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Weather Down the corridor of history they com, marching to the beat of muffled drum. Dimly out of the past we see them, through memo ry's eye this day, the soldier of the Revolution with homespun uniform, of the Civil War wearing kepi and faded blue, of the Span ish War in khaki and broad-brimmed campaign hat, and the hel meted doughboys and GIs of the World Wars. No matter what the uniform, what the style of headpiece, what the kind of musket always the faces and the forms of youth. Youth marches to the wars, and many times does not march home again. Today we recreate the bat talions of the past, marching, al ways marching to unknown des tinies . . . marching . . . marching hep! hep! hep! Across the canvas of memory; and our eyes fill as we see them pass . . . marching . . . marching . . . always march ing. Many will cease work today to play, to visit seashore or moun tain lake, to picnic with family and friends. But they cannot es cape history; they cannot escape memory. And in this twilight zone which is neither peace nor war they cannot escape reality. In America we have regarded war as an interruption, with peace the normal condition. We have sought to wipe out even the cycle of wars. Now must we shift our thinking and regard war as normal, con tinuous either in threat or reality? That is the shadow we cannot es cape no matter where or how we pend this holiday. Marching . . . marching out of the past. What about the future? Do we see youth marching, march ing, marching into the indefinite distance ahead . . . marching, marching, marching ... or flying, flying, flying . . . into atomic blasts, into lethal radiation . . . in to an Armageddon more terrible than the vision of the Prophet? We do not know the answer, strive though we must to deny that fu ture. Down the corridor of history they come, marching to the beat of muffled drum . . .marching . . . marching . . . O'Brien Named Deputy Warden At Penitentiary Lawrence T. O'Brien, captain of the guard at California's Fol som Prison. Thursday, was named by the State Board of Control as deputy warden of the Oregon State Penitentiary. He will succeed Eugene L. Hol ley, who is retiring July 1 after more than 30 years service. O'Brien has been in prison work for the past 16 ye"ars. He held a superv isory position at Al catraz, federal prison in San Fran cisco Bay, has served at several other federal prisons, and at Cali fornia's San Quentin prison be fore going to Folsom Prison. O'Brien becomes the second of ficial in less than a year to be drawn from prison service in Cal ifornia for work at Oregon's penal institution. He was one of those considered by the Board of Con trol for warden last summer, when Virgil O'Malley was named to the post. O'Malley came here from Soledad Prison in Cali fornia. The vote on O'Brien was two to one. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry and State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson voted for O'Brien while Gov. Douglas Mc Kay favored another man. Mother of Queen Pilots Jet Plane LONDON OP) Queen Mother Elizabeth disclosed Thursday she piloted a Comet jet airliner .at more than 500 miles an hour dur ing a joyride over Western Eu rope last week. She gave out this surprising in formation in a telegram to the City of London auxiliary squadron of the Royal Air Force. Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH "Junior, come in here immediote ly ond tell me where you stole that mouth-woterina. delicious looking Ateok'" 102nd YEAH All But Complete, Detroit Dam .fit' V " ivvCS; ...... &&ttZ, - N1 L-iy - ve eiT' CFiV i h v r ' r? YV )J " f. ntrmt Dam. ne&rinr torn Diction, River Canyon, ready to serve as vi , a a -i cer. engineers expect to otw mjc uiiwu ti - start water backinr P in a huge man-made lake. Water stored be hind the dam will serve a three-fold purpose to turn the genera tors which will produce electricity for Willamette Valley cities, to keep the Santiam and Willamette rivers from flooding rich farm Volunteers In a Day to Signal Start Of Reclamation Project MOSES LAKE 0P-Weary workers plugged away Thursday night putting finishing touches on a $75,000 farm-in-a-day that provided a dramatic start for the million-acre Columbia Basin irrigation project. They were more than three hours behind in their 17-hour schedule for completing the farm. The land was plowed and planted and the irrigation water turned on. The machine shed was finished and equipped with tractors and other farm equipment and the chicken house complete. Donald Dunn, 30, owner of the first irrigated farm who was with the workmen from first to last, was too bewildered to say much more than many, many "thanks." Reclamation director Michael Straus presided at the turning on of the first water. An estimated 10,000 people vis ited the project during the day. The farm is completely stocked