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THE WEATHER HERE
MOSTLY FAIR tonight, Sunday.
Occasional fog patches on coast
Sunday morning. Slightly warm
er. Lowest tonight, 50; highest
Sunday. 80.
Maximum yesterday, Hi minimum In
day, 45. Total 24-hnur precipitation: 0;
for month; .38 normal, .13. Season prr
rlplttttion, 42.3ft; normal, S7.4B. River
hcliht, -3.5 feet. (Report by U. S. Weath
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61st Year, No. 192
Knterd u econd elt
matter at Salem. Oruou
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, August 1V1"0yio 4j$
Price 5c
C apital
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Vaughan Says
Home Freezers
Courtesy Gifts
Merely Passed On to
Certain Friends Units
Presented Him
Washington, Aug. 13 (IP) Maj.
Gen. Harry H. Vaughan said to
day that home freezers sent to
him and other Washington nota
bles were simply gifts from two
old friends amd there was noth
ing improper about "this cour
tesy." i? The story about shipments of
deep freeze units to Vaughan.
Mrs. Harry S. Truman, Chief
V Justice Vinson and others was
brought out in connection with
the senate's investigation of five
percenters.
Vaughan issued a statement
at the White House saying "the
simple explanation of the entire
matter" is that two old friends
of his, Harry Hoffman and Da
vid Bennett," desired to extend
this courtesy to me as a friend,
and I in turn mode gifts of these
units to certain friends of mine."
Says Nothing Improper
Vaughan, who is President
Truman's military aide, said:
"Because some inference or
implication is present that there
was some impropriety in this
connection, I believe that I
should make a statement at this
time so that it -will be absolutely
clear that there was nothing
improper in any manner regard
ing the gifts of these units."
He said Hotfman a" Mil
waukee, W,is., advertising man
told him in 1S45 that he could
get hold of same deep freeze
units that had no commercial
market value, as they were ex
perimental models.
Vaughan continued:
"At that time I informed him
that I would like to have him
send one to me and one to the
White House in Washington for
the lunch room used by members
of the staff.
Sent One to Mrs. Truman
"Also, I asked him to send
one to the littlle White House
in Independence), Mo., and to
send other units to Mr. Fred
Vinson, Mr. John Snyder, Mr
James K. Vardaiman and Mr.
Matthew J. Connelly."
Snyder is secretary of the
treasury, Vardaman is former
naval aide to the president and
now federal reserve governor.
Connelly is a presidential secre
tary, and Vinson is chief justice
or the U. S.
"I have previously told them
that I was going to get some
deep-freeze units and that I
would like each of them to have
one," Vaughan said.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Police to Aid
Picked-up Boys
There's a big heart behind
that police badge sifter all.
Members of Salem police local
572 voted in their meeting at
City hall Friday night to dig
into their own pockets and
establish an emergency fund
earmarked for aid to destitute
juveniles brought into the Salem
police station.
Any youth who is picked up
by city police and is in need of
food, clothing, etc., will be taken
care of by this fund until his
disposal.
In the past few months, dozens
of hungry and poorly-ciothed
juveniles have beern booked by
Salem police officers, and forc
ed to remain at the station for
several hours.
Now, with the emergency fund
set up, a youth's immediate
needs will be fulfilled. If the
juvenile is hungry, he will be
taken to a restaurant for a meal,
day or night. If he needs a
jacket or a new pair of shoes,
he will get same, courtesy of the
cops.
Not a single penny of this
fund is to come from the taxpay
ers; the fund will b perpetuat
ed by the policemen, themselves,
Allen McRae, city juvenile of
ficer, will be in charge of the
handling of funds.
City police tooik another
worthwhile step towiard helping
kids Friday, when they decid
ed to donate 10 dollars for the
purchase of equipment for
school boy patrols in the city's
grade schools.
Ban Reds as Godfathers
Vatican City, Aug. 13 W
A Vatican source said today
militant communists may not
serve as godfathers at Roman
Catholic baptismal services un
er the July excommunication
decree.
