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' "i . - ... . . ." ' I If Was Rougfi on the Rooftops In Japan KUNDDD .1 1Q3BD TEAR 12 PAGES Thm Oregon Statesman Salem, Oregon Monday September 28. 1953 PRICE 5c No. 182 . 1651 : : i - ' pv n v ' 0 . f Warren, Brownell :... - - . Confer OSAKA, JapanWinds up to ninety miles an boor whirl wooden shingles ever a flooded Osaka street coring the typhoon which pounded and flooded Southern Japan. ed and hundreds missing. Thousands were left homeless. Damage run into minions of dollars. SBGEOQ0 rtKDODOffl The long-negotiated ' contract with Spain for military bases was finally concluded on Saturday. It calls for the U. S. to pay $228 million to Spain under the mu tual security program for two baval bases and four air bases. Since Franco has been an outcast In anti-totalitarian circles, intense Opposition long was encountered in this country against any deal prhich would supply his regime with funds. It was urged that lince Franco's government rests pn the army, any funds for "de fense" would bolster the regime, tn the end, however, the pressure pf the military for access to bases in Spain overruled the ideo logical opposition. So for Ameri can money we shall have the use pf Spanish ports and airfields to assist in the military containment of Russia. If stability earns recognition or a government it must be ad- Eitted that Franco rates high. His the "oldest" regime of any of e great powers. In the interval lince he overthrew the Spanish republic with the aid of Hitler ind Mussolini both of the latter have not only fallen from power but come to violent death. France passed through the -vale pf Vichy and after liberation set pp a new republic on a sew. con ititution. China has gone Commu nist. Britain, switched parties twice: and in the United States a party change occurred. In - Rua- lia the death of Stalin ended the rpoch of the Bolsheviks, though not of Bolshevism. In the midst of all these changes Franco has continued to occupy the seat of power in Spain though much of the time he was (Continued on Editorial Page, 4) Young Oregon Marine Dies In 9-Story Fall LOS ANGELES (fl An 18- rear-old Marine. Pfc Donald F. Moore of Springfield, Ore., fell nine stories to his death early Sunday from the bathroom win dow of a downtown hotel room, Police said he was sharing the room with Marine Pfc, Horace L. Farlowe. 20. Officers quoted the tatter, as saying the two had sev eral drinks during the evening and that he preceded Moore to bed an.went to sleep. One of the dead youth's shoes was off. Police, theorized that Moore was undressing in the bath' room, lost his balance while tak Ing off the other shoe and fell headlong through . the open win dow. His falling body narrowly missed a passerby, on the street. The Marines, stationed at Camp Pendleton, Calif., were on week end passes. Crippled Ship Makes Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica l With her hold half-full of water, the 449 ton lumber freighter Launa ar rived at Montego Bay Saturday after a 12-hour battle with 75-mile-, an-hour winds in the Caribbean. A sister ship, the 318-ton Marga rita Ana, has not been heard from since Monday and is long overdue. Animal Crackers Bv WARRN GOODRICH IkMVOYOUUXZ THAT! 'FAIR AMP COOt!' WMH WiS IOJSY WEATMfS SOW TO e0 ? " y DIP - r i , - I i - . - (Associated Press Photo via Radio Helen Traubel Quits Met for NEW YORK VP) The Metropolitan Opera and foremost Wag nerian soprano Helen Traubel came to a parting, of the ways Sunday in a dispute over her budding The breach was disclosed by a spokesman for Miss Traubel, who recently made her night club debut at the Cher Faree, Chicago. The exchange was climaxed by i Miss Traubel's refusal to sign a ! I..L.L.I new contract to appear in the op- V706S VIUDDInC The first letter, dated Sept 25th, was written by Rudolf Bing, gen eral manager of the Met. Bing, taking note of Miss Trau bel's night club activities, called attention to the fact that she had. not returned a contract, offered' some time ago. to participate in the opera season starting next, month. ' He asked assurances that Miss Traubel would not sing in New York night clubs before the season starts nor for one month afterward. "More Serious Art" "I could so well understand a feeling that these two activities do not really seem to mix very well. Bing wrote. "Perhaps you would prefer to give the Metropolitan a miss for a year or so until you may possibly feel that you want again to change back to the more serious aspects of your art." In a letter dated Sunday, Miss Traubel replied: 'To assert that art can be found in the Metropolitan Opera House but not in a night club is a rank snobbery that underrates both the taste of the American public and the talents of its composers. U. S. 