Giant Airliner in Franeiseb '6 . ,: 'Flash9 j Precedes 103 YEAR 12 PAGES Th Oracjon Statesman, Salem, Origan, Tuesday, April 21, 1S53 PRICE 5c No. 25 w v I-l m new San May; if POUNDBD 1651 Crash Store Site By Lipman, Wolfe By KOBERT City Editor, Lipman, Wolfe and Co, Portland department store, Monday an Bounced the acquisition of downtown Salem property as a store site. The property includes 124 feet of frontage on the west side of Liberty Street, south from the Chemeketa Street corner. This is now occupied by Gevurtz Furniture Co. and Sam's Used Cars, directly across the street from Salem branch. First National Bank. Off 9330000 UtDCDQ Republicans won the last elec tion, but their control of the Congress is so uun tnai iney but easily lose that in 1954. Thus far the swing has gone beyond the conservatism wanted by vot ers to an alarming degree of re action. The way McCarthy has snub bed and humiliated the State Department threatens to impair its prestige at nome ana uruu. Last week the House appro priations committee voted to eliminate any further loans or contributions lor puouc nousiug. senator Taft- one of the authors of the program, says he will fight to get tne aumoruy reaiuicu. Probably he can do it, but the hostile attitude of the powerful House committee isn't such as to encourage Republican votes next year from many wno leei me housing program is decidedly worth while. While President Eisenhower has asked for extension of the law on reciprocal trade treaties the bill introduced goes a long way to destroy its effectiveness and marks concessions to high protectionists. The drive for turning over off , short lands to states complies with the plank In the GOP plat form but it is viewed with mis givings by a great many people. The alarming moves to divest the government of its public lands are definitely not in the public interest Economy in expenditure is in order; but we in the Northwest (Continued on editorial page, 4) Reds Told to Regis ister; Court battle Looms WASHINGTON Iff) The U. S. fimmunist Party was ordered Ilonday to register as a tool of 1 Joscow, list its members and I've a financial accounting. But tie party doesn't have to do any thing about it just yet. The registration ,order from the f ubversive Activities Control Hoard, which called the party "a subsidiary and puppet of the So viet Union since its inception in 1919" opened the way for a long, drawnout court battle. Party lawyers, wno naa ue-; Clared in advance they would fight the ruling, said they will ask the Partv lawvers. who had de- XJ. S. Court of Appeals here and the Supreme Court, if neces sary - - to reverse the board's de cision "as an unconstitutional mon strosity." The lawyers said they would ask the courts to strike down the McCarran Act on which the ruling was based. Until the courts decide, enforce ment of the registration order is stayed. It may be a year or more SALEM VET ARRIVES SAN FRANCISCO CpL Richard D. North, 1560 Barnes Ave., Salem, was among Oregon Army combat veterans aboard the transport Gen. William H. Gordon, which arrived here Mon day from Korea. Animal Crackers Bv WAf REN GOODRICH 'Have you decided? 1m mew here 1me feuotv who gave youths gSEHU WAS DQAFrf 0f i hy Bought E. GANGWARE The Statesman Details of the Lipman plans for locating in Salem were not disclosed by Harold F. Wendel, president of the mercantile firm. The Gevurtz company was no tified formally to vacate its North Liberty Street store by June 30. Negotiation Pending Three pieces of property worth an estimated $300,000 figure in the purchase and lease transac tions, some of which is still in the final stages of negotiation, according to Portland realtor Al bert Bullier Sr., who made the announcement Monday for Wen- del. Altogether the site being ac quired by Lipman, Wolfe is near ly one-half city block, as it ex tends through the entire block of Liberty to Commercial Streets ior 67 feet south from Chemekta. The additional Liberty Street frontage is 166 feet deep, to the north-south alley in that block. Not Available Soon There was no confirmation that the Commercial Street end of the site would be used for automobile parking, but Realtor Bullier not ed that because of lease agree ments some of that part of the property would not become avail able for use for almost a year. A two-story brick building at the southeast corner of Commer cial and Chemeketa Streets is oc cupied by Capital Hardware and Furniture Co. and Vern'S Place, a tavern. Small buildings on the site fronting Chemeketa and east of that