The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 16, 1952, Page 1, Image 1

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Just now the politicians are
busy toting up the number of dele
gates the various candidates for
presidential nominations have "in
the bag" or in prospect. On the
Republican side Taft stays in the
lead, and on the Democratic side
Kafauver is well in advance of his
competition. .Neither has the ne
cessary one-half plus one to in
sure his nomination.
So far i few have been looking
ahead to tote up electoral votes.
This has been touted as a "Re
publican year"; but so was 1948.
One man, Louis H. Bean, who has
had some success as a political
forecaster, including prediction of
Truman's election in 1948, has
worked over his formulas and
manipulated his slide rule. In an
article in the current Harper's
magazine he gives a tentative an
swer to his question, "Who will
win In '52?" And really it isn't
too good.
He relies to a considerable ex
tent bn vote trends, particularly
as shown in congressional elec
tions. The political tide shows two
levels: higher for the Democrats
in presidential years; lower in
mid-term. Thus Republicans made
gains in mid-term elections of
1938 and 1942 and 1950 and cap
tured control of congress in 1948.
So he writes:
"Assuming you have correctly
appraised the political tide (House
membership) to be 55 to 60 per
cent Democratic as of the first
quarter of 1952, this formula says
that a Democratic presidential
candidate would obtain 54 to 56
per cent of the two-party vote."
This, he figures out, would be
enough to secure for him a ma
jority of electoral votes.
Bean rebuts th idea often ad
vanced that Dewey was defeated
by the stay-at-home vote. He es
timates the 1948 turnout to have
been
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
Commies Quell
East German
Eviction Revolt
BERLIN tP) - Five thousand
Communist police have quelled a
spreading revolt by East Germans
against their ruthless eviction from
the border security belt facing
West , Germany, Soviet Zone
sources disclosed Sunday.
Fighting between Volkspolizei
(people's police) and desperate
civilians flared in 16 border vil
lages in the past four days. Morej
than 30 casualties were unofficial- j
ly reported. Scores were arrested.
Center of the resistance to the
Red security measures was the Soviet-occupied
border state of
Thuringia.
Biggest clash broke out between
1,000 townsfolk of Kaltennordheim
and 300 police reinforcements,
called out last week to stop an at
tempt to liberate two families of
"political unreliables" from the
town jail.
Since then police detachments
rounding up so-called unreliables
for deportation from the security
belt have been ambushed or openly
attacked on repeated occasions.
Safe and Sane
4t7t Expected
In Salem Area
Salem will be a quiet place on
July 4 mostly because of the
probable absence of noisy cele
brations and noisier fireworks.
Only exploding cap pistols will
jar late sleepers-in on Independ
ence Day. Because a Salem city
ordinance, passed two years ago,
says no fireworks with the excep
tion of caps, may be exploded,
sold or displayed in Salem.
The same holds true for areas
outside of Salem with the excep
tion that in districts beyond the
reach of Salem police the state
law permits sparklers to be used
by young celebrants.
Supervised displays of fireworks
in connection with public pro
grams may be held, provided a
permit is first obtained from the
state fire marshal's office. Appli
cations mvist be made at least 15
days before the displays are
scheduled, said Fire Marshal Rob
ert B. Taylor.
Only application for a public
display: in the Salem area so far
has come from Fairview Home, a
state institution east of Salem.
There a fireworks display will be
held on July 4 in connection with
a program;
No public celebration of the
kind usually displayed in Salem
in former years on July 4 appar
ently is being planned this year.
At least no public announcement
of such a program had been made
by late last week. American Le
gion, Capital Post 9, which has
held annual Independence Day ob
servances for many years, halted
the practice last year.
Independence Day celebrations
in the Willamette Valley this year
include: Albany Timber Carnival,
July 2-i4; Hillsboro Happy Days,
2-41; McMinnville Yamhill Sher
iffs Possei Rodeo, 3-4, and St.
Paul Rodeo, 3-5.
WRECK KILLS SAILOR
ASTORIA (JlVA Tongue Point
sailor, identified by police as Lin
dy Louis Church, 24,' was killed
early Sunday when a car plunged
off Sunset Highway near Elsie.
