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2 Capital Journal, Salem, Woman Killed By Gunman Merrill, Ore., Oct. 21 W Po lice prepared today to search the lava badlands south ot here for two gunmen who killed a SO year-old woman and wounded a store owner in a robbery at tempt last night. The pair, both Negroes, fled after the shooting at a grocery tore on the California-Oregon boundary, three miles south of Merrill, Mrs. Velise Ainsworth, 50, clerk at the store, was killed outright. The store owner, Ray Merrill, 56, was wounded in the leg. Merrill said the two ordered soda pop, then pulled out pis tols and demanded money. As Mrs. Ainsworth turned toward the cash register, her husband, W. C. Ainsworth walked in. He Jumped for one of the gun men, and in a scuffle, the Ne gro's gun went off. The bullet struck Merrill. The other then shot Mrs. Ainsworth twice, one bullet going through her heart, Merrill said. They ran outside, jumped into a waiting automobile, and sped away to the south, Merrill added Police set up road blocks, to no avail. The store is on the state line road, along the state boundary. It is on the California side of the road. Solons Urge Alaska Defenses Portland, Ore., Oct. 21 U.B Three members of a senate arm. ed forces subcommittee return ing from Alaska said today they would stress in congress the need for adequate Alaskan defenses. "We will carry home a report to congress which will empha size the need for adequate de tenses in Alaska and for closer understanding on the civilian front," said Sen. Lester C. Hunt, (D-Wyo.). Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R Mass.) said that "as a New Eng lander, I now know what secur ity to Alaska means to the At lantic coast." Sen. Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) expressed "great confidence" in American military establish ments in Alaska and said that "statehood for Alaska is vital to American defense." Sens. Hunt and Saltonstall left aboard the Sacred Cow, former official presidential plane, with their next stop scheduled at Lar amie, Wyo. Korean Presented Hand Grenade Gift Aboard Battleship Missouri off Wonsan, Korea, Oct. 21 lift Lt. (j.g.) Bill Cochran of Mc Keesport, Pa., was sitting In his Jeep outside Wonsan. An aged Korean clad in white approached. He was smiling broadly and holding a hand grenade. Cochran jerked out his .45. A South Korean interpreter whis pered: "Don't shoot. I believe he wants to give the grenade to you as a present." Sure enough, the old man bowed and elaborately present ed the American with the gren ade. Then he happily walked away. "Talk about the mysterious east," said Cochran when he re turned to the Missouri tonight. "Boy, I was never so scared in my life." ENDS TONIGHT ! ! FREEDOM FOLLIES of SO Snappy Girls' Chorus Lines Hilarious Skits Rollicking Minstrels Specialty Acts Spine-Tingling Patriotic Numbers All Local Talent Professionally Directed Salem High School Auditorium 8:30 P.M. R.i. Scots, $1.50; Gen'l Adm., $1.00; Children, 30c TlusTax Sponsored by American Legion Capitol Post No. 9 For Kiddies' Benefit Fund Oregon Saturday, Oct. 21, 1950 Little Alice's Invitation Was Not Delivered Stanwood, Mich., Oct. 21 (U.R) Little Alice Benson, ill with cancer, isn't expected to live much longer and her parents decided to make her eighth birthday next Tuesday "the best one ever." Doctors say she won't have another one. But Alice knew she was very sick and couldn't play with other children. So nurses at Convalescent hospital sug gested she invite five-year-old Carol Park who, they said, "is just as sick as you are." A nurse wrote an Invitation to Carol tasking her to "come visit me and play with my dol lies." Then Alice signed her name. Yesterday the postman de livered the letter to Carol's house at Hersey, Mich., 30 miles away. But there was a black wreath on the door. Carol had died of heart disease the night before. Tighter Curbs Loom on Buying Washington, Oct. 21 M) Pre sidential Assistant John R. Steel man feels that still tighter curbs on installment buying may be imposed by the government to combat inflation. Moreover, he told the Mt. Holyoke Alumnae association last night, that other types of controls "may become neces sary." Steelman's hint at new re strictions came at the end of a day during which: 1. The national production au thority (a) restricted rubber companies in their use of mate rials and (b) set aside for the defense program the entire pro duction of stainless steel con taining columbium. 