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KEW YORK (aVTb New York Time announced Sunday
night that It would support Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower "entha
siastieally' If he becomes the Republican candidate for President.
The newspaper, which has supported GOP presidential can
didates only twice in the past 20 years, announced its position in
an editorial. The Times rave foreign policy as a major reason for
' its decision this year.
CHICAGO (JFy-The Chicago Sun-Times, which backed Pres
ident Truman in 1948, announced its support Sunday night of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for President.- !
HOUSTON (JP) Jack Porter, sparkplug of the Elsenhower
' movement in Texas, promised Sunday an old fashioned "door
" knocking, bell ringing campaign to nominate the general for
President. 3
Porter, a member of the Republican State Executive Com
mittee, said "we're going to get the Texas delegation tor; Eisen
hower. LONDON (JPy-The London News-Chronicle Monday called
Sen. Lodge's announcement that Gen. Eisenhower's name had
been entered in the New Hampshire primary "a piece of world
news of the first class."
A column-long editorial in the News-Chronicle said: "If he
becomes President, it would be received with wide acclamation
on this side of the Atlantic."
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ALBANY. N. Y.(P)-Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
twice defeated Republican presidential candidate, repeated Sun
day fcimprediction that General Eisenhower will be the GOP
nominee this year and will be elected.
Dewey announced bis support of Eisenhower more than a
year ace.
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Today a new day dawns for the
barber, master and journeyman.
For Salem barbershops will be
dosed, most of them, putting into
effect the new five-day week.
Monday will be the barbers' day
off, along with Sunday.
Now what will the barber do
with his Monday? He can't go
fishing this time of year. Monday
is no day for travel. His cronies
are all working. The "old lady"
won't want him cluttering up the
house all, dayv Att .the things he
thought he wdxM do he'll find ex
cuses for putting" 6IT. He'll have a
queer feeling: Monday, and noth
ing to do. No shop to tend, no cus
tomers to greet, no stories to tell
and none to learn. After a succes
sion of Mondays however he'll be
come adjusted to the change, just
as plumbers have to their no-work-Saturdays.
He will develop
fresh routines or new interests.
Bartering is an old occupation,
once including the art of surgery.
But it has been undergoing change.
.The Albany Democrat-Herald in
"a nostalgic mood the other day
noted some of the changes. For
. example shaving is no longer the
chief business of the barber, which,
as the D-H noted, voids the line
of the old song "And the barber
kept on shaving." He's doing hair
trims now and" doesn't want to be
bothered with shaves.
Not that he has much chance to
shave. Mr. Gilette changed all that.
The safety razor took that work
away from shops and put it in the
home, about the only shift in that
direction which has occurred as a
result of invention. It encouraged
(Continued on editorial page 4.)
DeathToUofl6
Feared in Fire
WESTFIELD, Mass. OPy-Sixteen
persons were feared burned to
death Sunday night in a fire
which swept a four-story business
and apartment block.
Thirteen others were rescued
over ladders and hospitalized, one
in serious condition.
Fire Chief Jeremiath A. Moriar
ity said he believed the missing
were "still in the building." One
body was seen by firemen but the
flames were so widespread that
it was impossible to reach it
Police said the missing included
14 occupants of upper floor apart
ments and two boys employed in
top floor bowling alley.
Animal Crackers
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Potato Men
Claim OPS
'Doublecross'
KLAMATH FALLS (P)-Klam-ath
Basin potato men denounced
Sunday the Office of Price Stabili
zation price rollback on potatoes.
County Agent Walt Jendrzejew
ski said the rollback would cut the
price of Klamath County's top
quality Russets 31 per cent from
$5 to $3.75, less 30 cents for sacks.
George C. Burger, potato ship
per, said: "The OPS has double
crossed everyone." He said ship
pers should declare a holiday "un
til this mess is straightened out."
Randall Pope, president of the
Klamath Potato Growers Associa
tion, said the OPS acted against
tho advice of its own Potato Ad
visory Committee and over the
protests of the entire potato in
dustry. He said "realistic ceilings,
well over parity prices," should be
established.
Canada Beauty
Disappearson
Fishing Trip
MIAMI, Fla. (IP) - Search for
Mrs. Hughuette LeMay, 21-year-old
Canadian beauty who disap
peared Friday night while fishing
with her husband In the Florida
Keys, shifted to the Florida West
Coast area Sunday night.:
Deputy Sheriff James Barker
said police at Naples and Fort
Myers had been alerted to watch
for the missing beauty after two
hunters reported seeing a girl
answering her description on the
Tamiami Trail west of Miami
Sunday morning.
