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61st Year, No. 252 SJ'T'o.'iZ Salem, Oregon, Saturday, Octobt 1949
Price 5c
2 Cons Killed.
2 Captured, 1
Escapes Prison
McEwen, who Stole
Hearse Here, Slain
In Arizona Break
Phoenix, Arii., Oct. tt VP)
Fir Arliona deaperadoea (mash
ed out of the midtown, fifth
floor county jail early today,
and two fell dead under a blast
f gunfire before they could get
out of the courthouse.
At least one of the prisoners
was killed by a crippled night
watchman whom they had dis
turbed reading in a ground floor
record room.
' The watchman, Tom Stowe,
may have shot the second, but
so many sheriff's deputies were
firing by that time that no one
could be sure who hit him.
Tatum Gets Away
Two of the jailbreakers were
captured on a stairway between
the second and third floors. The
fifth, Jack L. Tatum, 26, crawled
out of a courtroom window and
got away.
A deputy sheriff was shot in
the mouth by one of the pris
oners. Killed were two Arizona
prison pals who were charged
with murder not long after re
lease from the penitentiary.
They were Edward Corcoran,
33, and Edward McEwen, 32.
Both were awaiting trial.
The search for Tatum turned
downtown Phoenix into a furor
in the early morning hours.
Sheriff's deputies roped off the
courthouse grounds to keep sev
eral hundred spectators out of
the range of possible gunfire.
Fire trucks splashed their
searchlights over the building
and shadowy grounds. Road
blocks were thrown up through
out the city.
The prisoners staged their
break about 1:15 a.m. (MST).
, . . H. A. Millett, Jailer, said Tatum
" asked him for aspirin. When he
opened their cell door, the pris
oners Jumped him.
i Leaving Millett locked in the
cell, the prisoners picked up an
automatic pistol in the Jail of
fice and entered an elevator.
v They got out on the second
floor and broke a glass door.
"Corcoran, McEwen and Tatum
started down the stairs to the
(round floor.
Stowe, who had heard the
breaking glass, came out of the
record room to investigate.
"I started up the stairs and
three of them jumped me," he
said. "One had a gun and hit
me on the head. I shot one.
Then I saw one of them on the
steps. I shot him."
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Pick Lawyers
For Frat Case
The Salem school board, in
special session Friday afternoon,
named George Rhoten, Donald
A. Young and Robert DeArmond
to represent the district in the
forthcoming legal battle result
ing from the expulsion of 19
boys from senior high because of
alleged secret society activities.
Young last spring completed
a term of 10 years as a member
of the school board, gaining con
siderable insight into secret so
ciety practices.
Attorneys for the parents of
the dismissed boys recently ob
tained a temporary injunction
against the school board's order,
thereby permitting the group to
return to their classes.
No time for a hearing on the
Injunction has been fixed.
A vote of confidence In the
action of the s c h o o 1 directors
was recently taken by faculty
members of the high school.
Truman's 'Fair Deal'
Called 'False Deal'
Hartford, Conn., Oct. 22 (IP)
Guy C. Gabrielson, chairman of
the republican national commit
tee, Mid today President Tru
man's program is not "Fair Deal"
It all but "False Deal."
. He said in a speech prepared
for delivery before the Connecti
cut Council of Women', Republi
can clubs: "All of u, pay the
fare, and, to far as Connecticut
and many other states are con
cerned, it is an extra fare train
with sub-normal service."
He jabbed at "our present
spendthrift democratic adminis
tration" and at Mr. Truman', un
successful fight to get senate con
firmation of Leland Olds' reap-
pointment to the Federal Power
Commission.
Steelhammer,
French Ask
Speaker's Job
Moore Expected to
Give Support to
Sherman County Man
By JAMES D. OLSON
Although the opening of the
1951 legislative session is more
than 14 months distant, a battle
for speakership in the house is
already under way.
