THE WEATHER HERE
PARTLY cloudy tonight, be
coming cloudy with scattered
showers, Thursday, No impor
tant change in temperature. Low
est tonight, SS; highest Thurs
day, 74.
Maximum yeilprda?, ?K; minimum to
day, M. Total 24-hour precipitation: 111
for month: .S6; normal, Seaion prerlpl
tatlon, 42.23: normal, 37.12, Hirer height,
-3.4 feet. (Report by U. S. Weather Bureau.)
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 10, 1949
(32 Pages)
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15 Persons Die
In Flames of
Wrecked Bus
Greyhound Car
Smashes in Bridge
Abutment in Indiana
Bloomington, Ind Aug. 10 UP)
Fifteen persons died in the
flaming wreckage of a grey
hound bus that burned after
smashing into a bridge abutment
near here early today.
The bus, bound from Indian
apolis to Bloomington, hit the
bridge on a winding, hilly road
shortly after midnight. Seconds
later it was in flames.
The bodies removed from the
bus were placed in six ambu
lances and a hearse and, accom
panied by a police escort, were
'brought to the Indiana national
guard armory here to await
identification. -Tire
Blows Out
Driver Wayne Cramer of In
dianapolis, one of the survivors
said a front tire may have
blown out, causing him to lose
control of the bus. After striking
the abutment it skidded 150 feet
down winding Highway 37 ,and
came to rest on its left side,
blocking the emergency door.
Flames enveloped the vehicle
almost immediately. The driver
said he and "two or three" pas
sengers got out the front door
The other survivors escaped
through a rear window which a
passenger kicked out.
Tells of Flames
Blen Van Horn, manager of
radio station WTTS of Bloom
ington, said one of the sur
vivors told him he walked
"through' five feet of flames" to
get off the bus.
The survivor, Wells Richard
son, 18, of Evansville, Ind., told
Van Horn he was dozing when
the bus struck the bridge abut
ment. Van Horn said Edgar Davis of
Indianapolis, a Negro, was cred
ited by other survivors with
kicking out a rear , window,
through which most of the sur
vivors escaped. Davis suffered a
knfll. .!.. . J . I t-L 1
uain. mjuiy emu was uruugni to
the Bloomington hospital.
1050 Fighj Fire
In Idaho Forest
McCall, Idaho, Aug. 10 VP)
The worst fire in the Payette na
tional forest since 1934 raged
out of control for the fourth day
today. Fire dispatcher Slim Vas-
sar said "It just doesn't look
good at all."
Bad burning weather high
temperatures, strong winds and
low humidity confronted an
army of 1,050 fire fighters bat
tling the 5,100 acre blaze along
the Salmon river north of here.
Vassar said reinforcements
are going out to the men now on
the fire lines. The crews are
working in such rugged terrain
that all supplies, .including food,
are being dropped to them by
parachute. t
A new fire in the Boise nation
al forest on Archie creek above
Lowman was reported quiet by
Lynn Knight, fire dispatcher.
About 200 men are on this blaze.
He said crews are optimistic
regarding their chances of hold
. ing their lines around this 300
acre blaze which broke out yes
terday. This was in marked contrast
to the Salmon river situation
where a sharp wind came up ar
ound midnight, causing two
"blow ups" last night.
Sawmill crews and loggers
helped in this fight. Power saws
and tractors have been moved
into the area, backing up the
pick, shovel and axe squads.
No Beer Sold at
State Fair Grounds
No beer will be sold on the Or
egon State Fair Grounds during
fair week this year, officials of
the annual big show which opens
Sept. 5, announced today.
Several concessionnaires had
offered sizable amounts for the
franchise rights to sell beer in
the grandstand during the after
noon races, they said.
Admission prices to ground
and shows of the Oregon State
Fair opening here Labor Day
will remain at 1941 levels, Man
ager Leo Spitzbart said today.
There has been some agitation
to increase the outside gate
charge above the current 50-cent
mark but most exhibitors have
' expressed willingness to assume
slight increases in commercial
space charges instead, he ex
plained.
Truman Signs
Armed Services
Unification Bill
Defense Secretary's
Control Extended Over
Military Set-up
Washington, Aug. 10 UP)
President Truman today signed
the new armed services unifi
cation bill. He said that this will
permit the United States to pro
gress toward "a balanced and ef
fective national defense."