The hunters said the girl was
seen again at 10:30 a. m. at McGill
Station about 50 miles west of
where they had seen her earlier.
Mrs. LeMay's brother said upon
arrival from Canada that he be
lieved she had been kidnaped.
Raymond Daoust, a Montreal at
torney, said that seemed the only
possible explanation for the disap
pearance 6f his lovely,; French
speaking sister. I
Mrs. LeMay, the former Hugu
ette Daoust, was a semi-finalist in
a "Miss Cinema" beauty contest
conducted by the Montreal le Pe
tite Journal. She disappeared
while fishing from a bridge on the
Overseas Highway between Miami
and Key West.
Her husband, George, a 26-year-old
Montreal real estate dealer,
told police that his wife clad only
in shorts and a halter, walked to
their car parked 150 yards from
the bridge to get a pair of dun
garees and he never saw her
again.
Congress Scolded for Wasting Time;
Committee Says Leadership Lacking
WASHINGTON (JP) - Congress
was criticized Sunday by a citi
zens' committee on grounds that
it wastes its time, is disorganized,
lacks "effective leadership" and
has "no center of responsibility."
The criticism came ;from the
National Committee tor Strength
ening Congress as the lawmakers
returned to the Capital for the
start of their 1952 session on
Tuesday. The committee is a private-group
of men prominent in
journalism, business, labor and
agriculture and is headed by Rob
ert Heller Cleveland business en
gineer. Some of its earlier recom
mendations formed the basis for
the 1948 Congressional iReorganl
zation Act.
The committee, through Heller,
sent to members of Congress
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No Direct
Word
From Ike
WASHINGTON (JP) - Senator
Lodge (RyMass.) said Sunday that
acting on assurances from Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower that he is
a Republican, he is entering the
General's name in the New Hamp
shire presidential primary.
He said Eisenhower "is pro
hibited by Army regulation from
engaging directly or indirectly in
a nomination campaign" while in
uniform, but that he is certain the
general is in the presidential race
"to the finish."
His announcement, heralded in
advance as "good news' for GOP
supporters of the 61 -year-old gen
eral, included no written statement
from Eisenhower approving entry
of his name in the New Hampshire
primarys or saying anything about
party affiliation.
Exchange of Letters
Lodge, national manager of the
I GOP Eisenhower- For -President
move, made public an exchange of
letters with Gov. Sherman Adams
of New Hampshire about the legal
requirements for entering the gen
eral's name in the state's primary
on March 11. It was the first in
the nation.
Lodge suggested at a crowded
Sunday news conference, that
newsmen check his statements
about Eisenhower's party affilia
tion at the general's headquarters
in Paris. He said he anticipated
his statement the general is a Re
publican would be confirmed.
Refuses Comment
That in itself would be some
thing new. Eisenhower has been
PARIS (P-Ther was no im
mediate comment-Sunday night
from either General Eisenhower
or his aides on Senator Lodge's
Washington announcement that
the reneral's name is being en
ured In the Republican presi
dential primary in New Hamp
shire. refusing to talk politics.
At Paris, however, there was no
immediate comment on Lodge's
announcement.
Adams had written Lodge sug
gesting that if the general's name
were to be entered on the New
Hampshire ballot, state officials
should have some positive assur
ance of his party affiliation.
Lodge, in reply, said he could
not refer the matter directly to
the general because Army regula
tions prohibit Eisenhower from
taking part in any political activity
whi in uniform.
But he said that while Eisen
hower was still at Columbia they
had conversations in which the
general assured him he was a Re
publican. Any efforts to enter the
general's name as a Democrat,
therefore, are out of order, Lodge
wrote.
Brushed Aside
Previous queries at Eisenhower's
Paris headquarters about his po
litical affiliation have been brush
ed aside, but Lodge invited report
ers to try again.
The senator was asked whether
he beljeved a check at Paris would
disclose positively that 1. the gen
eral is a Republican and 2. that he
is in the race for the GOP presi
dential nomination.
Lodge replied he would antici
pate an affirmative answer on
both points.
Asked just where inquiries
should be made whether Eisen
hower himself, or at the general's
headquarters, Lodge replied the
headquarters would supply replies.
Demands Question
"You just ask and see what he
says," Lodge added.
The Massachusetts senator said
he had been in touch with Eisen
hower's Paris office but that he
had not talked to Ike by telephone.
He said public relations people
there would not fee surprised at
the inquiries.
"I have been in touch with peo
ple in his headquarters," Lodge
said. Pressed as to whether he was
authorized to speak for the gen
eral he said:
"I am speaking for him and I
will not be repudiated."
