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USAF 'Makes History's First IPBame Landing at MoeiJhi Pole ANCHORAGE, Alaska (JP)-An Air Force plane has made the first landing in history at the geographic North Pole. The Alaska Air Command an nounced Sunday a big ski wheeled C-47 landed Saturday on pack ice at the top of the world. The party of Air Force offi cials and scientists spent three hours and 10 minutes on the ice pack. The plane was piloted on the historic flight by Lt. CoL Wil DO3 0330000 PCD (IDS Lucius Beebe, columnist, sar torial Beau Brummell and fancier tl narrow gauge railroads, and lis associate Charles Clegg who now live in Virginia city, v., have revived the old Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, buried these 36 years. This was the newspaper which carried the first article by Samuel L. Clemens in wnicn e used the sobriquet "Mark Twain. Later William Wright joined the staff of the paper and writing under the pen name of Dan De r,,m Wame famous himself. Mark Twain of course returned east to gain international fame as , author and lecturer. The Terri torial Enterprise dated from 1858 I and moved from Mormon Station . to Carson City and then to Vir-, t ginia City when that mining camp flourished witn me opening ui n rich ores of Comstock Lode. It succumbed in 1893 but was re vived and printed until rigor mortis again set . in in 1916. Now Beebe and Clegg are reviving it as the town renews its life under the impulse of a tourist boom. This item in the news reminds me of a short stoy written by Sam P. Davis in 1885, about Mark Twain and Dan DeQuille, entitled "The Typographical Howitzer." It is good enough to have been writ ten by Mark himself. The narra tive starts with the account of the venture of these, two printer-editors in trying to start a paper in Mendicino County. They loaded up the type and press from their lately defunct paper in San Fran cisco and started up country. On the way Mark Twain spent $50 of their small reserve lor a nowuzer (Continued on editorial page 4.) Truck Fatally Crushes Boy At Hop Ranch Statesman News Service I N D E P E NDENCE A two-year-old boy was killed Sunday morning when he was run over by a pickup truck as he played in . the driveway of the Gene McCar thy hop ranch, two miles east of the Independence Bridge. The child, William Michael Del gard, died while being taken to an Independence hospital. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Delgard, who lived and worked on the ranch. State police in Salem, who weren't" called until shortly after noon, gave this version: Michael was playing the drive way of the ranch when the pick up, driven by ranch foreman Robert Harder Ristine, backed out, hitting the boy and knocking him down. One of the truck's wheels ran over the boy's head, apparently crushing the skull. Funeral arrangements are be ing handled by the Smith Mortu ary in Independence. 269 PEOPLE RESCUED LOS ANGELES (JP) Riptides and currents at Los Angeles area- beaches kept lifeguards busy Sun day. They reported rescuing 269 persons. No drownings were re ported. NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT NEW YORK (P)-Eric Hass of New York, frequent candidate of the Socialist Labor Party in state elections, was nominated by the , party Sunday as its candidate for the presidency Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH Well, it con't be love of first sight!" liam P. Benedict of Pasadena, Calif. At the successful completion of the hazardous mission, Ben edict messaged briefly: "Operation instructions car ried out. No swea." ' Maj. Gen. William D. Old, head of the Alaska Air Com mand, announced the landing. He said the plane took off from Fletcher's Ice Island, where an Air Force weather sta tion was established the past March. The plane made the 135 mile Camp Fire Girls Win Honors j t I , -f tin Jr9fii W.ii, ' -r,. J Three girls who Saturday night won torch bearer honors, highest rank given by the Camp Fire Girls, are pictured here in the official robes (left to right): Pat Irwin, 1515 North 16th St., who won hers in dancing-; Nancy Snider, 358 Superior, in gardening-, and Janice Button, 3385 Duncan Ave., in musie. Awards were made at Grand Council Fire at Leslie Junior High School auditorium. Several hun dred members of Blue Birds, Camp Fire Girls and Horizon Girls won honors during the ceremonies. Medford Stores Abandon DST rrt CIU UOriirilV