Reign Over Strawberry Fete i i FCUMD3D 1651 r 101st YEAR 12 PAGES Tho Oregon Statesman, Solano, Oregon. Saturday, June 9. 1951 PRICE 5c No. 73 (5 u Am - ,? ? 1mm Shortcake for Thousands Speculation Stirs X ' - mi Today will be the last day ef Lebanon's annual Strawberry festival. Queen Deloris Welch, center, 17-year -la Dan on men scnooi junior. At leu is junior wiaeen waria Garrison, 9, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Garrison; and at right is Junior Kinf George Myran, jr, 5 8, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Myran. (Merv Jenkins photo). i CRT 'LKD LOOS The house appropriations com mittee used its axe vigorously, on the budget proposed for construc tion work of the corps of engineers for rivpr and harbors imDrove- ment and flood control. A saving 11C AAA nnn i ' 'yn iur rent was ordered by cutting off pro jects that had been included. Among them were two northwest projects, a Columbia river dam at The Dalles and one on Snake river t Ice Harbor above Pasco. - The committee's objection to the former is that the engineers. can not tell just what the ultimate cost of this project will be. The In dians have treaty rights to fish there which have not 'been satis fied. Until this is settled so that the costs are known the "commit tee says it will not give further consideration to the project. As to Ice Harbor the committee responded to the strong protests of the commercial fishing industry which has fought this dam stren uously. The committee says this dam should not go ahead until the effect of McNary dam on fish runs Is determined. ' - These are valid reasons for hold ing up these projects, having also in mind the need for economy Meantime the committee has clear ed very substantial appropriations for advancing northwest projects now building: Detroit, Lookout Point, JJcNary, Chief Joseph. All of these will produce hydroelectric energy in such quantity that, un less it is largely diverted to alum inum plants or the Hanford works, should take care of substantial growth in the northwest for the next several years. - . - Congress is right in studying all the factors relating to these pro jects. The objections of the fish inz Industry against Ice Harbor are valid. It is not urgently need ed: its . navigation benefits are slight. On the whole congress has been very generous in recent years in .appropriations for western devel nnmAnt Tt will Vw In th future as public finances permit and as we can prove our case. We should not condemn the house committee for holding up these two projects now. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Toolfepkkr Oat btHAVOOMUMNEOV S,.m k eo 250.000 See Portland Rose Fete Parade PORTLAND, June S-F)-A crowd estimated upwards of a quarter-million persons: jammed downtown streets today for the 43d annual Portland Rose Festival parade, f - f ! ' - Some 40 floats, augmentea Dy marching units, horsemen, 21 bands, public officials - and Hop along "Cassidy (Actor ? William Boyd) paraded over five miles of city streets. fj I Crowds were deep all along the route, from the civic! stadium where an estimated 12,000 watch ed the parade form,1 on across the Willamette river, where the par ade disbanded on the east side of the city, i . Crowds ; Orderly j " J The people, who began gather ing on curbstones as early as 7 ajn. some three hours before the parade started were orderly. The 400 police who kept watch, re ported no violence. J j Capt i Eugene Ferguson of the city police estimated more than 250.000 were watching. I That was the highlight of the annual festival, but activities go on two more days. The children of the city will put on their own show tomorrow, the juniqs par ade, a miniature replica of today s pageant complete: down to the parade marshal. Straight Arrow (radio actor Howard Culver) will be junior parade marshal. The Golden Poles ski race, held above Timberline on MU Hood, will be staged Sunday. j ' . Salem Entries Place i A Vancouver, Wash- entry won the top prize for non-commercial floats in the parade, It was put together by Vancouver t firemen, who only last night -were issuing public) appeals for ; more roses. Their 'entry depicted a; river, a canoe and a blockhouse of the period of Dr. John J McLoughlin, early day Hudson's Bay Co. factor. This was in keeping with the festival's theme, "Do You Remem ber?" commemorating Portland's centenniiaL lis Marie McKenney I of I Wheeler won top prize in; the equestrain division. Rose Mae Franke, Salem, was fourth and Gifford Wilhelm son, Salem, seventh tin this div ision. j ; Nationalist Deny Buying Influence TAIPEH, Formosa, Saturday, June s-tav-The director of the Chinese nationalist Central News agency today denied his agency spent $634,000,000 between 1946 49 to influence American public opinion t i H. P. Tseng, director of the gov ernment controlled I agency, de clared the assertion by U. S. Sen ator Wayne Morse (R-Ore.) that Central News had spent millions was as "groundless as It is fan tastic" - f f t Max. Mi. sunt Portland Sen Francisco Chiearo . 