Miners Finish
Sanfiam Tunnel
In September
Diversion of River at
Damsite Expected
Early in October
By JAMES D. OLSON
With three shifts of hard rock
miners making approximately
45 feet progress every 24 hours,
the 1364-foot tunnel through
which the North Santiam river
will be diverted during building
of the Detroit dam, is expected
to be completed early in Sep
tember. Construction work on the tun
nel, 25 feet high and 25 feet
wide, was launched by Consoli
dated Builders, Inc., dam con
tractors, on June 24 and the
completion date is expected to
be between September 1 and 10
The tunnel is being driven
through a diorite formation, a
formation found generally in the
dam area and which engineers
declare is harder than granite
A contraption known as a
jumbo" to which a battery of
drills is attached, is used by the
drillers. After a "drill," consist
ing of a bore of about 15- feet,
is completed on one side of the
tunnel, the "jumbo" is moved
into the opposite portal, and a
new gang begins to bore there,
while a mucking-out crew cleans
out the debris left by the first
crew.
Diversion in October
After the tunnel has been
completed, coffer dams must Be
sunk and some other work to
put the tunnel in readiness for
the onrush of water. CBI en
gineers expect to make the ac
tual diversion of the river early
in October.
Workmen on the project have
developed a pool, said now to
total almost $3,000 on the exact
time and day that the tunnel
will be completed. As a result,
there is unusual interest around
the dam, on progress reports
made daily on the borings.
(Concluded on Fas:. 6,-Column 7)
Typhoon Veers .
From Okinawa
Tokyo, Aug. 13 U.R The ty
phoon "Judith" veered off. its
Okinawa-threatening course to
day and appeared certain to
spare that already battered is
land from further storm damage.
A report from the U. S. ty
phoon warning network said the
storm, with winds up to 85 miles
per hour, had shifted course
from north to northeast and
would pass about 80 miles east
of Okinawa at midnight tonight.
At 2:30 p. m. today (9:30 p.
m. PST Friday), "Judith" was
located 135 miles south-south
east of Okinawa, moving on a
north-northwestern course at a
speed of 12 miles per hour.
Its new course would bring
gales and torrential rain to the
southeast coast of Japan during
the daylight hours tomorrow.
The announcement relieved
fears that the new typhoon
might wreak more heavy de
struction on native villages and
U. S. military installations on
Okinawa, which felt the full
force of the typhoon "Gloria"
on July 23. "Gloria claimed at
least 38 lives and did thousands
of dollars worth of damage.
Scientist to Explore
Bottom of Ocean
Smuggler's Cove, Calif., Aug. 13 VP) Man and science were
ready today for a dramatic attempt to conquer the crushing pres
sure of ocean water more than a mile deep.
If all goes well, by nightfall Otis Barton, 48, of Boston, Har
vard-trained marine explorer,
to have peered into the icy
depths 6,000 feet down, where
unknown, presumably weird
creatures live and sunlight never
penetrates.
The location for this colossal
dunking venture is near this cove
on the southeast shore of Santa
Cruz island, 25 miles south of
Santa Barbara.
Barton in this world record
dive attempt hoped to open a
new frontier of scientific ex
ploration studies of possible
food and oil resources in the
ocean depths underwater vegeta
tion, information for military
usage, charting of the ocean
floor's mountains, valleys and
canyons.
He expected to encounter ice
water at 4,000 feet and equipped
himself with woolen clothing
and blankets.
The vehicle for his descent
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McNary Dam Takes Shape Huge concrete piers give pre
liminary form to the spillway section of the $227,000,000
McNary dam on the Columbia river between Oregon and Wash
ington, scheduled to be finished in 1953. It is named for Ore
gon's late senator, Charles L. McNary.
Farm Bill Lowers Grain
Ups Meat Supports
Washington, Aug. 13 VP) Senators feared today a proposed
compromise farm bill would lower existing government price sup
ports for wheat, corn, cotton, peanuts and most grains.
Offsetting these, however, would be higher government price
floors under beef, hogs, lambs,
Reds Repulsed
In Canton Drive
Canton, Aug. 13 VP) Kanh-
sien, gateway to Canton, was re
ported standing firm today
against furious assaults by from
50,00 to 60,000 communist
troops.
