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t -...x ' item; J The Statesman! SalmT Oregon oovier v-ommumsr Party Conclave to C. E-i FfYl 1 I W I III V . ! THOMAS P. MOSCOW LP The first National hiling Communist Party since before and revamping or tne parry organization me Dig nems on ns program. It will be the most important iaSl SUCn uougres, iuc pcuij .10 m, MitchellTakes Over Reins of Demo Party I WASHINGTON W The Demo crats switched their party chair manship from a Truman man to a Stevenson man Wednesday and the &2r oledeed a militant campaign Sy said wouia mau a xovrm- per victory inevitable, - Stephen A, Mitchell, 49, a Chi eaeo lawyer handpicked by Gov, Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, re placed President Truman's nation al chariman, Frank E. McKin ney. One of the first things on the docket wider the new manage ment. Mitchell told a news con ference, is a series of regional meetings at which party leaders and candidates can get acquainted with Stevenson and himself. "I haven't met many of these leaders,- Mitchell said, "and they don't know what kind of a fish am." . Plans for the meeting, which probably wflT start on the West Coast early in September and be keyed in, with Stevenson s cam paign itinerary, were gone over Wednesday with the eight-member Democratic Executive Committee This committee also ratified, for all practical purposes, the change in command of the National Com mittee. But the Democratic Na tional Committee itself still must go through the legal routine of ap proving the Mitchell appointment. A meeting for that purpose has "tf&n called for Aug. 29 in Wash ington, but most of the 106 com mittee members art expected to vote by proxy. Tiger Lowry Next Matthews Rival BOISE, Idaho W Harry Mat thews wil start his comeback in heavyweight ring circles here Sept 1 and in a 10-round bout with Tiger Ted Lowry of New Bedford, Mass. Matthews . was knocked out by Rocky Marciano in the second round at Yankee Stadium last month, dousinr his hopes for heavyweight title match with Jer sey Joe Walcott. Lowry has gone the distance with Marciano in two fights, dropping decisions both times. Open 1:45 PJU. ' Dean Martin Jerry Lewis "Jumping Jacks" ' Marrserito Chapman "Man Bcdt" ContinMos James Stewart Wendell Corey t "Carbine William" - ; Jane Allyson "Girl In While" Open 6:45 P3L , John Wayne "Rd RiT- Susan Hayward Technicolor TULSA" HELD OVER! Matinee Daily From 1 P. M. Of Course I'm Stayin'I Martin and Lewis Can't Make a Jackass Out'a Mel - DONALD O'COiiriOU X? CO-HTTI r-v- ThrasHcry. August" "21, 1952 1 A T I I V OAl W I W U I I I U I I I m.,ii, I WHITNEY I Congress of the Soviet Union's I World War II was called Wed- garnering in Kussia in years, me was uciu iu iuuui, laoa. Prime Minister Stalin's Polit buro, a central committee agency to which world Communism long has looked for guidance, is to be abolished in one phase of' the party organization. Replacing it. pernaps wnn aoout tne same per sonnel, will be a Presidium to guide "the work of the Central Committee between sessions." Sta lin himself may speak. Ta Boost Output - ' Another job for the delegates is issuance of directives for m fifth five-year plan aimed to increase total Soviet industrial production by the end of 1955 by 70 per cent over 1950's output. The call Is out zor more iron, steel, coal and oil. more electricity, shipping, chemi cals, timber. The decrease summoning the Congress was issued by the Cen tral Committee over the signature of Stalin in his capacity as gener al secretary, it was published by all Moscow newspapers and broad cast by the Moscow radio, WASHINGTON (JPy American officials expressed belief Wednes- derhngs may have caused Prem-1 i c-,i: ....11 w i I Communist Party Congress Just announcea in xaoscow. Nene for IS Tears Stalin, they believe, undoubtedly found many lower-echelon lead- ers who wondered why a party Congress had not been held for 13 years, and decided to hold one as a result. Under Communist Party regu lations, such Congress meetings are suppuaea w oe neiaevrry three years. Stalin has ignored this I rule the last two sessions