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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1952)
Dtp Weather Salem , ! SI Portland 83 S3 San Franciso , 63 49 Chicago , ?1 90 lift traee txmem B33IQ3 0 VCN NfW Vnrk M ft I -ml Willamette River 1 foot. FORECAST (from U. S. weather btt-i reau, McNary field. Salem); Partly cloudy with a few showers today anal tonight. Huh today 68 to M,; low to-' night 40 to 42. warmer Thursday. Tern--perature at 12:01 a.m. waa SO decrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION ' Since Start of Weather Year . 1 This Year Last Year ; Nermal 40.05 48.47 f .3S I POUNDDD 1651 mum Senator Mike Monroney of Ok lahoma comes up with a new an gle. He predicts a deadlock will develop in the Democratic nation al convention. So he is boosting Speaker Sam Rayburn as a com promise candidate. Rayburn pre viously had counted himself out, but many of his Texas admirers want to promote him for the pres idential nomination. As for a compromise candidate the report has been that Vice President Barkley is pla"ing the game low in hopes of getting that call. The Veep, who is 74, is cre dited with good health and sharp wit. Also he is said to hold the fa vor of various factions among the Democrats, though the same is true of Speaker Rayburn. All of which points up the fact that for the first time in a quar ter century the Democrats are fumbling over selection of a can didate. In 192C Al Smith took an early lead; and in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt held the pole from the start of the race, and had no com petition in 1936, 1940 and 1944. Doubting Thomases over Truman sought earnestly for another can didate in 1948, but Truman was in the preferred position and was nominated on the first ballot. It's different this time. Tru man declines to run again; Ste venson says he is busy in Illinois; Justice Douglas disowns efforts in his behalf. Senator Kefauver admits he wants the office and is busy picking up delegates, but by no means looks like a winner at the convention. Senator Rus sell's hope is not for winning the nomination but to force compro mise with the South on the writ ing of the platform and selection of a ticket. With Governor Byrnes of South Carolina (Continued on editorial page 4.) Sec. Newbry Envisions New Hospital A new mental hospital probably will be needed in Oregon in the next 10 years. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry said Tuesday at the board of control meeting. Newbry, one of the members of the three-man board which runs' the state institutions, said the pro posed hospital should be in Port land. He said the present hospitals at Salem and Pendleton have as many patients as they can care for. No institution can be located outside Marion County unless the people approve by vote. Fire Fighting Relia All Set For Parade You've heard the one about the fire horse? Well, Tuesday, the Sa lem central fire department was displaying what the fire horse once pulled. Parked in front of the depart ment on High and Chemeketa Streets was a genuine Capital En gine, built by Honeyman Builders, Boston, Mass., in 1860. With the water tanks filled, the relic, owned by the fire depart ment dripped generously at the .reams as though waiting even yet for active duty. The engine is to be loaned for the Odd Fellows parade scheduled to begin tonight at 7 p. m. It's Called 'Spring Madness' Also Plain Simple-mindedness By The Associated Press J Spring madness swept another ' batch of college campuses Monday j and Tuesday, turning thousands I of feverish young men into baying, i brawling panty raiders. Nearly a dozen schools wit nessed riots or near-riots as the males stormed co-ed dormitories in search of sexy souvenirs. It was the biggest outbreak yet in the snowballing, weeks-old fad. