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WMB nc n tp So D2 siOgr Weather Max. Min. Precip, Saleaa ..... 4 19 . Portland 53 32 .00 San franclseo 59 47 .00 Chicago 62 48 .08 New York 55 40 M Willamette River 6 ? feet, FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau, McNary field. , Salem ) : Partly cloudy today, tonight and Wednesday. High today 52 to 54. low tonight 29 31. Temperature in Salem at 12:01 jn. S3 decrees. 102nd YEAR RfflcGrafth' Turns On (jSraiFt Pralbeo- WASHINGTON iJP) - Attorney General McGrath abruptly jerked the rug frbm under Newbold Morris Monday, declaring he would not appoint the administration's corruption sleuth as his special assistant if he had to do it over again. The attorney general's statement created a situation in which if it comes to a head President Truman may have to choose between mww W J I ' f Last week in Tokyo General Ridgway gave an interview of importance, whifti unfortunately ha not received the attention it deserved in this country. At a time when the truce talks "drag on" with no end m sight, and when the Korean War is being thrust into the cauldron of do mestic politics Ridgway gave some sage advice which it is well for our people at home to heed. Ridewav is a military man, through and through; and a very competent one as ne aemonsiraiea auickly wnen ne toon. cunimmu i the pround forces after the dis astrous repulse of the MacArthur drive to the Yalu ana tne aeam of Lt. Uen. waiKer wimuut uuu , he was directing ..all departments as a military man he would prefer . and agencies t cooperate to fight the enemy to tu- knees jj ,, with M u and and make them sue for peace. Un- , information he may require." like his PrteceH in the House, Presides 2? consent of AM..m on the pressing question of war and peace in Korea. He admitted what all of Ais rec ognize that "you find your pa tience sorely tried when Sealing V1CW dUUna a--ii wl.v j . in any way with the Communist j negotiators?' He added this: i "But patience is a necessity, ine stakes in this case are not only (Continued on editorial page, 4) March Rain Below Normal March, the windy month, ended last night with nothing much to show for its exit but a chilly 33 degrees. Salem weather bureau reported that the wind for the month was prevailing southerly which, old timers will swear, mea'ns rain. However, rain .was 1.29 inches below normal with a paltry 2.59 inches total. The greatest reported total rainfall for any 24 hours was .67 inches on the 23rd and 24th. It might be remembered that last year a week-long snow storm, which started March 4, dumped 10.9 inches of white blanketing on the city. Average monthly temperature was 44 degrees which is a reported 2.5 degrees below normal. March 27th had the warmest day of the month with a balmy 67 degrees but residents shivered on March 22nd with a low of 26 degrees. Cloudy days were in for the month with a reported 25 cloudy days, three clear and three partly cloudy. Brush Clearance at Cemetery Underway Brush clearance at the Odd Fel lows Cemetery on South Commer cial Street is underway. City crews have started to clean up the undergrowth while discus sions continue between city and county officials and the cemetery association on a plan for cleaning up and maintaining the historic cemetery. Animal Crackors Bv WARREN GOODRICH "Eqadl W.'r. trpp4r 1 ! A ( 16 PAGES Morris and McQrath, with one ox them leaving the government. This possibility arose when Mc Grath told a House investigating committee that he was not sure whether he would fill out the fi nancial questionnaire Morris has prepared for him and 595 other officials in the Justice Depart ment. Morris has said he expects the President to fire any government official who refused to complete the questionnaire and return it. The long, probing document is the first s'ep in Morris' search for wrong-doing in the federal gov ernment. McGrath's change of heart re garding Morris a man he himself picked for the cleanup job was disclosed when Rept. Keating (R N. Y.) asked him whether he would appoint Morris a special assistant now, in the light of de velopments. "I would not," the attorney gen eral said flatly. iater, asxea n ne would appeal j to the President in the event of ; a justice iepartment snuD or his questionnaire, he said "Let's wait and see what hap pens." Too 1 A If- hp : j a chance to read the attorney gen erals testimony. U.S. Sabre Jets Down 6 MIGs SEOUL (-American Sabre Jets Tuesday destroyed six Russian made MIG-15 jets and damaged two in a series of swirling air bat tles high over North Korea. The sleek Sabres blasted five of the MIGs out of the sky in one engagement. Maj. William H. Westcott, Terre Haute, Ind., and Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, Cassopolis, Mich., each bagged two of the