The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, April 19, 1952, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextI The Statesman. Salons Oregon, Saturday, April 19. 1952 Opening Night Crowd Finds j; Convict' Show Entertaining Br NORMAN ANDERSON Staff Writer, Tbe Statesman The audience never got a chance to rest at the "Con-glomerations of 1952" which opened Friday night in the auditorium of the Oregon State Prison. For more than two hours there was little bit of everything put on a little culture, a little corn, a little pathos, and lots of humor RARE TWO-A-DAY Preparta far "Cad Fan Tatte." her second opera In eae day. soeraae Eleanor Steber ve- calizes In Metropolitan dressing room after staging tm "Otello. Record Crowd Sees Cannery Union's Show More than a thousand were on hand Friday night to view the 4th nnual Cannery Scandals, held in the Leslie Junior High School au ditorium. Officials said the crowd was the largest in the show's history. En tertainment, drawn from the Can nery Union membership, included taD dancing, singing, pantomine acta, a comic skit, baton twirlers, a ventrioloquist act and the Ore gon State Employes Association choral group. Dancers appeared also from the Paul Armstrong dance school. Master of ceremonies of the two hour long show was E. S. Ben jamin, secretary of the Cannery Union local. Proceeds from the show will go to the schools for their noon lunch program. Eagle Aeries Incorporate Articles of incorporation were filed Friday by the Willamette Aerie 2081, FOE, Salem, and Yaquina Aerie 2219, FOE, Toledo, vdth the State Corporation de partment. Filing for the Salem group were Charles C. Gruver, A. P. Martin, -Roy Kapperman, and others. They filed for $150,000. Filing for the Toledo group were Otto D. Dirks, Earl Walkau, Jesse O. Martin, and others. They filed for $75,000. "It has been a custom that Aeries of their size file for incorporation in order that business purposes might be handled more comfort ably," Gruver explained. Big Carnival Dance Tonito Over Western Auto U Court Street Square- Dancing 8 to 9 Regular Dane 9 to 12 Dick Johnson's Orcb. Adm. oOc (Incl. Tax) A' U' tr j ...v. )) PAVILION (( DANCE ) Every Sat. Nlte Ten ( I ( Miles 8. East of Salem 1 II Music By If if LYLE AND HIS 11 WESTERNAIRES (( If Broadcast KSLM 1 ) 7:31-8:09 P. M. and music. An opening night crowd of close to 800 lapped It up, and repeatedly called for more. Written, directed and produced by the inmates, the "Con-Glomer- ations featured In specific acts: a boogie routine, a rope twirling man playing two trumpets, a couple of quartets, a violinist, a Dixieland jazz routine, a hill billy band and a bunch of square danc- But that wasn't all there was to It. No act got a chance to perform by itself; too much went on around it. Every corner of the stage had something going on all the time. There were shows within the show, some cutting up by the cast, some r e a s o ns for impromptu laughs, and some clever imper sonations and excellent acting. Tbe show was laid in a road side tavern with a bunch of "pro fessional'' troupers stopping by for a rest. Out of the two acts which resulted, there came music galore, more than enough to satisfy, with a Western band furnishing much of the background, and spelled by a jazz band. There were many stars in the show, but few could be singled out. Particularly w e 1 1-recefved were the four "women" in the show; one a waitress (with the be ginning of a 5 o'clock shadow and a tattoo on one arm), two floozies, and a hillbilly miss; the Texas rope t wirier; the boogie-woogie dance routine, and a quartet which en tertained during intermission. The opening night audience al so saw little 12-year-old Edwina Holce, crippled since birth, crown ed as Queen and Mistress of cere monies. She's the young lady who has entertained the inmates be fore. She sang three numbers at Friday night's show. During intermission Jack Ches bro, of the Oregon Heart Associa tion, which will get the proceeds from the show, introduced some of those who have made the show possible. "Con-Glomerations" will run to night, and from April 21 through 26. Tickets are on sale at Stevens and Son, jewelers in Salem, J. K. Gill box office in Portland, and may be purchased at the door of the prison. Miami Swindle Still Kidnap. Attorney Rules MIAMI, Fla. UP) - A 10-mile taxicab ride by a six-year-old boy and the payment of a $15,200 ran som by his frantic father added up to a kidnap charge Friday for the unknown perpetrators of a smoothly-enacted swindle. The kidnapers never actually had young Richard Richter in their custody but they made his wealthy jeweler father, Daniel Richter, believe Thursday that he was buying his son's safety with the $15,000 in jewels