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Newspaper Page TextI. i Driver Killed by Streamliner at f HA A f I III I I I I U I I I I II I Turner Statesman TURNER Grady Edmiston, Drive-In at Stayton, was killed instantly and his wife critcally in jured when their auto collided at 10:15 p.m. with the northbound Shasta Daylight I i The accident occurred at the intersection, of C Street and the Southern Pacific tracks, about two blocks from the center of Turner ram onus Through the usual mechanism of a legislative interim commit tee Oregon will have another go at its tax problems. This time property taxation will be the principal subject for exploration. Last biennium it was income taxes and how their proceeds could be covered into the gen eral fund. The new committee met last week to organize, electing as chairman Sen. Howard C. Belton, a "blooded" expert in this field, liaving served on numerous in terim and legislative tax com mittees and veteran of many tax battles. Other members are: Sen. Lowell W. Steen of Umatilla County, Representatives Lee Ohmart of Marion, Pat Dooley of Multnomah and Roderick T. McKenzie of Curry County; also Sam B. Stewart, chairman of the State Tax Commission, Giles French of Moro, former repre sentative, and Mrs. Louise Humphrey of Portland, who is identified with Oregon Business and Tax Research, an organiza tion alert to taxpayer interests. The assignment given this com mittee is to define "true cash value" in assessments, to report on possible legislation for aver aging inventories through the year and on exemptions from personal, property taxes, also to look for a substitute for the per sonal property tax. In working in the field of property taxation the committee covers a field well plowed and harrowed, but one beset with manx thorns and tares. How to assess real and personal property and levy taxes thereon on an equitable basis has troubled the minds and conscience of asses sors and legislators and tax gath erers from time immemorial. For years Oregon, largely at the in stigation of the member of the State Tax Commission assigned to the property tax division has labored to standardize assess ments in (Continued on editorial page 4.) Draft Director To Visit Salem Major Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, national director for Selective Service, will pay a Salem visit next week, according to Maj. Al bert H. Wright commanding of ficer for the Oregon Mobilization Designation Detachment in Sa lem. Hershey will inspect the de tachment, training to handle mo bilization activities here under selective $ervi c e, and will be guest of the unit with Gov. Paul L. Patterson at a luncheon meet ing at the Marion Hotel July 31. Multnomah Demo Chairman to Quit PORTLAND OP William H. Way of Portland reported Monday that he would resign next month as chairman of the Multnomah County Democratic Central Com mittee. Way, who also is business man ager of the AFL Boilermakers Union, said he was resigning to give more time to his union job. Way said the resignation would be tendered and his successor elected at an Aug. 20 committee meeting. Max. 78 74 73 Min. Precip. 42 ,M Salem Portland 54 .00 JOO .10 .17 San Francisco 73 .49 Chicago 88 70 New Yoik 88 72 Willamette River 2.4 feet. FORECAST (from U. S. Weather Bureau. McNary' Field. Salem): Mostlv fair today, tonight and Wed nesday. A little warmer today with the highest near 80 and the low to night near 46. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. was 54 decrees. SALEM PRECIPITATION Since Start of Weather Year Sept. 1 This Year . Last Year Normal 43.29 42.69 38.23 Animal Crackers Bv WARREN GOODRICH Crossin: News Service. 27, manager of the Honey-Beit business district A - dog with them was also killed. I His wife, Mrs. Magdalena Elsie Edmiston, 22, was taken to SalenS General Hospital by Wil lamette Ambulance Ser- Sice. Ambulance attend ants said they didn't think she had any broken bones, but there was a possibility of a skull fracture and concus sion. Hospital attendants said her condition was considered critical early Tuesday morning. Edmiston was the eighth traf fic fatality in Marion County for this year. Impact of the collision was so great that the motor of the west bound car, a 1949 Willvs Station Wagon, was ripped from thjs chassis and thrown 30 feet from the tracks. The rest of the caj was battered and banged abotft and turned completely