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Election Pleas
Voters Show Little
Interest in Contests
Ending Nov. 7
By JAMES D. OLSON
As the fall election campairn
toes into its final two weeks the
sir lanes will be conceited with
pleas for support of candidates
ind mall boxes filled daily with
political propaganaa.
Even though the campaign is
If its final stages, little interest
lis been evinced by the voters
thus far. Representatives of both
parties frankly admit that the
people seem to be thinking of
possible war and higher taxes
rather than of political candi
dates and measures.
However, that hasn't stopped
candidates Irom the highest of
fice to the most lowly from
continuing to campaign through
every means available.
In fact, some supporters of
democratic candidates have
gone beyond the orthodox meth
ods of electioneering and have
used tricks that would do credit
to some of the big political boss
es in the east.
Democrats Tricky
For instance, in McMinnville
early this week, a man walked
into the headquarters of the
Yamhill county republican cen
tral committee and asked for
permission to place a huge pos
ter of Republic U. S. Senator
Wayne Morse in the window of
the headquarters. He placed the
poster there without showing
its face.
A few minutes later the office
was swarmed by angry republi
cans. Staring out of the window was
a king size picture of Austin
Flegel, democratic candidate
for governor.
And earlier, billboards carry
ing the names of Sen. Morse and
Flegel, with an admonition to
"vote for the man and not the
party" appeared in profusion in
southern Oregon. Sen. Morse
denied all knowledge of the
signs and declared he was sup
porting the entire republican
ticket.
Fight for State Senate
In the legislative race in Mar
ton county interest seems to be
centered upon the race for two
senate seats to be filled.
Supporters of Cornelius Bate
ton claim that he has made con
siderable progress in gaining
support of voters in the rural
areas and predicts that he will
win one of the two seats. Frank
Porter is the second democratic
senatorial candidate.
(Concluded n fate 5, Column t)
Freedom Bell in
West Berlin
Berlin, Oct. 21 VP) A giant
bronze bell, which will ring out
a symbol of freedom 100 miles
behind the Iron Curtain, arrived
in West Berlin today.
It traveled through the Rus
sian zone by night aboard a spe
cial rail car, and under guard.'
U. S. train authorities said,
I however, that the 10-ton bell
passed without incident at the
Helmstedt border and Russian
officers did not even inquire the
reason for the special guard.
In recent days East Berlin
newspapers have attacked the
Freedom Bell" as the "Death
Bell" and said it would toll a
knell heralding the future arriv
al of American "gangster
troops."
The "Freedom Bell' was spon
sored by the committee for the
Crusade of Freedom of the na
tional committee for a free Eur
ope. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, former U.
S. military governor of Germa
ny, chairman of the Crusade
committee will dedicate the bell
next Tuesday at ceremonies in
West Berlin's city hall.
U. S. High Commissioner John
J. McCloy, West Berlin's Mayor
Ernst Reuter and other German
and American dignitaries will
participate in the ceremony.
Princess Christened
London, Oct 21 WV-The 67-day-old
daughter of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip was
christened Anne Elizabeth Alice
Louise of Edinburgh today by
the aichbishop of York. She
will be known simply as Prin
cess Anne,
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Route Changes
Requested by
Transit Lines
Heavy Loss of Revenue
Stressed in Letter
To Franzen
City Transit Lines ii askln
In a letter to City Manarer J. L.
Fransen, that It be permitted to
make a change in its Llberty-Boone-Browning
route.
The change is necessary, says
the letter from General Man
ager Carl J. Wendt, to enable
the company to continue operat
ing the city service withn.it fur.
ther curtailments or an increase
in lares.
Attached to the letter is a ta
ble showing a total loss of $27,
417.33 on the company's Salem
operations so far this year. Brok
en oown Dy months the revenue,
costs and losses are:
First five months of 1950
Revenue, $82,830; costs, $96,491;
loss, $13,661.
June Revenue, $15,655: costs
$18,323; loss, $2,667.61.
July Revenue, $14,708; costs,
l,iOi; loss, S,37Z.1B.
