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Newspaper Page TextJom raal FBNIAL EDITION THE WEATHER MOSTLY FAIR tonight and Tuesday except for morning cloudiness. Little change in tem perature. Low tonifbt, 50; high Tuesday, 10. 64th Year, No. 173 b,.ma Ul-'J Woffesj Price 5c Salem, uregon, Monday, Juiy l i, .oais .m" 0jo KV of, k A I II A 1 Capital Gov.Slevenson Pleads for Principles Illinois Governor's 'No' Begins to Sound Like 'Maybe' By LYLE C. WILSON Chicago (U.R Feuding dele gates to the 31st democratic na tional convention called time out in their party-splitting civil rights fight Monday to hear a harmony plea from the man many of them hope to draft for a presidential candidate. Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, whose "no" was beginning to sound more and more like "maybe" to his boosters, held the limelight at the opening session in the role of official greeter on behalf of the host state of Illinois. His 1,300-word welcoming address seemed likely to pour fresh fuel on the "draft Stev enson" fire -vhich the governor has been trying to stamp out with little success. Calls for Principles Stevenson urged his fellow democrats not to duplicate the "carnage" of the recent repub lican convention, and to put principles above personalities. "Who leads us is less impor tant than what leads us," he declared. "A man doesn't save a century or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can." Stevenson had not a word to say about his own availabil ity, and he also gave a wide berth to the left wing-conservative fight that was boiling up to jeopardize the party's shot at a sixth consecutive presiden tial victory. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Ike Invited to Oregon in Oct. Portland W The National Association of Governing Boards Monday awaited a reply from Dwight D. Eisenhower on its in vitation to the Republican stand ard bearer to speak at its annual meeting in Oregon in October. The invitation was extended by Edgar W. Smith, Portland, president of the governing board and president of the Oregon State Board of Higher Educa tion. The organization includes regents, trustees and presidents of state universities and colleg es throughout the nation. Eisenhower was also asked to attend the Michigan State-Oregon State college football game in Portland October 4. Governor Dever to Keynote Demos Tonite Chicago U.B Gov. Paul A! Dever of Massachusetts, to night'! keynote speaker' for the democratic national convention, says he will use about 40 min utes and 4,600 words to present "the views of the masses of the plain people." He reported he has talked to President Truman about what ought to be said, but that neith er the president nor any other party official has reen or cen sored a draft of the speech. Dever indicated he will soft pedal the issue of party fric tions and the need for unity. Showdown in Oregon Demo Split Put Of f Chicago (fP) Oregon's fac-i Walter J. Pearson of Portland tion-split delegation to the Dem- offered a substitute motion to ocratic convention Monday put take no action until it was off a showdown on a bitterly-1 learned first from Kefauver's contested effort to bind the dele-managers whether they want gates to the candidacy of Sen.! Oregon to make a seconding Estes Kefauver until released. speech. Oregon already in pledg- The proposal, authored by ed to Kefauver. Thomas R. Mahoney of Portland, I Among those supporting the was laid over until another Pearson move were Howard meeting after Mahoney and his I Morgan and Dave Epps, both principal op p o n e n t , National1 Sweetland supporters. Committeeman Monroe Sweet-1 Morgan told the delegates he land, both failed to show up for hoped "that those who have been an early-morning caucus. busy spreading rumors of dis- William L. Josslin, head of the sension and defection in this Oregon Kefauver forces, sug-j delegation do not misinterpret gested the delegation take "no 'the vote on Josslin'i proposal, hasty action" and t'o nothing un-l Oregon's warring delegates got til all delegates are on hand. The, issue was laid over until a later meeting. Factional differences still sim-1 mered, however. The delegation, on a vote determined by Chair- man Terry Schrunk, backed away from a Josslin motion that uregon second neiauver s nomi- nation. fay J" v I i .Mi , ., ..I -I, in rnra, ' njpMflllllgSiNs)1 " - "''" ih-'i Democratic Program Today Chicago ift Here is the pro- gram Monday', evening ses- al Convention: All times are Pacific standard. Evening session S p.m. Presiding officer: Sen. Theo dore F. Gireen of Rhode Island. Invocation. J. Ralph Magee, retired Methodist Chui ch Bishop. J Address, by Frank E. McKin- ney, chairman national commit tee. Appointment of committees. I Keynote address by the tem j porary convention chairman, Gov. Paul A. Dever of Massa chusetts. Tuesday's program. Morning session 9 a.m. Presiding: Chairman McKin ney. Invocation, Dr. Louis Bin stock, Chicago. Address by Mrs. Perle Mesta, U. S. Minister to Luxembourg. Resolutions: Permanent rules and order of business. , Addresses by Rep. Dawson, 111., vice chairman of National Committee; Eugenie A. Ander son, Ambassador to Denmark; Richard J. Nelson, president, Young Democratic Clubs of America. Resolutions: Report of cre dentials committee. Address by Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, treasurer of the U. R. Oregon Starts Mrs. FDR Boom Chicago lift Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas let it be known Monday that he does n't want the Democratic vice presidential nomination. He sent this word to the Ore gon delegation to the party's na tional convention. Douglas was the write-in choice of more than 15 per cent of Oregon Democrats in primary balloting on their presidential preference. Second to Sen. Estes Kefau ver, Douglas was therefore Ore gon's choice for the vice presi dential spot. ' He sent word to the Oregon delegation, however, that he did not want the nomination and re leased the delegates from any obligation to support him. Some Oregon delegates at once started a boom for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. The delegation officially in structed its chairman to find out If she is "willing." In public statements, Mrs. Roosevelt has indicated she would never be a candidate for elective public office. into a hot controversy earlier over the good-faith intentions of opposing political factions. , The Oregon feud erupted at a delegation caucus Sunday over j reports and allegations that some : delegates were planning to bolt their primary election pledge to support the presidential canal idacy of Sen. Estes Kefauver. New Salem General Hospital The architect's sketch above of the new Salem General hospital as it will look when com pleted. Bids will be called at once for construction of the weft wing unit (left above) with an approval of federal fund allocation by the state board of health. Two Salem Hospitals Get Expansion Funds By STEPHEN Salem General hospital and Salem Memorial hospital both got the green light today to go ahead with expansion programs. For Salem General hospital the program is a new building, and for Salem Memorial a new wing to the present building and general remodeling. Truman Back At His Desk Washington UP) President Truman was at his desk at the White House Monday for the first time in more than a week. And his press secretary took the occasion to swipe at the un ending string of rumors dealing with Truman s position on De mocratic politics. The president spent three days last week at the Army's Walter Reed hospital, undergoing a se ries of tests as a result of a mild virus infection that had been plaguing him. He left the hos pital Saturday. Meanwhile, rumors were fly ing between Chicago and Wash- ington as to just what Truman would do in regard to the Demo cratic National Convention, op ening in Chicago Monday. Here's what Press Secretary Joseph Short said of the rumors: "I'm not going to comment on any of them." And, he added: "Some of them are exclusive and will remain exclusive per manently. By that, Short meant that some of the rumors were so ex clusive they could never be sub stantiated. The idea was that most of them weren't true. Labor Says Age Bars Barkley Chicago flJ.R) AFL and CIO spokesmen met with Vice Presi- dent Alben W. Barkley Monday to break the news that he is not their presidential candidate, but left the Veep's headquarters without comment. Ten union officials had break fast with Barkley and talked with him and his aides for about an hour and a half. Pressed for information on the session, Jack Kroll, director of the CIO Political Action Com mittee, angrily advised report ers to "be your age." The labor spokesmen