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8 i - . 1 fno Stat man. Salem, Owqop, Monday, January 23, im 'Twilight War' Taking Heavy Toll of Chinese SEOUL, Korea (AVThe Korean war is still a deadly struggle de spite the restraint displayed by both sides since tha truce nego tiators fixed a "provisional" cease-fire line two months ago Sunday. U. S. Eighth Army headquarters estimates that 40,000 Chinese and North Korean soldiers have been killed, wounded or captured sine the "twilight war" period, began Nov. 28. United Nations casualties for the period are classified as secret. Defense department compila tions of U. S. casualties show a total increase of 2,956 between last Nov. 30 and Jan. 11. The summaries, however, are based on notifications to next of kin on those dates; the casualties show up in the compilations sev eral weeks after they actually occur. Total U. S. casualties based on next of kin notices as of Nov". SO were 101,688. The most recent total, as of Jan. 11, was 104,644. In the same period, all U. S. bat tie deaths rose by 774, from 17,275 to 18,049. The battle line Sunday is almost identical to the one placed on the map at Panmunjom two months go. Positions Unchanaed The rival ground forces have pushed back and forth over some outposts as they engaged in lo calized battles for better terrain, but the main positions are un changed. Dav after day, Allied airmen have fought in "MIG Alley" with the Communists' Jets. Seventy-one MIGs have been shot down.' Eleven Red propeller type planes also have been downed. Allied fighter-bombers, sweep ing far north of the ground line, have inflicted continuous damage to North Korea's rail and highway networks. Navy, Marine and Air Force S lanes are credited with having it more than 6,000 Red trucks and supply vehicles in the two months; wrecked 667 railway cars and 122 locomotives, exploded six ammunition dumps, and killed more than 2,300 Red troops. Red rail lines have been cut in at least 5.298 places. Plane Losses The Far East Air Forces list plane losses during the two months as 77, of which 63 were shot down by enemy ground fire. Most of these were Marines on low -support missions. Up-to-date Navy carrier plane losses are not available. Navy surface vessels also daily have bombarded the Red-held coasts with destructive effect. The day - to - day communiques from Army, Air Force and Navy may sound routine, but added up they prove that the war in Korea still is a shooting war that maims and kills. Despite the constant attacks on Red supply lines and rear areas, the Communists have been slowly building up their strength at the front. Burglar Takes Cash. Cookies The theft of $5 in small change and a dozen cookies was reported to city police Sunday night by H. H. Fauth of 1640 Broadway. Police, who investigated, said the change was taken from a jar in a bedroom closet, and the cook ies from a jar in the kitchen. Sev eral dresser drawers in a bedroom were disturbed but nothing else was taken. Enti-r was mads thmnirh th kitchen door after a glass was broken to force tha lock, police said. VISHTNSKY RETURNS MOSCOW (JP) The Soviet press snnounced Sunday the return of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky from United Nations As sembly sessions in Paris. Released l$7. : t 3 -1 Ml fc-S"- F AIRFIELD, Calif. Ralph Feng, tS. politely holds open the deer of Fairfield, Calif, justice court for his wife, Mable, 2sf following: Ins release on S10.0C3 bond after being arraigned en charges of solicit tor her murder. Sheriff Thomas Joyce said Fang offered twe Travis AK Force Base airmen IL509 to de away with her. Feng wu ar- resOd after sh- deputies set Head Downtown Merchants Group Officers elected far tha new Downtown Merchants A mm HsHsn fanned abeve. Frees left, Lawrence secretary; John Anion, nstttee. (Stateasnan hots.) 