Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, March 11, 1950, Page 2, Image 2

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    I 2 Capital Journal, Salem,
7 Hi-School Debaters
Qualify for Tourney Finals
Salem high school's debate
Amanda Anderson, qualified
rounds of speech action held Saturday morning in the annual
Willamette university high school inter-scholastic speech tourna
ment which will be completed Saturday evening.
The Viking debaters placed in
Express Rates
Up 10 Per Cent
Washington, March 11 ffl
: Railway Express Agency rates
i will be boosted 10 per cent on
' first and second class shipments
in less than carload lots.
The increase, the fourth since
the end of the war, was grant
ed yesterday by the interstate
commerce commission. It takes
effect after 30 days public no
, tice.
Effected are general merchan
i disc, food and drink. The in
' creases do not apply to newspa-
i pers and some other commodl-
' ties usually shipped in bulk,
; Chrysler Nol
i To Be Present
Detroit, March 11 (IP) A
union-sponsored forum discus
I slon of issues in the dragging 46-
!' day-old Chrysler pension strike
will have to go on next week
without corporation representa-
j tion.
j Chrysler declined yesterday to
i appear in a public session pro
j posed for Thursday by the CIO
I United Auto Workers. Man
j agement said the dispute could
i be settled "only at the bargain
j Ing table."
I The union plans to put its
' case before 70 religious, educa-
1 tional and civic leaders of De
j troit.
2 Negotiations get under way
again Monday in a renewed ef
fort to return 89,000 strikers to
their jobs.
The shutdown of the Electric
Auto Lite Co. at Cincinnati
meanwhile boosted the total
number of workers idled by the
walkout to more than 142,000.
Auto Lite, which employs 2,250,
closed for lack of orders from
Chrysler.
Chrysler's general manager,
Herman L. Weckler, commented
on the UAW-proposed forum.
"On our part, we could not if
we wished, by sharing control,
transfer to any other party the
ultimate responsibility for pay
ing for the benefits offered,"
ITVockler said.
As yesterday's negotiating ses
sion broke up, Chrysler was re
ported standing pat on its offer
to guarantee pensions' of $100 a
month, including social security,
while the union was sticking to
Its insistence on a special fund
ing plan and a share in adminis
tering the system.
Two Ohio Pilots .
Die in Air Crash
Steubenville, O.. March 11
(IP) An air collision brought
fiery death to two Ohio National
Guard pilots last night.
Killed as two F-51 ships
crashed in flames while on a
training flight were First Lt.
William Drazic of Steubenville,
a student at Ohio State univer
sity, and First Lt. Neil H. Diehl
of Calumbus.
The two planes, occupied on
ly by the pilots, came down
about three miles apart near
here. Both bodies were burned
badly before they could be re
moved.
State Highway Patrolman
John Kowalczwk said several
witnesses reported seeing or
hearing the collision in the clear
night air.
12 Perish in Sailing Ship
Cidade Daprala, Capo Verde
Islands, March 11 (IP) A small
sailing ship sank in a sudden
storm today and 12 persons per
ished. The vessel, the Santa Ma
ria, was en route from Santa An-
tao, Cape Verde islands, to Saint
Vincent, Portugal, carrying six
passengers, including a woman,
and six crew members.
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CO-FEATURE
"TUNA CLIPPER"
with Roddy McOowalt
Ore., Saturday, March 11, 1950
team, under the direction of Miss
seven debaters in the semi-final
I ill but the impromptu event
Miss Anderson's crew placed Eu
gene Poindexter, Marion Put
nam and Ronald Swanson in ora
tory competition. Don Anderson
was the only Salem speech stu
dent placing in the finals in seri
ous interpretation.
Semi-finalist have yet to be
held Saturday in the humorous
interpretation in which Ronald
Swanson, Eunice Peckenpaugh
and John Bone finished in the
division preceding the semi
finals. Extempore speaking is
also to have the semi-final run
off with Frank Vitaris, Eunice
Peckenpaugh and Marlon Put
nam entering in the semis. Finals
for all six contests were held
Saturday afternoon.
Final rounds of preliminary
debates on the 1950 high school
subject, "Resolved: That the
president of the United States
should be elected by a direct vote
of the people," were held Sat
urday morning with two debate
teams composed of Gilbert,
Bateson, Marion Putnam, JoAnn
Ellis and John Bone winning the
right to enter in the quarter
finals to be held late Saturday
afternoon.
Late Saturday afternoon John
Bone entered the finals in the
humorous interpretation contest
and Eunice Peckenpaugh also
entered the finals in extempore
speaking. These two students
were the only ones Salem had
in the Individual final contests.
