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4 Keep Cool Rosie, We'll Make It 1651 102nd YEAH 14 PAGES Tha Orcjon Statesman, Salem, Orecjoru Tuesday, July 15. 1952 PRICE 5c No. 110 tar : s. --vy. t - : j - " ... . V .j : ft-:-,--:-,:-:i. 4 il 1 I I iAfc&ite i ; V j MILWAUKEE Oscar and Rosie, Kodiak bean at the Washington Park Zoo in Milwaukee, sweat over the problem of retting at two delectable carp frozen in a cake of ice. Rosie finally pushed the "fishicle" off a 12-foot ledge, smashing it, and lunch was served. While persiring humans stood in the 90 -degree heat and watched, the bears enjoyed their cooling delicacy. (AP Wirephoto to the Statesman). E3Q3DO0 PCDQOOS Of Comments of "liberals" on the defeat of Bob Taft for the Repub lican nomination for president vary from exultation to "Don't cheer boys; they're dying." Prac tical politicians were quick, how over, to try to bridge the gap in party ranks, knowing that the full body of conservative Republican strength will be needed to achieve party victory in November. The "old guard" is the butt of heavy verbal artillery, until the designation carries its own con demnation. Actually every well organized army had its advance guard and its rear guard. The great body of troops lies 'tween the extremes. So with a political party: It has its "avante guarde" and its "old guard" the restless group eager to reconnoiter and then to occupy new political terri tory; and the cautious ones who are more concerned with holding ground already won and fearful of new political adventuring. There is nothing reprehensible in the attitude of either group, but each carries dangers to the whole organization. The Democra tic party's record under Roose velt shows the risk of too much advance guardism. The forward fringe was going beyond Socialism into Communism. There was a Communist cell within the admin istrative structure of the New Deal. And the Progressive party which splintered off was over loaded with pinko fellow-travelers or party liners. And the Demo crats have in their Southern Branch an "old guard" even more reactionary than that of the GOP. As for the Republican old guard it was not merely desire for (Concluded on editorial page, 4.) Ashcrof t Case To Grand Jury Brutus Ashcroft, 75, of Silver- ton, was bound over to Marion County grand jury Monday on a charge of slaying Constable Emory Jackson last June 8. Ashcroft, whose wife operates a grocery store and real estate agency in Silverton, listened quiet ly in Marion County District Court while an array of state s witnesses testified concerning the early morning shooting. Called to the stand by District Attorney E. O. Stadter Jr., were Mrs. Jean Altman, daughter of the accused; Caroline Statter, his step daughter, and Marion County Sheriff Denver Young. Jackson was shot when he and another Silverton police officer went to the Ashcroft home to quell a reported disturbance. Jackson died several minutes after he was shot. Ashcroft is charged with first degree murder. WOBBLIES LEADER DIES PORTLAND Dr. Marie Equi, fiery leader for the Wobblies of the World War I era, died Sun day in a Portland hospital. She was 80. Animal Crackora fiv WARREN COODRICH "1 always soy. If you're going to be on artist you're ooina to be on orfist." Four Fires Reported As Heat Wave Grows One Salem residence was destroyed by fire, another damaged and two pastures burned Monday as temperatures in the city remained torrid with a high of 96 degrees recorded at 4:30 p.m. "Continued warm" was predicted by the Salem Weather Bureau for today. Fee Increase Proposed at Gty Council By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Fees for new water connections to Salem houses and increases In virtually all city permit fees were proposed Monday night by the Salem city administration. Full report on the new revenue these changes would produce and action on the proposals are ex pected at the July 28 City Coun cil meeting. In other major developments be fore the Council at a City Hall meeting Monday night, the alder men approved a 44-hour work week for policemen. Water Charge Major innovation in the ctiy fee reports would be charges to prop erty owners for water connections ....