103HD YEAB j 4 SECTIONSM PAGES Thm Ongoa S333JQQB PCD (IDS Some parents and children are chafing at the bit this week be cause of the delay in the opening cf the public schools; and pre sumably the schoolboard gets rapped on the knuckles because It ordered the postponement at the urgent request, of those in terested in the harvesting and Ecessing of local crops, particu ly snap beans. What, then, is the situation? Was this week needed for the completion of the harvest? The frank testimony of growers and packers is that the extra week has saved them and the com munity from very heavy losses. Monday receipts were 5000 tons of beans, and the run is expected to continue all this week, though by the weekend, the harvest will be 95 per cent completed: This 5000 tons will return to the growers nearly $60,000; and the pickers got $27,500 of that In addition, labor in transporting and in processing the beans de rived substantial sums in wages. Not only did the young people help out in bean-picking but older youth made "hands" in the can series. There has been a shortage of cannery labor which may in crease when these young people return to high school. Canneries still have runs on other crops: beets, sweet corn, prunes, pears and later crops like carrots and quash. Tuesday I visited a cannery and found it busy processing corn (Continued on editorial Page 4) Doctors to Try To Separate Siamese Twins NEW ORLEANS ? A team of surgeons matching their skilled scalpels against death will try to separate Louisiana's Siamese twin girls Thursday at New Orleans Foundation Hospital. The 8-week-old girls, joined near the base of the spine, face a big gamble never before have both twins survived this operation. Hospital spokesmen voiced cau tious optimism about the infants' chances for normal life. V The twins, daughters of Mayor and Mrs. Ashton Mouton of Lafay ette, a south central Louisiana city, were born in the Lafayette Sani tarium July 22. Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne are "bright, alert and per fectly normal in every respect, ex cept for the connection," officials said. The operation will take from two to three hours. The children weighed 11 pounds, S ounces at birth and hospital of ficials said they have gained about three pounds since then. Deputies Check Drivers on Routes Of School Buses Motorists driving in the vicin ity of outlying schools . around Salem were warned Wednesday by Marion County Sheriff Denver Young to slow down and watch for school buses. Young said he had received several complaints concerning drivers who were not stopping for school buses and were exceeding tpeed limits in school tones. He cautioned particularly about Keizer School which is temporar ily -now maintaining two shifts a day. Sheriffs deputies are being sent to school areas, said Young, and will issue court citations to motorists violating traffic regula tions. Fence Post Holes Offered for Sale EAST ST. LOUIS tfi The new telephone directory here carries an advertisement announcing the Suth erland Lumber Co. has for sale "creosoted fence posts and holes." Not so, an official of the firm explained Wednesday. It was a typographical error. The items featured by the firm are creosoted 'fence posts and poles. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH 'WES RIGHT, BYGOLIX GORKT1PS KEEP EA fKOAl (SETTING SOG6Y." Mammoth Sprawling, impressive, new South Salem High School this week passed the half-way point in construction, reported Schools Super intendent Walter E. Snyder Wednesday. Aerial photo above shows how the big school, due to open a year from now, is linked to Les lie Junior High School (pictured in right foreground, facing How ard Street). Wings on either side of Leslie Auditorium will open into the junior high, will house shops, commercial department, mu Disputed Pole Near Airport To Be Removed The 100-foot pole erected near Salem's McNary Field last week will be removed, according to J. Harold Davis, city engineer. He reported Wednesday that Carl R. Staats, president of the River Bend Sand and Gravel Co., has agreed to remove it The com pany put up the pole as part of a gravel pit project. Staats declared that after watching airplanes In the land ing pattern' at the airport, he was convinced it is a hazard. A survey by the city engineer's office determined that the pole is 62 feet higher than is permissible at that location, according to air port zoning laws. Pen Escapee Nabbed, Along Witb Arsenal TERRE HAUTE. Ind.UV-Charles Stephen McCabe. 