THE WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY toaight. ec
easlonall, raia tonltht, Sunday
morning; brief showers, partial
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Youth Slays
In Spotlight
At Stale Fair
Final Day Attendance
Picks Up With
Afternoon Sun
By MAKGAREl MAGEE
Oregon's 88th annual State
Fair entered its final and
eighth day Saturday.
Visitors were arriving slowly
in the morning, probably be
cause of the doubtful weather
but by noon attendance was be
ginning to pick up and the kid.
dies rids to fill un. At 11 a.m
1,867 had been checked in paid
attendance. Last year at the
same time the figure was 1812.
Saturday is a special day for
the children and is designated
as Children's Day each year.
Concessionaires yearly cooper
ate in the event and reduce
fares for most of their rides for
the kiddies.
Youthful exblbitors were still
in the limelight Saturday and
would have a full day despite
the fact that it was their last
day.
On Job Early '
Future Farmers' Judging
teams started to work early in
the morning The results of the
contest will not be announced
until 3:30 p.m. Saturday with
.the announcement to be made
in front of the racing grand
stand, i. .
Close to 70 teams of FFA
were entered in the three con
tests. They included 21 in
dairy, 38 in livestock and eight
in poultry. The winners of the
contest will go to either the
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One-Way Bill J
To Get Vote
A bill to extend' Salem's
one-way traffic system to all
streets in the - city center
. bounded by Trade, Union,
Front and 12th streets will
! be before the city council
Monday night for final ac
tion. :. j'- ,"-.--:.-. -
: The bill was introduced at
a special meeting held last
Tuesday afternoon so its
, passage through the council
can be expedited. The rea
son for that is that the coun
cil wants to make the one
way grid effective when the
rebuilt Center Street Bridge
goes into service.-That will
be by or before October 1,
'- according to information giv
' en the council by R. H. Bal
. dock, state highway engineer.
The' city's revised zoning
, code will be introduced in
ordinance form Monday
: night. The bill - has been
' amended since the first ten-
tative draft was prepared,
, and the amended bill, a 101
, page document, is ready for
! introduction.
The council's action on the
one-way grid system will be
preceded by a public hearing
Monday night. Other public
hearings will be On the lm
' provement of Ferry street
, from 19th to 20th; and on
the vacation of an unnamed
street paralleling Highway
99E in Northgate Addition.
As companion measures to
the one-way grid bill will be
a resolution providing for
; stop signs at several inter
sections, and another for
traffic control lights at Lib
erty and Broadway and at
East Summer and Court.
Only Trace of
Rain in Salem
Only a trace of rainfall was
recorded for Salem proper,
Friday evening, although
scattered showers in other
nearby areas amounted to
more than that. For the city,
only trace is recorded for
: the month so far.
One thunder storm was
listed for Salem area, lasting
between 9:24 and 10:15 p.m.
1 Friday. There were other
distant thunder periods
throughout the evening, but
only one marked up here.
Cooler temperatures set in
along with the threat of rain,
however.
Forecast for the week-end
is for occasional rain tonight
and Sunday morning with
partial clearing probable Sun
day afternoon.
Weather Details
65th
$200 Million
Pallon Tanks
Contract Let
General Motors Get
Job at 12 Per Cent
Lower Than Chrysler
Washington (JP The Army
has declared the Fisher Body
division .of .General .Motors
Corp. successful bidder on a
2at-mllllon-dolUr contract for
"Pattoa" medium tanks.
Secretary of the Army Rob
ert T. Stevens said Friday the
General Motors bid was about
12 per cent lower than one by
the Chrysler Corp. Both -motor
companies have been pro
ducing the tanks, officially de
signated M48.
The Army said Chrysler
would continue building M48s
at Newark, Del., until April,
1954, and . afterwards would
keep its tools in "package stor
age" so as to resume produc
tion "Quickly if necessary."
Stevens said Chrysler would
continue under a separate con
tract to design the M48.
