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: I Wide Area ...... Jf- v S- '- J " . As J?ois6n J NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. CP) Two drums of potassium sya tdde a poison so deadly a tiny pinclf of It would kill a man bounced out of a truck Wednes day between RahWay and near by Raritan Township. ' Police Capt. Harold Peterson cf Raritan Township issued a general alarm and warned any one who finds the 100-pound drums not to touch them. The white metal containers, 16 inches high and 12 inches In EJefeuver m Kate; PiSalle To QuiL I2un Soi? Senate' ' WASHINGTON UP) Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee for mally announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomi nation Wednesday, about the same time that? Michael V. DiSalle said he'd quit his job as price stabilizer to run for the Senate from Ohio. The Tennessee crime-hunting senator called for "new blood and new ideas' in the nation's political life in his announcement of his DtP 0330003 i Last week San Francisco was the GOP capital of the United States. For the first time the na tional committee held a meeting west of the Rocky Mountains. It proved to be a curtain-raiser for the national convention scheduled for next July 1 in Chicago. To it came announced candidates for President or their stand-ins, local political factotums and political news writers from over the coun try. The business of the commit tee was completely submerged in the trial heat of or for the several candidates. , If the San Francisco preliminary is a sample the country is in for a very spirited campaign. One re porter wrote that the meeting showed the Republicans were "itching for a fight" and they aren't waiting to concentrate on their Democratic target They are starting in on each other. Dave Ingalls, campaign man ager for Bob Taft, shot numerous shafts at the opposition, most of them directed at Eisenhower. He "decried "glamour, and sex appeal and identified republicanism as Taftism. Pointing in Ike's direc tion htfaxBdgainst -selecting: "a good-looking mortician to pre side over the final Tites of the And Harold Stassen, who so lately invited Taft to Join with him in tendering the nomination to Eisenhower and followed up tuv. . fiiirht to Paris to confer personally with the general, at San Francisco challenged Ike to come out from Denina m .afn Evident! Stassen didn't anwher with Ike in Paris, for In Minnesota, when he filed for the primary there, he said in a press conference his first move as President would be to restore General (Continued on Editorial page) Abduction of Portland Girl Starts Search PORTLAND UP) Police began a dtywide search Wednesday night for a 3-year-old girl and a man who reportedly abducted her from her front yard. The missing girl is Sherry El len Kader, who was playing with a 4-year-old sister when an auto mobile stopped in front of the house, 1236 S. E. Ivon. The sister said the man Induced Sherry to get in the car, then drove off. She tnougns ine car was a dark sedan and the man had some jrmv hair. The missing youngster is the daughter of Mrs. Charles Jvaaer, who said she and the child's fath er, George Vernon Dollarhide were separated three years ago. She said Dollarhide had been living in Cali fornia recently. She said her 4-year-old knows Dollarhide by sight, and insisted that he was not the man who took Sherry away. Animal Crackers y WARREN GOODRICH .Tee? Wet, I twv been sleep IWV . Alerted Missing diameter, carry triangular red labels reading "poison" and "E. I. du Poht, Niagara Falls N. Y.M Peterson said a check with Du Pont -experts revealed that the poison was so powerful that, anyone who touched the white powder and then touched mu cous rnebrane would be killed. If the ; drums are I found smashed open, Peterson ; said, the Du Pont firm will send field men-to the scene immediately to decontaminate the area. candidacy. He emphasized that he will be a stick-to-the-end candi date, with no interest in' settling for the vice presidency5 In the event President Truman decides to seek re-election." "I am not a candidate for any other office," Kefauver told a news conference. !