Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1953)
AHeadin' Fer the Hills j 1 ..J!n 2 SECTIONS 20 PAGES Th Oregon Statesman. Salem. Oregon, Tuesday, July 1C 1353 PRICE 5c No. ICS Diiai3ftDt(dI ons sh Bnii pi. 1 ; , .11 i i . trr ' . . . iWA r I -S II Xil ei iiiiii-v 11 II II , w- I I A 1 M - POUNDS D 1651 .-Ss.Y ' .- : " These young "mountain men" are Dick Richardson, 16, left, and Chester Cashing, 17, who are making a week long 49-mile hike along the rim of the Cascades. Sons of Mr. and Mrs. Horace J. Richardson and Mr. and Mrs. Chester s. cusning jr., au oi a lem, the two started their long walk Sunday morning from Brei tenbush Lake, where this picture was taken by H. J. Richardson. aazDCB moiiDCH Both the Friday sitdown of convicts at the Oregon State Prison and the later resort to ar son and destruction of property were an indefensible defiance of constituted authority. The list of demands submitted by the "com mittee" last Friday were for the most part so minor in nature as to prove the barrenness of the cause. How thin the demands got is shown in the demand ''for "two clean sheets Weekly." (Many well- ordered households change only the bottom sheet once a week..) No, the uprising was merely a hell-raising prompted by trouble makers. It may have been a test ing of the new warden; and if that was the purpose the end was served: the prisoners have found Warden Gladden equal tar the duties of his office. Or the sit down may have been prompted by the restoration of discipline which had gone to pieces in the previous administration of War den O'Malley. Whatever the ex cuse offered it was nothing but flim-flam; and the responsible authorities properly dealt with it as such. Warden Gladden met this chal lenge to authority with coolness and firmness. He gave audience to the "committee." He gave con siderate treatment to the sitdown ' era as long as they remained docile. When their radicals start ed fires in state property and raids in the commissary Gladden had his guards enter and move the prisoners into the open recre ation area. That, was effected with a minimum of strife one prison er was wounded as he was tossing a homemade incendiary into a building. There can be no compromise with discipline in a prison. It need not (Continued on editorial page, 4) Fire Setter Faces 15 Murder Counts WILLOWS. Calif. UF Stanford P. Patton, 26, was charged with 15 counts of murder Monday for starting a forest fire which wiped out 15 members of a fire fighting crew Thursday night. Patton told Larimer he started the blaze because he was unem ployed and wanted a job lighting the fire so he could support his pregnant wife and three children. mmm Western International At Tri-City 8. Edmonton 3 Only same scheduled. Coast League At Portland 7. Hollywood At Seattle S. San Francisco 10 Only fames scheduled. American League Ne games scheduled Monday. National League No games scheduled Monday. Animal Crackor By WARJtfN GOODRICH Kremlin S ays Policy Same Despite Purge VIENNA art i The Com inform indicated Monday the Kremlin's foreign policy is unchanged by the fail of Lavrenty Beria and that the Soviet Union's immediate aims are threefold : A unified Germany, American withdrawal from Japan and admis sion of Red China to the United Nations. The Cominform is the Communist information bureau. The latest is- su of its weekly policy publica tion to reach Vienna instructed world Communist parties to launch an all-out propaganda campaign to convince people of "the consistent peace policy of the Soviet govern ment." Western diplomats here said the editorial appeared to have been written after Beria's arrest in Mos cow, and probably had Kremlin approval They regarded this as confirmation of other developments they believe show that Russia's "peace offensive"- is still on. The Cominform journal told Com munists to press for the "histori cally important" program of the Communist-run World Peace Coun cil the main propaganda instru ment of the Kremlin's "peace" policy. 'Phone Lines Cut by Hay Truck Blaze Telephone service between Sa lem and Dallas and Falls City was cut off for three hours and 45 minutes Monday night when flames from a burning hay truck on the Salem-Dallas Highway sev ered a long-distance cable. The truck, driven by Norris S. Walen, 554 Senate St, Salem, was almost completely destroyed by the flames, state police said. Walen was unhurt.1 Sparks from the truck's exhaust pipe, which ran vertically along the cab, set the hay load afire and Walen pulled the flaming ve hicle off the highway. He stopped beneath telephone wires. Telephone service went out at 7 p.m. and was restored at 10:45 p.m., said a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. spokesman. Service in Dallas and Falls City was not disrupted and residents could call between the communi ties, but Salem was