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Karnes Brought to State Penitentiary 1651 POUND! 102nd YEAR 12 ?aq Thm Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday. June 21, 1952 PRICE 5c No. C3 jimp? 'i' h H vsBftL Albert William Karnes, who has confessed to the axe murder of Mrs. Susan Litchfield here two weeks ago, passes from the custody of Wasco County to the Oregon State Penitentiary early Friday after noon Taking handcuffs off the 24-year-old Karnes prior to dressing him in at the prison is Acting Sheriff Henry Re of Wasco County (left). Waiting to take custody is Lt. Lloyd Francis of the prison guard. Karnes will be tried later for the woodshed slaying of the 81-year-old widow. (Statesman Photo.) nn5 333JXQ on) ana The Mfll City Enterprise, which always is alert to protect the in terest of the Santiam country, has raised the question why Elk Lake is not used more by the general public. Th.s is the Elk Lake that lies near the crest of the divide at the foot of Battle-axe moun tain not the Elk Lake on the Cen "' cn,,thwest of Bend on LnthPr side of the Cascades. The Enterprise says that people have actually seen ;.f., thP Santiam country few and Elk Lake, and attributes this to a gate across the trail. It speaks also about the report that private m feVests are doing development work on mining claims and quer ies if the gate referred to is kept bv them. If so, it asks, v.h is it SowST Finally it asks Why are fishermen kept oui oi c Th Enterprise editor is com- paratively new to these parts and seems to have his geography mixed up. He gets Elk Lake on the wrong side of the divide. The drains into Humbug creek which in turn runs into the Brei- tenhush and the latter mio me Santiam which flows through Mill : City. The other drainage is via Battle-axe creek into the Little j Northfork which joins the Santi- am at Mehama. The mine the Enterprise refers! to is the Amalgamated, a zinc! mine in process of development.: Its claims are along Battle-axe creek in the Little NortniorK drainage. Now about the gates. For years there has been a road branching (Concluded on editorial page, 4) AID BILL SIGNED WASHINGTON iT") President Truman signed the foreign aid bill Friday, authorizing 6 billion four hundred forty-seven million dol lars to bolster Allied countries against any Communist aggres sion. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH "Will you please stop using fnother for on osh troy! She's Inflorrtmoble, you know!' m(3 n -s. ' a, - Lincoln County Seat Change Plan Revived NEWPORT P)-A proposal t. move the Lincoln County six. from Toledo to Newport is com ing up again Defeated at the polls four times previously, the proposal is being sponsored this time by Otto Ca- hili of .fi;-co;t. Potions are le ing circulated to put the matter on the November ballot with 1,500 signatures needed. Spring Ends On Wet Note By The Associated Press Spring ended its three-month 1952 stand Friday with a medley of bad and good weather. Summer arrives at 3:13 a.m. (PST) Saturday in a nation that already has had a preview of its high-bracket heat. Spring put on a series of acts that varied from lousy to lovely, and the last one was typical. Much of the Midwest was wet Friday. Showers splashed in Iowa, northern Illinois, lower Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. The fall 7 i measured 14 inches in southeast- ern low a mere were inundersnowers in eastern South Dakota, eastern Ne braska, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Rain fell in the Western areas of Washington and Oregon, and in me nortnwesern corner or Call fornia. Elsewhere, the weather general iv was fajr np T" I I InvPl'C lHtUfl y-v I lip ltl I h'PCmil City Headon OREGON CITY-Two driv ers were killed near here Friday evening when their cars collided head-on. Dead are Howard William Smith, 25, Mulino, and Claude Hale, Mo lalla. No other persons were in volved. Smith, who was graduated from the University of Oregon Sunday, is survived by the widow, Virginia, and a 9-month-old daughter. Hale, for many years financial secretary for the CIO Woodwork ers, is survived by his widow, Lilas, and a son, Dr. Jack Hale, Sunnyside, Wash. U. S. Asks Investigation of Russian Charges Claiming Americans Using Germs in Warfare By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (As saying the time had come to expose Russia's "false and wicked lie," the United States Friday called on the Security Council for an im partial investigation of the Krem lin's charges that Americans and the UN are using bacterial wea pons. U. S. delega. 