Another sailor, Louis Salas, the
driver, was injured as the car
p. linetedv 1,200 feet down a
mountainside.
102nd YEAR
A Word to
'I
SUMMIT, N. J. Like a resigned voter cornered by a presidential
year politician, this solemn young owl listens to the mewing of his
pussy pal at the home of Mrs. Olive Kirsche in Summit, N. J. The
baby owl is one of a pair found on the Kirsche lawn two weeks
ago. The big-eyed birds have since established friendly relations
with the household's other pets a pair of kittens and a Labrador
retriever. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman).
Quinaby Man Killed
As Car Misses Curve
A 30-year-old Quinaby man was killed early Sunday morning
in an automobile accident just west of Woodburn on the St. Louis
highway in the second traffic fatality in Northern Marion County In
four days.
He was identified by Marion County Coroner Leston V. Howell
as Harold J. Fields. He died when the car in which he was riding
with three other men failed to i
negotiate a curve and crashed into
a ditch. Howell said Fields' neck
was broken. He was found lying
under the overturned automobile.
Last Wednesday Mrs. Ora Keith
of Canby was killed in an auto
train accident near Hubbard.
State police said the automobile
accident occured when the car,
going from Woodburn to Gervais,
missed a curve in the highway
one mile west of Woodburn about
3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Others in th car, none of whom
were injured, were Hubert O.
Brundidge to whom the 1949
Chevrolet was registered; Elven
L. Martin, both of Woodburn
Route 2, and Albert A. Eder of
Gervais Route 2. State police
had not determined who was
driving the car at the time of the
accident.
The body was first taken to
Ringo Mortuary in Woodburn and
later removed to the Clough-Bar-rick
Funeral Home 'ffi Salem.
Survivors are believed to in
clude a mother in Quinaby, a sis
ter in Salem and a sister-in-law
in Waconda.
Funeral arrangements were to
be made today.
Korean Ammo
Dump Explodes
PUSAN 7P)-An Army ammuni
tion dump blew up Monday 15
miles north of Pusan at Heunde,
where hundreds of Americans
worked.
The port provost marshal said
there were no immediate reports
of casualties.
Guerrillas operate in the area.
An unofficial report said sabotage
was suspected.
Three major explosions rocked
the countryside in a span of 25
minutes. They jarred many build
ings in Pusan and rattled plaster
from the walls of the U. S. Em
bassy. The blasts hurled up dark smoke
clouds which could be seen in this
South Korean provisional capital
and big Allied base.
Means of Stealing
Stamp Devised
NEW YORK UP)-The city fath
ers have been saying the city's
new auto tax stamps can't be
stolen off windshields.
Said they: The stamps would
have to be scraped off in bits and
pieces. Too much bother for any
thief.
But Solomon Rosenthal of the
Bronx reported they were all wet.
A thief had taken his auto
stamp after all. Just removed tho
entire windshield.
Western International
At Salem 0-3: Victoria 1-5.
At Spokane, 3-7; Wenatchec 6-Z.
At Tri-City 5-1; Vancouver 1-3.
At LewUton 12-4; Yakima 1-17.
American Leacne
At Portland 0-2. Seattle 2-3.
At San Francisco 2-4; Hollywood 8-2.
At Los Angeles 5-3. Oakland 4-2.
At Sacramento 6-1. San Diego ft-3.
National Leajrue
At Cleveland 2-3; New York ft-4.
At Detroit Washington 3-4.
At Chicago 7-2; Boston 2-3.
At St. Louis 6-7; Philadelphia 3-6.
(2nd 11 Innings.)
Pacific Coast League
At New York 12-3: St. Louis 14-0.
At Brooklyn 4: Cincinnati 7.
At Philadelphia 0-4; Pittsburgh 6-3.
At Boston 4-2: Chicago 1-0.
