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WASHINGTON (JP) Secretary of Commerce Sawyer fired an ul
timatum at the nation's government-seized steel industry Friday with
the announcement that tea will boost steelworkers' wages unless a
settlement is reached by next Monday or Tuesday.
Travel Letter No. 4
Carmel, Calif.
My idea of a vacation has al
ways been to go to some pleasant
resort and relax, enjoying such
recreation as one wanted and hav
ing plenty of time to catch upon
reading. But that's the kind of
vacation I rarely have had. In the
VJSJi. there are so many places
to go and to see that usually a
vacation has meant touring.
Carmel offers the opportunity
for the ideal vacation: Delightful
locale, interesting side trips, as
much recreation as one wants. As
for the reading with eyes needing
a rest and a broken lens of my
reading glasses that is limited to
brief reading of newspapers.
After reaching Carmel the fami
ly Buick refused either to start
or to stop. Perhaps the gremlins
of Carmel do that to automobiles.
If so the trouble could not occur
at a more pleasant place, especially
now that California sunshine has
driven away the coast fog.
It's an ill wind, however, for
while I was waiting at a garage
for the mechanic to diagnose the
ailment I chanced to encounter
Col. C. B. Hazeltine. Many will
remember him as commander of
the 115th (Wyoming) Cavalry
which was rushed to Oregon right
after Pearl Harbor with the duty
of protecting the state from enemy
invasion. He established head
quarters at the State f airgrounds
and stationed his troops at key
points through western Oregon.
Later the regiment was recalled to
(Continued on editorial page 4)
Hungry Cons
End Revolt in
Trenton Prison
TRENTON. N. J. (JP) Sixty
nine famished convicts ended a
77-hour revolt at the Trenton State
Prison Friday and there was of
ficial indication that a settlement
may be near in similar rebellion
at the Rahway State Prison farm.
State Prison Warden William H.
Carty conferred with Rahway Su
perintendent William Lagay at the
prison farm late Friday night and
announced:
"I don't want to be optimistic,
but I believe those prisoners will
be ready to negotiate surrender
before long."
A group of 231 prisoners is in
volved in the Rahway mutiny,
which was started Thursday night
in sympathy with the Trenton riot
ers. They are holed up in a dormi
tory wing with nine prison guards
as hostages.
It was the fifth prison disturb
ance in the state in three weeks.
The Trenton convicts weak but
surly after four days with almost
no food and water surrendered
at 3:25 p.m.
Three prison employes they had
held as hostages were whisked out
a side door of the prison and sent
home in the warden's automobile.
They were in good condition.
The convicts filed out of the
print shop two by two. Tbey were
taken to the prison hospital and
frisked for weapons. Then they got
a bath and were locked in cells.
Anglers, Kids
Included, Try
Luck Today
The 1952 general trout season
opens today and the top feature
of the send-off will be the third
annual Kids Mill Creek Fishing
Derby, sponsored by the Salem
Lions Club and the Salem Izaak
Walton chapter.
Approximately 2,000 boys and
girls of the area are expected to
converge on the stretch of Mill
Creek between Salem and Aums
ville to compete for a number of
attractive merchandise prizes of
fered by the sponsors.
Entrants must be under 18 years
of age and they can fish from
one hour before sun-up to 5 p. m.,
when final registrations will be
taken at checking stations.
A throng of adult anglers will,
of course, also be out to try their
luck today in various streams of
the area.
Today's opener applies to zones
1 (coastal streams) and 2 (the
Willamette, Sandy and Hood Riv
er drainages).
(Full details on sports pages).
Negotiators Silent
On Talk Progress
MUNSAN, Korea (JP) - United
Nations and Communists staff of
ficers tackled the thorney prob
lem of prisoner exchange again
Saturday with two brief Korean
armistice sessions totalling 31
minutes.
There was no hint of progress
when the negotiators emerged
from their secret session into an
unusual April snow storm.