'Union Shop' Verdict to Force Answer to Touchy Problem WASHINGTON VP-Oom of the most important government deci sions in labor relations In many years is about to bs mads in Wash ington. It involves the question of "union security" to what degree will the government recommend that workers should belong to labor ini It la a touchy problem. Employers are reiserally dead set Ex-Publisher Of Newberg Graphic Dies Staienmaa News Servtes NEWBERG William James Notts ge, former owner of the New bera Graohic. died unexpectedly in a Newberg hospital Sunday night. He was 83. Nottace. who had been HI for several weeks, had been improv ing, his family said, and had been in good condition and spirits most of the day. He became owner of the Graphic in 1913, and had owned and op erated the paper until his retire ment in 1939. A lifelong printer, he came to 'Oregon in 108 from Minnesota, working first as head of the cress department of the Hillsboro Argus. For several years before buying the Graphic, he worked as a printer for a McMinn ville newspaper. He was born in Sauk Center, Minn. Jan. 12, 1869, and became a printer when he was 12. He 9 i x vi. 1 41 XT-.. uvea most tt iui me ui ums new berg area, but lived for several years in Salem after he retired in 1939. His home was Newberg at the time of his death. In 1935 he married Etta M Peffer, who survives him. His first wile lied some ZU years or more ago, and a daughter, one of two children, died in 1937. His son, Howard J. lives in Portland. He is also survived by a brother, George, of Kasson, Minn. Nottage was at one time promin ent in Republican politics in Yam hill County, heading the party or ganization there for several years. He belonged to the Methodist Church, and was a member of the Oddfellows Lodge. Funeral services are under the direction of the Hodson Funeral Home in Newberg. Sedgman Upset ADELAIDE, Australia (JP) - Big Ken McGregor pulled a startling upset Monday when he whipped Frank Sedgman, 7-5. 12-10. 2-6, 6-2, to win the Australian tennis singles championship. IRAQ RIOTS REPORTED BAGHDAD, Iraq (JP) Police and students clashed with sticks and stones in several parts of Baghdad Sunday after mass meet ing by three political parties had demanded "unity with tha Egyp tian people in tha fight against foreign rulers." on Bail a tray. (AF Wlrepbeie to the A - R. Fisher, treasurer; Ralph MsJugren, vice presiaent; jsmes k. president; and Nathan Stetnnack, against any requirements mat workers belong to unions. Unions are usually all for it The govern ment is In tha middle. A decision must be made in the next few weeks. The problem has been put squarely up to a couple of government boards. They can't avoid a yes-or-no answer. Cnlen Reenrity The question to be decided la whether the panels will recom mend for or against the "union shop." This is a form of union security, requiring that every em ploye covered by a labor contract must Join the contracting union, and must remain a union member or be fired. Seventeen railroad unions, rep resenting a million rail employes, have made this the sole issue in a case before a three-man emer gency board selected by the White House. This board now is finish ing prolonged hearings and toon will file its yes-or-no recommen dation in the matter. Steel lednstry The same union shop issue also is at stake in the steel industry labor case. It is one of the de mands made by CIO President Philip Murray for the steelwork -ers. A panel named by the Wage Stabilization Board is sitting on this case, with hearings to resume in New York next week. Half a dozen other dispute cases, also involving the union shop issue, have been sent to the Wage Board by President Truman for a recommended solution. Even if the boards recommend the union shop in these cases, there is nothing to force the em ployers to give it to the unions. Nor do the unions have to agree, if the boards rule against them. But findings of such boards arc usually persuasive on both sides. So it is reasonable to believe that if the boards rule out the union shop, the unions will have a hard time getting the arrangement for many years to come. And if the boards favor the idea, the unions will get a big boost m attaining their goal. Assualt on Rocket Record Planned BALTIMORE (JP) Another