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' ' r ' t . I '(' ... ' ' I - M' i !: :, ! Againu r . 1 1 BG-6Guts ;i . . -. ft ' ' i , - i Deadly rvl lizabetlhic, K H y O .1 Ptaae Eft i . MM - : , DTP 1651 r r I Cropping out occasionally are intimations about what we shall do if the Korean truce talks break down and all-out fighting is re sumed. They include usually bombing bases in Manchuria, im posing a naval blockade on the China Coast, and possibly bombing Cities in China. Life magazine which has been sharply critical of the administration's policy in Asia Is skeptical of this military pro gram. It questions whether main land targets in China are remun erative enough: "There is little or no industry there, and bombings which just kill civilians especial ly if the announced purpose is Sunitive and retaliatory could ave the reverse of their intended effect. This argument is convinc ing. But what Life proposes is not Just straffing China until it loos ens its hold in Korea but some sort of crusade to liberate China from the Communist yoke: "Some day, we dare predict, the political will to ovennrow uoao will be found. But when it is the be inadequate. The liberation of China must have a terrestrial dimension. That means somebody's ground troops; it certainly means guerrillas on the mainland from the very beginning. Accompanied by substantial guerrilla activity, the bombing of mainland targets could be politically positive in stead of negative. Our mainland Chinese allies could in fact tell us where and when to bomb, and the bombs would serve some pur pose other than Air Force muscle flexing.'' That to be sure is a "positive" program. Are the American Continued on editorial page, 4.) Psychiatrist Said Aiding Draft Evasion CHICAGO (JPh-A psychiatrist employed by the Army induction station in Chicago was seized by the FBI Sunday and accused of extorting $650 from a youth to keep him out of the draft. The psychiatrist is Dr. Charles Herband, 43, a refugee alien now residing at Dyer, Ind., about 30 miles south of Chicago across the Illinois line. He denied the charge. The FBI said Dr. Herband was seized in the South Side home of Henry Friedman, 23, as the youth handed the psychiatrist a $50 pay ment. Friedman said, the FBI re lated, he paid Dr. Herband $600 on Dec. 20. Harry T. O'Connor, FBI chief in Chicago, said Friedman told him the plan was to have the youth falsely classified 4-F as a sex de viate. O'Connor said his agents related hearing Dr. Herband say as they hid in Friedman's room: "I expect $50 more than this $50. Don't worry. I'm taking care of everything." Dr. Herband said he was paid $25 a day, for a half day s work, five days a week, at the induction station, O'Connor said. O'Connor said the psychiatrist gave the FBI the name of the "other doctor" he said was in volved, but the FBI had not been able to establish his identity as yet. Federal Spending Winning Race with Personal Incomes WASHINGTON (tfVThe Coun cil of State Chambers of Com merce said Sunday a 100 per cent levy on all taxable personal in comes of over $100,000 would pro duce only enough new revenue to run the government for three and a half hours. And "confiscation' of all tax "able personal incomes over $6,000 would produce only enough addi tional revenue to run the govern ment for 26 days, the Council said in a summary of a study made by Its Washington research office. Animal Crackoro y WARREN GOODRICH 101st YEAH 10 PAGES oyn -4 - - J " ; " JT ' , -.Stt , iL - ; 111 I! S . ' - i y F Sr"'i-.. , - 1 j i ijm ' I 1 ' ' -T' - - I ;:'"ir1(tr--,"--'-l"'i"'-irmTiwr'- r-' ' 1 mi i n - i i n n 1- - . . - , i i n imntrmti LEBANON An empty interior greets Linn County Coroner Glenn Huston, shown peering into the 1941 Plymouth sedan in which four teenagers were carried to their deaths Saturday night In Crabtree Creek nine miles north of here. One girl, Carol Ann Whtnery, managed to roll down the window into which Huston is looking and swim to safety. The four bodies were washed through the left rear door and were later recovered. (AP Photos.) 