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Lifer Free for Only Minutes, Slapped Meh ind Bars Again C2sd YEAR 12 PAGES Th OracjoB Skxtaszncnu Soitti Oregon, Saturday. March 21, 1S53 PRICE 5c Uo. 353 -oou (SiOui '-(?. MA!? un - ! .r. POUNDno 1651" - ' . WW Postwar Highway Prepua-n Yesterday's report on Oregon's postwar highway program gay figures of work completed or con tracted for and work planned for 1948 to 1957. The grand total for highway construction la estimated at $321,200,000. The. money from authorized bond issues of $72,000, 000 aids materially in advancing the modernization of the state's highway system. Improvements ' for US-99, Pacific highway, were detailed yesterday. Now I shall summarize the improvements made or projected for other prin cipal highways in the state. -US-30, the Columbia river- v Oregon Trail highway, certainly rank as a major traffic artery. Important work on this road since the war has included: four miles of reconstruction east of Rainier, 24 miles between Sundial and Bonneville, ten miles between John Day river and Quinton; and grading on important sections Heppner -Junction-Boar dman and LaGrande-North Powder. The five-year program now un der way includes a relocation near Knanna. another near Wauna. , a third between Clatskanie and De lens; and a reconstruction joD near St. Helens. -At Portland the big project is the Banfield ex pressway up Sullivan Gulch "to Sundial, heavy reconstruction Cascade Locks-The Dalles; eleven miles : of reconstruction east of Arlington, relocation of the Cab- - bage Hill section east of Pendle- - ton and the paving of the sec tions mentioned above as having been graded. Also there will be eight miles of reconstruction east of Olds Ferry. When this work is done more 'than 300 miles of this 512-mile highway will be at modern stand ards of alignment and width. J, Another road of great: impor tance botli from a tourist and a commercial angle is US-101, the Oregon Coast highway. While its traffic volume is less, it is for (Continued on Editorial page 4.) n w t in AJUPjr-J. 1 J 111 1 Mill Stream A four-year-old Salem boy was . saved from certain, drowning in Mill Creek Friday morning by a Willamette University student who plunged into the frigid waters to pull the frightened, drenched youngster to safety. " ' ; Tommy LaRoche, son of Mr. and Mrs. William LaRoche of 630 N. Cottage St, suffered shock and chins from the dunking, out nis mother said his condition was good Friday night. His rescuer was Carl Blanes, 28-year-old former GI, who lives at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Coe at 795 N. Winter St. Blanes, a senior at Willamette University, was stydying in his room when Mrs. Coe called him to say Tommy had fallen into the stream. Witnesses said Tommy and three other boys were 'fishing in the creek between Cottage and Winter Streets about 10:30 ajn. when Tom my slipped and fell into the rush ing rain-swollen water. Cries for help by his compan ions were heard by Mrs. Robert Stephenson of 797-N. winter St She called Mrs. Coe who lives next door, knowing that several Willamette , students lived at her home. " . Tommy was swept an estimated SO feet downstream before Blanes was able to pull him to safety. The student, .whose home Is in Kelso, Wash., lost his glasses dur ing the,Tescue. Mrs. LaRoche was called to the scene by one of Tommy's older brothers. She took him home and called the doctor. LUMBERMAN DIES PORTLAND fl A prominent lumberman. J. Forrest Cobb, died here Thursday after an illness of several weeks. He was 58. Animal Crccfccra By WARREN GOODRICH V.'Ji rex wrtu l voter wxzj .a Mude taaves I t -t a Joseph rorn was a free man only release on court order from the State Prison, Be was quickly taken , Into custody by Clackamas County officials. In top photo Fogri v A v m M m m a A ma ma mam mi s tngnij . is greeiea oy ms anorney, jnerun, cstep or Baiem, wno claims the Clackamas County arrest Is "unconstitutionaL In lower .photo the handcuffed Porai alts between Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe : Snobe (left) of Clackamas County and Marlon County Deputy Sher- : Iff Harvey Frankum, (Photos by John Ericksen.) . After 20 Years Illegally Behind Prison Bars, Poggi Finds Freedom Is Fleeting By PHIL SLOCUM Staff Writer, The Statesman - "I guess Fm just unlucky," said stoop-shouldered, 87-year-old Jo seph Poggi when he was freed for a few brief moments Friday from the