The Oregon statesman., June 17, 1952, Page 1, Image 1

Sen. irensfier of Maine
Defeated by PVo-fe ffiasi
mat
PORTLAND. Me. (IP)- Sen.
Owen Brewster, 63, was de
feated ' for Republican renom-
Inatien Monday after 39 years
la public life.
Got. Frederick G. Payne, 81,
was 2,098 votes ahead of the
Senator with only 20 of the
state's 825 precincts unre
ported. Sen. Brewster is a supporter
of Sen. Robert Taft while Gov.
Payne is an Elsenhower rooter.
An unofficial tabulation of
Monday's primary election re
turns produced these totals:
Payno 64,339; Brewster 62,
241. The total 126,580 was a
Wellington Mirror
Senate Group Boosts
Funds for Detroit Dam
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Statesman Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Special)- A Senate appropriations committee
Monday increased from $10,000,000 to $10,700,000 proposed appropri
ations for Detroit and Big Cliff dams.
The Senate appropriation was part of a 35 per cent hike of the
original House-approved bill thus making a recommended total of
$666,774,689 for Army civil functions next year. The bulk of these
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The public has been warned
that spending for defense would
accelerate as the year advanced,
Evidence of it now accrues in the
treasury's announcement of a $3.5
billion bond issue, eligible for
bank investment, set for July 1st.
This is the first time since the war
that the treasury has put out a
new bond issue in such dimen
sions. It has been relying on re
financing by short-term securities
and on the excess accumulations
from social security and other
trust funds. With the deficit head
ing toward $8 billion for this fis
cal year and $14 billion for next
the government has to resort to
big-scale bond selling. That means j
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ll musi go uj Danits, recause uiui- i
viduals and institutions (insurance
companies, endowments, trust
funds) can't absorb new issues in
such volume readily.
Bond selling to banks is fuel for
inflation, because the redeposits of
the loan by the government adds
to bank deposits and' thus pro
vides means for credit expansion.
The device doesn't work automat
ically for it depends on the will
ingness of individuals and cor
porations to borrow. But the in
vitation is there and the chances
are that sooner or later it will be
accepted. When it is, the virus of
wage and price increases takes
effect, despite the efforts of gov
ernment agencies to restrain
them.
The remedy is to balance the
budget either by increasing the
government's intake or reducing
its outgo. Taft and Eisenhower
both promise balancing of the
budget; but fulfillment of such
promises will depend greatly on
the outlook for cutting defense
spending and foreign aid. Ruth
less chopping would do the trick,
but if it endangered the country's
security or threatened a grave sag
in the domestic economy even
Taft would be reluctant to throw
away the bottle of red ink.
It is a time when we seem
doomed to "live dangerously"
both abroad and at home.
Allies Force Delay
In Truce Parleys
MUNSAN (-Allied negotiators
Tuesday jolted the Communists
for a second time with a forced
three day recess in the Korean
armistice talks.
The , Allies informed the Reds
they would not return to the Pan
munjom meetings until Saturday.
UMATILLA WRECK FATAL
PENDLETON (jP-An automo
bile crashed off the highway be
tween Hermiston and Umatilla,
killing Andrew Anderson, 49, Um
atilla, Sunday afternoon.
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
"Poin in the bock? I con recom
mend four brothers, alt chiroproc
tors . ,
to 1 LEl
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record for a Republican Sen
ate contest.
The Brewster-Payne cam
paign was vitriolic, centering
around charges of graft and
corruption in the state's hard
liquor monopoly that affected
both men.
Brewster wouldn't comment
en his apparent defeat.
Burton M. Cross, state sen
ate president, wen the GOP
gubernatorial nomination to
succeed Payne, who has had
two terms.
The defeat of Sen. Brewster
is certain to be Interpreted in
political circles as another slap
at Sen. Taft who has lost every
primary encounter with Gen.
Eisenhower in. New England.
funds is for flood control and
navigation projects for the year
starting July 1.
Effect of the committee action
for Detroit and Big Cliff reregu
lating dams was to assure electric
power generation at Big Cliff on
schedule and adequate permanent
housing for operating personnel
at Detroit.
The committee was informed
by the army engineers that a
slowdown in completion of Big
Cliff, which the house reduction
would have compelled, would re
sult in a year's delay in installa
tion of its 10,000 KW powers unit.
Loss in power revenues would
have been $229,000.
First generator at Detroit is
j still scheduled to go on the line
June 1, 1953, the second Dec. 1.
1953 along with the Big Cliff
unit.
The committee also:
1. Increased the house figure
for Meridian, or Lookout Point
dam from $16,000,000 to the full
amount requested in President
Truman's budget, $17,250,000.
