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THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY tonight,
partly cloudy Sunday. Little
cooler. Low tonight, 42-44; high
Sunday, 65-67.
64th Year. No. 149 tSS?JSSoS Salem. Oregon, Saturday, June 21, nnMO Pce 5c
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Dam fo Make
Big Play Area
Open to Public
Report by Oakes Re
veals Facilities for
Summer Recreation
"By JAMES D. OLSON
Completion ot the Detroit dam
project on the North Santiam
canyon In 1953 will make possi
ble development ot an extensive
recreational area, easily accessi
ble to residents of Salem and
the entire Willamette valley.
This was revealed in a report
made public Saturday by Ivan
Oakes, executive secretary of
the Willamette Valley Project
commission, in which prelimi
nary plans for the development
were outlined.
) Oakes said that upon comple
tion of the dam it was estimated
that at least 65,000 persons
would utilize the recreation area
during the five-month period
from May through September.
He said that the average week
day and Sunday attendances are
expected to be about 230 and
750 persons, respectively.
The Corps of Engineers and
the U.S. Forest Service are mak
ing a joint recreational study
and a master recreation plan is
being developed by the Corps of
Engineers.
Sightseeing ' Facilities
Since the Detroit dam project
lies almost wholly within the
boundaries of the Willamette
Valley National forest, it is ten
tatively proposed that, depend
ent upon funds, the engineers
will provide and manage sight
seeing facilities in the vicinity of
the Detroit and Big Cliff dams
and accomplish initial develop
ment at Mongold, Tumble Creek
and Sauers Creek areas.
(Concluded on Pare 3, Column 4)
44,424 Bonus
Checks Mailed
Y,A total of 44,424 bonus
Checks were mailed to Oregon
veterans in two days ending
Friday night, H. C. (Hub)
Saalfeld, director of the bonus
division, said.
The bonus checks are mailed
in accordance with the time in
which applications are filed,
the only variation being when
processing is held up because of
need of further information.
Saalfeld said that in the
checks mailed this week the
highest bonus number for liv
ing veterans was 48,253 and the
highest number for next of km
was 201,899, this group num
bering having started at 200,
000. Some complaints have been
registered with William F.
Gaarentsroom, by veterans who
feel that checks received are
not big enough.
Gaarenstroom explained that
under the bonus law, drafted
by representatives of veterans
organizations, bonus payments
are computed only on the basis
of full months of service, with
the result that where a veter
an's time in service includes s
fraction of the month, no pay
ment can be made for this por
tion of a month.
The bonus division expects
1 to mail between 75,000 and
80,000 bonus checks by
end of July.
the
Summer Here
Almanac Says
Summer time came to Salem
earlv Saturday morning. Ha!
Ha! Anyway, the weather bur
eau dutifully recorded official
appearance of summer at 3:13
a.m.
Cool temperatures, cloudy
skies, a shower or two even
a bit of hail, all marked the
entrance of the new season
Rainfall for the month now
totals 1.32 inches against a nor
mal of .88 of an inch, and
cherry and berry growers are
not too happy about the con
tinued precipitation.
The forecast calls for more
cloudiness and slightly cooler
temperatures for the week-end
Saturday, incidentally, is due
to be the year longest day.
Weather Details
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Weather Bartiv.)
Ike in Texas to
Lambasl Theft
Of Delegates
Campaign Warming
Up; Convention
Day Nears
(By Tbe Associated Press)
The Taft-Eisenhower battle
for Republican presidential-nominating
votes took on bare
knuckle aspects Saturday with
the general primed for a "rip-
snorter" speech and the senator
saying his defense is solid.
All indications at Denver were
that Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's
week-end dash to Texas and Ne
vada would mark a departure
from his carefully polite routine'
to date.
His chief rival for the GOP
presidential nomination, Ohio's
Sen. Robert Taft, told a reporter
in Washington:
"I don't see how the Eisen
hower people can break through
to win at this point. They have
not made the headway they ex
pected when he returned home
to campaign."