building house Crowley Brake & Wheel Shop and Edna's Alterations and Cleaning Shop. Lipman is acquiring the prop erty irom three estates, two man aged by Pioneer Trust Co. and the other by U.S. National Bank. Msec, Option to Bay ' The Cross estate nroDertr on which the Gevurtz store is locat ed has been purchased by Lip man's, according to the Portland realtor. Negotiations are nearing an end for 50-year leases of the other two properties, with option to buy them. One of these is the 67x166 foot property at Commercial and Chemeketa Streets, which has been under lease from the Klett estate to Sol Schlesinger and oth ers ui oaiem. The other property, about the same size at Liberty and Cheme keta, has been held in trust by U.S. National Bank. It is the for mer A. N. Gilbert property. The property negotiations have been in prdgress 2Vi years be tween Bullier & Bullier. Portland Realty firm representing Lip man s, and Salem property repre sentatives at the trust company and bank. Lipman's is the second Port- iana aepartment store to an nounce plans for a Salem loca tion, as Meier & Frank recently disclosed that it would erect a store at High and Center Streets. r y-i . iSprirt? ever lO T ' increase oaay Spring fever is predicted to hit Salem today in force with the mercury climbing to 75 or even higher. Plenty of sunshine is also on the menu, says the weatherman. Red Cross to Halt Blood ! Program if Funds Short The Marion County Red Cross civilian blood program will end July 1 unless the chapter meets its goal of $51,000. This was voted Monday night by the chapter board of directors presided over by Elton Thomp son, county chairman. Present fund .collections total $41,000, which means that unless $10,000 is received by the Red Cross between now and July 1, Marion County residents will have to pay for their blood. Avesage cost of a pint of blood is $35. The board considered the pro posal of cutting the blood pro gram for several hours last night before reaching a decision. : .Frank Parcher, chapter mana ger, said the two other biggest expenses on the chapter budget are the Home Service Program and disaster relieL - , Federal charter prohibits cut ting either of these, so the blood program will have to go unless the deficit is met, he said. Expected cost of the blood pro gram in the county next year is $4,600. . 1, 1 From July 1. 1952 until March 31, 1S53 the Red-Cross in the Dial Phone System Takes; OVer at Silverton :'" s ; dLV' ',, lift V r i riYiriTK ' ' , t . f r iml -4-. k . i J f 1 i - I SILVERTON Lon Hoaland. whe bxd been with 'the Interurban Telephoae Company as aa opera tor for 33 years, is shewn here (left picture) maklnr the last "plu in" Saturday nirht lost before the system shifted from central to a dial one. Lowell Erown Sr., (right,) president of the family owned company, snips 550 wires to set into motion the $200,000 dial system. Mrs. P. L. Brown, his mother, whose husband started the business in 1905, and Lowell E. Brown Jr., now an employe of the company, are also pictured. (Farm Photo for The Statesman.) (Story on Faro X-) Re-Opening of Alumina-Clay Plant Near Re-opening of the Salem alum- ina-from-clay plant is likely with in the next few days, it appeared Monday. The plant, built! at a cost of $5,000,000 during World Waa II, was purchased recently from the General Services Administration, an agency of the federa lgovem- ment, by the Harvey Machine Company of Los Angeles. Final papers now are being drawn up regarding the contract. A. W. Metzger, plant manager for several years and recently named to that capacity for the new . operation by the Harvey firm, said' Monday he could sot comment on reports of the immi nent re-opening, j From other sources, however, it was learned that work might start late this week. The Harvey firm, major pro cessors of aluminum, have an nounced a five-year experimental operation for the : Salem plant with a view to perfecting and greatly expanding the process of producing raw alumina from Northwest clay. Emergency Board Chosen Members of the State Emergency Board, a legislative committee which makes emergency appropria tions when the Legislature isn't in session, were announced Monday by the presiding officers of both houses. Those appointed to the board are Sens. Howard C. Belton, Canby. and Angus Gibson. Junction City; and Reps. Dave Baum. La Grande; Robert W. Root, Medford. and Francis W. Ziegler, Corvallis. Those who automatically are members are Senate President Eugene E. Marsh, McMiimville; House