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Journal THE WEATHER INCREASING CLO UDINESS, not so cool, few light showers to night; mostly cloudy, cooler Tuesday, scattered light showers. Low tonight, 40; high Tuesday, 60. ' FINAL ED QUOIN 64th Year, No. 96 Entered eeond iliu Salem, Oregon, Monday, April 21, 1951 Price 5c matttr At Siltm, Oregoo Police Fire on 2600 Rioting Missouri Flood i j Red Migs Truman Warns Moving South Capital Against Cut in Steel Funds Prison Convicts On Kansas City Hit by Sabres In 3 Battles Shoot Down 7, 1 Convict Killed, 2 Wounded in Quelling Michigan Prison Riot Jackson, Mich. W.F3 State troopers and guards pushed ri- oting prisoners back into their cellblocks at Southern Michi gan Prison Monday, killing one, wounding two of the convicts who fought back. Darwin Mil lager, 35, serving 15-25 year term, died in prison hospital of a chest wound. But 104 rioters holed up in the disciplinary barracks con tinued their soige, holding 11 guards as hostages. Fire Over Convicts Heads On orders from State Corree tions Commissioner Earnest Brooks, state troopers fired over the heads of the rebellious con victs. They fell back. But six more guards in the right yards of the prison, which heretofore had been free of riot ing, were taken as hostages Brooks said. The convicts them selves claimed seven additional hostages. They already hold four. Slate troopers already on the scene and all available prison guards manned machine guns on the roofs and in the administra tion building. They held the con victs at bay while more troopers streaked toward the prison from all sections of the state. National Guard on Alert One unit of the National Guard was put on standby alert. Three guards and one trooper were injured, all either beaten or hit with flying bottles or buckets. (Concluded on Face 5. Column 5) Break Near in Jersey Revolt 1 Rahway, N.J. (IP) With hun ger and thirst as their allies, Mulahway State prison officials waited patiently Monday for break in a four-day rebellion of 231 hard-bitten .convicts. The revolt is the longest in a series of five prison outbreaks In the state. A similar mutiny by 69 convicts at Trenton state prison, 40 miles to the- south ended Friday after 77 hours, The Rahway uprising equalled this mark at 2 a.m. Barricaded in a dormitory wing, the prisoners were prom ised they would receive no cor poral punishment if they sur- rended without harming their eight guard hostages. The desperate convicts, vow ing "victory or death" in their mutiny, reportedly were argu ing and bickering well into the night as meager food supplies dwindled. Water has been shut off to the wing since the riot flared up Thursday night. William Legay, superintendent of the prison farm, said the rebels might be tapping a pipe prison officials don't know about. Grim Battle Being Fought to Save Sherman Airfield Kansas City UP) The Army, augmented by civilian workers, carried on a grim battle Monday to save the Sherman Air Field of historic Fort Leavenworth from the unruly Missouri river, Some 1,600 .men sloughed through mud in a chilly rain, bolstering a three-mile stretch of dikes against the tremendous river pressure. It was a dangerous hand-to- hand struggle. Flood waters behind the dikes stood as much as nine feet above the level of the air field. Life boats were kept at hand. Most of the work was done without aid of machine. The field was too soggy for trucks. St. Joe to Kansas City Fort Leavenworth is about 25 miles northwest of Kansas City. The critical area along the flooding Missouri is now be tween St. Joseph, Mo., and Kan sas City. If the dike at the north end of Sherman Field gives way, the water probably will cut a new ver channel across the Held leaving part of it an island, flood fighters reported. (Concluded on Page 5. Column 4) Installment Controls to End . Washington (P) An end to government control over install ment buying is expected soon, in formed officials say. This would mean that there Would no longer be any federal regulations over how much you would have to pay down on au tomobiles, radio and television sjets, refrigerators, furniture and other items. And, too, there would be no limit fixed on how long or short a time you would get to pay back your loans. The officials pointed out, how ever, there is no move afoot to end government regulations in volving down payments and mortgages on houses. These officials said the Fed eral Reserve Board is ready to suspend controls on installment buying of consumer goods as soon as it learns what Congress is going to do about control pow ers. Mrs. Jada Kader Fails in Suicide Portland VP) Mrs. Jada Z. Kader, facing trial on first de gree murder charges in the death of her 3-year-old daugh ter, tried to commit