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Th Stcrt man, ScUm. Oregon, Wdn aery, Marca 8, 1852 6 More Girls Win School Spelling Titles (Contest schedule Pare 1) Gervais Odie Hall, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hall. Gervais, will represent Ger vais bcnooi m the semi - finals of The. States- man - K sLM Spelling Contest I firs' '? (at Hubbard next III 4S Tuesday night. !r: Odie, who en V . v joys the movies j ' just as much as Jt spelling, was cer tified as Gervais Odie Hall spelling cham pion by her principal and teach er, Carl Jorgensen. Ena Roberts, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Roberts, and Darrell McCall, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCall, won second and third, respectively. All three Gervais spelling winners are 8th graders. St Paul Carol Ernst, 13, who plays the piano and organ, topped the spellers at St. Paul's Academy and was certified bv her principal. Sister Rosanne . Marv. to enter I ; - - s The Statesman-f " I S -i nals. V 8th grade, is the daughter of Mr. v Ernst. She wiU compete l nuU- cmrol Ernst, bard at 7:45 pjn. next Tuesday with winners from 10 other schools. Her teacher is Bister Anselm Mary. Second place at St. Paul's Acad emy was won by Joanne Van Dyke, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Van Dyke, and third place by Rosalee Forsyth, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mer rill Forsyth. Both Joanne and Rosalee are in the 7th grade. Salem Christian Marie Schin dler, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schindler, 1355 Fairmount Ave., Salem, will represent Salem Christian Grade F s ki s ttatesman- L KSLM S p elling V.W -Contest. I N likes to r I to collec Marie, w n o read and collect rocks, h e 7th grade at Salem Christian. Her Marie Schindler teacher and principal is Miss Gwen Shoemaker. The Salem Christian champion will compete in the contest's semi finals at Leslie Junior High at 7:45 p.m. Monday, March 10, with spelling winners from six other echools. Scotts Mills Carol Jones, 13, j who rides horses and plays bas- i ketball in addition to practicing i s pe 1 1 i n g , will compete in The Spelling Contest as cham pion of the Scotts Mills School. Carol, 8th grade daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jones was certified for I the semi - finals at M t . Angel, Carol Jones March 27, by her teacher and principal. R. F. Cook. Mona Nomer, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Asa Nomer, and Barbara Groshong, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Groshong, placed second and third, respec tively. Mona is in the 8th grade, Barbara the 7th. Mona was third place winner a year ago. Cloverdale Ival Parker, a 13-year-old 8th-grader, will repre sent Cloverdale School in the semi - finals of .The Statesman- IKSLM SDelline IContest at Tur ner, Monday night, March 24. 4 I li - "- rj f ier oi jvlt. ana 7 V r Mr. v r ro- V&L-v ' :r. She Jikes to OA .,.read and listen o the radio I II J !, IvmlParkar al1" I v a 1 s teacher and principal is Vestal Matter. Margie Drager, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Drager, and James Wrey, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wrey, won second and third places, respectively. Margie and James are in the 8th grade. Clear Lake Carol Mason. 12. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Mason, route 2, box 267. Salem, won highest , spelling honors JJ8fNJ et Clear Lake School. A 7th- J -declared the win ner by her teach er and principal Miss Grace R. Klampe. f Carol, who also likes reading and drawing, will compete in the Carol Mason semi-finals of The Statesman KSLM Spelling Contest at Keizer, Wednesday, March 12. Second place at Clear Lake was won by Margot Purdum, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Purdum, route 2, box 275, Salem, and third place by Larry McEn tarffer, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Primo Ocupe, route 2, box 201, Salem. Margot and Larry a Lev art In the 7th trade. I v; Critical Housing Area Enlarged WASHINGTON (Py-The Defense Production Administration an nounced Tuesday enlargement of the critical housing area of Uma-tilla-Hermiston, Ore. The Umatilla - Hermiston area was extended to take in the city of Echo, Ore., as well as the cities of Stanfield, Hermiston and Uma tilla. The entire area is now cov ered by rent control and real estate credit decontrol. 