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Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Octv,
1949
(32 Pages)
Price 5c
THE WEATHER HERE
FAIR TONIGHT and Friday,
except for morning cloudiness.
Little change in temperature.
Lowest tonight, 33, with local
frosts; highest Friday, 63.
Maximum jetterday. 3; minimum to.
day, 35. Totil 34-hour precipitation, trare:
for month. 1.3ft: normal, 1.30. Beaton
precipitation. 3.T3: normal. 3 1. River
heleht, -.3 of a loot. iReport by U.S.
Weather Bureau.)
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Nationalists
Cede Canton
To Red Army
South China City
Abandoned and
Resistance Ends
Senate Refuses
To Return Olds
Lewis Admits
Expel 19 from
Hi-School for
Joining Frat
School Board Enforces
Law Forbidding
Secret Societies
Demands Up
To Power Job
Costs of Mining
Hong Kong, Oct. 13 tfPl Tel
ephoned reports from Canton
said nationalist forces tonight
abandoned the South China city.
Plans for all organized resist
ance ended within the provis
ional capital Entry of com
munist troops is now awaited.
Gunfire was reported around
North Station, about three miles
north of Canton. The source
nationalists, Red guerrillas or
regular communist troops was
not known.
No Resistance Offered
Perhaps sooner than expect
ed, Canton suffered the same
fate as other major nationalist
cities which have fallen to the
communists with little or no re
sistance. The South China city sprawls
out on the left bank of the Pearl.
river. It is an old and shabby
trade center 111 miles no-thwest
of Hong Kong, with a popula
tion of nearly 1,000,000. The
nationalists set up their capital
there last spring after they quit
Nanking.
Earlier information from Can
ton said troops had pulled out
of Canton but this was coupled
with reports the nationalists had
been ordered north to defend the
city.
New Zealand Presbyterian
missionaries told an Associated
Press correspondent in Canton
they had heard heavy gunfire
y" Sound Kongtsuen, 10 miles dis
Vnt. People Await Anxiously
But there was nothing as yet
to indicate whether the nation
alists were quitting the city un
der military pressure or whether
they were attempting to reach
escape corridors ahead of the
swift moving Red troops.
A million Cantonese waited,
tensely, nervously, for the tran
sition period.
Communist troops last were
reported driving directly down
the Canton-Hankow railroad to
within 30 miles of Canton. There
was no telling whether the gun
fire at Kongtsuen was Red or
nationalist artillery or both.
(Concluded on Pa ire 5, Column 5)
Child Burned
To Death in Fire
Linda Lenore Spence, about
4 years old, lost her life in a
fire that wiped out a string of
'cabins on the William Krebs
hop ranch in the Jefferson area
Thursday forenoon.
The child had been left in one
of the cabins by her mother,
Mrs, Grace Spence, who had
gone to the laundry house. What
started the fire is not known.
Coroner Leston Howell is inves
tigating. At the Krebs office In Salem
it was said about 20 cabins were
in the string. Witnesses of the
fire said that all but three or
' four cabins were destroyed.
Only a few of the cabins were
occupied at present, most of
them by unmarried men One
or two families, however, were
living in tome of the small
houses.
The Jefferson fire department
was called.
Baldock Urges
Road Load Limits
San Antonio1, Tex., Oct 13 tffi
Enforcement of load limits on
the nation's highways for eco
nomy reasons was urged yester
day by Oregon Highway En
gineer R. H. Baldock.
The committee on mainten
ance and equipment of the Amer
ican Association of Highway Of
ficials later put the suggestion
Into a resolution. Baldock spoke
as the committee's chairman.
He said the nation spent $890,
000,000 in 1948 and $1,800,000,
000 in 1947 for maintenance of
streets and highways. "This ter
rific bill is growing ever larger,
and still our failure to rebuild
roads is retarding the economic
expansion of the entire country,"
he said.
Baldock said most of the na
tion's investment In roads was
made 10 to 30 years ago. He
noted "wt are building heavy
designed highways for only 2
percent ol the vehicles using
them."
Truman Rebuffed in
Effort to Pressure
Party Discipline
Washington, Oct. 13 W A
smarting 53 to 15 defeat of the
reappointment of Federal Power
Commissioner Leland Olds today
handed President Truman his
third and sharpest senate re
buff this year on an important
nomination.
