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aj Fleet States Blocked . hi . - - WASHINGTON UB Gen. James A. van Fleet testified Wednesday be could have destroyed the Red armies la Korea twe years ago and was ready to jump off on a sea-borne strike to accomplish that mission in June. 1951, when he was stopped by higher orders. Van Fleet joined.) with Lt. -Gen. Edward M. Aim nd, retired com mander of the U. S. 10th Corps, in telling a special Senate inquiry committee they were hampered all along by ammunition shortages la Korea, j In May.1 1951, Van Fleet said, the 8th Army's hoarded ammo sup plies dropped to 2ero" in some types in beating off a Red attack. Almond, who followed Van Fleet to the witness chair, fully endorsed Van Fleet's com int of serious and at times critical shortages of ammunition on the Korean battle front. Almond said that in the early days of tha war the Army had to Eet akmg on a "hand to month" a s is in using ammunition. He said the Far East Command asked the Pentagon for a five-fold Increase la the World "War II ammunition Gunfire Halts Escape Dash . By Prisoners HOOD RIVER VPi The dash of two prisoners from the Multnomah County jail in a stolen automobile ended abruptly in gunfire near here Tuesday. The pair stole an automobile owned by Henry A. Doellefeld, Hood River business man who commutes from Parkrose, just east of Portland. At Cascade Locks, where the men stopped for gas. the car was recognized and state police were notified. Near Hood River, State Patrol man Roland Montgomery saw the ear, but the driver sped through town with Montgomery in pursuit. The car swung south toward Park dale. Montgomery fired two bullets Into the machine, and the men stopped and surrendered. They were identified as Roger Hanson. 19. and John Draper, 20. They were returned to, jail. PALMISTRY Keadtna. Win ten year present, future. Advice on tore, marriage, business. Madame Rase. Half prlee with ad refer- 3795 So. Commercial NOW CATERING TO Private Lunches and Dinners Entrance and Plenty ef Parking in Back THE RANCH Dine and Dance 3269 Partland Kd. Clyde Ceek. Mgr. HERE THEY ARE . . Here are the individuals that are goina to serve your EASTER BREAKFAST and DINNER ;E very single one an artist in her or his profession everyone schooled and thoroughly experienced in the art of preparing and serving iood. Every person in the back row and two of the persons in the front row will all work for you or your party to make your Easter Break fast and Easter dinner a complete and most enjoyable event ... " OrM ThuxadcryvApsO'i; 1953 Order Victory table 40 rounds per gun per day but the recommendation was turned down. Called mogiear Almond said the Pentagon called the request "illogical and too high." Van Fleet, retired commander of the 8th Army, said the order to call off bis projected sea-borne at tack behind -the enemy lines in mid-1951 came from, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, then supreme Allied commander in the Far East. ' In Europe, Ridgway said he had "absolutely no comment on Vaa Fleet's statement. He is now su preme Allied commander in Eu rope. Many Opoertaaitiee j Sen. Hendrickson (R-NJ.) asked Van Fleet if opportunities arose for hitting the enemy with greater vigor than displayed in the cur rent sitdown war la Korea. Crisply, Vaa Fleet replied: "There were opportunities ev ery day." Describing himself as "a big firepower man." Van Fleet reiter ated bis previous testimony that American soldiers were severely handicapped by ammunition short ages throughout his 22 months In command of the 8th Army. The big, broad-shouldered gen eral gave his testimony as a spec ial Senate Armed Services Sub committee opened a new full-dress investigation into charges of am munition shortages on the Korean battlefront. Omplalnls Substantiated The full Armed Services Com mittee, which heard extensive tes timony last month, has already de clared that Vaa Fleet's complaints were "fully substantiated" despite conflicting testimony by high Pen tagon officials. v ; The five-member i subcommittee.' headed by Sea. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.). has been directed to pin down responsibility for the shortages. Even as Vaa Fleet testified. Ar my Secretary Robert Stevens told newsmen In Seoul. Korea, that the 8th Army now has enough ammu nition "no matter what happens." Stevens, who went to Korea for a first-hand inspection of the am munition situation, said he found no signs of a shortage. Held Under Wraps Van Fleet said at the outset of his testimony he was convinced he could have destroyed the Commu nist armies in Korea if Gen, Ridg way had not held him under wraps. He said his 8th Army had smash ed two Red spring offensives and he then recommended to Ridgway "that we follow up with an amphi bious landing on the East Coast." The witness said he was ready to go when be