The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, December 25, 1951, Page 1, Image 1

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Merry Cmistmas
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The Issue of the Bethlehem Ga
zette of December 28, Year O had
no notice of the birth oi a son w
Joseph and Mary, late come from
Galilee. Joseph held nc press con
ference after the event. No photo
graphers popped their flashbulbs
at the manger-cradled child. Nei
ther politicians nor social workers
moved to end the housing shortage
in Rethlehem. A luminous star
guided wise men from the east to
the stable, and a vision with voi
ces sent shepherds hurrying to
Mary's bedside. But there was no
televising the Advent for a world
to see.
It would be a very strange
world to Jesus if He returned in
flesh today. The mechanical gad
gets would be a complete mystery
to this one who knew only the
simple tools of the carpenter and
the husbandman. He might even be
amazed at the great temples erect
ed in His honor and the services
inside might mystify Him who was
familiar only with the synagogue
and the spare lines of the Tem
ple.
He would find plenty to con
demn today: Greed, War, Hate,
Lust. But he would find much to
commend too.
Wesus was called Rabbi, which
means Teacher. He would find
schools for the teaching of children
and youth, extensive schools rea
ching into years of man's maturity
for his higher education.
Jesus was sensitive to childhood,
and He would find children loved
and nurtured in every home.
Jesus was a healer: and He
would find excellent hospitals and
skilled physicians and trained nur
ses. He .helped the blind to see;
and He would be pleased wtih our
success in .
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
2 Drown as
Car Skids into
Coastal River
ASTORIA, Dec. 24 Two
persons were drowned hert tonight
when a car skidded through the
rails of an icy .bridge and plunged
Into the Lewis' and Clark river.
One man. escaped drowning. He
was found standing atop the sub
merged car holding onto a bridge
abutment.
He ft William McPheeters jr.,
Astoria. He was treated at St.
Mary's hospital here for shock.
Hospital attendants said he told
them that his step-father and
mother, James Cox, 22, and Ora
Cox, 49, were trapped in the car.
The mishap occurred at about
7:30 pjn. The bodies were recov
ered about three hours later.
The death raised Oregon holi
day traffic fatalities to five.
Yule Weather
Picture Varies
Across Nation
By The Associated Press
The weather bureau Monday
night sketched this picture of the
nation's Christmas climate:
Fair and colder In New Eng
land. Cloudy, snow and cold in the
mid-Atlantic states.
Near normal temperatures and
fair to partly cloudy in the south
east. Snow and cold in the midwest
Some freezing drizzle in the
lower Ohio valley and central Il
linois.
Fair and cold in the north
plains.
Snow in the upper Rockies.
Fair and colder than normal in
the south plains and southwest.
Fair and warm on the gulf
coast.
Mostly fair and colder than
usual west of the Rockies.
The white Christmas country,
the forecaster said, covers gen
erally the northern third of the
nation, except lower New Eng
land and the Pacific northwest.
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By Wllmot Hereher
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 - (JP) - Members of congress denounced
Hungary furiously today for levying $120,000 in fines against four
American fliers. They called the fines "blood money," "ransom" and
"blackmail," and most of them said payment should be refused.
But President Truman, asked by reporters whether he planned
any move in the case today, inquired solemnly: "What can you do?
President Said
Ready to Act in
Steel Dispute
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 24 - (P)-
President Truman declared today
he will use whatever laws are on
the books to keep the nation's
steel mills rolling.
This might mean the Taft
Hartley law vith its emergency
provisions for an 80-day anti
strike injunction.
The president made his decla
ration in a brief exchange with
newsmen who crowded around
him in the music room of the
Truman family home at Inde
pendence, Mo., as he pressed a
gold-plated telegraph key to light
the national community Christ
mas tree on the capitol grounds in
Washington.
One reporter asked directly
whether Mr. Truman would use
the Taft-Hartly law If Phillip
Murray's CIO steel workers per
sist - in their plan to strike New
Year's day.
The president snapped back
that he will use whatever laws
there are on the books to keep
the steel mills going.