Communist warplanes. Col. Francis Gabreski, Oil City, Pa., shot down the fifth MIG and became a jet ace. He previously had four and one-half destroyed. Wife Has Last Word for 17 Years SAN JOSE, Calif. (P)-Mrs. Mary Chew, 48, of Palo Alto, testified Monday the last words her hus band spoke to her were "all right." But Superior Judge Byrl S. Sals man granted her a divorce after she explained that he spoke them 17 years ago and hadn't said a word to her since, although they didn't separate until November, 1950. Politics on Parade . . . Who's Running for What in the May Primaries ! (Editor' bote: Storlei'in the "Po litical Parade" are written by or for the candidates, on Invitation of The Oregon Statesman, and views ex pressed herein may or may not he in accordance with the opinion of this newspaper. The articles are published la the public interest, and without obligation on the part of anyone.) Today's subject F. C. GREEN Candidate for SCHOOL SUPT. (POLK) F. C. Green of Dallas is seeking the position as Polk County super intendent of schools. He is at pres ent an instruc tor of mathe matics at Dallas High School, a position he has held tor the past eight years. Be sides regular school work, Mr. Green is ac tive in the edu cational field. He has been a of the F. C. Green Polk County Teachers Association. He acted as a representative teach er in the round table discussion group before a joint meeting of x i V- " " w . . f ff ? i- Barkley Expected To Run By The Associated Press Sen. George (D-Ga.) said Mon day he expects Vice President Barkley to bid for the Democratic presidential nomination now that President Truman has stepped aside. But the 74-year-old Barkley normally the most articulate of politicians, would say only that "I have no statement to make" and "I don't care to talk about the con vention." George said "it will be a week or more before the air clears and we know who all the candidates are." Sen. Byrd (D-Va.) said Tru man's withdrawal from the Demo cratic contest "enhances the op portunity for Sen. Russell (D-Ga.) to obtain the Democratic nomina tion." Byrd, long a critic of the Tru man administration, said that with a 1952 party platform acceptable to the South, Russell would be "a very appealing candidate to all sections of the country, and a great President." With nothing very conclusive in sight in Washington, the politicos studied Tuesday's primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska, particu larly the situation of Sen. Robert A. Taft of C in the Wisconsin Republican voting. Taft is staking much of his cam paign for the Republican presiden tial nomination on what happens in Wisconsin; he has said he will win 20 of the 30 delegate contests there. His opponents do not include Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who trounced him in New Hampshire but Harold E. Stassen has offered to shaFe with the general one-half of any delegate votes he wins. Ike Second Choice Also Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia is in the race and a slate of delegates running under the Warren banner was designated Eisenhower as its second choice. A fourth slate is sur-nortinf Gen. Douglas MacArthur who says be is not a candidate. In the Democratic primary in Wisconsin, Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee was regarded as in a happy position. Kefauveri's slate of- delegates is opposed by two rival groups in the state's Demo cratic politics. Both had been pledged to Truman. One representing the group in control of the party machinery will now run uninstructed. The other is still pledged, on the theory that Truman might be a candidate after all. Kerr vs. Kefauver In Nebraska, the Truman with drawal served to put into clearer focus the rivalry between Kefau ver and Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma. Kerr, who had planned to step out of the Democratic presidential race if Truman ran, is now on his own. Stassen is the only big name entry in Nebraska's republican primary, but intense write-in-the-vote campaigns on behalf of Taft and Eisenhower have heightened the interest. Back in Washington, there was some agitation for House Speaker Ray burn as well as Vice President Barkley. Rep. Patman (D-Tex.) urged Texas Democrats to line up behind Texan Rayburn as "the best qualified man" for the party nomination. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Year 388 Laat Year 46.29 Normal 31.41 the Polk County school boards and the Polk County Teachers Association. At present he is lead er of the mathematics section of the Regional Section Work Con ference for high school teachers. Rapid educational changes are taking place within Polk County. In order to keep informed as to the thinking of school officials he has recently studied and completed courses in public school finance, vocational guidance, testing and measurements, resources of Ore gon, school organization, curricu lum workshop, occupational and educational information, and su pervision of schools. Mr. Green feels that mature judgment is needed in meeting these changes, judgment that will be fair to the school child, school patron, school district and the teacher. Mr. Green thinks the cit izens of Polk County should study and judge the Holy report which pertains to consolidation of schools, in an unbiased way. He hopes to render good service in the educa tional field by becoming the next superintendent of schools in Polk County. (Tomorrow: Marcel Chrisman) POUNDBD 1651 The Orocon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, 7I Got Stuck Getting My Balloon, That'sAII' r - " - - - He's pretty ma4 at baloons. Is 4 -year-old Benny Bropby. He chased one Into a culvert Monday and got stuck. Salem First Aid Capt. E. C. Hart (above) helped pull him out. Below, Benny points to the spot where he got all tied up with himself. Deputy Sheriff Harvey Frankum, Captain Hart and First Aidman Robert Blegen are glad ill-T : r 4 -i m . A, - ... Quick-Thinking Salem Police Avert Train-Truck Tragedy By JAMES B. MILLER SUff Writer, The SUtesman Six minutes of split-second thinking Monday evening by two Salem police officers kept tragedy from striking at the scene of an accident at 12th and Court Streets. An accident at 8:57 p.m. involving a Northwest Grocery GMC truck and trailer driven by Page Allen Whilcher, of Portland, and a 1950 Ford sedan driven by Nicholas Dewey Sumech, of Blachly, Ore., was answered by two city police officers. The two vehicles had collided across the railroad tracks at this intersection. A third officer. Captain Leland Weaver, was cruising near the scene of the accident and, hearing the accident report, chose to drive north of the accident to be sure a train was not in the vicinity. As he drove north on 14th Street he noted, two blocks down, the acci dent on Court and as he crossed Chemeketa Street, one block north, he saw the railroad stop sign was in motion. Swinging immediately to 12th Street, he leaped from his car to flag the passenger train. The southbound train had two engines and 22-heavily loaded cars. Seeing the train nearing the accident another police officer at the scene yelled at the crowd to step back and then ran with a flashlight between the truck and the oncoming train. As the train passed him at 9:03 pan., Weaver saw the fireman shout a warning to the engineer. With only one block between them and the vehicles, the en gineer and fireman were able to stop the train . . . less than one inch from the truck. "I have never seen tragedy come so close," Capt. Weaver stated. "There is no doubt in my mind that if that tram hadn't been able to ston the truck would have been overturned onto some W bystanders as well as the two I i Tuesday, April 1, 1952 he s out, too. police officers on duty there and the passenger of the car who, un able to see the train's approach, was sitting in his vehicle." Demo Write-in Drive for Ike Starts in Oregon PORTLAND (JP)-A Democratic write-in vote for Gen. Dwight Eisenhower on the Oregon primary ballot was urged here Monday. W. W. Campbell, Portland, chairman of the Veterans Draft Eisenhower Committee, said he feared the Republicans would not nominate Eisenhower for presi dent. "Obviously the old guard Re publicans in control of the party machinery do not like Ike and if they can't get Taft. will probably go for MacArthur . . . Oregon Democrats for Eisenhower Have considerable hope that when the Republican convention turns Eis enhower down, the Democratic party will heed the cry of the people and draft Eisenhower," he said. STRIKE POSTPONED PORTLAND (JP) - AFL metal trades workers Monday night postponed their strike deadline for one week until April 8. PRICE 5c Benny Fhuls Culvert Cold, Hard, Muddy There's no sense going head ! first into a hole you can't see a thing that way. And its scary, I too. So 4Vi-year-old Benny Bro- , phy did the perfectly obvious ; thing when his balloon .bounced : Sr', :e","Ty- x.vrt. m. foot around it. , , . ! tnOUBfl. the Somehow or other, foot got wedged in with a knee j mg position with the federal gov and Benny got wedged in with ! erinment both and the first aid car came' " . , . on the double. A long arm and a! The Governor said a Chinese helmncr hand .muwi.Pri Rnrw student also has been temporarily and in 20 minutes or so he was dragged out muddy, a little dis gusted at balloons in general, and willing to admit that cement cul verts are cold, hard and scratchy. Benny is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Brophy, 1920 S. Cottage St. He got himself in the jam at the Charles A. Linday nome, nuisey ve., wnere ne and his mother had