Reo Gets Contract Also
' The secretary also said con
tracts amounting to 85 million
(Concluded on Page S, Column I)
Demotrats to
Meet Monday
Chicago (P) The nation's
Democratic leaders headed for
Chicago Saturday for their
first big political rally since
tne ivsi national convention.
Some 2,000 party leaders
were expected to attend the
two-day rounds of conferences,
public meeting and dinners on
Monday and Tuesday. Nation
al committee spokesmen said
Democrats from every state ex
cept Maine and Vermont will
attend the big rally.
Highlighting the Monday
program will be a $100-a-plate
fund raising dinner, with the
top party leaders listed as
speakers. They include former
President Truman, Rep. Sam
Ray burn of Texas, House min
ority - leader, and Senators
Douglas of Illinois, Gillette of
Iowa and Sparkman of Ala
bama, the partys 1952 vice
presidential nomineed.
The Tuesday night feature
will be a speech by Adlai E,
Stevenson, Democratic presi
dential mominee, at the Chi
cago Opera house.
McCarthy io
Defy Pentagon
Washington, VP) Sen. Mc-
Carthy (K., Wis.) said Satur
day he plans public hearings
designed to show whether he
was- justified in releasing an
Intelligence report which the
Army had labeled a "restrict
ed" document.
The senator .told newsmen
the hearing will be held before
the Senate Investigations Sub
committee, which he heads,
but he did not say when.
McCarthy contends he made
the report public Wednesday
because is contained "clearcut
Communist propaganda." But
the Army said in a statement
Friday that McCarthy had
withheld sections of the report
which made it obvious the
document was not Communist
propaganda.
Besides, the Army said, re
leasing any of the report dis
closed information affecting
national defense "within the
meaning of the espionage
laws.
4 Douhhobor Homes
Burned as Protest
Krestova, B. C- W Four
Doukhobor hpmes were burned
in p re-dawn darkness Saturday
as an aftermath to the arrest
and imprisonment of 148 of
their number and their "hun
ger strike" at a Vancouver
prison farm on the coast.
Owners of the homes, also
members of the radical Sons of
Freedom sect who resort to set
ting fires and nude parades in
protest against the government,
slid they knew no reason why
they were victims. The sect
makes up almost the entire
population of this settlement.
At the Oakalla Prison Farm
at Vancouver, the 71 men and
77 women, charged with con
tributing to Juvenile delin
quency for nude parading be.
fnr school children near here,
went into the fourth day of
their hunger strike.
Some of them were spending
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uiur t anta.
Students Sign
At Willamette
Registration of freshmen and
law students at Willamette uni
versity got under, way at 8
o'clock Saturday morning. It
was anticipated the enrollment
of first year students would ap
proach the 350 mark, although
the exact number cannot be de
termined until early next week.
A first year class of a hall
hundred was anticipated for
the law college.
Saturday's activities closed
out the customary orientation
week at Willamette which is
entering its 112th year.
The independents will meet
at Lausanne hall for a dinner at
5:30 Saturday evening and an
informal get-together will fol
low from 8 to 10 p. m.
Registration of returning stu
dents will take place in the
campus library at 8 o'clock
Monday morning. The regular
fall term program of classes
will begin Tuesday morning.
Hurricane Hits:
At Bermuda
Miami, Fla. VP) Weaken
ed hurricane Dolly sidgswip
ed Bermuda lightly Saturday
and then whirled out into
the open Atlantic and a
course pointing away from
the United States mainland.
Cecil Gentry, forecaster at
at the Miami Weather Bu
reau, said weather observers
on the British-owned island
reported the eye of the storm
reached there at 12:49 a.m,
Winds of 47 miles per hour
were registered and there was
considerable rain.
United States Air Force
planes were flown to Mac-,
Dill Field, Tampa, Fla., in
advance of the storm.
