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DTP Weather Max. - t? - 97 67 S3 Milk S3 4 54 99 Precis M .00 trac " Jt .00 Salem Portland San Francisco Chicago New York 84 71 : Willamette River -3.4 feet. ' FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary Field. Salem): Mostly cloudy briefly this morning, becoming fair and a little cooler today, tonight and Wednesday. High today 88 to 8. low tonight SO to 52. Temperature at 11:01 jiu was 56 degrees.. . ' POUNDQD 1651 - The liquor commission has been giving attention to the lack of uniformity, in hours in which the sale of intoxicating beverages is permitted in licensed places. For which are permitted to dispense only beer must end' their sale at one o'clock a xcu while ch bs where hard liquors may be served con tinue until, 2:30 ajn. Also under consideration is a proposal to ban $ales of beer I in taverns during morning hours on Sunday. The commission has futhority under the law ,to :egulate hours when alcoholic beverages may be sold. It has the luty also of regu lating the liquor traffic in a man ner . that will minimize the evils frequently associated with it. One finds it hard; to lustily the dis parity in hours between taverns ' and clubs. Since the latter usually are serving hard liquors it would seem their hours should be fur tailed, and not made longer than for bars which dispense beer only. As for Sunday morning closing, that might be welcomed by tav era-keepers. Beer sales at that time are at a minimum. There seems no need to encourage the Sunday morning toper. some state stores stay open until eleven or twelve at night? Osten sibly the reason is to keep the hours business. But the late open ing encourages the boozer to keep on drinking. It would be a move in the direction of sobriety to -nit back the hours when the state stores are open. What is. important is to avert the evils which once A ere so great s to brine about legal prohibi tion. This was repealed but those who sponsored repeal professed to favor strict regulation. A revision of hours when alcoholic bever ages may be sold seems to be in order, in, taverns, clubs and Etate stores. Jets Blast U.S. Plane Over Yellow Sea WASHINGTON UP)- Two jet fighters with Chinese Communist markings jumped a U. S. naval patrol plane over the Yellow Sea last Thursday, killing two of the crew but failing to bring the plans down. ' ! .' The Navy reported the sky en counter Monday. ; It said the. slow American fly ing boat returned the fire of the jets, fought them off and then managed to limp back to the West Coast of Korea with two crewmen dead and two wounded. None was from the Pacific Northwest. The Americans did not claim to have damaged the Red jets, de scribed by the Navy as Russian built MIG-15's. The Navy plane was , a 200-mile-an-hour Martin Mariner on a routine patrol ot the sea be tween Korea and the Chinese mainland. ' i ' Naval spokesmen siid he fly ing boat was patrolling about mid way between the southern tip of Manchuria and tne easternmost point of the Shantung peninsula when it was discovered by the Red fighters Circling the slower aircraft, each of the jets made three firing passes, pressing all their attacks from the rear. The Americans an swered back with their machine guns. ; .. Although the flying beat was damaged, the pilot got it back to the Korean coast and set it down at Paengntong-Do, just south of the 38th parallel. After m'.Tgency repairs, the plane proceeded to Iwakuni in Japan. Sen. Morse Offers Active Support to 'Citizens for Ike9 WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Wayne Morse said . Monday that as an "independent, liberal" Republican he would give whole-hearted sup port to Uwignt d. iasenhower in the fall campaign. The Oregon 'senator said in a statement he had given this as surance to Walter Wililams and Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, directors of the Citizens for-Ssenhower orga nization. ; This group hopes to corral independent votes for the GOP presidential nominee. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH "Kiss me, Alfred!" t - - - 102nd YEAR Yes, Even Weatherman Is Hot : J -'A I f ' 'f ' t - . t- r : - . ' a ir- . v. : ' ) r- I f I- " t K ' I " Here's m weatherman stewinr in his own predictions as prolonged hot spell continued in Salem Monday. Robert Beal, 1365 N. 5th St an old hand with the minimums and maximums, swabs off the per spiration while looking: at the mercury which climbed to 102 de crees Sunday and 97 degrees Monday, hottest temperatures' of the last six years. Beal insists that a warm air mass from Arizona is responsible for the heat wave and that he had nothing- to do with it. (Statesman Photo.) Mercury 97 Slight Relief Forecast Salem residents experienced a little relief from Sunday's hot blast with a high : of 97 degrees recorded Bureau. Prediction for today ana atures in the 80's. .. ' L- Tires, the bain of a hot humid summer, continued to plague fire men throughout the state. Three lightning fires were reported blaz ing an area 10-miles square in the Blue River area of Lane County. Vance Morrison of the State For estry Department said he received a call lor 50 more men Monaay evening to aid in ngnung tne blaze. There was no immediate danger, but a breeze was learea capable of spreading the proxim ity of the blaze. Near Salem Monday afternoon a fire struck the property of Flor ence Berndt of Cunningham Lane destroying garage valued at about $750. The blaze, started from an unknown source, was dis covered by C. H. Thurman, brother-in-law of Miss Berndt who lives next door. Volunteer firemen of the Liberty-Salem Heights department an swered the 3 p.m. alarm and kept flames from spreading to nearby grain fields, nearly ripe for har vest. I -Water Use Grows Normal daily summer .consump tion of water in Salem, continu ing at about 21,000,000 gallons of water, was said by John Geren, city water manager, to be comfort ably available for the time being without fear of rationing. The weather .oddities whlcn Sunday brought hail and dust storms as well as heat, cost orcn- ardists of the Medford, Ore., re gion from a quarter million to a half million dollars, the Associa ted Press reported.. Jackson County Agent C B Cordy made that loss estimate aft er a Monday survey. He said that most of the damage was to pears He nointed out that despite the amount of money lost, only a mi nor part of the rich crops of that region were damaged. Irrigation Helps Willamette Valley farmers were saying Monday that their trend to ward more and more irrigation, is a life-saver in years such as this. With the warm nights of the past few days bringing on harvest time more rapidly the growing of truck crops such as sweet corn and beans, squash and beets for the canneries is no longer attempted without irrigation. Beans particularly are hasten ing harvest : season, cannerymen said Monday. Salem canners are planning 24-hour shifts to take care of the heavy picking this week. Sweet corn growers, too, are reporting that the warm nights and moisture from irrigation is hastening their crop. Crops Good Crops are very good, farmers report, as the hot weather did not come early enough to retard de velopment of seeds. Freak weather during the heat of the . past lew days brought phone disturbances in Medford. Work crews said it was the worst in their recollection. Between 1, 200 and 1.400 phones went out as 15 cables were shorted by light ning? Some of the Monday readings were: Roseburg 100, Portland 99, The -Dalles and Ontario 98. Eu gene and Pendleton 97, Redmond 92, Baker 91, and Klamath Falls 88. ' SALEM r-KECIPITATlOX Sine Start of W either Tear Sept. This Year 4un Last Year Normal 37.48 Th Monday; Monday by the baiem weatner weanesaay is cooier wiin temper Silverton Chief Of Police Quits Over Pay Issue Statesman News Servle ( SILVERTON Chief of Police Victor Grossnickle gave the ; Sil verton City Council two weeks notice Monday night following a discrepancy over payment for an extra week's vacation. The Council advised Grossnickle he, could only have two week's vacation with pay. He had submit ted a request 'for payment of three weeks he. had taken. Mayor Earl Ross of Silverton advised the Chief that he should have ; dis cussed the matter of taking three weeks vacation with the city be fore he left. Grossnickle contended that he had the vacation coming because of the overtime he had put in. The city returned that as the chief of police he should put in extra' hours. Eldon Mobley, a member of the police force, advised the Council that if Grossnickle leaves he will leave too. 1 French Liner PARIS WV The French Line Monday cancelled the next ' sail ing of the hard-luck liner Flandre in order to try to straighten out the kinks that jinxed her maiden voyage. . Instead of sailing for New York Aug. 14 the ship will stay in Le Havre for a thorough going over, The Flandre was late getting to New York because of various bugs in her machinery and two days late leaving because of efforts to fix them temporarily. 