'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
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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,