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH "Left-overs again? And from Sunday" . XT MTI 102nd YEAR Grand Patriarch Takes Over V! Hurh Lewis of Yamhill (rlffht) takes over the ravel Tuesday as new grand patriarch of the Grand Encampment. Odd Fellows group, from George Houck of Portland. Ilouck, retiring: grand patriarch, conducted the Encampment's annual convention as part of the state IOOF conclave in Salem this week. New Arrivals Swell IOOF Registration; Grand Lodge To Be Today and Thursday The Odd Fellows convention increased in tempo Tuesday as delegates swelled registration lists in anticipation of the opening of the Grand Lodge sessions today. A total registration of nearly 1,000 Rebekahs, the IOOF womens groups, and about 350 male IOOF members, was reported at registra- : tion headquarters in the IOOF Temple Tuesday. Sound Yields Four Bodies From Sloop BELUNGHAM -Four bodies of persons who were among seven aboard the sailboat Prelude which vanished Sunday night were re covered Tuesday in Northern Pu get Sound waters. There was no indication of the cause of the disaster. The bodies found were Identi fied as Ed Jukes, Mrs. Don Card, Mrs. Paul Fordyce and her son Kenneth, all of Bellingham. MISSING PILOT FOUND ALBANY, Ore. f7P)-Seareh for a pilot who was thought missing was called off Tuesday when he turned up at an emergency field near Newport. The pilot was Rus sell Strait. It was good clean fun In some spots. But not in Columbia, Mo., where the National Guard was called out to cope with rioting University of Missouri students. And not at Colorado University where one youth broke his hip. At Corvallis, Ore., campus po lice spoiied a lingerie stealing raid by 250 Oregon State College students. The men made forays on two dormitories and three sorority houses as the newest college craze spread to Oregon. But less than a dozen men got inside Waldo Hall, the first dormitory raided, and they were given the bum's rush by the co-eds who then locked win dows and doors. They got no trophies. At the next dormitory, Sackett Hall, they found doors and win dows locked. Neither did they get into the Alpha Omega Pi or Delta Delta Delta sorority houses, though they did manage to break some windows. A few made it inside the Alpha Chi Omega house, but the women occupants quickly shoved them out. L. E. Darling, assistant dean of men, appealed to campus frater nities and officers ordered their members from the group. The number had dwindled sharply be fore the forays ended. Darling said he did not know whether discip ry action would b taken but that the raiders would have to pay for broken windows. The panty raids, weirdest col legiate fad since the goldfish swal lowing 1930's, have been blamed by psychiatrists on everything -from sex to simple-mindedness. 14 PAGES i, $ , i - "H iwore uaa r eiiows were expect - ed to report in today for the Grand Lodge of Oregon conven tion today and Thursday. George E. Lyons of Portland, grand mas ter, will conduct. the Grand Lodge sessions in the IOOF Temple. A feature will be the colorful 14-block-long parade "which ' will move south along South Commer cial Street from Marion Square at 7 o'clock tonight. Conducting sessions Tuesday were the Rebekah Assembly and the Grand Encampment. The Re bekahs will continue meetings to day, with election of officers slat ed for 10 a.m., and will adjourn Thursday afternoon, as will the Grand Lodge. Installed as Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment Tuesday afternoon was Hugh Lewis, Yam hill He succeeds George Houck, Portland, who was elected as rep resentative for two years to the sovereign Grand Lodge. George V. Naderman, Salem, was seated as grand high priest; Herbert M. Munsell, Klamath Falls, grand senior warden; Peter Stolsig, Eugene, grand junior warden; John Gtbbs, Dayton, grand marshal; Garland Meador, Myrtle Creek, grand sentinel; Charles Bowman, Monmouth, grand outer sentinel; Earl H. Shank, Portland, grand scribe, and E. M. Bowman, Hillsboro, granj treasurer. A crowd of more than 1,200 jammed Crystal Gardens Ball room for the grand reception Tuesday night and to hear Pres ley Horn, past grand master of the Idaho jurisdiction, outline the his tory of the Odd Fellows. Also speaking were Mayor Alfred W. Loucks and Gov. Douglas McKay. (Story also on page 14) Freighters Hit In Mid-Atlantic NEW YORK (M-Two freighters collided in a fog in the Atlantic off Block Island, R. I., early Wednes day, but radioed they were in no immediate danger. The ships were the President Tyler and the Michael Tracy. The Boston Coast Guard dis patched three cutters. Western International At