Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, November 21, 1949, Page 2, Image 2

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    2 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Nov. 21, 1919
Jailer Beaten by
Armed Escapees
Coquille, Ore., Nov. 21
Three heavily armed Coos coun
ty jail escapees were hunted to
day. The trio of young men bat
tered an elderly jailer last night,
looted the jail office of shot
guns and pistols and fled into
the night.
I Sheriff William Howell Iden
tified the escapees as James Lyle
Vlning, 23; Doyle Gault, 22; and
David Clinton Maynard, 20.
Jailer G. H. Atherton, 70, was
beaten about the head and is in
the Myrtle Point hospital. The
jail matron, Mrs. F. Staten. es
caped possible harm by lock
ing herself In I room when the
three men broke out of the cell
block.
They had lured Atherton into
the cell block on the pretext of
wanting a towel, the sheriff said.
One of the men tackled him in
the corridor and all three then
ran for the main floor. They
stopped long enough to obtain
the guns and ammunition, cut
the telephone wires to delay an
alarm, he said.
Road blocks were erected on
all highways leading from the
area by state police. The sher
iff said posses were also organ
ized to search the southwest
Oregon coastal sector.
Atherton's condition was de
scribed as critical at the hospi
tal. The sheriff said the jailer
had been struck with a heavy
mop stick.
Goss Reelected
Grange Master
Sacramento, Nov. 21 W
Albert S. Goss, of Washington
D. C, today was reelected to his
fifth consecutive two-year term
as master of the National Grange.
Goss retained the Grange's
No. 1 post In secret balloting
held by delegates to the or
ganization's 83rd annual conven
tion here.
Only two of the Grange's ma
jor offices changed hands In the
elections.
Franklin C. Nixon, Vinccn
town, N. J., was elected chaplain
succeeding Joseph W. Fichter,
Exford, Ohio.
Bryan V. Holmes, Milburn,
Neb., was elected steward re
placing Homer Shrlde of Emden
Mo.
Grange committee also begin
consideration of resolutions,
some 150 of them.
Among the most controversial
is whether to continue to refuse
support of the farm product
price support plan advocated by
Secretary of Agriculture Char
les E. Brannan.
Goss is against the Brannan
plan but the delegates have
heard Congrcsswoman Helen
Gahagan Douglas (D., Calif.), as
well as Brannan, himself, speak
in favor of It. The California
Grange voted support for the
program at its convention last
week.
ildinq at Gervais
Housing Equipment
Gervais Local representa
tives Schwab and Cutsforth for
the Massey-Harris agency, deal
ers in farm machinery and
equipment have construction
well under way on the native
stone building covering 5,000
square feet floor space, which
includes a show room 38x70 and
a shop 36x52.
The building is being erected
on an acre of land recently ac
quired from the Gervais Union
High School district and fronts
highway 99E a short distance
south of the crossroads.
Completion is expected the
latter part of December, and to
be open for the sales and service
of the Massey-Harris equipment
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Emperor Celebrates Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
and his Empress sit In state on the throne during celebration
in Addis Ababa of 19th anniversary of hii coronation.
Texas Hunter Texas'
youngest deer hunter, four-year-old
James Dudley Morse
of Austin, proudly displays his
first buck. Young Morse, who
learned to shoot at the age of
two, killed the four point buck
with a neck shot on a ranch
near Llano, Tex., using a .22
rifle. Big or small that's
Texas! (Acme Telephoto) . .
O'Harra Leaves
For San Diego
Re-entering the Marine corps
as a regular and already headed
toward the Marine corps recruit
depot at San Diego for his as
signment is Pfc. Dwaine O'Har
ra, who has been the command
er of the Marine corps league in
Salem.
O'Harra, whose home has been
at 2495 Maple avenue, was also
a member of the organized Ma
rine corps reserve unit here.
Another Salem man re-enlisting
in the marines was Pfc. Don
ald Earl Amen, who resides at
route 1, box 21. Enlisting as a
private first class. Amen signed
for three years of duty and has
gone to the Marine corps recruit
ing depot for his assignment.
A first cnliglmcnt in the Ma
rine corps through the Salem of
fice was Harold Allen Lewis,
son of Geneva Lewis of 300
North Lancaster drive. Lewis
will take 10 weeks of recruit
training at San Diego. His step
brother, Donald Collins enlisted
in the Marine corps last month
through the Salem recruiting
station. '
Lewisfon Funeral
For Dr. Talkingfon
Lewiston, Idaho, Nov. 21 lP)
Funeral services were to be held
at 2 p.m. today for Dr. Henry
L. Talkington, pioneer north
west educator. He died Satur
day at 87.