4 Die, 2 Girls Escape in Crabtree Creek Crash T.TTRANON The merry escapade of three boys and three girls ended in the traffic death of four of them Saturday night when their speed ing car plunged on nignway zzo into flood-swollen Crabtree Creek, nine miles north of here on the road to Scio. The two survivors of the tragedy were girls, one- of whom was ap TMrnt1v thrown from the car as it left the highway, and the other who managed to extricate nerseu from the sunken automobile and swim to safety. , A dragging crew, led by Linn County Coroner Glenn Huston Sunday morning recovered the bodies of three boys and one girl: Glenn Smith, 20, and William Ow en Woo ten, 17, both of Sweet Home; Gerald Thomas Zerkel, 16, and Marjorie Irene Vauble, 15, both of Lebanon. In Lebanon Hospital where she was taken badly cut ana Druisea, and with most of her front teeth missing, was Darlene Vandehey, 16, daughter of Pete Vandehey of 42 E. St., Lebanon. The other sur vivor of the accident is Carol Irene Whinery, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Whinery, 183 El more St., Lebanon. She was in se clusion at the home of her par ents Sunday afternoon. To Attend Dance The youths, according to Miss Whinery who talked to State Po lice Officer Wililam Newell, got together about 6 p.m. Saturday, and drove to Sweet Home with Smith driving. There they picked up a half case of beer and some whiskey, the girl said. Then they drove around, she said, until some time before 11 p.m. when they decided to go to Scio to attend the Skokole dance, just south of Scio. Death came to the four when the car, registered . to Smith's father, but believed to belong to Glenn Smith, failed to make the curve approaching the covered bridge over Crabtree Creek. It veered to the right, sliced off abutments, hurtled out into the air about fifteen or more feet and sank into between 15 and 18 feet of fast-rushing water just north of the bridge. Thrown Out of Car Apparently Miss Vandehey was thrown out of the car as it left the road, or she managed to open the left rear door and jump out. She was found lying in a semi-conscious state on the creek bank. Miss Whinery told Newell she unrolled the right front window of the sunken automobile as It rested up right on the creek bottom, crawl ed through and swam to the sur face and thence to a small island a little ways upstream. Then she' said she swam to the bank where she found Miss Vandehey. . The two girls made their way up to the highway, Miss Whinery said. SYMINGTON MAT RUN ST. LOUIS (iPJwW. Stuart Symington says he will become a candidate for th ' Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Missouri but only if President Truman asks him to- do so. The retiring head of the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation told newsmen he plans to confer with the President on tbo subject this week in Washington. 5irD Be where they were picked up by a assing motorist, Arch Ray, who ves about a mile north of the bridge, and taken to Lebanon Hos pital. Police Called State police were called to the scene by David Horseburg, who lives near the bridge, and Officer Newell arrived at 11:55 pjn., after the girls had left the scene of the tragedy. The car was pulled from the water about 2 a.m. It contained eight bottles of beer. Rescue oper ations for the four dead teen-agers began at sunup and the last of the bodies was recovered at 10:30 a.m., almost 12 hours after the ill-fated journey to Scio began. The bodies were taken to Huston Funeral Home in Lebanon. It was at this same spot on Dec. 11, 1950, where an Aumsville man, Mark Hillinger, 24, drowned when his car skidded into the creek. An other man with him managed to swim to safety. (Additional Details on Page 2.) Wave Sweeps Boy Into Bay COOS BAY (Jff-A wave washed up on the beach here Saturday and swept a woman and a four-year-old boy into Coos Bay. The woman, Mrs. B. L. Jones, Coos Bay, made it back to shore. But the boy, Jackie Frank Stor ey, 4, son of Mrs. J. C. McNeill, Empire, was lost. The Coast Guard had not located his body late Sunday. Chinese Nationalists in Burma Said Sporting New U.S. Guns EDITORS NOTE: Jack MaeBeth. mm American Associated Press staff aaa assigned to Southeast Asia, and mow on assignment In Burma, has been trying to check oat conflict ing press reports concerning Chinese Nationalist troops in Barma along the border of Ked China. In the fol lowing dispatch, Mac Beth, a veteran of Korean War coverage, has an Interview with an Informant ho is mnable to Identify In cables from Rngoon, bnt whom lit calls "wholly trustworthy. By JACK MacBETH BAwnnnN. Burma tffV-An in formant claiming to be familiar with the border situation said Saturday Nationalist Chinese ir regulars on Burma's northeastern frontier are sporting "brand new" American arms. The informant, wbom.lt is im possible to identify for publica tion niri th Chinese Nationalist forces number 10,000. Their lead ers, he continued, boast openly they will "kick th Communists out of Yunnan with United States and British help.