Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore.,
Page 2 Mon., Apr. 21, 1952
Race Car Kills
Four at Dayton
Vehicle Ploughs
Into Grandstand
HDAYTON, 0. VP) A racing
cr ipun crazlly out of control
ifj&o the Dayton Speedway grand
stand Sunday.
IlJVhen it came to rest, four per
sons were dead including the
(giver, Gordon Held, 29, of Bur
bank, Calif. and at least 90 spec
tators were hurt.
3t was one of the worst acci
dents on American tracks since
1329, when four persons were!
Wiled and 20 hurt at Winchester,'
Ind.
THE CRASH lopped off Reid'a
head. It also decapitated Mrs.
Ruby Ellen Shaffer, 43, of Spring
field. The other victims were
Robert Thatcher, 22, a track
guard, and Gene Lawson, 19, of
Dayton,
Some among the 14,000 attend
ing the opening AAA sprint car
Btpgram at the Speedway had
narrow escapes.
pleld had planned to drive the
ear in the S00 mile speed classic
at" Indianapolis May 30. He had
fiSen driving since' the end of
World War II, mostly in midget
4fid "hot rod" competition.
"THE ACCIDENT happened dur
ing the first trial heat. Reld's
racer . went out of control near
1$i top of a bank for a turn. It
spun through a retaining wall,
shot through a standing - room
$6wd, ploughed into a paint bar
rel, and hit the grandstand.
"Track officials said they did not
think Reid's car had mechanical
trouble, but they gave no immerl-
ate explanation for the crash.
The races resumed 80 minutes
later. Joey Jamea of Van Nuys,
Calif., won.
Girl Refuses
$25 Reward
For Guide Dog
CHICAGO U.R Thirteen-year-old
Barbara Jean Steljea
turned down a $25 reward for
returning a miasini aeeing-eye
dor because the guide animal
saved her own dog from the
wheels of a speeding auto.
The guide dog. Thunder, had
been missing from the home of
his blind mistress, Mn. Fay
Cowling, for four days before
Barbara spotted his picture In a
newspaper and returned him.
The girl aaid the boxer dashed
Into a street and pushed her
spits, Queenie, out of a passing
automobile's path.
Canadian Train Derailed
VANCOUVER, B. C. WV-One
crew member was killed arid three
were injured Saturday when a
Canadian National Railways trans
continental passenger train was
derailed by a washout in the
Rockies. First reports said none of.
the 150 passengers were injured,
7 Enemy Jets
Bagged in War
SEOUL. Korea UP) U. S. Sa-
bre jet pilots Monday shot down
seven and damaged tlx communist
MIG jets, the Fifth Air Force an
nounced. The Air Force said the Russian
made Jets were bagged in three
separate aerial duels involving 100
Red planes.
THE DAY'S biggest fight pro
duced America's 11th jet ace, Capt.
Robert J. Love, San Bernardino,
Calif. He shot down two MIGs in
a battle Involving 28 Sabres and
90 MIGs, the Air Force said.
Three other MIGs. were shot
down three were damaged and
one of the Reds new fast type 15
jets was hit in this scrap, It raged
30 minutes from 40,000 feet down
to tree top level.
' Fighting on the 144-mlle ground
front was sporadic and generally
light.
THE HEAVIEST action Sunday
was east of Kumsong on the cen
tral front. A U.N. patrol battled
hand-to-hand with a strongly en
trenched Communist company for
10 minutes. Allied troops used
their fists and rifle butts against
the Reds,
The Allied raiders then with
drew and fought the Reds for four
hours with rifles.
Carrier-based U. S. Navy planes
cut Communist rail lines in 139
places along the 165-mile coastal
stretch between Wonsan and Song-jln.
Men Arrested
At Stale Pen
Dispute Over Beer
Leads to Stabbing
MEDFORD W) Four men, ac
cused in the stabbing of a Shady
Grove resident; were arrested In
Salem Sunday while visiting at
the state penitentiary.