2. More than doubled the funds
allowed by the house for Bank
protection along the Willamette
Irom $160,000 to $400,000
3. Provided $150,000 to continue
plannings Hills Creek reservoir.
The house had allowed nothing
Budget request was only $100.-
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4. Raised the McNarv Lock and
Dam funds from $56 Million to
$60 Million.
5.V'oted $30 Million for The
Dalles Lock and dam.
Final amounts appropriated will
probably be a compromise figure
in most cases between the house
and senate amounts.
Crop Dusting
Plane Crashes
Statesman News Service
DALLAS A crop dusting plane
piloted by Ivan Esau crashed
Monday morning on a farm near
Perrydale damaging the tail sur
faces and left wing tip of the air
craft. Esau was not injured.
The plane, a light craft, was
marking a field for another dust
ing plane when the wheels caught
in the vetch causing the plane to
crash.
Esau, who resides at 614 Church
St. in Dallas, is a private crop
duster and stated he has another
plane to continue dusting opera
tions. Warden Resigns
After Cons Protest
Prison Policies
SANTA FE, N. M. (Warden
Joseph F. Tondre resigned Mon
day, "to prevent a possible trag
edy" in the New Mexico state
prison.
The resignation was announced
by Gov. Edwin Mechem after
convicts, at an unprecedented pri
son news conference, blasted
Tondre's administration.
After first refusing to talk to
reporters, Tondre later said he
took the action when convicts,
aroused by newspaper articfes,
staged a sitdown strike.
"I resigned to prevent a pos
sible tragedy in there," he said.
Stockholm Mobs Protest Soviet
Jet Attack on Swedish Plane
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (JP)
Two Soviet jet fighters, one firing
bursts from 20 mm. cannon, blast
ed an unarmed Swedish Air Force
flying boat from the skies Mon
day, plunging it into the Baltic.
The crew of seven, including two
wounded, was rescued by a small
freighter.
Immediately, an arroused Swed
ish government, reflecting thai
anger of shouting, jeering crowds
which surrounded the Soviet Em
bassy here, protested this "act -of
violence" and demanded swift
punishment of "those responsible
for the outrage."
Monday night 5,000 enraged
demonstrators yelling "We will see
Stalin hanged," jammed the street
outside the Soviet embassy and
set bonfires. They also chanted:
"Down with the Communistic
Warmonger s." Police squads
forced the crowds to retreat.
At the time of the attack about
102nd YEAB
.High.
Need for
Pickers
Urgent
An appeal for 2,000 strawberry
pickers in the Salem area was
voiced Monday by the Willamette
Farm Labor Council by means of
press, radio, telephones and port
able loudspeakers in the city.
The council also stated Monday
that pickers are needed in Silver
ton.
The situation in the Salem area
is a reflection of the need
throughout the state. The State
Employment Service said approx
imately 10,000 more workers
would be required in harvest
operations within the next 10
days.
In Salem the Farm Labor Coun
cil put two girls to work calling
four homes in every block of the
city asking for volunteers and a
similar appeal is being set up in
Silverton. The strawberry harv est
was delayed by heavy rains Sat
urday, but was in full swing
Monday with picking in most sec
tors reported good.
Seven areas have made specific
requests for 6,500 additional
berry pickers.
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workers striKe
Against Heat in
Detroit Plants
DETROIT -Groups of work
ers walked off their jobs in three
auto plants Monday in protest
against the weather. The temper
ature hit a peak of 96 an alltime
high here for June 16.
The walkouts idled nearly
13,000.
At the Hudson Motor Car Co.,
a heat walkout began on the final
assembly line. The company sent
home a work force of 10,000.
At Chrysler Corp.'s DeSoto
Warren plant, a heat strike by 25
sanders forced the company to
send home 1,800 employes. A
company spokesman said this ac
tion resulted in the sending home
of 800 final assembly workers at
the DeSoto Wyoming plant.
The Ford Motor Co. said a
walkout of 13 workers at the
Rouge glass plant idled 200 em
ployes there.
115 Deaths in
East Laid to
Heat Wave
By The Associated Press
Scorching temperatures put new
records into weather books Mon
day and the toll of deaths rose
with the mercury in a huge heat
plagued section of the nation.
Steambath heat during a four
day period that included the week
end took at least 115 lives. Fatal
ities attributed directly to the
strength sapping hot spell totaled
12, with 102 drownings and one
Iowa person struck by lightning.
With summer not officially due
until June 21, June 16 records
were reported in Springfield, O.,
104, St. Louis 101, Cleveland, 96,
Cincinnati and Columbus, 95.4,
Huntington, W. Va., 98, and De
troit, 96.
