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Thm Oregon Stcrtesmaxu Salem, Oregon, Tuesday. December 30, 1952
PRICE 5c
No. 500
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rune-year-old Barbara Kranrer
Statehooae reception line Monday night for Mr. and Mrs. DourUs
Alene Phillips who leave soon for Washington, D. C, where McKay will be Secretary of the Interior.
Behind Barbara are her parents, a four-year-old brother out of camera range and Mrs. Anna Ander
son, all of Independence. Frank Krang er. formerly operated a State Office Building coffee shop.
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The only part of the country
which is suffering from a short
age of electric energy, so far as
I know, is the Pacific Northwest.
Yet this is the area or. tne greatest
potential of hydroelectric energy,
the area in which the federal gov
ernment has poured hundreds of
millions of dollars into generating
plants. Other regions, depending
chiefly or wholly on private gen
eration,- have no .brownouts, no
curtailment to industrial users.
The federal power policy as it has
operated in this part of the -coun
try, has discouraged private in
vestment in utilities and has not
kept pace with the demands which
were being shouldered onto the
federal government. It is a sad
mess, retarding at it is regional
development and producing un
employment in essential industry,
Completion of dam and power
houses now a-buiicung win re
lieve the present situation and
provide a powet surplus; but It
will only be a temporary surplus.
Demand for energy will continue
to grow and generating works
must' be scheduled for completion
in future years to keep ahead of
this demand. It is a question
whether an economy-minded Con
gress and a Congress which looks
askance at public ownership will
provide funds in adequate amounts
to construct the hydroelectric
works which will be needed.
Months ago I urged construction
of steam plants tq meet the peak
demands of the region. Bonneville
came up with a proposal to build
(Continued on editorial page. 4.)
Boy, 14, Charged
With Stealing Mml
' A 14-year-old Salem boy was
charged Monday with larceny of
the mails. The youth was taken
to Juvenile court and, a hearing
set for Jan. 19.
The teen-ager is charged with
stealing mail from a business mail
box in the 2100 block of South
Commercial Street while the pro
prietors were away for a Christ
mas vacation. Police advised that
this same youth was involved in
burglary -of another business in
the same block on Commercial
Street some time ago and had been
placed on probation.
Animal Crackers
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(foreground) was one of tne more
Salem and out of town folk filed by steadily for three hours to shake
hands and bid farewell to the Douglas McKays and Miss Alene
Phillips Monday night In front of the executive offices in the State
CapitoL The two women (left above) wore orchid leis received
from a McKay family friend. Among well wishers were uniformed
National Guard officers.
City Says Affectionate
'Farewell9 to McKays
In an affectionate sendoff Monday Salem turned out en masse
to wish follow citizen Douglas McKay well as he prepares to leave for
Washington, D. C, to become Secretary of the Interior.
The farewell gesture extended also to Mrs. McKay and to Miss
Alene Phillips who will go withthe McKays as his secretary. .
State employes made a ceremony of their farewell at noontime
Monday. Then, for three hours last
night, Salem and out of town
friends paused to say a personal
goodbye in a reception line at the
Statehouse. Both occasions at
tracted more than 1,000.
McKay, who resigned as Oregon
governor to accept the post in new
president D wight Eisenhowers
cabinet, will leave for Washington
Sunday with Mrs. McKay. Miss
Phillips, who has served as secre
tary for several Oregon governors,
plans to leave Jan. 15.
All in all it was Salem's McKay
Day, arranged by state and civic
leaders to honor the important
call to public service in the na
tion's CapitoL
In the daytime ceremony state
employes gave McKay a traveling
case and Miss Phillips a briefcase.
(Photo on page 16.)
At a military ceremony later in
the day McKay was presented a
Victory Medal and an American
Theater ribbon for World War II
service by the state adjutant gen
eral, Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Rilea.
For the evening reception the
Capitol was decorated with poin-
settia and other flowers. City ald
ermen and other Salem leaders
served as hosts in the rotunda as
Salem area citizens arrived and
went through the line up the west
steps, around past the governor's
office entrance where the McKays
and Miss Phillips stood, then down
the east steps.
(Additional details on page 8.)
CHICAGO FIRE FATAL
CHICAGO (tThree bodies were
taken, from furniture store and
warehouse which was shattered
by a spectacular blast and fire late
Monday. Fire Marshal Michael J.
