Old Rosedale Destroyed School by Blaze Statesman News Service ROSED ALE A roaring fire, with flames shooting high into the darkening sky, Sunday evening ended the career of historic old Rosedale School, a landmark and community center for over four decades in this little community seven miles south of Salem. Abandoned at the end of the last school year in favor of a new school now being constructed across the hills on Bates Road, the old, wooden structure fell vic tim to the fast-moving fire in little over an hour and was de clared a complete loss. Starting in a shed at the south end of the building around 7:40 pjn., the fire burnt itself out in the northeast corner, leaving noth ing but two brick chimneys stand ing. Cause of the fire was un known. Connell Ward, clerk - business manager of the school, estimated the loss as around $12,000, includ ing $2,000 worth of books, desks, chairs, maps and an old upright piano, most of which would have been moved to the new Rosedale School. Among the spectators at the fire were Harry B. Johnson, assis 2 Auto Firm Executives Missing at Crater Lake CRATER LAKE, Ore. jP)-Two executives of a Detroit motor firm have been missing for more than 24 hours in this Southern Ore gon National Park. Park officials identified the missing pair as A. M. Jones, Concord, Calif., and C. P. Culhane, Detroit, Mich., executives of the United Motors Service Corp., Detroit. 0333300 Justice William O. Douglas was In Portland last week transacting some judicial business after a fish ing trip into the Olympics. He an nounced his intention to leave soon for Singapore there to mount a pack train for a journey through the Malay States. Thus the jurist will pursue his zest for travel and for intimate acquaintanceship with the peoples of Asia. Already he has traversed historic lands of the Middle East and on to India, and recorded his impressions in a book which might very well be made required reading for diplamats, members of Congress and politi cians who talk glibly about world affairs. Even journalists might profit from the reading. For the trips which Justice Douglas made were not on well beaten paths of foreign travel, punctuated with official receptions at capitals which his judicial rank easily would entitle him to. They were made afoot or horsepack through remote sections of moun tains and deserts stopping at vil lages or at camps of nomads. All the while he studied the country and listened to the plaints of the peoples who are wrestling with their enemies chiefly impover ished soil, greedy landlordism and lack of education. For the most part the peoples of the Middle East are fearful of Rus sia. They want no part of Soviet domination; but the propaganda from Russian radios, offering gold en promises of land proprietorship and social status does reach them. The ferment of discontent is working; and the West will be wise if it encourages the aspira tions of the peoples rather than in league with the privileged classes seeks to suppress them. Of the problem of subsistence which the populations struggle to solve (Continued on editorial page, 4.) New Lebanon Hospital Opened Statesman News Service LEBANON The new Lebanon Community Hospital was formally opened in ceremonies here Sunday afternoon. Built after five years of plan ning, the hospital covers 29,404 square feet on funds contributed by more -than 3,000 persons. Administration of the new hos pital is Bishop Allen H. Erb. direc tor of the Pacific Mission of Men nonite Churches. Animal Crackers fiv WARREN GOODRICH "I'd like something for a piano quartet." I 1 1 I r J SHEET tant superintendent of schools, and Melvin H. Drake, supervisor of buildings and grounds for the Salem School District, into whose custody Rosedale came last Jan uary. Rosedale School was a separate school district until voters last De cember decided to consolidate with the Salem district. There were 77 students and three teachers In the structure during its last year. Ward said the destroyed struc ture had stood on its site atop the hill and under the oak tree since about 1910, or perhaps a little earlier. The site for the building, he said, was acquired in 1902. For many years it was a two room structure. Later, a third one was added, with a shed at the southernmost end. It was here that the fire started. Keeping a watchful eye for pos sible spread of the fire, was the Liberty-Salem Heights Fire truck which has a contract with the school