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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1952)
V Journal n m ail EIDDTDOIN THE WEATHER. MOSTLY FAIR tonight and Wednesday, some morning fog. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, SO; high Wednes day, 70. to- AlL. V kl OCO Enttred fecoad elan 04(1) Tear, NO. Lji. mitttr at Silcm, Orel oa Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, (16 Pages) Price 5c 3HO Caoital k $20,000,000 Building Bond Issue Proposed Pearson Proposes State Replace 'Piecemean' Program By JAMES D. OLSON A $20,000,000 bond issue to cover a 10-year institutional building program in Oregon was proposed to the state board of control Tuesday by State Treas urer Walter J. Pearson to re place what he termed the pres ent "piecemeal" plan of provid ing money for such buildings. Pearson said that the state, if the legislature would give the proper authority, dispose of the entire bond issue paying an in terest rate of less than 2 per cent and then reinvest the money not immediately needed in gov ernment bonds at 2.75 per cent and thereby make money on the interest. The principal of the bonds could be liquidated, he said, by a biennial appropriation of $2,000,000. Governor Reluctant Governor Douglas McKay, while not opposing the plan, de clared that it was one on which he would like to give further study. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Open Bids on Highway Jobs Portland VP) The highway commission opened bids Tues- question left little doubt the day with these apparent low communists consider discussion UN Voles for Probe of Korea Germ Charges Russian Effort to Invite Red China To Debate Defeated United Nations, N.Y., VP) The United States Tuesday block ed a Russian attempt to issue an immediate invitation to North Korea and communist China to takepart in United Nations de bates on germ warfare. The U. S. did this through a procedural motion shutting off debate immediately after the 15 nation steering committee had voted 12-2 with Ptesident Lester B. Pearson of Canada not voting, to recommend inclusion of an American request for U. N. in vestigation of Red germ warfare charges on the assembly agenda The adjournment of . debate motion was carried 11-2. Poland and Russia with one abstention and Pearson not voting. "Cowardly Move" Russia's Andrei Gromyko call ed this a "cowardly move" and served notice he would raise the subject again on the floor of the assembly or in committee when the item came up. Before the germ warfare wrangle broke out, Poland charged that the United States had deliberately sabotaged the truce talks at Panmunjom and called on the assembly itself to find a speedy solution to the Ko rean .war. Urged by Poland Polish Foreign Minister Stan islaw Skrzesezewki's speech. urging the assembly take up the .'0 jo .MisjOAiun Kica bids: Clackamas County Beaver-1 ton-Aurora road undercrossing on West Portland-Hubbard high way near Wilsonville, Johnson and Bryant, Newberg, $44,225. Marion Chemeketa Street -Vista Ave., traffic signals on Pa cific Highway in Salem, Elec tric Corporation, Salem, $15, 182. Tillamook Construction and storage shed near Washington county line on Wilson River highway, Johnston and Bryant, Newberg, $5,864. Yamhill Construct St. Jo seph undercrossing unit of Lafayette-North Yamhill River section of Highway 99-W, C. J. Eldon Co., Portland, $103,322. Bids were declared faulty on two projects because bonds were not signed. One of these was lor construction of a 238-foot concrete viaduct. The other was for construction of traffic signals at the junction of 12 street and ih Pacific highway, south of Salem. v All Forests of Oreqon Ooened All nf the forests of western Oregon are now open, with lands coming under the bureau of land beine the last to ( have the closure lifted. ' The bureau's Portland office announced Tuesday morning that it was lifting its closure at noon Tuesday. Last of the lands coming under state control to have their Clos ures lifted was the Tillamook Burn and other high hazard areas closed to entry, except by permit, since July. Hunters, how ever, while they may enter the Burn, must have permits to do so. The state forestry department lifted the last of its closures at mid-night Monday, making the decision to open these forest areas after rain had fallen on all of them. While the amount of rain that has fallen to date is not heavy enough to place the forests out of absolute danger weather re ports received by the forestry de . partment indicated that there will be more showers, rising humidity and falling temperatures. here a substition for the talks at the front. . After U. S. Delegate Ernest Gross said this country did not oppose U. N. airing of the Ko rean question and other sections oi ine catcn-au jponsh "peace plan," the committee unanimous ly recommended Its inclusion on the assembly agenda. Hiss Eligible For Parole Soon Washington VP) Alger Hiss. one of the side-issues of the pres idential campaign, becomes el igible for parole just one month from now Nov. 21 but he has made no move towards getting