Sawyer said he was going ahead
with plans for A wage hike be
cause it has. thus far been impos
sible to obtain an industry-union
agreement which would' "get the
government out of the steel busi
ness." Prepared for Court
Steel industry lawyers were pre
pared to go into court the instant
Sawyer tries to grant the CIO
steelworkers a raise over manage
ment's head. They were expected
to argue that no warrant for such
action is to be found in the con
stitution or laws.
Sawyer's announcement late in
the day came as a group of Senate
Republicans, quarterbacked by
Sen. Rowland (R-Calif), opened
legislative maneuvers designed to
choke off any federal funds for
government operation of the seiz
ed steel mills.
Claims Demo Support
Knowland claimed some Demo
cratic support for the move in
which Sens. Bridges (R-NH), the
Senate GOP leader, Ferguson (R
Mich) and Mundt (R-SD) also
joined.
A cross - fire of bitter debate
broke out on the Senate floor as
the Republican group sought to
challenge President Truman's 10-day-old
seizure of the steel in
dustry. Ferguson said Truman's seizure
showed the President considered
himself "above the Constitution
and above the law." The senator
declared "we must check this pow
er" and demonstrate to Truman
and the world "that Congress has
control of the purse strings."
Air Commands
Alerted for
Unknown Craft
WASHINGTON (JP)-The entire
U.S. Air Defense Command was
put in a state of "special readi
ness" during the early .hours of
Thursday because of reports of
unidentified aircraft over Alaska
and New England.
It never was established that
any planes were over Alaska
Three planes over New England
turned out to be an Air Force
transport and two commercial air
liners. The fact of a state of special
readiness was disclosed Friday by
the Eastern Defense Command at
Newburgh, N. Y., which said "our
detection system developed a pat
tern of unknowns which appeared
potentially dangerous."
Details Supplied
Air Force headquarters . here
supplied the details later. This is
what it said happened:
Ground observers in Northern
Alaska sighted what the Air Force
calls "contrails" (vapor trails) at
very high altitudes. This word was
promptly passed to Air Force
headquarters in Alaska and a
state of readiness was ordered.
The information was flashed on
to Air Defense headquarters at
Colorado Springs, Colo. This head
quarters in turn gave the word to
the three regional air defense
headquarters in the West, Central
and Eastern states.
Friendly Planes
While this state of readiness was
underway, three unidentified air
craft were spotted at 18,000 feet
over New England. Fighter inter
ceptors of the Eastern Air Defense
Command took the air and min
utes later found that the three
airplanes were friendly and had a
right to be there although their
presence had not yet been re
ported all the way through
channels.
Meantime the vapor trails had
disappeared over Alaska and were
not seen or spotted by radar there
after. The whole state of special
readiness was then called off.
The Air Force said that "special
readiness' calls for the summon
ing of all personnel who would set
in motion the machinery which
would be used to declare an alert.
Allied Planes Whip
MIG's 7-1 in Week
SEOUL, Korea (JP) - American
Sabre jets ran up a 7-1 score over
Russian-made MIG-15s in swirl
ing air battles over North Korea
in the week ended Friday, the
U. S. Fifth Air Force reported Sat
urday. The Air Force said one
Sabre jet was lost in air combat;
two F-84 Thunderjets and one
F-5 1 Mustang were lost to un
known causes; and one Australian
Meteor jet was shot down by Red
ground fire for a total of five
lost during the week.
Police Trace House Blaze
To Fairview Housekeeper
Burning of the Richard C.
Boehringer home at 260 W. Wilson
St. was discovered Friday to be a
case of incendiarism and, as a
result, a 37 -year-old housekeeper
was returned to Fairview Home.
The woman, who had been em
ployed by neighbors of Boehringer,
admitted Friday to having acci
dentally started the fire which de
stroyed the Salem patrolman's
home Wednesday night.
She said she went to the Boehr
inger home that night while Boehr-
inger was on duty and his wife and!
daughter were visiting neighbors.
She admitted accidentally drop
ping a lighted cigaret on pers
stacked on an enclosed back porch
of the home. She sai she then
returned to her resaence where
she was. at tb tone, alone. Later
102nd YEAR
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These youthful lawmakers are shown Friday after they convened the two-day annual TMCA Youth
Legislature in the State Capitol. Pictured from left are Senate President Robert Lawrence. Jefferson
High School of Portland; Gov. Victor Walch, LaGrande, and Speaker of the House Douglas Raines of
Salem. The mock assembly will discuss and pass laws today.