even to tractors, furniture and groceries in the pantry and be longs to Dunn, 30, a soft spoken father of two children and an Army veteran of World War II. Dunn was washed off his dry land Marion, Kans., farm by the 1951 floods. But he gets a big start on a new life because he wrote a letter for the national Veterans of Foreign Wars contesf to find a tenant for the "farm in a day." Experienced farm hands put in 15 acres of alfalfa, 12 acres, of oats, six acres of other pasture, five acres of corn and 3 1 acres of red Mexican beans after dawn. They even planted a lawn and shrub bery around the house. All the workers were volun teers. Ail the equipment was donated. Western International At Tri-City 1. Salem 0 At Spokane X. Victoria 11 At L wliton 1, Vancouver S At Wenatchee 1. Yakima 3 Coast Leaxue At San Diego 2. Portland S At San rranciaco 1. Los Angeles 1 At Sacramento 0. Seattle 4 At Hollywood 1. Oakland 4 National Leajroe At Philadelphia . New York t At Brooklyn 7. Boaton 3 At Pittsburgh 4. Cincinnati X - (Only games scheduled) American Leagne At New York 3. Philadelphia i At Detroit 4, Cleveland 11 At Boston 1. Washington 0 lOrUjr games scheduled) 10 PAGES teiUf . Td towers over the North Santiam flood controller and power prods - il. J!WU i.mmt n',,b Build Farm Official Vote Count Listed Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio), whose name wasn't even on the Oregon presidential primary bal lot, placed third among seven can didates, the official count showed Thursday. Taft's write-in total was 1,362, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower polled 11,569, Gov. Earl Warrert 2-848. Behind Taft were Gen. Douglas MacArthur with 1,245; Harold Stassen 611; Wayne Morse 349; William Schneider 22; miscellan eous 27. The official count of most of the Republican ballot, was announced by the office of County Clerk Hen ry Mattson, confirmed in all par ticulars the results as shown by the unofficial tabulation immedi ately after the May 16 vote. The official Democratic tally, and the remainder of the Republican, are still to be finished. Highlights brough out by the official Republican count included the first-placing of Warren as write-in vice president (2142), followed by Stassen (645), Morse (229), MacArthur (222), Taft (110), Eisenhower (44), Gov. Thomas Dewey (15), and Vice President Albin Barkley (11). There were 81 eher miscellaneous votes. The tally on state representa lives Wfisi Mark Hatfield 14,093; Lee Oh mart 13,289; R. L. Elftrom 11,305; W. W. Chadwick 11,086; Frank Doerfler 9,078; C. A. Ratcliff 5,934; R. F..Cook 5,543; David Cromwell 3,791. The first four were nomin ated. (Additional details page 5). FOOD INDEX RISES WASHINGTON (JP)-The gov ernment reported Thursday that retail food prices advanced one tenth of one per cent- between April 28 and May 15. STRIKE TALKS PORTLAND W-N e go t iations aimed at averting a strike of Ore gon freight truck drivers will be resumed here next Wednesday. FOU hi DDE Th Oregon Towers Over lands in flood season, and to form, for fishermen, boating enthusiasts It Y , 4 tli-h frnm Ku in (nn Tir-ni - t' 'w- -'- - 483-foot high from base to top structure will be complete when workmen finish construction of a roadway above the broad spillway at center of the dam. Progress of the dam has meant the end of one canyon town. The death of old Detroit and the birth of new Detroit are shown on page 10. (Statesman Photo by Thomas C. Wright Jr.) ets Student Trouble ITHACA, N. Y. yp) - Cornell University Thursday night sus pended for a year 25 students who seized a university radio station Wednesday night and broadcast fake reports that Eu ropean cities were bombed. A faculty committee on stu dent conduct announced the suspensions after interviewing the students. Ten of the students, wearing masks, overpowered three stu dent staff members and con trolled the station for eight minutes. The other 15 later ad mitted participating. The fake bulletins said an air armada was nearing the United State. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. I This Year 40 05 Last Year 49.76 Normal 3S.79 Fair Weather Forecast for Valley's ROeniiorial Bay i .r-zti si-; : . rJ 1 - -- - T 1 This scene was duplicated many times this week as annual Memorial Day cleanup time comes to Salem's Odd FeUows Cemetery. In foreground Joseph Che no we th, 609 N. ISth St wields rake en Aspinwall f amity plot. Flag Is on grave f Kenneth Aspinwall , World War. I veteran, who died in 1920. In back ground is Ernest Smyres, 2355 Hyde SL, shown trimming a plot. High bank of undergrowth indicates clearing work yet to be done at the historic cemetery. (Story on Page 4.) D 1651 Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 30. 