as sault on the world altitude re ord for single-stage rockets will be made next spring by a Navy martin vwng, tne Naval Research Laboratory and the Glenn L. Mar tin Co., manufacturers of the rock et, announced jointly Sunday. The present world mark, estab- Usned by Viking No. 7 last Au gust at the XT. S. Army's White Sands Proving Ground, Les Cruces, n. Mn is us Rules. HAS X24 DESCENDANTS OYEN. AHa. UP) Mrs. Klass Hohlen, who has 224 living de scendants, observed her 100th birthday here Sunday. She has seven children, 67 grandchildren, 132 great-grandchildren and It great-great-grandchildren. COWS DIE IN AIR CRASH PISA, Italy (p) An American plane carrying 41 Canadian cows crash landed and burned Sunday. The four crewmen, including three Canadians, escaped Injury, but most of the cows died in the fire. ACCEPTS STALIN PRIZE KYOTO, Japan VP) Dxuo Oyama, Socialist member of the Japanese Diet who was one of six $25,000 Stalin "peace" prize win ners last month, announced Sun day he had written his formal ac ceptance to Moscow. He said it was only good manners to accept. JAPANESE STILL FIGHT MANILA UP) A Philippine Army force aided by dog teams and Navy patrol boats was ordered Monday to begin a drive on Lu bang Island against Japanese stragglers die-hards from World War II. FOOD SUPPLEMENT Tried and Proven! Use It! d It! PHONE 4-1996 " 7 ' V In Salem Friday are the men ple- chairman of te nrgmntxtna: PW list Change Leaves Wife Wedded Twice WASHINGTON (JP)-The Army took Pvt. Walter B. Dixon off its killed in action list Sunday. It ad vised his wife, who married an other man on the basis of that list ing, that he is a prisoner. The wife, 22-year-old Mrs. Ag nes Dixon of Atlanta, Ga, already has begun legal action to annul her second marriage. She acted af ter Dixon's name appeared in the list of war prisoners released just before Christmas by the Commu nists. When the list was Issued, the Army said it still listed Dixon as officially dead. The second husband, William S. Sasser. whom she married last September, has agreed to abide by the decision of the Fulton County, Ga., superior court in the annulment case. Sunday's action by the Army was based on FBI handwriting ev perts' study of a letter received by tha wife, purportedly from Dixon in a Korean prison camp. Mrs. Dixon submitted the letter and it was compared with others known to have been written by Dixon, the Army said. The FBI experts decided the same man wrote them. Tunisia Rebels Call Off Riots TUNIS. Tunisia (JP) Tunisian nationalists let their reign of dis orders simmer almost to a stand still Sunday, but their leader warn ed that trouble may start again. Habib Bourguiba, fiery chief of the Neo-Destour Party, at Tabar ka Village, where he is under en forced residence, said: "It is up to the French. "If the French fail to take ad vantage of the calm to make a new approach to the "problem of giving Tunisia home rule, the dis orders will break out again." Duck Strohers A AU Champs, 4 Marks Set PORTLAND W5) -The Univer sity of Oregon swimming team, which placed first in seven of the 11 events, won the State AAU In door Championship Meet here Sunday. Four new records were net in Sunday's event. Yo&h Terade. Oregon, 200-yard Individual medley, 3:39.1 minutes. Pete Van Kijk, Multnomah Ath letic Club, 22-yard free style, 2:18.4. Terada, Gordon Edwards, Jim Allan and Milt Kotoshirodo, Ore gon, 400-yard free style relay event, 3:45.5. Virginia Peitz, 400-yard wom en's freestyle, 5:07.8. New event. Multnomah Athletic Club won the women's meet. LEWIS DOUGLAS ILL LONDON (JP) - Lewis Douglas, former U. S. ambassador in Lon don, gave up a projected business trip to South Africa Sunday be cause of illness and left London airport for home. MAC ARTHUR GETS AWARD NEW YORK VPy-Gnn. Douglas MacArthur Sunday received the first annual Gutenberg award of the Chicago Bible Society for "out standing service to the Bible cause." EX-CONGRESSMAN DIS LONG BEACH, Calif. (S-John C Martin, 71, former Illinois state treasurer and congressman at large, died Saturday of a bral