While he did not use the name
of the law, he obviously included
the Taft-Hartley law. He expand
ed a bit further with the asser
tion that he will use all the pow
ers the president has to keep the
vital metal rolling out of the
mills.
Dick Contino
Leaves Prison,
To Join Army
TACOMA, Dec. 24 -(JPh The
warden of McNeil Island federal
prison today announced the re
lease of Dick Contino, California
accordionist sentenced for draft
evasion.
Warden Fred T. Wilkinson said
the one-time $4,000-a-week night
club entertainer left the island
yesterday after serving 4
months. Contino, 21, was given
time off his six-month sentence
for good behavior, Wilkinson
added. ,i
Contino said today he plans to
go into the army. At Glendale,
Calif., he said:
"I definitely will do the right
thing about this whole situation.
I'm not bitter at all."
He couldn't say when he will
volunteer for military service, but
he is under what amounts to a
court order to do so.
He said he went to McNeil de
termined to build himself up
physically.
"I feel great. Im in the best
shape I've ever been. My weight
went up from 180 to 193 pounds."
APARTMENTS SCORCHED
PORTLAND, Dec. 24-P)-Fire
damaged four apartments in the
Queen Louise apartment house
here today at a loss of $3,000. The
fire, controlled after a half hour,
singed the hair of one woman.
Other tenants were evacuated
safely.
Carols, Gunfire Blend
Oddly in Korean Air
SEOUL, Korea, Tuesday, Dec
2HP-Carols and gunfire blended
oddly in the frosty air today as
United Nations soldiers from
many lands celebrated Christmas
on the barren Korean battle front.
For some it was their last
Christmas on earth.
Many Allied troops, flyers and
navy men bowed and devoutly
prayed for peace as the war en
tered its 19th month.
Francis Cardinal Spellxnan and
chaplains of all faiths conducted
services across the battle-scarred
peninsula.: -
Communist radio reports said
even prisoners of war behind their
stockades in north Korea had spe
cial services, and entertainment.
white-haired Cardinal Spellman
in his sermon to the "brave, but
sad. tired young faces' called on
them to 1 "fight against hostile
hordes . , .! and crusade against
tyranny, godlessness and hateful-
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Soviet fighters forced the Amer-
leans to land their C-47 cargo
plane in communist Hungary No
vember 19. Subsequently a Hun
garian military court convicted
them of violating the Hungarian
border and fined them 360,000
forints (about $30,000) each, with
the alternative of three months in
jaiL
The Hungarian government an
nounced the fines yesterday, stat
ing it suspected that parachutes,
blankets and other equipment in
the plane were intended to be
dropped to "spies and diversion
ists active in the people's democ
racies." No Action Yet
The state department has not
announced any course of action
yet. George Abbott, American
charge d' affaires in Budapest,
conferred with Hungary's deputy
foreign minister today but there
was no announcement at the end
of the meeting.
"We should not pay this inter
national blackmail," Senator
Humphrey (D-Minn.) told a re
porter angrily.
"We told the Barbary pirates
we would not pay one cent of
tribute and we should tell the
Hungarian government the same
thing," the senator said.
Humphrey said he advocates
"diplomatic pressures up to and
including a break in diplomatic
relations' to induce cancellation
of the penalties. "This is a case
which calls for diplomacy on an
eye-for-an-eye basis," he asserted.
Asks Ultimatum
Senator Tobey (R-N. H.) said
today he believes "we should give
them an ultimatum to release
these men or else."
A reporter asked him how far
he thought the government should
go to effect the release of the
fliers.
"I'm not the president," he re
sponded, "but if I were, action
would be taken to release those
men whatever action was need
ed. We have played ducks and
drakes long enough, and we
should let them know that this is
the end."
Senators Hickenlooper (R
Iowa) and Edwin C. Johnson, (D
Colo.) called the action a "shake
down." Rep. Armstrong (R-Mo.)
said it would be "unthinkable" to
pay the fines.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 24-P)-The
Oregon department of the
American Legion will accept con
tributions to pay the fines of four
U. S. airmen convicted of violat
ing Hungary's borders.
