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Gent IDedh Freed, Tells . , - - of Fdfeals Gomm Prison f- Chmjno "Off , The terms of the proposed con tract ; between Bonneville Power Administration and private util ities in the Northwest which Dr. Paul J, Barer discussed at a press conference Tuesday are not start ling. Toe contract is really tardy1 compliance with the fed eral, law setting up the Bonne ville rower Administration. This law directed the Administrator to enter into contracts with pub lic bodies, cooperatives, indus tries and private utilities for a term not to exceed 20 years. BPA long ago made such con tracts with public bodies, co operatives and private industries. but not with private utilities for such a term. Present contracts with the last named are for five-year term. The new contract, which is still in the pending stage, does not disturb the preference of public bodies nor the contracts now existing with private industry. The private utilities are third in line at the bus bar. They will be assured of the next 500,000 kilo watts. Then industry, which now gets a little over a million kilo watts can add 70,000 kw, but no more until private utilities reach their total allotment of 1,500, 000 kw. The catch is that Bonneville doesn't have any such gobs of power in sight At the present schedule of installing new gener ators the 500,000 kw allotment will not be available , until 1958. By 1960 added generation may supply them with 750,000 kw. But owing to the operation of the preference clause and the expect ed increase in demand from pub- lie bodies the actual deliveries to private utilities and to indus tries will begin to taper off after 1960, and according to the esti mate of (Continued on Editorial Page 4) Flying Paul Revere Hits Block in Ride Max Conrad, the "Flying Paul Revere" due in Salem Thursday to publicize the 50th anniversary of powered Sight, Giant make it. ' Engine trouble forced bis Piper Pacer 123-hp plane down in a farmer's field near Cle Elum, Waslu Thursday morning. This was the first delay in 12, 000 miles of air. travel to state capitals in the tour started Aug. 17, it was reported to The States man by telephone yesterday from Basil Littin. publicity man for Gen. James H. Doolittle's nation al committee in charge of the an niversary observance. Littin is flying with' Conrad. The plane was undamaged in the landing and Conrad was work ing on the engine, expecting to resume his tour Friday by visit ing Olympia, then Salem about 4:15 p.m. That would leave only California and Nevada still to visit on the tour. Conrad, 50, is the father of 10 and the holder of several world air records. He was forced down Thursday soon after a stop at Ellensburg, Wash., where he was made an "honorary sheep heVder." Liauor Store Opening Set . Opening of Salem's first liquor store on a contract basis will take place at noon today at 910 S. Commercial St Unlike the state liquor agency on Court St, which is operated by the state liquor commission, the new store will be operated by Raymond G. Moon on a commis sion basis under state regulation. Hours and conditions of opera tion will be the same as those in effect at the Court St Store. The decision to open this store was made by the state liquor agency in an effort to relieve traffic congestion. Moon has lived in Salem since 1934 except for a short time spent in KUmnth Falls with a -real estate firm. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 'MAK&R-TriH PUCE ALWAjJ LOOKS UJCE A Pl6'PEHl I 0 4 . f .V if V GENERAL WILLIAM DEAN Released by Reds Chief Warren To Receive Police Award Police Chief Clyde A. Warren will receive a 1953 Gold Seal of Progress Award from the Mis sion, Tex., Chamber of com merce, for progressive law en forcement work, Salem Chamber of Commerce announced Thurs day. Warren is the only Oregon po lice chief chosen this year in the nationwide awards program. Chamber Manager Clay Cochran, who has been making arrange ments with the Texas group to present the award, was informed that in the past the Gold Seal awards have been followed by Department; of Justice citations of. merit from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The award from Texas will be presented Chief Warren Tuesday noon at a Salem Kiwanis Club meeting in the Senator Hotel where about 75 Portland busi nessmen wiu join in tne pro gram. (Additional details on page Information submitted by Sa lem Chamber on Warren's record as police chief stresses youth ac tivities such as Third Base Club and Soap Box Derby, traffic con trol including innovation of ra dar cheeking and Salem's absence of traffic fatalities so far this year, keeping Salem free of com mercial gambling and other vice, civic activity like participating in city government forums- police department displays, Kiwanis and Chamber work. , Tower to Idle. CAA Says By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON The Salem airport tower wiu remain un manned by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, Sen. Guy Cordon has been told by CAA officials in what was apparently the final round in the battle the Oregon senator led to keep the control tower operating. Closed down June 30 on orders of Secretary of Commerce Sin- cliar Weeks due to a CAA econo my move, the Salem tower was one of 18 across the country in which aviation landing instru ments were operated by govern ment personnel- Sen. Cordon managed to get congressional approval of a direc tive to CAA that none of the re ductions in operating funds be applied to aviation safety activ ities, which would include the Salem tower. In informing Cordon that the CAA was standing firm on its original decision to keep the tower shut down, officials main tained that it was administration policy to close the control towers irrespective of reductions in CAA's budget ordered by Con gress. ' That closes the issue, at least until CAA officials come back to Capitol Hill for next year's funds in February. MERCY SHIP DOCKS SAN FRANCISCO W) The gleaming white Navy hospital ship Haven arrived off the Golden Gate Thursday night, bringing home 104 sick and wounded American fight ing men from the Communist pris on camps of North Korea. The men will be discharged Friday. PLANE BRINGS POWS TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. ( A military transport plane . landed here Thursday with 37- sick or wounded liberated pris oners of the Korean war. One of them was Pfc. Leonard E. Steege, Medf ord. ' - - ' .- ' i Max. - as -; as - cs .... - 91 Min. , 45 ' 49 Freda. Mf Portland . San rrancisce .eo jM 4 7S 78 Chicago New Yo fork 92 JOO Willamette River - J feet. FORECAST (from U. S. weather bureau, McNary field. -Salem : - fair and warm today, tonight and Saturday. High today near- S3 to 97 and low tonight near U to 5. Tem perature at 1241 a-m. was S7 da- Stay ! By FORREST EDWARDS AND ' , WILLIAM J. WAUGn FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea CD Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, who won . the Medal of Honor for his fighting leadership of the U. S. 24th Division in the first hectic month of the Korean War, was freed Fri day after three years in Communist captivity. . ' : Dean told of harrowing stretches of interrogation by his Red captors and difficult marches. Otherwise, he said, he was treated reasonably well., , - '1 -The Communists brought Dean to the Allied reception center at Pan munjom in a Jeep at 10:43 a. m. The 54-year-old general, 'thin and white-haired now, was given a rous affWl rep tiia - a i ii i, i ii.ii 103RD YEAR Adenamer Candidacy Five Umt Gas Tanker Flames Sear IUtnai LYONS A violent gas explosion and fire Thursday evening enveloped the offices of the Propane Gas Co. here and destroyed the home of its proprietor, Sam He and members of his family Summer Back; Mercury Hits 92 Degrees 4 Summer returned to Salem Thursday as the mercury jumped up to 92 and the weatherman edged out on a limb and pre dicted warm clear days for the first two opening days of the State Fair. v But a note of caution was in troduced by the Portland Weath er Bureau which said that . con tinued high temperatures and dry easterly winds will seriously increase forest fire danger in Western Oregon today. ' The forecast is for humidities from IS to 25 per cent, well be low the danger point at which logging operations are halted. Today's high temperature in Salem is expected to climb near 95 to 97. Thursday's reading was the highest since Aug. 14 when the mercury registered 94. Medf ord with a 96 was the warmest Oregon spot Thursday. Roseburg had 93, Eugene 92, Newport 90, and Portland 86. AF Lops 965 Off Plane List WASHINGTON (A The Air Force disclosed Thursday it is re ducing its production program by 965 aircraft costing about 750 mil lion dollars, but it said the cut back would not materially affect American air power. James H. Douglas, acting secre tary of the Air Force, told news men the reduction was not an eco nomy move. He described it as a revised estimate of requirements for the Eisenhower administration's goal of a 120-wing air force. In St. Louis, where he ad dressed the American Legion con vention. Secretary of Defense Wil son said the jet engine program is also being reviewed with a sim ilar cutback in prospect- Orders will be cancelled for 151 B47 jet bombers, Douglas said. These planes, among the most ad vance of their type in the world, have been flying to England in less than five hours. Radar Arrest Test Bypassed As Motorist Ruled Innocent Salem's radar speed checker went to Municipal Court for the first time Thursday afternoon and the motorist it clocked was found innocent by Judge Doug las Hay. However, since the legality of the radar never came under seri ous fire, court observers ruled out the decision as a test case." In fact. Judge Hay allowed the chart on which