$35 minimum charge fo -inch line and $45 for a one-inch line. The fee figures represent average of costs of actual connections in the past year, City Manager J. L. Franz en said. He added that Salem is one of the very few cities not now charging for water connec tions The permit fees earmarked for raises ranging from a few cents to $1.50 each cover a wide variety of city inspection services, with the aim of making these permit issuing operations self-supporting. The raises probably would amount to some $2,000 annually, but that part of the report was not given last night. Four Hour Cut Affected in five bills to raise fees are sewer, electrical, sign, driveway and sidewalk permits. A plumbing code revision also is un der consideration. The action to reduce policemen's working hours from 48 to 44 weekly was approved by the Coun cil after City Manager J. L. Fran zen recommended it and said a new work schedule developed by Police Chief Clyde A. Warren would not require additional men for the force. " Most city departments are now on a 5-day or 44-hour week. Committee Named Other proposals in employe working conditions were turned over to a Council committee named by Mayor Alfred Loucks to include Alderman Daniel J. Fry, chairman, Thomas Armstrong and Claud Jorgensen. The police, fire and water department employes have asked for accumulated sick leave up to 90 days (at one day allowed per month), and accum ulated credit for time worked on holidays. In another Council action, Ken neth C. Perry was reelected to the Civil Service Commission. His term had expired. (Additional Council news, Page 2.) Swimming Mishap Hospitalizes Man Edsel E. Whittaker. Statesman employe and resident of 1385 Waller St., suffered an injured neck vertebra and head lacera tions after a dive Monday into a private swimming pool at 240 Culver Lane. Whittaker was taken to Salem General Hospital by city ambu lance where it was reported Mon day evening he was in a good condition. Elks Elect North Dakotan as Head NEW YORK (P)-A North Da kota retailer was named without opposition Monday to head the Elks and called on the order's 1, 070,000 members for more help to youth and immigrants. Sam Stern, a clothing storex- ecutive from Fargo, N. D.,"was nominated by Hal Davles, publish er oi the Minot, S. D., Daily News. -2-... 'S' The residence of Statesman em- ploye Duane E. Kottek, at 995 Al bert Dr., was declared a "total loss" by Salem Heights firemen after a blaze at the home Monday afternoon. Source of the fire, started while Mr. and Mrs. Kottek were away, was unknown. Damage was reported in excess of $4,000. Another fire at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey M. Peterson, 8020 Hulsey Ave., was answered by the Salem Heights department and re sulted in minor damage to a saw dust bin. The fire was said to have started when a spark from a power saw lit in the bin. Two Pastures Burn Two pasture fires, less than a quarter-mile apart, were answered by the Four Corners department within one hour of each other. Both were believed by the Four Corners fire chief to have been started by lighted cigarets thrown carelessly into the dry grass. A pasture of hay owned by Donald Carver, Salem Route 5, Box 469, was destroyed when fire swept through the field on his farm. The field was said by Carver to be in sured. A grass fire on the Macleay Road at the S. T. Nash farm, Sa em Route 5, Box 475, threatened buildings on the farm and a nearby grain field as well as destroying the pasturage. No estimate 1 th damage was known. The State Forester Monday said that most logging operations in the state were open early in the day but closures became necessary in many areas when the humidity dropped below the legal 30 per cent. Gunman Kills Day Dreaming Young Blonde NEW YORK(P)-A mystery gun man invaded busy Columbia Uni versity Monday to kill a lovely young blonde, day dreaming over her boy friend's letter from Korea. The slayer, a slim, young six footer, fired six shots at 20 year old Eileen Fahey, a secretary lor the American Physical Society, which has a ninth floor office on Columbia's campus. Miss Fahey slumped face down on the floor from her desk chair, at least five bullet holes in her chest. The gunman walked out of the office, the weapon still smok ing in his hand. He took an ele-i vator downstairs and made his way from the building. He stop ped Just long enough to tell sev eral persons: "I Just killed a girl. Call the police." The uptown Manhattan campus was awakening to tne nurriec morning tread of 11,700 summer school students as the slayer dis appeared. Detectives were at a loss for a motive. They could only suggest that some secret admirer may have slain Miss Fahey in a fit of jealousy. McKay Invites Ike for Oregon Vacation Time Gov. Douglas McKay said Monday he has invited Gen. Eisenhower t spend his vaca tion In Oreron. The governor added, however, that the general already has re ceived another invitation, but the governor feels there is a chance he mif ht accept. Max. M 92 6 ... 