Tunisiqns Forbidden
To Drink Any Beer
Tunis, Tunisia (IP) The
Grand Mufti announced Sat
urday that Tunisian Moslems
are forbidden to '"Ink beer.
Tunisian brev -rs protested the
ruling would ruin them. .
. The Mufti, who dictates the
ruling afV.r . , aeries of con
sultations with ether members
of the Moe'sy hivarchy. Until
Saturday's rulini; it was be
lieved here that Islamic law
permitted drinkir.g of ' but
ruled out stnv.gcr alcoholic
beverages.
their time singing or praing,
in the nude, prison official
said. They h:i objected to their
children beuig compeji-l to at
tend provincial schcois, which
they condemn as "teaching
war."
A Doukhobor spokesman at
Oakalla said Friday "message
from God" would ten them
when it was time to cat. Only
the elderly have repeived a lit
tle soup, a prison officer said.
The inmates range in age from
girls in saddle oxford.? to aged
men in long white beardi.
Meanwhile, John Perepelkin,
who was left in charge of the
settlement here, said all the
2.500 Sons of Freedom in the
Kootenay area would have to
be Jailed before one child would
be permitted to enter any
school.
"Our people wouid rather die
than see the children go to
, .
- ... ,
,V .- y
school," he said.
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REGISTRATION .BEGINS AT WILLAMETTE
Freshmen crowd university library to register for en
rollment in Willamette University, Registration of fresh
men began early Saturday and because of the large num
ber was continued throughout the day. Upper-classmen
will register on Monday, it was announced.
Denials Stack Up by
Alleged Red Clergymen
Washington (ff) Denials
stacked up Saturday to testi
mony before a House commit
tee that a number of U. S.
clergymen sought to advance
Holds Woman
Hot Kidnaped
Roseburg, VP) Three felor";
charges against ; Frank Cory,
an ex-convict, were dismissed
at. a preliminary hearing in
district court here Friday. .
Cory was accused ot kid
napping Mrs.'-Andrea-' Jonae,
of robbing her, of shooting a
gun at her, of stealing the gun
from her husband and of be in
an ex-convict in possession of
a gun.
The woman' husband, Wil
liam H. Jones, a Roseburg at
torney, was ejected from the
court after shouting that the
proceedings were "blackmail."
Ray B. Compton, acting dis
trict judge, questioned Mrs.
Jones. At the end ot her testi
mony he dismissed the kid
napping, robbery and assault
charges, stating that Mrs.
Jones had "14 opportunities"
to escape from Cory the night
she contended he kidnaped
her.
Compton also dismissed the
gun theft charge.
Cory was bound over to the
grand jury on the charge of
being an ex-convict in posses
sion of firearm. Bail was set
at $5,000.
Scientist Lost
Amid Volcanoes
King Salmon, Alaska (u.D
A ground and air search was on
today for a scientist missing in
Alaska's "Valley of Ten Thou
sand Smokes.",
Object of the search was Dr.
Warner Juhle, 27, who disap
peared In the rugged volcanic
country Aug. 31. The valley,
located about 50 miles north of
here on the Katmai peninsula,
has been described as "Just
-tbout the most treacherous
terrain in the world."
The Navy ordered helicop
ters sent to the forbidding val
ley where the ground still
seethes from fumeroles and
fiery craters from the Mt. Kat
mai eruption of 1912. volcanic
activity in the valley has con
tinued since then and the lat
est explosion was July 9 of this
year.
Chartered aircraft have been
searching for the scientist for
three days.
Juhle, a geologist with a team
working with the U. S. Geolo
gical Survey, is the son of Dr.
and Bernard C. Juhle of Iron
sides, Md
Rep. John W. Byrnes
Speaker at State Bar
Gerhart WV-The principal
speaker at the Oregon State
Bar's annual dinner here Sep
tember 18 will be Rep. John
W. Byrnes of Wisconsin. The
annual meeting will be Sep
tember 17-19.
communism t h r o u j h their
work as ministers.