7 n , 4 44 4 47 trace M 40 J5 New York Willamette River -1.S feet FORECAST (from U. 8. weather bu reau. McNary field.! Salem I: Fair to day, tonight and tomorrow. Elgh today near mo. tow near 4B. - I SALEM PKKCrFTTATIOFf - I Sle Start Of Weather Tear eC S I This Tear Las Tear - hormal 49.H 4LU aaxa Reigning over the 39th festival is McKay Gets 'Boyd' From Hoppy Fans PORTLAND. June 8-CTV-For one brief, bright moment today the governor of Oreron enjoy ed the cheers of thousands. ' Gov. Douglas McKay, here for the Rose Festival, entered the Civie stadium. Up went shouts of delight. The governor, in western garb, came on smiling-. Then a disappointed "o-o-oh" came from the crowd with its big percentage of youngsters. "They thought he was Hopa long Cassidy," said a festival fficiaL. Hoppy (William Boyd) showed up a little later. Guard Units Enroiite to Summer Camp Mid-valley national guardsmen are on their way to their annual summer encampment today, slat ed for two weeks of intensive training in military techniques. Battery D, 72nd antiaircraft gun battalion, was to leave early this morning by truck convoy for Yak ima firing range. Two officers and 69 men are in the group. Companies B and G, 162nd in fantry regiment, stayed overnight in the armory here and are to march to the railroad depot via Mill-street about 8:30 this morn ing, for departure, at 9:15. They will go to Ft. Lewis, Wash., for 41st division training. They in clude, respectively, four officers, one officer and 91 enlisted men, and four officers and 60 men. Advance detachments already have gone to the camps for prep aration. Court Building Repairs Near Bids will be called within about two weeks for repair and renova tion of the state supreme court building, a project expected to cost nearly $80,000. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry said Friday, Architect W. I. Williams of Sa lem is drawing plans' for the work. The job calls for repairing of the roof, replacement of wooden sash, badly weather beaten, with metal sash, and a new elevator, as well as revamping of the plumbing system and repointing of the terra cotta exterior. Convict Paroled to Start Ministry A 25-year-old convict,' with a long criminal career, left the state penitentiary Friday to become a minister in the Seventh Day Ad ventist church. i Berkley Jones, who entered the prison in 1945 for a robbery in Curry county, said he would be baptized today, and then will go to Walla Walla, Wash, college, to take theology. - -i The Rev.' H. D. Strever, for merly of Albany, Ore., but cow from Tucson, Ariz-, came here to baptize Jones. Strever is a Seventh Day Adventist minister who has been working with' Jones- v .. , I : ...-'. ; t i' A - " '.:.': i f- , v , C: L. .. 3;.- -- 1 - r - 1 ' - - ' Highlight of 39th annnal Strawberry festival at Lebanon Friday was to thousands of spectators. The cake, upper left, is billed as the world's largest, and was served fol lowing the grand parade Friday morning. The festival continues through, today with stock ear races. children's parade and softball in Agents Notes from 2 Diplomats LONDON. June 8 -UP)- The mystery of Britain's two vanished diplomats deepened tonight with the disclosure of teieftms from France saying one fanned a "long Mediterranean holiday" and the other "had to leave unexpect edly." The messages supposedly c ie from the .diplomats, Donald . D. MacLean and Guy Burgess, but were sent in their behalf by a third person believed by Paris po lice to be of a different nationali ty. .... . . : The messages gave rise to a dozen different theories in this baffled capital, increasingly fear ful that the Russian speaking pair may be taking Anglo-American secrets to Russia perhaps under duress. There was speculation about the safety of the British diplomatic code. A -high govern ment source, however, said neith er had worked with codes only translations. Watch Behind Curtain Crack counter-espionage agents stepped up the search throughout western Europe and especially around the Mediterranean. Diplo matic missions behind the Iron Curtain already had urgent orders to keep their eyes and ears open. lne foreign office gave out the texts of three messages received this week by relatives of the two men, wo went to France by steam er and disappeared two weeks ago today. The text of one. received by the American