88 97 Min. S3 60 56 72 Jrecip. .M JOO trac trace .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 75 Willamette River -1.3 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau, McNary Field. Salem): Fair to day and tonight. Continued warm with the highest temperature today near 96, lowest tonight near 55. Tem perature at 12:01 a.m. was 63 degrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start f Weather Tear Sept. This Year Last Year 49.M Normal 42.6S Price Lids Off Canned Fruit, Vegetables WASHINGTON (JP) - Price ceil ings were lifted off 90 per cent of all processed fruits and vegetables Monday. The Office of Price Stabilization issued the decontrol order in con formity with an amendment Con gress nailed on to its bill extend ing the nation's economic controls. OPS Director Ellis Arnall said it would mean higher prices on a number of items. 20 Per Cent of Budget A price stabilization spokesman estimated that the items decon trolled cover about 20 per cent of the total food budget for an aver age family and about 7 per cent of a family's total expenditures. The OPS is still analyzing the law to determine how far the de control should be extended. Some Cases in Doubt There is no doubt that the law applies to fruit and vegetable juices, canned and frozen fruits and vegetables, including baby foods, potato chips and dried fruits. There is some doubt about com bination food products, such as vegetable soup, jams, jellies, pre serves, chili sauce, catsup and tomato sauce. In borderline cases, an OPS of ficial said, price orders probably will be suspended instead of being wiped out. Pioneer Hotel At Fairbanks Lost in Blaze FAIRBANKS, Alaska (-Racing flames flashed through this interior Alaska city's second larg est hotel early today, leaving one known dead, five listed by police as missing and eight hospitalized. It was impossible Monday night to predict the eventual toll. Twenty hours after the old, three-story, wooden Pioneer Hotel had been consumed in the holo caust only 180 of the 250 guests had reported to police headquar ters in response to urgent radio and newspaper calls. The one dead was identified as Bill Vanderpool, an employe of the Alaska Freight Lines. Fatally burned. The fire broke out just after midnight near the second floor stairway landing. In two hours the frame build ing, covered with corrugated met al, was a mass of charred debris. Guests burst out of windows like popping popcorn. Several jumped. Sheets dangled from nearly every window along a sidewall before it fell in the flames. Liner Breaks Second Mark NEW YORK CtfVThe superliner United States easily broke the westward speed record across the North Atlantic and came home as queen of the seven seas Monday. For the first time in 100 years, she brought to America the myth ical blue ribbon emblem of speed supremacy along the world's com mercial sea lanes. The United States beat the British liner Queen Mary's 14-year-old westward record on her maiden voyage by nine hours and 36 minutes. She clipped 10 hours off the Mary's eastward record earlier this month. Ground Observers Begin 'Operation Marion County's civil defense ground observer corps began "Op eration Skywatch" Monday with badly depleted ranks of volun teer watchers. The round-the-clock watch for hostile aircraft by civilian volun teers is part of a nation-wide ef fort backed by the Air Force, Civilian sky-scanners are to re port suspicious planes to Air Force information filter centers, Observers in this area report to the Portland filter center. Only a small number of the total personnel required to man 24-hour watches at Marion Coun ty's nine observation posts were available Monday, when the op eration got underway at 8 aJXL, according to Robert Geddes, Mar ion County coordinator for ground observer corps. Each post requires about 84 men or women to man it continu ously. For Salem's observation post atop the Livesley Building only about a dozen volunteers were on hand Monday, according to Eugene Mclntire, in charge of the local post. This was enough, he said, to staff