12 PAGES Cancels Trip Housewife Answers Scientists1 Puzzle Over Strange Substance ALBUQUERQUE (-Scientists at the University of New Mexico were at their wits end until a housewife came to their rescue. Dr. Lincoln La Paz, head of the university's Institute of Meteor itics, recently got a package from a Macon, Ga school teacher. The teacher wrote that the substance appeared to have landed on her sidewalk in liquid form. She said she believed it to be the remains of one of the mysteri ous green fireballs a prize Dr. La Paz has been seeking for over a year. The package was first subjected to a careful Geiger counter check. No reaction. " Ortcjon Statesman, Satan, Oregon, Tuesday, August 8, 1952 Addou EDies in Ann Louise Woodmansee. 18. Wood&iniaDi) Woodmansee of 695 S. High St., was killed Monday evening when a car in which she was riding overturned on Highway 99E seven miles north of Albany. - Jack R. Wikoff, 18. driver of the car. resident of Salem Route 6, Box 353-B, and Miss Wood mansee, were rushed to . Salem Memorial Hospital, but nothing could be done for the girl. Wikoff suffered severe shock and cuts and bruises about the face. ' The accident occurred about 6 p.m. as the couple was travelling south toward Albany. A truck driver, who witnessed the fatal accident, was quoted by state po lice as saying the car passed him at the Santiam River bridge When the -car hit loose gravel on the highway shoulder It ap parently went out of control. striking the bridge railing .and overturning, the driver said " Both the teen-agers were grad uates of Salem High School last June. Miss Woodmansee, born in November, 1933, was popular In many school activities, including Tri-Y. She had enjoyed participa tion in athletics especially horse back riding and skiing, was a member of Job's Daughters, and had planned to attend the Uni versity of Oregon this falL Funeral arrangements are be ing handled by Clough-Barrick. Ocean-hopping Copters Arrive In Germany WIESBADEN, Germany (JP) - "Hop-A-Long" and "Whirl-O-Way" the first two helicopters to fly from the United States to Eu rope, arrived Monday night at this American base, their future home as part of the Air Rescue Serv ice. The helicopters, each carrying a pilot and co-pilot, touched down after a 225-mile flight from Am sterdam, The Netherlands, easiest leg of the 4,000-mile pioneering air journey from Westover Field, Mass. They left -Westover July 15. In their hop across the Atlantic the aircraft beat the non-stop dis tace record for helicopters by fly ing 920 miles. The previous rec ord, set in 1946 was 703.0 miles. Purpose of the flight was to de termine whether it is cheaper to ferry helicopter to Europe under their own power than to spend $6,000 each shipping them by boat It also was to test the needs for weather-reporting facilities in the Arctic and resistance of crews to fatigue. Uranium Rush Starts in North Saskatchewan PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (JPh History's first uranium rush got under way in northern Saskatche wan Monday. Hundreds -of prospectors spent Sunday night in tents in the North's deep bush. At 8 ajn. Mon day, tho provincial government threw open for public staking an area in the Beaverlodge country near Lake Athabaska In the northwest ' corner of Saskatche wan. In preparation for the expected heavy claims-staking, the govern ment brought in an extra field force. This group receives the miners applications in large ny Ion tents set up as field offices, and administers the claiming oath. No one knew how many claims might be filed. Some thought hun dreds of prospectors would come in. Others said that the figure might run to more than 1,000. GRADE SCHOOL BURNS PORTLAND PV- A six-room grade .school was destroyed by fire Monday in the Park Rose dis- trict on the outskirts of Portland. Opened, the package was found to contain a. charred, black, por ous mass. It was put through vari ous laboratory checks. Still no in dication of what it was. Micro scopic tests likewise drew a blank. The desperate expert