12 Pages
the Wise
T iy S
108 Degrees in
Nebraska Tops
U.S. Heat Wave
By The Associated Press
Temperatures boiled upward in a
lrif nnrt irn nf thp nation nnHai-
I " "-'.7
and many areas reported record . "i'i"" ",cf
neat Eisenhowers voice rose as he
Sunday's searing weather ex- declared that he had depended
tended from the southern Rockies I upo" Bradlvfy dunn? e warAas
eastward through' the Mississippi ! he 4had on his w-n right arm. As
VallPv to the Rast r,t Aftrnnon I serting that he knew of no one
temperatures generally were in the
90s but in some areas of Nebraska,
the Dakotas, Colorado and Kansas
and in the Southwest were well
over the 100 degree mark
wJhPf hi.r(rnnrt. L.lnHi consult MacArthur about Far East- j o.. ...urust liaison oincers aun
Weather bureau reports included affaip, if hU hrnther five-r ! day after a 35-minute no-progress
108 degrees at Imperial, Neb., 105
at North Platte and Lexington,
Neb., and Goodland and Garden
City, Kans., and 103 at Akron,
Colo.
St. Louis residents
sweltered
under 101 degree weather that!
broke several city records. It was
the highest reading for the date:
in Weather Bureau records and the j
highest for any day of the last
five summers.
St. LouiS is having its driest ! ?Ve"e lU uy imm-iy
m. m .. .uiin government so long as they
June in 20 years. Sunday was the
11th straight day the mercury reg
istered 90 or higher. Forecasters
saw no relief in sight for the city.
Chicago had its hottest day in
nearly three years with a ther
mometer reading of 94.4 degrees.
This was the highest mark re
corded on a June 15 since 1913.
New York City's 90.6 degree
heat was a 1952 high
w th.
ttributed to the
One death was a
heat at Mobile, Ala., where the
mercury soared to 101 degrees.
The Gulf Coast city remained in
the grip of Its worst June heat
siege in 30 years. Memphis, Tenn.,
had its hottest June 15 on record,
a high of 100.
Woman Hurt as
Car Hits Boxcar
A woman sustained a possible
back injury on Trade Street late
Sunday when her car ran into the
end of a standing freight car near
the intersection of High and Lib
erty Streets.
Taken to Salem General Hos
pital was Mary Alice Vehrs, 32, of
1445 B St.
The collision damaged the right
front end of the 1947 Ford ex
tensively. There was no damage
to the freight car, other than that
the red warning light was broken
loose by the impact.
Americans Force Their Children Into
And Pasty-Face Adulthood, English
Rt fHARi.r.s e. wrirrrvn - i
LONDON (JPy-Cyril E. M. Joad,
noted English philosopher, says
American children are forced into
too-early maturity by doting par
ents, to grow up into stoop
shouldered, pasty-faced adults.
"Poor little brutes! Eating their
cake too early, they will get
through it too quickly, he wrote
for the 2V4 million readers of his
column in Lord Rothermere's Sun
day Dispatch.
Joad, bearded, 60-year-old auth
or of many salty-tongued books on
life, morals, religion and nature,
is head of London University's
school of philosophy.
FOUNDED 1651
The Oregon
Taft Making Final Try
Ike Plans
Eisenhower
Defends Joint
Chiefs of Staff
By JACK BELL
DETROIT iP)-Gen. Eisenhower
vigorously defended the joint
chiefs of staff Sunday and made
it clear he would not bring Gen.
Douglas MacArthur into the gov
ernment if he becomes President.
In an unusual Sunday morning
news conference, the candidate for
the Republican presidential nom
ination also:
1. Called for the "truth and the
facts" about the choice of disputed
Republican convention delegates
in Texas.
2. Advocated lowering of the
voting age to 18 years.
3. Left to public opinion the
question of whether an ambassa
dor should be appointed to the
Vatican.
4. Said he is "very, very hope
ful" no more American troops will
have to be sent abroad.
Must Build Strength
5. Declared the United States
must continue building up its mili
tary strength until it can show
the world "We are strong enough
to be unafraid."
Eisenhover"s defense of th
chiefs of staff and his indication
that he would not call on Mac
Arthur for further government
serv ice put him at direct odds on
those points with Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, his chief rival for
the GOP nomination.
