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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1951)
-i t -Tho Ctoi"""r '"'r Otxjocu Blonder Korea FigWft Eohwpjs. (Ddd COiiiristaas Eve M SEOUL. Korea, Monday. Dec 2-CiFV-Relatively heavy fighting erupted on Korea's chill western front Sunday for the first time in nearly a month in a possible prelude to other; bitter actions during the Christmas season. f lite U. S. Eighth army communique reported a two hour and tl5-minute battle southwest of Chorwon and said an allied tank- Thefts Probed, Arrests Made Railroad officials were Sunday investigating the. possibility of connection between a safe-blowing )ob in Lebanon Saturday night and recent Salem burglaries. Alfred Wafter Tozier, Seattle, Wash., was arrested early Sun day morning by Salem city police on a Marion county warrant charging burglary involving Sa ' lem burglaries of the past few weeks. He -was being held last night in lieu of $1,500 bail. Another man, George Carroll O Beirne or Fortiand, was ar rested with Tozier on a charge of vagrancy on a district court warrant and held in lieu of $250 bail. The pair were arrested on the charges after a Salem police of ficer noticed the tail light on the auto was not operating. Police said a quantity of perforated-railroad stamps were found In the auto. Investigations by railroad offi cials and state police revealed that a safe at the Lebanon station for Southern Pacific and Seattle, Portland 8c Spokane railroads had been 'blown open and $41.19 in cash and $13 in railroad stamps were missing. Lebanon officers and state po lice said a rear window had been forced with a crowbar to gain entry o the station. The dial of the safe had been punched off and explosives used to force the door, officers said. Police said conviction on charge of burglary by explosives carries a maximum sentence of 40 years. Holiday Travel Crowds Salem Depots, Airport Heaviest holiday traffic in his tory was reported Sunday by bus, tram and plane services in and out of Salem. Southern Pacific reported that passenger space on trains is vir tually sold out through January 1. The railroad has added a second section to The Cascade to care for additional travelers north and south. As many as seven sections have been added to bus schedules through Salem, according to the Greyhound bus depot in Salem. Traffic was expected to ease some today as passengers reach their destmations for Christmas. Extra sections for United Air line .were added also to north and aouth flights out of .Salem. The MeNary field office reported air travel had been very heavy for the holidays with nearly all seats booked through January 2. ! erases THE 9t .WINTER 1 V 5 DAYS ONLY DECEMBER 24 SAVINGS UP TO See Our Two-For-One Selection $1500 1951 infantry raiding party withdrew under continuing fire after being "heavily engaged. It was the first such reference in the com munique sincQ an informal lull settled over the front November 28. : J Ml across tie 145-mile battle front allied patrols probed enemy positions and exchanged fire with communist troops. High over North Korea the air war also gained intensity Sunday. Clearing skie$ permitted allied planes to swarm over red targets. The Fifth air 1 force reported 688 sorties by 6 p.fm. For the firs time in five days American jet pilots traded shots with Russian-made jets in MMig Alley." There jwas no damage to either side, the air force an nounced. About 60 enemy planes were sighted in the afternoon and some of these werej briefly fought. In the morning 72 Migs were sighted without contact. Allied fighter-bombers hacked at red rail communications and frontlines with bombs, jellied gasoline and J rockets. Flyers claimed 16 red artillery pieces and eight antf-aircraft guns de stroyed, rails out in 75 places and 115 troop casualties inflicted. The ground faction appeared to be sharpening! as time was run ning out on a 1 30-day provisional cease-fire line! across the penin sula. After December 27 troops again will be frighting for keeps. Ground lost of gained after that date will formjthe basis for a new cease-fire linei to be drawn just before an armistice is signed by truce negotiators at Panmunjom. Reduction in Foreign Aid Request Due WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -UP)-President Truman is reported planning to ask congress next month for about