August Revenue, $16,272;
cosis, aiu.vui; loss, $3,6ZB.69.
September Revenue (includ
ing State Fair week), $17,122;
costs, $18,523; loss, $1,400.78.
October (first 15 days) Reve
nue. $7,165: costs. $8,650: loss.
$1,487.07.
Since June 1 the operation has
Been under the retouring plan
originated by the city and com
pany, effective on that date.
Effective November 1.
The requested new schedule
would be effective November 1.
In his letter to the city Wendt
says:
With the completion of t h e
paving on Summer street, link
ing that street to Fairview ave
nue. City Transit Lines desires
to make a change in routing of
its Liberty - Boone - Browning
route. The proposed change will
bring direct service to residents
of the area between Electric ave
nue and -Fairview avenue adja-
cent to Summer street. The long
loop now serving this area would
be eliminated and should stimu
late riding.
(Continued on Pre 5, Column I)
Probe Postcard
Slander in LA
Chicago, Oct. 21 (IP) A Chi
cago postoffice inspector said to
day he is Investigating the mail
ing of 1,500 postcards describing
Los Angeles as a city of "thieves
and criminals, ruled by the un
derworld." Earl Jones said the cards were
mailed to Chambers of Com
merce and tourist organizations
throughout the country. The
cards were mailed in Chicago
and signed by "The Public Re
lations Committee of Los An
geles' Citizens Safety Council
in cooperation with the National
Tourist and Travelers Associa
tion of America."
Other cards were signed by
the "Institute of Business and
Industry." Both organizations
according to the cards, have their
headquarters in Washington.
Jones said he has learned there
are no organizations in Washing
ton like the ones named in the
postcard signatures.
Jones said the author of the
postcards apparently "is sore at
everybody in Los Angeles."
Com in form Demands
Germany Be Unified
Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 21 VP) The Soviet Union and
seven satellite countries tonight demanded creation of an "all
German constitutional council" to unify Germany under a sin
gle government.
The demand was' made in a communique handed out after a
two-day conference of foreign
ministers of the Soviet bloc at
Czernin palace, headquarters of
the Czechoslovakia, Romania,
Hungary, Poland, and Eastern
Germany J o I n e d in confer
ence, called by the USSR.
The communique made four
proposals in the interest of the
maintenance of peace and in
ternational security In Europe"
and of the rights of the German
people. They were:
1. A proclamation by the So
viet union, Britain, France and
the United States "that they will
not allow the remilitarization of
Germany and her being dragged
into any aggressive plans."
2. "The removal of all hind
rance! In the road to the devel
Capital jk
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Tropical Storm in
Florida Fizzles
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 21 UP) A
nuisance hurricane which failed
to live up to advance billing fiz
zled out in a Florida wilderness
today.
The rich Tampa Bay resort
area, once threatened with a pos
sible knockout punch, escaped
entirely.
The Florida highway patrol
said the storm hit inland just
north of Cedar Key, the fishing
village devastated by the Labor
day hurricane.
Winds were well below the 75
mile an hour minimum for a
hurricane. Apparently the once
threatening blow was breaking
up harmlessly in that sparsely
inhabited section of Swamps and
woodland some 100 miles north
of Tampa.
For long hours the storm, rat
ed at 75 to 90 miles an hour, was
pointed slam bang at Tampa, the
largest city on the Florida west
coast (population 123,000). Then
it lost steam and veered north.
Meteorologist W. W. Talbott
of the Tampa weather bureau
said he believed a mass of dry
air over this area caused the
storm to disintegrate. L ,
French Give Up
6th Frontier Post
Saigon, Indochina, Oct. 21 VP)
French forces abandoned their
frontier headquarters fortress at
Langson today, leaving hundreds
of square miles of Indochina
territory on the Chinese border
wide open to the the communist-
led rebels of Ho Chi Minh.
Langson, held by the French
for 78 years, guarded the main
invasion gateway into Indochina
from communist China. Its aban
donment swings wide the fron
tier door, to permit the supply
of Chinese resources to the reb
els and the establishment of
training bases for them in Red
China.