1ttife A. Gross circulated a short resolution to have the council put the interna tional Red Cross on the inauiry job it had volunteered to do in Ko-ra. World - known scientists and experts would be selected by ' - -d C-oss. Russia has spurned the idea previously. Poisoned Grain t Saves Town From Crickets RENO, X-v. P, -Forty tons of poisoned bar i y arrived in the nick of time F; id;;y to save the silver mining tuwn of Austin from a mammoth inva.Mun of ravenous Morman crickets. Only a quarter mile separated Austin's only water reservoir and the vast horde of crickets mov ing in an area 25 miles wide and j 14 miles deep. i A state agriculture official said j the effect of the poison was to stir up a stench ' like millions or dead fish rotting in the sun." Had the crickets contaminated the reservoir, the 325 residents of historic Austin feared they would have been forced to evacuate their village 150 miles east of Reno. Austin was not alone with the menace. George Schweis, director of Nevada's plant industry division of the agriculture department, said eight other areas were infested in Nevada. Nevada experts foresaw a probable appearance of the in sects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wy oming. They got their name of Mormon when they swarmed in 1850 on early Mormon settlers. Only an unexplained appearance of sea gulls saved the settlers' menaced grain. The current appearance of the big dark brown crickets in Nevada was in such strength that they covered a section of State High way 8-A in a solid mass for 22 miles. Baby Arrives Unheralded SAN FRANCISCO (JP)- She woke up at home in the middle of the night last night and five min utes later was the mother of a 7 pound baby boy. It ws the first time she real ized she was pregnant, Mrs. Al Crum, 20, told attendants at San Francisco Hospital Friday. "She didn't even look pregnant, "H added her sister, Mrs. Alfred Lopez. Now the Red Cross is trying to contact husband Al Crum, a sailor aboard the cruiser St. Paul, scheduled to arrive Tuesday at San Diego from Korean duty. "I guess Al's going to be awfully surprised," said Mrs. Crum. The first reaction was that Rus sia might veto this proposal. Gross asked for a council meet ing next Monday to consider his proposal. Monday is the first an niversary of the speech made by Soviet deputy foreign minister Ja cob A. Malik which started the so far fruitless truce negotiations in Korea. Malik, the Security Council pres ident this month, gavelled Gross to silence when the American dele gate began reading the text of the resolution calling for an investiga tion. Malik said it was not customary to read out a resolution on a sub ject not yet on the council's calen 2 Wilson Brothers Lose Bid WALLA WALLA (P) - Two brothers sentenced to hang in Washington state prison early Monday for a 1950 slaying suf fered a triple setback in federal court Friday. Federal Judge Sam Driver de nied Utah and Turman Wilson of Vancouver, Wash., a writ of habeas corpus, rejected a notice of appeal by the brothers' attor ney? and denied a motion for a stay of execution. The Wilsons have been sent enced to the gallows three times for the slaying of Jo Ann Dewey in Clark County. Wash., but have succeeded twice in obtaining stays to continue their long legal battle for life. One Chance Left Judge Driver left the way open, however, for the brothers to carry their case for the second time to the Ninth Circuit Court of Ap peals in San Francisco. He granted a certificate of prob able cause, making an appeal to the circuit court possible. At the same time, the judge held out little hope to the Wilsons that tne circuit court would act favor ably on their appeal, since it al ready had granted one stay of ex ecution to permit the U.S. Supreme Court to act on their case. To Die on Monday If the brothers fail to obtain further delays, they will go to the gallows at 12:05 a.m., Monday. During the day - long federal court hearing Friday, Defense Atty. Irvin Goodman of Portland sought to show that fingerprint evidence used to convict the Wil sons was inconclusive. After hearing the judge's de cision, Utah Wilson put one hand over his eyes. His face reflected despair. Turman hardly chajjcd his ex pression, however. He was quiet and relaxed throughout the day. Attorneys Protest Defense attorneys contended vigorously that the brothers were deprived of their constitutional rights since '"not all of the evi dence was permitted to go to the ju.-y." In their arguments, the Wilsons' attorneys said that evidence sub mitted to the Clark county prose cutor, naming other .suspects, was never considered. Earl Anderson, former county sheriff, testified he obtained infor mation by listening to wire record ings of the brothers' conversation in their cell, where a microphone had been hidden. He said he un covered considerable e v i d e n c e from individuals named by the Wilsons and presented it to Prose cutor D. R. Jones. Doubted Arguments Judge Driver ruled that no evi dence was presented showing the prosecutor had "framed" the Wil sons by suppressing evidence, or that they were denied due process of law. The judge termed testimony re garding a beer bottle and its care as just "conversation between law enforcement officers." East German Travel Shaved BERLIN 0P)-East German Com munist rulers were reported to have clamped severe new travel restrictions on Soviet Zone people and to have stepped up their drive to put young Germans under arms. Refugees who crossed over to the West said new Soviet Zone or ders -forbid any "untrustworthy" person in East Germany from go ing three miles from home without a