MEDFORD, OP) Medford mer chants Sunday -aitr they were abandoning, at least temporarily, voluntary daylight time work hours. Medford now is on standard time but last week merchants opened and closed their shops one hour early to conform with day light saving time. The Medford city council is scheduled to discuss the fast time situation at its regular meeting Tuesday. Korean Truce Hopes Fading MUNSAN (JP) Allied and Com munist top delegations met for only 11 minutes Monday on the crisis in Korean truce negotia tions. Details of this fifth plenary off-the-record meeting at Panmunjom were withheld. An Allied Spokes man said the chief Red delegate, North Korean Gen. Nam II, did most of the talking. The brevity of the last several meetings hinted strongly the two sides were close to stalemate in their efforts to agree on conditions for an armistice. The delegations agreed to meet again Tuesday. Fight Frost By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman Frosts in recent years have made a lot of growers wonder if there isn't a more sure way of paying the farm taxes and family bills than by raising fruit. Certain it is that frosts have taken heavy tolls in many sections in the Wil lamette Valley fruit growing area. "Either," said one berry grower Saturday, "We are going to have to quit growing strawberries in our section or we are going to have to learn some efficient way to combat frost damage." The question which has been raised in recent weeks by those opposing frost prevention meth ods is: "What did they use to do about it?" .. And the answer to this, berry growers will tell y6u, is: "The same as the day-laborer used to do about his wages: took what was offered him." Now Bir Industry Things have changed. Some thing was done about the former; something will have to be done about the latter if modern-day competition from other states is to be met. Berry growing in the Wil lamette Valley has changed from a small part of a general farm program to entire farms devoted to berry growing only. To save this industry, which means a live lihood to many more than the growers, frost damage prevention must be studied. "And don't think we ha vent," Don Rasmussen, Marion County horticultural agent, said this week flight and landed on pack ice. There the party took various measurements, including ocean depth and gravity field strength, strength. It then returned to the island. Lt. Col. Joseph Fletcher of Shawnee, Okla., who established the post on the frigid floating island, made Saturday's polar flight as co-pilot. Alaska Air Command officials said details of the North Pole landing were lacking because of uncertain radio communications with the ice island station. 2 Cons Escape, One Captured After Shooting ' b One of two Oregon Stete Peni tentiary convicts who escaped Sunday afternoon from the prison ! annex was recaptured shortly be- , fore midnight in Vancouver, j Wash., after several shots were ' fired at a pursuing policeman. Warden Virgil O'Malley identi fied the man as William H. Brooks, but Vancouver police said the shots were fired by another man, believed to be the second escapee, John Calvin Goddard. Associated Press reported that the two men were fleeing from a j radio prowl car. It was not known just now tsrooKs was apprenenaea. j a 25-foot tree. Goddard eluded Vancouver police j Smashed a' third parked car, and was believed headed north. knocking it into a house. Brooks and Goddard escaped to- : Caved in the front of the old gether from the annex and were ; Kirkersville Apostolic Church, and last seen shortly after noon, . then naited after spinning back O'Malley said. The two men were wards into the building, employed at the chicken farm at ! Total estimated damage the annex. O'Malley said officials ; $10,000. did not know how the two men ; KPn(,'nc nniv scratched nleaded managed their escape, which was not discovered until later in the , day. Brooks, who was to be returned to the prison by Lee Herder, Cap tain of the Guard, was received in June, 1949 from Tillamook County to serve a five-year sen tence for forgery. Goddard was received in January of 1951 from Lane County to serve a three-year sentence for burglary. or Forget Fruit Crops, Valley Advised end in reviewing experiments car ried on. Earliest of these experiments, and a method still used by a num ber of valley berry growers, is that of burning straw bales on 1 nights when frosts