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He Went Out . . POUNDBD 1651 .(5 , 3 n - j B,. "'"'i. i..,. c "j?F ... " . r S ' Two -by-4 Inch piece of lumber trncuirsi eet oww one tun w - - --- - - , . lo TBuUer to escape from the Oreron SUte PenitentUrT. Looking; ler thoZwcape pole is Guart Lt. James Irwin. Butler, (upper left bt) taprLoedin 1947 for assault and robbery from Multnoma h County, maa ms escape unwr from view of tower cuarus. iemu DIP OTDDDS ajpgyByi II George F. Kennan, long a career i h state DeDartment, but more recently with the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, has been nominated Ambassador to Russia. He formerly served in the legation at Moscow, speaks and reads the Kussian languid and is a specialist in Russian his- a ufir-e He Is credited with being the intellectual author of the policy of "containment ui Russian Communism. In spite of abuse heaped on him by Pravda when his name first was men tioned for the appointment Russia has indicated that he would be persona grata, and his confirma tion by the Senate is assured. Kennan has set down his views in writings and lectures. The "con tainment" policy was outlined in an article in Foreign Affairs signed by "Mr. X" who promptly was identified as Kennan, and last summer he contributed another ar ticle to the same magazine deal tng with U. S.-Russian relations. He anticipates no sudden miracle to restore friendly relations be tween the two or between Russia and the capitalist-democratic countries. He discourages hopes of change through invasion from the outside or from internal revolu tion. He puts his faith in the slow process of evolution, of the matur ing of Russians under their revo lutionary government and ide ology. At least we shall have a well informed man representing us at Moscow. He knows the post and the government he deals with. But an Ambassador to Russia lives an isolated life. He sees Russian offi cials only occasionally and then at formal interviews. He has vir tually no contacts with the Rus sian people. His goings and com ings are circumscribed. Bedell Smith and W. A. Harriman both have testified to the lonely life an Ambassador to Russia must live. One advantage will accrue from Kennan's assignment: He has un derstanding with respect to Rus sia and to his own home office. He is not trigger-happy. He should be able to appraise the informa tion he cets with accuracy and he will strive to improve relations between the two countries, even against odds from both sides. And there is the rare chance that the age of miracles may come again! Max. Min. Precip. 49 M .M ... 57 28 JOO 87 42 JOO -. 43 30 .02 47 31 trac Portland San Francisco Chicaco New York Willamette River 10.4 feet. FORECAST (from VS. weather bu reau. McNaxy field, Salem): Foggy this morning, partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight. High today 48 to SO. low tonight 35 to 37. Salem temperature at li.'Ol ajn. waa 33. SALEM PRECIPITATION Sine Start Weather Tear Sept. I This Year 2J0 Last Year Normal yju 12 PAGES . . By This Route ..... 3 55 1 J it. Joined by two bolts nd fitted with - ' Sleepy Con Gives Up to Utah Police OGDEN, Utah (JP)-A young man strolled into police headquarters Thursday night and asked for a place to sleep. Desk Sergeant Robert Holstein said the Jail was iuu. "WraiM it heln if I was wanted bv Oregon officers for escaping from the penitentiary," the man asked. It would and he was. Police said Oregon officials are new en route to pick up the man who identified himself as Robert Helm, 21. He reportedly walked away from an Oregon road gang. Helm, with Claude Troxel, walk ed away from the Prison Farm Jan. 30, where they were trustees. He entered the prison in 1948 from Umatilla County to serve five years for larceny. Dynamite Used As Play Things Use of some dynamite and detonators as toys for four Turner boys recently was learned Friday by Marion County sheriff s office. Deputy Larry Wright said the explosives were stolen from the Salem city reservoir project near Turner early in January and dis covered on the property of one of the boys' parents. The parents made the boys return the items to the site. The boys ranged from 8 to 12 years. Plane Losses Nine for Week SEOUL, Korea P)-Nlne Allied warplanes were lost over Nofth Korea in the week ending Friday, U. 5. Fifth Air Force said Satur day. One U. S. Sabre let was lost in air combat in that period, which saw not a single Red jet shot down although nine were dam aged. Seven of the Allied planes were shot down. by Communist anti aircraft fire. One