The Chinese army spokesman
said the Reds still were unable
to crack the city's defenses. Pro
government dispatches said
fighting raged in the outskirts of
that city 215 miles northeast of
Canton.
The provincial officials have
fled from that capital of Kiang
si province, but the governor is
said to be directing Kanhsien's
defense. He is Gen. Fang Tien,
who also is commander-in-chief
of the armed forces in Kiangsi.
On the southeast China front,
heavy fighting was reported de
veloping in a communist attempt
to isolate the big port of Foo-
chow. Foochow lies opposite
the nationalist redoubt of For
mosa.
Press reports said the com
munists were trying to capture
Yungtai, 30 miles southwest of
Foochow. It was here that the
heaviest fighting was in pro
gress. At the western extremity of
the broad south China front, the
communists kept up the pres
sure along the railway leading
to Canton.
Soviet Army Desertions
Munich, Germany, Aug. 13 VP)
About 5,000 Soviet officers
and soldiers desert the Soviet
army of occupation monthly and
flee to the western zones of Ger
many, the Munich Abend Zei
tung declared today.
will be the first human in history
is a cast steel sphere, STA inches
in diameter weighing 7,000
pounds, lowered by a -inch
steel cable by a crane from
100-foot steel barge. Its shell
is li inches thick at the thin
nest point. It has a 15-inch
door and two windows of fused
quartz 3 inches thick, one 5
inches across, the other 2
inches in diameter. Seals around
these apertures tighten as pres
sure increases.
Pressure at 6,000 feet Is esti
mated at 27,000,000 pounds, or
2,600 pounds per square inch
compared with 15 pounds per
square inch normal atmospheric
pressure at sea level.
Barton and Dr. William Beebe
of New York set a deep dive
record of 3,028 feet off Bermuda
in 1934.
milk, butterfat, wool and other
commodities.
The changes in levels of gov-
ernment supports would result
from a new parity formula in
cluded in the compromise bill
worked out by Senator Ander
son (D-NM), former secretary
of agriculture.
Parity is a standard for meas
uring farm prices, designed to
give the farmer a purchasing
power equal to that of a previ
ous favorable period.
Anderson's compromise :, bill
has been approved by a seven-
member agriculture subcommit
tee. It is scheduled for action by
the full 13-member farm legis
lative group next week.
Agriculture department ex
perts have supplied senators
with a comparison between ex
isting supports at 90 per cent
of the present parity formula
and those for next year under
the proposed revised system.
Compared with existing sup
ports which the house has vot
ed to continue another year
wheat would be down 10 cents
a bushel, corn 5 cents lower, and
cotton down 1.36 cents for $4.80
for a 500 pound bale.
On the other side, the senate
bill would support lambs at $4.10
a hundredweight higher, beef
cattle up $3.70 and hogs $1.60
higher.
Whole milk supports would be
up 58 cents or more a hundred
weight and butterfat 7V4 cents
higher a pound.
Negro Pastors
Homes Blasted
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 13 OP)
Dynamite blasts rocked the
homes of two Negro ministers
early today in an area zoned
for whites. A group of Negroes
fired several shots at the dyna
miters auto, apparently with
out effect.
Eighteen Negroes in the two
houses narrowly escaped death
or injury.
Scores of Negroes in angry
mood gathered in the area im
mediately and squads of police
deployed to keep traffic moving.
One Negro, Horace Moore, 32,
was taken to the city jail, where
he was booked on charges of
resisting arrest and refusing to
obey an officer.
The crowd later dispersed
without further incident
Throngs of curious jammed the
area, however.
Detective Capt. C. L. Pierce
said all city detectives were as
signed to the ease. The depart
ment includes approximately 49
officers.
Most of the windows in the
houses were blown out. Neither
sustained any major damage.
The houses are only a half
block from three others that
were heavily damaged by blasts
the night of March 24. These
other houses had been bought
by Negroes for occupancy. They
were vacant at the time.
Residents of the houses said
the dynamite was hurled by an
unmasked white man who lean
ed out of a speeding car.
