'Gang-Up' Against Keffauvetr Charged; UST Repeats 'Mo Texas Delegations Dispute For Demos, Too, Over Rights AUSTIN, Tex. (JP) - Two dissi dent factions of Democrats head for Chicago Wednesday, each de fying the other's right to cast Tex as' 52 vital votes in the national convention. That's the immediate issue. Be yond it, the convention's action on Texas could be the key to whether or not such rebellious Southern delegations as South Carolina's will bolt. There have been hints that some Southern delegations would walk out if the conservative slate from Texas is not recognized. Texas' rival delegations were born when the May state conven tion blew up and divided into "regular" and "rump" sessions over the issue of binding the BGDDOOS PCDffiuS The Democratic race for the presidential nomination now moves into the foreground of the news. It promises to be less exciting be cause it is more of a free-for-all, not a two-some. Nor is there the prospect of contests over seating delegates which will rip the con vention apart before the nomina tions occurs. With effective or ganizations in most all the states the Democrats do not have token organizations as do Republicans in the deep South. The trouble with Democrats has been that they were victims of too much organi zation: Party bosses in big cities like Chicago, New York, Jersey City and Boston. Some of these are dead, like Boss Kelly of Chicago; others out of power like Frank Hague of Jersey City. Their suc cessors are less offensive to public taste. Who will the Democratic nomi nee be? Not Truman. He is reso lute in his determination not to run. Moreover, his renomination would result definitely in defec tion in the South; and the party leaders will seek to avoid that. Not Stevenson. His personal wishes and his assessment of his political fortunes run counter to heeding the party call this year. He wants to stay on as Governor of Illinois; he wants for the sake of his family to be spared the en closure of the White House and the presidency. Well, then, who? Riglft there my crystal baU gets cloudy. Everything considered Harriman Js probably the ablest man, with wide experience in the business field and intimate familiarity with the nation's (Concluded on editorial page 4.) Names Sought For Alderman Mayor Alfred W. Loucks said Tuesday he would welcome from citizens any suggestions for an alderman candidate to succeed Albert H. Gille, who died this week. The mayor said the City Council would act soon to fill the Ward 2 vacancy for the interim period until the November general elec tion when the post must be filled in a city vote. Ward 2 includes the statehouse area, extending from High Street to 18th Street. East of the South ern Pacific Railroad the north south limits are B and Ferry Streets; west of the railroad Cen ter and Mill Streets. The alder man must be a resident of the ward. Max. Min. Prcip. Salem 87 5 .00 Portland 81 58 00 San Francisco 69 53 trace Chicago 82 63 trace New York 90 76 .00 Willamette River -12 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Fair and warm today, tonight and Thursday. High today 80 to 82. low tonight 48 to 50. Temperature at 12.0L m.m. was 52 degrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year, Sept. 1 This Year Last Year Normal 42.69 -49.94 37.39 Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH " "Sit up! It he kiddin?" state's electors to support the na tional conventions nominee for President. The "regular" delegation led by Gov. Allan Shivers denies that party loyalty is the issue. They say it is a fight against domination of the party by ultra-liberal North ern and Eastern elements and ex clusion of the Southern viewpoint in platform and party policy making. The "loyalists" delegation led by former New Deal Congressman Maury Maverick challenges the Shivers side to prove they are Democrats. The convention domi nated by Shivers refused to bind its presidential electors to support the national convention's nominees for President and vice-president. Chief Leaves W. P. Roble, Salem fire chief who resigned Tuesday to take new work in California. (Story on page 5.) Bonds Planned For Lighting At Woodburn Statesman News Service WOODBURN The Woodburn City Council Tuesday adopted a plan whereby 10 people may do nate $1,000 each to guarantee sale of the Woodburn athletic field lighting bonds. Recommendation of this plan was made to facilitate an early start on the project. Five men at the meeting started the donation with $1,000 each, making the goal halfway gained. The five contributors were Mayor Elmer Madson, City Coun cilman Jess Fiken, City Attorney Blaine McCord, President H. M. Austin of the recreation and parks board and Board Member O. L. Withers. When the other five don ors are found, the park board will begin work immediately. The Council elected Fiken as council president and acting mayor during Madson's vacation. Lindas Quits For State Job Leonard I. Lindas, f o r m er Clackamas County district attor ney, has resigned to accept ap pointment as a trial counsel for the State Highway Commission's legal department, and will start work Monday. Lindas will make his home in Salem. His family will join him when he has found a house. The lawyer was defeated in his bid for Republican nomination for attorney general in the May elec tion. He took the district attor ney's office in 1948. Winston Bradshaw, Lindas' chief deputy, has been recommended for the vacant position. Wilson Hanging Set August 15 VANCOUVER, Wash. (TP) The execution date for the Wilson bro ther, Turman, 24, and Utah, 21, was set for the fourth time Tues day. Three previous execution dates were cancelled, when the brothers won delays on court appeals. At torneys say they now have used up all possible appeals. The brothers were convicted of the kidnap-slaying of JoAnn Dew ey, 18, at Vancouver in 1950. 