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61st Year, No. 275 SSSfJfSSoXS Salem, Oregon, Friday, November 18, 1949
Price 5c
15 Involved in
Sex Charges
Involving Girl
13 Under Arrest and
Warrants Out for
Two More
By DOUGLAS THOMAS
Who will be next? That was
the $64 question Friday which
(till busied police, worried others
and kept alive the lively topic
of conversation the sex lite of
a 14-year-old Salem schoolgirl.
Two more warrants were re
Dorted on hand Friday. Four
others arrested Thursday
brought the total under arrest to
13. Each of the four signed ad
missions for police.
Five of those arrested earlier
in the case were brought before
Circuit Judge George R. Duncan
for sentence Friday morning.
All of the rape charges were re
duced to charges of contributing
to the delinquency of a minor.
Sentenced to Prison
John Hoffert, whose record
showed two penitentiary terms
as well as a sentence to the state
school for boys, was sentenced
to serve 16 months in the state
penitentiary again.. He will be
eligible for parole in a year.
Maurice Murdock and Carl A.
Coulson, were sentenced to a
year in the penitentiary, but the
sentence was suspended. They
were placed on probation for
three years and were ordered to
' surrender state and city licenses
and were ordered not to drive
for hire during the period of
probation.
It was Murdock whom the
girl accused of leading her to
prostitution.
Carter Hearing Nov. 25
Richard Roy Carter, operator
of Dickerin' Dick's used car lot
on south 12th street, asked for
time to enter a plea and a hear
ing date was set for November
25 at 9:30 a. m.
Don Clark, part owner of a
cab company, pleaded not guilty
Bail was continued at $1,000.
Meanwhile, six others charged
with rape, including the men
arrested Thursday, were taken
before district court. There, they
waived preliminary examina
tions and were ordered held for
higher court action.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 7)
Taxi Firms May
Lose Licenses
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom an
nounces that the taxi companies
operating in Salem may be asked
to appear before the city council
and Jhow cause why their li
censes should not be revoked.
He said he would ask for a coun
cil investigation.
Both cab licenses and space
allotted for taxi stands must be
approved by the city council. Li
censes cost the. operators $50 a
year for each vehicle, $10 a year
for stand space in the metered,
area and $25 a year outside the
metered district.
Licenses are limited to one
for each 2000 population.
Crommelin Asks
Court Martial
Washington, Nov. 18 (U.B
Capt. John G. Crommelin to
day asked Adm. Forrest P. Sher
man, chief of naval operations,
either to withdraw a public rep
rimand which questioned his fit
ness or to court martial him.
The veteran navy flier, who
precipitated the congressional
Investigation of the unification
battle, said that Sen. Joseph R.
McCarty (R-Wis.) and Rep. Pat
Sutton (D-Tenn.), have offered
to be his lawyers if he is court
martialed.
Sherman publicly reprimand
ed Crommelin on Nov. 8 and
questioned his ability for future
command because he had releas
ed confidential navy letters crit
ical of national defense policies.
Crommelin said he wants the
reprimand wiped from his rec
ordor a court martial. He said
he was making public his re
ply since the official repri
mand was a public one. Navy
reprimands usually are not made
public.
"It is respectfully requested."
Crommelin advised Sherman,
"that the public reprimand . .
cither be cancelled completely
and forever, and expunged from
all naval files and records, or
that I be Given the opportunity
to present the reasons for ny
actions before a group of offic
era in a general court martial."
Dispute Over
School Survey
Left to Board
Neuner Disapproves
Appointment of Holy
As Director
By JAMES D. OLSON
An argument between mem
bers of a legislative educational
advisory committee and Attor-
ney General George Neuner
over use of basic school funds to
conduct a survey of elementary
schools in Oregon was finally
shifted Friday to the state
emergency board for settlement.
The advisory committee, of
which Frank Schiro of La
Grande, is chairman, submitted
a proposed contract for employ
ment of Dr. Thomas A. Holy of
Ohio State university as direc
tor of the survey.
Neuner refused to approve the
contract holding that first, the
advisory committee had no au
thority to employ Holy and sec
ond that the contract delegated
authority possessed by the state
board of education to an indi
vidual.
Long Argument
At a meeting of the board of
of education Friday members
of the board and the advisory
committee argued for several
hours and finally the attorney
general held that inasmuch as
money had been set aside by the
legislature out of basic school
funds for a "periodic study of
the elementary school system
of Oregon" the board would
have the right to employ quali
fied persons to assist in such a
study.
Such persons, he held, could
be either from within or with
out the state.