did not even say they informed the vice president of their decision to withhold support from his presi dential campaign because he is too old. Sweetland in Strategy Huddle Chicago U.B Oregon's demo cratic national committeeman, Monroe Sweetland, was present at a strategy huddle Monday on a project of Kefauver-Harriman forces to bar contested anti- administration delegates from voting until the party's conven tion has passed on them. Additionally, Kefauver and (Harnman suggested that any idelegation seated be compelled I to take a loyalty pledge to sup- port the 1952 platform and ticket. The showdown on the double barrelled proposition was post poned from Monday until Tues day when the convention Is to adopt its temporary rules. A. STONE The final word of approval was by the Oregon state board of health for the allocation of $307,821 in federal money to ward the estimated cost of $963, 200 for the new Salem General hospital building, and $89,466 to Salem Memorial hospital toward a new wing and remodeling to I cost around $265,000. Riris fnp rnnstpnptinn nf Ihi new Salem General hospital building will be called for at once, according to William""' '"""" Gahlsdorf, business manager, and construction should be well along by fall. Plans and speci fications are already in the hands of contractors, including two Salem firms, Viesko & Post, and the E. E. Batterman com pany. James L. Payne of Salem is the chief architect, and Schmidt, Garden & Erikson of Chicago consultant architects. The total necessary fund is complete. Bigger Building Later The new Salem General hos pital building will be the first wing and central tower of a later three-wing institution. The first unit is designed as a 60 bed maternity and pediatric hospital, but actual capacity will exceed that. The later three wing plan calls for 210 beds. (Concluded on Pare 5, Column 7) Two Missing Boys Found Safe B? The Associated Press) Two small boys, lost in wide ly separated areas of Oregon's timberland, were found safe Sunday, but the search contin ued in Southern Oregon for two fishermen missing since Satur day afternoon. The two found unharmed were Ernie Lefler, 5, lost for more than 24 hours in the rug ged Lost Lake region, 25 miles northwest of Klamath Falls, and Tommy Prosser, 4, missing for four hours in the Mount Hood National Forest, 30 miles south east of Hood River. Still missing are A. M. Jones, Concord, Calif., and C. P. Cul hane, Detroit, Mich., both about 56 and executives of the United Motors Service Corp., Detroit. Their empty car with ignition key and fishing gear still in it. was found Saturday afternoon . . parKCa al Annie CreCK Canyon ror month: O; normal. M. Season prc InnVnid nninl In Praia- I nlfa clDilatlon. 4"!.n!i normal. S7.4I. River , f " L Ix'cf.nnr,' . ttv I Li.'ui irci'. Em IT-.... - u ,.oi Friendly Foes Democratic presidential hopefuls line up for a Chicago TV program as prelude, to national convention which op ened Monday. Jcfl to right: Avcrell Harri- Reds Driven Off Ord Baldy Seoul. Korea M"i United Na tions infantrymen Monday drove Chinese Communists off the crest of Old Baldy on the Kor ean western front in the wake of a tremendous barrage by art illery, tanks and warplanes. But front line dispatches in dicated the crest of the hill was a no-man's land with U. N. troop dug in below the crest. A U.S. Eighth Army staff of ficer said the hill definitely was not secured. Associated Press Correspond- -- Hf.A.tl . 41 Cllt UCUI gU 1UL11 UIU1 HI front said the Chinese had not f" "P their bid for the vital hill they wrested from the allies He said Chinese foot soldiers were observed sneaking back to ward the hill in the afternoon despite intense Allied fire. More than 50 U. N. planes raked the hill with flaming gas oline, rockets and machincgun fire. U. N. tanks and artillery blanketed the hill with screech ing shells. American carrier planes Sun day hit Communist power in stallations at Changjin in North eastern Korea No Break in Prisoner Issue Munsan, Korea lift United Nations and communist armis tice delegates met in secret for only 20 minutes Monday and adjourned without any apparent break in the protracted deadlock over exchange of war' prison ers. They scheduled another ex ecutive session for U a.m. Tuesday at Panmunjom. In a letter the communists requested accounting of 101 Chinese soldiers the Reds say are