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As West Germany Went to the Polls Voters mark their
ballots in a Frankfurt polling bureau as the West German
Republic held its first elections. The consevative Christian
Democratic Union Party topped the voting. (AP Wirephoto)
LOSS CUT IN HALF
Birth Increase
Rapidly Offsets War Deaths
By DUDLEY
Geneva U.R) A "remarkable"
rate has gone nearly half way to
Europeans killed during the war,
population study.
The study reveals that Europe's
from 392,000,000 in 1938 10 '
371,900,000 at the end of 1945
War losses accounted for over
15,000,000 of these, of whom
the creator part, more than
9,000,000, were civilians.
By the end of 1947, Europe's
population outside Russia had
risen to 383,800,000, the study
revealed.
"The increase of 8,000,000
during these two years in the
total population of the European
countries covered by the
analysis, in which the substan
tial excess of births over death
was the principal element,
amounted to almost one halt of
the decline in the Euronenn
population during the war," the
report said.
During the years, 1946-47, ac
cording to the survey, a rise in
births, which began during the
war, continued, accompanied by
a decrease in deaths. There were
nearly 16,000,000 births in those
years compared , with 9,500,000
deaths an excess of births over
deaths of 0,500,000.
In France and Belgium the
excess of births over deaths was
about equal to direct war losses.
In Italy and the Netherlands
"the excess of births over deaths
In a single post-war year was
more than sufficient to offset
total war losses."
The report said that on the
other hand, heavy war losses
suffered by Germany, Poland
and Yugoslavia cannot be com
pensated within a few years. In
the case of Germany, however,
the influx of Germans expelled
from neighboring countries has
greatly exceeded Its total w;ir
losses and resulted In a "sub
stantial net increase" in popula
tion. In a section on population
shifts during and after the war,
the report said 16,300,000 people
left their countries between 1938
end 1945 as the result of war
Of these, 8,000,000, including
war prisoners, returned.
The "most striking" move
ment was from east to west,
much of which was accounted
lor oy me expulsion of Germans
from eastern Europe. The in
flux of Volksdeutsclie and otlirr
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rise in Europe's post-war birth
make up for the loss of 15,000,000
according to a United Nations
population outside Russia fell
refugees into Germany and Aus
tria was indeed so great that by
the end of 1945 it offset by
1,600,000 the outflow of war
prisoners.
In most European countries,
the size of the younger age
groups has increased in relation
to that of the working popula
tion which must support them.
Woman, 67, Saves
Youngster in Well
Dustln, Okla., Aug. 17 U.R
Mrs. W. J. Erickcr, 67, said to
day "the Lord really helped me"
when she leaped into a well and
saved her seven-year-old grand
son's life even though she could
not swim.
Mrs. Brickcr and (he boy
Clarence Wesley Eden, were
trying to catch a chicken in a
cornfield when he fell into the
abandoned well containing 10
feet of water.
'I forgot I'd never learned to
swim," she said. I simply
lumped in after him."
Virgil Bircker, another grand
son, had noticed the accident. He
ran for help. When he return
ed with Mrs. Bricker's son, Bus
ter, the elderly lady was churn
ing the water with her hands
and legs, barely keeping herself
and Clarence afloat.
Busier Bricker lowered a
flexible washing machine ex
haust line into the well for his
mother to cling to, then hauled
clarence out with a cornstalk.
Neighbors summoned by Vir
gil brought a ladder and rope
and helped Mrs. Brickcr out of
the well.
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Summers Tells How He
Killed Couple for Robbery
Tacoma, Aug. 17 Wj John E. Summers related here that he
shot Mr. and Mrs. Howard Easley in their outlying home after
lying in wait to rob them.
The 32-year-old prisoner repeated an hours-long narrative to
newspapermen after Sheriff Lee Croft said he had signed a 16,000-
tword confession of the July 16
Lines Tighten
Against Thefts
Since the Salem Retail Trade
bureau, a week ago, launched
war against shoplifters there has
been a marked decline in the
number of thefts from Salem
stores.
This was reported Tuesday at
a meeting of the bureau officers
at the Chamber of Commerce
when plans were made to draw
the lines still tighter against
both adult and juvenile often
ders.
One detail of the scheme of
protection is to be a record of
all offenses, with place where
the offense occurs, kind of arti
cles taken, and the person
guilty if apprehended. This rec
ord will be kept both by the
merchants and at police head
quarters.
The merchants were led to
take action by the growing num
ber of thefts which amounted to
several hundred dollars weekly.