Despite the pressure of party
discipline which Mr. Truman
marshalled behind the nominee,
the senate refused overwhelm
ingly to return Olds to the com
mission for a third term.
The vote came shortly after
midnight. It followed weeks of
debate which steadily mounted
in heat and bitterness.
"Foe of Capitalism"
Opponents shouted that Olds
is a foe of capitalism, that 20
years ago he wrote articles that
helped promote communism.
Senator Edwin C. Johnson (D.,
Colo.), called him "a warped,
tyrannical, mischievious, egotis
tical chamelon who predominant
color is pink."
Senators supporting the nom
ination countered with charges
that private gas and oil interests
were backing the fight against
Olds.
They pictured him as a devot
ed public servant trying to pro
tect consumers by effective util
ity regulation.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
House Rejects
New Farm Bill
Washington, Oct. 13 (IP) The
house today refused to accept
the senate's bill to set up a flex
ible system for farm price sup
ports. It stood by its own meas
ure continuing the present pro
gram, of 90 per cent of parity
props for major crops.
However, the house agreed to
negotiate with the senate on a
compromise, through a house
senate conference committee.
This committee may face a rug
ged tug-of-war between repre
sentatives of the two bodies be
fore any agreement is reached.
After weeks of debate, a co
alition of senate democrats and
republicans yesterday pushed
through on a voice vote the farm
support bill sponsored by Sena
tor Anderson (D-N.M.), former
secretary of agriculture.
They substituted it for the
one-year continuance of war
time-level price supports voted
by the house in mid-July. Lead
ers of the coalition said they
are confident the house will ac
cept the senate version even
tually.
Farm-minded house members
talked equally optimistically
about forcing senators to take
their one-year extension of ex
isting price props at least for
1950 a year when all 435 house
members and more than one-
third of the senators must face
the farmers and other voters.
Brothers Found Dead
Toledo, Ore., Oct. 13 W The
bodies of two brothers were
found sprawled beside a brushy
trail northeast of here last night
after a middle-aged rancher told
the sheriff "I hurt them."
Dead of bullet wounds were
Melvin Longyear, about 25, and
his brother, Charles Longyear.
about 22.
Surveys for
Across River Under Way
Preliminary surveys for the new Marion street bridge between
Salem and West Salem are under way according to state highway
department officials Thursday.
In addition to setting a center line, engineers must gather con
siderable data needed in drawing up plans and specifications,
a task that will consume several'
months of time, officials said.
Army engineers have not yet
indicated if a formal hearing
will be set on the new bridge,
although the war department
must approve the height and
width of the bridge. The army
is not concerned with the loca
tion of the bridge. In the past
in some similar cases the army
engineers approved plans and
specification without holding
any hearing. This was the case
in all of the bridges construct
ed on the Oregon coast.
On the present timetable it Is
expected that bids for the new
trans-Willamette bridge can be
called early next spring. It is
estimated that it will take from
12 Die in Blast
Of U.S. Bomber
Isleham, Eng., Oct. 13 UP) A
U, S. air force B-50 bomber
with a load of live bombs dived
into a wheat field today and ex
ploded with a roar heard 12
miles away. All 12 crew mem
bers were killed.
Th plane, designed as the
atom-bomb carrying version of
the B-29, was on a 180-mile
practice mission to the North
sea island of Helgoland with
twelve 500-pound bombs.
Villagers said the plane ap
peared to burst into flames just
before it dropped through a light
ground fog and struck the field.
Flaming bits of the four-engined
craft were blown hundreds of
yards in all directions from the
huge central crater dug by the
blast.
Burning gasoline set fire to a
ring of farm buildings and to
60 tons of stacked wheat. Win
dows shattered and plaster ceil
ings fell in Isleham houses.
" Both British and American
aircraft regularly use Helgoland
for live bombing practice. Hel
goland was a Nazi submarine
and anti-aircraft base during the
war.
The third air division said
this was the first accident in
volving a B-50 since the 43rd
group of these craft arrived Aug.
18 from their Tucson, Ariz.,
base.
Attlee Vetoes
British Election
London, Oct. 13 (IP) Prime
Minister Attlee turned down to
day demands for a general par
liamentary election this fall and
decided that his labor govern
ment would ride out Britain's
economic crisis.
The announcement that there
would be no early election was
made, an official statement said,
to quiet "disturbing effects on
trade and industry" caused by
widespread speculation of a
vote this fall.