Victoria-Salem, rain. At Yakima 5, Lewiston 6 At Wenatchee 6. Spokane 8 At Vancouver - Tri-City, rain. Pacific Coast League At Portland 1, San Francisco 3 At Los Angeles 4, Sacramento 3 At Oakland 3. San Diego 1 At Seattle-Hollywood, rain. American Learue At Chicago 3. New York 4 At St. Louis 0, Washington 2 At Cleveland-Boston, rain. At Phuadelphu -Detroit, rain. National Leaxne At Brooklyn -Cincinnati, rain. At Bo ton-Chicago, rain. At New York-St. Louis, rain. A PhlladelphU-PtttsburcA. rain. Reds RlOt In Prison; One Dead PUSAN, Korea (JP)-V.S. soldier guards Tuesday stamped out a re bellion in a big Pusan prison camp, killing one Red prisoner and in juring 85 in a wild battle lasting nearly three hours. It was the first bloody prisoner uprising on the Korean mainland. It came as the U.S. Eighth Army disclosed that two minor revolts had been squelched without blood shed on nearby Koje Island last week. Starts in Hospital The Pusan fighting broke out at a prison hospital enclosure where both Communist and anti-communist prisoners are treated. The Army said a small group of fanatical Reds who served as hos pital attendants defied orders to leave the compound for transfer elsewhere. Battle With Clubs Combat-seasoned U.S. infantry men went into the compound to get them, and the fighting erupted. The infantrymen were armed, but they fired no shots in the battle of clubs and fists. One soldier was injured slightly. About half of the 85 prisoners in jured received only minor hrts, the Army said. It did not say how the one prisoner died. Possibly he was bayoneted. Rioting Predicting The Army gave few details, and correspondents were not permitted to enter the camp, known as Com pound 10. It was not known whether the prisoners were North Koreans, Chinese or both. The Peiping radio virtually pre dicted the revolt. A broadcast heard Tuesday night in Tokyo said "Korean and Chinese prisoners in mainland camps who are alleged not to want to return are thinking of rialing." That was before the news had reached Peiping. Boy, 15, to Get Life Sentence For Murder EUGENE. Ore., (JP)-A 15-year-old boy, accused of the gun shot slaying of an 18-year-old deaf mute girl, was found guilty of first degree murder here Tuesday. A circuit court jury which rec ommended leniency for the boy Eugene Harlan Belcher deliber ated the case for four hours. Judge C. F. Skipworth said the recommendation for leniency made a sentence of life imprisonment mandatory. The boy was accused of firing the shot that killed Mary Ellen Campbell near Cottage Grove, April 4. District Attorney C. E. Luckey said the boy, when arrested ad mitted he killed the girl because his school friends had taunted him about her pregnancy. The boy later repudiated the confession. Bids Opened On Woodburn Sewage Plant Statesman Newi Servic WOODBURN Bids were open- ! ed at the Tuesday meeting of the I Woodburn city council for con- struction of a sewage treatment j plant and a trunk sewer. No con tracts were awaraea. A $150,000 bond issue proposed in 1950 was presumed to be close to the cost of this work. Six bids were submitted on the trunk sew er ranging from $59,000 to a $45, 000 bid submitted by P. S. Lord, Portland. Five bids were submit ted for the treatment plant rang ing from $101,000 to a $78,880 bid from Browning and Randolph in Salem. P. S. Lord was the next low bid at $79,000. Pay Raises Effective for Over 3,000.000 Service Personnel WASHINGTON (JP) More than three million men and women in uniform got a raise Tuesday when the White House announced that President Truman has signed a bill increasing military pay and allow ances by 484 million dollars a year. Everybody from, buck private to five-star general gets a 4 per cent boost in base pay beginning this month. Allowances for food and rent in the armed services go up 14 per cent. The increases were voted by Congress to help offset higher liv ing costs. They apply to all ranks in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, including retired personnel. 'They also extend to cadets at West Point, midshipmen at An The Orecon Statesman, Salem, Oreaon, Wednesday, May 21. 