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Weather ICli iJ , li- Mtm. trails ZS :. Uir 37 , 34 2 V Max. tales Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 33ZDQS 45 53 37 29 sV l!l VV 1; jxa Willamette River S feet FORECAST (from 17. S. Weather Bureau, McXary rteld. Salem):. Cloudy with Intermittent rain today and tonight. High today 80 to 52; low tonight. 38 to 40. Salem temperature at 12:01 a-m. today was 3a. i n r POUNDDD 1651 Speaking in Seattle on his Northwest tour in his campaign for the Republican nomination for President, Sen. Robert A. Taft, who has been denouncing the Ko rean War as "Truman's War" call on the United States to help Chiang Kai-shek's armies stage an invasion of the mainland. He said: ...., rnmmuniit assault on a i ix on the horizon, it should b ciear to our government that the -only chance to stop it is by a Chinese Nationalist Invasion of Communist-held territory. ..., .1 - nh n thai National- nuwir wire 1 - . : j of the Communist regime on the mainland is a negligible factor. "An invasion, well-organized, might snowball rapidly. Is there any other way to prevent StaUn from seizing .U Asia ana Dunamu uh ... .. ---length that , will attempt ...finally an assault on me uiuku Time and again I have warned of the folly of such an undertaking. !.- ih roouire U. S. transport and naval force to convoy them and to help them secure a beach head. It would call for U. S. Air th nrotective umbrella for that beachhead and continued U. S. Navy - protection for their supply, to say nothing of the vast quantities oi guis materiel which the United States alone could supply. If this should be undertaken it ;rt.t he mlled "Taft's War." Lest I be rated as a fourth-rate txiiitsirv rritie ( which Drobably is correct, and an armchair one at that), let me quote irom a source rV.is.Vi Canatnr Taft OUffht tO res- pect, the Wall Street Journal. Its Washington corresponaem contri buted a lengthy article to Monday's issue basing nis (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Lebanon Girl Burned Fatally By Matches gtates-nan News service LEBANON Playing with matrhps turned a little girl's nightgown into a blazing torch that Wednesday snuliea ner uie. Five-year-old Allyn Baricer, tancrrttr r,f Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Barker, Lebanon Route 1, died at 12:30 pan. Wednesday ai Doernbecher Hospital, Portland, where she was rushed during the previous night. TJnn County authorities gave this version of the tragedy: AJJyn and her brother Robert, 9, were at h6me with their grand father Tuesday night while the parents attended choir practice at St. Martin's Episcopal Church. When the little girl's nightgown caught fire the grandfather put out the flames, gave first aid and took both children to the church. "They were playing with matches and her nightgown caught fire," the grandfather was quoted as saying. The parents and the Rev. David Gordon took the child to Lebanon General HosrJtaL She was re moved shortly to the Portland hospital. Attendants said burns covered 90 per cent of her body. The father is a mill worker. Services are pending at the Hus ton Mortuary here. Race Council Due in Eugene EUGENE (JP)-A council to work on this university city's Negro problem was expected to be form ed within a few days as a result of a meeting Tuesday. Dr. Joel V. Berremin, acting head of the University of Oregon Sociology Department, proposed the formation of a permanent Inter-racial Relations Council at the meeting of 400 persons. The meeting was the outgrowth of recent newspaper articles on the plight of Negroes in Eugene, set off by anonymous threats to a woman she had leased a house to a Negro family in a district populated by whites. Conditions faced by 18 Negro families living four miles west of the city in houses without water or sewage facilities were discuss ed at the meeting, moderated by the Rev. Wesley G. Nicholson, pastor of the First Congregational Church. - Animal Crack ora By WARREN GOODRICH :Ti afraki yowl have to take both t ci't seem to break up the JriaAfte." AL Oat by MAYOtNNOV irmi. Inc. l0 . II J 101st YEAR 20 PAGES Tillamook I . .1 . - - : - - j v t 4 i t - t - c , 1 ' ' j ' ' . - r ' - i . . " , , I ' h :hhav r ui i (mi Vrf&iTf ;;c:- . :Li i- K 3 - sii - t'wB Ai 3C . v-?n TII-LAMOOK When the many -thousand-acre Tillamook Air Base was fenced ia daring World War H, a few deer in the timbered area were fenced In with it. Now there are a score or more. The one pictured is just in front of the Post Exchange looking; over a camera which a recent visitor, Joseph Tompkins of Salem, had set on the ground. Ac com panying Tompkins to the base waa Morrell Crary, also of Salem, who had a camera of his own and made the most of it as shown. Truman Seeks to Silence Predictions Ike's Future Poses Problem to