Senator Assails Morris as j
Thony1; Graft Investigator
Promises No Whitewash'
WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Nixoo, R -Calif- Saturday -assailed the
election of Newbold Morris to head the search lor wrongdoers in
the government as Ma complete phony by the White House."
Morris, New York attorney and a Repubiican-although an inde
cendent one politically, was named by Att. Gen. McGrath Friday to
bead up the administration's long-heralded housecleanlng drive.
"Morris took over wim a state
ment praising McGrath, issued be
fore he had even started his in
vestigation," Nixon told a report
er, "and thereby prejudiced him
self in any investigation of Mc
Grath. . .
-Yet he says he Is going to start
out investigating the Justice De-
!A?Suisvme, Ky., Sen. Taft of
Ohio told reporters he had no
confidence in an investigation of
corruption "under the aegis of the
Department of Justice."
i Nixon and Rep. Hillings (It
Calif.) meanwhile, demanded that
a special House investigating com
mittee look into a California
judge's order for a grand jury
probe of the San Francisco Call
Bulletin. Nixon said the action will be
widely regarded as "retaliation
for the newspaper's embarrassing
disclosures about the administra
tion." Hillings termed it "pecul
iar." Both called on a House Judic
iary Subcommittee, now being set
up to inquire into McGrath and
the Justice Department, to investi
gate the action tf the judge, Oliver
J. Carter.
Oa Tax Scandals
The Call-Bulletin has been run
ning a series of articles dealing
with income tax scandals in
Northern California. Friday it
published an article quoting Hill
ines as linking Federal Judge
Georee B. Harris to a land de
velopment plan said to have been
E
unvoted by a deputy collector ox
nternal Revenue.
SHARON, Conn. (-Newbold
Morris said Saturday night there
would be "no whitewash" in his
probe of federal corruption and
that it would "go to the very top
it necessary."
Morris left his apartment in
Manhattan to celebrate his 50th
birthday with his wile and six
children at his Connecticut farm
here.
Complete Job
Morris, who Friday accepted
"the job from President Truman
of heading the search for wrong
doers in the federal government,
aid his investigation would not
stop short of Att. -Gen. McGrath,
himself, if evidence warranted it.
"There wiff'be no whitewash,"
he said. "That would imply that
J had discovered something wrong
and then repressed it. "White
wash is a fighting word to me."
Morris said be was faced with
a staggering job," adding that
there are 33,000 employes in the
Justice Department alone. Morris
said that by summer he expected
: t have at least an interim report
. ready.
Maclean Seeks
$500,000for
Reassessment
A $500,000 appropriation for
property reappraisal will probably
be sought at the 1953 Legislature,
Tax Commissioner Robert Maclean
reported Saturday.
I The appropriation would con
tinue a just-started 10-year pro
gram which would ultimately cost
from $8 million to $8 million, ac
cording to Maclean, head of the
State Assessment and Taxation di
vision. Current property tax assess
ments, he said, are unequal with
in many counties as well as be
tween counties. This appropriation,
sought in connection with the
State Tax Commission's property
reappraisal program, is designed
to equalize tax assessments rather
than increase taxes, the commis
sioner stated.
Scio Girl Crowned
Cherry Pie Champ
The Cherry Pie Champion of
Oregon Is a 17-year-old Scio girl
who won the title Saturday in
Eugene.
She is Jean Thurston, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Thurston.
She competed in cherry pie mak
ing with 16 other girls from Ore
gon high schools. She will leave
Feb. 17 for national competition
in Chicago. Miss Thursday Is a
home economics student of Mrs.
Olivette Nutter of Scio High
SchooL
The contest is sponsored an
nually by the National Red
Cherry Institute.
Surveyor Seeks
Election Again
A. D. Graham, Salem Route S,
Box 687B, incumbent Marion
County Surveyor, filed a declara
tion of candidacy for reelection to
that office with the Marion County
Clerk Saturday.
