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6 1st Year, No. 240 SSSJSrtoSS Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October 8, 1949
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Yankees Win
3rd Game from
Dodgers 6 lo 4
World Series Stands
3 for New York and
1 for Brooklyn
Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, Oct. t
W) Allie Reynolds, the opening
day shutout herp, retired the last
ten men in succession today aft
er relieving Ed Lopat to save a
6-4 New York victory over
Brooklyn, The win gave the
Yanks a commanding 3-1 fame
edge in the 46th world series.
Lopat took a bulging 6-0 lead
into the sixth inning before the
Dodgers aroused the sellout
crowd of 33,934 by knocking out
Lopat with seven singles in a
four-run inning.
Reyuolds Relieves
Then came Reynolds, the oft
relieved, to turn in a sparkling
relief job that rivalled Joe Page's
effort of yesterday.
Walking in with the tying run
on first base and two out in the
sixth, Allie cudled a third called
strike past pinch hitter Spider
Jorgensen to end the big Brook
threat.
That was the first of five
strikeouts for the big Indian
from Oklahoma City who never
allowed a man to reach base al
though he was coming back with
only two days rest.
4th Inning Slaughter
Like Newcombe, he pitched
in Wednesday's thrilling 1-0 op
ener. Big Newk, the 235-pound
Dodger rookie, wasn't able to
survive a fourth inning Yank at
tack. That started a parade of
four Dodger pitchers.
Doubles by Bobby Brown,
Cliff Ma pes and Lopat tied a se
ries record as the Yanks knock
ed out Newcombe in the fourth.
They opened up on Lefty Hat
ten for three runs in the fifth
when Bobby Brown tripled off
the fence in rigth field with the
bases loaded. That was all the
New York scoring but it proved
to be enough.
The Dodger sixth was an
amazing inning. Lopat, riding
easily with a two-hit shutout,
suddenly lost his stuff. There
was no warning.
Pee Wee Reese's single started
it off. Pinch Hitter Billy Cox
beat out a topped ball that Lo
pat failed to come up with. When
Duke Snider rapped into a Phil
Rizzuto-Tommy Henrich double
play, it seemed that Eddie was
out of trouble.
Lopat Goes to Pieces
That was only the beginning.
Successive singles by Jackie Rob
inson, Gil Hodges, Luis Olmo,
Roy Campanella and Gene Her
manski finally forced Manager
Casey Stengel to derrick Lopat
for Reynolds.
The experts were amazed to
see Reynolds. Everybody thought
Stengel was saving him for to
morrow's fifth game. But it was
an inspired move by Casey who
seldom makes the wrong deci
sion.
(Concluded on Pare S, Column S)
McKay Quizzed
By Arizonans
Wickenburg, Ariz., Oct. 8
Governor Douglas McKay of
Oregon spent more than four
hours here last night answering
questions put to him by Ari
zona's Governor Dan Garvey and
a dozen leaders in the state leg-
- islature.
The Arizona lawmakers gave
McKay a mental work out he
isn't likely to forget soon, and
in turn received answers which
seemed to give them definite
ideas on how to solve some of
the pressing legislative matters
facing Arizona.
The gathering was held at
the Flying E guest ranch owned
by Lee Eyerly of Salem and
managed by Vic Kelly of the
some city.
After the long question and
answer session, the group found
relaxation in square dancing
The Arizonans found McKay as
nimble physically as he is men
tally.
1950 Auto Plates to
Be Ready Nov. 15
Secretary of State Earl T
Newbry announced today that
the issuance of 1950 automobile
license plates will start Novem
ber IS, half a month earlier
than in precious years.
Newbry reminded motorists
that the plates may be used as
soon as they are issued In for
mer years plates could not be
sed until December IS.
Manhunt On
For Post Office
Safe Crackers
Benton City Trio
Wreck Car and Escape
Near Milwaukie
Portland. Oct. I W) Three
people from a wrecked car con
taining loot from a post office
robbery eluded police today de
spite a manhunt through the
wooded country south of here.
