The Oregon statesman., July 13, 1952, Page 1, Image 1

102nd YEAR
Food Poisoning Hospitalizes 138 at Portland
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In his whistle-stop speeches- this
year President Truman will hard
ly give the 82nd congress the
same low rating as the 80th, since
the former was nominally under
Democratic control and the latter
Republican. But his score in the
Congress which has just ad
journed its second session is little
better than in the Congress of
1947-49. The same bipartisan
coalition blocked most of the
President's program, and his Fair
Deal measures made no progress
toward enactment.
On the other hand the 82nd
Congress, like the 80th, followed
along quite closely on the recom
mendation of the administration
Foreign aid was continued though
the budgetary asking was reduced.
The treaty ending the Japanese
war was ratified, also the treaty
for security of nations of South
ern Asia. With little debate the
Senate approved the two agree
ments with Germany, admitting it
to NATO and accepting German
uarticiDation in an international
armv. While Vandenberg is dead
and Reoublicans are hostile to
Secretary of State Acheson enough
of them go along with the Demo
crats to preserve a solid front in
international relations.
It was on the domestic front
that the Truman administration
was treated most roughly by the
congressional coalition. Little at
tempt was made to advance his
pet proposals such as compulsory
health insurance ana civil ngnu.
Over the President's veto Congress
repassed the McCarran - W alter
immigration law revision. In spite
of a previous veto of similar leg
islation Congress passed a bill to
vest rights to offshore lands in
bordering states, .but made no at
tempt to pass it over the Truman
veto. Statehood was refused Alas-'
ka and Hawaii.
The Senate failed to consider the
(Continued on Editorial page 4.)
Flames Sweep
Tanker Ships,
Bay City Pier
MARTINEZ, Calif. (-Raging
flames, touched off by a spark
and punctuated by thunderous ex
plosions, engulfed two ocean-going
oil tankers Saturday at the Union
Oil refinery as sailors and dock
workers plunged for their lives
into San Pablo Bay.
Two men were missing and 30
or more were injured.
Damage was estimated at five
million dollars.
Hours later the Kelly, heeled j
over at a 30-degree angle, con- j
tinued to burn as fireboats poured
millions of gallons of water into
her gutted hulk.
The other flaming tanker, the
10 448-ton Lompoc, was hauled out
into the bay by a Navy tug. Crew
men and fireboats put out flames
on her decks in an hour's battle.
Fire equipment from a dozen
towns, fireboats from San Francis
co, Oakland, the Mare Island Nayy
Yard, nine Coast Guard vessels,
and dozens of private craft rushed
to the scene when the fire broke
out five minutes before noon.
Spark In Crude Oil
Witnesses said a spark on the
1 800-foot pier touched off leak
ing oil as the Kelly was discharg
ing a cargo of crude oil. The
flames spread rapidly through the
oil-soaked timbers of the pier.
Within minutes 200 feet of the
dock and both ships were blazing.
A spokesman for the Union Oil
So. estimated damage at five mil
on dollars 3 H million to the
Kelly, one million to the pier and
equipment, and a half-million to
the Lompoc.
VICTORY AN ASSET
HASTINGS, Neb. JP) A Hast
ings haberdasher advertised Sat
urday his "I Like Ike" neckties,
regularly priced at $1.59, are now
three dollars.
At Salem 4.
Tri-Cltv S (11 Inn.)
r 1-3. Victoria J-S
At Vancouver
At Yakima 6. Wenatchee S
At Lewuton S, Spokane 9
Pacific Coast League
At Oakland 3, PorUand 3
At Los Angeles 1. Seattle 3
At San Diego 7. San rrancisco 3
At Sacramento 1, Hollywood 8
American Leagua
At New York B. St. Louis 4 (11 inn.)
At Washington 1. Chicago 1
At Philadelphia 1. Cleveland S
At Boston 5. Detroit 4
National League
At Pittsburgh 3. Boston 5
At Chicago 3. Brooklyn 13
At Cincinnati 3. New York S
At St. Louis 3. Philadelphia 3
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Lake Grows
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Dl.iKOTT A river with a bis future is the above portion of the North
Santiam In which Detroit Dam'i reservoir is now forming. Above
photo was taken about i miles upstream from dam, visible in
background. WateT-level of this portion of the reservoir will remain
about as shown, authorities report, until fall rains send it rising.
Site Purchased
For Mt. Angel
Home for Aged
Statesman Newt Service
MT. ANGEL A long-range
community project for develop-
ment of a home for the aged here
has reached the property-purchase
stage, it was disclosed Saturday.
