Flames Force Crew
To Leave Freighter;
Lifeboats Destroyed
MONTAUK, N. Y. UP) A Norwegian freighter was reported afire
'65 miles from shore Friday night with its 51 persons in the water
without life rafts.
The SS Black Gull, a 5,000-ton vessel, sent out an SOS at 10:22
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Th Ovgon Statesman, Salem, Oreaon, Saturday, July 19. 1952
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Senator Russell of Georgia ad
mits to one handicap in his race
with his colleague, Estes Kefauver,
for the Demicratic nomination. It's
a "she"; Nancy Kefauver. Bachel
or Dick with Southern gallantry
bows out from competing with this
Scotch-born lassie. Nancy is prov
ing herself a substantial asset in
her husband's campaigning. When
she isn't campaigning with him (or
taking care of her children down
with mumps) she is out on her
own campaigning for him. She is
not only good looking, she is po
litically smart. If you noticed her
picture ... in yesterday's States
man taken as she was about to
hold a press conference you surely
observed that she seemed quite
composed, ready to do a battle of
wits with reporters, and armed
with an engaging smile.
Of course she should have po
litical savvy. One can hardly be
the wife of a Southern politician
who has served as congressman
and senator without learning both
the science and the art of poli
tics. If Kefauver should get the nod
at the Democratic convention then
we shall have Mamie and Nancy
competing for the titular role of
First Lady. Both appear to be alert
and well-poised personalities. Ma
mie has had little experience in
the political world, but as an army
wife and university president's
wife she surely has learned to
adapt herself to varied situations.
Over many a bridge table and
many a garden fence the two will
be compared: Mamie with her
bangs and Nancy with her red
hair. When we realize that in these
post-suffragette days that wom
en are voting, we realize that the
appraisal which women give the
two wives may have an effect on
the voting they do on the hus
bands. This time the comparisons
would not be with Bess or Eleanor
but between the two thus cast in
the role of rivals.
In this competition, please ex
cuse me from posting a selection.
But looking at the matter strictly
from a partisan ( Republican an
gle I would say that Nancy Kefau
ver is one reason why Republicans
should be pulling for Bachelor
Dick Russell.
Delusion Costs
Woman Life
In Home Fire
EUGENE fJTV Mrs. Elsie
Keeney, 57, died early Friday in
a fire that swept through a Eu
gene house.
The widower, Hugh Keeney,
said he woke up to find his bed
room in flames. He ran to his wife
and dragged her outside, he told
police. Then she jumped up, said
something about saving the chil
dren and ran back into the flames,
Keeney said.
He said she apparently thought
her grandchildren, who had been
visiting them earlier, still were in
side. They were not.
Coroner Fred Buell said the
woman's body was found in her
husband's bedroom. She had suf
focated, Buell reported.
Keeney was treated at a hospital
for burns.
The district attorney, C. E.
Luckey, and the fire marshal, Les
ter Parker, said they were investi
gating the fire.
SEEK TRACE OF COUPLE
BEND (P)-Relatives asked state
police Friday to try to locate Mr.
and Mrs. J. Robert Keyes of Bend,
who have been gone from Bend
three weeks after leaving for a
vacation.
Animal Crackers
Bv WARREN GOODRICH
"She' much easier to get along
with since I got that automatic
de-f roster."
later, it radioed that ship had been
abandoned.
Tersely, the vessel reported that
all its lifeboats had been burned
or lost.
The ship was reported 65 miles
southeast of Montauk Point off
Long Island and 75 miles south of
the Brenton Reef lightship off
Rhode Island.
It was carrying a highly inflam
mable cargo 500 tons of napha
lene. It was bound from Bremen
to New York.
The Coast Guard hastily sped
three mercy planes toward the
vessel within 10 minutes after
picking up the SOS. Four cutters
followed.
The planes were quickly fitted
with extra lifecrafts flares. They
reached the scene and dropped the
flares to light the way for rescue
vessels.
The Coast Guard said the near
est ship to the Black Gull was the
passenger ship The Excalibur, 7
miles away.
The Radiomarine division of
RCA Communications in New
York said the Excalibur, an Amer
ican Export Line ship, had set out
after a lifeboat.
