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Weather Max. M . S3 63 S3 Min. . . 92 sa 34 65 Frecip. .M .00 trace ' .00 1.04 Salem .... Portland San Francisco Chicago s mm mi) Geared t the Growth el Oreaea jiew Yorx 83 TO Willamette River -3.4 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary field. Salem): Fair to day and tonight except for brief morn ing cloudiness. Little change in tem perature with highest today near 86. lowest tonight near 84. Temperature at 12:01 was 37 degrees. r 102nd YEAR 10 PAGES The) Orogon Stcrtesmaxu Satan, Oregon, Monday, August 11. "J 952 PRICE 5c No. 137 New Willamette River Bridge Nearly Ready for Deck Ystiiiis) Mm Umk Bml King -POUNDDD 1651 , it I ' . Jordan May 1 SSSDOB The big political parties in the U. S. A. are not the only ones with seams down the middle. There is the British Labor party with its sharp division between former Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his ex-cabinet minister Aneurin Be van. The split occurred during La bor's rule when Bevan up and resigned in protest against Attlee's determination to go in for rearma ment. It flared up again a few days ago when Bevan, who has been chortling over the Tory gov ernment's effort to avert economic disaster by lengthening the period for rearming,-related how he had opposed the policy when it was adopted by the Labor cabinet Next day Attlee rose in Parliament and charged his erstwhile aide with violating one of the sacred traditions of British government in disclosing what transpired with in the cabinet. Bevan made an at tempt to defend himself; but the breach was definitely widened and deepened by the Bevan disclosure. Last 'year there was talk that Attlee might try to discipline the " fiery Welshman, but cooler heads prevented both an ouster and a secession. In other words, party expediency forced a compromise, Whether the issue now will be cressed to a showdown Is not known. Bevan has great strength among the leftwingers while Art' lee is quite solid with the power ful Trades Unions. Nor does Churchill rule without opposition within his Conservative party. Younger members have cone a great deal of grumbling, complaining (Continued on editorial page, 4) Italy Police Seize American Qgarets i - : t GAETA, Italy (-Police seized four tons - of American cigarets Sunday. They charged the smokes were being smuggled into the country near here. American cigarets are sold in Italy by a state monopoly and it is illegal to import them into the country privately. ; ' Animal Crackera Ev WARREN GOODRICH tLtf movt. Thtst thJfck-skinnd politicians art ruining mef - v. , r j ' .I,, ."-- ::.-:- k II Slated for completion In October, Salem's new Marion Street Bridge over the Willamette has been taking definite form of recent weeks. ' This thoto. looking toward the east, shows its relationship to the Southern Pacific Bridge (the Center Street Bridge is out of sight to the right), and portrays one of the floor expansion Joints (in fore ground). The roadbed will be added soon. Beds Win as Changes Hands 5 Times By WILLIAM SEOUL UP) Allied warplanes nese Reds Sunday on scorched "Siberia Hill" in Western Korea after the Communists had driven off hours. - The U. S. Eighth Army disclosed that units of the First Marine Division wera fighting for the low Council to Get Truck Traffic Bin Tonight A controversial bill to restrict truck traffic on parts of Liberty Street will be introduced to the Salem City Council tonight. The bill, which would prohibit movement on the northbound half of the grid couplet in Salem, is expected to draw heavy opposition from trucking interests, especial ly from firms operating from the Liberty district and from I farm trucks 'coming in from south of the city. , Residents of the South- Salem thoroughfare 'asked the ordinance to keep the heavier vehicles from using the route. Most northbound and through truck traffic uses 12th Street through that part of the city. -Trucks are presently prohibited from using Summer St., main southbound route of 89E in the north part of Salem. Salem police have for several days virtually barred trucks from the Liberty Street route and, the highway department has posted a new illuminated sign at j 12th Street junction directing trucks to use South 12th Street in entering Salem from the south. I HerbertHoover 78 Years Old PORTLAND (;p)-Herbert I Hoo ver, -the nation s only living ex president was 78 years old Sun day. ' I He was in Portland to address a Northwest Engineering centen nial meeting Saturday night. But he left again early Sunday to re sume a' fishing trip in Southern Oregon. " ? Hoover, who spent part of his early life in the Pacific Northwest, said that "in those early days there were more fish in propor tion to the water." TENTH WIFE CHOSEN