2 Girls Rescued As Youth Drowns CORVALLIS (A3) Two teen age girls were rescued from the Willamette River Monday evening, but their companion .Marvin Scholl, 19, drowned. Sylvester Dull, Corvallis, jump ed in to try to pull Scholl to safety, but the frantic youth wiggled out of his gra.sp and was lost. Dull threw the girls an inner tube, and they held on to it until pulled ashore a mile downstream. The girls were Annette Brodige, Bandon, and Verna George, Corvallis. By DON WHITEHEAD CHICAGO (VThe calm Demo cratic front was shattered Tues day by a charge of a "gang-up" plot against Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. And them came a report that President Truman still is determined not to run for re election. The gang-up accusation came from Gael Sullivan, campaign manager for Sen. Kefauver, who told a news conference that sup porters of rival candidates were involved in a "beat Kefauver" move. He did not say who they were. Then in rapid-fire order came these developments: 1. Democratic National Chair man Frank E. McKinney reported President Truman had instructed him Sunday to oppose any "draft Truman" move that might de velop in the Democratic National Convention opening Monday. Truman to Stay Away 2. McKinney told reporters Tru man will not come to Chicago un til after the Democratic nominee is chosen. 3. Sullivan demanded of McKin ney that the entire convention proceedings be thrown open to press, radio and television because "we want to be free of those fixers and masters of the doublecross." 4. Sullivan said he had been told an effort had been made to bribe some of the California dele gates. 5. McKinney said he has recom mended all proceedings be open f television ( radio and the press, that he knows of "no deals, and that "this is really a wide-open, free convention." Stevenson Name Doubted In addition, McKinney said he did not think the name of Gov. Adlai Stevenson would be placed in nomination. This view was seconded by Jacob M. Arvey, influential Illinois Democratic national committee man. Arvey, who has been sup porting Stevenson for the nomin ation, told a reporter: "I don't know of any state that will put his name in nomination. Several states have made requests to Stevenson to do it, but he has said, 'please don't do it'." Job "Man-Killing" Telling reporters of his Sunday talk with Truman, McKinney said the President told him: "I -neant what I said about not running. I've served my time. This is a man-killing job. You wouldn't want to see me carried out of here in a pine-board box, would you?" Sullivan mentioned the name of Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma when he told reporters that he had received a report some California delegates has been "approached." 'Bug' Sought After 5 Fires At 4 Corners Statesman Newt Servica FOUR CORNERS Search for a "fire bug" in the area of Macleay road was begun Tuesday by Four Corners fire personnel and farmers living near the road. "Five fires have been attended in the last two days," Fire Chief Waldo Miller reported, "and all of them have been in a one-mile area on Macleay road and near large stands of grain." Most recently was a fire Tues day at the Harry E. Martin farm, Salem Route S, Box 493. The blaze, said earlier in the day to be "pecu liar," burned an are about a block long along the road next to Mar tin's grain fields. There was no damage reported but "the dry grain could have been destroyed," Miller said. Investigation of the Tuesday fire revealed that conditions surround ing its cause were "suspicious" as reported by Miller. He said that firemen would join farmers In that area in a search to find why the fires are starting. Three of the re cent fires have necessitated de partment aid and two of them were put out by neighbors. Steel Fabricator Lays Off 30 Men PORTLAND (IP)- A Portland in dustrial steel fabricating firm Tuesday announced the layoff of 30 of its 80 employes as a result of the steel strike. A spokesman said there was not enough steel available to keep the force busy. Two Annexations Given Conditional Board Okeh By ROBERT E. GANG WARE City Editor, The Statesman Salem Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday night applied for the first time its new "tougher" policy toward proposed annexa tions to the city. The commission last month fav ored "a very conservative attitude toward future annexations," urg ing that benefits to the city be measured against present and long range costs and encouraging an nexation areas to provide city approved sewers and water mains at their own expense. Two newly proposed annexa tions received the qualified sup port of the commission Tuesd- y night, based