around by the train. Edmiston apparently was knocked from the auto it the point of impact, decapitated and his body thrown 132 feet up the tracks from the. intersection. The man's head " was found 88 feet from the car. Groceries that the couple had in their car werjs strewn all along the track. I Three teen-age Turner boyj, Clayton -Taylor, Eugene Winklji and William Norris, were sitting on the bridge one block froip. the tracks when the accident oc curred. They said the car, drive p by Edmiston, was not travelling at an excessive speed. They all said the train blew its whistle several short blasts as it ap proached the crossing and the wig-wag was said by the boys tb be operating. The passenger traih does not have a regular stop ajt lurner. The collision delayed th train about 30 minutes. i Friends said that the Edmil tons were visiting Mr. and Mrj. Paul Messer at Turner. She a Mrs. Edmiston's sister and Messer owns the Stayton drive-in. Boarding House Blaze Kills Man In Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash, un Fir killed an 83-year-old man, David E. Cota, in a boarding house here Monday. Twelve other boarders fled the house in pajamas to reach safety at dawn. The fire was believed to have started in Coat s room, Firemea tentatively blamed smoker's care lessness. Cota was found on hit bed. Coroner Paul Myland sail asphyxiation and carbon monoxl ide poisoning took his life. 1 The blaze was confined mostly to Cota's room. Damage was esti mated at $1,500. 1 Mild Weather On Schedule Mild temperatures in the high 70s and generally fair weather are predicted for the next fe days by the weatherman. Some high cloudiness is forecast f Breezes which stayed at li) miles an hour or better all dajk Monday kept Salem cool. High reading was 78 degrees. j Bohlen on Way Back to Moscow j i NEW YORK iff) Charles E Bohlen, American ambassador to Russia, left by plane Monday to return to his post in Moscow, jj Bohlen came back to the Unite States nine days ago to confei" with Secretary of State John' Foster Dulles on the situation arising from the purge of Lavrenty BeriaJ, Soviet deputy premier. 2 Russians Killed In Nationalist Raid I TAIPEH. Formosa The Ena lish-laneuaee China News reported today two Russians, "presumably rauar icviuuiiaui , ircit oih" the communists slain in last week'p Nationalist commando raid oh Tungshan Island. The Defense Ministry said therjb was as yet no confirmation. House Group to Give Matthews Hearing on Clergy Charges By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL I WASHINGTON tf The House Un-American Activities Committee agreed Monday to give J. B. Mai thews a chance to defend hip charges that Protestant clergymejji comprise "the largest single grouj supporting the Communist appai? atus" in America. f No specific time was set an4 there was no decision whether the hearing will be open or closed. It may be held in the fall, sometime after Oct. 1. f Matthews' charges, in a maga zine article, stirred up a row that resulted in his resignation as chief of staff of the Senate investiga tions subcommittee hearted by Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis.). j The McCarthy Committee reject ed Matthews' request for a hearing and he turned then to the Un-American Activities Committee. V j Another offshoot of the ruckus was a move by a fellow senator - 103 YEAR ma Just Debris-That Is All That's Left in House Fire V.- . )"' 1H ?Tj ' 1 -. s-Sfi k xs. TURNER Nicholas Jenkins, 85 - WniCn ueSirOyCU JUS numc HIVUUIJ uiwiuiug, uu vuku iw uu v iu vvui-iu-Mn A iaug. don. A bachelor, Langdon lived in a house adjoining Jenkins'. He diedfrom a heart attack while fighting the fire. The fire which completely gutted the small frame house apparently was caused by an overheated stove. (Photo by John Erickson, Statesman Staff Photographer.) Heart Attack Fatal to Man Fighting Fire Statesman News Service TURNER One man is dead and a woman suffered from shock as the result of a fire that wiped out the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Jenkins on the Turner-Marion Highway at 8 a.m. Monday. C. P. Langdon, 66, in his ef forts to quell the fire by carry ing water in buckets from a pitcher pump, died from a heart attack. He was the brother of Mrs. Jenkins, who suffered from shock. Langdon was born in Douglas County and lived in a house ad joining the Jenkins'. His resi dence was not damaged". The fire started in