- DiSalle will seek the Democrat ic nomination to run for the sen ate seat now held by Republican John Bricker, who comes up for reelection this year. DiSalle told a news conference the date; he leaves the office of price stabilization will be deter mined later. He made his announ cement after he had a 50-minute conference with President Tru man. He said he might remain at his job for some time, probably until the President names a suc cessor. Positive Plans But Kefauver' plans were more positive. "I am going to work hard to win. I'm in until the finish." The Tennesseeman, who sky rocketed to national prominence last year as chairman of the Sen ate Crime Investigating Commit tee, also declared he will cam paign for a "clean house" in gov ernment and an end to " the un holy alliance between the criminal element and some men in politics." He said he will lay stress on developing "the positive and great elements in our foreign policy," and seek to push a "policy of strength" as a "Democratic counter-offensive against Communism." Kefauver already has been en tered in the Illinois primary, which occurs April 8. He Is pitted there against Senator Brien Mc Mahon of Connecticut. There have been reports that McMahon's en try Is part of an effort by Truman supporters to check the Kefauver movement. New Hints Arise Shortly, before Kefauver an nounced bis candidacy, new hints arose that President Truman may seek re-election. Democratic National Commit teeman John Nangle of the Presi dent's home state told newsmen he has "no doubt" that Mr. Tru man will run again. Emerging from a White House visitf Nangle said Mr. Truman had not disclos ed his plans, but he commented: "I do think President Truman will run for the presidency again." Elsewhere on the political scene: 1. Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illi nois and Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio, both frequently mentioned as optentlal "dark horse? candi dates for the Democratic presi dential nomination, declared them selves out of the picture.; 2. Senator Paul Douglas (D-Hl), often mentioned as a possible can didate, indicated to newsmen on Capitol Hill that he will support Senator Kefauver for the Demo cratic nomination. 3. Senator Robert A. Taft (R Ohio) headed back to Washington after a 48-hour whirl of hand shaking and speech making in his bid for Wisconsin's 30 delegates to the Republican National Conven tion In July. The Wisconsin primary on April 1 is one of the first In the nation. It will pit Taft against Harold E. Stassen. Chamber to Draft j Industrial Program Drafting of a far-reaching in dustrial development program for Salem will start next week. Chairman Carl Hogg of the Sa lem Chamber of Commerce com mittee on industry has called a breakfast meeting of his group for next " Wednesday, industrial promotion is the principal aim of Salem Chamber for 1952, the chamber board recently announced. Portland Man's Rescue of Girl From Train's Path Wins Medal 1 PITTSBURG, Pa. UPhX Port-. land man who raced a speeding train to a ..little girl, and won, Wednesday was named winner of a- bronze- Carnegie -Hero Fund Commission medaL It was on Feb. 19, 1950, that Donald A. Wallace, then 20 years old, an automobile parts cleric was at Multnomah Falls.! In the gathering dusk he spied Susan G. Goss, 10, fwho had strayed from her Grandfather's side and was walking -along the track. He saw, too, a. train approaching at eu miles an hour. - - land sarin tad as loot toward the Snr . OIK -OMJ - I 101st TEAB .wo lvien , 1 Seek Tqj State Job (Pictures on Page "4) i Two candidates for the Republi can nomination as State Treasurer are -announcing their aspirations today. i They are State Sen. Jack Lynch, Portland, long active in Multno mah County and state health and youth work, and Fred E. Robin son, Medford, operator of a men's furnishing store who iled to op pose Sen. Wayne Morse in 1950. I At least one other person is ex pected to enter the race for the OOP nomination to the treasure ship Sigfrid B. Unander, Port land, who resigned as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee last week. Deputy State Treasurer Fred Paulus also has been mentioned as a possibility. Senator Four Sessions Senator Lynch, who praised Paulus and said he hoped Paulus would remain as deputy, served as state senator in the 1943, 1947, 1949 and 1951 sessions; headed committees on state affairs, public health and game; and is a member of the Oregon Rural Health Coun cil, Multnomah County Health Council, American Pharmaceutical Association, Mental Health Associ ation, Oregon Prison Association and Boys and Girls Aid Society. Lynch also is past president of the Oregon Social Hygiene Society and Oregon Anti-Narcotic Associa tion; attended Oregon