wife of MacLean, 38-year-old head of the foreign of fice's American department: -iiaa to leave i unexDectedlv. Sorry, darling. I love you Please do not stop loving me. Donald.' Message Unsigned! Another, unsigned, received by his mother. Lady MacLean: "I am quite all right. Do not worry. Love to all. One received by Mrs. J. H. Bas sett, mother of Burgess, 40, a stu-dent-of Marxism, recalled recent ly from his Job as second secre tary to the British embassy in Washington: ' "Terribly sorry for my silence. Am embarking on long Mediter ranean holiday. Do forgive. Gut." A foreign office spokesman said Britain "is accepting the messages as having originated with the two men," because of ! their general tone and phrasing. : TOLLETT WEAKENS " REDDING, Calif., June 8 -UP) The condition of Henry Clay Tol lett, 56-year-old bandit and fugi tive from justice who was shot by a highway patrolman near here Sunday, worsened tonight. rations Strever ; said . ' Jones has been studying Greek and European his tory while in prison. These credits will . be allowed toward his col lege coarse. :.- ; Jones left a trail of hold-ups and stolen ears all across the Unit ed States,' but he was finally. ar rested at Gold Beach while rob bing a store. - . j - He was sentenced to 19 years in the state penitentiary, and was paroled alter serving six years. Warden George Alexander said Jones had a bad record in prison, being sent several times to isola tioa cells. - 4 Study Prepa the spotlight. (Statesman photo). t Throng Gobbles 2Vfe-Ton Shortcake LEBANON, Ore- Jane S-AV The world's bifgest strawberry shortcake, 5,518 pounds of it, made its annual public appear ance here today, then quickly disappeared down the throats of an estimated 22,000 persons. It was the annual t Lebanon strawberry festival,, for which the city turns out a mammoth shortcake. . I It was fortunate this year's was as large as it was. Offici als estimated the crowd as the largest ever. : j The festival continues through tomorrow, with carnival attrac tions and street dancing on the" program. I Maj. Hitcliner Wins DSC for Battle Heroism The nation's second highest mil itary decoration, the Distinguish ed Service cross, has been award' ed posthumously to Ma. Omar T. Hitchner, infantry, whose widow, Mrs. Janet B. Hitchner, lives at 2008 Market, Salem. The award was made for "extraordinary he roism" in Korea, it was announced at Sixth army headquarters at San Francisco. j As commander of the second battalion, seventh cavalry regi ment. First cavalry division. Ma jor Hitchner-was mortally wound ed September 6, 1950, while draw ing fire away from his men as they deployed. The citation states, in part: "While inspecting the, battalion's position. Major Hitchner noticed that the enemy had domination of the terrain and was rendering one section of his line untenable. Re alizing that in order to continue operations, his battalion would have to shift positions to gain fire superiority. Major Hitchner, with complete disregard of his safety, exposed himself to extremely heavy fire, in order to draw the enemy's attention away from his pinned' down unit. In this action Major Hitchner was killed. Besides his widow, he is fur vived Dy two children Omar T. Hitchner. II, aged 12, Pamela L Hitchner, aged 7, and his mother who resides at Salem, N. J. THIEF TAKES JEWELS i NEW YORK, June -The theft of $40,000 in jewels from Mrs. Frank G. Tasker, wife of the Oregon lumberman and herself the co-owner of - the Bedell de partment store chain In Oregon was reported by police today. t Western International .At Salem U. Victoria S i At Wenatchc 2. Vancouver 4 At Spokan , Yakima '? x '' -""V i $ r v Coast League -j At Scattl J Portland - , At "Sacramento 4. Saa Diego t At Oakland 1. Lett Ancela At Hollywood 4-ft. San Tranciaco 2-3 . . - - American League At Chicago 1. New Yark 4 At Cleveland T. Boston J At Detroit t. Philadelphia S ' ' At St. Loula-Waihlngton, rain. . National League " At Boaton 1, St. Voakm. t -At New York -Chiearo. rain. : .. At Brooklyn-Pittsburfh. rain. At anrtniutt-PhUadelphia. rain. the serving of the huge shortcake 8 F-84 Jets Crash During Thunderstorm By The Associated Press ; . Eight air force F-84 jet fight ers plunged to earth in a thunder storm near Richmond, Ind., Friday killing three pilots. Six other air men died in four separate crasnes. The one-man jet fighters feu out of the sky in quick succession around Richmond, showering wreckage over a wide area. In ad dition to the dead, two other pilots were injured, , one critically. Two more' rode their planes . to orash landings without injury. The eighth parachuted to safety. . There was no official explana tion of the mishaps : pending an