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61st Year, No. 299 SSSiSSiiSS: Salem, Oregon, Friday, December 16, 1949
(24 Pages)
Price 5c
Truman Tells of
Friendship for
Eisenhower
No Objection to
Anybody Running
For Anything
Key West, Fla., Dec. 16 VP)
President Truman today made it
a matter ot record that he and
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
are "good friends and always
have been."
Apparently concerned about
stories out of Key West that he
regards the former army chief
of staff as a candidate for the
pre sidency, the presidential
press Secretary Charles G. Ross
told reporters:
"The president wants it to go
on record that he and General
Eisenhower are good friends
and always have been."
Ross himself described the
stories as "souped-up" and said
he knew of no intimates with
whom the president has discuss
ed the possibility of Eisenhower
becoming a candidate.
Ike Denied Candidacy
The White House reaction
came after Eisenhower, now
president of Columbia univer
sity, said he was not a candidate,
no matter what any one thinks,
and will not be talked into be
coming one.
"Does the president regard
General Eisenhower as a can
didate in 1952?" a reporter ask
ed Ross.
The secretary said. "I don't
know what is in his (the presi
dent's) mind. The president is
not talking about it along those
lines."
v ."Poes the president object to
Eisenhower running next year?"
Ross was asked.
Simply Good Friends
"The president has no objec
tion to anybody running for
anything."
Eisenhower has made speech
es regarded in administration
quarters as critical of the Tru
man program.
Ross volunteered the com
ment that the president had no
ticed the story out of Fort Worth
and simply wanted to make it
clear he and Eisenhower were
good friends.
A reporter asked: "Is this an
attempt to kill an Eisenhower
boom?"
"I'm not trying to kill or start
any boom," Ross said. "I'm just
telling the facts as I know
them."
Ross said he feared the Key
West stories had "embarrassed"
General Eisenhower and that
was far from any intention by
the president.
Ross said, "certainly nothing
official has come from the White
House."
Salem Facility
In Aviation News
Naval aviation men all over
the world this month had an
opportunity to learn-, of Salem's
Naval Air Facility.
In the December issues of Na
val Aviation News, published
monthly by the chief of naval
operations and the Bureau - of
Aeronautics in Washington, D
C, is an article telling of the es
tablishment of the Salem facili
ty.
Accompanying the article,
which points out that the facil
ity is "Oregon's first Naval Air
, Reserve activity" and local
J headquarters for more than 800
otlicers and men In the Willam
ette valley, are two pictures.
One of the pictures was tak
en at the commissioning service
in Salem in August, the other is
a picture of Lt. Comdr. Wallace
Hug, officer in charge of the fa
cility, and a group of the Sa
lem station keepers, taken in
Seattle.
The article not only tells of
the commissioning service and
the appearance here of the na
vy's Blue Angels, but of the ac
tivities to be conducted at the
Ealem Naval Air Facility.
It also gives information on
the number of planes assigned
here, the location and lists the
officer in charge giving a bit of
his background. In addition it
notes that there are 21 enlisted
station keepers at the facility
nine of them being rated as na
tives of Salem.
Quirino Faces Operation
Manila, Dec. 16 VP) President
Elpidio Quirino is scheduled to
enter Johns Hopkins hospital in
Baltimore January 9 for an oper
ation. The nature of the opera
tion was not disclosed by the
Malacanan palace announcement
f his impending trip to the Unit-
td States.
KuKluxKlan
Jury Still Out
In Mass Trial
Rome, Ga., Dec. 16 VP) A
federal jury passed the 11 hour
mark today still without a ver
dict in the government's civil
rights charges against 10 Dade
county men.
The jury went back to work
at 9 a.m. after spending seven
fruitless hours last night. The
defendants Sheriff John W.
Lynch, three of his deputies and
six private citizens wandered
aimlessly in the corridors.
