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Confessed Slayer Given 15- Year Term in The Dalies Case (Story in Columns 4, 5) Killer Gives Details to Salem Police at The Dalles MUNDBO 1651 102nd YEAR 20 PAGES The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, June 19. 1952 PRICE 5c No. 84 ' ;f' H - - iff 1: " r ' ' - ' 3 " i P - fi j s "mmw "mmmmmm 'mmmma-mjmw MMHHHHHPMPa After pulling out the provision which the American Medical As sociation objected to the House on Tuesday passed with a whoop and a holler the bill to raise the bene fits under social security. No Con gressman wanted to face the old folk with a negative vote on tnis measure. It needs to be understood, how ever, that this bill has no relation to old age assistance grants which are administered' by state and county welfare commissions. It deals with annuities to retired per sons who are under the govern ment's old age and survivors re tirement plan. The way it has been most of the time those under old age assistance were getting bigger grants than those under social se curity. Recently and now with this new bill if it finally becomes law the latter will fare better. Provisions of the house bill au thorize an increase of $5 per month in annuities, or 12 V per cent of the present amount, whichever is higher. This goes to those now on retirement. For those who retire in the future the monthly-annuity is raised $15 a month. There are proportionate increases for sur vivors: widows, children. Also re tired persons are permitted to earn up to $70 a month, instead of just $50, without having their monthly check from the government cut off. This paper had questioned the wisdom of rushing through this legislation it looked too much like an aopeal for votes. However, the Washington report says that the cost some $300,000,000 an nuallycan be borne by the fund without the necessity of increasing rates. So the objection may be withdrawn. It is desirable to have this system of earned annuities on a sound fiscal basis, and at the same time its beneficiaries ought to have larger checks to combat the price inflation which has oc- curred since the system was in stituted. Tractor Kills Willamina Man On Woods Job Statesman Newt Servic DALLAS Clarence Kihlstadius, about 25, Willamina, was killed three miles from nearby Pedee on Wednesday when a tractor over turned on him. He was logging on the Ralph Tharp place. Kihlstadius, who operated a portable mill with four partners, was working with Fred Wood, Pedee, and had just hooked a log when the tractor started over. He jumped but was caught under neath. Kihlstadius, a native of Roseau County, Minn., was a veteran of World War II and had lived in Willamina a year. Survivors in clude his widow, two children and his parents, all of Willamina. Funeral services will be in charge of the Sheridan Funeral Home. Animal Crackers 6v WARREN GOODRICH 'Hong on kids! Tomato soup for upper! ' IT W mm. .... jOZZZZZt zr M k . Jjl I THE DALLES Calm after eonfessinr the slaylnr of Mrs. Susan Litchfield last Jane 7. Albert William Karnes sits amidst police officers in the interrogation room of the Wasco County Courthouse here (above). From left to richt are Salem Detective David M. (Mac) Houser, Karnes. The Dalles Police Chief Jack Lyons, Salem Detective Wayne Parker and Salem Police Chief Clyde A. Warren. Karnes broke down a few minutes after Warren bermn questioning:. Officers (bottom) investigate stained clothing- taken from Karnes suitcase found in a hotel at The Dalles. Left to right are Chief Lyons, Dep uty Sheriff Henry Re of Wasco County, Detective Houser, Chief Warren and Detective Parker. (States man Photos.) Heavy Cherry Crop With l0,000 Bonus a m m m. m mm Moderate Profits in view By LILLIE Farm Editor, Cherrv growers won't be buying Cadillacs with their profits this year. Beyond that statement, processors refused to make predictions Wednesday. The independent buyers agreed growers would not have "too big out" on their crop this year. The Quality is reported "excellent." In a few areas tnere nas Deen some suffering from recent rains. In the valley floor some growers are re porting cracked fruit. Hillside growers, however, report no dif ficulty yet. When queried as to the outlook on the cherry market, Robert Shinn, manager of the Willamette Cherry Growers, a cooperative, said that in as much as this was a cooperative, one could not predict the outcome. Any upswing in the market will be shared by the growers, he pointed out, as he, too, remarked at the fine crop in the valley. Market "Unsteady' Fred Halverson of Kelly-Far-quar, admitted that the jobbers were showing a tendency to wait for a price reduction. The mi-ket for brmed and glazed cherries was, like so many produce mar kets at the moment, "a little un unsteady." There was nothing par ticularly alarming about the pic ture, he believed. The cherry market had been