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L 7 s IFOr Fo 102nd YEAR 14 PAGES 101 in Water Use Record Set; Woods Closed A blistering, torrid Old Sol seared Salem residents Tuesday with a high temperature lor the day of 101 degrees recorded at 4:25 p.m. by the U. S. Weather Bureau at McNary Field. Prediction for today puts the mercury at the 100-degree level and possibly beyond. Salem shared the stifling 101 with Portland. Tuesday's record was the hottest recorded day lor both cities since July 20, 1946. Salem had 105 on that date. DTP gramas TKDain In modern warfare attacking armies lay down barrages of heavy artillery before sending their foot soldiers over the top to charge against enemy positions. Such apparently was the battle technic of the Republican national committee when it chose General of the Armies Douglas MacArthur to deliver the keynote address at Chicago. And the general re sponded with an oratorical bar rage raking the Truman adminis tration from Yalta to the Yalu, from OPS to NATO. It was heavy howitzer stuff. The rounded peri ods must have resounded in the rafters of the convention hall. They rolled out of the radios th nrairies. down mountain canyons and rivaled the sound of the surf of the oceans. In the style of Cicero orating against Catiline -in the Roman Senate the general dropped his explosive rhetoric on the unnamed catilines of the na tional administration. Boom. Boom. Boom! sounded the MacArthur cannonading. ! Doom, Doom, Doom! was his pre- diction if the nation's course is not ; changed. He rang the changes on ! "fiscal instability, political inse curity and military weakness." He found tragic errors in the conduct of our foreign policy, and re counted his grievances over Korea and Asia. He scoffed at collective security as attempted in NATO, and sounded alarms against im pending bankruptcy. The general hailed Peace as the goal of human endeavor (Continued on editorial page 4) Ridgway Given Added Power WASHINGTON (JP) - President Truman Tuesday gave Gen. Mat thew B. Ridgway direct control of all U.S. forces in North Atlantic Treaty Organization areas of Europe in addition to his overall authority as supreme commander of the Western Allies. The defense department said Ridgway in the additional assign ment will be known as "Com mander in Chief, U. S., European Command." Defense officials explained the primary purpose of the modifica tion of command structure was to tie up loose ends, particularly in the fields of construction and supply.- Ridgway's new responsibility, the Pentagon explained, will em brace all American forces in the North Atlantic Treaty areas in addition to those in Western Ger many. U.S. forces in Berlin, Aus tria and Trieste will remain out side of the new command. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 'People con eat other stuff but what ore we poor potato bugs opposed to do?" U3 TOPI The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Wednesday, July 9. 1952 Salem One known casualty in Salem due to the heat Tuesday was A. A. Kubishta of 2055 Carlton Way, who suffered heat exhaustion while working at the Oregon Pulp and Paper Mill. He was treated by Salem first aidmen. To abate parched throats and browning lawns Salem residents availed themselves of 22 million gallons of water, reported John L. Geren, manager of the Salem wa ter department. This figure in clude Salem and the Salem Heights district. "This is a little early in the summer for a new peak," Geren said. "An average summer day is usually around 15 million gallons. Previous peaks were 21.5 million gallons in 1951 and 18.4 million in 1950," he en umerated. Few logging operations were even begun Tuesday. Humidity dropped from 38 to 20 per cent at 8 a.m., Vance Morrison of the State Forestry Department report ed. "A few companies began oper- How It Got Hot! 7:25 a.m. ... 10:25 a.m. 12:25 p.m. 1:25 p.m. ... 2:25 p.m. 3:25 p.m. 4:25 p.m. . 5:25 p.m. 6:25 pjn. 7:25 p.m. .. 8:25 p.m. .. 9:25 p.m. ... 10:25 p.m. ... 73 84 92 95 97 100 101 99 97 86 77 73 68 ations, but were soon forced to close down," he said. In all West ern Oregon, forest area closure is automatic when the humidity drops to 30 per cent. Rigid schedules of tower fire watching have been enforced by the forest service and watchers are now instructed to be on a con stant vigil at all times. "With weather continuing like it has we can't be too careful and that goes for people passing through forest ed areas," Morrison cautioned. There was no denying that Tues day was going to be a day of warmth right from the start. The Salem Weather Bureau had pre dicted a high Tuesday near the 97 mark and hourly checks show that mark was sought steadily. A 7 a.m. reading recorded 73 degrees as a beginning for the day and from that time until 4:25 things continu ed to get hotter. A number of minor brush and woods fires were reported in the state. Several broke out in the Mt. Hood National Forest in the Col umbia River gorge. They were all brought under control. The forecast Is for continued fair, warm weather in most west ern sections