Each is accused on the first of
a two-count indictment of con
spiring to have seven Negroes
arrested falsely and then sur
rendered to a Ku Klux Klan
mob of SO to 75 men for beating.
Indonesians
Elect Soekarno
Batavia, Java, Dec. 16 VP)
Radio Jogjakarta announced to
day that President Soekarno of
the Indonesian republic has
has been elected first president
of the new United States of In
donesia. He is to be sworn in
tomorrow morning.
The new nation in the rich
East Indies is to come into for
mal being shortly after Christ
mas, when the Dutch turn over
to the Indonesians the reins of
government they have held for
three centuries.
Soekarno, a fiery orator, has
been Indonesia's top nationalist
figure for nearly two decades.
He was unanimously chosen
president of the U.S.I, by the
electors from 16 Indonesian
states.
When the revolutionary lead
er moves into the Dutch gov
ernor general's palace, the ac
tion will symbolize the birth of
a new nation to Indonesia's TtS,-
000,000 people. In fact, that
move will mean more to them as
proof of independence than all
the written agreements and an
nouncements. Less than 10 per
cent of the people can read and
write.
A year ago, Soekarno and his
cabinet were seized by Dutch
paratroopers in the second "po
lice action."
Shave Despite
Water Shortage
New York, Dec. 16 VP) Habit
proved too strong today for New
York City men. They shaved.
Few stubbly faces could be
seen as subways and biases un
loaded their passengers at of
fice opening time on this "dry
Friday," a one-day experiment
to conserve the city's fast dis
appearing water supply.
Failure of the men not to fol
low a "no shave" admonition
was not considered a test of the
scheme, however. There were
other suggestions to save water.
City residents were asked to
forget tub baths and showers for
the day, do all family launder
ing at one time, wash dishes in
one batch, and even to drink one
glass less during the day.
Talk around town indicated
New Yorkers were taking "dry
Friday" the climax of many
curbs on water use in the same
good humor that most of them
exhibited under wartime re
strictions.
Check of the reservoir meters
after the experiment ends at
midnight will show how many
actually obeyed the "don ts"
during the 24-hour period.
If the saving is big enough,
dry Friday" will be a weekly
holiday until the emergency
ends. .
Yeater Candidate For
Either Mayor or Senator
Douglas Yeater will be a candidate for mayor of Salem or for
the state senate.
He made that statement today, and said he would not announce
his decision until after January 1.
He will not, he said, be a candidate for re-election to the Ore
gon house of representatives,
Yeater was a member of the
house in the 1947 and 1949 ses
sions of the state legislature.
His decision is being waited
eagerly because of an unusual
interest in contests for the office
of mayor in the 1950 elections,
and the question being most oft
en asked in local political circles
is: "Will Yeater run for mayor?"
So far two men are in the race,
and have announced themselves
as candidates. First to announce
was Alfred W. Loucks. Then
came the announcement of Wal
ter Musgrave, who was mayor of
Wesl Germany
Regime Hit for
Rearming Plan
Parliament in Uproar
Over Charges
Against Chancellor
Bonn, Germany, Dec. 16 VP)
For the second time in three
weeks a session of the west Ger
man parliament broke up in an
uproar today over charges that
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's
government is a puppet of the
western allies.
Tumult broke out on the floor
when Communist Leader Max
Reimann bitterly accused Aden
auer of fostering a German re
armament plan "backed by Ger
man and American imperialism."
'If it were left to the German
people, this puppet government
would be finished off in 48
hours," Reimann shouted.
At this, members leaped to
their feet, shouting angry objec
tions. The parliament president,
Dr. Erich Koehler, recessed the
session, but Reimann continued
shouting over the uproar for
several minutes before he strode
from the chamber.
Socialist Leader Kurt Schu
macher also disrupted a parlia
ment session November 25 when
he called Adenauer "chancellor
of the allies" during criticism of
the chancellor's decision to end
west Germany's boycott of the
international Ruhr authority.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Big Steel Hikes
Prices of Steel
Pittsburgh, Dec. 16 VP) -Big U.