unsteady before and survived nicely. Kelly Farquar is startingt 6Vi cents for Royal Annes and SVz for the top quality blacks. These prices compare to last year's start at 12 cents, with its later drop to 10 cents. Brlners report there is- some carry-over in their product. Hal verson, like Shinn, believed that California's bumper cherry crop is a major factor in the price drop this year. There is some compe tition, too, from France and Italy, Halverson said, as he told that the briners had been working toward a duty on cherries from foreign lands. ' "We'll have, to do something to save our fine Northwest cherry crops," he said Late This Week Harvest for the briners will start late this week or early next. For brining the cherries are used on the decidedly "firm" side. A really ripe, soft cherry, will not do for brining. One of the advantages of picking fcr the brineries, Halver son pointed out, is that the cher ries can be harvested earlier, es caping some of the gamble with the late worm injury or weather cracks. L. MADSEN The Statesman that with the prices being offered, a profit," but would likely "come trees are heavily fruited and the But on the other hand, the can neries pay more. Floyd Bates of Paulus Brothers, which puts up one of Salem's larger canning packs of cherries, said his com pany was buying at 8 cents for both the Royal Annes and the blacks. Last year the starting price locally for the canning cherry was 15 cents. Hold-Over Crop The old law of supply and de mand, Bates believed, was whole ly responsible for the price drop. In some divisions there is con siderable cherry hold-over. How ever, Paulus Brothers, Bates said, had disposed of its entire big 1951 cherry canning pack, and planned to put up as many as the com pany could get of the quality it could use. Picking for the cannery will not start for another 10 days, Bates believed, as he explained that canning cherries must be ripe. Canning cherries are usually somewhat larger, than some of those accepted for brining, al though the briners, too, are de manding a larger cherry than they formerly did. Canning cher ries, too, must be perfect. A more mature fruit is used than that for brining. California packers have been offering IVt cents a pound for cherries, according to agricultur al wire reports from that state. All reports show that an exceptionally large crop is being harvested. Willamette Valley growers are paying 3 cents a pound for pick ing this year. Max. M - S3 Mln. 41 54 Preein. Salem Portland .00 tract .00 J0O San Francisco 64 Chicago 80 68 Nw York . S 73 Willamette River 1 foot FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary Field. Salem): Cloudy today and tonight except partly sunny this afternoon. Not quite so warm to day with the highest temperature near 72 and the lowest tonight near 53. Temperature at 12:01 a-m. was 52 de grees. SALEM PRECmTAclOM Sine Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Tew Las "?eax Nenaal 41.2. 4W.77 SSJS Karnes Assigned to State Prison; Trial For Murder Later By THOMAS G. WRIGHT, JR. 'Staff Writer, The Statesman Albert William Karnes, who has confessed to the axe slaying of Mrs. Susan Litchfield, Wednesday was sentenced to 15 years in the state penitentiary for burglary at The Dalles. But the 24-year-old ex- convict will stand trial here soon for first degree murder. Karnes was sentenced by Circuit Judge Malcolm Wilkinson of Wasco County after county officials at The Dalles questioned who had rhppUciUQiiA VillVVlMJ IT Jill AX VI On First Day The initial mailing of Oregon veterans bonus checks got off to a slow start Wednesday but bonus officials said the process would speed into high gear today. About 10,000 checks were mailed out Wednesday about half of the anticipated output for the first day's mailing. But mailing is ex pected to speed up today to bear out a previous prediction that 40,000 checks would be mailed out by Friday night. Stubborn envelopes with stuck together flaps slowed up the high speed sealing, inserting and stamp ing machine in the State Tax Di vision Office. From the commis sion the enveloped checks were taken to Salem post office and mailed. Director W. F. Gaarenstroom of the State Veterans Affairs Depart ment said the work of processing bonus applications was being expe dited as rapidly as possible. As fast as applications are approved the checks will be issued and mailed. Checks totaling $31,500,000 in payments are expected to be in the mails by late July. R. F. Lockard, state income tax division supervisor, is in charge of the mailing operation. (Story and picture also on page 2.) Pigeon-Hole Parking Said 'Blighting' PORTLAND (P)-Oregon archi tects criticized pigeon-hole park ing Wednesday as "blighting . . . ugly and ill-conceived." The Oregon chapter of the Am erican Institute of Architects sent Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee- a letter