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This brought him into intimate, personal contact with many of those who have sought refuge in these countries and gave him a comprehension of the vast cess of the refugee problem. Since his return last fall he has made many addresses informing people here of that problem. It was my privilege to hear him at a dinner of the Presbyterian Men's Club Tuesday night. Since 193 Q, reported Maser. the nations have been busy making refugees out of persons previous ly permanently domiciled in their homelands. There are some 32 million persons in that classifica tion: refugees still festering in France after fleeing from Spain at ' the time of the Civil War; refu gees all over western Europe as a result of the Second World War: Arab refugees "on the borders of Israel and Jewish refugees in Is rael; refugees in India and Paki stan following the partition of In dia; refugees in Korea. The great est number are in Western Europe about 24 million; and their num bers are increasing at the rate of ' some 7,000 per week. , . Maser classified these refugees as Volkdeustche, such as Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia who were expelled after the war; the Riechdeutsche or Germans from territories lost as a result of the war; East (Soviet) Zona Germans who have fled westward; displa ced persons, those who (Continued on editorial page, 4.) Investment School Finale Well Attended The closing session of The States man Investment school attracted a crowd that filled the Mirror Room of the Marion Hotel last night Ernest F. Hinkle, account execu tive of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fen- ner and Beane, discussed mutual funds, pointing out favorable and unfavorable features of such in vestments. He also discussed lead ing corporations in many classifl cations, emphasizing those with long record of continuous divide ends and growth. James F. Pickett, of the same brokerage firm, dis cussed local securities of the Northwest. A film, "Fair Exchange" was shown to develop the idea behind the slogan; "Investigate, then in vest" v -. -Ui .. MAN SWEPT OVER FALLS NIAGARA FALLS,. N. Y. Three tourists reported Wednesday that they had seen an unidentified man "about 60 years old, bald. and clutching a black hat" swept over the brink of the American falls. . .. Park police said they had been unable to find any trace of the man or clues to his identity. Animal Crackers By WARREN GOODRICH Catch 2 1 I'm gcmg to lis -mm -Vy iiy. PAGES Thm to Study association had. recommended three prison- wardens to make a study of Oregon penal problems and future prison needs. The Minnesota prison expert is Leo Utecht who has just resigned as warden after 38 years in prison administration at Stillwater, Minn., State Prison. Associated Press reported he had planned to retire July l but had resigned aft er policy disagreements with the state supervisor of institutions. Utecht was quoted as saying he was led up with the way the pris on was being pushed into politics and the supervisor, Karle Leirfal lon, charged Utecht with inade quate and poor administration." Utecht was one of the three wardens recommended to come to Oregon, and it was expected the other two at least would come to Salem within a week to make the inevstigation. The other two wardensjire L. E. Clapp of Boise, Idaho, and Joseph Ragen of Joliet, I1L (Prison story and pictures on page 11.) Missing Con Caught Inside Prison Walls Convict Marcellus Winters, 28, reported missing from his cell at the State Prison late Tuesday night was captured by guards Wed nesday night who found '"i hud dled in the industrial building in side the prison walls. Warden Virgil O'Malley Said Winters was found about 7 o'clock after an intensive search by a pick ed group of guards. He was placed in the segregation ward. Winters managed to slip out of sight following a movie Tuesday night by mingling with convicts who are quartered in the garage dormitory, f This group must go through the prison yard to get to their quarters, and O'Malley speculated Winters ducked into a ditch and later hid out in the industrial building. Winters, considered dangerous, was received last December from Clackamas County to serve a 10 year sentence for assault with in tent to kill a state policeman, f Rain Remains On Forecast . Rain and more rain Is the weather picture for Salem at least through Sunday says the weatherman. Wednesday's quarter of an Inch of . rain coupled with .Tuesday's .31 inches has -brought the Wil lamette River up slightly. Today's high is predicted near 82 degrees and the low near 86, with little temperature change seen in the next few days. Penitentiary: Silverton Boy, Mt. Angel Girl Win Spell Contest Semi-Finals Silverton' Marlin Hutton of Silverton Junior High and Ruth Wilde of St' Mary's In Mt Angel finished first and second, respectively, in the longest semi finals of The Oregon Statesman KSLM Spelling Contest this year. The event was held at Eugene Field Auditorium here Wednesday night, with 11 school champions participating. The two top spell ers will compete in the grand fin als at Parrish Junior High in Salem March 25, Marlin is 14, the AT WOODBURN TONIGHT Spelling- champions from U northern Marten Ceifnty schools i will compete in a semi-finals of The Oregon Statesman-KSLM Spelling Contest at Washington School In Woodbnrn at 7:45 to- ' night. The pablio Is invited free. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hut- nton of Silverton, and his teacher is Alfred Funk. Ruth is 13, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Albert Wilde of ML Angel, and her teach er is Walter StickeL Both are 8th graders. - . It took . 321 ; words to end the contest the first time that any 1953 semifinals went beyond the 300 basis word, list chosen from the 1000 published by The States man. - '.' - ;:' Four contestants still wwere in the running when the 300 were exhausted. In addition to the two ultimate winners, the - participants at mat point included Marr Doer- Cer. 13. Victor Point, who took! POUNDDD . 1651 Oregon Statman, Salm, Orjon, Thursday, March 12, 1853 Mt. 'Angel Bank Solons Reject es Pay Increase The Legislature's Joint Ways and Means Committee Wednesday rejected a general salary increase for approximately 3,500 state workers who were by-passed at the time the last salary boost for state employes was announced. Rep. David Baum, La Grande, a member of the Salaries subcom mittee, said the committee decided against an increase because it had At the Legislature By The Associated Press THURSDAY Both houses meet at 10 a. m. for consideration of minor bills. - House education committee to hold hearing after morning house session to let board of higher ed ucation voice objections to mak ing Portland State college a four- year institution. found that state salaries compart favorably with those of private industry. Most of the employes are in lower pay brackets, and the State Civil Service Commission had rec ommended a general increase. The state's other 9,500 employes received an increase at the begin' nine of the last biennium. Although denying a general In crease at the beginning of the next biennium, the committee did vote. $400,000 to provide for one merif increase during the 1833- 55 biennium. sen. Angus Gibson, Junction City, chairman of the salary sub committee, said two merit in creases were not precluded in state departments where suffi cient money was available. third place in the grand finals a year ago, and Charlotte Moore, 13, Evergreen school champion two years in a row. First .to go down on the : un familiar words was Charlotte, who slipped on "monotonous" which Ruth spelled correctly to remain in the contest Then both remain ing Pirl mlttH 1 "ctnrphnlna which Marlin spelled correctly to cinch first place. From there on it was Mary Linda vs. Ruth for sec ond place. - : Ruth finally won by being the first of the two to spell a word the other had missed, plus an extra word. She spelled "repetition." which Mary Linda had missed, and then "suburban. Winning fifth place was Barbara Groshong; . 14, Scotts Mills, who lost on "auxiliary . Other champions in the contest were Madonna Edgell, 12, McKee, who. tumbled on "compel; Char lene Moore, 13, Evergreen who left a letter -out of "rhythm;" Anna Lou Gordon, 13, Silver Crest, who slipped on "grammar;' Sue Slaten, 14, Mt Angel Academy, who had trouble with "volcano;: Verlene Miesenheimer, 13, Bethany, who put an extra letter in "unknown," and Carole Homann, 12, Monitor, who got mixed up on "worry.: Firstplace Marlin was present ed with a Webster's Collegiate Dic tionary; Marlin, Ruth and Mary Linda and the top three spellers each received special certificates of merit : (Additional details page 2.) f?? - . r Jl- .... '","T"". ri i ; ! ' 'J State Employ Scene of Armed Robbery by Hermiston Youth MT. ANGEL. Police said a 17-year-old gunman robbed Mt Aarel Branch, TJ. S. National Bank of Portland of 118,000 Wednesday after stepping to teller's ease In foreground (above) Just before bank closed at I pjn. He was apprehended , five hours later. Five bank employes were counting day's working capital when robber pulled run, ordered them to eeme around to front and lie on floor. In backfToand from left are Laura Gooley and Henrietta Saalfeld, clerks, and FBI asent (Statesman Photos.) yamftai um MT. ANGEL Residents of Mt Angel are shown milling aronnd the city's only bank Wednesday, shortly after It was robbed of 118,000. Get-away ear was parked at side of bank where plck-np track Is ; parked and was snared in police roadblock near Mill City five hours later. Money was recovered and Glenn Roy Solisky, 17, Hermiston, was arrested, chmrgod with armed bank robbery. MT. ANGEL The manager of the Denver Tonng (left) and State bank at t pjn. Wednesday. The while he ordered a woman elerk to A-Bomb Tests State Repsl Lloyd E. Haynes, Grants Pass, and William Bra deen, Burns, will leave Friday for Las Vegas, Nev., to see the atomic bomb tests.