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Many to Observe Fast Time Anyway By The Associated Press Oregon's Gov. Dougloa McKay Thursday put an end to specula tion that he might change his mind about leaving the state on standard time. "The incident is closed," he said on a visit to Portland. "I made the decision and if the people don't like it they ought to change the law." McKay said he did not believe he had legal authority to malce any change from standard time. "If the people of Portland want to change their employes' work ing hours, that is their privilege," he said. Some of them were doing just that. The Portland city council ordered its 3,000 employes to work from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. and the county was considering a similar 'Losing' Suitor Blamed For Tone-Pay ton Suit LOS ANGEI.ES (JP) Tom Neal returned to the scene of his first victory for further conquests, Franchot Tone alleged Thursday, laying the groundwork for adultery charges against his wife, Barbara Pay- ton. Tone asserted in a court petition that his estranged wife and Neal spent several nights together from March 27 to April 23 in the same house where the famed fight over voluptuous Babs took place be tween the two actors last year. The court set May 6 for hearing on the petition to file a supple mentary divorce complaint. Miss Payton's plea for alimony is to be heard Friday. Tone filed his origi nal suit last Nov. 20; she cross complained March 28. Tone's petition was bolstered by affidavits from three private de tectives who asserted they saw Neal, only partially clad, alone with Miss Payton in the residence which she and Tone called home during their short and stormy mar riage. , Attorney Stanley Gleis, who fil ed the petition, said the supple mentary complaint would charge adultery. He said Tone would vig orously fight Miss Payton's at tempts to obtain $1,000 a month alimony or any part of the mil lionaire actor's fortune. Miss Payton's attorney, Milton Golden, declared Tone's charges were false. "If he wants to fight this way, Barbara will file charges more serious than adultery," Golden said. Tacoma Plane Crash Chop Power, Kills 3 TACOMA, Wash. (VA private airplane crashed through Tacoma's main power line near the city Thursday night and fell to the ground in flames, killing two men and a boy. A fourth person was critically injured. The city of 143,000 was plunged mto darkness for 16 minutes when the power line was severed at 7:39 p.m. The dead were identified as Bill Jones, 40, his son, Gene Paul Jones, 7, and Bob Joslyn, 40. Witnesses said the four-place Stinson plane was coming in for a landing at a small private air port just east of the city limits when it struck the power line. It burst into flames and plunged to the ground, a tangled mass of wreckage. Nearby residents pulled the pi lot, Richard Dexter, 35, a Tacoma oil distributor, from the wreckage but were unable ,to help the others before flames drove them back. Dexter was taken to Pierce County Hospital where his condi tion was described as "extremely critical" from burns and injuries. CORONATION DAY SET LONDON -The London Evening News said Thursday it under stands Queen Elizabeth II has ap proved June 2, 1953, as her cor onation day. CON ENDS STAND JOLIET, 111. -A Stateville Prison convict, Vincent Kasprcak, 29, perched atop an 80-foot water tower for 10 hours Thursday de manding welfare aid for his fami ly. He surrendered meekly Thurs day night. BREAKS OFF TALKS MUNSAN, Korea (JP)-The Com munists broke off secret negotia tions Friday on prisoner exchange in a Korean armistice. Animal Crackors Bv WARREN GOODRICH ". . . ond mow for report from Hto ftwott go hoodt. Gwa &opfcfi if ac6 change if commissioners find they have legal authority. The city of Medford, too, re ported strong sentiment in favor of daylight time, and the Rose burg Retail Trade Association asked the governor to reconsider. So did the Portland Retail Trade Bureau, the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Oregon Broadcasters Association. A resolution also was put before the Portland City Council by Commissioner J. E. Bennett call ing on Portland business houses and schools to set up work sche dules conforming to daylight time. Federal governmental agen cies also indicated a willingness to alter working hours, after the workers voted in favor of a day light time schedule. The Vancouver, Wash, City Council will vote Monday on the question. Film Evidence Fails to Convict Salem Driver Motion pictures as evidence were used for the first time in Salem, Friday, during a municipal court trial. Over the objections of defense attorney John Steelhammer, Mu nicipal Judge Douglas Hay admit ted as evidence