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' ''''' ' lw0 USff- i i i i i One-Sixth ;of -HbllaimS. J.' Flooded, s Burst; POUNDDD j ' 1651 - - I i - :.J. - " . ! ' i Belg land Hit- 102nd YEAS PRICE Se Thm Oregon Statesman, Satan. Oregon, Monday, February's. 1 953 12 PAGES No. 333 ram i Middle Farther Killed After 4-Hour Battle with 1 7 Police TOQUE The Hell of waters! where they howl and hiss And boil in endless torture." Byron . In such a sea the British ferry ship Princess Victoria went down Saturday off the mouth of Belfest harbor after battling the elements for five hours? One hundred thirty out of the 177 passengers and crew lost their lives though all wore life-belts. Raging seas and chin of the waters and the gathering darkness combined to . spell their doom. The ferry plied the North Chan nel which connects the Irish sea with the North Atlantic, crossing from Stranraer in Scotland to Larne near Belfast. Ordinarily this is not the range for the wild Storms that infest, the North At lantic at this season of the year. They break the hardest on the north of Scotland against the Ork neys and the Shetlands, islands off the Scottish coast. As Rachel Carson-wrote in her splendid book, "The Sea", it seems unlikely that any coast is visited more wrath fuily by the sea's waves than the Shetlands and the Orkneys, in the path of the cyclonic storms that pass eastward Deiween. iceumu u the British Isles." The same storm "whiVh encmlfed the Princess Vic toria swept these, islands ana me whole Scotusn coasx. m.is quotes the British Islands Pilot in Its description or xne storms ut Mnn in that reelon. a description which surely applied to that of Saturday: . "In the terrific gales which usu nllv occur four or five times in every year all distinction between air and water is lost, the nearest objects are obscured by spray, and everything seems enveiopu (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Weatherman Says Groundhog Won't See His Shadow If a couple of "lis" carry any weight, the Willamette Valley is due for an early spring this year. And here's why: If, (1) the weatherman is cor rect in his prediction for today, and if (2) there's any foundation in the theory about Mr. Ground- hnir and his shadow, sunns is tmlv lust around the corner. MrNarv Field weathermen are fm-prastinff clouds and rain for today, a combination practically guaranteed to keep the ground hog from seeing his shadow or even venturing outsiae. However, some doubtful citi zens point to last Feb. 2, also shadowless, and to the weather records for last year which show an unseasonable 11 inches of snow in mid-March- But still, it might be an early spring if . . . SHOE COMPANY SOLD ST. LOUIS (f An agreement under which . International Shoe Co. of St. Louis will acquire the capital stock of the Florsheim Shoe Co., of Chicago at an esti mated purchase price of 21 million dollars was announced here Sun day by officials of the two firms, MOVIE. ACTOR DIES NEW YORK (A Alan Curtis. handsome, 43-year-old movie actor, died Sunday a week after under going a kidney operation. 1 Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH XlZAX'VF WTSK' X HAYS A . ROSEBURG UP) C. D. Burgoyne, a farmer, was killed Sunday after a four-hour gun battle with ammunition were fired. Found inside the bullet-shattered cabin where Burgoyne died was a notebook in which Burgoyne had written his resolve to "shoot to kill" anyone who tried to molest him, Douglas County Sheriff Cal Baird said Burgoyne. 47. had barricaded himself in his farm home near the Southern Oregon community of Riddle when sher iffs deputies came to arrest him on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Neighbors Accuse Baird gave this report of the foray: Burgoyne's neighbors had ac cused him of trying to run one of them- down with a horse and with firing a rifle in the direction of one of their children. Deputies attempted to arrest Burgoyne at 7 a.m. Sunday morn ing but were driven back by shots from bis three-room farm "cabin. The deputies called for rein forcements. Police from nearby communities and state police ar rived and fired several hundred rifle and pistol shots into the cabin. When fire was not returned, three officers broke down the door. They said they found Burgoyne still alive and wrapped in mat tresses and about to fire at them. The officers withdrew again and fired into the cabin at shorter range, this time almost splinter ing it Found Man Dead