Mr. Truman signed the meas
ure in a ceremony in his oval
room office. Senators and rep
resentatives who handled the
legislation, the heads of the de
fense establishment and top
ranking army, navy and air
force "brass" loked on.
The legislation, which streng
thens Secretary of Defense
Johnson's control over the en
tire military setup, drew one
criticism from Mr. Truman.
One Backward Step
"It is unfortunate that in this
generally progressive legisla
tion, at least one provision rep
resents a backward step," the
president said in a brief state
ment. "New and cumbersome re
strictions are placed on the mem
bership of the 'national security
council."
White House officials explain
ed that under the previous law
the president could add to the
security council heads of any
department and of certain agen
cies when he needed them.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
To Cut Cash in
Arms Program
Washington, Aug. 10 UP)
Secretary of Defense Johnson
told senators today the military
department is willing to accept
80 percent in cash and 40 per
cent in contract authority to
launch President Truman's arms
program.
It is agreeable to the mili
tary, he said, to spread the cost
of the $1,450,000,000 program
over two or even three years.
America s three top military
men the joint chiefs of staff
waited for Johnson to conclude
his testimony before they made
their report to the senate for
eign relations and armed ser
vices committees.
Senator Vandenberg (R.,
Mich.), yesterday proposed a
50-50 split in the cash and con
tract authority to carry out the
re-arming of the north Atlantic
pact nations.
But Johnson said his staff has
advised him that 60 percent of
the $1,160,000,000 for western
Europe must be in cash. The re
mainder can be in authority to
make contracts which will be
paid for in cash later, he said.
Senator Saltonstall (R., Mass.)
asked Johnson if this authority
would mean a firm contract to
be paid for in fiscal 1951-52.
Johnson replied it would be.
Saltonstall asked if the re
arming of Europe will mean any
reduction in the U. S. defense
program.
Johnson said no, it would not.
He said he would not agree to
any plan which would reduce
the ample security of the Unit
ed States."
New Sears Store Will
Open Here Thursday
(Sec Special Sears Section in This Issue)
Prnmntlv at 10 a.m. Thursday Sears, Roebuck & Co. will be
gin doing business in its new store at North Capitol and Marion
streets.
The Sears building is the largest unit of the Capitol Shopping
Center project of Pacific Mutual
Angeles. It
is designed in size
and departmental organization
to meet the demands of the
trading area of the Willamette
valley.
There will be a brief ceremon
ial when the doors open. Mayor
Robert L. Elfstrom of Salem and
Mayor Walter Musgrave of
West Salem will be at the ends
of a ribbon across the entrance.
The ribbon will be cut by Mrs.
Harold Heiserman, honored as
the average Sears shopper.
Gardenias will be distributed to
the ladies.
Present for the opening will
be men from other cities who
stand high in the company's or
ganization. Fowler B. McCon
nell of Chicago, president of
Sears, Roebuck & Co., will not
be here Thursday, but is dated
for arrival August 30 when he
will inspect the new plant. Whe
ther A. T. Cuchman, vice pre
7
Ex-President Herbert Hoover 75 Years Old
Hoover Gets Greetings
From All Over World
Stanford University, Calif., Aug. 10 VP) Herbert Clark Hoover
is 75 years old today, and tributes for the country's only living
ex-president poured in from all over the world.
Late today Stanford university will honor its most illustrious
graduate in the Frost amphitheater. A crowd of 12,000 to 14,000
was expected.
The program will be climax-
ed bv a major address by Mr
Hoover, beginning at 6 p.m. (Pa
cific daylight time). His topic
will be "Think of the Next Gen
eration."
Even Mr, Hoover, who once
said, "I have had every honor to
hich any man could aspire,"
probably was surprised by the
stir created by his birthday an
niversary , and by; the congratui.
latory letters by the thousands:
Two states, Arkansas ' and
Maryland, proclaimed today
'Hoover Day. Governor i.ari
Warren of California issued a
proclamation in which he said:
Few men anywhere nave uvea
more useful-lives, and none with
greater devotion, both at home
and throughout the world."
The governors of Oregon,
New Mexico and Vermont ex
tended greetings to Mr. Hoover
in proclamations, and personal
congratulations were sent by the
governors of Idaho, Alabama,
Virginia, South Dakota, Kansas,
New York and Washington.
Mr. Hoover, born in Iowa and
a member of the first graduating
class of Leland Stanford univer
sity, was the 30th president of
the United States from lm to
1933.