MAMARONECK, N.Y. UPh Tommy Manviile said Sunday he had picked Conine Daly, 24-year-old Brooklyn blonde, for his tenth wife. His ninth, Anita Frances Roddy-Eden, divorced him Satur day In Mexico. STRIKE CLOSES MILL BUFFALO, N. Y. (- Produc tion at the Republic Steel Corp, plant here edged toward complete shutdown Sunday as open hearth workers voted to continue a walk out that started Saturday. Repub lic termed it a "wildcat strike- Korean IHIill C. BERNARD attacking in waves blasted Chi fighting Marines three times in 24 but strategic knob. The hill changed hands five times during the day. But the rugged Chinese troops clung to Siberia despite the with ering Allied air blows and per sistent ground attacks. U. S. Fifth Air Force B-26 bombers bombed Communist troop areas at Changyon, on the Haeju Peninsula in Western Korea, Sun day night, Results were unob served- i ' An-Eighth Army staff officer said Communist battle front cas ualties during the week ended Thursday totaled 2,550, including 1,243 xllled. The Korean war has turned into a series of scattered and violent battles for lonely outposts. A bat talion officer described it as "the creeping offensive of the Com munists." The officer cited Siberia Hill" as an example. He said the Reds try to seize advance Allied out posts and fortify them so strongly and quickly that recapture is dif ficult and costly. "Siberia Hill" Is a low. shell- pitted knob east of the truce con ference site of Panmunjom. The GI nickname for the height is of obscure origin. From 3 p.m. until dusk Sunday, the aerial assault on the hill was virtually continuous. Plane after plane unloaded bombs, rockets and flaming Jelled gasoline. The Reds, attacking behind an intense artillery and mortar bar rage, first seized Siberia Hill 'just before dawn Saturday. Driven off at 11 a.m. they stormed it again 15 minutes later. After hours of skirmishing, the Ames recaptured it at 1:15 a.m. Sunday, but the Reds drove back to the crest by 6 aan. Sunday. 'Missing' Scio Man Just With Relatives Statesman Newt Set-Tics . ALBANY Leon Earl Slawter, 58, Scio, who was reported by his wife as missing from home Friday morning, returned home Sunday after having spent Saturday night wren relatives in Albany. Slawter, who had gone into Al bany Friday morning, decided to stay with relatives there and read an account of his being missing in the Albany paper Sunday. Many searchers feared the man had drowned in Crabtree Creek which runs by his home in the Lacomb district near Scio. Midget Railroad Wreck Kills Baby . LONDON UP) - Derailment of a midget railroad train killed a year-old baby girl and injured 19 fun-seekers in London's Alex andra Park Sunday. The child, was mangled in the wreckage of the train a -gasoline powered locomotive ' and three open coaches. It 1 smashed into trees on a journey with about 40 persons around the shores of small lake Jap Accuses Roosevelt of Inciting War TOKYO (JP) The man who was Japan's vice foreign minister until five months before Pearl Harbor attacked the late President Roose velt Sunday as a "war criminal" who lured Japan into the Pacific War. The attack appeared in the lat est issue of the Japanese maga zine "HanashT (Story"). , In it Chuchi Ohashi, 59, who was No. 2 man in the Japanese foreign office for a year ending in July, 1941 accused Roosevelt of "de ceiving and provoking Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor so he could mobilize America for the war he wanted. "The real war criminal was Roosevelt, and I wish to indict him at the divine court," the ex-diplomat wrote. He also called For mer Secretary of State Cornell Hull "a hypocrite." In Washington, where Hull .now makes his home, a member of his family said he would have no comment to make. Mail Rocket Tests Misfire BREMEN. Germany UP) - The German Rocket Research Society was disappointed in its first post war tests Sunday of rockets which the experimenters hope will some day deliver mail from Hamburg to New York in one hour. Alfred Puellenberg, head of the society, said none of the five rockets fired from a field near Bremen proved satisfactory. Their aeronautical stability must be im proved, he said. Although their long-range goal is trans-Atlantic rocket mail serv ice, the researchers more imme diate aim is to establish rocket mail between Hamburg and Hel goland, 100 miles away. BLOOD DONORS SOUGHT ' WASHINGTON UP) - An inten sive nationwide campaign for blood donors was announced Sun day by the Office of Defense Mo bilization (ODM), assigned by President Truman to coordinate the program. Georgia Boy Oregon Cars AKRON, O. (Special)-Joe Lunn, 11, of Thomasville, Ga, won the 15th All-American Soap Box Der by Sunday in Akron, O. Salem, Oreg. representative in the race, Doug Adams, was nosed out in his first