State Col lege and is an LL.B. graduate of the Northwestern College of Law; served in the Navy in World War I and has been in the mill supply, public relations and insurance bus inesses. Heads GOP dabs Robinson, after filing for the U. S. senatorial nomination in 1950, withdrew at the last min ute in favor of Dave Hoover, whom Morse defeated in the primaries. Bishop Asks Ban on Beer for UMT Trainees WASHINGTON (JP) - Methodist Bishop Wilbur E. Hammaker won a promise Wednesday that a ban of even 3.2 per cent beer for trainees will be "carefully consid ered" when the House Armed Services Committee starts writing a bill for universal military train ing. The bishop made his anti-beer plea in testimony to the commit tee as one of a parade of witnesses against the training plan. The op position, with about 60 asking to be heard, took over the witness stand Tuesday. UMT backers had testified earlier. Bishop Hammaker told the com mittee that even 3.2 beer is "not such'an innocent little beverage as some folks suggest and believe." He urged thought about "the deso lation and ruin that may come to a soldier boy through the beer drinking habit." Hard liquor now is barred from military camps but 3.2 beer is al lowed. Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the committee told Hammaker the beer ban proposal will be "carefully considered." Tunisia Rebels Control Town TUNIS, Tunisia (JP) - Tunisian Nationalists in bloody demonstra tions against French rule rioted around the Sousse area Wednes day and seized control of the town of Teboulba. At least 11 persons were killed In the day's disorders. An authorized French source said Teboulba, 20 miles southeast of the Port of Sousse, was "in the hands of uncontrolled ele ments" Wednesday night. He said the French planned an operation tomorrow to retake the town. train to Susan, arriving when the mm train was within 200 feet of them; He grasped Susan by the arm; the commission's story of the heroic act said,: but" she resisted and jerked backward. Wallace slipped, almost lost his footing, but, re tained his hold on the girl. "Stepping over the rail," the citation says, "Wallace grasped the railing of a retaining wall and pulled "Susan from the track, bare ly clearing the train. With clear ance of 18 Inches. Wallace held her against the railing as the train passed at undiminished speed." Wallace's Portland address is 4019 N. . Garfield Ave. ' ;-- - ' - , "-It. - v 14 PAGES Th Japanese New on Campus lib Is 4 . t : i ....-v-t' - i .j Willamette University athletic trophies are shown to Ken Mlsnakl. right, a Japanese student just arrived in Salem to attend WU. Explaining- the trophies is Jack F. Thompson, 2110 Myrtle Ave., a gra duate student who was with occupation forces for two years in Jap an. (Statesman photo.) (Story on page 2.) Unknown 'Pauper' Dies Leaving Huge Fortune NEW YORK (JP)-A shabbily-dressed old man buried in a Brook lyn "potter's field" last November was found Wednesday to have left an apparent fortune in a safe deposit box. Police said the box contained bank books, bonds and stocks show ing a value of half a million dollars. How he amassed them nobody knows. He left no relatives and no will. so far as is known. Police identified the old man as Harry C. Smith, 84. He lived amid a shambles of old newspapers and junk in a dilapidated house. Had No Bed , His home bad no bed. His elethee were virtually rags. He wore two pairs of trousers at once, held up by pins. His socks and shoes had holes. He slept days and left his home at night. Three or four times a week he visited his safe deposit box at the Pioneer Warehouse in Brooklyn. Until his death, nobody knew what he had hidden inside. Smith had told a few neighbors he was a newspaperman. He said he wrote society items, financial news and a syndicated column but never disclosed where or when they were published. Employes of the warehouse said his known history goes back to 1914 when he visited the ware house for the first time. Conditions Discovered In April, 1941, Smith's visits to the vault halted. Employes went to his home to inquire. They found he was ill in a hospital. That was when they discovered the disarray in which he lived. He recovered that time, and soon resumed his visits to his de posit box. Then, some months ago, his vis its stopped. Two weeks ago the warehouse people inquired again. His neighbors hadn't seen him. The missing persons bureau was called in. The bureau found