The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, January 14, 1952, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI t it 4 f I'f t . . ... if f " . 4 ' 1 w Clark Bid for Vatican Po&L ..- f " . f ( V K General : Pulling Power! : The ' finest market place In the Valley is the Classified Ad section of The Oregon States man. Telephone 2-2441 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. "Your COMPLETE Newspaper B 4 i 4 Dispute Genu- lames 1651 il 101st YEAB Icott on Sidelines, lames Unrealistic' Campaign Cost Limit Special to The Statesman PORTLAND Leslie Scott, former state treasurer of Oregon, said Sunday he would not seek that office again this year "because I could not run a good campaign without being obligated to someone." He has been regarded as a likely candidate. Scott termed the present legal limitation on campaign expenses SB's Death came Friday night in a Paris hospital to Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, high commis sioner and commander-in-chief of French forces in Indochina. Ill ness drove him from his post of duty where for a year he had been fighting the Communist rebels in Vietnam, the French-recognized, independent nation of Indochina. As he sank into unconsciousness he murmured the name of his only son, Bernard, who had been killed in action while serving un der his father. General De Lattre had achieved great success in throwing back the rebels, but he had noted and reported the sup port they continue to receive from China. Even as the general lay dying military leaders of France, Britain and the United States were con ferring InthffaPantagrm on the military situation in Southeast Asia. Reports indicate the buildup of the rebel forces. Training camps iri China are turning out officers and men skilled in meth ods of fighting in Indochina. The Red armies are being equipped with modern weapons and out fitted with decent uniforms. Meantime France is getting weary of the human and financial bleed ing it is suffering to ward off the Vietminh rebels. It has spent more on this warfare than the aid it has received under the Marshall Plan. The fall of the Pleven gov ernment is due in part to reaction against the sacrifices entailed in continuing this war. It is another Korea, with France less able to continue the fighting than the United States. What the military leaders are pondering is how to win the war or how to stop it. The French fear that a truce in Korea would be followed by the diversion of Chi nese veterans into the (Continued on editorial page 4.) Democrat Senator Refuses to Make Re-Election Try BALTIMORE (JP) Senator Her bert R. O'Conor (D-Md) said San day that he is not a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate. O'Conor was the chairman of the Senate Crime Investigating Com mittee. It is apparent that some of my views are at variance with those espoused by others. In candor I must admit a lack of sympathy with certain programs, and I do not see my way clear to change my views on these questions," Maryland's senior senator said in a press release. Animal Crackers y WARREN GOODRICH "Ifs stromal? wka e SmBed vocaW Jry he h 'Down! SH Heaff- 8M. fcy WYtW BHNmr fa teg 10 PAGES "entirely unrealistic. (By law, a candidate in the primary election is limited for campaign expenses to 15 per cent of an office's annual salary. The treasurer's , salary is $8,800. A candidate for treasurer could legally spend $1,320.) "Just one billboard in each county for one month would take all I would be allowed to spend," Scott declared. "I could have no other advertising, printing, mail ing, clerical help and other office expense without begging for someone else's money or 'planting money with friends so they could spend it And I just won't do it that way." BeltoD Als Oat Scott is the second potential Re publican candidate to count him self out of the treasurer's race this week end. State Sen. Howard Belton of Canby, Republican nom inee for treasurer in 1948, said he had decided to finish his term as senator rather than run for treas urer again. Most prominently mentioned as GOP treasurer hopefuls are State Sen. Jack Lynch, Portland, and Sigfrid Unander, Portland. As sistant State Treasurer Fred Paulus also has been urged to run, and has the matter "under advise ment," . and City Commissioner Ormond Bean, Portland, has fig ured in calculations. Unander and Bean finished in that order to Belton in the 1948 primaries. Cost Figured Scott said Sunday "I figure it would cost from $5,000 to $8,000 to run a decent campaign. I don't want anyone : else's money, and I'm in no mood to face a grand jury or a prosecuting attorney in any investigation as has been un derway in Ohio. I am willing and able to put up themoney, but the law won't let me." In regard to plans other than those involving the treasurer ship, Scott said Sunday he "might" run for delegate-at-large for the Re publican convention in Chicago July 7. He said Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) was his choice for the GOP presidential nominee, but that "the chances seem to be that the Oregon preferential vote will go to (Gen. Dwight) Eisenhower, and certainly I would abide by the wishes of the electorate." Scott served two terms as state treasurer, 1940-48, and was barred from running for a third consecu tive term by constitutional limita tion. He is now eligible again, however, having sat on the side lines while the office was filled by Walter Pearson, Portland Dem ocrat, who has announced he would not run this year. Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone Wed 25 Years BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. UP) Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone celebrated their silver wedding anniversary ; Sunday. The comedian and the former Sadye Marks, a department store clerk before he met her, were married in Benny's home town of Waukegan, HL, in 1927. Truman's Budget Expected to Call f or Less Appropriations, More Spending Than in 1951 By CHARLES F. BRETT WASHINGTON (JPy- President Truman's new budget is reported to call for about 85 billion dollars in new appropriations from Con gress 10 1 billion less than he sought a year ago. Actual spend ing, however, probably will run considerably higher. Informed officials told a report er Sunday they expected this 11 per cent slice off new appropria tion requests, as compared with last year, to give the administra tion a talking point in reply to election year attacks on high fed eral spending. ; These officials said requests for new military appropriations will total only about 51 billion dol lars, billions less than defense of ficials wanted. It compares with 65 billions in new military allo cations sought and obtained from Congress last year. But the picture on actual spend Tho Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Monday, Mope for Crew Fading SEATTLE (JP)-AU search flights were cancelled Sunday as an Arctic-born storm lashed the North Pacific area where the American freighter Pennsylvania and her 45-man crew disappeared Wednes day. A Coast Guard spokesman said hope for the crew, believed drift ing in four lifeboats, was fading. Sixty-mile-an-hour winds whipped up 35-foot seas and wind-driven snow cut visibility to only a few yards. Plans were made to send out 12 search planes Monday, if the weather moderates. But the Coast Guard said weather forecasts '--dicate there will be no letup for 24 to 36 hours. The Weather Bu reau reported an intense storm moving down the Canadian coast. The foul weather also limited surface search. The Pennsylvania, commanded by Capt. George Plover of Port land, Ore., has been unheard from since Wednesday, when Captain Plover radioed he was abandoniag ship. Reds Say U.N. Planes Violate China Frontier MUNSAN, Korea OF Red ne gotiators forsook their usual squabbling on truce supervision Monday, and hurled new charges that Allied planes had violated the Chinese frontier. A pooled dispatch from the con ference site at Panmunjom said no progress was made on how to police a truce. In a neighboring tent. Allied and Red negotiators met for 2 hours and 50 minutes on the thorny question of prisoner exchange. The pooled dispatch on the truce supervision talks quoted Maj. Gen. Claude B. Ferenbaugh as saying the meeting "was inter larded with more propaganda than heretofore. It was difficult to stay on the subject of military air fields." The question of rebuilding North Korean airfields during a truce is the last obstacle to- a solution of the truce supervision problem . The Reds charged that the Allies sent planes over Mukden, Wushien and other Manchurian cities Sun day afternoon. LL Col. Howard S. Levie, a U.N. Command spokesman, said, "We assume that the charge is similar to a lot of other allegations they have made and completely irrel evant to the meeting" (Story also on page 2) Snow Clogs Travel Routes Snow and ice in mountain passes made auto travel hazardous Sun day night and Highway 99 was blocked at the Oregon-California border. State Police reported. Sunset Highway to the coast had new snow and chains were re quired while the Santiam High way was reported icy and hazard ous for motorists. Salem forecast was for tempera tures above freezing with mixed rain and snow' expected today and tonight, McNary Field weather men said at midnight Sunday. ing Is far different from the out look for new appropriations a distinction often lost amid the thousand or so pages of the an nual budget document, now ex pected to go to Congress one week from Monday. This actual spend ing rate, of course, will undoubt edly be the target of those advo cating government economy. Officials say Mr. Truman wiB outline an . eye-popping spending program of about 85 billion dol lars for the year -beginning next July 1. This compares with esti mated spending of 70 billions this fiscal year. i On this score Mr. Truman's budget message would represent a major turning point in the U. S. effort to bolster free world de fenses in what the President calls a period of grave danger. For three years now, new ap propriations or authority to .in cur obligations have far exceed ed actual spending, by a total of Flood Victims Rescued in v KNIGHTSEN, Calif. Trucks and rowbeats are pressed into service to evacuate eitisens from Knightsen. Calif. Surging flood waters from overburdened creeks chased some 1.500 persons from their lowland homes in the counties around San Francisco bay. A deluge of rain had caused small streams to churn out of their banks. And more rain was on the way, the weather bureau said. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). (Story on page 2). Driver Refuses to Abandon Truck Stalled in Muddy Los Angeles River Demo Declares Taft Could Beat Truman9 WASHINGTON (JP)-A Southern Democrat, Senator Ellender of Louisiana, said Sunday that if President Truman seeks re-election "he will be defeated by Bob Taft." Ellender told a reporter he is confident Mr. Truman will not seek re-election. r"l think he has good political Judgment, and Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret will see to that," he added. Mrs. Truman reportedly has been urging the president not to run for another term. Ellender said he firmly believes Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio will win the Republican nomina tion despite what he described as wide public support for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Ellender and Taft are friends, having worked together on legisla tion, particularly In the field of housing. Ellender's view that Taft would defeat Mr. Truman, if the Presi dent seeks re-election, is appar ently at variance with the Presi dent's own estimate. He said a number of times he hopes Taft is the GOP nominee. LEGION CONCLAVE SET PORTLAND (JP) The Oregon American Legion will hold its 1952 convention in Klamath Falls, Tom Collins, adjutant, announced Sun day. The convention will be either July 25-30 or Aug. 1-6, depending on the date of the national con vention, Collins said. about 70 billion dollars. This was the period when all plans called for rapid expansion in the years ahead. Dollars were voted to be paid out several years later when military goods came off assembly lines. Now the fiscal trends have re versed and for the first time in several years new appropriations are expected to be less than spend ing. This would be the tip-off, on the government's money ledgers, that plans for two to three years hence no longer call for further expansion. It would mean a level ing off or reduction in spending at last is in sight. This huge backlog will play a big role in efforts' by Congress men to cut federal spending. They can be expected to argue that the government has enough money available to carry on the defense Erogram without vast new spend ig authority. January 14, 1952 . " -to. Ends Vigil as Nose Starts Ruiinine but Engine Doesn't LOS ANGELES (JP)-Uike Mech ikoff became the first man Sun day ever to "sail" a pickup truck down the Los Angeles River. The 36-year-old cattleman be came a seafarer by accident. In the early morning hours he and a woman friend decided to drive down to the river. The channel, concrete with slop ing walls, is normally dry. Heavy rains made it a muddy torrent. Girl Friend Fickle Mechikoff, perhaps recalling re cent headlines about Capt. Kurt Carlsen, decided to stick with his "ship " But not the girl friend. When the current began shoving the stalled truck toward mid-channel, she decided in favor of aband onment. Removing shoes and stockings, she stepped into the fender-deep ripples and waded ashore. Waves Police Away At 2 a.m. engineers on a Union Pacific bridge saw Mike's head lights in midstream and called police. He waved them away. He felt he was still in command of the situation. But the coming of dawn found Mike depressed. He was sure he was catching a cold his nose was running but his engine still wasn't And he was in strange waters Washed 5 Blocks During the darkness he'd been washed downstream five blocks. Mechikoff decided it was pretty miserable out there in the river. He flagged down a news photog rapher, Jack Gaunt of the Times, who helped him ashore. Gaunt drove him home where over a cup of coffee Mechikoff began wonder ing what to do about his stranded machine. He hoped the nautical salvage laws wouldn't apply. Passenger Train Runs To Coastal Area Halts ASTORIA JP) The last passen ger run of the train between Port land and Astoria was made Sun day. Sixteen cars carried hundreds of persons on the Spokane, Portland and Seattle train's last trip. Towns along the route staged programs in the Gay Nineties theme to mark the. end of the 53-year-old service. i Trine pe&uOHiQ I Max. SQn. Preelp. S&lna 44 n m 3SM.11 S3 41 J 3 29 J0 47 M M 1 Portland San rrandsco Chicago mcw York ro RECAST (from U. 8. