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Th Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, August 16, 1952
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Explaining the operation of Oregon'! civil defense test expected to be fin early today is Robert Sand
strom, the agency's administrative coordinator. Maj. G. W. Manassier, state coordinator for the Ground
Observer Corps of the Air Force, and Marie Trumm of the state civil defense headquarters staff,
watch as Sandstrom tells how the "emerrencies" will be listed on a bulletin board in the agency of
fice at the state office building.
TOM
Republicans in Idaho's first con
gressional district (the northern)
renominated Dr. John T. Wood
at their primaries last Tuesday.
From a one-time Socialist who
was elected mayor of his home
city of Couer d'Alene Dr. Wood
made the jump to become an ultra
conservative Republican. His prin
cipal claim to fame in his one term
as Congressman was his introduc
tion of a resolution to withdarw
from United Nations- He is a bitter
foe of that agency whose Charter,
he says, was dictated by Soviet
Russia. He regards UNESCO, one
of the related agencies of UN, as
an abomination and the devil's
snare of Communism.
Whether Idaho voters will retire
such a political isolationist is
doubtful though his opponent will
be Mrs. Grade Pf ost of Nampa, a
Democrat whom he defeated by
only 782 votes in 1950. The reason
for doubt is the. habit-of. Idaho
.voters for electing extreme con
servatives, with a few exceptions,
since the days of the independent
William E. Borah whose personal
prestige and power were suffi
cient to win all his elections as
senator. ?
Idaho's present senators, Henry
C. Dworshak of Burley and Her
man Welker of Payette are well on
the right of the Republican right
wine of the Senate. They rate
higher than their predecessors, D.
Worth Clark and Glen Taylor; but
they belongn the group of Senate
die-hards whose extreme conser
vatism puts' a road-block in the
path of Republican national vie
tory. . .
Senator Borah was an isolation
1st, to be sure, one of the "irrecon
enables," the "little group of will
ful men" as described by Presi-
den Wilson in the battle over the
League of Nations. But a lot of
history has been made since 1920,
and a lot of blood has been shed;
and the . urgency for setting up
some means of saving world peace
is so great that the United States
can well afford to join in United
Nations and UNESCO and other
international agencies which are
at best only a start on the road
to assured peace., Idaho voters
surely are not so benighted as to
think the United States can go it
alone in these perilous times.
Dr. Wood should be asked how
he squares his position with the
Republican platform of 1952 which
has this plank:
"We shall support the United
Nations and loyally help it to be
come what it was designed to be,
a place where differences would
be harmonized by honest discus
sion as a means for collective se
curity under, agreed concepts of
Justice."
TODDLER DROWNS
KINZUA, Ore. (JP) A 2-year-old
boy drowned in a TnHl pond
here Friday. He was Dennis Lloyd
Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther
HalL
Animal Crackoro
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West Defense Test
Alerts Control Unit
A test exercise simulating a war situation throughout eight wes
tern states sent Oregon civil defense' officials to the state control
center in the basement of the .state office building after midnight
rnaay,
The test is scheduled to last 40'
hours and over 100 persons are
scheduled to participate in Salem,
many .of which will be available
for duty during the entire time.
State Civil Defense Director
Jack A. Hayes said the heads of
all departments are on call: me
dical, security, transportation, fire,
engineering and heavy Tescue, wel
fare, communications and utili
ties. There are also representa
tives of forestry, civil aviation,
food supply committee and supply
committee as well as a v6lunteer
stenographic pool, ham radio op
erator, switchboard operator, cooks
and Boy Scout messengers.
Purpose of this exercise is for
staff training and there is to be
no movement of personnel and
equipment. To simulate emergen
cy situations, sealed letters have
been provided at the various civil
defense agency headquarters.
They have been prepared by the
Sixth Army headquarters in San
Francisco and are part of an
eight-state pattern of emergencies.
Each envelope has a time writ
ten on its face and when that time
comes the missile is opened and
the appropriate "emergency" cop
ed with.
Civil defense organizations to
participate in Oregon are Multno
mah, Clackamas, Klamath, Mar
ion, Benton, Baker and Umatilla
Counties and the city 01 roruand.
Results of the test will be analys
ed at a four-state critique to be
held at Ft. Lewis in approximate
ly two weeks. A liason officer from
the Oregon Military District will
be on hand at the Civil Defense
headauarters. The National Guard.
maintaining its office nearby, also
will be in liason with civil de
fense authorities during the joint
exercise. -
McKenzie Fire
Under Control
By The Associated Press
fTnntinued cool weather is fore
cast for Northwestern Oregon
through Saturday, and fire-fight-
wrs unrvarwl to be pettinz tne UD-
per hand on Oregon forest blazes.