that he en tered King's County Hospital Oct. 21 and died Oct. 24. Nobody knew him. He was bur ied in potter's field on Nov. 5. He took his best news story to the grave. i Howell Files For Coroner First Marion County candidacy filings for the 1952 primary elec tion were received Wednesday by the county clerk's office. Dead line for candidates is March 7. Leston W. Howell, 525 N. Cap itol St., filed as candidate for the Republican nomination as county coroner, a position in which he is serving his first term. His slogan is "Proven economy with efficien cy re-elect for a second term." The first filing for the 440 pre cinct committee posts came from Frances M. Palmateer, 4080 Au burn Rd., seeking the Republican committeewoman's post in pre cinct 63. Fie- imt PORTLAND (JP)rA pie-thrower was at work in Portland again Wednesday night. ; Edward Sutton, who got his face plastered with the chocolate cream pie when he opened the front door of bis home, said It was thrown by a 17-year-old youth he'd never seen before ? " ... Like other pie-tossing targets, he was unable to explain the incident Throiving Starts Asl II .1 I I I I I I II . 'm fa !iVT 9Jlil VI III It II II I r 1 11 I I I I I 'Visw I V t V I v. N?- Ki'V.y Ill I ! I 1 I I II A U I I I I II POUNDDD 1651 Oregon Stateaiaan, Scdesou Oreroxu ThuMdcry, January 24, X9S2 Ml 1 - V "X n 1 fr ? 1 T" '" Bruce Replaces James Webb as Acheson Aide WASHINGTON UP) President Truman announced the resigna tion of James E. Webb as under secretary of state Wednesday and appointed David K. E. Bruce to succeed him in the key foreign re lations post. Bruce is now ambas sador to France. The President also nominated Eric Johnston, former Stabilization chief, as chairman of the Interna tional Development Advisory Board and named two new mem bers to the Board of Governors of the federal reserve system. Abbott L. Mills, Jr., of Portland, Ore., and James Louis Robertson of Nebraska were chosen for the banking posts. All the nominations are subject to Senate confirmation. It had been known for more than a month that Webb wanted to leave government service for rest. The 53-year-old Bruce, a law yer, was a career foreign service officer in the 20s. He resigned to enter private business but return ed to government service during World War II. Eric Johnston's new post, for merly held by Nelson Rockfeller, is closely connected with the Point Four program of technical aid to underdeveloped countries. An exchange of letters between Johnston and the President dis closed that he accepted the ap pointment after consulting with the board of directors of the Mo tion Picture Association of Amer ica, of which he is president.. In the federal reserve system. Mills was selected to serve the unexpired term of Marriner S. Ec cles, which ends in 1958. Eccles left the board some time' ago. Mills was born in Portland 53 years ago and established himself in a banking career there. He has also been active as a civic leader. (Story also on page 2.) TRUCK TALKS TO BEGIN BOISE (P)-Negotiations on truck reciprocity agreements be tween Idaho and Washington and Oregon will get underway in Port land Thursday. TRUCE TALK FRUITLESS MUNSAN, Korea (JP) Allied and Red negotiators haggled for one hour Thursday but came no nearer to a Korean truce. Salna Portland , . , San Francisco Chicaro 43 se 54 IS sa 45 is Jtl j03 A3 XI New York 53 42 Willamette River 3.5 feet FORECAST (from U. S. weather oii reau. McNary field. Salem): Cloudy with bowers today and tonight. HiKh today near 43. low tonifht near S3. Sa lem temperature at 12-01 aon. today was 39. ". SALE HtECTFITATSON ' j Since start of Weattaejr Year, Sept. f This Year taatrear t .Normal x&sa nm axa. Isi W: -ixMiidM iniM.ji rninniiinii-niimijxiiiL Deep Freeze9 Brimgsj . 6 Deaf lis ie MMwdM Cold Follows Blizzard Into Northern U.S. By The Associated Press Bitter cold spread across upper sections of the Midwest Wednes day in the wake of the area's worst blizzard of the season, while local blizzards and moderate gales blew in on Western New York. At least six persons died in the three-day snow storm in the Da kotas and Minnesota. In South Dakota, a stranded girl pupil froze to death in an unheat ed school house and the body of a man was found near hii snow stalled truck. Eighteen persons listed as missing in the storm were located Wednesday in stalled cars or isolated farmhouses. 