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, ; . tff ft- fofi) 7 SI f 102sd STAB S 10 PAGES CRT I While on the basis of the evi dence In hand I am disposed to defend Nixon against charges of political "immorality" in using contributions of California citizens for certain of his political expenses. I am not at all impressed with his m-otests that the charge is a "Com munist" plot. All that happened Wll disclosure by certain industri ous newspaper reporters that the expense fund existed. As was their duty they puDiicizea me swry. The Democrats took up from there; and Republicans went into a huddle.' So far as we have ob cprved the Communists had noth ing to do either with contributing to the fund or telling about it. mey may chuckle now as they see their Nemesis in the Alger Hiss case on a hook; but It is a frantic over statement to accuse the ' .Commu nists of pulling this as a. plot against him. . ,. - One of the lead men in the bird doeeing was Peter Edson, long time columnist for a newspaper cvndicate. Edson was one of the panel interviewing Nixon on the TV : Meet the Fress a wees: ago Sunday night. He is no Communist, just a working newspaperman. Others were Leo Katcher corres- nnndent for the New York Post. the first to break the story; Rich ard Donovan on the staff of Report er,-a magazine; and Ernest Bras hear of the Los Angeles News. To them it was a news story worm digging up; and they struck pay dirt as newspaper stories go. Again they passed no judgement on Nixon. They went to ine neaa sources, Dana C. Smith custodian of the fund, rand Edson went (Continued on Editorial Page, 4) Contributions To Sen. Nixon Fund Urged CENTRALIA, Wash. CP) A campaign appealing to "patriotic, Americans" to send their nichels, dimes, quarters and dollars to Sen. Richard Nixon's "anti-Communist political fund" was launched here Sunday. The father of the idea was Sen. -Virgil Lee of nearby Chehalis, Re publican leader in th- State Sen ate. The GOP . vice presidential nominee, under fire for accepting $18,000 in political contributions, will make a rear platform speech here Monday. A committee headed by Lee Sun day underwrote the cost of air time over Centralia's radio station. Five separate pleas were made asking financial help for Nixon. EX-GOVERNOR DIES SEATTLE W Roland Hill Hartley, two-term Republican gov ernor of Washington from 1925 to 1933, died here Sunday. He had been in failing health for some time, - . .. Pacific Coast League At Portland S-S. San Francisco 1-1 At Seattle 6-7, Hollywood S-3 At Oakland 1-4, Sacramento S-l " At Loa Anselea 12-1, San Dief o S-l American League At New York 1. Philadelphia 0 At Cleveland -7, Detroit 1 At Washington S, Boston T At St. Louis 1. Chicago 4 National League " At Boston 3. Brooklyn At Philadelphia a. New York 3 At Chlcafo 3. St Louis 3 At Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 4 Animal Crackers 8v WARREN GOODRICH Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH "I lust couldn't titm to get o ton this summer." . Th Oregon Stroll with Camera Brings interesting Glimpses ' ' : 4 t J ' i ' , J-. i i v ii "vi t s i rj ' - r rty iiiwn - " i .. I ii ' f i ' "v i ... y If yon walk down the street any day yon are apt to see scene like the ones above. Most of the subjects were caught unaware by the camera. On the left, sidewalk philosopher George Denton (left), 260 W. Washington St, is enjoying a joke made by Joseph Josephson, 173 8. Cottage St In the npper center, Robert Jones, 1534 S. Com , mercial SL, was caught catnapping in barber Beryl E. Birch's chair. Below him, Jo Anne Backe, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon J. Mrs.Erickson Succumbs to Crash Injuries Mrs. Eunice Lucille Erickson, 44, died Sunday In a Salem hospi tal from injuries received last week in an auto-cement, truck col lision on Portland Road. ' The fatally injured woman, who sustained a skull fracture, shock and internal injuries, had been un conscious since being brought to the hospital last Monday night . She was thrown out of a Ply mouth coupe and trapped under neath when a heavy cement truck plowed into the rear end of the car., Vernon J. Reitzer, driver of the car, is still in Salem General Hospital in only "fair" condition. A late resident of 1010 Park Ave., Mrs. Erickson is survived by a daughter, Phyllis, 17, and a son, Douglas Hardy, who is due to ar rive in Salem Tuesday from his home in New Haven, Conn. Funeral arrangements are being handled by the Virgil T. Golden Co. (Additional Details on Page 1) Shoplifters Take Millions Yearly, Grocerymen Told PORTLAND UR The Oregon Food Merchants Association, which opened its convention here Sunday, was told that shoplifters each year take miflions of dollars worth of food from Oregon stores. William Triplett manager of the Columbia Food Stores, estimated that in Portland losses from shop lifting totaled $30,000 a week. - He said most shoplifters when caught are let go with a warning. He urged a concerted program of arrests and prosecutions. Howard