A 700-flcre blaze in Eastern
Lane County was completely trail
ed rriday, in tne tsaie iuver wm
yon, 40 miles east of Eugene.
There were 400 fire-fighters on
the lines.
Another blaze, 13 miles south
west of Dallas, was controlled
alter spreading over 73 acres.
U. S. Reserves
Use of A-Bomb
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP
The United States served notice
Friday- it will not tie its hands
against using A-bombs, germ
weapons or chemical warfare
against aggression until there is
an ironclad, world' guarantee
against mass destruction weapons.
U. S. Delegate Benjamin Cohen
told the 12-nation U. N. Disarm
ament Commission this nation is
not setting itself up for a sucker
punch from future charter break
ers by . agreeing to any paper
promises that have no effective
xorce.
Silverton Bank's 1
Name is Changed
The name of the Coolidge and
McClaine Bank at Silverton has
been changed to First Silverton
Bank, according to supplemental
articles of incorporation of Cool
idge and McClaine, a corporation.
Filing the articles are F. N.
Belgrano, Jr., president of First
National Bank of Portland, J. H.
Mackie and O. H. Keller, directors
of the corporation. Capital stock
is listed a,t $150,000-
Motor Vehicle
Department
Plan Studied
Creation of a department of mo
tor vehicles by consolidation of
several motor vehicle agencies in
the state government probably
win De top discussion topic at a
September meeting of the high,
way legislative interim commit.
tee, State Senator Elmo Smith.
John Day, committee chairman
reported Friday.
The new department would be
created, from divisions in the see
retary of state's office and the
puouc utilities commission.
Highway revenues exrppflin or
au,uuu,uuu a year and 800 state
employes would be involved.
Under the proposed plan the
secretary of state would be
stripped of approximately 600 em
ployes and the utilities . commis
sion 200 employes.
Save $1,000,000
Remaining under the secretary
of state would be only the ac
counting, audits, buildings and
grounds and election divisions
Smith was quoted as saying that
"wuon oi me new department,
based on his investigations, would
save the taxpayers not less than
$1,000,000 annually. These savings
would accrue through a material
reduction in administrative costs.
Cost of collecting $50,000,000 a
year for highway purposes now
averages approximately 7 per cent
in Oregon, in Virginia, where the
laws are similar to those in Ore
gon ,the cost of collections aver
ages 2.8 per cent, according to in
terim committee miormation. in
Virginia a motor vehicle com
missioner, appointed by the gov
ernor, airects the enure opera,
tion.
Figures Vary
in uregon, provided the new
proposal is approved, a director
would be appointed bv the rav
ernor subject to confirmation hv
the state senate. A six-year term
nas Deen suggested.
Interim committee figures show
max me cost or collecting Oregon
highway revenues ranee from
low of one-tenth of one per cent
for the gasoline tax to a high of
1 1 per cent ior motor vehicle reg
istration.
Some -legislators have charged
wasre ana aupucauon in the lat
ter field.
The motor transportation divis
ion oi me uuuues commission col
lects almost $l2 nnn nnn Hi
biennium through the wiitrht.miia
tax. Cost of collecting this amount
nas Deen estimated at $1,500,000.
Gas Tax Least
The motor vehicle registration
division which lnrlnri
licenses and traffic safety, collects
Buuut 4i,uuu,uuu during a bien
nium and expends more than $4
000,000 In administration.
For the financial responsibility
uivisioa mere is an appropriation
vi approximately 5300,000 for ;
biennium and 24 persons are em
ployed.
The gasoline tax division, which
apparently has established the best
record in all motor vehicle divis
ions, collects more than fi2fnr
000 in each biennium at an overall
cost oz less than $300,000.
Max.
7
71
67
84
Min.
ss
61
54
72
Precip.
Salem -
Portland
San Francisco
trace
trace
trace
Chicago
New York
85
68
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Willamette River -3.4 feet.
FO RECAST (from' U. S. Weather Bu
reau, McNary Field. Salem): Cloudy
this moraine becoming generally fair
this afternoon and tonight. A little
warmer this afternoon with the high,
est temperature near 78 and the low
est tonight near 52. Temperature at
iz:i ajn. was 59 degrees.
SALEM PRECIPITATION
Sine Start ef Weather Tear Sept.