34 Below Zero The surge of Arctic cold drove the mercury to -34 in Bemidji, Minn.; -30 at Grand Forks, N. D.; -29 at Broadus, Mont.; -23 at points in South Dakota and -12 in parts of Iowa. Snow plows worked throughout the night at the slow task of breaking through frozen and wind packed drifts. The main highways in Minnesota were open but high way travel was nearly at a stand still in North and South Dakota. High Snow Drifts Winds of 50 to 60 miles an hour piled 10 inches of snow into moun tainous drifts in the Dakotas Mon day night and Tuesday. The storm swept from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. Some 280 schools still were clos ed Wednesday in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin alone. No immediate relief from the cold was in sight in the Midwest. Train service was struggling back toward normal in the bliz zard belt as winds diminished. Jimmy Stewart Gets Feet Wet Watching Race PORTLAND, Ore. (JP) - Movie Actor Jimmy Stewart got his feet wet Wednesday after watching a steamboat race on the Columbia River. The 40-year-old stern wheeler Henderson won the 34 -mile race as expected from the 4-year-old Portland, another sternwheeler. But the Henderson burned out a fuse in the process and had to be towed to her berth. In the towing, the Henderson hit and broke a piling. Her prow rammed a catwalk on which Ste wart was standing and pushed it under water. Stewart shinnied up another piling and escaped with only wet feet. The race between the stern wheelers now river tugs was part of the publicity for the mov ing picture, "Bend of the River," which had its first showing here Wednesday night. Part of the pic ture, featuring Stewart, was film ed in Oregon. PGE to Open Office for Dam PORTLAND (JP) The Portland General Electric Co. said Wednes day it would establish a field of fice at once in Madras for survey ing and core drilling for the pro posed Pelton Dam. The firm recently got approval of the Federal Power Commission to construct the dam on the Des chutes River. The State Fish Com mission said it would take legal action to stop the construction, once work begins. Klamath Man Tells of Waking After 4 Days to Find Wife Slain KLAMATH FALLS tfP)-DeRoy Plant, 42, railroad mechanic, call ed police to his downtown apart ment Wednesday, where they found his wife dead of a stab In the heart. District Attorney XME. Van Vac tor, who still was questioning Plant Wednesday night, said this -was the railroad man's story: He and his wife, Luella, 48, be gan drinking in their kitchen Sat urday evening. That was the last he remembered until he woke up about 4 p. ni Wednesday to find hmelf on the bathroom floor, his shirt and pants splattered with blood. , He cleaned himself up, then went to the kitchen, where he found his wife dead. He tele phoned police, and waited for them there PRICE 5c 3 3 2 cv EBSastts airs FrdDinro ast if ! : IV? PORTLAND (AP)-Icy winds blowing ow ii" Columbia Gorge brought freezing rains, swept Several cars off the highway, injured two people, anfli threat ened Portland with a silver thaw Thursday mdrjbing in winter weather which has already left two persons dead Potato Price Lids to Start Next Monday WASHINGTON UP) The govi ernment limited the percentage markups retail stores may apply to white potato prices Wednesday and predicted lower spud costs for housewives. The marks are effective Monday, Jan. 28. Office of Price Stabiliza tion officials said they expect prices to drop in most stores, pos sibly as much as five to 10 per cent. They said the amount of de cline will depend on how exist ing markups of individual stores compare with those set by OPS. The markups range from 30 per cent of bulk sales in the big chains to 35 per cent in the smallest in dependent stores. On pre-packaged . potatoes, it ranges from 20 per cent in the chains to 23 per cent in the small Independent stores. PORTLAND UP) Retail mark ups to be allowed on potatoes were announced Wednesday by the Of fice of Price Stabilization. Ceil- 1. Ml ttm, J n.uilrl a basis of net costs for the week by fore, the OPS said. California in Path of Vast Pacific Storm SAN FRANCISCO UP)-A vast storm area, extending to the Ha waiian Islands, was moving slow ly toward the Northern California coast Wednesday. Storm warnings were flying from Point Sur, on the Monterey County coast, northward into Oregon. Winds of from 30 to 50 miles an hour were expected northward from Point Reyes, Marin County, and from 35 to 45 miles an hour south of Point Reyes. The Weather Bureau also fore cast