McAnulty, executive secretary of, the association, said a resolution will be introduced at Monday's session asking that the legislature make it a misdemeanor to avoid payment of a- grocery bin. . Television Schedule Irregular Until Oct. 1 PORTLAND (JP) . Northwest Oregon's new crop of television screens will be vacant Monday of fiicals of KPTV, Portland's tele vision station said Sunday. Programs will not be regularly scheduled until Oct 1, they said, although there will be several broadcasts between now and that time. The first Saturday. , Reverse turns, commonly known a "IT turns, are prohibited in the following locations in Oregon: A.. - l. On or. near Drive! h i n curve or lcrest.or whenever a driv er cannot see the road for at least 500 feet in either direction. 2. Between intersections in any city or town. . 1. At any place where such POUNDDD 1651 Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Monday, September 22, 1932 .-1'. i ,.. .., ) i I L.' S I NS Cons Believed Hiding in Hills, Maw Joins Search r Two escaped Oregon State Prison convicts, believed hiding in a rugged mountain area of Northern. California, are the objects of a manhunt which has been Joined by Salem's Russell (Slim) Maw, state police in Salem reported Sunday night. 3 . - Maw, who last week gained credit for tracking down and captur ing George Dunkin near Medford, joined a party of Oregon and Cali- fornia state police in uieir searcn for George T. Macomber ana Charles Crozier. The two convicts escaped from the prison Sept IS. Maw, this time, is in th capacity of a prison guard. Lt Farley Mogan, of the Sa lem office, is heading a party of state police from the Medford office. In the hunt with them are some nine members of the Cali fornia Highway Patrol and depu ties from the Siskyou . County sheriffs office. A car, thought to have been stolen by the two convicts from Turner," was found abandoned near the California border. Po lice said Macomber was known to be in the area, and that Crozier was probably with him. The two men exchanged shots with officers Saturday and then fled into the hills. The two men are hiding in what is described as the "almost inac cessible" Elliott Butte country In Siskiyou County, which lies along the Oregon-California border.' Maw is an experienced woods man who spent nearly two weeks successfully tracking Dunkin. Sabre Jets Add 4toRedToll SEOUL (JPi U. S. Sabre Jets swelled this month's record bag of Red MIGs by four destroyed and seven damaged in seven blazing fights with the Communist air force over northwest Korea Sun day, the U. S. Fifth Air Force said Monday. The battles brought. Septem ber's catch to 50 Red planes de stroyed and produced America's 20th jet ace. .. . ' U. S. 38th Regiment troops re occupying Old Baldy hill rescued five wounded comrades who had huddled two days and two nights in a bunker on the crest while a fierce fight raged for possession of the key . western front height The five were sent immmediate ly to the rear for treatment "We knew the regiment would be back," one of them said. The Second Division estimated the Saturday and Sunday attacks that shoved the Chinese off Old Baldy cost the Reds 285 killed and about 435 wounded. Kiibu Mtas turns have been prohibited and signs have been posted. One fatal accident occurred in the state in 1951 due to a viola tion of this law. Even when legal, reverse turns call for heads-up driving and car control. When you make a U-turn at an intersection, you cross opposing traffic lanes from at least three directions. - If you must reverse your direction, a bet ter plan is to take an extra mo ment or two to drive on around tle block. Backe, SS27 Neef Atc4 was snapped working on a lemonade. At npper right M. J. Lynch, 595 N. Liberty St, can't decide whether tiie peach he's holding is what he wants and below him, waitress Mrs. R. J. Fry, 1570 D St, waits on Mrs. J. F. Raotenkranz, 1560 Roosevelt St, who cant make up her mind either. (Statesman Photos by Janet Taxman.) i f Annexation Hearing Due at Council Meet i An annexation hearing, street name changes and reports of the Salem Planning and Zoning Com mission will be considered at the City Council meeting tonight at City HalL , A public hearing will be held on: the Question of annexation to the city of territory lying east of Eastmoreland addition between Market and -East Englewood Streets. . -i ' Ordinances to be Introduced call for a change of zone from Class I residential to Class III business for a strip of property near S. 12th and Cross Streets. The zoning commission had previously recom mended againvt the change . on protest from residents. - t Name changes will ' involve Cascade and Parkway' Drives, Himes St, Gehlar Rd. and Terrace Court. Ordinances requesting changes in the setback code also will be Introduced. ' Housewife Gets Wires Crossed - MUNCIE, Ind OP) - The elec tricity had been !off for two days at- the Maurice peiser home, and Mrs. Deiser stocked up on grocer ies for a good hot meal when the utility servicemen reported 'the