a motorist's speed is recorded to be admitted as vi dence. The defendant was Otis Arthur Babcock, a Dallas sawmill work er, who acted as his own attorney and called his wife as his only witness other than himself. -- Babcock was arrested early Tuesday morning in the 900 block of Edgewater Street in West Sa lem and charged with violating the basic rule by traveling 40 miles an hour in a 23 mile an hour zone. Judge Hay ruled , that testi mony showed Babcock did not violate the bask rule and there-! fore was innocent No evidence was introduced to : dispute the fact that the radar j clocked Bibcock's car at 40 miles 1 ing reception then; and then was rushed by ambulance to Freedom Village, the big Allied processing center for repatriates. j ; He was given another warm re ception here, by high-ranking offi cers and South Korean dignitaries. Dean appeared to be in good health. .- .' . - . . - ' He survived tremendous ordeals in the 371 months since be made a bazooka stand in the flaming ruins of Taejon alongside his green troops. ' - He wandered a month in the hois then after slipping out of Taejon, trying to reach the fast-receding American line. For 20 days of the time he went without food. 2 SECTIONS 32 PAGES in Lyons Blast; 1X1 o roue Newt ferric Bridges. were taken to Santiam Memorial Hospital with severe first and second degree burns. Their con ditions late Thursday night were considered "fair." Bridges and ,his family were reportedly preparing to leave their home when a neighbor called to say gas was leaking from the propane tanker parked in the driveway near the offices and Bridges' home. Bridges, with his young children, Johnny, Buddy and Zo Ann, were in the car and drove toward the tanker. neighbors said. Firemen pre sumed that the explosion was created from heat of the exhaust as the vehicle approached the escaping gas. Flames from the tanker and reserve tanks shot across the roadway and kindled the Bridges home. Mrs. Bridges' and two other children were reportedly uninjured though she suffered from shock. , :. .... Firemen said the truck was k total loss and most of the inside of the home was completely de stroyed. The offices were badly scorched. A great number of the inside furnishings were saved by neighbors and firemen from the departments of the forest service. Linn-Marion, Stayton, Mt Jeffer son and Mill City. The tanker was believed by firemen to have been full of gas. , Bridges has been a resident of Lyons for about the past 12 years and the Propane representative there for about the past five vears. neisnoors saia. It was not siown whetner ne had insurance. Western International At Calgary C. Salem 9 At Edmonton 3. Tri-City 11 At Lewiston t. Spokane 9 At Victoria 4. Vancouver 3 At Wena tehee 1, Yakima S Coast League At Portland 5-5. Sacramento 9-9 At Seattle 2. San Diego 0 At Oakland S, Los Angeles 4 At Hollywood 2, San Francisco 13 American .League At St Louis S. New York S At Detroit 5. Boston 4 At Chicago 1. Washington S At Cleveland 9. Philadelphia 4 t National League At Brooklyn 1. Milwaukee S At Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 1 At New York 2. Cincinnati 9 (Only games scheduled) an hour, but the case hinged on whether the basic rule had been violated. Both Mr. and Mrs. Babcock testified they started to slow down when they spotted a sign designating a speed of 25 miles an hour and said their car was traveling 35 miles an hour or un der when it crossed the. tracks, just inside the city. ' It is possible for a motorist to exceed the designated speed shown on a highway sign and still not violate the basic rule, accord ing to the law. Judge Hay noted in his deci sion that Babcock's car continued to .slow down after entering the city limits, that traffic was not heavy at the time and there was no foot traffic. There are no in tersections where Babcock's car was docked. .Unless another trial is sched uled in the meantime, it is ex pected a "test case on the legali ty of the radar will come Oct. 9 with the trial of Mrs. Evelyn J. Franc, 4400 N. River Rd. Her attorney has stated he plans to question the legality of the radar in light of Oregon's speed trap law. Then came the long marches aft er his capture, and the heavy in terrogations. , Once,' Dean told a news confer ence here, the Reds questioned him continuously for 63 hours without sleep. Another time it was more than 40 hours, and still another time 35 hours. .. - . "I am certainly happy to be back and to be home, Dean said, a broad, smile creasing his face. He said that his greeters Friday were the first Americans he had seen since July, 1950. ."It is certainly good to see so many fellow citizens, Dean said. "You all look better to me than I do to you, I'm sure. v pp-vvy vv v -.vryY-vy FOUNDHD The Oregon Statesman, Salem Oregozw Friday, September Repairs Decommission City Reservoir TURNER Repair work was In break developed frea an nndosed construction