F-80 Shooting tar jet was lost because of me chanical failure. Spell-Down! Hie fell wing words are among those which may be used In the 1952 Oregon Statesman KSLM Spelling Contest semi finals and finals. They are from standard textbooks sod are published as s guide In Intra sehool contests now underway. rhubarb scene remainder radiator quotation proposition politician odor nephew palm mosquito lonelym judicial irrelevant curb hygiene group girl l found favorite 101st YEAR Tli Oregon Statesman, Aodls Lawson Butler Uses Makeshift 2 by 4 Ladder fh the first successful break over the new prison wall, Lawson Butler, 42, serving a ten-year sen tence for assault and armed rob bery, escaped Friday morning during a heavy fog from the Ore gon State Penitentiary. His absence was verified dur ing a routine check at 11:30 a.m. although Prison officials suspect ed someone was missing from the attitude of other convicts, Capt. Ellsworth Herder, captain of the guard at the prison said. Butler used a 26-foot plank, consisting of two 2x4 inch pieces of lumber joined by two bolts and fitted with a steel hook at the end to make good his escape. Just how he put the plank to use was not known. Previous Escape There was no word late Friday on the whereabouts of the escap ed man. An extensive search was underway in timbered areas around Salem and in transporta tion terminals in Portland and other cities. Butler entered the prison July 1, 1947, from Multnomah County, and has previously served two terms in San Quentin Prison in California for robbery. He is wanted in California as a parole violator. Prison Superintendent George Alexander said Butler made an attempted to escape a few years ago when he and William Benson, notorious escape artist now in segregation at the Prison, tried to saw their way through the bars. At another time, Butler, while on the way to court to be sentenced, tried to escape by throwing pep per in a guard's eyes. Fixed at 9:30 A.M. lie apparently escaped Friday about 9:30 a.m., Alexander said. He was one of a small number of workers released into the prison yard Friday morning. At the Pris on he worked in the print shop. Wall guards said they had no knowledge of Butler's escape un- ui aavisea Dy prison omciais. Garden Rally For Ike Draws 15,000 Fans NEW YORK 6p)-An Eisenhow- er-for-President rally the first big political mass meeting of the 1952 campaign drew 15,000 per sons to Madison Square Garden late Friday night. The meeting, which got under way shortly after 11 p. m. offered an array of stage, screen, and television stars. Noisy delegations from Texas the home state of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as well as Oklahoma, Louisiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire paraded into the arena. Test of Popularity The aim of the rally was to test Eisenhower's popularity as a presidential candidate. Sen. Lodge, (R-Mass.), manager of the Eisenhower campaign, sat in a ring side seat wearing a big I Like Ike" button. "Usually we have to work to fill the Garden at the end of a cam paign," he said. "Now we're doing it at the beginning, with our man 3,000 miles away." "This is without precedent, he added. Radio to Europe The rally was broadcast locally by radio and television and by shortwave radio to France where, near Paris, Eisenhower maintains his headquarters as head of the armed forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Arthur H. Vandenberg, Jr., of Grand Rapids, Mich., son of the late senator, also was at the ring side. "I think it's the most spectacu lar thing in political history," said Vandenberg, who is national chairman of the newly launched Citizens for Eisenhower. sir Water-Soaked Snow PORTLAND (,P)-Wter-soaked snows lie deep in the Columbia River basin's mountain areas. High water and perhaps damag ing floods are in prospect for spring. The February snow report made Friday by R. A. Work, head of snow surveys for the U. S. Soil Conservation Service, showed that the snow is far deeper and wetter than usual. It "raises a strong possibility of unusually high water on the main stream of the Columbia as well as numerous tributary streams tnas spring, Work said. Under the snow, he said, most watersheds in the Columbia basin are unfrozen and thoroughly sat urated. The result will be heavier than usual runoff when the spring Satan, Oregon, Saturday, February 9, 1952 ewicft ak Over Mew Allies Meet Red Bid For Top-Level Talk M UN SAN, Korea (JP) The Allies agreed Saturday in part to a Communist proposal for a high-level conference after an armistice