and $200 in cash he left in a bus station locker. Glenn C. Mincer, state attorney, said such circumstances added up to a kidnaping under Florida law. He said he would obtain indict ments charging unknown persons with the crime, and if captured the perpetrators would face a death penalty. The Richter family owns a downtown Miami " Jewelry com pany and a Miami Beach ocean front hotel. Police said the swindlers car ried out a carefully prepared plan. The boy, Richard, was lured from school and picked up in a taxicab in the belief his mother was ilL Another conspirator called the father, said they had his child and demanded the jewelry and money. Arrangements were made for de livery at a bus station and the whole thing was completed within an hour. The boy was found safe at the hospital. The cab driver said he was simply following orders given the Yellow Cab Co. by phone. African Hunter Shows Movies Of Congo Trip A capacity audience Friday night was taken "on a trip to the zoo without a cage" by big-game African hunter James T. Mone smith, guest speaker for the Salem Knife and Fork Club. Monesmith addressed the group at their guest night in the Parrish Junior High auditorium and show ed his technicolor film "Action in Africa." The film was an "on the spot" record of his latest trip in to the Belgian Congo. Members of the club elected to the board of directors at the busi ness meeting preceding the speak er were J. A. Inglis, Dallas; Rev. Brooks Moore and Robert L. Jon es, both of Salem. The final meeting of the year for the club will be held at the Marion Hotel, May 12. Speaker at that time will be William D. Skad don, a humorist from Illinois, who will develop the subject, "Marry and be Merry.' Cottonvvoods Dane Every Saturday Night Tommy Kizxiah And Hit WEST COAST RAMBLERS Dear Th mm KSLM Toe. A Rat Eve. EQUIPMENT FROM down with heavy equipment r7T ' A .:. :-y'jvj ' DRAWING ONE Win Keren. Jr, playing rate ef ale famew h amorist father in a HeDyweod Mrte, draws a ariak be- i fr actress Jaae Wyraaa who portrays BBmorist s wife. Extra Sessions Promised if Funds Missing WASHINGTON UP) President Truman said Friday that if Con gress balks at voting the money he thinks is needed for national defense, he will keep It at work all year, calling a special session every day if necessary. He said "dangerous and destruc tive" attempts to cut funds for the defense program and for foreign aid will imperil the nation's se curity if they succeed. And he accused those who seek to make blanket cuts in these pro grams of risking the lives of Amer ican soldiers in a grab for election year headlines. At one point, in speaking of the threat of a new move by the Rus sians, Truman said "there is only one real language they understand and that is this " and he held up a clenched fist. Truman spoke at the dedication of a new national headquarters for Amvets. He departed from his pre pared text to make the remark about keeping Congress in session throughout the year. He said he will see to It that the slash of about six billion dol lars which the House has voted in his 82 ,4 billion dollar request for the defense establishment is put back. He said this will be done "if I have to call a special Turnip Day session of Congress" every day from now to New Year's Day. This was a reference to his call, in the speech In which he accepted nom ination in 1948, for a speical ses sion of Congress to meet on July 26 of that year. Truman noted then that July 28 is known as "Turnip Day" in Missouri. LADY HAM' DEPARTMENT WEST HARTFORD, Conn. UP) Because of the increasing number of young women "hams". QST, the publication of the American Radio League, has added a special de partment directed to them. It stresses the idea of "keeping up with the girls," and is conducted by Eleanor Wilson, owner of ra dio station WIQON, Walpole, Mass. The population of Rotterdam Is about 675,000. Fifth Annual Registered mnd Commercial Abordoon Angus Show and Salo It Registered Females 2t Balls Alse 50 roiwiiiUl FcMalea fleaio wtta Calf at Side JUDGE: Jaases OsMrldge, Elk Grove, Calif. AUCTIONEER! Waler Palater, Lee Angeles. Speaeered Vy Pacifle Coast Aberdeen Aajro Association For Catalog write Bex 1049, Klamath Falls April 20-21, Klamath Falls, Ore. THE SKY Twta Mraehatea. In air drey ky V8AF carge aliaes ' t. if .1 ' i L ' i Three Chimney Fire Keep Firemen Busy Three flue fires were snuffed Friday by the efforts of the Salem fire department. One fire at 971 S. 22nd St., burn ed about a three-foot hole in the roof near the chimney. Another at 2308 Rex St., and still another at 1865 S. 12th St. suffered no report ed damage other than flue char ring. Yamhill County Jail Yields to Escapes Again McMINNVTLLE (JF) - Three county jail