Nap Costs $700
WASHINGTON, Pa. (-William
C. Smith of Wind Gap, Pa., told
police it cost him $700 to take a
nap Sunday.
Smith said he picked up a hitch
hiker near here, then parked his
auto and went to sleep. When he
awoke, he said the hitchhiker was
gone and so was Smith's wallet
containing the $700.
gress has failed to do "to operate
more effectively." It also cited
several "hopeful signs."
But, it said, Congress has not
yet attacked four basic problems:
"Lack of organization. Lack of re
sponsibility. Failure to control
money. Misuse of time."
And, in 1951, the committee
continued. Congress didn't do
these things which should have
been done:
1. Install electric voting equip
ment to save time.
2. Adopt a Senate rule to limit
debate there to pending and rele
vant business.
3. Divest itself of the heavy
workload of private claims legislation-While
passing 255 public
laws during the last session, the
committee' said. Congress took
All nci'vate bill.
s Mat Into Primary
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Young Hobby Enthusiasts Work at YMCA
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Resumption of the Salem YMCA hobby and crafts elass found this croup of boys deeldinr m whether
to make models, work in leather or some other craft. The classes wiH be held In the basement of the
YM every Friday at 4 p.m. Pictured (left to rifht) are David Chambers, 1S37 Court St; John Rose
braurh. Salem Route 9; Ted Mclivenna. Willamette University sophomore who will organize class;
Clay Newell, 1740 N. 23rd St.; and Asa Daily, 1056 N. 18th St. (Statesman photo).
Churchill Confers With
Top Military Leaders
WASHINGTON (-Britain's Prime Minister Churchill and top
military leaders of the United States held a two-hour Pentagon meet
ing Sunday which Secretary of Defense Lovett called just a social
gathering.
A luncheon given by Lovett for the visiting chief of government
and diplomatic and military officials was bracketed by two long
Marie Wilson
To Play Real
Secretary Role
HOLLYWOOD (JP)- Marie Wil
son, who plays a dumb blonde
secretary on a radio show, says
she's willing to serve as some
body's real life secretary for a
day. But she adds it will cost that
somebody "plenty."
Miss Wilson Is auctioning her
servces, the winner to be the per
son who makes the highest bid.
Shell turn over the money to the
March of Dimes.
When all the bids are in, the
actress says, she'll fly to the win
ner's home town and put in an
eight hour day at telephone and
typewriter.
As this is an auction Miss Wil
son wants bids only, no cash. Only
the winning bid need be paid. Her
radio network, CBS, is accepting
bids for her at its Hollywood stu
dio. Blood Collection
In Salem Today
Salem's second January "Blood
Day" is scheduled for today at the
Salem Labor Temple, Red Cross
officials announced.
Location for the collection was
moved to the Labor Temple from
Central fire station at the city hall
to prevent interference with pos
sible fire duty by personnel.
A turnout of 231 persons donat
ed 204 pints of blood at a call last
week.
4. Consider "ways to evaluate
Congressional compensation so
that the legislative salary can be
upgraded to fit the Congressional
job."
5. Curb what the committee
termed extensive absenteeism of
members.
8. Grant home rule for the Dis
trict of Columbia to save Con
gress the time now consumed in
legislating for the nation's capi
tal 7. Keep all appropriations in
one bilL Congress tried the one
package money bill plan in 1950
and dropped it last year.
8. Retain a House rule which
permitted legislative committees
to obtain floor action on their
bills when the rules committee
failed to clear them.
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday,
sessions of the U. S. Joint Chiefs
of Staff and top British military
officers.
They conferred for two and a
half hours before the luncheon,
then later returned to the office of
Gen. Omar Bradley, U.S. Joint
Chiefs chairman, for renewed
talks.
Although the Sunday Pentagon
luncheon provided opportunity for
Mr. Churchill to counsel with the
American Armed Forces officials,
Lovett told reporters that:
"The luncheon was entirely a
social affair; no business was con
ducted at all."
Lovett said he would. see Mr.
Churchill again Monday when
formal meeting are started at the
White House.
When Mr. Churchill left the
Pentagon, he went to the British
Embassy for his customary after
noon nap.
Sunday evening a small dinner
was arranged at the Embassy
where the Prime Minister will be
host to Lovett, Secretary of State
Acheson, and General Bradley.
Barber Shops
Close Today
A shave or a haircut will be
hard to find in Salem today as 42
of the city's 45 barbershops re
main closed under the new plan
for a five-day week for barbers.
Salem barbers decided recently
to remain closed on Monday, a
policy already in effect in Albany,
Longview, Tacoma, Olympia and
all of Yamhill county.
