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Newspaper Page TextU nion Cancels Oregon Area 1' 4 - . J -Net 1 i : Y"VT Phone Strike POUNDBD 1651 102nd YEAR 12 Pagtts Th OrJ0n StatMman, Satan, Oregon, Monday, April 21, 1952 PRICE Sc Telephone services in Salem and throughout the rest of Oregon will return to normal today .union and telephone company officials said Sunday. In Portland, Associated Press, reported that Arne Gravem, in ternational representative of the Communications Workers of America- said telephone workers would remove their picket lines from all rCTD I II t DODOS com Trsvel Letter No. 5 Carmel, Calif. Carmel is a nine - to - nine town: up at nine, to bed at nine. Even the numerous "shoppes which abound are not open of evenings, though as the tourist season advances, store hours may lengthen. Carmel is a haven for honeymooners and retired folk, so its atmosphere is sedate: no shooting galleries, roller skating dromes or natatoriums. Ebullient youth seeking such indulgence must go elsewhere Coney Island, Atlantic City or Seaside, Ore. The Wednesday night buffet dinner at Pine Inn drew enough grey heads to form a Townsend Club, but I fancy most of those present had carved their own "social security." It was quite different the next night at "The Crocodile's Tail," a new restaurant on the second floor of the new Terminal for the Mon terey airport crowd much younger. That terminal, it should be noted, is unique in its archi tecture. The frame is of structural steel, but the "walls" are mostly of plate glass. Thus one can dine (Continued on editorial page 4) Forest Fires Eat at Eastern U.S. Woodlands By The Associated Press Forest fires roared over Eastern woodlands during a warm, dry and windy week-end and many big blazes still were out of control Sunday night. In New England, New York, New Jersey and Maryland flames roared through valuable timber, burned outbuildings and some homes, injured firefighters, and hampered heavy Sunday traffic. An entire village in Rhode Isl and was evacuated as firefighters failed to turn back a vicious fire, traveling at explosive speed through a stand of pine. Appar atus was called from other fires by radio to make a stand against the blaze. The fire whieh imperilled the village on the Shannock Hill road was one of several big blazes still raging in Rhode Island. The state's veteran firefighters said the epidemic, with 10 major fires and innumerable smaller ones burning 6,000 acres in a day, was the worst in the state in their memory. Kaiser Cuts Auto Prices DETROIT W-Price reductions ranging from $100 to $168 in its Henry J line of cars were an nounced Sunday by Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Under the newly announced price sche--':ve the Henrv J. Vaga bond model carries a factory-delivered price of $1,349, a cut of $100; the Henry J. Corsair $1,449, a cut of $168, and the Henry J. Corsair deluxe $l,549,a reduction of $160. No price changes were an nounced in other Kaiser-Frazer models. Automotive experts interpreted the price cut not as indicating a trend in c; ; eric? serier'-v :t rather as an eflort to, improve the competitive position between K-Fs "Henry J line and the aver age price of the volume cars in the lower-priced field. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH "W)o art you bum goftA ttarn te PCD "w " f ' f r 1 V. 1 I n W - teiepnone installations in Oregon by 6 a.m. today A statement from F. A. Dress ier, vice president and general manager of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, was released in Salem Sunday. Dressier, after confirm ing the announcement by Gravem, said that all telephone company workers who have been out of work since last Tuesday when the strike went into effect, will be rescheduled as soon as possible. May Recur But the possibility of a recur rence of the strike loomed. The strike of Western Electric Co. employes against the telephone company still is not settled in Oregon and Washington AP re ported. If Western Electric work ers, who are members of the same CWA union, set up picket lines around company offices, telephone workers strike started these lines will be respected. It was over this matter that the telephone workers setrike started. Workers who had refused to cross picket lines claimed they were locked out when the company put to work on a day to day basis those workers who would cross the Western Electric employes' picket lines. The union claimed this was a contract violation and threw pick et lines around exchanges in Sa lem, Portland and other upstate cities. Settlement Reached Associated Press in Portland Sunday night reported that nego tiations are still underway in New York to reach an agreement with the remainder of Western Elec ric workers. A settlement, cover ing most of the strikers, was reached there last Friday. Most exchanges were picketed in Oregon Sunday, AP reported, but service was fairly normal. Meanwhile, the Northern California-Nevada telephone strike was settled, while negotiators were still at work on the Western Elec tric strike, AP said. Settlement of the Western