Harriman Talk
Increased by
Demo Backing
By The Associated Press
New York Democratic chieftains
insisted Friday the fledgling boom
for W. Averell Harriman, hailed
by President Truman as a "great
liberal," will develop into an all
out campaign to nominate Harri
man for president.
"This is not a gesture, nor a
holding operation," Sen. Herbert
Lehman declared, shortly after
Harriman won the endorsement of
the New York state Democratic or
ganization. Lehman made the statement in
the wake of reports Harriman
would figure largely as a "holding
candidate" to keep a tight rein
over New York's 94-vote delega
tion to the Democratic National
Convention in July.
Some party bigwigs had been
described as having a little ev
pectation Harriman, a longtime
disciple of the Roosevelt-Truman
Deal" programs and now the
Truman administration s foreign
chief, would go anywhere on a
national scale.
But Lehman said Harriman's
candidacy will be pushed in other
states in a full-fledged drive to
win the Democratic presidential
nomination for him.
Similarly, New York State
Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick said the
party would proceed "with all vig
or" to "lay before the people of
the country the qualifications of
the man we are supporting."
Harriman received unanimous
endorsement from 45 of New York
state's 62 county Democratic chair
men Friday after a boom-launching
testimonial banquet in his be
half Thursday night. Chairmen
from 17 counties were not present
at the endorsement meeting.
she went back to the Boehringer
home and saw flames.
The woman said she was too
panicky to succeed in stomping
out the fire or in dialing a tele
phone, so she ran to another neigh
bor to give an alarm.
Officials of the city fire de
partment, on a routine check
Thursday morning after the blaze,
noticed indications that the fire
might have been of an incendiary
nature. They reported this in
formation to city police who in-
vestigated and reported their find
ings to. the State Police Arson
Squad which confirmed the sus
picions. The woman was first ques
tioned the night of the blaze as
the discoverer of the fire. She had
had no past record of Incendiarism.
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Missouri Problem
Turned to Truman
WASHINGTON (JP) Rep.
Recce (R-Tenn.) asked Presi
dent Truman in a letter Friday:
"Why don't you seize the Mis
souri River?"
That's the complete text of the
communication.
101-Year-Old
Pioneer, B. F.
Ramp Passes
Statesman Newt Servica
BROOKS Benjamin Franklin
Ramp, who crossed the full span
of a century in the mid-Willam-j
ette Valley, died here Friday at
tne age or lui.
He slept away at about 5 p.m.
in the Brooks Convalescent Home
where he had spent most of the
past two years. Although in failing
health he had remained active and
alert almost until the end.
A pioneer farmer and teacher.
Ramp spent most of his life at
Brooks. He had come at the age
of 2 with his family to Howell
Prairie from Illinois. He taught
school at Brooks and other com
munities for many years and con
tinued his farming through most
of his earlier life. For a few years
before 1910 he operated a grocery
at Albany.
The centenarian's home since
1904 had been in his house on the
Pacific Highway just north of
Brooks, now occupied by a son,
Willard Ramp. Two other sons sur
vive, Floyd of Roseburg and Rol
lie of Newport.
His wife and son Verne preced
ed Ramp in death. The old timer
would have been 102 July 23.
Funeral arrangements will be
made with the W. T. Rigdon Co.,
Salem.
Shy Benedict
Rejects Bride
Kissing Rite
HARLAN, Ky. (yP-The bride
groom was so nervous he wanted
to get married sitting down.
But Magistrate Cam Smith, who
performed the ceremony, said Fri
day he prevailed upon the young
man to take the matrimonial hur
dle standing up.
After the ceremony, Smith sug
gested the bridegroom "kiss the
bride."
"I can't do that," the young fel
low was quoted as he fled with
his wife.
Smith withheld the names.