Corrigan said six persons were
believed to have been trapped in
the four-story building of the
General Furniture Company on
the southwest side. ,
Reception Line
than 1.000 who went throurh a
McKay (left foreground) and Miss
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Stewart Granger
Dyeing His Hair
LONDON Movie actor Stew
art Granger disclosed Monday that
he tints his graying hair to keep
the hearts of his bobby sox fans
thumping, x
"It has to be done," Granger
told British rewsmen, "otherwise
I might lose my teenage fans, to
whom gray hair means an old
man."
HIGH NOON WINS PRIZE
NEW YORK Oft New York
film critics selected "High Noon"
Monday as the best film of 1952
and its director, Fred Zinneman,
for the best direction of the year.
The movie starred Gary Cooper.
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McKay Denies Aide Chosen
Despite Report From Wyoming
A Wyoming attorney and busi
nessman whose mother said would
be Douglas McKay's assistant
secretary of the interior, is one of
several applicants, but that's as
far as it has gone, McKay declared
in Salem Monday night
McKay repeated his earlier
statements that no commitments
on key appointments . have yet
been made. The former Oregon
governor will become Dwight D.
Eisenhower's Secretary of the In
terior next month. v
McKay's comment last night was
prompted by a dispatch from
Cody, Wyo, stating that Milward
L. Simpson, Cody attorney, "has
decided- to accept a post as an
assistant secretary of the interior,
Simpson's mother said Monday.
McKay said he would be la Port
Typhoon
Inundates
Eniwetok
HONOLULU Oft A typhoon in
undated Eniwetok with 30-foot
waves Sunday and damaged some
buildings at that base for atomic
weapons tests in the Pacific, the
Hawaiian Sea frontier said Mon
day .
There are 500 Americans on the
low-lying coral island about 2,000
miles west of Honolulu, but the
Frontier said there were "no ser
ious casualties."
Eniwetok lies but from six to
13 "feet above the surface of the
Pacific, and so it was not unusual
that the big waves bowled along
by howling winds should sweep
over the island.
Fortunately, the center of the
storm passed about 140 miles south
of the island and winds did not
exceed 70 miles an hour at Eni
wetok.
The Navy said a message from
the island reported damage to the
messhall, hospital and clubs but
said "no immediate assistance re
quired." Many tents were ripped
by the wmds.
When the big waves rolled in
nearly all the island went under
water, tbe Eniwetok message ad
vised.
Reports from Eniwetok said the
most damage was caused by the
waves. The water undermined the
mess hall, hospital and some of
the other buildings. Roadways in
low parts of the island also, were
damaged.
The brief reports referred to
some 10 to 12 minor injuries among
the military personnel in the is
land.
A , Sea Frontier spokesman said
the men had been warned well in
advance and had taken shelter in
safe quarters before the big winds
blew in.
The island was pounded by the
winds and breakers for five hours.
.None of the main utilities was
damaged by the storm. Power was
and was restored early Monday
Water supplies were undamaged.
Man Killed as
TY Aerial Hits
Power Line
Statesman Nwi lerrlc
ALBANY Everett SchlegeL
employe of the Linn Music Com
pany in Albany, was killed Mon
day when a television aerial he
was helping install struck a 12,000
volt Mountain States Power wire
Schlegel was working with an
other employe, Richard Lindley,
installing the aerial at the home
of David Vale on Albany Route
1. Lindley was cranking the hoist
while Schlegel was pulling a wire
when the aerial hit the wire. Lind
ley was taken to Albany General
Hospital with third degree burns
of his hands and face. His condi
tion was considered good Monday
night.
Survivors of Schlegel include
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Schlegel, Albany and several
brothers and sisters. He was un
married. Cutler Chosen
As Ike Aide
NEW YORK CP) President
elect Eisenhower said Monday he
will appoint Boston Trust Com
pany president Robert Cutler as
an administrative assistant when
the new administration takes of
fice Jan. 20.
Cutler, 47, will have special re
sponsibilities dealing with the Na
tional Security Council and liaison
with various departments and
agencies working with the council.
Eisenhower said.
Cutler served as a personal as
sistant to ' Eisenhower during the
election campaign and was an ac
tive worker for the general's nom
ination before the July convention.
Since 1946, Cutler has been pres
ident and director of the Old Col
ony Trust Co. in Boston.
land Tuesday and later In the
week interviewing several job
seekers. He said Simpson would be
among them.
Of JSimpson he said, "I under
stand he's a good man -end has a
lot of backing in Wyoming , . .
but I have made no commitments
to anyone." -
Simpson, former national pres
ident of the University , Regents
Association, : is chairman of the
University of Wyoming Board of
Regents. . He is part owner of a
local radio station and weekly
newspaper.