2. The commerce department ordered a ban on all exports of molasses, a principal source of industrial alcohol. The rubber order limits tire manufacturers and other users to 75 percent of the amount of natural rubber they consumed the year ended June 30. It sets consumption of ail rubber, including synthetic, at 84 per cent of the base year's use. Officials said this would give manufacturers about the same amoqnt of rubber they were get ting before the Korean war. They renewed assurances that no tire shortage is in sight. The action on molasses fits into the rubber picture since al cohol is used in great quantities by the synthetic rubber plants which the government is press ing back into service. Civil Defense Calls for Aides Volunteer clerical help for Marion county's civil defense program is urgently needed for setting up of the program, Col. Mark Hillary, county defense director, said Saturday. A campaign for the recruit ment of other volunteer work ers will get under way soon with member organizations of the Federated Patriotic Societies slated to do the recruiting, Hil lary said. The colonel also announced that Manton Carl, Hubbard area farmer, has been named assist ant director for the entire coun ty program. Other appointments Included F. Gordan Shattuck and Gene Huntley, to work as assistants to D. H. Cameron, defense de puty for personnel. UCLA Bonfire Explodes, 9 Hurt Los Angeles, Oct. 21 M) A 67 - foot homecoming bonfire blew up last night in the middle of thousands of celebrants on the campus of the University of California at Los Angeles. The explosion injured nine persons, none seriously. Windows several blocks away were shattered. Police estimated a crowd of 25,000 students and alumni was gathered around the huge pile when it exploded shortly after it was ignited. Planks and boxes showered on the crowd, gathered on the Bruin practice field. The injured were treated for cuts and bruises at nearby San ta Monica hospital and released. All were southern Californians. Students had spent weeks gathering the bonfire materials. The celebration preceded the UCLA - Stanford game today. Fortunately the crowd was held back 100 feet by ropes encircling the bonfire. Capt. L. E. Christensen of the campus police said several small bombs, presumably placed by pranksters, were removed from the pile hours before it was ig nited but one or more may have been overlooked. He also said a gunpowder fuse used to start the fire may have caused the blast. The UCLA graduate manager, William C. Ackerman, said he had no theory about the cause but "I am certain Stanford had nothing to do with it." lllegalTv. Station Closed Washington, Oct. 21 V-The Federal Communications Com mission said yesterday it has lo cated and closed down an illegal television station its first. The station, atop a Pennsyl vania mountain, was being op erated by the tube division of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc., Emporium, Pa., the FCC said Sylvania is one of the country's largest producers of television tubes. The explanation given by com pany officials for the unlicensed operation, the commission said, was that they needed TV service in their business but knew the two-year-old freeze on TV broad casting permits ruled out new station permits. At Emporium, M. F. Balcom; Sylvania board chairman, had no comment. The FCC noted that unlicensed TV operation involves a possible fine of $10,000 or two years im prisonment or both. It said "further proceedings will be tak en in the case. Busy Picker Fairview At the Ross Rogers 40-acre walnut orchard in the Fairview district, one girl, Doro thy Brutke, picked 20 sacks In a single day. Because of fre quent rains, waterproof cloth ing has become compulsory among the pickers, the majority of whom are women. I" ii i i , 2 BIG HITS! "KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE" And "MY FRIEND 1RMA GOES WEST" l .JostimTlTonite1! rl Open at 6:45 P.m7 1 II Strl at 7:15 P.M. I II Humphrey Bogart