Taft has said if he were elected,
he would remov e the joint chiefs,
headed by Gen. Omar N. Bradlej-,
because he has no confidence in
their judgment. He said he would j
appoint MacArthur to an unspeci
fied government post.
L." j D II .
with more ability and devotion to
the nation, he added:
"I just don't know what such
a statement as Taffs could mean."
Eisenhower has said he would
ern affairs if his brother five-star
general were available for such
consultation. Asked if he would
appoint military men to high of
fice in h administration, Eisen-
. ! HrjL'r rnnl i H Hrvl v
t .Lir," t :.-',
1 v, ' ref"1
f notugh mi"aTZ. frT any adjnis"
Nation with which 1 may con"
n!L f . . tI c ,
' Act,ve S7le
Eisenhower said he was not
had "gone out of active service
He himself has asked retirement
and has stopped his Army pay.
MacArthur, chosen as Repub
lican convention keynoter at the
insistence of Taft supporters, re
mains on active duty without a
specific assignment.
Eisenhower said he believes that
if 18 year olds are old enough to
W ',they are old enough to I
Jft ,f I
vote.
Yachting Party
Fatal to Seven
EAST DENNIS, Mass. (yF)-The
Coast Guard gave up hope Sun
day night for any of seven mem
bers of a gay week end yachting
party whose 18-foot hired sloop
capsized in a squall four miles off
this Cape Cod resort Saturday
night.
The bodies of four two men, a
woman and a boy were recovered
by the Coast Guard. One man and
the boy were found in the sloop
the man trapped in the rigging.
The other two bodies were float
ing nearby.
The Coast Guard said there ap
peared to be little hope of recov
ering more bodies from the sea
during the night.
He speculated it is "this too-
early maturity ia this matter of
manners, customs, habits and dress
in Americans which makes them
reach such an early, uninterest
ing and uniform middle-age."
As a former English public
schoolboy, Joad said he "grew up
to the age of 20 without ever hav
ing had a drink or kissed a girl."
Most of his friends had the same
sheltered life, he said, adding:
"Now compare the little Ameri
can girl who goes to high school
at 14, uses lipstick, puts on adult
clothing, makes dates with boy
friends, and in general behaves as
if she were four or five years old
er: or the American boy who
Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday, June 16, 1952
to
Karnes Reported Seen in
Salem on Date of Slaying
Several persons reported Sunday they saw Albert William Karnes
in Salem the day Mrs. Susan Litchfield was battered to death in the
woodsned of her home at 1333 Waller St.
Police, attempting to learn if Karnes, 25-year-old ex-convict and ;
one-time roomer at the victim's home, was in Salem on the fatal ciav, i
said four persons had contacted the department after viewing photo- j
Swedish Airplane
Attacked by Soviet
Fighters, Missing
STOCKHOLM, Sweden P
The Swedish air force announced
a Catalina rescue plane is miss
ing after having been attacked
earlier Monday by two Russian
fighters.
The Catalina was searching for
a Swedish military transportn
plane which disappeared over
the Baltic Friday.
U.N. Charges
POW Camps
Not Marked
MUNSAN OTVKorean truce ne
gotiators meet Mondav. Dossiblv
1 to hear a Red response to Allied
charges that the lives of captured
United Nations troops are endan
gered by Communist failure to
mark five prison camps in North
Korea
Maj. Gen. William F. Dean,
commander of the U. S. 24th Di
vision until his capture in August,
1950, was reported held in one of
the camps named.
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison
Jr., chief Allied negotiator, ac
cused the Reds of "utter disregard
of the agreement to mark the
camps so as to make them readily
identifiable from the air."
He protested in a letter handed
to Communist liaison officers Sun
armistice session at Panmunjom.
Damaged Ship
Towed to Dock
BAN DON, Ore. JP) The lumber
schooner Cynthia Olson, which ran
aground at the entrance to this
Southern Oregon harbor more than
a week ago, was refloated Sunday
and towed to a dock here.