25. who state po lice said admitted escaping from the Oregon prison in July, was arrested Wednesday on U. S. High way 40 in a stolen automobile. Detective Harold Roseberry said the car contained nine guns, sev eral sets of license plates and 56 boxes of ammunition. McCabe was captured after a report was broad cast that a hitch-hiker had been robbed and stripped near Indiana polis. Neuberger Not Planning to Run For U. S. Senate PORTLAND UFi Full-time pub lic office has no present appeal to State Sen. Richard L. Neuber ger. The Portland Democrat, com menting on a suggestion by Demo cratic National Committeeman Monroe Sweetland in Chicago that Neuberger may oppose Sen. Guy Cordon, Republican, next year, said: "My intentions now are what they always have been to try to end the one-party Republican dom ination of Oregon's state govern ment and congressional delegation. I have no plans at this time to run for any full-time public of fice." IKE. LANIEL TO TALK DENVER U President Eisen hower and French Premier Laniel will confer in Washington this fall about "matters of common inter est" to the United States and France, the summer White House announced Wednesday. GRETA GARBO SAILS CHERBOURG. France tfl Greta j Garbo sailed for the United States Wednesday aboard the Queen Mary. Max. 7 6S -XX 74 80 Mta. Fred. Salem Portland . San Francisco Chicaco Si 60 S3 S3 M trace .00 .00 New York FORECAST (from U. S. weather (from IT. bureau. McNary field. Salem): Patch es of morning tot. otherwise partly cloudy today, tonight and Friday. Highest today near 73. lowest tonight near 43. Temperature at 11 t a.m. was 44 degree. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since start of Weatner Tear Sept. 1 Tfeic Tear Last Tear Normal trace J M POUNDDD 165! Slalasmaxu Sakxxu Oregon, High School Project Passes Halfway - w Liberty School Registration in Liberty School will open for classwork two days late on Wed nesday but registration of pupils there and throughout Salem School District will proceed on schedule this Friday. Superintendent of Schools Walter E. Snyder yesterday ordered the delay in operating. Liberty School because delivery of asphalt tile for the new building at Liberty is behind schedule. Olsen Floor Co., the flooring contractor, said the shipment was expected Fri day and four days at the very least would be required to com plete the floor work. To Affect Other Students The Liberty School delay will affect two groups of South Salem students - both the full liberty School population and the older Morningside students who were to have attended Liberty until their brand new school, also late in con struction, is completed. They win use soon-to-be-abandoned upstairs rooms of the old liberty build ing, adjacent to the new Liberty construction. For registration between 9 and 10 a.m( Friday, however, all Morn ingside pupils will report with parents to the Salem Heights School playroom. At the same time Liberty students will report to their school and similarly the pupils of all 25 elementary schools of Salem district will reg ister at their own schools. At Junior Highs Expected to register at the jun ior highs Friday are only the 7th graders and pupils new to Salem At Salem High, registration Friday is for only those who did not register at high school last spring. A new feature for Salem High's new girls this year is an "informa tion tour" through the school un der Girls' League sponsorship. This is available from 1 to 3 p.m. today or 1 to 4 p.m. Friday. The delay at Liberty School will not affect Morningside's first and second grade children, who are to be taken by bus to Rich mond School until the new Morn ingside School opens. mil American League At New York 3-3. St. Louis 5-2. At Boston 3. Detroit S. At Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 7. At Washington 4. Chicaco 2. National League At Milwaukee 7. Pittsburgh 3. At Cincinnati 3. New York 4. At Chicago 7. Philadelphia 4. At St. Louia 5. Brooklyn 4. WEST $7 - To Da ''as The two-bridge through way across the Willamette River at Salem, probably coupled with a related one-way street grid, will , begin operation about Oct 1, if planning by the State Highway Department proves accurate. 7 frst sr. ft . , Thnndayv Septernber 17. 