The three apparently man
aged to steal another car and
escape from the area in the
darkness. The manhunt was call
ed off at mid-day after state
police scoured the woods with
out sighting anyone. Another
car was reported jtolen in the
area.
A dozen armed state troopers
tramped through a mile-square
area near Milwaukie after a po
lice-pursued car missed a curve
and crashed into a garage about
midnight.
Two men and a woman leap
ed from the wreckage and dis
appeared into the cover of the
woods.
Car Yields Stolen Loot
The car yielded $1140 in cur
rency, $50 in silver, $ia in
government savings bonds, pos
tal money order blanks, a rub
ber stamp marked "Warden, U.
S. Penitentiary, McNeil Island,"
guns, burglary tools, clothes, a
typewriter, and other valuables.
Some of the items bore mark
ings from the Benton City, Wash.
post office, which was robbed
earlier this week of $4000 or
$5000 by burglars who carried
away the postal safe.
The wrecked car, a brand new
one which Jack Matlick, a Her-
miston, Ore., businessman, had
bought only 10 days ago, was
stolen from Matlick at Vancou
ver, Wash, yesterday.
The chase began on the Mount
Hood loop highway near Cherry-
ville last- night, when State Po
liceman Ben Weber saw a car
from the "stolen list" parked
near a gravel pit. A man was
standing outside it.
When the officer approached,
the man jumped in and the car
sped away, too fast for Weber s
pursuing car.
State police set up roadblocks.
The pursuit continued in a thick
fog, the car disappearing at mo
ments only to be spotted later.
About midnight it crashed into
the garage of H. W. Cramer on
Outfield road, southwest of Mil
waukie. (Concluded on Pago 8, Column 8)
Salem Escapes
Forecast Frost
Cloudy skies and some rain
Sunday are the weather prospect
for the weekend in Salem to
gether with slightly warmer tem
peratures, says the weather bur
eau. The forecast frost hit some sec
tions of western Oregon Satur
day morning, but not the Salem
vicinity. Clouding skies very
early in the morning kept the
temperature up here, the maxi
mum dropping only to 39.
The Portland area, however
listed light frost in some sections
when the mercury slid to 34 de
grees. Cold spot in Oregon Sat
urday morning was Prineville
with a minimum of 17 degrees
Some sections are due to con
tinue cold tonight, the weather
bureau warning of 25 to 32 de
gree temperatures in some west
ern Oregon areas.
Protest Fire District in
Salem Heights Area
Twenty-eight property owners in the Salem Heights area who
previously signed petitions asking for organization of the Salem
Heights-Liberty rural fire protection district have now come
into the county court with petitions declaring their solid opposi
tion to organization of the district.
They declare they are one
hundred per cent against the dis
trict for they have no desire to
bond their homes to protect
some property interests wno
are trying to force it upon them."
'The sponsors of the Liberty-
Salem Heights fire district," they
say, "to get the property own
ers to sign their petitions mis
represented by telling them it
was all to be done by contribu
tion and not by taxation."
The property owners repre
sented on the protest reside in
side the borders of 99E west on
Madrona to Liberty road, north
on Liberty road to Salem Heights
avenue and east on Salem
Heights avenue to 99E.
This is the third group to ask
to be eliminated from the dis
trict On large area Immediate
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Cut Columbia
River Projects .
Washington, Oct. 8 W
Chances appeared dim today for
inclusion of $175,000,000 worth
of western reclamation projects
in the omnibus rivers and har
bors authorization bill.
The bulk of the projects are
Washington, Oregon and
Idaho. A few are in Montana
and Wyoming.
A change of signals by the sen
ate public works committee sent
the omnibus bill to the senate
yesterday without the reclama
tion bureau list.
The committee had tentative
ly approved the projects Thurs
day, but later decided to refer
them to the senate interior com
mittee which meets Monday,
ThouRh no interior committee
man would comment officially, it
was reported the group would
not recommend adding the pro)
ects to the omnibus measure.