The ship ran aground shortly be
fore midnight June 7 and a hole
was battered in its bottom as it
was bounced by high waves on
the sand bar.
Tugs pulled the ship off the bar
"ie s "W" cargo
of three million board feet of lum-
ber had been thrown overboard.
The ship ran aground again a
few hours later.
Salvage crews patched the hole
and one Sunday had pumped en
ough water out of the hold to per
mit refloating and towing the ship
to dock.
Dynamite Used
In Power Strike
MARTIN, Tenn. (TP) Dynamite
blasts disrupted the strike-plagued
Weakly County municipal electric
system Saturday night.
The series of explosions splin
tered strategic power poles and
disrupted power to Dresden, Mar
tin and Sharon.
About 20 maintenance men,
members of the AFL Brotherhood
of Electric Workers, struck for
higher pay last Dec. 10. The strik
ers have been replaced by other
workers.
drives to his secondary school in
a shining new car.
"Children 'must have fun seems
to be the slogan of American par
ents, which, being interpreted,
seems to mean they must never
be repressed, never be denied any
thing they happen to want, and
be universally spoiled."
The thing that inspired Joad's
discourse was his shock at the ap
pearance of a planeload of Ameri
can children who arrived in Eng
land last week on a visit to the
homeland of their GI bride moth
ers. "Terrible, aren't they?" he com
mented. "Little boys of seven
years old dressed in check suits.
Leave
M
I graphs of the man in the Oregon
Statesman Sunday morning. Police
did not elaborate on th rennrtc
Chief of Police Clvde A. Warren I
ll.,Ub lilt I V 1. 1 1 V 1 1
the four would be checked ou1
completely before an interrogation i
team goes to The Dalles where 1
Karnes is being held in the Wasco
county jail on a burglary charge.
Warren y Ad the team would prob
ably go to The Dalles Tuesday.
Meanwhile police continued to
seek some trace of another suspect
in the nine-day-old mvsterv death
of the 81-year-old
r . i. oi . ij " t i
woman, ine
suspect, another ex-roomer of the
dead woman, was reportedly seen
in the neighborhood about the time
of the murder.
Other details of Karnes activi
ties during the past two weeks !
were also learned here Sundav. !
Karnes told State Police Sg't.1
C harles H. U'Ren that he was just
"going east" when he took a bus'
from Portland to The Dalles the;
night of the slaying. He registered l
at a hotel under the fictitious name '
of Bill Davidson, U'Ren said. An i
unemployed farm laborer from As- :
toria, he was on a "vacation" drive ,
aown trie Oregon coast when he j
wrecked his car near Newport on '
June 5. ! SEOUL (JP) - A Salem, Ore. Air
Police investigation will attempt Force flyer, Lt. Col. Stephen A.
to place Karnes in Salem between ! Stone Jr-' shot dovn nis second
the time of the accident and the ! Communist jet Sunday in an air
time he took the bus to The Dalles 1 battle over Korea which also saw
the night before Mrs. Litchfield's i a Pilot only six rnonths out of fly
body was found. tog school get his fifth jet fighter
Karnes is on Darole from the ' and become America's 17th ace.
Washington State Reformatory at
Monroe where he was sentenced
for one year for burglary. He had
served eight months of the sen-
tence when paroled June 14, 1951,
just a year ago. It was prior to his
arrest on the burglary charge in
Yakima county that he rented a
room from Mrs. Litchfield in 1950.
Heart Attach
Claims Second
Posse Rider
KLAMATH FALUS (yP)-For the
second successive year a Klamath
Countv Posseman has died of a
heart attack during th selection
of a Round-Up queen here. j
Floyd Bennett, 51. suffered a !
fatal heart seizure at the fair-1
grounds here Sunday. j
Exactly one year ago, Melvin
Henry died of a heart attack dur- 1
ing the same event. ;
Both men were members of the
posse and were in tne automotive
business.
U. S. Corporations
Told How to Give
Away Money
WASHINGTON (JP) - Corpora
tions are begging for advice on
how to give away money.
