! fM DDQ ALJ MflDi0nL O Dim mm too mm lC2nd YEAB 18 PAGES Ike Warns Europe, American Patience, Resources Limited SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE UP)-Gexx. Eisenhower warned Europe Wednesday that there is a lim it to American resources and to the patience of American taxpayers unless European nations cooperate fully for the common good. "There is no real security yet achieved in Europe," he asserted. There is only a beginning." But he said the tide of battle in the cold ITTTP III SHEDS Of The City Council has under con sideration a six-point financial program which will require voter approval. If it is adopted in whole or in part at the council meeting on April 14th the items will be submitted for voter decision in the election on May 16th. Here they are: Bond issues: Street widening $190,000 New bridges 85.000 Drainage 100.000 Sewers 16S.000 Total 440,000 Extra (and continuing) tax lev- For parks one mill For street lighting .... two mills Two years ago the voters ap proved bond issues as follows: Sewers $600,000, bridges $125,000, drainage $280,000, water reservoir $300,000 a total of $1,305,000. The water bonds are serviced from water department revenues, the others from property taxes. Also In 1950 voters approved a special levy f one mill for purchase of fire equipment and rejected a spe cial levy for airport purposes. Taxpayer reaction may be that the bonds and extra tax levies are coming fast and heavy. On the other hand the expanded city and larger population (plus higher costs) force assumption of extra burdens. There may be resistance also to the extra levies because they are continuing, that is will be renewed from year to year without new vote of (Continued on editorial page, 4) Arrest of Boy Gang, Leader Clears Thefts Donald Ray Colby, 22, 375 Tay lor St., Tuesday pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving and con cealing stolen property and is to be sentenced Wednesday. He is being held in lieu of $500 bail. City police revealed Tuesday that Colby is the oldest member of a gang of some seven or eight Juveniles who are, by confessions, accounting for approximately $350 of stolen property in Salem. The other members of the gang are all youngsters of about 12 or 13 years of age. A great percentage of the stol en property has been salvaged by city police. It consists of sporting equipment, clothes, and other odds and ends stolen by the gang. Also money has been acocunted for i n confessions, but to this date it is believed to be already spent. Arrest of Colby and several ju veniles have cleared at least six burglaries in the Dallas areas and are accounting for many larcenies in Salem. Animal Crackors Bv WARREN GOODRICH Krs depertment? SUnd by! Ws're ejoma. to S9M Grandpa's CskeT ITPCD 0t fct MAVDCH-KfNNCDV Vtt. Int. The Orecon Stcrtonxncm, Salemv Orecoa, Wednesday. war "has begun to ow our way Eisenhower made these points in a 12,000-word report marking the end of his first year in com mand of SHAPE, military head quarters for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of 14 .nations. His report did not refer to U. S. politics. Eisenhower has indicated he" will leave his command this spring to actively enter the pres idential campaign. He struck a note for economy. His report said: "It would be fatuous for any one to assume that the taxpayers of America will continue to pour money and resources into Europe unless encouraged by steady pro gress toward mutual cooperation and full effectiveness. America can not continue to be the pri mary source of munitions for the entire Free World. To do so would be militarily unsound. "Moreover the United States can not long continue such expen ditures without endangering her own economic structure. The soundness of that structure is of vital, concern to the entire Free World, for its collapse would be a world-shaking tragedy. "We must be fearful that we do not prove that free countries can be defended only at the cost of bankruptcy." "As of today, our forces could not offer prolonged resistance east of the Rhine barrier." Ike Compares Arms Line-up Of West, Reds SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE (JP) Gen. Eisenhower Wednesday gave this lineup of the military forces