threaten. This The tests are, he tells, the re gives some relief, Rasmussen I sut of the 1946 April frosts which nointed out, but added, that it was found "not too effective." Not enough bales could be used in a field to prevent damage uniform ly, and heat from the bales was A below - freezing 29 degrees chilled the Salem area Sunday morning, and the weather bu reau issued frost warnings in expectation of another low of 29 degrees this moraine not sufficiently continuous to give good protection. Two methods, however, are, to quote Rasmussen, "proving quite encouraging." One of these is the sprinkler method and the other is the older smudge-Dot method. Sprinkler Method Tried John Wood, Marion County berry grower, reports consider able success with the sprinkler system, although he has not car ried on the experiment over any long period. In this, a fine mist or spray is essential. The sprink lers are set for from five to six gallons a minute and permitted to run for approximately 15 min utes just as the frost period be gins. , While numerous smaller experi ments in smfudging have been made in the valley, the most dP Njai- ' 102nd YEAR 12 Pepper Backs Kefauver By DON WHITEHEAD MIAMI, Fla. (P)-Former Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida Sunday threw his political influence be hind Sen. Estes Kefauver in the lanky Tennesseean's big bid for Southern support in Tuesday's Democratic presidential prefer ence primary. Pepper's announcement came just as Kefauver and Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia, Kefauver's ! opponent in the state's popularity contest were preparing to make their final campaign pleas in pop ulous Dade (Miami) County after swings through northern and cen tral Florida. Kefauver supporters were hope ful Pepper's still-potent political influence might -shift the balance of -voting power and give their man an important victory in the South. Pepper was defeated for re nomination to the Senate in 1950 by Sen. George Smathers, who is supporting Russell. But despite the defeat he is conceded to have a strong following in Florida. Pepper's statement said Russell was a distinguished Senator but that Kefauver was a Presidential candidate with greater national appeal. "In Senator Kefauver," Pepper said, "our South has its first op portunity in a hundred years to elect a President and to reconcile our differences in a united repub lic. In Senator Kefauver the Democratic Party has a candidate who rides with victory. "... I shall vote for Senator Estes Kefauver." Pepper said if Kefauver could win in Florida, he then could go on to win the Democratic nomi nation. (Story m primaries also on page 3.) Nap at Wheel Starts Chain Of Destruction NEWARK, O. (JP) - Lloyd C. Kenens' nap at the wheel of.hj truck early Sunday proveel costly. The 27 - year - old Indianapolis man's truck loaded with two tons of steel castings careened off route 40 in the heart of nearby Kirkers ville (population 299). Here's what followed: His truck hit a tree, tearing the trailer loose. It went down the ! highway some 350 feet before it overturned. The truck cab strucked a parked auto, tossing it about 75 feet. ! Struck the Odd Fellows Lodged Hall, ripping off an outside stair- ; way entrance and ramming a con fectionery. Rammed another parked car, knocking it 30 feet, and leveling guilty to a reckless driving charge ! anri wa- finPd ?0 and costs bv : K-irkpr:villP Mavor Harrv Maelev. I KOREAN HILL RETAKEN SEOUL, Korea (JP)- Allied in fantrymen Sunday retook an ad- vanced hilltop position on the Western Korean Front which they had yielded Saturday in a bitter, daylong battle. comprehensive one is that of Al bert Jesse of Gales Creek in Wash ington County. His experiment started five years ago and he has been generous with information he has compiled from results took a heavy toll in his field Packers were paying 28 cents a pound that year. Alter deduct ing cost of picking, estimated loss was approximately $9,000. He could, he figured, buy a W field heating equipment for that money. Buys Smudge Equipment Following a study of smudging equipment used in other frost territories, Jesse bought a power sprayer, to be used as a tank wagon; 500 ten-quart orchard heaters; a 1,400 gallon fuel storage tank, which proved to be too small, so that another 1,600 gallon ca pacity tank was obtained; two lighting torches; two minimum registering thermometers; alarm