'Comoosers . 1 'I love the songs of Gershwin, Handy,- Kern, Rodgers. Berlin and other great American composers. I am glad to be able , to sing them and to bring" to them my training and equipment as a singer. "Since I cannot sing them at the Metropolitan Opera House, I am singing them at night clubs, and I am happy to have found that night club audiences are enthusi astically accepting me on my own terms." Miss Traubel, who was born in St Louis, succeeded Kirsten Flag- stad in 1939-40 as the Met's femi nine star in roles created by Rich ard Wagner. She has also made numerous concert appearances in this country and abroad. Community Chest Support Sought By Eisenhower WASHINGTON m President Eisenhower appealed to Americans Sunday to show their true volun teer spirit by donating generously to the 280 million dollar "touted community campaigns" for ' help ing the needy in the United States and Canada. In a message televised and broadcast from recordings over all major networks, the President touched off the drive for funds starting next week in some 1,700 cities and towns in the two coun tries. The United States and Cana da are uniting their campaigns this year. Injuries Fatal j To Bov Cyclist .. ! EUGENE Ul A lJ-year-old boy who suffered critical injuries in a bicycle accident Thursday died Sunday at a hospital here. He was Michael SwindalL Eugene, He and another boy. Ronald Blank, also 13, , were riding dou ble on the bike when it was hit by a car. Police identified the driver as Rudolph Cvitanvich, Eugene. Four Corners Fire Laid lo Oil Furnace : - SUtUoBaa New Serrlc FOUR CORNERS A faulty oil furnace was blamed Sunday for a fire at the 2920 Fisher Road home of Forrest NoeL " ? Four Corners Volunteer - Fire Department answered the call to the residence about 12:43 pjn. Damage was caused by heavy smoke,. firemen reported.' Today's Statcsmsn " Editorials, features s Society, women's iValley news Sports Comics 9 Radio, TV. i Classified ads .. io : lo-u ; More than 100 deaths were report to American bases Is expected to from Tokyo to The Statesman.) Night Clubs career as a night club singer. in an exchange of letters released NEW: YORK Helen Tranbel, Wagnerian soprano.' who left the Metropolitan Opera Com pany Sunday by refusing to sign a contract restricting, her night 'club appearances. . 'three Deer Traffic Victims Three deer became traffic fa talities as they crossed promi nent highways in the Willamette Valley Saturday night one week before they were slated to be hunters' prey. The carcasses of the three were brought to the Salem office of the State Police and early Sunday morning were trans ferred to a locker at the Salem Ice Plant One of the animals was killed near Dallas; one near Mehama aand the third near Mill City. None of the cars was seri ously damaged. State police said the meat is claimed by the state game com mission and is - distributed to state institutions. Some is be lieved used in the school lunch programs. Police said this makes at least six deer killed in this area in the past week. Governor of Florida Dl TALLAHASSEE. Fla. Bl Phy sicians reported Sunday night that Gov. Dan McCarty had a comfort able day and "showed some defin ite improvement" in the past 24 hours but is still in critical condi tion. They said in a late bulletin that "his condition is unchanged since the last advisory about 4 o'clock. .The 41-year-old governor has been hospitalized ' since Tuesday , for treatment of a bad cold which de veloped into pneumonia. He was still recuperating .from his Febru ary heart attack when the respira tory ailment struck. The physicians reported the pneumonia condition is largely cleared up but the strain of the ill ness might leave him weak. Skeleton Found in Portland Thicket PORTLAND The skeleton of a man, believed dead for sev eral weeks, was found in a thicket in i the northeast suburbs of Port land Sunday. . - Police speculated it might be the body of Jerry Bryant 24. who disappeared from