district, although it does not operate in that area , a state forestry department truck, and a private firefighting truck belong ing to Howard and Don Duffield Their empty car was found at a lookout point above a 350-foot sheer cliff Saturday afternoon. They were to have met Frank Eberlein and John Vaughn of Klamath Falls, Ore., at nearby Union Creek for an afternoon of fishing. Vaughn and Eberlein said they were driving to the meeting place when they sighted the other men's car parked at the lookout point above Annie Creek Canyon. They investigated and found ig nition keys and fishing equipment still in the car. They waited sev eral hours and when Jones and Culhane did not appear, notified park officials. A four-man search party hiked to the mouth of the canyon to reach the base of the lookout point cliff. They found "nothing, but spent the night there. Sunday another crew of 20 men searched the heavily wooded area on the other side of lookout point. The search, was to resume Mon day. Searchers Find Lost Boy in South Oregon KLAMATH FALLS (JP)-A five-year-old boy, missing more than 24 hours in the rugged Lost Lake region, was found alive and well Sunday The boy, Ernie Lefler, was found at about 2:15 p.m. (PST) in the forested region 25 miles northwest of "this Southern Oregon city. His screams led searchers to the scene. First word of the rescue came from Wally Myers, a Klamath Falls reporter at the scene. He said the boy was safe and well. Ernie, the son of Mrs. Marie Clark of Medford, Ore., and Her man Lefler of Klamath Falls, van ished Saturday afternoon while on a camping trip with his grand par ents. Three crews searched through Saturday night without finding any trace of him. Sunday morning five different search crews total ing 125 men began beating through the brush. A party of three search ers reported hearing childish screams on a ridge west of nearby Four-Mile Lake. After that the hunt concen trated in that area until the boy was found by six members of a Medford logging crew. He asked his rescuers to send a message to his mother. "Mommy," he said, "I didn't want to, but I lost my Mickey Mouse sweater." Mouse sweater." He was appar ently unharmed except for a touch of poison oak. PLANE CIIASH KILLS 5 DEL NORTE, Colo. UP)- Five persons were killed Sunday night when a light plane crashed into a cliffside at the edge of Creede, 40 miles northwest of here. Cocker Spaniel Awarded Top Ribbon at Lions Club Dog Show A 4-year-old black cocker span iel, Land'O Trail Blazer of Port land, took "best of show" honors Sunday at Salem Lions Club's dog show, biggest in the event s 16 years. The winner, already an interna tional champion, is owned by Flo Bob Kennels. Two Salem dogs won top honors for their breeds P. H. Thede's Beaver Creek Torrj among Lab radors and Cecil L. Edwards Stu dio Liontamer among Airedales. More than 2,000 persons viewed the afternoon judging of 530 dogs from the Pacific Coast, Canada and the Midwest, largest number of entries on record here. J. H. Wil lett, general chairman, said the show was successful from the standpoint of both attendance and staging. For the first time it was in the open air, on the State Fair grounds parking lot. 102nd YEAR Delegate Dis putes to Gov. Stevenson 6Draf t' Gains; Start Set Today By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL CHICAGO (JP)-Gov. Adlai Stev enson of Illinois shied away from the Democratic presidential nom ination Sunday night with an I- don t-want-it statement. But friends said he could be drafted and Pennsylvanians at tempted to crank up a Stevenson band wagon for the Democratic National Convention opening Monday. Pennsylvania counted noses, asking its big 70-vote delegation for "personal preferences" for a party nominee. The results not binding were: Stevenson 32, Sen. Estes Ke fauver of Tennessee 14, President Truman 7. Others scattered or un committed. Former Sen. Scott W. Lucas of Illinois came out of a huddle with Stevenson and other political as sociates saying: "We're definitely going to draft him. There isn't any doubt in my mind that he would accept." Vice President Barkley, who wants top spot on the 1952 ticket and says he expects to get it, lost support from some labor union leaders but got a bit of solace from the backing of James A. Farley. Averell Harriman, hoping for a nod from President Truman, rev ved up his own drive for the nom ination with a slap at Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower. Harriman