S. Steel Corporation hiked its
steel prices about $4 a ton to
day. Other top basic steel produc
ers 8re expected to follow the
leader.
However, congressional inves
tigators are trying to head off a
general steel price increase be
cause they say it threatens Am
erica s economy.
Senator O'Mahoney (D.
Wyo.), chairman of the joint
congressional economic commit
tee, said he expects the commit
tee to approve opening a probe
of Big Steel's action after Christ
mas.
O'Mahoney declared the price
raise is unjustified and will have
an inflationary effect on the na
tion's economic system just when
business leaders should be strug
gling to hold the lid on prices.
Watching the developments si
lently is the consumer. He'll ul
timately have to pay more for:
hundreds of articles if a general
price increase develops.
How much will such things as
auto increase? No one knows but
guesses range from $7 to $60.
And will the price increase re
sult in more wage demands from
the CIO United Steelworkers?
That seems almost certain.
Big Steel's action wasn't a sur
prise.
11 Transients Dead
In 2-Room Shack Fire
Rotan, Tex., Dec. 16 0I.R)
Eleven transient cotton pickers
of Mexico burned to death Wed
nesday night or early Thursday
when fire destroyed a two-room
shack on a farm north of here.
A wood-burning stove, in
which fire was kept flaring all
night as protection against 20
degree cold, was listed as the
tentative cause of the blaze.
Sheriff R. L. Wilkins said no
body escaped from the house.
West Salem when that city was
merged with Salem.
Sidney Stevens, often men
tioned as a possible mayoralty
candidate, hasn't yet made a def
inite decision.
The office of mayor in Salem
is non-partisan. If a candidate
in the primary election receives
a majority vote over other can
didates he is considered elected,
but his name must appear on the
November ballot. If no candidate
receives a majority in the pri
mary then the two highest have
to contest for the office in the
fall election.
j : '-: ' ?; J Is. :rf
Mother Greets Ruth Longview, Wash Both Happy Mrs.
William Aberle, Sr., who with her husband, never lost faith
that her daughter, Ruth Aberle, 16, Kelso school girl, would
be found fondles her daughter's hair in happy reunion at
"Cowlitz county hospital Thursday night. The girl was the ob
ject of a five-day search in nearby forest. (AP Wirephoto)
Scout Training Saved
Life of Lost Kelso Girl
Longview, Wash., Dec. 16 U.B
said today that her Girl Scout
the 96 hours she was lost in the
The Kelso, Wash., high school
would have died in the woods if
B-29 Crashes,
Burns, Killing 6
Roswell, N. M., Derrt6 -VPh-
On the edge of Roswell; an air
force B-29 crashed and burned
late yesterday, killing six.
Three crewmen were seriously
injured. Five others walked
away from the flaming wreck
age with cuts and bruises. None
of the dead or injured were from
the Pacific northwest.
The bomber, roaring in to a
landing at Walker air force base
where it was stationed, sheared
off a windmill and tumbled to
the ground.
Cause of the crash was not
made public. Air base officials,
however, said there appeared to
be "no indication of engine trou
ble." Flames shot up from where
the plane crashed, two miles
north of the field and four miles
from downtown Roswell. City
and military ambulances, rescue
crews and fire equipment work
ed for two hours cutting bodies
ard survivors out of the twisted
wreckage.
A smoke screen from the
burning ship spread over miles
of prairie west and south of,
Roswell.
The B-29 was returning from
training flight. The Roswell
dispatch said the pilot apparant
ly undershot the field, judging
from the clipped windmill which
is near one of the runways.
The plane was a modernized
type of B-29. It was the first
super-fort to crash since some
of the B-29s were grounded No
vember 18 for overhaul after a
series of crashes that killed at
least 120 men.