hemorrhage. Friendly Theatre" How Showing -Opaa 6:45 Fins Tank-Infantry Patrol Jabs at Chinese Reds SEOUL, Korea (JP) An Allied tank-infantry patrol Jabbed at the Chinese Reds on the wintry Cen tral Korean Front Sunday and then withdrew after a three-hour battle at hand grenade range. The action, southeast of Kum song, was the heaviest along the bitterly cold, 145-mile front. A heavy overcast limited night air sorties to SI most of them radar-bombing of Communist rail Mi" end supply points. The Fifth Air Force flew 131 sorties in daylight. Nine U. S. B-29 Superforts dumped 90 tons of 900-pound bombs on the rail bypass at Sinan Ju Sunday night. There was some anti-aircraft fire but no Commu nist fighter opposition. Sunday was the first day of the Chinese Year of the Dragon the lunar new year and on the front Communist loudspeakers bel lowed propaganda in apparent cel ebration. Northeast of Kumhwa, the loudspeakers were silenced by Allied artillery. Despite the weather, Navy ships and planes were active Sunday. A naval summary reported car rier planes from the Essex and Antietam hit Red railways be tween Songjin and Hungnam on the East Coast in 165 different places. This was a new record for one day. The naval airmen also wore credited with destroying 22 rail cars, four bridges, a trestle, two rail bypasses and eight trucks. The battleship Wisconsin, cruis er St. Paul and a number of de stroyers ranged the coasts, bom barding a wide variety of enemy installations. Illness Fatal to Congressman ALBANY, N. Y. (JP) Rep. Byrne (D-N. Y.) died unexpected ly Sunday night about two hours after he had been admitted to a hospital. He was 75. Byrne had been in Congress since 1936 and was a member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee. He complained of not feeling well Saturday night, but was not taken acutely ill until Sunday aft ernoon. Spring-Like Day Predicted Foggy weather this morning is expected to give way to another spring-like day, the Weather Bu reau predicted, with the tempera ture around 55, two degrees above Sunday's high of 53. Some cloud iness is expected this afternoon and tonight. State police report that all mountain roads ars open and passable. While rivers are rising slowly, colder temperatures at higher elevations have so far pre vented any rapid rise. Tha Wil lamette River at Salem was 8.9 feet Sunday, up about a half foot since Saturday. Today's low temperature, ex pected late tonight, will be about 34, weathermen said. CTVTL SERVICE GROWS WASHINGTON (JP) - The Civil Service Commission said Sunday the number of federal employes rose 200 during December to a total of 2,518,200 on Jan. 1. 7 Thro Doras Daily io Los Angeles from Salem What service I What cumth iencel 7 thru buses daily. In cluding S time- aarlna xpra a. Choice of 3 scenic routes! One Thru Way Bases Fare . 7 f 15.4J 7 935 9 I.W 7 9J9S Te Los Angeles SanFranclsee Medferd Sacramento Plus Federal Tax Return Trip 2 LESS . , On Round-Trip Tickets J. L. Wells 450 N. Church Phone Z-242S Skip Upsets .. NAPLES. Italy In the water and about to leap In from the capsized vessel are the M guests aboard the 40-ton motors hip Pie Riege Gambl which turned ever en its side after a slow ran down the warn at its la en chins at Naples, Italy (Jan. 23). The launching vpset was slow enough fee these en board to Jump Into the Icjr waters of the gulf of Brnslnt, One man was reported missing and four others hospitalised. (AP Wlrephoto to the Statesman) Price Posters In Groceries Due as Tests WASHINGTON CP) -Posters list ing doll ars -and -cents ceilings for many standard grocery items will go up Monday on the walls of stores in Fargo, N. D., Jackson ville, Fla., and Fresno, Calif. The Office of Price Stabilization said Sunday the posting will be a test to determine whether grocery prices have stabilized to the point that "community pricing" may be put into effect throughout the na tion. The posters will list ths maxi mum prices grocers may charge for between 350 and 400 dry gro cery items, plus butter and pack aged cheese. The stores