said Eisenhower has a "schoolboy" knowledge of domes tic problems. And if the general tries to besmirch administration foreign policy, Harriman predict ed, "we'll pin his ears back be cause he's be lying." Outlook Uncertain But all the whirling maneuvers on the eve of the 31st Democratic Convention left the outlook as con fused and uncertain as ever as to who eventually would pocket the nomination. While would - be candidates scrapped among themselves in genteel fashion the real battle of the convention was shaping up as another North-South war over the administration's "Fair Deal" pro gram. It may break out Monday on the convention floor, almost before delegates are settled in their chairs. The big stake in the strug gle is control over the convention and over the type of nominee it selects. Change in Rules Northerners, and the coalition forces, at first were angling for a change In convention rules that would compel every delegate to pledge allegiance to the party can didates. Several Southern delega tions said that might force them to take a walk as some of them did in 1948 over the civil rights issue because they are under or ders not to make firm commit ments on candidates and platform. But then the Northerners beat a partial retreat, aiming their guns only at Mississippi and Texas del egations. Those two states each sent ri val pro-Truman and anti-Truman delegations tothe convention. The Democratic National Committee voted that the anti - administra tion groups should be seated subject to appeals to the conven tion credentials committee and to the convention Itself. Double -Barreled Now the strategy, as outlined by a Harriman spokesman, is to of-; fer a double-barreled amendment to convention rules providing that: First, any delegation that has been contested couldn't vote on the seating of a disputed delega tion. That would apply only to Mississippi and Texas. Second, before a Texas or Mis sissippi delegation could be seated, the credentials committee would have to make a finding that the delegation and each of its mem bers would support the nominees for President and. Vice President and give assurances the nominees will be on the official Democratic ballot at home. Group winners other than the cocker among sport dogs were: Hounds Top Dox Eric, a smooth Dachshund; working Damasyn the Chickasaw, a Doberman pins cher; terriers Silver Thane's Im age, a Scottie; toy Chia Lee Han Lin, a Pekingese; non-sporting Libeled Lady II, a Boston terrier. Highest scoring dog in obedience trials was Poula of Rjoukan, a German shepherd owned by Mrs. Jerry TrudeL Portland, with a perfect score. Several exhibitions were direct ed by Lee Brant, Portland trainer, including a guard and attack de monstration by a German shep herd; returning of balloons and an egg, unbroken, by a retriever; pointing and retrieving by Irish setters and a German short hair; hurdle racing by 14 dogs. (List of breed winners on page 5.) 12 PAGES Democrats Combine Smiles fr, ;,...-..., , CHICAGO Two men who seek the tion ran second to a woman when it came to animated expressions. The woman who stole the spotlight in this greeting scene waa Mrs. Robert S. Kerr, wife of the senator (center) from Oklahoma, as she hook hands with Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia. Senator Kerr was "made up" for a television show in Chicago when the meeting occurred. (AP 'irephoto to The Statesman.) Mahoney's Demands for Pledge Split Delegation By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent CHICAGO Oregon's 12-man delegation to the Democratic con vention was sent into a factional dispute Sunday night in its first cau cus when State Sen. Tom Mahoney moved to bind the delegation to Sen. Estes Kefauver until such time as released by the Tennessean. Pledged to support Kefauver and help gain for him the president ial nomination as long as he maintains a reasonable chance of winning, Union Shop Issue Snags Steel Parleys PITTSBURGH (JP)- New peace talks at White House prodding failed again Sunday to end the crippling 49-day-old steel strike. After an all-day series of meet ings, the industry issued a state ment which said: "The chief stumbling block . . . continues to be the question of compulsory unionism." That statement followed a four hour bargaining .session between President Philip Murray of the CIO United Steelworkers and rep resentatives of the industry. A second meeting was