' 1 ; :: 111- .. " .- v ' mm Max. Mia. PreclSW (S 35 .M 71 39 .00 a. 72 41 .0 68 33 .00 67 traca Calem u Portland . San Francisco Chicago ... New York .. m Willamette River 3 J feet FORECAST (from U. S. leather Bureau, McNary Field, Salem): Con siderable high cloudifeess today and tonight. "High today near 63, low to night near 38. Temperature at 12:01 an was 44 degrees 102nd YEAH Stevenson Mows Out of Mace Pickets Appear t.., i - 1 s.-isr;- r 1 - '-- irnsi 5 Xhlm is part of the force of local Telephone Workers Union employes who picketed en masse Wednesday the Salem offices of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. Union workers plus some non-union employes also remained off the job in the newest flareap in the telephone strike. Balloon in back ground was used by cagey pickets Travel Letter No. 3 San Francisco Spring is late in California but it finally ar rived on Easter Monday. Easter Sunday was cool and rainy, in fact the heavens opened up at noon, just as the crowds were leaving the last morning services. There were mad dashes to cars at the curb to escape the dousing f Easter bonnets. San Franciscans complain fre quently that spring, or summer, nsver arrives, so constant is the chilly fog. I do not agree, though rny testimony is of limited value. I have visited S. F. in all seasons at intervals over the years and uniformly encounter good weather. The City it still is the City for all who live in the suburbs has its unique charms, which have been written up so often there is no point in repetition. Just now the stores are a main attraction for shoppers, as they display their fresh spring merchandise. San Francisco sets the "high" style for the West Coast, as Los Angeles (Hollywood) sets the "low" style (sports clothes, battling suits, etc.) A visitor from Oregon, however, finds a brake on his purchasing power in the sales tax: three per tent state, one-half city. He rea sons: why buy this merchandise here and pay a sales tax when one (Continued on editorial page 4) State Board to Ask Replacement of Hospital Building Largest ?tate construction proj ect now proposed by the State Board of Control for the next three bicnoiums involves replace ment of the main building at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. Officials estimated the cost at approximately $8,000,000 and said the work would be under three separate contracts with one third of the construction during each of the three bienniums. First reconstruction would involve the center section of the structure which includes the dining room and kitchens. Animal Crackors Bv WARREN COOORICH m'Qwtt i mow,' indeed! &e 2 SECTIONS 30 PAGES En Masse at Phone Building te noiss suite car as into we sir. 150 Telephone Workers eed Strike Approximately 150 union em ployes of the Pacific Telephone and" Telegraph Company's Salem installations stayed off the job Wednesday and brought a return of picketing to the State and Court Street offices. Telephone officials said regular service was not seriously curtail ed, despite mass picketing by about 25 employes. Meanwhile a local dispute be tween the Salem Building Serv ice Employes Union and the Livesley Building put a picket in front of the big office building at State and Liberty Streets. Salem's two other struck busi nesses, Pacific ; Greyhound Lines and Western Union, remained closed without pickets. Mass picketing Wednesday by telephone employes here grew out of the 10-day old telephone strike, conducted by Western Electric Employes. Orders from Portland Orders for the Salem Telephone Union members to stage a no work program and picketing came U.S. Navy Ship Escapes Heavy Commie Attack SEOUL, Korea (-The Navy said Thursday the American destroyer-escort Silverstein recently escaped unharmed from what was "probably the heaviest attack of the Korean War against a United Nations warship." The delayed report from naval headquarters in Tokyo said Red shore batteries splashed 45 shells within 200 yards of the ship. The Silverstein was on daylight patrol south of Hungnam on the East Coast when the Reds opened up with two guns at 6,000 yards. Three more guns joined in as the Silverstein began maneuvering away. The navy said "rapid and accu rate changes in range deflection indicated the " Reds were using modern fire control equipment." In all the Communists fired 60 rounds at the ship. On the ground front star shells bathed the Western Korean Front with brilliant light early Thursday during an artillery duel. Red prob ing attacks in the hills were re pulsed. Alaskan Husky Takes 10-Day Trip Down Willamette If dogs could talk, "Mush" might have quite a story to telL The 9-months-old Alaska Husky disap peared 10 days ago from the Crois-an-Creek home of. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll R. Nelson -and turned op at the old Canby ferry- landing . 30 miles down the Willamette River. Mush was brought home last night. He had been taker care of at the Parzy Rose place near Can by, then had wandered to the George R. Webb place. Finally, a check with the Marion County Courthouse disclosed his owner ship. Whether he rode a log to the ferry landing or was picked up in a car and ultimately escaped will long be moot questions. Call at Salem from Portland headquarters, where union leaders charged that Portland workers who refused to cross a picket line Monday re turned to work the next day and were told they would be assigned only on a day-to-day basis. Sa lem union leaders said Wednes day that company officials had given the same orders to local operating crews Tuesday. But company officials denied "this. The Associated Press reported from Portland Wednesday night that CIO officials had filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board there. By late Wednesday afternoon there were picket lines at Port land, Astoria, Seaside, Tillamook, Newport, Albany, Corvallis, Eu gene, Klamath Falls, Baker, Rose burg, St. Helens and Oregon City, in addition to Salem. No trouble was reported at any of the, ex changes. Clair Priem, president of the Salem Telephone Workers local said he did not know if picketing would continue today. At Livesley Buildinr In the Livesley Building dis pute union officials said they were picketing because the building management refused to hire union personnel for cleaningoperations and running the elevators. Nine jobs are involved. Betty Frahm, secretary-treasurer of the building service local, said the building manager "re fused to sit down and negotiate a new agreement in good faith." In a statement to building ten ants, R. M. Livesley, operator of the building, said the building's employes had voluntarily petition ed for cancellation of the union contract. The barber shop in the building operated by C. E. Hald and the Stevens & Son Jewerly store are not affected by the dispute be cause they have their own cus todial service, union officials said. Operations in the building were normal Wednesday, including ele vator service. Expert Visions Valley as World Center for Nursery Plant Stock BY LILXIE L. MAD SEN Garden Editor, The Statesman The Willamette Valley as. a fu ture world center for growing nursery stock was visibned Wednesday by Major Peter Barber of the Rothschild Gardens, Ex bury, South Hampton, England. "Your soil, your climate every thing here is perfect for growing the finest nursery stock in the world," Barber stated Wednesday night as he was having dinner with his Salem hosts, the Jock Brydons, and the E. K Petersens of Portland. Petersen is a widely known rhododendron propagator. Barber's chief purpose in being in America for 14 weeks is to view rhododendrons and azaleas. "I have never seen, anything grow so rapidly as your young rhododendron plants- in the Wil lamette Valley," Barber insisted. He expressed amazement at the fact that there are no sizeable mi-, lection of rhododendrons U mis country. Rothschild's has the largest col lection of rhododendrons in the world. There are 300 acres devoted to these alone in a garden totaling mora an 600 acres. From 1919 to poundbd 1651 Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, April 17, 1952 Eisenhower 'Very Proud' of Jersey Result By The Associated Press Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois plunged the scramble for the Dem ocratic presidential nomination into deeper confusion Wednesday with the announcement that he "could not accept" a bid to be come his party's standard bearer. The development came as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower rolled up a 150,000-vote victory over Sen ator Robert A. Taft in a test of strength in the New Jersey pri mary election. In Paris, Eisenhower said he was "very proud" of the outcome. Some of his supporters said it meant the five-star general would not have to undertake an all-out campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination against the hard-stumping Taft. Gov. Stevenson's "could not ac cept" announcement apparently slammed the door on efforts to boost him as a counter to the front-running - Senator Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee. 