At 75 he is, as always, a hard
worker, usually putting in a 16-
hour day. His chief concern for
many years has been for na
tional and international affairs.
Search On for Plane
Bremerton, Wash., Aug. l6 UP)
A search spread throughout
the northwest today for a light
plane with four persons aboard,
missing since it left the Kitsap
county airport here Sunday on
a flight to Santa Fe, N. M. Air
port officials here said the plane
was last reported at Pendleton,
Ore., where it refueled Sunday
afternoon.
Life Insurance company of Los
sident- for the Pacific coast re
gion, will be here is uncertain.
He was here recently.
1
Company officials whom it is
known will be here for the
opening are:
S. A. Epstein, Los Angeles,
assistant to Vice President A. T
Cushman; S. W. Donogh, Seat
tle, district manager; Claude
Walter, Seattle, merchandise
manager for the Pacific north
west; Harold Grisdale, Seattle,
operating manager for the north
west; R. J. Begey, Seattle, su
perintendent of construction and
real estate; Orville Lee, Seattle,
in charge of setting up new
stores and maintenance of all
displays.
In addition to these high of
ficials numerous department
supervisors will be here from
all northwest states.
Searing Heat
Wave in East
(By the Associated Press)
The searing heat wave
ap-
pears to have settled down over
the eastern half of the nation
for an indefinite stand.
. Federal forecasters said today
-uiorA.is,.ftpuiingnap)ng up.any
where ' on . the. weather map
which promises any relief.
The narrow band of cool air
which was moving across the
northern plains states yesterday
has stalled over northern Min
nesota, Wisconsin and the upper
Michigan peninsula..
Only extreme northern New
England had a taste of cool air
as a Canadian cold front shoved
early morning temperatures to
48 degrees at Caribou and Houl
ton, Me, .
From the great plains to the
eastern seaboard, the mercury
was soaring again into the high
90s.
Many New York City stores
closed yesterday when the mer
cury soared to 97.6 degrees in
the downtown section. It was
the highest reading for the date
there in weather bureau records
and 2.6 degrees above the pre
vious August 9 maximum set in
1900.
Jobless Due to
Three Industries
Lumbering, construction and
food processing were the indus
tries responsible for more than
half the initial claims that help
ed increase unemployment pay
ments in Oregon during July to
the highest midsummer total yet
recorded, with the exception of
July, 1946, the state unemploy
ment compensation commission
reported today.
In 1946, commission spokes
men pointed out, veterans and
war workers were looking for
peacetime jobs.
State benefits in July of this
year reached $809,013, an in
crease of 18.3 percent over June
and more than double those paid
for July a year ago.
Sears,
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Fear and Pan,,
Pillaging by Unruly
Indians in Progress
6000 Death Toll
Quito, Ecuador, Aug. 10 UP)
New earth tremors and pillag
ing by unruly Indians spread
fear and panic today among the
thousands of survivors left
homeless by Ecuador's destruc
tive earthquake.
Official government estimates
of the death toll in Friday's
quake rose to 6,000. But the
truth is no one knows for sure
how many perished in the great
piles of rubble that litter some
50 demolished towns in the pop
ulous Andes mountain region
south of here.
Fresh tremors yesterday tum
bled weakened walls in Ambato
and other cities, adding to the
terror of some 150,000 homeless.
Rescuers Burled
Groups of workers attempting
to dig their way through the
blocked highway to Pelileo, 100
miles south of Quito, were re
ported buried under a landslide
loosed by the new tremors.
Shoot-to-kill orders were is
sued to troops guarding Pelileo
against looting by the wild tribe
of Salasaca Indians. Defense
Minister Manuel Diaz Gganados
said one band of Salasacas had
been driven off when caught
ransacking the ruins.
The Salasacas have been the
fiercest warriors in the Andes
region for 400 years. Driven out
of Bolivia by the Incas cen
turies ago, they have harassed
Ecuadoran settlements even in
modern times.
Landslides Continue
Continuing landslides and sul
phurous fumes oozing from jag
ged crevices have terrorized the
country folk' who escaped the
worst effects of the shocks.
(Continued en Pare I, Column I)
Drafting New
Chinese Policy
(Br the Associated Press)
The United States government
tackled anew today the problem
of working out a new policy for
the Far East.
Ambassador to Chine J. Leigh-
ton Stuart was reporting to Pres
ident Truman and Secretary of
State Dean Acheson on the com
plex situation resulting from the
communist rout of Chinese Na
tionalist armies.