The Oregonlan suggested edi
torially today that the $120,000
fine be raised by public subscrip
tion. Ex-Pen Guard
Gets 6 Months
A six-months county jail term
was issued Monday to Howard B.
Hansen, former state penitentiary
guard, after he changed his plea
to guilty to a charge of attempt
ing to take drugs to a prisoner.
The sentencing was in Marion
county district court.
District Judge Val D. Sloper
told the prisoner, after he had
pleaded, that Hansen had be
trayed the trust of the people of
Oregon in his smuggling attempt.
Hansen was arrested last Thurs
day with seven vials of a drug
similar to benzedrine which he
told police he was to have sold
to an inmate.
ness" for the cause of humanity,
religion and free nations.
At the front and in the rear
areas, soldiers ate hot turkey din
ner with all the trimmings and
played Santa Claus .to hundreds
of Korean orphans. They opened
mail and presents from home.
They sang the songs of the Christ
mastide. But the war went right on
through it all.
The navy announced today it
sent carrier planes over Hungnam
in a special attack that came ex
actly one year after the last Allied
troops left that east coast port
in the famous Tenth corps evacua
tion. In Monday's raid, task force 77
planes covered a 120-mile stretch
of the east coast and cut rail lines
in 101 places.
Allied warships also pounded
Red targets on both east and west
coasts.
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oxwgon, Tuesday, December 25, 1951
U. N. Says Allied
Prisoners Taken
Outside of Korea
PANMUNJOM, Korea, Tues
day, Dee. 25 -OP-The United
Nations Command today charg
ed that the communists had tak
en allied prisoners of war out
side of Korea
Vice A dm. R. E. Llbby, U. N.
Command negotiator at the truce
talks, told the reds, "Your pris
oners of war tell us they saw
large sumbers of United Na
tions prisoners in China. Can
you furnish us with a list of
these prisoners of war?"
Second Slide .
In Cascades
Delays Trains
Two northbound Southern Pa
cific passenger trains are expected
to be 13 to 18 hours late arriving
in Salem today after a second slide
in successive days at Wickobee
near Crescent Lake in the Cascade
mountains southeast of Eugene.
The new slide Monday, 100
feet long and 15 feet deep, block
ed the SP mainline in front of the
northbound Klamath train. Be
hind it the Shasta , Daylight was
rerouted over the Siskiyou line.
The Klamath, ordinarily due in
Salem at 6:40 p.m., is now expect
ed at 1 p.m. today; the Daylight.
due last night at 9:50 is expected
this morning at 10:30, instead.
This was the official word re
ceived from SP at the Salem yard
office. There it was reported that
a ditcher work train and bull
dozers with railroad crews were
working through the night in near
zero temperatures to unblock the
mainline.
Earlier Monday work crews had
restored traffic by clearing the
slide which had occurred Sunday.
Besides the holiday delay, of
passenger trains, two northbound
freight trains were held up at
Crescent Lake and three other
freights, southbound, were being
held at Oakridge.
Salem Persons
Provide Gifts
For Inmates
Salem residents this Christmas
have been unusually generous in
remembering state institution in
mates. They are receiving many gifts
and Tuesday will have Christmas
dinner with turkey and all the
trimmings.
Eighty children at the state blind
school were invited by a nearby
restaurant owner to receive their
fill of free hamburgers and milk
shakes.
A Salem skating rink owner in
vited the blind children to roller
skate and they had the rink all
by themselves. Walter Dry, blind
school superintendent, said this
was the blind children's outstand
ing sport.
Prison ' Warden Virgil O'Malley
said one of his prisoners, a 20
year old boy, had a serious case
of cross-eyes which caused him
to become bitter and turn to crime.
A Salem eye doctor examined the
boy and then operated and cor
rected the condition.
The warden said the doctor's
service was free.
Churches Plan
Climax to Yule
Rites Today
A child that was born in a
manger of Bethlehem, Judea, 194
centuries ago, and the bright star
that guided shepherds and kings
to the manger are the Inspiration
for religious services that climax
today in Christmas, or the Feast
of the Nativity.