-: v.:.. Haynes is civil defense director in Josephine county, and Bradeen Is chairman of the house military affairs committee. Multnomah County Commission er M. James Gleason and Darrell Jones, assistant civil defense di rector of Clackamas county also are scheduled to make the trip. The group" will fly from Portland, arriving in Las Vegas Saturday morning.. ' - 3 111 i iSh ii Mut. 1 U 31 L 57 jl as ; Mln. 44 44 41 j .sa Proclp. M : m 7 - .02 V Mt - J0Q i Sales ' Portland . San Francisco Chicago - Ntr York . . . Willamette River OA et ' FORECAST (from U. S. weather bu reau. McNary Field, Salem): Mostly cloudy with showers today, tonight and Friday. LitUe change In temperature with the hifh today near 52 and tha low tonight near 38. Temperature at U:0I axo. was 42 degrees. SALEM PRICIPrrATIOir Sine Start mt Weather Tar. nt 1 This Year Laat Year Normal Solons See PRICE 6c : !UL f f 4 4 i : "lr : - - u mi ' " , Tr?cv rr bank at Mt Angel, J., H. Founder (center) talks with Sheriff Police Lt Farley Moon shortly after armed robber held up the gunman compelled Foamier and four employes to lie en the floor to gather up money for him. Sitter Sends Tot Out for Cigarettes r DENVER in Sandra Benson, a pert"' brown-eyed blonde of 5, wandered through the downtown section ' Wednesday, apparently lost .. '::..;; ;," - 4 j.- Two patrolmen, stopping to help, found ' she was about 15 blocks from her home. Sandra told them her baby , sitter ! "sent me to the store to get some cigarettes."; The little girl was quartered at the police matron's office until the sitter showed up and took her home. Gar Runs Amuck; 24 Persons Hurt - ' NEW CYORK.v m : An out-of-control automobile climbed onto a theater district, sidewalk Wednes day; scattr-' a panicked matinee crowd like ; pins and Injured 24 persons. The accident occurred at 5:15 p. m. Police said roost of the injured had Just emerged from an after noon -' performance of the hit Guys and Dolls." -'::y . The driver, Rodney Wilcox Jones of New Rochelle. N. Y., told police the gas pedal stuck, causing the car. to jump the curb. No. 330 t j X Blood Donations Today An -Armed Forces flood dona tions will be taken today by. the Ked cross from 5 to ID p. m.-at the U. S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center on Air port Road. The public is . Invited to participate, along with reserv ists. U.S. Orders Europe to By ROGER D. GREENE '. v WASHINGTON U) The United States ' weighed stiff new . protests to Communist Czechoslovakia Wednesday . as shoot-back orders were issued to American pilots to counter any future hit-and-run at tacks by Red fighter planes in Europe. , . K No open break in diplomatic re lations appeared imminent - - -Nevertheless,- American officials took a stern view of the latest international incident which erupt ed -Tuesday when two Soviet-built MIG-15 jet fighters from -Czechoslovakia shot down a much slower U S. F-84 Thunderjet 1$ miles inside .American-occupied Bavaria in Germany. A companion Ut S. plane escaped unharmed. : Radar repet-ts assured UJ5. cifi. cials that, the American jets'- had not strayed into Red territory. At the State Department, offk cials said ' an , initial protest ad dressed to the Czech government Police &m With Lopi:atM Block iriSSanhm By CHARLES ICELAND - , - Valley Editor, The Statesman -: MT. ATNGEL This city V only bank was robbed of $18,000 at 3 p.m. Wednesday, and a 17-year-old East ern Oregon youth wag arrested five hours later near Mill Gty in possession of the stolen funds. State police Captain Ray Howard identified tha arrested . youth as Glen Roy Sulisky of Hermiston. Police said he was booked was cooked on charges of bank robbery. The tall, handsome youth was snared by a police road block af ter police A received . a tip on the license number of his car. His arrest climaxed an Intense search that saw state, .county and city law officers and a flock of FBI agents swing into action. The youth offered no resistance when arrested by State Police man Lawrence Jack and William Richards, Mill City policeman. And there was no violence when the Mt Angel Branch, U. S. Na tional Bank of Portland, was held up at the 3 pjn. closing hour. " Asked for Loan Bank. Manager J. H. Fournier said the lad calmly walked into the bank at2:55 and told Hen rietta Saalfeld, a clerk, that he wanted to get a loan on his car. He was referred to Walter Kruse, assistant manager. - -We talked for 1Q minutes,H said Kruse. "He said his name was Roy Anderson and his father lived up around Molalla His story didn't sound right so 1 turned him down.- By now the bank- had been closed for five minutes. Finally, Kruse said, the lad whipped out a .32 calibre pistol and said '"This is a Hold.Up." Ordered te Lie Down Kruse said the youth then or dered the bank's four women and two men employes to lie face down on the floor of the lobby in front of the tellers' cages. :- Then Elaine Annen was order ed to gather up the money. The young, brown-haired clerk hand ed him a pack of $2 bills. . "Is that all there is?" the youth was quoted as asking.' Manager Fournier told her to give him the rest of it The money represented the day's working capitoi which the clerks had been counting. i . Put Money in Sack : The robber put the money in a paper sack, the kind grocer's use, and left ' 1 "He looked like he didn't have a care In the world when he walk ed to his car," said William Bean, who saw him from across the street . The ' assistant manager. ' Kruse. ran from the bank, yelling "The bank's been held up." He jumped in his car and gave chase for three miles but failed to pick up the trail. - Law officers swarmed into ac tion immediately and many road blocks were established. They had a good description of the late model Ford that was used. (Additional details on Page .) 