Drums, Bugles,
Fireworks and
Drills End Show
Foreign Envoys
Warned to Avoid
Bulgar Premier
G apital A Jouitssj
World Leader
Of Reds Dies
61st Year, No. 157
entered u iscond elui
matter at Salem. Oreflou
Salem. Oregon, Saturday, July 2, 19' P1 -
Price 5c I
Festival of '49 to Close
,With High Features
Saturday Night
" Cherryland Festival
V Program
Saturday, July 2
'. 8 p. m. Finals of Drill team
and Drum and Bugle Corps
contest at State Fairgrounds
grandstand. Fireworks Dis
play. Nightly public dances at
'Oregon State Fairgrounds
grandstand beginning at 10
p.m.
' BY MARGARET MAGEE
, Bugles and drums will be
heard from the Oregon State
Fairgrounds and fireworks will
'light the skies Saturday night
When the final program of the
1949 Cherryland festival is pre
sented. .Preliminaries to the statewide
drill and drum and bugle corps
contest that completes the fes
tival program were held in the
afternoon at the fairgrounds
and in the evening only those
ln,f- finals will compete.
-'Queen Patricia and Princesses
Dorothy Neufeld, Jeannine
Bentley, Katherine Specht and
Grace Kirk are to arrive at the
grandstand at 7:40 Saturday and
will be escorted to their boxes
by members of the Cherrian
Council of Nobles.
.'At 8 o'clock the grand entry
parade will start. Color guards
will be from the Navy and Ma
rine corps reserves here and be
hind them will be the massed
colors of most of the patriotic
and fraternal organizations from
Salem and the surrounding
area.
.(Continued on Pag 5, Column 1)
Second Deputy
Detroit Area
Sheriff Denver Young Satur
day announced addition of a new
f deputy to his force which by
shifting one now employed in
4hp nffinp will tfivp an Additional
man in the Detroit-Idanha area.
. The move is made possible by
year which became effective on
. Friday.
Under the arrangement Sam
B. Tice, resident in the veterans'
housing project at 1210 South
18th street, is named as an ad
ditional deputy who will take
over the 3 to 11 o'clcok shift
yhich has been handled by Dep
uty Scott.
Scott will be assigned to work
with Deputy Sheriff Larry
fright on the Detroit-Idanha
fatrol. The office is acquiring
new radio equipped car so both
of the men on the canyon run
ftill have cars with two way ra
dios. The sheriff said their de
tails will be worked out later
but he added the men will some
times work together and some
times in separate patrols as may
be deemed expedient.
The budget committee had
made provisions for an extra $15
a month for a deputy if he re
sided in the Detroit-Idanha area
but the sheriff said it is imposs
ible to secure a man to accept
,the job on that basis as he could
inot make ends meet,
if The new deputy, Sam R. Tice,
tis a native of the Willamette
Jvalley and has lived in this
area most of his life. For three
years he was in the criiminal in
vestigation department of the
'army in the Mediterranean area
and is but lately home from Ger
imany. Eugene Building Eases
! .' Eugene, July 2 WP) Building
permits in Eugene during June
..covered construction of 37 new
residences, but the valuation to
tal was a relatively slim $294,
!545. The total was lower than
Hhe $329,105 recorded in May
'.and far below the June 1948 to
tal of $748,955.
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f 1
iper
Following its estab
lished custom of 29
years' standing, the
Capital Journal will ob
serve Independence day
as a complete holiday
for its employees, The
Capital Journal will not
be published Monday,
July 4, and the office
will remain closed all
day.
N
REX KIMMELL, appointed
Marion circuit judge.
U. S. Deficit
Near $2 Billion
Washington, July 2 VP) A big
government revenue setback
stuck President Truman today
with a 1949 fiscal year budget
deficit of $1,811,440,047.68
three times greater than the
$800,000,000 he had predicted.
Because of the huge size of the
federal money figures the presi
dent was off only 3.5 per cent in
overestimating government in
come by $1,334,000,000 for the
12 months ended Thursday. Mr.
