2 Capital Journal, Salem.
Biddle Hero of Blast
Killing General Prichard
Washington, July 11 W) The
public relations and a retired
cabin cruiser exploded on the
The dead: Maj. Gen. Vernon
Wilfred L. Painter, 41, USNR.
Bean
Starts in Week
First picking of snap beans is
scheduled for late this week or
early next and part time opera
tion of processing plants is ex
pected to follow shortly thereaf
ter. The Salem office of the state
employment service Is now en
gaged in conducting a survey
of the larger growing sections
while a similar inspection was
made last week by California
Packing corporation. The latter
has not fixed upon a definite
time for opening operations, the
processing hinging upon the vol
ume of beans to be harvested.
An increase of acreage of ap
proximately 25 per cent is re
ported in bean plantings this
year and the crop is said to be
developing normally. Because
many growers have turned to
beans as a source of revenue, tne
branch employment office at In
dependence will be opened a few
weeks in advance of the custom
ary time. Usually this office is
not opened until a short time be
fore hop harvest.
A similar branch is now func
tioning at Mt. Angel and others
will be reopened at Silverton
and Woodburn next week after
being closed temporarily
Referendum
On Pension Law
Portland, July 11 () A ref
erendum vote on the last legis
lature's pension bill was declar
ed assured today by Joe Dunne,
spokesman for old age pension
groups.
Dunne said 14,000 signatures
had been validated and another
4200 checked names were due
here from Lane, Linn and Mar
lon counties. He said these
would exceed the required 15,.
828 and put the measure to vote
In November, 1950. .
He said the referendum spon
sors want a bill that guarantees
$50 monthly, A ballot measure
stipulating the monthly goal was
passed last year, but was de
clared unworkable by the state
attorney ' general.. The legisla
ture then passed the measure
which Dunne's group seeks to
kill off.
Two Injured in
Ferry Collision
Seattle, July 11 (U.R) Two wo
men slightly injured when a Pu
get sound ferry boat with 600
passengers and 50 cars aboard
crashed head-one Sunday into a
10,000-ton Liberty ship off the
fog-covered Seattle waterfront
were recovering today.
The ferry continued on to its
destination, Bremerton, Sunday,
and the Joel Chandler Harris
crunched around on Sandy Du
wamlsh head. The Liberty ship
was refloated several hours la
ter.
J. A. Meyers, dock superin
tendent of the Puget Sound Navi
gation company, operators of the
f erry Enetai, said the Liberty
apparently dirfted into the ferry
lane after becoming lost in the
thick early morning fog,
7 Teenagers Took
Midnight Swim
Seven teenagers, three of
them girls, learned Monday
from the Salem juvenile officer
that there's a time and place for
swimming, but that the time is
the most important element.
The group was found swim
ming In the Olinger park pool
near midnight Saturday. They
had climbed the fence aflcr the
area was closed.
The three girls, aged 14 to 16,
were released to their parents.
They are currently residents of
a labor camp at Amity, having
come to Oregon from Oklnhoma.
The four boys, aged 16 to 19
and all from Woodburn, will be
making weekly visits to report
to the juvenile officer to keep
them from forgetting that mid
night is no time for juveniles to
be out especially when they're
swimming.
Paper Mill Liquor
Stops Caterpillars
Lebanon, Ore., July 11 ()
Sulphite liquor from a paper
mill and DDT halted arv Invasion
of caterpillars here yesterday
that had kept housewives busy
with brooms and garden hose.
, firemen later burned grass
and thistle patches where the
Insects hatched out early Satur
day and began moving across
lawns and gardens In unnum
bered hordes.
Oregon, Monday, July 11, l!M9ft p J
general who headed the army'
navy officer were Killed wnen a
Potomac river yesterday.
E. Prichard, 57, and Commodore
Navy Captain Sergius N. F.
Loboshez and Johannes Johan
nesen, 40, steward at the fash
ionable Corinehian Yacht club,
were carried on hospital critical
lists today.
Eyewitnesses credited Col.
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, one
of those aboard, with great per
sonal courage.
Biddle, soldier, athlete and
diplomat, told reporters the 50-
foot cruiser Halcyon was just
pulling away from the yacht
club dock en route down the
Potomac when the explosion oc
curred.
"I was standing on the bow
of the boat with my wife and
Mrs. Prichard," Biddle said. "We
weren't more than two or three
yards from the dock when we
heard this huge explosion, and
the three of us were shot into the
river. There was a lot of de
bris and flame.