consulted his wife. Mrs. La Paz looked at the stuff and said It was burned toast. She sniffed it and said it was burned toast. Then, to convince all doubters, she burned a half-dozen other pieces of bread and produced similar mess. Name of the teacher who sent it was not released. Owned Cari Crash daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Wreck Victim Ann Louise Woodmansee, 18, dau ghter of Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Woodmansee of Salem, who was killed Monday night In an auto mobile accident seven miles north of Albany on Highway 99E. Medal of Honor Winner Cited In Fraud Case WASHINGTON UP) - A Medal of Honor winner was accused Monday of faking the rescue of a young mother who pretended she was going to make a suicide leap from the ninth floor ledge last Thursday. . Clark King. District of Colum bia corporation counsel, said he had charged Maynard H. Smith, a World War II hero, with making a false report to police and fire men. King said a similar charge had been made against Roland Ben nett. He described Bennett as in terested in furthering Smith's poli tical ambitions. He said Smith had said he wanted to be governor of Virginia. Smith and. Bennett are fellow employes in a radio shop. King quoted Mrs. Louise Whom- ble, the young mother, as saying she was offered $500 to take part in the stunt and that Bennett had offered to back up the payment. Perfect Motive Mrs. Whomble, in a signed state ment to King, said the recent death of her youngest child was consid ered by the two men as a perfect motive for the purported suicide attempt. Hundreds of passersby watched as Smith and Mrs. Whomble car ried out their drama, high above busy 17th street. Smith was praised by firemen and policemen then for coaxing Mrs. Whomble back into the build ing. . Broaght Home Plane , He won . the nation's highest military award for single-handed ly bringing across the English Channel a burning Flying Fort ress containing wounded crew members. His citation credited him with manning a waist gun, battling the flames, and tending the in jured. . Smith, in 1948, pleaded guilty to a charge of violating food and drug laws by misbranding a "rejuven ation" cream which he sold to an elderly Arlington, Va., man. Clark said warrants would be issued for the arrest of Smith and Bennett. U.N. Warns North Koreans Of Bombings FIFTH "aIR FORCE HEAD QUARTERS, Korea UP) - Lt. Gen Glenn O. Barcus, Fifth Air Force commander, revealed'Tuesday that residents of 78 North Korean cities have been warned by the U. N. in advance to expect Allied Bombing attacks. . . : In effect, Barcus said, the Com munist high command has been tipped off since July 13 that -air strikes against certain tarkets were in' the offing. ' The Air Force commander called the U. N. program of leaflets and radio warnings "audacious." But he explained that it was inaugu rated in an effort to save the lives of North Korean civilians." 100 NURSES NEEDED WASHINGTON UPf- The Amer ican Red Cross appealed Monday for at least 100 nurses to be as signed to polio stricken areas. flf r . t s , , mill-fin fr, ' 'If yr . Si V s:s-,: . ' X I TV StMon Mary's mm Peak Site Planned ASHLAND (JP) A state-owned educational service television sta tion near Corvallis will be recom mended by the State Board of Higher Education, it indicated Monday in a committee session. But on another widely discuss ed issue financial help in build ing fraternity and sorority houses it said "no." The television proposal, follow ing a five-month study, calles for construction of a transmitter on Mary's Peak in the Coast range west of Corvallis, construction of studios at the state college and the University of Oregon, purchase of a kinescope for recording pro grams to be broadcast later, and a mobile unit for broadcasting events distant from the studios. These are the cost figures:" transmitter, $265,331; Corvallis studio, $140,149; Eugene studio, $139,508; kinescope, $37,784; mo bile unit, $68,791. These total to $649,563. In addition, an annual operating cost of $166,300 was list ed. Some Opposition There was some opposition to the plan, but the board decided that on Tuesday it would endorse the proposal and ask Gov. McKay to call together various state agen cies which would be interested in using a TV station, to consider adding their endorsement. The money would have