special permit. The new travel curbs stricter than any imposed by Hitler ob viously were designed to check the growing escapes to West Ger many of those seeking to escape military conscription and tighten ing police-state oppression. At the same time the new rules help keep all suspected anti-Communists under close supervision. SWIMMER DROWNS EUGENE (A3) Thomas Laws, 16, drowned in a roadside pond Thursday night, apparently tiring while swimming in the pond. dar. Gross said he would not press the oint but would circulate his resolution through the UN secre tariat to the council members immediately. "We have witnessed for months now an international campaign, sponsored by the Soviet Union and designed to sell the world on the false and wicked lie that the United States is waging bacterial warfare in Korea," Gross said. "Acting on this totally false premise, the Chinese and North Korean Communists, even if they were full signatories to the Gen eva protocal, could proclaim today their right to use perm v-"-fare against the United ":-; forces in Korea." Young Sergeant Reduced, Fined For Writing Clark MONTEREY. Calif. UP) A special court martial board of five officers at nearby Fort Ord Friday convicted Set. C. D. Chase, 24. of Salt Lake City, of disrespect of Gen. Mark Clark. He was reduced to private first class, and must forfeit $75 a month in pay for the next six months. Chase had written a letter to Gen. Clark, commander of forces in the Far East, telling him that his handing of the Koje Island prisoner of war riots was "repugnant and disgraceful." Alert to Keep Lattimore in United States WASHINGTON ()-The State Department disclosed Friday night it has alerted U. S. Customs guards to halt any attempt by Owen Lat- ! timore to leave the country. The department said it issued j the order after receiving a tip from ; an "official source" that Lattimore j planned a trip to Soviet Russia ort r,r rf the Trnn fiirtain rm in t rio; Officials of the department said tle chance Harwood had for being they did no know whether the tip ' n parole has now evaporat was correct ed- He beins serving his man- T.attimnrp Tr.hr, HnnWin5 TTn. slaughter sentence immediately ivers ty professor, is a former c.af. rv.,,, citt H has figured as the target of re-i peated attacks by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.), who denounced him on the Senate floor as an alleged So viet spy ahd as "the chief archi tect'' of the Truman administra tion's For East policy. I Littlimore. who has vigorously denied McCarthy's charges, told newj-men in Baltimore he wa mystified by the latest furore. He s;iid he hasn't asked the State De partment for a passport and has no plans to po abroad. Breaking a day-long silence, the 'State Department finally confirm ed that an order to halt Lattimore if he should try to lcae the United Slates, v. ithout the necessary travel visa was isued on June 3. Bonus Checks Roll; Protests Of Pay Raised With some 44,000 Oregon vet eran's bonus checks in the mail by Friday, the State Veterans Af fairs Department was beginning to get calls that some checks weren't big enough. Director W. F. Gaarenstroom answered this with the reitera tion that the bonus covers only full months of service and not fractions. He said that most of the veterans who had called ap parently were not aware of this provision of the law. He added that all checks would be issued in the order in which appJications are received. Several letters have been received asking that late applications be favored with immediate issuance of their bonuses. Gaarenstroom said he Is highly pleased at the progress made in sending the checks. By Friday more than 57,000 names had been certified to the secretary of state for checks and more than 67,000 bonus applications had been ap proved. Allies Defeat Attacking Reds SEOUL JP)- The Communists hurled thousands of troops from two regiments at T-Bone Hill and other heights on the western front Friday and early Saturday but desperate Allied soldiers killed or wounded at least 500 Reds and held fast to their positions. Allied troops at times were en tirely cut off. They were pounded by one of the heaviest Communist artillery barrages of the war. However, Eighth Army sources said the U. N. forces held on. A reinforced Communist bat talion attacked Allied troops on T-Bone Hill in a bloody attempt to win back the entire position. An estimated 3,000 to 4.000 troops took part in the assault. Here Come The Brides June is for brides, and so is the special Brides Edition that The Oregon Statesman will publish Sunday. Written and edited by Jeryme English, Statesman society editor, the edition will feature pictures of Salem brides-elect, articles on planning weddings and infor mation for every engaged girl and her family. For a complete reference, for answers to your questions i.bout weddings, see the Brides Edition this Sunday in 4' Orefione$tate$raan House Favors Ending Wage Board, Lifting ost 13-Year M Given Convict for Slaying in Prison A night in the Salem city jail, a brief appearance in a courtroom and lifer George E. Harwood was back