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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
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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.
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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-
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-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)
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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
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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
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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'
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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.
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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, -
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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 -
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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 . .