one million dol lars less in foreign aid than he sought this year. High officials said today the president's new budget is expected to propose an assistance program close to the amount congress was willing to pay for in the last bat tle over the issue. For the year which began July 1, the administration urged an 84 billion dollar military and eco nomic aid program from the free world. Congress finally appropri ated $7,284,000,000, making most of its cut in economic aid. A decision to reduce the asking price for foreign assistance would come in the face of growing fi nancial problems in the rearming of western .Europe, with Britain and France m specially tight eco nomic straits, f The United! States, however, was reported to have impressed its allies In recent conferences with the fact that the U.S. itself faces serious fiscal difficulties. One high official, who has been close to these talks, told reporters other nations became "more rea listic" In decding what to ex pect from Uncle Sam. This official, declining to be quoted by name, predicted the president in his annual budget message win ask congress for.no more than the $1,440,000,000 ap proved by congress for economic aid this year. I TO CHECK ON PRICES WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-JP)-A government watchdog committee is being formed to keep a check on prices charged for all military equipment. This was announced today in a joint statement by the office of price j stabilization (OPS) and the defense department. WOIND viii I If II M 1 9 jarguen a 440 f. Capitol The Store of Enchantment Hi Korea-Peace Lost in Maze Of Bickerings MT7NSAN, Korea, Monday, Dee. 24 CP Armistice nego tiators made no progress this morning in a day-before- . Christmas sesstra but did agree te allow- prisoners on both sides to send and reeetra mail throngh neutral Pan- ; nmnjom. ' The Reds made the propos al for exchange of mail and it was accepted quickly. De tails win be announced later. MUNSAN, Korea, Monday, Dec 24 Truce negotiators met today in two winter-whipped tents near the little Korean wayside village of Panmunjom, but the peace they were seeking remained lost in a maze of bickerings. The allied and red delegates were far apart on their recently exchanged lists of prisoners of war and methods of policing the truce. There was little prospect of the delegates getting down today to actual working discussion of an exchange of prisoners, a matter of paramount concern to the al lied group. Aside from an unsuccessful al lied appeal for immediate ex change of the sick and wounded, the United Nations and commu nist delegations have wrangled so far only over disputed lists of the prisoners each side holds. The breach apparently was widened Sunday when the allied sub-delegate Adm. R. A. ' Libby, told the reds that, according to of ficial broadcasts of the Pyongyang radio, the communists hold more than 50,000 prisoners not yet ac counted for. Figures Conflict Libby said the red radio gave out a figure of at least 65,363 prisoners for only the first nine months of the Korean war, but the entire red POW list handed to the United Nations December 18 totalled only 11,559 prisoners. The communists were asked to have an explanation ready when the sub-delegation convened to day at Panmunjom. At the same time, the allied and communist sub-delegation' was deadlocked on supervision of an armistice in an other tent a few feet away. The supervision sub - delegation has been stalled since Nov. 27 over red insistence that construc tion of airfields during an armis tice was their own business and any limitation would be "interfer ence" in North Korea's internal affairs. Little Chance The communists still demanded an explanation of prisoners they said were missing from the allied POW list of 132,474 but were on lists supplied them earlier by the international committee of the Red Cross. Libby has explained, apparently without satisfying the communists, that 37,500 captured red army soldiers were removed from the prisoner list when it was found that they were loyal South Korean citizens, impressed into the red army. "They ara not now, and never have been, adherents to your cause," Libby told the reds. He added that another 16,000 Korean civilians swept into POW camps by the war, also would be "rescreened." Pace Praised as Money-Saver WASHINGTON, Dec. 23- (Jf -Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex), who has often been critical of the military, today "highly commend ed" Secretary of the Army Pace for his willingness to save the tax payers' money. The chairman of the Senate's defense preparedness subcommit tee praised the secretary for mov ing to end duplication in food Inspection by both the army's quartermaster corps and the agri culture department. Johnson's watchdog defense group had been rapping knuckles of officials for more than a year for "serious waste of manpower and money" in duplication of food inspection and grading. THRU 29 ALL DOLLS (Yegfce SUrybeek ExcL) AT OUR COST OR BELOW ALL FAMOUS BRANDS Salem Churches ! 5 i Yule Services (Story Also on Page One) I A high point in the Christian year will be celebrated In Salem area churches tonight and Tues day for the Christmas season. ! Tonight's services include: First Baptist church, candlelight service at 11 pan.; St. Paul's Episcopal church. Holy Eucharist service at 11 pjn.; Christ Luther an, nativity vespers at 7 ' pjn.; Grace Lutheran church, Carols and candlelight service at 11 pjn.; St. Mark Lutheran church, service at 10:30 pjn. Both Salem Catholic churches will hold Christmas eve mid night mass. Christmas day serv- Libya Receives Independence In Simple Rite TRIPOLI, Libya, Monday; Dec 24-(P)-Llbya, a poverty-stricken North African former colony, be came independent today. It Is the first country to achieve its free dom fully under the auspices of the United Nations. Britain and France turned over their governing powers to the Lib yan government in simple cere monies here, in Bengasi, and on a remote oasis in Fezzan, south ernmost of the country's three provinces. Libya, a former Italian colony, will be a democratic, constitu tional monarchy with a federal government having two capitals, Tripoli and Bengasi. The three constituent provinces arc Tripoli tania Cirenaica, and Fezzan. King Mohammed Idriss El Sen ussi will proclaim full indepen dence of the country later today at Bengasi. Libya has a population of 1,340, 000 and comprises 1,100,000 square miles, mostly desert. Its national income of $30 annually per capita is considered the lowest in the world. Although once the pride of Mussolini's new Roman Empire, 10 per cent of its population is blind, 20 per cent blind in one eye, and more than 90 per cent illiterate. Mrs. Keene, Formerly of Gervais, Dies Mrs. Mary Grace Keene, 78, Gervais resident for 52 years and Salem resident since 1945, died Sunday at the residence, 243 E. Wilson sU after a long illness. She was born June 12, 1872, at Donnelly's Mills, Penna., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Campbell. She moved with her parents to Monmouth, 111., in 1881, then to Hecla, S. D., until coming to Oregon in 1890. She was baptized In the Metho dist Episcopal church in 1885. In 1893 she was married at Wood burn to Elmer Ellsworth Keene, who died in 1942. Survivors include sons, Chester E. Keene and L. Arthur Keene, and daughter. Miss Mayme E. Keene, all Salem, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements will be under direction of W. T. Rigdon company. Fizzling Fuse Foils Plan to Blast Church MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 23-(JP-A dynamiter who threatened "to celebrate Christmas by blowing up a Catholic church," failed to day when a stick of dynamite left on the steps of Sts. Peter and Paul church fizzled. The explosive was of the same make and strength as that used in six recent Jewish synagogue dynamiting cases. Police Chief Walter E. Headley said. Sexton Joseph Fedrowitx dis covered the charge about three feet from the main door when he prepared to open the church for early mass. "The fuse has smouldered for a few seconds," Headley said. "It couldn't have gone off, however. The fuse hadn't even been seated in the dynamite correctly." Earlier today. Coral Gables Po lice Chief Willam G. Kimbrough reported an anonymous telephone call warning of the dynamiting. Tele-fun by Warren Goodrich MSorry I was so long answer ing, but I was, right In tho mldalo of a very Interesting book I. . . YouH enjoy better service and won't miss in coming calls if you answer - ight, Tuesday ices win be conducted by The Rev. Joseph E. Vanderbeck at St. Joseph's at 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11:15 ajn. High mass win be at 10 ajn. St. Vincent de Paul serv ices conducted by the Rev. John J. Reedy, are scheduled for 6, 7, 8:45 and 11 ajn. Christmas day. Other Christmas day services will include: First Congregation al, worship at ajn.; St.