- i . Yrmnan Is th Chinese PTOT inc directly east of Burma. Bur mese) Information Minister U Thant 'said recently -the unwel- fAnu Cnin TJatimalista nam net r Communist sharge that The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon as Car Army-USAF Maneuvers Take 7 Lives CAMP DRUM, N. Y. (JP-Seven servicemen lost their lives today in a series of accidents one a plane crash that marred Army Air Force winter maneuvers at this sprawling encampment in Northern New York. Nineteen others were injured in the full-scale "warfare." The crash of a twin-engined Air Force plane took four lives. Three airmen were killed when the C-46 Curtis Commando plummeted to the ground immediately after tak ing off from Wheeler-Sack air field with 32 paratroopers of the 11th Airborne Division aboard. The fourth died several hours later in the camp hospital. Two were killed in the collision of a New York Central Railroad train and a troop-loaded truck at a grade crossing. Five were in jured in this accident. One paratrooper was killed in a Jump and nine other paratroop ers were hospitalized with jump injuries. Inflation Misses Shop In Pennsylvania Town BEDFORD, Pa. (JP) - One thin dime gets you a haircut in the tiny Western Pennsylvania com munity of Woodbury. Eighty-three year old Daniel N. Byers charged 10 cents per head of hair when he began barbering 69 years ago and he never raised his price. "Just never say any reason to charge more," said Byers. be red between 4,000 and 6,000 men. Concerning Russian and Chi Americans actively re supporting the Nationalists, under Gen. Li Mi. the informant said there was "no proof." He said "white peo ple had been seen with the Na tionalist forces but that the last such report had been received several months ago. They could have been anyone, he said. Because of the delicate border situation, the Burmese govern ment has prohibited foreign news men from visiting the area. The informant interviewed Sun day is in a position to know the border situation thoroughly. Asked for proof the ' straying armies were being supplied with U. S. made arms he declared: "I have seen it. Much! of it Is brand new." The - troops are comparatively secure inside Burma territory. Be cause of their growing strength and hopes of outside help, they are getting cocky, the Rangoon Informant said. He did not say when they ex pected to get U. S. and British id, Monday, February 11, 1952 -Ives Donto LEBANON Only broken guard rails mark th spot where the ear carrying six teenagers plunged off Highway 226 and into flood-swollen Crabtree Creek Saturday night, drowning three boys and a girl. One of the survivors, Darlene Vandehey was thrown clear of the hurtling car and landed on the bank shown at the bottom of the picture. The car came to a rest almost directly under the bridge. Di Salle Names Panel to Study Decontrol Plans By WILLIAM O. VARN WASHINGTON (JP) - Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle, as one of his last major official acts, Sunday named a committee to study the wisdom of decontrolling or suspending price ceilings on a wide range of items. DiSalle said his action does not moan the Office of Price Stabili zation is preparing to recommend decontrol of any important segment Honeymooners Hope to Reach North Pole PATUXENT, Md. (JP) A 22-year-old bride of last December who hopes to become the first woman to reach the north pole left with her husband on a be lated honeymoon to the far north today. She is blonde, attractive Alice Holmes of Falmouth, Mass., Wel lesley College graduate. She and her husband, John Holmes, 30, are members of the staff of the Woods Hole, Mass.; Oceanographlc Insti tution. Both were among a party of 18 who departed from the Naval air test center at Patuxent, 60 miles' southeast of Washington, D.C., in two navy planes for Point Bar row, in Alaska. Sixteen others plan to go to Alaska later this month to take part in a three-month survey out of Point Barrow onto the polar ice cap. The navy calls the oper ation "Skijump II." "I'm not sure I'll get to go on any field trips to the pole, but I hope so," Mrs. Holmes told this reporter "I believe that if we went up there and landed, I'd be the first woman in history at the pole." fHeat' Marks Set in Oregon Clouds prevented Salem from Joining most of Western Oregon in recording the warmest day of the year. While temperatures in Eu gene