heavy warm rains from San Francisco northward along the coast. ' The wind should diminish Thursday, the Weather Bureau said, but rains probably will whip the coast through Friday. Only occasional rain Thursday was forecast for California's north; and central valleys. In all points, warmer temperatures were pre dicted. BIDS ON DETROIT JOB PORTLAND UP) Gunderson Brothers Engineering Co., Port land, submitted the low bid of $310,841 for the manufacture and installation of three spillway taint er gates and gate hoists at Detroit Darn, on the North Santiam River, The Portland District Corps of En-t gineers said two other bids were submitted. Van Vactor said Plant had a cui on his head, a stab wound in the chest and a slash on the left wrist. The woman ; had died of a knife wound that reached the heart. Coroner George Adlersaid. He estimated she had been dead four days. ' Van Vactor said a hunting knife and a Jack knife, along , with an empty whisky bottle, were found in a kitchen waste basket. Plant said the knives were his, but in sisted he had not stabbed bis wife or cut himself. The district attort ney also said an r empty box of sleeping tablets was found in the apartment. l The -couple had been married about two yearsi The woman had arm Iff i Drevious marriage1. Now, married, the; son, Alvin R. Himes. Jives at ax. txeiens, we. .vv; -1 1. 27ob rr3 2" Poirftlaofle in the Northwest r A body of an unidentified worn-" an was found buried irt a snow. drift 15 miles east of Pendleton y a Umatilla County road crew' opening the road with .a snow plow. The body was uncovered At Cayuse on the UmatlllS Indian Reservation. f -I -j - ., . The second death occurred Wed nesday in Seattle as s Inan fell dead while shoveling four inches of wet snow from his sidewalk. ) Two persons were injured when' ." one car was blown intor a truck about 1 miles east OfJCorbeti Several other automobiles and m bus were blown off the icy high-.,, way and into ditches, but no on else was injured. Toward Portland I The freezing rain f oated . the roads with ice and began: creeping toward Portland as Hfiht-time temperatures dropped toward the. freezing level. By morning East Portland also is expected to b coated, with a thaw to follow. Only the Willamette! Valley, most of the Northwest, found con ditions improved in winter weath-' er which brought a new blanket of snow and cold from British Co lumbia to Southern Idaho. Eastern Oregon, with only a , light snow fall Wednesday, and the? Willam ette Valley with rain h had com paratively mild weather. Mot rain was predicted for 4 the Salem area Thursday. Town Marooned Taking the brunt of -the ntw storm was British Columbia, East-' em Washington and Idaho. Th residents of Grasmere In Southern' Idaho were freed Wednesday arte being marooned since 'Tuesday night. Transportation and logging were hardest hit in British Colum bia. A train was reported stalled 25 miles outside Prince; Rupert in a huge snow drift, and some 10,600 loggers were out of worlt. j Spokane got more snow, bus roads were open, although . Icy, The same icy condition! prevailed on most other Washington high ways and all transportation wit delayed. ... The snow was expected to con-' tlnue in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho Wednesday night and earlier Thursday, put warm er temperatures ad possible rain, Thursday night promised, relief. Congressman Cites Loafing At ArProjL CLEVELAND (Pi fltep. Wll. liam M. Wheeler ( D-G. j said of ficials at the government's H-bomb project in Georgia hired lum'as a laborer without checkings him for ability or security. f ' - "And no one there kp.$w X was a congressman," Wheeler;, told th . Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers at a convention jiere. - Wheeler said he applied for the job last August, At thef project, he said, he found not la single guard, but I saw 14 men, thre foremen and three traffic directors digging a hole Just big! enough to bury me. It took two thirds ef , day to dig that hole at S minimum ' rate of $2 an hour for each man." The following words are among those which mar b nsed in the 1952 Oregon Statesman KSLM Spelling - Contest aemf- finals and finals. Thef are fram standard .textbooks fsd an published as js guide! In intra ' school contests now nndtmrsy. . ; " i .. seismograph relief ; . MWOTd r"',; tourist ' walnut . terrible valuable "; -twentieth apology bought - . 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