1953 5 i i - , m mi sic rooms and Little Theater. Classrooms and offices will .fill build ing unit seen at background, to face Church Street with main en trance in center. At left shows large gymnasium' unit for 3,500-seat gym, two smaller gyms, locker rooms, classrooms. Inside the "IT will be practice football field and paved area for buses to circulate. Donald Mi Drake Construction Co., general contractor, is now con centrating on finishing roof. (Statesman-McEwan phofo.) to Open Late; Salem Friday Missing British Envoy's Family Disappears GENEVA, Switzerland (A The wife and three children of missing British diplomat Donald Maclean 'have disappeared mysteriously from their home here and police speculated Wednesday night that they may be behind the Iron Cur tain. A telegram purporting to have been filed from Territet early Wed nesday by Mrs. Melinda Maclean. 37, a slim brown-haired native of Chicago, said "safe and well, don't worry." It was addressed to her mother, Mrs. Melinda Dunbar. Mrs. Dunbar told Swiss security police tonight she believed the handwriting on the original of the telegram was not that of her daugh ter. A handwriting expert will check on it Thursday. The original was brought here by police from Territet, a suburb of Montreaux, 60 miles east of Gen eva, where the family was report ed to have friends. Telegrams have not proved fruit ful clues in the past in the inter national police case set off by Mac lean and a fellow diplomat, Guy Burgess, when they dropped out of sight at Rennes, France, May 26, 1951. (Additional details on page 6, Sec. 1.) Temperature Starts Downhill Shades of fall weather seemed apparent early Thursday morning with the temperature at 44 de grees. Prediction by U. S. weath ermen for today promised patches i of fog in the morning followed by "partly cloudy" conditions today and Friday. Temperatures for today were expected to be about the same as Wednesday's, which rose to 70 degrees. APPROACHES TO WILLAMETTE RIVER SALEM. Residents in the West Salem area and those who use the! route regularly have been watch ing refurbishing of the Center f Street bridge and the cloverleais and wondering really "how the thing will work." Shown above is a sketch of No. 171 Point it 0 6 v.. - - - T - r r 2 West Rejects Expansion of Korea Talks UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. OP) The United States and its 15 allies in the Korean war decided unani mously at a closed meeting Wed nesday to stand firm on the U.N. decision to limit the Korean peace conference to belligerents. Diplomatic sources reported this development as the Soviet bloc gave firm notice in the 15-member Steering Committee of the 8th U.N. Assembly that the Russians will fight to the last against any at tempt Uy the United -States to re, vise the U.N. charter. Henry CabotLodge Jr., U.S. del egate, clashed heatedly with So viet delegate Jacob A. Mali and Poland's Julius Katz-Suchy. The Soviet bloc speakers attacked the motives of the U.S. and others in favoring the conference on charter revision. Lodge said the U.S. would match its record in the U.N. with that of the Soviet bloc any time and said he was prepared to stay there all night and answer attacks on the U.S. and its officials. A charter conference is expected to be held in San Francisco after the 1955 General . Assembly. (Additional details on page 9, sec. 3) Air Force ROTC To Serve 2 Years In Enlisted Ranks WASHINGTON (Jl Most Air Force ROTC members graduating from college next June will have to serve two years as enlisted men before they can get commissions, unless they have signed up for flight training. Assistant Secretary of Defense Hannah said Wednes day. He announced the plan as the long-sought solution for the prob lem of an oversupply of college sen iors in the reserve officer training program. The situation was created by budget cutbacks and lowered personnel ceilings. QUAKES FELT IN ITALY COSENZA, Italy 11 Light earth quake tremors were felt Wednes day night in the vicinity of Ceri sano in the southern Italian region of Calabria. No injuries or dam age were reported. OREGON the system as outlined by the State Highway Department. Westboun ' traffic will use the Marion Street Bridge exclusive ly. Cars bound for Dallas or coastal points will veer to the left at the west end to get into that lane. Traffic bound for ' PRICE 5c Tax Pro hers FumS j -WriendEyMecepiiou In Production of 6,000 Plane Engines to (Halt WASHINGTON UB Air Force Secretary Talbott announced Wed nesday that production will be can celled on several thousands of jet and other aircraft engines with an estimated saving of 400 to 500 mil lion dollars. The cancelled engines, he said, are "all spares or extras." Talbott and Secretary of Defense Wilson both emphasized at a news conference that the cancellations will "not affect the production of one single plane" in the planned buildup of the Air Force to 143 wings by mid-1955. A wing varies in size from 30 bombers