State Prison his home for the past 25 years. f ;W The Pennsylvania-born Italian, a tailor 'on the "outside", never got out from under the shadows of the prison walb. r , Sheriffs handcuffs were slapped on his wrists and he was whisked off to Clackamas County Jail in Oregon City. r He was in jail Friday night, waiting for the legal t machinery to grind out his freedom or an other j ail term. i i Poggi was freed from .the Ore gon State Penitentiary 7 by order of Circuit Judge Rex KimmelL who ruled Wednesday that the sharp-featured Italian had served nearly 20 years more than he le gally should , have under . a life sentence imposed under the habit ual criminal act. - Kimmell ruled that ! Poggi had completed a five-year burglary sentence in Clackamas County and had been illegally held, in the pen under the life sentence for nearly 20 years.- ?,-.(;" v. - The life sentence was Imposed In 1928 by the late Judge J. U. Campbell. -. . r - -.-r - Kimmell said Poggi's conviction under the habitual criminal law followed his admission In open court that he Was previously con victed of three felonies. - 'The state should have proved these felony convictions," Kimmell said. . -..., 'r :---.- '.' " Waiting . for. .Poggi yesterday afternoon when he emerged from the. prison , were Chief Deputy Sheriff Joe Shobe of Clackamas County and Marion County Dep uty Sheriff Harvey Frankum. They arrested him on a warrant Issued by Circuit Judge Ralph Holman . of Clackamas , County charging him as an habitual crim inalthe sarge charge Judge Kim mel ruled illegaL . y Poggi received the customary $3 and . new suit of prison-made clothes from toe penitentiary and jTDt out his arms for the handcuffs. IHs attorney," Merlin, Estep of Salem, was there to sreet him also. Esie? late Friday .afternoon filed i i '-A a few minutes Friday after his a motion with Judge Holman's court to withdraw Poggi's previ ous guilty plea to the charge of burglary. i The motion is based on the 'grounds that Poggi's plea was "complete misunderstanding." He believed he would get a jail sen tence, but not life Imprisonment. Estep charged that the Clacka mas County proceedings were "unconstitutional" - and that he was "going to fight the case all the way." - ' . "it Judge Holman allows Poggi to withdraw' the guilty, plea he would be a free man. unless the District Attorney chooses to have him stand jury trial on the bur glary charge. - c Said Poggi: "I'm pretty sick over this Oregon City deal. I have' a job lined up and am ready to get out and what happens? They want to put me back in the pen to stay: ; Poggi, who" Is single, had a good prison record, according to War den Virgil CMalley. The only mark against him was an escape in 1948. Records show that he appeared before the State Parole Board on several occasions, the first ' time in 1941, but a parole was denied after each appearance. - Six to Head Next Salem Chest Drive , Six men, not one, will head the fund campaign of Salem Com munity Chest this year, This was decided by the chest board of directors 'this week when the executive committee was di rected to obtain six volunteer men as a Campaign Council for 1S53, This would relieve the heavy pres sure of responsibility now falling on a single chairman ox the fund effort, chest leaders said. A Community " Chest Institute similar to last -year's which brought national chest leaders to Salem will be held this coming April IS, the chest board announ-! ced. 1 First Presbyterian To Stay Full agreement that First Pres byterian Church should be allowed to stay and expand on the block it now occupies in the Capitol Mall was reached Friday by the State Board of Control. The program is dependent prin cipally now upon the church's being able to acquire other prop erties In the block for enlarge Bulles, Feud Flares Over Suppo - By WILMOTT HER CHER , WASHINGTON UPi Sen. McCarren (D-Nev.) charged Friday that Secretary of State Dulles overrode objections of his chief security officer in backing Charles E. Bohlen for ambassador to Russia. Dulles promptly , denied it. C The Nevada senator asserted the security chief, R. W. Scott Mc Leod. refused to clear Bohlen for the strategic diplomatic post, but that Dulles gave him clearance anyway in testimony before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday. Dulles, in turn, said there was - a no cuiierence , Deiween mm ana McLeod on the final evaluation of an FBI report on Bohlen s back ground. There is absolutely noth ing in the report, the secretary said, which reflects on uonien as a loyalty or security risk. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) Jumped into the argument with a declara tion that Dulles' statement "would appear to be untrue from what he knows of the situation. My information is In complete accord with what Sen. McCarran said," the Wisconsin senator told a hastily called news conference. I know what's in Boblen's file." A reDorter asked McCarthy if he thought Bohlen was a security risk.- . i ;-- . "That's putting It too weak," the senator replied. McCarthy said the Foreign Re lations ' Committee should recall Dulles, "put him under oath." and then ask him whether he still con tended there was no disagreement between himself and McLeod. The sharp new controversy over Bohlen, a 48 year old career offi cer in the State Department, be gan on the floor of the Senate, where McCarran made his charges.; ; Radio, Press On Schedule By ARTHUR EDSON" ' WASHINGTON I) Rep. Eber- harter (D-Pa.) said Friday "the skv Is the limit" In congressional investigatlpn, and he wouldn't be surprised if Congress were asked next to investigate radio commen tators and newspaper columnists and editors. Eberharter made the statement in an address to the fifth National Conference on Civil Liberties. . "I wouldn't be surprised," Eber harter said, "if the next proposal to come along would be for the investigation of radio commenta tors, newspaper and columnists and newspaper editors who do not express agreement with practices and procedures of a committee." The conference also was told: - : By Philip B. Perlman, former solicitor general, that the McCar- ran-Walter Immigration act is "b fraud and a sham." By Charles M. LaFollette, form er Republican congressman from Indiana and former chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board, that there is a "well-financed campaign" to suppress dis cussion of changes in government. : Eberharter. who long has been a bitter critic of the House Un- american . Activities " Committee, said Congres Is forgetting the main point of investigations: J To get information which will help In legislating. ; v , ;...Z ; RIalenkbv -Yields ? Post of Secretary i i ' MOSCOW W The Moscow Radio announced Friday, that the' Central Committee of the Communist Par ty of the .Soviet Union has. freed Prime, Minister 'Georgi Malenkov at his own request from his duties as secretary of the Central Com mittee. ; ' ' ; The committee In plenary session simultaneously elected a five-man Secretariat headed by 58-year-old IlikiU S.- Khrushchev. - IirCESS CONTRACT TALKS " PORTLAND i) Employers and CIO Woodworkers Friday re cessed their contract talks until April S two- days after the pres ent contract expires Probe Next on Capitol ment which would more than dou ble its present investment. - The decision, followed a con ference of the board with mem bers of the Capitol Planning Com mission, - representatives of the Joint Ways and Means Committee of the Legislature and representa tives of the congregation. Gov. Paul Patterson expressed McCarthy rt of Bohlen Girl School , ! Inmates Riot; Guards Called SANTA ROSA, Calif. W Armed National Guard troops In full field equipment moved Into the grounds of the Los Gullucos schools for delinquent girls here Friday as violence and mass hys teria flamed into renewed rioting. Soft music, through police loud speakers, was directed at a din of blasphemy, obscenity and hysteri cal screaming in an attempt to sooth the teen-age rioters. Many of the 160 inmates were reported- armed , with knives , and broken glass. .! A cordon of police was drawn around the school for delinquents and an all-night vigil was planned. All this after the girls threaten ed to "get individual supervisors and inmates who didn't take part in the rioting which broke out Thursday night and Friday. Fifteen teen-asers 'escaped after a riot in the dining hall Thursday night and another IS escaped from a maximum security wing Friday afternoon. All were recaptured. One matron told a reporter: "It could mean murder and I don't feel we should expose ourselves to this danger." f Officials of the school were over heard commenting that the riot was believed to have stemmed from, breakup of a homosexual ring, i Liquor Board Sees By-Drink Plan by May 4 PORTLAND (A The State Liquor Commission reported Fri day that uquor-by-me-drink may be .available in