prisoners picked their way out through a brick wall to freedom early Friday. It was the third time in recent months pris oners had gone through the same 64-year-old wall. Sheriff W. J. Jones said the three who escaped were Leon Rice, 26, of Bos welt Okla.; Jack Bal lard, 23, of Bos well; and Morris Dale Chen eve re, 18, Saginaw, Mich. Jones said the three men sim ply cut through old plaster in the wall, then dug out mortar be tween the bricks, lifted the bricks out and crawled into the county clerk's office. From there they went out a window. Scotts Mills Hunters Face Game Charges Five Scotts Mills residents were arrested Friday by State police on charges of game violations. Three were cited to Marion County Dis trict Court and two to the Silver ton justice court. Charged with hunting deer dur ing closed season were Vernon Leonard Wolfard, 20, and Daniel Eugene Harrison, 18. Charged with illegal possession of venison was Walter Wayne Edgell, 51. A charge of hunting grouse dur ing closed season will be answered by 18-year-old Raymond Lewis Moles Jr. and his 17-year old brother. State police stated that there had recently been quite a number of cases of hunting out of season. 1 ' f - N lit feet te alameter. neat te a UN great mmU tm NLRB Decides In Favor of Salem Mason SAN FRANCISCO UP)- A Na tional Labor Relations Board trial examiner recommended Friday that a Portland, Ore., man who claimed he lost a job because he was not a union member be com pensated by the union for lost wages. The worker, Lee A. Parker, a cement mason, said he was dis charged from a .construction job at Salem, Ore., because he was not a member of the AFL Plasterers and Cement Masons Union. Services Set Monday for Lucas Infant GERVAIS Services for three and one-half month old Richard Merrill Lucas will be held in the St. Louis Catholic Church Mon day at 7 a.m with interment at Belcrest Memorial Park In Salem. The baby died In his sleep Fri day, apparently from natural causes. He hadn't been noticeably ill, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Lucas, Gervais Route 1, reported. He is survived by the parents; a sister, Nadeen Lucas, Gervais, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Lucas, Gervais Route 1. Arrangements are being han dled by the Ringo Funeral Home in Woodhum Canal Break Cuts Redmond Water Supply REDMOND. Ore. UPr-This city's water supply was dangerously low Friday as a result of a break in an irrigation canal the city's only regular source of water. The break, in the Central Ore gon Irrigation District main canal, occurred Thursday. Water was pumped into the city's reservoir from the Deschutes River. But capacity of the pumps is 800 gal lons a minute while water was be ing used at a rate of 1700 gallons a minute. 'Salem' oaly homa-ewacd Thxtr" Hollywood Kids Matinee Today 1:0 te 4:0 P.M. S CARTOONS SERIAL Special Matinee Feature "WIZARD OF OZ" In Technicolor also Benson's Birthday Cake for Lynn Dee Woodward, Frank Miller, John Gallagher, Jimmy Reimann, Robin McAlplne, Dick Kuykendall, Nancy Shut ter, Daryl Page, Jerry Henne, David Ernst, Jimmy Coulson, Dennis Ness, Richard Overman, Ella Mae Donaldson, Jack Bond, Ruth Scheidegger, Bob French, Billy Laird, Suzanne Morris, Douglas Smith, Mary Beth Sullivan, Alexandria ' Bradfield, Dixie Shepherd, Sally Plessinger, Joan SchnelL Jeffry Witteman, Bob Funder burk, Larry Emmons. Eve. Show Starts 6:00 P.M. ENDS TODAY! mom OWER BLYTH MCIUK I Ctbrte I TKHNlCOtOJJ Ce-Featcre "JOURNEY INTO LIGHT Starts Ti Coat. 1UI Ce-Featore "The Tasks Are Army Frills In Germany On Way Out By BRACK CURRY BONN, Germany (JP)-Free serv ants and special trains for Ameri cans soldiers in Germany are get ting the axe soon, official sources said Friday. If the Pentagon doesn't do the chopping right away, these sources averred, the State Department wilL The U. S. High Commission, a State Department agency, has de cided to cut by 43 million dollars a year the German-financed fads and frills that hark back to the Army's role as a conqueror.. Despite Army protests, the cut Is to be made next week in the "occupation costs" budget. Tbe Germans have asked that occupation costs of the United States, Britain and France be trimmed to provide more funds for arming Germans in the pro jected six-nation European army. Thousands of free servants pro vided for soldiers from non-coms to Generals will be fired, excur sion trains to Army resorts abol ished and other occupation privi leges curtailed. But the GI and his officer still will be among the richest classes in Germany. Both will get tax free cigarettes at 10 cents a pack, Scotch for $3.20 a fifth, cheap rents and low-priced food in spe cial Army stores. The High Commission officials stressed that the Germans