When they entered the cabin later they found Burgoyne dead. Near him was a notebook with this entry dated Dec. 31: "My resolution for the year 1953 is if possible t shoot to kill any person or persons that try to mo lest me for the purpose of injur ing my mind or body and this resolution is especially written as by acts ' of the past by law en forcement men damn them to hell." Baird said Burgoyne had been taken into custody several times in the past for mental hearings Burgoyne's wife, Ida, was away from home at the time of the shooting. Gunman Gave Up Chance to Shoot at Police City and state officers confes sed Sunday they consider them selves "plenty lucky" after a close brush early Saturday morning with one of the two armed ban dits who robbed the DeLuze Ice Cream Company Friday. The desperado, Robert Fin ton, 27, was crouching in the brush in an open field near Otis Junction, Watching officers searching for him. When they came within a few feet of where he hid, he gave himself up. Finton told officers later that he contemplated shooting it out with them, but he wasn't sure how many were reaching for him or where they all were. Just before surrendering he dug a hole with bis hands and buried the revol ver. It was located by city police early Sunday. The pistol was described as a British Mark I .45 caliber re volver. One empty shell was In the chamber, but no shots were fired in the encounter near Otis Junction or during the Salem robbery. - Also being held In , Salem Jail on the armed robbery charge is James L. McQueen, 34. Both men gave their .- addresses as Indiana and are being held in lieu of $5,000 bail each. DC4 Cartwheels But All 22 Men Aboard Survive HONG KONG (V-A U. S. Army DC-4 transport plane coming in low for landing in a noontime drizzle tripped ; over the seawall at the edge of the Hong Kong Air port .Monday and .cartwheeled into a spectacular crash, but all 22 men aboard survived. Only one of the men was criti cally hurt. Seven others were hos pitalized .. for' less serious - hurts. while 14 suffered only scratches and bruises. ' 'Max. . S3 " S2 .20 Mia. . Predp. -. 3 : traca 42 'trace 47 J00 31 trace Salem Portland -San Francisco , Chicago i Hew Yoric S3 Wfflametta River 18.8 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. McNary Field. Salem) : - - . Mostly ciouot wim occasional- ram today and tonight. Partly cloudy with showers Tuesday. Little change la tem perature with highest today near M. lowest tonight near 12. Temperature at 13:01 a on. was 45 degrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start et Weather Year Sto. 1 This Year Last Year Normal tux 2S.79 :: 17 police in which 2,060 rounds of Patrol Plane Crash Fatal to HJXavy Men PEARL HARBOR Ufl Eleven U.S. Navy men died early Satur day in the crash of a P2V Nep tune patrol bomber on a patrol flight in the mountains of North Okinawa, Pacific Fleet Headquar ters announced Sunday night. The announcement said there were no survivors. A Navy spokesman said a heli copter searching for the missing plane sighted the wreckage short ly before noon Sunday. He said a rescue party which reached the scene of the crash reported the entire crew had per ished in the. wreckage. The crew consisted of three officers and eight enlisted men. . The spokesmen said the plane had crashed in a "fairly inacces sible spot," delaying the rescue party. The Neptune was attached to Pa trol Squadron 22. It was former ly based at Barber's Point, Oahu, Hawaii. Barhley Starts TV Program WASHINGTON J Alben W. Barkley, the Kentucky lawyer who was the nation s vice president un til 12 days ago, made his debut Sunday night as a folksy, philoso phical TV news commentator. In this new career after 40 years of politics, Barkley showed signs of nervousness. He twiddled his thumbs and seemed unsure what to do with his hands. "I'm not scared to death but I'm anxious," Barkley confessed to his audience. But there was no sign of un certainty in his voice, instrument of thousands of speeches In his 75 years. Quips, stories and remin- escences rolled out without bene fit of script. Miners Drown In Uranium Pits BERLIN W The West Berlin newspaper Telegraf said Sunday 20 East German uranium miners drowned and 62 others are trapped in the lower levels of a Saxony pit which flooded after the pumps gave out. Two other miners were reported to have been shot to death and six wounded by Russian guards who quelled with bullets a demonstra tion by