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy with occasional rain and snow mixed today and tonight. Little change in temperature with the highest today near 43 and the lowest tonight near 34. Salem temperatures at 12.-01 ajn. looay was u. . SAXZSt FUCOTTATIOK tinea Start mt Weatker Tear SeC This Year Last Year JSX1 Normal PRICE 5c California Recreation Room Readied By Firemen A new recreation room for city firemen is nearing completion in the basement of City Hall beneath fire headquarters as pouring of a new cement floor is scheduled for today. Assistant Chief Ellsworth Smith said Sunday. The large basement room will be equipped with two pool tabled, a ping pong table, lounging chairs, card tables, radio and a piano, firemen said. The new recreation quarters is expected to be ready for use by the end of the week. Smith said the fire crewmen had expended most of the effort and done much of the renovating work. Expense was about evenly divided between funds from fire men's pockets and city funds with some material donated by Salem merchants, he said. Firemen enlarged space along one side of the basement by re moving a storage room to another section. They also applied build ing material and paint to dress up the walls, firemen said. Need for the facilities during 2 4 -hour shifts served by fire crews was expressed by officials and firemen. Motorist Drowns as Car Dives Into Creek EUGENE (JP) Melvin James, 23, Horton, Ore., drowned early Sunday morning when his car plunged into Swamp Creek, about 35 miles west of here, and over turned. Coroner Fred Buell said the vehicle left Highway 38, about one mile east of Triangle Lake, and hurtled over a bridge. ; - r-ft ,.. Blinded, Bleeding Pilot Lands Bomber Safely U. S. FIFTH AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS, Korea UP- A literal case of "flying blind" was reported by Fifth Air Force Head quarters Sunday, and it was one for the record books. LL John Grubbs made a routine strafing run on a Communist warehouse in North Korea dur ing a recent B-26 mission. A 20-millimeter Red anti-aircraft shell hit the plane's canopy and exploded in Grubbs face. Blood covered his eyes and streamed down his face. The flier finished his run in a daze. Then he yelled over the plane's intercommunication radio: Ive been hit. I cant see. It's an yours." In a B-26 bomber, no one but the pilot can reach tne controls. So LL Vincent Alessi. the navi gator, of Roxbury, Max-, -talked" the pilot around into a course for their No. 292 Spellers Ready to Compete Four thousand spellers can start mixing it up today! In 7 th and 8th grades of public and parochial schools throughout Marion and Polk Counties, the 1952 Oregon Statesman - KSLM Spelling Contest was due to get underway. Starting today The Statesman will publish 20 words (40 to begin with) daily, taken from standard textbooks. The words, 1200 of them in all, comprise the list from which those used in the semi-finals and finals will be chosen. Of course, if the words chosen do not succeed in "stumping" the semi-finalists and finalists within a reasonable time, other words may have to resorted to but last year it never was found necessary to go beyond those originally cho sen for the contests. Some schools already have start ed the contest and are almost ready to announce their cham pions. The first three in each school (7th and 8th grades) re ceive certificates of merit and the first-place winner goes on to com pete in one of the nine semi finals in March- All school cham pions must have been chosen by March 7. The last of the 1200 basic word list will be published that day. The intra-school contests axe being conducted in any way the schools see fit. The semi-finals will be on March 10 (at Leslie Junior High); March 11 (at Hubbard Elementary School); March 12 (at Keizer); March 13 (tentative) (at Henry Hill School in Independence); March 24 (at Turner Elementary School); March 25 at St. Mary's in Mt. Angel); March 28 (at Bush College). The top three winners of each of the nine semi-finals receive special certificates and will com pete in the finals, and the first place winner in each of the semi finals will receive a pen-pencil set. The 27 finalists will compete for the top prizes a $100 defense bond, a $50 defense bond and a $25 defense bond. All finalists al so will receive a special award, and all, with their teachers, will be dinner guests of the contest's sponsors the nights of the finals. There are no entry fees, no ob ligations and nothing to buy. The contest is sponsored solely as a public service- Eighty-two schools thus far are entered, and others also may have entrants if they signify a desire to compete prior to the semi-finals. All semi-finals and the finals, at Parrish Junior High in Salem on Thursday. April 3, are open to the public. KSLM will broadcast the finals direct from the stage. Moral: Don't Look