Women Seek
RaU Crossing
Crash Victims
Victims of the 471 railroad
grade crossing accidents in Salem
between 1941 and 1950 are ob
jects of a "needle in the haystack
search by the Salem League of
Women Voters.
The search is part of an ex
tended survey started last year
by the league aimed at cutting
down railroad mishaps in the city.
Where mails have failed to reach
persons involved in crossing acci
dents, members of the league have
tried other methods. Through the
aid of the post office, city and
t a t e officials, librarians, and
motor vehicle registration the
league has achieved a 20 per cent
return. The league is trying to
raise that figure considerably.
Many Boars Volunteered
A group of 20 members of the
League have been working since
June, contributing almost 500
hours of volunteer time. Mrs. E.
M. Corrigan is directing this phase
of the survey together with Mrs.
John Goldsmith who is general
chairman of the railroad crossing
of the committee in
clude: Mrs. William Van Meter,
Mrs. Ridgeley Miller, Mrs. Nora
Thompson, Mrs. A- A. Segersten,
Mrs. Hal DeSart, Mrs. George
Swartzley, Mrs. Frank Oettinger,
Mrs. Morris Ullman, Mrs. Gordon
Shattuck, Mrs. David Stall, Mrs.
Lawrence Fitzgerald, Mrs. Hay
den Smithson, Mrs. Arthur Bone,
Mrs. John Rademaker, Miss Mary
Laughlin, Miss Eleanor Stephens,
Mrs. WilLard Renken, Mrs. Bern
ard Sokolow, Mrs. Neil Brown,
and Miss Katherine Rahl.
Any person who was involved
In such an accident and who has
not been reached by one of the
methods described is urged to
contact Mrs. John Goldsmith, 301
Cascade Dr., Salem.
Reasons Varied
Last summer seven teams of
two women each checked the 150
grade crossings in Salem. Their
report of faulty vision, obstructing
trees and limbs and poor lighting ,
facilities was substantiated by in
dependent investigations of engi
neers from the State Public Utili
ties Commission and the Southern ;
Pacific Railroad.
The League has urged special
treatment of the entire Southern
Pacific mainline through Salem.
They suggest that either the 1947
recommendation of the Chamber
of Co. merce for a tunnel between
Mission and Ferry Streets be used
or automatic signals or barriers
put at all crossings.
Big 3 to Study
Demands of
West Reich
BONN, Germany (IP) - West
Germany's list of demands for
helping the Free World's defense
against Communist aggression
appeared Saturday night to be
headed for study by the Big
Three.
The Bundestag voted approval
by a margin of 204-156 Friday
night for a government plan
eventually to recruit German
troops for the proposed six-nation
European Army.
The vote was taken only on the
principle of the proposal and the
Germans attached stiff conditions.
These include an end to Allied
occupation, full sovereignty for
Germany, and equal voice in
Western strategic councils and
release of many German war
criminals.
Allied officials predicted the
German demands will delay a
peace settlement with the Ger
mans and set back plans for merg
ing German troops into the pro
posed European force.
These officials said the foreign
ministers of Britain, the United
States and France, at their Lon
don meeting Feb. 16, will have
to study the demands and decide
on a common policy for bringing
the Germans into the Western
defense system.
Truman to Attend
Service for King
WASHINGTON President
and Mrs. Truman will attend a
memorial service for the late King
George VI at Washington Cathe
dral next Friday. Funeral services
in London are being held that day.
Members of the Cabinet, Sup
reme Court, diplomatic corps, and
congressional leaders also have
been invited to the cathedral serv
ice. Contract Awarded for
Big Cliff Dam Gates
PORTLAND (JPy- A $310,841
contract for the Big Cliff re
regulating dam on the North San
tiam River was announced Satur
day by Army Engineers.
It went to Gunderson Brothers
Engineering Corp., Portland, for
three spillway tainter gates and
hoists.
CUT GLARE
TOLEDO (INS) Built-in "sun
glasses" for automobiles, in the
form of shaded windshields, are
proving effective in providing re
lief from snowglare. In reports to
Dr. George B. Watkins, research
director of Libbey-Owens-Ford
Glass Company, drivers stated
tinted windshields not only mater
ially curbed overhead glare but
also reduced the dazzling effect
from the snow.