Graham, who resides in the
Halls Ferry community, lists as his
campaign slogan: "Continued Ser
vice." Digger Machines
Given Reprieve
PORTLAND (JPS Digger ma
chines have a few more days of
grace In Portland.
Police ordered them removed
from the city Friday, but coin-
machine operators asked Circuit
Judge MacCorxnac Snow for a re
straining order. He Issued one, and
aet a hearing for Monday on whe
ther the machines can be banned.
Over 40 Cars
Sink Into Lake
As Ice
vS
MT. CLEMENS, Mich. WVBe
tween 40 and 65 automobiles,
parked by ice fishermen, broke
through rubbery ice and sank in
Anchor Bay of Lake St. Clair
Saturday.
Most of the automobiles, parked
around 200 yards from .shore near
the entrance to Selfridge Field,
were hauled ;out by wreckers
equipped with long hawsers and
engine-driven windlasses.
One wrecker went to the bot
tom when it went out on the Ice
to hook on its short tow line. Wa
ter in the area is three to six feet
deep.
Only fishermen who frantically
tried to rescue their slowly sink
ing cars got a dunking.
California 5uard
Infantry Division
Fighting in Korea
SEOUL, Korea (-The 40th
Infantry Division is fighting in
Korea, Eighth Army headquarters
announced Sunday.
The former Southern California
National Guard organization
moved to the battle zone after nine
months in Japan.
Sunday's disclosure came little
over a month after an announce
ment that Oklahoma's 45th Infan
try Division was sent, here from
Hokkaido, northernmost Japanese
home island.
Commies Stage
Air Raid on
Allied Lines
SEOUL, Korea (A -Communist
forces broke the quient of the
Korean front Saturday with an
attack in the East and presumably
made an air raid on Allied lines
in the center, i
At least six unidentified planes
bombed and strafed Allied troops
early Saturday and Allied sources
said none of their craft of the type
described were in the vicinity. The
raid caused little damage.
A Communist company hit Al
lied Eastern front positions Sat
urday night. It touched off a brisk
small arms, mortar and artillery
exchange before the Reds with
drew. There was little action else
where along the battle front.
Ickes Home
From Hospital
WASHINGTON (JP) - Former
Secretary of interior Harold L.
Ickes, 77, seriously ill but reported
slightly improved, was moved Sat
urday from bis home in nearby
Olney, Md, to a Washington hos
pital. Mrs. Ickes said he was "still
gaining but stijl very ill."
It was Ickes' second trip to a
hospital in recent weeks. He re
turned home Jan. 18 apparently
improved after taking treatment
for complications of a former arth
ritic ailment.
British, Egypt
Talks Forecast
LONDON CD-Increasing hope
was reported in diplomatic circles
Sunday that new British-Egyptian
talks may start within the next
few days.
Observers believe there is a good
chance such talks may lead even
tually to a conference in which
the United States, France, and
Turkey will join in a new attempt
to set up a five-power Middle
Eastern regional defense command.
In that event, Britain : would
withdraw her troops from the Suez
Canal Zone.
Five Injured as
Trains Crash
CALERA, Ala. (Jf)-A Louisville
and Nashville Railroad passenger
train smashed Into several cars of
a wrecked freight in a rainstorm
Saturday night, injuring at least
five persons.
The diesel engine and three bag
gage and express cars of the pas
senger train, the Pan American,
were derailed, ?
The injured, according to rail
road officials and newspapermen
at the scene, all were aboard the
Pan American. They included the
engineer, fireman, baggage THfar
and two passengers.
The eight passenger cars re
mained on the rails.
DETROIT CONTRACT LET
PORTLAND lUPr- Army engi
neers announced award Saturday
Of a 1136.050 contract to the Fred
Drayer Co, Alameda. Calif,, for
clearing 300 acres and building a
trash boom foe the Detroit Dam
reservoir.