Oregon by May 4. However, the commission said. the matter rests with Gov. Paul Patterson who must sign enabling legislation before the commission can put its liquor by the drink program in effect. i ' : At Friday's meeting the commis sion discussed administration and enforcement policies which In cluded: As many as ' possible of the state's maximum 800 liquor-by-the-drink outlets will be licensed to operate at the same time. Rutb Barnett am PORTLAND UR The state has filed anoiher abortion charge against Ruth Barnett, : Portland naturopath, and she was arrested Friday. District Attorney John B. McCourt said the woman is ac cused of performing an Illegal abortion last October. In 1951, - when Mrs. Barnett op erated the plush Stewart Clinic in downtown Portland, she was con victed of maintaining a nuisance, Road Project to Aid island's Residents ' A two-foot raise for three sec tions of the Brown's Island road. off South River Road, to alleviate flood isolation," was approved Fri day by Marion County Court. U Members said that - families on the island, are marooned when the river level: goes above XL feet at present,. rVi-i - ; Property owners involved will provide the fill material needed. an estimated 2,000 yards which county equipment will haul to the low spots. . ' Nabbed Ae Church Mail Site for the board the feeling that the church should be given whatever legal assurance is possible that it will be undisturbed f or t a long period perhaps a half century. The planning commission's opinion, resulting from a poll smce only four snembers were 'present yesterday, was that the church adds to the beauty of the mall and would be the last non-state structure to be removed as . the mall, expands counter-clockwise from the State Highway Building to D Street and back. While it was expected to be 50 years before the state would need the church block, he reiterated that the state could not be bound to assuring . the church any definite period of oc cupancy. Dean George Gleeson of Oregon State College presented this viewpoint. Sanctions Plan The Ways and Means Committee added its sanction to the plan as Sen. Rex Ellis of Pendleton averred that, if the church adds beauty and dignity to the mall now, it would 100 years from now, The committee "feels we cannot recommend purchase of this prop- prtv st tho rrutt Twmfrf tri nca the building for state offices or to permit the church to move it across the street. He and Rep. David Baum of LaGrande said there Is consider able opposition in the committee and among other legislators to buying for either purpose because of the expense an estimated $450,000 for land and building or more than $250,000 for moving. Sought Decision The church, whose delegation was led by William L. Phillips and Dr. Paul N. Poling, pastor, had sought a decision from the Board of Control In order to make clans ror expansion, as the state's mall began its northward march within the past decade, the church had acquired three lots on the block Just southwest, across Winter and Chemeketa Streets, for relocation or building .when needed.' A week ago it pressed for a de cision because of the urgent need for expansion, according to Phil lips ,and because of the : $50,000 Investment tied up in the other lots. He said the church could not afford to wait two years for an other legislative session. Plans for Church As suggested on a tentative basis by Architect Glenn Stanton of Portland, the church might erect another Sunday school building just north of the present east-west wing, connected by an arcade. The eventual plan would be for a larger sanctuary and main en trance on Center Street adjacent to Winter. This would prevent the church from facing on the mall. The manse on Chemeketa Street would be removed. - Dr. Poling visualized that this might mean a property valuation increased to some $800,000 to $900,000. (Additional details on page 8.) Max. 45 48 -64 - 60 Min. IS 41 .41 S4 Prcip. 