1952 Honored The Rev. George H. Swift, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, who received the Eagles Lodge, Aerie 2081, third annual sur prise citizenship award at the evening meeting at the lodge. Eagles Award For 1952 Goes To Rev. Swift Recipient of the Eagles Lodge, j Aerie 2081. third annual citizen I ship award this year is the Rev. ! George H. Swift, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Mr. Swift, who is not a member of the Eagles, was sel ected by a board of past presi dents to receive the award on the basis of his personal contributions to the community. A plaque, com memorating the award, was pre sented to him at the Tuesday eve- . ning meeting ot the Lodge. The annual award was created three years ago as a recognition : by the Lodge of personal service and sacrifice to the community. "The organization this year felt that Rev. Swift more than fulfilled tnese qualifications, past presi dent Dr. Fioyd Utter said Tuesday evening. The first award was made by the lodge to R. (Tad) Shelton and last year's award went to David O'Hara. Move to Form New City in Canyon Starts A new move for incorporation of a city in the Detroit area of the North Santiam canyon was shown Tuesday by petitions signed by 42 .residents and filed with Marlon County Court. The petitions, calling for inclu sion of some 510 acres in an ir regular shape about one mile in both east-west and north-south directions, were filed by J. Cal SchLador of Detroit. This is just north of the present community, which will be inundated by the Detroit Dam reservoir. If the petitions show that the signers comprise 20 per cent of the areas registered voters, the County Court is to set an election in 30 to 50 days. Proposed incorporation of a larger area, including Idanha, was defeated a few years ago. Boys Discover S2,180 in Pond; Each Gets Third PORTLAND 7P) Three boys, playing in a shallow pond, found $2,180 in currency Tuesday. The money was inside a floating jar, they told sheriff's deputies. It was thought to have belonged to James Stevens, 71-year-old re cluse, who died Feb. 21 in a near by shack. The finders, Edwin Hill, 7, My ron Whitcomb, 9, Melvin Weaver, 11, divided the money. The mother of one of the youngsters reported the find to the sheriff's office. napolis, aviation cadets and mem bers of the Public Health Service, the Coast Guard and the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In all, an esti mated million persons are af fected. Under the new law, the raises range from $3 a month for pri vates and seamen to $65 to two star generals and rear admirals, the equivalent flag rank in the Navy. Most low-ranking enlisted men have no dependents and their food and lodging is furnished by the government. Consequently they will not be affected by the increase in allowances. For enlisted person nel with dependents, the monthly increase in pay and allowances will range from $13 to $19. r1 ' 'T ; . Ktftff : i 1 Officers Who Refused to Fly Given Honorable But Surrender Commissions President Possible By ED CREAGH WEST POINT, N. Y. P)-Presi-dent Truman said Tuesday Korea has put the free world on the right track "to preserving our freedom without paying tie frightful cost o world war." "I believe we are well cn the way . . . ," he said witn .ober but unmistakable optimism. "We are on the right track." He held out hope there may still be an armistice in Korea but insisted: "We must also be alert and ready to meet treachery or a renewal of aggression if that should come." The president spoke at the U.S. military academy's 150th anniversary celebration. He tcid West Point cadets the nation's future generals that "as a result He Housekeeps So What? She Gels a Divorce LONDON t,Pi-Mrs. Betsy Clarke was awarded a divorce Monday because her mate insisted on do ing the housework. Mrs. Clarke said husband Syd ney, a butcher, took over her role of housewife right down to cleaning, shopping and cooking in 1949. I Clarke told the judge: "I thought I was a much more efficient housekeeper than she was." McGranery Appointment Gets Approval WASHINGTON (JP) The Sen ate approved Tuesday night Presi dent Truman's appointment of Federal Judge James P. McGran ery of Philadlphia to be attorney general. The nomination of the 56-year-old jurist to succeed J. Howard McGrath