protesting construction of the steel-frame parking structures in downtown Portland. The structure is of exposed frames. Cars driven into one at ground level are lifted into stalls overhead by elevators. The letter protested that these "Immediately detract from the ap pearance of adjoining buildings and devalue the property." Only one now is in operation in Portland, although several more are planned. the authority to release the slen der farm laborer to Salem police. He will be brought to the prison here today or tomorrow to begin serving the burglary sentence, handed down after he pleaded guilty to breaking into the home of Ben Callaway in The Dalles last Wednesday. To Be Kept at Pen Police Chief Clyde A. Warren said Karnes would be kept at the penitentiary and Marion County will issue a court order to bring him to trial for the robbery-motivated slaying of the 81-year-old widow. Mrs. Litchfield's Mattered body was found June 8 in the woodshed of her home at 1333 Waller St. Several clues played a promin ent role in the trial which led to The Dalles where Karnes had been arrested . for the Callaway burglary in which he attacked Mrs. Ben Callaway with a ham mer. Warren indicated. Prime fac tor was discovery that Karnes had been a roomer at the Litchfield home in 1950 and the fact that he' could have been in Salem on the day of the slaying. Left-Handed Axeman Another clue, information of which was withheld until late Tuesday was the deduction by de tectives that the elderly widow was hacked to death by a left handed axeman. Location of the wounds, two of which penetrated the woman's skull, indicated that the assailant had been left handed. Karnes, too, was left handed. Discovery of what he termed "important physical evidence" in Karnes' suitcase at The Dalles was another prime factor. The evi dence was believed to be what ap parently was bloodstains on Karnes suits and socks and the presence of wood splinters, pre sumably from the woodshed where Mrs. Litchfield was attack ed and slain. Other evidence indicated that the woman was first struck either with a person's fist or a stick of stove wood picked up in the wood shed. The axe was probably used on the victim after she had been knocked to the fldor in the corner of the shed where her body was found more than 12 hours later by Cab Driver Harold Shell, a room er at the house. (Additional details on page 2.) Armed Forces to Need More Men if Korea Truce Fails WASHINGTON OP) - Secretary of of the Army Pace said Wednes day night "it will be imperative . . . to ask Congress for more men'' if the war in Korea con tinues. He did not say how many more would be required. Pace appealed to Congress for more money than the House has voted. "Of the 20-division U. S. Army now in being, we have eight divisions in the Far East and five in Europe," he said. "Of the re maining seven in the U. S., we have been able to maintain only one as a strategic reserve, ready and capable of immediate deploy ment overseas . . . "If we are called upon to con tinue the war in Korea into fiscal year 1953 (starting July 1), as now appears virtually certain, the sup port requirements placed on our forces here at home will be great er and their state of readiness cor respondingly even less favorable." Silverton Pool Schedule Cut To Help Berry Picker Drive The growing campaign In the valley to recruit young people as berry pickers was reflected on Wednesday in Silverton by a de cision to close the swimming pool during the afternoons for the re mainder of the berry season. "Closing of the pool in the after noon hours is meant to encourage the children to help out in this strawberry crisis," City Manager Robert Borland stated. The pool will now be open from six in the evening until 9 p.m. Normally the pool was open from 2 to 5 each afternoon and from 7 to 9 in the evening. Hundreds of valley residents are responding to the desperate call for more strawberry pickers, but Farm Labor Council officials said Wednesday that a shortage still exists. "We still need lots more pick ers," said Harold Roessler, man ager of the Salem office of the State Employment Service. "In some patches some berries are be coming overripe and are not ac cepted by processors." Father Delivers Baby Daughter in Car at Aumsville A new baby girl for Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bassett of Mill City forced the stork to detour from the anticipated port of delivery at Salem Memorial Hospital to a car in front of the Aumsville School. The new arrival, Carolyn Jean, was born in front of the school at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday with the father in attendance. Mrs. Bassett and harried hus band, Arthur, were drivinr from their home in Mill City to Salem Memorial. Carolyn Jean weighs 7 lbs. 3 oz. and both mother and daughter were reported Wed nesday niffht by the hospital to be doing- fine. They have