behind prison walls within 24 hours after he stabbed young Claude Clark Worley Thursday. Circuit Judge George .Duncan handed down a 15-year-sentence after Harwood pleaded guilty to t a charge of voluntary manslaugh- i .. ter. The sentence was tacked on' I..m Aslsltt to Harwood's life sentence for the murder in 1932 of a Portland man during an apartment house hold up. In effect it means that what lit- "K " f "T Vr T A-W V 'something Warden Virgil O Mai- Jey declared, is ever to happen. quite unlikely Harwood stabbed young WTorley Thursday aftemioon while the two scuffled in Harwood's cell in a prison cell block. The youth died in the prison hospital a short time later from internal bleeding, caused by one of two knife wounds which penetrated the ab dominal wall and seeied an ar tery. Court Acts Fast Harwood's court appearances and sentencing took about half an hour Friday. He vaicd a prelim-1 inary hearing in Marion County district court before Judfje Joseph B. Felton, who was acting in place of Judge Val D. Sloper. Taken directly to Judge Duncan's court, Harwood waived indictment and pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charges. Almost before Duncan's court was ready to bepin business, Har wood stated, "I wish to plead guilty. I'm ready for the sentence." Judge Duncan, however, went through the formal motions of reading the charge and asked Har wood how he plead, and Harwood repeated his original statement. Judge Duncan granted a five minute recess before sentencing to allow Deputy District Attorney Joseph Meier to explain to Har wood the meaning of the term "voluntary manslaughter," to which Harwood had expressed some doubt. After court was con vened and Harwood was sentenc ed. Judge Duncan asked the slen der, greying convict if he wanted to make a statement. Claims Self Defense Harwood did. He said in regard to his stabbing of Worley, "I acted in my own behalf, for the preser vation of my own life. I've done it, I regret it, and feel very sorry for the young fellow." Later, Harwood added to his statement, saying, "If I had to do it over again, I prob ably would. It was forced upon me by a bunch of young hoodlums, three or four of a clique who didn't like me very well. I couldn't go on forever," Harwood concluded. Warden O'Malley doubted that Harwood's complaints were com pletely justified. "Harwood has never been too well liked in the prison as near as we can find out," he said, "and has often been in trouble." Speaking of Worley, O'Malley said Friday, "Despite whatever difficulties the youth may have gotten into on the outside, he had been a good inmate since he was brought to the prison." O'Malley said Worley had been recommend ed for transfer to the MacLaren School for Boys at Wood burn. In Segregation Cell The youth had been on Christ mas vacation from there when he participated with five others in beating up and robbing an old man in Klamath Falls last Christ mas Eve. Upon his return to the prison, Harwood was temporarily lodged in the prison's segregation cells. O'Malley said this was done to prevent any recriminatory actions on the part of either young Wor ley's friends in the prison or other convicts. The dead youth's body was tak en to Klamath Falls Friday for services. His father, Claude Clark Worley Sr., made the arrange ments. (Photo on page 5.) Max. - 7 ... 63 ... 63 ... 6S Min. s 55 50 55 Precip. M .10 trace .42 .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York . 77 60 Willamette River -.9 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau JUcNarv field Salem h Mostly cloudy today and Sunday. High tfg"! nr 7 lnur tnnivht near aeiii near temperature at 12:01 a-m- today ' 53. SALEM raEC.'rrvJJ?VSeDt. 1 Start oi Weather 1"' 1 Since Start of This Year - 41.37 Laat Year 49.77 Normal 36.73 Price Controls Sentence To Wallace Park Acres The 14-acre west&ide park area that Paul B. Wallace willed to Salem has turned ou't to be 21 acres, as a result of river bank accretion. The build-up of the shelf along the west bank of the Wil lamette River, under the high way and railway bridges, was disclosed Friday by a survey and map prepared by the city engineer's office. The portion of Wallace's will granting the park area was dated May 31. 1851. City offi cials were unable to say how long the accretion of land had taken. The "new" land is at approximately the same level as the rest of the tract and will be usable for park purposes ex cept during flood periods. Daughter Can't Testify in Kader Slaying PORTLAND fPt-A circuit court judge refused Friday to permit a 4-year-old girl to testify against her mother in a murder trial. The ruling was a serious blow to the state's case against 22-year- old Jada Kader, who is accused of smothering her 3-year-old daugh ter, Sherrie, and dropping her Into a drainage pit. Judge Frank Lonergan said the 4-year-old daughter, Vickie, was too young to be a competent wit ness. The state protested that Vickie was the only eyewitness, and had delivered a straightfor ward account of Sherrie's death; The girl's story was that she had walked with her mother and Sher rie to the