in the cabinet post was confirmed by a vote of 52 to 18. Action had hung fire since' April 3 when President Truman named McGranery just after he had let McGrath out of the cabinet in a follow-up of McGrath's firing of Newbold .Morris as government corruption investigator. Sens. Ferguson R-Mich. and Watkins R-Utah led the opposi tion to McGranery's nomination. They assailed his as a man of 'most questionable" integrity, ability and veracity. Chairman McCarran D- Nev. of the Senate Judiciary Committee and other Democrats described j McGranery as an "honest, sincere, j God-fearing, fair official.'' All 18 votes against confirma tion were cast by Republicans. Sen. Morse of Oregon voted for the confirmation. Sen. Cordon of Oregon opposed it. Three Missing On Pacific Run SEATTLE 7P-A 48-foot ketch with three persons aboard is nearly a month overdue on a run from Honolulu to Seattle, the Coast Guard reported Tuesday. The ketch, the No Name, sailed from Honolulu April 7 and was expected to arrive here April 26. Aboard are Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wolbert and a crewman, Gus Ol son, all of Seattle McMinnville Goes on Daylight Time June 1 McMINNVILLE (JP) The City Council has changed a previous decision and has now voted to switch to daylight saving time June 1. Earlier the council voted to stay on standard time. BENNETT THROUGH PORTLAND (JP) The Portland City Council Tuesday accepted the resignation of Commissioner Jam es E. Bennett, recalled in last Fri day's election. 5 FLOATS EXPECTED PORTLAND (AVSome 50 floats are expected to be entered in this year's Rose Festival parade June 13, officials of the festival said Tuesday Friday is the entry deadline. PRICE 5c Warns of Treachery of Korea, the free countries are infinitely better prepared to de fend themselves than they were two years ago." But he tempered his optimism at points and, in words as grim as the gray, dripping sky above this Hudson River redoubt, told the cadets: "But I don't want anyone to get the impression that there is any basis for relaxing or letting up . . . No one should assume that the possibility of world war has become remote." In his prepared speech, Tru man added tersely and omin ously: "An atomic artillery piece has been developed and tested and will have to be reckoned with in the future." Five-fold Hike For Columbia Power Seen PORTLAND (JP- The Bonne ville Power Administration Tues day outlined a Columbia River Power system for 1960-61 which would be five times the present size. Its capacity of seven billion kilowatts is necessary to meet re quirements of the area, the an nual outlook report, called an "ad vance program for defense," said. To do this dams now under construction must be finished on schedule, more plants built and transmission iaeimies improved. The program also calls for con struction of Hells Canyon Dam, which has not been authorized and is opposed by Idaho Power Com pany interests. It contemplates construction of Ice Harbor Dam which has been authorized, but Is not yet being built. At the same time Bonneville said that rising costs would force an increase in its rates in De cember, 1954, when the next ad justment is made. Power supplies, even under the present schedule, will be critically short for the next two to five years, the report said. The report also called for pro duction by federal fuel fired plants in 1955 with an output in 1956 of 440,000 kilowatts. A three quarter million kilowatt expan sion of private utility facilities by 1955-56 also is included in the program. Sale of Indian Up in Court PORTLAND JP- Trial of the federal government's suit to set aside the disputed sale of 800 acres of Indian timberlands at Gold Beach, Ore., got underway in federal court here Tuesday. The land was bought from two Indians through the Portland Of fice of 'the Bureau of Indian Af fairs for $135,000. U. S. Attorney Henry L. Hess contends the land is worth more than $300,000. The land, after a complicated transaction, wound up in the hands of a white man. Among spectators at the trial was Clyde Flinn. former Indian Bureau land officer, who was suspended following an investiga tion of the land sale. One Killed, Two Critically Hurt By Log Toppling