Simpson, who has a reputation
as liberal Republican, is tbe man
who last spring proposed that Sen.
Robert A. Taft of Ohio step out
of the race for, the , presidential
nomination so the GOP could get
completely behind Eisenhower.
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PORTLAND Alex G. Barry.
prominent Oreron political fig
ure, who died in a Portland hos
pital Sunday night at the age of
60 years, following a heart at
tack.
Alex G. Barry,
State Political
Figure. Dies
PORTLAND (V Alex O. Barry,
60, a figure in Oregon's politics
for a score of years, died of a
heart attack in a hospital here
Sunday night.
He once was a United States
senator for two months, being
elected for the election-day-to-Jan.
3 term open on the resignation of
Sen. Frederick Steiwer. Since Con
gress was not in session, though,
he did not take the oath of office
His first aspiration foi office, a
place in the State Senate, ended
in defeat, but he subsequently was
elected to the House and served
in three sessions.
He also served for several years
on the Oregon Liquor Control Com
mission.
Immediately after admission to
the bar in 1917, he entered the
Army and began practice after
mustering out. He continued his
law practice until his death, al
though 'for some months in the
past year he had been slowed
down by illness stemming from a
stroke.
However he had sufficiently re
covered that he sought, unsuccess
fully, the Republican nomination
for attorney general in last May's
primary election.
He long had been cctive in the
American Legion and was a past
state commander.
Two sons and the widow, whom
he married in 1940, survive.
Pelton Dam-
Plan Blocked by
Court Verdict
The proposed Pelton Dam on
the Deschutes River met' another
blockage Monday in a court de
clsion upholding the Oregon Hy
droelectric Commission's proced
ure in the matter.
The commission denied puis a
construction license last July 11.
Portland General Electric Com
pany's writ of review, in its latest
attempt to win permission for the
power project, was dismissed by
Circuit Judge George R. Duncan
of Marion County.
Judge Duncan issued a decision
that the commission's hearing and
other procedure on the application
were proper, and pointed out
that this was the limit of the
court's power in the issue.
Under the present act, the
Hydroelectric Commission cannot
be compelled to grant a prelimin
ary permit or license to constrruct
a dam, irrespective of the merits
of the proposal,, wrote the judge.
He added that there is no right
of appeal from the commission's
decision, "the only requirement
being that the commission follow
certain steps in calling and hold
ing a hearing."
(Additional details on page 8.)
BEDAULT TO FORM REGIME
PARIS on Former Premier
Georges Bidault agreed Monday
to try to form a new government.
Although he made no statement,
there were reports Bidault intends
to ask parliament for far wider
powers than, those granted to his
predecessor, Antoine Pinay, who
bowed out Dec. 23 after nine un
easy months in office.
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FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu
reau. McNarjr Field. Salem): Mostly
cloudy with shower today and tonight.
Cloudy with rain Wednesday. A htUe
cooler with the highest temperature
near 50 and the lowest tonight near 33.
Temperature at 12 JO I am. was 49- de
ar. AXKlf PUdPfTATIOM
Since Stan of Weather Tear Sept. 1
Thia Tear
Laat Year
Normal
US1
In. Probe of ILN. Reds
McGranery.
Aclieson Said
Behind Move
WASHINGTON Uh I The fore
man of a New York federal grand
Jury testified Monday he was in
formed that Secretary of State
Acheson did not want the Jury to
submit a report that disloyal
Americans had infiltrated the Unit
ed Nations organization.
Joseph P. Kelly also told a group
of House investigators that he
heard Atty.-Gen. McGranery tried
to have the report delayed at the
last minute. The report was sub
mitted to a federal judge on Dec.
2.
Three other members of the
grand jury joined Kelly in accus
ing the State and Justice Depart
ments of hampering their search
for any Americans with Commu
nist backgrounds on the U.N. staff.
Lincoln White. State Department
press officer, said the department
had flatly denied that it attempted
to interfere with the inquiry when
the accusation was first made a
couple of weeks ago.
No Comments
G. Frederick Mullen, Justice De
partment press officer.iaid Mc
Granery would have no comment
on Kelly's testimony.
The charges will be answered,
he added, when justice officials ap
pear before the House committee.
Mullen said McGranery had not
been summoned so far.
Kelly testified he was told about
the attitude of the two Cabinet
members by Roy M. Cohn, a spe
cial assistant U.S. attorney who
was assigned to the grand jury
but is now with the Justice De
partment.
The witness related that Cohn
joined Myles Lane, U.S. attorney
for the Southern District of New
York, in a Washington conference
with Acheson and McGranery
about the Dec. 2 report, officially
called a presentment.