of Oregon and Wash ington. Tuesday high temperatures in cluded: Pendleton 97; Eugene 96; Ontario 95; La Grande, Redmond and Klamath Falls 92; Lakeview and Baker and Burns 87. Portland Asks Zoo Fund of 4 Million PORTLAND (JP)- Portlanders will be asked on the November ballot to vote four million dollars in the next five years for a new zoo. The proposal, advanced by the City Council Tuesday, is for a five-year tax to raise the money. Buchanan Gets Recess Appointment to FPC WASHINGTON (JP)- President Truman Tuesday gave Thomas C. Buchanan a recess appointment as chairman of the Federal Power Commission. The Senate failed to act on nom ination of Buchanan for a new term as a member of the FPC. The appointment is good until shortly after Congress reconvenes. Western International At Salem S, Lcwiston 7 At Vancouver 1), Wenatche At Victoria 3, Yakima It At Tri-Clty 5, Spokane 7 Pacific Coast Learae At Sacramento 1, Hollywood 7 At Saa Ditto I, San Francisco 3 At Los Angeles . Seattle I OiJy games scheduled. All-Star Game National Leacae J, American Lagn t I inn. POUNDBD 1651 Hottest in Six Ike Asks Chance to 'Kick Democrats1 ' CHICAGO Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (center) confers with members of Missouri delegation to Re publican convention Tuesday at breakfast. He urged "kicking "the Democrats so far Nov. 4 that it'll take them about 20 years to get back." Left to right: Eddie B. Pope, Hermitage; Glen Weber, House Springs; Eisenhower; Mrs. Alberta Green, Westplains. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) West Berlin Blockades Roads To Russ Zone; Lawyer Seized Option Given For Purchase Of Old SHS Salem's Public School Office: Building, the old high school at ' High and Marion Streets, was op tioned to a Salem realtor Tuesday i night with a $500,000 price tag at- j tached. The board of directors of Salem School District offered a one-year j option to Realtor George Graben- horst and charged him a fee of $500. Grabenhorst had the building i under option two or three years j ago. No definite prospective buyers i are In sight but the downtown school property has long been con sidered a potential business site, board members indicated. Until recently, the school board rented most of it to state offices. Now Marion County Is using the space while a new Courthouse is being developed. (Additional school news on page 2) Farmers Employ New Rainmakers ARLINGTON, Ore. (JP)- Tri County Weather Research, Inc., an organization of Eastern Oregon wheat farmers, will continue its cloud seeding program this year but under the direction of another firm. Fritz Watkins of Wasco, presi dent of the organization, said Tuesday that North American Weather Consultants of Pasadena, Calif., would be hired to seed clouds for a year beginning Sept. 1. He said the Pasadena firm would be paid on a performance basis. Control Agency Staffs Hit Hard by Congress Economy WASHINGTON (JP)-The sharp est Congressional economy axe in years is chopping thousands of workers from government payrolls throughout the country. In the hard hit price, wage and rent control agencies, officials have said that appropriations are hardly adequate to do the job. No official would estimate Tues day just how many thousands will be fired in the entire federal ser vice. But the price and wage agen cies said more than half their 17, 000 employes will be shoved out within 30 days. One of the last acts tof Congress Monday included a 60 million dol lar appropriation for the economic control agencies, which had about 100 million dollars last year. President Truman had asked for tatemai By TOM REEDY BERLIN (JP) Aroused by the kidnaping of an anti-Communist lawyer, the West Berlin city government decided Tuesday night to blockade all roads leading into the surrounding Russian zone. The kidnap victim was Dr. Walter Linse, 48, chief of the eco nomics branch of the League of Free Jurists. Three men abducted him from the American sector in broad day Truce Talks Finish Year MUNSAN, Korea (JP)-K o r e a n truce negotiators met in secret session for the sixth consecutive day Wednesday without giving a hint whether progress was made toward breaking the long standing deadlock on exchange of war pris oners. It was the last meeting of one full year of talks. The session lasted only 26 min utes one of the shortest this week. The two sides agreed to meet again Thursday. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuchols, United Nations spokesman, said after Wednesday talks "there is absolutely nothing to say" about progress, if any. He characterized the talks as still business-like. He Didn't Advocate 'Keep Monkeys Green9 EUREKA, Calif. (P)-Leslie S. Sparks, 39, was fined $10 in po lice court Tuesday for giving lighted matches to monkeys in the city zoo. Sparks said he handed out the burning matches after one monkey grabbed for his cagaret lighter. ACHESON DUE BACK WASHINGTON (JP)- Secretary of State Acheson is expected to return to Washington late Wed nesday from his 17-day trip to Europe and South America. Ache son left Sao Paulo, Brazil, Tues day. 103 million for the year which began July 1. Altogether, Congress peeled about nine billion dollars off the Truman administration's requests for $83,778,382,112. Other cuts from requested funds included four billion dollars for the defense department, four mil lion for State Department, 700 million for independent offices, a long list of agencies not covered by other appropriations, 50 million for the treasury, 120 million for the commerce department, 178 mil lion for federal security, 90 million for the interior department, 28 million for the postoffice and 17 million for the labor department. One official said it may be necessary to eliminate regional OPS offices altogether in order to maintain an adequate central con trol staff. No. 104 Years light Tuesday and raced by motor car into the Soviet Zone, firing pistols and strewing nails to slow pursuers. Maj. Gen. Lemuel Mathewson, ! the U. S. commamlant in Berlin, j sent a sharp protest to the Rus sians againsi tne Kidnaping. He said it was outrageous and Intol erable and demanded the immedi ate release of Dr. Linse. The League of Free Jurists has been a thorn to the Communists for about three years. The league is composed of almost a thousand attorneys and judges who fled to West Berlin from the Soviet Zone. Its primary work is to record vio lations by East Germany's Red government of basic German law. The kidnaping, which followed a series of border incidents, led the West Berlin police department to ask that its regular force of 10,000 men be increased to 12,000. The orders are to turn the Al lied sectors into a virtual armed camp after a month of pressure during which the Commanists have been building a "death zone" around the city with the excuse that they had to protect themsel ves against spies. Continued Aid To Dane Asked WASHINGTON fP)-Eleven gov ernment agencies reportedly rec ommended Tuesday the United States continue military and eco nomic aid to Denmark even though the Danes have sold a 13,000-ton tanker to Russia. Informed officials said Mutual Security Director Averell Harri man will make his own recom mendation to President Truman, probably Wednesday. The United States is considering whether to cut off military and economic assistance to Denmark because the sale of the tanker ap parently violated foreign aid leg islation. Officials indicated broadly that all agencies agreed that it would hurt American security seriously if the United States cut off aid to Denmark over the tanker incident. Mrs. Kader Begins 15-Year Pen Term Jada Kader, 22-year-old Port land woman convicted of man slaughter, was received Tuesday morning at the Oregon State Pen itentiary to begin a 15-year sen tence. Her attorney said the case would be appealed. She was convicted of smother ing to death her 3-year-old daugh ter in January. PRICE 5c Hoover Asks Mighty Air Force, (Decries Europe Army 'Myth' CHICAGO (Jpy- Herbert Hoover pleaded Tuesday night, in what he said may be his last appearance before a Republican National Con vention, for a mighty air force capable of striking back like a rattlesnake if this country is at tacked by Russia. The former president 77 years old, and voicing calm awareness that his days are numbered re ceived a tumultuous ovation as he appeared before the convent i -n and struck hard at a key en deavor of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower the West European De fense Force. "A phantom army," Hoover called the divisions built up under the direction of Eisenhower be fore the general took on Sen. Rob ert A. Taft in the presidential nomination fight that has split this convention into hostile camps. Ovation Beats Mar's Hoover received a roaring wel come, considerably greater than the one the delegates gave Monday night to their keynote speaker, Gen. Douglas MacArthur. While the organ boomed, and the flushed ex-president stood with tear-glistened eyes in the glare of floodlights, delegation af ter delegation fell into a parnde around the convention floor he first such mass demonstration since the convention opened Mon day morning. Hoover stated in strong new terms the basic views which launched last year's "Great De bate" on foreign policy: He called for a smaller army, less reliance on the West Euro pean ground forces and an Air Force that would "restore the ad vantage of military Initiative to us." "I do not propose," Hoover said, "that we retreat into our shell like a turtle. I do propose the deadly reprisal strategy of a rattlesnake." Obviously touched by his re McKay to Talk Today In Debate on Georgia CHICAGO JP)-Gov. Douglas McKay, leader of the Oregon delegation at th Republican convention, has been chosen to speak before the convention Wednesday or- behalf of the backers of Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. Gov. Sherman Adams of New Hampshire, Eisenhower's floor leader, selected McKay to speak against a Credentials Committee report which would seat delegates from Georgia who are favor able to Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. The entire 18-man Oregon delegation is pledged to Eisen hower. State Sen. William E. Walsh, of Coos Bay, Ore., another delegate, also is expected to take an active part in opposing the Credentials Committee report. Walsh is a member of the com mittee and was among those voting against the report. Sen. Wayne L. Morse (R-Ore.) said he thought that the Taft forces "for the first time are on the defensive." The Oregon delegation called on Gov. Earl Warren of Cali fornia, another GOP hopeful, Tuesday. Reports of the meeting Indicated that nothing of much consequence occurred. Civil Rights Plan Lacking Yet; Floor Fight Possible rUTPAr.A rovT3orMiHQn nlatfT-YVi Hrafftfirc fail art TiiasHav nlffht ViilVrj w yf j ii(.uu wvuii SAUh4.vi4 vaua.