He served for 40 years as
head of the history and civics
department at Northern Idaho
College of Education here when
t ho school was known as Lewis
ton State Normal. He retired
in 1939.
Dr. Talkington came to the
northwest from Missouri in 1890,
taught three years at Pendh'ton,
Ore , academy, was vice presi
dent of a normal school at Wes
Ion, Ore., fur four years and
then returned to Pendleton as
principal until coming here in
1899.
Dr. Henry,. Talkington. edu
cator who died Saturday at Lew
iston, Idaho, wasa relative of
Miss Cora Talkington of Salem
and of her father, the late F. L.
Talkington. His widow was. be
fore her marriage. Carrie
Gwynnc of Salem, whose father
was a pastor of the First Pres
byterian church here.
Dunkerque, freely translated,
means "church a m o n g the
dunes."
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Jean Wallace
Actress Stabbed
Los Angeles, Nov. 21 (JP) On
ly hours after she dined with
her divorced husband, Franchot
Tone, and their two children,
beautiful blonde Actress Jean
Wallace stabbed herself in the
abdomen with a butcher knife.
The one time Earl Carroll
show girl commented yesterday
to police while being treated at
Georgia street receiving hospi
tal: "I did it just for laughs."
But police called it an attempt
ed suicide and said that only the
intervention of her mother pre
vented more serious injury or
death. Police listed the motive
as despondency over the final
breakup of her marriage with
Tone, which ended in a final di
vorce decree Oct. 1.
Her wound, while painful,
was not serious.
Tone disclosed that he dined
with his 26-year-old wife Satur
day night after she had taken
the children to visit Santa Claus
at a department store. He has
custody of them.
Her mother, Mrs. Mary Ing
ham, told police that her daugh
ter returned home about 4:30
a.m. Sunday morning, ran into
the kitchen screaming:
."I might as well finish it now."
The mother's statement relat
ed that she found her daughter
bleeding from ah inch deep
wound in the abdomen and try
ing to cut herself again with a
14-inch butcher knife.
Tone was notified but arrived
at the receiving hospital 20 min
utes after his wife had left for
Hollywood Presbyterian hospi
tal.
"There is no plan for a recon
ciliation." Tone said. "1 am very
sorry." He married her in Yuma
Ariz., in 1941.
C. M. LaFolletf
Dies Suddenly
Funeral services will be held
at the United Brethren church
at Hopewell Wednesday after
noon at 3 o'clock for Clyde Mer
lon LaFollett, who died Satur
day from a heart attack while
on an elk hunting trip near Pen
dleton. Interment will be in the
Hopewell cemtcry.
LaFollett. a well-known val
ley peach and nut orchardist.
was with a party of friends at
the camp at Lane Creek, 30
miles south of Pendleton when
stricken about 11 a.m. Saturday,
the coroner s office at Pcndlc
ton reported.
A native of Mission Bottom
district, he was born at Mission
Bottom September 22, 1876, and
received his early education
there and in Portland. In 1920
he was state representative from
Yamhill county.
LaFollett had been engaged in
the orchard business for" more
than 50 years and had been
called the father of the freestone
peach industry in Oregon. For
many years he owned and oper
ated orchards in the Wheatland
area and was at one time the
largest retail and wholesale
peach dealer in the state.
Active in the Oregon Peach
Growers association and Oregon
Nut Growcns association, he had
served as a director in both.
Surviving are his wife, Luel
la LaFollett: four daughters,
Mrs. Violet Bechtell and Mrs
Dorothy Bursik. ooth of Salem,
Mrs. Thelma Uhlingcr of lone
Calif., and Mrs. Pearl Blue of
Los Angeles; brothers. P. L. La
Follett of Cornelius and J. W.
LaFollett of Salem: a sister, Mrs.
F.lva Aspinwnll of Salem; and
12 grandchildren.
Thanksgiving Service
On Tuesday Evening
A special non-denominational
Thanksgiving worship service
will he held at 8 o'clock Tues-
day night in Waller hall on Wil
'lamctte university campus un
Ider the sponsorship of the
YMCA school clubs.
Dr. U. ti. Dubach of Lewis and
Clark college. Portland, will
speak on the sitbject "Whv Be
Thankful."
Six members of the three Sa
lem senior Ili-Y chapters will
make brief talks. These arc Jim
Boone and Daryl Girod. Abe
Gregg chapter: Gilbert Bateson
and Merlin Schulze. Arthur Cot
ton chapter; Bob Meany and
Gordon Sloan. Harrison Elliott
chapter.
Musical numbers will be pro
vided by the Boys' chorus of the
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Now Viowing Open 6:15
Headed for the Scrap Pile The Winterhuie, one of the last
German sailing vessels, is towed from Kiel en route to Ham
burg where she will be broken up into scrap.