Radiomarine added that the
Swedish liner Gripsholm, famed
World War hospital ship, reported
the Black Gull off her starboard.
The Gripsholm radioed she was
heading for the stricken vessel.
The Black Gull is 410 feet long
with a net tonnage of 4,929. It ra
dioed to the Coast Guard:
"SOS. Emergency assis t a n c e
needed. Ship burning."
It was some 200 miles from New
York.
Of the 51 persons aboard the
ship, nine were said to be passen
gers, 42 crewmen.
Allies Launch
Attack Against
Red Battalion
SEOUL UP)- Allied infantrymen
Saturday launched an attack
across the muddy slopes of "Old
Baldy" In a renewed effort to
drive a Chinese Communist bat
talion from its foothold on the
strategic western front position.
Heavy rains during the night
made the going slow and slippery.
Heavy artillery fire by both
sides continued. The United Na
tions again brought up tanks to
blast the Reds.
By late Saturday morning Al
lied troops held one slope of Old
Baldy and the Reds held the other.
"The hill Is not controlled by
anybody," a U. S. Eighth Army
staff officer said.
He reported the Reds fired 10,
031 rounds of artillery at the Al
lied division holding the Old Baldy
sector in the 24 hours ending at
6 p.m. Friday. This was an aver
age of seven shells a minute, one
of the heaviest concentrations
thrown by the Communists in the
entire Korean War.
Old Baldy is a vital hill position
west of Chorwon.
Slide Delays
SP Schedule
GRANTS PASS (JP) A slide de
layed a Southern Pacific passenger
train three miles east of here Fri
day. The tracks were buried under
30 feet of rock and dirt. The train,
bound from Portland to Ashland,
transferred its passengers to bus
ses. A bulldozer trying to clear the
slide, was caught in a second slide.
Another bulldozer was brought in,
and officials said the track would
be opened soon.
Old Age Killing
Four-Year-Old
CHICAGO (p) A 4-year-old
girl, who weighs only 7 pounds,
is dying of old age at the Univer
sity of Illinois Research and Edu
cational Hospital.
The child is a victim of progeria,
or premature senility. Doctors at
the hospital said it is one of na
ture's rarest ailments. Both its
cause and cure are unknown.
The child, named Linda, entered
the hospital Jan. 28, 1948, when
she was two monts old. She has
been there ever since. The hos
pital declined to make public the
child's last name.
Max. Mia. Prcip.
Salem 79 47 .M
Portland 74 54 .00
San Francisco 72 52 .00
Chicago 90 75 .42
New York 90 74 .06
Willamette River -2.1 feet.
FORECAST (from V. S. Weather bu
reau. McNary Field, Salem): Mostly
fair today and tonight. Little change in
temperature, with high today near 80,
and low tonight near 50. Temperature
at 12:01 a.m. today was 55.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Since Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1
This Year Last Year Normal
42 SB 49.94 37.43
British -Iranian Oil
Settlement Pledged
By Premier Qavam
TEHRAN. Iran (-Premier Ahmed Qavam pledged Friday to
get a friendly settlement of the British-Iranian oil problem or resign
and advised Iranian troublemakers to stay out of his way.
"I warn everybody that the period of disorder and uprisings is
Social Security
Expansion Bill
Signed by HST
WASHINGTON (JP)- President
Truman Friday signed legislation
providing for a 540 million dollar
a year expansion of social security
benefits.
Truman called the measure "an
important landmark in the pro
gress of our social security sys
tem." The President, however, ex
pressed deep regret at what he
called congressional failure to take
proper action to preserve the old
age and survivors insurance rights
of persons who become perma
nently and totally disabled.
Ups Payments
The new program provides that:
About four and one half mil
lion retired persons will have their
monthly social security payments
increased by $5 or 121? per cent,
whichever is greater, effective af
ter Sept. 1:
And almost three and one halt
million recipients of public assist
anee the aged, blind, totally dis
abled and dependent children
will share in a 300 million dollar
boost in the federal government's
grants to the states for such pro
grams. $5 Boost Included
The act calls for a $5 boost in
monthly payments for the aged
and disabled to begin October 1
and run for two years; and this
amount would be doubled if the
federal grant is matched by the
states.