his nearby home Aug. 9. - : ,-.'r4--: A gun. the same type as Bryant took when he vanished, was found near, the body. . :-v v CONTRACT STRETCHED CINCINNATI tn Representa tives of the UJS. Rubber Company ant the CIO Rubber Workers Union Sunday night extended their con tract for. another 24 hours to avert a threatened walkout of 35,000 em ployes in" IS plants. , By MORRIS LAND SB ERG SACRAMENTO. Calif. LB Amid high secrecy, Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell was reported to have flown into- McClellan Air Force Base here Sunday and conferred with Gov. Earl Warren. The hush-hush trip touched off fresh speculation that It had to do with a forthcoming federal appoint ment for the 63-year-old Republi can governor, often mentioned for the Supreme Court Brownell left three hours later. informed sources said. Calls to the executive mansion brought word that the governor was out and could not be reached. His own press sec retary professed surprise when in formed of the Brownell-Warren meeting. Talk With Warren Officially, McClellan's public in formation office would only say that a "Class Al VIP (very important person) arrived at 8 a.m. this morn ing and left at 11 a.m.." and that the sole purpose of his mission was to confer with Warren. Another source said, however, the visitor was BrowneU, adding "There is no doubt about it" Warren already has said he will not be a candidate for a fourth term next year. In his recent ac tions he has acted like a man clear ing his desk for a new assignment Court Vacancy There has been strong belief here, and some in Washington, that War ren a district attorney and state attorney general before becoming governor in 1943 would land on the Supreme Court The speculation began before the unexpected death of Chief .Justice Fred Vinson, and some quarters later even predicted the Californian would be named to replace Vinson. However, there was no way of telling what Brownell and Warren talked about in their long confer ence in an office in the McClellan headquarters. Warren met the vis itor when he landed at the big Air Force base and the two left Im mediately for their secret meeting. Specific instructions were given out not to identify the VIP. Hitler Aides Said Kept in Soviet Camp CAMP FRIEDLAND, Germany (A Repatriated German prison ers of war reported Sunday three former servants of Adolf Hitler and 14 former German army generals are still in a Soviet camp in the Ural Mountains. The three Hitler aides, long be lieved in the West to be dead, in clude Hitler's valet H. Linge who, the freed prisoners said, helped burn the Fuehrer's body after his suicide in the air raid bunker of Berlin's Reich Chancellory. The others were described as Ciht Capt. Hansl Baur. Hitler's personal pilot and a personal ad jutant. Guentsche. The prisoners said that the Hitler aides and German generals were being held in Camp Pevo-Uralsk in the Ural Mountains. Among other prominent prisoners reportedly held there was the son of Arthur Seyss-In quart, the Nazi leader and former Austrian Chan cellor who was hanged for war crimes in Nuernberg in 1946. Another was a member of the family of the former German ar mament king, Alfried Krupp, the freed POWs said. The generals included several in fantry division commanders and tank experts. One of them, Lt Gen. Bodo von Huelsen, once was adjutant of the late German President Paul von Hindenburg. The prisoners said conditions in the Soviet prison camps improved considerably after the death of Stal in last March but worsened again after the June 17 anti-Communist rebellion in East Germany. (Additional details on page 2) 12 Miners Killed As Elevator Falls QUAREGNON, Belgium OB A coal mine elevator plunged more than 400 feet down a shaft Sunday and 12 of the 14 miners in the lift were crushed to death.