trouble was fixed., v Her daughter complained the radio wouldn't work. When Mrs. Deiser turned on; the No. 1 burner the radio started, playing but the stove didn't cook. , . When she turned on the No. 4 burner the radios stopped but the stove didn't start But when she plugged in her electric iron the stove started cook ine. , - 'I - - The servicemen haven't figured it out yet ! ' Tm Svrim Tm swamped with calls. Everyone . In - town must , see those ads.. Please take mine out The bike -was sold, to the first caller. j That's what happened when the following was inserted in The Statesman- classified sec tion: - ' - . I' n ... FOR SALE Boy's" Junior bicy- cle, )15. Phone b : The Statesman's classified tion is noted tor its pulling power. If you want to buy, sell or trade call Salem 2-2441 and ask for Classified. - Yoar COMPLETE Newspaper ped PRICE 5c No. 179 of Salem Life Roland Roy Succumbs on Fishing Trip Roland Lee Roy, 47, Salem con tractor, died unexpectedly of a heart attack Sunday morning dur ing a fishing trip in the mountains near Bend. His family said Rot was strick en while! he was fishing on a stream early Sunday morning. Friends rushed him to a Bend hos pital, where he died about 7:30 ajn. I A resident of this area for the past seven years, Roy was a pri vate contractor, and had a house under construction in Salem at the time of his death. . 1 Bom in Missouri Aug. 6, 1805, Roy moved with his family to Colorado when -he was 8, living most of the time until 1942 in Montrose, when he moved to Cali fornia. He was married to the former Shirty Maya Aiken in Montrose in 1934. She survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Beverly, 17, and a son, Robert L 18. . There are two sisters, Mrs. Milo Munfrada and Mrs. Paul More field,, both of Albany; three bro thers in Red Bluff, Calif, Her schel, James J. and Howard L.; one brother; Mitchell, in Grand Junction, Colo, and another bro ther, Ernest; in Montrose, Colo. Funeral services will be an nounced later by the W. T. RIgdon Co. ' 1 makers iect Offer J ' PORTLAND UH PnrtlanH AKT. Boilermakers voted Monday to re- a new contract offered by the California Metal Trades Associa tion representing some 350 em ployers. Homef V. Patton, international vice president of the union, said that if locals of seven western states and Alaska alsn Mm tha employers offer, a strike will be called Oct l.when the present con tract expires. Such a strike might tie up con struction work . at McNary Dam, installations j in Alaska and even at the Hanford atomic plant Pat ton said. i The Boilermakers, who now re ceived aDout jz.75 an . hour, had asaea a lxent hourly . increase, the maximum- allowed under the wage stabilization Board formula and other benefits. The employers offer Included an -cen. nourxy wage increase. Wife Dies After Beating by Spouse . ST. PAUL Minn (A A bushy haired young ' packinghouse ' work er Sunday admitted beatinsr his 17-jear-old wife a short time be fore she died after the' two had quarreled at a wedding reception. 'I hit her a few times and I kicked her a few times after we went outside,, .Albert J. Tolen- doski, ; 19, told police. He could give no reason for the argument The . Tolendoskis were married this spring. Relatives said the pair Boiler Re a) was "very much in love. Solon Indicates Plan to Stay On Ticket, Delay Video-Radio Broadcast to TellFi mances PORTLAND (JPh Sen. Richard Nixon announced early Monday that he is breaking off his west ern campaign trip temporarily to present his case in connection with an $18,000 expense fund be for the American people in a na tionwide television and radio broadcast " Nixon made his decision after a telephone talk with Gen. Eisen hower. The 39-y e a rnold Republican candidate for vice president dic tated to newsmen a statement which indicated strongly that he would remain on the GOP ticket with Gen. t Eisenhower. : Nixon said: "I shall resume the tour (campaign tour) the day after the broadcast is made." A reporter asked. "That means you are still staying on the ticket?" "That means I intend to con tinue the tour," Nixon replied." . He said he had no further com ment on the question whether he will continue to be Eisenhower's running mate. Nixon left the im provised press room at the Ben son' Hotel after saying he would answer no further questions. The California senator said he had informed Eisenhower in a telephone . conversation Sunday night of a decision to go oeiore the American people, and the eeneral agreed that was the prop er way to handle the situation. Nixon said In his verbal state ment, "In line with my convic tions that the truth is the best answer, both to a smear and to honest understanding, I intend to lay before: the American people all the facts concerning the fund which was used for political pur poses, and in an unprecedented ac tion, I am going to present to ine American people my entire per sonal financial history from the time I entered political life." Both the Eisenhower and Nixon camps said there would be no for mal statement as to the results of the telephone conversations be tween the two candidates earlier in the evening." It was the first time the two had conversed since the issue of the expense fund was raised three days ago. Plans Accounting ' . . . Earlier in the day, Nixon an nounced -he, would, give a public accounting of his personal fin ances. The vice presidential candidate said in a prepared statement: "T am nrenaring a complete statement of my entire financial history. .