opposing each other across the Iron Curtain in Europe: Land Forces Allied 30 divisions. Communist 175 Soviet and 60 satellite di visions. Air Forces Allied 4,000 planes by end of 1852. Communist 20,000 planes. Naval Forces Allied U. S. Sixth Fleet, Brit ish Home and Mediterranean Fleets, plus supplementary strength from France, Italy. Greece, Turkey and other nations and Allied Rhine River patrol. Communist 300 submarines, 20 cruisers, estimated four battle ships and assorted craft. Atomic Weapons Allied secret but powerful. Communist although inefficient by Western technical standards, according to Eisenhower, Soviet industry a year ago "had already demonstrated it was producing atomic weapons.' ASHLAND BOND VOTE DUE ASHLAND (JP) - An AsMand school bond election will be held May 1 with the question that of issuing $685,000 worth of bonds to provide increased school facilities. Politics on Parade ik Who's Running for What in the May Primaries ! (Editor' note: Stories in the "Po litical Parade" are written by or for the candidates, on invitauon of The Orecon Statesman, and views ex pressed herein may or may not be in accordance with the opinion of this newspaper. The articles are published in the public interest, and without obligation on the part of anyone.) Today's subject: M. H CHRISMAN Candidate for COMMISSIONER (POLK CO.) Meet your new commissioner in Polk County come November 4. Marcel, Neoma and their five chil dren live on a productive fruit and stock farm about midway between Dallas and Sheridan,' Our. vro r thy candidate is of ' German and English descent and was born on v one of the many Chrisman pioneer , farms of Western s Iowa. Like, his M. IL Chrismajt father, his interests center in farm organizations, school activities and church endeavors. In the ranks of POUNDS I 1651 Clean -Up Crew ' -w . 1 ; . i w v, r v dhxl 1 , Initial "rough clearance" of years of undergrowth In the Odd Fellows Cemetery is being done by the city park department to remove what many city officials have described as "an eyesore" on South Commercial Street. Debris is being trucked from the cemetery for burning. Pictured are C. D. Run ner (left) crew chief, and two laborers from the population of the city Jail. Pen Escapee Caught After Nine Years SEATTLE f7P)-An escapee from the Oregon State penitentiary was apprehended here Tuesday after engaging in a bitter 30-minute hand-to-hand struggle with three policemen and a former police de tective. He was identified by police as Jack Erwin, who escaped from the Oregon institution in 1943. Prior to that he had been con victed in Seattle of the robbery of the Greenwood National Bank in 1927 and sent to the Washington penitentiary for 10 to 15 years. His arrest was brought about by Ernest W. Yoris, former Seattle detective chief who last saw Erwin in 1933. Yoris, now an airline se curity officer, spotted Erwin standing in front of the Frye Hotel. He recalled the man was wanted for escaping from the Oregon prison nine years ago. Yoris called on the police for assistance and they sent three men to the hotel where they found Erwin in the lobby. Yoris grabbed him and the battle started. The five men struggled about the lobby, out the door and onto the street for 30 minutes before the badly-mauled ex-convict was sub dued. Erwin first gave his name as John Peter Osterman, 51, of Spokane. Later he admitted his identity and his escape. He said he had been serving time at Salem for assault and robbery. He told police he has been work ing in Alaska summers and at Sand Point, Idaho, winters. Asked if he had ever been fin gerprinted during his trips to Alaska, he replied: "Dozens of times." FALLING LIMB FATAL ROSEBURG -Norman Gil bert Vredenburg, 32, a logger, was killed near Myrtle Creek Monday by a falling tree limb. He moved to ' Myrtle Creek recently from Bremerton, Wash- labor he is recognized for his brilliant participation in labor management relations and tireless efforts to interest the working man in politics. Mr. Chrisman has been an active precinct committeeman for the Democratic party in both Iowa and Oregon and was county chairman of the party the last two years. He has given the Polk Coun ty Democratic party strong lead ership and new vitality