The home, a name for which is
to be sought (with a sterling silver
rosary with crystal beads as first
prize), is to be built just south
west of St. Mary's Church on four
acres of the C. Paulus property.
The venture is desc. .od as "a
new type of co-operative," which
would incorporate the Benedictine
Art Shop, now an $11,000 annual
gross business in religious goods.
Townspeople as well as those liv
ing at the home would contribute
of their time and effort in the
shop.
There would be no profits but
every person in the community
would be asked to help make the
home possible through contribu
tions. Liing at the home would
be aged people unable to carry on
by themselves.
The idea was the brain-child of
Father Hildcbrand, assistant Cath
olic pastor at Mt. Angel, who also
instituted the Benedictine Art
Shop, earnings of which would be
diverted to the proposed home.
Named to work out a definite
plan were Frank Hettwer, man
ager of the Mt. Angel Cooperative
Creamery, as chairman: W. D.
Harris, city attorney; Sylvester
Schmitt, Joe Wagner and Tom
Bockelman. They were chosen
May 19 at a meeting of 26 men
of the community.
While no architect drawing yet
is available, it is proposed that
there be a community of small
cottages, each with a small plot of
ground and with paths leading to
a central building and to the near
by St. Mary's Church.
A 100 per cent community co
operation in making the plan pos
sible is the sponsors' goal. Persons
living in the home co-operative
would be asked to contribute
financially only on the basis of
ability.
The name for the home "should
be something that would describe
or signify the spirit that is behind
its establishment," sponsors said.
Suggestions may be sent to any of
the five committee members.
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The- Oregon Statesman, Satan, Oregon, Sunday. July 13,
Behind Detroit Dam in North Santiam Canyon
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Hammer Victim's
Son Aim of Search
ASTORIA fP) Police searched
without success Saturday for the
19-year-old son of Mrs. Marie
Wenger, 45. She was found Friday,
beaten to death, apparently with
a hammer.
The son and Mrs. Wenger's au
tomobile were missing when
friends found the body, hidden in
a pile of living room rugs at her
home. A blood-spattered hammer
was in another room, her empty
purse in the bathroom.
Manchuria Jet
Attack Claimed
TOKYO (JP) Peiping Radio
charged Sunday that eight U. S.
F-86 Sabre jets strafed Antung,
Manchuria, Friday, killing 49 per
sons. The Communist broadcast said
the raid was in late afternoon of
the same day that Allied war
planes plastered the Red capital of
Pyongyang.
Antung is the big Red air base
just across the Yalu River border
between North Korea and Man
churia. A number of other Communist
airstrips are located in the area.
The broadcast said Red China's
foreign minister. Chou En-Lai, im
mediately protested the alleged at
tack. It quoted him as saying the
strafing and last month's attack
on Yalu River power plants "clear
ly indicates Americans aggressive
intentions and is designed to break
up the truce talks."
Chou was further quoted as say
ing the U. S. "must take full re
sponsibility for these provocative
actions and face all consequences.
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FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu
reau. McNary Field. Salem): Cloudy
early this morning, becoming fair this
afternoon, tonight and Monday. High
today 86 to 88. low tonight 50 to 52.
Salem temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
was 60.
SALEM PRECIPITATIOM
Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year
42.69
Last Year
49.94
Normal
37.33
1952
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But it may be two rears before the bir basin fills. Tree-line on left
bank shows where trees were cleared for floor of reservoir. Water
will eventually rise near that point. It will also rise near the level of
the North Santiam Highway. (Statesman Photo by Charles Ireland.)
Three Injured
In 2 Mishaps
South of City
Three people were taken to
Salem hospitals Saturday night,
the victims of two separate auto
mobile accidents just outside the
city limits.
Most seriouslv hurt was Clyde
Hayden, 40, of 4610 Jdnes Rd.,
who was trapped underneath his
car which state police said went
out of control and overturned in
front of 485 Hrubetz Rd. Hayden
sustained fractured ribs and two
injured legs. His condition was re
ported "fairly good" at Salem
General Hospital.
City ambulance crewmen said
Hayden was injured when he ap
parently was thrown part way out
of the car and the door closed on
him.
In an accident which occurred
about an hour and a half later on
South Commercial Street, Mrs.
Juanita Stevens of 595 S. 15th St.,
and Leland Berry of 1745 Long
view St., sustained minor injuries
and were taken to Salem Memor
ial Hospital.
State police said the car appar
ently went out of control just
north of Ratcliff Drive and ran off
the side of the road about 50 feet
south of Ratcliff Drive and into a
ditch. Residents of the area lifted
the automobile and freed Berry
who was trapped beneath the car.