heat. (Young Adams, son-of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Adams, 4090 N. River Rd, was winner of the Salem Soap Box Derby held at Derby Downs in Bush's Pasture. (The entire Adams' family, including Danny who placed second to older broth er Doug, were in Akron for the national event Sunday.) ' The Salem racer, pacing in the 42nd heat, was outdone by John Pickering of Omaha, Nebr. Doug took his defeat like a good sport and was in fine spirits, with the other boys who failed to qualify for the grand prize of a $5,000, four-year college scholarship. The other two Oregon entries also were eliminated in their first heat. Abdicate BEIRUT, Lebanon (flV-Usually reliable sources said Sunday Jordan's ailing King Talal will ab dicate within the next 48 nours. Talal is reputed to suffer from mental trouble. A three-man council Is now running the Jor dan government for him. Crbwn Prince Hussein, his eldest son, is a student in England. The prince will be 18 next May. After Farouk Exit The word that King Talal would step aside developed just 15 days after the abdication and exile of a brother monarch in the Moslem Middle East, Egypt's Kink Farouk I. Egypt's throne goes to Farouk's infant son, King Fuad II, who is now with Farpuk and Queen nar riman on Capri. , The three-man council has been studying the question of the exact date on which Crown Prince Hus sein can assume royal powers. Father Assassinated Talal, 41, became King in Sep tember, 1951, following the assass ination of his father. King Abdul lah, on a visit o the Arab-held Old Jerusalem two months earlier. At mat time laiai was in a Swiss clinic for treatment of .his mental ailment understood to be schizophrenia. Members of his household reported him violent at times. a Official denials have met two stories concerning the King: That he once took a shot at Brig. Gen. John B. Glubb Pasha, British commander of Jordan's Arab Le gion, 'and that he once attempted to stab his own wife, Queen Zeme. Last May 18, Talal, left for Eu rope to undergo further treat ment.- Changes Hands LONGBEAbH.CaUfr(iri-James Rogers of 5an Gabriel.; Calif.. puffed his way to the wld's pipe smokmg chaniionship in the good time of 67 minutes, 2 seconds. Rogers out-smoked defending PipeS moking Championship champ Paul Spaniola of Flint, the first link In an eventual union Mich., at the International Asso- of 155 million many-tongued peo ciation of Pipe . Smokers Clubs pies in a Federation of Europe. Convention Sat urday. Spaniola placed second, He holds the rec- ord at 88 minutes, 2 seconds Idea of the contest is to keep 3.3 grams of tobacco burning as long as possible. . Mrs. Mikele Shook of Lake El more, Calif., kept her pumice stone pipe lit 47 minutes, 5 sec onds, to set a woman's record. "Think nothing of it," she said modestly to ber fellow feminine pipe lovers. f'I've been smoking a pipe for 30 of my 45 years.' Pen Pals Fail To Find Love at 5 S CORK. Ireland CPV-Frank and Brenda kissed the famed Blarney Stone Sunday and then announced eloquently that there is positively no romance, and isn t nicely to be one. He is Frank Hayostak, 27-year old arc welder of Johnstown, Pa. and she is Breda O'Sullivan, 24' year-old Irish milkmaid with the merry eyes, They started getting acquaint ed, in pen pal fashion, alter sne picked out of the Atlantic Ocean a message which he as a home ward bound Git bad set adrift in a pottle late in 1945. Frank flew over from America last week to meet the girl who found the bottle. Wins Derby; Fail to Place Joe Lunn from Georgia, at 11 years, is the youngest lad to have ever won this race. He rolled to first place in the finale in record time of 27.77 j seconds, the day's fastest performance. Joe, a fourth grader in a Thomasville, Ga., East Side school and 80 pounds of rac ing driver, Is one of five children. His mother made the trip by bus from Georgia to Akron to be pres ent at the boy's triumph. Young Lunn came back with a patched-up car after a first-heat crack-up to turn back the bids of 153 other aspirants to victory; He raced the remaining heats with the front of his bug patched up by masking tape and baling wire. His car was sponsored by the Ledger- Enquirer of Columbus, Ga. . Entrants in the Derby included drivers' from aU over "the United States, Canada, Alaska and one from Germany. Gold Beach Man Believed Drowned at Sea GOLD BEACH, Ore. (&) Leon ard Moore, about 39, of Gold Beach, was presumed drowned in the ocean near here Sunday night when a small f ishing boat capsized at the mouth of the Rogue River. Two other passengers in the boat, Morrie Graves, about 50 and his teen-age son, Denny, Gold Beach, were rescued after cling ing to the overturned boat for more than 2Vi hours. A number of persons on shore saw Moore's boat caosize as he attempted