"From what Cohn told me," Kel
ly said, "Acheson didn't want the
presentment handed down. Cohn
and Lane had a pretty stormy ses
sion in Washington."
It was reliably reported here
Monday that Cohn Is slated for a
key job with the Senate permanent
investigations committee In the
new Congress.
Asked Report Held Up
Kelly went on to say. that Cohn
also told him on the day the pre
sentment was filed the attorney
general I urged Cohn by telephone
to get the grand jury to hold up
until its. report could be sent to
the Justice department for exam
ination by McGranery.
"I believe most of our trouble
came from the State department,"
Denartment was resDonsible for
Kelly testified. "I think the State
all these people being employed
by the U.N."
He was apparently referring to
U.S. citizens whose loyalty has
been challenged by the grand
Jury.
Threatened Publicity
Another juror. Max M. Zimmer
man said he threatened Lane with
publicity if the attorney general
succeeded in blocking the report.
I told him we were going to
file the presentment whether the
attorney general liked it or not,"
Zimmerman said.
"I told him: If there is a mis
carriage of justice in this case.
we are going to call in the press
and give it tbe full story, and you
can tell that to the attorney gener
al with my compliments."
Lane has denied that any at
tempt was made to impede the
grand jury. He explained the Jus
tice Department wanted to exam
ine the presentment to make sure
It was In order legally.
Charles J. Harsany. assistant
foreman of the jury, testified Lane
left a definite impression he want-i
ed to frighten us into not mak
ing the report.
Joseph A. Cahil, another juror,
said "if we had a Justice Depart
ment that was willing to cooper
ate we could have dug up a lot
of dirt and filth in the United Na-
tlons and by dirt and filth I
mean subversive."
3 Cons Cut Segregation Cell
Bars at Prison, Recaptured
Three State Penitentiary con
victs in the segregation ward used
their exercise period Monday eve
ning to saw loose a window bar
opposite their cells and escape into
the prison yard, but they were
quickly recaptured.
A tower guard spotted the third
man as he jumped from the win
dow and ran across the prison
yard. The three were quickly 'lo
cated hiding behind a stack of
umber in the yard about 40 feet
from the segregation ward. No
shots were fired.
The three were William Baker,
19, who was received from Jack
son County in December, 1951, to
serve four years, for- burglary;
Guy Silvester Earl, 25, received
from Lane County in December,
1951, to serve 10 years for armed
robbery, moA Frank Brewton, 19,
received from Marion County in
July, 1952, to serve 10 years for
assault and robbery while armed
with, a dingerou weapon.
holiday Traffic leafe
Climb to AH-fee IHUgEii
By The Associated Press
An all-time record of 556 traffic deaths during a holiday observ
ance was set during the nation's long Christmas week end.
Delayed reports of deaths occurring in the 102-hour period be
tween 6 p.m. local time Wednesday and midnight Sunday pushed the
toll one over the previous mark of 355 set during the 1938 Christmas
holidays. ,
Deaths from all types of acci
dents during the 1952 Christmas
period reached 750. Of these, 82
were killed in fires.
The other 106 persons died in all
other types of accidents, including
falls, gunshots, railroad and mine
mishaps, drownings, and electro
cutions. The overall toll was not a rec
ord. It fell short of the high mark
of Christmas, 1951 when 789 died
in all accidents.
The belated reports came late
Monday when Texas figures were
revised upwards giving that, state
an overall toll of 81 highest
among the states. Traffic accidents
took 48 lives in Texas during the
survey period.
Ohio was second in the traffic
toll, with 45, but the overall toll
for Ohio was 50 under New
York's 80. The New York State
traffic total was 43.
The traffic fatality record was
actually less than the 590 deaths
which the National Safety Council
had estimated for the Christmas
holidays.
Ned H. Dearborn, president of
the Safety Council, expressed the
hope that the record Christmas
death list will inspire caution dur
ing the New Year holiday. He
said:
"The New Year traffic toll can
be held to half of the Christmas
toll if each of us will drive as if
our life depended on it and,
believe me, it does."
60-Man Draft
Call Issued for
ion iouniv
The largest draft call since
World War II was announced
Monday for Marion County's Jan
uary order 60 men.
The size of the February call
from the county was not yet
known, nor whether it would have
to Include 19-year-olds. J:
Oregon Selective Service had
said 19-year-olds might be needed
due to the stepped-up demands of
the Army. .. fl.
Twenty men will leave Salem
Jan. 12 and another 40 on Jan. 14.