His report coincided with Can
ton dispatches which said the
communists were throwing fresh
forces into drives toward the
Nationalist provisional capital.
Acheson went before a secret
session of the house foreign af
fairs committee to discuss his
program for working out a new
approach. His department in a
white paper last week wrote off
aid to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
Shek's Nationalists as a costly
failure.
A new policy planning group,
headed by Ambassador-at-Large
Philip C. Jessup, was reported
almost ready to start a broad
survey of the problems facing the
U. S. in China and elsewhere in
the far east.
Acheson and his aides with
held official comment on the ap
pearance before congress yes
terday of Elpidio Quirino, pres
ident of the Philippines. The
island leader appealed for at
least moral support from the U.
S. for a new anti-communist
pact proposed recently by Quir
ino and Chiang.
Latest Addition to
r
Racetrack Permit be Hurried
City-County Plan
Drainage Project
The county court following a conference with City Manager
J. L. Franzen and City Engineer J.
to cooperate with the city in its
project northeast of the city which will take care of surplus flow
of water from as far as the Four Corners district down to Clag-
Albania Claims
Greek Invasion
London, Aug. 10 UPl Albania
said today she is being invaded
by Greece and that fighting is
in progress along a 30-mile
front.
A broadcast by the official
Tirana radio said bloody clashes
with Athens government troops
began four days ago.
It added that hundreds of
Greek soldiers have been kill
ed or taken prisoner.
A spokesman for the Greek
information service in London
said "there is certainly no in
vasion." He said the Albanian
report probably referred to the
new offensive launched by the
Greek army against the communist-led
guerrillas in the
Grammos mountain area not far
from the Albanian border.
Senators Ask
Recall of Mac
Washington, Aug. 10 UP) A
group of 10 senators today "urg
ently requested" Secretary of
Defense Johnson to recall Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur from
Japan.
Mine republicans and one
democrat Senator Byrd of Vir
ginia said in a letter to John
son that the pending $1,450,000,-
000 foreign arms aid bill deals
with "a problem which is global
in character."
Noting that the chiefs of staff
have visited European countries
but are not likely to have time
to go to the far Pacific, the sen
ators said they want the views
of MacArthur and Vice Adm.
Oscar C. Badger, naval com
mander in that area, before vot
ing on the arms measure.
Senator Knowland (R., Calif.)
and 12 other senators have pro
posed that $175,000,000 of the
bill's funds be earmarked for
military aid to non-communist
China.
Those who signed the letter
urging MacArthur s return in
cluded Knowland, Byrd and re
publican Senators Bridges of
New Hampshire, Smith of New
Jersey, Hickenlooper of Iowa,
Morse of Oregon, Wiley of Wis
consin, Saltonstall of Massachu
setts, Baldwin of Connecticut
and Gurney of South Dakota.
Attempted Rape Kills
Cripple Aged 65
Portland, Aug. 10 UP) Emo
tional shock from attempted
rape by a teen age boy has been
determined the probable cause
of death of Mrs. Hatti Davidson
65. a cripple.
She died yesterday, soon af
ter complaining of dizzyness. A
physician had sent her to a hos
pital on diagnosing her trouble
as irregularity of the heart.
Deputy Coroner Myron Cost-
ley said "emotional shock" from
the Saturday night assault had
probably caused her death.
Capitol Shopping
dsSays Vaughan Urged
H. Davis with the court agreed
plan for a 1000-acre drainage
gett creek just past the Pacific
highway north.
The specific request of the
court made by the city officials
was that a culvert under the Sil-
verton road between Fairhaven
and Hollywood avenues which
now carries a 36-inch flow be re
placed by one or more sufficient
to care for a 54-mch flow to ac
commodate water to be carried
under it due to a major program
of ditch deepening and possibly
widening. The court agreed to go
ahead with its share of the pro
ject whenever called upon by
the city as a measure to protect
its own road system. It was in
dicated there may be other cul
vert changes in the offing as the
work progresses.
Uity Manager Franzen ex
plains that because of the insuf
ficiency of the present culvert
the water backs west instead of
east at times of overflow and
runs into the Capitola district.
While it was not mentioned in
this area is a new school of Sa
lem school district which is
threatened with school yard
flooding.