The testimony, taken in New
York last July at secret hear
ings of the House un-American
Activties Committee, was put
on the public record Friday
night. It came from three men
who said they were former
communists and had seen suc
cessful examples of Red infil
tration ot the clergy.
One '1 witness was - Manning
Johnson ot Mew York, a mem
ber ot the national Negro com
mission ot the communist party
national committee for about
five years ending in 1940,
Johnson described Harry F
Ward, former professor
Union Theological Seminary,
as "the Rea dean ol the com
munist party in the religious
field." - . - - -
Ward, at New York, called
the testimony completely false.
"I am not and never have been
a member of any political
party." he added, saying the
committee has aroused resent
ment by its actions "from all
persons concerned with main
taining the freedom of speech,
press, assembly and the exer
cise of religion set down in the
bill of rights."
Aerialist Falls
60 Feet, Lives
Tacoma (IP) A Spanish
aorialist who - plunged 00
feet to the ground here Fri
day night before a ttunnea
circus crowd was in "good
condition" Saturday morning,
despite numerous broken
bones.
Hospital attendants said
Mara Papadopaulo, 22, a per
former with Ringllng Bros,
and Barnum & Bailey Circus,
spent a good night.
Her injuries include mul
tiple breaks of the spine, and
a broken ankle, elbow - and
wrist, '
The trapeze artist, known
professionally as Miss Mara,
was performing her "death
defying bare-heeled catch"
on a high flying trapeze when
Ihe sl,ppcd nd plummeted
to the sawdust in the center
ring.
She . lay motionless on the
ground as the circus band and
clowns wnt into their acts to
distract the crowd.
The circus moved on to
Portland Saturday.
Hoover's Son On
Dulles' Stall
Washington J The State
Department today announced
appointment of Herbert Hoov
er Jr., son of the former Presl
dent, as a special adviser to
secretary John Foster Dulles
on worldwide petroleum prob
lems. KTOver't first big task prob
ably will be to help get oil pro
ducts n rolling in Iran.
The department said his ex
tensive experience in engin
eering makes him "especially
qua' lit for this lmporunt ap
pointment." He began his car
eer in 923 as a mining engin
eer and hat served as a
consulting engineer with num
erous organizations since.
kooa sa wo-
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9 Oregon GIs
in
POW Exchange
(BT TIM AKMUU4 Pnia)
Six Oregon men were listed
by the Defense Department
Saturday as being still unre
ported after probable capture
by the communists In Korea.
That brought to nine the
number the Pefense Depart
ment named from Oregon ai
believed to have been, at one
time, prisoners of war,
They are among the 944 for
whom the United States has de
manded an accounting. The list
announced Saturday brought
the total named to 917.
Only one of those named by
the Defense Department was
on an unofficial Oregon list
maintained by the Associated
Press, based on reports from
relatives who had some reason
to think their men had been
captured. That, unofficial list
contained 12 names.
List ot Misting POWs
Saturday's Defense Depart
ment list:
Airman 1C. James L. Bell,
sonofMr..Geoin.A.f.n,.
Rt. 2, Dallas.
b. ogi. uiaries w. wrocner.i
T, K.,.k.n vr n.vu....lth BS member nations, eeeen-1
n i inn m.
. wnicacr, ov s, w Ol,,
Corvallls.
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Housing Group
Denver, W) President aU -
tenhower . Saturday erected
ai-memoer aavuory commn -
tee on government bousing! v.i..' .' 4v- v.vlot the 10 ' xmaliata tot to-
polielei and pro grama. , ,
T-ne rraauient turned aa an-
ecutive order calling ior a w- fund, she was in trouble WithlwtesUn1 will ahar $99,000
view of the nation's housing Ik ..ik.-i worth ef arhnlanhln t
needs and Ihe designated
aouuu - mnu ' iiwas .rmmcv
agency, as chairman of the
new committee.