It was the sixth northern fron
tier post from which the French
have withdrawn in five weeks.
They pulled out of Dongkhe on
Sept. 16, Caobang on Oct. 3,
Thatke on Oct. 10, Nacham on
Oct. 16 and Dong Dang on Oct.
17.
A French army communique
said the Langson withdrawal
was effected to permit the re
grouping of French forces into
new strategic mobile reserves
It declared the French will go
on the offensive as soon as this
reorganization is completed.
opment of a peaceful German
economy and the Inadmissibility
of the rehabilitation of the Ger
man war potential."
3. "The undelayed conclusion
of a peace treaty .with Germany,1
the creation of a unified German
state, and the withdrawal of all
occupation forces a year after
the signing of the treaty.
4. "The creation of an all-Ger
man constitutional council on
the basis of balanced representa
tion of western and eastern Ger
many, which should prepare
for the establishment of an in
terim democratic, peace-loving.
all-German sovereign govern'
menu"
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October 21, 1950
Directs Drop General Douglas MacArthur watches from
window of his plane, SCAP, as paratroopers drop into North
Korean territory 85 miles south of the Manchurian border
to cut off escape routes of Red soldiers fleeing Pyongyang.
Behind him is his political adviser, Gen. Courtney Whitney.
NEA-Acme Radio-Telephoto by Ernest Hoberecht. (Acme
Telephoto)
flax Textile Plant
Here To Be Enlarged
3. R. Millar, president and chairman of the board of directors
of National Automotive Fibres,
with a party of other officials
pansion plans at the Salem branch,
Some revision of the plans is
French Crisis on
German Arms
Paris, Oct. 21 (JP) The con
flict within French Premier
Rene Pleven's coalition govern
ment over rearming Germany
comes to a head at a cabinet
meeting today.
The thorny subject may tear
apart Pleven's middle of the road
team, but moat observers think
a compromise can be found.
Invaded and occupied by the
Germans three times in the past
70 years, France traditionally
mistrusts an armed Germany.
Today the communists are tak
ing advantage of that tradition
to portray the U.S. as an enemy
of France, because she favors
German rearmament.
The wounds of the last Ger
man invasion are still fresh
enough so that the Red propa
ganda hits a responsive spot in
the minds of many Frenchmen.
The socialists already vieing
with the communists for votes in
next year's election have the
most to lose when communist
propaganda succeeds.
This is one reason why the so
cialists are taking so strong a
stand against the "principle" of
German rearmament.
Yesterday the socialist depu
ties voted 30 to 5 against the
"principle" more than the fact
The socialists are a minority
in the cabinet. They are outnum
bered by the radicals and the
slightly rightist popular republi
cans (MRP).
Atom Scientist
Deserts to Reds
Rome, Oct. 21 (IP) Rome news
papers broke out in a rash of
scare headlines today reporting
Italian-born British atom scien
tist Bruno Pontecorvo had skip
ped behind the iron curtain.
Swedish airlines officials said
he visited Stockholm last month
and then flew to Finland. His
father in Milan said he doubt'
less would be back in England
on schedule in January.
No cne yet has been able to
contact Pontecorvo, who became
a British citizen during the war
and worked on atom research
projects in Canada and England
He came to Italy with his wife
and three children recently for
a vacation.
Under their blackest head
lines, Rome's leading morning
newspapers said the scientist and
his family had departed any
where irom two weeks to a
montn ago on a Czech airlines
plane bound for Poland. These
stories said he left with a Pol
ish passport.
Although none of the news
papers named the source of their
information, it had an official
tone. They played up the fact
that Pontecorvo had worked In
Britain's Harwell atomic energy
research laboratory where Ger
man-born Dr. Klaus Fuchs had
been a top official. Fuchs was
convicted and jailed on charges
nf tfivln atnmi wnli tn tha
I Russians.
here today from Detroit, Mich.,
of the company, inspected ex
Oregon Flax Textiles.
contemplated, he said, and engi
neers with the party did some
further work on plans for the
additional building that was
started about a week ago. The
plans will be taken from here to
Oakland, Calif., for final ap
proval,
The cost of the new construc
tion, Millar said, will be sev
eral hundred thousand dollars.