held by industry leaders representing the largest producers in the country for two and a half hours. Afterward they said: "There are no further meetings scheduled for today." Next move in the defense-economy squeezing walkout is expect ed Monday when the union's big wage-policy committee meets in Pittsburgh to hear Murray's re port on the status of negotiations and to give him help in planning the next course of action. After the joint industry-union meeting broke up, speculation arose that enough progress had been made toward working out a settlement to get industrywide ap proval. But that speculation was quash ed by the industry's statement that compulsory union membership still is the big obstacle and that no new sessions are planned now. Rains Dampen Olympic Track HELSINKI (IP) Heavy rain be gan falling Sunday night after con clusion of the first day's Olympic track and field competition and Finnish authorities again may have to set the running track aflame. They flooded the clay track with gasoline early Sunday and set It afire. The track., which had taken a pounding both from Saturday's opening ceremonies as well as from the many days of rain, was springy and fast and two records were set on it. The athletes had complained a few days ago the track was slow. Max. ... 75 ... 68 ... 73 93 Min. 52 57 54 75 79 Preclp. .90 .00 .00 trac trace Salem Portland San Francisco Chicaeo New York - 96 Willamette River -2.1 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary Field. Salem t: Mostly fair today and tcnight. SlighUy warmer today, high today near 80. low tonight near 50. Salem temperature at 13:01 tin. today waa 56. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year Last Year 4S M Normal 37.43 42 69 FOUNDED 1651 The Or?on Statesman, Democratic presidential nomina Oregon delegates must determine at which point the jig is up, should Kefauver begin to fade in the con vention balloting. Mahoney's motion to prevent Oregon delegates from abandon ing a sinking ship until so sig nalled by their candidate was scheduled to be acted on at this morning's 9 a.m. caucus. Representing his maneuver as a safeguard against a possible shift from Kefauver to Gov. Adlai Ste venson or Averell Harriman by some Oregon delegates, Mahoney continued a lntre-party feud with national committeeman Monroe Sweetland, whom he has charged with supporting Stevenson rather than the choice of Oregon Demo cratic voters in the May 16 pri mary. Sweetland, however, reaffirmed his intentions to work for Kefau ver's candidacy. Delegation Chairman Terry Schrunk, Multnomah County sher iff, pooh-poohed any need for Ma honey's motion, saying each dele gate wa responsible to the party organization and the voters for carrying out their will in support ing Kefauver. He said only by majority vote of the delegation could it move to abandon the crimebusting senator. Schrunk, moreover, said the Mahoney motion would place the delegation at the disadvantage of not being able to control its own votes after balloting gets under way. Privately, some delegates saw in Mahoney's efforts a subtle strat egy designed to place the Sweet land group in the position of op posing a strict Kefauver loyalty pledge which Mahoney himself hopes will be defeated. Mahoney could then, they calculated, at tempt to justify a possible switch in his own vote to another candi date after the first few ballots possibly to Sen. Kerr of Oklahoma, whom Mahoney visited recently in Salt Lake City, all expenses paid to and from Portland. 7 tf.j Boy's Appeal to Bicycle Thief Brings Donations COLUMBUS, Ga. JP) A 15-the theater and after the show we year-old boy wrote a story bun day about "The Bicycle Thief." "I am just a poor boy," said Newt Jones of nearby Phenix City, Ala. "I work to go to school. Be fore school was out I would go to school in the morning and deliver groceries in the afternoon. "I managed," he continued, "to buy me a bicycle with some help from my father. You see there are seven in our family and I can't expect too much help." Then his letter to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer went on: "I have a little sister 9 years old. She has never walked. She does not have a wheelchair so you see we have to carry her in our arms. "On Sundays I always ride her around on my wheel and the on liest time she gets to go to the show which ?he is crazy about is when I cr rry her on my bicycle. "Well July 4th I carried her to Salem. Oreaon, Monday. July Open Demo Conclave rn mm -- Wrath at Chicago Conclave CHICAGO Maury Maverick (right), leader of "loyalist" Texas dele- rate group, which lost preliminary national convention, gets over an objecting point to Frank McKln ney, chairman of the Democratic national committee, at credentials hearing in Chicago. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Tooze Promoted to Brigadier General VANCOUVER, Wash. (JP) Col. Lamar Tooze, commander of the 104th Infantry reserve, Sunday was promoted to brigadier general. The ceremony was at Vancouver Barracks just before the Oregon and Washington reserve division left for Ft. Lewis, Wash., for two weeks of summer training. Man Confesses 47-Year-Old Embezzlement PORTLAND (;P)-Banks C. Rod dey, 73, walked into the Portland police station Sunday and said he wanted to give himself up. He told startled police that he deserted the Army at Fairbanks, Alaska, 47 years ago after he em bezzled some government money because of "too much booze." Since his desertion, he said, he has been known as James T. Cross and under that name he served a six months sentence in Oregon State Prison in 1931-1932 for arm ed robbery in Portland. He took the money from an Army telegraph office in 1905, he said. "Those were the gold rush days. I was young and giddy and I hit the booze too much. Even tually I realized I was short $300 to $400 in my accounts and I made up my mind to get away as soon and as far as I could." He trekked 300 miles across the wilderness to a port and sailed for the United States, he said. Since then he has earned his living as a mechanic. Roddey was booked at the city jail until officers from the Army criminal investigation division can check his story. "It's been on my mind constant ly. I should have turned myself in a long time ago," he said. came out to go home and some one had stolen my wheel ... I thought her heart would brake for she knows she won't get to go as much as she did. I hope that the one who got the wheel reads this and always remember that they did not Tteel a bicycle but the onliest way a little cripple girl had to go about in the city." Newt has had to give up his grocery job and now he's working at odd jobs when available. The money is put aside for the final three dollar payment on a bicycle he doesn't have any more. A few hours after the letter was published, two heavy hearts were lightened by donations of a bike to. Newt and a wheelchair to his sister. Also by donations of money and offers of other bicy cles by children and grown-ups alike. 21. 1952 PRICE 5c Tram-aira's Has auras battle to be seated at Democratic Assassination Threats Aimed At Iran Premier TEHRAN, Iran (JP) The die hard Nationalists of Mohammed Mossadegh filled the tense air of this riot-ridden capital Sunday with threats to assassinate his successor. Premier Ahmed Qavam. Sporadic clashes continued throughout the country as an aft ermath of Saturday's Nationalist violence against the new premier, who has promised to strive for a settlement of this country's crip pling oil feud with Britain. Extremist supporters of the un compromising Mossadegh fear Qa vam will make concessions in the oil dispute which would bring the British back into control of the nationalized industry which once produced 30 million tons of oil a year and was the nation's biggest money earner. It was Mossadegh's nationaliza tion of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s installations in Iran that brought a virtual shut-down of the industry. Spearhead of the movement to try to force Mossadegh back into power was the ultra-Nationalist Pan-Iran party, whose supreme committee declared Sunday in a communique: "We support Mossadegh with our blood and will answer Qa vam with a bullet.' Los Angeles to Import London Fog for Study j LONDON (JP) A Los Angeles i architect prepared to leave for home Sunday night with bottled samples of London's famous fogs. S. Kenneth Johnson kept close tabs on fog and smoke in London during the month of June. With apparatus devised for the purpose he collected bottles of .fog and smoke, and samples of tne sul phuric content. The Los Angeles County air pol lution control board asked John son to make the check. Western International At Spokane 2. Salem 0 At Wenatchee 2-2. Vancouver 22- At Yakima 02, Victoria 1-8 At Lewiston 2-7, Tri-City 1-2 Pacific Coast League At Portland 9-2. Los Angelet 2-1 At Hollywood 10-0, San Diego 9-1 At