hit 69, the high, Salem was 54, about what its been for the past week. The Weather Bureau predicts light showers this morning, with temperatures staying above the freezing mark. A low of 23 was recorded Sunday monjing. Other high temperatures Sun day were 68 in Roseburg, and 61 in Bend and other Central Oregon cities. .. . , . . Storm , warnings for coastal areas have been issued from Se attle, which predicts strong winds in Southern Washington. RFJCH MAKING SHELLS BERLIN (JP) - The West Berlin newspaper Telegraf said Sunday East Germany is manufacturing artillery shells for the Soviet Un ion, Poland and Red China. The poper said 20 freight cars loaded with shells recently were shipped from an ammunition plant at Schoenbeck to the east. t PRICE 5e Creek PJeao- Scto of the economy, Rather, he said, it is fulfillment of a promise he made to Congress two weeks ago that a full study would be made to determine whether decontrol is warranted in fields where selling prices are be low ceilings. Points to Exaggeration At that time DiSalle told the Senate-House Committee on the Economic Report: "I have the distinct feeling, and our study so far supports it, that the extent of price weakness has been greatly exaggerated by some who have only a superficial knowledge of the situation or by some who use this as a means to attack controls generally. But I want, and Congress deserves, the facts." The committee he named to study the situation is made up of seven OPS officials. Fields of Decontrol Price control officials said that fields in which the committee may direct its studies include: Meats, dry groceries, clothing, shoes and other leather items, textiles, furs, floor coverings, wool items, furni ture and most household appli ances. 2 Die in Car Crash at Coast COQUILLE (JP) - Two persons were killed and fouf others in jured in a two-car collision on Highway 101 between Coquille and Bandon early Sunday. The dead are Paul Southworth, about 48, of Coos Bay, who died at a Coos Bay hospital Sunday afternoon, and Mrs. Robert Blank enship, about 20, of Fourmile, Ore., who was killed outright in the crash. Mrs. Blankenship was a passen ger in a car driven by Jeanette Akins, Bandon. She and two other passengers suffered minor in juries. Southworth was a passenger in a car driven by Rita Smith, Coos Bay. She also suffered minor in juries. i tKDG dmo i Max. Mta. Precip. - 54 - ZS .M 5 3S JOO M 44 .00 S3 3S M Salem - Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 44 97 trace Willamette Ittver 8.1 feet. FORECAST (from US. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy with scattered light shower thia morning. Decreasing cloudiness this afternoon and tonight. High to day SO to 52. low tonight as to 3. Sa lem temperature at 11:01 ajn. today was St. - : , IALM PKECIPTTATIOK Since start of Weather Tear Sea. 1 This Year Last Year Normal axas ajs . , tut No. 322 Pouting Boy Kills Mother, Brother, Sister ST. LOUIS UP) Missouri High way patrolmen said a 16-year-old boy admitted Sunday night he shot to death his mother, a broth er and a sister after the mother refused to let him use the family car. The patrol Identified the youth as John Amo Schulz. Victims of the shooting in Mil waukee were Mrs. Catherine Schulz, 38, her daughter, Kather ine, 6, and a son, Robert, 10. Bod ies of the three, all blasted with a .410 gauge shotgun, were found by the woman's husband, Arnold, 39, when he returned Sunday night from a laundry workers union meeting in La Crosse. Wis. Patrol Sgts. A, G. White and L. A. Feco quoted the boy as fol lows: He asked his mother for the car Saturday afternoon, but she re fused him. He got angry, went to his room and picked up the shot gun. He shot the brother, then his sister and Mrs. Schulz. He threw the gun onto a bed, packed some clothes and left in the car. He told patrolmen here he was going to California. The patrol said young Schulz signed extradition papers and that Milwaukee police were en route to pick him up. No charges were filed here. At Milwaukee, detective Joseph Miszewski, said a note, apparent ly written by the boy, was found in the room, signed "Your twisted son, John." The note, according to Miszew ski, said only: "Sorry things had pened this way. Maybe we will meet again. I am going to see some of the places we've been. Goodbye, God bless you." Wildlife Group Takes No Action on Pelton Dam CORVALLIS (JP)-The Oregcfi Wildlife Federation, which con cluded its annual convention here Sunday, took no action the con troversial Pelton Dam question. The proposed Deschutes River dam has been opposed by sports men and others on the grounds it might reduce salmon runs In the lower Columbia River. 