the chimney and is believed to have been caused by an overheated stove. Neighbors turned in the alarm, which was handled by the Turner fire department Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, age 85 and 78, respectively, were able only to save some bedclothing and dishes from their home. Poultry on the five acre property was unharmed. Nail-Gulping Champ Found ALBUQUERQUE Sword swallowers, flame-eaters they're nothing to 22-month-old Randy Green. His mother. Mrs. Sidney Green, found two nails in his mouth. She rushed him to a hospital. Exami nation revealed he'd swallowed 10 nails. Doctors told her to feed him cot ton. which she did, mixed with spinach. She says she thinks he's rid of the cotton-swathed nails. An other examination is to be made to make sure. Monday to clip McCarthy's wings. Sen Monroney (D-Okla. intro duced a resolution to give the pres ident of the Senate and. by appeal, the Senate itself, the right to choke off, any investigations members felt were getting out of hand. Monroney told the Senate the proposal would "transfer back to the Senate powers assumed in the one man rule" of certain commit tees particularly the one head ed by "the distinguished junior sen ator from Wisconsin, j Be said the step is desirable in order to make certain that inves tigating committees observe rules of, fair play and don't overstep the authority the Senate intended them to have. j McCarthy denounced Monroney's resolution as one which, if adopted, "woul give a great feeling of se curity and safety and confidence to) every crook and Communist in the ovenmenL, The J 1 '&2 Li -- year - old resident of Turner Route Policewoman Job Sought by Gal with Arresting Figure LOS ANGELES OB A South Carolina girl with a most arrest ing figure applied Monday for a policewoman's' job. . Mary Kempt Griffin. 23, Miss Myrtle Beach. S.C.. and runner-up for the Miss United States title at last week's Universe Beauty Pa geant, filled out a Civil Service ap plication. The Moot. 8-inch south ern beauty told officers: "Since I didn't win the contest and get a movie contract, I'd like to stay In Los Angeles, and a police woman's job always fascinated me." Miss Griffin faces a written ex amination August 1. Officers said there was little doubt she would pass the physical test. Bread Price Rises Cent Salem housewives paid a penny more for bread and buns Monday as local bakeries took their cue from a one-cent increase in Port land. Almost all brands of one-and-a-half pound loaves of white and wholewheat bread have retailed here at 25 cents. Higher preduction costs caused the increase, bakery industry spokesmen said. Copter, Frogman Help to Rescue 2 Men on Rock CANNON BEACH Ufi Two men, trapped by the heavy surf as they tried to get off Haystack Rock here, were rescued Sunday. But it took a. Navy helicopter, an ex-Marine frogman, a Coast Guard patrol boat and two life guards to do the job. The pair, Sherwood Willeta, 22, Portland, and on Kinney, a coast guardsman from Portland, both fell into the ocean while trying to climb down the rock. Willets was washed back to the rock where he clung until a heli copter was flown from Seattle to rescue him. Two life guards swam out to Kinney but they were unable to make it back. Then Roger Shan nahan, the ex-Marine, swam out with a line and the four men were towed back to shore. Hundreds watched the rescue from the beach. mmm. Western International At Victoria 9, Spokane S At Vancouver 4. Txi-Cities 3 At Calgary 12. Yakima 19 tOrvly ims played.) National League At Pittsburgh S-4. St. Louis 4-t At Brooklyn 3. Chicago 0 (Only games scheduled.) Coast League (No game, scheduled.) American League (No games scheduled.) 14 PAGES 1 i v FOUND no Onqon Statesman Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, JY 21. 