shut off from both, the spokesman said. The flaming truck was stopped one mile east of Derry on the Salem-Dallas Highway. Police said a large crowd gathered at the scene. SET WHEAT CROP WASHINGTON V Senate House conferees agreed late Mon day on a 62-million-acre U.S. wheat crop for 1954. Sobbing Mother "Claims Tot Scared to Death by Plane LOS ANGELES W - A sobbing young mother told sheriff's deputies Monday that a low-flying plane so terrified her 2-year-old son that he ran screaming to her and collapsed at her feet. She took him to an emergency hospital where he was pronounced dead. Deputy Howard Fowler, who in vestigated the strange case, said Mrs. Justina Marie Baldwin, 3, of South Whittier, told this story: Her son, Donald, was near her in her back yard playing with a toy lawn mower. She heard plane fly overhead.' It sounded like a jet. but she didn't see it. Donald, a blue eyed blond, ran stumbling and gasping to her. He collapsed at j her feet and lapsed into a coma. She took him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Rob ert 'Rottschaeffer pronounced him dead. The .doctor said he found no marks on the boy. He was un- ahl to inVUrmina . the cause oi rlfll. : h" j Budget Approved Sans 1st Aid Fund Praise Fails to Detour Cut By ROBERT E. GANGWARE City Editor, The Statesman Salem's municipals first aid service was praised all over the lot Monday night at the final city budget hearing, but the City Council held tight on cutting the trained first air force in half. Aldermen voted unanimously to adopt the $2Vfe million city budget as prepared by the budget committee including a five-man fire department cut. Nearly all the 100 citizens crowded into the City Hall Coun cil Chamber raised their hands m support of the last-hour stand to retain the first aid service as it has been operated. Their spokes men praised the service freely. O'Hara Against Cut Alderman David O'Hara label ed the fire department cut "an arbitrary economy" and declared the public shouldn't be led to be lieve the $13,000 saved couldn't have been found elsewhere in the budget without sacrificing essen tial public service. Under the budget plan a first aid captain remains on each of three shifts, but instead of hav ing a trained first aider assigned to each captain the department is to provide when possible a regu lar duty fireman to go along on first aid runs. Two men were cut also from the inspection service under a similar plan. O'Hara said it would be im- f practical to revise the budget at this late date already two weeks into the new fiscal year which the budget covers. He voted for its passage but urged fellow ald ermen to observe how the new first aid system works out and if it is found unsatisfactory, to try to find some way of restoring the three first aid men. Union Voice Heard Herbert E. Barker, secretary of Salem Trades and Labor Council, said the two -man first air car crew had operated since 1937 when organized labor donated to the city a first aid car. University professor John Rad- emaker, said one big reason for the larger first aid crew is that many accidents injure more than one person. "I'd far sooner pay a little more tax than see this serv ice cut'he added. "A life is worth more than money; let's not chisel on human ills and human life," said Frank J. A. Boehringer who recalled how first aiders had taken him safely to a hospital after a serious back injury in a fall. Items Unnoticed First Aid Capt. Charles Charl ton said a lone first aidman cant drive and administer oxygen at j the same time. He said the serv ice should be discontinued if it can't be maintained fully. Several union locals protested the first aid cut 9 Other items in the big budget attracted no notice at last night's bearing. The first aid cut was one of several cuts made by the bud get committee to produce $50,000 for a general salary raise without calling for extra taxes. (Additional Council news page 2.) on Ferrer, Clooney Wed in Oklahoma DURANT, Okla. Jose Fer rer, motion picture academy award winner, and Rosemary Clooney, popular singer, were married at noon here Monday. They slipped away from Dallas, where Ferrer has been appearing in a musical play, and were mar ried by a county judge. Ferrer's first wife was granted a divorce in Juarez, Mexico, last week. death and an autopsy is plan ned. j Deputy Fowler said be interro-; gatad neighbors and none of them heard, or at least remembered hearing, a plane. This was not sur prising, he said, because there arc many planes in the area and residents pay little attention to them. The victim's father, Vernon, is an aircraft worker. "Only last Friday. said the fath er, "be screamed and cried when a mail helicopter came over, fly ing so low you could see the pilot. He was scared of all load sounds, even automobile exhausts. Baldwin said that he