suicide Sunday night, Sheriff Terry Schrunk said. He said a matron found Mrs. Kader in a bathroom of the county jail. The cord of her athrobe was looped around ner neck and she wal bleeding slightly from both wrists. The wrist wounds, made with a broken razor blade, were not deep. Mrs. Kader reaffirmed her claim of innocence and accused newspapers and police officials of persecuting her in a long let ter which she apparently in tended to be read after her death, Schrunk said. The pretty 21-year-old moth er is accused of killing her daughter, Sherrie, by dropping her into a water-filled drainage sump. lastx.January. She has denied the charge, . saying that the little girl was accidentally killed by her 4-year-old sis ter, Vickie. She said she drop ped the child's body in the sump to protect Vickie, A Look at Things to Come Shown under construction in the foreground is the grade separation for the new Salem bridge. This separation will extend to the outside lane, now the grade section of the new Riverview highway through West "Salem. American Bridge company will make a large concrete placement over longitudinal beams on the 'grade scparatfon In about 10 days. Observers Permitted ToSee Tuesday A-Blast (Editor's note: Robert Letts Jones, assistant publisher of the Capital Journal, is the only Ore gon Newspaper man in Nevada to report the first "public atomic blast.") By ROBERT LETTS JONES Atomic Tests Site, Nevada. (Special) At least seven Salem Army officers ar.i men have been selected to figure promi nently in the atomic bomb-blast scheduled for Tuesday morning here. Daylight Time Rulina Tuesday Oregon will know Tuesday whether it will have daylight saving time this summer. Gov. d Douglas McKay said Monday. The governor said he has al most completed his investigation on whether he should order the state's clacks set ahead one hour next Sunday. He said the only thing that he has yet to check is whether the city of Tacoma, Wash., will have daylight time. The state law provides that Oregon can't have daylight time 'unless the governor proclaims it for the whole state. He can proclaim it only if he finds the state's economy would be dam aged by staying on standard time. The governor regards the ac tion to be taken by Washington cities on the time question as im portant. He said that Vancouver end Longview, Wash., will go along with Oregon. Ferry Sinks Hamburg. Germany A ham burg ferry rammed dock pil ings as it came into its slip Monday and sank, but all 141 persons aboard escaped death and serious injury. Passenger Jet On Trial Flight London (U.B Britain's four- jet passenger airliner, the "Comet," flew from London to Rome Monday in two hours and 17 minutes on its last test flight before opening the jet passen ger air transport age May 2. The British Overseas Airways plane arrived at Ciampino air port at 11:50 a.m. (1:59 a.m. CST) and was scheduled to make the return flight to Lon don later in the day. On May 2 the 480-mile-an- hour jet craft will leave London airport on a 6,724-mile flight to Johannesburg, carrying a full payload of 36 passengers. It will be the first regularly sched uled jet passenger flight. Weather Details Miilmim yetltrdtT. 63: minimum M. ToUl 54-hanr precipitation: 0 , fur month: ntrmtl. 1.89. Seiivn arc- L-lpltatlon. M.IK: normal, River mrlghl. a.S feel, ffteport by VS. Weather 'nreii.i Russia Desires Peace Says May Washington VP) A. Wilfred May said Monday a visit to Mos cow convinced him the Russians want peace in Korea and are trying to restrain Chinese Com munists who, "drunk with pow- ," are delaying a truce. May went to Russia to report on the recent Moscow Economic Conference. He said the visit changed his former ideas about the possibilities of war and he now believes the Russian peo ple are scared of America and Russia cannot stand a war. May, executive editor of the New York Commercial and Fi nancial Chronicle, is a former foreign correspondent. In a copywrighted interview in U.S. News and World Re port, a weekly news magazine he said that as a delegate to the Economic Conference he had a chance given few American visitors in recent years: A close look at life and attitudes behind the Iron Curtain. Queen Inspects Her Grenadiers Windsor, Eng. (IP) Queen Elizabeth II made good Monday on a promise she had given the Grenadier Guards 10 years ago that they would be the first troops she would inspect as sov ereign of the realm. It was the queen's 26th birth day, her real one. On June 5 the British people 'will celebrate her birthday by decree. Dressed in black and with her bowler-hatted consort, the Duke of Edinburgh, close by, the Queen reviewed a Grenadier Guards contingent of 600 men on the castle's quadrangle. A drizzle cancelled out much of the pageantry