Truman's estimates were made
last January.
The president missed the
spending figure only 310ths of
1 per cent, but it was enough to
throw him off $123,000,000. Ac
tual expenditures ran that much
less than he'd counted, easing
the effect of his revenue overes
timate.
The key figures, given roundly
in a year-end treasury compila
tion, were: Spending $40,057,
000,000, up $8,255,000,000 over
the preceding year and a new
peacetime high; revenue $38,
246,000,000, down $3,965,000,
000 and at a five-year low.
An 18.5 per cent rise in spend
ing and a 9.4 per cent drop in
revenue converted the budget
outcome from an unprecedented
surplus of $8,419,000,000 in fis
cal 1948 to a $1,811,000,000 def
icit in the fiscal year just over.
Gunman Killed
By Own Weapon
Los Angeles, July 2 IP) A
man who attempted to hold up
a couple in a car parked in near
by Baldwin Hills was shot and
killed by his own gun, police
reported today.
The couple, Alwyn I vers, 19,
of Oklahoma City, and Betty
Bowen, 16, were to have been
married today. But in the strug
gle Ivers was seriously wounded
by a bullet which penetrated his
jaw and neck.
The gunman, with a handker
chief over his face and carrying
a revolver, approached the car
and demanded the couple's mon
ey. He also ordered Ivers from
the machine.
When the gunman turned his
back, Ivers jumped on him. In
the struggle Ivers was shot. But
he wrested the gun from his as
sailant and felled him with a
shot through the head.
Miss Bowen dragged her
wounded fiance to the car and,
although she didn't know how to
drive, she managed to guide the
car down the hill to a service
station.
The unidentified bandit was
dead when Miss Bowen directed
police to the scene.
Convict Shot, Wounded
In Futile Escape Effort
Shots heard in the East State street district Saturday morning
were not due to a premature celebration of the Fourth of July
but were fired by guards at the penitentiary at James Wren, 27,
who was making an attempt to escape.
Wren spent but a comparatively few minutes outside the wall
before he was returned to the
prison hospital with a severe
leg wound which is described as
"not serious."
The convict was captured by
Capt. R. G. Howard, of the Ore
gon state police, who had just
arrived at headquarters to re
port for duty at 8 o'clock.
Wren was with a work crew
under a prison gun guard re
porting for construction work
upon the new prison wall when
he darted from the gang, heading
for some brush and trees along
Mill Creek.
John D. Smith, prison guard,
is credited with the shot that
struck Wren high up on the in
side of his right leg. The wound
failed to stop the fleeing prisoner
and though other shots were fir
ed at him he presented a poor
target in the brush.
Kimmell Named
Circuit Judge
By Gov. McKay
Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Chosen to Suc
ceed Judge Page
Rex Kimmell, deputy attor
ney general has been designated
as circuit judge 01 Marion county
bv Gov. Douglas McKay. Kim
mell will succeed Judge E. M
Page, who earlier this week was
elevated to .the .state .supreme
court, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Justice Fercy K.
Kelly.
Kimmell was born July 18,
1896 in Albion, Indiana and won
his law degree from the Univer
sity of Idaho in 1923. He served
as district attorney of Valley
county, and came to Portland in
1927 where he was a law partner
of George Neuner, present attor
ney general.
Later he served as assistant
attorney general when Neuner
was appointed head of that of
fice in 1930. Kimmel entered the
state attorney general's office in
1938 as an assistant and was ad
vanced to deputy under a 1947
law designating the office as the
department of justice.
He served in the navy .in the
first World war and has been ac
tive in Legion affairs, having
served as commander of Capital
post No. 9, Salem and judge ad
vocate of Marion voiture, No.
153, 40 et 8. He is also a mem
ber of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars and a Mason.
Kimmell is a member of the
American, state and Marion
county bar associations, and has
long been a member of the Ore
gon Republican club.
In a written statement an
nouncing the appointment, Gov
ernor McKay lauded his appoin
tee declaring "to my mind Kim
mell's background particularly
qualifies him for the office of
circuit judge."