Stassen to Enter
Illinois Primary
WASHINGTON (JP) Harold
Stassen announced Sunday he will
enter his name in the Illinois pri
mary election on April 8.
Stassen, former governor of
Minnesota and now president of
the University of Pennsylvania, Is
seeking the Republican nomination
for President. He failed to win it
in the 1948 campaign.
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FORECAST (from VS. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Moatly
cloudy today and tonight with intermit
tent rain this afternoon and showers
tonight. Slightly warmer today with
the highest temperature near 40 and
the lowest tonight near 32. Salem tem
perature at U.-01 ajn. today was 34.
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Wind Rising as
Carlsen's Ship
NearsEngland
LONDON fipy-Thick fog blank
eted the Flying Enterprise early
Monday as the towing tug Tur
moil reported visibility almost
zero and the wind rising.
But dauntless Capt. Kurt Carl
sen, skipper of the crippled Ameri
can freighter, was reported "more
confident than ever" his battered
ship would reach a safe harbor.
"The sea-swell is increasing, and
the Enterprise is listing more
probably 70 degrees," the radio op
erator on the Turmoil said In a
radio telephone call to the Associ
ated Press. "But she is still being
towed well."
At that time, the ship's position
was reported as about 170 miles
from the Cornish port of Fal
mouth, toward which the Flying
Enterprise is heading.
"If the weather worsens, we
probably won't try to make Fal
mouth," the radio operator said.
"We'll head for the nearest port."
The Turmoil was still steaming
steadily at three knots. Because
the Flying Enterprise was tend
ing to veer away at the end of the
750-yard 20-inch tow rope, there
was no plan to increase the Tur
moil's speed.
The U. S. destroyer Willard
Keith was shepherding the confi
dent procession toward Falmouth.
When the call was received from
the Turmoil, Carlsen was asleep
in the Flying Enterprises's wheel
house. His sole companion aboard
the damaged freighter. Mate Ken
neth Dancy of the Turmoil, stood
watch. They were standing watch
es of two hours each.
Friday night Carlsen got a hot
steak dinner under his belt and
his first good night's sleep since
Christmas Day.
Adm. Joy Doubts Reds
Want Korea Armistice
TOKYO (JP)-Vice Adm. C. Tur
ner Joy, chief Allied truce nego
tiator, said Monday "with each
passing day there is less and less
reason to think the Communists
really want a stable armistice."
Joy berated the Communist
truce envoys for their insistence
in demanding the right to build
air fields during a Korean armi
stice. The chief Allied truce envoy
said in a statement released on his
arrival here tor a conference with
Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway:
"If the Communists are acting
in good faith and sincerely want
peace, there can r Z.O reason for
them to construct military air
fields during the period of an
armistice.
Joy told newsmen, "I am mak
ing a merely routine visit to talk
with General Ridgway and there
is nothing unusual about it.
"There is no change In truce
negotations at Panmunjom to
prompt this visit."
January 7, 1952
BONN, Germany (AP)
cretly completed plans for
American lines to join the proposed European defentw
force, Western Allied officials disclosed Sunday.
The top-secret plans hammered out hehind cloei
doors bv former officers from Hitler's Wehrmicht
call for drafting young Germans
between the ages of 18 and 21, the
officials said. German military
planners estimate that youths in
these age groups number at least
1,250,000 men.
The 18-year-olds alone are ex
pected to. total about 400,000 or
more than" enough to form the pro
bable German contingent of 250
000 men in the six-nation Euro
pean Army.
Reject Volunteers
German leaders have firmly re
jected a volunteer Army in plan
ning Germany's military come
back, the Allied officials said. The
powerful labor unions and key po
litical figures feel that a volunteer
force would be made up of ad
venturers, the jobless and aristo
cratic former officers.
Since France and other nations
in the proposed European Army
already draft their military man
power, the Germans intend to
adopt a consription system mod
eled after the U. S. Selective Ser
vice system.
The key men in drafting the
plans were stony-faced Theodor
Blank, 45, and two Hitler-era gen
erals Adolf Heusinger and Hans
SpeideL
Blank, who fought against the
Allies from start to finish of World
War II, heads what is officially
called the "Service Office of the
Federal Chancellor."
Deepest Secrecy
Gen. Heusinger, former opera
tions chief of the German High
Command, and Gen. Speidel, Rom
mel's chief of staff, are Blank's
chief military advisers. They tiave
been working in the deepest se
crecy to keep the Bonn govern
ment's military plans from becom
ing a political football before the
six west European nations agree
to form a unified defense force.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has
predicted that a decision will be
reached when the six Pleven Plan
foreign ministers meet in Paris
late this month.