John F. Steelhammer, Marion
county legislator, and Giles
French of Moro are the two an
nounced candidates for the
speakership.
Of course, both of these can
didates must win two elections
before becoming eligible for the
post to which they are aspiring,
the spring primary election in
May 1950 and the general elec
tion in November, 195Q.
Inasmuch as members of the
house are elected for two-year
terms, campaigning for speaker
prior to the November general
election is like shadowboxing.
No definite commitments can
be made until the house mem
bership has been established by
the electorate.
Both Steelhammer and French
have served in many sessions of
the house.
Both are members of the 1949
legislature and Steelhammer has
also served in the 1939, 1941,
1943, 1945 sessions. French first
served in the special session in
1935 and has been a member
continuously since that time.
Moore Not Active
Rep. .Ralph Moore of Coos
Bay, who had been considered
an avowed candidate for speak
er, has apparently withdrawn
and will support French, ac
cording to political gossip.
(Concluded on Pure 5, Column SI
Elliott Plans
For Night Club
Portland. Ore.; Oct. 22 U.R
Recalled Sheriff Mike Elliott an
nounced today he is going to
start a night club and perhaps
a few other things.
Among his plans, Elliott said,
are five more law suits and a
crusading anti-vice force com
posed of deputies who have re
signed or will resign from the
county police force.
He also said a "young man
may run against State Treasurer
Walter J. Pearson for the nomi
nation for governor next spring
on the democratic ticket "Not
to get elected, just to kill his
votes." Elliott declined to say
whether he would be the "young
man."
"Wait till next May," he said.
"Mike Elliott is not dead. Mike
Elliott is just taking a vacation."
On his "watchdog" plan for
vice. Elliott commented:
"I'm a crusader. I'm going to
dedicate my life. As long as I'm
around they'll never run like
they think they re going to run.
Elliott said one of the five
lawsuits he intends to file will
be against Adm. Thomas L.
Gatch (ret.), who headed the re
call committee. Two suits will
be against the Oregonian, he
said. He already has a $500,000
libel suit against the newspaper,
but he didn't say what the other
two suits would be about.
Courthouse Building
Board Meets Tuesday
By DON UPJOHN
Countv Clerk Harlan Judd Saturday definitely called a meet
ing of the courthouse building
afternoon at 4 o clock. The meeting is to De neia wim ircnneci
Pietro Belluschi absent to give the commission member, a
chance to go over the finil
exterior and interior with possi-
bility decision may be made as
to acceptance or some definite
alteration, may be demanded.
The significance of the ab
sence of the architect was ex
plained by County Judge Grant
Murphy, chairman of the com
mission, who said, "We thought
it would be good idea to have
one meeting with the architect
absent so the members ot the
commission can let their hair
down' and express themselves
as they please in regard to thi exterior plans, in particular, al
plans." though the Interior arrange-
He said it is likely another; ments are considered pretty gen
commission meeting may be crally satisfactory.
rall.H nnn afterwards with the! Members nf the commission
architect present, or possibly
nn rhaniei in the D ans are con
templated this may not be nece,
sary. a, he could be given the
go ahead signal on working
plan and making arrangement.
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Strikes Curtail
Train Service
(By tht Associated Prtul
The pinch of the coal and steel
strikes grew slowly tighter to
day. There was little indication
that the pressure would ease
soon. Mediator Ching set anoth
er steel talk for next Monday.
In the coal stoppage, western
and northern operators stopped
talking yesterday with the Unit
ed Mine Workers amid a flurry
of accusation. But UMW and
southern operators' negotiators
were a 1 ittle more optimistic
about breaking their stalemate as
soft coal diggers east of the Mis
sissippi wound up their fifth idle
week.
However, the nation's rail
roads were beginning to curtail
service with their coal-burning
passenger trains. The Interstate
Commerce Commission ordered
those roads with 25 days' coal
supply or less to cut back 25 per
cent in use of their steam locom
otives for passenger hauling aft
er midnight next Tuesday.