5,000 More Job Seekers Than Year Ago State employment offices Tues day reported nearly 10,000 work ers returning to their jobs during February, leaving 40,167 active job seekers, or approximately 5,000 more than a year ago. With the exception of Baker, La Grande and Lakeview, every one of the 26 areas of Oregon re ported fewer unemployed than on February 1, 1951. The back-to-work trend was most pronounced around Hood River, Tillamook, Lebanon and Toledo where mod erating weather stimulated re newed lumber conditions. Fish canneries helped at Astoria. Portland reported 12,000 per sons seeking jobs, 2000 more than a year ago, while Hillsboro, Ore gon City, McMinnville and The Dalles also were in this group. Eugene and Salem dropped well below comparable 1951 figures. Claims for unemployment in surance also declined materially. Only 24,009 asked compensation during the last half of February, slightly higher than a year ago but about half of the same 1950 period. Payments to temporarily idle workers last month aggre gated $2,575,602, just under Janu ary totals but $1,000,000 higher than a year ago. The average number of weekly checks, 29,000, has been exceeded ln three of the six previous post-war Februaries. New claims fell to 6062, but 82,253 are now on the rolls. This is 3800 below the total for the en tire benefit year of 1950-51, Only 4000 have exahusted their 1951 52 benefits as compared with 7000 a year ago. Morse Labels Plan to Push Him Into President Race as 'Trick7 (Story also on Page 1.) Sen. Wayne Morse said here Tuesday that the proposal to enter his name in Oregon's Republican presidential primarv is "an act of political trickery aimed at embarrassing me and devised to split the Eisenhower vote." Announcing he has filed for delegate to the Republican national convention as "political self protection," Morse said: I do not know for a certaintv if political enemies of mine will file petitions placing my name on the primary ballot as a favorite son candidate for the presidency." Senator Morse, an Eisenhower supporter, said " if he is elected delegate to the convention, he would work hard "to adopt a plat- form sound in Republican princi- j pies anu iurwaiu luuMiiij in cum- mitments so that we can appeal i l z i i l : . . mitments so mat we can appeal to the independent vote in this tr : country Leaves for Portland The senator left early In the : afternoon for Portland, prior to returning to Washington by plane, j He had filed his candidacy as ; delegate, addressed the Kiwanis ! Club and made a quick round of ! calls in Salem within a few hours, i At the club luncheon Mor$e said the U. S. must be willing to scrap airplanes every three or four years in order to assure a production that would provide "ceiling protection." Morse said that he had called for a production accounting of aircraft production to "see why We don't have air superiority." This ac counting was assured by Sen; Lyn don, Johnson, chairman of the armed services "watchdog" : com mittee of the Senate, of which Morse is a member. Advance in Design said that one reason given for restricted output of planes Is the rapid advance in design which makes craft obsolete before they can be put into mass production. Although all possible waste must be eliminated, Morse declared, he is willing to throw planes away in three to four years if it means they can be made now in quan tities sufficient to "provide ceiling protection for troops in Korea and our homes." The senator said the need for overcoming waste is especially strong in view of increased costs since the end of World War II. These included more than $300, 000 to produce a B-29 bomber, now obsolete, compared to more than $3,000,000 to produce a bomber adequate today. While the Norden bombsight was made for $4,800, today's costs $300,000. "Position of Strangth" Morse reiterated his confidence in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, point ing out that that group wants the U. S. to be in position to shorten any possible war, hoping at the same time that "a position of strength' will prevent war. The soundest defense in Europe, he said, is building up its economy 1 Bet You Can't Identify This . ' . , Most persona won't recornixe the car above, bnt it li a 1937 Jndklns-Lincoln limousine. Custom-built dur ing the depression it is now a collectors' item and was purchased recently by Milan C. Boniface, Sa lem used car dealer shown above with car. The hure limousine cost $10,500 when new and featured many advanced mechanical improvement such as power brakes. (Statesman photo.) Reds Say U.S. Using 3 Jap Germ Experts MOSCOW (A)- The Soviet press and radio charged Tuesday that American commanders