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Newspaper Page Text-1 ; . , ILUHJIHIAMUCI J5v 7 MU1VA II IMI II j . j . ,' jlj : ' .r - - - - v. WORCESTER, Mass.! (P) An angry Dwight D. Eisenhower called President Truman's "scandal a. day administration Monday and said the people "are going to throw it out of office." Whistle-stopping to tens of thousands through southern New Eng land,! the Republican presidential candidate charged: his opposition with spreading lies, poison and drivel against him. I - UNITED NATIONS, New York, Oct. 17 -While the1 Western world devotes roost of its attention to the Hoavncro hptu.-ppn it and the EasL which is manifest iff the cold war and in the hot one in Korea, here at United Nations we; are made aware of another disturbing factor In world affairs. That is the rise of nationalism, and the break-out Of subject; people from colonialism. - We who have long enjoyed, our ' Independence may not realize the full extent of this movement. Al ready, as Secretary Acheson point ed out in his address Thursday, of -the 800 million people who were in the dependent category ten years ago some 600 miliox have attained full independence. (India ! and Pakistan with their full miuion me uic pimuiyai uc nations.) - . ' ' - p " " While progress . Is being made toward,, self-government among the remaining 200 million, there are points of serious friction. To speed up the process of liberation is the goal vl many, of the coun tries represented in U. N, par ticularly the Asia-African bloc, the Arab states. They are, how ever, joined by a great number of nations on other, continents. The nationalist surge came to the fore , in the plenary session Thursday over the question of in cluding items dealing with French - administration in - Tunisia ana Morocco in North Africa. The ' French are quite sensitive on this, nevertheless the General Commit tee and the Assembly approved ' including, them in the agenda for consideration. ', U Not only is there a rising tide 'of nationalism . (Concluded on editorial page 4) U.S. Reds as Soviet Puppets j WASHINGTON tip) -Two gov ernment hearing officers .' held Monday that the Communist Party "strives incessantly to make the United States a Soviet America," and they recommended i that it be compelled to register with the Jus tice Department and throw open . its records. ? : v " The Supreme Court will eventu ally be called on to resolve the issue. Monday's recommendation came from Peter Campbell Brown and Dr. Kathryn McHale,- mem bers of the Subversive Activities Control Board ( SACB) . - They asked the full board for . an order to compel the U. b. com- munist party to register, list its -members and give a financial ac counting. I Brown and - Dr. McHale, who listened (to nearly three million words of testimony -over a 14- month period, described the party a " Dunnet of the Soviet Union." which "lives for the 'day when it can install a dictatorship of the proletariat in the United States.' The panels report, covering more than 160 pages, was the semi-final step in a long drawn out SACB proceedings under the : 1950 Internal Security McCarran ; Act. . f . - : That act requires that "Com munist Action" and "Communist Front" organizations be required to Tegister. The Justice Department, in re : tpdnse to a query, said that if and . when the panel findings in the Communist Party case become a board order, it will move pYomptly to force the registration of "at least 10 and possibly 15 front or ganizations auuiaieu wiui , we main Communist Party." The de- . partment did not name them.' TYPHOON EXPECTED MANILA (JP) A typhoon, with center winds of 140-mile-an-hour, was expected to hit the Southern Philippines Island of Samar Tues iday. afternoon. "V Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Surve y Brands i i r ! - - - ----- p ill - 5 "Oh, well, kids will b kkJsT ' : The general's ire bubbled up to the point where he told a police estimated crowd of 8,000 at New London, Conn. j. ; "1 get to the pWnt where I get too angry to speak, You speak for me in Nov. 4." ., j '. , . . ... Eisenhower's speech 'here . was a major one in his. tour and he used it for a 15-rninutc restate ment of the beliefs whicr make this a crusade for me." . v "I am still a 'no deal man," Ei senhower said as he opened this review of what he regards as his basic political creed. Thea he went on to make; such points as: "Anyoneli'ho -ays it is my pur pose to cut down social security, unemployment insurance, to leave the ill and the aged destitute, is lying . . .z t ; "I believe that corruption in gov ernment is not something to be shrugged off . . . Thct is why this scandal -a-day i administration stands before the country discred ited . . I- j ' "I believe inflation is as danger ous an enemy as we face today . . . "I believe that taxes are too high... f-j: - "I believe that the federal gov ernment should be the partner of .