This Year
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Last Year
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Truce
Hopes
Raised
TOKYO (P)- The Communists,
on Allied demand, pin-pouuea
Friday the location of three new
prisoner of war camps on. which
they previously naa voiumeerea
no information. ,
The action came a day after
North Korean Premier Kim II
Sung in a speech at Pyongyang,
the Red capital, had voiced hopes
for an armistice.
It was too early to say whether
this meant a change of attitude
when the armistice negotiators re
turn to the tent city of Panmun
jom next Tuesday after a week's
recess. "
Removed Friction
Kim II Sung in his speech still
harped on the compulsory return
of all prisoners the last road
block on the path to a truce, rap
ing broadcasts still talked tough
and Moscow was pledging strong
support to North Korea.
The information on the new
prison camps, however, definitely
removed one point of friction.
Mai. Gen. William Harrison,
chief Allied negotiator, first asked
for the data on Aug. 8. The Com
munists ignored the request and
Harrison renewed it Wednesday,
sharply demanding the informa
tion "without further delay."
Send Maps of Camps
The Communists through liaison
officers sent maps showing the lo
cation of the three camps and
the boundaries of two more camps
which had been expanded.
One of them, a new camp. No.
17, was located at Yulni (possibly
Yul), 30 miles east of Pyongyang.
Premier Kim's speech, delivered
on the occasion of the seventh
anniversary of Korea's liberation
from Japanese rule, was unusually
moderate in tone.
"We hope to get an armistice
agreement wherein there is neith
er victor nor vanquished, he said.
In Washington, the State De
partment in a statement said it
saw "nothing new" in Kim's re
marks and challenged him to get
specific about any proposals to
end the fighting.
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Costello Starts
Prison Term
NEW YORK (JP Frank Cos-
tello's day of reckoning finally
arrived Friday and the kingpin
racketeer went to prison for the
first time in 37 years.
"Tell the boys I have come in
to do my bit," was the word he
relayed to reporters. "I don't want
no favors from nobody. I want to
be treated like everybody else."
The 62-year-old Costello sur
rendered with a smile to begin an
18-month term for defying and
walking out on the Kefauver Sen
ate crime committee in the spring
of 1951. He will be eligible for
parole after six months.
Convict Caught After
Three-Hour Freedom
State police Friday afternoon
apprehended Joseph M a r.t i n
Trapp, 20-year-old convict, three
hours after he escaped from a
bean picking crew at the state
penitentiary annex.
Trapp was walking north oi
Salem when cantured. He is serv.
ing a three year term for larceny
from Jackson county.
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Salem Capital Post t. American Legion Junior baseball team, champ
ions ef Oregon, break out With the smiles Just before leaving Salem
Friday night for Yakima and the Northwest District finals. The
'team will meet a BTngs, Mont- n?ne Sunday at t:3 pjn. (PST)
in the opening game of the championship play. All team member
Barr Baby First
For New Hospital
In, Lebanon Area
LEBANON, Ore. m - Mrs.
Loots Barr save birth Friday to
the first baby born in the new
1700,000 Lebanon Hospital.
The child and parents received
some $1,500 worth of rifts in
cluding; free hospital and de
livery charres.
i By coincidence the baby's fa
ther has the same name as the
man who raised most of the
money for the community his
pitaL The two Louis Barrs are
not related.
Firemen Seek
Showdown on
Petition Issue
Salem firemen Friday submit
ted to the city recorder's office a
signed petition in defiance of a
recent ruling by City Attorney
unris is-owiiz jr. Danning sucn pe
tition circulation by city employes.
The latest move by firemen in
seeking a charter amendment was
in answer to the ruling by Kowitz
which states that ". . . employes
in the classified civil service are
prohibited from actively engaging
in promoting or opposing any pol
itical measure or charter amend
ment."
In issuing this opinion Kowitz
pointed out that a person in the
classified civil service may be
discharged from his office or em
ployment, for violation of the rules
of the commission.
Rejected by Council
In essence, the petition submit-1
ted Friday, seeks a bargaining
committee which may represent
the police and firemen in "deter
mining and providing for fair and
just pay, pension andor working
conditions of 'the full-time mem
bers, other than the chief, of such
department.
A similar request by fire de
partment was rejected at the last
City Council meeting.
The petition submitted Friday
was said to have contained ap
proximately 65 names.
The petition was submitted by
Clyde K. Buckholtz, Salem fireman
of 969 N. Cottage St. Buckholtz, in
an interview Friday, said the peti
tion was filed to "see whether the
city employes privilege of taking
matters to the people is right or
wrong.
May Face Charge
"We don't want anything unless
the people are willing to vote for
it," Buckholtz explained.