t'-rmometer; an alarm box with 1,800 feet of number 18 wire to reach the coldest spot in the field This equipment, to take care of 10 acres, cost $1,220.20 at 1946 prices or $12.20, annual cost per acre, figuring the useful life at 10 years. Later, when heaters proved dif ficult to obtain, Jesse made 113 from discarded paint and. oil buckets, adding "spiders" to con trol the heat, and lids to protect the oil from rain. Cost ran from 55 to 77 cents each, depending up on cost of the bucket. Pag. Chinese Woman Chosen American Mother of 1952 NEW YORK (JPy-A native of China who reared eight children while operating a laundry in Portland, Me., was named Sun day as the "American mother of 1952." Mrs. Toy Len Goon, a widow, was selected for the honor by the national jury of the American Mothers Committee of the Gold en Rule Foundation. Each year just before Moth ers' Day, the jury chooses an "American mother" from nomi-.. nations submitted by commit tees throughout the nation. The 57 - year - old Portland mother came to this country from Canton, China. She is now a citizen of the United States. Her children, ranging in age from 15 to 29, all were born in this country. Mrs. Goon has had no formal education, the committee said, but encouraged her children in their studies and their partici pation in civic affairs. -Among Mrs. Goon's eight chil dren are a doctor, the owner of a television store, a teacher, an accounting student, a federal gov ernment employe, a sailor at the U. S. Naval School in Wash ington, and two teen-aged chil dren. Settlement in Bakery Strike Said Distant PORTLAND. - JP A strike against major bakeries in the Northwest's four largest cities continued Sunday with little hope of an early settlement. Officials of the AFL bakery workers union said no meetings are scheduled ! with bakerv ODerators . And thev ; m promised extensive picketing in Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Portland on Monday. Workers in 25 major Portland bakeries left their ovens Satur day, a day after the Washington workers struck. Sporadic picket ing was reported Sunday at some of the wholesale plants. Albert Kalla, secretary of the Oregon union local, said picketing of some of the plants would con tinue Monday. At Salem, union officials served notice the workers would accept whatever settlement comes from Portland negotiations. They said no strike was planned for Salem. Meanwhile, small neiehborhood bakeries fought a losing battle in their efforts to meet some of the demand for bakerv goods. I 0 1 r 111116 Vdl. J-f 111 11 p - , j ""fl VV l'PP K rA TT A v v Youth Cited Burning gasoline from a gas tank broken open in an automo bile accident Sunday left a 1941 Pbntiac sedan a total wreck. City police charged a 17-year-old Sacramento, Calif, youth with reckless driving, alleging him to be the one driving a Ford con vertible which crashed into the rear of the Pontiac, parked in front of 1325 S. Commercial St., and owned by A. L. Mason, who "ves ax mai anaress. Police said the youth got out of his car to investigate after the collision and lit a cigaret which ignited the gasoline. The youth was not held, but was cited to appear in Municipal Court this morning. Firemen quenched the flames, but not before the car was gutted. Fuel used is anything from die sel oil to kerosene, with stove oil found to be the most economical and least trouble, Fuel Cost Figured During the past five years an average of a little more than 13 acres was protected each year. The faverage annual cost ror iuei was $10.55 per acre. From 1947 to 1951 inclusive, the smudge pots were in use 20 times Danger point on strawberries, Jesse found, was 28 degrees on buds and blossoms, and 30 after the petals start falling. The alarm thermometer rings a bell on the alarm box in the house when the thermometer In the field reaches 33 degrees. Lighing heaters does not start until the temperature drops to 30 degrees in the bud and blossom stage, and 31 to 31Vi in the fruit forming period. Jesse estimates that tons of fruit were saved in the past five years. He points to 1951, when the tem perature dropped to 234 degrees on April 21, and all available heaters were in use without suf ficient to hold the temperature above the danger point. However, Jesse harvested 3,445 pounds of strawberries per acre, while a neighbor, who had 17 acres, didn't pick a crate for market. Usually the two fields ran about equal. More experiments are being made in various valley places this season, Rasmussen states. These will be reported upon as soon as information is souadly available, he added. KUNDBO 1651 The Oregon Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Monday. May 5. 