inquiry. I Near Lubbock, Tex- a B-25 training plane plunged into a field, carrying its three occupants to death. It was 15 minutes out of Reese air force base on a practice flight- - Two navy fliers died in the ex plosion and crash of a navy vttack bomber five miles south of Albu querque, N. M. I Five miles south of Bagdad. Ariz- an 1 -80 Shooting star plum meted into a field killing the pilot who was' unidentified. The plane was believed ' from Williams hit force base, Ariz. i - A Navy Hellcat fighter plane crashed in hilly country near.the Pennsylvania - Maryland border Friday night, the Anacostia naval air station reported. The sinsle seater World War II type craft was on a flight from Norfolk. Va to the Anacostia base when the crash occurred. It was not known if the pilot was killed. The jets feu to earth about 10 minutes after a flight of 34 had taken off from the Wright-Patter son field at Dayton; Ohio. They were part of a group of 71 based at Bergstrom air force base, Aus tin, Tex. They were enroute to Selfridge Field, Mich, i North Carolina School Ends Race Segregation CHAPEL HILL, N. C. June 8- (tfVThe University of North Caro lina lifted a 150-year-old segrega tion bar today and assigned ne groes rooms in a dormitory hous ing white students. The university announced tnat two negroes had been given rooms in Steele dormitory. They were among four admitted to the uni versity law school by a recent fed era! court decision that followed a year-long legal battle. Father Seals Body of 'Noisy9 Son ji In Oil Drum; Count Bares Slaying DETROIT, June t-VPy-k "fieav- ily tatooed father, smoking a big cigar, today calmly admitted kill ing his two-year-old son and seal ing the body in an oil drum for eight weeks: - - -? -It's just one of those things," Leo List, 38, a bulky diesetter, told police. "I did it and I got caught Sure I . feet better - about getting it off my chest. I 'knew 1 done something bad.'' ; . .The body, of: the child, Walter, was discovered in the drum in the Lisa apartment after a constable, seeking to serve eviction papers, reported five " children there. Ndghbpri remembered six; Liss and his wife, Dorothy, 28, both claimed that the missing boy had been sent to California. When that wag proved false, they sarid On isit ". By 'Robert B. Tnckman ; , , -TOKYO. Saturday, June -WVSecretarv of Defense Marshall tkM day began a closed conference with heavily guarded doors at the allied The new conference followed Marshall's surprise arrival from the United States. It stirred specula- . tion that some big development in the Korean war was near. " Marshall was tight-lipped today as he strode into the DaTlchl building, across a moat from Emperor Hirohito'i palace. He arrived shortly'bef ore noon. ' . - - ;,- ; : . j Yesterday he said his presence with any current peace moves; that hess. ' '- ' ' - ' i' ' . One at Dai Ichi headduarters wuuj enterea into me supreme.' commanaer s office. Military no nce guarded the door and barred all other visitors. . v - Across the hall from the confer ence room was a plush reception room with guest register.' Marshall did not stop to sign the register. ' There was no indication from any authoritative source about the subject of today's conference, v ' Last night when Marshall ar rived from Korean talks, which included one near the front with in sound of artillery pounding the reds, he said he bore no new di rectives. Return Indefinite V : ;.' - An' aide to General Ridgway said Marshall had not given any indication as to mture plans or when he would return to' the Un ited States. 4 v All we know is that he will eo back to the states sometime," the aide said. Marshall, wearing a blue suit and polka dot tie, strode up the steps of the Dai Ichi building at 11:53 ajn. (6:53 pjn. PDT Friday). i The allied supreme commander. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, was in his office on the sixth floor. But just before Marshal's surprise ar rival, the press had been informed General Ririrwav wmtlri on tn h; homein ihe U. S. embassy shortly for lunch. - Reasons for Talk : 1 The defense secretary said his trip was "purely military." But he added that carried no new direc tives on fighting the Korean war. Yet there were two reasons for the round of speculation concern ing his conference with "General Matthew B. Ridgway, supreme al lied commander, and Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, U. S. eighth army head. Only two weeks ago. Gen. Law- ton Collins, army chief of staff, told a senate committee hearing that a "definite new directive" for the - Korean campaign was being prepared and would be issued soon. "- , Whirlwind Visit , And ambassadors of 18 nations which have troops