Elec tric walkoutwould conclude the national character of recent labor troubles between affiliates of the American Telephone Company and the CIO Communications Workers of America. Another strike snarling the na tion's communications system the walkout of 31,000 AFL com mercial Telegraphers Union mem bers against the Western Union Co. seemed no nearer settlement than when it began 18 days ago. Ridgway Still Uncertain on Truce Hopes WASHINGTON (JP) - General Matthew B. Ridgway said Sunday he still regards as uncertain the prospects for a true in Korea un less United Nations negotiators sacrifice principles on which they will not yield. Ridgway, U.N. Commander in Korea, spoke by telephone with John R. Steelman, assistant to President Truman, and their con versation was broadcast on the NBC television program, "Battle Report." Steelman asked: "Gen. Ridgway, every American is anxious to know how the peace talks are going. Does it look to you as if an agreement can be reached be tween our negotiators and the Communists?" Ridgway: "From all information available to me my conclusion continues to be that it remains uncertain that an agreement on armistice terms can be reached with the Communists except by sacrificing essential principles which the United Nations Com mand will not do. . . ." Steeiman: "If the peaee talks should collapse, do you think we are strong enough to hold off any major Communist attacks that might result?" Ridgway: "I believe the great Allied inter-service veterans battle team in Korea with its splendid leadership is fully capable of in flicting a severe defeat with ex tremely heavy losses upon any offensive which the Chinese Com munists and North Korean mili tary forces are presently capable of mounting." Ike Recovering From Bad Cold SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED POWERS FTTOOPir is- J General Eisenhower was reported inuveuug normauy aunaay from a severe cold and sore throat. Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, chief medical officer at SHAPE, said Eisenhower would be confined to bed at his home at least until Mon day. The General's illness, which Snyder called "an uDDer resnira- j tory infection," forced postpone- ment of a scheduled farewell trip i to Scandinavia. POPULATION RISE DUE UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. The United Nations figured Sun day there may be 3,636,000,000 people in the world by 1980. The world population two years ago was about 2400,000,000, a new U. N. publication, the Population Bulletin, says. OGDS Lifting of Installment Buying Controls Near WASHINGTON (JP) Informed officers said Sunday the govern ment has decided its controls over installment buying are no longer needed at least for the time being to fight inflation. They said the federal reserve board is ready to suspend the con sumer goods controls barring changes on the economic picture as soon as it settles with Congress as to its control powers. U.S. Crime Rate Increasing. FBI Figures Show WASHINGTON (JP)-The nation al crime rate continued upward in 1951, the FBI said Sunday, with a 5.2 per cent increase in cities and a 5 per cent increase in rural areas. Director J. Edgar Hoover said m a commentary on the statistics received from police departments throughout the country that "a tragedy of our times is expressed in 195 l's fingerprint statistics on youthful offenders." "More persons aged 23 were ar rested than any other age group," Hoover said. "Persons under 21 made up 14.4 per cent (119,676) of all persons arrested during 1951. "Arrests of persons under age 18 increased 7.7 per cent last year (37,259) compared with the previ ous year (34,599)." Questionnaires 'Demand' Ike State Views WASHINGTON (JP) - Taft-For-President headquarters said Sun day petitions "demanding that Gen. Eisenhower state his views on 21 "vital questions" are being circulated throughout the country by a Taft supporter. Sen. Taft of Ohio and Eisen hower are front runners in the race for the Republican presiden tial nomination. The petition also calls for an expression of views by Eisenhower on such matters as Truman ad ministration policy in Korea and the Far East generally, the firing of Gen. MacArthur, the Taft Hartley Labor Law, federal aid to education and a compulsory Fair Employment Practices Commis sion in the civil rights, field. OtheT questions include: "If nominated will you feel any embarrassment in attacking either the record of the Truman or Roosevelt administrations upon which the Democratic nominee will run? "Ii nominated and elected will you clean house in the State De partment, beginning with Secre tary of State Dean Acheson? "Will you do likewise in the De fense Department, beginning with Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, now man power expert?" The Taft headquarters state ment did not say how many per sons have signed the petition. But it said it probably "will soon be signed by several million Amer ican citizens regardless of party affiliation." It did not say whether a copy has yet been sent to Eisenhower. Politics on Parade . . Who's Running for What in