the post only from 8 a.m. to noon and from early evening to midnight. Kefauver Moves for Gov. By The Aassociated Press Sen. Estes Kef auver's camp said Monday millions of Americans watching on television will bar any move to "gang up" on Ke fauver and draft a dark-horse candidate at the Democratic na tional convention in Chicago next week. Apparently fearing a drive to draft Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Il linois, Gael Sullivan, campaign manager for Kefauver, said the Republican National Convention proved American people insist on "fair play." Sullivan previously had charged there was a move afoot to stop Kefauver by developing a three way convention deadlock among Air Defense Network Bill Signed by HST WASHINGTON (JP) President Truman Monday signed a bill au thorizing $2,398,282,800 for milit ary construction, mostly ear marked for setting up a vast chain of secret U. S. air bases spanning three quarters of the globe. The new law also provides for tighter controls over military spending, including some economy features, and specifies that a ci vilian shall be in direct charge of all military building. The inter-continental network of secret air fields, designed as a shield against Soviet agression, will range from Japan to Europe. Details of the huge program are high on the hu5h-hush list, but it is known to include bases in Greenland and North Africa, as well as in the Far East and Europe. Tabbed for Air Base Because of the necesary se crecy and the huge sums involved, the law requires both the Senate and House ArmeJ Services Com mutes must signify approval be fore military chiefs can go ahead with such projects. The act authorizes $1,813,316,000 for the Air Force. $328,047,800 for the Army and $256,875,000 for the Navy. Most of the Air Force money is tabbed for air bases. They are restricted to use by U. S. forces and are separate from fields to be used by American's allies under the North Atlantic Treaty. Among other measures, Truman also signed a bill permitting the government to expand its opera tions in financing home mortgages. Guarantees Mortgages The new law provides $1,395 million dollars for the purpose of government - guaranteed home mortgages, and puts up additional funds for mortgage insurance un der the federal housing programs. Truman also signed a hotly con troversial act permitting price fix ing on trade marked and brand name merchandise. The law called a "fair trade" law, permits distributors and mer chants within a state to agree on a fixed price. Merchants who don't sign the agreement must abide by it. Jew Leaps to Death From Great Pyramid CAIRO (JP)-A 28-year-old Egyp tian Jew leaped to his death Mon day from near the top of the Great Pyramid of Sheops. Police identified him as Leon Cabili, 28, a white collar worker, and said he left a note declaring 'I am fed up with life." t Operation Skywatch got underway Monday In many parts of the country. Including Salem where the observation post is atop the 11-story Livesley Building. On hand as the watch began were (left to right) Arnold Krueger; Terry Mclntyre; R. D. Geddes, Marion county post coordinator; Eugene Mc lntire, Salem post supervisor, and Andy H11L It is contemplated that skywatch posts will be in oper ation 24 hours a day, with two persons on duty at all times, on four-hour shifts. Geddes and Mclntire said additional volunteers were needed. Mclntire urged husband - and -1 Other observation posts in i Silverton, Woodburn, Mill City wife teams to volunteer to stand ! Marion County are located at Jef- and Stayton. All these, said Ged watches together. I ferson, Aurora, Brooks, Shaw, I des, were in operation Monday. Forces Fear Draft Kefauver, Sen. Richard B. Russell and Averell Harriman then in ducing Harriman and Russell to throw their support to Stevenson on a "draft." Kefauver, the front-running Democratic candidate, has won ev ery state primary election in which he was entered except in Florida where he lost to Russell. By dint of hard campaigning, he has rolled up far more popular votes than any of the other aspirants in the field. However, President Truman and some other Democratic sachems have seemed cool to Kefauver' bid for the nomination, and with the convention less than a week away, uneasiness over Truman's inten tions mounted sharply. A development that could mean much or little came from Missou ri's Gov. Forrest Smith who changed signals to announce