NAVY ISSUES CALL
WASHINGTON (Jpy- The Navy
Friday issued a call for volunteers
among its regular and reserved of
ficers to take flight training.
POUNDS I
Tli Oregon Statesman, Salem,
58 Measures
To Get Debate
Of Legislators
BY NORMAN LUTHER
Statesman School Correspondent
Fifty-eight bills, ranging from
requiring every junior and senior
high student to plant one tree a
year to establishing a board for
censorship of indecent periodicals,
will be debated today by 150 Hi-Y
and Tri-Y club members in a
Youth Legislature at the Capitol.
The boys and girls from over
Oregon opened the mock ses5ion !
Friday. They will close today with
consideration of the many bills
brought from their hometown
chapters to the annual YMCA
sponsored event.
Non-Voter Penalty
Other bills creating much in
terest include making voting com
pulsory with a penalty of $2 for
each neglected election, a bill ap
propriating funds for the construc
tion and maintenance of a gover
nor's mansion and one prohibit
ing the carrying of loaded guns in
vehicles at night during open
season.
The Youth Legislature opened
yesterday with Justice Arthur B.
Hay of the Oregon Supreme Court
giving the oath of office in the
Senate and James T. Brand, chief
justice of the Supreme Court, de
livering the oath of office in the
House.
Governors Speak
A joint session followed, high
lighted by speeches by Gov. Doug
las McKay and boy governor Vic
tor Walch and the administration
of the oath of office to Walch by
Justice Brand.
McKay said "there is nothing
more important in your education
than the knowledge of citizen
ship" and Walch stressed that "the
legislation should be just, liberal
and protect the equality of man."
A noon session in both cham
bers consisted of the first reading
of the bills. After a luncheon in the
Statehouse cafeteria, legislative
committees met to decide which
bills they would recommend.
A banquet for the legislators
was held in Baxter Hall at Wil
lamette University last evening
and was followed by a dance at
the Crystal Ballroom sponsored by
the Willamette University Letter
men. (Additional details on page 4)
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FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu
reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly
cloudy with scattered showers this
morning, becoming partly cloudy this
afternoon; and tonight. High today 53.
low tonight near 36. Salem temperature
at 12:01 a.m. today was 43.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start ( Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year
38.93
Last Year
46 .29
Normal
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1651
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Marine Confesses
Slaying of Teacher
Blames Improper Advances
SEATTLE tJP)-A young marine from Camp Pendleton, Calif., con
fessed Friday to the bayonet killing of a 51 -year-old school teacher.
He said the man had made improper advances.
Sheriff's Capt. A. W. Lyskoski said Pfc. Edwin E. Hanley, 22, of
All 29 Aboard
Non-Scheduled
Plane Killed
LOS ANGELES (JP) A non
scheduled New York-Los Angeles
airliner crashed and burned Fri
day in the Puente hills 25 miles
from its destination, killing all 29
persons aboard.
The plane, a C-46 two-engine
transport operated by North-Continental
Airways, smashed into a
low hill as the pilot, Capt. Lewis
Powell of Los Angeles, was trying
to find his way through a thick
early morning fog to the Los An
geles International Airport.
Cause Undetermined
Harry Bachelor, secretary of the
airline, said it was impossible to
say what might have caused the
crash. The plane left New York
Thursday and made stops at Chi
cago, Kansas City, Amarillo, Tex.,
and Phoenix, Ariz.
It evidently scraped the top of
a 400-foot hill, then plunged into
another. There were grooves, on
the first hilltop, barely six feet
from the top, apparently from the
plane's landing gear.
It was nearly seven hours be
fore the wreck was located.
Rancher Finds Wreck
Hayden F. Jones, a rancher liv
ing nearby, said he came up over
the first hill while checking on his
cattle. He saw the groove marks
on the hillside, looked beyond and
saw the wreck.
The bodies were so badly burned
and mangled they could not be
identified on the spot.
A few hours after discovery of
the wreckage the Civil Aeronau
tics Administration in Washington
grounded the airline.
Dallas Stream
Reserved for
Young Anglers
Statesman News Service
DALLAS Young fishermen will
be in the spotlight here Saturday
as the trout season opens.