for the city, films taken the night Harvey Albert Berr, 2875 Evergreen Ave., was booked on a charge of driving while intoxicated Friday afternoon's trial resulted in a hung jury after an hour's de liberation. It was not known whether a new trial would be set. Objections Entered Judge Hay said he admitted the films as evidence after he had ascertained that Berr had not been compelled to be a subject. The movies were taken by city police personnel and depicted Berr's reactions to a series of tests given by police to determine ex tent of intoxication. Steelhammer objected to the admission of the films on the grounds that it violated constitu tional provisions which stipulate that a man may not be compelled to testify against himself. Assistant City Attorney T. W. Churchill, conducting the prose cution, said movies would be used in trials "as often as it seems necessary. Unprecedented Here Hay said that while Fridays' ac tion was unprecedented in Salem, films and tape recorders have been used as evidence in trials and hearings elsewhere. Police said that the films are processed entirely by police per sonnel and therefore it is not necessary to bring in outside evi dence to prove that the films shown to the jury are the same as those taken by the department. This would be necessary, a police officer said, if the films had to be sent elsewhere to be processed, and were handled by other persons. Portland Mother Pleads Innocent Of Girl's Murder PORTLAND (P)-Mrs. Jada Z Kader pleaded innocent Thursday to a charge of first degree murder of her 3 -year-old daughter Sherrie. Circuit Judge Eugene K. Oppen heimer, who presided at the hear ing, refused a prosecution pro posal to have the woman exam ined by psychiatrists. She is accused of deliberately dropping Sherrie into a water filled drainage pit near her Port land home several months ago. The trial date has not yet been set. Politics on Parade . Who's Running for What in the May Primaries! (Editor aotc: Stories In th "Po UUcai Parade" are writtea by or for the candidates, on invitation of The Oregon Statesman, and view ex pressed herein nay or may not bo in accordance with the opinion of this newspaper. The articles are published In the public interest, and without blicatioa on Uie part of anyone.) Today's subject: WnJiAM W. CHADWICK Candidate for REPRESENTATIVE (R) Born in South Dakota and moved to Oregon with my par ents 52 years ago. I own 75 acres of nuts and fruits and have always main tained an active interest in farming and the problems" of farmers. I entered the hotel business! at Salem, Ore gon in 1923 and to day operate the Chadwick Hotel System wth headquarter t the tel. Salem, Cwegon. Elected Mayor of Salem in 1939 and re ci-srted to that office in Chadwick Senator Ho- 102nd YEAR 2 Japanese Starts Works ii.mm mm wwiw'uiwi m ji mm.') i iiinmi.wiii:wnmiiw 1 tKt-'X f 151 i v-j-vd H ... " , :,.: ' ssunjgBjgt '--."- ' k .y. suUsSluUMi Sarie NisbJoka, 31, American-born Japanese, went to work as junior accountant in the State Tax Department Thursday to climax a controversy which broke into the open when the Bureau of Labor asserted he had been denied employment on the basis of his race and in violation of state anti-discrimination laws. With him in the photo Is Owen Searcy, chief office auditor. Publishers Censure HST Seizure Order NEW YORK fyPWThe American Newspaper Publishers Associa tion censured President Truman Thursday for his seizure of the steel industry and declared it would "resist and defeat"' a similar move against the press "by any President." . Fireman Talks Suicide Back From Ledge MIAMI, Fla. (JP)-A slender, red haired young man debated death for two hours on a ledge 1 1 stories above the ground Thursday and then was pulled to safety when his knees Suckled under the strain. Fire Lt. John Wilkes grabbed him while more than 1,000 per sons in the street near the Vene tian Hotel cheered wildly. The young man, about 23, had registered at the hotel as James Vickery of Atlanta, Ga. Vickery stubbornly refused the pleas of a priest, police and fire men to return to safety. Fireman John Lundstedt, an am ateur hypnotist, helped pull him back over the chest-high wall around the roof after trying a bit of hypnotism. "You're getting tired," he kept saying, in a soft, soothing voice. "Lay your head on your arms. Close your eyes." Finally Vickery's knees buckled and Wilkes grabbed ihm. IKE RETURNS TO DUT SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED "PTJERS IN EUROPE, (ffy-Gen Eisenhower, in high good humor despite a five-day illness, returned to harness Thursday for his last full month as supreme Allied commander in Europe. 