"I swam to my wife and
brought her to the dock posts
and then grabbed Mrs. Prichard
Both of them were dazed, and
I guess I was, too. Then I joined
someone else in the water who
said that General Prichard had
gone down. We dived under
feet beneath the surface and
feet beneat hthe surface and
pulled him to shore."
Harbor police theorized that
gas fumes collected around the
boat's engine during refueling,
and exploded when the engine
was started.
All of the ten persons aboard
were hurtled into the water.
Most of them escaped with mi
nor Injuries.
Medical authorities said Prich
ard was killed instantly. Coro
ner A. Magruder MacDonald said
there were no burns, no frac
tures and no visible cause of
death.
Senate Probe of
Hawaiian Strike
Washington, July 11 (U.R)
The senate labor committee vot
ed today to begin public hear
ings tomorrow on legislation
aimed at ending the 72-day-old
Hawaiian dock strike.
Chairman Elbert D. Thomas
(D., Utah), said his committee
voted unanimously for the hear
ings. He said the "sum and
substance" of the committee's
decision was that It should not
consider Ihe merits of the strike
itself, but that the hearings
should be kept on a "legislative
level."
Thomas said the committee
hopes to get testimony from the
five senatorial sponsors of the
bill, Hawaiian Gov. Ingram M.
Stainback, Delegate Joseph R.
Farrington of Hawaii, Federal
Mediation Director Cyrus S.
Ching or his representative and
representatives of the Hawaiian
waterfront employers and of the
2000 striking members of the
CIO longshoremen's union.
The bill would authorize the
president to intervene in any
work stoppage threatening to
isolate Hawaii through inter
rupted steamship service to the
mainland, it would empower
the president to establish a fact
finding board whose recommen
daMons for settlement of the
strike would be binding on both
parties.
The measure was introduced
last week bv Sens. William F.
Knowland (R., Calif.); Wayne
Morse (R., Ore.); Harry P. Cain
(R., Wash.); Irving M. Ives (R
N.Y.), and Sheridan Downey,
(D Calif.).
Tail Blasts a!
Atlantic Pact
Washington, July 11 (U.R)
Sen. Robert A. Taft, (R., O.),
today announced "with great re
gret" that he will vote against
the North Atlantic defense treaty
because he believes "it will pro
mote war in the world rather
than peace."
In a blistering senate speech.
Taft attacked the 12-nation pact
on grounds it imposes a "con
tinuous obligation for 20 years"
on the United States to give mil
itary aid to pact signatories. He
also said there is a possibility
that, in event of war, Russia
might use captured American-;
arms for ' aggressive purposes
against the United States.
But as for the treaty, he said.
it "will do far more to bring
about a third world war than
it will ever maintain the peace
of the world."
Taft's outright opposition
probably will cost the treaty
some votes. But administration
leaders still were confident it
will be ratified by a comfortable
margin.
Taft's blast came a few hours
after the senate appropritions
committee voted $3,778,000,000
in Marshall plan spending for
fiscal 1950 a 10 per cent cut
In President Truman's request.
Taft referred to EC A spend
ing in warning that the nation
must not over-extend itself in
foreign assistance program.
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Return fo Port
New York, July 11 M) The
Pan-American four-engine stra
tocruiser "Flying Cloud," with
54 persons aboard, developed
engine trouble yesterday and
was forced to return 200 miles
to New York the third such
incident in four days.
The company announced that
the doubledecker airliner re.
turned to Idlewild airport near
ly two hours after taking off on
a flight for Bermuda.
A spokesman said the pilot
turned back because the turbo
supercharger on engine No. 1
was not functioning, thus pre
venting the plane from gaining
its normal cruising level of 14,
000 feet.
The 44 passengers aboard the
plane continued their trip to
Bermuda last night aboard a
Pan-American DC-4.
Court Attack
On Fish Bill
An amended complaint was
filed in circuit court here Mon
day in the case of Charles R.
Miles and others vs. the state
fish commission and master fish
warden seeking to invalidate an
initive measure passed by the
people of the state n 1948 pro
hibiting salmon fishing in the
Columbia or its tributaries with
fixed appliances.
At the same time the court
granted an order allowing the
Columbia River Fishermen's
Protective union leave to inter
vene as defendants.