Some lines had already or
dered curbs, including the New
York Central railroad, which or
dered 89 trains suspended after
midnight Saturday. The rail
road said it would stop another
100 trains to conform with the
government order.
Australia to
Re-arm Army
Sydney, Australia. Oct. 22 M
The Sunday Herald said today
Australia's army is going to re
organize, and standardize arms
with the U. S., to "prepare for
the inevitable war with Russia.
Top level conferences between
Australian cabinet ministers and
Army Chief of Staff Lieut. Gen
V. A. H. Sturdee brought about
the decision, the newspaper sain
Sturdee was said to have told
the ministers that war between
the western powers and Russia
is inevitable and that Austra
lia's defenses are a "tragic
farce." He also was reported to
have said that the British com
monwealth must get used to
playing second fiddle in defense
matters to the United States.
The newspaper said the reor
ganization program would in
clude an intensive recruiting
campaign for regular army and
militia and atomic warfare in
struction for all ranks..
commission for next Tuesday
draft of the plan, both a, to the
for an eventual call for bids.
Member, of the commission
here declined to express them
selves as to possibility of ma
terial alterations in the exterioi
of the building. "Surely none
will be asked for unless there's
something materially better that
can be had at not too great
expense," said one of them. It
is known, however, that some
members of the commission are
not completely satisfied with the
if; include Judge Murphy and Com
- 1 miss oners Koy Rice and ta nog
er, of the county court, Charles' grounds of "extreme cruelty,
A. Sprague, Salem: Ray Glatt I mental in character." The Sack
Woodburn, and Carl Steiwer.l c"ts were married August 2
Jefferson, a, the lay member, 1948, in San Francisco.
Sentenced Handcuffed together and flanked by U. S. mar
shals, Eugene Dennis (second from left), general secretary of
Communist party, and City Councilman Benjamin Davis make
way from prison van to Federal building to receive sentences
following their conviction along with nine others on charges
of conspiracy against government. (AP)
5 Arrested in Detroit
In Raid for Gambling
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
A raid conducted by the Marion county sheriff's office, state
police and an agent of the state
vision resulted in the arrest of
brought to district court Saturday morning.
The lawmen went into action
Work on Giant
Atom Smasher
Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 22 (IP)
Atomic scientists at the Univer
sity of California are working
with a 2500-ton pilot model of a
giant new atom-smashing ma
chine which they hope to com
plete in four years.
The new atom smasher is call
ed Bevatron.
The working model was un
veiled at the university's radia
tion laboratory here yesterday.
With it to guide them, scientists
Prof. Ernest O. Lawrence's
famed laboratory hope to make
startling new discoveries about
atomic energy.
The Bevatron which they are
building is expected to be 20
times as powerful as anything
now in existence. It will be a
6,000,000,000-volt machine, four
times as big as the model now In
operation.
With the Bevatron, the Uni
versity of California scientists
expect to duplicate some of the
atom smasring feats of moder
ately strong cosmic rays, and to
do it in a laboratory where they
can be controlled.
The energy involved in cosmic
ray nuclear explosions and in
big atom smashers is, atom for
atom, many times greater than
that of the atom bomb.
Famed Burma
Road Utilized
Hong Kong. Oct. 22 (UB Re
ports from Kunming in south
west China said today the fam
ed Burma road was being re
paired to supply nationalist
troops for a last stand along the
last Indo-China and Burmese
borders.
Reliable reports here said
lhat French authorities in Indo-
China were negotiating with the
nationalists to form an anti-communist
buffer area in southwest
China.
These reports said the French
offered military help to the na
tionalists so they could hold out
against the communists and pre
vent them Joining forces with
communist guerrilla bands in
Indo-China.
The buffer area would be es
tablished in Yunnan in Kwang
si and Kweichow provinces.