Although most churches com
pleted their programs of pageant
ry, giving and worship by Sunday,
the corporate worship is continued
today in some, especially the litur
gical churches.
The rites in Salem include wor
ship at 6 ajn. in First Congrega
tional church; communion at 10
ajn. at St. Paul's Episcopal; wor
ship at 11 a.m. in Central Luther
an festival worship at 10:30 a.m.
in Christ Lutheran; festival wor
ship at 11 ajn. in Grace Lutheran;
festival service at 10 ajn. in St.
John's Lutheran; masses at 6, 7,
8, 9 and 11:15 ajn. and high mass
at 10 ajn. at St. Joseph's Catholic
church; masses at 8, 7, 9:45 and
11 ajn. and high mass at 8:30 a.m.
at St Vincent dePaul Catholic
church.
SAI.KM PRECIPITATION
Sl Start f Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Year
Last Year
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Amonr the estimated several hundred Willamette valley servicemen
Christmas is Cpl. Joseph G. Ehli of Salem. A Korean war veteran,
mother, Mrs. Joseph P. Ehli. (Statesman photo).
1950 Yuletide in Korea
Increases GFs Praise of
1951 Holiday at Home
To the servicemen who spent
nothing short of miraculous to be
with their loved ones.
One of those who will have his feet under the family table to
day is Marine Cpl. Joseph G. Ehli, who arrived Saturday at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Ehli, 2062 McCoy ave.
Cpl. Ehli landed Dec. 12, 1950, in I
Korea and fought along the central
and eastern front in northern
Korea. His infantry outfit was re
grouping at Masan when the
birthday of the Prince of Peace
was observed.
He recalls no celebration.
Colder Than Silverton
"We had a good dinner, though,"
he remembers. And it was freez
ing weather lots colder than at
Silverton, for instance, where he
attended high school until 1948. He
entered the service that year.
After spending- more than 11
months in Korea, Cpl. Ehli shipped
home. He landed in San Francisco,
Calif., December 20. He flew to
Portland and arrived home in
plenty time to catch up on his
first stateside Christmas shopping
in several years.
Arriving home to a closer per
sonal Christmas greeting was an
other Korean veteran, 20-year-old
PFC Edson C. LaValley, 2456
Claude st. PFC LaValley was
greeted on his arrival here Satur
day, by his wife, Edna, and his
eight-month-old son, Mike, whom
the soldier had never seen except
by snapshot.
By the time Christmas day, 1950,
rolled around LaValley had been
in combat since the previous No
vember 1, with an artillery regi
ment in the 11th marines.
"It was cold and rainy," he re
calls. "We lived in tents. We had
just returned from fighting in the
northern part of Korea. I didn't
celebrate much on that Christmas
dav. but I can still remember the
wonderful Christmas dinner."
How will he observe Christmas
day?
"Just lying around, taking it
easy. No excitement. We've got a
Christmas dinner planned and
that's about all."
"It's sure swell to be home!"
Two Sons Home
A special Christmas is also in
order at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
C. M. Briggs, 505 Madison st., this
year with the homecoming of their
two sons, Lts. C. M. and Donald
Briggs.
It is the first time all have been
together on Christmas since 1940.
Wives of the navy pilots and the
two children of Lt. C. M. Briggs
are accompanying them.
For the past two years Don has
been stationed in Honolulu while
his brother is presently attending
the University of California under
the navy's program.
Season's Low of 22
Recorded in Salem
"Frigid temperatures enveloped
Salem Monday, bringing ther
mometers down to 22 degrees, the
lowest this season and marking
the coldest day since last Janu
ary. The temperature was .ex
pected to stay in the middle twen
ties this morning. Rain is predict
ed for tonight.
to Be Home for
last Christmas in Korea it seems
spending this Yuletide at home
Nation Counts
540 Deaths Due to
Holiday Accidents
By The Associated Press
Hundreds of American homes
had a somber note Christmas
eve as the nation counted more
than 500 dead in violent acci
dents. At least 540 persons were kill
ed in a variety of accidents
mainly traffic mishaps be
tween 6 p.m. (local time) Friday
and midnight E.S.T. Monday.
