2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, August 5, 1949
Gabrielson Wins Close
Race for GOP Chairman
Washington, Aug. B W A republican national committee split
iquarely down the middle found itself under the command today
of a new chairman, Guy G. Gabrielson ol New Jersey.
Gabrielson is a 58-year-old lawyer-industrialist. Elected by a
five-vote margin over Axel J. Beck, South Dakota farmer-busi
wnessman, he promised complete
neutrality as between candidates
for president and congress.
But Gabrielson's election yes
terday by a 52 to 47 vote over
Beck state chairman A. T
"Bert" Howard of Nebraska got
a single vote put the national
party's machinery back in the
familiar hands of long time sup
porters of Senator Robert A
Taft of Ohio.
The new chairman succeeded
Rep. Hugh D. Scott Jr. of Penn
sylvania, picked at last year's
republican convention by Gov
Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
Taft himself look no apparent
part in the national committee
contest, but many of his backers
! contributed to Gabrielson's bare
margin victory. Fifty-two was
the minimum vote by which any
candidate could win out of the
total 102. qualified votes at yes
terday's session.
Besides Gabrielson himself
and Reece, the Taft men in the
new chairman's camp included
former national chairman Harri
son Spangler of Iowa, Walter
Hannanan of West Virginia, and
Col. R. B. Creager of Texas.
Gabrielson's opponents called
them the party old guard and in
sisted the fight was more against
them than against the new
chairman.
Supporting Beck, who had
been active in politics less than
a year, were Dewey backers plus
some who felt allegiance to
Scott. Scott was forced out as
chairman in part because he was
blamed for Dewey's failure to
win the presidency last Novem
bcr.
Gabrielson told the committee
after his election that so far as
he is concerned "there are no
factions, nor any groups in the
republican national committee,'
G.
Guy
Gabrielson
Seek fo Revive
Campoeg Road
While nothing immediate Is
In the offing the county court
gave evidence Friday that it
has not altogether forgotten the
ambitious plan for a Champoeg
memorial highway along the
fringe of the Willamette river at
the north end of the county con
templated back in the 1930's but
which fizzled out from the war
or some other cause.
The court had the maps of the
survey out Friday and went over
them carefully with indication
it will go back into the records
and find out what sort of com
mitments had been made when
the former county court along in
1936 expended $31,000 on the
right of way.
The plan was to have a hard
surfaced highway from Cham
poeg park to Buteville, whicli
would be in the nature of a new
road and take onto the market
road there which would extend
the highway to the new Wilson
ville cutoff of the state highway
department. The right of way
purchased for a matter of about
three and a half miles was all
the way from 80 feet in width to
as much as 200 feet in some plac
es where it was apparent picnic
grounds or scenic spots might
be established.
As memory served the plan
was linked up in some manner
with the Champoeg centennial
of 1943 when It was hoped the
road would be finished and
there would be a direct cutoff
route from Portland to Cham
poeg park but the dream faded
with eventualities.
The county still owns the long,
wide strip of right of way and
court members indicated no
doubt some day the plan would
be worked out along the orig
inal lines, although as far ns
known nothing is vailable for its
completion now.
It was the recollection as ex
pressed Friday that the county
was to furnish the right of way,
the then existent WPA was to
clear it and the state build the
road but if there were any state
commitments in writing the
court up to date hadn't been
able to find them.
Judge Belt Better
Seaside, Aug. 5 W) State
Supreme Court Justice Harry H.
Belt, 65, was reported "some
what improved" today, after be
ing stricken with a heart attack
while vacationing here. Atten
dants at the Seaside hospital said
the justice was "resting comfort
ably" this morning. He was tak
en ill Tuesday.
In 1875 nails were first manu
factured from wire.
leveling Off
To Last Year
L. S. Crowder, manager and
treasurer of the national retail
credit association in St. Louis,
predicted Friday that the reces
sional "leveling off" of the na
tion's business would continue
to the middle of 1951.
The national officer of the
credit group, who has been as
sociated with that field for years,
having been a former Montgomery-Ward
manager who estab
lished that company's system of
credit management, expressed
his views at a meeting of the
Salem credit association.
Despite his prediction of con
tinued leveling off, Crowder ex
presed great confidence in the
future of business in the nation.
He pointed out that current
price adjustments were good for
the economy of the country.
He also cited figures which
showed that the current number
of unemployed, frequently esti
mated at four million, was at
least one million above the nor
mal figure. Crowder emphasized,
however, that the unemployment
problem was not serious and
would not become so in view of
the fact that employment was
Uso increasing at about the same
pace.
In the credit field, the nation
al officer pointed to a practice
ne lound to be prevalent in Cali
fornia which he considered un
sound and a move which would
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RETURN OF THE
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La Grande Corps
Again Winner
With marching lines as straight
as the gold stripe on the green
trousers, and with marching cir
cles as perfectly round as one
of their banging cymbals, 33
drum and buglers from La
Grande post 43 strutted off with
first-place honors from the an
nual state American Legion
drum and bugle corps contest on
Sweetland field Thursday night.
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The LaGrande corps thus suc
cessfully defended the title it
won at Astoria in 1948. They
will enter the national competi
tion at Philadelphia late this
month.