1941. Served as State Represen tative from Marion County in the 1943, 1945, 1947 and 1949 legisla tice sessions. During my terms of office in the Legislature I have served on some very important committees including Taxation, Ways and Means, Labor- and In dustries, Local Government, and was chairman of the Rules com mittee during the 1949 session. Have served as chairman of the House committee on Interstate Co-operation, which committee meets with Representatives from eleven western states where we have been able to exchange ideas beneficial to the state of Oregon. In submitting my candidacy for Representative in the state Legis lature I am actuated purely by the motive to serve in the interest of good government for our state and country. I believe my past record for business administration in public office as Mayor of Salem, as a Representative in the state Legis lature and my years of experi ence as a successful businessman in Marion county qualify me for this office. (TenMrrvw: S. F. Ceek) SECTIONS 26 PAGES IC3U1UUUU 1 1 kilt o- -i i sue was adopted at a closed ses sion of the annual meeting of the ANPA with only four dissenting votes among the 500 publishers attending. . " It challenged any concept thatf a President of the United States has an "inherent power" to seize either the nation's press or radio. While this action was being taken here, President Truman told a White House news confer ence that the thought of seizing the nation's newspapers and radio stations has never occurred to him. It is difficult to imagine the gov ernment taking such a step, Tru man said. Charles F. McCahill, of the Cleveland News, ANPA president, said Truman's statement Thursday "does not square" with what he said last week. "I don't think he was misquo ted," McCahill said. "ANPA ad opted the resolution on the prom ise that the press correctly re ported his remarks at his 300th press conference attended by members of the American Society of Newspapers Editors." Communist Youths Hit Berlin Frontier BERLIN (VP) About 25,000 Communist Blue Shirts stormed West Berlin's frontier Thursday night in a professed peace rally that resulted in a few cracked heads and 14 arrests. The regimented youths of East Berlin were sent to stir up trouble with shouts of "Ami, go home" and "we demand a peace treaty." Model of Willamette Bridge 1 1 I Mftaa. a The above medel of the Marion and Commercial Street bridges over . the Willamette River at Salem showin how traffic will flow when I they are completed drew the interest of West Salem residents Wed- nesdxy nUht at the industrial exhibit sponsored by West Salem POUNDDD 1651 Thm Orocjon Statesman, ru LTL Levees Stand Flood Crest at Kansas City KANSAS CITY Kansas City stood the strain Thursday as the upper Missouri River's great est flood surged pajt on its way to the sea. "I'm smiling because it looks awfully good," said Brig. Gen. Don G. Shingler of Omaha, Missouri River division engineer. "But when the record flood on the Mis souri is passing your door, and you're sitting behind dirt, you have to be watchful." Less Than 1951 Shingler explained the Missouri is carrying about 400,000 cubic feet of water a second much less than the paralyzing flood of 1951. Last year the rampaging Kaw (Kansas) River dumped more than 500,000 second feet into the Missouri at Kansas City. That disaster last July caused almost half a billion dollars dam- j age in the industrialized bottom- I land of Kansas City, Kas , and ! Kansas City, Mo. Crest Moves Down As the river reached its peak here, the engineers estimated 572, 000 acres were flooded from Rulo in Southeastern Nebraska to the Missouri's mouth above St. Louis. Along the same stretch about 14, 250 persons had been forced from their homes. Far to the east on the flooding Mississippi, the crest cleared Wis consin and reached Dubuque, la. Upstream in Wisconsin the river was falling. The little village of Sabula, la. partly below the river's level reported "things look much bright er." The town fought successfully Wednesday to close a major levee break caused by three-foot waves. Y alley Firms Face Closure Over Taxes A half dozen mid-Valley firms will put up or be shut up today for non-payment of tax trust funds to the Federal government, Paul Lynch, deputy collector of Internal revenue, disclosed Thurs day. Two already have been closed and several more will be affect ed in the near future, Lynch said, because they have used for their own purposes the funds they withheld from employes for in come and social security taxes and on purchases for excise taxes. Several thousand dollars have come in to the Internal Revenue Bureau since the crackdown be gan, according to Lynch, who said all firms involved have re ceived several notices of their de fault, shown by Portland office