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6 1st Year, No. 185 ESfSJSingZ Salem, Oregon, Friday, August 5, 1949
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Legion to Stage
Annual Parade
Friday Evening
Splash of Brightness
And Blare of Noise
Starts at 7 o'Clock
The grand convention parade,
the most colorful event of the
31st annual state American Le
gion convention, will thunder
through Salem's downtown
streets in a splash of brightness
and a blare of noise, beginning
at 1 o'clock Friday night.
In its two hour march, the par-
will rifertlav a nannramn fit
city, state, military and Legion
dignitaries, drum and bugle
pnrn, VtanHc TniHtarv units.
comedy acts, noisemakers, etc.
Forms at Center St.
The parade will form at 6:15
at Commercial and Center. From
there it goes south on Commer
cial1 to State; east on State to
Liberty; north on Liberty to
Court; east on Court to High;
south on High to State; east on
State to Cottage, disbanding at
Willson park.
Soon after the disbandment of
the parade, the "Convention
Cavalcade," a vaudeville show,
will be presented from the out
door stage at the state Fair
grounds. Eddie Dean a Feature
Featured on the show will be
Eddie Dean, star of stage, screen
and radio who will soon appear
on his own television show in
Los Angeles.
Tato the Clown with his pet
"Cheeta" the chimpanzee will
also appear at the Fairgrounds.
The Tato troupe also includes a
trained Shetland pony, trained
mule and trained dog.
Legionnaires
Nab Soldier
A hastily formed posse of As
toria Legionnaires trapped a
Ft. Lewi . soldier- in- the brush
near the Willamette university
residence of Dr. G. Herbert
Smith early Friday morning af
ter a hit-run accident.
The soldier was identified as
Pvt. Aurelio Martinez, who is at
tached to the army unit brought
' to Salem for the Oregon Amer
ican Legion convention.
He is being held on charges
of failing to remain at the scene
of an accident, and car theft.
A police report of the affair
told how a car driven by Mar
tinez, but registered to John
Turrintine, Jr., 239 S. Cottage,
was seen to smash into two park
ed cars in the 200 block on
south Winter street about 3:00
a.m.
The car continued for a block
before the soldier leaped from
the hit-run machine and fled
on foot.
Thirteen Astoria Legionnaires
pursued him in view of the fact
that the accident had involved
a car belonging to Charles W.
Laurens Jr., an Astoria delegate
The other belonged to Bert Re
gan of Portland.
The posse trapped Martinez
In the brush near the university
president's residence. At thai
point, the police report said,
Martinez "came out fighting"
and "attempted to whip the
gang."
There was no evidence of his
success or failure on that score,
but the report explained that
Martinez was being held for po
lice upon the arrival of the of
ficer. Martinez was placed under ar
rest on charges of failing to re
main at the scene of an accident.
A later investigation showed
him to be driving Turrintine's
car without his knowledge or
permission. '
The soldier told police he had
been "picked up" by a girl iden
tified as "Frances" who had ask
ed him to drive around the block
a few times and pick her up
later. He claimed to be follow
ing her instructions when the
accident occurred.
Mrs. Graham for
Auxiliary Prexy
Mrs. W. W. .Graham of Cor
vallis was the only nominee for
state president of the American
Legion women's auxiliary after
nominations were made during a
business sesion of the auxiliary
in the Senate chambers of the
eapitol building Friday morning
Elections will be held Saturday.
Mrs. Stanley Krueger of The
Dalles received the lone nomina
tion for the vice-president's po
lition.
Other nominations made at
the meeting included Mrs. Mae
Whitcomb, Portland, secretary
and Mrs. McKlnley Kane, Dun
dec, treasurer.
Reds Picket
Chief of Staff
Paris, Aug. 5 VP! Commun
ists massed 1,500 singing march
ers in protest against Atlantic
pact talks here, but the pres
ence of 6000 troops and police
in the Place De La Concorde
cooled the demonstrators' ardor
The marchers sang the com
munist anthem, The Interna
tionale.
They made no attempt to
break through lines of police,
bolstered by soldiers in battle
equipment. They had intended
to march on the U.S. embassy in
the square and protest against
the presence in France of the
American joint chiefs of staff,
who are discussing Atlantic alli
ance strategy.
The staff chiefs already had
gone to Fontainebeleau, 40 miles
outside Paris, for talks with
western European chiefs.