-tate governments,1 and not their ppressor. " i f . At Providence, R. I., before 20, 000 and again at Attleboro, Moss.' where 5,000 turned out, Eisenhow er said the administration has ac cused him of being "anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic." j "No, no.fi cried his audience at Attleboro. I ! I . i '"Thank goodness," Eisenhower went on. "I have got such friends as Cardinal Spellman, Rabbi Sil ver and Bernard Baruch to an swer those lies in . hurry. 'The question I want to ask . . . is this: How long can they get to try to sell that kind of thing." WASHINGTON UP) - President Truman chargeay Aionaay mat re publican leaders "deliberately dis torted" hiss Friday -remarks on anti-Semitism into a charge that Gen. Dwieht D. Eisenhower is "anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish. "I said no such thing," Truman declared in a statement, but he repeated stliat Eisenhower, Repub lican residential candidate, "can not escape? responsibility" for his endorsement of UOr senators wno backed the McCarran Immigra tion Act. ; 7,500 Reds Casualties on Triangle Hill - - . : SEOUL UP) A United Nations front line officer reported -Tuesday that more than 7,500 Chinese Reds have been killed or wounded in ground action alone since Oct. 14 in the vicious Central Korea fighting for Triangle Hill and. Sni per Ridge.! " !' He said air strikes probably ac counted for many more during the limited Allied offensive which- has largely achieved the two objec tives. -; .liJii- y.A , ; 1 Monday night artillery of both sides dueled across the valleys around Sniper and Triangle. The Allied troops dug in for the next Red blow.: . i ; ! " I U.N. Postpones Debate Until After U.S. Elections mi i -! - i UNITED NATIONS, N. ,Y. UP) The UN General Assembly Mon day called off its opening general debate until after the United States presidential; elections but opened the way for discussion of the Ko rean issue : in the powerful co-nation Political Committee. The United States, memwhfle, announced it was submitting a proposal asking an Investigation by the UN Assembly of Commu nist charges repeated at length here that the U. S. hat waged germ warfare in Korea. - Vernonia School Official Killed on Deer Hunting Trip VERNONIA, Ore.! Paul A. Gordon, about 45. superintendent of Vernonia ' elementary schools. was fatally rwounded while deer hunting near here Monday. State police, who were Investi gating, said j details Of the mishap were sketchyj Gordon, prominent in civic and fraternal affairs here for-some time, was hunting with a party of ' six, police said. The shobtin"occurred about :30 pm in a wooded area 10,011168 north west- of here. - .1 - ' His death was the 10th hunting totality in fjregon uus year. , Mt. Angel Adds : 1,500 to Chest ; ' tUtetaUm News' Scrrfce- " MT. ANGEL The Board' of Di rectors of ML Angel Community c&est voted Monday night to send $1,500 to the Marion Sounty Chest, aitnouga the citra drive still has a week to run. The sum represents a 25 ner cent increase over the amount collect ed last yean v"- - - Mrs. Al Lulay, president, pre sided at the meeting. Leonard Fisher was acting secretary In the absence of Miss Loretta Dea ler. ' i i - 1 - I 102sd YEAB Sprinkles Fall; Burn The parched Willamette Valley got its first measurable Tain in over a month Monday and ; there were indications that further rainy weather is in sight. j- Salem recorded only .04 of an inch and other parts of the valley had a little bit less. Although the Weather Bureau said the fall was only a token rain," other storms were forming in the Pacific which could bring considerable moisture to the area before the week is out. The Tillamook Burn was open ed at midnight Monday. It was the only closed area in the state fol lowing Gov. Douglas McKay's Sunday order opening the other forests in Western Oregon. : Log ging will be allowed to proceed normally, and hunters will be al lowed in the area by permit when the special buck season opens Thursday. - But despite Monday's rainfall, word came from the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference committee in Tacoma, Wash., that it still looks as though there will be a cutback of electric