Dallas sportsmen will cooperate
to reserve fishing rights on La
Creole Creek inside the city limits
for youngsters of 16 and under on
opening day. Several Dallas stores
are offering prizes to youths catch
ing the biggest fish. The fish must
be registered by 6 p.m. at one of
the stores offering prizes.
Judge will be Lynn McCulley,
Dallas police judge, sparkplug of
the contest. Over 2,000 trout were
dumped into the stream within the
city limits this week by the State
Game Commission assisted by Vir
gil Long of Dallas Lions Club.
Phone Strike
Settlement Key
Seen in Talks
By The Associated Press
CIO installers and the Western
Electric Company early Saturday
reported settlement in their dis
pute, a key to a strike in 43 states.
A spokesman for the Federal
Mediation Service announced the
settlement between the CIO Com
munication Workers of America
and Western Electric, manufactur
ing subsidiary of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.
The settlement, covering 10,000
installers, does not affect 6,000
CWA salesmen and other mem
bers also striking against Western
fllcctiric
However, it is expected to set
pattern towards an early settle
ment in this dispute.
BARNETT TRIAL SET
PORTLAND (JP)- The trial of
Ruth Barnett, Portland naturopath
charged with manslaughter by
abortion, will begin here April 28.
CANADIAN FLOOD DROPS
REG IN A, Sask. (JP) - Spring
floods in Saskatchewan eased Fri
day after causing damage esti
mated around a million dollars.
PRICE 5c
Sewer OJoue PDe;
Seattle, admitted killing Martin
Zellmer, Longview grade school
teacher, after the latter had picked
up the hitch-hiking marine in his
car in Southwestern Washington
Monday.
The officer said Hanley was
(AWOL) absent without leave
from Camp Pendleton.
Hanley was arrested by the
Navy shore patrol Thursday night
at the Seatttle YWCA, where he
gone in search of his wife.
The teacher's abandoned car
was found Tuesday south of Seat
tle, about 150 miles from where
Zellmer's body was found in brush
beside the highway Monday.
Lyskoski said Hanley told of
stabbing the teacher seven times
in a struggle in the car after Zell
mer had stopped off the highway
and made improper advances for
the second time.
Sheriff C. W. Reynolds of Cow
litz County, in which the killing
occurred, said Zellmer had a rec
ord of five convictions for morals
offenses in Wisconsin and Oregon.
He said the teacher's record was
not known in Longview until
after his death.
Reynolds came for Hanley with
a murder warrant from Cowlitz
County.
Small Fortune
Uncovered in
Victim's Home
KELSO, Wash. (JP) - Approxi
mately $41,000 worth of various
bonds and securities have been
discovered in the room rented by
Martin John Zellmer, 51-year-old"
sixth grade school teacher who
was knifed and bludgeoned to
death Monday afternoon near Ka
lama. Deputy Prosecutor Arthur H.
Reed, was appointed by the Cow
litz County Superior Court Friday
to act as administrator of the Zell
mer estate.
Reed said the bonds were found
in Zellmer's dresser and traveling
bag in his room in Longview. They
included $37,000 in U. S. savings
bonds, $3,500 in postal savings
bonds and approximately $500
worth of trust certificate securi
ties. "Zellmer apparently lived like
a miser," Reed said, "because we
found detailed notes on everything
he spent."
WARREN DUE IN STATE
PORTLAND (JP) Gov. Earl
Warren of California will make a
one-day visit to Portland next Fri
day to confer with leaders of his
Oregon campaign.
Politics on
:;
Who's Running for What in the May Primarie&l I
(Editor's note: Stories in tile "Po
litical Parade" are written by or for
U candidates, on LnviutUon of The
Oregon Statesman, and views ex
pressed herein may or may not be in
accordance with the opinion of this
newspaper. The articles are pobUshed
In tne public interest, and without
bUfaUon on the part of anyone.)