were held in 1939 and 1934. American diplomats who tried to analyze Moscow's motives em phasized they have no reason to believe there Is anything resemb ling serious grumbling or discon tent among the Communist high command. They expressed the view that Stalin summoned the Congress to meet partly out of a desire to mod ernize Communist party machin ery. Fishing Boats Crash at Sea, Vessel Sinks r NEWPORT -A pre-dawn crash between' two fishing boats sent one of them to the bottom of the Pacific six miles off this city Wednesday. The two crewmen were .rescued by the other craft. Sac Scott, skipper of "the 60- foot Waseca, said he was at an chor in 35 fathoms, and he and his companion were asleep. A ter rific crash awakened thena. On deck, they found the craft was sulking. They went overboard. The nearby Pacific Queen, 65-footer, rescued them. The Queen had rammed the Waseca. The survivors were being brought here. Louisiana Pledges Electors, But Not Support, to Adlai isiana's Democratic Central Com-1 mittee voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to pledge without en dorsement its 10 electors and party rooster symbol to the Ste venson-Spar kman ticket. The 100-member central com mittee, after a stormy four-hour session that included defeat for a "split ticket move, voted 77-9 for the resolution pledging the elec tors. Vice Chairman W. J. Erikson declared adoption of the resolu tion was a double victory for Ste venson "because it pledges our electors to his ticket." The com mittee usually has not pledged Its electors. f ailure of the committee to "en dorse" the national nominees, he added, was not a defeat in any sense. .. l"! nfC. Rrulcwr kms tft Kttraot More Industry Plans to raise a special budget to be used In bringing-new indus- try and payrolls tc Salem were outlined Wednesday by the new t - i iu- r- Th. rm i. due for t by the cham- bet's board of -directors. - -ounrfi'. aim of building to , economv is based on "helping local business, encourag Ing industry allied to industry al ready existing in Salem to come to this area, and on bringing new industry to the community, The operating budget is to be sought from "public-spirited citi zens" outside their chamber con tributions, and "all types of busi ness which are operating in the Salem purchasing area should par ticipate on the basis of proportion ate benefits and consider their co operation as insurance for the se curity ox their business Invest ments. The budget la aimed at long- term development program, with a minimum ox live years, ana would allow employment or. staff to seek1 new industry and to aid local business. The council, headed by Carl W. Hogg, was -informed Wednesday in a talk by Dean Victor I. Morns of the University of Oregon School of Business Administration about facilities of the school available to cities seeking business expansion. t 1t;h1 IjOgger iieVlVeu. J iCT fall 11 LO Pond, flt WUlaillllia Ititwii Niw scrvfe WnXAMTNA A Willamina logger cheated death Wednesday when he was revived after tailing into the log pond at Garrabrant Lumber Co. here. Jim Dankers. about 50, cumed resniration after Willamina volunteer firemen administered gen to jor an estimated r.wnrV lnclud- 30 minutes. Co-workers, lnciua ine William Lash, had applied ar tificial respiration while awaiting the resuscitator. Dankers was in the pond for 10 minutes after he fell off a log while working on the pond with Frank Byrant. He was taken to a McMinnville hospital where nis condition Wednesday night was termed "good". Roller -Shating Rooster Near Stage Debut LOS ANGELES HV If you're strolling along the 'sidewalk and a big red rooster whizzes past on roller skates, don't rush to the nearest eye doctor. ' It's only Buster, out for his daily spin. I A lively potful of Rhode Island Red. Buster i is one of several chickens owned by William Lehr, a retired circus clown. Buster uses 5-inch-long baby skates, made of aluminum and taped to his big feet. Lehr usually gives Buster push to get 4 him started. Once under way, the bird makes out all right. He uses his wings to push him self forward and to keep his bal