-1 realize that it will be mis represented but I feel that when any question is raised about a nubile official he should make this information available to the public." Officials said tne vice presi dential candidate had decided to tell about his personal finances because of many inquiries in re cent days. "We want to set the record straight," said a Nixon aide. , Because of disclosures Nixon had .received from his supporters in California $18,235 in an ex- nse fund beyond hut salary and material allowances. Eisenhower is known to have said his vice presidential running-mate must come "clean as a hound's tootn if he expected to remain on the ticket t From across the nation came comments on the Nixon situation, both pro and con. . Sen. Humphrey; a Minnesota Democrat said he had to suple ment his income by making lec tures and speeches and writing articles. ."Sooner or later," Humphrey said in a radio debate, "the Amer ican people are going to have to realize . that the costs of - public service are big." Morally Wrong Humphrey labelled as morally wrong although legally all right the Nixon expense fund. But Sen. Ferguson, Michigan Republican, said he saw nothing wrong in Nixon's fund. Both Ferguson and Humphrey said, however, they were with holding final judgment until all the facts are established. The length' of time that has elapsed since the Nixon expense fund first came to light prompted Stephen A. Mitchell, chairman of the Democratic National Commit tee, to say: "The time has passed when ac tion to drop Nixon could be at tributed to moral indignation. "If the general drops Nixon af ter four days . of . wavering inde cision, his action can be attributed to public pressure . . . -Political Debate" "The debate at the Eisenhower headquarters is not on whether Nixon did wrong. It is a political debate as to what step will lose the least number of votes." 4 One of, the contributors to the Nixon fund insisted it was not a political fund nor designed to in fluence any one. J. B. Van Nuys, wealthy Cali fornian .who was one of the 76 contributors to the Nixon expense fund, said at Los ' Angeles that neither he nor any of the other donors sought to gain through their contributions. ' fit was not a political fund,' he said. "Wt had no interest in any enterprise. We sought no thing beyond better representa tion for California In a proper way." . Gem.' EiseeiEiioiveir ft Visit "Oregon . 'Oct ST. LOUIS (AP)-DwUbt D. Eisenhower's headquarters an nounced a new whistle-stop campaign drive Sunday which will carry the Republican pre sidential nominee from Michi gan to the' West Coast in early October. He will be in Wash ington and Oregon Oct 8 and 7. 5 Press Secretary James Hager ty said Eisenhower will. travel by train, plane and automobile through 12 states in 10 days. The tour will carry Eisenhow er into Wisconsin, the home state of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, whose Communists-in-govern-ment charges have aroused poli tical controversy across the na tion. Eisenhower has said that he would support GOP nominees in the campaign and presumably 96-Degree Scorcher Ends Salem Summer Summer bowed out of Salem Sunday by sendin thermometer once again to the 96 degree mark ior any unmeauiie reuei. . Sunday's temperature equalled was predicted zor toaay, tne urst day of fall. - Both day's marks fell short by one degree of the year daily rec ord of 97, set Sept. 23, 1943.' The all-time September high is 103, set in 1944. - Medford recorded the highest temperature in the state, 99, ac cording to Associated Press. Port land had 94. . Fire danger throughout the state continued high, although no outbreaks were reported over the week end. Most of the forests in Western Oregon have been closed to logging since the heat wave started at the end of last week. Washington reported five blazes out of control Sunday night with the largest northeast of Enum claw covering about 900 acres. Board to Open Wilsonville Bridge Bids Another major step in construc tion of the Wilsonville cut-off route will be taken today and Tuesday when the State Highway commission opens bids for struc tural, steel on the new "Boone Bridge" over the Willamette River. The bride will replace the pio neer Boone's Ferry which has hauled people and produce across the river near Wilsonville since the' early 1850's. A companion project calls for grading and pav ing of 2.11 miles of the West Port-land-Hubbard highway from the riYer to existing concrete pave ment at the Marion-Clackamas County line. Another project for which bids