Mrs. Stevens was apparently
thrown out of the car, police said,
as she was lying alongside the
road when the ambulance arrived.
Sabres Down
Enemy MIG
SEOUL (A) Sleek U. S. Sabre
jets shot down one Russian-built
MIG, probably destroyed another
and damaged three in two dog
fights high over Northwest Korea
late Saturday.
Announcing this, the U. S. Fifth
Air Force reported the Commun
ist jets appeared to be "very ag
gressive" for the first time in more
than a week. The Sabre jets were
escorting slower reconnaissance
planes.
The Pyongyang Radio charged
that the massive air strikes against
the Korean Communist capital 1 - ft
2,000 dead, 4,000 wounded and 250
missing.
PRICE 10c
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Safecrackers Hit
Redmond Garages
REDMOND (JF) Safes were
stolen from two Redmond garages
Friday night. In each place the
thieves broke through a rear
window, wheeled a 500-pound safe
out a back door and into a truck.
The Ccntrol Oregon Motors ga
rage and the Morris Nelson com
pany aid checks and cash amount
ed to several thousand dollars in
each safe.
Derby Downs
Set for Races
Derby Downs at Bush's Pasture
Park today will be the scene of
the first annual Salem Soap Box
Derby, where 151 contestants will
roll for wins on the 1,400-foot
paved runways starting at 1:30 p.
m. Admission free.
The overall winner of the race
today will be sent to Akron,
Ohio, for participation in the na
tional finals. Three cars are to
run in each heat.
The trip to the "Downs" was
made yesterday by racers and
their bugs in a colorful parade
through downtown Salem. An aft
ernoon was spent weighing in and
checking the "bugs" and, after a
trial run down the course, the
midget cars were stored at Mc
Culloch Stadium overnight.
Dedication ceremonies at "Der
by Downs" Saturday presented
the paved runway as a commun
ity project to the city for the
recreation of youngsters.
The Capital Journal and Doug
las McKay Chevrolet Company are
co-sponsors of the derby in Salem.
$20,000 Burglary
Hits Jewelry Store
PORTLAND (JPi Burglars
broke through two basement doors
to haul off rings, watches and
gems from Bernard's Jewelry
Store here Friday night. Morris
Rogoway, one of the owners, said
the loss was around $20,000.
POLIO CASES RISE
PENDLETON (JP) The polio
outbreak jumped in Umatilla
County this weekend. There were
three cases reported Friday, two
more Saturday. That brought the
total in the past two weeks to
eieht
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No. 108
Union 9s
Outing
Struck
PORTLAND iP-The traditional
Boilermakers' Union picnic was i an attempt to do two things se
getting in full swing Saturday with j cure release of a warehoused in
several thousand persons tnere. j ventory of finished tinplate, rcady
when food poisoning broke out. to be processed into cans, and to
Just ""what haDDencd thereafter crot ih,a ctnto tttiH
was a little confused, but within
several hours 138 persons turned
up at Portland hospitals for treat-
ment Attendants said manv wore
painfully sick, but none seemed
Likely to die.
Some one at the picnic grounds,
12 miles east of Portland, put in a
call for mass medical attention
when the celebrants boan falling
sick. All available ambulances in
the city rushed to the scene.
Traffic Snarl Develops
A radio station heard of this,
and advised listeners to go to the
scene to help out. Police could
hardly handle the ensuing traffic
mess. They finally sot up road
blocks to stop traffic headed for
the scene.
Reporters went along with the
ambulances, but some still
exuberant boilermakers blocked
the entrance. The ambulances got
in all right, but one photographer
who tried it was tossed out with
gusto and his camera smashed.
One picnicker emerged to say
crates of soda water happened to
be there, and the contents were
administered to victims to make
them vomit. A first aid man
brought out dry mustard, mixed it
with warm water, and gave it to
others as an emetic.
Food Samples Taken
Doctors took samples of the
lunch food there, and ent them
to hospitals for tests.
One reporter did manage to
bluii his way past the gate
keepers. He got in a quick tour of
the grounds before a Quartet of
boilermakers escorted him out. He
reported much nausea
150 persons on the ground.
Amidst all this mere
nearby community compl
losses. They said swarms of itin
erant farm workers had come to
town, and the shop-lifting was ap
palling. Most of the deputy sher
iffs in the county were trying to
cope with this, when they were
called away to handle the traffic
mess at the picnic grounds. The
merchants said they were helpless
once the deputies had left.