drainage pit last Janu ary, where the mother clamped her hand o er Sherrie s face until she passed out, then dropped Sherrie into the pit. She said her mother "was mad at Sherrie" because Sherrie cried so much. At first the mother told police Sherrie had been kidnapped. Three days later she led police to the body and told them Vickie had ac cidentally killed Sherrie with a chunk of concrete. She said she hid the body and made up the kid napping story in an attempt to protect Vickie. Over 11 Per Cent Of Draftees in 4-F WASHINGTON JP) - Selective Service reported Friday that 11.6 per cent, or 1,443,315 of the 12, 416,129 men it classified from 1948 up to April 30 under the draft system have been put in class 4-F, as unfit for military service. The totals include the states, the District of Columbia and the tern tories. Stassen Sees Hope in Close Fight Between Sen. Taft, Ike " By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL (AP) Political Reporter Harold E. Stassen sniped away at Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen.Robert A, Taft of Ohio Fridav as "too conservative for Se RepubUcarr presidential no SfnatiorL ."Don't count me out," Stassen said. The former Minnesota governor used to say kinds words about Eisenhower. Now he says he's dis appointed in the general. Eisenhower was conf erring meanwhile in Denver with Idaho and Washington delegates to the Republican national convention. Eisenhower Vas worrying, too, about whether to show up in per son for next month's candidate picking battle in Chicago. His aides were divided on that, but Steel Strike Next Business For Congress By WILMOT IIERCIIEK WASHINGTON .4)-The Hmm voted provisionally Friday to abol ' ish the Wage Stablization Bor4 and lift price controls from aliMat all consumer goods. After delivering these staggering blows at the administration's eo nomic controls program, the Howm adjourned until Monday. Members agreed, however, t postpone until Wednedsay further ' consideration of a bill to extd the Defense Production Act, with ' all its basic controls on wage, rents and prices, for another yt starting July 1. Amendment Ready The first business Wednesday will be an amendment by Hep. Howard Smith (D-Va.) declaring national safety is imperilled by th4 steel strike and requesting Presi dent Truman to invoke the Taft Hartley law, with its 80-day no strike injuction. With a coalition of Republican and Southern Democrats in con trol of the voting, administration leaders say they will probably hm unable to prevent adoption of th u Smith amendment. The President is extremely rt luctant to use the Taft-Hartley law in the steel dispute, preferring that Congress give him power lo tum the steel mills temporarily. End of Price Control A spokesman for the Office f Price Stabilization said if tr House action on controls become law it "obviously would be the end of price controls, for all practin.1 purposes." Economic Stabilizer Roger L Putnam has made it clear that h considers abolition of the War Stablization Board a mistake. H said Thursday the board had pre vented a great many strike? dur ing the stormy course of its exig ence. Rep. Talle (R-Iowa) sponsored the amendment to lift price con trols and got it approved by standing vote of 140-R8. Democrat lined up almost solidly against it, but their ranks were thinned Iff absences. Need Later Votes A standing vote of 178-61 adopt ed the amendment killing the WSB and replacing it with a board shorn of all power to intervene in labor disputes. Both amendments are subject t later roll call votes In the How, and to Senate approval or disap proval. The size of the votes, how ever, led opponents of the admin istration's controls program to b lieve the amendments will surviv the roll call test. EXPECT SECOND CHILD HOLLYWOOD (;P)-Lucille B)l and Desi Arnaz Friday announced through their publicist that theq are expecting their second child in January. Western International At Victoria 4, Salem 1 At Vancouver-Tri-Clty (rain) At Wenatchee 9. Spokan a At Yakima 7, LewUton S Paclfie Coast Leagn At Los Angeles 6, Portland 1 At Oakland 12. Seattle 9 At San Diego 1, Hollywood B At Sacramento 2, San Francisco American Leagn At Cleveland 9. Boston 2 At Chicago 8. New York S At St. Louis 9, Washington 8 At Detroit 1. Philadelphia 1 National League At Brooklyn 5. Pittsburgh 4 At Boston 12, 6t. Louis 7 At New York 4. Chicago 3 At Philadelphia 3. Cincinnati seemed to lean toward the ide that he ought to be on the seen. Taftt is bidding Saturday for strategic support from Maryland with an appearance at a Taft car nival on a farm outside Washing ton. And Eisenhower strikes into Texas, where his supporters and . those of Taft are trading charge) of "fraud" and "steal" in a hot fight for control of a key 38-vet delegation. Eisenhower makes a sentimen tal pilgrimmage to his birthplac at Denison, then moves on to Dallas and a speech his backer billed as a "rip-snorter." Top contenders for the ' Demo cratic nomination, going in fc less spectacular skirmishing aad name calling than the Republi cans, are concentrating on th West and Midwest.