received "stop" or ders from Ridgway. Van Fleet' did not explain why Ridgway called oft the proposed sea-borne strike or whether it was dictated by the Pentagon or State Department in Washington He made it clear, however, that If Ridgway had not intervened he expected to rival Gen. Douglas MacArthur's spectacular amphibi ous blow that shattered the North Korean armies in 1950. Mac Arthur landed behind the enemy lines at Inchon, on the Ko rean West Coast, and swept all the way to the Yalu River boun dary between Korea and Chinese Manchuria. It was then that the Chinese Reds moved in to create what MacArthur called an entire ly new war. Plaintiff Heard In Hood River Deacons Trial HOOD RIVER, Ore. Ut-Sheridatt Mark Delepine. bearded and aelX styled messenger of God. testified Wednesday how Baptist Church deacons tried to oust him from their church here. He told a Circuit Court jury the deacons twice rrrote him that he no longer was a member of the church, and finally grabbed htm by the arms at church Oct. 31, 1951, and forced him outside with an order not to return. AU this came about, he testified in a $120,000 assault and battery suit against the deacons, because (1) the deacons Imagined there was some . sort o f misconduct between him and his wife before he married her, and 2 he evaded military service in World War IX by hiding out in a cabin five years. It was while in the cabin that he began getting messages from God. the 53 - year - old Delepine testified. He said he put the mes sages into a book he authored. "The Mystery of God." This he described as a "source" book. written in "His" words, not Dele pine s. Delepine said he Is trying to establish his right to attend he church of his choice, and Intro duced a 1951 letter from his attorneys advising him to attend church meetings regularly, for "this may be a wonderful oppor tunity to make an example." He testified he separated from his former wife, who bore him seven children, la 1937. After the war he married the former Bernlce Bennett, who took the stand Wednesday to corroborate hi testimony. Sacred Heart Student Wins Essay Prize Vance Cooney, student at Sacred Heart Academy, won first prize and $23 Wednesday for his essay In the current Marion County Vet erans of Foreign Wars "Demo cracy is What We Make it" contest. Cooney's contribution to the contest will now be submitted In state competition by VFW Post 681. Salem. Second prize winner was Jay Schnorenberg, ML Angel, and third prize was woa by Mar cine Buch holz. also of Alt. Angel. Miss Schnorenberg received a $13 prize for her entry. Judges in the Mar ion County contest were Mrs Dorothy Daueherty. principal of Enzlewood school: Marion County Judge Rex Hartley, and Dr. John A. Rademaker, professor at Willa mette University. Dope Peddler Claim -Hoarding as Alibi - ; EL PASO. Tex. UP) Frank Mal- donado of Brooklyn. N. Y. was sentenced to five years Wednesday on charges of purchasing 10,718 grams of marijuana with the In tentions of selling it in New York. Maldonado denied the charges saying: "I planned to smoke It all my self." DOE SIGNS CABINET BILL WASHINGTON (JB President Eisenhower Wednesday signed leg islation which wfll give him his tenth Cabinet officer; A secretary of health, education and welfare, With a Hug r - - K L v,X " -.4 ' ,,) ,i, WASHINGTON House Speaker " Flckford, one-time me vie glamor a-month application on the eapltei steps. l(AF Wsrepkote to The Statesman.) Home Bidding Gets Off to Fast Start in April Building business was wit"f In Salem Wednesday with the city building inspector issuing 11 con struction and alteration permits. The General Realty Co. was is sued three permits to build $7,000 homes and garages at 2230, 2215 ana ZZ3 Rural St. Pat Jarvill received permission to erect a one-story house and garage at 2515 Northgate St. for S 10.000 and F. M. North permit to put up a (11,000 house and gar age at 2670 nglewood Ave. utner nous construction per mits went to R. A. Fullerton to build a one-story house and gar age at 2195 Stortz St.. for $000 ana w. m. KUtnerzora to erect a one-story house and garage for 28,130 at 750 N. 14th St Receiving alteration permits ere K. c Cannen. slauehter bouse, 1505 8. 25th St 2300: Blue Lake Cannery. 370 Patterson Ave, $4,500; M. D. Bruckrnan. house. 1990 Virginia St, $2,500: and uiaries i-ayport, apartment. 