to come from the Legislature. The board's finance committee decided it was opposed to a sug gestion that the state finance fra ternity and sorority . houses. It said the Greek Letter societies were valuable to the schools and were a marked aid to the state by providing housing but the state could not take over financing pf the houses. . G. F. Chambers, Salem member of the committee, said "this would be sT constant source of grief; we would just be borrowing a lot of trouble." To Abandon Channel The action expected on televi sion Tuesday will include a state ment saying the state board has no interest In Portland's educa tional channel 11. This will open the door to the Portland public schools, Portland area colleges, and Clark County, Wash., institutions. They are expected to discuss plans for an educational TV station in Portland. The proposed Mary's Peak transmitter will not reach Port land, aside for a few high city areas. Nor will it reach Eastern Oregon or Southern Oregon. This brought extended discus sion. Frank Van Dyke, Medford member, pointed out that taxpay ers In the blacked-out areas will protest. Would Delay Decision The board was told that instead of going into a complete program now it could reserve the channel for future use by allocating only about $50,000, but Chancellor Charles D. Byrne said this would serve no worthwhile purpose and be only putting off the decision. The Mary s Peak site was said in the committee report to be the best available since it was the highest point In. the Coast range, was sufficiently close to both the university and the state college, and would save money because there could be co-ordination with radio station KOAC at Corvallis. Western International At' Vancouver 4. Wenatchee 0 At Salem 2.- Portland 1 Only fames played Pacific Coast League At Los Angeles 1. Hollywood 0 Only game played American League At Washington 0. New York 1 ' Only gam. played National League No games scheduled - . Gov. St evenson Captive of Demo By The Associated Press . Gov. Adlai Stevenson hit back Monday at attempts to label him a captive for the Americans for Democratic Action and declared he will campaign for the presi dency as 'my own master. . v ADA is a self-styled liberal, non-Communist organization de dicated to carry on the principles of the late Franklin D. Roosevelt The question of ADA'S influ ence in the Stevenson camp arose after the Illinois governor named Wilson Wy att, former head of ADA, as ids personal campaign manager. - , r Stevenson disclosed he has also PRICE 5c By RAYMOND 1TOLBROOK WACO, Tex. (AP) -Death by fire and injuries claimed at least 28 persons Monday in the worst two-bus) collision in the nation's history. J On a clear stretch; of highway and with no other . vehicles known to be involved, two Greyhound buses - smashed together head-on. Within seconds, exploding fuel tanks transformed the buses into towering funeral pyres. The heat .was so intense that melted glass ilowed In small rivulets onto the pavement. Some passengers were cremated. . At least 25 passengers were'in- jured, Fivewerermissing. What caused the crash, and the exact number of dead, may never be known.. There were few clues be known. There were few clues to "why?" In the rubbish-like Counting the dead was a grisly task assigned to a Waco funeral home where pieces of charred bod ies here a detached foot, there a burned torso were carried. " Scorched letters from purses. seared remains of .clothing, lug gage tags, servicemen's "dog tags" these also were clues. It was about 4 a.m. with dawn less than two hours away, that M. B. Herring of Waco wheeled his big northbound bus, en route from San Antonio to Dallas, to ward his home town. Over a slight rise on two-lane Highway 81 and approaching him, Billy Malone of Waco was at the , wheel of his southbound bus, en route from Dallas to San Antonio. Malone's bus was about 100 yards past the crest of the small hill when someone screamed "look out!" Jt was too late. The National Safety Council In Chicago reported that what fol lowed: 28 known dead was the worst bus accident on council records. I Greyhound officials said about 41 were aboard the southbound bus. Late Monday they were checking all points on the schedule of the northbound bus to deter mine how many were aboard. -. Popular Route s Highway 81 is a popular route between Dallas and San Antonio, especially for servicemen return ing to Texas' many military in stallations after week-end leaves. Many ; servicemen . were among Monday s dead and Injured. Both drivers also died. i. The first of the bus passengers identified was Mrs.