604 Needed to Win
With 604 delegate votes need
ed to nominate at the GOP con
vention July 7 in Chicago Taft
has 467 to Eisenhower's 392 in
the Associated Press tabulation,
This tally is based on avowed
and conceded first-ballot align
ments. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 2)
Harmony Plea
Made by Taft
Washington VP) Sen. Taft
predicted Saturday he and Gen
Eisenhower will agree at Chi
cago on a foreign policy plank
and remove what Taft called the
'dangerous element" of a party
split.
Taft, battling Eisenhower
down to the wire for the Repub
1 i c a n presidential nomination:
told a news conference he sees
no great difference in principle
between him and the general on
either foreign or domestic issues.
The Ohio senator, predicting
his own nomination on an early
ballot in the GOP convention
opening July 7, also charged Ei
senhower forces had used state
patronage in efforts to "pres
sure Taft delegates in New
York and New Jersey to vote
for the general.
Taft told reporters he believes
that a party split over foreign
policy can be avoided by efforts
of John Foster Dulles, former
State Department adviser, to
draft a plank in that field. Dul
les has been named special ad
viser to the GOP platform com
mittee.
Say Stevenson
Willing to Run
Washington (U.R) Three
highly-placed democrats said
Saturday they understand that
Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illi
nois has decided to make him
self available for the democra
tic presidential nomination. But
an aide said Stevenson is "run
ning only for re-election as
governor."
A high administration offi
cial and a senator said they had
"heard" from White House
sources that Sevenson has solv
ed "personal problems", that
have kept him from announc
ing his availability. The admin
istration official said he under
stood Stevenson would an
nounce his decision Monday.
New Autos Sell Faster
Than Now Produced
Detroit VP) New passenger
cars are selling faster than they
are coming from the assembly
lines.
That may sound good to many
business experts but it isn't un
usual at this season of the year.
The auto industry would be in
a bad way if sales didn t move
up in June. That's usually the
best selling month of the year
for the industry's merchandis
ing division.
Actually, sales -cgan their
seasonal upturn in April. The
industry's statistical agencies
report April retail deliveries
were the highest in several
months.
Surveys also show stocks of
unsold cars, in dealers hands.
in warehouses or in transit from
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Famous Tree
May Be Moved
To New Spot
The historic Norway Spruce
tree on Courthouse square,
which long has been used as
Salem's outdoor Christmas
tree, may be saved with erec
tion of the new courthouse,
but it will have to be In a dif
ferent location.
The Chamber of Commerce
has had numerous Inquiries
about what would happen to
the tree.
Rose & Holtzmann, contrac
tors who will tear down the
old courthouse, say it will not
be necessary to move it for
that job, and Viesko & Post,
who are to build the new
courthouse, say they won't
have to move it immediately.
So the tree will stand at
least 60 days.
Further inquiry brings in
formation that It will be pos
sible to move the tree to an
other location, either on the
square or to another part of
the city, with chances almost
certain for its survival.
Donations to a fund for its
transfer to another spot have
been suggested.
Meteor Flashes
Over Capital
Washington VP) Washington
had a foreign visitor Friday
night, right out of this world.
The new arrival reported by
dozens of phone calls to newspa
pers, police and the naval obser
vatory was variously described
as a fireball, a glowing plate and
a flying saucer.
Astronomers said the object
was probably a meteor. "The
skies are full of them at this
time of the year," it was ex
plained.
One irate motorist said it
zoomed right over the top of his
convertible as he drove near the
White House.
Poisoned Barley
Decimates Crickets
Reno, Nex. VP) Black acres of
dead crickets lay rotting in the
desert sun Saturday and weary
residents of the little mining
community of Austin appeared to
have won their battle against the
ravenous horde.
The crickets advancing on
25-mile front were stopped by 40
tons of poisoned barley spread
in their path only a quarter-mile
from the town's water reservoir.