in pre cinct organization. For five years Mr. Chrisman has been sensitive to the demands of many local groups that something be done about the worsening con ditions of county roads. He has recently, analyzed the .costs, the programs and conditions of county roads in three other Oregon coun ties comparable with our prob lems. His program will Include: Closer job supervision, better uses of maintenance monies, changes in new construction and equalization of road expending. You can depend on Mr. Chris man to work hard to get results, to use his fine education and ef fective leadership in a vigorous campaign for county commissioner. (Tomorrows Gilbert Ley) April 2, 1952 Cuts Cemetery 7 tew t k A, - I Hoover School Contract Awarded to Batterman E. E. Batterman, Salem contractor, was awarded a contract Tues day night for construction of fhe new Hoover School north of D Street te the end of Tess Avenue. Salem School District Board gave the contract to Batterman on his low basic bid of $258,487, which figures at just under $9 a square foot and considerably lower than much recent school construction. The new elementary school will : be similar in size and plan to the j new Washington and Lincoln' Schools and, like them, will serve : the growing population east of Sa lem city limits. Hayslip, Freeman and Tufts, Portland architect firm, designed the school. Other bids opened by the school i board Tuesday night at the Public School Office Building were by Smith & Nelson, $266,987; Viesko & Post, $270,615; Bickford Con struction Co., Portland, $275,300; Wall, Bertram & Sandford, $284. 000, and Henry G. Carl, $287,384. Contractor Batterman said he would start the project in about a week. His contract calls for com pletion in 135 days, which would put the building ready for use by the next school year s opening in , oicmuci. The 10-acre site on wmen tne , new school will be located cost the school district $24,000. School directors also looked over J preliminary plans last night for a new school in the Rosedale area south of Salem. Architect James L. Payne submitted drawings of a school with four classrooms and James L. Payne submitted draw ings of a school with four class rooms and a multi-purpose room for cafeteria, auditorium and rec reation. Candidate for m President Jailed SAN FRANCISC (JP) - Vincent Hallinan, millionaire presidential candidate of the Progressive Par ty, surrendered Tuesday to begin serving six months sentence in federal prison. The wealthy attorney told re porters "I'm proud to go to jail." He twice carried his case to the U. S. Supreme Court in an effort to avoid prison. He was cited for contempt twice during his defense of Harry Bridges, West Coast longshore leader convicted of perjory con spiracy. Pen Releases Con Wanted by Klamath Police A former Oregon State Prison inmate, released two hours earlier than scheduled at the prison on Monday, is free but wanted today. John H. Parker, 27 -year-old convict, had served a two-year term and was released Monday at about 10 ajn. The catch is that Klamath County authorities wanted him on a forgery charge and were due to take Parker into custody as soon as he stepped through the prison gates. They ar rived two hours late. . Prison Warden Virgil O'Malley said that Parker's record plainly showed that Klamath County had a detainer on him.. He said it was "just plain carelessness" that al lowed Parker to be released before the Klamath deputies arrived to take over. ( Parker was last seen Monday af ternoon in the Hollywood area where he met an unidentified man in a car. The two took off in the direction of Portland. No. S Undergrowth h v- Si's. y , r :- m Atomic Blast ! Fails to Raise Big Concussion By BELL BECKER LAS VEGAS. Nev. P-From 16 miles away, I watched an atomic explosion Tuesday. It was quite a sight, but surprisingly its force had no effect in our light plane. r lying at n.uuu feet, we watched the blast over Frenchman at the farftung tesmg grounds northwest of here The device as the A EC called it was released from an Air Force exactly at 9 a.m The red glow lit up the right side of our plane for about a sec ond and a half. It was the closest that any un official air observer has been to a nuclear explosion since William