was at work when the boy was overcome but that; neighbors reported hearing a jet about that time. Donald had a physical examination -three weeks ago! and seemed in sound health, Baldwin added. "We don't-want revenge, but If that's what caused this then I think something drastic should be done, be said. Mall Traffic Reverse Eyed By Aldermen , Salem City Council took a step Monday night to reverse the traf fic flow around the Capitol Mall. But the Council traffic resolution hinges on State Highway Depart ment approval. , Through traffic from the north, entering Salem on Summer j Street, now must go the long j way around via Marion and j Winter Streets or via Center, Capitol and Court Streets to get into the Mall between rows of state buildings north of the State- house. Under the new plan south bound cars making the required left turn onto Center Street from North Capitol could then swing right into the east side of the Mall on what is called East Sum mer Street, drive around the Mall and return to Chemeketa or Center Streets on West Summer. Young Siispect Caught, Admits Killing Houck MARYS VILLE, Calif. (-Deputy Sheriff Hal Notestine said Donald Imlah, 18-year-old Ore gon Reformatory parolee, has been arrested and has admitted the slaying of rancher Bruce Houck in Parkdale, Ore., last week. Imlah was picked up late Mon day night near Marysville at a house occupied by his mother. Notestine said Imlah was ar rested after a light grey pickup truck that belong to Houck was spotted in front of the house. Yuba County Sheriff John Dower said he had been alerted to watch for Imlah. Imlah is a parolee from Boys' School at Woodburn, Ore., and had been employed at the Houck ranch. He was arrested , here in 1951 for parole violation. Houck's body was found by neighbors Saturday. He had ap parently been dead four or five days from three or four gunshot wounds. His pickup truck and two guns were missing. Houck's widow Dorothy was visiting relatives in California last week. Crash Victims' Bodies Found HONOLULU Ufl A Navy trans port Monday recovered 11 bodies from the shark-infested waters east of Wake Island where a Transocean airliner plunged into the Pacific Saturday night carrying 58 persons to probable death. Three more bodies were sighted but the transport Barrett said it was unable to recover them be cause of sharks. "There is little hope of any sur vivors in view of the conditions of bodies found." a doctor aboard the Barrett said. One of the vic tims had died from flash burns and multiple fractures. Light Showers On City Forecast Clouds and the possibility of light showers today and tonight is the forecast from the Weather Bureau. Temperatures today will be a shade cooler with the high, ex pected to reach 76, according to predictions. Monday tlaht sprinkles were noted in some points of the city, bat the Weather Bureau didn't get a trace it UcNiry Field. strike: ended PORTLAND m AFL Machin aists in Pacific Coast cities have voted to accept a compromise agreement and end ! their strike that has tied up coastal shipyards for! 13 days; a union official re- ported Jlondaj. McCarthy Foe at r mm npn i. i i n , 7 vn vv X - -1" Sen. Mike Monroney who Monday challenged senators to stand up and be counted in a showdown over Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his investigative methods. Probe of CIA By McCarthy Draws Fire WASHINGTON LP Sen. Mon roney (D-Okla.) hotly attacked the investigative methods of Sen. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.) on the Senate floor Monday and challenged the wis dom of letting McCarthy investi gate the supersecret Central Intel, ligence Agency (CIA). An inquiry into the CIA, he said, would "disclose to our enemies in formation that even the best spy apparatus of the Kremlin" could not get. The Oklahoma senator, in a speech bristling with scorn, de manded that the senators stand up and be counted in a showdown on the McCarthy issue. Dfmoi Walked Out The entire Senate, he said, should be willing to take "full responsi bility" for the acts of McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommit tee, from which all three Demo cratic members have walked out, and for all other Senate commit tees. "We cannot wash our hands of this ultimate responsibility," Mon roney declared. "Every senator should assume the responsibility of voting for or against a McCarthy investigation of the CIA. We should welcome the right to give the full-steam-ahead signal, or vote against it. Stand Against "For myself, I would vote against it." McCarthy was not present dur ing Monroney's speech. Much of the row between the McCarthy group and the CIA has centered on McCarthy's efforts to get testimony from a top CIA of ficial whose status presumably would not fall within the category of an undercover agent. Today's Statesman Section 1 