No Funds Budgeted
However, although $93,000 of
administrative funds have been
set aside in the state treasury
no funds for the survey have
been budgeted, Neuner contend
ed, therefore, approval of a
budget by th- emergency board
is required. The matter will go
before the emergency board Fri
day afternoon for consideration.
Neuner held that the proposed
contract which he refuses to ap
prove proposed delegation of
authority of the board of educa
tion to hire personnel and carry
out other duties of the board.
"This contract," he said, "vio
lates the civil service law as well
as the budget control law."
Threatened Resignations
Schiro in opening his discus
sion said that the advisory board
was not satisfied with the attor
ney general's ruling but later
he and other members of the
board said that they wished a
clarification on the law from the
attorney general. As a result.
a reported resignation of the en
tire advisory board was averted.
Members of the advisory com
mittee in addition to the chair
man are State Senator Robert
Holmes, Astoria; Mrs. Lucille
O'Neill, Klamath Falls: Miss
Elizabeth Ducey, Portland; Ben
Buisman; Rep. Herman Hender-
shott, Eugene, and Rep. Lyle
rnomas of West Salem.
The state board of education
is composed of Gov. McKay,
Secretary of State Newbry, Rex
Putnam, superintendent of pub
lic instruction; Miss May Dar
ling, Portland; Paul H. Spill-
man, Powell Butte; Mrs. Georgia
Patterson, Hillsboro. and Harry
Boivan, Klamath Falls.
Mainela Gets 10 Years
For Market Robbery
Joseph Mainella received a 10-year maximum sentence in the
state penitentiary Friday before Judge George R. Duncan as one
of a trio who on September 20 held William L. Gracn at the
point of a gun in his 12th itreet market, eloped with the cash
register from which they extracted $75 and threw the register
in the river. Mainella's com
panions, Dale Palston and Art
Rusie, both 19, were given sus
pended sentences, each placed
on five years' probation, resti
tution to be made. Mainella is
lc have credit for time he has
spent in Jail.
Mainella told the court that
he was responsible for the
crime. "1 was th"! oldest," he
said "and the other boyi were
brought into this by me. I had
the gun and if it wasn't for
my presence they'd never have
been in the trouble."
The three met at I dance
at the Horst hop yard and
while coming into town to get
some beer, he said, the plan of
the robbery was hatched and
immediately put into execution
Palston's father, a captain in
the Seattle fire department, was
in court and made a pica for
his boy.
B-29 Crash Kills
5 in Take-off
Tampa, Fla., Nov. 18 ff A
B-29 starting out to hunt for the
B-29 missing near Bermuda
crashed brfre seconds after take
off here today.
Five of the nine known crew
men aboard were killed. The
other four were thrown clear of
the plane and were only slightly
hurt.
The plane was from MacDill
air base and was one of nearly
100 air force, navy and coast
guard planes which have been
searching for the bomber which
ran out of fuel and crash land
ed in the sea Wednesday.
The crash of the MacDill
bomber occurred shortly before
8 a.m.
Seconds after it took off from
the field which borders Tampa
bay, its number four engine be
gan to smoke. As it turned to
land, the engine broke loose and
the plane crashed.
The tide was out at the time
and the ship plunged into mud
and slime. .
The muck prevented a crash
boat from reaching the wreck
age and greatly hampered fire
men from reaching the scene
with hose.
Czechs Convict
35 of 'Spying'
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Nov.
18 W) A Prague state court an
nounced the smashing of a big
spy ring today as it sent 35
Czechs to prison for sentences
ranging from life to one year.
They were convicted of aiming
to overthrow the Communist
government.
The group included two for
mer members of the Czechoslo
vak security police. Three of the
accused were women.
The court charged them with
spying for an unnamed western
power.
The trial, which lasted eight
days, was one of a series of trea
son trials going on virtually non
stop in Czechoslovak courts.
Most of them are held in secret.
Indications that more espion
age arrests and trials were con
templated appeared in a special
security police broadcast today
urging greater vigilance against
the "aims of the rotten western
reactionary regime which sends
spies and diversionist agents in
to our country."
Mainella was shown to have
in exceptional record as a para
trooper in the war and bears
machine gun wounds received
in Sicily.
Vera Mills, who several weeks
ago was indicted by the grand
Jury for contributing to the de
linquency of her IB -year -old
son for allegedly allowing him
to roam at will and failing to
exercise restraint over him
changed a previous pica of not
guilty to guilty and was sen
tenced to six months in jail
which was suspended and pro
bation imposed for two years.
