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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1953)
4 (Sc 2 StaUimcm, Saln, Or, WL.V Spi' 30. 1S53 Yankees Stole Prize Virginia Fire Engine in Civil War, Note Southerners Want It Back By ARTHUR EDSO.V ALEXANDRIA. V. t Things , were going poorly for the North as the Civil War raged on through the fummer of 1861. The first battle of Bull Run, fought only a few miles from here, hac been a disaster. It's true that Union forces still occupied Alexan dria, across the Potomac from . - Washington. But there was a real fear that the South might knock them out and maybe capture the . capital, too. Under the conditions it seemed wise to collect all movable mili tary equipment and get it out of here. And some how, in the excite ment, the Federals made off with Alexandria's prize fire engine. Which isn't so surprising when . you consider that the occupying forces were New York's First Zouaves, who also were members of the New York City Volunteer - Fire Department . Predatory Yankees' The local newspaper, the Gazette ' possibly speaks the sentiment here abouts with these three words: The Predatory Yankees." It still calls them that. Well, Tuesday, a mere 92 years after its disappearance. Mayor Marshall J. Beverely reported the missing fire engine has been found. Found la Mnseum A local man who drifted up you'll excuse the expression North told the mayor he spotted it in the fireman home museum in Hudson, N. Y. The mayor wants it back. To understand the full horror of the crime requires a mite of his tory. This is the town a young sur veyor named George Washington helped lay out. Washington also founded the town's first fire de partment, the Friendship Company in 1774. Mayor Belongs The company still exists, and it runs a museum which includes a reproduction of the Washington en gine. The mayor is a member of '. the company. The Civil War engine is a hand- '. some, double deck, hand drawn pump job, proudly carrying the inscription, "We Do Save." Mayor Beverly thinks k would look mighty nice in the Friend ship Museum. From Albert J. Foley, legal ad viser to the New York State Fire men's Assn., came word he is cure museum trustees there will give "serious consideration" to the request. But Foley said there's no legal obligation to return the engine. Incidentally, Beverely didn't go into any of that predatory Yankee business in his letter asking for the engine's return. He just men tioned that it has been customary to return trophies of the Civil War. "It would be a nice gesture," said the mayor hopefully. Wife, Mother Recovering PORTLAND m The wife and mother of a prominent Portland physician who was slain Friday night were reported improved Monday at a Portland hospital. They are Mrs. George Ray, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. Martha Ray, of Pocatello. Ida. Both were wounded in a fusilade of shots that killed Dr. George Ray. Daniel Edward Ray, half-brother of Dr. Ray who is accused of the . shooting, waived preliminary hear ting Monday on a first-degree mur der charge. GOODIE'S MARKET 1927 State St. OPEN EVENINGS 'TIL 11 P. M. 369.95 Hill 455 Court Street Oregon's naos? popular 3K Brownout Said Not Likely for PN This Year SEATTLE UR A gigantic four state power authority to harness Pacific Northwest rivers, build dams and sell power was proposed by Eric Brundage, Seattle City Light engineer, at a meeting of Bonneville Power Administration representatives and customers Tuesday: Serious thought should be given, Brundage said, to setting up an authority similar to that of the New York Port Authority, where New York and New Jersey jointly operate ports. It could be set up by the states of Washington. Idaho. Oregon and Montana through joint legislation, he said. It might then go into a partnership with the government, with the four-state group under taking river development and the government concentrating on flood control. Earlier in the day, J. D. Stevens, BPA chief of power resources, said no brownout was in prospect for the Pacific Northwest this year. U.S. Asks Fate Of Nine PWs WASHINGTON UP The Far Eastern Command has asked the Communists to account . for nine more servicemen not exchanged under the Korean armistice and not otherwise accounted for. In releasing the new list the seventh so far issued the De fense Department said Tuesday there is reason to believe the Com munists "hold or have knowledge of the fate of these men, but no information concerning them has been received." The list included Air Force 1st Lt. John A. McAllaster, husband of Mrs. Eleanor Ruth McAllaster, 2705 Southeast Pine, Portland, Ore. Tractor Crushes Youth at Coast BANDON A 12-year-old Piercy. Calif., boy. James Leslie Ringheimer, was crushed to death Sunday when the tractor he was operating overturned on him at the Francis Brown farm 10 miles south of here. A group of boys on a spreader working with the tractor witnessed the accident Bing'g Brother Pleads Guilty to Drunk Charge WEST LOS ANGELES VFi Lar ry Crosby, brother of crooner Bing, was fined $300 Monday after plead ing guilty to a drunk driving charge. He was arrested last Friday. Po lice said he drove through a red light and hit a parked car and a tree. 24th Division Back in Korea SEOUL Ufi The 24th Division, first American ground unit thrown into the Korean War, returned to Korea in early July, days before the armistice was signed, the Uni ted Nations Command announced Tuesday. The military secret had been kept for three months. The 24th was pulled out of Korea in Janu ary, 1932. and remained on