but insisted that it be limited to Korean questions. The Communists in advancing their proposal Wednesday had pro Democrats Cut Eisenhower From Ballot PORTLAND OF)- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Democratic back ers said he wanted them to take his name off the Oregon Demo cratic primary ballot and they took steps to comply Friday. A request that the petitions placing his name on the May 16 ballot be withdrawn was written by State Sen. Thomas R. Ma honey to Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry. Mahoney said the action was in response from an "authoritative squrce' 'that Eisenhower would approve the withdrawal. The peti tions were filed by Mahoney be fore Eisenhower indicated he was a Republican. Earlier Monroe Sweetland, De mocratic national committeeman, said he would go to court to keep Eisenhower's name off the ballot if the petitions were not with drawn. Burglary Loss Over $2,500 On South High A burelar Friday made off with silverware, clothing, costume! jewelry and radios valued at more than $2,500, one of the largest burglaries in recent months. The loss was reported late Fri day by Max Williams, 2295 S. High St. 'Taken was silverware valued at $2,000, $500 worth of clothing, two portable radios val ued at about $90; and costume jewelry with the value unknown. Wililams told city detectives the theft occurred sometime between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. during the hours he and his wife were absent from their home. Investigation showed that entry was gained by breaking the glass in the kitchen door. The silverware was taken from the dining room and the costume jewelry from the bedroom of Mrs. Williams and her daughter, de tectives said. Mrs. Williams told police that some of the jewelry she had been collecting for over 20 years. Mr. and Mrs. Williams oper ate the Marilyn Shoe Store. Peek at Peke Jolt to Jack SAN FRANCISCO (JP) Jack Moody, service station attendant, stared in amazement Friday, slammed down the hood of the car which had just driven in for oil, and then decided to take one more look. Sure enough, sitting astride the sparkplugs was a tiny Pekinese dog. The dog stared at Moody, Moody stared at the dog, and the driver of the car, Mrs. Carolyn Martinez, simply stared in' amazement. . . She said she had been driving for miles before pulling into the station, had never seen the Peke before, didn't have the slightest idea of how he got there or when. SALTER OPS DIRECTOR SEATTLE (JP) - John L. Salter Friday dropped the "acting" from his title and became regional di rector of the Office of Price Sta bilization. The region Salter will supervise includes all of Oregon, Idaho and Washington. thaws come. The February forecast is the first of four to be issued from here on the basis of reports from 350 snow courses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and British Columbia. The surveys, Work said, show there will be abundant water sup plies for irrigation and hydro-electric power throughout the Pacific Northwest in 1952. Reservoirs al ready are well filled, although the level of some has been lowered to make room for the spring run-off. Work, who came here from his Medford, Oreg headquarters to co-ordinate this region-wide fore cast for the first time,' would not speculate on the flood hazard oth er than to say "unusually high water was possible. ion Ficst IPeim WaDI posed that the conference deal with "other problems in Asia" re lated to the Korean question, whiich might well include the hot spot of Formosa. The Allies also proposed that the Republic of Korea be included in the conference. The Communist plan had ignored South Korea. In their reply, the United Na tions command agreed to the first two Communist points: 1. Withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea. 2. Peaceful settlement of the Korean question. But on the third point they pro posed "other Korean questions re lated to peace" in place of "other problems in Asia related to the Korean question." 