Including mostly 20- and 21 year
olds and a few older who have
been reclassified, the total list of
60 compares with 50 on Feb. 7,
1951, the largest previous-call un
der the 1948 draft act.
This year's largest order was
34 in December, but only 17 were
inducted because of enlistment of
available men.
The first 19-year-olds to be sent
from this county for pre-inductlon
physical examination will leave
Jan. 6 in a group of 80 youths.
Another 40 will go Jan. 8. and 90
are scheduled for examination in
February-
Mrs. Edna Wilhelm, clerk of the
draft board, said she doubted that
the county could fill its January
quota, because not enough men
had been given necessary process
ing.
42-MiIe-per-Hour
Wind Lashes Salem
Winds surged to gusts of 42
miles per hour Monday night
when a storm front passed through
Salem. Total precipitation for the
day was .49 of an inch.
Continued winds of 22 miles per
hour and more rain were predicted
by weathermen for today with a
new storm slated to hit the Salem
area by Wednesday.
Warden Virgil O'Malley ex
plained that construction around
and near the segregation unit was
both an aid and a hindrance to
the prisoners. ."Advantageous, be
cause the debris near the building
made close inspection of their sec
tion of the cell block during exer
cise difficult,"' O'Malley explained,
"and a hindrance because as they
ran from the ward into tbe yard
they fell into several deep, muddy
ditches dug for laying of steam
and water pipes."
The three were described as
trouble-makers In the prison and
after capture were confined in
more conspicuous cells. Investigat
ing officers found part of a hack
saw blade which was used by the
cons to cut through the steel bar.
Repair was also made of the in
side screen on the tampered win
dow which the prisoners had
forced to on side t snake easier
to the bars.
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Sheridan Auto
Wreck Victim ?
Dies in Hospital
Statesman Newt Service
SHERIDAN W. I. Graham, 12,
died Sunday night in a McMinn
ville hospital as a result of injur
ies sustained in a. two-car acci
dent in Sheridan Friday.
Services for Graham will be
held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in
the Macey Funeral Home at Mc
Minnville. Ritualistic services will
be conducted by the American
Legion and the Elks Lodge.
Graham, who was one of six
persons in Oregon to die by vio
lent means over the long Christ
mas holiday, was the Standard
Oil of California distributor for thaw
Sheridan district. He had been
employed for a number of years
by the firm and had worked for
them in McMinnville prior to com- "
ing to - Sheridan. Driver of tn
other car involved in Friday's col-r I
lision was not injured seriously
and Is at the McMinnville Hos
pital. , f
Graham was born In Clatskanie
in 1900. He married Helen Burke U4
there in 1922. He was a veteran 1
of World. War I, having served
with the U. S. Navy. -
Survivors, besides the widow of
Sheridan, include a son, Kenneth.
Graham, Sheridan; , mother, Mrs.
SUyoi Graham, daukanie; brother
Ivan Graham, Eugene; sister, Irene
West, Astoria, and two grandchil
dren in Sheridan.
McCarthy to
Look for Reds
In Colleges
WASHINGTON UPi Invest Na
tion df the nation's colleges for
subversive influences was slated
by Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-W1
as one of his first endeavors in
the new( Congress.
McCarthy advised interviewers
for the U. 8. News and World
Report, a weekly news magazine,
that it Is of pressing interest td
root out what he called "Commun-
J A M A . . .
ui winners zrom ixne , nation
colleges. a-j
"It wiU be an awfully unplea
sant task," he said, observing he
expects "all hell to break loose.
He also anticipates there will be
"screaming of Interference with
academic freedom.
McCarthy will be chairman cf
the committee on Government op
erations and the permanent Senate
Investigating Committee.
Patent Claimant
To Inspect Salem
PORTLAND UV-John E. Meals
of Seattle, who wants a federal
court injunction to halt the Ray-
O-Vac .battery plant it Salem
from using what he says is one
of his patents, is going to make
a personal inspection of the plant'
operations.
Meals says . the company 1
treating manganese ores und
E'atents owned by him. He asked
ionday for a court order allow
ing him to inspect the process ai
Salem. The -Ray-O-Vac company
made no objection, and Judge Gue
Solomon issued the order.
Babson on
Business!
The Oregon Statesman tomor
row will publish.- Roger W.
Babson's complete Business and
Financial Outlook for 1953.
Mr. Babson's 1853 Outlook
will contalnn outstanding fore
casts covering .such Important
topics, as general business,
commodity prices, taxes, trade,
labor, ; inflation, farm outlook,
stock market, real estate, poli
tics. ......
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