that usually goes with such a review. The men carried no regimen ial col ors nor arms. Grey capes shroud ed their brilliant scarlet tunics. But three-year-old Prince Charles, at a window overlook ing the quadrangle, enjoyed the show. First Rose Festival Princess Portland (U.B- Lovely 17-year- old Pat Morud, of Grant high school, Monday was named Port land's first Rose Festival prin cess for 1952. Most Oregon Phone Workers Return to Jobs iBr the Auoclited Prcm Oregon Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company workers, on strike since last Tuesday, re turned to work Monday. Picket lines were withdrawn except at the Western Electric warehouse in Portland as nego tiations continued in New York in an attempt to reach an agree ment with the Western Electric port regularly regular jobs as quickly as pos sible and that all should be back within 24 hours. The workers, members of the CIO Communications Workers of America, struck in protest when the company announced it could not guarantee regular employ ment to those who did not re sales force. In Washington, too, only the Western Electric warehouse at Seattle was picketed. The Oregon telephone work ers, who charged a lockout and left their jobs, agreed at a meet ing with company representa tives Sunday to remove pickets and go back to work. A company spokesman said I they would be reassigned to That would have meant going through the picket line of West ern Electric employes, alio members of the CWA. The phone workers charged lock-out and joined the picketing. An agreement was reached with Western Electric equip ment installers in New York Friday, but attempts to reach settlement with the sales force is continuing. Tcit Asks Ike For Replies Washington (U.B- Sen Robert A. Taft's supporters Monday cir culated a petition "demand that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower take a public stand on 21 "vital questions" most of them bit tcrly controversial. Taft strategists figure that Ei senhower is bound to alienate s-ime large blocs of voters if he commits himself, pro or con, on the questions. Taft himself has said that Eisenhower's populari ty would diminish if he had to choose sides in various disputed issues. The political dynamite in the petition is demonstrated by a few sample questions: "Do yc approve of the firing of Gen. Uouglas MacArlhur?" "Are you for or against the Taft-Hartley law?" "Do you favor any kind of world government?" England Goes on Daylight Saving London UP) Britons have set their clocks ahead one hour for the summer. The change, which went into effect Sunday, puts the time in England nine hours ahead of Pa cific standard time in the Un ited States, instead of eight. English time is now the same as in France, Italy and Germany. They made no summer change. They will be in trenches a safe" distance from the spot where the bomb will be dropped on the Yucca Flat test site, 88 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Col. George Spaur, Oregon state forester on military leave, the 369th engineer amphibious regiment, told me this morning that units of his regiment will be among the relatively small "task force" drawn from all parts of the Sixth Army area to see the effect 01 an A-bomb blast. Their vantage point in the trenches is considered as one of safety. Col. Spaur, who also is chief of staff of Camp Desert Rock here, will be with his unit in the trenches near ' "ground -'Zero," the detonation point. Others from Salem with him will be: Capt. Richard N. Chase, assis tant operations office, who lives at 2615 Berry street and is on leave from the highway depart ment; Lt. Robert Gray, special serv ice officer of Desert Rock who was in the feed and seed busi ness in Salem before putting on his uniform again; (Concluded on Fagc 5, Column 6) 1 1 Arrested for Big Robbery Seattle (U.B Eleven persons, allegedly members of a gang of burglars who made off with ?50,- 000 loot in the past month, were in King county jail Monday. The group included two wo men, a juvenile boy, ana seven men. One of the men was a Se attle restaurant operator identi fied by others of the gang to be the "fence" who ordered what he wanted and then sold the stolen goods, Sheriff Harlan Callahan said. The group committed 27 bur glaries during the past month in an area ranging from Seattle to Mt. Vernon, Detective Chief Ad am Lyskoski said. Indians Observe Salmon Feast The Dalles, Ore. U.B- Indians from three state met Monday for. what may be the last ob servance of the ancient salmon feast of Kah-Olt at Celilo near here. The Indian fishing village on the banks of the Columbia river is the scene of time hallowed feasting, stick and bone games and dancing. The event started Sunday and will last through Tuesday. Tribes in