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Tuesday, 10.
64th Year, No. 173
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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'
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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.
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man, Vice President Alben Barkley, Sena
tor Estes Kefauver, Senator Robert Kerr and
Senator Richard Russell. (United Press
Telephotoj
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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.