The mercury climbed to the 90's
in a vast portion of the country.
Hot, moist air covered about half
the U. S. - from the Gulf of Mex
ico northward to the southern
shores of the Great Lakes, and
from Iowa eastward to the Atlan
tic Coast.
60 miles off the Soviet-held Eston
ian coast, in an area where the
Russians are reported to be hold
ing vast sea and air maneuvers,
the Swedish plane was searching
for a Swedish Air Force transport
plane missing since Friday with
eight men aboard. This plane, too,
is believed to have been shot down
by the Russians.
At Hango, Finland, where the
seven rescued Swedish airmen
were taken after being fished from
the cold Baltic seas by a German
freighter, Crew Commander Capt.
Sven Gosta Toerngren said "We
were attacked by two MIGs, but
only one of them shot at us." The
attack lasted nine minutes, he said.
"Maybe it was an accident, may
be the plane was sent to bring us
down," he told newsmen. "I do"nt
know."
Toerngren said the plane's pilot,
Axel Arbin, and navigator, Bertil
Engberg, were hit by bullets from
the Red planes.
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Hundreds of Salem youngsters turned out Monday to open the public
playground season here. About 660 youngsters braved somewhat
chilly swimming weather (above) to initiate Olinger Pool. Leslie
pool will open at 2 p. m. today. Leslie's scheduled opening Monday
was delayed because of repairs to the pool. Pools will be open on
regular schedule daily from 10 a. m. to 9 p. m. and from 1 to 9
p.m. on Sundays. Vernon Gilmore, city playground director, said that
2 Slayers, 2 .
Others Fail
In Escape Try
(Pictures on page 3.)
Four dangerous convicts includ
ing ayne leroy ixng, con
demned to die for murder of a
Clackamas County farmer, were
thwarted early Monday in attempt
to saw their way to freedom from
segregation cells at the Oregon
State Prison.
Linked in the escape plot with
Long were Dupree Poe, slayer
of a Silverton police officer and
frequent trouble maker at the
penitentiary; Walter J. Sampson,
armed robber who has made two
previous attempts to break out;
and Albert Doolin, habitual crimi
nal whose partner was killed in an
escape try in 1943.
Warden Virgil J. O Malley said
Doolin, serving a sentence of 25
years from Clackamas County for
armed r6bbery, was apparently
the ring leader in the attempt.
O'Malley said the convicts had
formed a rope from sheets with
which they probably intended
reaching the ground from the top
of the building containing the
segregation cells. The warden
said that source of the saws was
not determined.
Doolin and Long had sawed out
of their cells in the segregation
block, through two partitioning
bars and were working on hinges
of a steel door leading out of the
block when discoveYed O'Malley
said bars to Poe's cell had been
sawed and bent but that Poe was
still inside. Sampson, young gun
man sentenced from Marion Coun
ty for the holdup of the Star Ex
change in Salem, was trying to
join the iugnt, accoraing xo
O'Malley. He added that there was
no evidence that any of the oth
er desperadoes in the block in
cluding John Omar Pinson were
connected with the plot.
(Additional details on page 3.)
Railroad Strike
Brings Traffic Jam
NEW YORK (JP)- The Long
Island Railroad was shut down
Monday, creating one of the worst
traffic jams in New York history.
The sudden strike of engineers
stranded 150,000 commutters on
the nation's busiest passenger
line.
Autos backed up for blocks at
tunnels and bridges to Long Is
land, perspiring drivers honking
in vain. All days off were cancel
led for bridge and tunnel workers.
Berchtold Wins Election
Statesman News Servlc
MT. ANGEL Joseph Berch
told was elected for a three-year
term to the Mt. Angel district
school board Monday, succeeding
Dr. C. J. Ebner, retired.
POUNDDD 1651
Tli Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday. Juno 17,
Season Opens
Round -the -Clock Sky
Watch to Begin July 14
WASHINGTON (yT')-Orders went out from the Defense Depart
ment Monday to watch the border skies 24 hours a day beginning
July 14.
Hundreds of thousands of civilian defense workers were alerted
to man their airplane-spotting stations on an around-the-clock basis
next month to look for possible intruder planes.
A vigilant chain of volunteer I
ground observers will go on duty
in 27 states, stretching north along
the coast from North Carolina to
the Canadian border and thence
west to the Pacific Coast and
south to San Diego.
This is "Operation Skywatch,"
first scheduled to start May 17 but
postponed until July 14 to allow
civilian defense leaders to or
ganize their forces.
Maj. Gen. Frederic H. Smith Jr.,
deputy director of the Air Defense
Command, told a news conference
the 24-hour guard is essential be
cause "the Soviets have had the
capability for some time to attack
us."