held by the allies, but whose names were not on POW lists turned over by the U.N. com mand. Brig. Gen. William P. Nuck- ols will be succeeded Tuesday as U.N. command spokesman by Lt. Col. Joseph J. Borchert, Salt Lake City, chief censor of Gen. Mark Clark's Far East headquarters. Nuckols is reassigned as air force public information officer in Tokyo. Weather Details' . "'""; ! "''" (Ut. M. Total tl-hflur precipitation ihrlfht. pt.t feet. Report br U.S. Weather Iftureao.) i ii n.r?l:afc.i. i.tii Quake Hits California; Tehachapi Le veled Get Mounted Mail Delivery Approximately 525 homes now being serviced by rural mail carriers out of the Salem post office will be changed to mount ed service around the first of August, Postmaster Albert C. Gragg announced Monday. In the change over rural Routes 7 and 9 will be eliminat ed entirely as such and those natrons who are not switched over to mounted service will be incorporated in Routes 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. All persons involved will be notified prior to the change. Principal roads involved in the change are Wallace road from the Fiala road to the Brush College road; Edgcwatcr street in West Salem from Salem Ac ademy Heights road to the Y near Brunk's Corner; and por tions of the Skyline, Pringle, Chemawa and Mission Bottom roads, all in Marion county. (Concluded on Pace 5. Column 1) Quake Strikes Many Places Los Angeles "Pi The center of Monday's California earth quake was in mountainous coun try on the westerly edge of the Mojave desert about 120 miles north of Los Angeles. Tehachapi, worst hit of the communities, is a town of about 3,000, site of the women's state prison.' Fortunate, indeed, was the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Had the quake centered here the disaster could have been incal culable. As it was, millions of resi dents were frightened but dam age here was comparatively min or broken windows, cracked plaster, power lines temporari ly disrupted. Here are some of the damage reports: Tehachapi at least 11 deaths reported, town leveled. Gorman Earth slide closed U.S. highway 99, main inland route between Los Angeles, Bak- ersficld and San Francisco. Lancaster The water tower springs a leak. Avalon, Santa Catalina Is land Shaken, no injury or serious damage reports. Castaig Gas main broken. Bakcrsficld Several fires, rubble knocked into streets. Fresno Plaster loosened, several power failures. Los Angeles and its mctropol itan area Windows broken in some downtown stores, plaster cracked, few cornices down, numerous power disruptions, cracks in facades in some down town buildings, scores or burg lar alarms set off, dishes broken in many homes. Long Beach Windows brok en, no major damage. iro PJ iV.i. iw. m '. J man, Vice President Alben Barkley, Sena tor Estes Kefauver, Senator Robert Kerr and Senator Richard Russell. (United Press Telephotoj f rr Ex-Gov. Ben Olcott Ex-Gov. Olcoft Dies in Portland Ben W. Olcott, 80, who served both as secretary of state and governor of Oregon, died at Phy sicians and Surgeons hospital' in Portland at 12:26 o'clock, stan dard time, Monday afternoon. Olcott had been ill for many months. Olcott was born at Keithsburg, 111., October 15, 1872, a son of H. W. and Mary J. Olcott. He was educated in the public schools of Keithsburg, and in business college at Dixon, 111. Upon graduating from high school at Keithsburg he went to Chicago and engaged in office work in a woolen mill. But after a year he left that position and came west to Salem at the age of 19. (Concluded on Pare 5. Column 1) Murray Cries 'Repudiation' Pittsburgh Oft President Phil ip Murray of the CIO United Steclworkers charged Monday that the steel industry repudi ated a strike sctlcmcnt which he worked out with officials of Bethlehem Steel Corporation last June 17. Murray told the USW's 170-man wage-policy committee that Pros ident Charles White of Republic Steel previously had urged the steel companies to accept sug gestions made by White which Murray thought could have led to a settlement. Tue potent wage-policy com- mittce was called together to hear Murray's report on the 50 - day walkout which his idled more than 1,500,000 and to give the union chief some guidance on future strategy. The committee heard Murray say that negotiations with Vice President Joseph M. Larkin of Bethlehem and