Weds Again After
Divorcing Sackett
Carson Cily, Nev.. Oct. 22 0J.R)
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rambo,
Portland, Ore , were on their
honeymoon today following a
wedding that took place minutes
after Mrs. Rambc divorced Shel
don Sackett. west coast news
paper publisher and radio sta
tion owner.
The couple was married by
I District Judge Clark J. Guild,
wno graniea me aivurtc mi
liquor control enforcement di
five men in Detroit who we.c
shortly before midnight Friday
and, armed with a warrant is
sued under a secret indictment
from the Marion county grand
lury, they arrested James Carl
Manasco, Ted Irzyk, Lester Wil
liam Cornelius, Charles Cook
and Clifton Veal.
During the raid, some 44 decks
of cards, 82 pairs of dice, poker
chips, a card table, chairs and
card marking dyes and cubes
were seized at the Cascade
rooms, a Detroit establishment.
Sheriff Denver Young said
that several of the decks were
specially wrapped with papers
noting how they were marked
to advise the dealer.
Deputies pointed out that dyes
of the type which were picked
up in the raid were frequently
used by gambling houses to mark
cards for "crooked games." Also,
it was said, 17 pairs of spectacles
with different tinted glasses
were taken, these evidently be
ing used to detect the dyes.
The sheriff said that some of
the evidence secured in the raid
would be presented to the grand
Jury for further action.
The specific charges ;ainst
the men were combined in two
separate charges. Irzyk and
Manasco were charged on one
count with unlawfully selling al
coholic liquor. That charge was
continued for plea to Oct. 29,
and bail was set for $500. Both
men pleaded innocent
Manasco was charged along
with three other men with play
ing an unlawful game. The oth
ers similarly charged were Clif
ton Veal, Lester William Cor
nelius and Charles Cook. Manas
co entered a plea of innocent.
and a hearing date was set for
Dec. 14 to avoid conflict in time
with another court case against
him. Veal, Cornelius and Cook
pleaded guilty and were fined
$100 and costs. Manasco's bail
was set at $200 on that charge.
Although the raid in Detroit
was staged before midnight, de
tails of taking equipment into
custody, and the long trip to
Salem over foggy roads kept the
raiding party and their quarry
busy until 3:30 a.m. Saturday.
Jap Whaling Expedition
Tokyo, Oct. 22 (U-R The
fourth Japanese whaling expedi
tion to the Antarctic since the
end of the Pacific war will sail
on Nov. 1 from Yokosura.
ipjj :
High School Journalists Buying ticket, for the Shasta Daylight are delegates from Salem
high school's Viking and Clarion ataffs. They went Saturday on the train to Eugene for the
annual Oregon high school press conference. R. H. Welsh, ticket clerk (at left) sells ticket,
to F.dna Hill, Janet Gaiser, David Blarkmer, Joyce Armstrong. Bonny Stewart, Pebble De
Sart, Marilyn Power, Bob Hamblin, Margaret Bown and Susan Steed.
U.N. Assembly
Finds Balkan
Nations Guilty
Violation of Human
Rights Behind Iron
Curtain Voted 47 to 5
New York, Oct. 22 W The
United Nations assembly turned
aside bitter Soviet protests to
day and in effect upheld western
charges of violations of human
rights behind the Iron Curtain
in Bulgaria, Hungary and Ro
mania.
The assembly voted 47 to 5
(Slav bloc) to express its grave
concern over the charges.
It also asked the international
court of justice for an advisory
opinion whether the Soviet sat
ellites are obligated to carry out
the long disputes.
Finally, the assembly decided
to keep the issue alive until it
meets again next year.
Raised Last Spring
The human rights issue was
raised in the assembly last
spring after the trials and con
victions of Josef Cardinal Mind
szenty of Hungary and 14 piot
estant clergymen in Bulgaria.
Romania was added to the list of
countries allegedly violating hu
man rights during the summer.