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441 STATE
League Compiles Reports on Crossing Mishaps
f - '-': ...
Salem League of Women Voters' railroad committee are la the midst of compiling a report of Salem's
railroad crossing situation based en months of study and research of crossing accidents. Some of the
reports are based on Interviews with persons Involved In crossing accidents, some dating back to 194 L
Seated, from left, are Mrs. M. S. Ullman, Mrs. George Swartsley, Mrs. E. M. Corrigan, Mrs. Rldgley
Miller and Mrs. W. S. VanMeter. Standing are Nora Thompson, left, and Mrs. John Goldsmith. (States-
pboto.)
Lodge Suggested
8 Years Ago Ike
Seek Presidency
By CLARKE BEACH
WASHINGTON (JP) Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., has been
telling General Eisenhower for several years now that he thought the
country might need him some day for President.
Lodge, national director of the campaign to get Eisenhower the
Republican nomination, didn't announce until last Aug. 5 that his
candidate for President was General "Ike." But the story really be
gins much earlier than that
Behind the big desk in his high-
windowed office, Lodge slumped
low in his swivel chair, sprawled
his 6-foot, 2V-inch frame toward
the fireplace and recalled his con
tacts with the general.
"I first met him on maneuvers
in Louisiana in 1941," he began.
Lodge has been an enthusiastic
Army reserve officer since 1925,
has gone to summer camp for two
weeks' active duty nearly every
year, now holds the rank of col
onel. Nobody Took Ike
"I was a captain then, and he
was a lieutenant colonel. The sec
ond time I met him was on the
same maneuvers. That was the
time General Patton offered a $50
reward for anyone who took Eisen
hower prisoner during the exer
cises. Nobody ever did.
"The third time I met him was
when I went on active duty in
February of 1942." Although still
in the Senate, Lodge put on his
uniform and as a major led the
first three tank detachments which
were assigned to the British Army
in North Africa.
He returned to the Senate later
in 1942 but in 1944 resigned his
seat and again went on active
duty until the war's end.
"The next time I saw General
Eisenhower was briefly in Alsace
in November, 1944," Lodge con
tinued. Talked Politics
"But when he was president of
Columbia I went up to visit him
often. We. talked politics mostly.
I told him that some day it might
be his duty to run "for President."
Lodge has a snappy, crackling
way of answering questions, speak
ing swiftly and decisively with his
modified Harvard accent. He has
studied and travelled on the con
tinent a lot and is so perfect in
French as to be rated bi-lingual.
He is handsome as a matinee
idol and doesn't look within a de
cade of his 49 years. His equally
tall and handsome brother, John,
was, in fact, in the movies for al
most 10 years until he was elect
ed to Congress from Connecticut
and later became governor.
Dresses Well
Lodge's glamor is as conspicu
ous as the Eisenhower appeal
against which the Republican par
ty was so urgently warned at the
recent national committee meeting
at Los Angeles. He dresses to the
king's taste but otherwise tries to
appear as un-glamorous as pos
sible. Born in Nahant, Mass., to a fam
ily whose blood was so blue they
were once said to speak only to
Cabots and God, the senator is re
puted to be a direct descendant
of John Cabot, the English ex
plorer. I asked him about this.
"I don't think it's true," he
snapped back.
"I've read that you're the sev
enth member of your family to be
in the U. S. Senate. Is that true?"
"I don't know of any other one
but my grandfather Henry Cabot
Lodge."
"I hear you're a yachtsman." '
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"Hardly. I sail small boats oc
casionally." Little Social Life
Lodge and his wife live in a
house in historic Georgetown, but
he professes not to know whether
it's an antique. They have prac
tically no social life, he says. Just
stay home nights. Their two sons
are away. One is a senior at Har
vard, the other a reporter on the
Boston Herald and the father of
two girls.
Lodg ha's been deep in politics
since early boyhood. In 1936, with
no party backing, he got himself
the Republican nomination for U.
S. Senator. He was the only Re
publican senator elected that year.
He became a leader of the insur
gent Republicans, rallying around
Senator Vandenberg's bi-partisan
foreign policy and urging the party
to abandon its "archiac concepts."
In 1949, 14 of the insurgents
tried to win him Senator Taft's
post as chairman of the Senate Re
publican Policy Committee. They
failed, but political wiseacres on
the hill predicted that the move
ment had made him a contender
for the presidential nomination in
1952.