The labor government's five
year term runs until next July.
Under Britain's constitutional
system, the prime minister has
authority to call an election at
any time
Attlee announced that he
would not advise King George
VI to dissolve parliament this
year. General elections in Brit
ain are precipitated by dissolv
ing the parliament.
New Bridge
18 months to two years time to
complete the new structure
As soon as the Marion street
bridge is completed and the ap
proaches constructed the high'
way department will begin re
construction of the present Cen
ter street bridge.
On completion of this project
the two bridges will be designat
cd for one way traffic with a
city-wide grid system to fit into
the general scheme.
The state highway commission
has allocated $2,385,000 to covet
the cost of the construction of
the Marion street bridge, recon
struction of the Center street
bridge and construction of suit
able approaches.
Admiral Halsey Attacks B-36 Hands on hips, Fleet Ad
miral William F. (Bull) Halsey stands before the house
armed services committee in Washington charging that
B-36-type intercontinental bombing is a sure way to unite
enemy peoples in "fiery patriotism." He told the committee
that the only thing B-36 attacks could stop would be enemy
bullets. Committee members are, left to right: Representatives
Melvin Price (D., 111.), Paul J. Kilday (D., Tex.), Chairman
Carl Vinson and Dewey Short (R., Mo.). (Acme Telcphoto)
Airforce to Reply to
Navy's Bitter Criticism
Washington, Oct. 13 UP) Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz ad
vised congress today that America's battle plans must assume "We
will be less ready for war at its outbreak" than Russia.
Nimitz did not mention Russia by name in a statement sent
to the house armed services committee. But there was no mistak
'Witch' on Trial
In California
Eldridge, Calif., Oct. 13 (IP)
A woman employe dismissed for
witchcraft" gets a hearing to
day at the Sonoma State Home
for the Feeble Minded.
She Is Mrs. Lorena Blackwell,
dismissed September 8 and. ac
cused of:
1. Scaring patients by grab
bing them in the dark.
2. Threatening to put a
'curse" on patients and em
ployes.
3. Terrifying patients by the
practice of witchcraft.;'
The state personnel board is
hearing her appeal. Through
her attorney, Charles C. Green
field, Jr., of Sonoma, she indig
nantly denied the charges.
Greenfield added:
She doesn't know any more
about witchcraft than I do. She
is an intelligent woman."
But Dr. Marshall E. Porter,
superintendent of the home, de
clares concerning the witch
craft charge:
I know it sounds screwy but
it is true.
She was searing the patients
and some of the employes half
to death," Porter said.
Downey Called
Liar by
Ickes
Washington, Oct. 13 (IP)
Harold L. Ickes, former secre
tary of interior today accused
Senator Downey (D-Calif.) of
unabashed perjury" in his at
tacks on reclamation bureau of
ficials. Ickes suggested to the senate
terior committee that the rec
ord of Downey's sworn testi
mony be sent to the attorney
general for "appropriate ac
tion." The former secretary was
called as a witness in the com
mittee's investigation of Down
ey's charges of corruption and
mismanagement in the reclama
tion bureau.
In a blistering attack on
Downey, Ickes denied the sen
ator's statements that Harry W
Bashore, former reclamation
commissioner, was forced by
political pressure to resign.
He said that when Bashore re
signed he recommended present
Commissioner Michael W.
Straus as his successor.
Ickes said Downey also pre
sented to the committee a "to
tally false" account of the ap
pointment and services of Rich
ard L. Boke as California re
gional director for the bureau.
Cornelia Vanderbilt Marries
London, Oct. 13 (IP) Cornelia
Vanderbilt, once called the
world's richest bride, was mar
ricd a second time yesterday.
The American granddaughter
of famed Commodore Vander
bilt was married in deepest se
crecy to Vivian Francis Bulke
ley-Johnson, 5B-year-old Londonlmltted his part In the shooting
banker. A notice of intention
wed gave her age is 43.
ing what nation he had in mind
speaking of our probable
opponent" in event of war.
He questioned the effective
ness of the atom' bomb and urged
that it "not be considered as our
main weapon of offense."
Just before Nimitz' statement
was read, Adm. R. A. Spruance,
retired head of the Naval War
college, had frankly spoken of
Russia and warned that a war
with the Soviets could not be
won quickly, easily or by the
A-bomb alone
The committee agreed to hear
all rival defense ideas to the
navy's next week.