Acheson Asks 30 Nations
To Aid in Freeing Consul
Washington, Nov. 21 P) The
30 nations, including Russia, to
munists in behalf of the imprisoned American consul general,
Angus Ward.
The state department announced that Secretary Acheson sent
out messages Friday night ask-"
ing the other governments as
a matter of urgency" to express
to the communist authorities
PeiDing their "concern" over the
jailing of Ward and four mem
bers of his staff.
Ward and the others were
jailed October 24.
The state department said that
even today other American staff
members at Mukden are still
unable to get permission to visit
Ward.
Acheson made his appeal after
the repeated protests to the top
Chinese communist officials,
through American consular rep
resentatives at Peiping, had been
ignored.
There has been a mounting
cry in this country for some
action including demands that
the United States use force
against the communists.
The communists have claimed
that Ward and his staff mem
bers were arrested for beating
a Chinese employe. The state
department calls these charges
"trumped up."
In his communication to other
governments, Acheson recited
the circumstances leading up to
the arrest of Ward The secre
tary then told the other gov
ernments: "The international practice of
civilized countries for many
years has recognized that con
suls should be accorded all the
privileges necessary for the
proper conduct of their duties.
"Although consuls do not have
diplomatic immunity, it has been
the universal practice, because
of the public and official char
acter of their duties, to permit
them and their staff freedom of
movement, and in the event that
any criminal charge is made, to
permit them to remain at liberty
on proper arrangements for bail,
with unlimited freedom to com
municate with their governments
with respect to official business."
Oregon Blue Book
Ready to Distribute
1949-50 issue of rhe Oregon
Blue Book was ready for distri
bution Monday, Secretary of
Stat" Earl T. Newbry announced.
A view of the Capitol build
ing as seen through blossoming
magnolia trees, printed in four
colors Is the cover picture of
the book, which totals 373 pages
as against 365 pages in the
previous issue.
Copies of the book, contain
ing vital information concern
ing the state of Oregon, its coun
ties and cities as well as some
information of national import,
will be distributed free to all
schools and public offices in the
state. Copies may be obtained
by the public for 50 cents each.
YMCA with Cliff Gregg of Up
land. Calif., member of the Cam
pus Y, at the organ.
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iFloyd Christy
Confesses Thefts
Floyd Christy, who for three
years was an inmate of Wood
burn Boys school, where he was
committeed in November, 1942,
has confessed to San Francisco
police that he has been commit
ting burglaries that brought him
$400 a week.
Christy, now 21, evidently hasiOf the necessity for a unifica-
decided, however, that crime
does not pay. For he walked into
Central Police station in San
Francisco Sunday night and told
his story, at the same time sur
rendering a .22-calibre pistol.
Christy said he had a Japan
ese wife and baby daughter in
Tokyo. In the last five months.
he said, he has committed 150
burglaries in Portland, San
Francisco and Los Angeles.
The San Francisco police re
port said Christy gave this ac
count: '
He would knock on the -door
of a darkened home. If anyone
answered, he would ask for a
fictitious girl and go away. If
not, he would jimmy a window
and make off with cash and
jewelry.
He joined the army when he
was 18, he told newsmen, and
went to Japan as an agent from
the criminal investigation de
partment. There, he said, he
married a 20-year-old Japanese
girl named Toshiko and they had
a daughter, Linda.
He was discharged from the
army last June and enrolled in
an airplane designing school in
Los Angeles but lasted only ten
days, he said,
Christy, an orphan, said he
spent three years in the Oregon
state training school for boys at
Woodburn for petty theft.
Farmer Union Holds
County Conference
Monmouth .A county-wide
conference for all Farmers Un
ion officers of Polk county lo
cals was held at the Mt. Plsgah
local Leaders of the conference
included: Ronald Jf.mes of
Brooks, state preside nt, who
gave an explanation of the Bran-
nen plan; Lyle D. Thomas, who
spoke on the membership drive
underway at present through
out the nation, Mrs. Evelyn
Sainsbury, who talked on the
educational program: and Arthur
Bone, editor of the state Frrmers
Union paper.
Plunge Kills Man
Rcedsport. Nov. 21 W) One
man was killed and three com
panions Injured Saturday night
when a car they were riding In
plunged off highway 30 between
Elkton and Scottsburg.
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Funeral Tuesday
Zcna, Nov. 21 Funeral serv
ices are to be held at the W. T.
Rigdon chapel Tuesday after
noon at 3 o'clock for Frank Wil
liam Munson, late resident of
route 8, Salem, who died at a
local hospital Saturday. Rev
Daniel Walker of Corvallis, a
nephew, will officiate and in
terment will be in Belcrest Me
morial park.