three other children. Bassett Is a millworker at the Mt. Jefferson Lumber Company in Lyons. Suit Seeks to Oust Elfstrom From State Post Court action seeking to oust Robert L. Elfstrom ot Salem as chairman of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, because he is a candidate for the State House' of representatives, was instituted here Wednesday. In the name of Richard L. Neu berger. Portland Democrat and state senator, the Detition in Mari on County Circuit Court asks an alternative writ of mandamus com- pelling Gov. Douglas McKay to dismiss Elfstrom or to should cause why he should not. Hearing on the petition Is set for Friday. The petition, filed by attorney Charles O. Porter of Eugene, con tends that Elfstrom is subject to the state statute requiring that "any employe of the commission who shall engage In promoting or opposing the candidacy of any person for public office . . . shall immediately be dismissed." Neuberger had asked earlier that the governor oust Elfstrom for this reason. Elfstrom announced he would resign from the commission If, and as soon as, he is elected. Quads Born in Massachusetts WEYMOUTH, Mass. UP) Quad ruplets three boys and a girl were born at South Shore Hospi tal Wednesday night to Mrs. Mar ion L. Manning, 27-year-old auburn-haired wife, already the mo ther of three other youngsters. Speculation that Mrs. Manning might bear quintuplets was ended a half hour after the fourth birth when hospital authorities told waiting newsmen that no more were expected. All were described as healthy. Hells Canyon Dam Bill Killed WASHINGTON (A)- Congress put the freeze Wednesday on a bill to authorize the 357-million-dollar Hells Canyon dam and power plant on the Snake River. A House interior subcommittee voted to put off indefinitely fur ther consideration of a bill which would enable the Reclamation Bureau to build the project in a remote spot where the Snake forms the Idaho-Oregon border. This in effect kills the bill so far as this session of Congress is concerned. William Byers, executive secre tary of the Willamette Farm Labor Council, said his office force on Wednesday completed the two-day task of calling every telephone owner in Silverton, asking for strawberry pickers. A headache for labor recruiters is looming fast with the beginning of the cherry harvest whilfe the strawberry harvest is still going on. Cherry picking got under way in a few orchards this week. It is expected to be in full swing by early next week at which time the Silverton Hills strawberry har vest will be at its peak. Byers said that the response to calls for help "has been very good." He said the telephone cam paign would get under way in Dallas today and possibly in Woodburn later this week. Byers attributed the shortage of pickers this season to an increase in strawberry acreage here and a decrease in the usual flow of migrant workers into this area. Migrants, he said, have been held in southern states by bumper fruit and vegetable crops. k TTefe Meg Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower told a group of 11 Oregon GOP delegates in Denver Wednesday "taxes will be cut when a balanc of military power is reached with Russia," a member of the dele gation reported upon his return to Salem late Wednesday night. The general said the U. S. should be able to match military strength with the Soviet in two years, and tax decreases should follow as military expenses de- cline. Gov. Ekuglas McKay headed the group who flew to Denver. In a 90-minute conference with the Oregon group, seven of whom were from Salem, the candidate for the GOP presidential nomina tion discussed political issues and answered pointed questions with out the aid of notes or cards. "The general was very specific about issues on which he was in formed," Mark O. Hatfield, one of the delegates, stated upon his re turn from the plane trip to Den ver, "and it was my opinion that Gen. Eisienhower was a very well informed man," he said. The group met at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colo., where the general and his wife talked with the press and the delegates. Vote of Confidence The general told the group that he was "heartily impressed with ! the tremendous vote of confidence ! received from the 18 Oregon dele- gates to the national convention. In answer to a question from the Oregon delegation. Gen. Eisen hower said that "the office of vice president should be given more administrative power," Hatfield explained, "so that the vice presi dent could be of more immediate assistance rather than just a title." Texas pispute An Associated Press dispatch stated that the general discussed the problem of the GOP national convention delegates from Texas and said that "anytime the will of the people is thwarted I am against it and will fight the issue, He said he intends to go to Texas Saturday and raise his voice against what has happened. With this statement, Eisenhower for the first time spoke out pub licly against the Taft forces who have been accused by the Eisen hower camp of illegally grabbing off Texas convention delegates. In a rapid-fire series of ques tions and answers, the general said: 1. He does not have any easy, simple solution to the Korean war. 2. He believes if the United States should quit Korea it would be an "ignominious surrender of our position in the world." 