The air force will then get in
its reply. Secretary of Defense
Johnson also will testify then.
Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.),
and Secretary Johnson held a
long conference this morning. Af
terwards, Vinson announced the
schedule for the next phase of
the committee's inquiry into
military policy.
Vinson said that beginning
next week the committee will
hear Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower, Gen. Omar Bradley, Sec
retary of Air Symington and
air force officers.
Then, he added, "Secretary
Johnson will give the commit
tee and the country" his views.
Johnson, as civilian boss of
all the armed services, is caught
squarely in the cross-fire of the
angry controversy over military
policy.
He also has come in for harsh
words from some congress mem
bers because, by executive or
der, he has cut back appropria
tions that the lawmakers made
for the navy.
Vinson publicly accused John
son yesterday of making
grandstand play" by economizing
on navy funds. He said the com
mittee "is to have a lot to say
about this."
Admiral Louis E. Dcnfeld
the navy's top officer, said today
the "view is often evident" in
defense department councils
that there should be no mar
ine corps and no naval aviation.
The chief of naval operations
also told the house armed serv
ices committee that there has
been "improper operation" of
the military unification pro
gram. Dcnfeld sits In on policy mak
ing by the joint chiefs of staff
as the navy's representative.
Dcnfeld summed up the na
vy's whole case in the airing
of a hot row in the armed serv
ices over defense policies.
2 Killed, 5 Wounded
Poker Game Hold-up
Muncie, Ind., Oct. 13 IIP) Two
men were slain and five others
were wounded, one seriously,
early today when two gunmen
attempted to hold up a poker
game In a downtown cigar store.
The gunmen fled after firing
more than a score of shots at
the 10 men who, Police Chief
Harry Nelson said, were playing
cards in the rear of the store.
Later one of the gunmen, wound
ed in the hail of bullets, was
captured and removed to a hos-
pital. Nelson said he orally ad-
to;No charge was placed against
him Immediately.
Hints at Government
Regulation in Case
Of Deadlock
White Sulphur Springs, W.
Va., Oct. 13 (IP) John L. Lewis
disclosed today that his contract
demands on soft coal operators
would cost 30 to 35 cents a ton
more than now. The said the in
dustry could absorb it out of
profits.
Lewis, at a 75-minute news
conference, went into an exhaus
tive outline of his theory that
powerful financial and steel in
terests were determined to hold
up a coal settlement until they
"battled it out" in steel.
The UMW president said that
if the government must intervene
and take over the coal pits, it
should order a "bonafide seiz
ure" by running the mines for
the benefit of the people instead
of the mine owners.
Bonafide Seizure Needed
Lewis said that past seizures
of the coal mines had been "make
believe, papier-mache affairs."
He told reporters he was not
suggesting seizure and declared:
"We are willing to fight this
out. The mine workers have
whipped these operators and are
willing to do it.
"We ask no aid. We prefer to
be left alone, but, if we are not
left alone to defeat them on their
own ground, then we ask fair
treatment." i
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 8)
Long Red Trial
Hearing Jury
New York, Oct. 13 (IP) The
government's case against 11
high U. S. communists neared
the jury today when the govern
ment completed its summation
shortly before noon.
Federal Judge Harold R. Me
dina s charge was expected to
take about two and one half
hours, so the jurors may get the
case about 12:30 or 1 p. m.
(PST).
The 11 communists, who form
the communist party's American
Politburo, are charged with con
spiring to reorganize the party
1945 to teach and advocate
the violent overthrow of the
United States government.
U. S. Attorney John F. X.
McGohey, who completed his
summation at 11:48 a. m., re
ferred to the intimation of Eu
gene Dennis, one of the defen
dants, that the party might go
underground , if the defendants
are convicted.
'I asurc you," McGohey said,
"that if the party goes complet
ely underground, the FBI will
go with them, performing with
customary efficiency the task
assigned to them in the detec
tion of crime."
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Two Governors Cavort on Arizona Ranch While Governor
Douglas McKay of Oregon was vacationing in Arizona he and
Governor Dan E. Garvey of Arizona played together on the
dude ranch owned by Lee U. Eycrly at Wickenburg. The pic
ture above needs no explanation. Garvey is un the left and
McKay right.
Shirley Temple
Shirley Temple
Seeks Divorce
From John Agar
Hollywood, Oct. 13 (U.R Act
ress Shirley Temple will file
suit this afternoon to divorce
Actor John Agar, her first boy
friend, whom she married at one
of the film colony s fanciest
wedding ceremonies four years
ago, it was learned today.