the May Primaries ! (Editor's note: Stories tn the "Po litical Parade" are written fey or for the candidates, on invitation of The Oregon Statesman, and views ex pressed herein may or may not he in accordance with the optnioo of this newspaper. The articles are published tn the public interest, and without obligation on the part of anyone.) JOSEPH P. MEIER Candidate for DIST. ATTORNEY (MARION) Your vote possibly may not de cide national and statewide con tests but Republican voters of v" i Marion County """ """"v. " will decide the s contest for Mar " ion County dis- tnct attorney in ' the primaries I "v , - since all candi- 'sedates are Repub- - J f C lican. Although -far down the list f- -on the ballot. take time and vote for this of Joseph P. Meier fice 3 if you were choosing an attorney to represent you in your most important affairs. The district attorney, while charged with the duty to prose cute crime, must be capable of exercising a responsible Inter- air That would mean no govern- ments requirements as to down payments on automibiles, radio and television sets, furniture, re frigerators and stoves, and many other items and no limits on the time to pay. The reserve board regulation W now requires at least a one-third down payment on most automo biles and 15 per cent on most items. Payments have to be com pleted in 18 months. No strong move appeared to be afoot to change the companion regulation X which controls down payments and payof periods on housing there was no formal com ment, that high officials who de cline to be quoted by name told a reporter the reserve board has been reviewing the consumer goods regulation and has decided it can be dropped at least for awhile because of these developments: 1. Sales are lagging in many items, especially of the appliances covered by the regulation. Remov al of installment controls might give sales a mild stimulant. 2. For the moment, at least, inflationary forces have subsided. The price trend is generally sta ble, or even downward in some fields. Installment credit controls were imposed in September, 1950, shortly after the start of the Kor ean War, to help curb a big buy ing spree which then was pushing up prices. The officials added, however, that no action by the board is like ly while Congress is considering legislation to renew the defense production act. This act, which carries authority for government credit, wage and price controls, is i due to expire June 30. Commies Reject Airfield Issue MUNSAN, Korea (yF)-An Al Ued staff officer said the Com munists refused Monday to "dis cuss or even acknowledge the problem of airfields" during their meeting on Korean truce super vision. Col. Don O. Darrow said the Reds resisted without any sign of a break the Allied demand for a ban on rebuilding North Korean military airfields during an arm istice. Neither did the Communists show any signs of giving way on their nomination of Soviet Rus sia as a neutral truce observer. Mrs. Kader Tries Suicide PORTLAND (JP)-Mrs. Jada Z. Kader, accused of the first degree murder of her three-year-old daughter, wounded her wrists Sunday night at the county jail in what the sheriff's office reported was a suicide attempt. Mrs. Kader, 21, is accused of slaying her daughter, Sherrie El len, last January by throwing her into a water-filled sump. pretation of the laws and sound judgment as to whether or not a criminal prosecution should com mence, not only because of the cost to the defendant and public treasury alike, but to insure that the reputation and earning ability of the innocent is not impaired by groundless prosecution. It is equal ly important that the district at torney be an experienced and able trial lawyer in order to protect the public by detering the person prosecuted and others from com mitting crime. My private practice and present service as deputy district attorney for Marion County gives me the valuable experience necessary to properly perform the duties of this office. Born and raised in Salem, at tended Mt. Angel Prep., Sacred Heart of Salem and graduated from Willamette College of Law. An Elk and secretary-treasurer of the Marion County Bar Associa tion. Overseas in infantry 41 months in World War II, going over with Salem's own Company B. Decora tions include Bronze Star- and Purple Heart. (Tomorrow: Cecil QuesseUi) Ms Korean Designs Japan Garden for 'Mikado' wm -nmm mmm mmm wwr-"" y.yTrr-rpzz -f.. ... ' 7, , '" -- f F zz. "Lz: ffluV ...z ,, u ft: A Japanese rarden scene for the Opera, "The Mikado" takes shape under the direction of Steve Lee (left), Mary Schmnk, Arline Werner and Barbara Brewer. The opera will be liven by Salein HUh School choir and orchestra at the High School Tuesday and Wednesday. Lee, who lived in Seoul, Korea, until three years are and who has been in Japan many times, designed the scene. Michigan Cons Revolt, Hold 4 Guards Jersey Prisoners7 Mutiny in 3rd Day RAH WAY, N.J. (-Rebellious convicts, growing thirstier every hour, vowed "victory or death" Sunday from behind their barri cades in a wing of Rahway State Prison farm. As the mutiny of 231 prisoners