West Berlin
Driver Shot
By Russians
BERLIN (JPs- Soviet border
guards Saturday night fired at a
West Berlin motorist who crossed
into the Russian sone and
wounded him In the leg, police
said. After letting him scream for
help for nearly an hour, the Rus
sians carried him away, eye
witnesses said.
They gave this account to West
Berlin police:
The man an engineer named
Ludwig Vetter drove into the
Russian zone from the American
sector district of Marienfeld de
spite warnings from an unidenti
fied companion who Jumped off
his delivery truck before it
crossed the border. .
When Vetter was about 70 yards
inside the zone, Russian tommy
gunners and Communist People's
Police rushed to the spot from
their guardhouse, and the Russians
fired two rounds from their ma
chine pistols, hitting him in the
right leg.
Vetter then got out of his car.
fell and screamed for help. West
Berlin police stationed at the
border were unable to intrevene
because he was on Russian zone
territory. A West Berlin woman
doctor who saw the incident and
offered to adminster first aid was
turned away by the People's
Police.
Dke's Choice Named National
Chairman of Republican Party
By JACK BELL
CHICAGO (P Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower put a firm hand on
the controls of the Republican
Party machinery Saturday with
the selection of Arthur Summer
field of Michigan as national
chairman.
Supported by the presidential
nominee's assurance that he will
work closely with the national
committee, Summerfield made it
plain at a subsequent news con
ference that he expects to be over
all commander of the general's
election campaign.
Eisenhower told the committee
members, whose ranks were swell
ed by the addition of 32 state
chairmen under a new rule, that
they will not be forgotten in the
November election drive, as they
sometimes have in the past.
Referring to the difficulties the
Camners Fear
Steel Strike to.
Hit Bean Pack
A serious threat of no cans for the rest of the 1952 pack, resulting
from continuance of the steel strike, was disclosed Saturday. Canners
and growers of Oregon began sending wires to production authorities
in an effort to solve the problem. -
The Salem area s millions of
cans of strine beans are most im
minently in danger .since that pack
will begin in another week.
While stressing that crops are i
plentiful, with large amounts of
canned goods, packers said the !
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from a continued lack of tinplate,
for which they hope to find a
solution. They said the situation
would be hardest on canners and
growers, because of crop invest
ments.
Seekint Tinplate
Companies and producer groups
were keeping the wires hot with
telegrams to federal production
and labor mediation officials in
, This anion was speeded follow-
i ing a Saturdav meeting in Port-
land of Oregon Grange. Farmers'
i'i v-,,- r,,,-,,
tion personnel, along with packers,
i Several attended from the Salem
area.
i Large firms told The Statesman
that they cannot store cans ahead
j to any great extent, but get them
! dailv from processors to surniv
their needs for millions of con
tainers during the season
Stock Gone by August
Berries and cherries are going
through the canneries now. but
the string beans are due to start
about July 20. Packers estimated :
that their can stocks will not last J
past the end of this month, and i
the bean harvest will not get real- :
ly heavy until A u. trust. !
C. I. Chase, vice president of
Paulus Brothers, said their cans ,
are made up daily in Portland.
with no space to build up inven- ,
tories here. O. E. Snider, general I
manager of Blue Lake Packers, '
among those at the Portland meet
ing. predicted a solution would be
found to the situation. F. M. Smith.
; manager of Stayton Canning Com-
! pany Co-op. called the situation
I "very serious."' with fear that not
I all the cans ordered will be ob-
tained unless the strike ends soon.
Thev said it takes a few weeks i
to make the tinplate after it comes !
from the steel mills, then addi
tional weeks to transport it and
: make Into cans, resulting in the
PU5n lor 6elut"'nu-
and about I Ol B . 1
KSu-.iaky watchers
lplained ofl
Flea Ottered
By President
WASHINGTON UP- President
Truman made a bid Saturday for
more volunteers to man lookout
stations which will go on a
round-the-clock watch Monday
against air invaders.
Without saving directly that his
aim was recruitments for "Opera
tion Skvwatch" around America's
air frontiers, the President still
put over the point in a statement
saying the project Is a "common
sense precaution in which Ameri
cans can serve proudly." He added
that the watchers will be helping
to prevent war.
The first shifts of some 150.000
volunteers will take their posts
early Monday at about 6.000 sta
tions in 27 states to scan the skies
for any raiders who might slip
through the radar screen for a
sneak attack that could set off
World War III.
Allied POWs
Said Victim
Of Air Attack
MUNSAN. Korea iPV-Commu-nist
truce negotiators said Sunday
that 13 Allied prisoners of war
were killed and 72 injured when
Allied warplanes staged a night
air attack on a Communist prison
camp.