3. He would like to see the South Korean Army built up to the point where United Nations troops could be pulled from lines into a mobile reserve. Stay on Formosa 4. He thinks the Chinese Na tionalists troops should remain on Formosa to protect that island rather than be used in Korea as Gen. Douglas MacArthur has sug gested. 5. The Germans should be brought into the defenses of West ern Europe and when they are, then the threat of Communist domination of Europe will dimin ish. Delegates and alternates travel ling to Denver from Salem includ ed Gov. McKay, Hatfield, William L. Phillips, Carl Hogg, Mrs. James Mott, Mrs. Marian L. Fischer and Robert L. Jones. July 5 Ruled Legal Holiday Gov. Douglas McKay Wednes day declared Saturday, July 5, as a legal holiday In Oregon. The purpose of his proclamation is to give county employes a three-day holiday on the Fourth of July week end. The governor directed that all state and county offices be closed July 5. State offices are closed Saturdays anyway. Western International Vancouver 1, Salm 0. Victoria 9. Tri-City 1. Spokane 3. Yakima 0. Lewiston 6, Wenatchee 11 Pacific Coast Learue Lot Angele 4. Portland 3. San Francisco 6, Sacramento 0. Seattle 2. Oakland 1. San Diego 3, Hollywood 1. American Learue New York 10. Detroit . Cleveland 3. Washington 3. St. Louis 4. Boston 3. (Only game scheduled). National League Chicago 3, Brooklyn . New York 5. Pittsburgh t St. Louis 1. Philadelphia 1. Boston t-1. Cincinnati 7-S. irepoD lam Taft Promises 15 Per Cent Tax Decrease WASHINGTON (JP) - Senate Taft of Ohio promised Wednesday that if he is the next president tm will cut taxes 16 per cent and ask Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's d vice on military problems. But for the most part Taft banged away hard at Eisenhower. The Senator and the General ar the top rivals for the Republican presidential nomination. About the nicest thing the sen ator could find to say of Eisen hower was that he "would be meat anxious to secure his advice on tha matters on which I'd have to deal in the military field." Whereas President Truman's budget proposed the spending of 85 billion dollars in the year be ginning July 1, Taft said hm thought spending could be whit tled down to 70 billions in his firsl year as president, and to 60 bil lions in the second year. "I think that can be done," hm said, "ii so, we can have a 19 cent cut in taxes." Ingrid "Gives Birth to Twins ROME (P) - Ingrid Bergmaa gave birth Wednesday night to husky twin girls. The babies, named Isabel and Ingrid, w about two weeks overdue but both they and Miss Bergman were de scribed by their physician as doing well. Roberto Rossellinf was with his wife and the new arrivals at fashionable Salvatore Mundi Hos pital. The babies weighed seven pounds three ounces and eight pounds five ounces. The twins are the third and fourth children for the Swedisb- born film star. She has a son. Robertino, born two and a hali years ago, and a daughter, Jenny Ann Pia, born of Ingrid s prevu marriage to Dr. Peter Llndstrc 100 Fighters Guard Alaska KETCHIKAN, Alaska UP) -An Air Force commander said Wcd nesday only 100 U.S. fighter plnn are based in Alaska and but 60 per cent would probably be effective in case of a sudden Russian attack. Col. Thomas H. Be son, com manding officer of the 57th Fighse Interceptor Group, told the Amer ican Legion's 33 rd annual Alaska convention that Russia could itiss all but the major air fields- kt Alaska any time. The colonel added, however, that reinforcements could arrive fram the United States within 48 hours. and the four fighter squadrons kt Alaska are on a 24-hour alert wttfc planes ready to be airborne within three minutes. Falling Bark Injures Logger Statecmaa Ncwi rrlca MEHAMA Falling tree barfc dealt a severe back injury m Wednesday to Frank. James, MiU City logger, while he worked aw the woods near Marion Forks. James was working at falling trees when the bark crashed on him from a tree overhead. Th accident occurred at about 4 sju He was taken out of the woods a stretcher by fellow workmen and carried to Salem Memorial Hospital by the Mill City Amfttk lance Service. He was reported by the hospital Wednesday night to be in a "good" condition. TO COMPLETE MOTE KOJE ISLAND, Korea (JTJ Another compound mov on Koja Island Thursday will complete th transfer of more than 70,000 of tb 80,0000 Communists, held on thi . prisoner of war island. o ff mm