power early next month. C. A. Erdahl, chairman of the committee, made the statement after a conference telephone call among power offi cials of the area. Truck-Train Wreck KiUs : I ManatQuinaby (Picture on page 3) J A truck shattered by a speeding train carried Hanlon Hunt, 59, of Fruitland district, to his death near Brooks Monday morning. Hunt, a former Salem fireman who had turned farmer, was driv ing westward when his pickup was struck by the southbound Shasta Daylight at 9:01 o'clock at Quinaby crossing, a mile south of Brooks. .. - . ! '-" - 1 Speed of the train had not been reported to state police, but the truck wreckage was scattered for 250 feet along the tracks and as far as 100 feet to the sides. Police said Hunt apparently did not see the train. - : The truck bed was thrown across a fence on the west side oi tne tracks, while the chassis and en gine were on the east side. Hunt s broken body was in the ditch be side the railroad. His dog also was killed in the crash. . Police said the train, with RJA. McCally of Portland as engineer, was not badly damaged but: was held up some 40 minutes for In vestigation. Hunt was born in Pierce County, Washington, and came to the Sa lem area with his family 40 years ago. He .was a Marine veteran of World War I and a member of the Veterans of Foreign , Wars. Since retiring from the Salem fire department in 1944, after 20 years' service, Hunt had lived on a small farm at Salem Route 6, Box 273Y. . He was not married. Survivors include two brothers still with the fire department. Battalion Chief William Hunt and Captain Fred Hunt. Others in the family are brothers, Harry, Frank, Charles and James, and sister, Mrs. O. J. Lewis, all of the Salem area. Funeral services have Jaeen set for 10 ajn. Wednesday at Howell Edwards Chapel. j Hunt's death was the 20th high way fatality this year in Salem, its fringe area and Marion Coun ty. Besides four traffic deaths In side Salem, 14 occurred In other areas of Marion County and two just outside Salem on Dallas High way in Polk County. Opened Polio Vaccine Tested on Six Children; Result 'Promising' By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter j CLEVELAND iB A polio' vac cine tested on six children gives promise of preventing paralysis, a Johns Hopkins scientist announc ed Monday. j. I . The vaccine gave some children antibodies against all three types of polio virus. Antibodie- are pro tective substances, in your, blood, that , combat invading - germs or virusesj , . . . . ' Whether the children ' actually are Immune wouldn't "get "polio if infected by the virus is not jet kaown. A practical vaccine for general use still is some time off, with many problems yet unsolved; This human test is one encour aging step. It was announced by Dr. Howard Howe, epidemiologist of the Hopkins School "Of Hygiene and Public Health, In an exhibit before the American Public Health Association. The Nationrl Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis spon sored the exhibit. - 1 - The vaccine was tested last sum mer on children, 2 to i yean old. 12 PAGES Dallas Votes, $450,000 in " : '- - .- - ! . " - - School Bonds Statesman Mews Service DALLAS Dallas voters ap proved a $450,000 bond issue Mon day for construction of fa new high school and a four-room addi tion to Lyle elementary school. The vote was 675 for the bond issue and 145 against it. I Architects will now proceed with detailed plans and the school board will prepare for getting bids on the construction which is expected to start about Feb. 1. . Voters were lined up and wait ing when the junior high : library opened as polling place at 2 p.m. The voting, considered unusually heavy here, was steady throughout the afternoon annd required an extra hour: after the 8 p.m. clos ing to accommodate citizens who were waiting in line to vote at closing time. ' Job Offered By Ike Backers PORTLAND tfVSen. Wayne Morse said 'Monday that he had been offered a "high position in public life" by Republicans in ex change for his support of General Eisenhower. He declined to name the post, In a telephone interview to the Portland Oregonian, but said he would produce documentary evi dence to support his report of the offer when he returns to Oregon after the Nov. 4 election. Morse told the Oregon Journal by telephone that he intends to re main a Republican and run for re election in 195S on the Republican ticket.! He said he hoped to make the party more liberal and would carry thej issue to the people In the 1956 campaign. r i Taking! another swipe at the party which he deserted in order to support Governor Stevenson, Morse said, The behind-the-scenes representations made to me by the Eisenhower crowd convin ced me they would stoop to . any thing to gain a victory. 