Speaker Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Portland; Sen. Dean H. Walker, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee; and Rep. Henry Semon, Klamath Falls, chairman of the House Ways and Means Com mittee. county collected 3,262 pints of blood. Of this total, 2,442 pints went to hospitals in the county at no cost The balance went for mili tary use. At an average cost of $35 per pint, the Red Cross has supplied S85.470 worth of blood to Marlon County in the past nine months. Total cost for a year to resi dents of the county would be about $4,600 if they made dona tions through the Red Cross, Par cher pointed out T He said that if the blood pro gram is ended, hospitals or com munities will be forced to set up their own private blood programs and charge patients for blood. The military blood program will continue even if the civilian program is dropped. ' Reason for this is that the Red Cross pays all the blood process in; costs when it delivers blood to hospitals, but the military pays most of its own processing costs. Said Parcher: "In the next two and a half months the people of Marion County will have to make up their minds either to support the Red Cross, or support their own blood program.' , Legislature Aims at Adjournment Today By PAUL W. HARVEY Jr. Associated Press Writer Driving toward hoped-for adjournament Tuesday, the Oregon Legislature rid itself Monday of much important legislation. Both houses cleaned up long calendars, preparing the decks for action Tuesday on the last big-obstacle that might delay ad journament. This measure is the House-passed bill to stop labor unions from picketing to force workers Xo join unions. The Senate will vote Tuesday morning on Senate amendments which are far different from the House version, and the issue probably will end up in a Senate House conference committee. Most important action Monday was passage by the Senate of $3, 297,000 program far new state institution buildings, and $3,840, 000 far new college buildings. The bin ffoes to the governor. MeinwhileV the House rejected1 39 to 24 a motion liy W. f, K Dammasch, Portland, to recall from the ways and means com mittee his biU to provide three million dollars to build the pro posed mental hospital in Port land immediately. Night Session In the push toward adjourn ment, the Senate held a three hour session Monday night to clear through numerous bills coming back from the House, many with minor amendments. The Senate at the night session passed six House bills liberaliz ing workmen's compensation ben efits. The Senate defeated, 15 to 14, a House approved bill that would have required the state land board to execute 99-year leases on state-owned tidelands when petitioned for by abutting land owners. The senate also approved and sent to the governor a bill mak ing a driver responsible for neg ligent homicide if the death vehicle- had defective equipment The house will reconvene at 10 a.m. and the senate an hour earlier Tuesday. Earlier in the day the Senate sent to the House a resolution for a 17-member interim com mittee to Study the need for re vising the state constitution. The House already had voted for Gov. Paul Patterson's idea of having a convention to write a new constitution, but the Senate wouldn't go for the plan. A bill extending the applica tion deadline for Oregon's World War II veterans bonus to next Dec. 31 was passed by the House and sent to the Governor. The deadline was last December, but it was extended to take care of some veterans who filed late. To Vote en Amendment The House approved a propos ed constitutional amendment to double legislators' $600 annual pay. The people will vote on it in November, 1954. Earlier in the day, the House rejected, 38 to 21, a Senate bill to double the pay in spite of what the constitution says. Both houses passed a bill ap propriating $700,000 to con struct two buildings near the Capitol to house the Department of Agriculture, the new State Car pool, and the State Purchas ing Division. Measures passed by the Sen ate and sent to the Governor would establish a midnight to 4 a.m. for children under 18 years old who live in rural areas, and tax house trailers as real prop erty. Prohibit Touting A legislative interim commit tee to study property taxes will be created under a resolution passed by the Senate. Measures passed by the House and sent to the Governor would increase Supreme Court and Dis trict Attorney salaries, prohibit race touting, and permit seizure of property in which abortions are performed . Legislative action was