'Could Not' But at least one party chief tain seized on the fact that Stev enson said "could not" instead of "would not." He declared that if the Demo cratic National Convention stam peded for Stevenson as the Re publican Convention stampeded for Wendell L. Willkie in 1940 it would be difficult for the gov ernor to refuse the nomination. Harriman Mentioned With Stevenson out of the pic ture, talk arose that W. Averell Harriman, now head of the for eign aid setup, might step in as the party's "liberal" candidate to carry on President Truman's "fair deal" programs. Harriman will be guest of honor Thursday night at a testimonial banquet in New York aimed at making him the state's "favorite son." New York has 94 votes at the Democratic National Conven tion. On the Republican side, Gen. Eisenhower rolled up a popular vote of more than 382,000 against 225,000 for Taft and 22,000 for former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, in Tuesday's New Jersey primary. Percentage-wise, it was Eisen hower 60.0 to Taft's 35.8 per cent. Eisenhower also won 31 of New Jersey's 38 GOP delegates. Taft got 4 and Stassen one. Two were uncommitted but reportedly lean ed to Taft. McKay Delays Time Decision Gov. Douglas McKay said Wed nesday he probably would decide early next week whether to pro claim daylight saving time for Oregon. j The governor said he had re- ceived a large number of letters ior ana against last time ana ae- i sired to give the project further j study before making an announce- j ment. State law prescribes a deci- ' sion based on whether the state's economic interests would be threa- tened by staying on standard time. If Governor McKay proclaims fast time, it would start April 27. the beginning of World War II in England, 1,300 new, acceptable varieties were hybridized in these gardens alone. . In England, like in this country. Barber stated, there is a strong tendency toward dwarf or lower growing rhododendrons. The new bright pink, medium erowing, Fairy Light," should have a great future, in his mind. The - same applies, he said, to the dwarf, red alpine, Carmen. Few white rhodo dendrons come in dwarf or low growing types, but he named Brick-a-Brack as one of the good new small white ones. Besides rhododendrons and azaleas, the Rothschilds specialize in orchids, and one of Barber's reasons for being in this country was to deliver a new one Rosana Pinkie to Samuel Mosher of Dos Pueblos, Santa Barbara, Calif. This little pseudo bulb, hybridized in the Rothjchild Gardens, went to the California collector for $4,500. "But it takes years to produce such a plant," Barber pointed out. "Few people," he. added, "realize the patience, the time and the cost which goes into the production of one new variety.' - V Pen Convicts Prepare Props for ttaWiUaL .'4Si iLiuui Vr. "On-stage" preparations are brisk ready for their entertainment show, "Con-Glomerations of 1952, which opens Friday. Those pictured above are fixing the set for one of the humorous skits. The show plays nightly through April 26 to benefit the American Heart Association fund. Army Shows Off Prowess of . Newest Tank ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (VPt-The Army demonstrated its new M-47 me dium tank Wednesday and dis closed ;that it now Jias "many many tanks ready for issuance to troops." While officials of this big Army proving ground did not disclose the number of the new 48-ton mediums ready for combat. Col. I C. G. Wilhide, commander of the Detroit Tank Arsenal, told re porters the Army now has more M-47s than there are of "all types of the United States tanks in Korea combined." Here are some of the things reporters saw done: 1. A moving silhouette of a target tank was hit at the exact cross line of center at 500 yards by M-47 op mm. guns. 2. With the new automatic me chanism the gunner has to aim only for the first shot. There after the gun aims itself even though recoil and tank move ment raav have moved the muz zle. 3. Tanks climbed a 50 per cent grade, too steep for a man to walk ud without slipping, from a standing start. J 4. An M-47 ran through water i so deep only the turret was visi ble, fifing as it emerged from submerged position 5. The tank showed a speed of about 35 miles an hour on the highway. . Vf"lf)PtPei AllllS " n T1 a. . TTlf cf.ritii9fi t-lcll l aiioil o Name on Ballot PORTLAND OPVState Sen. Ri chard L. Neuberger Wednesday protested the candidacy of Robert F. Elf strom, chairman of the Ore gon Liquor Control Commission, for nomination as state represen tative. Elfstrom, former Salem mayor, is seeking the Republican mina tion for one of the fourMarion County House seats. Neuberger, a Democrat, made his protest in a letter to Governor McKay. "I must protest emphatically against the plunging of various ex ecutive departments of the state into partisan politics through the candidacy of executive officials for legislative posts," he wrote. Anti-Pari Mutuel Petitions Distributed PORTLAND (JrVDistribution of 3,000 petitions to place on the November election " ballot a pro posal to ban parimutuel betting in Oregon was a- "meed, Wednes