on this policy. One received the commissioners' endorsement on the flat condition that the approval would apply "at such time as the petitioners pro vide for construction of sewer and water lines conforming to city spe cifications." Heretofore the city usually put in these services some time after an area was annexed through an election. The area in question is a tract 102nd YEAR 16 PAGES Pelton Permit ' Denied The Oregon Hydroelectric Com mission refused Tuesday to grant a license to the Portland General Electric Company to build Pelton dam power project on the Deschu tes river. The commision said that the State Fish Commision has valuable vested rights on tributaries of the river above the proposed dam, and that the hydroelectric com mission has no authority to destroy or impair these rights. The Federal Power Commission granted the company a license to build the dam, but attorney gener al George Neuner is attacking this order in a suit filed with a federal court in San Francisco. PGE made an offer to pay for the fish loss, but the fish com mission refused to accept it. Officials Flay Dorman Bureau As Wasteful Secretary of State Earl T. New bry and State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson demanded Tuesday that the legislature abolish the State Department of Finance and Administration. They said It is wasting money. Their demand was made at a meeting of the Board of Control, of which they are members. The third member, Gov. Douglas Mc Kay, under whom the new depart ment is administered, defended it. Newbry and Pearson said the department, created by the 1951 legislature, was wasting lots of money because of its policies in buying supplies. Purchasing used to be done by the Board of Con trol. Pearson said the department is "the biggest waste of money in the history of our state." Newbry agreed. Harry S. Dorman, who heads the department under the gover nor, said he would prove to the next legislature that his depart ment is saving money. Newbry and Pearson have op posed creation of the department since it first was proposed by the state's Little Hoover Commission to reorganize the state govern ment. Tuesday's discussion started when Dorman recommended to the board that names of officials be omitted from department letter heads to save money. He said there are now 79 different letter heads. Newbry and Pearson vetoed the idea on grounds it wouldn't save very much money. But Gov. Mc Kay said the taxpayers' money can be saved only by cutting off a few pennies here, and a few dol lars there. Newbry said that omitting the officials' names from letterheads "would be a big step toward regi mentation." Byrd Retains Senate Seat RICHMOND. Va. 0P)-Sen. Har ry Flood Byrd won renomination for his fourth six-year term in the Senate in Virginia's Democratic primary Tuesday. The conservative foe of federal spending piled up a commanding lead over Francis Pickens Miller. The 65-year-old senator, who publishes newspapers in the Shen andoah Valley and owns some of the country's largest apple or chard properties, appeared headed for one of his biggest victories. Returns from 1,673 Of the voting precincts gave Byrd 210,593 to Miller's 124,972. along Parkway Drive just south of Orchard Heights Road at the city's west boundary. Annexation petitioner J. W. Watkins also filed a plat showing 32 lots proposed in subdivision of the tract. This re ceived the commission's approval, regardless of the tie-in with an nexation, because the zoners are authorized to act on plats within six miles of the city. The other proposed annexation involves about six acres east of Evergreen Avenue, proposed for development by M. T. Haverland. This received the commission's nod, conditional upon the petition er's installing the three necessary 200-foot sewer laterals. City officials said they consid ered this a good plan because an nexation Would benefit the city in several ways, including straight ening the east boundary, making usable some city properties on the west side of Evergreen Avenue and facilitating the extension of Ever green as far as Market Street. They added that sewer and water lines already are nearby. (Additional details on page 2) Red China Agrees to On POWs; Carrier Planes, Warship Blast Korean Areas SEOUL, Korea P)-J. S. carrier based planes pounded North Kor ean power plants Tuesday in the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire and left the area in flames, the Navy announced Wednesday. The new raid was directed against the Changjin Chosen res ervoir area where U. S. Marines had made a fighting retreat in the grim winter of 1950. Fliers from the carriers Prince ton and Bon Homme Richard bombed and strafed the important hydroelectric installation while the battleship Iowa hurled one ton projectiles at Red railroad yards in the Hamhung area on the East coast. Repair shops and mar shalling yards were left in flames and ruins. Far East Naval head quarters reported. It also said that when Red shore batteries fired on a de stroyer, a salvo from the Iowa silenced both positions, blowing one gun 300 feet into the air. The Navy reported in Washing ton the destroyer Southerland was hit four times last Sunday in a duel with Red shore guns. Eight crewmen received minor injuries. In