The final Soviet bloc blast
against the western charges was
made by Dmitri Z. Manuilsky,
Soviet Ukrainian foreign min
ister. He declared fundamental
human rights are being violat
ed every day in the United
States.
Called Dirty Slander,
Manuilsky made his charge in
the closing stages of the debate
which saw the Soviet foreign
minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky
hitting at the convictions here
of eleven top American cominun
ists.
Manuilsky told the asse mbly
that western charges agiinst
Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania
were "dirty slanders ' and 'fla
grant falsifications."
He attacked the United States
for being on of the countries to
press the charges, saying t.iat it
was strange for such action to
come from a land where "lynch
law" and "Jim Crow" prevails
and where "fundamental iiurr.an
rights are being violated every
day."
Mass Spy Trial
For Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria, Ovt. 22 (UK)
The communist government has
created a special seven - man
court for a mass spy trial which
informed sources said today
would include many cabinet
ministers and high government
officials.
Recent releases by the govern
ment press office indicated the
trial would follow the same pat
tern as the one in Hungary in
which Laszlo Rayk, No. 2 Hun
garian communist, was condemn
ed to death.
Parliament was called into
special session Thursday to pass
a law authorizing a trial for
"members of the government.
The law was passed yesterday
after a two-day session.
Parliament adjourned immedi
ately after approving the law
Its term expires Oct. 28 and gen
eral elections for a new parlia
ment will be held Dec. 18.
The court in which the com
munist government ministers
will be tried will consist ot a
president, two Judges and four
jurors elected by parliament
Its verdict will be final.
Among those expected to be
tried are form Finance Minister
Petko Kunin, who was relieved
of his duties on Oct. 8 along with
hi, deputy, Georgi Petrov.
City Plans to
Ask $240,000
As Bank Loan
New Law Utilized
Instead of Warrants
Until Tax Money
By STEPHEN A. STONE
To tide the city of Salem overithat military purge, may be in
until new tax monev be-ins toithe wll"l result of bitter
come in the city will borrow
from the banks under an act of
the 1949 legislature instead of
using the old system of 'j.iu-
ing .warrants .endorsed "not
paid for want ot funds."
An ordinance bill author! nig
City Treasurer Paul H. Hauser
to borrow $240,000 is on tho cal
endar for third readingMonday
night.
This does not mean the city is
hard pressed, that the situation
is unusual, or that it is different
from the experience of other
communities.
Annual Shortage
The city receives from the
county its share of new tax col
lections each year mainly dur
ing the mid-winter months, be
ginning in December. During a
period immediately be ore col
lections begin to come in there is
a shortage of ready cash.
Heretofore, during this per
iod, it has been the practice to
issue warrants endorsed "not
paid for want of funds." These
were cashed by the banks, and
so endorsed by the city treasurer
upon being returned to him, and
the city paid the banks i per
cent interest.
The 1949 legislative act puts
cities on the same basis that
school districts operate It is
simply borrowing monev .nti
being credited with it at the
bank as an individual borrows
money to meet current bills The
interest rate is lower thaa with
the old system. The loans are
on warrants or short-term notes
An ordinance bill will be in
troduced Monday night creat
ing Salem's new Ward 8 author
ized in the special election oi
October 14. It will comprise all
of that part of Salem which is in
Polk county, namely Kingwood
water district and the city of
West Salem. The eighth mem
ber of the council to serve from
the new ward will not be elect
ed until the West Salem merger
is effective November 14
The same bill will also restore
Ward 3 to its former boundaries.
Temporarily it was changed to
include the Kingwood district.
(Concluded an Pace 5, Column ,1
Group of Czech
'Spies' on Trial
Prague, Oct. 22 The
Czechoslovakian government to
day placed on trial in a small
town near here a group of citi
zen charged with spying for an
unnamed "foreign intelligence
service."