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, acting
chief of staff for the Air Force,
added this comment:
"Our intelligence people esti
mate that the Russians can launch
today more than 400 TU-4's four
engined bombers carrying enough
atom and conventional type bombs
to hit all of our metropolitan in
dustrial target areas."
The skywatching program was
decided on Monday at a confer
ence of civil defense directors
from all the states and territories.
Church Welcomes
German Family
To Silverton
Statesman Newt Service
SILVERTON A German family
of three arrived in Silverton to
make their home, Monday, under
the sponsorship of Trinity Luther
an Church congregation. They are
Egor Finger, a mason and farmer;
his wife and two-yea -old son.
The congregation has reserved
an apartment for them at 509 Jer
sey St. and will help them move
in this week. A household shower
will be given by the church group
Tuesday evening for the Fingers,
with Mrs. Victor Sather in charge;
The new family was entertained
at dinner at the James Phillips'
Monday.
Western International
At Victoria 5. Tri-Clty
At Salem 3. Seattle 1 (Exhibition)
At Spokane 1. Wenatchee
Pacific Coast Leirae
No games scheduled.
American League
No games scheduled.
National League
At Philadelphia S. Pittsburgh 4
At New York 8. St. Louis f
Only games scheduled.
With Big Splash in Salem
opening day playground attendance was "average." Approximately
60 youngsters registered Monday for the public music classes, Victor
Pabnason, director reported. Registration may be made daily at 9
a. m, at Salem High School, at 10:30 a. m. at Leslie Junior High and at
1 p. m. at West Salem Junior High and Wednesday night at Salem
Senior High at 7:30 p. m.
I
Dallas School
Budget Passes
Statesman Nfwi Service
DALLAS Dallas school board
district voters approved a $111,
415 school budget item in excess
of the 6 per cent limintation in the
annual, district election Monday.
The vote was 383 for the levy
and 149 against.
Earl Stonebroke received 276
votes to win a five-year terms on
the school board. He defeated
Lawrence J. Smith (211 votes)
whose term expired, and Calvin
Hinds (49 votes).
JVIorse Sanctions
Use of T-H Law
In Steel Dispute
WASHINGTON (IP) Sen Morse
R-Ore. said Monday that "unless
Congress ends its strike soon, I
think the President has no choice
but to use the Taft-Hartley law,
unfair as it is," to end the nation- j
wide steel walkout.
Morse told a reporter he had in
no way relented in his sharp criti
cism of the Taft-Hartley 80day
injunction procedure.
But he said the overriding con
sideration must be " the necessity
to get the steel mills operating
again."
The steelworkers' union must
adopt this view, too, he said, add
ing that the recent Supreme Court
decision leaves President Truman
with no choice in view of the fail
ure of Congress to pass a seizure
bill.
EJfouse Favors Boost
In Old Age Insurance
WASHINGTON (IP)- The House
Monday shouted tentative ap
proval of a bill providing an in
crease of at least $5 a month for
the AVi million Americans who
receive government checks under
the old age and survivors insur
ance program.
Woodburn Elects Niblir
Statesman News Service
WOODBURN Re-elected to
a five-year term on the Woodburn
district school board Monday night
was Clair Niblir, who received
306 of the total votes cast. His
unsuccessful opponent was Elmer
B. Witham, who received 116
votes. '
1952
Approved,
Salem Group to
VisitTheDalles
To See Karnes
Two Salem residents who be
lieve they saw Albert William
Karnes the day 81 -year-old Mrs.
Susan Litchfield was slain will to
day accompany police to The
Dalles where the 25-year-old ex
convict is being held on a burglary
charge.
Police Chief Clyde A. Warren
aid he and several members of
the Salem department along with
the two citizens would make the
trip this morning to interrogate the
one-time roomer at the Litchfield
home. Harold Shell, who discover
ed the woman's body, will also
accompany the group.
Meanwhile state police added
one more incidei to the record of
the slaying suspect. Karnes was
first arrested on Dec. 16, 1946 at
Lakeview on a charge of obtaining
money by false pretenses.
Criminal records division of the
police headquarters had no report
of a disposition in the case. The
unemployed Astoria farm laborer
was on parole from Washington
state reformatory when arrested at
Ths Dalles on a charge of burglary
while armed with a dangerous
weapon. He is accused of having
attacked Mrs. Ben Callaway with
a hammer in the burglary attempt.
Red Bodies Piled Up
At Foot of Allied Hills
SEOUL (IP)- Withering Allied
firepower blasted attacking Chi
nese Reds off western front hill
sides four times in Tuesdays pre
dawn darkness.