Today's subject:
HATTIE J. BRATZELL
Candidate for
DIST. ATTY (MARION) (S)
I have been a resident of Marion
County for 32 years and for 26
years of that time have beep ac
tively engaged in
the field of law;
first as legal sec
retary, then as
court reporter
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and now as at
torney. I worked In
the district at
torney's office
for eight years
and became thor
oughly familiar
with the work.
For 22 years, as HatUe J. BratxeU
court reporter, I recorded hun
dreds of criminal cases in all
phases of prosecution, including
Investigations, coroners' hearing.
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Army Rushes
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Danger Area
OMAHA, Neb. (JP)-A new Hoal
.threat to Omaha developed : sud
denly Friday jnight when "tkm
mighty Missouri blew out a semf
line running under the dike. "
The tremendous water p rescues
from the Missouri tore through s
big concrete sewer line four blocks
from the levee. The water ripped
out road pavement for 120 feet
and sent geysers spouting into tte
air. t
U. S. Army Engineers rushed
hundreds of men and scores tf
trucks with sandbags and graval
into the danger area. Water
gan spilling over a large section. 2
the lowland industrial section.
Gen. Pick .on Scene 1
Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief. 4
Army Engineers, went to the run
to make a personal survey and. ad
vise in fighting the threat 5
"It's very bad," he said, but .ap
peared to think there was a chaste
to block off the mouth of the sewer
line.
This development came after tba -raging
Missouri had thrown all the-
strength it could muster at t
Omaha and Council Bluffs, la,,
levees, failed to smash them, nd
then began to drop.
Fear Undermining
It appeared to be a sort of sur
render for the Mighty Mo until
the sewer line blew out. The dan
ger was that the rush of water
would undermine the leveel -or
that water building up behind
would weaken the giant dike al
ready soaked with water. 1
The sewer line that blew tut
was a concrete tunnel seven -by
nine feet. . At the. joinl ot- tr
blow-out, the top of the : sewer
line was formed by the ; street
pavement.
Engineers hoped to lower skews
steel and steel beams down --Use
side of the levee across the month
of the sewer line then choke off
the opening with 600 tons of rock.
Fourteen Miles Wide
Downstream, new towns aatl
new thousands of acres in Iowe,
Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas;
yielded to the river's relentiesa
rise.
a oove Kuio, in Nebraska's south
eastern tip, the river was 14 mUrf
wiae. At at. josepn, Missouri
to a five mile width.
Hamburg, la., city of 2,088, iost
the protection of an upstream dike
and began frantic efforts to iaa-r
provise a new one to protect 'Use
city water plant, business district
and the threatened two thirds fll
its residential area. ;
It was the same story writtsoi
earlier upstream. Army troop
pouring in . . . evacuees pouring
out . . . back-breaking work rma
dikes and levees, a ftw to kaJa
but most to yield . . . relief eera
ters set up and mercy missions -by
the dozens . . . sandbags, saad
bags and more sandbags.
PLEDGE TAFT SUPPORT
WASHINGTON UPl - J.
Gerald, Republican national corn
mitteeman from South CaroMnaw
said Friday the state's six: catteX
gates will support Sen. Taft.
Parade . ..
grand jury sessions, and trials Jo.
justices' and circuit courts, t
I am intensely interested in lh
prevention of juvenile i delin
quency. Cases involving juvesUe
offenders and juvenile victims Mt
crime are the constant concern
the district attorney's office, asmd
I feel that my qualifications nfl
interest in the work can lb sttf
great service to the children Z
this county. . -,
As district attorney I would dm
called upon to advise other county
officials on legal problems; I turwa
had experience in statutory 'Con
struction and expect to woakin
close cooperation with other coun
ty offices for the benefit of gim
taxpayers. ' , 1
I believe that in criminal oases
the district attorney should repre
sent ALL the people of the county.
It is my purpose, if elected, to
investigate carefully all . chaxsea
made before starting prosecutuH),
so that no innocent nerson naw-fast
accused of crime and no .publia
funds spent on improper or im
founded prosecutions. Praper
charges, however, will be f airiy,
impartially and fearlessly prose
cuted for the protection of - the.
people of Marion County. I ', ,
(Tomorrow: Keaneth & Crews)