1952 Steel Planus to Murray Disavows Strike Plan tW i. v. WASHINGTON Philip Murray of the CIO Steel Workers union, shown above emerging from a White House conference, said Sun day after steel wajre negotiations at the White House had e&llapsed. that his union "had no intention government." He is shown with Chicago district director of the 500 Rioting Convicts Set Fire to Montreal Prison MONTREAL (JP) More than 500 screaming prisoners rioted for five hours Sunday at Bordeaujc Prison, demanding better food and a new prison governor. At least three persons, two prisoners and a guard, were reported injured none seriously in the fray in which neither side resorted to gunfire. The rioters set fire to two cell blocks and the chapel of the wheel-shaped prison. The rioting subsided about 8 p. m., (EST) as the last of the unruly mob of prisoners straggled from the yard back into the fire damaged prison. Scores of police, summoned from all over Montreal, had ent ered the yard more than an hour earlier but made no effort to drive the prisoners forcibly back into the buildings. Hundreds of spectators jammed the streets outside the big old prison. The riot exploded at the late afternoon meal. The prisoners didn t like the head cheese, corn and potatoes they were given. They rushed their guards and be gan screaming. Nearly all of the prison's total population of 600 prisoners took part. All the prisoners are short termers, with sentences of less than two years. They wore ci vilian clothes and some had bed blankets draped around them as they ran about the yard. One source said unofficially he belived the riot here could have been inspired by the big prison riots last month in New Jersey and at Jackson, Mich. Comic Aspect At times, the dfcorder took an comic aspect and the prisoners seemed to be having considerable sport. When fire trucks rushed in, the prisoners leaped aboard and rang the bells. They made no at tempt to molest the firemen or to hamper their work. Late Sunday night three more fires broke out in the prison but j the flames were put out quickly and there was no indication the rioting has resumed. Damage by the rioters was es timated unofficially at $100,000. DROWNS IN SLOUGn PORTLAND (JP)- Mrs. Anna Garrett, 46, drowned in the Co lumbia River slough Saturday night. She lived in a houseboat on the slough. She first was reported missing from a party at one of the houseboats. A short time later her body was found floating face down in the slough. Max. 61 SO 92 74 Min. 29 31 40 54 51 Predp. .M .00 JOQ .00 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York . Willamette River lt feet. r ORE CAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary field. Salem : Mostly clear today and tonight. Continued cool, with high near 62. and low to night rear 30. Salem temperature at 12:01 a.m. today was 39. SALKM PBECIPrTATlOV Since Start of Weather Year Sea. 1 This Year 39 85 Last Year 47.4 Normal Tsfc Collapse, CD deep HM of callinx strike against the callinx 4 strike against t h Germane (left). Chic Jose go union. (AP Wlrepboto to The Poll Indicates DST Favored Proponents of Daylight Time in Salem continued to hold a ma jority in the unofficial '"ballot-ins.-' a mi'it concluded Sunday night showed The citv of Salem was voting 22 to one in favor of the pro posal, with rural areas taking the opposite stand by 14 to one. The overall total is still about 2la to one in favor of DST. In Salem the tabulated vote is DST, 1022, Standard Time, 333, In rural areas it is DST 100, standard 165. Through Sunday nights counting. 