Brig. Gen. Joseph O'Hare of
the embassy received a delega
tion of four communists twice
in the afternoon. They wanted
a third meeting tonight, but
O'Hare put them off until to
morrow. In Bordeaux, U.S. Consul Wal
ter Lichicun received a delega
tion of the communist-controlled
general labor confederation.
Many American tourists had
gathered in the Place De La
Concorde in Paris in anticipa
tion of trouble with the com
munist marchers, but there was
none.
The Fontainebleau meeting
lasted less than two hours. A
communique was issued, saying:
The U.S. chiefs of staff met
western European commanders
in their committee at Fontaine
bleau this afternoon at 1530
(3:30 p.m. French time). Use
ful conversation took place in a
most cordial atmosphere. The
U.S. chiefs of staff left Fontaine
bleau at 1720 (5:20 p.m.) to re
turn to Paris."
Truman Appointments
Washington, Aug. 5 W) Pres
ident Truman today nominated
Tracy S. Voorhees for promotion
from assistant secretary to un
dersecretary of the army. He
also nominated Archibald S. Al
exander, 1948 democratic candi
date for senator from New Jer
sey, to be assistant secretary of
the army.
New Attack Ordered
In Hospital Campaign
A revamped plan of attack, to make the hospital development
program the responsibility jf every man, woman, and child in
Salem, evolved from a weekly
workers today.
Charted under the fast windup
calling in which it is hoped that-
every home in the city will be
contacted. The householder will
be asked to name the amount he
can give. Campaign headquart
ers then will offer to call at the
home to receive the money.
This course of action was
adopted following a challeng
ing statement by Al W. Loucks,
chairman of the public division,
who told the luncheon meeting
at Senator hotel Friday noon of
his disappointment over results
obtained to date. The drive for
Banquet Crowd American Legion convention delegates
dine at the grand convention banquet in the Salem armory
Thursday evening. About 800 Legionnaires were present for
the event, held in honor of Laura Goode, national president
of the Legion auxiliary.
U.A.L Fights Loss of
Small Cities Served
San Francisco, Aug. 5 U.R United Air Lines President W. A.
Patterson today told a civic aeronautics board that his company
intends to "fight to the last ditch" any proposal to discontinue
their service to smaller cities.
Discussing general UAL policy, Patterson said "we're not
CIO Opposing
Columbia Funds
Washington, Aug. 5 VP) CIO
opposition to early congressional
authorization of $3,000,000,000
in projects to develop the Col
umbia river basin was "called
astounding" today by a congress
man from the Pacific northwest.
The CIO opposition was stated
in a letter which advocated that
the projects be re-examined by
the proposed Columbia Valley
administration.
The projects are proposed in
a coordinated report by army
engineers and the reclamation
bureau on development of the
valley.
Rep. Sanborn (R-Ida.), plac
ing the letter in the congression
al Record, said such a step as
advocated by the CIO would
mean a halt to federal participa
tion in northwest development
for months, maybe years.
The CIO letter, dated August
1 and signed by John Brophy,
director CIO industrial councils
and chairman of its committee
on regional development and
conservation and Nathan Cowan,
CIO legislative director, was re
ceived by all members of the
senate and house public works
committee, members of the
Washington congressional del
egation and other house and sen
ate members.
Stranded Students
Promised Funds
Farragut, Idaho, Aug. 5 W
Students stranded by the closing
of Farragut college and techni
cal institute have been promis
ed funds to help them move.
James Anderson, business
manager, said campus organiza
tions would pool the $2,000 in
their treasuries to help students
without funds leave the school
report luncheon of campaign
plan is a program of telephone
participation by the general pub
lic, which started on July 19
is scheduled to end Friday of
next week.
Only about $30,000 has been
secured through the public cam
paign division, against a goal
of $100,000 or more. Loucks at
tributed the shortcoming to the
fact that the system used by the
campaign office heretofore has
been aimed at only 3.000 of Sa
lem's approximately 20,000 fam
ilies.
(Concluded on Part, 5, Column ()
scream skinners, we re wining lo
take the good with the bad and
if we are forced to drop our
service to smaller cities, then
we will be accused of being a
big 'octiipus.
But when it comes to the
question of suspending UAL
service, Patterson declared,
"our position is quite clear. We
don't feel that CAB has the
power or authority to take any
thing away from us. If anything
is going to be accomplished
here, it will have to be done
in agreement between all par
ties. It can t be done by an
order."