Lawrence of the New York Times watched the war-ending bomb drop on Nagasaki in 1945. After the fireball faded, we watched for a breathtaking minute and a half as the usual column of smoke and desert dust erupted into a small rusty mushroom. Then we braced ourselves for the concussion, which we had ex pected all along. j oui none came, wnaiever waves oi souna and snock the blast sent out just cua not reach us. By a freak of atmospherics the blast was felt at St. George, Kan arraville and Cedar City, Utah, from 120 to 170 miles to the north east of the test site. It can be safely said that Tues day's experiment involved one of the smaller weapons or weapons-to-be in our atomic arsenal. McKay Speaks at Ike Rally in Idaho BOISE, Idaho (JP) Gov. Doug las McKay of Oregon told an Eis enhower rally Tuesday night that the Republican party must win this election or it may not have another chance. .1 . . ; vlu ou- port the man easiest to elect, he said- Joe Stalin By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER NEW YORK UP) Prime Minis ter Joseph Stalin Tuesday assured a group of American newspaper editors and radio men at long distance that a third world war is no nearer than it was in 1949 or 1950. Stalin said he feels a meeting pf the chiefs of state of the great powers possibly would be useful. Also that the time has come to unify Germany, and that commu nism and capitalism can exist peaceably side by side if. He expressed these views in a telegram dispatched in response to four questions sent to him March 24. The telegram arrived here, per haps not by chance, on the eve of the Moscow economic confer ence, a major propaganda project for the Soviet Union. American and other Western spokesmen at United Nations head PRICE 5a Kefauver Outrunning. Kerr: Eisenhower Holds SHght Edge on Ohioan By DON WHITEHEAD OMAHA UP)-The furious Ne braska presidential primary set tled down into a dog-fight be- i iween sen. lan ui uiuu onu wen. Eisenhower early Wednesday with the leac shifting between them. Taft took an early Head in ine vote count from Tuesday s pri mary, lost it, won it back, and then lo$t it again in the see-saw struggle. Harold Stassen was running a. strong third behind Eisenhower and Taft although he had the ad vantage of having his name on the ballot. All the Taft-Eisenhower votes were write-ins. All indications were Stassen was pulling strength from Eisenhower. On the Democratic side Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee took the lead from Sen. Kerr of Oklahoma early in the count and steadily widened the gap. Returns from 595 of 2058 pre cincts: Republicans Eisenhower 12.999 Taft 12,887 Stassen 10,814 Mrs. Mary Kenny (stand-in for MacArthur) 1.772. Democrats Kefauver 6794 Kerr 5180 The returns were slow because of the long and complicated ballot an da near-record vote drawn to the polls in large part by the bitterly-contested presidential popu larity contest. There were some write-in votes for MacArthur, President Truman. Gov. Warren of California and others but they were an insignifi cant part of the tptal. The early returns reflected a political curiosity in which the candidate on the ballot Stassen was running behind two candi dates whose names were names were not on the ballot. The Taft - Eisenhower write - in campaigns begain about two weeks ago with both sides conducting drives to "educate" the voters on how to use a blank line on the ballots privided for write-in votes. But this task was complicated by an attorney's general's ruling ruling that the voters must spell out the last name of .a candidate and also mark an 'X' in the square before his name to make the ballot legal. There were no immediate re ports on whether ballots with misspelled . names and without "X's" in the square were thrown out by election judges as spoied ballots. In the state's hotly -contested GOP senatorial race. Sen. Hugh Butjer took- an early lead over Gov. Val Peterson.. Butler is re garded as a Taft supporter while Peterson is known to lean toward Eisenhower. John Steelhammer Due to Become Acting Governor John H. Steelhammer, Salem attorney who was speaker of the house at the 1951 State Legisla ture, will become acting governor this week end when both Gov. Douglas McKay