now must be treated as equal partners of the West rather than as a con quered people. They said too that public resent ment among the Germans was mounting against the luxurious living of U. S. soldiers here. The Army argued free servants were needed to maintain property occupied by Army families, said most Army people cannot afford to hire servants, and declared "American housewives In Ger many should not have to do men ial work because of the unfortu nate effect on prestige and mor ale." State Department spokesmen maintained that, in the end, the American taxpayer paid for the frills here because U. S. aid sup ports the West Germany economy. Youthful Check Writer Blames Radio Example A 15-year-old Keizer youth, who told the Marion County sher iffs office that he was following the example of a radio character, was certified to juvenile author ities Friday for obtaining money under false pretenses. He was apprehended by a sher iffs deputy as he was attempting to cash a check for $50, the sher iffs office said. The youth had already cashed $35 worth of fic titious checks. The sheriffs office said the first statement signed by the youth was a figment of his imagination. The second statement brought admis sion of the two check attempts and the information that he had used on the checks the name of a radio character who had done the same thing. He was arrested on a district court warrant. GAS DIVIDEND DECLARED PORTLAND (If)- Directors of the Portland Gas and Coke Co., Friday declared a dividend of 20 cents a share, payable May 15. "Blossom Day" Week-End Friday, Saturday and Sunday RIB ROAST OF Halted All You Can Eat HI-CHAIRS (Children Under 10-Just 44) BLOSSOM DAY WEEK-END MENU FOR LUNCH and FOR DINNER Assorted Breads - Potato Chips - Wheat Crackers - 15 Varieties of Delicious Salads -Relish Sticks - Cold Cuts - Pickles - Cottage Cheese Hot Boston Baked Beans RIB ROAST OF BEEF With Battered Noodles Mashed Potatoes -Savory Stria Beans Hot Home-made Cloverleaf Rolls Coffee At Your Table by the Silex-Fnll Home-made Chocolate Cake a la mode - lee Cream Sherbet -and Hot Boysenherry Sandae ALL YOU CAN EAT FOR 99c ll&O A. M.-8:30 Week Days12 to t On Sundays With Mary Barton's Organ Melodies The Green Room f . -4 rt One of the sitting rooms in the newly renovated White House la the Green Room, which features a hand tufted rag Including the seal of the President which was re prod need from an old Anbnsson rag which was originally need here but now Is too frail for use. WaUf and draperies are of silk damask. All old pieces of furniture have been restored and re finished. (AP Wlrephote to The Statesman). Farmer Finds Body of Man Near Turner The body of a Robert Brown, about 55 or 60, was discovered Friday night near Turner in an old shed used for housing mtmals. The man had been there for about three or four months and had apparently died from natural causes. The only bit of indentifi cation found on the body was a receipt from the Tum-A-Lum Lumber Company dated some time ago indicating that he might have at one time "been employed by this Washington firm. Several newspaper sections, mostly the classified portions, were found near and around the body. Brown was discovered Friday by a farmer who lives nearby. Officials believed him to be a transient who had crawled into the shed to gain shelter from the weather. Sun Probable For Annual Blossom Day It will be touch and go and no one will be positive until it ar rives, but from every indication Salem can observe the 38th an nual Blossom Day under sunshine. The Weather Bureau reported that rains, which began Friday, will continue through today, "probably" disappearing by Sun day morning. Rain or sun, however, Salem Cherrians will be on hand to di rect motorists into the two scenic And FAMOUS BUFFET FOR Hi-C HAIRS AND BAKED PREMIUM HAM With Fruit Sauce -Esealloped Potatoes -Savory String Beans It i if ! ft routes, one south of Salem and the other In Polk County, which leal over the blossomed -covered hills. Kids Show Today! Added Attractionl Paul Armstrong's DANCE REVUE DOORS OPEN AT NOONI NOTE: A suitable western feature will replace "Model and the Marriage Broker" en the Kid Show Today! r "MA & PA KETTLE AT THE FAIR" And! "THE TREASURE OF LOST CANYON "THE BATTLE OF APACHE PASS" In Technicolor! And! "THE STRANGE DOOR" LAST DAY! "FLYINO LEATHERNECKS" "Model A The Marrlare Broker" TOMORROW! "Lone Star" "The Sell-Out ty? V Cartoons! MT I Serial! ytf Prises! Features! I TTaasT .i i Tin. r ""snr J "FRANCIS GOES K j TO THE RACES" J I j And! I j "SADDll TRAMP" feMBseasBssssaBBBBseasBB 11 ENDS TONTTEI j) Open f:45-Start 735 Richard Wldmark "RED SQES OF MONTANA" In Technicolor tntsi Garner Dennis Day "GOLDEN GIRL lit Teehnleeler f ffTr it ",r