in Korea are employing three Jap anese germ experts to further use of bacteriological weapons. The Japanese were named as Shiro Ishi, Dziro Wakamatsu and Masadzo Kitano. Dispatches in the Soviet press accused the Japanese of using Korean and Chinese prisoners of war in experiments in Korea. Mention of Ishi and Wakamatsu is not new. They were named in Communist Chinese charges last year that the U. N. forces were planning germ warfare. The papers also gave accounts of strange-looking bugs reported found in Korea; they said the bugs were infected with germs by U. S. specialists. DALLAS CHURCH PLANS FILM Statesman News Service DALLAS A science-religious Design Improves film, "Hidden Treasures." will be: The cars were improved in de shown at 7:30 Wednesday night, sign and safety by the manufac March 5, at the First Christian j turers with an eve to the comfort Ctturcn here. All other churches in I this area have been invited to at tend. and production, and this has prog ressed far enough to make some budget savings this year. As to Asia, he struck at advo cates of a Nationalist invasion of China, holding that "there are now 600,000 Nationalist soldiers on For jauncn mosa ready, wining or able to an invasion." The Chinese .. ,, . , frmy Js equipped or , t d h declared and lacks . aeciarea- ara lac" vessels for transportation, as well aif ,u t Bennett Files For Mayor PORTLAND (P)-City Commis sioner Jake Bennett, target of re call petitions, filed Tuesday to run for mayor. That makes" five candidates for sure and at least one more probable. Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee is a candidate for re-election. Lew Wallace, veteran office-seeker, and two political unknowns. Barber Arthur Lillie and Restaurateur Maurice Willinger, also have an nounced. City Commissioner Fred Peterson has been talking about it. Fall Injures Dallas Woman Statesman Newt Service DALLAS Mrs. Minnie Morri son, 75, long-time resident of Dal las, fractured her right hip 'Tues day and was taken to Dallas Hos pital, where she was reported "resting comfortably" Tuesday night. Mrs. Morrison fell at her home, 511 Jefferson St. She has lived here for the past 60 years. She is the widow of the late Frank Mor rison, a rural mail carrier, who died about 10 years ago. GRAND RONDE FIRM FILES The Doty Manufacturing Com pany, Grand Ronde, with capital stock' of $7,000, fied articles of incorporation with the State Cor poration Commissioner in Salem Tuesday. The articles were filed by Eldon and Nellie R. Doty and W. N. Simmons. rrm mm l nmmmuissttsraesivr 23.Ftf!Jsi "LMrr Venerable Limousine Shows Young Cars a Thing or Two By DON DILL Staff Writer. The Statesman Some fellows are thought to have rocks in their heads by their friends, especially when they pay out good money for a 15-year-old car instead of buying a new one. Actually these fellows have wheels in their heads. And the wheels are those found on four-wheeled ve hicles propelled by an engine. Such persons are auto cranks like Milan C. Boniface of 690 Waldo Ave. They get their fun from own ing some special automobile, per haps an antique, hot rod, a flashy foreign sports job or one of the so-called classic cars produced ten to thirty years ago. The sport of owning, maintaining and driving these particular vehicles is fast growing in the United States, re viving after a decline during de pression years. Automobiling in this country began as a sport in the 1890s when autos were all hand-made con traptions of great unreliability. The drivers were regarded as very brave men as well as having to be well muscled to keep the horse less carriages in the buggy tracks. After the first world war the auto industry and its mass production made the automobile as familiar as Alexander's Rag Time Band. and well-beine of the ladv of the house. The result was the family auto. This caused a demand for custom cars . . . dashing road sters such as the Stutz and Dusen berg ... by the better heeled and more nervv sports fan who wanted to pass everything on the road and : climb Pike's Peak first. In the lush period just before the Wall Street crash, custom auto builders were operating from Los Angeles to Long Island. Most of them had to turn to more mundane work for their beans and bacon during the depression, but a few managed to survive by building plush limousines for the moneyed peoples of here and abroad. The editions were limited and those that happened to survive age, wrecks and depreciation are avid ly sought by collectors. Only 10 Made One such custom classic is the