Had the insects contaminated
the reservoir, the 325 residents
would have been forced to flee,
Austin is about 150 miles east
of Reno.
the factories, now total only
slightly more than 300,000
units. The total is about 37,000
units below the accumulation
on May 1.
However, dealers generally
are somewhat cautious about
the upturn. Many profess to
see some hard sales effort ahead
if retail deliveries are to keep
up with factory output. That,
too, would be in keeping with
normal seasonal trends.
The factory executives who
have been inisisting there is
market ior five million new
cars annually cite the current
sales upturn as bearing out
their predictions. At the same
time they explain that sales
effort will be needed to sell
that many cars.
Camp Fire Gins Leave for Camp Twenty-iour girls from
Salem and others from Mill City, Woodburn and Dallas left
Salem Saturday for a week's vacation at Camp Fire Girls
camp two miles west of Falls City. Mrs. Sylvia Forbes will
be director at Camp Kilowan.
Wreckers Will Start
On Courthouse Monday
With the removal of the statue
of justice atop the tower next
Monday the work of razing Mar
ion county's old courthouse will
have been started by the Cleve-i
land Wrecking company.
Some 45 days later the task of
removing the brick, cast iron,
steel and other materials will
have been completed.
Hungry Strikers
Clamor for Food
Pittsburgh VP) The striking
CIO Steelworkers Union is
starting to issue food orders for
its hungry members and their
families.
The latest development in the
three-week old strike of 650,
000 members of the union head
ed by Philip Murray came from
Buffalo, N. Y.
Joseph P. Molony, a USW
director, said hundreds of idle
workers have appealed to the
union for relief. He said they
were referred to New York
state welfare agencies but that
to tide them over the union
issued food orders to members
it classed as hardship cases.
Molony said a commissary
would be opened at union head
quarters Monday in an effort
to cut household costs for the
strikers' families.
Strikers are not entitled to
unemployment compensation.
Steel Strike Just
Rolling Along
Washington (PI The 20-day
nationwide steel strike showed
signs Saturday of just rolling
along despite administration
statements made repeatedly dur
ing the past seven months that
the nation could not afford even
a one-day stop in production.
Congress fumed at President
Truman's failure to use the 80
day no-strike injunction provi
sion of the Taft-Hartley Labor
Law. But neither Truman nor
his top labor lieutenants showed
immediate inclination to move
from consideration of the law to
its actual use.
Top officials of the vast steel
industry, which normally turns
out nine million tons of the vital
defense metal each month, were
reportedly in New York along
with some key policy makers of
the CIO Steelworkers Union.
Administration sources said
they had absolutely no word of
any Imminent peace talks.
Russell Sure of
Defeating GOP
Portland (U.R) Sen. Richard
Russell of Georgia, favored can
didate for the Democratic pres
idential nomination, left Port
land Saturday for Boise, Ida.,
after telling Oregonians that he
could defeat any Republican
who runs against him.
Russell declared "I don't care
if he is a general, a senator, or
who he is."
Russell denied he is a sec
tional candidate. He said he has
written most of the administra
tion's farm legislation, the REA
and the major part of the de
fense legislation.
He branded as "foolishness"
any talk of reducing the na
tional budget by 15 per cent or
$40,000,000,000.
J. S. Rose, who will be super
intendent on the job here, and
Dan Holtzmann, in charge of the
sale of salvage arrived here this
week from San Francisco and
will remain until the last brick
has been carted away.
The wrecking company, the
largest operator of this type in
the United States, will employ
about 15 men on the job. They
have been secured through the
local labor temple.
Rose states that the court
house job is entirely different
from the wrecking of the Ore
gonian building in Portland
which his firm handled. Here
there will be little or no public
liability since the structure is lo
cated in the middle of the block.
Extreme care was necessary in
destroying the Oregonian build
ing to prevent injury to pedestri
ans. The statue will probably be
removed through the use of a gin
pole from the roof. The clock
and its mechanism will then be
carefully taken down. After that
the work of demolition will pro-i
ceed with considerably rapidity.