Student Leaders Ready for Dudes at Parrish
Secend semester stadent body officers for Parrish Junior High School will take ever their offices this
week folio win school elections Friday. In front row, left to right are. Clennon Moore, president; Jan
Woodroffe, vice president; Diane
at arms. Second row from left.
mde representative: Donna Ham
ident. Back row from left. Bob Hunt, boys league vice president;
president; Ton! DeSart, girls league secretary; Dave Socolofsky,
Holland, beys league secretary. (
Salem Sergeant's Gift of Blood
Catches Up to Him in Korea War
(Picture on page one.)
A coincidence In Korea, related by Sgt. Milford Oliver last week
to several Salem groups, dramatizes how blood donated on the home
front saves lives on the fighting front.
In an effort to urge contributions of blood and money In support
of the Red Cross program, Oliver, a surgical technician, has spent part
of his rotation furlough here describing his experiences to a Jason
Lee Methodist Church group.
members of armed forces reserve
units, and volunteer workers at
the kick-off breakfast for the Red
Cross advance gifts campaign.
Oliver was an assistant to mo
bile hospital unit surgeons operat
ing on wounded men directly from
the battlefield. Just before he left
for Asia in 1950, the sergeant
donated a pint of blood at a Salem
mobile blood unit. Weeks later, in
a tent hospital in Korea he ad
ministered that same pint of blood,
along wim four other pints, to a
soldier who had been shot in the
stomach.
Sometimes the wounded require
as much as 17 pints of blood, Oli
ver said. And if the Red Cross
blood supply gets too low, we
have to drain our own men."
Flown to Pacific
(Some 300,000 pints a month are
needed by the armed forces alone,
he said. This blood, with preser
vative added at the time of col
lection, dated and typed, is packed
in dry ice and flown to the Pacific
Theater.)
From field hospitals the wound
ed are moved by ambulance or
plane to station hospitals or re
cuperation centers in Japan. There
Red Cross workers provide them
with personal necessities such as
combs and razor blades, distribute
candy and reading material and
cigarets, aid in writing letters home
or help in solving problems of the
serviceman's family, Oliver said.
At the debarcation base in Sas
ebo, Japan, the Red Cross dis
penses free coffee and doughnuts
to troops coming and going a
morale-booster appreciated by the
men, he said.
Help te Families
In the battle areas Red Cross
field directors perform many es
sential services, 6uch as arranging
for emergency furloughs and
working with county Red Cross
chanters to help servicemen's lam
ilies at home. Sergeant Oliver had
occasion to make use of the home
service program himself,
When Oliver was first in Korea
allotment checks to his wife were
delayed for many months. Mrs.
Oliver turned to the Marion Coun
ty Red Cross for emergency grants
to pay for rent, food and other
necessities for herself and two
children. The local Red Cross home
service personnel were more than
cooperative, Oliver said gratefully,
Family In Salem
Oliver, a native of Grand Rap
ids, Mich., met his wife, Chrystal
then a Salem high school
student, while he was stationed at
Camn Adair. They were married
here and now have two children
In Highland School, Melba in the
third grade and Chrystal In the
first. For a while after his return
from Occupied Germany and dis
charge, Oliver was employed as a
surgical technician at the Salem
Memorial Hospital.
The soft-spoken, dark - haired
young sergeant wears a bronze
star for gallantry in action, com
bat medical badge, meritorious un
it citation, and Belgian fourragere
as well as European and Pacific
Theater ribbons with six stars and
others. When he returns to camp
Feb. 8 after a month at home.
Oliver will probably be assigned
to train new troops. Meanwhile he
intends to spread the word that
he, as one who can say "I was
there," thinks Red Cross service to
the armed forces in Korea de
serves whole-hearted support.
Diamonds were apparently
brought south to the Great Lakes
region by glaciers.
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Ken Schrencengost, assistant sergeant at arms; Donnie Lebeld, eigntn
man, seventh grade representative;
Statesman photo.)
Britain, France
To Join U.S. in
Warning Reds
PARIS (fly-France and Britain
hav. agreed they will join the
United States in warning Red
China against violating any Ko
rean armistice and if such a vio
lation develops will join In ask
ing the United Nations for punitive
action, a highly placed informant
said Saturday night.