Ihe plaintiffs filing the
amended complaint are drag
seine operators on the Columbia
and its tributaries, alleging they
are duly licensed by the state,
that they have equipment rep
resenting an investment valued
in excess of $140,400, that it is
suitable only for the one pur
pose, that they have devoted
their lives to the business of
drag seine fishermen and will
be deprived of this means of
livelihood. They charge that
the ballot title placed before the
people was misleading and con
fusing and discriminatory as to
types of fish enumerated.
They charge that the sponsors
of the petitions and the Colum
bia River Fishermen's Protec
tive union initated the measure
for the sole purpose of driving
the plaintiffs out of their lawful
business. They also allege un
constitutionality of the act and
that the measure has cast a
cloud upon the title of the plain
tiffs to their property.
Coach Survives
Alaska Crash
Fairbanks, Alaska, July 11
(U.R) A famous Louisiana botan
ist, his wife and their bush pilot
survived a plane crash on rug
ged Brooks mountain but said
today they didn t care if they
never saw another egg.
Dr. Melville T. Cook, 79, said
the plane flown by Pilot Bill
Currington, 31, was loaded with
1080 eggs as cargo. He said they
had eggs fried, boiled, poached,
scrambled, shirred and in ome
lets while awaiting rescue.
A B-17 search plane sighted
them yesterday nine miles
southwest of Christian village.
They arrived here six hours la
ter in a 10th air rescue helicop
ter dispatched from Ladd air
base.
Cook and his wife, also 79,
suffered only minor bruises and
sprains when the singlc-cngined
Cessna, owned by the Wien
Alaska airlines, was forced
down. The plane's landing gear
was wrecked.
Cook, on vacation from Loui
siana State university, said he
collected botany- specimens
while awaiting rescue. They
were on a flight here from Fort
Yukon, inside the Arctic circle,
when the plane's engine failed.
He said they never doubted
they would be rescued. About
25 civilian and army planes par
ticipated in the search.
Priest Visits Here
Prior to India Trip
Rev. Harold Bride, C.S.C., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bride,
Independence, was a guest at the
St. Joseph's Catholic church
Sunday morning where his
cousin, Rev. T. J. Bernards, is
pastor. He was ordained at the
lunlversity of Notre Dame June
Father Bride is leaving short
ly for India where he will be
engaged in missionary work, ex
pecting to sail September 20 for
service with the Order of Holy
Cross mission in East Pakistan,
devoting his first year to the
study of the language. After
graduating from McMinnville
high he attended the University
of Portland for one year before
going to Notre Dame. During
the last four years he has stud
ied at tile Foreign Mission sem
inary In Washington, D.C.
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with a 17-foot deck built atop at Northerly Island, Chicago.
Plane settles down (lower photo), brakes, and holds position
as truck comes to a halt. The small cabin plane also takes
off from the midget deck. Stunt was rehearsed for an air show
at the U. S. naval station in Glenview, HI. (AP Wirephoto)
DDT Effective
On Caterpillars
Albany, July 11 (1 County
Agent O. E. Mikesell said today
that the caterpillar infestations
in this county are not alarm
ing, but can be counteracted by
5 per cent DDT.
He recommended that grow
ers fearing attacks on their crops
spray with 5 per cent DDT, or
on such edible vegetables as
lettuce, string beans, or cab
bage with rotenone.
Mikesell said the caterpillars
which suddenly took out across
Lebanon Saturday and terrified
the housewives are the larvae
of thistle butterflies which nor
mally confine their depreda
tions to thistles and weeds.
This year, apparently, they
multiplied so rapidly that they
were not held in the usual check.
The Lebanon plague, which was
finally conquered by sulfite
liquor and DDT, has been re
peated on a smaller scale at
Waterloo, Scio, and the out
skirts of Albany,
Mikesell conferred with Ore
gon State college entomologist
Don Mote on the caterpillar
problem.
Allege Judge
Favored Hiss
Washington, July 11 W Two
house republicans apparently
are working up to formal de
mands for an Investigation of
Judge Samuel H. Kaufman's
handling of the Alger Hiss per
jury trial.
Reps. Velde (R. , 111.) and
Nixon (R., Calif.) are getting
ready to back up complaints
against Kaufman they say he
favored the Hiss defense with
speeches on the house floor.
And the two, partners on the
house un-American activities
committee, may go farther.