records. He added that the drive would continue. Lynch, who will be accompa nied by other deputies in calls today on some firms in the Marion-Polk-Yamhill arear, said the office already had closed down the Eldon M. Doty Lumber Co. at Grande Ronde, which later re opened after payment of more than $4,000, and Johnny Foster's restaurant at Eola. i j f- v. ' 7 -. S3 Saltm, Oxygon, Friday, April Rebel Cons Yield Prison Fortress JACKSON, Mich. fT")-Convict rebels at Southern Michigan Pri son, their five-day mutiny won, surrendered their fortress cellblock Thursday. They released eight groggy but unharmed hostage guards. ine ib mutineers discarded a ball bats and clubs outside their cellblock, a monument to the worst riot ever to sweep a Michigan pri son. A roaring cheer broke the tense silence of the vast prison as the last of the rebels walked out of Isolation Cellblock 15 with the guards at 4:47 p. m. One convict died during the flaming rampage of 6,500 danger ous men. Last Surrendered Cellblock 15, punishment center for convicts who break prison rules, was the first seized and the last surrendered. Wives of the long Imprisoned guards some with babies clutched in their arms screamed and sobbed hysterically in a mad dash into the arms of the freed but badly shaken hostages. Warden Julian N. Frisbie, visi bly torn with emotion and strain. said the brawling, hot-tempered Block 15 convicts "wrecked the place." They had given themselves until Friday morning to surren der. But apparently they couldn't bear the thought of another night together. Wreck Penitentiary Convicts in other eellblocks al ready had wrecked much of the vast prison, burning and pillaging to the tune of two million dollars in damages. Gov. G. Menen Williams came from Lansing to confer with pri son officials at a state police post about a half mile from the main gate. Explaining his pledge of no re prisals to the mutinous convicts in Cellblock 15, Gov. Williams said they already were on punishment status to which they would be re turned and that therefore no fur ther action need be taken. Demands granted the rioters covered such points as alleged bru tality, lack of proper medical care and over-rigid administration of the parole system. Cons Back Out Block 15's doors were thrown open at 4 p.m. on the dot to signal the end of the mutiny. The rebel convicts discarded their weapons as they backed out one by one. Then they were given a triple frisk by fellow mutineers, who searched them carefully for any concealed weapons. When all were out, they march ed into the prison mess hall in quiet good order for an elaborate steak dinner, thrown in by prison authorities as a condition of their surrender. WAliilM Max. Min. Precip. 7 39 .00 . 66 43 .00 ... 82 49 .00 ... 55 42 .00 M 51 trace Salem Portland . San Francisco New York Willamette River 1.8 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Mostly cloudy today and tonight, with a few afternoon and evening ihowers. mostly near the mountains. UtUe change in temperature, with high near 63, low tonight near 40. Salem temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 47. SALEM PRECIPITATION Sine Start ef Weather Year Sept. Thii Year 38.92 Last Year 46.29 Normal 33.52 Draws Attention at Exhibit m -f ' " ' 1 1 r : Lions Club. West bound traffic win The model was exhibited by the carload of steel for the new Marion Tl 25. 1952 PRICE 5c pile of weapons knives, cleavers, High School Fund Only on Bond Election Only new high school construc tion, costing $4,280,000, will be in cluded in the Selem School District bond election June 16. the School Board decided Thursday. - The funds will provide a South Salem High School, on Church Street south of Leslie Junior High, with construction probably to start this summer. An earlier suggestion to put the issue at about $5 million to include some elementary construction was rejected by the board, on the rec ommendation of Superintendent Frank B. Bennett. Elementary building will continue to come from serial tax levies already in effect. Bennett said that selling of bonds would not need to start un til late this year, hence the issue will have no effect on taxes to be paid in November, 1952. Bonds would be sold in lots over the i construction period of about two I years, at times when a favorable : interest rate is available. It was not settled whether the i bonds would be retired over 20 or years, lr tne tormer, a max imum of 6.4 mills would be added to taxes if the latter, a maximum of 5.3 mills. The millage would de cline as the district assessed valu ation rises, which Clerk Connell C. Ward said is at the rate of about a half million dollars annually. The bond election will be at the same time as the annual