NATO WASHINGTON WVThe White House cracked down on free talking visitors Wednesday, as new confusion erupted over what President Truman is. or isn't say ing about seeking re-election. Press Secretary Joseph Short declared two callers had quoted the President without authority. They were: 1. Benjamin Browdy, head of the Zionist Organization of Amer ica, who said Truman told him Wednesday he will make up his mind "within the next 10 to 15 days" whether to run again. Bro wdy expressed belief the decision would be to run. 2. Rep. Sabath (D-Ill), who quoted the President as saying Tuesday he would be willing to run if necessary to help along the cause of world peace. Short told newsmen' with a hint of tartness: "Many people go in to see the President and some of them come out and do a lot of talking. I'm sure some people in their en thusiasm confuse their remarks with those of the President." Browdy's remarks were in ap parent conflict with those of an other of Wednesday's White House visitors, Abraham Feinberg, New York businessman. He quoted the President as saying he did not plan to make his decision for "some time to come.' The White House appeared to favor Feinberg's version, for a presidential aide had tipped news men that they might want to in terview this visitor. ACHESON VISITS COFFIN LONDON W-Secretary of State Dean Acheson, representing Pres ident Truman at the funeral of King George VI, paid his homage to the dead monarch at the royal catafalque in Westrninster Hall Wednesday night. Valentine's Day Marks 93 Years of Statehood for Oregon Valentine's Day has a special meaning for Oregon residents be cause it was on February 14, just 93 years ago Thursday, that the state was formally admitted into the Union. But it wasn't all hearts and flowers among early settlers this business of acquiring statehood. Agitation for admission to the United States . began soon after Oregon gained territorial status In 1848. And the roses were red but the agitators turned blue when first the territorial legislature and the people successively defeated the statehood proposition. Finally the Issue carried with the voters in 1857. But Congress did not get around to tying a lov er's -knot between the U. S. and the far-off Western territory until St Valentine's Day In 1859. There was no telebration ia Sa lsn on that Uy, Mostly because Deer Not Camera-Shy Duke Visits King's Coffin LONDON (JP)-A sorrow-burdened Duke of Windsor paid homage with bended knee and silent meditation Wednesday night before the bier of King George VI, the brother who shouldered the duties of a crown Windsor gave up for love. The Duke, his brow furrowed, went before the bier in West minster Hall with his mother Queen Mary and his sister Mary, the Princess Royal. More than 180,000 of George's subjects the g r-e a t and the humble alike have passed through the hall since the fallen monarch's closed coffin was placed on the somber catafalque, guarded by scarlet-coated men with reversed arms. Gas Rate Rise Hearing Set Hearing on the application of the Portland Gas and Coke Com pany for a rate increase is set for Thursday, Feb. 28, Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel announced Wednesday. New tariffs filed by the company were suspended by the Utilities Commissioner pending the hearing. Of the $350,000 revenue increase sought $337,750 is applicable to gas sales in Oregon and $12,20 to gas sales in Vancouver, Wash. The hearing will be in the Sa lem offices of the Public Utilities Commissioner: the big news was a month in com ing to Salem from Washington, D. C. Later though, earl legislators nearly always took time to cele brate the state's anniversary. On the 40th anniversary a mu sical and speaking program took place on a specially - constructed platform in the house of repre sentatives. Most downtown busin ess houses closed and a special ex cursion train operated between Portland and the celebrating Cap ltoL The half-century observance was distinguished by the shortness of the remarks of Gov.' Charles E. Chamberlain. The committee had forgotten to inform him he was to speak. But in 1929 Gov. I. L. Patterson blew out, all in one 'breath, 70 birthday candles on a large birth day cake. The Oregon Statesman, By STAN SWINTON LISBON, Portugal (A-The Eis-enhower-for - President campaign shadows the North Atlantic Pact meetings here, even though the General is intentionally avoiding Lisbon. Military leaders of the 12 At-,1 lantic Allies, in recess until Sun day, privately say the campaign poses two urgent questions: When - presuming there no longer is an if - will Eisenhower give up his job as Supreme Com mander? Who will replace him? Had Eisenhower come to Lisbon for the NATO Council opening Feb. 20, the Allies most certainly would have asked him to answer the first question. Sources at