- The elevator crashed through hydraulic emergency brakes which pushed the elevator floor upward and then plunged on down to the bottom of the pit The dead miners included seven Italians,' three Belgians, a French man and a Pole. The Injured min ers also were Italians. Ida. Predp. . S5 M m xn SaUi Portland Su rnadsco " U - ' jM Chi0 ' 5S J0O Nw York T4 ' " jOO rORXCAST (from u. S. Weather Bureau. McMarjr FlckL. Salem) : rtrur ciotuur wna aeattcrca howcrs today, tonight sad Tuesday. Hishet today near M. Cooler toaignt with the km cat aear 38. Temperature at 21:01 ajn. was M darts. - SAXJEM FRSCIPITATIOK . -Slaee Start of Weather Tear Sept. 1 This year Last Year Normal M - L2S Uax. Mothers Seek To Plead With Pro-Reel Sons DALLAS, Tex. (A Three Texas mothers are prayerfully ready to match a mother's love against the Communistic beliefs reportedly adopted by their sons. Each said she was ready to fly to the neutral zone in Korea and talk, as only a mother can, to her son. Four Texans are among the 23 Americans listed as turning down a chance to gain freedom from their Communist captors. They are represented as having been con verted to Communism. Mothers of three of- the Texans were asked Sunday by the Asso ciated Press if they would go to their sons' sides if they could, and if they thought such mother-to-son talks would be effective.' Not Contacted , The mother of the fourth Texan could not be contacted. "I'd be ready in a minute, said Mrs. O. L. Batchelor of Her mit Tex., mother of CpL Claude J. Batchelor. Mrs. Albert F. Griggs of Jack sonville, Tex., is ready to go to her son, CpL Lewis W. Griggs. "Any time that can be arranged I wQl be more than willing to go and do my part." If Health Permits Mrs. Ben Howard, widowed fos ter mother of Sgt Rufus E. Doug las of San Angelo, said: "I would be perfectly willing to go if only my health will permit such a hip. I know I could con vince him to return if only I could reach him some way. He doesn't know I'm alone now, with my hus band dead." Mrs. Batchelor's home - town newspaper, the Winkler County News of Kermit. launched two campaigns in its Monday morning editions: one to raise $5,000 to send Mrs. Batchelor to Korea talk to her son, and another get everyone in the county write the soldier urging him come home. to to to to Hitches Ride Back to jail VERSAILLES. Ky. W) Hitch hiking Gilbert Chapman's thumb got four helping hands in a hurry Sunday much to his chagrin. Chapman broke out of the city Jail here this morning. Five hours later, striking out for Owenton, he lifted his thumb at an approaching car. The car's occupants. Police Chief Robert Y. Brown and Patrolman Joe Conway, obliged, and the be fuddled hitch-hiker was en route back to the pokey. Storm Rolls Into Northwest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS An ocean storm rolled into the Pacific Northwest Sunday, bring ing light to moderate rain to Northwestern Oregon and strong winds off jhe Washington coast The Weather Bureau ordered storm ' warnings hoisted Sunday afternoon from Tatoosh Island to Grays Harbor, Wash., and small craft warnings were flying from Grays Harbor south to Newport, Ore. The forecast was for decreas ing winds Monday. Rain and winds visited the Willamette Valley most of the day and night Sunday and de posited a total of .05 of an inch of precipitation in Salem. July Only Month Free of Frost In Salem Area, By THOMAS & WRIGHT, JR. Staff Writer, The Statesman Valley residents may wake up any morning now to find a white coat of frost on the ground, but despite a short, cool summer it will be a far cry from a record. Though the valley, Salem in particular, has a normal seven months I growing season . (that - is seven months between killing frosts) there have ' been some pretty drastic exceptions includ ing an ky August morning and five inches of snow in October. As a matter of fact the month of July has been the only month to escape a freeze : through the 60-year records of the U. S. Weather Bureau, and it had a nippy 35-degree reading back just before the. turn of the century."- ' ; . ' ' ' " ' The biggest surprise to Salem area residents and their unsus pecting vegetables v and flowers came in August, 1920. Most peo ple were paying more attention to the Harding vs. Cox presiden tial campaign than they were to the weather which for the most part had been , pretty normal. One day that August the mer Bases in Spanish U.S. Pact STATUTI MLIS 8rest: Allan) ic O$0ori Nantos Boy of Biscay If RROl B.lb so1 1 ,,,..0. IDovro PORTUGAL MADRID- loom ; r-., - VALENCIA Lisbor AlBACEf .SFVUtf: CADizXU SPANISH MOROCCO" . i. MOROCCO WASHINGTON Underlined are ports and air bases In Spain whose use purportedly has been granted to the U. S. in the 20-year defense agreement signed with Spain Sept 26. An official Madrid Informant indicated the protocols include the use by the U. S. Mediterranean fleet of the ports of FerroL Cadiz, Cartagena, Valencia and Mahon on Minorca. The U. S. Air Force would have the use of several Spanish airfields near and about Albacete, Madrid, Barcelona and Seville. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman.) Army Red Tape Holding Up Gen. Washington's Promotion By ELTON C! FAY AP Military Affairs Reporter WASHINGTON (P Somebody ought to do something about George Washington's promotion. More than a century and a half after Congress authorized his advance from lieutenant general to general the promotion appears to be still pending somewhere in the Army organization. A checkup Sunday of the list of general officers, alive and dead. EA Threatens Strike if AFL Invades Docks NEW YORK LP The AFL- ousted International, Longshore men's1 Association threatened Sun day to strike any ship manned by AFL seamen if the seamen come on the docks to help organize i new longshoremen's union. Paul Halt head of the AFL Sea farers International Union (SIU), is one of the leaders of an AFL group now attempting to take over the membership of the old AFL International Longshoremen's As sociation. The latter group was expelled from the AFL for failure to com ply satisfactorily with an order to nd itself of corruption. The strike threat came in statement issued after a meeting of the ILA's 45-man strategy com mittee. The statement also called for i meeting of' the ILA executive council no later than Sept 30, and a convention of the ILA member ship within 30 days "or as soon as contract negotiations will per mit" The ILA Is involved in a dispute with the New York Shipping As sociation over terms of a contract to replace one expiring at mid night Wednesday. The . threat of strikes against SlU-manned ships followed specu lation that strikes and waterfront violence might grow out of either the contract dispute or general ef- fors of the AFL to take over ILA membership. Records Show cury climbed! to 105 degrees, a mark which still stands for the month, but August 30 was a re sounding opposite when the tem perature 'dropped to an icy 30 degrees. On the other end of summer, June 6, way back in 1899 re corded an even 32, the only time it ever got that cold during the month of brides. A month later the weatherman recorded the coldest July reading in his- ory, a nippy 35. saiem residents got an even whiter and unseasonable surprise one late October morning back in 1935. After spits and starts for two days the mid-valley area was blanketed under, five inches of snow overnight October 30-31 of that year. The temperature went down too, and a few days later marked the coldest Novem ber in history t 12 degrees. Even the old timers in 1935, remembering back as much as 70 years couldnt recall an 'earlier snowfall or more frigid tempera tures. It did serve one good pur pose. Police noted that Hallo ween was unusually quiet that year. There was snow, not frost on the pumpkin. f ' ri FRANCE J IT- rS fill 1 MA HON E t) Mediterranean 1. ; JCARTAGFNA JAlgiert 3 lA - - v - y-j showed Washington's name 46th down on the list, leading the rank of . lieutenant general! but out ranked by a general of the armies, several generals of the army and a noes or generals. Pershing Highest General of the Armies John J. Pershing heads the list Pershing received this special rank after World War I and is the only Amerl can ever to hold it General of the Armies and General of the Army, both five star ranks, did not exist in Washington's day. Full generals wear four stars, while lieutenant generals are entitled only to three In many instances the Army acted years after a man's depar ture, from active duty or even from life to give him promotion. Ulysses b. orant. William T. Sherman and Philip Sheridan achieved four-star rank long after the Civil War. Passed Over Washington But Army promotion boards nev er did anything about stepping up the rank of the first commander. Nor has there been an official ex planation of why this is the case, Army historians say a Congres sional act of 1799, while Washington was holding the office of command er with the rank of lieutenant gen eral, undoubtedly was intended to provide the rank of full general for him. But, the historians report, no rec ord can be found to show the ap pointment was made then or since. As the list stands now, the officer who immediately outranks Wash ington in the official list of high officers is Gen. Charles L. Bolte, promoted last