The four, booked on charges of
assault with a deadly weapon, are
Tex Barnett, Donald E. Yule,
Monte Stockton, and his brother,
Dee.
They are accused of stabbing
Carl Blair after a dispute' over
some beer.
Jackson County Sheriff Howard
Gault said Mrs. Blair gave him
this account of the stabbing:
The four men had argued with
Blair at his home Saturday after
noon. They left but returned early
Sunday. A fight developed and
when the four left Mrs. Blair
found her' husband had been
stabbed. He was taken to a Med
ford hospital by a neighbor. A doc
tor there said his chance for sur
vlval was "poor."
Shortly after the fight at the
Blair home the four men left for
Salem to visit a friend who is in
prison. They were picked up in
what Salem authorities said was
"one of the easiest arrests we ever
made."
They were to be returned to
Medford Monday to face arraignment.
Nervous Groom
Balks at Kiss
After Ceremony
HARLAN, Ky. VP) the
bridegroom wa to nervous he
wanted to get married sitting
down.
But magistrate Cam Smith,
who performed the ceremony,
aid last week he prevailed
upon the young man to take the
matrimonial hurdle standing np.
After the ceremony, Smith
arretted the bridegroom "kits
the bride."
"I can't do that," the young
fellow was quoted aj he fled
with his wife.
Smith withheld the namei.
Chinese Merchants Rap Reds
Leap to Deaths From Rooftop
StatusConfuses
Army Mates
CAMP PICKETT, Va. VP)
Frank Lucente's barracks mates
don't know whether to salute him
or continue to treat him like an
other private first class.
After over a year in the army,
the Chicago draftee was notified
several weeks ago he had been
appointed a second lieutenant in
the active reserve. He was ordered
to report to Fort Sam Houston, for
further training but not until
next week.
Meanwhile, there's no confusion
about his status among his com
pany non-coms. Lucente will be
on KP the day before he leaves
for officer training.
Kidnap Hoax
Suspect Held
HAVANA, Cuba (IP) Havana
police Sunday night announced
the arrest of Charles Johnson,, 33,
an ex-convlct wanted ln connec
tion with a $15,200 kldnap-extor-tlon
plot against a Miami, Fla,,
child.
Central figure ln the plot was
Richard Richter, 8, son of a Miami
jeweler. Daniel Rlchterr.the child's
father, paid $15,000 in Jewels and
$200 ln cash when the little boy
was lured from his school and
taken to a hospital in Coral
Gables, Fla., last Thursday.
Enrlquez Fernandez Parajon,
chief of Cuba's secret police, said
Johnson had been arrested at a
Havana hotel and all the ransom
jewels were recovered. Fernandez
said Johnson told him a watch,
also included in the ransom, was
pawned in Miami.
By FRED HAMPSON
Aueelaled PrtM Bull Writer
HONO KONG UP) After de
nouncing communism to a stunned
crowd, two enmese ousinessmen
Jumped to their deaths from a
Canton rooftop.
Independent Chinese newspa
pers, here told of the incident Mon
day ln recounting a wave of sui
cides ln Canton on "bloody April
14."
AT LEAST 17 shopkeepers,
merchants and managers died by
their own hands that day.
All were caught in the "five
antis" campaign the drive to
eliminate merchants, industrialists
and businessmen by getting their
employes to denounce them for
various real or fancied crimes.
The accusations, usually trump
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SIMMER
Portland Census Shows
More Women than Men
PORTLAND (U.R) A Bureau of
the Census report said Saturday
that women outnumber men by
more than 13,000 among Port
land's official 373,828 population.
The Bureau said there were
180,000 males and 103,289 females
in the Rose City when the 1950
census was taken.
Racially, there were 380,388
whites, 9529 Negroes and 3711
persons of other races ln Portland.
ed up, may be made ln public by
anonymous letter or In secret sessions.