"While I was a member of the
legislature," the governor stat
ed, "I became familiar with
KimmeH's work'with that body
and believe I can say without re
servation that he has the whole
hearted support of every member
of the legislature who came in
contact with him."
It was reported that the Mar
ion county republican commit
tee had forwarded an endorse-1
ment of District Judge Joe Fel
ton for the circuit judgeship. -
It is expected that Judge Page
will be able to conclude his work
on the circuit bench and take
his oath as associate justice ear
ly next week when Kimmell will
become one of Marion county's
circuit judges.
560 Mile Pipeline
To NW Proposed
Salt Lake City, July 2 (IP)
The Salt Lake Pipe Line com
pany, owned by Standard Oil of
California, hs called for bids
on a 560-mile oil products pipe
line from Salt Lake City to the
Pacific Northwest.
President C. E. Finney, Jr.,
said yesterday the $6,000,000
320-mile first leg of the line
from Salt Lake City to Boise,
Idaho, is scheduled for comple
tion this year.
Later the line may be extend
ed to a terminal in western
Washington on the Columbia
river, he said, . with the total
cost exceeding $12,000,000.
Capt. Howard had not yet
parked his automobile when he
heard the shots. Driving out to
the highway he noticed the run
ning man, with a knife in his
hand. Wren was down Mill
creek near the state forestry
building and had started over a
rock wall.
Capt. Howard did not have
time to bring his vehicle to a
stop and it continued into the
wall, causing some damage.
When Wren saw the officer near
him, he dropped his knife and
surrendered. Capt. Howard turn
ed his prisoner over to the
guards.
Wren was under a five year
sentence for assault with intent
to rob and was received at the
penitentiary in 1946 from Lake
county.
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Balloon Busting Event Thrilling One of the thrills at the
Cherryland Festival horse show at the State Fair grounds Fri
day night was the balloon busting event. In the above scene
the center rider is Sherman Bostrack of Salem. The other two
are from a Linn county saddle organization.
Children of Salem Stage
Own Colorful Parade
Children of Salem had their
and not only were they many participants but there were any
number of outstanding entries.
Leading the parade was a color guard of three Sea Scouts and
immediately following was Queen Patricia and her royal court
-on their float. The Eagle's Jun
Nevada Locusts
Invade Oregon
Reno, Nev., July 2 m The
largest single band of the west
ern range locusts in modern
times is eating its way north and
west from Nevada into Oregon
and California. - . v.
- Harry E. Galloway, -field-supervisor
for the state department
of agriculture, said the name
western range locust was ap
plied to the migratory grass
hoppers because a more precise
technical name is not available.
The band, 75 miles long and
40 miles deep, has penetrated
into Oregon's southern Harney
county for 35 miles, and into
California for 15 miles.
Nevada's hopper band is the
only migratory one in the coun
try, experts said. Those infest
ing other parts of the country,
notably Colorado, Montana and
Wyoming, will live and die in
a relatively limited area.
The Nevada horde has moved
350 miles in the last 10 years.
They were first found in 1937
in southern Nevada. In 1938
they started moving into the
prevailing winds and have pro
gressed in a northwesterly di
rection. When wartime put a
halt to control measures, their
numbers increased rapidly.
They fly only by daylight and
Galloway said, sound like the
roar of a distant waterfall or the
rumble of a fast freight train.
CIO Official May
Take Post in Korea
Portland, July 2 W) Stanley
Earl, state CIO secretary since
1943, may go Korea as labor ad
viser to the economic coopera
tion administration.
Earl was offered the post, but
he said he has not decided
whether to accept it.
"It does not look too good in
Korea just now," he remarked,
mentioning the civil war and as
sassinations. Should he decide to go, the
state CIO convention in October
would nominate candidates to
succeed him. A referendum
election would follow. -,
During the interim until the
convention, a temporary suc
cessor would be appointed by
the t-io state council s execu
tive board.