&u - -.- - - o w to bring Northern and Southern forces together on a civil rights plat form. This raised the prospect of a fight over the issue on the con vention floor. Sen. Eugene D. Millikin of Colorado, chairman of the convention's TAcvintinne f r- m r--. iitoo fTr ftfrA for rtflrlv twn HmirQ with leaders in the struggle over a plank and naa Deen reacnea. Thp mainritv of a resolutions subcommittee on civil rights is in :itinff on a nlank railing for a federal agency with powers to hold hearings and summon wit nesses but not mete out pumsn ment on alleged discrimination in the hiring and firing of Negroes and other racial groups, ine ma jority favoring such a plank hails from the North and West. A Southern minority of the sub committee wants to leave the ra cial nroblem to the states, but indicated It would accept a fed eral agency without power to call witnesses and hold hearings. It would limit the commission to conciliatory" measures. Millikin said the issue will be tossed into the lap of the full 106- member Resolutions Committee Wednesday morning. It will be asked to write a planK. Thfr wpre siens the Taft-Ei- wnhnwpr struggle for delegates was becoming involved in the civil rights issue, lwo iNegro aeie gates from New York announced they had switched back to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower after hav ing changed to Taft since coming to the convention. Thp said thev changed back to their original candidate Eisen hower because tney ien we "nfnle around" the general are more sympathetic toward their position than is ben. itoDeri a. Taft. Max. .101 w - 73 . 72 Min. S3 56 M 59 Precip. .00 .00 .00 .38 s&lem Portland San Francisco Chicago - New York 83 70 .13 uiiii,i.ti. Rivpr li feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary -field. Salem): Fair and continued warm today and tonight with the highest temperature today near 100 and the lowest tonight near 55. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. waa 66 degrees. gALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year, Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 42.60 40.M VIM ception, Hoover said at the outset of his speech: Calls "Freedom" Issue "From the inexorable course of nature, this is likely to be the last time I shall attend your conven tions." A roar of "no" arose from the massed delegates. With quiet emphasis, the former president then launched into his speech, climaxed with a declara tion that freedom is the great issue in the forthcoming election and that the Republicans must win because: "This election may well be the last chance for survival of free dom in America." Hoover attacked the Democrats on both domestic and foreign fronts, denouncing what he called the "drip, drip, drip from dishonor in high places." He accused the administration of throwing away the fruits of vic tory in World War II. Hitting at the concept of build ing up large land armies in Eur ope Hoover declared that aside from American and British di- j visions, tne European army is largely a myth because the conti ' nent's will to defend itself is ! weak. First Duty to V.S. "I am not ashamed to say," he declared, "that our first duty is to defend the United States. . . . "What I propose is an entire re consideration of these foreign pol icies which have today developed both In the United States and abroad." Hoover did not mention by name either of the two leading contenders for the party presi dential nomination which he won twice But the theme of his speech, de voted in large part to foreign poli cy, was much closer to the ex pressed views of Taft than those of Eisenhower. Hoover conferred with Taft here Tuesday. then announced that no agreement Convention's Slate Today CHICAGO (JP) - The tentative program for Wednesday's sessions of the Republican National Con vention third day Morning ses sions: 8:30 a.m. (PST). Call to order by permanent chairman Joseph Martin Jr. National anthem invocation Bishop Ered Pierce Corson, Phila delphia, president of the Method ist Church Council of Bishops. Report of the Credentials Com mittee, postponed from Tuesday night, but with no final determi nation as to exactly where it will go. Addresses: Gov. John S. Fine of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Gilford Mayes of Idaho, assistant chair man of the GOP national commit tee; Herbert B. Warburton of Delaware, chairman of