'RADIO TOKYO REVIVED TOKYO 0P fRadio Tokyo',' is back on the International air waves after a silence of seven years. A broadcast late Sunday was beamed in the English lan guage to the west .coast of the United. States by the Japanese Broadcasting News, commentaries on the news and Japanese music comprise the bulk of the pro grams. ATKFTELDS GET GO-AHEAD LISBON, Portugal (-Informed American sources said Sunday night that the go-ahead has been given for construction of Allied airfields In France and French Morocco, long : a bottleneck tn western Europe air aex Apartments Set Afire; Death Toll At 22, and Rising ELIZABETH. N. J. NsvT tional Airlines plane, with 62 fT sons aboard, crashed into a 32 family apartment house earty Monday, turning It into im nicht- mare of death. At least 22 persons were killed It was not known immediately how many of the dead were plan passengers or occupants of the a partment house. Fourteen persona aboard the plane survived. ' It was the third crash since Dec. 16 in this city of some 110.000 pec ulation, 12 miles south of New York City. The death toll in the first two crashes totaled 86. A non-scheduled C-46 blunged in flames into the shallow Eliza beth River on that day, killing ell Order Closes Newark Field NEW YORK (AP)- ; The Port of New York Authority Monday or- ; dered that all runways hm ' closed at Newark airport. 56 persons aboard. On Jan. 22. ma American Airlines Convait! smash ed into a residential district, kill ing 23 aboard and sever? Eliza- bethan residents. p The big ship, a DC-6 bound for Miami, plunged into the four-story brick building at 12:20 sum. EST when most residents were asleep. It was two minutes out of; nearby Newark airport. Hits Playground ih It sheared off half a floor f the building, struck some l tre, then crashed into a playground m the rear of an orphange. The blaze lit the skies for miles around. Explosions in the plane and th building hampered rescue work ers, toiling desperately to get seme of the survivors out of the two death traps. U Many passengers sitting in -the rear of the plane were reported saved. There was no Indication the number of dead and injured in the building. !!'T Fashionable Section Ji The crash occurred in a fash ionable residential section' of the city, about three quarters of a mi ha from the scene of the Jan. 22 crash. After crumpling the rear of a four - story apartment dwelling which burst into flames, the plane narrowly missed an orphanage im which 60 children lay sleeping. 3 landed in a playground behind it. Eleven survivors were? quickly ' removed to St. Elizabeth! Hospi tal. Nine were from the plane and two from the crash scene. Traffic was rerouted ; from square mile area. Hundreds f " people jammed the scene , lighted by flames shooting toward the skies and heavy clouds of smoke hanging over the disaster i area. Torch of Fire ii Some survivors were taken from the burning plane wreckage but the house was a torch of fire. All ambulances and fire equipment in the city were rushed to the scetse. Rescue efforts organized by po lice, firemen, Civil Defense work ers and all city hospitals were hampered by recurring explosione in the house and scattered gaso line tanks of the plane. j Part of the fuselage of the planet lay in the middle of the street near the apartment house. One reporter on the scene said "there are so many bodies lying around, it's hard to begin counting." (Story also on page 2) Taf t to Arrive in Northwest Today SEATTLE WVOhio's Sen. Taft swings into the Pacific Northwest Monday on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomina tion. 3 , . Taft has scheduled a stopover! . Spokane Monday, will make three speeches in a 16-hour Seattle visit Tuesday and then make a Wednes day appearance at Portland. . ii INCOMES RISING - V WASHINGTON (JP) - Total per sonal incomes in 1951' amounted to 251 billion dollars, 12 jper eene above 1850. i: Spell-Down! The following words are among those which may be used la the 1952 Oregon Statesnsae KSLM 8pellinr Contest seni-i finals and finals. They are frees standard textbooks and ere published as a guide la leire eheel contests new underway. quart principal opportunity normal patiencm allegiance v- citizen buy domettit exhibit ;' cool frttdom, invettigat history motiom Ucpard pier - y emit ' nerr quantity