7 M .03 trace ! J01 Satom ' Portland . , ,. San Francisco . Chicago , . Nw York SO 40 Willamette Blvcr 4.S feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bu reau. atcNary Field. Salem) i Partly cloudy to cloudy with showers today. Increasing cloudiness with occasional light rain tonight. Showery on Sunday. High today near 44 to 50, low tonight S to 38. Temperature at 13:01 am. was 39 degrees. IALM FKECiriTATIUN - ' Sine Start ef Weather YtM Sept. 1 This Year Latt Year Normal 39.14 r' 37.31 31.19 Pelton 0)am By HECTOR L. FOX Associated Press Writer r The much-discussed Pelton dam bill, considerably watered down since its Introduction In the Ore- ton Legislature, appeared, headed for a committee graveyard Friday. The House state and federal az fairs committee, which has had two hearings on the ' dam bill, voted for a two-year legislative survey of the state's water' re sources. Solution of recurring tur moil over water rights by power, Irrigation, fihing . and domestic Interests would be the investigat ing committee's aim. : - - Some committee members, who declined to be quoted, said they believe the bill for the Investiga tion is intended by the committee as a substitute for - the "Pelton dam" - bilL which - would allow court appeals from decisions of the hydroelectric rommission. - Pelton dam has been fought by the state fish and game commis sions; . and its proposed" builder, Portland General Electric Co has been refused a permit by the state hydroelectric commission. ? : - Bills proposing closure of the Coauille river and a portion of the Umpqua River mouth to commer cial fishing have added fuel to the water rights Question. . On the eve of public hearing Saturday morning on several labor bills by the Senate labor -and in dustries committee,' employer groups introduced a compromise Deluge Ushers In Spring; Rain Forecast Today That traditionally most color ful flowery time of the year vernal equinox - better kaewa . as- spring beanced and bias-. tered its way into Salem Fri day at exactly 2:01 pan. bring ing winds ap to 14 miles an hear and lots of rain. Nearly a half -inch of rain fell here between 40 pan and midnight. In the 24-hour period -from midnight Thursday to mid- ; night Friday .82 Inches descend- And the predictions for spring's first days in the valley weren't much brighter. The weather prophet sees a wet and blustery weekend coming up. Red Trading Ships Target Of Crackdown WASHINGTON W The U. S. moved Friday night to crack down on foreign shippers who have been trading with Iron Curtain coun tries using ships bought mortgage from this country. on The Maritime Administration de clared the mortgages of 14 Liberty ships sold to Greek companies in default, , and demanded that the owners submit annual Inspection certificates or pay up in full. A spokesman for the agency con firmed a statement by Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis) that the 14 vessels were on a list of 96 that allegedly 1 nave been trading with Communist countries. The list was supplied to McCarthy by the Defense Depart ment. . , - - : Mibt Shfoa . Involved "We're going after the rest of them now," the maritime spokes man added. -. He said the others are now sail ing under the flags of France and Italy. They were not identified. Italian operators bought 124 Amer ican - built ships under mortgage arrangements, and . France ob tained 98. The Greeks acquired 100 such vessels altogether. SAN FRANCISCO (fl The U. S. government Friday seized a 10,195 gross ton tanker the Sev en Seas and declared it and other ships had been "running oil behind the Iron curtain." : The ship was seized at its pier at Trans bay Richmond, Calif., and the government charged its owners with violating maritime law by concealing the fact they were al iens. 'Voice' Radio Projects Cut WASHINGTON (fl The State Department Friday cancelled the controversial contracts for con struction of two Voice of America radio transmitters near Wilming ton, N. C and Port Angeles, Wash. The contracts have been under fire In a Senate Investigation of the Voice program. They were suspended Feb. 17 but in the meantime substantial maintenance costs were still being Incurred. : Outright termination was - ord ered by Dr. Robert L. Johnson, new chief of the International In formation Administration, - after consulting Voice advisory commit tees and technical experts. Bill E-3eads vor Graveyard proposal designed to satisfy those j who want stiff curbs and those who oppose additional labor legis lation. - The compromise would substi tute for measures to ban the closed shop, forbid strikes without a vote of the employes, and probably the bill to permit union members to sue their own unions. The new bill would ban picket ing to force employes into a union. Rep. Robert W. Root, Medlord, one of the sponsors, said it "ef fects only small employers. Bigger employers already are protected by the Taft-Hartley law.