So the National Planning Asso
ciation Sunday published the do's
and dont's in a 400-page "Manual
of Corporate Giving" at $6.75 a
rnnv.
The manual indicates that Jn-
dustry will donate fairly close to 1
a billion dollars this year to edu-
uctLiuii, icatrditii dim wt-iiaic, un
der the 5 per cent tax-exemption
provision of federal tax law.
Up to 5 per cent of a corpora
tion's earnings are tax-free if
given away.
RED OFFICES SEARCHED
ROME (JP) - Communist Party
branch offices throughout Rome
were searched early Monday after
two men were arrested carrying 18
pounds of TNT.
Too-Early Maturity
Philosopher Contends
long trousers and blue Trilby snap
brim hats; children in cowboy
suits and bobby socks; children in
violent Tartans.
"This means that the taste of
those who dress them is itself the
taste of children, for it is children
and, may one add, savages and
birdswho are always attracted
by anything which is bright,
startling, staring and d if f e r -ent
. . ."
Joad said when these spoiled
American children grow up they
abhor exercise and that's why they
stoop so. American men, he add
ed, "are so deeply conscious of the
inadequate manliness of their ap
pearance that they are driven
wm
PRICE 5c
for Presidency
ac Out of Office
Lt. Col. Stone
srni'L (AP It rI. Stnhn.A
Stone Jr., 33. of Salem. Ore.,
was credited with shooting
down his second Communist jet
fighter Sunday in one of two air
battles over Korea.
Salem Flier
Bags Second
MIG in Korea
i The new American ace is Lt.
j James F. Low, 26, of Sausalito,
' Calif., who bagged the red-nosed
j fighter in one of two air battles
in which F-86 Sabres destroyed
tnree Kussian-maae njr io ana
damaged one.
(Lt. Col. Stone Is the son of Mr.
! and Mrs. Stephen Stone of 373
Leslie St. Stone senior is city edi-
! tor of the Salem Capital Journal
and Col. Stone's brother, Jerry, is
an Oregon Statesman sports
writer.
(Already the recipient of a Dis
tinguished Flying Cross for action
in Korea, Lt. Col. Stone has been
in the Korean theater since the
early summer of 1950, shortly
after fighting broke out. During
the period he has been on duty
there he has been a squadron
commander and has had liaison
duty with the 10th Army Corps,
(A combat flyer in World War
n, Stone went into the Air Force
m 1941. He flew in the Aleutians
and 0ver Italy and Austria and
was a German prisoner of war for
three months after being shot
down over Austria in 1945.)
Low, in Korea only six weeks,
was on his 43rd combat mission
when MIGs swarmed across the
Manchurian border in a futile at
tempt to break up an Allied
fighter-bomber attack on Red rail
lines near Namsidong.
On the battlefront there were
renewed clashes on the hill mass
west of Chorwon in the western
sector. A U. S. 45th Division offi
cer reported two regiments of the
division had killed or wounded at
least 1,175 Chinese in five con
I tinuous days of fighting up until
! Sunday night.
.
JJ X rOStratlOn
In Auto Fatal
INDIANAPOLIS (JP) With the
temperature at 93, 3-year-old Max
M. Tuttle crawled into his father's
sedan Sunday and slammed the
door.
His body wras found in the al
most air-tight car a half hour later.
A city ambulance doctor said
the child died of heat prostration.
artificially to increase it by hav
ing little lumps inserted in their
coats on the tops of their shoul
ders." Turning to the average British
er's pet peeve about Americans,
Joad said their "pale, pasty faces
are due to the incredibly high
temperatures which, by means of
central heating, they maintain in
their houses."
The professor was ' especially
sorrowful that the English moth
ers of the children he saw visiting
here "should have had the native
good taste, which we hope they
took with them to America, so
rapidly corrupted."
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S3 .
Weather
Max. Uim. reia.
7 41 J
51 M trace
6 4S Jf
S 70 jM
...M M a
Portland
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
Willamette River J ft. ,
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
reau. McNary field. Salem f. Mostly
fair today and tonight, lightly warm
er today with high near 75. low torn fit
near 42 Salem temperature at 12 1
a.m. today was 45.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since start ( Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Tear
Last Year
41 ?8
49.77
No. 81
Ohio Senator.