The topic for extempore is
socialism and for impromptu
labor problems are being dis
cussed. The subject matter for
oratory is unlimited as are the
selection for the humerous and
serious declamation.
In previous contests the Vik
talkers won first place honors at
the Pacific University tourna
ment and a second place berth
in the Linfield meet at McMinn
ville. Charged With Theft
Of $5200 Mail Pouch
Portland, March 11 (IF) Rob
ert B. Helms, 22, Portland, was
charged today with stealing a
mail pouch containing $5,200 in
cash and a diamond ring worth
$400.
Postal Investigators arrest
ed Helms, his 20-year-old wife,
Erma, and a friend, Terence E,
McCormick, 23, this morning.
They said Holms admitted
stealing the pouch February 18,
while he was driving a truck
for a contract mail carrier, and
giving his wife the diamond ring,
and McCormick $300 of the mon
ey. After that, the pouch was
burned and its straps and locks
dumped in the Columbia river.
The trio waved preliminary
hearing, and were held for the
grand jury. The men were jail
ed, and the woman released on
her own recognizance.
Salesman Escapes
'Shower of Cars'
Victoria, B.C.. March 11
(CP) Salesman Hardy Farrow
escaped a "shower of cars"
when a rooftop parking space
collapsed in the Wilson Motors
Ltd. garage here.
Fourteen new cars crashed
down on the used car section
yesterday when concrete sup
ports gave way. No one was in
jured.
Farrow was the one man in
the used car department at the
time. He made a fast dive under
a car.
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A Harrowing 10 Hours Mrs. Wallace O'Connell, O'Neill,
Neb., farm wife, and her six pound son were in "good"
condition despite a harrowing 10 hours she spent lying in
the box of a stalled farm wagon. The wagon is shown at
left in the drifts where it is still stuck. The wagon became
drift-bound as O'Connell drove his wife to the hospital.
Eighteen men on foot finally brought Mrs. O'Connell to
the hospital on a stretcher a few hours ahead of the stork.
(AP Wirephoto)
Auto Accidents
$38.5 Millions
Olympia, March 11 (IP) Motor
car accidents caused an econom
ic loss of $38,500,000 in Wash
ington last year, the state patrol
reported today.
At the same time the patrol
reported the motor car brought
its average bag of human beings
this month up to one a day yes
terday. The score hit 10 with
the deaths of John A. Howcroft,
Arlington; and Leslie Bill,
22, Wapato, as the result of traf
fic accidents.
The patrol reported 59,913
motor vehicle accidents were
reported in Washington last
year, 38,880 inside city limits.
Rural accidents, however, were
the most costly causing 300 of
the 440 deaths last year and $26,-
250,000 in economic loss.
It is discouraging to note that
more motor vehicle accidents
are occurring on the best roads,"
Patrol Chief James A. Pryde
said. The chief added that 54
per cent of the rural accidents
occurred "on straight and level
roads."
The patrol reported 65,445 city
and 29,475 rural traffic rule vio
lations were recorded in connec
tion with the accident reports.
Girl Slips in School,
Regains Eyesight
Stretford, Eng., March 11 W
Beryl Oldham, 14, had been
nearly blind in her left eye since
birth.
Skipping through the dormi
tory of her school, she slipped
and fell.
"Oh, I can see better now,"
she exclaimed.
Two hours later she said her
left eye was almost as good as
her right.
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McKinley Wins
Flag Contest
McKinley school is this year's
winner of the city-wide flag
contest conducted among the
schools by Capital unit No. 9,
American Legion auxiliary.
The contest is carried on
through the schools, pupils in
each writing essays on the flag
code.
A committee from the unit
presented the flag to McKinley,
Friday, including Mrs. Carl
Chambers, Mrs. A. B. Ingels and
Mrs. Allan Carson. Mrs. Helen
McLeod was chairman for the
contest event from the auxiliary.
Stalin to Talk
In Campaign
Moscow, March 11 (IP) Prime
Minister Joseph Stalin takes the
campaign platform to make
what most observers expect will
be the most important Soviet
public announcement of the past
four years.
Stalin's speech will climax i
a campaign for national elec
tions to the supreme soviet (par
liament) which take place to
morrow. The prime minister
himself is an unopposed candi
date for re-election in Moscow.
Campaign speeches by other
top-ranking members of the So
viet communist party's powerful
politburo have been highlighted
by pronouncements of Russia's
desire for peace.