4 Trucks. Two Autos in Early Morning Crash Four heavy trucks and two cars were involved in a collision early Thursday morning on fog-shrouded Highway 99-E, one mile south of Gervais, in which three people were injured and diesel oil and debris was strewn over the high way. The accidents actually were two, about an hour apart, the second resulting from traffic tied-up from the first accident. Injured seriously and still in Sa lem General Hospital Friday night was Mrs. Jean L. Keller of Port land. She sustained a broken arm and serious cuts and bruises about the face. Her husband, Henry G. Keller, was released Friday. He suffered a minor fracture of one leg. Also released was John W. Redenius of Portland who sustain ed cuts and bruises. Mrs. Keller was resting comfortablv Friday night, hospital attendants said. State police explained the acci dent this way: The first occurred shortly after midnight when a northbound Mc Cracken Brothers truck, swerving to the left to avoid hitting a tank er which had slowed down from the heavy fog, locked wheels with the tanker, and then was the targ et of a southbound van which hit it almost headon. The collision of the three trucks was followed al most immediately with the crash into the rear of the McCracken van of a car driven by Redenius. About an hour later, state police said, while traffic was still stalled and an ambulance was at hand, a car, in which were riding the Kel lers, crashed into the rear of a southbound van stopped just north of the accident scene. The three-truck wreck resulted in a 40-gallon tank of diesel fuel! from the McCracken truck burst ing and flowing over the highway, but there was no fire. Neic Railroad Car for HST WASHINGTON JP)-A new rail road communications car for Pre sident Truman's use was delivered Friday, ready for service. It is designed to keep the Presi dent, while on train trips, in close contact with the White House, the Defense Department and the world generally. It would, of course, be in constant use on any "whistle stop" tour Mr. Truman might de cide to make this year. The car has two diesel power units capable of supplying electric power for an entire presidential train in an emergency. Besides, the Army Signal Corps has fitted it with the latest in radio-teletype, telegraph, telephone and other communications equipment. Raises Fears Northwest Flood M. W. Nelson, Boise, and A. R. Codd, Bozeman, Mont., were more specific In their report, however. They predicted vulnerable flood plains would probably suffer some damage if precipitation is only av erage in the next two months. And if it is much above normal by April 1, they said there will be "a very high potential runoff peak." In Oregon, according to the re port by W. T. Frost of Medford, water content of the snow at 43 out of 83 measured courses broke all-time Feb. 1 records. The snow pack, he reported, is about twice normal for this time of year. . Throughout Oregon, the water content of the snow cover averages 94 per cent above normal. Every PRICE 5c No. 320 St. Peter Misses Bible Study Class, Tries Pen Break WALLA WALLA (&) - St. Peter skipped a Bible class Thursday night In fact, he hasn't been attending too regu larly lately. Warden John Cranor of the SUte Penitentiary 'said Arthur St. Peter, ringleader In an at tempted break, was supposed to be in the regular Thursday night Bible class at the time he started his unsuccessful attempt to co over the prison waU on a makeshift ladder. A penitentiary tower ruard hots knocked the ladder out from under St. Peter foiling hia fourth escape attempt. Two of his companions Thurs day nirht. Warden Cranor said, were frightened by the guard's first shot and ran back into their cells. St. Peter kept roinr and tried to mount the ladder, but the guard's shot wrecked it Storage Firm Starts Plant At Woodburn Statesman Newt Service WOODBURN Ground was broken this week for the construc tion of a 610,000 cubic foot capa- I city processing and cold storage ' plant by the Terminal Ice and i Cold Storage Company. j The structure is to be of rein forced concrete, 286 by 138 feet ! and 31 feet high. Completion is ! expected by June 1. j Tl 1 -111 . a I me piant win De located on a nine-acre tract just east of the I city limits and immediately north of the Birds Eye cannery. A spur track from the Southern Pacific railroad will be construct ed and it is understood the Bird's Eye plant will install an overhead conveyor into the new building. Highway entrance will be off the Mt. Angel road. The plant is expected to employ about 25 people during the peak season. The company also operates cold storage facilities, in Salem, Ontario and Hillsboro, OregonJ ana nampa, idano. Second Sale Involves City Area Property Second sale of South Liberty Street business property within a week, at a price of some $95,000, was disclosed Friday in deeds filed with Marion County recorder. All the property has been pur chased by a group of Portland businessmen, whose plans have not been announced. It was re ported that other options for pur chases in the Ferry and Liberty Streets intersection area are in