to enter the harbor at dusk. A boat -was launched in a rescue attempt while private planes took off from the Gold Beach airport and dropped flares over the drifting overturned boat to guide the rescuers. - The older Graves was suffering from severe shock when- rescued. His son was In good condition. I West Europe's Steel Board op LUXEMBOURG (-West ern Europe's steel-coal executive board opened shop here Sunday to begin the monumental task of tearing down barriers that have divided the continent for centur ies. A nine-man hinh authority endowed with unprecedented cow ers to -pool the vast steel and coal industries of France, West Ger many, Italy, Belgium. The Nether J?" 611(1 Luxembourg under the I r. " ' . Z tfol " eJJ aqu,arxe nere m u "pital ! ? S 7 Br&nd Thl f, ,,t. in the mereer nf thpsn Industrie As of this date, the nine men of the board sever all official con nections "with their own govern ments and tneir individual con nections, if any, with separate coal and steel concerns. They are the 'Ministry of Industry" over an area which now produces almost 40 million tons of steel and 220 million tons of coal annually. Their chairman is France's eco nomic wizard, Jean; Monnet. The executives will have full diplomatic status and will pay no taxes. Although their salaries have not been officially announced, a aipiomauc source said they wiu get around $10,000 or $12,000 a year tax free. Monnet may get more, tne source said. Tril T i. In lew Kecess MUNSAN, Korea UP) - Allied and Communist truce negotiators met for 35 minutes Sunday after a week-long recess and then re cessed for another week at Pan munjom. This is the third straight week-long recess. AU three have been requested by the Allies. The next meeting of the full delegations wiU be on Aug. 19. Peiping Radio during the past two weeks has fumed at Gen. Harrison and the Allied stand on prisoners. During the recess, Allied and Communist staff officers finished work on the English draft of i proposed armistice document. MARGARET IN GERMANY BONN. Germany (P)-Margare Truman spent a -day sight-seeing about this West (jerman capital Sunday and then headed for Ber lin. But she said she woman t ven ture Into the Russian sector there, Western International At Salem 4-4. Lewiston 5-3 " At Trl-Clty S, Spokane 1 Only games scheduled. Pacific Coast League At Portland 1-4. Oakland 4-3 (1st 10 Inn.) At Lna Anceles 8-1. Hollywood IX At San Francisco 0-4. San Diego $-3 At Sacramento i 3-4, Seattle - American League . At St. Louis S, Cleveland 3 a t r-hirara 3-5. Detroit 1-4 At Washington : 4-2. Philadelphia 2-4 At New York-Boston, rain. - National League At Cincinnati 2-4. St. Louis 3-2 At Pittsburgh 9-3. Chicago 9-4 At Philadelphia-Brooklrn. rain At Boston-New York, rata Opens Sh itfiiiii Adlai's Choice P: V mm MSLI""WW tf A I. Xl5. ' , I 'Ti lMt-aififli i i-i- inn A --- - ..aJt CHICAGO Stephen A. Mitchell, 49, choice of Gov. Adlai Stev enson for Democratic national chairman, answers questions daring news conference in his Chicago law office. Mitchell said that he's "strictly an amateur" in politics and that he couldn't discuss campaign plans until he confers with Stevenson and other leaders. (A Wirephoto). Democrats See in Big Voter Turnout WASHINGTON UPV-Democratic strategists may give. high priority to a get-out-the-vote drive in a belief, that record November bal loting will elect their presidential ticket. .. Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona told a reporter he is convinced that if as many as 50 million Americans vote, Gov. . Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois will defeat the i Republican nominee, Dwight D. Eisenhower.- - Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, run ning for re-eiection in Wyoming, said he thinks a heavy turnout of voters is certain to work to the advantage of the Democrats. "It always has," he contended. In 1948, President Truman got 24,104,030 votes and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the GOP nominee, got 21,970,986 of 48,690,- 075 votes cast. Other Candidates The remainder went to other candidates, with former Gov. J. Strom Thurmond of South Caro lina polling 1,169,1 18 as head of the State's Rights ticket and tak ing four states with 39 electoral votes away from Truman. Henry A. i Wallace, - Progressive Party nominee who got 1,156,883 votes, made Dewey a minority winner in New York, which then had 47 electoral votes, and in Michigan with 19 electoral votes. The action of the South Caro lina convention in endorsing the Stevenson - Sen. John Sparkman ticket last week indicated there may be no Southern holdouts this year. The Progressive Party won't figure in 1952 national results to the extent it did in 1948. Unbroken South Needed If the South remains unbroken, Democratic