Sens. Magnuson (D., Wash.)
and Cain (R., Wash.) asked es
tablishment of a Columbia Ba
sin account, to which all power
revenues would be paid. Out of
the account would come costs al
located to power. These expendi
tures would include most of the
projects in the $175,000,000 list
which are for irrigation and
could not be paid for by water
users without aid from the pow
er revenues.
Houston Flooded
By 10.25 Inch Rain
Houston, Oct. 8 lPl More rain
was predicted today as flood
waters from a 10.25-inch rain
rose in Texas' largest city. The
rain deluge came after a freak
tornado yesterday.
One person drowned. Farm
ers in the Gulf coast area al
ready hurt by a hurricane earlier
this week and yesterday's storm
feared further damage to rice
cotton and corn.
Several hundred people were
evacuated from flooded homes
on Houston's southwest and
northeast outskirts and at sub
urban Jacinto City. Water five
feet deep surrounded some
homes and covered some streets
India Not to Devalue
New Delhi, India, Oct. 8 Mi
Indian has not the slightest in
Commerce Minister K. C. Neogy
said today. He was commenting
on reports in New York finan
cial circles.
ly south of the city limits gain
ed consent of the sponsors to
withdraw when the matter same
up on formal hearing a few
weeks ago.
As a result, continuation was
had in the matter to give the
sponsors time to draw some new
maps and present them at the
next hearing showing that par
ticular area eliminated.
This group did not express op
position to the district itself but
said arrangements were being
made with the city to secure
fire protection from Salem on
a millage cost basis. Sponsor ly-established Chinese commu
for the new opposing petitions !nist regime in Peiping. India
filed Saturday indicated verbal
ly that the area represented al
to hoped to get help from the
city on the tame basis.
Arrives Here from Latvia New Oregonians are the Gnshs
family, displaced Latvians, who arrived in Salem Saturday
and will live in Polk county. In the picture are, from left, Dr.
Adolf Lieutuvictis of Salem, who knew the family in their
native country, and at whose home they are now being en
tertained; Andrejs Grislis, 16; Marta Grislis, mother of the
family; Rita, daughter 14; Dagmara, daughter 18; and Janis
Grislis, the father; and Rev. Karl Ufer, pastor of Trinity
Lutheran church of Dallas, which sponsors the family.
Displaced Latvians
With Friends in Salem
By STEPHEN A. STONE
They are called displaced persons. But they really aren't dis
placed anymore, for kind friends
and will greet them again in Dallas in a few days.
It was a happy reunion when
off a bus at the Greyhound
by Dr. Adolf Lieutuvictis of Ore-
gon State hospital staff, a for
mer friend of the family in Lat
via. Also they were met by Rev.
Karl Ufer, who will be their pas
tor at Trinity Lutheran church
at Dallas, sponsors of the family-.
The Grislis family ot six will
be guests at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. Lieutuvictis until aunday
just to get oriented. And whenak0 democrat, died of a heart at-
they arrive at their new home
in Polk county they will find a
furnished house waiting for them
on the George Pfeiffer farm at
Smithfield near Dallas.
In the family are Janis Gris
lis, the father, and Marta, his
wife; Andrejs, 16, their son, and
two daughters, Dagmara, 18, and
Rita, 14.
Dr. Lieutuvictis served as
interpreter for the family. But
that wasn't really necessary, for
Dagmara speaks English. Not as
well as she will in a few months,
but Pastor Ufer interviewed her
by telephone after arrival at the
home of their doctor friend on
the state hospital grounds.
"We are very happy," said
Dagmara. "Daddy is very anx
ious to go to work, and we child
ren are eager to go to school
. . . Yes, I hope to go to college
some day."
"You stay with it," the pastor
told her. "We'll see that you get
there."
Dagmara expressed delight at
their meeting with the Dr. Lieu
tuvictis family.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Chinese Begin
Fleeing Canton
(By the Auocllttd Pru
Chinese began fleeing from
Canton today as the front to the
north showed signs of caving in
under the pressure of attacking
Red armies.