the Young Republican rational Federation; Patrick J. Hurley, GOP Senate nominee from New Mexico; Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wiscon sin. Report of the resolutions plat form cornmittee. Evening sessions : 5:30 p.m. (PST.) Call to order by Martin Invocation, Dr. Harrison R. An derson of Chicago, former mod erator of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Addresses: Rep. Katharine St. George of New York; Rep. Walter H. Judd of Minnesota; Sen. Harry P. Cain of Washington. Rollcall of the states for nomi nations for president. Nominations for the office of president. Rollcall of the states for selec tion of nominee for president. Decision Waiting By NORMAN WALKEX CHICAGO (JP)-A solidly pro Taft delegation from Georgia tot the okeh of the GOP Credentials Committee Tuesday night; and Eisenhower forces girdled far an effort to have it thrown out on the convention floor Wednesday-. The committee recessed tor tha night at 9:45 a.m. (PST), without deciding equally bitter contests in Louisiana and Texas. Chairman Ross Rizley of the credentials group had originally announced plans to meet throucb, the night if necessary in a drive to get Its report before the full' convention by noon. Already it was a day late. But upon completion of two hours of argument on the case of the Louisiana delegation, heavily pro-Taft, rival camps agreed to take a recess until 8 a.m. (PST) before taking a vote. Backs National Committee Also ahead of the credentials group was two hours of argument on the 38-member Texas delega tion, perhaps the most bitterly fought of all. In the decisions It made Tues day night, the credentials rrouD followed down the line the recom mendations on temporary seating made last week by the full nation al committee. The group was firmly In control of Sen. Robert A. Taft's forces, and it seemed likely to approve the pro-Taft slates in Louisiana, where 13 delegates are in dispute, and in Texas. The camp of Gen. Dwleht D. Eisenhower announced that It would appeal in the Georgia. Lou isiana and Texas cases assuming the votes in all three went against them to the 1,206 convention del egates. Louisiana Vote Due The Credentials Committee had " been in session, when the recess came, for 14 hours and 45 minutes. It took time out only briefly for lunch and dinner. Its deliberations were thrown open to radio and television coverage. Voting by the Credentials Com mittee on the Louisiana contest' will be the first order of buainesa when the committee reconvenes. The vote to recommend perma nent seating of the solidly pro Taft delegation of X7 from Georgia was 3d tn 21 behind schedule, marking tim with speeches and fol-de-roL There was nothing else to do while waiting for Eisenhower and Taft forces to tangle in the crucial floor scrap over delegate contests Wednesday. Taft Gets Florida In its first decision Tuesday, thm committee voted that a heavily pro-Taft Florida delegation with . 18 votes should be seated in the convention. The great Eisenhower Taft struggle was not involved in this fight, however, and the com mittee decision on it was unani mous. While the Credentials Commit tee pounded away, Eisenhower and Taft put in their time making tho rounds or various uncontested del egations, hoping to lasso a waver ing vote here and there td strengthen their bids for the COP presidential nomination. Taft was in a mood to "let by gones be bygones" once the con- vention makes its choice. He told California's 70-vote delegation pledged at first to Gov. Earl War ren but obviously showing large pro-Eisenhower sentiment thai he is "most concerned" by the bit terness generated in all the pre liminary skirmishes, - After all the scrapping Is over, Taft said, there may be "a few soreheads," but not many. Eisenhower, on the prowl among the convention delegations, stopped off with the 26 vote Missouri crowd, talked of closing ranks af ter the inter-family fight over "the) nomination and then "kicking the) Democrats so far November 4 that it'll take them about 20 years to get back." The Missouri delega tion is predominantly pro-Eisenhower. Fire Destroys Santiam Home Statesman News Service STAYTON Only a washing machine and a Jersey bull were saved when the farm home of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Wilkinson was destroyed by fire at North San tiam Tuesday afternoon. The home and its contents were totally destroyed by flames of un determined origin. The Wilkin sons were not at home at the time of the accident. A motorist drir ing by the houseeaw the fire and notified the Stayton Rural Flro Department about 1:30 pjn. Neighbors saved a waahing machine from the house a ad lad to safety a Jersey bull tied Bear the house. The Wilkinsons will live in another house located oa the farm. Neighbors gave them m food and clothing shower Tuffs night. North Santiam Is about eight miles southwest of Staytoo. TIMBER MARKET DULtt " CORVALLIS (iP)-Marke Co3 ness, reflecting the inactivity ed the July 4 holiday, appeased fa the timber trade last week, taxi prices held steady for Dougjas flj tawlog .