LaGrande was awarded a total
of 79.8 points of a possible 100
by the judges. Astoria finished
second with 78.15, while Tilla
mook was third with 69.4.
A feature of the two-and-a-half
hour show witnessed by
nearly 5000 people was the form
al guard mount staged by troops
from the Fourth infantry at Ft.
Lewis. A 75-man band, a 40-man
guard and five officers partici
pated in the procedure, which
lacked nothing in precision ma
neuvers. The three-month-old Capital
post number 9 corps of Salem,
dressed as Indians, performed an
exhibition that has hundreds
saying, "Watch Salem next
year."
The Salem team did not enter
the competition, as Legion rules
prohibit any team to compete in
its own town.
Tom Hill was master of ceremonies,
Bean Picker Confesses
Theft, Crash of Hearse
A bean picker who apparently ran amuck after several hours
of beer drinking confessed to Salem police and deputy sheriffs
Friday that he had stolen the W. T. Rigdon hearse and was at the
wheel of the vehicle when it was smashed at the intersection ol
24th and Chemeketa streets.
The man was identified
I, a Grande Holds Clifford Brown Trophy Mrs. Avery Mil
lering, wife of the drum major of the La Grande American
Legion post's drum and bugle corps, is shown here with the
trophy cup again won by the La Grande musicians at Sweet
land field Thursday night. Mrs. Millering received the cup
from Slate Commander B. E. (Kelly) Owens In behalf of the
corps. The cup, donated by the late Clifford Brown of Salem,
veteran of World War I, is passed each year to the winner of
the state title. The small cup held by Mrs. Millering is a per
pcrmanent trophy in possession of the La Grande corps. In
addition to the cup the winning corps was awarded $100. Sec
ond place was awarded to Astoria, with a $50 prize, and third
to Tillamook, $25.
strike at small businesses. He
said the elimination of down
payments on many items, es
pecially refrigerators, could lead
to the extention of that practice
to other field. He termed the
practice "risky" in the face of
falling prices.
He estimated the total con
sumer debt at $16.5 billion dol
lars and predicted that it could
safely rise to $20 or even $25
billion.
To carry more passengers in
its crowded sleeping cars, a rail
way in England is converting its
single-berth compartments into
two-berth quarters.
Says Japs to Reject
Red Philosophy
Portland, Aug. 5 (P JaJpan,
where communism is growing
now, will reject the Soviet phil
osophy in the end, an ex-premier
of Japan said here last
night.
"We are quite sure that the
communist party will be sur
mounted by the sound demo
cratic power of the Japanese,"
Tetsu Katayama told a reporter.
His wife, accompanying him
home after attending the world
assembly for moral re-armament
in Switzerland, said she was im
pressed by the lack of fences in
American cities.
'In Japan we have high
fences between homes. Not in
America. There is good will be
tween neighbors in this coun
try," she said.
BASEBALL
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SALEM SENATORS
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VANCOUVER
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25th and Mission
Edward Charles McEwen, 32. He
was arrested near Dayton junc
tion Wednesday in a car stolen
from near the scene of the
smashup. That vehicle was reg
istered to Charles M. Greene,
2370 Adams.
McEwen was returned to Sa
lem Thursday from McMinn
ville where he was held in cus
tody for the theft of the Greene
car. En route to Salem, he ad
milted the thefts to officers.
Friday morning, McEwen
signed a written statement of his
activities. The confession told
how he had left his bean pick
ing work north of Salem and
come into town in the early
evening. He drank beer from
the time of his arrival until
about midnight.
"The next thing I remember,"
McEwen's statement said, "I
climbed into a large car which
was parked in a garage. The
keyes was in the car and I
started it up and drove off.
"After driving the car for
some distance, I noticed a large
tree in front of me and I put
on the brakes.
"The next thing I remember
the car struck a ditch. I don't
think I hit the tree."
His statement also detailed
how he .found Greene's car with
the keys in the ignition.
No charge dealing with the
theft and wrecking of the hearse
was filed against McEwen by
noon Friday.
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Reprisal on
France Rejected
Washington, Aug. 5 W The
senate bat down today a move
to penalize France for alleged
unfair treatment of 37 Ameri
can businessmen in French Mo
rocco. The action by a 46 to 34 vote
knocked out an amendment in
the big foreign aid bill which
would have had the effect of
limiting Marshall plan aid to
France.
With this block removed, the
senate moved toward final ap
proval of the $5,647,724,000
measure.
A majority of senators appear
ed in the mood late yesterday
to penalize France for giving
the Americans what was describ
ed as a rough deal in their ef
forts to do business. Democratic
Leader Lucas of Illinois, avoided
an immediate test by asking for
a recess.
The foreign aid measure car-
riitt nn amendment which would
deny the use of counterpart
tunas lo any marsuaii pian na
tion violating an American
treaty.
These funds in the case of
EVan nrp francs nut infn a
special account to match the
dollar aid receivea irom the
economic cooperation adminis
tration. The ECA has control
over the funds. They total mil
lions of dollars.
Earlv Colonial families often
made nails by hand to earn ex
tra money.
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