One reason for the expansion
is that the manufacturing oper-
ation is no longer confined to
flax fibre products. Wool has
been added, and rugs and car
peting from both flax and wool
art now being turned out. Ore
gon is the source of some of the
wool used and some is shipped
in from Argentina.
The company started opera
tion of its Salem branch in July,
1944, in the Wallace Bonesteele
building on Portland .road. It
constructed a building of prac
tically 25,000 square feet area
in West Salem which it moved
into in August, 1946. Some
smaller construction was added,
and then recently plans made
and building started for the ad
dition of 25,000 additional square
feet. This is now under way.
The Millar party is traveling
by private airplane, but had to
land in Portland last night be
cause of fog over the Salem air
port. They drove to Salem, but
the plane was brought to Mc
Nary field Saturday and the
party left about noon for Cali
fornia. Others in the party included:
R. J. Stock, executive vice pre
sident of the company; B. A. Ol
son, vice president; R. Y. Millar,
vice president in charge of the
west coast area; H. M. Ratley,
general engineer; E. P. Wells,
eastern sales representative of
Oregon Flax Textiles; M. L. Sul
livan, of the New York Carpet
company; and Roy Kettle, ac
countant. The party was met here by
Clyde Everett, manager of the
aalem branch; Clay Cochran,
manager of the Chamber of
Commerce, and several others.
Millar said he was anxious to
see Governor McKay successful
In the election of November 7,
Ready to Clamp
More Controls
Gainesville, Fla., Oct. 21 IIP)
The federal reserve system Is
ready to clamp more controls on
the nation's cash if a headlong
trend towards inflation conti
nues.
That word came last night
from one of the federal reserve
system's top bosses, M. S. Szym
czak of Washington, a member
of the board of governors.
"We are prepared to take fur
ther action if inflationary ten
dencies continue," he told the
third annual southeastern eco
nomics conference.
"For obvious reasons I can
not tell you anything about our
plans for the future. However,
I can give you my assurance
that we shall carefully consider
the use of any anti-inflationary
weapon in our arsenal.
"Price controls and rationing
tend, at least In first moment
of their application, to give the
impression that they hurt people
Ipaa than atrip rrHit fnnirnim
and high taxes," Szymczak said,
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Russia Voles
For Big Power
Peace Parley
UN Political Commit
tee Approves Resolu
tion Unanimously
Lake Success, Oct. 21 (IP) The
U. N. political committee today
unanimously approved a reso
lution calling for big power
peace consultations after rebuff
ing two attempts by Andrei Y.
vishinsky to gain recognition
for the Chinese communist re
gime. It was a rare show of the
unanimity in the U. N.
The Soviet foreign minister
fought hard to have the commit
tee list specifically the name of
the Chinese People's Republic
among the great powers but the
committee twice voted his mo
tion was not acceptable at this
time. This leaves the nationalist
Chinese still in their U. N. seat.
Big 5 to Consult
The resolution recommends
that the permanent members of
the security council France,
Britain, China, United States
and the Soviet Union meet and
discuss all problems likely to
threaten international peace.
Vishinsky urged the commit
tee against an "ostrich" policy
but on the final count he voted
yes.
The committee, however, re
fused to accept his demand for
the recognition of the Chinese
communists. The first vote was
26 against, 13 in favor and 16 ab
staining. The second vote was 35
against, 12 in favor and 11 ab
staining.
The committee actually did
not express itself on the ques
tion of recognizing the Chinese
communists. It only decided that
Vishinsky could not wedge the
issue into a resolution by Iraq
and Syria calling for the big
five to consult on their disagree
ments. (Concluded on Fate 5, Column 4)
Ready to Talk
Japan's Peace
Lake Success, Oct. 21 VP)
Russia stood ready today to
start informal talks with the
United States on a Japanese
peace treaty, held up for five
years because the Soviet Un
ion refused to help write it.