Announcement of the trial at
Louny, 40 miles from Prague,
came only a day after the Czech
foreign ministry accused mem
bers of the United States em
bassy of heading a widespread
espionage system in Czcchoslo
vakia.
The official Czech news
agency said the accused ai
Louny were a group of former
factory owners, butchers, laxi
drivers and professional bandits.
The number in the group was
not stated. They were describ
ed as "desperate spies and ter
rorists" against whom the
agency saia a vernict wouia dc
returned in three days.
Isaac Patch, 37, U.S. embassy
attache expelled by the govern
ment on charges of leading a spy
ring, left Prague for Germany.
He denied the charges.
Purges Loom
In Row Over
Unification
Congressmen Caution
Against Pentagon
Reprisals in Navy
Washington, Oct. 22 (IP) Talk
armed forces disagreement over
unification brought sharp word,
of caution today from two house
members.
Reps. Short (R-Mo) and Sass-
cer (D-Md) spoke up in the
wake of spreading reports that
some heads may roll in the Pen
tagon as an aftermath of the
congressional h e a r i n gs which
wound up yesterday.
Those reports received impe
tus from Secretary of Defense
Johnson's statement to the house
armed services committee yester
day that it was failure to sup
port unification which resulted
in the resignation of Former Sec
retary of the Navy John L. Sul
1 i v a n a statement Sullivan
promptly denied.
Wants No Reprisal,
Short, expressing concern ov
er the rumors, said he intends
to see to it that Johnson sticks
to personal assurances that there
will be no reprisals over airing
of navy grievances.
"If they think they can get
unification by ruthlessly elimi
nating opposition, they've got
another think coming," he told
reporters. "Everything can be
worked out all right it there'.
not too much vindictiveness."
Sasscer, like Short, a navy
sympathizer, declared:
'The important thing is to
get the armed services working
as a team. We nave got to be
careful to keep away from any
elimination or purges."
(Concluded on Past 5, Column I)
Tension Over
Amtorg Case
Washington, Oct. 22 VP) In
dictment of Russia', famed Am
torg Trading Corporation and it,
top officers as unregistered for
eign agents appears certain to set
off new tensions between the
United States and the Soviet Un
ion. The indictment was returned
by a federal grand jury here and
announced by Attorney General
McGrath late yesterday. It
charged the corporation and six
officer, with failure to register
as agents of a foreign power in
accordance with American law.
The maximum penalty i, a $10,
000 fine and five years imprison
ment. Washington officials promptly
began speculating on Soviet re
prisals. The Russian embassy
was reported to have lodged a
formal protest with the state de
partment and a Moscow propa
ganda blaast denouncing the in
dictment was expected almost
immediately.
Shortly after McGrath made
his announcement, five of the
Russians were arrested in New
York and taken before a U. S.
commissioner, who held them un
der $15,000 bail each pending a
hearing Wednesday on removal
to Washington.
The fixtli Amtorg official a
vice president of the company
is in Russia. Those taken into
custody were the firm's presi
dent, a vice president, the treas
urer, the secretary and a former
assistant treasurer now doing
other work.
Dedicate Dorena
Dam on Sunday
Cottage Grove, Oct. 22
The $14 million Dorena dam,
built to hold back the Row river
southeast of Cottage Grove,
will be dedicated at a public
ceremony here Sunday after
noon. Governor Douglas McKay
will press a button setting the
dam in operation.
The plans called for comple
tion of the project In July of
1950. A 705-foot concrete spill
way section rises 147 feet into
the air, but the greater part of
the dam is earth fill, stretching
-3 2600 feet southward from t h e
concrete. The four million cu
bic yards of earth in the dam
were almost all put in place last
summer, with crews working 17
hours a day, Sunday, and holi
days included.
The dam is the third of a se
ries of flood control project, be
ing built in the Willamette val
ley. Detroit dam on the North
Santiam and Meridian dam on
the Willamette, near Lowell, arc
.under construction.