Those accused are so closely
watched that they have no hope
of escaping the city.
The managers of the Chong
Yung Construction .Company of Yi
Tak Road West, and of the Yang
tze Trading Company of Yi Tak
Boad Central bowed out with de
fiance. Warned that security police were
enroute to arrest them for failure
to confess their alleged crimes,
they climbed to the roof of the
Yangtze Trading Company and
locked an iron gate behind them.
Thorugh megaphones they be
gan denouncing the Communists.
They shouted that their workers
had been coerced Into accusing
them.
They cried, "no matter how in
nocent you may be the Commu
nists will ruin you," ana "death
is less painful than Red persecu
tion." WHILE A .CROWD watched,
fascinated, police tried unsuccess
fully to climb the walls or find
other ways of reaching the roof.
Finally a truck with axes, hack
saws and other equipment ar
rived. When at last the Iron gate gave
way to the police attack, the two
businessmen shouted one last
word of hatred at the Communists
and leaped to their deaths.
WHd Sal,: t. . lM ,
REGISTER-GUARD WANl
"KING RESUm
S BLACK SHEEP
BROOKVILLE, Miss. (U.R) A
ewe on Rio Grande Ranch near
here gave birth to rare triplets.
Also unusual was that all were
black.
At Burch's ... We Specialize in Fitting
CHILDREN'S SHOES
CORRECTLY
Quite often, the first sign of foot trouble In children
goes unnoticed until becoming-dangerously serious.
Have their feet checked regularly by your family
' doctor. ,
Burch's fitters have - the
skill and experience to
fill your doctor's pre
scription then, record
cards are kept on file as
a constant check against 1
size or width changes
Safeguard Your Child'i
Feet.
Edwards Corrected, Shoei . . .
5.95 to 9,93, according to also
1060 WUIuntlt,
PRONATION (ankllnfiii)
. a, common foot defect
,'wlth children.
Mowyon can make a profit of 27,293.971
and go in the hole !
taaOlMTKM 11 I
1. According to our accountants, Union Oil
made a net profit during 1951 of $27,296,971. If
this bookkeeping profit represented the com
pany's actual "take" our 38,347 common share
owners would be overjoyed. But after paying
dividends of $11,444,269, we actually ended up
on the minus side of the ledger to the earn of
$7,634,000 m working capital
2a Here's the reason: In 1951 we hsd to spend
$62,421,000 for replacement of worn-out equip
ment and oil properties and to enlarge our facili
ties to meet the greatly increased demand in the
West for petroleum products. This money came
from three sources.
3. $40,381,000 of It came from the "depre
ation and depletion" allowance. (The roml I
corporation sets aside each year to replw
equipment and oil properties when they're mil
out.) $14,606,000 of It was made up out of profits,
$7,634,000 of It was taken from working; eapital
tlits "checking account" a. business keeps
hand for day-to-day expenditures.
4a We obviously eant keep dipping fnto otnr
working capital Indefinitely and stay in business.
For if we do well eventually run out of money
to earry our receivables, Inventories, etc., and
pay oar daily operating expenses. That's why
something has to be done about a situation that
i not only us but every U. S. corporation.
ta Briefly It Is this: The gums the tax collector
llows you to set aside for depreciation and de
pletion are based on what things cost when you
acquired tfiem-not what it costs to replaet them
today. Sfnce thee depreciation funds aren't ade
quate to replace equipment and oil properties at
today's prices, we have to make np the differ
ence somewhere-or go out of business.
6. On top of thli, extremely l,M"tt4!!jJ
corporate earnings make it almost top""'
retain enough profits to make up the differ
8o we have to take it from working MP''
why we must have a tax policy that wi u 1
Corporations to earn enough for the
and expansion necessary to maintain the
tivity and economic growth of tne a."
UNION OIL COMPANY
OF CALIFORNIA
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