1.620 ballots had been checked. Phone calls to the City Hall gave DST 165 more votes and standard time 61. The ballot" is being published by The Statesman (on page 4 today) at the request of city of ficials. Results will be given to the City Council at its meeting May 12 for whatever action it wishes to take. Deadline for "vot ing' is Friday. Politics on Parade ' ; Who's Running for Wliat in the May Primaries! (Editor's note: Stories tn Uie -Political Parade- are written fcy or for the candidates, en Invitation ( Tste Oregen Statesman, and riews ex pressed kereln may or may net tn accordance with Lh opinion of this newspaper. The articles are published la the pablic Interest, and without bligatioa on the part ef anyone.) WALTER NORBLAD Candidate for CONGRESS (1st Dist) (R) Walter Norblad s voting record for economy in the last session of Congress was the best of the 18 members pf the House and Sen ate from the Northwest States and one of the best in the na tion, according to an impartial sur vey issued by the National Associa tion o f State Chambers of CofrLrnerce. His efforts a- Walter Norfclad lona .this line started shortly after being elected to Congress in 1946 when he discovered huge food wastes at Tongue Point Nav al Base and caused the Navy to make major changes in regula tions to prevent a recurrence in mat PRICE 5c White House Negotiations End in Failure WASHINGTON (-Stel ma' negotiations collapsed at the WXiW House Sunday but CIO President. Philip Murray said "we hxre mm mienuon or calling a strike me government." Murray told newsman minutes after White Rmiu m efforts failed that "naturally hope, al thou sh thm the moment are deplorable, that our people will continue at work during government ooeration the steel properties.' Murray conferred with reporters' shortly after Dr. John R CimL man, presidential assistant, had announced White House steel wage negotiations were off be cause "no agreement can be reached at this time.w Murray, looking very tired after two full days and one night constant talks with industry ofO-" cials, accused the companies cf being "on a strike against 'collee- tive bargaining." To Review Case : The steel industry, Murray agreed, is technically under gov ernment control despite a U. S. District Court ruling that seizure was unconstitutional The Su preme Court postponed the effec tiveness of that ruling and wiU review the hotly disputed issue. Murray said the companies never increased their wage offer at the White House beyond the 12 lt cent wage boost and" 5s cent fringe increase offered the union "more than three weeks ago. Denounces Policy He denounced the steel coos pa nies for what he called "coodi tioning this offer upon the gov ernment's granting them price in creases beyond those allowable. " under the government's stabiliza tion policies. . A. B. Homer, president of Beth lehem SteeL speaking for Industry - representatives- at de Whit House conference, said the companies "tried earnestly to reach an agree ment with the CIO Steelworkero Union. ; Murray still refuses to consioer the offer made by the steel com panies three weeks ago," . Homer said, "consisting of a $1 a day wage increase, six paid holidays. " more liberal vacations, greater shift premiums and other bene fits. "No proposals were offered by the union. Instead, they insisted " upon the full recommendations of the wage board." Western International At Salem 0-2. Spokane 3-4 : At Yakima 3-2. Wenatcbee At Tri-Qty 3-3. Uwatoa 15-4 Only game scheduled. : Coast Learse At Oakland 5-2. Portland V At San Diego 4-4. Saa rTaarisce S- ( 1st 16 inn.) At Lo Anfelea S-. Seattle, 7-7 (let 13 Inn ) At Sacramento 2-4. HoQrwood 4- National Learse At Chicago 3. New York 1 tM4-I At Pittsburgh 0. Brooklyn f At St. Louis 4-1. Boston 3-1 At Cincinnati 5-a. Philadelphia 4-1 American Leagve At New York 8-3. Chicago t-1 At Boston . Cleveland At Washington 2-15, St. Louis 1-T At Philadelphia lft-4. Detroit -S I any of its world-wide stations. High department officials sriTat ly admitted these changes. resulted in enormous savings. Further economy successes eon tin ued in various branches of wv eminent, the latest being a few weeks ago when the defense ale partment agreed to consolidate its building program at an Arrcy Air Force base in Alaska. Norblad. who maintains offices in Salem during Congressional cesses, is 43 years old and u ing his fourth consecutive Mb in Congress. First elected by a majority of 10,000, hijr rotinx 1 strength has increased each, tkc -tioo until in 1950 his margin warn 48,000. i. . - Norblad, a combat veteran mt ,' World War C it 1 member cf the Committee on Cocnmittoesv ; Armed Services Committee, mam for the last two terms has been, chosen as Western Republican Whip. J ' He noios gacneior or, aoeoe and Doctor of Jurisprudence de grees from the University of Ore . gon. His background. Congres sional experience and seniority, and his record of aceocnrlishntezii qualify him to properly represent you in Washington. I " Temerrew: Alex Barry