the Warm Springs reservation were personally in vited to the feast by host Chief Tommy Thompson and his son, Henry. Other tribes from Wash ington and Idaho were also ex pected to attend. The feast is a tribal tradition that has been observed longer than the oldest living warriors can remember and it may be the last at Celilo, at least. The existence of the village is threatened by construction of a white man's dam at The Dalles. Damage 6 in Separate Aerial Dogfights Seoul. Korea MN U.S. Sabre jet pilots Monday shot down sev en and damaged six Communist MIG jets, the Fifth Air Force announced. The Air Force said the Russian-made jets were bagged in three separate aerial duels in volving 100 Red planes. The day's biggest fight pro duced America's 11th jet ace Capt. Robert J. Love, San Ber nardino, Calif. He shot down two MIGs in a battle involving 28 Sabres and 50 MIGs, the Air Force said. From 40,000 to Tree Tops Three other MIGs were shot down three were damaged and one of the Reds new fast type 15 jets was hit in this scrap. It raged 30 minutes from 40,000 feet down to tree top level, Fighting on the . 155-mile ground front was sporadic and generally light. The heaviest action Sunday was east of Kumsong on the central front, A U.N. patrol bat tled hand-to-hand with a strong' ly entrenched Communist com' pany for 10 minutes. Allied troops used their fists and rifle butts against the Reds. (Concluded on Page' 5, Column 5) Ceasefire Talks Still Deadlocked Munsan, Korea (P) Each side Monday refused to recognize that problems exist on the two deadlocked issues in Korean truce talks. There was no hint of compromise. 1 Col. Don O. Darrow, a United Nations command staff officer. said the communists refused to discuss or even acknowledge the issue of military airfeld con struction in Korea in the event of an armistice. The UNC wants to ban the building of military airfields during a truce. The Reds have called this interference in the internal affairs of North Korea A UNC communique said the matter of which nations shall su pervise a truce "has been solved" by the UNC suggestion that only four nations Sweden, Switzerland, Poland and Czecho slovakia form the neutral na tions supervisory commission. 3 States to Pick Delegations (Br the Auoclaled PresJl Idaho democrats pick a dozen presidential - nominating dele Rates Monday as a sort of pre lude to similar but bigger-scale doings Tuesday In Pennsylvania and New York. The Idaho delegation to the national convention in Chicago will be chosen at a slate conven tion In Lewiston. Despite woo ing of Sens. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, the group is expected to be uninslructed on how to cast its 12 'votes next July. Many more delegate votes are riding on the outcome of Tues day's primaries in Pennsylvania and New York. In Pennsylvania, republicans and democrats elect 60 district delegates each ten at large delegates each already have been chosen. New York names 96 republican and 94 dem ocratic delegates. Sir Henry Stafford Cripps Sir Stafford Lapses in Coma Zurich, Switzerland, lu.R) Sir Stafford Cripps, gravely ill for mer British chancellor of the exchequer, lapsed into uncon sciousness Monday. "Sir Stafford is slowly sink ing." Dr. Dagmar Liechti, his physician, said in a mid-morn ing bulletin. "He has now drift ed into a state of deep painless unconsciousness." Lady Cripps was at her husband's bedside in the Bercher Benner clinic. Their daughter Peggy is expected to arrive here Tuesday and their son John on Wednesday. Cripps, who will be 63 Thurs day, has been under treatment here intermittently since No vember, 1950, for spinal tuber culosis and another "rare and dangerous disease" which never has been identified publicly. Congress Told Restriction of Operation Money Fatal Washington President Truman told the senate Monday that if it restricts use of govern ment funds for operation of the seized steel mills it may result in "paralyzing the operations of the government in an emergen cy." In a letter to Vice President Barklcy, the president hit out vigorously at republican-sponsored moves to deny any funds for government operation of the mills. He said enactment of the GOP proposals might lead to a com plete shutdown in steel and "im mediately reduce the ability of our troops in Korea to defend themselves against attack." Debate Misleading Further, the president con tended, much of the debate on the matter has been of "extrema and misleading character." He warned: "If the communists stage an other offensive in Korea- this spring, the success or failure of that offensive may well depend on whether or not we have kept our steel mills in operation. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) H-Bomb Test Due Next Fall Washington (U.P.) This appears to be the year of the H-bomb. Weaponeers are confident that the country's first real H-bomb test, planned for next tall at Eniwetok, will be a success. So far there have been no public announcements about the stage of H-bomb development. But one atomic insider has told the United Press: "Things are bubbling along in the whole area of H-bomb work. The activity is intense, and damned important things are happening. The people should be made aware that they are happening." Other sources have said the first test explosion of an H-bomb will be held in September at the atomic proving ground in the Pacific. It will be a tremendous explo sion, i It worKs as wen as in formed sources believe it will, Adlai Asks No Votes in Oregon Portland VP) Gov. Adlal Stevenson of Illinois wants Ore gon voters to disregard his name on the Democratic presidential primary ballot May 16. Stevenson said in a letter to Tom Humphrey, editor of the Oregon Journal editorial page, he would have withdrawn from the Oregon ballot if that had been possible under Oregon law. "I can only ask the Oregon volers to disregard my name on the ballot," he wrote. "I believe too much in the tcgrity of the elective process to permit my name to be con sidered by the voters for presi dent when I have already been nominated for an other office governor of Illinois," he said. Ho said he had not been con sulted about filing his name. Stevenson announced earlier he was not a candidate for the nomination. Frost Causes Some Smudging Despite the bright sunshine for Salem's Blossom Day and opening for fishing season, the thermometers registered nippy temperatures for both Sunday and Monday. Smudging operations were carried on by many farmers in the valley area to protect orch ard and berry crops. Monday morning's minimum here was one above the freez ing mark, hitting 33 degrees, while Sunday morning's mini mum slid down to 27 degrees and brought a noticeable frost in many areas. The forecast calls for increas ing cloudiness and some light showers tonight and luesaay. Richfield Oil Co. Held Guilty of Monopoly Wo.hir.oinn Pi The Runreme OreEon. Washington, Nevada ueparimcni iuiu Court Monday upheld 7-0 a find ing that the Richfield Oil Cor poration of Los Angeles violat ed the anti-trust laws by requir ing 2,965 western service sta tions to buy only from Richfield. The finding has been made by U. S. District Judge Leon R. Yankwich of Los Angeles. The high court's decision was annouced in an unsigned order which noted that Justice Clark had disqualified himself from the case and Justice Frankfurter had taken no part because he was ill at the time it was argued. The illegal agreements affect ed service stations in California, The Justice the Supreme Court the 2,965 stations sold 7.5 percent of all the gasoline sold by retailers in the six states and that in 1950 the Richfield stations distributed some 43 million dollars of petrol eum products and accessories. Richfield asked the high trib unal to overturn Judge Yank- wich's decision on the ground it extended the anti-trust laws be yond their language and pur nose." Opposing this request, the gov ernment said the effect of the agreements was to deny to Rich fields' competitors access to the 2,965 stations, Many Suicides By Chinese Hong Kong VP) After de nouncing Communism to a stun ned crowd, two Chinese business men jumped to their deaths from a Canton rooftop. Independent Chinese newspa pers here told or me moment Monday in recounting a wave of suicides in Canton on "bloody April 14." At least 17 shopkeepers, mer chants and managers died by their own hands that day. All were caught in the "five antis campaign the drive to eliminate merchants, industri alists and businessmen by get ting their employes to denounce them for various real or fancied crimes. The accusations, usually trumped up, may be made in public by anonymous letter or in secret sessions. Those accused are so closely watched that they have no hope of escaping the city. Wants Airforce to Shift Training to Upstate The slate board of aeronaut ics wants the air force to shift its program from Portland to upstate airports. In a resolution sent Saturday to the air force and to the Ore gon congressional delegation, the board suggested that tne training be carried out at Cor vallis, Madras and Redmond. The resolution said military training was a hazard to civil ian flying at Portland. The board contracted for pub lie liability property damage in surance for state-operated planes flying search or rescue missions. Explosion Kills Six Tokyo VP) Six Japanese were killed and several Injured Monday In the explosion of a firecracker factory in Shikoku, one of Japan's southern islands, Kyodo News Agency reported.