occu pation duty in Japan until last July. NEW ZEALAND SHAKES AUCKLAND. New Zealand UP A, prolonged earth tremor rocked a large part of New Zealand Tues day, smashing plate glass windows and opening cracks in buildings. No casualties were reported. BUDWORM CONTROLLED GEARHART, Ore. t F. B. Lee, administrator of civil aero nautics, said Monday the airplane has been so effective in controlling the spruce budworm a deadly enemy of the evergreen forests in the Pacific Northwest that it "apparently has worked itself out of a job." Stroke Fatal to Dr; Hubble, Astronomer SAN MARINO. Calif, (fl Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, 63, one of the nation's foremost astronomers, died Monday from effects of a stroke suffered at his home here. Dr. Hubble was on the staffs of the observatories on ML Wilson and Palomar Mountain and was on the staff of the California In stitute of Technology. He joined the ML Wilson Observatory in 1919. Under Dr. Hubble's direction, the heavens were charted anew after the 100-inch telescope was put into operation on Mount Wil son in 1917 and the 200-inch tele scope, the world's largest, began scanning the skies in 1948 from the top of Palomar Mountain. Bevan Tops , Labor Party Policy Makers MARGATE, England UH An eurin Bevan topped the ticket in elections to the Labor' Party's pol icy making Nrtional Executive Committee Tuesday. His victory touched off fresh talk that the American-baiting leftwing ers may bid to take over the party leadership from moderate Clement Attlee. Among 19 candidates for seven disputed seats on the committee, Bevan headed the poll with 1,142, 000 votes at the party's annual conference. That is more than he gained in winning a seat last year, and only 149.000 votes short of the absolute maximum under the rules by which delegates cast ballots representing the membership of locals. Five of his followers won re election with him to seats repre senting local party organizations. However the Bevanites remain heavily outnumbered on the com mittee, made up of representatives of the local organizations, trade unions, cooperatives and a wo men's branch. Mrs. Barbara Castle, a Bevanite member of Parliament, was the second best vote getter among the candidates. . She was reseated with 1,026,000 votes. Slavs Critical Of Bulgaria BELGRADE, Yugoslavia UP Yugoslavia blasted Bulgaria Mon day for pursuing a "policy of hos tility" toward this country instead of cooperation for the return of "normal" diplomatic relations in eastern Europe. A sharp note setting forth its protest was delivered to the Bul garian Embassy here only a few hours after the Yugoslav Foreign Office announced officially that ne gotiations to end border disputes between this country and tiny Al bania, another pro-Moscow neigh bor, had broken down. Russian Oil Tanker Found on Japan Coast TOKYO un A small Russian oil tanker was found abandoned on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido last Saturday, Kyodo news service reported Tuesday. The agency said police believed the missing crew may have "slipped" into the country. There were no other, details immediately available. ALL DEPOSITS MADE ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER 10TH EARN INTEREST FROM OCTOBER 1"" Your savings deposit book from the First National Bank of Portland is your passport to security. Save now... save regularly. Savings do make every day more secure. First National is open 10 to 5, Monday through Saturday, for your convenience. Truman Backs Negotiations NEW YORK Ut Former Presi dent Truman said Monday night our foreign policy must include wil lingness "to seek in an sincerity solutions of our differences with the Soviet bloc through patient and peaceful negotiation." Negotiation. Truman said, should be approached "in firm agreement with our allies and from a position of united strength." The former President, here to receive the annual Four Freedoms Award.. said in a speech at the award dinner that willingness to negotiate is one of the basic pillars of our foreign policy, to be sup ported "regardless of partisan ship." 9-Yeir-Old Safe Cracker Amazes Police Detectives WHITE PLAINS. N. Y. (JV-Police were astounded when a 9-year-old boy opened the safe in the detec tives' room in two out of three tries. A bicycle theft charge against the youngster, not identified, was lodged last Monday and he was re leased in custody of his mother. Sunday, a policeman saw the boy loitering on a street and took him to the station house. The youth reportedly boasted of a number of unsolved burglaries in the neighborhood, said he opens safes by "listening to the tumblers fall in place." Then he demonstrated on the of ficial repository. " The. boy was taken to the chil dren's shelter at Hawthorne, N.Y. Dr. Ken Nakazawa Dies in California LOS ANGELES Ul Dr. Ken Nakazawa, 67, Japanese-born edu cator and former Japanese vice consul here, died Monday after a five weeks illness. Educated at Waseda University in Japan and the University of Oregon, where he received his Ph. D. degree, Dr. Nakazawa for merly taught at Reed College, Portland, and the University of Oregon. Y can EAT AND ENJOY fUN VALLEY BREAD . Um aiuww to Mt Mwat. Low in calorics (law an 90 to th slic) yt kigfc I smack building proteins And flavor! jvat try it tMSM4 it's a new At "Made by the Bakers ef Master Bread - W nn di ' DAILY AND SUNDAY The Nation s Top Comics - , .Your Home Newspaper BLONDS PP7 DICX TRACT OOfr KNOW LOCATION. BUT X ITUNK X SEE A (MOTHER TOMER WTTM SOMETHING ABOUT tOVE-CNfT. 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