and no more sleeping in silk-lined coffins. Now, he told a news conference. he's a mysticist, primarily con cerned with religious themes. Dali said his "new realm is the soul in religion and the love of God he sees the only hope for mankind. Dali arrived in London last night from Port Lligat, the Span ish village where he lives and paints all really great painters lived around the Mediterranean because of the quality of the light." With him he brought a product of the "new realm": a painting of Christ on the cross floating in darkness above sea-slashed rocks, seen in short perspective from a point almost directly over the top of the cross. The new Dali was suavely ele gant in a conservative dark suit. There was no spectacular entrance with a flower in his hair or may be astride a green ostrich. Such eccentricities, he said, have large ly been left behind with the old Dali. Flicking a trouser leg with a rhinoceros hide riding crop "the last remaining symbol of my past" the 47-year-old artist said: "We used to regard psychology as a big problem. Bat now religion and physics are more vital problems. v South Koreans Fight Guerrillas SEOUL, Monday, Dec. 3 - fJP)- South Korean troops and national police, the largest anti-guerrilla force ever assembled in the south ern provinces, converged today on mountain , fastnesses hiding an estimated 8,000 bandits and com munists. The campaign opened yesterday after the government proclaimed martial law in the provinces of Chun La land North and South Kyungsang. ' Salem High School Auditorium - The Hilarious Comedy By Harry Segal The Stage Version of "Hera Cornea Mr. Jordan SAVI ON SEASON TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT H EIDER'S Reserved: 5.ea. Gen. Adas. $3.t (Tax Included) Thurs. I Doc 6 I t P. M. I Commie Air Power Real Threat' to U.N. U. S. FIFTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea, Dec 2 -(JP) - Red China's growing air power is "a real threat" to allied air control in Korea, and there are also indications the. North Korean air force may be rebuilt, the air force commander said to day. Maj. Gen. Frank F. Everest, who as Fifth air force chief is the top allied airman in Korea, said in an interview that the reds have 1,200 to 1,500 planes half of them fast jets at bases "from which practically all of South Korea can be reached." Until now, however, bis fliers "have denied the communists the privilege of basing or staging air craft in any significant numbers in North Korea," Everest declared. "It is important that we con tinue to do so as long as the war is carried on," the youthful-looking 47 - year - old general added. "We intend to keep him (the enemy) on the other side of the Yalu (in Manchuria) ( as far as operational bases are concerned." Everest talked frankly about the Korean air war which is mounting in intensity as ground action fades. The sky fighting grows grim mer as red pilots hurl repeated challenges at United Nations air supremacy. The communists have flaunted their power in' recent days as they threw 225 MIGs aloft at one time, sent bombers south of the Yalu river, and based jets in North Korea for the first time. Everest said the communist effort to fix North Korean air fields since last spring shows the reds' "desire to generate a stag ing capability" air force lingo for a springboard from which to at tack. In this connection, a growing concern has developed on the al lied side that the communists might get sufficient airfields far enough south to push their fuel short fighters into the United Na tions' military backyard. "The enemy obviously started a year ago to develop a real air capability in the far east,' Everest declared. "Those efforts are now bearing fruit. "The Chinese today have a re spectable, fairly well-balanced, adequately - equipped air force: and there is no reason to believe their capabilities won't increase." Burns House To Qualify for Welfare Aid HAMMOND, Ind., Dec. 2-7P-An elderly Polish woman today had admitted burning her home "because you can't eat a house," Hammond authorities reported. Fire Chief Del Sargent said Mrs. Theresa Meda, 71, told him she set fire to the small frame hnu yesterday so she and her husband. Andrew, 68, could qualify for poor relief. She said they had been without fuel or food for a week. Firemen found the couple sit ting in a woodshed. (urrounrioH by bedding and a few