1952 Santiam Canyon an extensive new recreation area and vacationists, triiptnrji will Kj The towering Tidelands Bill Vetoed by HST WASHINGTON (IPS - President Truman Thursday vetoed a bill ! land where 80,000 prisoners of war .... . " . . j are held, giving the coastal states owner-1 Two hours later, a U. S. soldier ship of oil-rich lands beneath the; guard taking his position in a tow marginal seas within the three ! er accidentally discharged his au- mile limit. "I see no good reason for the federal government to make an outright gift, for the benefit of a few coastal states of property in terests worth billions of dollars property interests which belong to 155 million people," he said in a 4,000 word message returning the legislation to the Senate. A Senate vote on passing the bill over the veto, which requires a two-thirds majority, is not ex pected before June 10. Bloody Riots Flare In Prisoner Camps 8 Bayonets, Tear Gas Used to Separate Reds By JIM BECKER KOJE ISLAND tP) New out- i breaks of bloody prisoner violence t erupted Thursday and Friday 4n Allied stockades on this riot-ridden island and on the southeastern Korean mainland. The toll for the two days mount ed to eight dead and 17 wounded all prisoners. These included one dead and one wounded Thursday on Koje Island when a guard's auiomauc niie aiscnarged acci dentally. Four Die on Koje Four North Korean prisoners of war were killed and three were wounded Friday on Koje when a 15-man prisoner work party at tacked two American and two South "Korean guards. The Army said two were killed outright and two died later. Three interned civilians were killed and 13 others were injured Thursday at Yongchon in a half hour melee among prisoners that broke out shortly after midnight. The Eighth Army said the af fray at Yon.'chon, 60 miles north j of the South Korean provisional i capital of Pusan, broke out be- 1 tween interned civilians moved j there recently from Koje Island. Guards Questioned In the Koje incident, the guard involved in the shooting were tak en to headquarters immediately for questioning. Other guards, several hundred yards away, heard the shooting but could not leave their posts. They said there was heavy traf fic piled up on the road until the incident was over. About 100 Allied troops wield ing bayonets and throwing tear gas Thursday raided an unruly compound on Koje containing 3, 350 prisoners, destroyed their headquarters and seized Red flags and knives. No blood was spilled, the Army said. First Show of F!rce It was the first big show of force inside any of the 17 com pounds since disorders flared early ln May on this South Korean is- tomr.tic rifle into the seething compound, killing one prisoner and wounding another. The trouble began when guards spotted Red prisoners trying to chop a hole through an inner barbed wire fence that bars the j way to an areaway leading to the outer gate. TO ERR IS HUMAN BIRMINGHAM. Ala. f-A book borrowed from the Birmingham Public Library in 1935 was placed in a return box in front of the li brary this week. It's title: "Human Beings Are Human." Killed, mm PRICE 5c 17 Top French Eted Jailed For Touching Off Kios PARIS UP)- French Communist boss Jacques Dticlos and two henchmen were charged Thursday with plotting against France's in ternal security by inciting hate Ridgway riots as a front for Red revolution. Communist-lead unions threat ened strikes by millions of work ers in protest. Duclos's ringleader companions in the Paris Red rioting of Wed nesday were identified late Thurs day as Alfred Wigeshoff and Georges Goosens. They were arrested with Duclos beside Duclos' car at a riot scene Wednesday night but were not im-mediatel- named as plotters. The charges against the three are iden Berlin Police Bread Red Demonstrations'- BERLIN fP-Fifteen thousand Communists, surging in from tsm Russian Zone for an anti-Western demonstration, touched off a Fa vac clash with West Berlin police Thursday night in a growing war f nerves. Club-swinging police wounded hundreds of the invaders, ar- s Veep Barkley Tosses Hat in Democrat Ring By The Associated Press Vice President Alben W. Bark ley formally tossed his hat into the ring Thursday in the wide open scramble for the Democratic presidential nomination. The Kentucklan, whose energy belies his 74 years, issued a state ment in Washington declaring: "Therefore, if the forthcoming Chicago convention July 21 should choose me to lead the fight in the approaching campaign, I would accept." The widely popular "Veep" Is the sixth avowed entry in the Democratic field of presidential aspirants. If nominated and elected, he would be the oldest man ever to become President in the nation's 176-year history. The oldest v. William Henry Harrison, who en tered the White House in 1841 at 68. DETECTIVE ACQUITTED PORTLAND (A3)-A Circuit Court jury of five women and seven men Thursday night acquitted William L. Brian, Portland detective, of a charge of extorting $10,000 from Mrs. Ruth Barnett Bush. Salem will join the nation today in observance of Memorial Day. The Weather Bureau