Stresses Aid for
Middle East
London, Dec. 16 VP) Britain
is pressing the- United States
and Canada to help launch a
giant new aid program for the
middle east and southern Asia,
responsible British source re
ported today. He said the idea
has come up "inthe most gen
eral terms" at top-secret, three
power talks now going op in
Washington.
The three-fold aim of such a
project was said to be:
1. To save these strategic, po
tentially-rich regions from the
spread of communism.
2. To help western Europe
mainly Britain close its debit
gap between dollar buying and
dollar spending.
3. To take off Britain some of
the load she claims she's carry
ing in paying off the wartime
sterling debts, accumulated by
countries like India, Pakistan
Egypt and Iraq.
Sixteen-year-old Ruth Aberle
training saved her life during
wilderness.
sophomore said she probably
the Girl Scouts had not taught
her to find shelter and stay
there until rescuers reached her.
Ruth was found in a deserted
cabin yesterday by sawmill oper
ator Charles F. Smith and his
16-year-old son, Philip. The res
cue came after up to 1,000 men
had searched the brush and sec
ond growth timber in a 10,000-
acre section eight miles north
of Kelso.
Ruth became separated from
nine of her school companions
Sunday afternoon while hunting
for Christmas trees.
She was exhausted and suf
fering from shock, but able to
walk a mile and a half to the
nearest road where an ambu
lance brought her to the Cowlitz
county General hospital here.
"She's in pretty good shape,"
Dr. Clyde Duvall said. "She's
exhausted and a little feverish,
but she's come through it pret
ty well."
Ruth stumbled 11 miles
through the forest Sunday aft
ernoon to the 12 by 12 foot cab
in where she found shelter from
snow, rain and freezing weather.
To keep warm while she slept
in the cabin, Ruth propped a
door in a corner to stave off cold
drafts.
The cabin was more than six
miles from the area where the
main search for her was
centratcd.
She had no food but drank
water from a nearby stream
"I wondered if anyone would
ever find me," Ruth said. "I
wasn't very cold; in fact, I was
a little bit warm. I got awfully
hungry, living on lust water
Ruth's Girl Scout training also
kept her faith up.
I wasn't scared just hun
gry, sne said, wny, I never
realized how many people were
looking for me. I'll have to read
the papers to see what hap
pened." The sheriff's office reported
that all searchers had left the
woods.
Lt. Edward Ringle, command
ing officer of the Longview-Kcl-
so Salvation Army corps, said
food donated by local merchants
and .residents to the corps for
the hundreds of searchers reach
ed a staggering amount.
The sheriff's office said the
search was the largest single
hunt in state history.
Egg Prices Decline
2 Cents in Top Grades
Egg prices went tumbling
again here Friday morning in
most of the produce firm lists.
The cuts, amounting up to 2
cents on top grades, followed
similar ones in Portland.
Buying prices now list large
AA at 37 cents; large A at 34
37 cents; medium AA .at 31
cents; medium A at 29 cents.
During the past six weeks,
egg prices have dropped as much
as 15 cents a dozen on the top
extra large grades.
Plucky Ruth Aberle Tells
Story of Being Lost
Plan Session of
All Protestant
Churches in U.S.
Greenwich, Conn., Dec. 16 VP)
A permanent body aimed at
eventual organic unity of the
Protestant church in the United
States was formed today at the
conclusion of a three-day con
ference on church union.
Delegates from denominations
with 14,000,000 to 16,000,000
members joined in summoning
the balance of America's 47,000
000 Protestants to work for "an
organic union."
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of St.
Louis, Mo., president of ' the
Methodist World Federation and
of the Methodist council of bish
ops, was named chairman of
the executive committee.
Conference Body
The new, continuing body was
named rne L-omerence on
Church Union."
Bishop Holt said: "The confer
ence is one of the most import
ant Protestant meetings ever
held in the United States.
"We are not ready yet to draw
any blueprints of a new church
but we are very sensible of the
fact that we are being led in that
direction."
The next meeting of the new
conference should be held "not
later than the early months of
1951," according to the amount
of progress made, the statement
said.