Find 2 Bells
Left by Legion
The Oregon department Am
erican Legion convention drew
to a close a week ago, but the
Salem police department Satur
day was still suffering from a
ringing hangover of the affair.
The troubles for the police be
gan when H. E. Thiel, of an As
toria Legion post, advised police
by mail, that a huge bell, mount
ed on wheels, had been mislaid
in Salem.
The bluecoats began looking
for bells.
Saturday morning, they found
not one, but two.
The property of the Clatsop
county post in Astoria was tak
en to the city garage barn. The
other was brought to police
headquarters by officers who
found it cached in an alley near
the YMCA.
The blasting sound of the huge
gong at police headquarters rang
through city hall everytime a
"customer" dropped in to visit
the police desk. Each person had
a chance to ring it until a pa
trolman silenced the bell by se
curing the clapper with a rope.
The wheeled Clatsop bell,
found in the 3500 block on South
Commercial, was reported to
have been enroute to a frater
nity house at Oregon Slate col
lege when it was abandoned.
Find $7400 In
Engels Shorts
Chicago, Aug. 13 VP) Jailers
ripped $7,400 out of Sigmund
Engel's shorts yesterday but it
did not subtract much from the
biggest current mystery at the
Cook county clink.
Ever since the 73-year-old Lo
thario was arrested June 25 on
charges of swindling widows
whose love he courted, jailers
have wondered about his appar
ent bottomless source of ready
cash. He seems to be constant
ly in violation of jail rules in
that respect.
A week ago, for instance, jail
ers said they found $35 in his
possession. Jail rules limit pris
oners to a maximum of $8.
Again last Thursday, John Don
nelly, assistant superintendent
of the jail, said he found $134.70
in Engel's possession.
Donnelly decided yesterday to
have an even more thorough
look. He ordered the prisoner
stripped and his clothes examin
ed. The seams on En gel s un
derwear seemed a bit bulky and
were ripped open. Out came 74
$100 bills.
The jailers were shocked, but
not "more so than Engel. The
jail physician prescribed a seda
tive and ordered him removed
to the hospital.
Donnelly quoted Engel as say
ing that the money had been in
the shorts ever since he was
taken to jail. All during his
confinement. Engel has been
washing his own shorts, Don
nelly said.
Engel has been charged in
two indictments with operating
a confidence game in the allegd
swindling of two Chicago wid
ows out of about $20,000 after
fast-developing romances.
Rolling Log Kills Man
Eugene, Ore., Aug. 13 (UR
One man was killed by a rolling
log near Linslaw, Ore., but a
partner escaped, authorities said
today. Harold Lewis Porter, 51,
Walton. Ore., was crushed to
death. David Gasl, Walton, who
had been helping him set chok
ers, was able to leap to safety.
iioover Taken III on Train
Continues Trip to Mew York
Business Good
As Industries
Show Pick-up
New York, Aug. 13 (IP) Busi
ness was downright good in sev
eral unrelated industries this
week. Manufacturers were add
ing workers or shortening vaca
tions to meet increased produc
tlon schedules.
Luggage and leather makers
reported1 orders were running 25
per cent ahead of last year. Fac
tory sales of washing machines
were at a 1949 top.
The wheels of many other in
dustries were rolling along at
good speed.
Fear of Strikes
But the labor situation was
not encouraging. There was
possibility labor disputes might
jam a monkey wrench in the
smooth running machinery
The steel industry would be
more optimistic if it weren't for
the threat of labor trouble.
Ford workers voted over
whelmingly to strike if necessary
to get pensions, health benefits
and a wage increase. A walkout
would put a crimp in the record
high production rate at which
automobiles are rolling off the
assembly lines.
There were a few other dis
turbing situations.
(Concluded on Page 6, Column 8)
Greeks Drive
On Guerrillas
Advance Greek Tactical Head
quarters, Greece, Aug. 13 U.R)
A hard-punching, revitalized
Greek army today drove more
than 7,000 communist guerillas
back to their last redoubt in
mountain peaks overlooking Al
bania and Yugoslavia.