day. The : Rev. Gilbert Christian," executive secretary of the spon soring Oregon Council of Churches, said the petitions have gone to all sections of the state. He said an other 2,000 would be distributed later. S.4LEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This Tear Last Tear Normal 38.SI 4639 32.87 PRICE 5c at Oregon State Penitentiary this 8 Families Flee Path Of Rampaging Owyhee ONTARIO, Ore. JP) Eight farm families were forced from their homes Wednesday by floodwaters of the rampaging Owyhee River which washed out one bridge and closed two others. The runoff from rapidly melting snows has filled the Owyhee Re servoir and the overflow from the emergency outlet of Owyhee Dam inundated farmlands in the narrow Owyhee Valley. lauuiies living oetween me dam and the confluence of the Owyhee with the Snake River, just south of Nyssa, moved out, taking most of their belongings and live stock with them. No serious loss was reported. The swift waters washed away a Reclamation Bureau bridge on the road to the dam. The bridge on Highway 201 between Adrian and Nyssa was closed after supports at one end were swept away. The nearby Union Pacific Railway hririae nn the HnmcHalo Mvcco hrnrh lim. aUn h loH tn traffic. The Snake river at Ontario rose two feet in 24 hours, flooding the city's sewers. This, in turn, back ed sewage in the basements of some homes, creating a health problem. Two families on Falk Island In the Snake two miles south of here were evacuated when water inun dated two-thirds of the 1500-acre area. No further damage is expected by Reclamation Bureau officials. Brazilian Communist Ring Said Broken RIO DE JANEIRO P)-The newspaper O Jornal reported Wednesday that a Communist ring in the armed forces had been broken with the arrest of 21 com missioned and non-commissioned officers. Five others are being detained In their Quarters for questioning, including two Air Force majors, one Army captain and two Navy lieutenants, the newspaper said. Politics on Parade Who's Running for What in the May Primaries ! (Editor's note: Starlet In the "Po litical Parade" are written by or for the candidates, an invitation of The Oregon -Statesman, and Views ex pressed herein may or may not ae in accordance with the opinion of this newpaper. The articles arc published In the public interest, and without obligation on the part of anyone.). Today's subject: DENVER YOUNG Candidate for SHERIFF (MARION) () In submitting my name to the voters of Marion County as a can didate for the office of sheriff, I """Sdo so in the be Uef that my rec ord of service for the past eight years speaks for itself. I feel that the office of sheriff is a full-time job with many im portant respon ds isiomues to tne f. iwKkJ people of Marion Denver Young County, and to that end will al ways give by best efforts. The sheriffs duties are many and among the most important are No. 21 Coming Show week as convict entertainers ret Flash Blaze Razes Home of City Patrolman The second flash fire this week ! " tun Wednesday destroyed the home of I another Salem family. The home of Salem patrolmen and Mrs. Richard C. Boehringer, 260 W. Wilson St., was destroyed in a fire which started at about 8 p.m. while Boehringer was on police duty and his wife and small daughter were visiting neighbors. Friends nearby who reported the blaze said the fire seemed to start from the back of the house where an enclosed porch was located. Flames, once started, swept through the two-story, six room wooden heme, fed by three or four thicknesses of wallpaper and the dry, combustible tim bers. Fire fighting equipment was called from the central fire sta tion to assist those already at the scene from the south station. Fire reports Indicate that the fire was probably caused by faulty wiring. The house, owned by Boehringer's father who lives near Turner, was thought to be partially insured. The other fire this week Mon day night- destroyed the home of Herbert Miller- and family on South River Road. the collection and dispersing in the many subdivisions of "the coun ty the five and a quarter million dollars which now represents the annual tax roll. To this . end I have maintained an efficient and J courteous tax department. Our "Civil department last year served over 3,060 civil -cases with promptness and dispatch Our criminal department, while few in numbers, I feel has done an outstanding job in fair, im partial and courteous law en forcement, that has helped to place Marion County in an enviable po sition as a good place in which to live. ' The office of sheriff has kept pace with the rapid growth of the 'county, rendering service 24 hours of the day, and It Is my desire to continue this service dur ing the next term of office. ; : I