The provision affecting the
blind, calling for a like increase,
is effective retroactively to July
1 and will run until Sept. 30, 1954.
The aid to dependent children
will be boosted by $3 a month for
each recipient and this will run
from Oct. 1 until Sept. 30, 1954.
Palominos
Saved From
Mine Shaft
EUREKA, Utah (A) Three
Palamino range horses were res
cued Thursday night from a 125
foot deep mine shaft, where they
had spent 20 hours after falling
into the open hole.
The owner of the valuable horses,
Roy Okleberry of Goshen, Utah,
and two officers blasted a narrow
trail up a sloping side of the pit
with dynamite charges.
When the trail was completed,
one of the yearlings bolted and
ran to the top and galloped into
the hills. The other two horses, a
four-year-old mare and a year
ling were loaded fhto a truck.
All three horses apaprently were
not injured.
It was believed the animals fell
into the hole after they were
blinded by the lights of an ap
proaching automobile on a narrow
mine trail Wednesday night.
The driver of the car said one
of the horses jumped into the hole
"raising a noise that echoed in the
canyon." He said the other two
turned and jumped in after the
first one.
NEWSPRINT PRICE UP
SAN FRANCISCO (A) Crown
Zellerbach Corp., one of the West's
largest suppliers of newsprint,
Friday upped its price $10 a ton
to $126 a ton.
Polk Loggers Add Thrills on Bureau Tour
By CHARLES IRELAND
Valley Editor, The Statesman
DALLAS A Dallas logger stole
the show Friday as touring Wash
ington congressmen and official
dom cruised through the Black
Rock forest area west of Dallas
and Falls City.
Spontaneous applause from 70
who made the trip echoed through
Boulder Canyon when Willis Kel
ler, 37, veteran Dallas woodsman,
sawed the top 50 feet from a
mighty Douglas fir tree and sent
it crashing 200 feet to the ground.
"Good job, fellow," called Rep.
Ben Jacobsen (R-Ia.) as Keller
waved from the top of the sway
ing pole.
Minutes later Reps. John P. ,
Saylor (R-Pa) and Wayne Aspin-J
over, said tne veteran rightist
statesman who replaced National
ist Mohammed Mossadegh in the
premiership Thursday.
Qavam issued a communique on
his aims as troops and police ar
rested several Nationalist demon
strators shouting for his death
and occupied two pro-Mossadegh
political clubs. The communique
was broadcast.
"Solving of this oil problem will
be one of my most important ef
forts so that the moral and ma
terial interests of Iran will be
completely secured, without the
slightest rift in good relations be
tween the two countries," Qavam
said.
"Obviously this is a difficult
job, but it is not impossible. Good
sense will definitely bring about
fruits. If not, I will leave this
post."
He charged that Mossadegh, who
seized the British-owned Anglo
Iranian Oil Company's Iranian
properties last year, followed a
faulty policy and turned what was
essentially a legal question "into
enmity between two nations."
The oil flow that, under British
direction, totaled about 30 million
tons a year has dwindled to a
trickle and the loss of royalties
and wages for Iranian workers
has nearly bankrupted the nation.
The British-Iranian dispute, which
Mossadegh contended was strictly
a domestic question, is now before
the international court of justice.
South Santiam
Claims Tourists
On Way to Sea
LEBANON, (P) Lavy Ful
mer, 31, of Rock Springs, Wyo.,
drowned Friday while swimming
in the South Santiam River 30
miles east of here.
Lawrence Reynolds, also of
Rock Springs, told police he and
Fulmer were en route to the Ore
gon coast when they stopped to
go swimming in the river. Rey
nolds said he saw Fulmer go under
and dived In after him. He brought
Fulmer to shore but was unable
to revive him.
Fulmer is survived by
brothers, Frank and Sam,
of Rock Springs.
two
both
Blast Wrecks
Metal Factory
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. P) A
terrific explosion wrecked a mag
nesium fabricating plant at San
Carlos late Friday. At least three
men were critically burned.
The blast was in the Sequoia
Metalcraft Co. plant.
Fire instantly followed the ex
plosion and melted corrugated Iron
as though the metal was being
burned.