Born at Lamars, Iowa, Decem
ber 10, 1882, Munson came to
Oregon in 1900. He first lived
east of Salem and then moved
to the Brush College district. In
1939 the Munsons purchased a
farm in the Zena area, where
they resided at the time of his
death.
Surviving are the wife, the
former Leta M. Walker to whom
fhe was married June 2, 1909;
four daughters, Mrs. Evelyn
Norwood and Mrs. Mildred
Mires, both of Salem, Mrs. Lucy
Mae Harris of Portland and Mrs.
Ruth Fritz of Albany; a son.
Miles Munson of Richmond,
Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Ella
Davis and Mrs. Carrie Williams
of Salem, and Mrs. Nina Bress
ler of Monmouth; three brothers,
Alex Munson of Salem, John
Munson of Caldwell, Idaho and
Albert Munson of Imperial,
Nebr., and 11 grandchildren.
Norblad Talks
National Issue
With the government going
into the red at the rate of $15,
000.000 a day, adoption of the
welfare states as advocated by
President Truman would mean
an additional 20 billion dollars
in deficit. This was the asser
tion of Congressman Walter Nor
blad as he discussed national
problems before a capacity
Chamber of Commerce luncheon
group Monday noon.
Speaking in his customary
rapid fire manner Congressman
Norblad spoke of waste in vari
ous governmental agencies and
tion of the national defense. Such
unification, he asserted, would
eliminate much useless duplica
tion.
The B-36 plane is merely i
stop gap to be used until such
time as the XB-52 can be devel
oped, said Norblad. He pre
dicted the B-36 would be outdat
ed no later than 1952 or '53
The Hoover plan, while devel
oped by a non-partisan commis
sion is moving slowly in its pro
gress toward adoption. The
speaker said its adoption would
save at least one and a half bil
lion dollars and there was a sus
picion that the resultant cur
tailment of patronage might
have something to do with the
delay.
The speaker advocated a
strong reserve in contrast to a
huge force of regulars in the
army and navy and praised the
naval establishment now in op
eration in Salem.
Congressman Norblad said he
expected to move his family to
Salem within the near future.
Redmond Banker
Killed in Auto Crash
Oregon City, Nov. 21 (P) The
body of Harry William Gilbert
son. 50, assistant manager of the
U. S. National Bank at Redmond,
was brought here today.
A passing motorist noticed a
wrecked car some 40 feet down
an embankment on the Mount
Hood loop highway a mile east
of Rhododendron.
The Sandy first aid car, no
tified by the motorist, found Gil
bertson dead in the wreckage.
His car apparently missed Mile
bridge and crashed off the road
down the embankment. Just
when the accident happened was
not determined.
It was at this same bridge that
a Bend attorney, Jay Upton, was
killed In 1938.
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Planes Gounded
At M'Nary Field
Planes at McNary field were
still sticking to the ground Mon
day shortly after noon.
Visibility, however, was bet
ter than it had been since the
fog moved in late last Thurs
day afternoon, with the CAA
control tower at 12:13 p.m. Mon
day recording a visibility of one
and three-fourths mile.
Only activity at the field Sun
day was the warning up of the
motors of the planes at the Na
val Air Facility. There was no
flying. Men, who came from
Portland, where it was clear to
get in some flying time, return
ed without getting to use the
planes because of the dense fog
The best visibility recorded
for Sunday was one and a quar
ter mile between 11:27 a m and
1:43 p.m. After that the fog be
gan thickening and by 2:25 p.m.
visibility was down to five-
eighths of a mi'o.
Chambers Again
Hiss Witness
New York, Nov. 21 (Pi Whit
taker Chambers testified today
that Alger Hiss went to work
in the department of justice aft
er learning that the communist
party "wished him to take the
job."
The testimony came in the
second trial of Hiss, who rose
to high position in the state de
partment, on perjury charges in
volving the leakage of govern
ment secrets to a pre-war Soviet
spy ring.
Chambers, self-described for
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mer courier for the spies, said
Hiss asked his views in 1936
about a job offer from the jus
tice department.
The pudgy government wit
ness said he discussed the mat-
tcr with J. Peters, whom he i
identified earlier as the commu
nist underground chief in this
country. Peters, who was known
also as Alexander Stevens, left
this country in the spring of
1948.
Chambers said he later told
Hiss that "the party wished him
to take the job."
Chambers also told of apply
ing for a passport under the
name of "David Breen" In 1935.
He said he discussed with Hiss
at that time a trip to England
which he Chambers was
planning in order "to work in
the Soviet apparatus."
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