complet ed by the house on a proposed constitution amendment to re quire more signatures to get measures on the. ballot The per centage required now is based on the total vote for Supreme Court Justice at the preceding election. The new yardstick would be the rote for Governor. The House also finished work on resolutions to create interim feom-ilttoes- to study - pubUr wel fare an4 -to decide whether all the state's revenue-collecting agencies should be combined into a state department of revenue. The House passed a Senate res olution asking the Governor to take an possible steps to . pre serve the two educational tele vision channels that the Federal Communications Commission has assigned to the state. (Additional legislative news on Page 5). Pf c. Mize Killed In Auto Accident Near Fort Bragg Pfc. Donald Glenn Mize, 26, of Route 5, Box 448. was killed Satur day in an automobile accident near Fort Bragg. N. C, where he was stationed with the 50th Airborne Division. Mize is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lowena Mize. and two sons, Roy Donald Mize and Ronald Lee Mize, all of Salem; also his mother, Mrs. Dora Britton, a sister. Mrs. Violet Rye. two brothers, Orval W. Mize and Carl Mize, all of Antioch, Calif. Funeral services will be announc ed later by Howell-Edwards Co. Investigators Hint Pentagon Shakeup WASHINGTON W The chair man of the Senate committee in vestigating ammunition shortages in Korea hinted Monday that Con gress may demand a shakeup in the organization of the Pentagon. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R Me.) gave this indication to re porters after her armed services subcommittee called a temporary halt to its ammunition inquiry. She said, too. that Gen. Douglas MacArthur may be called: as a witness later to fill in gaps in the testimony already heard by the senators. , The final witness in the current phase of the inquiry was Gen. J. Lawton Collins, the Army's chief of staff, who said in answer to questions from Mrs. Smith that the Army never was told not to win the Korean War. At The Legislature By Th AsMdatea tm MOKDAT Reduced lnstitutio and education building program pawed, by Senate, eat to sovemor. Bin to liberalize workmen com pensation benefits pasaed by Senate. Appropriation ci $700,000 approred by botb house for two buildings to bouse state ear pool, purchaairig di vision and agriculture department, near the CapitoL t i TUESDAY , r Adjournment expected. ' Senate meets at S a i.; Bouse at IS a i. ; Last obstacle to adjournment Is leg islation to stop labor unions Srora picketing to force worker to Join unions: Senate and Bouse versions of bin remain to bo compromised. 1 SAN FRANCISCO (I) A huge Western Airlines DCtB passen ger plane crashed la Sea Fran cisco Bay Monday night and the Coast Gurd said It picked p four survivors of five passengers and -five crew members aboard. SAN FRANCISCO if) - A West ern : Air Lines DC6B one of the largest type ' passenger planes crashed in San Francisco Bay Mon day : night just after stopping at the San Francisco airport on a flight from Los Angeles to Oak land, across the bay. It waa believed that 10 persons died in the wreckage. Western Air Lines said there were only five passengers aboard. Many others had alighted just min utes before at San Francisco; A DCSB usually carries a crew-of five. S 1 Witnesses to the crash, at li:06 p. ra said there waa a "big flash" out in the bay. At the same time, the Oakland Airport control tower, which was observing the plane on radar, reported the image of the plane disappeared. The Coast Guard dispatched two helicopters and six patrol boats to the scene. Two tugs put out from Hunters' Point Navy Yard onithe San Francisco shore and the Ala meda Navy Air Station sent two crash boats from the other shore. The Oakland control tower placed the crash as 5 miles-out in the bay just about halfway across the bay on the 12 mile flight from San Francisco. The rescuers were not immedi ately able to find the crash wreck age on the dark waters and the Coast Guard sent an amphibian out at midnight to drop flares to aid the helicopters and 11 boats then on the scene. Passenger Train Wreck Leaves i 10 Dead, 100 Hurt DILLON, S.C (A-The At lantic Coast Line's Miami-New York passenger train the Champioon piled ap here Monday night l A reporter en the scene esti mated "at least 1$ or 12 are dead." He said more than 100 of the estimated 300 passen gers en the train were injured. Part ef the train caught fire. Dozens were trapped in the . overturned cars and