about 2,000 men demanding quick rescue for their comrades. UUniversity Sector to Plant Trees At Depot Grounds on Arbor Day By LXLLIE L. MAD SEN Garden Editor, The Statesman For those travelers, who usual ly see only the more unattractive parts or tne city as viewea irom train car windows, a bit of Salem will in the near future be wrapped up in a more attractive package form. Trees are to be planted in the' barren grounds around the Southen Pacific Passenger station off 12th street. The University District Busi ness nouses, composea ox mat area lying east of r 12th street and principally along State and adjacent . streets' has, under the direction of Terry Randall, form- er president. conxriDuxeo suui- cient funds to purchase good sized trees. These will be planted here on Salem's revival of Abor Day, Feb. 13, at 10 ajn, - v -" ' Guidintf band oenind tne pro ject, the merchants of the district revealed Saturday, is Mrs. Philip Brandt, Jr, (Eunice C. Brandt), local landscape architect, t - . When interviewed. Mrs. Brandt admitted that the appearance of the space around the station had long "bothered" her. Even if the iouc passing through by rail never have time to undo the ribbons, they'll still carry, away a pleasant picture of the town and may tell someone else about it who will have time to remain long enough to find Salem even more beautiful than its wrappings, she said as she told of the plans for improve ment.- ' i ' " There will be a ceremony on this Arbor Day, Just as there was year's ago when trees were regularly planted in Oregon on Arbor Day. Lira, Brandt has Jail Escapee Caught in the Act ? 'V ,A x , - I r . I : , - r - .f , J i ; r - " - . -v - - t $ ' t - J " 1 s ' - r . - - '' """Ni. - t F- V - - - ; ' X. - i r i ' - v. 1 - - ! ' .1 , . - . t 1 I OK- - i 1 'fT7' ' n ' " 'f I- v. ; . , f ,. L;i lIj " '" sjssjBSMSMssstwaisMssMswsMsssMBs mfaftiMwm&--tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmB Aghast disbelief was registered County prisoner George Elmer Bauer, is, as fie straignieoea up daring an escape attempt after 'wriggling through a hole from his eell to a darkened city hall room fall of waiting police. The hole (seen near Batter's waist) cuts through two feet of brick and plaster from the largest cell housing county prisoners on the second floor of City HaU into the Fire Chiefs headquarters. (Photo by Detective Robert Mason, Salem police photographer). Jail Escape Try Ends in Arms of Waiting Police A welcoming committee of armed city and county officers greeted County prisoner George Elmer Butler, 19, as he wedged through a tiny hole from his cell in City Hall into the darkened Fire Chief's office. The prisoner had been chopping away at the escape route for several hours before he emerged onto a filing cabinet in the firemen's TROOPSHIP ARRIVES SEATTLE UP) The troopship Marine Phoenix arrived from the Far East Sunday with 2,988 com bat soldiers from the Korean War aboard. dubbed the event "Operation Treeplant SOPAC" with the "op eration' the actual planting of seven trees a Douglas fir. 12 to 14 feet high (to be used as a lighted Christmas .tree): three Oregon Oaks, 8 to 7 feet high, and three sweet gums, 12-to 14 feet. A sketch hanging In the Willam ette Valley Bank indicates spaces for future plantings. . The "cast will Include the planter, Jim Hathaway, of the Service Center Co., assisted by a representative of the Oregon State Department of Forestry. There will be '"background music - by the Salem High School Ag classes. 4 v'i'. And Mayor Al Loucks, without - whose encouragement, I wouldn't have had the . nerve to go ahead with the project," Mrs. Brandt said, adding that the "crowd scene" is made up of the firms donating the funds and in cluding: Mabel's Beauty . Salon, The Launderette, Lachelle's Furs, Thomas Kay Woolen Mills Con United Wheel Alignment, - Bat dorf s Home and Auto Supply, Art Madsen Realty Co., Pade s "Gro cery and Market. California Pack ing Co., Railway Express Agency, DeWese and Cow-Plumbers, J. W. Cope land Yards, Tallman Piano Store. Stone Piano Co.. cnerry City Garage, Pete Reeling's -Chevron Station, Cozy -Confectionery, Salem Central Service, Univer sity BowL .Basinger's- Market, Randall's Fine Meats, Willamette Valley Bank, Univesity Drug. Tal bot's Coffee Shop, Kennedy's City Cleaning works, Lebold s Home made Ice- Cream, The Tophat, State Street Market, Ferry Street Body and Fender Co- and Wil lamette University ; - - - early Sunday morning by Marlon 1 oxrjce near o ajn. aunaay. "Well, good morning, Butler, was the terse salutation by offi cers after Salem Detective Rob ert Mason, city police photogra pher; snapped a picture of the man perched on the cabinet. He was immediately apprehended and moved to a cell where he was less likely to repeat his habits of Saturday night. 