Compared with the 200-odd divi
sions that Hitler flung at his neigh
bors, the German contribution to
the European Army will be small
a maximum of 12 divisions in
the official view here.
Fire Damages
Dallas Methodist
Church Basement
Statesman News Service
DALLAS An early morning
blaze brought an estimated $3,000
damage to the basement of the
Methodist Church here Sunday.
Dallas city firemen, who extin
guished the 7:45 ajrk fire, indi
cated it had been started when
clothing, hung next to the base
ment furnace, caught fire.
The basement room, which was
used as Sunday School classroom,
was heavily damaged. An adjacent
kitchen also was slightly damaged.
Regular church schedules were not
disturbed.
MUNSAN, Korea (JP)-The Com
munists rejected outright again
Monday the Allied proposal for
exchanging prisoners of war and
civilians but the U. N. Command
immediately threw its plan back
on the conference table.
Rear Adm. R. E. Libby, Allied
negotiator, said, "they objected to
our proposal again. It was the
same old record being played over
again. I think they are Just kill
ing time."
" The sub-committee on prisoners
recessed and set an afternoon ses
sion. The sub - committee discussing
truce supervision broke up abrupt
ly after Chinese MaJ. Gen. Hsieh
Fang accused the Allies of indi
cating that they no longer intend
ed to carry out negotiations seri
ously. !
A dispatch from Panmunjom
said Hsieh showed a lack f in
terest in the talks. His interpreter
giggled and snickered frequently,
an Allied spokesman said.
The meeting was mostly a repi
tition of past argument
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Fire Damages
Residence at
Four Corners
Sutetme-t News Service
FOUR CORNERS Fire here
Sunday evening extensively dam
aged the four-room home of Mrs.
Pearl Hall, 530 Lancaster! Dr.
Firemen estimated damage te
the extent of $1,500. Volunteer
Fire Chief Waldo Miller said the
fire apparently started about 7
p.m. from a wood-burnhlg' heat
ing stove in the living room when
coals fell out a partially open
stove door with dfectivej catch.
The living room and Ejfurnish
ings were almost completely
charred while the kitchen and
one bedroom were badly scorche!,
firemen said. The property wa .
reported partially covered,;by in-"
surance. "S9 -
Mrs. Hall and a daughter wem
attending church when tsrblaw
broke out. The blaze was re ported
to firemen by a neighbor: boy.
7 Commie Jets
Downed in Big
Aerial Battles
SEOUL, Korea, (JP)-U. 3. Sabre
jets outnumbered two to one
shot down two more red-noeed v
MIGs Monday and damaged twd
others in the second day! of furi
ous air battles high over North
west Korea. r:.
The swept-wing American fight
ers blasted five of the Russian
built jets from the skies , earlie
Sunday and damaged 10 in fou
spectacular dogfights, for a total
Sunday of seven kills. ;i .
There was no announcement el
any American losses. Under a new
policy, the U. S. Fifth Air Fore
reports losses only in a weekly
summary. The North Korean com
m unique claimed three -i Allied
planes were shot down during tbe
day, but didn't say where; r how.
Altogether 79 U. S. jets were
opposed by 196 MIGs. In one of s
the tattles. Sabres of the U. 8.
51st Interceptor Wing were out
numbered 21 to 100, but : caught
the Reds before the enemy plane
could drop their cumbersome wing
tanks. f
The Fifth Air Force- communi
que described the Red pilots Sun
day as "very aggressive4i '
Col. Harrison R. Thyng, com
mander of the U. S. Fourth Right
er Interceptor Wing told AP Cor
respondent Milo Farneti'it wa
definitely the roughest battle)
we've ever been in. J :
"The Reds were really out for -mr
blood. They are getting better ev
ery day. They fire more shells -from
their cannon at our F-ete
than ever before. 4 ,.
City Councilmen to
Meet with Moores
Estate Committee
Salem's City Council, in two In
formal meetings tonight, will he
a report from City Manager J. L.
Franzen and will meet with th
Carroll Moores Estate Committee.
Mayor Al Loucks said Sunday.
Franzen will report onr govern -ment
in Souther cities. Hf has jest
returned from a vacation in that
area. The meeting with the Moore
estate committee will precede .
final decision Jan. 14 on the dis
position of the estate-left' by the
late Carroll Moores fori a eivie
memorial. I-
FOUR DIE IN BLAZE
, DETROIT VPhFaux persons ed
late Sunday night and a fifth was
burned seriously in a fire which
gutted a one-room dwelling in
which they were sleeping on pal
lets, j-