"I have every expectation,''
the President said in a state
ment, "that such a review will
develop for me a series of rec
ommendations which will
clearly identify the proper
role of the federal government
in this field and outline more
economical and efectlve means
for improving the housing
conditions ot our people." ,
Police Fire On
Food Seekers
Berlin UP) East German
Communist police opened fire
with machine pistols on a num
ber of persons trying to escape
into West Berlin Saturday
morning, eyewitnesses reported
to West Berlin police. .
The shooting took place on
Keipziger Platz about 150
yards inside the Soviet sector
of Berlin.
The fleeing persons apparent
ly dashed into the ruins ot a
former department store. Wit
nesses said Red police carried
one body from the ruins.
Another shooting was report
ed from the Tiergarten district
where British and Soviet sec
tors meet. Communist police
fired on several persons at
tempting to cross the border,
West Bi rlin police said.
Details were lacking.
Buncbe Declares UN
Can Stand on Record
Washington (V- Dr. Ralph
3. Bunche said Saturday, the
United Nations "can stand on
Its record."
If there had been no U. N..
in the turbulent times since the
end of World War II, he added,
"we almost certain would have
been in an atomic World War
III long ago."
The Negro educator and prin
cipal director of the U. N.'s
department of trusteeship held
a newt conference as the new
president of the American Poli
tical Science Assn., which it
concluding t three-day conven
tion Saturday.
One of the association's final-
day speakers, Dr. Earl Latham
of Amherst College, sam tne
U. S. Supreme Court mutt
turn to "vigorous intervention
Price 5c
SonMmn
Spain to Sign
WarBasePact
Next Monday
Mew York JP) Formal
signing ot an agreement be
tween the United States and
Spain for use ot Spanish nuval
and air bases is expected Mon
day, former Rep. James X
Murphy. D., N. Y said Satur-
day as he departed for Madrid.
The protracted negotiations I
are expected to be concluded,
said Murphy, with the United
States giving almost $500,000,
000 in grants and loans.
Murphy, a shipping execu
tive, expects to serve in an ad
visory capacity for the Span
ish government.
World Bank to
Oust Czechs
Washlnston (A The' (over,
nort ot the World Bank voted
Saturday to tusnend Red Cxe-
chcslovakia from membenhin
at the end of this vear unless
she navs the 1825.000 aha itill
owet in capital subscription I
""'-t
iwa in r- mtm iMwnm.
I ' --- -
menation ot the bank's com-
mitte on finance and organize-1
tion that the suspension take I
effect Sec. 31.
Xxpulsion would; follow tus-t
penaoin In a yaart tune. Ill
Czechoslovakia still fails- to
meet the bank's requirements,
Czeehodovakla 1 4ha lut
the Soviet bloc nation aulllMlas Oregon;- hrunette Patti
lbelonalns' to the lsank and thelThroop ot Portland, watted
a i International Monetary Pund. I breathletily today to find out
l Poland withdrew In 1MO. '
t would not affect Cnchoslova-lBh Mi' Amertca tv.
Vi m.n.h..hin in 4h. i.t The ehesem V) ot tne M
-tbiM matter 'out during
French Bomb
2000 Rebels
TT.nol Tmln-Miito sin
French planes today 'bombed
and atrafed Communist build-
Ann .k.i.
m.. 'h.t wa.
believed to be the beginning
of a lnnff axiwrteri nffpniive.
American built- fighter-
bomber smashed Red troop
and tupply concentrations
along the southwest edge of
the Red River defense peri
meter between Phulv. 30 miles
south of Hanoi, and Phunho-
quan, 20 miles farther aouth.
The raids were aimed at
preventing the rapidly assem
bling forces of the creek rebel
320th Division from swarming
out of its fortifications in the
limestone mountain range
bordering the front.
French spokesmen said coun-
against the 80,000 Red soldier
and guerrilla- surrounding
the defense perimeter had de
layed the enemy timetabU
Salmon Run Small ,
Portland aw The 1053 fall
run of salmon up the Columbia
river may be the smallest in the
past 15 years, Harrison S.