drain. Shewn water level was down te about man Photo.) ' Young Boys Return After River Jaunt Statesman Newt Service NORTH SANTIAM Two young boys got lost running the rapids down the Santiam River on a log raft Thursday afternoon and search parties had gone out to look for them before they walked back into town. The two boys, Cecil Martin, 11, from California, and Jim Tarazoo, 13, Molalla, built a small raft of logs, and leaving their clothes on the shore shoved off ala nude down the river. About six miles later they land ed ashore, a little lost and quite a bit more to sea than they had signed on for. Meanwhile the lads parents who worked in the Fred Wallace bean yard here, became worried and parties were organ ized to search the river. At 8:30, six hours after they be gan their voyage, the pair walk ed into town, without even a sailor's hat to protect them from the sun. Economy Cut Slowing Dam WASHINGTON un An admin istration economy order will result in a one-year delay in construc tion of The Dalles Dam; CoL T. H. Lipscomb, Portland district Army engineer, said Thursday. Lipscomb said "iat under an or der to slash civil functions funds by $325,000,000. Portland district expenditures will be reduced about 22 million dollars. Today's Statesman Section I General News 'Editorials Society News, Valley News Section II - . Svotts News-i General News Section m , : food News . .1-13 Section IT - Market News Classifieds J-4 8-10 ''',M .1-3 - ' 4 Lt. Stanley Zimmerman, AmariI- 10. Tex, a 24th Division warrior who was captured in July, "1950, approached Dean. .?.- ? 4 remember you," Dean said Another freed American cut in: 1 "General." you led us across the line in 1SS0 and I am proud of you. Dean beamed. j Speaking .of his capture. Dean said, "as has been reported I was separated from my division July 2L "On five occasions while trying to get back to my division I was surrounded by North Koreans-or local boys who had been given guns by North Koreans and who called themselves home guards. . Dean said he made it as far 1651 ' Endorsed by . . ' ft - -mrwy "" ii . - ", ... " v. J progress at Salem city reservoir Z feet, la Art staples, saiem city No Drought, But Reservoir Dry Salem's 100,000,000-gallon water reservoir at Turfeer was nearly dry Thursday, but not from heavy water use. City workmen were making re pairs after a small leak developed early in the week. Meanwhile, Salem had plenty of water as its regular supply piped from the North Santiam River was considerably more than enough to meet the present de mand, reported Water Manager John Geren. City Manager J. L. Franzen said the asphalt surface was brok en near the south end of the new reservoir because a 10-inch con struction drain had not .been closed with a concrete plug after its use during the excavation work by Stevenson Construction Co. Some overflow on nearby prop erty led C. R, Mudgett, the prop erty owner, to notify the city officials. The old drain was closed prop erly Thursday and an asphalt patch will cover the broken sur face area of about 4 by 6 feet Friday, said the water manager. Thn the reservoir will be refilled over about a week's time. SALXM PKCCTPITATIOX S1bc -Start f Waathar Tear SpC 1 This Year Last Year Normal ' 0 .11 Beer By LILLIE L. MADSEN Farm Editor, The Statesman , Beer won't be sold after aU at the 1933 Oregon State Fair. . Governor Paul Patterson Thurs day reversed the decision of the fair commissioner, and Paul Ail, who had the concession for beer selling .in the racing . pavilion, withdrew his request for the con cession. ' .'A- Charles Evans, racing superin tendent, predicted that despite dnr betting, more races, bigger purses and increased pari-mutuel facilities will make- the horse race record breaking this year. Post time, as usual, begins Satur day at 1:13, and races will be south r as. Chlnae, 3-miles from TaeJon. by Aug. , 25. 1350. There he met a Korean civilian who he understood was going to help him get back to American lines. When he got to the place where be was supposed to meet the Amer icans.1 however, a group of Koreans came; around a bend "and started shooting.- "I reached for my pistol, Dean said.j';;-. .'-.. The Korean grabbed his, arm. I thought I was a good wres tler, , Dean said, "but before I was able to get my hands free about 20 Koreans were on me. . . "That night they took me to the local ! jail and put me la a box 4 1953 PRICE near here Thursday after a small at work In the reserveiL where water department woraer. otaies- Portland Art Center Gets Renoir Venus t; PORTLAND UrV-Renoir'a bronze VenuJ, which Salem didn't want as a fnemorial to Oregon pioneers, soon jwill be in the Portland Art Museum. Victor Carter of Los Angeles, who recently purchased the statue by the famous French sculptor, Thursday telephoned T. C. Colt Jr., museum' director, that it has arrived in Los Angeles from New York.j Colt said it will be recrated and sent to