Flames consumed the building
within a few minutes.
A ton of molten magnesium re
portedly exploded in a heat treat
ing furnace.
The white hot glow of the mag
nesium was so bright it almost
blinded firemen and others who
approached.
Water from the firemen's hoses
turned to steam before It reached
the flames.
Burdette Walker, one of the
plant owners, estimated damage at
$150,000.
He said the blaze probably oc
curred when the heat treating fur
nace was subjected to extremely
high temperatures.
all (D-Colo.)
safety when a
ran pell-mell fori The Black Rock area was se
1 20-foot hemlock lected for the field trip as repres-
momentarily threatened to fall
the wrong way while W. H. (Wil
lie) Hallowell, another Dallas log
ger, sawed through its base with
a power saw.
Those were the dramatic high
lights Friday as the congressmen
and members of the Bureau of
Land Management spent a full
day observing forest management
problems.
A fourth congressman present
was Rep. Wesley A. D'Ewart (R
Mont). National Director Marion
Clawson headed a large delega
tion of Bureau of Land Manage-I
ment personnel present from
Washington, D. C, Portland and
Salem.
to.
CHICAGO Brir. Gen. Herbert C. Holdridre (ret.), who lists himself as a candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, waves his arm as he charges something about "wholesale fraud" before the
Democratic subcommittee on credentials Friday. The general, who said he was contesting the seatlirg
of the 68-vote Kefauver slate from California, was told by Chairman Calvin Rawlings (right) of Utah
that he was out of orders. In center. Sen. Earle C. Clements of Kentucky. (AP Wirephoto to the Statesman.)
New Seizure
Of Steel Eyed
By President
By ROGER D. GREENE
WASHINGTON i.P A new
federal move to seize part of the
strike-bound industry was under
serious consideration at the White
House Friday.
At the same time, Price Stabil
izer turned down a petition by the
Weirton Steel Co., for a $550 price
rise. A good deal of confusion
asore over just how final that
was.
Arnall said the limit under the
Capehart amendment was $2.84 a
ton; and said the steel companies
were not entitled to any more.
But other government officials,
in a higher eschelon than Arnall,
appeared entirely resigned to
granting an increase around $5
when a settlement in the 47-day-old
steel strike finally is reached.
Reports of Impending White
House action to take over some
steel mills under the 1948 Selec
tive Service Act persisted with
out official denial.
The act permits seizure under
certain emergency conditions.
A high government official com
menting on possible seizure action,
put it this way:
"The situation Is so desperate
that we must do something."
The official, who refused use of
his name, said the Justice Depart
ment was drawing up legal papers
as a basis for seizing a small por
tion of the industry under the 1948
act.
It would apply to mills produc
ing special steel for such defense
litems as guns, bullets, tanks, etc.
Workers in the affected plants
presumably would be barred from
striking against the government as
temporary operator of the mills.
Rain Forecast
For Week End
Although warmer temperatures
are expected today, the weather
bureau says rain Sundaywill bring
an end to nearly two weeks of
steady sunshine.
Cooler temperatures and cloudy
skies are expected for most of the
state the early part of next week.
Rain last fell June 29. In the
two weeks that followed, Salem
got some of its warmest weather
of the year, with the peak
reached July 8 when 101 degrees
was recorded.
entatives of the problems that
BLM faces in administering O &
C lands, plus others under its
jurisdiction.
And the congressmen indicated
general approval of the job that
BLM is doing.
Both Jensen and Saylor were
generous in praise of Clawson. "I
think great improvements have
been made since he became na
tional director three years ago,"
said Saylor.
Rep. Jensen, however, deplored
what he called the squabble over
funds for timber-access roads. He
said BLM and other interests are
experiencing problems in getting
together in some areas.
Democratic Fireworks
Newell Appointed
To Civil Service
Appointment of A. C. Newell,
Salem, as a member of the Oregon
State Civil Service Commission,
was announced by Gov. Douglas
McKay Friday.
He will succeed A. C. Cammack.
Portland.
Newell, a certified accountant,
is secretary-treasurer of the Pau
lus Brothers Packing Company
here. He resides with his wife and
three children at 175 Candalaria
Blvd.