dropped in for a chat. The balloon also was salvaged. Combat Pay Boost Gains WASHINGTON (JP) - The Sen ate voted Monday to give every one in the armed forces a 3 per cent pay boost and give men un der fire in Korea an extra $45 a month. Now the measure goes back to the House. There, a radically different pay bill, calling for a 10 per cent pay boost for all in uniform, was passed in January. Unless the House accepts the Senate version, which is unlikely, the differences will be ironed out by a Senate-House conference committee. Public Invited to Grand Finals Of Spelling Contest Thursday Final plans for a gala time were completed Monday for the cham pion spellers of the 7th and 8th grades in Marion and Polk Coun ties. The . spellers 21 girls and 8 boys will compete in the grand finals of The Oregon Statesman KSLM Spelling Contest Thursday. Parrish Junior High will be host school, : at 7:45 p.m-" The 27 entrants .survivors in intensive competition between 85 schools and their 27 teachers will be guests of the sponsors at a din ner at Parrish Junior High im- mediately preceding the finals. The families and friends of the spellers may attend, too, on a no host basis, and when dinner res ervations closed last night it ap peared attendance would approxi mate 100. No. 5 Nishioka To Get I State Job An American-born Japanese disabled war veteran, who re cently was refused a job with -the Oregon Tax Commission, was of fered the job again Monday and he accepted it. Sagie Nishioka, 31, said Mon day night in Seattle that he will accept the job of junior account ant with the commission. This is the same job which was denied him last month because of his race. Earlier Monday Gov. Douglas McKay referred to the previous action of the tax commission as "stupid and a damned outrage." Records of the civil service com mission Monday also showed that Nishioka had been certified by civil service to the State Highway Commission as a tax auditor last October, and had been "consid ered." The record does not show why he was not hired. The State Board of Control and State Tax Commission had a two hour meeting in the executive de partment Monday afternoon. Newspaper reporters were ex cluded from the meeting which was called by Gov. Douglas iMc Kay. Application Rejected Although Nishioka previously topped the State Civil Service panel of three for a position in the Tax Commission his applica tion was rejected. State Labor Commissioner W. E. Kimsey later charged that the commission had viblated the State Fair Employ ment Act in refusing Nisiuoka employment. A tax official said that Nishioka had previously topped a list as tax auditor I. Later, said the of ficial, an opening appeared for the junior accountant position. Nishio ka applied for this job, and it was over the junior accountant posi tion andjiot the tax auditor, job that the argument flared. Against Policy A statement by Governor Mc Kay, issued after Monday's meet ing, emphasized "it has not been the policy of the State Tax Com mission to discriminate against anyone because of race, religion, color or national origin." "As a matter of fact," Governor McKay's statement read, "the Portland office of the Tax Com nsion employed a Chinese girl - roAnt An ct fnr i-nsM-n than A year. She resigned of her own .,i;.; not a nV.r nn,r ! emnloved bv the Tax Commission the past two summers. "As Governor of Oregon," Mc Kay said, "I expect all state de partments to set an example of conforming to the law." Kimsey, as administrator of Oregon's 1949 fair employment practices law, said Tax Commis sioner Ray Smith admitted to him that he didn't hire Nishioka be cause the public wouldn't approve of hiring a Japanese. Passes Blame Smith tossed the blame to his personnel director, Jason Lee, as serting that he (Smith) didn't even know Nishioka had been turned down until the newspapers printed the story last week. Lee, who said he had recom mended consistently that Nishioka be hired, said "I bitterly resent the statement that I refused to hire Nishioka." The public turned the heat on the governor and tax commission. Both got many letters protesting against the refusal to give a job to Nishioka, who was in a hos pital 18 months recovering from wounds received fighting in Eu rope in World War II. The Purple Heart veteran said in Seattle he has "no bad feeling of any kind" as a result of the case. He said he preferred not to make any extended comment Attendance at the contest Itself is expected to run closer to J000. The contest is open free to the public. -Ti H 0i at t H -finftlc will ho Ss 1 1 preme Court Justice HaroldJ Warner and Circuit Judges-Rex Kimmell and Arlie Walker. "Dave Hoss, KSLM, will be master of ceremonies, and WendeU Webb, Oregon Statesman, word-caller. The top three spellers in the grand finals will receive SI 00, $50 and $25 defense bonds, respect fully. '. The finalists comprise the top three spellers in each of nine semi- lfinal, ,t Brush CoUege, Dal las, Hubbard, Independence, Keiz er, Leslie Junior High in Salem, ML Angel, Stayton and Turner.. KSLM will broadcast the finals between &30 and 8:55 pm.; and from 820 pjn. to conclusion.; Projects! ' May Be; !