ance. Buster, who is three years old. has been skating for six months. Lehr is grooming rum for a stage debut. The ex-clown figures his pet has a great theatrical career ahead of him. While Buster may get the bird, at least he can't lay an egg. New Air Strip aaVGS 15 OV S Lilte i J WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. OP)-In dian trader Sammy Day told Na vajos at isolated Pine Springs that if they'd help him build an air strip, It might someday save life. The Indians finished the work Wednesday. ' A half hour later 4-year-old Anderson Six got an orange peel caught in his throat and was strangling. James Bickle, commander of the Navajo Civil Air Patrol Squadron stationed at Window Rocks, flew to the newly-completed air strip and removed the child to the Ft. Defiance, Ariz., medical center. Doctors said the child was out of danger. UMATILLA PAIS TO OPEN HERMISTON (JPh-The Umatil la County Fair opens here Thurs day. Highlight of the first day's activities in the four-day celebra tion will be the crowning as queen of Bonnie Michael of Ukiah, Ore, QHO VADI'S' ic V COMING! Starts Sunday at v The Hollywood U-G-Ml TECHNICOLOR! t . 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At Ram Sale SALT LAKE CITY Prle moved somewhat higher as the 37th National ram sale ended Tuesday, and a near-record $2, 000 was paid for a RambouiUet stud, best offer of the two-day meet. i - Neilson Sheep Company of Eph raim, Utah, consigned the ram to Cove-Bagley-Dayton Sheep Com pany of Cokeville, Wyo. Sales total for the 1,508 rams which traded hands was reported $166,755, an average of $110 per head. The 1931 average was $216, Two $1,000 rams were sold Tues day,' Cunningham Sheep Company, Portland, Ore taking one from Jotra rL. Madsen, Mt. Pleasant, utan, and Andrew Little Jr- m mett, Idaho, getting the other from George Beal, Ephraim, Utah. 252 Appeal VA Bureaus Bonus Verdicts Appeals from decisions of the State Veteran department, based on applications for veterans World War n bonus, now number 252, officials announced Wednesday. Officials said the appeals were being heard as rapidly as possi ble. A total of 80,500 bonus checks had been mailed up to Tuesday night as against an estimated 135. 000 applications are being received at the rate of 1,400 a week. Approximately 700 veterans have complained that the amount of their checks were incorrect. The arger number - of these veterans contended they had not been paid for full service. Only two of these complained after receiving an ex planation of the law governing bon us payments. Officials said that while the dead line for receiving applications ex pires December 1 it probably would require an additional six months to dispose of pending transactions. Birds Provide Truck Squeak PENTICTON, B.C. CP) -Grease was shot into every conceivable corner of Jim Lowndes' pick-up truck, but a mysterious squeek re mained. Puzzled mechanics lowered the truck from the grease hoist and continued the search. The chirp, chirp continued. Then the mystery was solved. A bird's nest was found under the back of the cab. Four baby birds were found in the nest, chirping merrily and ap parently annoyed by the searchers intrusion. BLAZE IN SIUSLAW EUGENE (AP)-A 50-man crew was fighting a slash fire on Dead' wood Creek on the Siuslaw Na tional Forest 60 miles northwest of here Wednesday. Hie fire was close to green timber. It was about half trailed by the time it had cover 50 acres. BOODT TO SEEK REELECTION PORTLAND(P) Nate A. Boody, appointed to the 'council after Bennett's recall, Wednesday filed for election to the post. "AIR-CONDITIONED" NOW SHOWING - OPEN MoonMitBay Co-Feature JET JOB" Gates Open 7 Shew at Duk NOW la Technicolor "ABOUT FACE" Gordon McCrea Eddie Bracken A Bret Hart Story "OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT" Ana Baxter Dale Robertson Prices Higher f 1 a-7S23 i IL Negro Teacher Fired Before Starting Job BREMERTON, Wash. (Pi -The Kitsap County School Board has fired a Negro school teacher be fore he put in a day's work with one member explaining: - "There s our school bond issue election to think of." The