James Clyburn, who pleaded
guilty to raising a $5 check to
$50, was continued for sentence
to November 25 until his FBI
record comes in. He admitted
a previous conviction under the
Dyer act In Tennessee
(Concluded on Pag i, Column II
B-29s Collide Head-on Air force B-29 Superfortress lies
twisted and crumpled on marshy Macdonald island near
Stockton, Calif., after it collided head-on with another B-29
during a routine "round robin" training flight to California
from Spokane, Wash. The second B-29 crashed two miles
away on'Rindge Tract and buried itself in 16 feet of slimy
delta mud. Eighteen of the 21 airmen aboard the two planes
were killed and three parachuted to safety. (Acme Telephoto.)
3 Plane Survivors at
Loss to Explain Collision
Fairfield-Suisin Airforce Base,
(P Three men who lived through the collision of two B-29's
over the nearby San Joaquin
to explain the accident.
Neither could they understand
Life Raft Seen
In B-29 Search
Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 18
(U.R) A yellow object believed
to be a one-man life raft was
sighted today by aerial scouts
searching the Atlantic for sur
vivors of a Superfortress which
went down somewhere off Ber
muda with 20 aboard two days
ago. '
The object Avas spotted 240
miles northeast of Bermuda-at
3:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. EST).
The B-29 which saw it lost
contact in the spotty weather
over that part of the Atlantic.
Long afterward it radioed that
it was circling the area in an
effort to rediscover it.
Reports from the searching
B-29 to Kindley field, the U.S.
air force base here, gave no clue
'o whether any sign of life was
detected on the object believed
to be a life raft.
Officers speculated that the
crewmen probably were unable
to get any clear idea one way
or the other, particularly since
the loss of contact indicated
they had only a fleeting glimpse
of the object.
The report was the most prom
ising indication so far of find
ing survivors of the Superfort
ditched somewhere off Bermu
da when it had radio and com
pass trouble.
Dirty weather had promised
to throttle if not thwart the
search today, just as searchers
mougnt tney might be near
finding .survivors.
Budworm War
Given Boards OK
The state emergency board
guaranteed today that Oregon
would take part in a $1,151,000
program to try to wipe the
spruce budworm from almost
1,000,000 acres of forest lands
in the state next year.
The board appropriated $197,-
000 today. The federal govern
ment will pay $857,000 of the
cost, and private timber own
ers will pay $97,000.
Acting State Forester George
Spaur told the board that unless
immediate action is taken, the
pest will destroy the state'i for
ests.
It is killed by aerial spraying
with DDT. He said thil method
was 97 per cent effective on the
267,000 acres dusted last year
by plane.
The lands to be sprayed next
year are on northeast Oregon,
southwest of Pendleton, south of
Mt. Hood, and between Bend and
Eugene. About 75 per cent of it
is in eastern Oregon.
The treatment can be given
only during two weeks of each
year.
Of the total acreage to be
treated, 633,000 are in federal
forests, 323,950 on privately
owned lands, and 1,850 in state
and county lands.
Spaur said research experts
have met with no success in
trying to find a natural parasite
which would kill the budworm.
Solano County, Calif., Nov. 18
river delta were at a loss today
the death of all the other 18
men aboard the two planes
which plummeted to earth at
midnight Wednesday
Delta
islands near Stockton.
The dead were all in what
was left of the fuselages of the
planes. Some had chutes partly
strapped to their bodies. They
never made it to escape hatches
The three survivors at the
Fairfield-Suisun airbase hospital
groped through fogged remem
brances of their last few seconds
aloft.
I was getting ready to call
the navigator for position to send
to Spokane when I heard the
crash," said Pvt. Keith R. Burns,
of Boise, Ida., lone survivor of
the craft which crashed in
flames. "I was knocked to the
floor. I put on my parachute
and the last I can remember was
when I saw the navigator trying
to get out.
'I couldn't remember anything
after that. I don't know how I
got out of the plane. The next
thing I knew I was falling. I
pulled the ripcord and looked up
and saw a plane burning.
I saw the lights of a city be
low."
TSgt. Frank Schmit of Neg
lcy, Ohio, said he was making an
entry in the log sitting behind
tne copilot when the planes
crashed.
o "I saw nothing," he said. "I
deprcssurized the plane and put
the. nose wheel in down position
and slipped on my chute.
"I turned to the pilot (Lt. War
ren Sharrock) and said, 'I'm
leaving.' Sharrock was busy yel
ling to the copilpt in an attempt
to get the plane under control.
I was sitting on my chute. The
ship was in a spin and rolling
over. The spin threw me free."