an emerg ency call went wet-Tor acety lene torches and skilled work men te get at the injured in the coaches. i Pakistan to i Side With U.S. KARACHI, Pakistan (A !Mo- hammed AM, Pakistan's new prime minister, Monday aligned his gov ernment behind the world leader ship of the United States. "Wei just do not have much in common with the Soviet Union," he said. In an interview. All expressed the hope for "ever closer rela tions" between Pakistan and) the United States. f WASHINGTON un A State De partment official said Monday he expects the department soon will ask Congress to provide letween 300,000 and 500,000 tons of wheat" for Pakistan. Magnuson Objects to Cuts WASHINGTON (A Budget bu reau revisions which slashed more than 36 million dollars from re quests for Pacific Northwest power and reclamation projects were at tacked by Sen. Magnuson : (D Wash) Monday as "administrative brown-outs." - He referred to slashes totalling more than 30 Vt million dollars m requests for army engineer civil functions projects as well as a cut ef approximately five million in reclamation requests. Magnuson said he had learned the budget bureau had cut:- the request by former President Tru man for the Columbia Basiri de velopment from $21,900,000 to ' 18 million. The Kermewick Irrigation Project was cut back from four to three million. Hie lops 29 Per Cent J rbm Budget For Pams; Detroit Fund Eliminated WASHINGTON CSV-Funds for development of Detroit, Ore., res ervoir at the site of a new federal dam were eliminated Monday: as the i Eisenhower administration sent to Congress a flood control and i navigation budget 29 per cent under President Truman's recommendation of last January. The 'former president had rec ommended $1,273,000 for the De troit reservoir the eight mile lake backed up when a flood con trol ' power dam was completed last year on the North Santiam River east of Salem, Ore. The new administration of By ROBERT ' TkAxrsrr tviaic inv a -aji.ij-rin "iaPP7 ana wis e-cra cKimr. the second 100 sick and ers crossed their merciful j milestone of freedom Tuesday in exchange for500 sullen and dishevelled disabled Communists., ' ; ' The Allied soldiers were to the solemn Allies who came down freedom road in the first ex change Monday. Sixteen Americans, 12 Britons and three Turks were among, the first of two groups to be -taken Tuesday to Freedom Village from this Korean neutral zone, where fullscale armistice talks resume on Saturday. In the second group were 19 Americans. The balance were South Koreans. ; (Tomorrow's third group will in clude 100 South Koreans and no Americans.) The Americans and British waved, smiled and joked as they entered United Nations reception tents for preliminary medical check ups. It was a high-spirited entry compared with the silent sol emnity of those who returned to freedom Monday. ' Offer Wisecracks They called out and joked with newsmen and correspondents who ocedpied a wooden stand nearby. PFC. Paul O. Blanton of Brod head, Ky., member of the 25th Division when he was captured, was the first American to leave the ambulances Tuesday. He was followed by Pvt. John M. Jankov its. Jr.. of Philadelphia. Even as the second day of the historic swap began, the first plane, bearing returning Allied pri soners released Monday left Seoul for Tokyo on the first leg of the long trip home. Swap to Continue The trades at Panmunjom will continue daily until the Commu nists have turned over 600 Allied disabled, including 120 Americans, and the U.N. Command returns 3, 800 Communists. ' The Communists announced that the fourth and fifth convoys : of Allied prisoners were due at near by Kaesong Tuesday from camps deep in North Korea. ,The last of the repatriates should be in Allied hands by Saturday. The last Reds will be repatriated by May l. The first transfer Monday in (his neutral circle was subdued. Most returning . prisoners smiled and some waved at their first sight of free Americans. A few broke into tears. Blamed Tuberculosis : South Koreans reported that many of their countrymen and Al lies had died in prison camps. They said the Reds attributed the deaths to tuberculosis. - The homecoming prisoners be came more spirited soon afterward when they arrived at Freedom Vil lage outside Munsan. Most appear- ea to oe in gooa condition. .' American soldiers in the first group gold a story of generally good treatment under the Commu nists but there were obvious re straints and overtones of Red pro paganda. The shadow of the men who remained behind seemed to weigh heavily on