General News 12, 3, 5 Editorials 4 Society News 8, 9 Section 2 Sports News 1, 2 General News 3, 4, 5, 7 Picture Page 1 6 Classified 8, 9 Q ueen Joyce Crowned by X r Joyce Grimes, employed by the Industrial Accident Commission, was Monday- night voted Queen ef the State Employees' Association Baseball Festival by Salem Senators players idoring a ceremony attend ed by ever 2.000 at Willsea Park. Qneea Joyce Is pictured being erewned'by Got. Paul Patterson as her princesses look m. They are (l-r Nadine Olsen, Derethy Schmidt, Barbara Pickens, Joyce Riley, Aids Hock and Clarice Moon. The queen and her cesrt will reign ever the baseball game at Waters Field tonight between the Senators aaft Calvary Stampede. (See sport pages lor details.) Retfs JPriv&HoleS 1 . f ' In A Hied Be fense 70,000 in Major; Attacks By JOHN RANDOLPH SEOUL Lf) Nearly 70,000 Chin ese Reds struck Monday night be hind crashing artillery barrages against 18 miles of the East-Central Korean Front in the mighties offensive in two years. Early Tuesday the mighty Red onslaught, mounting in fury, smashed two holes in the Allied main line and forced the crack South Korean Capitol Division to, retreat. , The situation was described as I locaUy dangerous but not fatal. The next few hours probably would tell whether the South Korean line could hold. 1 South Korean infantrymen count erattacked immediately and the situation was reported "still under control." Wave after wave of Chinese troops crashed against the deep dug Allied line between Kumhwa and the Pukhan River. ' Their assaults were bolstered by the shocking power of "incredible? Red artillery barrages. "You've got to see that artillery to believe a: U.S. officer with a South Korean division said "Their artillery fire is beyond estimation. 'It is simply incredible "It has complicated our job ter ribly by snarling communications." Allied artillery thundered back. Frontline officers estimated that at least six or seven Chinese di visions of 10,000 troops each had been thrown into the battle with the usual Communist disdain of losses. Outpost after outpost crumbled ar.d melted! away as the Red tide rolled forward, smothering with bodies the South Korean rifle fire, Part of Finger Ridge was gone, Many other famed hill positions were believed engulfed or in peril. British Circle r Suez Town in Trooper Hunt ISMAJXIA. Egypt tf British soldiers clamped an iron ring of armored cars and machine guns around this strategic Suez Canal Zone town Monday to force the re turn of a missing tommy. The British here charged that the soldier. Leading Aircraftsman A. V. Rigden, was abducted last Thursday by what they called an Egyptian "bad boy" and called on Egypt to return him by 9 o'clock Sunday night. The Egyptian government de nied it knew anything about his disappearance. Where the deadline passed without a sign of Rigden, 300 British troops moved into posi tion and announced they would search all civilians entering and leaving Ismailia until he returns. The Egyptians took prompt counter-measures, moving units of the Egyptian Army to posts around all government buildings in the town. DESTROYER AGROUND TOKYO If) The Canadian de stroyer Huron ran aground off the Communist Northeast Korean Coast Monday and suffered heavy dam age, the Navy announced Tuesday. There were no casualties. ft? : if t: Food Appeal Issued to East Germans BERLIN m Communist Pre- tnier Otto Grotewohl issued a des- peratei appeal Monday to the en- tire East German population to work bn the farms to overcome "de ficiencies in cultivation and prep aration for the harvest." The appeal, an admission of a worsening food shortage in the Red ruled satellite, came after a spec ial cabinet session and while east Germans boiled with anger against .the Kremlin's turn down of Ameri- can food-help. Grotewohl. in a special release from his press office, said the harv est was endangered throughout the countr. Grotewohl's appeal was drafted two nights after he had bitterly turned! down an offer from Presi dent Eisenhower of IS milliorkdol lars worth of American feoffor his hungry land. Communist newspapers con firmed that there was a shortage of flour, fats, potatoes, sugar and vegetables throughout the country to anf extent bordering on ca tastrophe. Eastj Germany is a traditional bread basket and a surplus produc er of j potatoes and sugar beets. Under Communist mismanagement, it has I become a beggar's hovel. The Red news agency, ADN, iq an attempt to keep up morale, said RUssia would rush in supplies, but this apparently failed to calm the population infuriated by the re- fusal of American aid. Feather Tips Pickup Truck To Save Son : i ! ASTORIA A 165-pound fa ther somehow tipped over a pickup truck" with his bare hands to save the lifq of his 14-year-old son near here Sunday. The boy, Thomas Johnson, was pinned! face down under, two feet of water by the 3.000-pound truck after , it skidded off a road and overturned on the bank of Young's River.'