Denies Making
Political Deals
By The Associated Pres
Sen. Taft won't try for the Re.
publican presidential nomin&tXJO
again if he doesn't get it this time
he said so Sunday during a
television interview.
Reminded he had tried unsuc
cessfully in 1940 and in '48 to win
the nomination, the Ohioan re
asked:
"If you strike out this time,
what will your political future
be?"
"I'm 62 years old and 111 never
run for President again," he said
in a positive fashion.
Taft didn't rule out the possJ
bility of accepting a cabinet po
sition in the next administratis,
but said he had a good Job in th
Senate for the next four years.
Like his main opponent. Gen.
Eisenhower, Taft said he "bu
made no deals" and doesn't know
of any political debts he owes.
He hasn't promised a cabinet or
ambassadorial post to anybody it
he becomes President, he added.
Opposes Budget Stand
Another dissenting voice was
raised, meanwhile, against Ek
hower's contention that it will be
possible to reduce the federal '""
budget by as much as 40 billion
dollars within the next few years.
"He must have been thinking
about something else," said Sen.
Estes Kefauver of Tennessee on an
NBC television program from
Washington. Kefauver is front
running aspirant for the Demo
cratic presidential nominatiooa.
Maine Primary
The bitter Taft-Eisenhower -struggle
may figure Monday in
the Maine primary, although- it .
has not been raised prominently
as an issue.
Sen. Owen Brewster, a long
time staunch supporter of Taft, ia
seeking the Republican nomina
tion for a third form onrf i
posed by Gov. Frederick G Payne, .
an Eisenhower backer. Theirs ha
been a bitter campaign, with each
side accusing the other of political
smears.
Nominations are also besztf
made for 'Maine's three House 1
Representatives seats and for gov
ernor. The Republican nomination
in Maine is usually the equivalent
of election..
Georgia Selection
In Georgia, a 28-vote delega
tion to the Democratic national
convention is being named Moo
day by the state party committee.
Tuesday, Democrats in the Dis-
trict of Columbia, who have no
vote in elections, will hold a pri
mary to name six delegates to tb
convention.
Scheduled selection of three del-
day, June 22, will just about wind
up the GOP picking. Only '10
more of the 1,206 remain to bo
named, in Illinois on June 23.
The Associated Press tabulation
gives Taft 464 to 392 for Eisen
hower. Nomination requires 6&4,
Cake Believes
Ike to Win on
Third Ballot
PORTLAND P) Ralph Cake.
Oregon's Republican National
Committeeman, thinks General
Eisenhower will win the Republic- (
an presidential nomination on the
third ballot at next month's GOP
national convention.
Cake, an Eisenhower supporter,
returned to Oregon Saturday night
after attending a strategy meeting
for the General in the east.
Cake said he thinks General
Douglas MacArthur will sway the
convention in his keynote speech ?
and will take away much of tho
support now believed to favor
Robert A. Taft of Ohio.
Taft will have more votes
the first ballot, but some of tb
Taft delegates will switch over to
Eisenhower in later voting, Oar
predicted.
Cake said he will leave for Chi
cago June 30 to meet with other
GOP officials before the conv
tion.
KIWANIS MEET STARTS
SEATTLE JP) More than
000 Kiwanians representing 211.
000 members in the United States
Canada, Alaska, Yukon Territory
and Hawaii Sunday were register
ed on the eve of the 37th' annual
convention, of Kiwanis InternatioD
aL
QUINTS BORN, DIE
TARANTO, Italy (JP)-Urx. Anna
Locritano, 34-year-old fisherman's
wife, gave premature birth Sun-'
day night to quintuplets three
girls and two boys. All five died. .
RAIL STRIKE DECREED
NEW YORK (-Engineers and
motormen of the Long Island Rail
Road, heavily-traveled commuter
line, were ordered to strike at S
m.t (EST) Mood . . x