The other survivor, Sgt Rob
cr S. Kluge of Spokane, Wash.,
related:
I heard the radio operator
get Instructions from the pilot
and right after that I heard the
crash. I was thrown to the floor.
The plane started rolling. 1
didn't hear an alarm bell or any
thing. I started crawling to the
rear, to the bomb bay door."
One of the bombers crashed
in flames on McDonald island in
the rich delta land 18 miles
northwest of Stockton. The oth
er broke in pieces on Muddy
Rindge tract, two miles away. It
did not burn.
'Too Mony Calls'
Js what (his man said
about the classified ail
Inserted In the Capital
Journal.
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line chicken hou. A doiibk farate.
fimllr orchard, no a month. Pn. - .
"The phone was ring
ing when we reached
home and It continue
to ring until 10:30 th
nite, then lt started
again in the morning.
We had over 100 calls;
that is real service."
Mr. J. C.
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Kidnap-Slayer
Says Doesn't
Deserve to Live
Stroble Blames Little
Girl's Murder on
Drunkeness
Los Angeles, Nov. 18 'Pi
Swiftly, the courts started to
work today to bring Fred Stro
ble to justice for the sex slay
ing of little Linda Joyce Glucoft.
Less than a day after he was
picked up in a downtown bar,
the 66-year-old baker was ar
raigned in municipal court on a
murder charge.
Over objections of the public
defender's office, Judge Leroy
Dawson set Stroblc's prelimina
ry hearing for next Monday. The
defender's office wanted a de
lay, on the ground that Stroble
has no private attorney and no
plans for one.
Deputy District Attorney
Adolph Alexander predicted
that Stroble, accused of stran
gling, beating and stabbing six-
-year-old Linda to death, will be
brought to trial in superior court
by early December.
To Ask Death Penalty
"We will ask for the death
penalty," said Alexander.
Stroble had a hunted look as
he was brought into court, hea
vily manacled, through a well-
behaved crowd which jammed
the corridor.
Stroble, the grandfather of one
of Linda's favorite playmates.
poured out his sordid story to
District Attorney William Simp
son as a 48-hour fugitive search
throughout the west and into
Mexico wound up yesterday on
a stool in a downtown Los An
geles bar about five blocks
from central police station and
across the street from a down
town park.
Simpson said Stroble, formally
charged with murder, admitted
that he strangled and bludgeoned
the pudgy little girl to death
(Concluded on P-p 5. Column 5)
Suspect Held in
Kidnap-Murder
Burley, Idaho, Nov. 18 (U.R)
A 16-year-old youth was taken
into custody today by state po
lice at a roadblock near Ham
mctt, Ida., for questioning in
connection with the brutal kid-
nap-murdcr of seven-year-old
Glcnda Joyce Brisbois of Burley.
State Police Superintendent A.
P. Bunderson gave the youth's
name as Niel Buttcrficld, 16, son
of Mr. and Mrs. James Butter-
field, who live in the Emerson
district of Minidoka, just across
the Snake river from Burley.
The youth, driving a "hot
rod" version of a 1934 Ford, was
hailed at the Hammctt road
block, one of a dozen set up
along highways west of Burley
by State Police Officer Kenneth
De Young. Buttcrficld had a pas
senger with him, described by
De Young as a hitchhiker.
Hammctt is about 100 miles
west of Burley.
Both Buttcrficld and the hilch
hiker were placed in a police
car and driven toward Twin
Falls or Burley for questioning
Probate Judge Henry W.
Tucker of Burley said Buttcr
ficld was committed in Decem
ber, 1947, to the state industrial
school on a delinquency charge
involving a bogus check.
Buttcrficld was apprehended
in response to a state police gen
cral alarm broadcast.
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Vice President and Fiancee Vice President Alben Bark
Icy (left) who married Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley (right) in
St. Louis today, is all smiles as he ives his bow tic that last
minute twist at dinner of the National Trailer Coach Manu
facturers at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Hadley Is shown in a
recent portrait made at the home of a friend. (AP Wirephoto.)
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Kidnap Sex-Slayer Fred
Stroble, sought in the Linda
Glucoft slaying, is brought to
the Los Angeles district at
torney's office after his cap
ture in a downtown park and
admission of the crime. (AP
Wirephoto.)
Navy Cuts Planes
Near 20 Percent
Washington, Nov. 18 W The
navy today ordered about zu
per cent of its combat planes
taken out of service during the
next four months and is con
sidering whether others must be
withdrawn.
The move signals insistence
from Defense Secretary Johnson
oh economy cuts, bitterly, pro
tested by naval officials, which
figured in recent congressional
hearings on inter-service rows.