Traffic accidents accounted for
372 deaths, 81 perished in fires
and 87 persons died in miscel
laneous accidents connected with
the long holiday period.
The death toll approached the
all - time four - day Christmas
week end fatality record set in
1936 when 761 persons lost their
lives.
Toll by states included: Traf
fic - fires - miscellaneous: Idaho
0-0-1; Oregon 5-0-0; Washing
ton 8-0-1.
Melee Disrupts Family Reunion;
3 Persons Hurt; Police Seek 5
A Christmas eve family reun
ion in Salem turned into a violent
melee over the custody of a child,
leaving three persons injured and
five others charged with assault
and battery, sheriffs deputies re
ported. Most seriously hurt was C. R.
Lannigan, 74, 4885 Auburn rd.,
who was taken to Salem General
hospital with a skull fracture
and facial injuries. The reunion
was at Lannigan's home. Lanni
gan's son, Fred, was treated for
facial injuries, and a son-in-law,
John Stevans of North Richland,
Wash., incurred minor cuts and
bruises.
Hunted In connection with the
melee were Jay McDonald, Albany,
his father, John McDonald, 1195
Reedy st., Tom and Mary Gordon
of Shaw. A John Doe warrent
was issued for the fifth person.
The complaints were signed by
Stevans, Fred Lannigan, and C.
R. Lannigan's daughter, Mrs,
Stevans.
Jay McDonald is the former hus
band of Lannigan's daughter, Mrs.
Phyllis McDonald. Sheriff's dep
uties said Mrs. McDonald told
them that her former husband
came to her father's house last
night, forced his way in and de
manded that she return their five-year-old
daughter, Janet, to 'him.
Mrs. McDonald, who has cus-
PRICE 5c
Christmas
and women visiting at home this
CpL Ehli la shown at home with his
Truman Flies
Home; Asserts
'Hope Growing'
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 14-(P)-
President Truman flew home for a
family Christmas today with
message of hope.
Shortly after his arrival the
president said in a message pre
pared for broadcast from his own
living room that a "higher hope"
has risen in the world a hope for
true and lasting peace founded on
the drawing together of free na
tions. He paid high tribute to the men
who are fighting in Korea to make
that hope come true.
His broadcast message was in
connection with the ceremony of
lighting the national community
Christmas tree, a graceful 40-foot
spruce on the south grounds of the
White House. He arranged to car
ry out the annual custom by press
ing a telegraph key here.
In his radio speech the president
commented that the world "is still
in danger tonight," then added: ,
"But a great change has come
about. A new spirit has been born
and has grown up in the world .
"Tonight, we have a different
goal and a higher hope. Despite
difficulties the free nations have
grown together solidly for a great
purpose: Not solely to defend
themselves, but merely to win a
bloody war if it should come; but
for the purpose of creating a real
peace a peace that shall be a pos
itive reality and not an empty
hope, a just and lasting peace."
tody of the child for the next six
months under terms of a divorce
granted earlier this year, said she
refused.
Her sister, Mrs. Stevans, told
investigating officers that when
her father atempted to get Mc
Donald out of the house, McDon
ald's companions joined him in
resisting. Then Lannigan's two
sons, and Stevans, went to the
aid of Lannigan, she said. During
the scuffling on the front porch,
Lannigan was knocked off, she
said, striking his head as he fell.
Mrs. Stevans said she, Mrs. Mc
Donald, another sister, and two
brothers, all were involved mo
mentarily in the fighting.
Mrs. Stevans, who, with her
husband, had come to Salem
from Washington to spend the
holiday with her father, contact
ed the sheriffs department after
McDonald and his companions
left, she said.
District Atty. E. O. Stadter, Jr.,
prepared the warrants, which were
signed by District Judge Val D.
Sloper. Bail of $250 on each of the
three counts, a total of $750, was
set by Stadter.
Stadter said that Jay McDonald
had custody of the litle girl since 1
last May under the divorce terms.