out of prison. The U. S. Parole Board said luesuay, in response to an in quiry, that the 47-year-old for mer State Department official, serving a five-year term for per jury in Lewisburg, Pa., federal penitentiary, has filed no appli cation with it. ' Hiss still has time to act be fore his eligibility date, but there is no possibility of any hearing for him before the Nov. 4 election. The parole board's next scheduled visit to Lewis burg to hold hearings there will be during the week of Nov. 10. Board members said that if Hiss applies for parole anytime before that date, he will be heard then, along with other Lewisburg prisoners. Jap Envoy Collapses San Francisco VP) Japanese Ambassador Eikichi Araki col lapsed last night while receiving guests at a reception. But he was reported resting easily at St. Luke's hospital today. Dr. John Upton said Araki, 61, was suffering from acute fatigue. Hop Market Firming In Price Corvallis VP) The hop mar ket firmed up in the first half of October with the price on seedless hops advancing for the first time in several months. The department of agricul ture reported that export de mand brought the rise. Most of it came from Germany, which received lVz million dollars from the U.S. in foreign aid funds for purchase of U.S. hops. The mid-October price was quoted at 30 to 40 cents a pound for seeded hops, 46 to 47 cents for seedless. There was moderate inquiry for the 1953 crop with one re port that 1,500 bales of seeded clusters from the 1953 crop were contracted at 45 cents a pound. Czech Boy Scouts Communized Washington VP) The Czech communistsreportthey have just about conquered the "unhealthy" influences of the Boy Scout movement. Before the communists took over four years ago, said a Pra gue radio broadcast picked up by U.S. government monitors, the Scouts sought to "befog young people about loving co operation between rich and the Scouts "promoted an un poor." The broadcast also said healthy romanticism in the young, centering on cowboys, redskins and conquerors, instead of teaching them that it is their mission to build a better social order." - These influences have not yet entirely disappeared, Radio Pra gue acknowledged, but it said they are fast being overcome by the communist-run Young Pion eer movement. It added: The Pioneers are very fond of defense games. Our children, our Young Pioneers have no need for hypocritical, empty ro manticism." Construction Starts on New High School Excavation machinery moved in Tuesday morning to clear the site for Salem's new, south side $3,062,723 high school. D. M. Drake, contractor, will start excavations following about three days of clearing. Webster Smith is superintendent in charge. Lewis Says Miners Out Until Pay Is Raised Washington VP) John L. Lew is said Tuesday striking soft coal miners will return to work when they get the full $1.90 a day pay raise agreed to by the coal industry. The Wage Stabilization Board Nixon Touring Truman's State Aboard Nixon Train VP) Re publican Sen. Richard M. Nixon carried his vice presidential campaign into Missouri today, expressing confidence of victory for the GOP ticket. Following trainside talks at three towns between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau, Nixon was scheduled to fly into the South west part of the state for an air port appearance at Springfield and a speech at Joplin tonight, His swing into President Tru man's home state followed strong verbal blasts at Gov. Ad lai Stevenson's administration in Illinois during a tour of the Southern part of that state yes terday. The California senator said in a talk at East St. Louis, 111., last night that Stevenson's record as governor "exposes him as a "weakling, a waster and a small caliber Truman." More Troops Needed For Korean Decision Washington (IP) Secretary of the Navy Kimball said Tuesday that more armed forces of all kinds would be required to "force a decision in Korea." Kimball made tbis statement it i news conference in which he also said: "If they, the communists, do not want peace we have got to figure out where we go from there." Kimball declined to say how long the U.S. and the allies would wait before deciding that the Reds do not want to end the i hostilities. New Commander Tokyo VP) Gen. Mark Clark's headquarters announced Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Harrold had succeeded Maj. Gen. Clovis E. Byers as commander of the 16th Corps in Japan. Weaiher Details Maximum yeiterdar', flfti minimum to day, 53. Total 24-honr prrclpltallen: .04: for month: .Alt normal, 1.110. Season pre cipitation, M', normal, J.IW. River helfht, -4 feet. (Report by V. S. Weather Boreas.) Presidential Campaign Crowing in Bitterness (Ey The AuocUted PreaM presidential campaign i But the other campaigners The seemed to be growing more bitter Tuesday as election day draws near. Charges of "slander" and "out rageous falsehood came from Dwlght D. Eisenhower and Presi dent Truman who were stumping along the vote-wealthy eastern coast. Adlai Stevenson, the democra tic presidential candidate got go ing on a whistle stop