Attorney George Stahlman
said the grounds probably would
be the standard movie-colony
charge of "mental cruelty."
She had been holding back
for a long time trying to make
up her mind whether to take
this important step," Stahlman
said. "It has been coming for
some time.
"Shirley has tried hard to
make things go."
The lawyer said the 21-year-
old Miss Temple has been con
sulting him recently about prob
lems involved in the divorce ac
tion.
He said it was planned to file
the suit today, but that if a hitch
develops in further conferences,
filing would be "very soon."
The actress will ask custody
of their daughter, but will make
no request either for alimony or
for support for the baby.
Although Shirley many times
has denied reports of domestic
trouble, friends have predicted
break-up of this once-idyllic
movictown marriage for several
months.
Increase Shown in
Food Processing
Oregon has 142 seasonal in
dustries under the unemploy
ment compensation law, com
pared with 131a year ago.
The unemployment compensa
tion commission said there are
10 new food processing indus
tries, six new seasonal resorts
and amusement places, and six
new logging and lumber firms.
Of the total, half of the firms
ire food processing plants.
By FRED ZIMMERMAN
Convinced that they are mere
ly living up to the state statutes
forbidding the operation of se
cret societies in the Dublie
schools, a conviction that is
backed up by legal advice, the
Salem school board has carried
out its announced intention of
expelling 19 high school youths.
The names of the boys who
had previously told board mem
bers of their affiliation with an
organization known as "A.B.C.,"
were not revealed by the school
authorities who took the atti
tude that they were juveniles.
The group included 14 seniors,
four juniors and one sopho
more. Parents Protest
However, the names of some
of the parents of the boys in
volved were revealed in a state
ment protesting the action of
the directors against the expul
sion. These included Mrs. Llovd
Lebold, Mrs. R. E. Coats, W. R.
Howard, N. J. Moore, E. A Van
Osdel, H W. Turner, S. Ander
son, Nona M. Klinefelter, A. O.
Olson and J. H. Sohn. This group
threatens legal action against
the board. They plan to hold a
conference Thursday night to
contemplate further action.
The board, in a statement, is
sued after final consideration
of the problem, pointed out
"that the organization of high
school students formed during
the summer, falls within the
type of organization banned by
the state laws of Oregon, which
organizations school boards are
charged with the responsibility
to suppress."
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 1)
Salem Police
Reorganized
A reorganization of the de
tective division of the Salem
police department was in effect
Thursday with the reduction of
the staff by one man.
Final changes were made Wed
nesday night when Leonard
Skinner, detective for the night
shift, was ordered into uniform
and assigned to the daytime pa
trol.
To replace Skinner, Police
Chief A. Warren assigned Pa
trolman David J. Bain to the
plain clothes detail. He will
work from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. as a
patrolman in plain clothes. While
the post doesn't carry a pay in
crease of detective status for
Bain, the assignment is consider
ed an advancement in that it is
an "in training" assignment for
full detective status.
Earlier yesterday, Deteettve
Harvey Tautfcst turned in his
badge and credentials in resigna
tion. The changes leave the detec
tive division with three regu
larly assigned officers David
M. Housrr. Wayne A. Parker and
George Edwards in addition to
Bain.
The shift in the detective di
vision came on the heels of oth
er recent personnel changes of
the department. Last week Har
ley Cordray. former patrolman
in the Hollywood district was
dismissed under charges of civil
service rcgula'ion violations.
Patrolman Everett Odlc was
assigned to cover the area for
merly assigned to Cordray Odlc,
formerly patrolman in the down
town area from midnight to 8
a.m., will work from 8 p.m. to
4 a.m. on his new detail.
Wilford A. LaFountaine, of
1270 Park avcmie. was added to
the list of patrolmen Wednes
day to replace Odle on the down
town beat.
Local Frosts Due
In Salem Area
Local frosts are forecast for
toniKht or early Friday morn-
ling in the Salem area with the
low here due to hit 33 de
grees, one above freezing.
Thursday's minimum slid
down to 35 degrees and Salom
itcs siiivcred a bit during the
early morning.
The general forecast is for
fair weather tonight and Friday,
the cool, snappy temperatures
due to continue.
Some cloudiness is forecast
for the early morning.