Supreme Headquar ters of the Allied Powers in Eu rope explained Eisenhower avoid ed Lisbon only because the talks are primarily on a political and economic level and his presence might prove an embarrassment to the political talks. Aside from the serious aspects, horseplay based on the Eisenhow er campaign has brightened up the military sessions. SHAPE officers are under strict orders from Eisenhower to have nothing to do with the campaign in any manner. Some members of the U. S. con tingent from Washington arrived loaded with "I Like Ike" buttons and match boxes. The favorite sport in off-duty hours is to pin an "I Like Ike" button on the back of an unsus pecting SHAPE officer's coat and wait for the pained cries when he is reprimanded for wearing it. Non-Existent Fire Results In Damages PORTLAND (JP) A boiled-over coffee pot sent smoke from an apartment here Wednesday. Some one turned in a fire alarm. Then in quick succession: A fireman fell from a fire truck speeding to the scene. Another fire truck called, only to collide with a freight truck. When the freight truck tried to pull free, it backed into a trolley bus. The bus had to be retired. Eventually firemen got to the apartment, where they found only the coffee pot damaged. There were no serious injuries in the series of mishaps. ATTACKS COST REDS S2t SEOUL, Korea (JP) Intense Communist probing attacks again st Allied ridge-top positions cost the Reds an estimate 320 dead on the frozen Eastern Korean battle front, the Eighth Army announced Wednesday. SALKM PaJECIPITATlON Silica Start f Weather Teat Sept 1 This Tear Last Tear Normal 33.14 40 JM 25.09 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 14, 1952 Taft Shies From Primaries? f I ; Seeking Friend Sy De lega &ek Time Lacking For Campaign, Senator Says By WENDELL WEBB Managing Editor, The Statesman PORTLAND Fit, hungry and genial, Sen. Robert A. Taft brought to Oregon Wednesday his slam bang attack on the democratic ad ministration an attack he hopes will lead him to the presidency come the November vote. The Ohioan's day here began with an 8 a.m. press conference in the Multnomah Hotel, included many interviews with party stal warts, and closed with an address calling for a change in national leadership in the interests of "common honesty" in government. The senator made it clear, how ever, that he had no intention of testing the strength of his appeal in the Oregon primaries "I am not known out here, and there just isn't time enough for me to con duct a proper campaign." But there was no doubt he was hoping to line up GOP delegates who would switch to him at the July 7 Chicago convention if and when they were released by the candidate given Oregon's prefer ential vote in the May primaries. After 18 Minutes The morning press confab didn't last long it was before breakfast for some of the hungry news men, too. A pause in the questioning gave the GOP aspirant a chance to close the conversation and duck out to eat after only 18 minutes of commentary. In that 18 minutes, he managed to re-phrase and re-emphasize a good many of the issues he had discussed early this week in Spo kane and Seattle: Chinese Nation alist troops should be used against Communist forces on the mainland of China to draw Communist Strength from Korea; such action would not lead to World War III. Supreme Court Justice Walter Tooze stood in the connecting room doorway behind Taft as the senator, sitting cross-legged in a neat gray suit, flopped his glasses off and on as questioning proceed ed. A score of reporters were crowded into the room. Sees Danger At a late - afternoon church (Methodist) dinner, Taft asserted that the military burden and in flation put the nation "in danger of trying to extend ourselves be yond the scope of what America can do." And at the Civic Auditorium in the evening, at a Lincoln Day din ner, he lambasted the Truman ad ministration for asserted immoral conduct, too - costly government, bureaucratic regulation, a bungl ing foreign policy and an "unnec essary war." An overflow crowd estimated from 3,000 to 4,000 attended the dinner in the auditorium basement. Some were seated on the main floor, to which Taft's talk was brought by loud-speaker. The sen ator himself also paid a brief visit to those who could not crowd into the main hall. The senator had words of praise for Oregon's Republican adnainis tration. "The honest and efficient ad ministration of the affairs of state under Gov. McKay is a good indi cation of what we may hope for in Washington under a Republican administration," he said. With Oregon Senators "I have served a long time in the Senate now with your two able Republican senators," he added. "Guy Cordon has been a personal friend and he and I have agreed on the basic principles which have dictated the Republican course in