dismissed 'eacher. Ester Wilf ong, 22, of La Grande, Ore- was not present at the meeting which reversed a week old deci sion to hire him. He was to teach the 6th grade In the Central Kit sap Junior High School at Silver dale near this Navy Yard city. He says he still intends to teach there, too, and will show up at the appointed time because "I have a valid contract and I Intend to hold the school board to it." The board wrangled several hours Tuesday night before voting unanimously to rescind the con tract despite the protests of the county school superintendent, Carl r. Jenne. Closed Session .The closed board session fol lowed a meeting with 37 persons who had been invited by telephone to attend. Mrs. Inez Solle, a jun ior high school teacher, spoke in behalf of Wilf ong. She said only seven of the 37 present spoke against the hiring. "When the meeting adjourned,' she said, "I thought the board had decided to retain Mr. Wilfong, but I learned today they made their decision after everyone else was gone." Ole Svenson, a board member, said a majority of those attend ing the meeting seemed to favor the dismissal. . Need Harmony "We want to have as much har mony as possible because we have a bond issue coming up." he said. Superintendent Jenne said he recommended "that the board stick to its original decision to hire the man on the basis of his creden tials and qualifications. The fact that he is colored should not enter the picture." . Wilfong said at La Grande that he "didn't know there was any opposition. I thought when I re ceived my contract and signed it and mailed it hack that everything was all right." Frank C. Whi taker, president o: the school board, said that since Wilfong doesn t now have the con tract in his possession he can consider himself, hired." The contract was 'mailed in by Wilfong with- his signature, as is the practice when teachers are hired. Albacore Tuna Runs Sighted ASTORIA (Pi Fish canneries here report that several tuna boats have sighted a large run of alba' core tuna off the northern Califor nia coast between Cape Blanco and Fort Bragg. It is the first appearance of the fish in , commercial quantities in thatfarea this season. Tuna fisher men here hope it means that the 1952 albacore run may finally ap pear in quantity off the Oregon coast. Astoria packers arent buying any of the' California tuna because of the fishermen's strike. W)ooJlro6 e A SAN SHOP FRENCH FRIED SHRIMP 95c PLENTY FREE - rv ' - 1 i . J 1 Stranali an Enters Canadian Amateur VANCOUVER. ECIJI- Frank Stranahan, the Toledo, Ohio, strong boy, Wednesday cast his entry in the Canadian Amateur Golf Cham pionship, opening Monday over the 6,804-ya:f. par-72 Capuano Course in West Vancouver. Of the 195 en tries for the week-long tournament. 82 are Americans. Besides Stran ahan, they include Crooner Bing Crosby and Sam Urzetta of Roch ester, N. Y., 1950 U. S. Amateur Champion. Cost-of-living Report to Show Record Prices WASHINGTON (JP)-The govern ment's new cost-of-living report comes out Thursday. And Price Stabilizer Ellis Ar nail says it will show prices In general have reached a new peak. Such a rise in the consumer price index, issued by the labor department's Bureau of Labor Sta us tics, would mean among other things a pay increase of two to three cents an hour for more than million automobile workersThe -iu unnea Auto workers" con tract has an escalator clause tied to changes in the BLS index. Am all told newsmen Wednes day he's standing .by his late July statement that inflation is threat ening agam and that living costs, especially food prices, are sure to go up. Some other government officials disagree. Secretary of Agriculture Bran- nan took issue with the price chiefs July statement that the widespread drought would push food prices up. Brannan said the drought would have little overall effect on prices. Secretary of Commerce Sawyer likewise said a survey he made "indicates no widespread price in creases as a result of the drought.' iiowever, ne said. Amain pre diction might well start scare-buy ing wnicn would push prices up. Fire at Dallas Mill Quelled Statesman