Tokyo the U. S. Army chief of staff, Gen. J. Lawton Collins, implied strongly the Allies were ready to use an atomic weapon, if necessary to prevent the Reds from driving them out of Korea. Collins said at a news confer ence the U. N. Command was pre pared "to use anything except germ warfare," but only if seri ously pressed. The Eighth Army reported only minor patrol skirmishes. The Fifth Air Force reported a locomotive repair shop and a cement plant near the Korean Communist capital of Pyongyang were blasted Tuesdaw 9th Polio Case Halts Activity MILTON-FREE WATER (Jp) This Umatilla County town began cancelling most juvenile activities Tuesday as another case of polio was reported. It was the third case in this area in two days, and the ninth in the past two weeks. The City Council ordered the city swimming pool closed. Camp fire Girls and Boy Scouts called off camp trips. American Legion Junior baseball games were can celled. The city also has sprayed its streets against flies and mosqui toes, increased the amount of chlorine in the water and stepped up the rat poisoning campaign at the city dump. Letters in Ocean Seek Knotvleclge, Not Just Pen Pals LA JOLLA, Calif.. (JP) Pacific Coast residents were asked today to watch for postcards the ocean tosses up. University of California's Scripps Institution of Oceanogra phy said thousands of the cards to help determine the rate and direction of the great currents that sweep down the coast are being cast adrift. In the next few weeks, the an nouncement said, the cards will be carried Washington Mex. They are ask finders U. S. Fish onto beaches from to lower California, sealed in plastic and to mail them to the and Wildlife Service at Seattle. Scripps' vessels Spencer F. Baird, Crest and Paolina are re leasing the cards at sea south of San Francisco. They are being re leased north of there by Fish and Wildlife Service vessel John N. Cobb and the University of Wash ington's Brown Bear. Western International At Wenatchee 4. Salem 8 At Yakima 14, Tri-City 11 At Lewiston 5. Victoria 10 At Spokane 7. Vancouver 11 Pacific Coast Learue At Portland 4-0. Los Angeles 1-8 At Seattle 12. Oakland 7 At Hollvwood 3. San Diego 2 At San Francisco 2, Sacramento 1 American League At New York 3. Cleveland 7 At Washington 8-9. Detroit 2-8 At Philadelphia 7-11. St. Louis 6-3 At Boston 7, Chicago S National League At St. Loois 3. New York 8 At Chicago 3, Boston 10 At Pittsburgh 3. Philadelphia 10 At Cincinnati-Brooklyn, taui. OUNDBD 1651 The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oreaon, Wednesday, July 16, 1952 Heat Stops it '.- - . i-. 2:- 3-. I l A I V 1 f - , ' i: .,': .7. . : -k : " -f- Li . , j) v - I PHILADELPHIA Three-year-old William Stumm Jr., had his ewn method for beating Philadelphia's better than 9C degree heat as he rave his uniform of the day a rumble seat ride on his tricycle here. Respite was short-lived, however. Young William's father caurht him oat of uniform. The weatherman, by the way. predicted mora high temperatures. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Washington Fire Hits 3,000 Acres of Timber WHITE SALMON, Wash. JP)- More than 1,000 acres of cutover and second growth timberland near this Southern Washington town have been charred by a forest fire which has raged out of control for 24 hours. The fire, the first of major proportions in the Pacific Northwest this year, is racing toward thousands of acres of second growth timber. Winds of 20 to 30 miles an hour are pushing the blaze. The Hop-DeWeilde lumber mill is in the path of the blaze. Firefighters tried today to con trol the blaze by cutting a wide area between the fire and the timber. But the wind carried sparks and burning embers across and the fire soon was burning on the other side. Mercury Drops to 87 In Salem, Same Today A cooler 87 degrees was the high Tuesday for Salem residents as the heat wave of the past week subsided a bit. The Weather Bureau predicted "almost a dupli cate of Tuesday" for today. Trouble at the city water de partment was repaired in the ear ly hours Tuesday when a pump switch, which failed to turn on in the Candalaria district, slowed water pumping in that area. "The switch failed to cut in when more water was consumed in that area," John Geren, manager of the de partment explained. He said that noticeable pressure failure wasn't recognized until late and then the commission had to call in an em ergency mounted pump of the fire department's to aid in keeping pressure even. A forest fire near Sisters cover U. N- Hints UNITED NATIONS (JP)- There is an air of hopeful expectancy at United Nations headquarters. For good or bad, something seems about to break in the cold war. The break may be in the form of a move by world Communism dictated by Moscow. Some highly placed persons here express the feeling that a peace in Korea however nervous it may be will come to pass, per haps in August. If it does, it will fit into place a section of the whole jigsaw puzzle of Soviet world policy. Many eyes are turned toward th chief Soviet delegate to the United Nations. Jacob A. Malik, at a time when his vacation in the Plants at Nothing IK ing over J00 acres was reported by the State Forestry Department as under control. The blaze con sists mainly of logging slashing. Employes of Brooks-Scanlon. Inc., logging firm are fighting the blaze. Closure of two areas in the state were reported by the Forestry Department, effective today, in the Tillamook Burn and the east part of the Linn County district. Thursday closures are effective near Prineville, Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., logging operation in the Squawback area near Sisters and the Kinzua area. OPS to Lift More Ceilings WASHINGTON r;P-Price offi cials said Tuesday that retail ceilings for a big block of con sumer goods, including many more foods, may be suspended soon. These officials said sharp cuts by Congress in budget funds for the Office of Price Stabilization have speeded curtailment of the control program. -n. ' . .