The navy announced that a
total of 35 squadrons 28 navy
and seven marine will be de
commissioned. The sea service
now has about 2,250 first line
combat planes, besides support
and service aircraft.
The 35 squadrons to be de
commissioned contain about 480
combat craft.
The navy department an
nounced some time ago that a
25 per cent cut in air strength
would be required under the
over-all economy program order
by Secretary Johnson.
When asked if today's order
might mean that additional
planes would be pulled out of
service to bring the total to
the 25 per cent reduction, a
spokesman said that question is
still undecided and is being
studied.
Johnson is sticking to his plan
to clip $865,000,000 out of de
fense department spending in
the current fircal year, ending
next June 30. The navy's share
in the cut, for both ship and
plane operation, will be $353,
00f.,000. Pope to Return to Vatican
Vatican City, Nov. 18 !)
Pope Pius XII will end his stay
at the Cartel Gandolfo summer
residence next week and return
to Rome to prepare for the open
ing of Holy Year, on Christmas
Eve, Vatican sources said today.
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Barkley Weds
Mrs. Hadley
In St. Louis
Romance in Spotlight
For 4 Months Climaxed
In Church Ceremony
St. Louis. Nov. 18 HP Vice
President Alben W. Barkley and
Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley ex
changed wedding vows today,
he with a resounding baritone
"I will" and she in a low mur
mur. Her voice could scarcely be
hcaid in the comparatively
small chapel of St. John's Meth
odist church.
A crowd which Police Chief
Jernmiah O'Connell estimated
at more than 5,000 waited out
side and cheered wildly when
the couple appeared after the
ceremony.
There was a slight appearance
of tears of happiness in Mrs.
Hadlcy's eyes as she and the
vice president, arm in arm and
beaming at each other, walked
down the aisle from the altar.
Bishop Performs Ceremony
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt per
formed the ceremony with the
assistance of the Rev. Albea
Godbold, pastor of the church.
The only guests were mem
bers of the families of the bride
and groom 33 of them plus
the vice president's civilian aide,
William Vaughan.
They sat on the right hand
side of the chapel.
There were no ushers. The
vice president will be 72 next
Thursday.
The wedding was scheduled
tor 11 a.m. The crowd at the
canopied entrance of the chapel
caused a slight delay and it was
at 11:05 a.m. when the organ
came out with "Here Comes the
Bride."
When they finally stepped
out and faced the photographers.
the crowd tossed a shower of
rice The couple stood and chat
ted for about 10 minutes while
pictures were taken.
Bride Fully Composed
She was fully composed and
complied when someone in the
crowd behind her asked her to
turn around so her face could
be seen. The reaction from the
one who made the request was,
isn't she sweet.
At length the bride said:
"Alben, I don't think they're
going to let us get out of here."
Barkley said. "It looks like
it. doesn't it." Then he gave the
"V for victory" sign, made fam
ous by Winston Church, appar
ently to signify his successful
suit for the lady's hand.
Mrs. Hadley. who first met
the vice president on a cruise
down the Potomac last July,
wore a smartly tailored woolen
suit of "Barkley blue."
(Concluded on Pace 5. Column 6)
New Effort to
Free Consul
Washington, Nov. 18 (fl
New efforts to end the imprison
ment of Consul General Angus
Ward by the Chinese commun
ists termed an outrage by Pre
sident Truman apparently will
be based on the power of the
pen instead of the big stick.
One possible move by the
state department is dispatch of
a note to Moscow asking Rus
sian intervention with the red
Chinese government.
Another is a new American
appeal direct to the communist
government at Pciping to free
the American diplomat and per
mit him and his whole staff to
leave Mukden as soon as pos
sible. President Truman told a news
conference yesterday that he
thinks the communist treatment
of Ward is an outrage.
The consul general, ranking
American diplomat in MUKncn
in Manchuria, was arrested
along with his four staff mem
bers on October 24. The com
munist radio said he was accused
of having physically beaten i
Chinese employe of the consul-
,aie in a wage aispuic.
I Th. Amnrirnn irnvprnmplit hns
had no direct word from him
since. Other members of the con
sulate staff have been permitted
to send him and his four aides
food and clothing for which they
have been given receipts. Their
reports to the state department
on the alleged Incident which
caused the arrests have been sup
pressed by the communists.
Kussla Returns Frigates
Yokosuka, Nov. 18 liPt All
27 patrol type frigates loaned to
Russia under wartime lendlease
have been returned to the U. S.
navy, it was announced today.