1133 ChemekeU St, $2,000. Repeal of Tight Dairy Import Law Favored WASHINGTON UP The Eisen hower administration came out Wednesday for repeal of the law under which tight curbs on imports or dairy products have been ap plied with resulting bitter protests from other countries. Congress had turned a deaf ear to repeat pleas of the same sort from former President Truman, While the new administration's views were being advanced before the senate Banking Committee, House Agriculture Subcommittee heard producer spokesmen call not only zor continuation of the law but for stronger curbs. A qualified source at the State Department said it was the first time the new administration had taken an open stand In that trade policy field. Grain Support. Loans to Fall Due WASHINGTON iff The Agri culture Department announced Wednesday that price support loans to farmers on most 1952- crop grains stored in commercial warehouses will fall due April 30. Tms means that farmers hav ing such commodities stored in these facilities will have .until the end of this month to repay their loans and retain full title to their products. Otherwise, the depart ment wul take over the dines as fun payment of the loans. BTJTTEX UNLOADED ON TJJL WASHINGTON (J) Tha dab-T industry unloaded a record daflr I ter. Cheese and dried mflk onto! I the government Tuesday to beat a reduction Wednesday in price support rates. ; nniVE-iri tiieatue P UtUJI CU8IXS, HIGHWAY ft 7 uates uutm s:a f NOW! In Technicolor "THE RAIDERS' sUehard Cestte -?!- Snperetne Celor -- "Abbett and . CesteUe lleet i faptata 3Ud4" NOW1 Hf From Mary Jee Martia gets a hag girl, as he signs a savings bend- Salem's Postal Business Rises Postal business In Salem climb ed for March and the year's first quarter above that of 1952, Post master Albert C. Gragg announc ed Wednesday. March income was up from $72,- 874 to $75,574 to $75,330 or 3.8 per cent, while the quarter's busi ness increased 8.4 per cent ''from $223,233 to $235,485, despite a drop In January. i Blaze Kills 5 In Kansas City Apartments KANSAS CITY tf) At least five persons were -killed and 12 injured in a raging fire that swept through the 75-unit Eyssell Court apartments Wednesday. Three firemen were killed and six other firefighters were injured by a collapsing wall and roof. The bodies of an unidentified wo man and child were recovered from the east wing of the build- in. ' The blaze finally was controlled about 3 tym hours after it broke out. P. W. Halloran, a city health de partment employee, said an excit ed mother leaned out of a window of a third floor with a baby short ly after the fire broke out. She was ready to drop the child when Halloran called to her to wait, he said. Firemen quickly raised a ladder and carried the two to safety. The apartment was located at 504 West 18th street, about 11 blocks from the center of the busi ness district. It housed 60 fami lies. Picketing Just 4 Joke' on Employer SOUTH BEND. Ind. Ul The president of a small South Bend factory found only one of his 61 employes at work when he arrived at the plant Wednesday. The others were picketing. Wendell R. Nace, head of the Precision Piece Parts Co., said the pickets ignored him as he walked past them, and the lone workman gave him a stony stare and walked out to Join the others. Nace was at his desk pondering the sudden walkout when one em ploye came to the door and yelled: "April Fool" Then -everybody went to work. mm wwMM i 1 . 1 - - ' I' " w-- " .-,4 V. j;' - j. -- - v." - - - ,"- !-;'! ' f ' 1'...', 36toLeavfc ForDrafrErom Thirty-six men are Included In the draft list from Marion County slated to leave from Salem Tues day for Portland to be sworn in for military duty, i From Salem re Henry ugene Seelen, Robert William Munson, Darrell Uoyd Johnson, Jimmie Ray Varbel. John Robert Strong, Raymond Lee Stuart, Clarence G. Verzati, David Llo yd DezdteU, James Elbert Hart Jr., Darrell F. Stratton, Jack Quincy Hall, Barn ey Lee Stice, Richard Lee Zander, John Robert Weoger, Virgil John Weber ind Alvin Suderman. - OtherVboys from valley towns include George A. Peters, Wayne Arthur' Steffen. Douglas Dean Wallis. Gary Leroy- Carter and Richard Lee Bye, all of Silverton; Percy Eugene McCarthy, Albert Elmer Hansen and Norman C Wyff els. all of Woodburn; Charles Earl Florer and Gerald Richard Harvey, both of Gervals; Wayne Allen Trowbridge, Aurora; Everett Willis Hatch, AumsviUe and Wil liam Charles Davies. Jefferson. Also Duane Everett Bradley, Sublimity; Howard Dale Bos well. Lenard Eugene Manning and Wal lace John Wipper, all of Turner; Darrell Dean Harold, Corvallis; Frederick T. LaBonte, Donald; John Alvin Hampton, Marion, and Norman C. Wyff els, Woodburn. A farewell party at the Salem TMCA will precede the draftees' departure Tuesday. A-Blast Blows Nevada Clay To Washington SEATTLE (it Atomic test blasts in Nevada last month ap parently did something more than destroy some nouses ana sunary other items. A man living In the northwest- ernmost part of the United States learned Wednesday it blew some Nevada real estate right into the state of Washington ana turnea the roof of his house yellow. Lew Dodds. sole occupant of tiny Yellow Island in the San Juan Island group SO miles northwest of Seattle, awoke the other morn ing to find that his aluminum roof had turned yellow overnight. . Closer examination snowed the corrugated metal was covered with a film of yellow