If a charge is formally filed
against Buckholtz, he will be given
a hearing by members of the civil
service commission.
Mayor Alfred Loucks said that
"there has been no similar case
of this kind in the past, so I'm
not sure what action, if any, is to
be taken .The Council made their
recommendations at the last meet
ing." Members of the city civil
service commission include Chair
man William J. Entrees, Kenneth
C. Perry and Monroe Cheek. Sec
retary for the commission is Al
Mundt.
TYPHOON HITS OKINAWA
TOKYO IIP) A typhoon with
100-mile winds swept over the u,
S. air base on Okinawa - Friday
hhtht injuring four persons and
ripping roofs from some installa
tions, the Air Force reported Sat
urday.
Leave for District Legion Baseball Finals
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Tours; Big
Marines Turn
Desperate Red
Bid for Crest
By SAM SUMMERLIN
SEOUL UP) Snapshooting U.
S. Marines early Saturday beat
back 400 Chinese Communists who
charged up blood-soaked Bunker
Hill in a seventh desperate bid to
recapture the strategic height in
Western Korea. '
After three hours of savage
fighting the Marines still cling
stubbornly to the crest of the hill
almost on the border of the armis
tice town of Panmunjom. The Reds
scurried out of ran ,e of big Allied
guns.
Started at Nlrht
The attack began a half hour
after midnight when a Red platoon
charged up the hill. The attacking
force was quickly reinforced until
a full Communist battalion was
engaged, an officer said.
There was no immediate esti
mate of Red casualties. But after
the fifth and sixth attacks Friday,
official estimates placed Commu
nist losses at more than 3,000 dead
and wounded.
Attempt at Surprise
Since frontal attack had failed
four times, the Chinese command
tried surprise in the blackness of
1:20 a. m. Friday.
Flares exposed 200 Communist
soldiers advancing through a can
yon. Marine artillery crashed
among the Chinese and not an
enemy soldier reached the hill.
This proved to be a diversion,
because 200 more Chinese leaped
out of the darkness from another
direction and charged wildly to
ward the hilL Marines on the
heights cut them down on the
lower slopes.
Aly, Rita Fail
Reconciliation
HOLLYWOOD (JP)- Aly Khan
had a "lovely" three-hour lunch
eon with his estranged wife Rita
Hayworth at her Beverly Hills
mansion Friday.
"It was a most pleasant visit,"
the Moslem prince told reporters
as he left. "I had a lovely time."
He turned aside all questions
about a possible reconciliation
with a curt "let's talk about
something else."
While Aly refused to talk, mu
tual friends, say he would wel
come an end to the couple's .mari
tal troubles. Miss Hayworth has
given the idea no encouragement.
Aly looked downcast as he left
after a five-hour visit early Fri
day morning. i
Miss Hayworth filed suit for di
vorce in Reno, Nev., after leaving
the wealthy prince in Europe. She
likewise has declined comment on
reconciliation rumors!
Russians Reject
Austria Truce Bid
WASHINGTON .(JP) After five
months of silence, Russia has told
the Western powers it will not
accept their proposal for an ab
breviated peace treaty with Aus
tria. .
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States in
Fight Over Comics
Ends in Death for
One in Aged Home
SAN FRANCISCO (JP- Two
old men In the La run a Honda
Home for the Aged Quarreled
over a Western eomie book
Thursday nirht.
Friday one of them called the
desk clerk and reported, "I kill
ed my roommate last nlrht."
Police found that Aurvst
Swenson, 76, former laborer,
had been killed by beating with
a broomstick and choked with
a toweL
Police Officer Charles Thol
lander said that Georre Watson,
who claims to be 68 but is on
the home's records as 88, ad
mitted attacking Swenson. .
Watson said the quarrel be
gan when he found his favorite
comic book hidden nnder the
bed of Swenson, his roommate.
Trespassers
Blamed for
Fatal Crash
A light plane crashed about 15
miles south of Brookings across thel
California line Thursday, and the
State Board of Aeronautics here
blamed the crash on foolishness
and law violation by a group of
trespassers.
The crash killed a well-known
Southern Oregon newspaper pub
lisher, Dewey Akers, about 52. He
was publisher of the Brookings
Harbor Pilot.
Under treatment ii a Crescent
City, Calif., hospital are Roy
Brimm, owner and pilot of the
plane, and Ed Thornton, service
station operator.
A statement from State Aero
nautics Director W. M. Bartlett
said the pilot noticed two cars and
a group of children on the runway
when he was coming in for a land
ing at Brookings. To keep from hit
ting these people, the pilot had to
make another landing run. In mak
ing the circle the plane was forced
to fly through dense fog, and it
smashed into trees about two miles
from the coast highway.