'The people of the State of Oregon are enti tled to-know what kind of dealing the Eisenhower people have been doing,Mhe said. To Democrats, who were jubil ant over his support of Stevenson, he warmed, I can be independent of Democrats, too." i Morse said he had been' asked to speak for Stevenson "in a dozen places," but had not made up his mind whether he would do so. Albany Woman Kill N Statesman News Service : ALBANY Mrs. Sarah Hannah Austin, 82. was fatally " iniured here Monday when she was struck by a car at a downtown intersec tion. -'. ; r Mrs. Austin stepped from the siaewauc into tne siae ox a mov ing automobile, driven by Robert D. Olsen. 19, of Albany. Police re ports indicated that Mrs. Austin had stepped into the street In front of another car just in front of Ol- sen's had stepped back and then walked out Into the street again Into the side of Olsen's car. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 29. 1869, she had been a resident of Albany many years. She is surviv ed by one brother. Fortmiller- Fredericksen Funeral Home is in charge of services. at Rosewood State Training School in Baltimore for the mentally-re tarded. ! -.. ... Six youngsters got the vaccine; For comparison, five did not. Pa rents gave permission." . The chil dren never were in any danger. The vaccine contained polio vi rus killed by a chemical, formalin. The virus could no longer cause paralysis but still could make the human body . produce antibodies to defend against live virus. , The 'vaccine contains- all three types of virus named Lansing, Leon' and BnmhDde that can cause human paralysis, A practi cal vaccine must gi e you anti bodies against ail three. The children got small doses of this vaccine. The critical question was. did it make them develop antibodies. : " -They showed lots "of antibody against Leon-type virus. Less against Lansing. Only tro of the six youngsters developed Brunhilde antibodies, i. . . . Six months later, the youngsters I still had some antibodies. - Morse Asserts ed bv Gar M - J : POUNDDD The Oregon Statesman. Salem, School Principals in Salem for If ir- i ji.. 9'-.. Utrx 'm - f.i-. s .. I i Uere are four of the 409 attending t -: , . , :, r a I 1 First Christian Church here. These are (left to right) Miss Mathilda tiilles, Salem, state president; Dr. Harold Spears, San Francisco assistant superintendent of schools; Miss Laura Dunlap, Albany princi pal; Chester C. Squire, Ashland, president-elect of the association. Convention closes today. Keallv Visions Court Bui As jf Framing Capitol, Favors - Leveling of Sunken Garden1 : y : By WINSTON H. TAYLOR . ; j Staff Writer. The Statesman J ; A hew Supreme Court building itol and mall, will highlight long-range plans Architect Francis Keally will recommend to the State Board of .Control, Keally told The Statesman Monday. - ' , Leveling of the "sunken garden" just north of the statehouse also will be one of the recommendations designed the Capitol 15 years ago. He is in Salem this week to con fer Informally with the board and with the State Capitol Planning Commission. : He is being considered-for authority to restudy and plan the area for future develop ment. : Double Facades Keally said he would offer the Board of Control proposals for a court building just south of Union Street, centered in the area be tween Capitol and Winter Streets. It would ' have identical facades, north 'and south, to "be beautiful from both'sides. The great: center hall, in line with Summer Street, would have all-glass walls to provide a view of the mall from the north. The east and west wings would be ele vated somewhat to frame the Cap itol dome and Pioneer statue over the halL If Basement Parking This would contribute dignity and nobility" to the state area, saia K.eany, aithougn other build ings can be simpler and utilitar lan, with I peauty." He would not Zorget practical aspects in the structure, for he proposes base ment parking for justices and oth er employes in the building, with screened pff-street parking for visitors. i j As to the sunken garden, Keal' ly already, has proposed that an underground parking area . for state employes be installed in this block, making the ; surface even with other: blocks. : At first this lowering was a necessary contri bution to the effect of the Capitol, he said, but the lengthening