to 75 fighters. Talbott said the number of can Airliner Crash Fatal to 28 at Albany, N.Y. ALBANY, N. Y. An Ameri can Airlines Convair clipped two radio towers Wednesday and thuif dered into the ground just short of a trailer camp, killing all 28 aboard. The plane exploded into a ball of flame as it hit near Albany Air port, searing the bodies of the 25 passengers and three crew mem bers. A three-way inquiry opened to determine the cause of the crash. Joseph Fluett of Washington head ed Civil Aeronautics Board investi gations. Airline officials and state police also studied the charred wreckage. The CAB report is not expected for several days. Some witnesses said the Chicago bound plane. Flight 723 from Bos ton, seemed to be having engine trouble before it struck two 365 foot towers of Albany radio station WPTR and dived into a lot eight miles west of Albany. Part of a wing and part of a tail were found near the towers, which suffered only minor damage. The two-engine Convair had been circling over the airport area for about 15 minutes, waiting for ground fog tq clear. The plane crashed a half -rifle from the radio station towers and 3 miles from the airport control tower, which said it had maintained radio con tact witb the plane until a few minutes before it hit. Ardent Wooer Back in Jail LONG BEACH, Calif. UFi Back in jail Wednesday was Edward S. Kropfli, 44-year-old lovesick for mer postman, who just can't resist wooing Mrs. La Vera R. O'Betz, 26, a dental assistant who says she never has encouraged him. Kropfli was sentenced to 30 days in jail July 29 on a charge of dis orderly conduct arising from his determined wooing. A condition on his release was that he refrain from writing or telephoning Mrs. O'Betz. But three days after he got out of jail, Mrs. O'Betz received a 23 page letter. Two other shorter let ters followed before Kropfli was jailed again for violating probation. He was sentenced Wednesday to serve another 30 days. Children Killed hy World War Shell NAPLES. Italv UFi GiuseDDe Napolitano, 8, and his brother Do- menico, 2, became casualties of World War II Wednesday. They were killed when an artil lery, shell they found in a field exploded. Nearly 2,000 persons most of them children have been killed by such accidents during each of the eight years since the war end ed. BRIDGES West Salem will keep to the right at the end of the bridge. Eastbound traffic headed for Salem will turn onto the throughway provided off Edge water Street near McNary Ave nue and proceed across the Cen ter Street bridge. Vehicles in Saiem celled engines might run as high as 6,000. Wilson and Talbott explained that the engines are no longer needed for two main reasons: 1. Jet .engines now last much longer between overhauls the result of "accumulated know-how" in operation, improved design and increased maintenance capability. 2. Attrition rates have fallen off. For one thing, the Korean armis tice has marked the end of planes lost in combat. In addition, Talbott said: "Our accident rate has been gradually decreasing, and we con sequently have requirements for fewer engines." 'Trapped' Woman Screams in Night DALLAS, Tex. tl Screams of a woman shattered the sleepy tran quillity of a block in East Dallas at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. An alarmed neighbor, mindful of a house-breaking rapist in Dallas in recent weeks, called the police. Squads of officers converged on an apartment. The three women occupants were startled, and then one of them be gan laughing. "I screamed," she confessed, "when I stuck my finger in a mousetrap." Anti-Commie PWsRipOff Identification INDIAN VILLAGE, Korea UPi Rabid anti-Communist Chinese pri soners ripped off their identifica tion tags Thursday and threw them away before entering Indian guarded compounds in the Korean neutral strip to hear Red explana tions why they should return to Communist territory. Inside the stockade they angrily hurled stones and screamed at Communist observers outside. They hit no one. They also refused to give their names, confusing the transfer by making identification impossible. The Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, which already has named a subcommittee to study methods of meeting possible trou ble, met to consider refusing fur ther delivery of POWs without iden tity tags or cards. No decision was announced immediately, The 1,000 Chinese delivered to the Indian guards by the U.N. Com mand Thursday morning were only counted by the guards and deliv ery certified to the U.N. Command by number rather than name. The