have been asked by the commis sion : are for construction of an overnight camping area at Spen cer Creek Park on the Oregon Coast Highway north of Newport The improvement will provide 10 camp sites and 12 trailer stalls. rts Palace Burns TULSA, Okla. (A3) -Thousands of Tulsans held a veritable wake Sunday over the ruins of the city's popular sports coliseum which was destroyed Saturday night in a million dollar fire during a vio lent electrical storm. j Eddie Quigley, manager of the coliseum for 22 years, said light ning apparently struck the build ing. It was a mass of flames in a matter of minutes. High winds fanned the fire and scattered sparks. oyer the downtown area, threatening several nearby struc tures for a time. Tulsa Spo Solons Find Korea War Costing Reds Heavily, Profiting Allies By RUSSELL BREVES WASHINGTON WP) A con gressional committee has returned from Korea convinced that the stalemated war is costing the Chi nese Communists -heavily and is profiting the Allies, one of its members said Sunday. This view was expressed by Rep. Fisher (D-Tex.), acting chairman of a House armed serv ices subcxjmmittee which toured front-line positions during an in spection of American installations throughout the Pacific Fisher told a reporter the con sensus of the 10-member - group was that the present stable battle line permitted the Allies to in flict maximum strain on the-.Com-munists at minimum cost ; He said committee members al io agreed generally that Chinese Nationalist troops should be sent to Korea and, with South. Koreans, s West Tour 7 the trip into Wisconsin will mean that Eisenhower will gtv his support to McCarthy, who) was recently renominated in a landslide victory. Following is the schedule an nounced by Hagerty, who said detailed plans and a listing of cities to be visited will be made later: Oct L Michigan; Oct X, mi. nois; Oct S, Wisconsin; Oct 4. Minnesota and North Dakota Oct 5, travel to Pacific Coast Oct , Washington; Oct 79 Oregon; Oct 8, Northern Call fornia; Oct t by plane, central and Southern California ' and Nevada; Oct 10, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. It was believed that Eisen hower would return eastward from the trip by a southern route. i and weathermen gave little hop the 96 set the day before, and 98 Tourists More v Plentiful But Spent Less ' Oregon tourists spent less per day this year but there were more of them, a survey completed by the State Highway Department dis closes. . . The Oregon visitor industry in come was almost identical to 1951 the survey of 16 points of entry in to the state indicated. The survey snowed that some 1,000,000 out-of-state cars carried vacationists in to Oregon during the 1952 season, compared with 900.000 . last year. But they spent an estimated $121, 000,000 each year. , A bumper-to-bumper comparison ci 1951-52 tourist figures show -the average vacationer stayed in the. state 6.3 days this year compared to 7.5 last year. He spent an aver age of $5.07 a day compared to $5.40 in 1951. Average number of passengers for each car was 2.9 persons who spent $95.98 during their stay in the state while last year they spent $113.33. Motorists who stayed in camp grounds, as well as those patron izing hotels, auto courts and re sorts, were interviewed to provide a cross-section of Oregon vacation travel. Travel Information "division of the highway department distributed 450,000 promotional booklets, fold ers and maps during the season. Another 400,000 folders of Cham-' bers of Commerce and regional or ganizations were distributed by ' the department Miss America Filet Divorce Suit Again PHOENIX. Ariz. UPi - Jacoue Mercer, Miss America of 1949, has nied suit for divorce from Wil liam Oldenburger III of Mexico City. The couple announced their Aug. 22 marriage only 11 days ago. Four months ago Jacaue was divorced from her first husband, Douglas Cook. Max. M M - 70 67 Mln. Predp., Salem ' Portland San Francisco Chi car o 47 .00 M 44 trace New York 7 61 j00 Willamette River -S4 feet. . FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary Field. Salem): fair to day and tonight High today near 89. low tonizht near SO. Salem temperature t 11:01 mm. today waa 17. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather fear Sept. 1 Thia Year an - Last Year M Normal should eventually replace Ameri- ' cans ht the front The group visited Formosa and learned that at least . two well- trained Nationalist divisions are available now for Korean duty, Fisher said. The committee, in a forthcom ing report, may recommend the use of Nationalist forces and may include other proposals. Fisher said. But the primary purpose of the month-long inspection, end ing last week, was to review mill tary construction projects, not to formulate military policy, he added- .... ;.;, . The economy of the Peiping re gime "must be under a terrlfie strain" to maintain an estimated million men in Korea, Fisher said, adding: it takes a lot of material to keep an Army, even if you only feed it rice. . . - y&