From Truck Statesman New Service LEBANON A log killed one man and critically injured two others when it toppled from a j truck onto a car on Highway 20 near Sweet Home Tuesday. A fourth man was seriously injured. All were from Lebanon. Dead is Oliver Goodwin, 23, listed by state police as the car driver. Wilmer Greer, 53, and Arthur Starr, 45, were injured critically. The injuries of William Cooper, 22, were termed "serious." Police said a blow torch was used to extricate Starr from the back seat of the crushed sedan. He was taken to Salem Memorial Hospital. Attendants said he in curred a possible skull fracture and a compound leg fracture. The other men were taken to Lanmack Hospital, Sweet Home, l where a spokesman said Greer No. S3 Dis WASHINGTON (JP)- Th Air Force announced Tuesday it is missing "under honorable cerwii- Livijo anu wjiuuui tuuri ;;mazTjiai 12 reserve officers who refused to fly- s The action, first disclosed jrt Scott Air Force Base, IlLji by tte Air Training Command, dispose' of all but one of the 14 reported cases of that kind. j The men were stationed at Ran- . doiph Air Force Base in Tet and Mather Base in California. Sentence Cancelled A spokesman at the Pentagon explained that the 12 wilt b re lieved of their commissions by ad ministrative action because their cases have not reached thi formal court martial stage. One I of the others already has been dispeeed of and the 14th is pen-din'. First Lt. Verne Goodwin of Pea body, Mass.. was convicted h-w m couri martial but tha sent was cancelled upon review headquarters and Goodwin's signation was accepted 'lor the good of the service." One Case AwaiU Review CaDt. Carl J. Izard at Hazle- hurst. Miss., originally was sen tenced dv a court martial tn hu. months at hard labor and dishon orable dismissal. An lntermidia'le reviewing authority knocked out the imprisonment sentence: but let the dismissal decision stand. Air Force headquarters said the cane now awaits review by top officials of the service. j Ten of the 14 reserve officer involved in the refusals j to fly were involuntarily recalled! by tbV Air Force. The remaining four volunteered for active duty. Only two of the 14 were receiving pay for drill and air training activities in the reserves prior to their ire call. M Ten of the 14 saw combat duty during World War II. ?1 Let Kefauver, Ike Fight It jOat Os West Says PORTLAND OT-TWsM Vbrf Democratic governor of Oreaa from 1911 to 1915. rrlohnisH vi 79th birthday here Tuesday. ine former governor, who has . earned a wide reputation for his observations on politics, had this to say of the current presidential race: "If God still reigns, and 'wishes to preserve" this government from crooks and wastrels. He will HV rect the Republicans to nominate Eisenhower and the Democrat Kefauver, and leave them free to select their own running mates. Atomic Blast Again Delayed LAS VEGAS, Nev. (JPHSoWiers on pass were rounded up early Tuesday for a previously-postponed atomic bomb test, but tbs M. P.'s did the job to no avail. For tUe second time ; officials pressed the button and nothing happened. The A EC put it down to mecha nical failure of the sequence tim er, and put the much-delayed shot over for at least another 4t hours. 43 Casualties on New Korea List 43 CASUALTIES 18-2 pge 1 . WASHINGTON (JP) The De fense Department Tuesday night Identified 43 more Korean. waL casualties list No. 568. Of the to tal, 19 are dead, 23 wounded, -one missing in action. suffered brafn concussion, severs neck lacerations, compound frac tures of both bones in hia left ana and serious head injuries. Cooper's condition waa .termed fair. He suffered shock, multiple bruises and lacerations over hi entire body. Goodwin died shortly ' after he was taken to the hospital. Police identified the truck drives as Selmer Norlyn Brown, Swsef Home. Officers quoted him as say ing he did hot know the log had dropped from the truck. They said he was traced by brand marks a the logs and was cited for haulii a loose and shifting load. t The mishap occured two miles, east of Sweet Home on j Highway 20 about 7:45 a. m. The Lebanon . men were eastbound for: the San tiarn Lumber Co., at Sweet Home! where all were employed.' ;j j missal