Revised Pay
Plan Studied
By Governor
Gov. Douglas McKay Indicated
here Friday he was studying a re
vised salary Increase proposal
completed recently by the State
Civil Service Commission.
The State Emergency Board has
been called here next Friday to
discuss the proposal.
Officials estimated that the re
vised plan would cost the state ap
proximately $350,000, dependent
upon the time the plan is placed
in operation and any changes
recommended by the emergency
board.
The original plan, as submitted ;
to the emergency board, would 1
have required approximately ,
$499,000 from the emergency
fund. The current balance in the j
emergency fund is $483,790 which
cannot be replenished until the
legislature convenes here next
January.
The State Emergency Board, in
revising the pay plan, again de
clined to include more than $300,
000 to cover increases for academic
personnel in the state system of
higher education. This group was
not included in the original pro
posal. The new plan, while not re
vealed ifi detail, eliminates pro
posed increases in some classifi
cations. .
Sufficient funds are available in
some state departments to cover
the proposed pay increases pro-
ycea me emergency ooara acts
lavoraoiy on me new pian. utner
departments cannot meet such an
obligation without help from the
emergency board.
MORE CASES OF POLIO
PENDLETON (A3) The polio
outbreak in Umatilla County con
tinued Friday, four more cases be
ing reported in the Milton-Free-water
area. That made 15 cases
in the county.
And, within earshot of alL, he
hinted that he would recommend a
halt to federal appropriations for
such road-building unless the fac
tions get together.
Jensen is a member of the
House appropriations committee.
Rep. D'Ewart said the matter of
access roads "will have to come
to the attention of Congress." He
mentioned the conflict between
BLM and the National Forest Ser
vice "another problem."
D'Ewart also said he was im
pressed by proposals to improve
the pattern of ownership of forest
lands by exchanging O & C lands
for private lands to reduce the
checkerboard pattern. Some ex
changes of this nature have been
made.
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Begin
Picards Plan
Mars Study in
Free Balloon
DUNCAN. B. C. 0P)-The world
famous science team of Dr. Jean
Felix Picard and his wife, Jean
nette, are planning a flight into
the stratosphere in a free-balloon
for 1954.
The plan is to learn some of the
answers to the mvstery of the
J planet Mars, which, when nearest
me earxn, is some jo.uuu.uuu mues
away.
"If there Is oxygen on Mars
there must be vegetable life," said
Dr. Picard. "Where there is vege
table life, there may be a race of
human beings."
The clusters of balloons for a
flight have been tester! and prov
en, he told reporters. The gondola,
with its places for the most mod
ern of scientific instruments, is in
the mock-up stage in a laboratory
at Minneapolis.
"We have set the flight for 1954
because in that year Mars will be
In the most favorable position for
observation."
Eighteen years ago, Dr. Picard.
who has been associated with his J
twin brother, Auguste, an equally
world-known scientist now living
in Trieste, made a record-shattering
stratosphere flight in a free
balloon. Collie Keeps
Vigil at Top
Of Mine Shaft
SPRING CITY, Mo., (JP) A collie
dog that has stood faithfully by for
18 days at the top of an abandoned
mine shaft watched quizzically
Friday as volunteer workmen
steadily pumped water from the
hole in an effort to unravel the
puzzle.
A effort is being made to deter
mine if the pit contains a human
body, H. C. Schlldknecht, president
of the Joplin Humane Society, said.
Water in the Olson mine shaft is
being lowered at a rate of about
i six inches an hour by a 10-inch
Deisel-powered pumped manned
Dy voluteer workers
! Depth of the shaft has been
estimated at 130 feet. AfteT Fri-
day's operation, in which the wat
er was lowered 18 feet, the water
stood about 70 feet from the sur
face. The dog is continuing its -igil
while enjoying the comforts of a
doghouse provided by the Joplin
Human Society.
Food is taken to the animal by
persons living near the shaft.
No one has been able to identify
the dog.
Reward Offered
For Lowd Killer
MEDFORD UP) Businessmen
here have collected $250 which
they are offering as a reward for
information leading to the capture
of George Baker Dunkin.