-; -.."11 4 - On Ballot By EOBEST E. GANG WARS City Editor, The Statesman; Widening sections of South Hiv- . er Road, State, High, 12th and Fer ry Streets is proposed in a $190,- -500 bond issue bill noW before; tb ; ' Salem City Council. I- ' Six administration bills -to sk the voters for separate Unaneinc ; of specific city improvements wer - -introduced Monday night at ; special Council session in City Hall. If finally adopted ' by I th -aldermen April 14 they rwilli b -submitted at the May 18 primary -election. j. The bond issue and special mill age levy bills total $732,500 1 for , . work over the next two year m , street widening, sewer, drainage -V and bridge improvents. park ami street lighting programs. I Street widenings proposed ?ar 12th Street from Mission Street to .. -south city limits, State from 13 th to 15th, South River Road frwn Miller Street td city limits, Ferry from Cottage to Front Streets and High Street from Trade to Ferry ' and from Chemeketa to 5 Marion Streets, (additional details on Pao ' 2.) ; The two special millages pro- posed are designed at least partly to relieve present city ' budget stresses. : i t Levy for Parks One would be a one-mill con- tinuing levy for parks and recrea- . tion, in addition to the . preset one-mill park levy. Half the iiw . levy, or about $16,000 annually at J present assessed valuation, would be earmarked for the citjrs half- ; share (with the Salem School Dis trict) of the city playground and recreation program. The balaoco would be for general ; park pur poses, including probably this vh a $10,000 Bush's pasture Irrigatioft program. , The other new millage proposed is a continuing levy, up to a max imum of 2 mills, to raise money for the annual cost of street lighting which- is now at about $54,660. - Cost of this lighting is now met from street funds, a budget prac tice which has often been ques tioned by members of the budget committee, especially when fund for additional city street improve ments are sought. . Budret Mum Subject i What the new city budget will look like, overall, remains a mum subject among city officials. Work ing copies of the budget fare' now in the hands of aldermen; but no committee meetings have yet been called. y I ! " The other bond issues proposed by the administration ! and intro- . duced formally into the Council hopper Monday night: i ; , ' An $85,000 bond issue for bridge including rebuilding of, Mill creelr : street bridges at North 14th and I Chemeketa Street, foot bridge t Olinger Field and a new Shelten -Ditch foot bridge at South Capitol Street. . ; A $100,000 bond issue for drain age improvements in the West, South and East Salem storm, dram systems, plus drainage in- coo- nection with street paving work " financed by property owners. ' ' ' A $165,000 sewage bond issuo including north trunk) extension to Center Street and Edina Lane;' Portland Road trunk extension t Stortz Avenue; West Salem later- ahy three pumping stations weft ? of Church Street; separation of old, -er storm and sewer lines." !-! Wage Board Member Quits SAN- FRANCISCO (;p)-CoIJ Al exander R. Heron, San FranciseO industrialist, Monday i announced his resignation from the goveraf ment's Wage Stabilization Board. . in a dispute growing , out of th board's steel wage recommend ac tions, j j Heron, vice president ! of i tW Crown Zellerbach Corporation was one of the six industry board members. He was not on the paoel of four industry men who dis sented in the controversial decision to recommend 17 cents hourly, plus fringe benefits, or CIO stool workers. j r Heron said the steel teas1 1 typical 6f government; policy L . . of using the WSB to arbitrate laoe disputes." ; '- Zoo to Cut Off Phone forDay COLUMBUS, O. WPr-For yean, AprU 1 has brought the same kipd of telephone calls to the Colum bus zoo. l.l i "Is Mr. Baer in his 5 off ieer "May I speak to Mr. Fbx,; please?" "Mr. Lyon asked me to call him." The calls averaged 43 ; an hour. on April Fool's Day last year; mr ' officials said. Finally, woMoar of. solutioi It's to trii Tuesdav. I For one day only, the (jolumbua zoo will Jbave its telephone :i'm conseetdw- . j i , Atomic Explosion riannea luesaay LAS VEGAS, Nev. UP) Atoi Energy Commission test chief have scheduled a nuclear explo sion at the Nevada! provinf grounds Tuesday morning. . j ; It will bo a warm-up shot not without tactical significance. h ever leading up to a series of blast later in April. l.-