WEATHER
(Released by United States
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salem and Vicin
ity: Continued fair tonight and
Sunday. Little change in tem
perature. Lowest temperature
expected tonight. 45 degrees;
highest Sunday, 85. Conditions
will be favorable for farm vork.
Maximum yesterday 77. Mini
mum today 45. Mean tempera
ture yesterday 60 which was 6
below normal. Total 24-hour pre
cipitation to 11:30 a.m. today 0.
Total precipitation for the
month 0 which is .03 of an inch
below normal. Willamette river
height at Salem, Saturday
morning, -1.7 feet.
own parade Saturday morning
ior Drum and Bugle corps, Boy
Scouts, Camp Fire Girls and
Sheridan Rodeoettes followed,
Next came the various divisions
of the parade.
Largest group entered in the
parade were the students from
the Paul Armstrong School of
Dance. The children, all of whom
participated in the Thursday
night revue, were all in costume.
To "Puss in the Well" entered
by June Laue, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. C. Laue, went the
loving cup, awarded the best
l-entryi Other children with- June
and her puss which hung in a
wooden bucket over a well
were Nancy and Beckie Rudin,
Luanne and Connie Pawley, Wil
lis Holscher and Phillip Klaus.
King Bing and Queen Anne
of Cherryland (John Wesley, III,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wes
ley, Jr., and Toye Fae Esch, a
daughter of the Verne Esches)
took first place in the imperson
ations division and placing first
in costumes was a couple, dress
ed as negroes from the deep
south.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 3)
Truman Urges
Cut in Expenses
Washington, July 2 OT Pres
ident Truman told government
agency chiefs today they must do
their housekeeping more cheap
ly and efficiently.
He sent them a letter order
ing cooperation with Jess Lar
son, boss of the new general
services administration, in gov
ernment purchasing and house
keeping operations.
Mr. Truman asked each agen
cy to plan its requirements for
supplies, equipment, materials,
and all other personal property
carefully "in order that neces
sary stocks may be maintain
ed at minimum levels and high-
cost small-lot purchasing avoid
ed."
Larson was directed to see
whether present policies on buy
ing and selling property for the
government should be modified
or revoked "in the interest of
promoting greater economy and
efficiency."
The general services adminis
tration was created two days ago
under a reorganiaztion law auth
orizing it to take over the func
tions of the federal works agen
cy and all its adjuncts, the war
assets administration, the treas
ury's department of federal sup
ply and office of contract settle
ment, and the national archives.
Larson is former chief of
WAA.
Farm Labor Supply
In Valley Adequate
Oregon's farm labor supply is
adequate now after a few minor,
scattered shortages, the state em
ployment service reported today.
The cherry and berry picking
seasons will gradually taper off
in the next two weeks, and the
Willamette valley snap bean and
Eastern Oregon wheat harvests
then will take the available la
bor supply, the report said.
Salem Merger
Votes Scheduled
If the city of West Salem votes
this month, or any time this
summer; to merge with the city
of Salem, it is probable the peo
ple of Salem will vote on the
merger in late summer or early
fall.
This was the opinion today of
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom on
being informed that the West Sa
lem election petitions have been
completed and the election date
set tentatively for July 26. The
election date depends on action
by the West Salem city council.
The names of only 34 certi
fied names were necessary on
the West Salem petitions to call
the election. The petitions filed
with the Polk county clerk had
63 names, and the county rec
order has informed the West Sa
lem authorities that 61 of them
have been found legally quali
fied to sign.
Although more names are not
needed the circulation of peti
tions is continuing to show pub
lic support of the merger move
Mayor Walter Musgrave of
West Salem announced Satur
day that Friday night, July 8, at
7:30 o clock, a town meeting
will be held at the city hall to
give the people complete infor
mation about the advantages of
merger of the two cities.
"It will be a question-and-an-
swer meeting," Musgrave said.
'The West Salem city council
will all be there, of course, and
the whole Salem city council is
invited."
Musgrave said that Mayor Elf
strom, City Manager J. L. Fran-
zen and City Attorney Chris J.
Kowitz of Salem have all said
they would be present.