July and slated to become the new Army vice chief of staff. Ex-Charmi's I. : .: Mother Sick DETROIT UH Mrs. Lillie Bar row Brooks, mother and No. 1 fan of . former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, was 'reported critically ill in a hospital here Sun day night Her; famous son. intercepted at uosion io oe given me news, was expected to fly. to her bedside. Mrs. Brooks, in her 70's is In Woman's Hospital suffering from stomach ailment Members of her family said she had been since last December. Ill Escapee's Trail Easy to Follow DETROIT m Police, easily picked up the scent of a young escapee from the Boys Republic in suburban Farmington Sunday. -The toy bad stolen a panel truck for his getaway. He abandoned it however., when he found a skunk also had taken refuge there. From the truck police easily traced the bey and found him hid ing in a field. JOHN PAYNE WEDS LOS ANGELES 1 Actor John Payne and Mrs. Alexandra Crow- eU Curtis were married Sunday at the bride's home in the Bel Air section. Gen,-Hamblen Hurls Charge At Commission PANMUNJOM tfl 'The Allied Command Sunday bluntly accused the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission of circulating Commu nist propaganda in the camps which hold 22,600 prisoners who have refused to return to Red con trol. The angry accusation was mart by Brig. Gen. A. L. Hamblen, chief of the U. N. Command repatria tion group, to Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, the Indian chairman of the Neutral Repatriation Commit ion. , ..- : An Allied spokesman aald a Utl ter distributed to the prisoners on oepi. zo was clearly of Chinese Communist origin. i This letter to the prisoners was the cause of Hamblen's protest i j However, the American general did not specifically accuse India or name any member of the Neu-i tral Nations Repatriation Commis sion as being responsible for dis tribution of the letter. Hamblen's letter said: l "It is assumed from the nature of its introductory sentence that it is authentic and was issued by th Neutral Nations Repatriation Com mission. Korea Truce 'Explanation' ;;; eadied PANMUNJOM m An official source said Monday it probably would be left up to each side wheth er "explanations" are made to bal ky Korean War prisoners in groups or individually. , . Official ground rules for the ex planations still have not been an nounced by the Neutral Nations Re. patriation Commission of which In dia is chairman. They were expected Monday, but an Indian spokesman said last-minute revision .'in wording were nec essary, although the rules "have been finalized." The announcement of the rules for giving explanations to prisoners refusing to return home may be released Tuesday or possibly even later. ; The target date to begin the ex planations is Oct 1. An Indian spokesman said the Communists had not yet begun to make changes in the site whm-a Allied officers will make explana tions to American, British and South Korean prisoners. Moses Lake - Arsonist Sets Third Blaze ; MOSES LAKE. Wash, m J Tha third lire in two nights in this arson-plagued city broke out Sun. day night in a building materials plant , i The newest blaze came as au thorities were questioning a nun ber of persons about Saturday night's damaging fires. Sunday night's fire started about 11:30 p. ra. in the Moses Lake Building Materials Company plant about a block, from the site of Sat urday night's first fire in the Pot latch Yards. -j Authorities said the flames broke out "all over the dace at on time." One long building filled with umber was "all of a sudden on fir." A second adjacent building caught fire. , Police said the fire had definitely been set Earlier Sunday. 15 men had been held for questioning about Satur day night's fires. L (Earlier story on page 2) ( w a MaaaBNM , Panama President ! To Visit Eisenhower - i MIAMI. Fla. tf Jose Antonio Remon, President of Panama, ar rived Sunday aboard a special UniU ed States plane enroute to Wash ington and New York. He will leave Monday for three, days in Washington as guests of President Eisenhower, then will vis it New York, returning to Panama about Oct 7. National League At Philadelphia J, Brooklyn At CtndnaaU S. Mllwaukaa At Pittsburgh . Nw York 4 At Chicago S, at. Louia X American League At Naw York t. Boston 3 At Cleveland 3. Detroit T At Washington S. Philadelphia At St Louis I. f- -o J PolicyR ;0