dragged through its third day, prison officials played a waiting game. But the convicts, with a des perate bravado, sent their "vic tory or death" boast to the out side world lettered on a kite fash ioned from a bedsheet and flown from a window. Water has been shut off from the wrecked dormitory wing since they began riot Thursday night, and they apparently are out of food, too, since they sent up a chant earlier Sunday of "we want food." The convicts treated their eight hostage prison guards with kid gloves. Originally they seized nine guards but let one of them go Saturday night when he be came ill. The released guard, Marlin Dunn, said the convicts kept hands off food and water passed in for the hostages. But the convicts' own thirst was so great they broke up the steam radiators in the dormitory and eagerly drank the trickles of rusty water from the pipes, Dunn said. A mute appeal "water" had been hung out one of the broken windows, crudely lettered on a bed sheet. The temperature crept toward the 80's for the second day to add to their discomfort . British Girls to Carry 'No Petting' Passport Cards IPSWICH, ENG. (JP) - British girls attending dances at the American Air Force Base here must carry "no petting" passports in the future. Strict new regulations were or dered Sunday "in the interest of morality and security," after some village folk protested goings on at the base. The hostesses will be issued special cards carrying their photographs and listing the rules: 1. "There will be no displays of affection while on the base." 2. "Girls will not dance with each other under any circumstances." 3. "Girls can reserve their right to refuse to dance with any service man." 4. "No liquor." Max. Min. Predp. 5 XI M . . 67 34 M 71 47 .00 S3 U M . . 82 63 JOO Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York Willamette River 2.4 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Clear to day and tonight, slightly warmer with high today near U. low tonight near 35. Salem temperature at 12:01 a .m. today was 40. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Mas Last Year 46.29 Normal 13 -U K. Y' Salem High School presentation of 4 Visitors at State -Prison Arrested, . Lodged in Jail Four men who came to visit the brother of two of them at the Oregon State Prison Sunday got themselves lodging instead in the Salem city jail. They were arrested In the of fice of Ellsworth Herder, cap tain of the guards, by police acting on Information from Jackson County authorities. The men are wanted there on charges of assault with a dead ly weapon resulting from a fracas in Medford Saturday night which left a man serious ly injured. Held in Jail In lieu of $5,000 bail each, were Donald Earl Yule of Trail, brothers Monty and Dee Stockton and Kenneth Tex Burnett, all of Shadow Grove. They had planned to visit the Stockton's brother. Frost Warnings Accompany Sun A sudden early-morning cold wave, which arrived Sunday and sent temperatures plunging down to 27 degrees, is expected to con tinue this morning. Frost warnings were being issued Sunday night. Temperatures this morning should be above the below-freezing mark of Sunday, but it will still be in the vicinity of 32 de grees, the Weather Bureau said. The cold, which hit at 5:30 a.m., was the only mar on an otherwise beautiful and warm spring day, appropriate to Salem's observance of Blossom Day. Skies were cloud less most of the morning and all afternoon and the temperature Zoomed up to 65. Salem Area Holds 'Open House' For Thousands of Visitors Salem and surrounding areas, with an assist from the weather man, held a kind of "open house" house" for thousands of visitors Sunday, celebrating the 39th an nual Blossom Day. From Wood bum south, highway 90-E admitted b um per-to-bum per traffic during most of the after noon. Highways into the surround ing hills were clogged with sight seers out for a close look at acre upon acre of cherry trees. The temperature fluctuated through the fifties and into the sixties during most of the day, after dropping down to a below freezing 27 degrees early in the morning. But the Cherrians who were out putting up signs at 7 a.m. wert almost the only persons who 4 Dn the Gilbert and Sullivan Comic JACKSON, Mich. (JP) - Mutiny ing and threatening four hostage guards with death, 179 tough pris oners still were in command of a five-tier cell block at Southern Michigan Prison early Monday. They grabbed the guards six hours earlier. The convicts, admittedly seeking publicity, said their mutiny was designed to protest "brutality." But their leaders wouldn't say what it would take to end it or bring about release of the guards. More than 200 other guards and 100 state troopers quickly jammed the prison, but made no attempt to force an entry to the mutiny ing men. Road blocks were set up to thwart any escapes during the disturbance. Southern Michigan Prison Is one of the largest in the world. It has 6,481 inmates. The rebellious 179 demanded to see Assistant Deputy Warden George Bacon, chairman, of the disciplinary board of the prison, and a newspaperman, specifying