John Foster Dulles, U.S.
delegate to the United Nations,
disclosed yesterday Soviet Dep
uty Foreign Minister Jacob A.
Malik had advised him of Rus
sia's willingness to enter the
talks.
Two months ago the United
States decided to go ahead with
the treaty, with or without the
cooperation of Russia.
Dulles has been holding in
formal conversations on the
treaty with members of the far
eastern commission. The idea
was to get some preliminary
agreements in advance of for
mal negotiations.
However, the talks with Brit
ain, Australia, India, NewZeal-
and, the Philippines and other
states with interest In the Pa
cific have shown little progress.
Some delegations especially
Australia have indicated con
cern lest the United States in
sist on a "soft treaty" for Japan.
Over 400 Allied Ships
Cruise Korean Waters
Tokyo, Oct. 21 VP) An armada of more than 400 United Na
tions ships is in Korean waters.
This was disclosed today by Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy, com
mander of Far East naval forces.
The admiral added that, in
violating security. The numbert-
was small comfort for Korean
communists, cut up, trapped and
beaten.
Included in the 400-odd ves
sels are the flags of Britain,
France, Australia, New Zealand,
the U.N.-sponsored Republic of
Korea, Canada, The Netherlands
and the United States.
In size, the ships range down
ward from the 45,000-ton U.S.
battleship Missouri, whose 16
inch guns have wrought havoc
on Korean coastal targets. The
mighty Mo recently led a big
task force strike on the coastal
strip leading to the borders of
Soviet Siberia.
"It's truly a United Nations
fleet," Admiral Joy said.
The British Royal navy is rep
resented by the aircraft carrier
Theseus, the light cruisers Ken
lya and Ceylon, and the destroy
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Commander Maj. Gen. Ed
ward M. Almond, liberator of
Seoul and commander of the
American Tenth corps, has
taken command of all United
Nations forces in northeast
Korea (AP Wirephoto)
Huge Airlift
Over Pacific
Honolulu. Oct. 21 VP) The
huge airlift ferrying troops and
materiel over the Pacific ocean
at the rate of a plane every 75
minutes, "will continue indefi
nitely after the end of the shoot
ing war in Korea."
Maj. Gen. Laurence S. Kuter,
military air transport service
(MATS) commander, made that
clear yesterday on a stopover
here en route home from a global
tour of MATS bases.
"At the end of the shooting In
Korea, there will be extensive
and further deployment of
troops and materiel," he said.
The general did not elaborate
on this deployment in a talk
with reporters in which he dealt
entirely with operations in the
Pacific.
In Washington, a defense de
partment source mentioned Ja
pan and Alaska among possible
Pacific areas for deployment.
The source said he was con
vinced General Kuter was not
talking about moving U. S.
forces to Indochina, where com
munist activities have forced
French withdrawals from a re
gion bordering on Red China.
General Kuter said, "it is im
possible to forecast when the
(Pacific) airlift will end."
By-passed Reds
Raise Rumpus
Republic of Korea Army
Headquarters, Oct. 21 (IP) About
15,000 by-passed Korean Red
troops are "creating one hell of
a rumpus" in South Korea, a
republican army spokesman ac
knowledged today.
He said, however, that expert
re publican hillfightors were
combing the ridges for these
holdout forces.
An American adviser to the
South Korean army said these
republican cleanup forces were
special battalions, highly-trained
in guerrilla warfare and had
already made contact with the
enemy in the southeast coastal
area. After a period of disorgani
zation, they now have skilled
leadership and arc operating
systematically against the Reds.
A few days ago, North Korean
bands raided the enstcrn towns
of Samchok and Kosong and
were dislodged only after in
flicting considc r a b 1 e damage,
killing many civilians and seiz
ing much food and other loot,
the spokesman said.
giving out the figure, he wasn't
or Constance, Cockade, Ccarity
and Concord.
The United States has at least
four In the fleet the Philip
pines Sea, Valley Forge, Boxer
and Leytc. Although not men
tioned by the admiral the cruis
ers Helena, Toledo and Worces
ter have figured prominently in
operations In support of the
drive up Korean east coast.