Deputy Prime Minister V. M
Molotov, In a major speech in
Moscow's hall of columns last
night, reiterated previous Rus
sian statements that communism
and capitalism can live togeth
er in "peaceful economic com
petition." FEATURE?
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Veto Looms on
Price Supports
Washington, March 11 VP)
Senate-house efforts to compro
mise differences over 1950 farm
price supports bumped i n t o a
prediction today of a presiden
tial veto.
Conferees yesterday reached a
tentative agreement on the multi-million
dollar price prop pro
gram for potatoes, cotton, pea
nuts and wheat.
However, Senate Democratic
Leader Lucas of Illinois told a
reporter he is confident Presi
dent Truman will veto the re
ported compromise if it ever
reaches his desk.
The agreement is subject to
another closed-door conference
and vote Monday because Lucas
and some other senate conferees
were absent from yesterday's
meeting.
During senate action on the
farm bill Lucas failed in an ef
fort to bar price props on this
year's potato crop unless farm
ers accepted rigid production
controls.
The senate did agree to apply
this provision to future potato
crops.
Conferees reported this pro
vision had been knocked out by
the conference committee in fa
vor of much milder controls ov
er 1950 and 1951 potato crops
eligible for price supports,
Scottish Divers
Seeking Gold
Tobermory, Scotland, March
11 (IP) Royal navy divers, who
hope to find $68,700,000 in Span
ish gold buried in Tobermory
bay made a preliminary survey
of the Sea floor today.
Full diving operations begin
on Monday for the gold, which
legend has it sank in the bay
with the Spanish galleon, Duque
Florencia, treasure ship of the
Spanish armada.
Rights to the treasure were
vested many years ago in the
family of the Duke of Argyll by
royal order. The present duke
contracted for the navy divers
and ships. The admiraltv agreed
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because the operation will pro
vide valuable training for the
divers.
Tobermory is on the isle of
Mull off the west coast of Scot
land. The Spanish galleon is sup
posed to have been sunk off its
rock shore by an angry Scots
man after the Spaniards had re
fused to pay for supplies re
ceived from the islanders.
The Spanish ship is supposed
to have been one of the few of
the Spanish armada which sur
vived the disastrous beating
meted out by the English fleet
under Sir Francis Drake. The
survivors fled for home by way
of Ireland and Scotland.
Riots Feature
Vole on Leopold
Brussels, Belgium, March 11
VP) Fifty demonstrators were
injured at Antwerp last night
ina violent prelude to tomor
row's advisory referendum on
the future of exiled King Leo
pold III.
Hand-to-hand fighting be
tween Leopoldists and large
numbers of his opponents broken
out during a fireworks display
staged by supporters of the move
to bring the king back to the
throne he left after surrender
ing to the German nazis.
Five hundred policemen were
needed to quell the riot.
It was the largest disorder re
ported so far in connection with
the advisory referendum tomor
row, in which some 5,500,000 of
the 8,000,000 Belgians are eli
gible to cast ballots. The polls
will be open between 7 a. m.
and noon (2 a. m. and 7 a. m.
EST).
Leopold has said he would
abdicate in favor of his 19-year-old
son, Prince Baudouin, if he
receives less than 55 per cent
of the votes. But if he does at
tain that mjority, it will not in
sure his return.
The referendum is only advis
ory, to indicate the will of the
voting population. Parliament
still must decide whether to ask
the 48-year-old Leopold to "re
sume the use of his constitu
tional powers."- Leopold must
decide whether to accept any
invitation that is forthcoming.
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Former Salem
Citizen Passes
Funeral services will be held
in Portland at the Ross-Hollywood
mortuary Monday after
noon at 2 o'clock for Ernest K
Anderson, former Salem resi
dent. Anderson, who had had a seri
ous heart ailment for a long
time, died at the family home
at 4417 North Borthwick street,
Portland.
Born at Marshall Town, Iowa,
June 24, 1884, Anderson was the
son of the late Frank A. Ander
son and Sophie C. Anderson. He
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came to Salem In 1908 and for
a time was employed by the late
T. M. Barr, Later he started the
Anderson Steel Furnace com
pany, which now is the Rose
braugh Furnace company.
Survivors are his wife, Anna
Anderson; two sons, Carl An
derson of Portland, and Conrad
Anderson of Tigard; two daugh
ters, Esther Perry of Tigard and
Marjorie Curry of Portland;
four brothers, Pete Andeson of
Marshall Town, Iowa, Frank H.
Anderson of Portland, Harold R,
Anderson of Seattle, and Ray H.
Anderson; two sisters, Chris
tyne Ackley of Portland and
Bessie Haldeman of Salem; six
grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
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