-: Maria C. Mu nez, 57, Waco. Two sons ,at first failed to identify the charred body, then they saw a gold fountain pen among the possessions. It was en graved "mother." The sons had given it to their mother several days ago as a birthday present. Pacific Nations Air Problems At Honolulu HONOLULU UPr Secretary of State 1 Acheson and the Foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand sat in their shirt sleeves around a broad conference table Monday discussing areas of com mon concern" in the Pacific. . Tn their second executive ses sion, the conference talk shifted to a discussion of areas of possible Communist threat, but a spokes man refused to pinpoint the areas. The discussion will continue Tues day, j - '' Working in humid heat, External Affairs Minister Richard G. Casey of Australia, Foreign Affairs Min ister T. CUf ton Webb of New Zea land and Acheson agreed on a general objective." ' " , It was "to establish the simplest and most informal political organ ization that would ensure effective fulfillment of the Anzus Security Council's responsibilities." Denies Being Liberal Group asked Harvard Prof. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., an ADA .member, to help him in. his bid for the Whit-House. : Asked about reports that he had been i taken over by - ADA lib erals; Stevenson told a news con ffrTce in Sm-inefield. I1L: "Nonsense. I have been my own master so far, and I will continue RMtM rfnlvinv tn the auestion as to ADA, Stevenson's comment had all the earmarks oi a counter punch at Republicans who have termed P'" me -nana-picaea miuHi!ste nf President Truman" and thus likely to carry on Tru man's policies. - No. 131 Favored Wounded 1 A yM.,A. f SWEGLE Marine Staff Sst. Wil liam (Bob) Coxad, who lost his right arm when wounded in ac tion in Korea. . j Swegle Marine Loses Arm in Korea Fighting Statesman News Service j SWEGLE Marine Staff Sgt William (Bob) Cozad, 21. waa wounded severely in a Korean battle, according to a Defense De partment telegram received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cozad, 1732 Birchwood Dr. i The family learned Monday that the son's condition is showing slight improvement after a similar telegram Saturday had informed them the wounds were critical. Cozad lost his right arm and in curred other injuries in the fight ing Friday, it was reported. He la now aboard the hospital ship USS Haven. . In a letter to his mother Friday Cozad had commented on the very hot weather and the fact he had been returned to combat after be ing in reserve with his unit of the 1st Marine Division. He did not identify his sector of the fighting. The young Marine attended Swegle School eight years and graduated from Salem High School in 1948. Soon after he went into.; the Marines and after several as signments in this country was sent overseas last September. , 50 Acres of Grass Burn StatesniAa News Serric HUBBARD A fire, started by a burning hay baler motor, de stroyed .upwards of B0 acres of f escue grass and straw Monday afternoon on the Ivan DeArmond farm one-mile west of Hubbard. The blaze, fought for almost four hours by fire equipment from Hubbard, Aurora and Woodburn, threatened a 30-acre oat field, sheep grazing on a nearby pasture and two homes on the farm. The motor on the hay baler rented from Daniel Yoder of Needy, caught fire and was quick ly taken up by the persistent breeze in the dry field. The baler was destroyed by fire. It was not known whether DeArmond had insurance but the baler was said by Yoder to be completely in sured. : - Girl Disappears From Ocean Liner NEW YORK IJPi An 18-vear- old girl disappeared from the Holland-American liner Veendarn in" midocean, a company official dis closed Monday night. The Holland-American spokes man said the tdrL Patsr Partridge, was travelling back from South ampton, England, with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Partridge, and a sister, Helen. When it was discovered Thurs day that Ms Partridge was miss ing, the spokesman said, the liner turned around and retraced its course, but found no sign of the girl. r