he is now for Sen. Russell. Smith had previously indicated he leaned to ward Stevenson. The Missouri Governor empha sized Russell is only his personal choice and the Missouri delega tion has made no decision yet on the man it will support. Karnes Enters Innocent Plea; Trial Aug. 5 Albert William Karnes will go on trial Aug. 8 on a charge of murdering Mrs. Susan Litchfield in Salem on the night of June 7. Karnes pleaded innocent to a first-degree murder charge "by reason of mental defectiveness," at a hearing Monday before Mar ion County Circuit Judge George Duncan. The 81-year-old Mrs. Litchfield was bludgeoned to death at her home at 1333 Waller St. Judge Duncan also took under advisement a request from Mar ion County District Attorney E. O. Stadter Jr., that Karnes be brought before a psychiatrist for exami nation. John W. Stortz, court- ap pointed attorney for Karnes, ob jected to Stadter's request on the grounds that Karnes would have to testify against himself. Discovery of Mrs. Litchfield's battered body in the woodshed of her neat hoio on the morning of June 8 touched off an intensive 10-day search for the killer. Karnes was arrested in The Dalles on a charge of burglary shortly after the Salem slaying and was sentenced to 15 years in Ore gon State Prison. His arrest caused Salem officers to question hirn and charge him with the Salem crime. Refund to Salem Startles Council It seldom happens a refund to the city and when It does the City Council sits up to take notice. Councilmen did so Monday night at their City Hall meeting when it was reported that the Marion County civil defense head quarters returned $600 of a $1,500 appropriation from the city toward defense operations in the past year. Defense officials said they just hadn't needed the money which now reverts to the city's general fund. TREE CRUSHES MAN ROSEBURG (JP) Louis E. Handy, 24, Glide, who was work ing on a California-Oregon Power Co. project on the North Umpqua River east of here, was killed by a falling tree Monday. .tn ' ".v x j,,".i ft vf ha - v . --j Stevenson Many of the Missouri delegates have said Ihey want to wait until they find out Truman s choice. They will find that out when Tru man's vote as a Missouri delegate at-large is cast by his alternate, Thomas J. Gavin. Meanwnue Kussell s campaign manager. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado, tabbed Vice Presi dent Alben Barklev as "the man to beat" for the Democratic Presi dential nomination. He said his man could do it. Johnson conceded Kefauver would probably go out in front on the first ballot, but predicted the Tennessean would fade after that and Russell would go on to win on about the tenth ballot. Mishap Near Monmouth Fatal to Youth MONMOUTH One teen-ager was killed and another critically injured Monday afternoon when the pickup truck in which they were riding crashed into a tree one-half mile north of Monmouth. Killed instantly was Richard C. Stoffal, 15, of Napa, Calif., and injured critically was Mary Eades, 16, of San Francisco, Calif. The two were riding in the back of the pickup truck driven by Stoffal's mother when the accident oc curred. Also in the cab of the truck was Stoffal's father, Leon. Mr. and Mrs. Stoffal were reported by Sa lem Memorial Hospital as in "fair" condition Monday evening while Mary Eades was transferred to Providence Hospital in Portland for emergency treatment. Mary Eades was reported by au thorities to have suffered a severe injury to her back. Mr. and Mrs Stoffal suffered leg fractures, lac erations about the face and body and possible internal injuries. The accident occurred when the California foursome were return ing from a cherry picking job near Eugene. The car was said to have gone out of control and plunged off the road. impercarrier Keel Laid in Newport News NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (JP) The keel was laid Monday for Ameri ca's giant new supercarrier For restal slated to serve as a "mighty arm of freedom." With that tribute, Deputy De fense Secretary William Foster dedicated the 60,000-ton vessel to the cause of world peace in a 80 minute ceremony at this Hampton Roads shipbuilding city. Foster said the Forrestal'i planes would be able to bring within reach the "innermost lairs'' of an aggressor nation and will carry the Naval Air power of the United States to "any part of the world." Even as Foster was speaking Navy Secretary Kimball was