Mrs. McDonald got her daughter
from the home of McDonald's
mother Monday, Stadter said.
No. 272
Bodies of 119 .
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Miners Tk
From Shaft
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WEST FRANKFORT," 111., Dm
24-GfP)-It:was a miracle a Christ
mas miracle, residents of this coat
mining town agreed today.
They referred to f he almost un
believable survival of Cecil San
ders, who clung to j life through
almost 60 hours of an underground
explosion ordeal in which lit
others perished. f
Sanders himself couldn't explain
the "miracle." Foj : him it hd
been a cold and lonely wait in tho
darkness, 550 j feet oelow tho
earth's surface.1 1 1 i
"Give me some water." were the
44-year-old Sander' first word
when a rescue crew found him at
5:45 a. m. i
The blast occurred around 7:30
p. m. (CST) Friday night.
Exhausted, but conscious and
coherent, Sanders was found ly
ing on his back behind a thin
barricade. Around Wm were the
bodies of eight buddies, i .
After he had been riven a in
of water, Sanders asked the date. .
He was told lt was the dav before
Christmas. ' ' I
"This is a wonderful Chrint-'
mas eve," the bearded and wiy
miner said. I i -
Later he told officials that ho
was working near six or eight oth
ers when the blast ripped the dig
gings. They ran labout half a
mile to an air passageway. -Temporary
WaUs 1 i
There they 1 walled thcmselvM
off from the poisonous air- with
barricade of cloth on a wood
frame. I . f i '
"I lay down 1ridprayea"nI
then relaxed and dropped off to
sleep," Sanders related slowly.
"When I woke up I started calling
for my buddies but; I never got an .
answer ... I golf awfully cold
down there and my mouth was
dry ... I feel as, though I wo ..
asleep until you fellows reached
me." ! i
The miner's : son,! Paul, .23, had '
spent the night at the morgue.
He wanted to; be pn hand when
his father's body was brought in
for identification. i
He was there when ' news was
flashed that his father, was alive. ,
Paul was waiting ; at J the mino
when his dad was , brought out
They talked as the? elder Sander
was given coffee and oxygen.
Eyes Swollen : i
Mrs. Sanders was waiting at
the hospital. Her eyes were swol
len and she wrung her hands mm
she paced the floor. For her, too,
it had been a long; 'wait.
"Hello, honey," Sanders said
with a smile. f
Through tears she talked to her
husband briefly. If
"Oh, my God, weve prayed and
prayed for this," she sobbed re
peatedly. "It's ; a miracle a mir
acle." I i i i
A company physician after ex
amining Sanders said there were
no visible signs of Injury, adding:
"He's pretty well chilled but he's
not frozen." j
Mrs. Sanders told newsmen tho
had taken down the, family Christ-
as soon as I. get home." :
Yes, she 'repeated, i it was . m
miracle. s
Town Saddened
But Christmas eve was a sad
mining town of 12,000. They talked
tonight of funerals i of the rela
tives and friends, not '. of Christ
mas gifts. ' i ;i '
Rescue workers,! some of who
collapsed from exhaustion or from
inhaling gas fumes, too long, hA
worked feverishly t for nearly t(T
hours in hope : that; some of their
fellow miners i were alive in tho
sprawling tunnels of Orient No. 2.
But fight as they did. they
broke . through too late for tome
who obviously hung on behind
quickly barricaded ? mine cuts un
til early today. Ill
.Some of the bodies about six
still were warm when rescue
workers reached them.' And there
was B. R. Williams' note, scrib
bled on a cigaret Wrapper.
"I love you fall way (Sic), the
40-year-old miner! wrote to his
wife in his final tnessage. "I go
tonight with Christ. I love hint
too.' i , -
Dogs All Find
Homes By Holiday
i
rhritma business1 at the Salen
pound was pretty! doggone good
Monday. In fact all the dogs were
gone, Poundmaster William Wil
son reported Monday night.
Wilson said nine dogs were som
for Christmas presents, owners re
deemed six others, and Wilson
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