fighting in Korea were meeting in Washing ton to discuss prospects for a. cease-fire. Marshall's visit also came at a time when the communist armies were being pressed back deeper into north Korea and were faced with the stark prospect of a long and bitter retreat toward the nar row waist of the peninsula. : Marshall returned shortly'' be fore midnight from his whirlwind visit to the Korean -battlefront, where he heard .the roar of can non pulverizing the enemy lines. Conferred at Front Marshall arrived from the United States about midnight or early Friday morning. He was met by Ridgway and within 20 min ute?" they were off for Korea in the darkness. . They flew to a forward landing strip. In all, 11 light planes set tied down on the. strip, bringing in Van Fleet. Maj. Gen. Frank W, Milburn, first corps commander, anU several division commanders. They conferred under heavy military police guard for. 45 min utes. Fighter planes droned over head. The thunder of artillery echoed. T they had given him to a couple they met In a bar. . - Police then searched their apart ment and found the drum in a closet only four feet from the parents' bed. The drum had been repeatedly sealed with plaster. Officers told liss of their find ings, and he gave them this story: ,"On that day I was out drink ing with some of-the boys. I start ed out about 7:30 ajn. and came home after two. I was tired and wanted to sleep. r "But there was the kid crying and kicking ud. a-fuss; I never liked him. He just made too much noise all the time. I got tip and slapped him a couple of times and laid down, but he kept yelling. I got up and hit him again." - "My wile came in, screaming Purbose Gen. Matthew B. Ridewav hohinA supreme commander's headquar- others vesterdav in Knra ft had "no connection wlntuK he came "purely military" bus- i ., :., - - i-, t of General Rldrwa v' Mnkn Fight Back ! For Triangie' ! TOKYO, Saturday, June MffV Tightly massed reds fought bitter ly today against armored allied columns inching toward lithe threatened communist - bases:: of Chorwon and Kumhwa in North Korea. V ; j - . Loss of the two big bases noleht force a red retreat of 65 miles north to the next east-west high way across Korea. 4 jl An eighth army spokesman Said there were indications of a slight withdrawal from the two anchor points of the reds' "iron triangle" assembly area. But, he added, there was no reason to believe the reds were attempting a widespread pull back from either town, u Allied artillery blasted the east- " west highway between the two" towns. - - ' - jl . AP Correspondent Tom Brad-. shaw at eighth army said North Korean reds fought fiercely to prevent a United Nations flanking threat from the eastern tip oftho sprawling Hwachon reservoir. That threat developed .45 mile southeast of Kumhwa. ? On all three fronts west, oeo tral and eastern the hardest fighting was in the middle of the line rather than On the flanksJ . Bradshaw said the . reds wer employing mass defensive tactics rather than spreading resistance thinly all across the front. - By Vbgeler. WASHINGTON, June 8 Robert A. Vogeler, grim and un smiling, told today of 17 months of torture and degradation in a rom- munist Hungary prison, and disa vowed as "rubbish his purported confession of sabotage and spying. . Seemingly physically fit j I but still tense after four weeks in a hospital,' the 39-year-old Ameri can business man detailed for tho first time the ordeal he underwent before being freed. He was? re- leased April 28 through a j deal with . the Hungarian regime ; ar ranged by the state department. In a talk at the National Press club Voegeler said he was denied, sleep and grilled for 78 hours fol lowing his arrest, plunged-naked into ice water, slugged, and plied with strong stimulants. At his communist exploited trial in Budapest Vogeler said he ..... AJ V. 44 M 4 i- stooge." He was denied the, iser vices of an American lawyer and . forbidden contact with the U. S. legation. . - If and grabbed him out of the crib. I hit her, with my fist I guess, and I guess I knocked the kid out of her arms. She ran out and I pick ed me sua up ana tossea mm va - 4L- . 1 L . VV 11 1 Massed Reds Confessions lue upper n wh buu iu- ing a little noise. ' r v The next morning, he said, bis , wife told him something ; ; was wrong with the "child. "I lifted! him up and his head flopped fsom side to side ... I decided to put the body in the oil drum." H ' Several times, he 1 added, be thought of giving himself up, but each time he lost his nerve. His wife, he said, talked him ut cf it , several times. She told police the) Liss still is held for investiga tion of murder. His wife also is hM a rvVliro witnexs. . v.