Diplomats in Canton said they
expected to hear Monday that
the nationalist capital was being
moved to Chungking. That was
the wartime capital in western
China.
Kukong, anchor city only 125
miles north of Canton, was yield
ed without a fight. Hengyang.
the nationalist base 265 miles to
the north appeared to have been
abandoned.
Press reports said Gen. Pal
Chung-Hsi, central front com
mander, had quit Hengyang and
would set up headquarters at
Kweilin, capital of h i s native
Kwangsi province.
That was a hint he may leave
Canton to its fate. His 200,000
man army is the best left to the
nationalists on the Chinese main
land.
In the hour of Canton's ordeal,
there was considerable diplomat
is maneuvering.
A well Informed Common
wealth diplomat in London said
Britain will recognize the new
was expected to take a like step.jair mattress were missing. A
Other Commonwealth govern- check Indicated they were ap
ments might follow suit. Trade' parently stolen by the group
with China is big factor. which had been befriended.
greeted them in Salem Friday
the Grislis family. Latvians, got
depot Friday and were met
Idaho Senator
Dies Suddenly
Washington, Oct. 8 m U. S
Senator Bert Henry Miller, Id-
tack at his home here at 8 a.m
(EST) today.
Miller, then a justice of the
Idaho supreme court, was elect
ed to the senate last November
in the sweep that saw the dem
ocrats recapture control of con
gress and elect President Tru
man.
His defeat of republican Sen
ator Henry C. Dworshak helped
to give the democrats the 54 to
42 edge they held in the senate
at the beginning of this session.
Since then the margin has been
cut to 53 to 43 through the re
signation of Senator Wagner (D.,
N.Y.) and the appointment of
John Foster Dulles, a republican.
to succeed him.
Presumably Miller's death will
mean the loss of another seat for
his party, since Idaho's Gov. C.
A. Robins, who will name a suc
cessor, is a republican, mis
would leave the democrats with
a 52 to 44 margin
Miller, who was 70, was elect
ed to the senate for a full six
year term. He took his seat when
congress convened last January
3.
Miller attended yesterday's
senate session and cast a vote on
the farm bill.
He was born at St. George
Utah, Dec. 15, 1879. He was ed
ucated at Brigham Young uni
versity at Provo, Utah, and re
ceived his law degree from Cum
berland university at Lebanon,
Tenn.. in 1902,
After practicing law for many
years, he became a prosecuting
attorney and then served as at
torney general of Idaho for four
terms beginning in 1933. In
1939-40 he was an attorney for
the wage-hour division of the de
partment of labor with head
quarters in Seattle, Wash.
Deer Hunter Meld
As Meanest Man
Harry V. Greene, 1454 Hick
ory, was convinced Saturday that
the meanest deer hunter in Ore
gon was operating along Horse
ridge in the China hat section
Greene and his party halted
to aid victims of an accident.
One of the vehicles had overturn
ed, and needed an air pump to
blow dust out of engine parts to
put the vehicle in running condi
tion
The Salem people burrowed
through their equipment
and
found the needed pump.
After they drove off, Greene
discovered a sleeping bag and
Navy and Marine A viation
Cut About Half by Pentagon
Crisis Warning
Issued by Ching
In Coal Strike
Washington, Oct. 8 Ml Prod
ded by the government, soft coal
operators moved today to resume
contract talks with John L. Lewis
in an effort to end the 20-day-old
mine strike.
Conciliation Director Cyrus S.
Ching told the United Mine
Workers' boss and the represen
tatives of the mine owners that
"each day brings the ration
closer to a crisis" as coal sup
plies shrink.
At Ching's request, the opera
tors made immediate overtures
to Lewis to resume negotiations
next Tuesday or Wednesday.