Congress. "I have had more disagreement with Wayne Morse, but he always vigorously presents a point of view which forces those who differ with him to reconsider the correctness of their own views, and tends to a sounder judgment by the major ity in the Senate." (Additional details page 2) Warren Opposes Taft's China Policy NEW YORK (JP) - California's Gov. Earl Warren took issue Wed nesday night with a proposal by Ohio's Sen. Taft that the United States arm Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa for an invasion of Communist-held territory. "I don't see how we can just arm 300,000 soldiers and send them to conquer China unless we are prepared to follow through and finish the job for them if they failed, VWarren said. ACHESON STARTS TALKS LONDON (ifp)-Secretary of State Acheson plunged into- talks with British leaders Wednesday night to speed plans for hitching Ger man men and machines to the faltering Allied arms drive. V V z vU f . 7 SEN. ROBERT A. TAFT "Not Enough Time" Loucks to File For Second Mayor Term Salem's Mayor Alfred O. Loucks will file for another term in his present office instead of running for a seat in the state house of representatives. Loucks did not amplify this dis closure Wednesday, saying he would prepare a filing statement later. He has said previously that he was particularly interested in furthering plans for city parks and recreation and in finishing some of the other projects begun dur ing his present term. Loucks was elected mayor in 1950 in a three - way race with Harry V. Collins and Walter Mus grave. He is known to have been considering becoming a candidate for one of Marion County's four seats in the house. In other city political moves Wednesday, Alderman Claud Jor gensen took out petitions to circu late for nomination to another term as Ward 3 alderman. He is the third City Council in cumbent to file his name for re election. Aldermen Robert F. White and James Nicholson also have taken out petitions. The oth er alderman whose term expires, David O'Hara, is expected to seek reelection. Korea Casualty List Shrinks WASHINGTON UP- The De fense Department Wednesday re ported 237 more Korean war cas ualties, the smallest weekly fig ure for dead, wounded and miss ing since the fighting began. It made the total battle casualties for the war 105,508. At the same time the whole war total of missing was cut by 798, and 816 men were added to the roster of prisoners believed held by the enemy. The prisoner list went up to 991, and the "cur rent missing" dropped to 10,058. Sharon Midler Tops Parrish Spellers; Boy Wins in Polk A 13-year-old girl, Sharon Muller, won the title of champion speller in the 7th and 8th grades of Parrish Junior High W e d n e s day and wiH repre sent Parrish in a semi - finals of The : Oregon S t a t es man -KSLM Spell ing Contest. Sharon is an 8th-grader and daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Max r Muller, 657 N. 20th St. Sharon MuUer Reading is her favorite hobby. As Parrish spelling champion, she succeeds Mack Harris, now in the 9th grade and therefor ineligible, who went on to win the $100 de dense bond in the grand finals last year. Young Harris acted as judge in the Parrish competition Wednes day. Second place. in an unusually close contest at Parrish went to John Jelderks, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jelderks, 3625 D. St, and third place to Nancy Teague, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. U. Teague, S90 N. 15th St. Both are in the 8th grade. The contest was held at the school assembly. Word pronounc er was David Putnam, teacher. Teacher of the new Parrish PRICE 5c KfcuU 1m Fereed to U WASHINGTON OP) Another high tax official resigned; Wed nesday, by request, while his office was under investigation. And there were signs of a growing feud among probers of nation wide revenue irregularities. , ;J These were developments in a sudden new flareup in the tax scandal situation: 1. President Truman announced he had accepted the resignation of Frank Scofield, veteran $11,000 a year Internal Revenue collector for South Texas. Tax Commission er John B. Dunlap said a prelimi nary investigation "indicated it would be for the best interest of the revenue service that he sub mit his resignation. Scofield thus became the seventh of the nation's 64 regional tax col lectors to leave office in less than a year. Altogether, 166 tax em ployes were fired or required to resign last year, 60 for alleged dishonesty. Files "Whisked Away" 2. Dunlap said agents of a House subcommittee investigating the tax scandals have whisked away Rev enue Bureau files from New York "in the dead of the night." The files belonged to the Bu reau, not the subcommittee, Dun lap said. He added that the sub committee's action is "unpreced ented I never heard of such a thing before." 