many of them and" they appeared anxious to say nothing that would endanger the release of their buddies. None of the men who talked with newsmen in tents at Freedom Vil lage appeared to have been won over by the Communist pressure. Or indoctrination during their long captivity. However, not all of the ex-pns- oneri would talk with newsmen. The identity card-of one returned American was marked on the back no interviews" presumably be cause of pro-Red leanings. Smelt Move Up Sandy River - PORTLAND W A sizable run of smelt moved up the Sandy itiver Monday and sheriffs offi cers prepared for a rush to the river banks Tuesday. : Dipping for the small fish was not permitted Monday. i There never previously has been a run in the river later than April 9 and this led to speculation that this year's run would remain large. President Dwight Eisenhower listed no funds for this reservoir development. But U.S. San. Guy Cordon of Oregon said Monday that unspent funds which were formerly ap propriated for Detroit would per mit 'continuance of the Detroit Dam project without further ap propriation at this time.' Willamette River bank protec tion work was cut from $400,000 to $330,000 in the new recommen dation to . Congress. Amazon Creek : flood control project at Eugene was left .uncut at $243, 000. McNary Dam, project was B. TUCKJIAN ' ' tt " : : . . wounded Allied war prison jubilant in sharp contrast Freed PW Tells Of Death March, Russian Soldiers - FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea UP) An American soldier re turned here from a Communist prison camp said Russian sol diers tried to get Communist' guards drunk at one time so the guards would shoot the American POWs in the camp. Sgt Orville Miillins, Coving ton, Ky- said in an interview the Russian soldier carried arms and wore uniforms. i i Mulllns told a grim tale of a 50-mile . death march north from the North Korean canital of Pyongyang in August 195L Mulllns said that many Amer ican and other United Nations soldiers died en the march. Welfare Fund Allotment Cut Notification of a $10,000 cut In Marion County old age assist ance funds for the next fiscal year was received Monday by the County Welfare Commission from the state welfare office. The state said the decrease from the requested $1,110,000 to $1,100,000 resulted because the state has insufficient funds to match the federal allocations. Commission ' ' members said they, did: cot. feel the county's budget had been "padded" but accepted the change in the light of legislative developments, in eluding tightening of the rela tive, responsibility law and open ing of the welfare rolls to public scrutiny. Administrator ' Kenneth H. Peterson and Commission Chair man Rex Hartley reviewed a v recent meeting with other local relief agencies aimed at coordi nating services and eliminating duplication of efforts.' New Statesman Plant Host to First Open House Night Several hundred visitors tour ed The Statesman's $333,000 plant at Church and Chemeketa Streets Monday at the first of a five-night series of "formal open tags 3 9 They comprised The States man's valley correspondents. members of The Statesman's own staff who have been too busy to visit all departments of the news paper, and the contractors and workmen who constructed the building, with their families. Advertisers are specially invit ed guests tonight, and on Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday nights the plant will be open to everyone. ' Many floral pieces and mes- mm n em 9 jtAH0latlllflflAfl W.PS ceived Monday. . Max. 14 Min. Precip. 41 J 45 M 47 trace 30 trace Salem , . S San Francisco 81 Chics fo 85 Nw Vnrk 4? 35 trsce Winamette River 0.8 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary field. Salem): Parti r cloudy todar. tonlfht and Wednes day. High today near 75 and low to nlfht near 40. Temperature at 13:01 tv.tr u was 4B degrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start ef Weatkcr Ttar Sept 1 This Year 37.00 Last Year t usa Normal 34.13 cut from $28,183,000 to $27,700. 000. The Dalles Lock and Dam was slashed from $158,400,000 to $37,429,000; Lookout Point, cut from, $20 ,375,000 to $19 million plus a million dollar surplus from the 1953 appropriation. In Washington the Chief Jo seph Dam was cut from $30 to $24 million and an Ice Harbor recommendation of $4900,000 was eliminated altogether. The overall 'cut, nationwide, was from $861,524,000 on ' To man's recommendation to $47V 240,100. Last year Congress voted $561,906,000 for this work. . Marion County it