Judkins-Lincoln limousine. It was made in 1937 by the J. B. Judkins Co., of Merrimac, Mass., on a j t :.i. Lmcohi chassis. Only ten such I "mousines were made and they t the DUrchaser a cool $10 500 cost tne, purcnaser a cooi iu,juu each, which was a small fortune bv 1937 standards. One of the ten is now owned by Milan C. Boni face, owner of the Aynbee Motors in Salem. Boniface recently pur chased the Judkins-Lincoln from a Klamath Falls auto collector, and, aside from having to con vince his wife that he is still sane, is like the Democrats with a new candidate. Boniface's pride Is a chocolate brown behemoth of 150-inch wheelbase. The engine is a 414-cubic-inch V-12 of 160 horse power, and has a bore of 3's inches and 4ls inch stroke. The heads and pan are of aluminum, as is the body which was hand formed over a hard wood frame. Thermostats control radiator and hood louvres for correct control of engine temperature. Floor heat ers in front and rear compart ments provide for cold weather comfort, and a radio is placed in the rear compartment. Window frames and dash are of hand carved walnut. Power brakes are another feature of this 15-year-old car which has been driven only 68,000 miles. The special Lincoln chassis upon which this custom was built is among the last made during the depression period, but the resurg ence of custom work, especially in California, is giving many persons the auto bug and making autoing the sport it was in grandfather's day. It has been estimated that U. S. farmers and ranchers added from five to eight million head of cat tle to their herds in 1951. SAVE Where Savings Pays FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 21 1 2 Current Rate 129 N. Commercial Salem Automobile r L t t 3, Acheson Labels Germ Warfare As 'Nonsense' WASHINGTON (P)-Secretary of State Acheson Tuesday denounced as "false nonsense" the charge spread over the world by the Com munists that the United Nations' forces are waging germ warfare in Korea. He challenged Red China and North Korea to submit the charge : to an impartial in estigation by an agency such as the Internation al Committee of the Red Cros?. With the challenge he coupled a I counter-charge that the Com munists are stalling in the Korean peace negotiations. There appears to be a serious epidemic of plague in North Korea. : Acheson said, but declared this is due to the inability of the Com munists to care for people under their control and not to a "fan- ' tactic plot'' by the U.N. Forces. Moscow and all the Soviet bloc propaganda agencies have been emphasizing the germ war charges for ,the past week. Red China started the barrage of accusations ! and has followed up with detailed I evidence and reports of protest mass meetings. The original story was that germ - infected insects were dropped repeatedly from Ameri can planes, beginning about Jan. 18. This has now been broadened to include the accusation that bugs were lobbed across the fighting lines by artillery shells. The United States rather than its U. N. allies has been the target. Polk County Candidates File DAT J. AS Democratic candi dates for Polk Countv Treasurer and County Commissioner were filed this week with the Polk County Clerk, it Tuesday. was reported Mrs. Harriett H. Enstad of Dal las filed as a Democratic candi date in the May primary election for County Treasurer. Only other candidate for the office is Louis W. Plummer, Dallas, a Repub lican. Incumbent Tracy Staats has said he will not seek reelection. Gilbert F. Loy, Buena Vista, filed as Democratic candidate for County Commissioner, Incumbent C. L. Burbank, Republican, has filed for reelection. SPRING TEEM. Enroll Now for COMMERCIAL CLA Offered: Bookkeeping, comptometer, calculator, posting machines, dictaphone, typewriting, shorthand, English letter writing, spelling and vocabulary building, payroll, mathematics and filing. We take a personal interest in your progress and future placement. ; Capital Business Colle 345 Court Street - Phone 3-5987 for a Free Bulletin O'Dvyer'sPal, Moran, Given 12 to 28 Years NEW YORK (JP) - James J. Moran, who flourished as a shake xiown artist during ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer's Democratic re gime, drew 12 '2 to 28 years in prison Tuesday for extortion and conspiracy. He received 12'i to 25 years for extortion and an added indeterm inate sentence of up to three years for conspiracy. The stiff sentence indicated that Moran refused to the last to open up and say what happened to the loct from his $500,000 a year fire department