district election for a member of the board. The board, in its special session, also called for bids on a one-room addition to Middle Grove. School and the new Rosedale grade school, with three classrooms and one multiple purpose room, to be opened May 27. Warren Plans Oregon Drive PORTLAND (JP) Gov. Earl Warren arrived here by plane from California Thursday and said he would make an "intensive cam paign" in the state for the Repub lican presidential nomination be fore the May 16 primary. Warren said he entered the Ore gon primary and the one in Wis consin because "they really count." He explained that in "Oregon and Wisconsin when you win the elec tion you win the delegates." In some other states, he added, win ning a primary doesn't mean ay thing. LOGGER CRUSHED EUGENE - Logger Kenneth Hayes, 25, was fatally crushed 18 miles west of here Wednesday when a log rolled on him. ' i use the new Marion Street bridge, State Highway Commission. First Street span arrived here Thursday, i f "' v - " j v " ,', ."- i ' ;! . "... :. ... "V ZfuwSS - 3 r White Housei Tones Down i Truman Talk WASHINGTON W-P r e s Ident Truman stirred up a short-lired sensation Thursday by savin j bm sent Premier Stalin an ultimatum backed up by the presenee of U. S. troops and ships in the .Mid dle East - and forced the Russians to get out of Iran in 1946. ? Truman's "disclosure," which he volunteered at a news ccder- -ence. startled and even amazed official circles until the White) House, some three hours later, nounced officially that: i 1 The President did not a personal note to Stalin that led to Russia's evacuation of the Uid die East country, and 2 Truman used the word-nttf. matum in a on-technicaL: lay man sense" -that is, be didst mean to imply he told the sians to get out or we would , to war. The President meant, it was . plained, that U. S. leadership ex- ' erted in the United Nations, said "through diplomatic channels," was a major factor In bringm ' about Russian withdrawal from Iran. The President brought up the Iran matter himself in outiinmx ' some of the actions be and et Presidents have taken to meet : tional emergencies. ? Facing Emergency i He sa:d the country right; is faced with an emergency ssf great as any in its history. Ho said it is trying to keep free na tions armed, and keep our forces in Korea from being shot in the back. And that, he declared, iswhy he felt it necessary to take over the strike-threatened steel indus try, i- Truman added mildly that m Congressional move to impeach him for seizing the steel mills is just a political proposition, adding that he has a pretty good defense. He said also that he never has given any thought to taking: over the nation's newspapers and radio stations, despite a lot of published -hooey to that affect. J The White House "clarification" of Truman's statements a boot Iran were pretty much at odds with the President himself said, and repeated under questioning, at the news conference - adding that he was telling the correspon dents something not previously divulged. -s He said that in 1948 - at first he said 1945, then decided it mift have been later - he had to send an ultimatum to the head of the Soviet Union to get out of Iran. Roger Tubby, assistant Presiden tial press secretary, issued " the s u b s e q uent "clarification., He told reporters: "The President was using the term ultimatum in a non-technical, laymen sense. He was refer ring to United States leadership in the United Nations and partic ularly in the Security Council, and mrough diplomatic channels in the spring of 1946, which was a major factor in bringing about Soviet withdrawal from Iran,- "On March 6, 1946, a note was sent from the U. S. government to the Soviet government making our position perfectly plain with respect to the situation in Iran. This note was published on March. 7. As you probably recall, thm Russians withdrew their troops from Iran in May, 1946." f; First of Steel M For Willamette -Bridge Arrives Erection of steel to comp2et the new Marion county bridge ' probably can start within the Heart -two weeks, and the initial car -load of 600 tons already has sr- rived, it was disclosed Thursday. r Six other cars are understood CI to have left the Gary, Ind, stael : plant. Four more are scheduled later. Equipment for erection cf i false? Work was beinf assembled this week and actual work expected within a day or two. The initial car load of steel ceived was for the bridge floor and cannot be used until other fabrication is in place. The bridge . is scheduled to be complete with in six months. y WESTER.V INTERNATIONAL At spoan 9. Salem 1 - 9- At Wenatche 4, Vancouver 12 Ti At Yakima t. 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