of the man recently, and its future 'ex tension,1 will; make that unneces sary and he will recommend its leveling in; any case. ' (Additional details on page 2.) RANGE WIRING BURNED FOUR CORNERS -Wiring in an electric range at the Delbert Ot 3 en home; 13825 . Garden RdL,' was Durnea Aionaay evening. The blaze was extinguished by Four Corners fire department, which blamed It on detective .wiring. HI it Max. CS .69 e -41 Mia. Precip. , Jt A3 M M Salem M U 44 29 33 Portland San rtancisco , Chicago - jr Mew Yor 47 Willamette River -XJ feet. TO RECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary Field, Salem): fog and low clouds ithis morninc. becoming partly cloudy ; this afternooa. Light rain tonight. High today near 7Z, low tonight near 50. Temperature at 13 -vl am. was 5 y : SALE1S PKECTPITATION Staca Start of Weatbcr Tea Sept. t This Tear .24 i last Year 1U Normal 3.30 1651 Oregon, Tuesday. October 21, 1952 & convention of Oregon Elementary on Union Street, framing the Cap by the New York architect, who e Hits Frisco SAN FRANCISCO 6TVA major power failure hit San Francisco about noon Monday, trapping many persons In - elevators and halting the municipal railway's trolley system.- - Virtually all of the city was ef fected as lights went out and mo tors halted. , . i Radio and television stations went off the air and traffic lights Dunked out, ... ' The cause was the failure of a 13,000-volt cable at Pacific Gas & Electric Company's steam plant at nunters r"oint. s Gov. EWscoll to Talk in Salem Campaigning on behalf of the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket. Gov. Al fred"E. Driscoll of New Jersey will speak at 8 pjn. Thursday in the Capitol Room of the Senator Hot el. - . , Gov. Douglas McKay will in troduce the Republican campaign er at this open meeting. Attending will be Walter Norblad, Oregon first district congressman: John McCourt, GOP candidate for state attorney general; Sig. Unander, candidate for state treasurer; Jess Guard, national committeeman for Oregon, and Marion county candi dates. h - Sponsoring the program Is the Marion County chapter of Oregon Republican Clubs. Lloyd Girod, president, and George Haley, sec retary, are making the arrange ments for the meeting. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. Man Lives Under -Sidewalk 7 Years :: v PITTSBURGH (P An enraged yell answered curious police who poked a stick into a sidewalk crack from which a wisp oi smoke was emerging. ' The officers investigated and found John Ketvertis, 68, curled up in a cave he had tunnelled un der the sidewalk. He said he had lived for seven years under toe sidewalk in bad weather and In nearby woods when skies were clear. Police charged him with vaerancr and gave him a new home In a celL ' . r ' 1 Idinq PRICE, Sc. Convention School Principals Association at Principals Endorse 2 Bills on Ballot Two measures on the ballot were endorsed Monday by over 400 del egates attending the Oregon Ele mentary School Principals Asso ciation convention being held at the Salem First Christian Church. The two-day session closes today. Endorsed were the school reor ganization bill, which would pro vide for a unification of school districts, and a measure to make appointive, Instead of elective, the post of state superintendent of public instruction. Delegates voted against endors ing a move to require legislative action In collecting any state prop erty tax of more than six mills. Approved was a recommenda tion to support the work being done by the Oregon Co-operative Testing Services which offer state wide testing services to the schools, Including machine grading of examination papers. Each year the principals group works on a specified project Last year it was libraries and in the coming year it will be the super vision of instruction which is be ing emphasized at this week's meeting. During the year local principals' groups work on the problem In their districts and report their findings and recommendations to a committee chairman who reports at the next convention. . ; Reporting this year on libraries was Ivan Ickes of CorvaUis. Henry Mascall of Albany was appointed chairman of next years project Main speaker of the day was Dr. Harold Spears, assistant superin tendent of the Saa Francisco pub lic schools. He dealt with aspects of the supervisory program. . . Scheduled for Tuesday .are a 9 aon. session with addresses by Gov. Douglas McKay and Miss Joy Hills, director of certification of the state department of education. At! 11 a.m. there will be a final business . session. New executives of the orgarUxa tion, already elected, will meet at a luncheon. State committees will hold afternoon meetings. Truman Refuses ;. To Impose Limits On Filbert Imports ? WASHINGTON - m President Truman Monday refused to Impose a limitation on imports of shelled filberts despite the recommenda tion of the Tariff Commission. ' Effect of an import quota, Tru man said in a statement "would fall almost entirely upon Turkey and would reduce its annual dollar earnings by over one and one-half million dollars. The President said American filbert growers seem to be assured of better returns this year than last whereas Turkey already is suffering because of this country's Increase in tariffs on dried figs, No, 210 Lewis Silent; Long Tie-Up Said Likely PITTSBURGH (A-Stung by a government order reducing a pay increase, 305.000 of the country" 375,000 soft coal miners refused to work Monday. The protest walkout hit hardest In the No. 1 producing state West Virginia where all the 115,000 members of the United Mine Work ers stayed away from the pits. Pennsylvania counted 86,500 idle I diggers. All of HUDois 17,000 UMW members are out as well as 33. 000 of 50,000 miners in Kentucky. 8.500 in Indiana, all of Alabama's 15.000 plus 12.000 in Ohio, 9.000 in Virginia and 2.000 in Tennessee. Other coal states reported small er numbers. Contract "Nnnifled" . The familiar "No contract no work" chant went up from miners. One UMW leader said the men felt that their new contract was nullified when the Wage Stabiliza tion Board reduced their JL90 a day pay boost to $1.50. The cut made the basic mini- -. mum daily wage $17.85. It former ly was $16.35 and would have been $18.25 under the new contract UMW President John L. Lewis maintained an unbroken silence in Washington. No publicized, official, orders . for for a work stoooa ee , have come from him or any other! UMW leader. M - Asks Return to Work Harry M. Moses, president esT the Bituminous Coal Operators As sociauon, : made public . in Wash ington a letter to Lewis in which he asked the UMW chief to urge the men to return to work. Moses, who represented the nor thern soft coal operators in nego tiating tne new contract with Lew is, wrote the UMW chief: "We -respectfully request that you strongly urge our employes to return to work so that our con tract may be carried out to the extent permitted by law. Possibility of an extended strike is seen by President George J. Titler of UMW District 18 in Beck ley, W. Va. Titter declared: "The mine shut down might be a long one, maybe as much at six months." Europe Army French Crisis PARIS (-French foreign Min ister Robert Schuman and De fense Minister Rene Pleven Mon day night handed Britain's For elm Secretary Anthony den an urgent SOS for British help la saving the European Army plan. Schuman also decided to ask the cabinet for an expression of soli darity with himself and Pleven on their espousal of the European Army plan. If this supoprt is not forthcom ing the foreign minister will quit reliable informants said. He pro. bably would take the coalition government of Premier Antoine Pinay out of office with him. The two French ministers. whose project for a six-nation Eu ropean Defense Community (EDC) attached to North Atlantic Treaty organization forces has suddenly become a hot point in French politics, - conferred with Eden at dinner in the British Em bassy. . They requested. It was reliably. reported, some new evidence of British support for the EDC to help them meet objections raised over the weekend by veteran leaders of the French Radical - Socialist Party. Edouard Herriot Edouard Daladler and Edgar 1 Faure. Demonstration Sets Off False U.N, , Triice Celebration UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.'-tfl A torchlight "peace demonstrs tion". outside U. N. headruarters touched off a false armistice cele brations among secretariat mem bers Monday night , Employes of the U.N. translation section, seeing the crowd carrying light gathered in the street jumped erroneously to the conclusion that, a truce had been arranged in Korea, stopped work and began te sing, and jump with excitement Some of the girls broke into tears. The demonstration was a de mand for an immediate armistice in Korea. It had been announced in the Communist Daily Worker this morning. - 21. DIE IN TRAIN WRECK DURBAN, South Africa Ten coaches of the night mall train from Durban to Johannes burg jumped the rails early Mon. day, killing 23 persons and Injur ing about 40 others. Menaced by t v g t & 4? t ;