swing through Illinois. He'll deliver a fireside address over radio and televsion from Chicago Tuesday night. Meanwhile, the strenuous campaign turned up its first cas ualty: Sen. John Sparkman lost his voice.' The Alabama Senator, demo cratic candidate for vice presi dent, reported himself sidelined because of laryngitis and cancel! kept up their oratorical fire. Eisenhower, the republican presidential nominee, stopped off at Manchester, N. H., to assert that he still is a "no deal" man who has made no commitment to win supporters in his campaign Truman's campaign train swung through Delaware on the start of a drive in the middle At lantic states. He told a crowd of Wilmington, Del., that: "If the republican isolationists every get the authority, they will start backing down on our pro gram of international coopera tion. That is why it is so essential that Adlai Stevenson be elected president.' With election only two weeks away and the pressure of time weighing heavily on tempers frayed by months of Intense cam paigning, charges and counter ed speaking engagements in theichargcs of lies, slander and "out- Sparkman Sent To Hospital Washington VP) Sen. John 3 Sparkman, Democratic vice pre sidential candidate, entered a hospital Tuesday for treatment of laryngitis and what his physi cion termed a mild respiratory condition. Sparkman had been scheduled to leave on a campaign trip into the south. The Democratic Na tional Committee said it was an ranging for other speakers to fill his engagements. Sparkman went to Bethesda Md., Naval Hospital. Dr. B. W. Hogan, commanding officer of the hospital, reported he would be treated for a respiratory con dition. He is expected to stay in the hospital several days. Blair Freed on Murder Charge Reno. Nev., (U.R) Louis Ed mund Blair, who was released after seven days of questioning in connection with the murder of a man and three children, said Tuesday he "trusted in the Lord." He knew I was innocent. Blair said. I do not blame the police for investigating me," the Chester, Calif., theater owner said. "They have a tough job ahead of them." The 37-year-old Blair was re leased by court order Monday after authorities reported a lie detector test had proved "in conclusive." "If the good people of Chester will accept me, I will return and reopen their theater," Blair said, "otherwise I will seek employ ment elsewhere." Blair was held in custody for questioning about the slaylngs of Chester grocer Card Young, his two young daughters, and their four-year-old playmate, Michael Salle. has ruled that only $1.50 of the raise can be allowed under gov ernment anti-inflation regula tions. Lewis used harsh language about the board in telling Har ry M. Moses, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators As sociation, in a letter that the miners insist on the $1.90 fig ure. He said: We have a contract. We ex pect your compliance with its provisions. If you do not like the contemptible action of the NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) laborbaitersand the little Harvard professor and his quavering trio, appeal and ask for review and reversal. You are the sole petitioner and plaintiff." Moses had written Lewis Monday urging the miners end their strike and accept the trim med $1.50 raise. Moses said it was not the op erators' fault that they could not pay $1.90. ' Troops Corral Kenya Fanatics London VP) Authorities in Britain's East African Kenya colony today held more than 130 natives rounded up in a lightning swoop against the fanatic, secret," anti-white Mau Mau society that has been ter rorizing Kenya for months. The roundup was carried out under a state of emergency, equivalent to martial law, de clared last night by the Kenya government. A battalion of the British troops, Lancashire Fusi liers, rushed by air, landed at the colonial capital of Nairobi to add steel to the government's drive. Members of the Mau Mau, who take a blooJ oath to drive the British out of the colony, have murdered at least 43 per sons, burned buildings and crops and slaughtered cattle in past weeks. Some 200,000 of the Kikuyu tribe are said to belong to the society.. The troops flown in to the colony will be backed by naval force, the British Colonial of fice said. Reds Strike at Jugular Vein Of Freedom Ike Warns of Real Russian Aims Leadership Needed Aboard the Elsenhower Speci al VP) Dwlght D. Eisenhower warned Tuesday that communist Russia is striking "at the jugular vein of freedom' 'and aims to conquer the world with every treacherous measure ' short of war. And then he declared in the text of a speech prepared for de livery on historic Boston Common: "If we are to win this deadly struggle with communism, we must have a leadership that can unite us behind great objectives a leadership morally and spiritually strong." "We can conquer communism if we have a leadership of high purpose and moral stamina, a leadership that draws strength from its spiritual faith." Speaks in Boston The GOP presidential candi date brought this message to the Irish and Roman Catholic strong hold of Boston after stoutly denying that he had made any commitments to win the presi dency and maintaining he still is a no deal man. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) Harrison Says Communists All Criminals Tokyo VP) Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, top U.N. command delegate at the Korean armis tice talks, said Tuesday "I don't believe that any man can be a thorough-going communist with out being a common criminal." He said in an interview that he would include the Red truce team at Panmunjom in that class, and added: 'You can't deal with them like you would with an honorable man." The Reds, he said, repeatedly came up with "falsehoods, half- truths and insinuations in the Panmunjom meetings, now in indefinite recess. Whether there will be an arm istice in Korea, he said, "depends on decisions on a very high level in all countries concerned. Adlai Off on Whistle Tour Springfield, 111. (IP) Given a rousing sendoff by Illinois home folks. Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson strikes out today on a final 12 state whistle-stopping tour aim ed primarily at capturing New York's vital 45 electoral votes. The Democratic presidential nominee told a cheering crowd estimated at 5,500 persons in the Springfield, 111., Armory last night that his bid for the presi dency "is going well." Friends and neighbors turned out before the rally for a torchlight, horn blowing parade to bid the gover nor goodbye. Asserting that he was having trouble "getting my opponent to talk sense about the issues," Stevenson said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is "saying one thing" while Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio asssures the country 'that he really meant something else." 3 Top Soviet Citizens Dead Moscow VP) Moscow n papers Tuesday reported the deaths of three prominent So viet citizens, including Vladimir Voronin, a leader in the devel opment of a shipping route through Arctic waters from European Russia to the Far East. The other two were Lt. Gen, Fyodor Shafalovich, 68, a pro fessor and military scientist, and Vladimir Kistyakovsky, member of the physical chem istry institute staff of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Voronin, 62 was one of Rus sia's most famous Arctic exlor- s. Director general of the north ern sea route, he had served as commander of one of the world's largest icebreakers, the SS Joseph Stalin, since 1938 He left this post temporarily in 1946-47 to command the first Soviet Antarctic whaling expe dition. Token Rainfall Freshens Valley The light rain falling in Salem and vicinity Monday afternoon measured .04 of an inch, the first measurable precipitation here since early September. The to tal rainfall here now since June 23 Is .27 of an inch. Tuesday morning brought the most general fog of the season to date in the Salem area. There have been patches of fog pre viously this fall, but the bank this morning was more general and somewhat denser. Mostly fair weather is called for tonight and Wednesday, but the five-day forecast says there is probability of more light rain late Wednesday to continue in termittently on through the week. From now on it appears there will be no more of the prolonged dry spells through the tall and winter. The Willamette river at Salem Tuesday hit the low mark of the season, the local gauge reading ,-4 feet. Truman Denies Red Softness En Route with Truman (U.R) President Truman bitterly as sailed the republicans Tuesday for "spreading the outrageous falsehood" that his administra tion has been "soft toward communism." Mr. Truman also scoffed at Dwight D. Eisenhower's plan to call a conference of ..overnors to discuss the touchy civil rights issue. He said the republican presidential nominee "obvious ly does not know the hard facts of life" about civil rights and "doesn't know what it takes to get something done in this field." Setting forth on his third whistle-stop tour of the cam paign, the president said demo crats have fought communism successfully both at home and abroad. And he asserted that the Reds would be "delighted" to have the republicans win the November election: "because communism thrives on reaction and depression." Chiang Seeks to Invade China Tapieh, Formosa, (U.R) Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-Shek asked the United States Tuesday to let his troops invade the Chinese Communist mainland. The Nationalist President made the request at a press con ference, his first since he came to Formosa in 1949. At the outbreak of the Korean war in June 195U, President Truman directed the U. S. 7th fleet to see that the Nationalists did not attack the mainland and to prevent any Communist in vasion of Formosa. Chiang endorsed a proclama tion issued Monday by the Kuo mintang, the Nationalist govern ment party, contending that only the liberation of mainland China could stop Communist aggres sion in Asia. Morse Asserts 1 HST Offered ! Him High Post i Turned Down Job Of Attorney General Last December Washington, (U.R) President Truman offered Sen. Wayne Morse (R., Ore.) the job of