Today's hearing dealt only
with six California and Oregon
cities. Cities such as Salem,
Ore., were not mentioned. But
the airlines president outlined
the policy of his company with
respect to all feeder operations.
He termed the UAL service
to some smaller 38 cities a "feed
er line operation," even though
the CAB did not recognize it as
such, and said United did not
want to abandon any of these
flinhts, which produced good
will that offset any possible
financial loss.
He attacked the tactics of
some smaller lines, saying they
were "throwing rocks." and said
it would not be possible for UAL
to come to any agreement with
Southwest Airlines by which
United might temporarily aban
don its service to the six cities
until Soufhwest's "approach was
different."
The company plans to replace
the DC3s now servicing these
smaller cities with DC4s as much
as possible, Patterson said.
In response to questioning bv
CAB officials, Patterson said
that taking all short feeder
hauls away from the big ari-
lincs would increase mail costs
and fares to the smaller com
munities.
The CAB proposes to trans
fer to Southwest Air Lines the
present United routes serving
Santa Barbara, Salinas, Monte
rey, Red Bluff, Eureka, and
Klamath Falls.
United Air Lines opened its
case yesterday with the testi
mony of James A. Moore, UAL
executive, who contended that it
would cost the government
$286,000 per year to switch air
line routes. He said mail sub
sidies to United would have to
be increased by $463,000 per
year to compensate for the loss
of revenue it would suffer under
the proposed change. Mail pay
to Southwest, he contended,
would be diminished by only
$177,000, resulting in a total
mail pay increase of $286,000
Roosevelt Eyes Governorship
Los Angeles, Aug. .5 Wi To
day's political tip from the in
siders: Look for another Roose
velt hat in the ring about Oct. 1
James Roosevelt said yester
day that's when he expects to
announce his intentions toward
the governorship of California,
Slav Troops
Alerted by Tito
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Aug 5
(P) Yugoslav troops were in a
state of alert today to guard
against what Premier Marshall
Tito called provocations and in
timidation by his Soviet-domin
ated neighbors.
Taniug, the official news
agency, last night quoted Mar
shall Tito as saying bloody
clashes already had taken place
in Macedonia. The stormy Bal
kan region lies between com
munist Bulgaria and Albania,
with Greece on the southern
border. r .-. ;ri
Tito said his troops were in 'a
stale of alert in order to safe
guard the peaceful construction
of our socialist country."
The premier, who defied So
viet dictation a year ago in a
row with the cominform (com
munist international information
bureau), accused his eastern
neighbors of trying to intimidate
Yugoslavia by spreading rumors
of a threatened Red army inva
sion. Tito called them "nothing but
ordinary rumors" but added:
"Nevertheless, we are not un-
vigilant here either . . . we are
prepared to prevent all provo
cations, to .defend our country
against everyone."
In a slap at Moscow, Tito add
ed Yugoslavia would defend the
principles of Marxism-Leninism
even against the creators of
these principles, should they go
against them."
Vandals Tear
Welcome Flags
Merchants in the 400 block on
Court street were angered Fri
day morning to find American
Legion welcome signs and red
white and blue bunting had been
ripped from store fronts and left
hanging or torn on the streets.
Dr. Harry A. Brown, jeweler
and optometrist, immediately of
fered a $50 reward for informa
tion leading to the arrest and
conviction of the vandals who
desecrated the colors and ripped
the decorations down.
Several other merchants in
the same block were similarly
aroused by the acts.
City Attorney Chris Kowitz
was of the opinion that an or
dinance dealing with flag dec
orations had been repealed, and
that he knew of no national or
state law dealing with the prob
lem. Arrests could be made,
however, on the charge of van
dalism. Dr. Brown reported that
George E. Donaldson, one of
the committee heads of the con
vention, had advised him that
several merchants had entered
complaints earlier in the week
dealing with similar acts of des
ecration.
Six Bandits Rob
Ex-French Colonel
Nice, FTance, Aug 5 (u.fi) Six
bandits, armed with submachine
guns, robbed the home of a re
tired French colonel in Toulouse
of $1,230 in cash last night.
The description of the bandits,
their accents and their tech
nique tallied with that o tnc
four men who Wednesday rob-
bed
the millionaire Indian po
tentale Aga Khan and his wife
US Admits China
Reds but
Officially Open
Salem Air Base
With Ceremony
Public ceremonies held Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock at McNary
field officially established the
Salem U.S. Naval Air Facility
and commissioned the Volunteer
Naval Air Reserve unit (active).