In less than four days, the
Anglo - American - trained com
mandos, dive bombers, tanks
and swift mountain troops have
seized more than half of the
communists' 300 - square - mile
northern salient in northwest
Greece.
The guerillas are making what
may be their last stand in the
chain of jagged 4,500 to 6,500
foot peaks ringing Lake Prespa,
whose waters touch Greece, Yu
goslavia and Albania.
Ameri an-equipped comman
dos jumped off last night, prob
ing through mountain passes to
ward the lake. They were report
ed plunging ahead today, sup
ported by sleadliy-pounding ar
tillery and successive dive
bombing planes, rocket and
strafing air strikes.
Often, the planes were strik
ing less than 200 feet ahead of
the advancing troops.
The arrival of government
forces at the lake shore which
is expected momentarily either
will trap large numbers of the
guerillas in the Vitsi pocket or
force them to flee across a nar
row causeway to the Prespa
peninsula and thence to Albania.
Yugoslavia has closed its border
with Greece.
Fear Dam Worker
Drowned in Santiam
Possibility of Charles H. Hayworth, 354 E. 30th street, Eugene
being a drowned victim in the
bridge about two miles above Gates, caused an intensive search
to be made of the river early Saturday morning by Deputy Sheriff
Ed Scott and Chief of Police King
The search was touched off1
when Marion G. Wiley, Mill
City, while fishing from the
bridge came up with a fish line
and fly rod. Other fishing gear
was seen in the bottom of the
stream. And this discovery was
coupled with the fact that a car
had been standing idle near the
spot all Friday afternoon. The
car was registered to Charles H.
Hayworth, 354 E 30th street, Eu
gene, xtill had in it his untouch
ed lunch, his billfold and other
articles.
A log slrctches out over the
river at this point, the end of it
about 25 feet above the stream.
Officers fear that Hayworth
may have been fishing from the
end of the log and fell in. Be
low six or eight feet the water
is punctuated with jagged rocks
and the stream Is exceedingly
swift, so if Hayworth did fall
Queen Jeanne
Rules Festival
In Canyon Area
Detroit, Ore., Aug. 13 (U.B
Blonde Queen Jeanne will reign
over week-end festivities in the
Canyon area of the North San
tiam river culminating in dedi
cation of the new North Santiam
highway Sunday.
Attractive Jeanne Bray was
crowned queen of the festivities
in ceremonies at the new De
troit school auditorium on Fri
day night. The crown was placed
on Queen Jeanne s head by Mar
ion County Judge Grant Mur
phy. Governor Douglas McKay will
head a host of state dignitaries
in dedication ceremonies Sun
day, when the new highway con
necting Salem and Bend west
ern Oregon and Eastern Oregon
is formally opened.
Council Spurns
Irish Proposal
Strasbourg, France, Aug. 13
(IP) By an overwhelming show
of hands, the council of Europe's
assembly today rejected Ire
land's attempt to call up the
Irish partition problem for de
bate.
Ireland had sought to have the
newly-created assembly take a
hand in its long-standing de
mands for union of northern
Ireland with the 26-county re
public to the south.
Strong opposition to the con
troversial proposal came from
most British delegates to the
101-member assembly. Since
1921 the six counties of north
ern Ireland have been part of
the United Kingdom, along with
England, Scotland and Wales.
Rejection of the Irish bid
came on a point of procedure-
whether proposals backed by
less than 10 deputies could be
considered for the assembly s
agenda. The assembly endorsed
its special agenda committee's
recommendation to throw out
such minority proposals.
Ireland's four deputies had
asked the assembly to discuss
best methods for eliminating
causes of disputes between
member slates."
Previously Irish Foreign Min
ister Sean Mac Bride made it
clear the proposal was aimed at
getting assembly discussion of
Ireland's dispute with Britain
over partition.
Parking Meters Used
For Hitching Cows
Newberg, Aug, 13 (IP) Motor
ists didn't have to put many
parking nickels in the slot to
day.
The parking meter space for
two full blocks was all filled up
with livestock, tethered care
fully to the meters.
It was a part of the annual
Bcrrian farmeroo. The cows
were there for exhibition and
judging.