The bargaining was interupted
this week when Ching invited
the parties to Washington to air
their differences,
t
Ready to Assist
Ching said he would report
the meetings to the White House
in routine fashion, but that he
would watch future negotiations
closely, ready to step in again
within a reasonable time if the
talks get nowhere.
First stumbling block to get
ting the negotiations under way
again was the location. Lewis
has kept the southern talks go
ing at Bluefield, W. Va., a city
of about 300,000 population but
center of rich southern bitu
minous coal fields.
A big convention there next
week would interfere with any
coal meetings, so the operators
would prefer to pick up negotia
tions in Washington
nln.l,in ltt SId4 M
Ching said his all-daV session
with the operators and L ewis
yesterday had given b oth s ides
a chance to blow off steam. But
he made no claims about bring
ing a settlement any nearer.
(Concluded on Page 5. Column 8)
$91,000 Block
For Bonesteele
Wallace Bonesteele has taken
out a building permit for con
struction of a warehouse at 1620
North Front street, to cost $91,
000. Bonesteele said the building
would be 120 by 152 feet, one
story high, and built of rein
forced concrete. Application ot
the Oregon Electric company for
a spur franchise to serve the
building is before the city coun
cil. The building, Bonesteele said,
will be for general storage pur
poses. Shortage of warehouse
space in Salem, largely because
of heavy production of canned
goods, induced the project.
Other permits; Glen Burright,
lo alter a two-story apartment
house at 605-607 Ferry, $200.
Lynne Darniclle, to build a one
story dwelling at 540 Wild Wind
drive, U4UU. ioy nun.m-i, iu
K..tlyJ at nrn.olnrv Hurnll inff nt
1330 North 23rd. $8000. Ed Vi-
.!, In llr Mrin- at 2060
South High. $400.
New GOP Committee
Slams Door on Dewey
Washington, Oct. 8 (UB The now management of the republi
ran national committee has slammed the door shut on Gov.
Thomas E. Dewey of New York.
To the newspaper correspondents in Washington came a com
mittee news release containing a speech delivered last night be
fore republican women in Hunt-
ington, W Va., by National Com-hc sajrf "they chose Iht real ar
mitteeman Walter S. Hallanan.iticlc. Fitly percent of them were
Hallannn slugged impartially jso plainly disgusted that they did
at the "Pendergast-Truman ma-inot vote at all.
chine" and at the republicans'! "That is all water over the
1948 presidential candidate. He;
did not mention Dewey by name. J
but charged him with being "too
smugly complacent'' in his un-j
successful presidential campaign
to defend the republican 80th
congress. !
He said President Truman of !
I fered the voters an unsound,
crackpot program and that Dew-
ev had not offered the voters any!
well-defined alternative to it. In
fancv language. Hallannn Im-
plied that Dewey had offered the
voters a bogus choice.
"At between the real new
deal and a synthetic substitute,"
if
Frank P. Mathtws
Secretary of the Navy
Unemployed
List Increases
The Salem area of Marion and
Polk counties reported the high
est increase in unemployment in
the state for the past 30 days,
with 1,500 idle as compared
with 750 a month ago, accord
ing to a report by the state un
employment compensation com
mission.
Lane county remained in sec
ond place with 3.400 out of
work and drawing state compen
sation and Portland had 18,000
unemployed.
The state's unemployment re
mained at record summer-time
despite renewed activity in food
levels throughout September
processing, lumbering and oth
er seasonal Industries.
The state total in September
was only slightly abovt the fig
ure of August, with the last
month's unemployed total only
100 above the month before.
However, the total of unemploy
ed was 73.5 per cent above the
same time last year.
Although gathering and pro
cessing of nuts and other late
crops continues in some sec
tions west of the Cascades, the
most recent Increases in the
number of unemployed have
come from the interior.
Poison Ochoco Waters
To Improve Fishing
Prineville, Oct. 8 W The
state game commission will poi
son the Ochoco reservoir and
100 miles of Ochoco creek and
its tributaries tomorrow, to im
prove the fishing there.