and Senate Presi dent Paul Patterson are out of the state. Patterson became acting gover nor Tuesday when the governor left for a' conference of state exe cutives in Chicago. Patterson ex pected to leave Thursday for Phoenix, Ariz., far an interstate meeting on highway problems. Margaret Got $3,000 For Portland Concert PORTLAND (jpy-Margaret Tru man got $3,000 for her concert nere aaturaay night, the man- vager of the municipal auditorium reported Tuesday He said shp pot n piiarantooH - e. iee, pius a percentage or me gate, ; The audience of 3.629 paid a gross : of $6,897, he said. enies War Moving Nearer quarters here called the Stalin pro nouncement propaganda. Here is the question and an swer exchange as announced by James I. Wick, Niles. Ohio pub lisher who was a member of the party sending the queries: NEW YORK (JP) There ap pears to be a disagreement be tween Prime Minister Stalin and his deputy foreign minister. Jac ob A. Malik, about World War ra. Stalin said Tuesday be does not believe It is closer, than it was two or three years age. Bat two months ago, in United Na tions debate. Malik said: "Tne third world war has in fact commenced in Keren, In dochina, Tnnis and Morocco. " Q. Is third world war closer now than two or three years ago? A. No, it is not. Stassen Wisconsin (t.9M out of S.24 precincts) Taft ...290,249 Warren .232,723 Stassen 152,869 Kefauver 180,722 Pro-Truman 16,951 Unpledged 15,825 Nebraska (595 out of Z.05S precincts) Ike (write-in) ... Taft (write-in) ... Star-sen Pro-Mac Arthur ... 12,999 12,887 10,814 1,772 6,794 5, 180 Ke fauver .. Kerr Arnall Fears Steel Strike Unavoidable WASHINGTON ( -Fl-Crave doubt that an April 8 strike in the na tion's steel industry can be avoided was expressed Tuesday by Ellis Arnall, price stabilization director. "I hope for the best, but fear the worst," Arnall told newsmen. His comment came after a con ference on prices with President Benjamin Fairless of the U. S. Steel Corp. Arnall indicated he is standing fast against giving the steel industrv anv special price WASHINGTON (yTVThe White House has asked Justice Depart ment experts to comb the stat ute books for possible laws nn der which the government could seise the steel industry in the event of a strike. concessions to encourage it to ac cept a government proposal for a wage increase. The industry faced the choice. assuming that the administration continues adamant in opposing a price boost, of (1) refusing to ac cept the suggested pay raise for CIO steel workers and thereby triggering an almost certain strike, or (2) granting the pay increase and trying to get along on present prices. So far the industry has said It cannot possibly absorb the sug gested 17 4 cent hourly pay boost, and other benefits, to Philin Mur ray's million CIO Steelworkers without compensating price in creases. The steel crisis brought about the resignation of Mobilization Chief Charles E. Wilson last week end. Liquor by Drink Initiative Filed A proposed initiative measure to allow sale of liquor by the drink in Oregon was filed with the State Department Tuesday. The petition, which would go on the November election .ballot if 26.282 signatures are obtained by July 3, is sponsored by Cecil W. Jones, Paul Walsh and T. E. Fen olio, all of Portland.- It would legalize sale of liquor by the drink in private clubs, fra ternal and veterans organizations, on railroads and in restaurants. A similar measure was defeated in 1948 by the voters, 273.62L to 210,108. An initiative measure to ban sale of all liquor in Oregon also is being circulated. WATER SUPPLY GOOD BURNS P-The John Day-Har- 1 Kin .-. 