"Cause of this accident was not
engine failure, but gross foolish
ness and law violation on the part
of some members of the general
public," the aeronautics board
said. v
The tresspassers on the airport
runway had opened a gate, on
which a sign stated they were per
mitted to enter only for aviation
"purposes.
After the crash Thornton man
aged to crawl to the highway and
hail a passing motorist. Thornton
suffered a brain concussion and
Brimm received two broken legs.
Portland Firm Bids
Low on Woodburn Job
P. S. Lord, mechanical contrac
tor of Portland was low bidder
Friday oh a project to build a
sewage disposal plant at MacLaren
School for Boys at Woodburn.
The firm's bid of $37,473 was
low of five opened by the state
board of control. The contract will
probably be awarded Tuesday.
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Spotlight
'Solid South'
Is Democratic
Top Objective
By The Associated Press
Millions of Americans from mart
to coast will eet a chance to se
Gen Dwight" D. Eisenhower and
Gov. Adlai Stevenson as the rival
standard bearers criss-cross the
country in their bids for the White
House. '
And the eeneral and the pov-
ernor may meet head-on, via tele
vision, in a modern version of
the famed Lincoln-Douglas de
bates of nearly a century ago.
Campaign plans began to crys
tallize Friday with announcements
from Democratic and Republican
headquarters indicating the two
protagonists Will hit the trail with
a vengeance following the formal
Labor Day kickoff on Sept. 1.
Plans Two Trips
In Springfield, UL, Gov Steven
son . Chartered a frnsswrnintrv
stumping tour spotlighting New
York and California as two of the
key states the Democrats will make
an all-out fight to capture in the
November election.
Stevenson's headquarters said
the 52-year-old governor, who has
already cut auite a smash as
phrase-maker, will make two ora- -
loricat excursions into CaUiforma
in September and again in Oct
ober. In addition. Stevenson will
speak in New York City in mid-
JctoDer and campaign through "
the Empire State in quest of New
York's 47 electoral votes.
Starts at Boise
Democratic strategy centered on
the idea that if Stevenson could
capture the traditionally Demo
cratic "Solid South's" 138 electoral
votes plus the combined 77 votes
of California and New York it
would leave him only 51 short of
the 266 votes needed for victory.
In Denver, Eisenhower's head
quarters announced that the gen
eral will cut loose at Boise, Idaho,
next Wednesdav with what
termed his first outright political
speech as the Republican presi
dential nominee.
It Was also disclosed that Ficon-
hower will probably accept a bid
to address the national convention
of the American Federation of
Labor in New York during tha
week of Sept 14. The AFL invited
Dotn Eisenhower and Stevenson to
speak.
Vice Charges
Filed Against
Playboy Heir
NEW YORK OP) -A societv
playboy, heir to oleomargarine
millions, was held in $50,000 bail
Friday accused of turning his
East Side apartment into a plush,
expensive house of prostitution.
He is Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke,
22, a slight, handsome young man
whose name is in the Social Reg
ister, society's bluebook. He was
considered one of New York's
most eligible bachelors.
Jelke was charged with traf
ficking in beautiful women and
living off their earnings, which
sometimes ran as high as $500 a
call.
Raiders claimed to have seized
him early Friday In bed in his
apartment with a shapely blonde,
Sylvia Eder, 24. Walls, of the
apartment were lined with pic
tures of nude women. Miss Eder
was held as a material witness.
Jelke denied the vice charges.
Jelke was said to be due to come
into an inheritance in three years
when h2 is 25.
His father, John T. Jelke of
Chicago, sold his 25 million dollar
oleo business to Lever Brothers
Co. in 1948.
WITHDRAW PICKETS
ASTORIA WVThe Independent
Columbia River Fishermen's Pro
tective Union late Friday with
drew its picket lines from a fish
cannery here.
Western International
At Spokane S. Salem 1
At Yakima 4. Victoria 9
AtLewiston 3. Tri-City 2
At Vancouver S. Wenatchee
Pacific Coast Lea
At Seattle 1. Portland 1
At Oakland 12, Los Angeles S
At San Diego 9, Sacramento 1
At Hollywood S. San Frandaco
American League
At Boston 3. New York 1
At Cleveland 7. St. Louis 6 (12 int.)
At Philadelphia 11. Washington 1
Only fames scheduled
National League
At Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia i
At New York 3-3. Bos Ian .4-1
At St. Louis S, PittsDurEU