Police Chief Clyde Warren re
quested that his office be noti
fied immediately, and that the
merchants not let the culprits
off with a mere rebuke.
On Increase
Philadelphia, Aug. 17 m
Women alcoholics and habitual
drunkards in the United States
have increased to an all time
high of 800,000, an officer of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
union said today.
Mary B. Ervin, vice president
at large of the WCTU, told the
organizations executive com
mittee the current increase in
women drink victims is at the
rate of 120,000 a year.
The executive committee met
prior to the opening of the
group's 75th annual convention
tomorrow.
Miss Ervin said the number of
woman alcoholics and drunk
ards Is shown by projection of
the percentage of women alco
holics committed to mental in
stitutions and psychopathic
wards of general hospitals into
the 4,000,000 alcoholics and
drunkards in the country.
"Census bureau reports issued
last year," she said, "show that
one of every four of the 37,303
alcoholics admitted to the insti
tutions were women. Projec
tion of the same ratio into the
4,000,000, plus verifying infor
mation, places women alcoholics
at 800,000 as compared to 680,
000 the year previously."
Miss Ervin listed as one of
the reasons for increased drink
ing of liquor among women as
liquor, wine and beer advertis
ing that depicts, drinking by wo
men as socially smart and glam
orous.
She gave as other reasons:
congestion of bars and liquor
stores in residential neighbor
hood shopping streets; alcoholic
beverage departments in groc
ery and drug stores and kitchen
and basement barroom drinking
in the home."
Reduced killing of seals cut
Uruguay's seal-oil output to 5,
000 pounds last year.
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crime.
When he was picked up by the
F.B.I, in San Francisco, after
the elderly couple's bodies were
found on a side road near Chin
ook Pass, he insisted the shoot
ing was accidental in an alter
cation over a suit of clothes.
Prosecutor Patrick Steele said
today Summers probably will be
arraigned on a first degree mur
der charge tomorrow. He said
the trial will be in September or
October. Steele said he would
ask for the death penalty.
Summers said he gave up his
attempt to "go straight" about
two months after his parole from
the state prison.
"About 2 o'clock that Satur
day afternoon, I pried open the
back door of the Easley's home
with a small knife," he related
in a matter-of-fact manner, 'il
had been in the house the Tues
day before looking for money,
but found none.
"I had remembered seeing two
rifles there. I was going to take
them and pawn them, so I could
buy a revolver and start robb
ing." He told of returning home.
then coming back to the Easley's
and waiting for more than an
hour. His intentions, he said,
were to tie them up and put
them in a clothes closet. He said
he didn't intend to hurt them
"Easley got out of the car and
came in through the back door.
Mrs. Easley went into the back
yard to feed their rabbits. Eas
ley sat down at the kitchen
table. It was a table just like
this one," and he pounded the
round table in the jail.
Summers came out of hiding
and told Easley to sit still.
"Mr. Easley jumped up,
whirled about and faced me,"
Summers related. "I was going
to tell him the rifle was loaded
and not to make trouble. But he
threw the whiskey bottle and
jumped at me. My reaction was
to pull the trigger. He fell to the
floor. At the same time Mrs
Easley came in the door. I turn
ed the gun toward her and told
her to stay still.
"Instead she jumped back and
screamed. Of course, I shot. She
fell over."
Summers said he "felt kind
of weak." He could tell Mrs,
Easley was dead but he wasn't
sure about her husband so "I
shot him once again, while I sal
there. I had gone that far, so I
went all the way."
Peppermint Harvest
Held Below Normal
Unionvale The cooperatively
operated peppermint still be
longing to Dale L. Fowler, R. T.
Kidd and Howard Steingrube,
located on the Dale L. Fowler
farm in the Grand Island dis
trict is receiving the annual re
conditioning pre paratory to
starting this season's harvest by
the last of this week, R. T. Kidd
of Unionvale announced.
The crop average on the
three farms in pre-harvest esti
mates yield is below average,
because of hard winter and in
sect damage, Kidd said.
Some fields are fair, others
are poor and that is reported
from other localities, he said.
Kidd said he has 45 acres of
mint in the Unionvale district
that are good.
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QUESTION: My daughter has
a saddle horse which is usual
ly stabled at a riding club but
which we recently kept over
night in our back yard. The
horse got out of the yard and
damaged a neighbor's yard
and garden. We've paid for
the damage but I understand
there is an insurance policy
which would protect us from
having to pay damages of this
kind in the future. Can you
tell me about this policy?