Bethlehem Coun sel John Morse produced a memorandum of understand ing in which the steel company executives "substantially accept ed the union shop." Salem Senator Team Under In vestigation The Salem Senators baseball team, owned by 832 slockhold- crs, most of tnem taiem resi- dents, is under investigation by thc Western International league for alleged violation of the league's salary limitations. According to a league rule, no team may pay its players more than a total of $5200 a month. This does not include money re ceived by a player from another; ball club, as when a player is farmed out from a Pacific Coast league team and receives a por-- players is left up to team man tion of his salary from that team. lager Hugh Luby. The alleged violation came to: Luby was unavailable for corn- light over the weekend when Don Osborn, manager of the Spo- kane Indians, claimed that the Salem team was over the salary limit. He submitted his complaint in the form of a protest of Salem's games with Spokane. Salem won only one of the three games in the series. Leacuc Dresielent Rob crt Abel said in Tacoma Monday that he would deny the protest, "Such a claim is not grounds for protest," explained Abel. "However, there will be an in 1 1 Known Dead In Priion Town; All of Slate Hit By DICK B1ESER Tehachapi, Calif, lift A vio lent earthquake hit this little mountain community before dawn Monday, leveling build ings, killing at le?.st 11 persons and leaving a mounting toll of injuries and damage. The quake was general throughout mucli of California, breaking water mains, throwing power circuits out of order, blocking highways and rail lines, shattering windows. But it turned its worst fury on Tehachapi. As military and civilian rescue workers con verged on the city, it appeared that the death toll may go high er when the rubble of brick and cement is cleared away. Seven Identified Seven of the dead including a family of five were identi fied, Deputy Coroner Nolan Clay reported. He listed them as: Marilan Taylor, 13, crushed in a furniture store on Main Street. Waller Nolen, about 50, of Bakcrsficld, a guest at the Sum- mit hotel. Mrs. Blance Cantana, 36. and her four children, Gloria, 13, Joe, 11, Nicola, about 7, and Bobby, 5. all of Scvar City, N. M., vis iting in a frame residence on Main Street. Sheriff Tom Kelly said it was impossible to estimate the num ber of injured here. , The hospital, evacuated at the first shock, was put back in use and was full. The Red Cross and Edwards air base crews set up emergency medical centers and kitchens. All Buildings Hit Every one of the town's 15 major buildings suffered some damage. Beds hung over the edge as the wall of the Juanita hotel fell out. The post office, an ice cream parlor, three bars, two markets a motel, a clothing store all suffered some damage. Military police were flown in from Edwards, 40 miles east of here, to help sheriff's deputies maintain order. As the first reports of eye witnesses filtered out of the little town of Tehachapi, they painted a picture of a shattered 'business district, brick-littered streets and a wrecked hotel. Doctors and nurses were flown in when ambulances met ! slide-blocked roa Is. They included not only civi- lians, mobilized by the Red Cross, but rescue crews from Edwards air force base and the navy's rocket testing base at China lake. Amateur radio operators heard by radio station KTRB in Modesto reported the earth rocked convulsively, debris tumbling into main street in thunderous crashes. (Concluded on Page S, Column 2) IvcstiKation made of the Salem books." uonum ft. noung, presineni oi the Salem Senators board of di- I rectors, said Monday he will probably call a meeting of his board soon to discuss the matter. Other members of the board are Robert L. Elfstrom, Ben Pade, Tom Holman and Russ Bone- - , itecle. While the board of directors is the controlling body ol the Senators, the duties of hiring ball ment Monday morning, because llu- was traveling with the Salem 'team from Spokane to Salem, , where the Senators open a series with Yakima tomorrow. It is no secret that there are several borderline salary cases in the Western International league. Salem is one of those - borderline cases. If a team is found guilty of overpaying its players, that team is subject to fine by the league ! Sec sports section for further - details.