at torney general last December but Morse turned it down, it was disclosed Tuesday. Morse, who announced Sat urday that he is bolting the Re publican ticket to back Demo cratic presidential nominee Ad lai E. Stevenson, acknowledged in an interview that Mr. Tru man had offered him "one of the top positions in the government" but Morse said he rejected it because "I don't approve of Re publicans in a Democratic cab inet or vice versa." Renews Attack on Ike The disclosure came as Morse renewed his attack on Republi can presidential nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower. Morse had work ed for Eisenhower's nomination before and during the GOP convention. Morse announced that he will make about three speeches for Stevenson under the auspices of sucn organizations as "Republi cans for Stevenson" and "Inde pendents for Stevenson." He will not speak under Democratic aus pices. No dates for the speeches have been set. Rejection Reason It was learned that Mr. Tru man's offer to Morse was made at a White House conference last Dec. 20, and rejected by the sen ator on the grounds that to accept would violate Morse's con cept of the two party system and violate his own assurance to Oregon voters that he would follow the course of. an inde pendent Republican. Morse declined to specify the cabinet post Mr. Truman had of fered him but it was learned that it was the post of attorney general. The offer was tendered him more than thtee months be fore Mr. Truman fired Attorney"" General J. Howard McGrath. (Concluded on Fate 5, Column 7) Red Chief Asks For Asylum Berlin VP) Heinz Tacke, dep uty chief of detectives in the Soviet sector of Berlin, fled to the west Tuesday and asked for asylum. Tacke told the West Berlin police his conscience would not not permit him to carry out the orders of his Red superiors any longer. Tacke brought his wife and dog with him. He is being held for questioning to determine if his plea for political asylum is legitimate. The police withheld further information. Chinese Reds Repulsed Again on Sniper Ridge Seoul, Korea VP) Aoout 1,500 Chinese Reds attacked in a blinding rainstaorm Tuesday night in a renewed assault on mud-covered Sniper Ridge. The communists struck under cover of an intense artillery and mortar barrage. But South Koreans held them at bay with heavy rifle and ar tillery fire. The attack bogged down on the muddy slopes and the Reds withdrew at 8:40 p.m. AP Cor respondent John Fuji! reported from the front. Fujll said the ridge still was quiet more than two hours later. An allied officer said the Chi nese directed their attack at Pin point hill, highest peak on the ridge. "They came down the ridge from the north," the officer said. Red Shell Killed 7 on Warship Washington (IP) The Navy announced Tuesday that seven men were killed and one wounded Oct. 14 when commun ist shore fire hit the destroyer Lewis off the cast coast of Korea. The Lewis was hit by two 75 millimeter shells when she mov ed in close to the port of Wonsan to protect two South Korean minesweepers under fire from four to six communist guns. Returning the enemy fire, the Lewis spread a smoke screen to cover the small Korean vessels. The first enemy shell struck her forward fire room on the right side piercing one boiler. This shell killed six men, a sev enth died later of burns. The shell which exacted most of the damage and accounted for all the deaths did not explode, the Navy said. It was later re covered and dropped overboard. The dead included: Boilerman 3-c Arnold William Karlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Karlin, Route 1, Box 103, Marion, Ore. "We can't use flares because of the overcast and rain." The night was so dark the South Koreans couldn't see the Chinese until the attacking troops were almost upon them. An ominous quiet hung over nearby Triangle hill where U. S. Seventh division troops await ed an expected Chinese onslaught. Some 20 miles to the east, South Korean troops battled to within 40 yards of the crest of Iron Horse mountain at noon Tuesday. They pulled back, however, because their supporting tanks could not find their targets through heavy fog that covered the valley floor. A chill rain fell across the battlcfronL Army Says GIs Well Armed Washington VP) The Army described as untrue and "extre mely destructive criticism" the statement of two former intelli gence officers that the GI in Ko rea is armed with outmoded weapons and that this results in needless death. Garett Underhlll, formerly of the Army's G-2 section, and Ron ald Schiller, a naval intelligence officer in World War II, said in Look Magazine article that soldiers in Korea carry antiquat ed arms although the Army haa a variety of new weapons either in existence or on drawing boards. Maj. Gen. Ward H. Marls, Army deputy chief of staff for research and development, said Monday this was "conjecture" and challenged Undcrhill and Schiller to show that "any more reliable weapons exist and can now be produced." The American soldier, Gen. Maris said, carries the most mod ern arms of any foot soldier in ithe world.