thousands of Chinese and North Korean POWs already in the neutral zone compounds greet ed the new arrivals with songs, cheers, and band music played on homemade instruments. From all the compounds Chinese Nationalist flags and Republic of Korea banners flapped in the wind. POWs brought to the camp earli er already have begun rehearsing acts of non-compliance they plan for Red explanation teams which are to start visiting them about Sept. 25. General Dean to Leave for Home i TOKYO UFi MaJ. Gen.! William F. Dean, a prisoner of the Com munists in Korea more than three years, is tentatively scheduled to leave Tokyo by plane for the Unit ed States next Monday, a Far East Command spokesman said Thurs day, i Dean, former commander of the U. S. 24th Division, has been under treatment at Tokyo Army Hospital for amoebic dysentery since his repatriation at Panmunjom Sept. 4. the West Salem area east of McNary Avenue wishing to cross the Center Street bridge will use the access provided at the juncture of Wallace Road and Edgewater Street, where traffic light will remain ' to regulate traffic (CamnDL8S Violations at Minimum in Valley Area ByPHILSLOCUM Staff Writer, The Statesman ; Nearly 500 taxpayers have ans wered the knock of tax collectors from the Salem district office of Internal Revenue and a door has yet to be slammed in an agent's face. ..:.. i "We've had a wonderful recep tion so far," said a spokesman for the Salem district Wednesday, "and people are actually saying thanks. Frankly it's not quite what we expected." i Since Sept 2, when the local office started looking for tax, dodgers, 480 taxpayers have been queried all of them business people. i j . Only 39 delinquent returns have been uncovered and all but approximately 10 of these were cases where estimates of expected income in 1953 had not been filed. Others had not filed returns. "In most instances the taxpay ers were not aware these esti mates had to be filed," an agent said. "We have yet to find a will ful violator." The heart of Salem's downtown business district has been can vassed and Silvertdn is; nearly completed.. Some checks have been made in Sheridan. Three agents are on the job. j Salem district is responsible for Marion and Polk counties and part of Yamhill County, j Agents expect to complete the canvass of business firms in two to four weeks. ' - No orders have been received locally to start door-to-door check ing of homes, but an agent said such a canvass was a possibility and pointed out it was being done in other sections of the country. Lockheed to Build Super jet BURBANK. Calif. (A -1 Lockheed Aircraft Corn, is to build a let to end all jets. I The firm announced Wednesday it has received an Air Force con tract to build an "air superiority" jet fighter plane, the XF-104. An air superiority fighter, the firm said, is one designed to es tablish local supremacy in a given area by sweeping the sky clear of enemy planes. j No other details were announced. Portland Council ' Shelves Plan to Change City Name PORTLAND un Multnomah may or may not be a better name than Portland, but the City Coun cil isn'-t inclined to go to any ex- rwns tn find nut. I The Council Wednesday shelved a proposal spearheaded by Author ' Stewart Holbrook that the city change its name to Multnomah. Holbrook, who strongly advocates use of this region's Indian names, ; and sometimes humorously, evi dently gave the latter impression to Commissioner Ormond Bean, who said he thought the petition was "in the same strain." : Ava and Frankie Together Again NEW YORK un Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra were back to- j gether again Wednesday after a I brief cool spell. The actress and her crooner has band were reunited Tuesday night at the Riviera nightclub in Fort Lee, N.J., where he is performing. : She returned from Europe recent- ly and he was not at the airport to greet her. He had singing en gagement then in Atlantic City, N. J. . . ! A spokesman, said Sinatra's mo ther arranged the reconciliation. WARM FALL FORECAST 1 WASHINGTON unf The Wea ther Bureau Wednesday predicted below average temperatures for the next 30 days in most of the eastern half of the nation and above normal temperatures in the j western half. j , Today's Statesman Section 1 v General news -.2, 3, S, 6, 7, 8, 0 Editorials, features 44 i , Section 2 Sports ... .U, 2 General news . ......A 4 Section S Society, women's The Oatis Story Valley news Comics Farm news -.. Section 4 Radio, TV - Markets Classified ads AP news in pictures . 1. 3 .... 4 .5, 7 .6 ..7.8 I i .i 1 1 2.3; 4 i i r u