The Rev. Dr. William Barrow
Pugh of Philadelphia, stated
clerk of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church of
the U.S.A., was appointed vice
chairman.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 1)
Dedicate New
Umpqua Dam
Roseburg, Dec. 16 VP) Call
fornia-Oregon Power company's
$7 million project, the first unit
of a five-year $50 million post
war building program, was for
mally dedicated here last night.
The ceremony' was attended by
Oregon and northern California
dignitaries and civic leaders
from town in "Copco Land."
Copco President A. S. Cum
mins flipped a switch illuminat
ing a huge diagram of the north
Umpqua river development pro
gram, which will eventually in
clude eight hydroelectric plants
supplying 145,000 kilowatts,
more than doubling the com
pany's present supply.
Governor Douglas McKay
formally accepted the project in
behalf of the people of Oregon
and gave the principal address
in a half-hour broadcast over a
seven-station mutual hookup.
The broadcast, with Glenn L,
Jackson, Copco vice president,
Medford, as master of cere
monies, included talks by Cum
mins, Bonneville Administra
tor Dr. Paul J. Raver, Copco
Construction Supcrinte n d e n t
John C. Boyle, Congressman
Harris Ellsworth, Public Utili
ties Commissioner George H
Flagg and the mayors of Rose
burg, Klamath Falls, Grants
Pass, Dunsmuir, Calif., Yrcka
and Medford.
Women s Clubs Back
Garbage Disposal Plan
Every man, woman and child in Salem has a rat. That makes
nearly 60,000 rats.
When a plan for universal city-wide garbage disposal goes
before the city council, which is
of all of the 37 women's clubs
That word came out of
meeting Thursday of the Salem
Council of Women's Organiza
tions, which is made up of dele
gates from all of the clubs.
The meeting yesterday was
told that there is a rat in Salem
for every person, and elimina
tion of the disease and filth car
rying rodents was stressed as
an important public service. It
is one of the main objectives of
the movement started by the
women for universal garbage
disposal.
The move was started by the
Salem Woman's club, which had
a letter before the city council
last Monday night, and the club
was also rcprcsenled by several
of its members. Wednesday the
project was put before the Coun
LA .XL )
Witness Latest witness in
the San Francisco perjury
trial of Longshore Chief Harry
Bridges is Paul Crouch
(above), who will testify for
the government. Crough, a
supervisory employe of a Mi
ami, Fla., newspaper, was a
communist party organizer for
17 years, was in Soviet Rus
sia in 1928, at which time he
was given an honorary colo
nel's rank in the Red army.
(Acme Tclephoto)
Ex-Red Asserts
Bridges Commie
San Francisco, Dec. 16 CP) A
former red leader, once impris
oned for trying to communize
U. S. soldiers, says Harry
Bridges twice was elected to the
Communist party s powerful
central committee.
Bridges is on trial in federal
court on a perjury charge ac
cused of lying when he swore,
to obtain U. S. citizenship lr
1945, that he never had been a
Communist. Australian born, he
is president of the CIO Interna-
t i o n a 1 Longshoremen's and
Warehousemen's union.
The witness who testified that
Bridges was a member of cen
tral committee was Paul Crouch.
He testified that Bridges was
elected to the committee in 1936
under the name Rossi; and that
he was elected again in 1938 un
der the name Dorgan.
Both times. Crouch said, the
Communist delegates cheered
wildly when Bridges asserted
nom-de-red names were plac
ed before the convention.
Crouch said he was high in
U. S. communist circles 17 years
until he finally withdrew. He
was a district organizer in 12
states, editor of party magazines
and newspapers; a leader in nu
merous communist front organ
izations.
Denfeld Indicates
Will Offer Resignation
Washington, Dec. 16 (U.P)
Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, ousted
chief of naval operations, has in
dicated he will resign from the
navy rather than step down to a
lower command, it was learned
today.