- . i f ------ 1 of Cold War 'Break7 Soviet Union from his duties here already is overdue and he has created the impression of a man awaiting important orders. It was just after his arrival four years ago that the U. N. assembly recognized the Republic of Korea as the legal government there. This paved the way for the ending of the U. S. occupation in South Korea and in turn let the North Koreans prepare for the adventure which was to begin two years later. With Malik's departure there would be no top-ranking Soviet diplomat on hand in the U. N. His chief deputy is a second-stringer, A. A. Soldatov. The Korean adventure, costly No. Ill Code PRICE Sc Bombed Truce Recess Extended as Reds Consult By ROBERT TUCKMAN MUNSAN. Korea UPh-The Com munists Wednesday asked for an additional two-day recess in th secret Korean truce negotiations. The Allies agreed. The new delay in the crucial talks came as Peiping Radio an nounced Red China's conditional acceptance of the Geneva Con ventions providing for the care of prisoners of war and bannirg germ and chemical warfare. The prisoner of war issue is the sole remaining obstacle to a Ko rean armistice. The truce talk have been deadlocked on it for months. The Allies refuse to re patriate any prisoner against hi will. The Reds have insisted on the return of all their captured troops. Effect Not Certain Whether the startling Red state ment they would adhere to the) Geneva Conventions might pro vide a key to an armistice u not immediately apparent. Allied truce officials were view ing the development cautiouslv. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuckofs, spokesman for the UN Command, declined to comment. But certain defensive moves were possible which could break the deadlock. Under the Geneva convention, on prisoners, either side could transfer to a mutually agreed third power those prisoners who refuse repatriation. Such a step might be acceptable to both sides. Allies Hold 100.000 The Allies hold about 100.000 Red captives who say they will resist forcibly any return to Com munist rule. When the talks resume Friday they will continue on their off-the-record status in effect since July 4. Nuckols said there had been no suggestion from either side to end the news blackout. Continue Off-Record The off-the-record talks have been in recess since Monday at Red request. The Communists gave no rea son for asking the extension of thm recess. But their move seemed to erase any doubt that Red dele gates were consulting with higher authorities on some new turn in the negotiations, possibly an Al lied proposal. Such has been the course of negotiations in the past. In the absence of official com ment from the U. N. Command, there was no definite assuranc that the Peiping statement stem med directly from the PannuD jom negotiations. Steel Freed For Civilians WASHINGTON (J3) -The gov eminent Tuesday freed more stee). for civilian use, In an effort to check the creeping spread of un employment set ofi by the nation's longest steel strike. The 44-day-old walkout has idled 600,000 steelworkers and nearly a million other workers in allied industry and the toll is mounting daily. The National Production Au thority, to conserve steel for the military, had clamped an embargo on shipments of steel from ware houses to civilian manufacturers. NPA said Tuesday it has sur veyed the stocks on hand and ret aside the steel that must be used for defense. Its new order releases remaining supplies for civilian use. PITTSBURGH White House inspired steel strike peace talks failed Tuesday to make any pro gress in settling the 44-day-old walkout, and the striking CIO United Steelworkers called lt Wage-Policy Committee to a July 21 meeting here. SHORTS BAN REJECTED HEMPSTEAD, N. Y. (JP) The town board Tuesday refused to ban bathing suits and shorts as stree' attire on the grounds that "you can't legislate modesty. to both Red China and the Soviet Union, may be considered no longer worth the trouble. Com munist China already Is making much of a program of building for the future, and the Soviet Union itself has much to accomplish in that regard before it could risk a new world war. There is this possibility: A Tar Eastern peace conference may be proposed as the way out of the Korean impasse. To protect United Nations prestige, it could be pro posed by the U. N. itself. This would permit face-saving pro cedure for the Communist Chinese at the same time as it offered a way out of a seemingly bopelese deadlock,