- He said it "represents the ab solute minimum - that employers will settle for. Rep. Lee Ohmart, Salem, is a co-sponsor of the bill. Two other , labor bills were in troduced In the House by Rep. Dorothy : Wallace,Portland. One would compel employers to pay women workers as much as they do men. and the second would per mit any political subdivision of the state to enter Into collective bargaining agreements . with its employes. . v.- W - s."' The Senate Friday approved a bill to permit county, courts and commissioners to fix salaries of county elective officials. Only dis senter was Sen. Rex EUis, Pendle ton." f . .. :. - - ' The House approved and sent to the Senate Gov. Patterson's re quest for $73,003 emergency Bay Area Scene of Disaster OAKLAND. Calif (JPi-A rfini transport plane 'crashed and ea ploded in a "great ball of fire Friday, killing 35 'crewmen ansl r airmen en route to the Far Earl, Alameda County Sheriff s Cant. Richard E. Condon said no one aboard survived the flaming cra&hr In a drilling rain some 20 miles south of here, near the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. cause of the disaster was net immediately known. Enrente to Far East The 30 airmen aboard were spe cialists en route to the Far East for a tour of - routine duty win the 1 509th Bomber" Wing. - They were from the Walker Air Force) Base, RoswlL N. Mex. The crew members were civil ians. -. . The Transocean Air Lines DC-4. cleared for a landing at Oakland Airport, crashed as it circled a hill near Decoto, site of a United Air Lines DC-6B crash Auj. 24, 1931,. that killed 50 persons ia Californ ia's worst air disaster. - Burst Into Flames - The Transocean. plane skidded 100 yards, broke into bits and burst into flames, witnesses said. Parts nf it vnr hiirlH nvr quarter-mile radius. It burned for some time after the crash. Ambulances had difficulty reaching the scene because of the-. sticky mud In the newly plowed field in which the plane crashed. ; Mrs. Henry Andrade, who live only 300 yards from the crash', scene, said the first she knew off the disaster. was a loud noise. She looked out a window and saw "a great ball of fire" - .- . -Clothing on Fire s v , SVia mM cVia Kirtr 4Via nan nritk ' their clothes on fire, some on th ground and some trying to get up, staggering, falling back." Alameda County sheriffs ofie ers said bodies could be seen in the burning shell of the fuselage.' The crash site is near the east shore of San Francisco Bay, about one-half mile north of Alvarade., Ambulances rushed to the burn ing wreck from four east bay hos pitals.:. - : TO Annual Freshman Glee will be per formed before the usual sellout -crowd at Willamette University gymnasium at 8 tonight ' , The four classes will present their original songs In competition, sing their parodies and go through some of the traditional antics e suspense while judges select the winning class. By Friday all tickets were taken up and the students were in th final press of rehearsal for the university's most famous activity or. tne year. Glee has been pre sented since 1908. Slot Machines Fall , Under Sheriff $ Axe "Marlon County sheriffs office made quick work Friday of the eated after a raid In Sllverton. Sheriff Denver Young and Dep uties Wayne Stevenson and Larry Wright smashed the machines with) sledge hammers, then burned the remains at the county dump near Macleay. - - - forest fire fighting fund. It raised the. present timber severance tax from 9 cents per , 1,000 feet of timber cut to eight cents in West ern Oregon and four cents In East ern Oregon. The , tax would be halved if the fire funds exceeds 1750,000. - , - :; ., (Additional legislative news on Page 4.) - At the Legislature ' By The Associated Press FRIDAY " - Employers introduce bill to pre vent picketing to force workers ta join - unions, v as a substitute for all previous labor curb bills. House state and federal affaire committee asks Investigation of state . water resources, indicatir it will bury toe Pelton dam tlx BUI to let county courts fix sal aries of county officers is passei by senate. , t Bill to let county courts nx sal aries of county officers is passai by Senate.' "- - House votes to' increase tlmbcir severance tax in' order to cre&ta state forest fire fighting fund. W,gATUSDAY- - , . House labor and taiurtrias com mittee to hold its ssccd hearir at 10 am. on tUls to rutrict lite . Doth houses meet at 9 un. b consider minor bills. .. Glee Tonight