force. Lot on Liberty The latest sale was by the War ren F. Pohle estate to the C. C. Corporation of Portland, involving a 74 by 166 foot lot and building on the east side of Liberty and housing a Sears-Roebuck Company warehouse and n 47 hv Ififi f rw-it vacant lot across the street, just south of the Salem Armory Revenue stamps indicated the prices were about $75,000 and $20,000, respectively. Same Personnel The buying corporation has the same personnel as the C. L. Cor poration, which a few days ago bought a two-story brick building on Liberty, north of Ferry Street. The incorporators are John P. Bledsoe, James D. Tredup and Herbert H. Anderson of Portland. The transactions were handled by Grabenhorst Bros., Salem realtors. Second Paratrooper Killed in Maneuvers CAMP DRUM, N. Y. (vP)-One paratrooper was killed and eight were injured Friday in an air drop as they prepared for a seven day Army and Air Force winter maneuver. It was the second fatality of "Exercise Snowfall" at this north ern New York camp. The para troopers are members of the 11th Airborne Division. measured point showed at least 23 per cent above normal and at 67 of them the water content was greater on Feb. t than is usually found at the beginning of the melting season. Oregon's reservoired water is under last year's 18 of 22 reser voirs but is only 6 per cent under. The level of several was drawn down to prepare for the run-off. Throughout the Columbia basin, only on the Kootenai, Wenatchee and Yakima Rivers was the snow water close to normal. Work re ported. Elsewhere, at both high and low elevations, the water content ranged from above average to all-time records. British Columbia as well as if mmmf imwif mm u -By th Associated Preta . LONDON (JP) With ancient pomp, Britain tightened the skeins cf sovereignty around young Elizabeth II Friday, then released her tem porarily to flee to the arms of her mother. i : Humbly, she had pledged to be a good Queen. In medieval p&g- eantry over streets of golden sand, she was formally proclaimed "Queen of this realm and of her other realms and territories, bead cf lao " Commonwealth, defender of the faith." Then she joined her sorrowing family with hugs and kisses La the red brick mansion at Sandringham, the 15,5 "8-acre country ' estate wnere rung oeorge v l cuea Wueen Aiotner tuzaoetn, rnn- cess Margaret and tne new Queen's two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, were there to welcome her. The King's body was taken shortly afterwards from the man sion to the 16th century church on the royal estate. Impressive Ceremony The impressive ceremonies of proclamation unfolded throughout the British Isles and in many lands across the seas For six hours, Britain's deep mourning for the late King was lifted and flags flew at full staff. Thousands jammed the ancient streets and squares of London to hear the proclamation read out at five places. They joined in rousing cheers for their new monarch and sang full-throated their anthem: "God Save the Queen." Meets With Council With queenly composure, Eliza beth stood before the 192 members of her Privy Council in historic old St. James's Palace to take the oath of accession. She said in part: "My heart is too full for me to say more to you today than that I shall always work, as my father did throughout his reign, to up hold the constitutional govern ment and to advance the happi ness and prosperity of my peoples, spread as they are all the world over. "J pray that God will help me to discharge worthily this heavy task that has been laid upon me so early in my life." Old Style Couriers As the reading of the proclama tion neared its end, a ray of sun light burst through the cloudy sky. Gold-clad heralds, escorted by cavalry, trouped through London amid the booming of guns and the blaring of trumpets. The procla mation was then read at Charing Cross, in the heart of the city, at the Tower of London, at the Royal Exchange and on the Strand at the site of a now extinct gate to the once-walled old city of London. The nation-wide proclamation ceremonies were survivals of the ways of passing the news around in the days before there were any newspapers or radios. Winnie at St. James Most of the members of the British Cabinet were at St. James's. Prime Minister Churchill, whose career started before Queen Victoria's reign ended 51 years ago, stood bare-headed at an open window on the north side of the court. There was no hint when the new Queen will be crowned. The coro nation will not take place until after the official period of mourn