The Red report was contained
in a note from the senior Red
truce delegate. Gen. Nam II. to
Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison,
chief Allied negotiator.
The Reds claimed Allied planes
struck POW Camp No. 9, about 12
miles from Pyongyang, at 11 pjn.
Friday night.
' committee had with the operation
of independent clubs when the
late Wendell L. Willkie was run
ning 12 years ago, Eisenhower
1 said:
"I assure you that the exper
ience of 1940, which I understand
has unhappy memories for some
of you is not going to be repeat
ed'' In a move to patch up the wide
division in the party created by
Eisenhower's bitter fight with
with Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio,
for the party nomination, the na
tional committee divided up its
honors among supporters of the
two major candidates and backers
of Governor Earl Warren of Cali
fornia. Summerfield, who supplied
some of the vital votes from Mich
igan Jhat Eisenhower needed for
Steele
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See End
To Strike
PITTSBURGH ..Governmt
assurance that sXtxl industry
.ni ae, - rH inrn3.
hopes Saturday night that a set
tlement in the crippling 41-day
steel strike is , just around the
corner.
News from Washington that gov
ernment officials have okaved a
price raise of about $5 a ton came
! " ?rcsiGA P f TV fwtb
striking CIO United Steelworkera
! and his aides hustled from CM
i mating to another with industry
leaders.
No Comment
There was r.o comment froro
either side as to the effect cf the
price boost on negotiations.
But it seemed certain the price "
offer will serve to step up the
tempo of contract negotiations
since the industry has been widely
helievrfi to hx holrlinp Hack rtn a
nnscihip mntrjrt smMnmt ntii
it cot s'm assurance it could
finance any wage increases pro
vided for in the newt pact.
Three top steel industry officials
asked the White House for a steel
price increase.
S5 Ton Raise
In Washington, it was learned,
the government has agreed to a
price increase of at least J5 a ton
to compensate the industry for
wage increases asked by the strik
ing steor.vorkers.
i i ms nrve onfd imm a !oi;r-nnnr
conference between Dr. John R,
Steelman artirp ripfenv rrhiMiJ"1
; er. and three hich officials of the
j United States Steel Corp.
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Eisenhower
Starts Total
Victory' Drive
CHICAGO (A Gen. Dwight D.
' Eisenhower started his "total vic
tory" campaign rolling Saturday
In conferences with House and.
Senate Republicans and members
of the GOP National Committee.
"There are a lot of people we
have to hold together," the gen
eral told the committee, if we
are going to whip the Democrats."
Next, the five-star general tele
graphed Secretary of the Array
Frank Pace his resignation from
the Army after a career spanning
40 years. Eisenhower had given
notice that if nominated he would
resign. He asked speedy action and
told Pace "you can well imagine
that this brings me a deep sens
of regret but circumstances seem.,
to me to compel this particular
course."
As Chicago emptied of Repub
lican convention delegates who
handed Eisenhower the nomina
tion Friday, the general'a lieuten
ants began taking over party ma
chinery for the campaign ahead
Arthur Summerfield of Michi
gan, who rounded up valuable Mi
chigan votes for Eisenhower! con
vention showdown with Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft of Ohio, was unanl
mously elected chairman cf the
GOP National Committee.
Eisenhower pledged to conduct a
drive for a total GOP victory, not
just the presidency but by the
Senate and House as well.
With both rest and campaign
strategy in mind. Eisenhower is
expected to make Denver his bead
quarters for a couple of months.
Packing up to leave for Murray
Bay, Quebec, and some fiaMrt
Taft again promised full support
for the man who beat him out for
the nomination. And again he said
he is through trying for the presi
dency after failing for a third tin
to get the nomination himself.
GEN. COLLINS ON TOU
SEOUL, Korea UP) tJen. J.
Lawton Collins, UJS. Army chief -of
staff, arrived in Korea Sunday,
and immediately began a tour of
the battlefront,
the nomination, was chosen unani
mously after a committee had .
conferred with the pen era L
To Sinclair Weeks of Massa
chusetts, a later but active Eisen
hower recruit, went the chair
manship of the party's finance
committee.
Vice chairmen included McLrV
tyre Faries of California, a War
ren supporter; Walter S, Halla
han of West Virginia, the con
vention's temporary chairman and
a Taft backer; ConsueJo Northrcp t
Bailey of Vermont and Mrs.
Daniel J. Schneider of Colorado.
R. Douglas Stuart of Chics-fa
was re-elected treasurer and airs.
Gladys E. H. Knowles of Montana
was chosen as secretary. Summer
field said he will name a woman
assistant chairman and counsel
for the committee later. -