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.