heirlooms. watching the blaze. Sargent described it as a pitiful case in which "the law seems to have worked an injustice." He said Mrs. Meda exnlained she and her husband had been re fused poor relief because they were property owners. He added they were "too proud" to attempt to qualify by giving up title to the house. Both came from Poland in 1910 and Meda worked as a common laborer until he became ill three years ago. Greenland's largest export. Ice bergs, hit a new low this year. rm nn mwm. m While They Last TULIPS Absolutely Top Size Holland Grown. Darwins in color Collage in color Peony in color . Parrol in color . DAFFODILS Oregon Grown Double Nosed No. 1 King Alfred 75c Doz. And Many Other Fine Varieties LILIES OREGON Jan do Graaf a Famous Hybrids Doses - Camellias - Rhododendrons - Azaleas Everything far the Gardener and His Garden. GIFTS THAT GROW GIFT CERTIFICATES mwm TeL 24)117 Salem's Gordon Center FREE PARKING OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY TIL 9 P.M. . - -4 RELIGION WIT H CO F F E E The Rev. Harold J. Qnlgley (left), with the aid of free coffee, speaks to commmters at Baverstnw, N. Y aheut the benefits of regular church-going. 'Prowler9 Only News Reporter PORTLAND, Dec. 2 -(Jpy- Four police cars raced to the city hall today where a man was reported to be climbing in a window. Instead of a prowler they found Neal C. Doane, city council report er. Police said Doane told them he hadn't been able to get the janitor to open the door so he just climb ed in a window. Sailor Spends Over $1,740 on 4-Day Bender BALTIMORE, Dec. 2 - (JP) - A seaman who said he spent more than $1,740 in a four-day bender was freed of disorderly conduct charges yesterday by a magistrate whose comment was, "You've al ready paid enough." Merchant marine seaman John Riley of Winchester, Va.. told Magistrate Adolph Rosner he had only $42 and a half of a dollar bill remaining. "Go back to your ship, get cleaned up and have a good breakfast," the magistrate urged. "What are you going to have for breakfast?" he asked as an after thought. "I guess I'll have a counle of beers," Riley replied. Blood Cancer Prize Offered NEW YORK, Dec. 2-vP)-An of fer of $1,000 to $1,500, to anyone, for a significant contribution to knowledge and treatment of blood cancer leukemia was announced today. i The prize is set up by the Robert Roesler de Villiers foundation. Inc. of New York, named after a 16-year-old boy of that name who died of leukemia in 1944. The purpose is to reach not only the usual leukemia workers in many lands, but the peripheral and unknown scientific workers, in hopes of enlisting them in the study of this completely incurable disease. "No one," the offer states, "can foretell from where the answer will come; perhaps from one of the well-known hospitals, perhaps from some Isolated scientist' in a far-off corner of the world who never had time or incentive to develop and test his theories." The exact amount of the award will depend on the recommenda tion of a jury of four world-famous physicians. Off 75c Doz. 75c Doz. . 75c Doz. 75c Doz. GROWN fiuma 30 Ea. 415 8. High Arms Output Soaring, Wilson Tells Truman KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 2-X-Defense Mobilization Director Wil son concluded a two-day confer ence with President Truman today with the disclosure that military production is increasing "at the rate of a billion dollars a month." In the wake of complaints by a senate preparedness subcommittee that arms production Is lagging dangerously behind schedule, Wil son told reporters: "Every month now production Is coming up I hope you will quote me correctly we have not let ci vilian production interfere with military production." Wilson talked with White House correspondents shortly before fly ing back to Washington with Gen eral Walter Bedell Smith, director of the Central Intelligence agency. The general also had been here to fill the president in on develop ments since he started on vacation. The senate preparedness sub committee headed by Senator Johnson (D-Tex) had made more than one complaint on the rearm ament program prior to Wilson's flight here. One was that military production was lagging dangerous ly because guns had not been given priority over butter. Wilson said production was three times 300 per cent over a year ago. And suggested that when complete figures are in the score will be still better. "We still have 63 million em ployed we are cutting up more material than ever cutting civili an hard goods by 50 per cent at least, and it doesn't take a magic ian to figure out that the military pipeline is getting very, very Big," Wilson continued. "Military production Is Increas ing, I would guess, at the rate of $1,000,000,000 a month, but often final production doesn't show up for three or four months. lit WMwi Is j Riches Long Active in Salem Bank Business Story also on page one.) George H. Riches. 