3. Theodore J. Naumann, deputy collector at Minto, N. D., was re lieved for alleged irregularities. Shortly afterwards, Naumann was arrested on charges of con verting collections from taxpayers to his own use. Ex-official Indicted 4. In San Francisco, John A. Malone, the suspended assistant chief of the income tax division of the Revenue Bureau there, was indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States. With others he was accused of conspir ing to backdate excise tax returns of a drug company to avoid penal ties. Scofield, 65, was appointed col lector by President Roosevelt in 1933 to take charge of a large district in South Texas, with head quarters at Austin. Scofield refused to see an As sociated Press reporter at Austin, Tex., where he is in a hospital. Mrs. Scofield said he was too ill to comment. She added that Dun lap's statement the resignation was requested is untrue. Offer Made for Eugene City Hall EUGENE (JP) A Portland mort gage firm Monday night offered to buy Eugene's ivy-covered 1903 model city halL Commonwealth, Inc., said in a letter to the City Council that an unidentified client wanted the site, and the ground occupied by the adjoining Eugene hospital and clinic, for a department store. Councilmen put off discussion until later. champion Is Robert Dow. Sharon will be in the semi finals at Leslie Junior High at 7:45 pjn. Monday, March 10, when champions of at least seven Salem-area schools will compete for the right to enter the grand finals early in April. Eighty-four schools are par ticipating in the contest. Elmer Jantzen, 12, a 7th grade student at Salt Creek School in Polk County, will com pete in a semi finals of The Oregon States man - KSLM Spelling Con test at Dallas Junior High, W e d n e s day, March 26 Elmer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Jantzen, was certified as his school's spell Elmer J anises ing champion Wednesday by his teacher and principal, Nada Hassler. His ma jor interests are reading, wood working and purebred cattle. No certification was received from Salt Creek for second and third-place winners." A certificate of merit has been sent to Elmer, signed by. Charles A. Sprague, publisher of The Statesman, and Glenn McConnick, . president of KSLM. Now 325 fflfcisi Bureau to End Sunervision JL . . ' ': Indian Tribes i WASHINGTON (-The Indian. Bureau is moving to end its super vision over some 41,300 Indians in Oregon. Washington and Califor-" nia. Corrimissioner Dillon S. Myer. said Wednesday. . ; First to be affected, heUold ia. reporter, will be some 43 groups and bands in the Grande Ronde-" Siletz agency of Oregon. Legisla tion to accomplish this is expected to go before Congress within th next two weeks. -.- :-: Myer said action probably a -be completed within six months after Congress acts. The Indian Bureau still is providing; sento medical care through a contract doctor and is supervising trust lands and funds. Most of its other supervisory activities already hsv been ended in the area. - Some three to five years mere may be acquired to accomplish the same results in California, Myer said, but the bureau has n agreement with the Indians bU. there and in Washington State-1 " DUsh the nriinn m As the Indian Bureau moves out, state governments are taking or ex schooling, police protection and. other services once provided Toy the bureau. The bureau still sub sidizes some state-operated schools to ease the transition from federal to state control, ,. Doerf ler First To File for ' Representative Filings of candidacies for office increased in tempo Wednesda-v. with the deadline only three-weeks way. Frank Doerfler of Salem, for mer state representative, filed for the Republican nomination to that office the first filing for oneiiof the four Marion County seats; in the house. (Reports persisted that Robert L. Elfstrom. Salem business man and former mayor, also & would file soon). s j Five other filings for the nous of representatives were recorded. including the feminine member ol the Richard L. Neuberge husband-wife team. And Neuberger filed again for the senate. Belli are Portland democrats. f i The other four house filings in eluded Rep. Henry Semen (D), Klamath Falls; Rep. Joseph?.-. Harvey (R), Portland; Jess W. Savage (R), Albany; Roderick' McKenzie (R), Sixes (Coos Coun ty). 2 U - Other filings: i? ) , District Attorney Donald nC Heisler, The Dalles, for re-election. ; U Circuit Judge Virgil H.--; Lang try, Portland, for re-election, is John Morgan (R), Portland, delegate. - i, TO HEAR TRUCE PLAN i :: MUNSAN, Korea CVCo'm munlst and Allied negotiators Thursday agreed to a plenary session of the armistice delega tions. Saturday to hear the re vised Red proposals for a final Korean peace settlement. 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