Holiday Death Toll
Starts Off With 49
(By the Associated Pre.su)
Violent accidents took 47 lives
at the start of the nation's three-
day Fourth of July holiday.
Thirty-two persons died in
traffic accidents since 6 p.m.
(local time) Friday. Eleven
drowned, and four were killed
in miscellaneous accidents.
The national safety council
has estimated that 290 persons
will lose their lives in highway
accidents over the three-day
period.
It figured that some 33,000,-
000 .automobiles will clog the
highways leading to vacation
lands and resorts.
Last year's three-day Fourth
of July death toll was more than
500, of which almost 300 were
traffic fatalities.
United Air Lines Traffic in
Salem at Record Pace
United Air Lines' only possible response to the Civil Aero
nautics, Board's proposal that West Coast Airlines service be sub
stituted in Salem for that of
facts ana ligures tne board
decision.
That is the message received
here by the Salem manager, Hal
Sweeney, from W. R. Thigpin,
assistant to the president of
UAL.
It was Indicated that the ques
tion is whether Salem should be
served by feeder airlines or con
tinue to be served by a trunk
line and that this is only part of
an overall CAB program for the
year as indicated in a statement
to this effect issued in February.
While the CAB ponders the
question of the type of airline
that is' to serve Salem, business
for UAL in Salem continues on
the upgrade.
The day following the an
nouncement in Washington by
Slovakia Riots
New Ban Placed on
Western Diplomats
By Czechs
Prague, Czechoslovakia, July
2 (P) Foreign diplomats have
been warned by the government
not to make any unannounced
trips into Slovakia, scene of
bloody rioting between Roman
Catholics and communist offi
cials.
The foreign ministry said it
would be a "demonstrative" act
against the Czech government
and gross interference with in
ternal affairs of Czechoslovakia"
for foreign diplomats to travel
into Slovakia without prior no
tice.
This new ban against west
em diplomats at least was
disclosed in the foreign minis
try's rejection of a diplomatic
protest against police detention
of Msgr. Gennaro Verolino,
charge d'affaires of the papal
nunciature in Prague.
Red Policeman Killed
The announcement said "pres
ent circumstances" in the strong
pro-Catholic eastern province
made the restrictions necessary.
Informed church and diploma
tic sources said last night that at
least two communist policemen
were beaten to death and an un
determined number of persons
injured during recent clashes in
Slovakia between Catholics and
government adherents.
Meanwhile the communist
government moved to take over
the big national religious holi
days which start today and ex
tend through Tuesday.
They will be marked by Cath
olic pilgrimages and celebrations
honoring the missionaries, Sts.
Cyril and Methodius, and the
monk, St. Prokop.
Huss Memorial Day
On July 4 the nation also
marks the burning at the stake
of the religious reformer, John
Huss, in 1415. This holiday has
been moved up from July 6 to
make a compact week-end and
save a working day for the "peo
ple's democracy."
Verolino s case is believed to
have set a precedent restricting
travel of foreign envoys here.
Heretofore there have been
patrols on roads between Slova
kia and Bohemia-Moravia, but
usually cars with diplomatic or
foreign license plates were wav
ed through.
Storm Kills 2
In Galveston
Galveston, Texas, July 2 (fP)
Galveston counted two dead
today after a thunder squall
with winds up to 75 miles an
hour raked the island city late
Friday.
As the coast guard stopped us
hunt for persons who had been
reported missing, a navy "hur
ricane hunting" plane was sent
from Miami, Fla., to check re
ports of the first tropical storm
of the season some 300 miles
southwest of New Orleans.
The weather bureau at New
Orleans said, however, no trop
ical storm has formed in that
area.
Leroy Bushers, 18, was
drowned when winds blew him
from a raft. His uncle, C. E
Emmert, 50, died of a heart at
tack while rescuers worked on
the youth.
Jimmie Jones, 12, who had
been reported missing, was
found safe after a half day
search.