1 1 V. . rt ninn4. .i.T wu. in on n ill nail. uicii 1 J of water for all its farm needs this year, water forecasters said here Tuesday. Q. Would a meeting of the heads of the great powers be useful? A. Possibly it would be useful. Q. Do. you consider the present moment opportune for the unifica tion of Germany? A. Yes, I do. Q. On what basis is co-existence of capitalism and communism pos sible? A. Peaceful co-existence of cap italism and communism is quite possible if there Is a mutual de sire for cooperation, if there is a readiness to fulfill the undertaken obligations, if there is observance of the principle of equality and not Interference in the internal af fairs of the other states. The StnUn statement showed nothing, essentially new. Wick bad led a party of ,40 newspaper and radio men on a tour to news centers in Europe. Fades Warren HoI:!s In Wisconsin BY JACK. BEZX MILWAUKEE LPV-Sea. Taft el Ohio surged toward a i Ifl psti dential race victory TOsABeaday promising him 24 of Wlesessin ' 30 Republican convent!. -dele gates. . . - With more than two-thMs of- the state's precincts eennttd in Tuesday's primary elect ten. Ohio senator swept the s&Oe-wxk race in which 10 presidential aoto inating delegates were etarteaL With a show of strengtla MO waukee's silk stocking Fifth Css gressional District. Taft pps Second SpoE entry pulled out at least two of the four district delegates! elected by this late counting city. - - Warren to Get Four Gov. Warren of CaKSornia a possible beneficiary of vales from Republicans who want Gen. Eisen hower to become theiv suaT'i nominee seemed on the my to getting a total of six cut ?0 delegates elected in district con tests. ? It looked like a shutout for for mer Gov. Stassen of Miww 'mts. who slipped into third pjaec in i state where he won 1 8 of 23 4e3e gates in the 1943 GOP xvesadetv. tial contest. ; Stassen had offered te deliver to Eisenhower half of my dele gates he got. The generafs stm wasnt on the ballot and-voenat . legally be written in. Wins City Votes . ' Warren rode a tide ofrveAea to a probable victory over Taff sa Mil-" waukee's Fourth . District largely, an industrial area. He als-g abtd. a substantial ' lead in tb district which includes Madison, the stacj capital. . : But outside of that, it was all Taft in a state which he- eaid in advance would be a "key test of his ability to attract popular -wtes. In the state-wide - race t elect 10 at-large delegates, the eunt -from 2,994 of 3,204 precincts gave: Taft 290,249; Warren 232,723; Stas sen 152,869. t A slate running for Gen. llae- Arthur, who said her isnt candi date, polled 24,039 votes and Perry J. Stearns, Milwaukee, aim myJ got 2,731. ; i. Kefauver Winning J Sen. Kefauver of TKmesaee,4 the ex-crime prober, appeared m have tucked the state's 28 Desnecratit presidential nominating vcs un der his belt. t With Kefauver rolling along with more than 80 per cent f the at-large vote, Charles E. Prongiw ton of Sheboygan heading a rival "draft-Truman" slate cncce4 -defeat. ? i A third, uninstructed slate, bend ed by Jerome Fox, was running just ahead -of the B rough ton group. In 2,994 precincts, Kefaover ba4 180,722; Fox 16,951 and Braoghtcei 15,825. If the expected victory here were combined with a rimfhle Jfin in the Nebraska primary, Kxtmtf -would be in a top position among announced candidates to aucccej President Truman as the Demo era tic nominee. ; Thaw Floods I Midwest Area By The Associated Quick spring thaws sent flood waters on the rampage in parts ci the 'Midwest Tuesday. The floods hit areas of the Da kotas, Minnesota. Wisconsin and Iowa causing considerable dam age. Homes were evacuated, bus iness houses were flooded, n4 dikes were battered down. The swollen Root River poach -ed through an embankment at Houston, Minn , spilling; two fee of water over the business dis trict. - - The flood caused extension dam age in Southeastern The Redwood and Minnesota Riv ers also were rising rapidly. Water was up to the nave of some Marmath, N. D, hecnen. An ice jam sent the swollen little Mis souri River to a record Wixlil ui 23.1 feet, more than Bvw dEt above flood stage. ; Allies Hurl Back China Red Attack SEOUL. Korea LP Allied in fantrymen. Wednesday h oried back some 1,500 bugle-blowing Gunese Reds who penetrated United Na tions lines south of Panaonjom Tuesday-Flight. -"7- w Fierce hand - to - hand fighting marked the three - hour ba t tie" heaviest along the Korean xreund front in nearly ; two months, a front line division officer said Red casualties were severe.- - HEM SaJtm Poruoed ss s Sa Francisco N ,-o ork luaiuisT tzrata u. S. rm. StcNary.nckL Mm cloudy with rrrtrirnl TTittTO rm th uue nwrai oswnng showery mod un VMUfnt. ttlgn T so. tow toatrht tolL a Salem st 1241 a. m. wm saxxj rmsciriTAraa mt nee start of wmktr Tear This fear Ltse Year . - -U , J : i - t i t