During the ceremony Lt.
Comdr. Wallace Hug, USNR, was
given his orders as the officer
in charge of the U.S. Naval Air
facility and Lt. Ernest Eldridge
received his orders placing him
in command of the Salem Volun
teer Naval Air Reserve unit. Ex
ecutive officer at the air facility
is Lt. Stanley Fallandcr, who
came to Salem from Corvallis.
Buckley Main Speaker
Capt. A. E. Buckley, com
manding officer of the Naval
Air Reserve Training unit, Naval
Air Station, Seattle, gave the
main address at the ceremonies,
which were preceded by a con
cert by the 13th Naval district
band under the direction of Navy
Bandmaster C. G. Ellis.
Short talks were given also by
Gov. Douglas McKay, Mayor
Robert L. Elfstrom and B. E.
(Kclley) Owens, state comman
der of the American Legion
Other distinguished guests at
tending the ceremony were in
troduced by Lt. Comdr. Hug
prior to Capt. Buckley's speech
Citations Awarded
Another feature of the ceremo
ny was the presentation of cita
tions, awarded for distinguished
war service in the Pacific during
the last war, to AD2 B. G. Has
tings, one of the station keepers
at the air facility. The citations
include the Distinguished Flying
Cross and the third, fourth, fifth
sixth and seventh gold stars in
lieu of the Air Medal.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Chinese Reds
Take Changsha
Canton, Aug. 5 W) The fort
ress of Changsha fell to the Reds
today and a credible report of a
nationalist army revolt on that
front may mpan the road to Can
ton soon will be almost wide
open.
Loss of Changsha, 365 miles to
the north, was bad news enough
for the nationalists. But the
Reds in another lunge southeast
of Changsha were only 215 miles
from this refugee capital.
Both these reversals were ad
mitted officially.
Unofficial but credible re
ports said Gen. Chen Ming-Jen,
new governor of Hunan prov
ince, the bread basket province,
had revolted.
General Chen only recently
replaced Gen. Cheng Chien. The
government charges Cheng fled
from Changsha and went over to
the Reds Monday. The govern
ment ordered Cheng's arrest, ac
cusing him of trying to arrange
a local peace with the commun
ists. ,
The unofficial accounts said
General Chen, close friend of
his predecessor, also went over
to the Reds taking at least one
of his three armies with him
His armies totalled 90,000 men.
Defection of the Hunan gen
eral would create a serious sit
uation. It conceivably could
compel Gen. Pal Chung-Hsi, the
commander in the soulh, to
withdraw his troops southwest-
ward mlo Kwangsi province
This would leave the road to
Canton open for a swift and
easv communist advance.
Opponents in Campaign James Green of Omaha, Neb.,
(left) and Eric Cocke, jr., ot Dawson, Ga., show their rivalry
is on a friendly basis as they chat jokingly during a gathering
of the state Legion convention. The men are both candidates
for the national commandership of the Legion.
Warns Russians
Truman Sends
New Arms for
Europe Bill
Washington, Aug. 5 W) The
administration sent to congress
today a new arms-for-Europe
bill shorn of provisions giving
President Truman power to de
cide when and where aid should
be given.
The new measure, submitted
the house and the senate,
named specifically the countries
to be aided under the $1,450,-
000,000 program.
It made no change, however,
in cost of the proposed program.
The proposed outlay has been
criticized sharply by both re
publicans and democrats in con
gress. The rewritten measure was
submitted to the senate by Chair
man Connally (D., Tex.) of the
foreign relations committee and
to the house by Chairman Kee
(D., W. Va.) of the foreign af
fairs committee.
Education Aid
Bill Speeded
Washington, Aug. S W Prosi
dent Truman called democratic
congressional leaders to the
White House today in an effort
to get passage on a controversial
federal aid to education bill.
The controversy over whether
public funds should be made
available to parochial and other
private schools for auxiliary ser
vices has blocked efforts to get
the measure to the floor in the
house.
Chairman Lesinski (D
Mich.), of the house education
and labor committee refused to
say, after the conference,
whether he will call his commit
tee back into session to consider
it.
Rep. McCormack of Massachu
setts, the democratic floor leader
in the house, told reporters that
Mr. Truman was very urgent in
his appeal for passage of the
bill at this session, to redeem one
of his 1948 campaign pledges.