73, who died Sunday, was a. retired Salem banker and civic leader who rose to leadership from pioneer Silver- too area parentage. - - Riches was born Jan. 6, 1880, on a donation land claim settled by his grandparents in 1847 in the Waldo Hills, near Silverton. He attended Silverton schools and re ceived further education at Alex ander Hamilton Institute, Colum bia university in New York, and the American Institute of Bank ing. At Silverton From 1900 to 1908 Riches was assistant postmaster at Silverton. He then entered the mercantile business for one year before enter ing the employ of Ladd & Bush. -Riches began work at Ladd & Bush bank July 15, 1907, as a messenger. During the first five years of his banking experence, Asahel Bush, the founder, was still an active member of the force. Jie worked his way through every de partment of the bank until elected cashier and director in 1934. On April 6, 1940, when Ladd & Bush was merged with the U. S. National bank. Riches was elected assistant vice president, a post h held until his retirement. Salem Associations Riches was a member of Salem Rotary club, Elks and Odd Fel lows. WE ARI CLOSED FOR THE SEASON Keep the Movie Habit And Attend Tour Favorite Theatre Downtown! Watch For Our Opening Next Year! 43 & 7irr n hum RIGHT NOWI otaMoat Tweety Cartoon News NOW! - Continnot Clark M GABLE - in - "Across the Wide Missouri" In Technicolor And! "The Scarf" NOW! - Contlnnoi James Mason aa THE DESERT FOX" And! "FLAME OF STAMBOUL" New! - Open 8:45 Spencer Tracy -FATHER OF THE BRIDE" And! -MORE THAN A SECRETARY- NOW! Open MS -PHANTOM OF THE OPERA- ! And! y p HMIWi 12 -MY MAN GODFREY Long-Forgotten . ! Halloween Bomb Destroys Car " GRAND RAPIDS, Mich-, Dee. 2 -(A3)- Kent County Fire .Chief Adolph Nelson's automobile blew sky high today. No one was in the car when the blast let go in front of the chiefs house. - On Halloween, authorities sur prised some pranksters about to set' off an explosion from a con coction they'd brewed up. The pranksters assured authorities all the ingredients were percussion materials which a shock would be be required to set off. Chief Nelson put the concoc tion into the back of bis automo bile, saying he'd get it analyzed and then forgot about it. He wont now. There isn't any left and only parts of his car. The chief doesn't know what set it off. Bradley Stars At Kentucky LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 2-(JPy Three basketball players missing from Bradley university at Peoria, 111., showed up here tonight at the home of the University of Ken tucky where one of them played as a freshman. They said they had no thought about seeking admittance to Ken tucky but came through Lexing ton only because it was on their southern route to a destination they wouldn't disclose. 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Geraniums Help Beautify nTffT Pfnmovf JL JI f JL lAtVOI lid 11 LAGUNA BEACH, Califc, DecJ -(P)-Residents of this picturesque, artists colony will go ' to great lengths of beautify their city, but what happened last night takes the Prize. I ' .1 ! Workmen Installing a new wa ter main bad filled In a jlong trench on busy Ocean avenue, but had not yet replaced the torn up pavement, i' j Today, early morning motorists rubbed their eyes in astonishment. Running down the middle of the street was a neat, bright row of uowenng geraniums 33 or tnem. The nocturnal landscaplst's iden tity Is a mystery, but city officials agreed that the geraniums are a Luiuiiui, iiuwcvci, Kfflwr7, In chemistry the suffix Me" Indicates the combination of one element with another; ' i -Tear Friendly Theatre Now Showing--Open 6:45 paul c::;us-jii.et le::i KDUI win . irresTcg matt itmtcx B9(x Exsnr Co-Featare -HTP PARADE OF 1J51? With Ail Star Cast i - I ! FT Y, TO D 5195 Easy Terms -Dig-Trado-in Allowanco TV ii UU u