Just Kingmaker
But until now he has appeared
to be content with his role as king
maker. In the Republican National
Convention in 1948 he was chair
man of the resolutions committee,
which drafted the party's non-isolationist
platform.
He served in a unique position
for the party during the Wendell
Willkie campaign. As he recalls it:
"You remember that there, was
a time the campaign was bogging
down. The political angle was be
ing neglected. Then the party as
signed me to be Willkie's advisor
on politics. I rode with him on his
campaign train for six weeks. I
found him a very charming and
intelligent fellow."
"Willkie didn't like politicians
I was the only one he could stom
ach," Lodge remarked, smiling
broadly.
Railroad Club
Reorganizes
More than 60 men and women
attended the organizational meet
ing of the Railroad Club Saturday
night at the Salem Women's Club.
The organization reactivates the
former Southern Pacific Club, dis
banded in October, 1948, and is
composed of people in the Salem
area affiliated with railroad.
zThe group wfcs shown colored
movies following a no-host supper
and musical entertainment.
Lewis M. McKinney, financial
secretary conducted the first
meeting. Chairman for the March
8 meeting is Edward C. McElroy
Sr. A new chairman will be elect
ed for each monthly meeting.
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Slow Going
WASHINGTON OF) The Army
was said Saturday to be having
trouble persuading more women
to volunteer for the WACS. Also,
it can't afford to hire civilians jn
larger numbers, a Senate subcom
mittee reported.
The report came from the Arm
ed Services Subcommittee on Pre
paredness, which for months has
been prodding the armed services
to free more combat-fit men from
desk jobs and replace them with
women in uniform, limited-service
personnel or civilians.
Secretary of the Army Pace
wrote the committee that "present
inability to recruit sufficient num
bers of WACS and budgetary ceil
ing limitations of the hiring of ci
vilians are obstacles to the efforts
to release the maximum number
of combat qualified men from ad
ministrative positions."
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Marine Pilots
Leave Supply
Base Blazing
SEOUL, Korea (JPh-U. S. Marina
,4Wolf Raider" pilots smashed a
big Communist supply center In
Northeast Korea Saturday. Ten
supply dumps and 27 buildings
were left in smoking ruins.
The raid by eight carier-based
Leatherneck fighters in two flights
was made from Allied Task Force
77, replenishing in the Sea of
Japan waters for more assaults
on Red supply arteries.
- Other Marina pilots patrolling
the coastal area destroyed hree
Communist boats, an anti-aircraft
gun and blew up an ammunition
dump.
The big supply base was named
by tha Navy communique as the
village of SO A, not shown on Ko
rea maps avalable here.
Blast Vital Brldtre
Okinawa-based B-29 Superforts
blasted the vital railway bridge
at Chogju in Northwest Korea
with 100 tons of 500-pound bombs.
The bombers reported light anti
aircraft fire.
American Sabre jets damaged
three Communist MIG-15s and
claimed another probably de
stroyed Saturday in two air battles
over Northwest Korea.
The Sabres met 175 enemy Jets
over MIG Alley during the after
noon. That many MIGs have been
seen in the air at one time only
twice before since the Korean war
started. &
MIG Destroyed
Only 80 of the MIGs chose to
fight. Twenty six Sabres tore into
one group of about 30 MIGs,
claiming one probably destroyed
and another damaged. Another
group of 26 Sabres engaged 50
MIGs in a 30-minute fight, damag
ing two more of the Communist
jets.
Saturday's claims brought the
Fifth Air Force totals in the Ko
rean war to 183 MIGs destroyed,
34 probably destroyed and 363
damaged.
Fierce but brief patrol skirmish
es were reported Saurday at sev
eral points along the 155 mile
battlefront, where temperatures
continued mild for the third day.
North America's second largest
waterfall is believed to be the
Grand Falls of the Hamilton River
at the edge of the Labrador Pla-
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who Is heading the advance gifts
solicitation now in progress pre
paratory to opening the 1952
Red Cross fond campaign's pub
lic solicitation.
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Superforts Drop
100,000tii Ton of
Bombs on Korea
TOKYO UP)- B-29 Superforts
based on Okinawa Saturday night
dropped their 100,000th ton of
bombs on Communist targets in
Korea.
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