ANSWER: The type of insur
ance you have in mind is
called Comprehensive Person
al Liability and it covers the
acts of the person insured and
those of his family, including
all minor children. You are
also protected from damages
resulting from acts of your
dogs, horses or other animals.
It is an excellent policy and
no one should be without the
protection it affords,
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Gable Lauds
Late Authoress
. Hollywood, Aug.17 (U. Ac
tor Clark Gable said today he
felt a "very deep personal loss"
in the death of Margaret Mit
chell, authoress of "Gone With
the Wind."
Gable played the part of Rhett
Butler in filming "Gone With
the Wind."
"In the tragic death of Marg
aret Mitchell, I feel a very deep
personal loss," the actor said.
"She was a woman of great lit
erary gift, gentle, warm with
genuine human understanding.
"I shall ever be obligated to
her for the finest role I ever
playeed, and I am sure 'Gone
With the Wind' will endure as
a classic to stand as a monument
to her memory."
Polk Pheasants
Given Release
Dallas Chinese pheasants
raised by Polk county 4-H club
members in the pheasant proj
ect were released, states R. M.
Ohling, Polk county extension
agent.
The Oregon State game com
mission furnished the club
members with the pheasant eggs
last spring which they hatched.
The club members then raised
the pheasants until they were
ten weeks of age. The game
commission then took the phea
sants for release and paid the
club member $1 for each phea
sant in good condition.
J. C. Negley, district agent,
Oregon State game commission,
accepted 152 pheasants from
Polk county club members for
release. Club members who
successfully raised pheasants
were: Carrol Gardner, Sheridan,
14 birds; James Gardner, Sheri
dan, 14 birds; Brendan Herber,
Sheridan, 17 birds; Keith -Sawyer,
Dallas, 66 birds; Donald,
Robert, and Lonnie Bailer,
Sheridan, 20 birds; Jimmy By
ers, Salem, 22 birds.
All birds raised in Polk coun
ty were released by Negley in
the county where suitable habi
tat was found.
Polk County Given
Acreage for Wheat
Independence Polk county's
1950 wheat allotment is 9,020
acres. This represents Polk
county's proportionate share of
the national wheat acreage allot
ment of 68.9 acres for the crop
that will be harvested next year,
W. Frank Crawford, committee
vice-chairman explains.
The national allotment , is the
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Navy Cancels
Byrd Expedition
Washington, Aug. 17 (P) An
Antarctic expedition that was to
have been led by Rear Adm.
Richard E. Byrd this fall was
called off by the navy today for
'compelling reasons of econo
my."
Plans for the expidition have
been underway for more than
a year. It had been given the
code name of "operation high
jump 11." It was to be the second
phase of the expedition which
took navy explorers and scien
tists to the south polar region In
1946.
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More Tourists
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Although the 1949 official
travel survey was just placed
underway last week at ports of
entry throughout Oregon to de
termine vacation traffic volume,
mid-season reports received thus
far by the Oregon state highway
commission travel information
department indicates substantial
ly heavier out-of-state traffic
than in 1948.
Results of the survey, carried
on by trained men at ports of
entry, will, when completed,
offer information providing an
all-round picture for 1949.
In the meantime, current fig
ures from several official sources
point toward a general travel in
crease. As an example, Crater Lake
National park reports an overall
gain of 3 per cent for the park
travel year beginning October
1. June 1949 showed an increase
of 12.7 per cent over June 1948.
July 1949 is leading July 1948
by a gain of 10.4 per cent.
Oregon Caves National Monu
ment reports July of this year
is ahead of July 1948 by 21.9
per cent. Out of state travel is
led by California, Washington
and Illinois.
Figures from Bonneville dam
reveal 13.1 per cent increase for
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July 1949 over July a year ago,
or 14,466 more visitors, ine
1949 total until the end of July
is ahead by 3.2 per cent over
July 1947. The latter year is
generally considered as repre
senting the post-war travel peak.
Further indicative of 1949
motor travel is the July report
showing an 11 per cent gain in
the Astoria-Megler ferry volume
over July 1948. Gasoline tax re
ceipts for June, before new taxes
took effect, revealed an appre
ciable increase over the same
month 1948. .
Supporting mid-season evi
dences of 1949 travel gains are
figures from the California
border quarantine stations,
checks of which reveal traffic
volume on highways from Ore
gon into California. Reports
from these sources say traffic
movement is 12.3 per cent heav
ier in July 1949 than In July
1948, which indicates similarly
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