Combined displacement of the
ships under his command he said
would be "more than a million
tons." To carry the weight dis
placed by these 400 ships would
take a train of boxcars stretching
in a solid line from New York to
within 50 miles of Chicago.
"The landing at Inchon was a
sample of what can be done with
these ships," which can trans
port more than 100,000 men sup
ported by planes and gunfire, he
said.
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Paratroops
Seal Fate of
Trapped Reds
65,000 Communists
Left in North Korea
Unable to Attack
Seoul, Oct. 21 OP) Quick
moving U.S. parachute troops
today sealed off 28,000 Red Ko
reans. This was nearly half of
the estimated organized enemy
force left north of parallel 38.
General MacArthur's head
quarters said all main roads in
the S u n c h o n -Sukchon area,
where the 4,100 Americans
dropped out of the sky Friday,
were blocked against the Reds.
An estimated 63,000 commun
ist fighting men left in North
Korea thus will not be able to
mass for any big future stand
against allied troops racing to
bring the savage four month old
war to an end, an intelligence
officer said.
Heavy Equipment Lost
Headquarters said the Reds
may be able to move some of
the trapped 28,000 men over hill
roads but that their heavy
equipment was lost.
What little opposition the
North Koreans tried to put up
against the paratroops was spee
dily overcome.
A MacArthur spokesman said
there is still no evidence of an
organized defense line north of
the present battle zones nor ol
an "auxiliary capital. LiiKewise,
reports of pre-arranged assem
bly points for shattered North
Korean units are becoming rare.
Resistance in Pyongyang, the
captured Red capital, is flicker
ing out, the intelligence officer
said. American tanks have cross
ed the Taedong and are in the
city. Small pockets of Reds and
snipers pecked away at United
Nations troops.
The intelligence officer said
the two North Korean army
corps headquarters organizations
have been written off. He said
the commanding generals are
believed to have escaped. Local
guerrilla bands apparently were
operating on their own.
IContlnued on Para 5. Column )
ROKs 85 Miles
From Red Border
Wonsan, Korea, 'Oct. 21 VP)
The South Korean Capital div
ision raced unopposed today to
within 85 air miles of Red Chi
na's Manchurian border.
A U. N. First corps spokesman
said the republican troops were
30 miles north east of captured
Hamhung, chemical center on
Korea's east coast.
The spokesman said the Capi
tal division troops were still
plunging northeast.
Hamhung is In northeast Kor
ea near the Japan sea.
Tenth corps investigators con
firmed the discovery of between
300 and 400 dead civilians slain
by the Reds a few miles outside
of Wonsan before the city fell to
the Republic of Korea Third
division Oct. 9.
Sixty other civilians anti-
communists, businessmen, stu
dents and educators were mur
dered in the city itself.
With their hands tied behind
their backs they had been herded
in groups of four and shot in the
back. Their corpses were hurled
into Wonsan bay.
A severe food shortage and
the absence of any civil govern
ment are the twin problems in
Wonsan.
American authorities in coop
eration with the South Koreans
are making an urgent effort to
solve both problems.
Wonsan refinery which the
Russians had utilized since the
last war was demolished by Am
erican bombings.
Red Korean Refugee
Capital on Border
Tokyo, Oct. 21 (IP) A Korean
communist broadcast from Sinu-
lju on the Manchurian border
said today the Reds had estab
lished a refugee capital there.
The former Red capital,
Pyongyang, some 100 miles to
the southeast, has fallen to Unit
ed Nations forces.
The broadcast was heard here
at 7 p.m. (5 a.m. EST).
A "standing committee" of the
Soviet-sponsored regime has de.
cided to make Slnuiju the Red
capital, the broadcast said. It
added that from now on It would
be the "official" voice of com
munist Korea.
The Yalu river, which forms
the border between North Korea
and Red China's Manchuria,
flows into the Yellow sea on th
Korean peninsula's west coasl
at Slnuiju.
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