Nixon definitely wants an in
vestigation and aides say he will
fight to get one. Velde will
back Nixon.
An old-fashioned political
scrap would result that would
give a new twist to the celebrat
ed Hiss-Chambers case a case
that so far has featured charges
of espionage and perjury.
Calvin S. White
Dies in Honolulu
Word was received by Miss
Amy Harding of Salem this
week of the death in Honoltilu
July 6 of her nephew, Calvin S.
White of that city.
While, the son of the late Dr.
and Mrs. White and a direct de
scendant of the E. J. Hardlngs,
Oregon pioneers of 1847, who
settled In the Fairfield area,
died at a hospital in Honolulu.
Thirty-nine years of age, he had
been connected with the Dole
Hawaiian Pineapple company
for many years.
Surviving besides the aunt In
Salem are his wife and two sons
in Honolulu; two sisters, Mrs.
Eloise Hutchenson of San Fran
cesco and Mrs. Eleanor Goar of
Pendleton; and a brother, L. S.
White of Portland.
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Aviation Day
Set for August
What place has aviation in the
world of today and what are
Salem operators doing in the
aviation world?
Education on this line is
planned for Salem's public in an
aviation day to be held here
some Sunday during August.
Tentative plans for the day, be
ing arranged by operators at the
Salem airport and the airport
manager, Charles Barclay, are
to be made at a meeting set for
Tuesday afternoon at the mana
ger's office.
Planned more as an aeronau
tics education day than a show,
Aviation Day will include dem
onstrations and displays of
planes, with a race by smaller
craft to be held in the afternoon.
No admission charge is to be
made and an invitation is ex
tended to the public to take
part in the program.
Pilots from throughout Ore
gon are to be invited to fly here
for the event, which will fea
ture "what the light and small
planes can do." The airlines,
however, will be invited to have
planes on display.
Operators at the field will
have displays, dealers will be in
vited to have their planes on
display, the state board of aero
nautics will give demonstrations,
as will private fliers, and a dem
onstration of agriculture flying
by pilots from the Demers Fly
ing Service is planned.
Expected to attend the Tues
day meeting with Airport Man
ager Barclay are representatives
from the Salem Naval Air fa
cility, the state board of aero
nautics, Salem police aerial pa
trol, commercial dealers and
operators at McNary field.
Boy Y Campers
At Silver Creek
Camp Silver Creek A num
ber of boys who have been en
joying their annual outing at
Camp Silver Creek operated by
the Salem YMCA have been
named "Raggers," a group of
honor campers. The list includes:
Green ragger, Frank Shafer,
Tom Harding, Tom Turner.
Mike McKenzie, Bob Hamblin,
Dan Eastman, Greg Wanberg,
Roth Holtz, Clarence Edwards,
David Heyman, Bob Garrison,
Jim Kenyon, David Powell, Ed
Bender, Lee Emery and Merlin
Schulze. Dudley Kenyon receiv
ed his brown ragger.
Blackface acts, skits and
songs were presented in honor
of the Silver Creek "Queen Ma
rys," Mary Rask and Mary
Zancer, camp cooks from Sil
verton and Mary Beardsley,
camp nurse from Portland. Bob
Goff and Clarence Edwards,
dishwashers from Corvallis, had
the entire "court" in stitches
most of the time.
Sunday afternoon was spent
in relays and contests on the
playing field and in the pool.
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Boy Scouts in
Pioneer Camp
Seasonal operation of Camp
Pioneer, official outer center for
Cascade area, Boy Scouts of
America, began Sunday when a
number of valley troops moved
into the district above Marion
Forks for a week of recreation.
The scouts included the Salem
Kiwanis troop directed by Col.
Philip W. Allison. The boys
were transported to camp in
three pick-up trucks.
Although Camp Pioneer was
badly damaged by the heavy
snows of last winter, work crews
have succeeded in getting the
place in fairly good condition.
This year's operations wit be
similar to those in effect during
the early history of the camp
which is located on Pine lake,
a few miles above Marion Forks
on the North Fork of the San
tiam river.
A full staff of employes, in
cluding water front experts,
have been secured to direct op
erations. . .
171 Children
Learn to Swim
A total of 171 children regis
tered for the first classes in the
"learn to swim" campaign at
Leslie pool, Monday morning,
reports tne water safety chair
man for the Red Cross, Vernon.
Gilmore.