tak ing occasion to renew his call for a fleet of "at least ten" of the mammoth carriers. The Navy has already been giv en authority to build a sister ship to the Forreital. FALL FROM CAR FATAL. PORTLAND (JP) Mrs. Myrtle Hembree, 40, Portland, died Mon day from injuries suffered in a fall from a moving car. Skywatch' Inmates Lose 5-Hour Battle To Save Youth A young convict was dead from suffocation after trying to escap Monday from the Oregon Stat prison through a 13-inch sewer pipe running under ground from the prison yard into a city sewer. His partner in the attempt was pulled out when he yelled for help an hour after the two had started their escape about noon. Dead is Harold Hayes, 21 -year-old burglar who came to the pris on just last March. His body was found cramped in the sewer pipe at 5:23 p.m. after inmates of the penitentiary had dug the sewer line for 44 hours under a blistering sun. Hayes had crawled 350 feet through the pipe, become stuck and apparently suffocated. Pulled Out Alive His escape partner, 17-year-old Franklin Clingenpeel was pulled out of the sewer pipe alive and unhurt and placed in solitary con finement while the search for Hayes continued through the aft ernoon. The sewer pipe is 5 feet un derground, crosses under the pris on yard and the two walls. Hayes and Clingenpeel entered the sewer through a manhole hid den from guards's sight by lumber stacked near the machine shop. Warden Virgil O'Malley said two other convicts were in on the escape plan but withdrew at the. last minute. The warden recon structed the escape try like, thisl Started About Noon Clingenpeel and Hayes had planned their escape from the penitentiary through a sewer which opened outside the walls, almost one mile distant. The two convicts started, during yard privileges, about 12 noon. Hayes went in head first, Clingen peel followed. Two other inmates, who decided at the last minute, to stay behind, stood watch. At 12:45 Clingenpeel yelled for help. He was stuck about 125 feet from where he started. His com panions on the "outside," called guards who came running, flashed a light through the nearest man hole so Clingenpeel could make his way to it. They pulled him out. The search began for Hayes. Convicts were put to work with shovels near the inner wall. Within an hour they were using a big crane which shoveled a long hole about 50 feet long and fiv feet deep. Cut Through Pipe A group of officers and Warden O'Malley sent down a long steel line from a manhole outside th inner wall to the men working on the inside, trying to locate Hayes. Working inside the wall, in mates cut through the pipe. They spotted the body, about 40 feet from where they'd been working. Hayes was serving three years for burglary. Originally from Kel so, Washington, he had been sen tenced in Lane County. His mo ther, who lives in Portland, sur- i vives nim. Clingenpeel is serving two years for burglary. He entered FebruarV 1, 1951. From Eugene, he receives his sentence in Coos County. At the same time Clingenpeel and Hayes were making their try for freedom, two other prisoners walked away from the prison an nex farm. Missinjr From Annex The two, believed to have left the farm at about noon, were dis covered missing- at 6 pjn. They were Gerald M. Domlnguex 31, and Fred U. Bailey, 31. Dominguez was received from Multnomah Coun ty in September, 1931, on a charg of assault armed with a danger ous weapoli to serve 18 months. He was to have been released id September. Bailey was received in June, 1831, from Josephine County on 4 charge of forgery to serve a two year sentence. He was to have been free this October. The pair, with a six-hour start, were still at large Monday eve nlng. Also still at large, as report ed by Warden O'Malley, are Bert Camella who escaped from a cherry picking crew July 8, and Joseph Baker and Larry Powell who escaped from another picking crew July 9. MUTINY LEADERS MOVED JACKSON, Mich. (JP) - Thirteen leaders of the bloody April mutiny at Southern Michigan Prison wer shifted to the Genesee County Jail at Flint Monday. Western International At Victoria 3, Vancouver 0 Only games played Pacific Coast League No games scheduled American Leacue At New York I, Detroit S At Washington 19, Cleveland At Boston S. St. Louis 7 At Philadelphia 1. Chicago 1 National League At Cincinnati 2. New York At St. Louis 0. Brooklyn At Chlcago-Phlladelpl shia i postponed. rain Only games scheduled,