shakedown racket. General Sessions Judge John Mullen, who sentenced him, said the beefy defendant may have cached the loot for himself. Big Income Mullen said Moran, the father of four children, would have need ed a legitimate income of $500,000 to one million dollars a year to net the tax-free graft he took from his racket. Moran's florid face was pinker than usual as he left the court room. But he left head up, shoul ders back, step firm. It was the second misstep for Moran, who went up the political ladder step by step with O'Dwyer before the former mayor quit in 1950 to become ambassador to Mexico. Under Sentence Moran already Is under five year federal prison sentence and $2,000 fine for lying to the Ke fauver Senate Crime Committee last year about his friendship with a Brooklyn numbers racketeer, Louis Weber. Presumably, the federal govern ments gets first crack at putting Moran behind bars. A federal ap peals court upheld the sentence last week. Tuesday's sentence grew out of a jury trial that ended Feb. 5. Moran was convicted as the mas termind of a plot, whereby fuel oil firms were forced to pay tribute to obtain city permits to install equipment. 'Nothing New' Truce Parley Chiefs State MUNSAN. Korea (JF- Allied and Communif-t staf officers, deadlocked on supervision of a Korean truce, adjourned Wednes day after meeting for only 14 min utes. Air Force Col. D. O Darrow, U. N. Command staff officer, said "I told them I had nothing new Bt nil nn rt. nf ontrv or antral nations and that it would be wasting time to repeat what I have said. "Colonel Chang, North Korean Communist staff officer, said practically the same thing and wp npreeH tn rcrets " The staff officers agreed to : tne identity oi me suomarmts ic meet again Thursday. j ported sighted. The Communists insisted Tues- ! But Dominican officials said in day that 50.000 unaccounted for vef.tigation proved definitely that South Korean prisoners "do not the submarines were Russian be exxist." But Red propaganda i cause only Russian submarines use loudspeakers at the front flatly ; a certain type of light, contradicted them. 1 Between artillery barrages, the Red loudspeakers boasted that captured South Korean troops now were fighting against the United Nations and blared this invitation to other Republic troops: "Come to us." The U. N. command again de- manaea tne ommumsis suppi data on the missing 50.000 South ern Korean troops and include them in any prisoner exchange. No nrosrress was made Tuesday. The Reds refused to give up their insistence on Russia as a neutral truce inspector, despite Allied re jection of that nation. The Allies were equally firm in insisting on voluntary repatria tion of war prisoners and said they would not send back to the Reds any prisoners who did not wish to go. Class Schedules to Fit Your Time Single subjects, half-day, full-day, evening classes. Full Docket Greets Netv Judge I ' 1 lit : I If I I 4 L A full dockrt sreeted new Municipal Jadfe Douflas Hay Monday morning-, his second day in the new position. Here Judre Hay listens to a witness during his early morning court. He replaces Peery T. Buren who resigned early in February. (Statesman photo.) Russian Subs Said Sighted In Caribbean CIUDAD TRUJILLO, Domini can Republic -P-The Dominican Republic's secretary of war said Tuesday his country will complain to the U. N. Security Council that Rusian submarines have violated Dominican territorial waters. The Dominican government an nounced Monday "hat five Russian submarines had been sighted in Dominican waters and at a point PC miles from Mayaguez, Puerto Rit o In Washington, the U.S. Navy chongeri its earlier attitude which discounted the story and an nounced that Rear Adm. Marshal R. Grier. commander of the Carib bean Sea Frontier, has been asked to investigate and report. The mysterious submarines were reported around Samana Bay on t the nOfineaSt rim Ol Uie WOlliuu ; can Republic. i The U. S. Atlantic fleet is con ! ducting an exercise in Caribbean I waters and there were suggestions ; that a recent Navy announcement j of tests on a new type of "killer submarine" might hold the key, to IRISH SHIPPING DUBLIN (INS) A new ship building program aimed at mak ing Ireland independent of for eign shipping in wartime has been started by the Irish government. Irish Shipping, Limited, the state owned company plying a fleet of vessels on the trans-Atlantic and other world routes, has placed orders for five new ships to be ! delivered between 193Z and lyao. 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