North Santiam river at Ritner's
of Mill City but with no results
from the log he would be swept
down the river with great rapid
ity. Deputy Sheriff Scott, who is
on the North Santiam run for
the sheriff's office, with the Mill
City chief of police were on the
job very early Saturday morn
ing but aside from the articles
mentioned as found in the
stream and the car discovered
there were no further traces of
the missing man.
Sheriff Denver Young said
Saturday morning that later in
vestigation showed Hayworth
had moved from Eugene, at least
temporarily, to work on the De
troit dam and his present ad
dress was with the Horner fam
ily, route 1, box 75, Lyons. His
wife was reported to be working
at Sweet Horn.
Ex-President's
Condition Held
Not Dangerous
Ogden, Utah, Aug. IS (IP)-
Former President Herbert Hoov
er was stricken by a gall blad
der ailment aboard an east
bound train today but continued
his trip after medical treatment.
Dr. Keith Stratford boarded
the train as it stopped in Ogden
and examined the 75-year-old
former chief executive.
He said the attack "was only
a mild one and Mr. Hoover will
go on to New York." The phy
sician said Mr. Hoover reported
he was feeling much better.
Arrangements had been madt
to hospitalize Mr. Hoover here,
but the physician advised it wal
unnecessary.
Mr. Hoover was aboard th
streamliner, City of San Fran
cisco, transferring here from
Southern Pacific to Union Pa
cific tracks to continue the east
bound journey.
Mr. Hoover was en route aft
er celebrating at his former Cal
ifornia home his 75th birthday
anniversary last Wednesday.
Train Halted 30 Minutes
The train was halted for SO
minutes earlier this morning at
Elko, Nev., where Dr. Dale Had
field examined the former pres
ident, then advised him to con
tinue on to Ogden. Dr. Had
field gave Mr. Hoover emerg
ency treatment but said imme
diate hospitalization was not
necessary.
On the basis of hia examina
tion, Southern Pacific official!
had an ambulance here to meet
the train.
The nation's only living ex
president observed 75th birth
day last Wednesday. A warm
hearted rally at Stanford uni
versity, in Palo Alto, Calif.,
marKea tne occasion.
Mr. Hoover received hun
dreds of tributes, from all over
(he world, including one from
President Truman.
Made 30-Mlnute Speech
The former president made a
30-minute speech in which ht
warned the nation that, unless
it halts its spending policies,
posterity may be robbed of it
inheritance.
He charged that the United
States "is blissfully driving
down the back road to collectiv
ism at top speed" and added:
We have not had a great so
cialization of property but w
are on the last mile to collectiv
ism through governmental col
lection and spending of the sav
ings of the people."
The former president spent
last week-end in Utah, inspect
ing mining properties and con
ferring with mining executives
Truman Plans
Four Speeches
Washington, Aug. 13 (IP) Th
widely traveled man in the
White House is planning to out
do himself in the next few
weeks.
President Truman has sched
uled four out of town speaking
engagements, starting with a
talk to the Veterans of Foreign
Wars at Miami, Fla., August 22.
He will speak next to the Am
erican Legion at Philadelphia,
August 29.
Then he'll do an "iron man'
stunt on Labor day September 5.
He plans to speak at both Pitts
burgh, Pa. at noon and in
Des Moines, Iowa, late in tha
afternoon.
The president has traveled
more than 125,000 miles sinca
he entered the White House Ap
ril 12, 1945, not including hi
occasional cruises on the Potom
ac aboard the Yacht Williams
burg and a few side trips by au
tomobile in the vicinity of Wash
ington. All the speaking trips will be
made in the presidential plane,
the "Independence." It is like
ly that all will be one-day af
fairs with the president leaving
in the morning and returning to
Washington the same night.
To Sell 200 Purebreds
Wapato, Wash., Aug. 13 (IP)
The Maid o'Clover ranch her
will liquidate its entire herd of
200 purebreds September 6-7 in
the largest Holstein-Friesian
sale on record in this region.
The herd includes descendant!
of such famed Holstelns as Gov
ernor of Carnation,