By Wednesday, state Rose, the
job will be well under way.
"The job is by no means the
largest we have undertaken, but
it is an interesting one, never
theless," said Rose, who went
over the structure several years
ago prior to submitting a bid.
"The building is soundly con
structed and would stand for
many years if need be."
There is considerable salvage in
the ancient structure in Rose's
opinion and it is all for sale at
prices "that the people can well
afford."
Rose says his concern has its
own type of wrecking tools, pat
ented. These include floor pull
ers that prevent damage to
tongue and groove and a special
type of wrecking bar.
Demolition of the brick walls.
will be fairly simple, says Rose
This is because of the spacing of
the windows. With the windows
and casings removed, jacks will
be placed at the foot of the piers
so that they will fall outward.
This process will be employed
from the top floor down to the
ground level.
The iron railing around the
roof has attracted the most at
tention from persons interested
in the old building. There is ap
proximately 300 feet of this fan
cy fencing which will be sold
at $3 per foot.
Industry Hit
By Steel Strike
New York (IP) The steel
strike put a crimp in many seg
ments of the economy this week
and chipped away at both mill
tary and civilian production.
The stockpiles of the many in
dustries that use steel dwindled
rapidly. Ammunition shortages
began to crop up.
A few weeks more of idle steel
mills and production of a long
list of strategic military items
will trickle to a halt.
The CIO steelworkers agreed
to get steel out of- warehouses
and into weapons-making plants,
The Defense Department urged
a shift of steel orders to non-
struck mills.
But these measures would pro
duce only a small percentage of
the vast tonnages needed.
Freight carloadings reflected
the impact of the walkout. They
dropped to 631,043, the smallest
In six months. The figure com
pared with 684,243 the previous
week as the movement of goods
slackened.
.unyiie Denies
Clemency to
Both Wilsons
Governor Calls Crime
Revolting; Pair to
Hang Monday
Olympia VP) Gov. Langlie re
fused Saturday to Interfere with
the hanging of Utah and Turman
Wilson Monday.
A scant 36 hours before they
were to go to the gallows in the
state penitentiary at Walla Wal
la, Gov. Langlie issued a state
ment in which he termed their
abduction-slaying of 18-year-old
Jo Ann Dewey in Vancouver,
Wash., two years ago a "dastard
ly and revolting crime."
The chief executive said any
one who had thoroughly studied
the case could come to no other
conclusion than that the Wilson
brothers "alone or with others'
committed the crime.
Slayers' Last Chance Gone
He declared a thorough study
of the evidence disclosed noth
ing that would justify his inter
vention. His decision apparently elimi
nated the Wilson brothers' last
chance of escaping the gallows.
They are scheduled to hang
early Monday morning.
(Concluded on Page S. Column 6)
Youth (or Christ
Plead for Mercy
Walla Walla, Mash, (IP) Thcl
Youth For Christ organization!
jumped into the Wilson brothers'
fight for life Saturday, asserting
the condemned pair "could not
be brought back from a grave"
if ever proven innocent.
Utah and Turman Wilson,
scheduled to hang in the first
minutes of Monday for the 1950
slaying of a 17-year-old Vancou
ver, Wash., girl, apparently ex
hausted their last legal hope Fri
day.
As the Wilson attorneys bom
barded Gov. Arthur B. Langlie
and other state officials with
telegrams seeking a stay of exe
cution. Youth For Christ sent its!
national secretary here to direct
its protest.
The organization sent a sound
truck on a tour of Walla Walla
streets, broadcasting what iti
called "the true story of the
Wilsons." A public rally was
scheduled for Saturday night.
"We feel these boys are en
titled to the benefit of a strong
doubt existing in the case and
the sentence should be commut
ed, 'said the secretary, Gordon
R. McClean of Chicago. He sent
the same statement to Governor
Langlie.