That many or more were ex
pected to register for the classes
starting at Olinger pool, Mon
day afternoon, with others due
to be on hand for the life-saving
course Monday evening in
Leslie pool.
The course continues through
July 22, the morning classes at
Leslie, the afternoon ones at
Olinger and the evening event
in Leslie.
John Fairbairn of Aberdeen,
Wash., is conducting the course
under auspices of the Red Cross.
In recognition of this pro
gram, Mayor Robert L. Ef
strom, Monday, issued the fol
lowing statement: ,
"A learn to swim campaign
is to be conducted jointly by the
city, school district, and Marion
county chapter of the American
Red Cross at the Olinger and
Leslie pools from July 11 to
22.
"I feel that it is most im
portant for as many children as
possible to learn to swim so they
may become capable swimmers
for their own pleasure and safe
ty.
"I hope that the parents of
Salem children will take ad
vantage of this opportunity to
see that their children get the
instruction which is being of
fered them through this cam
paign.
Tacoma Man
Heads B.P.O.E.
Cleveland, July 11 (U.R) Em-
mett T. Anderson, 59, of Taco
ma, Wash., today was elected
grand exalted ruler of the grand
lodge of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at their
85th annual convention.
Anderson was elected by some
3,000 delegates at the opening
business session. He is now the
official head of some 1,000,000
Elks located in. all the states, ter
ritories, the Canal Zone and the
Philippine Islands Republic.
Previous to his new post, An
derson was head of the Tacoma
Elks, president of the Washing
ton State Elks association and
a member of the Elks national
veterans service commission. He
replaces George T. Hall of New
York.
Truman on Radio
Wednesday Night
Washington, July 11 (P).
President Truman will carry his
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by radio Wednesday night, July
13.
The White House announced
today that the chief executive
will address the people in a
talk over all four of the major
networks. It also will go on tel
evision.
Mr. Truman will speak at
9:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard
Time).
Secretary Charles G. Ross said
the address will be somewhat
under 30 minutes, but that the
exact length has not been de
termined.
Ross said the president will
talk "on the domestic economic
situation and the budget.
"He wants to tell the people
in plain, understandable Eng
lish what the economic situa
tion is."
Sheriff Elliott
May Face Recall
Portland, July 11 VP) The
Young Republican organization
of this county invited democrats
and other groups today to start a
recall move against the Multno
mah county sheriff who is feud
ing with Portland newspapers
and some of his town staff.
The Young Republican presi
dent, Donald C. Walker, an
nounced the recall move after
Sheriff M. L. Elliott filed a $500,
000 libel suit against the Ore
gonian and challenged his crit
ics to "go ahead and start a re
call." County Democratic Chairman
Nicholas Granet rallied to the
sheriff's defense, calling the re
call attempt a "straight political
issue" and accusing the Portland
newspapers of "persecuting" the
sheriff.
Other democratic spokesmen,
however, -indicated a possible
willingness to support the re
call if assured that a democratic
successor would be chosen. Owen
Card, first vice president of the
Young Democrats, said he per
sonally would favor a recall.
The controversy over Elliott,
simmering since he admitted
making incorrect statements
about his background during his
political campaign, boiled over
last week when he suspended
Stanley MacDonald, the veteran
head of the criminal identifica
tion bureau in the sheriff's of
fice.
Saturday the sheriff filed a
$500,000 libel suit against the
Oregonian. That was not based
on its editorial attack, however,
but on a columnist's report ad
mittedly incorrect that Elliott
was seen partying during office
hours. The columnist retracted
the statement next day.
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Pacific, and from northern Alas
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Shy of Quota
Tuesday .brings the monthly
visitation by the mobile unit
from the Portland regional blood
center, the unit to be set up at
the First Methodist church be
tween 3 and 7 p.m.
The Red Cross office reported
that by Monday evening 100 or
more would be signed up, but
unless more persons offer to do
nate the unit will not receive
the quota of 100 pints this time.
The unit can accommodate a
goodly number of "drop-ins"
during its stop and persons
wishing to donate and who have
not contacted, the Red Cross of
fice are invijtd to stop.
The blood program committee
Monday again requested that all
persons having appointments
keep them or notify the Red
cross office in time today to get
replacements.
Kletzing Director Again
Independence Ralph H.
Ketzing was re-elected a direc
tor of the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers association at the
62nd annual meeting of the
ONPA at Gearhart.
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