San Francisco 5-1. Sacramento 2-6 At Seattle 1-3. Oakland 2-4 American League At New York 4, Chicago 8 At Boston S, Cleveland 7 12 inn ) At Philadelphia 8-3. Detroit 7-3 At Washington 7-6, St. Louis 6-3 National League At Pittsburth 5. Brooklyn 8 At ftivaffA 7 Kw Vnrk fi At Cincinnati 6. Philadelphia I (10 inn.) At St. Louis t, Boston 4 No. 118 mdlflote 'Caretaker5 Label Cutting Veep's Chances By JOSEPH AND STEWART ALSOP CHICAGO The word has com from Washington, through th several different channels Presi dent Truman is employing, that Vice President Barkley "has th nod." The presidential nod, plus th far more important maneuvering of the most seasoned party chief tain, is quite likely to get the top spot for the 74-year-old vice pres ident at the Democratic National Convention which opens her Monday. In effect, the President has now nodded to a man he does not much like, and does not really approve as a candidate. Only a few days ago, Truman was still pointing out that if he feared leaving the Whit House in a pine box at the age of sixty-eight, the vice president, at seventy-four, was even more plainly debarred by his age. But the party leaders have been work ing on the President. Truman might well have seized the real leadership of this conven tion by deciding to organize a willy-nilly draft of Gov. Adlai Stevenson. Matt Connelly and other Whit House allies of the pro-Barkley party leaders have been doing their efficient best to set the President against the Illinois governor. Tru man would not "stick his neck out for Stevenson." Truman Warned Truman might also have backed W. Averell Harriman, as, indeed, he was three-quarters committed IV UU. iJUl dgcllll, I Jit pi MfJ leaders warned the President, probably entirely accurately, that at least two-thirds of the conven tion delegates would gang up to stop a Harriman nomination. Among the candidates accenia- " ble to the President, only Barkley was left. So Barkley got the fam ous nod. The question still re mains how much this nod Is worth. The pro-Barkley leaders divid naturally into two factions. Th first faction is the Senate group, master-minded by the always adroit Senate secretary, Lesli Biffle. These men are for Barkley all the way. Faction number two comprises such local potentates as Col. Jacob Arvey of Illinois, Mayor David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh and National Committee Chairmay Frank McKinney. These men are not all-outers. They are for Barkley because they like him, think him a gooo campaigner and ' believe he will hold the Democratic party togeth er. They would much prefer to draft Gov. Stevenson. But they db not dare start a draft-Stevenson movement at this time without lead from the White House. Draft-Stevenson On the other hand, if, Vice Pret ident Barkley does not get a maj ority in a fairly early ballot, t draft - Stevenson movement wi J get going all but spontaneously. In that case, those who really prefer Stevenson will soon begin desert ing Barkley as well as the othet candidates. The snowball can then roll up rather rapidly. Nor will the President try to stop the snow ball. His nod to Barkley is only intended to give the vice presi dent his chance. It is not a prom ise of last-ditch support. Heavy Setback Then too, the forces of Sen, Estes Kefauver and Averell Har riman have now united to fight Democratic Chairman McKinney'a intended compromises of the civil rights issue and the delegate con tests in Mississippi and Texas. It McKinney is beaten on these is sues, it will be a heavy setback for the Barkley strategists. Finally, there is the ruck of delegates, now just arriving in Chicago. Rightly or wrongly, th great majority of them have re covered from the defeatism which the mere name of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower formerly inspired. They think their party can win again, and most of them have an acute personal interest in victory. They do not seem to be too pleased by the news that Barkley, so widely advertised as the 'caretak er candidate," has got the nod. Summing up, Barkley is now the favorite, because he has th kind of support from trfe leaders that Truman got In 1944. His chances are all the better because, again as in 1944, the Libera Democratic forces are divided and distracted. But Barkley'a age and the "caretaker label" ar still znotf heavy handicaps, and this la still very much a horse race. (Copyright, 1952, New York Her ald Tribune, Inc.