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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.
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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.
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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
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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.)
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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
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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
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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.)
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 '
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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.
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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.
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