An Allied officer said bodies of
the Reds were "still piled up" at
the foot of the Allied-held heights.
Steel Strike to Close
Mortar Shell Plant
CLEVELAND (IP) Lempco Pro
ducts, Inc., will stop making mor
tar shells Tuesday because of steel
shortages.
President James F. Strand Sr.,
said 500 employes on the shell line
will be laid off. Lempco has been
producing 4,500 mortar shells a
day.
Max.
7
72
79
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Via. Predp.
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76 M
72 M
falem
Portland .
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
Willamette River 1 foot.
FORECAST from U. S. weather bu
reau. MeNary Field. Salem):
Partly cloudy and continued mild
today, tonight and Wednesday. High
today 7S to 78, low tonight 43 to 45.
Temperature at 12 M at. waa 90 de
grees. IALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start of Weather Tear, Sept. 1
This Year Last Year Hormal
48.77 KJSi
PRICE 5c
No.
Salem
Favors
Building
By ROBERT E. GANGWAJES
City Editor, The Statesi
Salem school voters appro d
4.280.000 bond issua for s i
South Salem High School Man-ar.
vote in tne scnooi aistrict
tion was 1,397 for the bond
and 1.014 against. The vote wi
favor of the bonds in seven of th
11 voting precincts. Oppattiaa "
vote came in the downtown, Gno
Highland and Richmond area
Heaviest vote and heaviest awp
port for the financial mriii '
came in the Leslie Junior High
voting area where it was approved
403 to 157. The proposed high '
school site is adjacent to Leslie.
Voters also elected Mrs. Dm id
Wright, veteran school bnnA
member, to another term n the "
Doard. ne was unopposed en th
ballot and contested bv ml
handful of write-ins.
Vote Under Expectations
Total vote of more than 3.4M '
was more than m most vhool
elections but several hni ti i il
under expectations. In th last
bond issue election, in 1950, abouW
2,100 voted.
The new high school to ser-
South Salem is planned to be- of
the same size as the present tgto
school on North" 14th Street. This
construction will serve expa irxc
junior high as well as high school
enrollment, with plans calling- Uw
an even split in high school enroll
ment between the two schools, be
ginning in 1954. Until full capacity
is needed for high schoolers, both
buildings also will have jua-or
high students.
To .Check Plans
Preliminary plans for the new
high school are to be checked by
the school board with architects
from the firm of Freeman, Hayslip
& Tufts in the next few weeks
with final plans and a call for bids
expected to require another month
or two after that. Meanwhile the
school district has still to actrotro
the last five rrorvprti on th r
school site, the full block -hi
is south or Leslie School.
The vote by voting precincts:
Tee
121
. 194
. 113
. 403
. 108
. 54
. 122
. 70
. 81
. 85
. 60
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Office Buildinr rnovntniml
Englewood
Richmond
Leslie , ,
1i
it
u73
Salem Heirhts
Liberty
Grant
Highland
Washington (Silverton Rd.)
Lincoln ( Four Corners)
West Salem
TOTAL
.1497
Bonus Checks
Ready for Mail
On Wednesday
Oregon veterans bonus directors
are making ready today to begia
mailing out Wednesday the first
checks in the big $44,000,000 boaus
payoff.
First check will go to Dallars! X
Whitmore, 42, of Beaverton. Whit,
more, a case worker for the Halt
no mah County Welfare Commis
sion, got his name in all the papers
last October 12, when his nam
was the first drawn by Gov. Doug
las McKay.
At that time no ont knew fog
sure when the bonus would be
paid. Whitmore, who is 6 per
cent disabled and who served four
years in the Army infantry, said
at that time: "It (the bonus) is
already used up.
Whitmore told Ths Statesman
Monday that part of his $600
bonus check will help pay for the
Whitmore's new one and a halt
months old son. He hasn't nae.de
up his mind about the rest el the
cash, he said.
Most of the 75,000 veterans whs
have applied for their bonus, have
already indicated their checks will
go for bills or necessary pur
chases. Another 60,000 eligible
veterans have yet to apply.
IVIrg. Kader Taen
To Death Scene
accused of slaying her 3-year-eld
daughter earlier wis year, jaoD--day
returned to a water-fEkd
rump where the child's body waa
found.
Mrs. Kader, 22, on trial for Xtttt
degree murder, was accompanied
by the judge and jury.
She has denied that she killed
the little girl, Sherrie Hlea, She
was accidentally killed while
playing with her 4 -year-old sis
ter, Vickie, Mrs. Kader said. Po
lice Xjuoted her as saying she got
the child in the sump to pxetecV
Vickie,