3 Candidates Competing for Lie's Position UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (Ii An East-West battle over who is to succeed Trygve Lie as secre-' tary-general of the United Nations got under way Wednesday with one Soviet and two Western cand idates formally put in the running. The U. N. led off at a closed door Security Council meeting by nominating Carlos P. Romula of the Philippines. Russia countered by putting in the name of Polish Foreign Minister Stanislaw Skrzes-zewskt- One of the council's small powers, Denmark, then proposed Lester B. Pearson of Canada. The Council took no decision but decided to meet; privately again Friday afternoonj The three men nominated may well fall by the -wayside if the U. S. and Russia stick . to their original positions. In that case, a compromise'' candidate such as Mrs Vijaya Laksmi Pandit of India might make it ' Pilots in Shoot Bach Tuesday was undoubtedly Just the iirst step in a; series ox protest actions. . ;; i Informants said the next step may be a double-barreled de mand on Czechoslovakia for: . 1. A formal apology, -z : 2. Cash indemnity for the loss of the U., S. plane, -f v ' Putting teeth behind these diplo matic maneuvers,' the U. S. Aie Force announced - at. Wiesbadt Germany, that " American - pilots will .shoot back the- next time Communist planes invade Allied occupied .Western Germany and attack U. S. aircraft . With tension rising, the Moscow dominated Czechs quickly rejected even the preliminary American protest The Prague Radio said Wednesday afternoon that a counter-protest had ' been handed - to American Ambassador George Wadsworth, alleging that the two U. S. planes "insolently" violated ICzecA territory. Arrested v.v v;t s. ; if ' 17 jL. VUi Glen Roy Solisky, 17, as he a - peared at Salem city police sta tion after his arrest for robbine the Mt Angel bank Wednesday. anization Bill Formed The Senate Education Commit. tee decided 8 to 1 VednMria Introduce a school reorganization bill similar to that which th n pie defeated last November by the close margin of 801,974 to 295,700. The new measure contains the same provisions to which thm New School iteorg Grange and little school district -. oojectea to last time. This provi sion would allow consolidation of districts by majority vote over th. whole proposed new district thus forcing little districts into con- -solldations. In 1951. the Lecdslaturo whelmingly passed a similar bilL - uut we orange ana ins little dis- tricts got it referred to the people. ' After the bill is Introduced, il will be brought back to the com V mittee for hearings and more con sideration, me committee has been discussing the issue for two months. . - . . Committee members vnttn n ' 1 introduce the bill, were Sens. Rob- . ert u. Holmes, Gearhart chair man ; Eugene Allen, Portland; Dean Walker. Indenendence Pat. Lonergan, Portland; Philip S. Hitchcock, Klamath Falls; and Walter C. Giersbach, Forest Grove. The member opposing lt was Sen. Ben Day, Medford, who led a bitter attack on it two years ago. - xiounes saia tne Grange , still ' opposes it and that it ha r. jected all offers of compromise. unaer tne new bill, the State Board of Education would suggest plans , for . consolidations. County committees would be elected, and t would work out the details of proposed new consolidated dis tricts. Then the people would vote whether to consolidate. - The . 1951 school reorganizaiiok'" i bill provided for a state commis- r sioner of reorganization and for a statewide board. The new bill contains no such positions, allow ing the State Board of Education ' to prepare the suggested plana ; for new districts. . The Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill to make the war den the top man at the penlten- tiary, with a deputy and a busi ness manager under him. It would end the present system of divided control, under which the superintendent runs the buxJ- 1 ness end, and the warden has ; charge of custody of the prisoners. The civil rights bill,, which pro- , hibits places selling food, lodging , or amusement from discriminating: -against persons because of their face or religion, was set for Senate debate next Monday. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 5 to 2 for the bilL . J -. : Advocates of strong laws to curb sex criminals got a setback as the House Judiciary Committee start ed preparing, an entirely new measure. This sew one provides only that . persons ; convicted d molesting children or forcible rep -should have psychlatria ex&mina tions before .they axe sentenced (Additional legislative news pagel) -. I'