they wanted "a representative of the Associated Press." Bacon and Reporter Ed F. Smith of the Jackson Citizen-Patrio, who was called, said the men told them they wanted to protest "brutality." Reporter Smith identified the leaders as Jack Hyatt, 29, and Earl E. Ward, 38, both of Detroit. Hyatt has a notorious record. He was the leader in an escape at tempt at Marquette State Prison July 8, 1950, when he drew a knife and attempted to use Gov. Wil liams, on an inspection trip, as a shield. He was overpowered and the escape attempt thwarted. Smith said the prisoners appar ently had no firearms. TO RESUME OIL OUTPUT TEHRAN, Iran (JP) - Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's govern ment announced Sunday night il has resumed production of oil at Iran's great Aba dan refinery. HITLER IGNORED BERLIN (JP) - East and West Berlin united on one subject Sun day. They ignored Adolph Hitler's birthday. He would have been 63. suffered from the cold weather. Cherrians' King Bing Paul Stege pronounced the day as really a wonderful success," with the "big gest crowd ever" showing up to take advantage of Salem hos pitality. Cherrians at the Capitol dis tributed more than 3,000 maps and pamphlets and tours packed the marble statehouse all after noon. Crowds of people were still going through when the doors were closed at 4:30 p.m Stege reported. A big attraction of the day was the band concert held from 2-3:30 p.m. on the north steps of the capitol building vth several hun dred in attend' 3 nouns 4 I' Tragedy; At Ohio' Track DAYTON, O. OPh A spittfa dusty racing car, throttle out., roared off a high bank at Dvyton Speedway Sunday. , suddenly zoomed wildly, and plunged into the grandstand killing four pw sons and injuring 50. i Its driver, 29-year-old Gordoa Reid of Burbank, CaUi, a bright prospect in "big car" racing; wta killed outright. He was to make M fint pearance in the Indianapolis 00 uLue race Aiay 3U. tit was oe itated. ; Hit Paint Barrel A solatter of rvaint nv K warning on the ; warm . Sunday anemoon 10 me i,uou spectators. Reid's car smacked a paint barrel near the grandstand. The paint shot into the crowd. His car fat- ' lowed. "I don't know what caused ft said Phillip Engle, a spectator. -"Maybe he was driving over him head trying too hard." i A track guard, Robert Thatcher, 22, tried desperately to push p pie from the car's path. The red -' and white Engle-Stanko special : bore down on hm and r' him. Others Killed Also killed were Gene Lawsoa. 19 and Mrs. Ruby Ellen Shaffer. 43, of Springfield, O. She was de capitated. : Seven ambulances took the tn " Jured to Miami Valley, the Good Samaritan, and St. Elizabeth hospitals in Dayton. Many : per sons got first aid at the track. Nine were hospitalized. "I saw him leave the track." said Herman Cottrell, 40, of Day ton, who was injured slightly. "I turned and jumped as far a I could. The front wheel laid rigkt on my leg. God must have' beea sitting there with me." I Ranninx Third .-t Reid, who'd been ' clriTuiff sine -the end of World War II, mostly r in "hot rod" and midget compe tition, was running third on t&si. fifth lap of a 10-Lap race whea the accident happened. In Burbank, Reid's wife, Betty. -who'd given birth to their fourta child two weeks ago, became hys terical when told of his death. Reid's mother, Mrs. Hazel Reid. who lives ocross from his Burbank home, collapsed, too. j "I saw him coming," Engle re lated. -He jumped the fence, tten rode down the side of it. I was standing in back of those who got it. It happened so fast." I The big car of the type driven . in the Indianapolis race plunged under an overpass that runs from the stands to the infield,- and rammed into the grandstand aft the beginning of the straight- - Track officials said they did aof believe the car had mechanoeai trouble. i U.S. Jets Down 7 Red MIG's I SEOUL, Korea 0P-U. S. Sabre, jet pilots reported they shot down seven Russian built MIG-15s "mat North Korea Monday in an aerie) dogfight that produced America's 11th jet ace. f The Fifth Air Force said Ameri can pilots downed seven IQGsl d am aged five more and damsfed one of the rarely sighted Typ 19 Jets. f Details of the battle still we being compiled by the Air Torcst CapL Robert J. Love, San I Bar nardino, Calif., gat credit far kda fifth MIG and became an aoe in, the twisting fight, between about 50 Sabres and more than 90 TTa, - . t TwoGresham Youths Killed i GRESHAM (JP) - Two Greshaxm youths were killed Sunday when a motorcycle they .were rkUafX collided with three cars on tbs Columbia River Highway cutoff. They were G rover Ronald Cur rier, 18, and George David Lund. 17- : ; Sheriffs deputies said the aao torcycle, driven by Currier, hit the rear of a pickup track, bounced into an oncoming car and then rammed another ouium ing car. I The driver of the truck was net immediately located. i - j ANIMALS FLY ATLANTIO ' LONDON (ay-A Pan Amerlcaa " Clipper left London Sunday foe New York carrying: 85 wild Jungle ntmaii and 160 birds. An air lint official said it was the largest as , sortment of wild -life ever to Cy the North Atlantic ; j . .