! - ' . The boy was driving the truck. The S-foot, 8-inch father. .Howard Johnson, 42. saw it all from his nearby! farmhouse. e ran to. the scene land managed to tip the truck from its side back onto! its wbeelsi Then he started artificial respiration on the boy A state pa trolman came by and iook over after five minutes. A half-hour later the boy began breathing by himself, and was moved I to a hospital.; Attendants said Monday the boy was well on his way to recovery, suffering only minor puts and bruises. a-ri. -uwu iituiuiifroftaiu, -testis!- His i system sure gave him an extra spot of adrenalin to do that," the ductor said. Governor f - o t Pr ison rising Quelled By JAMES BURR MILLER Staff Writer, The Statesman The last of 900 striking con victs shuffled past guards and into cells at 10:25 p.m. Monday, ending four days of rebellion and violence at the state prison. The return of the trouble-mak-.. ers from their corral in the base ball field at the northeast corner of the prison yard began at 7:30 p.m, after aU cells in the build ings were thoroughly checked. The rioters, handcuffed and segregated into groups of 20. were marched out of the yard under heavy guard and "frisked" as they left the wire enclosure. They were bearded, docile," sub dued and exhausted Processing of the convicts Mon day night resumed similar action that was started Sunday evening, but stopped at 10.-30 p.m. when it appeared to Warden Clarence T. Gladden that "they hadn't' learned their lesson." Four Days of Rebellion Restoration of order at the pen itentiary followed an ordeal of ' mayhem and conflagration dur- ' ing wjiich five buildings were de stroyed or gutted by convict-set fires, the prison canteen was loot- led, equipment in the dining area was disturbed and one prisoner wounded inj the leg. Total dam age by wanton destruction and fire was estimated at $100,000. After being driven Saturday morning from the dining hall with tear gas and bullets and the prison recreation "island" at" gun pointy the men were confined in the prison yard baseball area.. Here they were held without food, or water under close scrutiny of heavily armed state police and prison guards and here they stayed; exposed to the blistering sun and chilly nights until they were permitted to come back to j their cells Monday night. Some" Overcome Some convicts who were over come with exhaustion or exposure were ! taken back to tlje main building. But it wasn't until Sun day s night that officials . started bringing them in, stopping when it was: decided that there would have to be 100 per cent co-opera tion with prison authority before their outdoor stay would end. Only 125 were brought in from the yard Sunday night . j The rebellious inmates also re ceived sandwiches and coffee Monday afternoon prior to the de cision to bring them back into the main building. I No Food for Days Most of them hadn't eaten since the evening meal Thursday. There j was the exception, ho- ' ever, of the candy, cheese and other items stolen when the pris oners raided the prison canteen in the r rioting Saturday morn ing. An intensive, search of prison er's clls by prison personnel during the day Monday uncovered a-large amount of "contraband" which i was removed from the grounds. Included were several' knives and a few straight-edge ' (Story Also on Page 2). " razors. Europe Baited wvrfa m 1 ea V 'W Aid Bill WASHINGTON Uh The House and Senate approved a $5,157, 000,000 foreign aid program Mon day but directed President Eisen hower to withhold one billion from six European countries unless they unite behind an international army. The legislation is an authoriza tion bill which seta a ceiling (314 million j dollars lower than Elsen hower requested) on mutual secur ity spending for the fiscal year ending jnext June 30. Congress will have to pass an other bill to appropriate the money. There iis talk of a two billion dol lar cut when this measure comes before the legislators. DROUGHT AID OKEHED WASHINGTON 0f The Senate approved and sent to the White House Monday a multi-million dol lar' relief program to provide emer gency loans of $2,500 and up for farmers; and cattlemen in disaster- litxfckenj areas. ' Max.- Mln. Prrcip. SS .M a - trac a . jxt 61 JUO Salem J 7 Portland t San iTincliw to Ch-caroi SO New York l M trace L wuiameue juver i.s reel. , t. rORXCAST (from U. S. Weathtf Bureau. McNary field. Salem): Most ly cloudy wiui scattered showers today and tonight. Partly cloudy. Wednesday. Not much change m temperature. Huh today near 76 ind low tonight near S3. Temperature at z.-i a.m. was ei aerre. IALEM PRECIPITATION S1b Start mt Weather Year Sept. 1 Thla Year Last Yeas Kormal 4X28 S9 SS.ll . UP