J II Gloria Grahame I 11 "In a Lonely Place" j nl Robert Walker ") ill Joan Leslie f ill "The Skipper ill Surprised His Wife" JlUrtsunday'l M Open at 6:15 p.m. B- I marts at 6:45 p.m. I I I Joel McCrea 1 1 I Ellen Drew 1 1 I "Stars In My Crown" 1 I Vlveca Llndfon If 1 Kent Smith I I This Side of the Low' III LATE SPORTS Football Scores Southern California 14, Navy 27. Marquette 6. Michigan State 34. Queen's . McGlll 25. University of Western Ontario 41, Toronto t. Norwich 21, Loyola 20. Wisconsin 13. Michigan 36. Alabama 9, Tennessee 14. Yale 0. Cornell 7. Armv 48, Harvard 0. Trinity 0, Colby 6. Williams 21. Bowdoln 13. Fenn 34. Columbia 0. Lehigh 18, Dartmouth 14. George Washington 0, Wake For t 13. Maine 11, Counecticut 7. Princeton 34, Brown 0. Vermont 12, Rochester 29. U. of Cincinnati 48. Western Re serve . Western Maryland 38. Dickinson 13. North Carolina State 16. Mary land 13. Purdue 31. Iowa 33. Notre Dame 7, Indiana 30. Ohio State 48. Minnesota 0. Coast Ouard 21, Amhurst 27. Syracuse 34, Holy Cross 27. Washington College 0, Randolph. Macon 13. Oberlln 82, Hamilton . Rensuelaer Polytechnic Institute 13. Worchester Tech 0. Rochester 35. Vermont 13. Fordham 27. West Virginia 33. Rhode Island State 38. Mass. U. 37. Carnegie Tech 14, Allegheny 13. Washington 13. Illinois 20. Wayne 0, Temple 26. Haverford 13, Juniata 7. Scranton 36, Pennsylvania Mili tary College 0. Vew York University 0. Rutaers 42. ,-Centuclcy 34. Villanova 7. Bucknell 12. Colgate 33. 5 El Paso Youths Killed in Crash El Paso, Tex., Oct. 21 m Five El Paso youths were killed today in a truck-auto collision while returning from a high school football game at Plainview, Tex. The dead: Antonio Ybarra, 22, Bowie high school alumnus; and Tommy Mendoza, 17, Manuel Cabrales, 17, Roberto Lopez, all Bowie high school studentts; and one unidentified youth, also a student. J. W. Grissan, El Paso, truck driver, was hospitalized for bruises, shock and possible con cussion of the brain. The accident happened 20 miles east of El Paso on U. S 62. Ybarra was driving the auto with the other youths as passen gers. State police and Grissan said the auto was on the wrong side ox the road. 'I saw the auto coming at me," said Grissan. "It looked as if the driver was asleep. There was no place to go. I set my brakes. 'I blacked out. When I re gained consciousness, I was ly ing in the highway. The car was, embedded into my truck. A car came along and they started to get the bodies out of the wreckage." In colonial America bowls, mugs and pitchers were blown from blue, amber, brown or green glass. Replicas of these famous pitchers are still being made in America glasshouses today. ENDS TODAY! (SATURDAY) Ph. 3-3721 Cont. From 1 P.M. Tomorrow! Twin Thrills! Re-Issued for Your Pleasure! II M . X. 1 ! -'S&m PLUS! ROMANTIC, Army lo Call More Doctors Washington, Oct. 21U.B The army plans further calls on the selective service system for physicians, dentists and veterin arians. It said today that the request already made to selective service for 922 physicians, 500, dentists and 100 veterinarians by Janu ary IS represents only part of the army s total needs. 'Additional requests will be made later as necessary to meet our requirements," a spokesman said. "Current uncertainties pre clude firm estimates being made more than a few months in ad vance." Selective service is to meet the pending request from among 21,101 medical men who regis tered last Monday. As soon as the medical draft law- has produced enough doc tors to meet current require ments, an army spokesman said reserve medical captains and lieutenants who. have been call ed to active duty involuntarily and who have had previous mili tary duty will be relieved pro gressively if they request it. Slightly more than 100 doctors now on active duty will be eligi ble for such relief. Last Monday's registration in cluded medical men trained at government expense, or deferred from military service during training, who thereafter served more than 90 days but less than 21 months in the armed services or public health service. Other groups of physicians, dentists and veterinarians are to be registered between now and next January, at a date yet to be fixed by selective service headquarters. Army