dust. Curious, Dodds took scrapings to Dr. Thom as G. Thompson, University of Washington oceanographer who has a country home on a neighbor ing island. , Dr. Thompson turned tne ma terial over to the university radia tion laboratories. There, the dark er parts of the dust were Identi fied by specialists as "typical gray Nevada clay" throw up by the atomic explosions. The radiation specialists said the Yellow Island material showed disintegration rate of 2,100 per minute per gram, a definite in dication of radioactivity. But, they emphasized, there was no cause for the slightest alarm as It was not In sufficient amount to be dan- serous. (Ironically. Dodds went to Yel low Island a quarter century ago to "get away from civilization. He did, it seems, but he can't.) Bellusehi Says Cities 'Exploding' PORTLAND Ul Pietro BeUus- chi, noted architect, said here Wednesday that American cities axe "exploding" and dying In the center. BelhischL whose modern build ing concepts have attracted wide attention, is dean of the school of architecture at Massachusetts In stitute of Technology. He was back in Portland, his former home, to deliver a speech. Suburbs are expanding, and of necessity, are setting up their own shopping centers, leaving the older downtown business centers to die, he said in the interview. He said no solution is in sight. 1 Salem Tuesday Bandits Off er ' Cash to Victim OKLAHOMA CJTY UB Two bandits, moved by r an Intended victim's tale 'of woe, offered him money instead Wednesday, police reported. ' J ' John B. Mitchell, S3, said he was accosted by the men on a city street. When , they found he had only 50 cents and heard his sad story, they tried to force moner on Mm, Mitchell told police, "but left after he declined with thanks Demos Talk of Convention in Fall of 1954: WASHINGTON Ut The Execu tive Committee of the Democratic party decided unanimously Wed nesday night to "explore fully" the idea of holding-a national conven tion. In August or September of 1854.... , -i..... :. -i -- The proposal was made by Paul M. Butler of South Bend, IncL. a national committeeman and ; at- large member of the 13-man Ex ecutive Committee eg the party's National Committee. Normally a political party holds a convention only every four years. when a President is to be nomi nated. Butler told reporters bis plan would: - L Focus agtention on the Demo cratic party," 2. Give "a single clear voice to the Democratic party to speak as one In a congressional election year for the first time in history,' and 3. Be a vehicle for parry har mony. Even before the Executive Com mittee met behind closed doors National Chairman Stephen A. Mit chell said he was "very sympathe tic" to the idea. It would be subject to approval by Democratic senators and i rep- representatives first and then the full National Committee. Weeks Proposes To Eliminate Aid to Airport, Ship Jobs WASHINGTON UR Secretary of Commerce Weeks Wednesday tola the Senate. Appropriations Committee he proposes to elimi nate all federally aided new air port and merchant ship construc tion in the 13 months beginning July 1. This drew criticism from Sen. McCarran (D Nev.) who. said halting new airport construction would cross the will of Congress ana cause and "avalanche of pro tests from across tne country. Weeks disclosed the at ' least temporary halt In federal ship and airport building programs la mak ing the first public disclosure of details In his revision of the Com merce Department's budeet for the fiscal year 1954, beginning July 1 New Shewing Open 6:48 John Payne Arlene Dahl Sir Cedrle Hardwleke 'CARIBBEAN" Also Peter Lawford. Dawn Addams -HOUR OF 13- Learn To Dane Try a private mil V 81, VlL 8 ?B Even beginners go dancing after their very first lesson. Free Dancing Parties Weekly ENXOU NOW Join In tha Fun JON-MAR DANCE STUDIOS Open 16 A. M. te 16 P. WL 677 8. CenusX Ph. 4-4983 ADENAUER TO VISIT U.-. LA HAVRE. France (J) West German Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer sailed early .Thursday - oa the liner United States for .the U. S. for high - level talks with U.S. officials. v; - r ' Government nrtnri ur th Rio Grande is becoming steadily smaller. - fTLtitB-2-- fh I:lt.-l.lri-ff Virginia Mayo -: Steve Cechran . - IaCeler -SUITS BACK ON BROADWAY" Beya MALOrY- Xinda Darnell -VflDJaaa Bendtx - In Tsehnleeler -BLACKBXAJtD, THE FDXATE! Geerge Brent rrangler Incident1 . Tw Chfflerst A JLI xarleff IjL. HI ftA-m mmt-t M - I Elllsen Walked With AJEemble' Matinee DaUy frem 1P.M. ENDS TODAY! 1 "MY PAL GUS" and I "SKY FULL OF MOON" I I TOMORROW! Stery Behind the Drop ef the First AteaeBembC mm m TAUQR PARKER THRILL CO-U1TI 1 r mm if .cXATBT rcna CARTOON K8W8 ,We ust wanted you to meet the dining room staff and to assure you of our every effort and con Ideration to make your dining at the Marion Hotel e real pleasure. We hope to see you Sunday. MARION HOTEL