-Paul's Episcopal, communion at 10 ajn.; Central Lutheran, 11 ajn.; Christ Lutheran, Episcopal worship at 10:30 ajn.; Grace Lutheran. Epis copal worship at 11 ajn; St. John's Lutheran, Episcopal serv ice at 10 ajn. Gov. McKay Asks Holiday Drivers Use Extra Care Gov. Douglas McKay, in a state ment, urged Oregon motor vehicle drivers to rid themselves of what he termed an apathy which so far this year has resulted In more than 400 traffic fatalities through out the state. "As a people we are guilty of scandalous waste of human life because of our continued tolerance of accidents which could be pre vented," Governor McKay said. The governor referred partic ularly to the holiday season which, he said, would result in unusually heavy traffic both on the streets and highways. "This should be a joyous season," Governor McKay said, "but if we do not recognize our obligation to observe sober care In the use of our automobiles it will be marred and saddened by useless loss of life." Marines Rush Trousers to Stranded PFC WASHINGTON, Dec. it hadn't been for his mother and two or three generals, Pfc. Mor ton Charles Waldeck of the mar ines might still be lacking the fiants he needed to wear home on eave. Waldeck, says the marines, ia six feet tall, weighs 245 pounds and his pants size 44 inches at the waist is something made up special at the marine depot of sup plies in Philadelphia. Waldeck, his recruit training finished, was getting set to go home to see his mother, Mrs. Morton Waldeck, sr., at Sturte vant, Wis. But he didn't have an uniform with the right size pants so he could make the trip. His mother wrote the marine corps' head man. Gen. Clifton B. Cates, saying she had done a lot for "Bud's" visit but it looked as of baking and other preparations though he wouldn't get home be cause of the pants situation. That put the problem into chan nels. The brigadier general in charge of personnel of the corps telephoned the brigadier general who is chief of staff at the &an Diego recruit depot. Suddenly the usual six weeks needed for mak ing up special size uniforms dwindled to practically no time at all. Marine corps headquarters no tified Mrs. Waldeck that Bud, with pants, would be home soon. They also explained that while In train ing he hadn't needed uniform pants; he wore the utility garb for trainees. V. F. Livesay Dies Of Heart Attack PORTLAND, Dec 23-(P)-Vernt F. Livesay, for many years promi nent in state agricultural activi ties, died at his home here today following a heart attack. He was a former state director of the farm security administra tion and had been active in grange work. He was born Dec. 14," 1884 In Albion, Neb. Surviving are his widow, Clara L. Livesay and two sisters, all of Portland. ...as a soup bone I -that's PQES-0-LGS THE ECONOMICAL, CLEAN, CONVENIENT FUEL Qll 'ia Ft OA- Special CAPITOL LUMBER CO. 2860 N. ChmTTj At. Phom MSS2 ot 2-4431 Churchill Gets Plan for Malay Red Cleanup LONDON, Dec 23 - (P) -Prime Minister Winston Churchill re ceived reports today upon which he will base a master plan for clearing Britain's rich Malayan territories of communist guerillas once and for alL Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyt telion. Just back from an Inspec tion tour of the prized territory, presented to Churchill his impres sions and documents on what must be done to end the red spurred strife that has gripped Malaya since the end of World War II. The prime minister has given top priority to restoration of peace to Malaya, whose rich tin and rub ber resources are Britain's great est dollar earners. Churchill's plans almost cer tainly will include a shakeup in the British high command in the southeast Asian peninsula as well as ' detailed proposals for more effective use of the 120,000-man British security force already fighting the guerillas. Eight Arrested In Sweet Home Police Raid SUteuaaa Ntwi lerrlee SWEET HOME, Dec. 23 A 25-year-old woman was arrested here in a police raid early this morn ing on a charge of operating a bawdy house. The raid also net ted another woman and six men. The raid took place at the San tiam hotel at about 1 ajn. Arrest ing officers were Assistant