Smith, auditor for the Oregon
State Fish Commission, said
here today.
against the Congress tnd White
House" if it is to regain the
Importance it has lost as a
major branch ot the govern
ment.
Prof. Charles McKlnley of
Reed College, Portland, Ore,
was chosen as president-elect.
Prof. John Gange ot the Uni
versity ot Virginia was named
executive director. '
The new officers McKlnley
becomes president In 1954
are taking over with the new
president, Dr. Bunche.
The association is a private
ly endowed organization of
teachers of political t c l e n c e
and government
The association elected three
vice president, including Clau
dius O. Johnson, State College
of Washington at Pullman,
Wash.
FINAL
EDITION
1944 Americans
Unreturned by
ors
Panmunjom, Sunday ()
The United Natreni command
J asking the Communists to
eceant for Cant. Jamea A.
Van Fleet, missing flier ten ef
"e ionner stn Army eomman-
w ' misting
?" Pot it beln held
with other Americana behind
the tkunboo Curtain. .. .. . t
Youi.g Van Fleet and Cal
Harold Fischer Jr., double Jet
ace from, Swea Citv. Iowa.
were both named In the latest
list of 307 V. S. airmen still
unaccounted tor after bein
reportedly captured. The list
was released by the Pentagon
in wasnington Saturday.
A Communist lUewsman in
Panmunjom revealed Friday
that Fischer was being held
by the Chinese eomnuinlita
with a group ot other fliers on
charges of violatini Red
China'a air space over Man-
enuria.
Captured April (. l5t
xoung van Fleet and two,
other members of hit B28 lieht
DomDer crew railed to return
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tOentlmwd en Page a, Celnsan f)
Miss Orcn
I till
r"" " ""I"
at AUtnUC CltV. TtJ. U
u sne would be named one
the Patti, who -hasn't yet won
a first place In any of the In
dividual competition but who
ha tanked high In every
event, won plaudit again
last night when the marched
along the ramp in Convention
hall dressed in a white lastex
bathing suit and white shoe.
Miss Oregon a 34-inch mid
dle and 83-inch measurement!
' "? othr me i her
"""
which drew a round of ap-
pluse v Indicating she had
P11ced "M1- Oy first place
winnaxa r annminwa,
Warfare Ends
In Colombia
VWIWIIlaflW J
Bogota. Colombia -A
bloody four-year guerilla war
against Columbia's Conserva
tive government reportedly hat
ended with the negotiated sur
render of most of the insurg
ents. The fighting caused an es
timated 5,000 deaths and mil
lions of dollars damage.
Reliable informants said last
night 1,800 guerillas surrender
ed this week to armed forces
Commander Brig- Gen. Alfredo
Duarte Blum in the Eastern
Plains district around Monter
rey. Earlier, 800 gave them
selves up at Tauranena, accord
ing to the newspaper El Spec-
tador. - - 4
Most of the guerrlla were
Liberal party politicians and
sympathizers. They began their
battle in 1949 after accusing
the Conservative party of try
ing to Intimidate them in a
presidential election won by
former Chief Executive Laure-
ano Gomez. The Llberalt boy
cotted the voting.
Vancouver Woman
Heads Librarians
Sun Valley, Idaho, (IP) Eva
Sante of Vancouver, Wash.,
wat appointed first vice presi
dent and president-elect Fri
day tt the Pacific Northwest
Library Assn. closed its 41rd
annual conference.
Elected honorary life mem
bers of the association were
Nell Unger, Portland public
library; , Mabel Zoe Wilson,
Western Washington College
of Education and Lucia Haley,
Oregon State College, Corvalr
11s, all retired librarians.
End Sugar Rationing
London ) The government .
will toon set a date for ending
sugar rationing which has last
ed since Jan. 8, 1940, It was
.announced today.
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Koiktr Bri-