1 First discovery of the, escape attempt was made when the cap tain on duty noticed a small hole started through the north wall dividing the large county prison er's i cell on the second . floor (housing about 14 men) and the Salem Fire Chiefs headquarters on the first floor. At the time of discovery a "holhad already been hacked through the two feet Of brick, mortar and plaster, so it was decided to let him finish the Job and come through to find out who! he was. H f Two . city officers and sheriffs deputies waited until Butler came through- It was believed that other prisoners were involved In the escape plot. i i ' I ; ' While Butler ; was chopping, one officer secreted himself un der a desk in the firemen's of fice and passed notes under the door to let waiting police outside know how far he'd gone. ; After the apprehension It was found that 1 Butler was using pieces of metal he had wrenched from one of the beds In the cell jto pick mortar away as well as ! another bed frame metal rod. " Other - prisoners were . trans ferred to', another cell and meas ures taken to correct (damage done to the wallT Disciplinary ac tion! is pending against Butler. - - j" : French in. Indochina Try Amphibious Attack" SAIGON,, Indochina (JP) French . forces that ; debarked Thursday in an amphibious attack on the port city of Quinhon have made contact with the Smmunist led i Vtetminh, the French High Command announced Sunday. i A spokesman said 'Iwo , recon naisance units- sent "tout from Quinhon) had : fought a: bloody skirmish In which - 38 Vietminh soldiers were killed. Million in Flood Sector By JACK SMITH Lnixmv W Tidal seas churned by hurricane winds flooded thousands of coastal towns and drowned at least 428 persons in England, Holland and Belgium. Fears frew Monday that the toll in the three nations mightgo far higher. -;'.-. The death of 132 persons on the British car ferry Princess Victoria in a hurricane in the Irish Sea Saturday boosted the toll to 260 in two days.. At least six Americans were known to have perished in one English community and others were feared lost. Winds were aba tin? but . thous ands of relief workers includ ing many American airmen work ed through the night in near freez ing waters to evacuate" .survivors in flooded English coastal areas. It was estimated that 25,000 persons would have to be moved from their homes. This was the toll of known dead so far: Britain: 163. The Netherlands: 250. Belgium: 15. . in a score of places Sunday under the buffeting of wind-whipped waves and spilled flooodwaters over a sixth of the tiny nation. An area inhabited by approximately a mil lion persons was flooded. More Casualties Feared Belgian authorities counted at least eight . dead Sunday night . along the storm-lashed" coast in the vicinity of Ostend. Officials! many more casualties. Most of the Belgian dead were trapped in their homes as flood waters rushed through gaps which waves tore In the coastal dike sys tem.: : - Towering waves ' smashed down houses, wrecked ships at sea and in harbor and flooded thousands of acres of rich farmland. The prop erty damage is colossal. A trawler with 15 men vanished off .the Hebrides. The 2.709 - ton French ship Carthage radioed an SOS Sunday night from off the Dutch Coast. Ships In Distress At least seven other ships were in distress in the boiling North Sea. The sea, ancient enemy of the Dutch, came flooding over dikes before dawn claiming again the low level country side. xne swirling waters rusned through at least 50 cities, towns and villages which -broadcast pleas for emergency assistance. Many others had not been heard from. The worst was in Zeeland and Brabant, in Southwest Holland, but the angry North Sea came pound ing, too, over dunes and dikes pro tecting the West Frisian Islands and the area to the north of Am sterdam. The brown level flood spread south of the Schelde -to Flanders and Antswerp in Belgium and washed into second story windows of Oostende's seafront. Four million neoDle were In the flooded areas of Holland and Bel glum. Red Cross workers at Jaywick on ingiand s iiooaea