officials do not anticipate early need for these but said their registration will let the government know how many doctors, dentists and veterinarians are available and where they are in case they should be needed eventually. Gunman Killed In Police Trap Baltimore, Oct. 21 VP) A young gunman was killed early today when he and two partners tried to shoot their way out of a police ambush in a North Bal timore food market. One of his accomplices was critically wounded and the third was captured in the blazing gun battle shortly after midnight. Of the five police who sprang the trap, one suffered minor wounds and four were unhurt. But two other ; policemen, called to help the five in the store, suffered minor injuries when their prowl car smashed into the market and burst into flames. Wheatland Walnut picking at the 150 acre orchard of Mrs. "THREE GODFATHERS" and "NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER" NOAH BEERY, JR. RAYMOND NATTON JACK MULHALL ACTION CO-HIT! M. LaFollctte is progressing de spite the showers. Two cents a pound is the current picking wage. One picker, Mrs. Violet Bechtel of Salem, gleaned 13 sacks in one day this week. A full tack usually weight in at 75 to 85 pounds. Dionne Quints Tour N.Y. City New York, Oct. 21 Wl The Dionne quintuplets, shy but smiling faced up like veterans before the pop of photo flash guns as they got in their good look at big city sights yesterday. The 16-year-old quints Yv onne, Marie, Cecile, Emilie and Annette were accompanied on the tour by 11 classmates from Villa Notre Dame high school near their home town of Callander, Ont. With Francis Cardinal Spell- man as their host, the celebrat ed sisters sandwiched in sight seeing with a radio broadcast, a visit to St. Vincent's hospital, and posed holding babies at the New York Foundling hospital. In addition, they appeared at New York's Cathedral high school to sing "The Sidewalks of New York." The girls talk little, a bit em barrassed says their father, Ol iva Dionne about their poor English. On the radio broad cast they repeated, five times identical voices, "yes, we are having a wonderful time." Big 5 Discuss Lie's Expiring Term Lake Success, Oct. 21 W) The Big Five were reported to have agreed today to hold private meetings over the week-end on what to do about UN Secretary General Trygve Lie's expiring term. ENDS TODAY! "ASPHALT JUNGLE" Plus Walt Disney's "SEAL ISLAND" 30-Min. Technicolor Feature STARTS TOMORROW Cont. 1:45 SECOND FEATURE 'I'LL REACH FOR A STAR" with All Star Cast Ph. 3-3467 Matinee Doily From 1 P.M. STARTS TOMORROW! MASHON BRANDO WRIGHTF NrttfcfTrH TIMELY CO Mrs. Elfstrom Talks on Europe A thumbnail sketch of a three and a half month tour through Europe and Africa was presented to the Salem Credit association Friday by Mrs. Robert L. Elf strom. Her lively and picturesque re port briefly outlined her im-, pressions of things and people in England, Belgium, Holland, Continuous Saturdays and Sundays NEW TODAY! Samuel's Goldwyn's New and Finest Picture! WALTER WINCHELL says: "A Goldwyn picture is al ways big time, but his latest delight is very big time!" LOUELLA PARSONS says: "See it with someone you love very much!" HEDDA HOPPER says: "The kind of picture Ameri ca has been screaming for!" JOE DiMAGGIO says: "Plenty exciting and ro mantic. A hit in any league!" A Truly Wonderful Picture! SAMUEL GOLDWYN ADDED TREATS! COLOR CARTOON "STOOGE FOR A MOUSE" WARNER NEWS prajenft v 1 MM EVERETT SIOANI TIKIIA . . c. - FEATURE ! LQtlElY HEM! France, Switzerland, Egypt and Ethiopia. Mrs. Elfstrom, traveling with a sister, boarded a Liverpool bound boat in Montreal, Canada, early last spring. A boat jammed with pilgrims intent on visiting Rome during the holy year. The port of Alexandria and a trip on the Nile were high lights of a trip which ended in Addis Ababba. Her description of the poverty and general con dition of Ethiopia was summed up with a description of how hyenas roamed the streets at night to scavenge for food. ANN BLYTH FARLEY GRANGER JOAN EVANS JANE WYATT ANN DVOflAK DONALD COOK MAfAUf WOOD High Voltage Companion Hit! ENDS TODAY! (SAT.) RICHARD WIDMARK "PANIC IN THE STREETS" "JUNGLE STAMPEDE" L.L. w iwintnn COLOR CARTOON AIRMAIL FOX MOVIETONE NEWS ! V