strategists believe that a heavy national vote will carry their ticket across, in the vital. thickly populated states where the electoral harvest Is heaviest. Eleven states which usually make up the Solid South will have 118 electoral votes this year to ward the 266 needed for election. Five border states Kentucky, Maryland. Missouri, Oklahoma and West Virginia provide an other 48 on which the Democrats obviously are counting. If he got all of these Stevenson would need only 100 more to win. New York and Illinois, plus either California or Pennsylvania, could supply the winning margin in that case. Wallowa Lake's Monsters 'Seen9 JOSEPH, Ore. (JP) - About dozen visitors at Wallowa Lake have reported seeing the lake's "monsters" recently. Fred Simmons. Joseph logger, reported he saw three of the crea tures last week rolling occasion ally to show white undersides. They have been a standing legend at the lake. There have been a multitude of reports concerning them and many theories but no photo graphs. . SAUM PKECIPRATION Since Start f Weather Tear Sept. This Year 42.69 Last Tear 4944 Normal 11M Victory Two Persons Missing, Four Hospitalized " YAKIMA fF)-Two persons were missing and four others were hos- ' pitalized Sunday when a flash flood fed by torrential rains that lasted more than an i hour, sent tons of water pouring down nor-maUy-placid Wenas Creek, about 10 mues norm or nere. In serious condition at a Yakima Hospital were Mrs. Alfred Webb, Mary Ann Webb, Mrs. Bill Eckley and Sharon Winchell, aU of the mu TTT n 1 umc wwu ui cii. iviusuig were Sharon, and five-vear-old Flovd wmcneii, son and brother. Yakima, reports of hoprfields lev eled, houses and cars smashed and imwor IinAc rinum At rVrarixVia waU of the Cowiche Growers Inc. warehouse was blown down. Power Cat Off jLdgnis ana power to x a Kim a and surrounding areas were cut off during the first impact of the storm as trees toppled across lines. The Yakima sheriffs office said it had sent a posse to look for the two missing persons. Mrs. Webb told deputies the creek rose so rapidly they did not have a chance to get out before the water hit. ; House Swirls Away I f she said the first hint of disaster came when she looked out the window and saw a rabbit hutch floating down the swollen creek. She said the next thing she knew her .house was starting to give way and drop into the swirling waters. Mrs. Webb said "someone, she didn't know who, grabbed her and pulled her free of the house. -One other house was washed in to the creek. The storm, accompanied by munaer ana ugntning, struck the Yakima valley area and also from Wenatchee to EHensburg about 4:15 p.m. Sunday afternoon. Streets Become Rivers In Yakima, streets became riv ers and water sloshed over side walks as storm sewers were un able to handle the sudden deluge. The sheriffs office said a slide blocked U. S. Hiehwav 410 in th Ellensburg Canyon between El lensburg and Yakima, i. Highway 410 is the main west-east route between Seattle and Spokane. The sheriffs office also said slides bad blocked the White Pass highway dui wey naa been cleared. PULLMAN UP)-A torrential rainfaU hit the "capital" of the Palouse country, Sunday, over flowed sidewalks in downtown Pullman and ' interrupted harvest in one of the nation's richest wheat belts. The tropic-like rains hit the town about 8 p.m. after a light morning shower and a day of threatening skies. Witbin two hours water was across the side walks and under the doors of some of the town's s low-lying buildings. Posse Finds Missing Tot BEND, UP) Two-year-old Lynn Munson strayed away from the fishing camp 'of his parents Sun day and was found by posse rid ers 2 hours later still walking away from the camp, t The boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Craig Munson, Portland, were camped at Todd. Lake ; Meadow when he disappeared. : Some 300 members of the Ore gon Association of Mounted Pos ses were in the area for-a three- day ride through the Cascades. They began a search as soon at the boy was reported missing. Larry w, Gassner, Bend, ana Joe Van Dyke, a member of the Washington County . Sheriffs posse, found the boy. Man Drowns, But Baby Swims Until Rescue Arrives MJSHAWAKA, Ind. (API- A 42-year-old Mlshawaka man drowned In a boat accident en C Ta...1i V lv.. Citnli night, but an 18-month -old baby bey's knowledge of swimming saved his ewn life. Stewart Martin sank Immedi ately after his eatooara motor beat upset. His wife, CeretU, and 18-month -old Lester Hard wick Jr., were thrown Into the water. Lester Hardwkk Sr. and friend, who saw ' the accident from the bank, rowed to the scene and found the baby pad dling to keep bis head above water. The Haxdwiek'a bad spent con siderable time this summer teaching the little bo how to swim short distances.