Ticket Picked
By President
Washington VP) President
Truman is reported to have told
friends he would be delighted to
have a democratic ticket head
ed by Gov. Stevenson of Illinois,
with W. Avercll Harriman in
second place.
Although Truman has re
frained from making any pub
lic commitment, men long as
sociated with him in politics
now are privately working for
the Stevenson - Harriman com
blnatlon.
Their chief difficulty in this
connection, these men say, lies
in the continued personal de
termination of Stevenson to
avoid becoming a presidential
candidate if he can help it.
National Guard Troops
In Annual Review Today
Northeast Fort Lewis High -
light ofthe two-week summer
encampment of the 41st infa.i-
try division (Oregon and Wash-
Ington National Guard) was the
annual Governor's day review
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock
on Gray field, Fort Lewis.
The approximately 5,500 men
ot the division with their tanks,
trucks and other vehicles pa
raded before Governors Douglas
McKay of Oregon and Arthur
B. Langlie of Washington.
In command of the troops
was a Salem man, Maj. Gen.
Harold G. Maison, commanding
general of the 41st division.
Brig. Gen. George S. Cook,
Seattle, is assistant division
commander and commanding
the artillery is Brig. Gen. John
P. Pence of Tacoma.
Stalled Truce
Talks Reopen
Fruitlessly
Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The
United Nations startled Commu
nist truce negotiators Saturday
by telling them that Russia had
endorsed the same principle of
voluntary repatriation of war
prisoners which the Reds now
reject.
Maj. Gen. William K. Harri
son, chiet U.N. negotiator, re
opened the stalled truce talks af
ter a three-day recess with the
statement that the Soviets had
promised Germans and Hungar
ians during World War II that
they would not have to return
home if they did not wish to do
Harrison, who forced the just-
concluded recess in the negotia
tions, proposed another "indefi
nite" suspension, but North Ko
rean Gen. Nam II insisted on an
other meeting Sunday. Harrison
consented.
Russia on Spot
In Germ Charges
United Nations, N. Y. (IP)
The United States has put Rus
sia on the spot by demanding a
U.N.-sponsored inquiry into
Soviet germ warfare charges.
The proposal, laid before the
U.N. Security Council late Fri
day, is certain to gain over
whelming support among the
council's 11 members.
This will leave the commun
ists two possible course other
than the unlikely one of agree
ing to an investigation: Either
Russia can veto the proposal or
communist China and North
Korea can refuse to let inves
tigators enter their territories,
In either case, the whole
germ warfare issue as a pro
paganda move may backfire on
Russia.
The question will come up
for debate Monday afternoon
Russia's Jacob A. Malik made
a long speech after the U. S
proposal was circulated Friday,
but he Ignored the matter since
it doesn't get on the agenda
officially until Monday.
Long Tie-up in
Sailors Strike
San Francisco VP) Harry
Lundeberg, leader of the strik
ing AFL Sailors Union of the
Pacific, called his port agents
and strike chairmen from up and
down the coast into a special
meeting here Saturday "to make
preparations for a long licup."
The strike, which has been on
for four weeks, has tied up most
of the commercial shipping on
the west coast. Military cargo
ships, oil tankers and lumber
schooners haven't been affected.
U.S. Conciliator Omar Hos
kins, assigned to mediate the dis
pute between the sailors and the
Pacific Maritime association,
spokesman for shipowners, has
n't been able to arrange another
meeting.
The sailors have demanded
overtime pay at sea and a 5 per
cent pay increase. The ship own
ers have insisted on a long term
contract.
Ike on Radio Monday
Denver (IP) Gen. Dwight D
Eisenhower will make a 15
minute political address Monday
night on a coast to coast tele
vision and radio network. It
will be a paid broadcast.
I Commanding the two Oregon
regiments were Col. James D.