Pearson Out
For Latoureffe
Portland, Aug. 5 m State
Treasurer Walter J. Pearson
came out today in favor of the
appointment of Circuit Judge
Earl C. Latourette to Oregon's
new federal judgeship.
Pearson, a democrat, said he
had tried vainly to persuade
Democratic National Commit
teeman Monroe Sweelland to
withdraw his support of Gus J.
Solomon, Portland attorney, for
the post.
I told Swectland that if he
continued to support Solomon
and Solomon is appointed, it
will split the democratic party
in Oregon right down the mid
dle. I suggested he withdraw
Solomon's name and the demo
crats try lo select a man upon
whom they can agree.
"He would not agree with me,
so I told him if he continued to
support Solomon, I would sup
port Latourette. I wrote to the
national committee urging La
lourcltc's appointment."
Latourette has the backing of
the state democratic central
committee chairman.
I- lying- farmers to Meet
Prineville, Aug. 5 T) The
Oregon Flying Farmers will
hold their annual convention in
McMinnville Sept. 4-6, Presi
dent Claude Williams announced
here.
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Lost to
New Policy for
Orient Charted
In White Paper
Washington, Aug. 5 W) Sec
retary of State Achcson wrote
off China's Nationalist govern
ment today as a total failure be
fore the onslaught of commun
ism. He charted a new course
for America's anti-communist
policy in the far east.
In a bitingly critical "while
paper," including the long-suppressed
W edemeyer report,
Acheson told President Truman
in a letter that U. S. policy now
must be shaped to "encourage all
developments" in China which
are aimed at throwing off the
"foreign yoke" of Moscow-directed
communism. The report,
made public today, is two inches
thick and more than 1,000 pages
long.
Red Regime Serves Russia
Acheson said the communist
regime serves the interests "of
Soviet Russia." He advised the
President it may "lend itself to
the aims of Soviet Russian im
perialism" to start an aggression
against China's neighbor nations.
If that agression comes, Ache
son indicated the United States
would try to block it through
the United Nations.
While not all China is present
ly under the Red banner, Ache
son said in another document of
the white paper, the communists
can take over the rest any time
they want and nationalist arm
ies will be powerless to resist.
He thus advised chairman Con
nally (D., Texas) of the senate
foreign relations committee
March 15.
Blame Put on Chiang
For the "ominous result of the
Chinese civil war," Acheson
placed full blame on Generalis
simo Chiang Kai Shek and other
lenders of the crumbling nation
al government. He said they "lost
no battles" in the last crucial
year for lack of American wea
pons. Their failures, he said, were
due to loss of popular support
and loss by the armies of the
will to fight. The communists
battled with "fanatical zeal,"
Acheson added, but: . "The na
tionalist armies did not have to
be defeated; they disintegrated."
To support the position that
Chinese not American leaders
were to blame for the disaster,
the state department included
among the unveiled state docu
ments a sensational letter from
China's current acting President,
General Li Tsung-Jcn.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 7)
Wedemeyer's
Report Spurned
Washington, Aug. 4 Of) Lt.
Albert C. Wcdemeyer urged
President Truman in 1947 to
adopt a new five-year aid pro
gram for nationalist China if
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
would agree lo drastic reforms
in his government and army.
Wedemcyer told the president
(his action was necessary to de
feat the Chinese communists and
block Russia's "dangerous" plans
for expansion in tiic Far East.
He made the recommenda
tions lo the White House Sep
tember 19, 1947. after conduct
ing an on-thc spot survey as
head of a Truman-appinnted in
vestigating mission to China.
The army general denounced
Russia's role in the Chinese rev
olution and told Mr. Truman:
"Any further spread of Soviet
influence would, be inimical to
United States strategic in
terests." Wcdemeyer suggested that the1
president urge China to appeal
to the United Nations to set up
a five-nation "guardianship" or
trusteeship over the rich indus
trial area of Manchuria.
The trustees would be the U.
S., Britain, Russia, France and
China.
Wedemeyer's advice was not
followed. The administration
suppressed his report until to
day. In making it public, Sec
retary of State Acheson gave
this reason for the secrecy.
"It was decided that t fie pub
lication at that time of sugges
tion for alienation of a part of
China from the control of the
nationalist government, and for
placing that part under an in
ternational administration to in
clude Soviet Russia, would not
be helpful."