have lived in Salem . since 1935, and operated the Capitol Tile Company until entering the sheriffs office in 1942. I am a member of the Elks, Eagles, and the Salem Lions Club, and past president of the Oregon State Sheriffs Association. ' (Tomorrow: Emery Jackson) ' Added Farmltilid Engulfed OMAHA (JP) The Missouri Ri ver strained mightily but still un-; successfully Wednesday. t smash ' Omaha and Council Bluffs, la with the worst flood in their his tory. - T j z President Truman flew ewer th flood area and later conferred with the governors of eight Midwest states. (Details on page JL Upstream and downstream, th "Mighty Mo" mightier than whit man ever has seen her was hav ing its way. f Jf Still packing the power of a thousand locomotives, the swollen marauder engulfed new thousands of acres and flooded or threatened new towns as the crisis area aoov ed southward il Defiance Shown I i ' But at Omaha and Council Bluffs there was defiance. The lin of defense ran along 23 miles lev ees which had never been expected to get such a test but, which in recent days had been bo 1st rod by a hastily-recruited army eJT 8,000 men. s . The Omaha River level passed the 28 foot mark, nearly four feet higher than ever previously re corded, with the levees still hold ing. The crest maximum flow is due at 10 pjn. (EST) Thursday. Ghostly vacant but still sale be hind the hastily-bolstered ' levees lay nearly three-fourths of Coun cil Bluffs, a city of 45,000, and sections across the river includinsr East Omaha and Carter Lake, la. 100,000 Displaced si The homeless, nearly 40,66 in Omaha and Council Bluffs,, wer among some 100,000 the Re Cross says have been displaced ; in th Midwest by rampaging waters of the Missouri Mississippi, Red River of the North and th Milk River in Montana. i n Little added flood damage was expected at St Paul and Red Cross crews and Army amphibious vehicles moved downstream to Winona, Minn where a dike fail- ure could inundate one-third of the city. L i . Downstream points th Wiscon sin and Iowa braced fori; nmn assaults fn the near future. At tne twin cities of" Fargo. N. D., ,tnd Moorhead, Mirn , Ihe Fed iiiver cf the Ncrth appeared rea-jly to cre?t some 1' feet over flor-d stage. H In MontanS, Army h Engineers estimated damage from flooding on the Milk River at f $2,941,000, most of it in rural areas. ' Elwood, Kas., had given up about 90 per cent of its 1,200 per sons and the remainder wer about to evacuate. Missouri tona like Craig, Corning, and Forestqu already had evacuated. II' Alone the 150 mile stretch tWn the Iowa line to Leavenwrth Kas., Army Engineers estimated 60.000 acres Were under watr- 6,000 persons were displaced and 37 levee were breached.' i Along the lower ' Neru-akst reaches, most towns were ut of -the water's reach but nearlyH of them Nebraska Cirv i Mot mouth, Rulo, Peru. Auburn, meha were in some" kind of sandbag battle to save Utilities or farm lands. - : - At Gov. Val Peterson's hicldmj the Nebraska Legislature j will i into special session at noon Thurs day, the fourth such snrnal ses sion in the state's history. Th as signment: ri.-od relief. i1- Congress Told 4YoutIis Not! Eager to Fly WASHINGTON (JPi L Th Air Force told Congress Wednesday i is getting more and more difficult to persuade Amerkrani, youths t man new types of combat airsraft.- It added that Russia is krrins? '.' its best youths into flying duty by onering almost double pay sMad other benefits., it'-.'- This testimony came from Air . Secretary Finletter and GenJZIovt S. Vandenberg. rankintf Air Tore officer. : ' jji -!-. Thev antwsWwl tvfnra Armed S e r vl c e s subeomsaitte checking on the extra pay given servicemen for "extra, .hazard" duty flying, submarine duty and parachute drops. ? jL. -jQ . There have been chargsn abuses of this pay aystemv and some members of Congress hav been talking of reducing thxtr -pay.' - v; . ' '- I i-jf-V. v Vandenberg urcin th uuw not to do this said: i . u : - - The increasing risk la dampen ing the enthusiasm for flying. I would not like, to pi v th tm- ' pression that four youth is losing . lis sense or autyor Its aesrfvJness. "But the tmet cannot b blinked that the Air Force Is meetixx in creasing difficult in atrrr4mr sufficient number- of- young- "men pnvsicauy ana mentally qualified for flying.' ,,. t , ONE. MORE VOlET F6a?ir3 - I i CHARLOTfE AMALIE, .Virgin. - ! Islands-. OP) -f The .Virgin Island delegation to the Republican Na- .r . tional Convention hat bee in- structed to east its one vat tor ' Gen. Elsenhower on the first thre ballots. . t - ' . ; AMBASSADOR ATPROVET WASHINGTON (JP) Sf-Th Sen ate Foreign Relations Commit approved Wednesday the nomi nation of Robert Murphy Ims first postwar ambassador' to Japan,