reproted that prospects are bright for fair wea ther throughout the state during the long weekend. Among special services will be those at the City View Cemetery at 10 a. m., on the West Salem bridge at 10:15 and at the Court house at 11 a. m. The annual Memorial Day pa rade will fprm in the Marion Square area and move out at 10:45 a. m., marching south on Commer cial Street to State, east on State Street to High and north on High Street to the veterans' monument on Courthouse S.quare. There Lt. CoL Leonard GJ Hicks will give the Memorial Day address and Dave Hoss will be master of cere monies. Business activity will be virtu ally suspended with nearly all stores and public offices closed. Salem City Hall offices will re main closed Saturday. Parking meters will not be checked today. A special bus run to Belcrext Memorial Park was announced by City Transit Lines for Friday leaving the northwest corner of State and Liberty Streets at 9 a.m. and . 1 1 a.m. These special runs will, depart from the cemetery at 9:30 a. m. and at noon. - Statenaaa News Service DALLAS Dallas will observe Memorial Day with a parade and a -program on the Polk County Courthouse lawn. Jack B. Eakin Sr. is in charge of the parade which will. form at the high school at 10 a. m. Includ ed in the marchers will be the ... .. s JssMMTO Salm Portland 1 M 47: San Francisco 66 . 41 Chicago 68 4t New York .. .... 81 S3 . wuiameiie ttiveri. xet.. t FORECAST (from U.' 9. Weather Bu reau, McNary Field. Salem): Generally fair today and tohicht. with hich W- aay near 7. low lonignt near 49.. Jem temperature at 12:01 was 43. No. t4 9 Injured tical: plotting against the inUnuil security of the Republic. The government crackdown o Communists brought uproars from the Red following. The Communist-led Gencvwl Confederation of Labor (CGT) im mediately countered with an or. der to its three million mem to stage general strikes and d onstrations against Duclos' arrest. The big union called for an alien fight for "peace, bread and liberty? French authorities seized many of Thursday's editions of Commit ' nist newspapers, among them th main party organ L'Humanite, which carried a front-page-men-sage by Duclos proclaiming th solidarity of the French Reds with ' Soviet East Germany. I rested 300 and broke up the dem- onstration after an hour of milling in the downtown borough of Kreuzberg, in the American sector. Tear gas squads were ready, but were never needed. There was no gunfire. The Communist !' i-ler n I trouble-making was as clear, how ever, as it was in the anti-Western rioting in Paris less than 24 hours before. " The riot was set off by a group of a thousand brawny Communists distributing leaflets denouncing West Germany's newly signea peace contract with the Allies and calling for German unity, Soviet style. After a series of short but sharp brawls with highly trained West Berlin police platoons, the rowdies were shoved into side streets and dispersed. Most of the other dem onstrators, teen-age youths, kept out of the fight. The rioting was timed with visit of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who told West Ber- . lin's parliament and people t stand firm. Broken Power Line Lights Oregon Sky MEDFORD (-Southern Ore gon skies were lighted early Thursday by a series of briliia4 flashes. They came from a 130,000-volt power line that broke in th mountain country near Tiller. A switch finally was thrown to cut the snapped California - Oregon Power Company line out of serv "3 ice. Repairmen found a pole broken. Dallas Medium Tank Company, the Dallas Fire Department and the high school band. The Rev. H. C. Lazenby will hm the main speaker. The public havet been especially invited to attend. WOODBURN Services at J0:38 a. m. at Belle Passi Cemetery will, mark Memorial Day here. Th Woodburn American Legion amd Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts and Auxiliaries will be in charge according to Walter Taylor and Albert Lenners, co-chairmen. i The Rev. T. M. .Baxter, pastor of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, will deliver the memorial address. SILVERTON The Rev. Arthur Charles Bates will speak at Sil verton's Memorial Day program at 11 a. m., arranged by the Veter ans of Foreign Wars and 'Ameri can Legion Posts. , The Rev. Edward Duerksen ft First ' Baptist Church will be in charge of brief services at - th cemetery. Robert - Edgerton of th VFW will preside at the armory. Chimes from Immanuel Church, played by Mis. Arthur Dahl, will conclude the program. t MT. ANGEL All ML Angel' area, veterans are invited to aa ' '. semble at the Mt. Angel Hotel ' 8:30 a: m. Friday and march, to Calvary Cemetery . where " mass will be. offered at the outdoor aU : tar. i . '..- Each veteran's grave there-s4 at St. . Mary's cemetery will b , visited by. the officiating clergyf man and by m group of veteran who . will place wreaths on th graves. f