Friends quoted the former No.
1 naval officer as saying he
would not accept the post of
commander of U. S. naval forces
in European waters which was
offered at the time of his re
moval. expected, it will have the backing
in Salem.
af -
cil of Women's Organizations,
and the delegates will recom
mend to all the clubs, 37 in all,
that they back the plan. The
vote was unanimous.
A plan has not yet been drawn
up. It is said, however, that it
will not be detrimental to the
concern that now handles Salem
garbage under contract with the
city.
The women inlerestcd have
heard of methods of garbage
handling by people who do not
subscribe to the garbage col
lector's service that give the
matter a wider importance than
rat control. Instances were men
tioned of garbage beinng thrown
regularly into Mill creek.
in Woods
Girl Occupied
Deserted Cabin
In Wilderness
Longview, Dec. 16 VP) Ruth 5-
Aberle told her story today. The
16 year old Kelso girl, found
yesterday afternoon after having
been lost in the foothills of the
Cascade mountains since noon
last Sunday, looked rested and
happy as she talked to reporters.
She spoke from a bed in the
Cowlitz General hospital here
where she was brought by am
bulance shortly after being
found by C. F. Smith, resident
of Rose valley.
"I was with the other kids
who were hunting Christmas
trees about six miles up the Os
trander creek road Sunday," she
said. "I stayed with them most
of the time. Then I thought if
I hurried I might get to the road
ahead of the others.
Heard Kids Whistle
"I heard the other kids whis
tle once. I whistled back, but,
I guess they didn't hear me. I
went on. Soon I got on a real
long road. I followed the road.
Then I found a group of roads
that seemed to go in circles.
"After dark I saw a light. I
thought it was probably a home.
I left the road and started down
a hill. I slipped and fell quite
a bit. Soon I heard water. Aft
er getting a drink I saw a cab
in," she said.
The cabin which Ruth saw was
the one in which she stayed most
of the time until she was found
by Smith. It is located approxi
mately one half mile east of Go
ble creek and the Rose Valley
road. It was from five to seven
miles from where search head
quarters had been set up on the
Ostrander road.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column S)
France to Get
U.S. Flat-Top
Paris, Dec. 16 VP) France will
get a U.S. aircraft carrier as part
of Atlantic pact aid, National De
fense Minister Rene Pleven said
today.
He made this disclosure in a
budget hearing before the na
tional defense committee of the
lower house of parliament, the
national assembly.
Pleven insisted on 1950 mili
tary credits of 420 billion francs
or $1,200,000,000.
This is only 18 percent of the
total budget, he said, while
comparative figures for other
countries are: Great Britain, 23
percent, the United States 33
percent, Holland 19 percent,
Italy 19.5 percent, and Russia
19 percent.
Pleven said he would Insist on
help from other Atlantic pact
nations for the French air force,
which now totals 60,000 men.
Pleven did not specify the sizo
of the carrier.
6 Army Fliers
'Hit the Silk'
Reno, Nov., Dec. 16 VP) Six
military passengers "hit the
silk" at 12,000 feet and landed
safely in a lava bed cast of here
early today when their air force
"flying boxcar" developed mo
tor trouble.
One received a broken leg,
another an injured arm and the
rest bruises. But all agreed they
were pretty lucky.
"This is a pretty good Christ
mas present I'd say," comment
ed Pfc. Joseph Leptlch, 23, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Leptich,
of Portland, Ore.
Leptich injured his arm when
he landed on a boulder but he
said he didn't think it was brok
en. The pilot, second Lt. George
Dumont, 26, Showhcgan, Me.,
and his crew managed to bring
the big C-82 to an uneventful
landing at Hubbard field In Re
no. The men bailed out aoout iu
miles northeast of here.
The CAA here reported tho
craft took on a heavy coating
of ice and that the pilot order
ed his passengers and radioman
out when the left motor started
to fail. The motor kicked in
again, however, after tho six had
bailed out.