There was no Indication of the
extent of the punitive action the
three powers might ask a full
scale attack, an air-sea war or
more limited measures.
Responsible authorities in Wash
ington said three weeks ago Amer
ica's allies in Korea had substan
tially agreed to a United States
proposal to back up any truce pact
with a warning of military action
directly against Communist China
if the pact was broken.
3 Missing on
Oregon Flight
BURNS, Ore. (JP) A plane car
rying a pilot and two passengers
was missing Saturday in a flight
from Burns to Roseburg.
The CAA listed those on the
plane as Norman Bryer. Boise.
pilot of the Boise Northwest Fly
ing service, and Paul Peterson
and Fred A. de Blois, passengers,
both also of Boise.
The plane, a gray and maroon
Stinson, took off from Burns at
11:50 a jn. and should have been
at Roseburg within less than an
hour
The Klamath Falls unit of the
Air Search and Rescue Service
was alerted to begin a search for
the missing plane Sunday morn
ing.
Building Permits
Decline in January
Buildina permits in Salem dur
ing January were down from the
totals of a year ago.
Reports from the city engineer's
office showed permits of $189,696
mis montn, compared with S447,
818 in January. 1951. Heaw build
ing was light, with $139,800 of
wis month's total In residence
building.
MEET DATE CHANGED
KLAMATH FALLS ("-The Or
der of Antelope meetine at Hart
Mountain will be held July 18-29
instead oi July Z5-Z7 as originally
planned. Secretary Doug Fetsch
said Saturday. The dates were
changed to avoid conflict with the
state American Legion convention
at Klamath Falls.
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Billy Graham
Revival Due at
Capitol Today
Br ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (JP) - Evangelist
Billy Graham Sunday reaches the
high point of his campaign to save
Washington, a city he describes
aa filled with wickedness and cor
ruption.
He moves his revival right on
to the Capitol steps Sunday after
noon. In announcing his plans, Graham
predicted 40,000 or 50,000 will at
tend the open air meeting.
"Bring you dogs and cats, your
aunts and uncles," he urged. "What
an impact we'll have upon the na
tion!" Starting Last Week
The 33-year-old evangelist from
M on treat, N. C, who has preached
to large crowds from coast to coast.
Is making his first visit here. He
Is now starting his last week of a
month-long campaign.
Before he came to Washington,
Graham says, he was warned:
"Billy, you are now going to your
Waterloo." But Graham accepted
the challenge.
'I have felt for some time," he
told a recent meeting, "that Wash
ington, with its sins, its drunk
enness, its crime, will prove the
test of what is going to happen
to America.
Not Maeh Lonrer
"If Washington turns Its back
on God in this hour, this hour
may be the one in which we cross
the line and go too far. God isn't
going to let us get away with our
sins much longer."
And at another time he said of
Washington:
"We see wickedness and cor
ruption such as we've never
known before."
At the start Graham felt he was
handicapped because fire regula
tions at the huge armory, where
the meetings are held, limit crowds
to 5,310.
He called on everyone to pray
that President Truman and the
District of Columbia commission
ers would change the regulations.
The commissioners changed the
rules so that at religious meetings
the crowd limit would be 8,000.
At the end of 14 services, the
halfway point in the campaign,
these statistics were announced by
Jerry Beaven, a onetime preacher
who now is Graham's press agent:
Number of converts: 2,046. Total
attendance: 111,200.
"This is the greatest number of
converts in ratio to attendance that
weVe ever had," Beaven said.
Congress has been fairly faith
ful in its attendance. Beaven fig
ures congressional attendance has
gone as high as 50.
John C. Vincent
Hearing Ends
WASHINGTON UPy- Four days
of sharp questioning by Senate in
vestigators ended Saturday for
career diplomat John Carter Vin
cent He said he believed It cleared
him of charges of being either pro
Communist or a Party member.
The Senate Internal Security
Committee, without reporting its
findings, excused him from further
testimony. He plans to return to
his post as consul general at Tan
gier, Morocco, in a week or two.