News Service DALLAS A fire at the huge Willamette Valley Lumber Com pany mill here Wednesday night brought out all hands of the Dal las Fire Department; The blaze was confined to trash heap but required severa hours or efforts by firemen to ex tlnguish it. Cf undetermined orig in .tne lire caused no damage. mm Ins (esd! DOUBLI HEADER Tonight! W. L Leame Class -A" BASEBALL SALEM SENATORS VS. VANCOUVER Waters Park - 7:00 P. M. PARKING '1 rate Insists " Blaze Burn Itself Out KTRKT.IN, Ind. () - Everything went wrong when a fire broke out in the cab of a milk truck driven by Harvey Biddle. Biddle grabed a fire extinguish er from the cab but it was too small to Quench the blaze. The truck was parked in front of the Kir tun volunteer fire sta tion so he ran in and got a larger lire extinguisher. It wouldn't work. He got another. It also wouldn't work. ; He tried to sound the siren mat summons volunteer firemen but it wouldn't blow. Nearby resident began callinxr volunteers who live near the sta tion. The volunteers got the fir truck out but they couldn't get the noz zles nttea on the nose. Finally, the fire burned itself out without spreading to the at tached trailer and a $3,000 cargo ox mux. Jump From Truck Fatal rfa ROSEBUHQ UPi Irl Ir Mays 38, Gardiner, was killed Wednes day when he jumped from a run away truck on a logging road miles east of Reed sport. 28 The empty gravel truck, driven by Herma V. Kerth, Portland, went out, of control when the al brakes failed. The truck overturn ed Just as Mays tried to Jump clear and, he was crushed beneath it, I Keith and another passenger, Richard A. Harmon, Scottsburg, were unhurt. All three were era ployed by the Gardiner Lumber Co. Reds Seize 465 Japanese Boats TOKYO (P) Kyodo News Agency Thursday said a survey showed ships of Soviet Russia. Red China, Nationalist China and South Korea seized 465 Japanese fishing : craft, manned by 4.705 fishermen between the end of the Pacific War and Aug. 1. The survey Indicated that 253 ships were returned and 4,365 fishermen were repatriated. . ft WAFFLES With Hot Maple Syrup and Whip Butter EVERY DAY Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner X Salem's Own Rodeo and Horse Show Aug. 23-24 WESTERN EVENTS ENGLISH CLASSES RODEO'S TOP CONTESTS TWO DAY SHOW SaL, 2 p.m. Sunday, 1:30 p.ra. ASSOCIATION GnOUIIDS SOUTH RIVER ROAD Reg. 10.00 down 9.00 month on Soars Easy Payment Plan (Usual Carrying Charge) Exclusive Sun-fresh Lamp Dries Clothos SunsMnWrosh In fani tired, Sweet-Smelling Atmosphere of Heated Air! ' Com hall or high waftr, . . drying's no ehoro with now Kon. morel Load ft . . . completer automatie'wnit tumMos clothes to swoet-smollinfl, flufry freshness In minutesl Clothes dry lint ' free, wrinklo-frool See this wonderful -Wifesaver" today at Sears! . - -' ' ' - : ' - . PHONE 3-9191 In tho' Capitol Quake Off Coast!" Of South Oregon SEATTLE UP) A strong earth quake under the Pacific Ocean, apparently off Southern Oregon or Northern California, was recorded early Wednesday. Seismologists at California Insti tute of Technology and the Uni versity of Washington said it would have been of. damaging strength if it had centered ashore. Reports from seismographs from Los Angeles to Alaska pinpointed the probability of the tremor hav ing occurred off Oregon or North ern California. The Cal Tech ex pert estimated it at 100 miles off shore; the Universtiy of Washing ton at 100 to 200. BOY HANGS HIMSELF KALAMA VP)-A 2-year-old boy accidentally hanged himself when he put his head through a pair of overall suspenders dangling from a ctothesline here Tuesday. The boy, Richard Eugene Chandler, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Chan dler Jr- of Kalama. JUGOV APPOINTED VIENNA. Austria UPi Anton Jugov, one of the most powerful men in communist Bulgaria, has been appointed deputy prime min ister, Sofia Radio reported Wed nesday. lAJooclroe ed SAN SHOP SPECIAL Thursday, August 21 Chicken Croquettes Fresh green peas, mashed po tatoes, gravy, f col slaw V C 229.95 Shopping Center It Tomorrow I I I 9. P.M.-1 A.M. I CRYSTAL I GARDENS fcnim-,tnytMmiiii, i.MMminmrr,i'i mm J