Before .You Buy Items at Auctions MUNCIE, Ind. UP) The same thing that killed the cat cost John Stephenson $4,062 Saturday. Stephenson was looking over things to be auctioned from a dead neighbor's household goods. He saw an old wall clock and made a mental note he'd bid for it. Then he took it down to examine the works. Out rolled the $4,062 in bills ranging from $1 to $100. The mon ey might have been his if he'd bought the clock before finding the cash. Instead, it went into - the estate. He got a prize, however, for finding the money. Lawyers for the estate gave him the clock. For more than an hour the blinded and bleeding pilot an swered the voice over the inter com. Soothingly, Navigator Alessi directed: "Down a little ... a little to the left ... slower . . . and finally, "We're down, Johnny. Put on the brakes." Still only half-conscious, Grubbs put on the emergency Instead ox the regular brake. The B-28 ures blew out in the sudden halt, but the bomber diuvt 'tip over. The crash crew was on the run way, just in case. "I have to taxi this plane down to the jimp," Grubbs .told Alessi. "Don't bother. Johnny " the navigator replied. Grubbs . was rushed to' gency hospitalization. 'Later an Air Force doctor said the pilots' eyes were all righL He can see as well as ever now. Truman Plans to File New Name For Nomination 't ' - WASHINGTON CfV-Cett. Mark -W. Clark no longer wants the jot- ox U. s. ambassador to -the Vati can, he let it be known; Sunday night, because of the controversy, aroused by President Truman a plan to create such a post i Clark's name win not be re-sub mitted to the Senate for xfi-- mation. i -r But the President hasn't green up the idea of getting somebody, to represent this country ; in tfasa Papal State. i i In announcing that Gen, Clark's name would be withdrawn at hie request, the White House abotaid that someone else would be se lected, f Brief Statement ' ff Clark confirmed that he ha4- asked that his name be withdraw after the White House press retary, Joseph Short, made a statement to reporters about rfc. - Clark, now commander, of the Army's field forces, said: "The controversy that nes -Ste ve loped has impelled me 1e -atsie ' the White House to withdraw spy name." i- The controversy Clark ? spoke about has been raging since Pres ident Truman first sent J Clarkw nomination to the Senate last Oc tober. i It was submitted just before the Senate adjourned for the year.amel no action was taken upon iL In pulling his name back, Clark " extricated himself from a barrag . which could have enveloped him with bitterness. f But the controversy about the " ambassadorship itself seems like ly to go on. l Gen. Clark is an Episcopalian. As Commander of Allied Faroe which fought up the Italian Pen insula, he liberated Rome from the Germans in World War IIt Comtally Te Oppose : : Sen. Tom Connelly -D-Tea, chairman of the Senate Foreigai Relations Committee, said Satur day he opposes the nomination C Gen. Clark- or anyone else aw United States Ambassador to tsaa Vatican. j The Protestant opposition: te ihm appointment of an ambassador the Vatican has been based on the argument that it would Strike at blow at the traditional AmericaJi policy of separation of church and state. 1 1 Catholics generally have: takea the position that the appointment of such an ambassador would -to in the interests of world peace end welfare. 2 1 Aga Khan to Get His Wetglit In Platuuinin KARACHI. Pakistan UPi - Fol lowers of the Aga Khan, ; rotund leader of the Ismaili Moslem sect, decided Sunday to give htm has weight in platinum on his 75a birthday Jan. 22. j At last reports he weighed isi the neighborhood of 240 pounds and if the price of platinum doesnt change too much: befeaw the 22nd he'll net around 3 rail lion dollars at the weighing-in. He wiU be paid the cash, cot tha platinum, and probably will give it to charity. I i The Aga Khan arrived hem from Nice, France, Sunday wiskt his Begum for a two week's stay. His followers decided to uea platinum for the weighing-la cee mony at the opening of the 70 year of his reign. He is- honored by Ismaili Moslems as a direct descendant of the prophet Mo hammed and a kind of deity on earth. 1 1 The Aga, father of Prince Aly Khan, spends most of bis time traveling, lolling on the Riviera and following the fortunes of hie stable of race horses. t Spell-Down! The following werg among these which saay be La the 1952 Oregea Statesauu- KSLM SpedBg Contest! finals and finals. They are standard -textbooks and pablished as a galde ta latra scheel contests new uderwsy. - i actual ton uni terrify aggregation ambitious beautiful chart dictionary dipirion excellent pathetie niece opponent Quirer pro-poke riddle scholar fertimony unable surprise flavor glamorous foundation guilty herd important league , junior misuse? . i transfer tciUote renture yonder vitamin unconscious - tovcel temple . suitable stadium !" .i" ; -if . Si. "