ing, which usually lasts for sever al months. The favorite guess that the crowning will be sometime be tween next August and the late spring of 1953. Freeze Due Again Today Freezing temperatures early this morning and fog and some cloudi ness this afternoon are in store for the Salem area today. Weathermen predicted that the temperature would drop to about 29 around 5:30 a.m. today, rising later on to a high approaching 50. Fog is expected to last throughout the morning. Today's weather will be much like Friday's, in which the tem perature dropped to 30 in the morning and was followed by" dense fog throughout the Willam ette Valley. Back in operation after several days of being closed because of high waters is the Wilsonville Ferry, which was opened Friday afternoon. The Independence Bridge also was opened Friday as waters from the Willamette River dropped down to 10.4 feet. VICKIE TO FOSTER HOME PORTLAND UP) - Circuit Judge Virgil H. Langtry Friday sent 4-year-old Vickie Kader to a foster home to live until after the trial of her mother, Mrs. Jada Z. Kader, on a" murder charge. United States areas of the Colum bia basin, shared in the big snow pack. Work pointed out that from lag Oct. 1 through Feb. 1 there wis an unusually even pattern of heavy rainfall throughout the b$ sin. Work listed the water content of snow on Feb. 1 on major up-river basins as ranging up to a high of 102 per cent above normal in Washington's Methow River area. Othersul in percentages above average: Upper Columbia In Canada, 35; Kootenai, 13; Upper Clark Fork, 33; Flathead, 46; Pend Oreille. 56; Okanogan, 36; Wenatchee, 2; Yak ima, 13; Snake, 38; Wood, 56; Boise, 50: Pavetta. as.- early Wednesday. Chicago Ired by Slaying j CHICAGO LPV-The killing of Republican ward leader stirred vp a storm of civic outrage Frcay and brought unprecedented action by the local Republican organiza tion, e . The GOP group said it would cut off patronage-political favra and jobs from hoodium-ridon wards in the city. It ordered hun dreds of jobholders fired, i The shotgun slaying of Charles' Gross, 56, acting committeeman f the west side 31st ward Wednes day night brought these develop ments: !. ? Fight Against Gangsters The Association of Commcrx-e and the Chicago Crime Comirut- sion called nearly 100 civic ieo ers to meet Tuesday to plan a. campaign against gangster inva sion ol politics. The Cook County Republican organisation announced it had tracized committeemen of 1 eignt- wards in which gangsters are- known to have taken a hold aad ordered hundreds of ijobbokters from those wards fired f The Chicago Crime CXmmi5&iea in a statement alter the slaying called "gangster infiltration ixto Chicago politics" a "plague n both iemocratic and Kepuoiican. houses" and called for a cieac-uj by both parties. Editorials Urge Purge All four major Chicago news papers have run front-page u torials demanding both partiest purge gangster elements rrrem their ranks. J 1 The Chicago Tribune' offered a $10,000 reward for infecmatiea given to the Tribune leading to u arrest and conviction .'of Gross'a slayers. j The Chicago Sun-Times offer $15,000 for information leading te solution of the brutal slaying uc der its " secret witness' plan. Hoodlums Picked Up Mayor Martin Kennelly and pe nce Commissioner Timothy O'Cwn nor ordered every known hood lum picked up in a blanket drive against gangsters. 1 In Springfield, Gov. Adlai Stev enson issued a statement prop . ing a meeting in Chicago of boils political parties "to consider - ways and means of destroying hoodlum, political power." 3 Trunk Slayer Guards Aides PHOENIX, Ariz. WFVGov. How ard Pyle said Friday Winnie Ruth Judd's latest escape r from the State Hospital for the Insane im under investigation to see if a serious attempt is being made to obstruct justice. ? i The 48-year-old trunk murder ess returned Thursday night after her fifth escape from the institu tion. She fled the hospital last Saturday. " : "My concern, said the, gover nor, "is whether there is organ ized outside or imir effort being made to interfere in the case cl Winnie Ruth Judd." t - Prosecuting Attorney Warren McCarthy said the Maricopa. County grand jury will subpoena Mrs. Judd within three or, four days. f ' Dr. M. W. Conway, hospital di rector, said Mrs. Judd may sever tell the "whole story of her escape. "People ho have been con fined a long time have a code' of ethics, he said. "She will neve disclose who helped her." . Animal Crackers' fy WARREN GOODRICH W8, spook op, sea 1 aMrrW mmm ol yoe ea & if .. 'UaJ' tDG a HjrpoMcajoi . - i - i t