Poison will be put into the
waters to clear them of the over-
supply of trash fish, which have
been destroying trout spawn
there. Later, the reservoir and
rivers will be restocked with
trout.
The game commission invited
the public to come pick up the
fish. The poison rotenone
paralyzes the fish gills, but does
not harm the water or make the
poigonou, to et,
Many central Oregon residents
" """"" u.
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! which float to the surface.
dam. We have turned that page
in our political history and put
it behind us. We know that if
hencelnrth the voters turn to the
ruman-Pendergast party, it will
he because they have decided to
embrace socialism."
And swinging for another di-
vot from Dewey's hide. Hallanan
said that from here on out con
science and principle would
guide the republican party lead
ershin because it had turned
away from political expediency
i "Henceforth," he added, "it
will espouse and defend party
principles."
Nation's Security
Impaired Says
Navy Secretary
Washington, Oct. 8 (jP Sec
retary Matthews said today the
navy believes that cuts in na
val spending ordered in the Pen
tagon would impair the nation's
security.
He testifieid in a house armed
services committee hearing
wnere a storm already had been
set off by a charge that "secret'
orders" from the defense de
partment threatened to ditch the
navy's air arm.
The committee is in the sec
ond day of an inquiry into
friction between the services.
Matthews said the navy is
bucking the cuts and Secretary
of Defense Johnson has agreed
to give it a hearing.
Vinson Reports Cut
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.)
first reported the cut orders.
and said the appointment was
decided by "defense leaders in
the Pentagon and the other serv
ices . , . out of sympathy with
the navy air arm."
Vinson said the $353,000,000
reduction assigned to the navy,
outside the cuts made by con
gress, would cost navy and mar
ine aviation "about in half."
Building up his complaint of
unfairness in the Pentagon, Vin
son said he has reliable author
ity for a report that the air force
wants all large aircraft carriers
and their air groups out of the
navy.
"The navy would become a
protective convoy to move
troops and fight submarines,"
Vinson (aid.
Hopwood Confirms
He got verification of his fig
ures from Rear Admiral Her
bert G. Hopwood, the navy's
budget officar, and Wilfred Mc
Neil, comptroller of the defense
department.
McNeil said h knows of no
discrimination against any one
service. It is all in line, he said,
with plans Johnson announced
months ago to try to bring abont
an $800,000,000 saving in de
fense spending.
Rep. Brooks (D-La.) said
Johnson is merely trying to car
ry out reductions for which the
committee applauded him when
ht testified about his plans
months ago.
Turning direct to Matthews on
on the stand, Vinson asked:
Will Be Curtailfent
If Johnson adheres to the rec
ommendations would there be
a very definite curtailment of
the navy's fighting ability?
Matthews agreed there would
be a curtailment.
Then," Vinson said, "it would
necessarily impair the security
of the country?"
That s our opinion," the na
vy s secretary answered crisp
ly.
After the navy secretary's
testimony the committee turned
again to the air force's B-36
bomber before it recessed until
Monday.
(Concluded on Pare 5, Column 6)
Strikes Crush
Production
New York, Oct. 8 W Busi
ness and industry began an or
derly retreat this week under
steady pressure from the crisis
in labor.
Virtually no sector of the busi
ness front was free of the con
sequences of strikes in steel and
coal and a growing number of
disputes in other industries.
While all these basic divisions
of activity that make up the na
tional economy were affected, it
was production that suffered
most in this first week of cur
tailed operations in both steel
mills and coal fields Distribu
tion was next with railroads and
water carriers taking a bad
licking. Consumption on an over
all basis showed less reaction,
but here too. the sudden sever
ance of more than l.uuu.uiiu
workers from regular payrolls
began to show up in spending
habits.
Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, the pre
sident's top economic adviser,
said the strikes hold the key to
the future trend of business. If
the coal and steel walkouts are
halted within a month, he said
after making a report to the
White House, the country could
overcome the handicap. If they
extend beyond that, he said, it
will b an alarming situation.