Cmdr. E. T. Harding, officer
in charge of the navy hurricane
weather central, said the "area
of suspicion" appeared to be a
touch of squally weather ex
tending roughly from 150 to
300 miles south of New Orleans.
But, the bureau said, no trop
ical storm has formed in the
area and there has been little
movement of the squally condi
tion. What slight movement
there has been, the bureau said,
has been to the west or south
west.
UAL is to cooperate in supplying
will need to arrive at a proper
the CAB of the proposal that
gave the capital of Oregon a
questionable airline status. Unit
ed Air Lines made its largest
single air express shipment from
Salem. The shipment, made by
the West Mushroom plant to Ran
cho Canneries at Sunnyvale,
Calif., was 2000 pounds.
The mushroom company at
the same time indicated that it
would continue to have large
shipments and that as soon as
proper packaging machinery is
received it is planned to have
monthly shipments averaging
from 20,000 to 30,000 pounds.
These are to be made by air ex
press out of Salem and will go
in half pound packages.
Dimitrov Was Most
Important Communist
Outside Russia
London, July 2 CP) Georgl
Mikhailovich Dimitrov, premier
of Bulgaria and one of the fore
most leaders in world commun
ism, died today, Moscow radio
announced. He was 67.
He had been a lifelong revol
utionary, an exile, trusted agent
of Soviet Prime Minister Joseph
Stalin, a principal defendant in
the German reichstag fire trial
in 1933, and probably the most
important communist outside
Russia.
Mikhailovich Dimitrov
The announcement distributed
by the Soviet monitor here said
death was due to diabetes. Dim
itrov had been under treatment
in Bordikha sanitarium near
Moscow for nearly three months.
Granted Leave for Illness
He was granted leave from
the premiership in April to ob
tain the treatment. Vassil Kol
arov. vice-premier and foreign
minister, became acting premier
at that time.
The highest councils in Russia,
the central committee of the
Soviet communist party and the
ministers of the U.S.S.R., made
the announcement of death.
They said it caused them pro
found grief.
Dimitrov was an exile from
Bulgaria for 22 years because ol
his early revolutionary life but
he remained an obscure figure
until he was accused of engin
eering the reichstag fire conspir
acy. Hillcr, just risen to power
when the reichstag building in
Berlin burned the night of Feb.
27, 1933, put the blame on com
munists. Acquitted in Berlin
Dimitrov confounded his
judges and eventually was ac
quitted. The fire mystery never
was cleared up. Hitler's gang
was accused by anti-nazi sources
of setting the fire and trump
ing up charges against the com
munists to serve their own pur
poses. Dimitrov went to Mos
cow.
(Concluded on fage 5, Column 8)
McKee Bridge
Open to Traffic
The newly established McKe
bridge on the Gervais-Monitoi
road was opened for traffic Fri
day and the old bridge which.
has been handling the situation
while the new one was installed
was blocked off and will be torn
down as soon as the bridge crew
can get to it, reported Counts
Commissioner Ed Rogers.
This steel structure is o n I
which served on the Facifi
highway at Aurora for manj
years and when traffic becam
such a new and wider structuri
was needed there the state sold
the old bridge to the county al
five cents a pound for the steei
it. The bridee was still ir.
perfectly sound condition and ii
expected to serve indefinitely in
its new location with its newly
installed concrete deck.
A considerable fill is required
at each end of the road but thos
installed are of a temporary na
ture. On the west end there will
be a realignment of the road
which will necessitate part ol
the fill now put in being chang
ed when the new road is ready.
On the other end also a tempo
rary fill was put in to allow a
farmer to salvage his crop which
was part of the agreement when
right of way was secured. Th
permanent fill on that end may
be put in this, year but it ij
doubtful if the road can be re
aligned and a new road estab
lished there until another sea
son. Cop Refunded Dime
Portland, July 2 (Pi Patrol
man Harris Lyle went to the
rescue of two 10-year-old girls
last week they had lost part ol
their carfare. He gave them
five pennies. Today he had a
thank-you letter, addressed to
"Mister No. 49" at police head
quarters, signed "Maureen." En
closed was a dime.
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