can charge less, but may not legally charge more, than the posted prices. OPS said the items to be listed make up about half of the items carried by the stores. It said those posted wiii be items of greatest importance in tho cost-of-living and which are selling at or sear ceilings. Coincident with these testa, con sumer advisory committees to help acquaint the public with the sta bilization program are being named in 10 cities, including Spo kane, Wash. Mill Mishap Victim In Serious Condition Statessoaa Kwi Scrrtco LEBANON Harry Stauffer, Lebanon, is reported in serious condition at Lebanon Hospital where he was taken Saturday fol lowing a mill mishap. Stauffer, a trimmer at the Ny lund Lumber Co. of Lebanon, was struck in the groin and leg by a piece of lumber which came off the edger backwards, according to reports. RIGHT NOW1 Orecon's Own Great Story! Cartoon News NOW1 - Continuous! I NOWI Clark Gable in "Across the Wide Missouri NOW! TRANCIS" the Talking Army Mule! -Abbott &CosteQo TV I I Walter Pidgeon . In The Unknown Man" Things and Launches Guesi , , - msT Portland Woman Killed by Auto PORTLAND (JP) Mrs. Bertha Mandy, 69, died in a hospital here Sunday night less than an hour after she had been struck by a car driven by an FBI agent. The agent, Bentley Skousen, 25, was not cited. The accident occurred just out side the city limits. Chinese Gaim Luck Attached To New Year Chinese celebrated their 4,650th lunar new year Sunday, hoping it would be as lucky as it's sup posed to be. The Chinese calendar calls this one the Year of the Dragon. It's traditionally a lucky year. In Taipeh, Formosa the capital city of the Chinese Nationalists feeling was widespread that the year would be fateful. Firecrack ers popped, shops closed, flags flew, crowds celebrated. There was a parade in New York City's Chinatown, where some 10, 000 persons celebrated. In New York, as in Taipeh, hopes were expressed that Com munis ts soon wuld be forced from control of China. But, in Red China Itself, the city of Peiplng was pictured as being full of happy people and well stocked pantries. fstr ftt Wefer eW 't wok sef &&tss You eojoy Spring-like warmth indoors ail winter long when your house b heated with a "Spark" oil burning heater. For a "Spark" gives you instant response. A warm flood of heat is always waiting, ready to chase the chill U the temper atme drops. Or a "Spark" will chronic down to give you the constant glow that holds the temperature exactly whert you want k. 03LY SPAKX HAS 1)3 VBClf, FAN-SHAK9 RAMI TV visible fa-aajci Sun is the hem of friendly "Spark" baac It cans radiaac stow throng tbc hcary gUj door to create tbt cheerful atmosphere of aa opa fireplace. Shaped by "Spark's " patented flam spreader, the flaoee squeezes all the beat from every drop of oiL ASK Of " ylr J (jXT9 H COWKOtCIAL srR, j HarrimanSay Russia Seeks To Avoid War WASHINGTON (aVWAverell Harriman said Sunday he believes Stalin has no intention of involv ing Russia in an all-out war, but added that 'there is a great danger he may stumble into war. Harriman, now mutual security administrator, has seen the Rus sian dictator often. He was am bassador to Moscow in 1943-48. Speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" television program, Harri man told reporters that although he regards Stalin as not interested in getting the USSR into a bi war, he was willing'', to use infil tration and subversion inside oth er nations, as well as external force, to bring about his will. In saying Stalin might stumble into war, Harriman said that by 1952 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would have sufficient forces ready to be a "substantial deterrent" to ag gression in Europe. Mongolian Leader Dies in Kremlin Hospital MOSCOW (JP) Premier Mar shal Choi-Bol-San of the Mongol ian People's Republic died in the Kremlin Hospital in Moscow Sat urday, it was announced Sunday. The announcement said death was the result of a kidney cancer. m & SPARX oM sat en mrtM 5ptm. FOR A DEMONSTRATION THE NEW IMPROVED SPARK 1 1 fene t , - J