Portland where it will be displayed as soon as a base can be made. Ther museum will get the statue on a one-year . loan with possibility of annual renewal Colt said. , Trustees of the estate of a de ceased state 'employe who had left a bequest for purchase of a pio neers'' memorial at Salem bought the statue. But they sold it to Carter: when . many Salem resi dents! objected to it. PLANES SEEK MARK. LIMESTONE, Maine i Four teen giant B47 Stratojet bombers perched at the Limestone Air Force! Base Thursday night ready to try for a record transatlantic crossing. - V- nl ryn MM r I Ban Iror Fair esoamedl Governor's Coiroffereinice held each afternoon, excepting Sunday, during the fair from Sept j 5 to 12 inclusive. Twenty additional pari-mutuel . machines have been installed and purse money will be 10 per cent over last year. - Helen Hughes arrives Friday from j California to complete stag ing her big revue which will be held I nightly at 8 in the grand sun, with two matinees, Satur day and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Sat urday night, Mrs. Paul Patterson will be presented a lei from Gov ernor t Samuel King, Hawaiian Governor, with Princess Luana making the presentation. The beauty of Oregon's Little Switzerland will be featured in ., . .. . , ; . . .... . . about the size of tLIs table, alsotif 4 feet square, wbera I spent tta night. . : I made a terrible mistake then. My feet were swollen so I took my boots off. That gave them the idea. They took the boots away from me. The next' day when we were marching north they gave me Ko rean rubber shoes but there were no soles on them. There was a hubub at the' gigan tic press conference and lt could not be determined immediately whether Dean said he had lost both big toes or both big toenails as a result "It was a terrible mistake that night taking my boots off, he said. Se No. 158 les Stand Draws emission - A Of Opponents By JOHN 8CALI tt-v . n WW. Hep WASHINGTON (AV Secretary i of State Dulles Thursday strongly . endorsed West German Chancellor , Konrad Adenauer's bid for re-, election and denounced continued partition of Germany as a Russian '. "crime." vuun vuspufccn auppon lor au- enauer . drew swift repercussions T-Vll I k J from the anti-Adenauer German Socialist Party, which accused the i United States government of "a vicious attempt" to influence the West . German election Sunday. , Socialist Disagree I The Socialists took strong ex- . ception to Dulles' news conference remarks that Anaiir's rl'at would spread confusion throughout Germany and Indefinitely postpone , a solution of the critical German ' problem. ' 1 - The Socialist Party's press chief, ' I Fritz Heine, said in a statement at Bonn, Germany: i the most decisive manner against this unbelievable attempt of the . U. S. A to deceive the German a i it. . s - a m , voters wua prevcrsum ot sacu. Called Peace Menace In blunt words, Dulles labelled i ' the east-west division of Germany as a "menace to peace' which he said Moscow wants to perpetuate despite Soviet propaganda promts - cs ox support ior uermany uniry. . Backing Adenauer, Dulles de clared that failure to return the Chancellor's Christian Democratic coalition to power would have very -a" . . - . . . for Germany unity. - Strangest Support Dulles remarks about Adenauer. . just, uirco aaya oeiore uie election, constituted the strongest public M . .1 J 1 . 1 . suDoort civen bv a too U. S. official to a foreign leader since the end of the war. - They reflected the apprehension among American officials lest Ger man voters repudiate Adenauer's pro-Western policies and turn in stead to the Socialists, Communists . or right wing neo-Nazi parties for leadership. Warren Rules Out 4th Term SACRAMENTO tfl Third-term Gov. Earl Warren, saying it's time for a change of state administra tions, told Californians Tivrtday he will not be a candidate for re election next year. . .' The 62 year old Republican, gov ernor since 1943, did not say wheth er he intends to serve out his term, which ends in January, 1953. Nor did he comment directly on wheth er he intends to resign to take a federal appointment. . Pacific University Names President PORTLAND m Pacific Uni- versity. Thursday night named Dr. Charles Johnstone Armstrong; 42, vice president of Whitman College, as the new Pacific president the Wallowa County booth, in that county's first appearance at the Oregon State Fair, for some years. Polk county will be missed from the group. New fairgrounds and building of its own in use for the first time at the county fair a week ago at RickrealL were all they- could : handle this year, members of the county fair board decided. - Those getting into place Thurs day in the big agricultural ptvil ian, were Curry, Wasco, Harney, Linn, Douglas, Lane, Union, Jose phine, Tillamook, Hood River, Jefferson, Umatilla and of course, Marion, the host county. (Additional Details Page S) . i IS e