Karnes Brought to State Penitentiary
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Thm Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday. June 21, 1952
PRICE 5c
No. C3
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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.)
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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!'
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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
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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.)
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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.