Franzen said that it is neces
sary to increase the size and
depth of the ditch and that the
city is now securing easements
to open and clean the ditch to
give a run oft which will be
largely outside of the city limits,
though being done by the city
to protect Us own citizens. The
ditch will be deepened as far as
the Pacific highway under which
it runs into Claggett creek where
the city engineer said there is
sufficient room for the acceler
ated How.
Council Splits
Over Germany
Strasbourg,' France, Aug. 10
(Pi Former French Premier Ed
ouard Herriot said today a di
vision of minds exists on the
question of admitting Germans
to the new council of Europe.
In a prepared address to the
opening session of the council's
consulate assembly Herriot in
dicated western Germany would
have to work her way into the
organization with proofs that
she no longer harbors aggress
ive intentions.
He told the 101 delegates from
12 nations that the assembly
would deal with "Problems of
Life and Death" for Europe.
'A closer association of Eu
rope presents itself as a matter
of urgency," he said.
Many political leaders of wes
tern Europe hope that the dis
cussions here will mark a long
advance toward the goal of full
unity of that portion of Europe
outside the Soviet orbit.
There have been proposals to
include western Germany in the
organization as soon as the new
west German government is
functioning. It was thought thai
Herriot's statement on the ques
tion perhaps reflected the point
of view of the French delega
tion. France has a deep-seated
fear of German aggression bas
ed on experiences of history.
Center
aja
Order Issued
Following Day
By Expediter
Washington, Aug. 10 (IP)
Housing Expediter Tighe E.
Woods said today he recalls that
Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan
asked him to "hurry" along a
construction permit for the Tan
foran race track.
Woods told a senate investi
gation subcommittee that Vaugh
an, President Truman's mili
tary aide, came to his office Jan.
12, 1948, to make the plea. He
said Vaughan was accompanied
by Eugene Mori of Camden, N.
J., listed as Tanforan's presi
dent. Woods previously had told the
subcommittee only of being call
ed to the White House Jan. 9
last year by Vaughan to discuss
the Tanforan matter. He quoted
Vaughan as .telling him at the
White House meeting that''some
of my friends" wer inltreetetf
in the case.
Might Lose Franchise
Woods said that at the meet
ing three days later he believed
that Vaughan asked him to
"please hurry" along the per
mit because there was "some
thing" before the California
race track commission which
would make Tanforan lose its
franchise if the construction
work could not proceed.
Woods sent letters to the jus
tice department the next day
urging modification of a court
order issued against the former
owners of the track to stop con
struction.
(Concluded enPayeS, Column 5)
Hunt Got Fee
Of $86,000
Washington, Aug. 10 U.R)
Senate investigators reported to
day that "five per center" James
V. Hunt got an $86,000 fee for
helping former owners buy back
for $635,000 a Long Island hotel
they had sold to the navy for
$1,300,000.
Hunt was put on to the deal
by Albert W. Lewitt, secretary
of then Sen. Albert W. Hawkes,
R., N. J. but under sharp ques
tioning Lewitt steadfastly denied
suggestions that he got a $5,000
fee of his own.
The story, told by a senate in
vestigating committee official,
disclosed that the purchasers
sent Hunt a $5,000 down pay
ment for his services while he
was a $50-a-day consultant to
the war assets administration.
WAA is the federal agency
which disposes of surplus gov
ernment property.
Hunt sent the check back after
keeping it three months without
cashing it, left the WAA, set
himself up as a "management
consultant," and accepted a
second check for $5,000. His
total fee for the deal was $86,
000 $71,000 in cash and $15,-
000 in notes.
The transaction, involving the
Swank Lido Beach hotel, was
detailed on the witness stand by
Francis D. Flanagan, commit
tee investigator.
Iron Lung Sought
For Salem by Eagles
Action to provide an adult
size lung, porta Die respirator
and all accessories, for use in
the Salem area, was taken at
the meeting of the local Frater
nal Order of Eagles, Willamette
acne No. zubi, last evening.
The decision of the lodge was
another step in the local pre
paredness program should a
polio outbreak occur in the Sa
lem area.
The goal set for purchase of
the equipment is $4000 and Vic
Withrow was named by the
lodge to appoint a committee
of members to work with him in
securing the equipment. Purch
ase of the equipment is to be
at the pleasure of local physi
cians and hospitals who will des
ignate the type needed.
Weigh for Ring Fight
New York, Aug. 10 (Pi Ez
zard Charles, recognized as the
heavyweight boxing champion
in the 47 NBA states, weighed
180 pounds today for his title
fight tonight with Gug Lesne
vich, who scaled 182.