The committee continues its
probe into subversive influences on
U. S. Far Eastern policies Tues
day. i
Dr.
nagfcea
Farmers Union
Lauds County
Health Office
Statesman Newt Service
MARION The Marion County
Public Health Department activi
ties got an expression of approval
from delegates attending the con
vention of the Marion County
Farmers Union held here Saturday.
A resolution passed by the 125
delegates representing 16 locals
said the county public health pro
gram represents the most intelli
gent approach in the conservation
of human resources in a day when
conservation of natural resources
has become paramount.
The resolution was one of four
adopted at the convention, most
of which were restatements of
stands previously taken. Resolu
tions opposed the cut in federal
aid to Oregon school lunch, pro
gram, and universal military train
ing. Robert I Jones, state presi
dent of the Farmers Union, said
that UMT is the biggest step to
wards socialism which the country
could take.
Another resolution reiterated the
FU's support of the direct election
in choosing the President and Vice
President of the United States. A
resolution requesting 100 per cent
parity in agriculture products.
long a demand of the Farmers
Union, was presented by A. C
Spranger of the agricultural com
mittee and was adopted by the
organization.
Report Heard
In other business, the conven
tion heard a report from Dr. John
Rademaker of Willamette University-on
a survey being made on
health conditions In rural areas of
the county. Support of the Farmers
Union insurance program was giv
en by Clifford Ott, from South
Dakota, and Pat Gorman of Sub
limity.
Hosts to the convention were
Marion, Sydney-Talbot, and Sub
limity locals. H. G. Stevens of
Roberts is president of the Marion
County organization and was
chairman of the convention. Mrs
R. G. Frost of Liberty is secretary,
and Mrs. Frank Way of Central
Howell was the pianist at the con
vention.
Invitation to hold the May meet
ing in Gervais was extended by
Mrs. Wendell Barnett of Gervais
Mrs. Kader's
Case Sent to
Grand Jury
PORTLAND CP) - A municipal
Judge sent on to the grand jury
Saturday the case of Mrs. Jada Z.
Kader, 21, accused of killing her
three-year-old daughter by drop
ping her into a drainage pit
Defense Attorney Frank Pozzi
objected that "there is no evidence
of deliberation, premeditation or
malice," and asked that the charge
against the woman be reduced to
manslaughter.
Judge J. J. Quillin replied that
the grand jury would decide on
the proper charge to be placed
against the woman, if any.
The woman had been charged by
police with first-degree murder
after the body of Sherrie Elian
Kader, 3, had been found in the
water-filled pit. Another daugh
ter, Vickie, 4, said the mother de
liberately dropped Sherrie Ellen
into it, Capt William Browne of
the police force said.
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Suits Seek Title
To Properties on
By-Pass Route
Suits to acquire title to four
pieces of right-of-way property for
the East Salem by-pass highway
were filed in Marion County Cir
cuit Court by the State Highway
Commission Saturday.
Defendants listed in the sep
arate suits are Myles and Lillian
Henderson; Earl and Minnie Hitch-
man; D. B. and Jennie V. Murphy;
and Florence Peterson.
First of suits, wih George E.
Brent as defendant, was filed Fri
day. Most of the property involved is
located northeast of Salem. In
it's complaints the Highway Com
mission alleges it has failed to
reach an agreement with any of
the property owners.
Victor Point
Woman Dies
Statesman News Scrrle
VICTOR POINT Mrs. J. L.
Lang, 87, a life-long resident of
Victor Point, died Saturday eve
ning in a Silverton hospital after
an illness of several months.
She is survived by her husband;
two daughters, Mrs. John Walker
of Crescent City, Calif., and Mrs.
Robert Goodall of Silverton; sis
ters, Mrs. Phillip Fischer and Mrs.
O. W. Humphreys, both of Salem;
Mrs. M. M. Gilmour of Sublimity,
Mrs. C. C. Jones and Mrs. J. C.
Krenz, both of Silverton.
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the direction4 of the Weddell Fu
neral Home in Stayton.
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