soutneast Coast, reported seeing exhausted people fall off their rooftops before' rescue could reach them. . High Spring Tide The high spring tide, coming with a full moon, followed the "atlantic drift" tidal route which bends over the 'top of the British Isles and sweeps southward in the North Sea to the jutting Norfolk : Coast of England and the Low Countries. The tides came along with winds of gale force. Hundreds of tons of churning wat er crashed over Canvey Island in the Thames Estuary off the Essex Coast of England. Thirteen thou sand residents of the 'island were being evacuated, and as dusk fell few were left on its shores. Canvey's death toll was believed high. Large numbers of its popu lace lived in flimsy homes along. the sea front. Hundreds of tnese homes were smashed into splinters. We heard people screaming and crying for help all the time," .said Gordon Primrose, a young insur ance clerk who hurried his wife and: two small children through knee-deep waters and across the bridge to the mainland in the dead of night. "It was horrible A wave - battered lighthouse crashed into the sea at Margate, a resort town on the English Coast. All along, the stricken English coastal area, waves hammered down man-made defenses. Cliff side gardens slid into the ocean and dozens of cottages clattered, after them. . ,;:.;.- , --"C, V i-'" ' (Additional details on page 2) MORE KOREA CASUALTIES . WASHTNRTONr UU-Th Defense Department Sundav identified' 54 Korean War casualties In r new list (No. 733). that included 14 dead. wounded- three r missing and three iniured. -,. . who previously were listed asmss- inj in action. ' Four Europe 39 Passengers On British Airliner Lost Over Atlantic HALIFAX. Nova Scotia 6P-A British commercial ' transport carrying ,39 passengers was. be lieved down early Monday In' the - North Atlantic : S59 miles east-sontheast of Gander, New foundland, the Royal Canadian Air Force announced. ; The plane, a f our-enrine York operated by Skyways of Lon don, was, enronte from Lagens, in The Asores, to Gander. Air Force sources said ' the plane on Its last report at 1:35 a.m. (12:35 aun. EST) said It was about three-fourths of the wsy to Gander. Later the trans port communications center at Gander picked op an SOS. Ridgway Not Ted Up With' Job in Europe SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE LP) Gen Matthew aB Ridgeway said Monday he is not "fed up" with his job as supreme allied commander in Europe, and de nied published rumors that he was thinking of quitting. I don't know the source of these rumors," Ridgway said in a communique. "I have, not had in the past any such ideas and I do not now have them." Since President Eisenhower's el ection, Paris newspapers have been published reports that Ridg way would quit his job -and that he would be replaced. None' of the - newspapers save the source ' of their ' information, even though, some of the stories named possible successors. Among them were Gen. Alfred Gruenth er, who is Ridgway's chief of staff, and Gen. Mark Clark, Far ast commander. "We all. throughout the NATO countries,' - Ridgway said, "have a great and vital task to strength en the defenses of the free world against any potential aggression. "As supreme allied commander In .Europe," Ridgway added, "I shall continue doing everything I can, as I have done in the past, to help build up these defenses. "Any rumors to the contrary are wholly unfounded." . - - it By Cold Wave By The Associated Press A frieid wave brought below ze ro, teeth-chattering weather Into the Midwest Sunday then headed east. The temperature plumeted some 30-40 degrees in Michigan and Wisconsin and sank to -33 in In ternational Falls, Minn -the na tion's cold spot. It was just one above zero, the season's low, in Chicago, -9 in Green Bay, Wis and -5 in Milwaukee. -The eoose flesh weather extend ed south along the Mississippi in to Tennessee. : I ; Reds' Attempts to Confiscate Church Bells Defeated . VIENNA, Austria (ff)-Commu-nist. officials attempting to con fiscate church bells in parts f Romania have been beaten up by devoted Roman Catholics, a Vi enna newspaper reported Sunday. - This Open public resistance caused the Romanian government to cancel a decree ordering con fiscation of the bells, the paper, Neue Wiener Tageszeitung said. , The .confiscation order- was in tended to make the bells available as raw material for Hungary's arms lndustryV; fThe following words are among those . from which will be chosen the words for the 1953 Ores on SUtesman-KSLM Spelling Con test for 7th and tth graders of Marlon, Folk ana part i xamnui County t absurd jointly strenuous marrxage bouquet bacon "contrary comedy financial unpleasant baboon syllable ambitious freckle - -unbroken visible .toarrant zoology , rescue ' publish Daily Speller! Floodwaters Surge Inland Up to 40 Miles AMSTERDAM. The NetherlanAi Ifl Holland' htnri riilrafl which held back the encroaching sea for centuries, burst in a of places Sunday under: the buffet ing of hurricane-lashed waves. The death-dealing floodwaters spilled ov, a sixtn ox us tiny nation. Bv Sundav nfrht th rionth rM in the country's worst flood disas ter smce xne middle ages mount ed to 250. With mn nf nthra tin. accounted, for. The hurricane had abated umi. what by 10 p.m. (2 p.m. PST), but the hich wirwla n ctill kiiriin. waves relentlessly at Ckes and na tural dunes. i The Belgian territnrv itnVLon centered around Antwerp and else where in Flanders. 40 MUes Inland Floodwaters surged J inland fnt Holland as much as 0 mii i some places. They poured int . Coastal sections and outlying dis tricts of the bi? nnrt nf RntUn. dam, a city of 600,000. The biggest city severely hit was Dordrecht, south of Rotterdam, with a population of 70.000. EveAritneM official tabulations of dead, do scriDing ine Iinoing oi 20 uniden tified in Western Nnrlh RrhcM besides 57 others missing. Most of Holland's soil lies below sea level and has been laboriously wrested from the sea over the cen turies by the incricate network of dikes. Onrp tht reclDlmorl ertl has been reinvaded by the sea, much time is required to recon dition it for agricultural purposes. A mournful tolling of church bells along the Dutch coast at 4 a.m. unaay was the first signal of approaching disaster. . Throughout th nltfhi fln-milca. an-hour hurricane winds had been pounding , the earth dikes in the Western Scheldt, a wide navigable channel leading from th TJor-th to Antwerp,. Belgium's great port. Gaps in Dike Suddenly the raffintf a hirw ped to mountainous heights by the hurricane, tore great: gaps in thi ouces, and tbe water poured through. I Hardest hit hv tha nnnithinif A was the island of tWalcheren, at the mouth of the West Scheldt. Ift the closing stages of World Wajr II, the British bombed the Wa cheren dikes in a strategic move to uooa out jxazis in; strong posi tions in the area. The Associated Praia enrrvennn. dent at Antwerp, Belgium's lea . iag port, saia: t - "This Is the worst oatastrophe of the last 40 venrxffi Antvani The Schelde "River left Its ch&tA nei. uuces in tne harbor brokt down over a 120-yard length. Power, Phones Oat j "Ships capsized In drydocks. The . telephone network of the city if almost completely destroyed. Thi AlMtrlitv ninnlv In 4o m-solci part of the city Is out off. The numoer ox victims so zar is un known." , Similar .reports of chaos and confusion came from Southwestern Holland, the picturesque area ol hundreds of square miles of flai islands at the many mouths of th4 Rhine, the Meuse and the Schelde. This is land reclaimed from the sea..- . . . . Some authorities reported the sea was rushing through collapse dikes so fiercely that rowboats were of no use. j Towns Inundated . Gales,' coinciding with the spring tide, overwhelmed dikes that were considered solid, flooding polders . (below sea level areas behind the dikes), marooning . and drowning . a farmers, rushing through t streets and houses of towns sod villages. The people of the island of We cheren, flooded by World War 1J bombing of its dikes, had to give up their land again to the salt cl the sea. Waters rose three feet ii its harbor city of Flushing. ' The ' Dutch government pro- 1aimcw1 eta to rtt mrffneT. - Troops were called out, and thous ' - V A. A. J A T A anas oi volunteers reponea io Cross stations throughout the coun try. . : -Offers of Aid . Offtrw of mA al9onoured in from the U.S., Canada,; Britain and France. . , U.S. Army forces in Germany sent a group of engineers and a small survey team to assess tha damage and determine what hell would be needed. France acnouno d she was sending two battalion! of military' engineers to this strick en country, , Queen Juliana of The Nethcn lands and her 15-y ear-old dauvi ter. Crown Princess Beatrix, mad a hurried visit to the Rotterd-.-n area. Monday former Queen , helmina, now.72, is tzyscted to v La It Zealand. (Additional DttallJ ca Ps: S)