Allgood, Dallas, the 162nd, and
Col. Robert L. Irving, Roseburg
'the 186th
Awarded the Eisenhower tro
phy during the parade was the
4lst reconnaissance company
from Bremerton, Wash.
The 41sl Infantry Division As
soclation trophy for outstanding
service during the year went to
Capt. Jesse T. Wilklns, Jr.,
Woodburn, Ore., commander of
the 186th infantry regiment's
tank company.
Since the arrival here last
Saturday of the Guardsmen
from Oregon and Washington,
the tent city in Northeast Fort
Lewis has been buzzing with
activity.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 5)
Allies Repulse
Biggest Red
Attack of Year
T-Bone Hill Scene of
All Night Battle
Led by Tanks
Seoul, Korea VP) Tough Fil
ipino Infantrymen using bayon
ets and grenades Saturday blunt
ed the initial thrust or a beefed
up Chinese regiment attacking
on a three-mile sector in West
ern Korea.
The Filipinos and U.S. 45th
Division infantrymen beat back
charge after charge in five hours
of savage night fighting to force
the Chinese to withdraw.
Objective of the Reds was "T-
Bone Hill" defended by the
Philippines' 19th Battalion Com
bat Team and nearby key peaks
west of Chorwon.
Tanks and Artillery
The Reds threw tanks and ar
tillery into the battle. An esti
mated 3,000 to 4,000 Chinese
foot soldiers smashed against Al
lied positions.
More than 5,000 rounds of
Communist artillery and mortar
fire pounded into U.N. positions.
it was one of the heaviest
barrages of the war on a single
sector.
In the early stages of the fight
some Allied units were cut off.
They battled the Reds hand-to-hand
and threw them back.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 4)
Stanton Heads
State's Editors
Gearhart Iff) Charles V.
Stanton, editor of the Roseburg
News-Review, was elected presi
dent of the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association Satur
day. W. Arthur Steele of th
Clatskanie Chief was put in posi
tion for the same post a year
from now.
Stanton, elevated from the
vice-presidency, succeeds JV' Wi
Forrester Jr., of the Pendleton
East-Orcgonian. Lucian Arant,
publisher of the Baker Democrat-Herald,
was named treasur-
Aiton Baker Sr., Eugene Re
gister-Guard, was elected repre-sentative-at-large
for the Eric
W. Allen Memorial Fund board
of trustees.
These directors were elected:
First District, Robert Chessman,
Astorian Budget, Astoria; Sec
ond District, Mike Frey, Ore
gonian, Portland; Third District,
C. L. McKinley, Independence;
Fourth District, Glen Charles,
Lakcview Examiner; Fifth Dis
trict, Theresa H. Cox, Central
Oregonian, Prineville; Sixth
District, Fred Weybret Jr., La
Grande Evening Observer.
A dinner Saturday night closes
the meeting.
Brazil Convicts
In Bloody Revolt
Sao Paulo, Brazil (IP) Police
in the coastal town of Ubatuba
Saturday caught 16 of 400 con
victs who escaped Friday from
Anchlota Island prison after
setting fires and killing 15
guards and civilian employes.
The heavily armed convicts
had landed near Ubatuba and
struck terror in two other near
by coastal towns. Ubatuba's Po
lice Chief Dangler Guimaracs
said his men ran into a group
of the convicts and killed one
and injured another in a run
ning gun battle before they ar
rested the 16.
Guimaracs said police and
troops rushed to Anchicta to re
store order and found the bodies
of the guards and employes in
the prison compound and some
buildings partly burned.
Troops, air force planes and
boats rushed to this area after
the bloody break-away by some
of Brazil's most desperate cri
minals.
Crippled Schooner
Being Towed to Port
Bandon, Ore. VP) The Cyn
thia Olson, lumber schooner
which ran aground here two
weeks ago, was being towed to
Portlnnd Saturday for repairs.
Holes, punched In the ship's
hull as it was bounced by rough
waves on a sandbar, are patched
with concrete and the ship is
equipped with a battery of diesel
pumps.