Dunkin, 87, a recluse who lived
in the isolated Elk Creek area, is
accused of the fatal shooting of
State Policeman Phil B. Lowd
Jjme 24.
SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES
EUGENE (yP)-Wayne L. Starr,
73. Monroe, died in a hospital here
Friday of injuries suffered in an
automobile accident on the Me-
' Kenzie Highway - londay.
Convention
Eyes Battle
For Delegates
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
CHICAGO (vTVThe big mystery
man of the approaching Demo
cratic National Convention. Gov.
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, Friday
night rejected another plea that
he try for the party's presidential
nomination.
Two men who do want the nom
ination, Sen. Estes Kefauver and
Mutual Security Director Averell
Harriman, held a conference. So
did some of their lieutenants.
Harriman confirmed that much
but insisted there were "no deals."
The only purpose, he told re
porters, was to push for liberal
ideas at the convention that opens
Monday. That goes, Harriman in
dicated, for the seating of pro
administration delegations frm
Texas and Mississippi. Those del
egations are locked in a contest
with anti-Truman slates in dis
putes involving 70 convention
votes.
Sticks By Guns
Stevenson stuck to his guns
on the presidential nomination
through a two-hour session with
Illinois Democratic leaders who
tried to talk him into changing
his mind.
Vice-President Barkley stepped
spryly into town without any hem
ming and hawing about his own
intentions. He wants the nomina
tion and said he expects to get it.
The 74-year-old Veep pointed
up his opposition to the Taft
Hartley labor law. And he said he
would be glad to see any labor
leaders "I feel free to search out
ind talk with them."
Woo Union Men
That seemed to be part of a
pattern of candidate efforts to get
right with union men.
Sen. Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma
took his stand or. Taft-Hartley,
too: "I opposed it when it was
passed. I have opposed it , since.
I have supported whatever pro
posals have been made to amend
or repeal it."
Sen. Richard B. Russell of
Georgia and Kefauver already
wer on the scene, along with Harriman.
All of them have been making
eyes at union leaders who are
hinting at a CIO-AFL coalition
that would give organized labor
key role in picking a presidential
candidate. At the moment, union
spokesmen say they are looking
over the possibility of tossing their
support to Harriman, Kefauver, cr
a ticket combining the two.
Western Coalition
An informal coalition was shap
Ing up among 11 Western states,
Hawaii and Alaska. Spokesmen
said a plan to back a single candl
date could be an off-shoot of a
Sunday night meeting.
In contrast with the angry,
brawling preliminaries to last
week's name-calling Republican
convention, Democrats with a few
exceptions were mostly rweetnefi
and light.
The only show of tempers was
in a credentials subcommittee reif
ereeing the row between rival
Dixie delegations. Texas and Mis
sissippi each sent pro-administration
and anti-administration dele
gates slates to Chicago.
Texans Battle "
Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas
an anti-Truman man said his
faction is the choice of the "regu
lar" Democratic Party and the
other side, led by former Rep.
Maury Maverick, was fighting a
campaign of "personal abuse, slan
der and villifleatlon.
Maverick, as leader of the "loy
a list" set, hit the Shivers faction
as a bunch of "Republicans, Dixie
crats, bolters."
Texas has 32 convention vctea,
Mississippi 18.
Seventh Baby Born
By Caesarian Section
HALIFAX, N. S. UP)- For th
seventh time, a stevedore's wife
Friday gave birth by caesarian
operation.
Mrs. William Flynn, 40, of near
by Spryfield now has three girl
and four boys, the oldest IS.
Medical authorities said it was
"an extreme rarity.'
Western Interns tion si
At Spokane-Salem, rata
At Yakima 7, Victoria t
At Lewiston , Tri-Clty 4
At Wenatchee-VaneovTor. rain
Pacific Coast Leagv
At Portland 4. Loo Anrclas S (Ulan.)
At Hollywood X San DC 1
At San rrandoeo X. Sacrameato 4
At Seattle a-a. Oakland 4-1
American Lear
At Nw York C. Chicago S
At Philadelphia U Detroit J
At Boston 9. Gerelaad t
At Washington a. Si Loula
National Leagm
At St Louis 7. Boston X
At. Cincinnati S. Philadelphia T
At