Police Chief Roy Clover of Sweet Home and Deputy George Miller of the Linn county sheriffs office. The eight arrested were taken to T.lnn county jail at Albany. Kitty Moore, who told officers her true name was Patricia Stew art, posted $300 bail on a charge of operating a bawdy house. Louise Hayward, 29, was charged with being a prostitute and posted $150 bail. Thomas E. Moore is charged with accepting money from a prostitute, and is released on $1, 000 bail. Five other men were arrested during the raid on charges of loi tering. They are Merrill Chandler and Lyle J. Mcllhiney, both of Sweet Home, both released on $100 bail; Carl H. Gregory and Jake Hack enworth, both of Sweet Home, held in lieu of $100 bail each, and Andrew . Hutson of Deadwood, also charged with non-support on a Grays Harbor, Wash., warrant, held In lieu of $150 bail. All are to appear at 11 ajn. Monday before Justice of the Peace Harlow Weinrick. German Leader on Road to Recovery BONN, Germany, Dec 23-iJP)-German socialist leader Kurt Schumacher, stricken with a cir culatory ailment yesterday, IS bet ter today. His doctors said that barring complications he Is on the road to recovery. Schumacher, 56, Is frail and lost an arm and a leg because of wounds and concentration camp sufferings. HERE'S A LIST i GIFT IDEAS FOR BOTANY ROBES SpKliHy Priced at Oth.r to BOTANY SPORT Flannels and Gabardines INTERWOVEN Argyles in Nylon and Wool Others from BsCV SOCKS JEWELRY ACCESSORIES By Swank 50 and Hickok from I You can $hop 8 An B Gen. Gruenther Gives TiiV to British Private LONDON, Dec 23-P-London newspapers told with delight to day the story of an American reneral who nvs a British nri. vate a neighborly lift home in nis airplane, calling mm lost plain "Sid." British ceneral don't do such things. "Said the general to the pri vate: OK, Sid, let's go," one news paper headlined the story. The man who broke thrnurh th barriers of British military decor um was lour-star General A. l. Gruenther. chief of staff to Gen eral D wight Eisenhower. Gruenther new over from Paris yesterday but inquired first among British rjersonnel' at su preme headquarters, allied person nel. EuroDe (SHAPE) if utom wanted to come along for an 18- nour pre- enristmas visit. The general said he had an empty seat on his plane. Private Sid Spooner, a clerk at SHAPE headquarters, snapped in to one of those sharp British sa lutes and volunteered. He said he lived very close to General Gruen thers destination. And this is the way one Lon don newspaper described their ar rival: "Officers stood at the salute. The ground crew stood to atten- Dif ID rmnw.'iiii Tear Friendly Theatre" i In Order te Allow Our Em ployes to Spend Christmas Eve at Home There Will Be Ne Shew At The Hallywaed TanifhU Continuous Shews Tomorrow! j Box Office Opens lt P. M. hOIDBI 4 U0RD i ANN RrvTu Co-Featore I Moor smr V ROONEY-FORREST j If IHUIKIuITl-UIUtULl ! II ui him iiia lumiis "sr Ui Open lion. Dec. 24 Dancing Every High! YCafe Dcdlas-Independence Junction x o0x An OF THIS SEASON'S MEN! SUEDE 7 Colors, Ail Sizes -$35.00 SWEATERS Lord Jeff Cashmeres, Choose from 5 Colore Other Sweaters from . SHIRTS jr up ARROW SHIRTS Regular and French Cuff m pr. G5 7 Favorite Six color at Shryock's Monday IN THZ CAPITOL SHOWING CENTER tion, The general patted the- pri vate on the back, said; OK, Sid. Let's go.' - , . . ;: : Truman May Use Taft-Hartley Act In Steel Dispute WASHINGTON, Dee. 23-P)-President Truman is believed ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to avoid a New: Tear's day steel strike unless the workers agree to delay the walkout. The next mm laitm mri President Philip Murray, head of k aieejworxers nniw, it u tm. certain what he will do. Murray. In Pittsburgh fnr- tH holidays, declined immediate conv- ment on ait. xnnnan's request last night to Call off the irhnV tmffl the wage stabilization! board (WS o can noia neanngs rand recom mend a basis for settling the un ion's demands.' ? 5 A number of Clf) an A rtthr rm ion officials here said they thought Murray would reject Mr. Truman'a plea. i. Taa Jahnsaa ; Jene Allysea j TOO YOUNG TO KISS? I And!-- f THE GISL FROM SAX LORENZO CBftea Webb ta i- "ELOFEMENT" H Was. Lnndigaa Jane Haverj la' -LOYK NEST. i DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILLj And! I I "MARK OF THX RENEGADE"! 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