1953 7 No. 1, sifts through debris of fire Charge Filed Against Man In Knifing Case A charge of assault with a dangerous weapon was lodged against Raymond John Rightnour, 1211 S. 17th St., Monday in con nection with the fatal stabbing of the Eskimo logger from Val setz. 31-year-old John Melton. Rightnour is accused by police of holding lelton when he was knifed in the stomach during a street fight early Saturday morn ing in the 200 block of North Commercial Street A similar charge (in the name of John Doe) was issued in Marion County District Court against the unknown slayer of Melton who is still at large. Bail for each is $7,500. Rightnour is in jail here where he has been held on an open charge since his arrest by city police Saturday. Police Chief Clyde Warren in dicated Monday further charges may be brought against the two men after receipt of an autopsy report on Melton from Dr. Homer Harris, pathologist with the Crime Detection Laboratory, Portland. Rightnour's case was continued to July 22 at .9:30 a.m. for ar raignment in district court. Meanwhile, city police pressed their search for the slayer. Scores of persons have been questioned, but no definite leads have de veloped, detectives said. A knife uncovered by police yesterday was being checked to determine if it was the murder weapon. Jess Coleman, 64, of Wicken burg, Ariz.. wht, police said, was punched in the nose by Melton before the stabbing was sentenced to five days in jail Monday for vagrancy. Coleman became involved in a brief argument with Melton at Bligh Billards, North Commerc ial Street tavern,' and received a broken nose when punched by the Eskimo. Melton was then ordered to leave and was followed by two men who attacked him with a knife, according to witnesses. Nude 'Sunbather' Lying in Shade, Arrested by Police A Salem man found "sunbath ing" in Wallace Park on the west side of the river with nothing but his shoes on was arrested by po lice Monday and charged with dis orderly conduct The arresting policeman point ed out, however, that the man was "sunbathing" in the shade. Asked to explain his actions, the man replied: "I get nervous and this helps me to relax." He posted $50 bail and was re leased clothed. NOVELIST TO MARRY LONDON OB British novelist playwright J. B. Priestley said Monday he will marry Mrs. Jac quetta Hawkes, noted writer and archaeologist Thursday. - 1651 -i - - j."- U.S. Asked for Assurances Of Unification PANMUNJOM (AP) -Allied and Communist staff and liaison officers worked busily Tuesday on the apparent final ar rangements for a Korean armistice, but a hint of new oppo sition came from a South Korean source. In Seoul, Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said the republic "may change its attitude" of not ob structing an armistice unless it gets assuurances from Washington as to unification of the divided na tion. A highly placed government source, who declined to be named, said President Syngman Rhee was awaiting a reply from Washington on matters left unsettled in con ferences earlier this month with U.S. envoy Walter S. Robertson. But the hustle and bustle of prep arations for a truce went on apace in this dusty western Korean vil lage. Two groups of staff officers met during the morning one ap parently working on a cease-fire line 'and the other on administrative details. Talks Recess Allied and Communist liaison of ficers met- at 1:05 and recessed 22 minutes later. Liaison officers usually exchange communications between the two high commands. For the second day, final arrange ments for the historic signing went on within sound of Communist hammers and saws rushing to complete a huge, 10,000-square-foot Korean style hall for the ceremony. The Reds also had swarms of workers building a side road in the neutral zone. Ready by Thursday . Under floodlights, 200 Red labor ers hammered and sawed through Monday night in order to have the historic hall ready by Thursday. No date for a signing has been set as yet. Some observers said there could be a signing within a week, followed 12 hours later by a ceasefire. Occupying a backseat. South Korea officially took a dim view of these preparations. A high official who asked that his name not be used called the current moves an "unconditional surrender by the al lies." ' To Continue Boycott Maj. Gen. Choi Duk Shin, South Korea's truce delgate, said he would continue the boycott he has observed since May 25 and Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said no South Korean representative would attend the signing ceremony. Peiping Radio charged that South Korea still is trying "to scuttle the armistice." The Red China propaganda broadcast, heard in Tokyo, said Allied assurances that South Korea will observe truce terms "will be nothing but empty talk ... if the American side con tinues to pamper Syngman Rhee." Senator Hit By Automobile WASHINGTON JD Sen. Bridges (P-NH, knocked down Monday morning by an automobile, suf fered only minor injuries but will remain in emergency hospital over night for rest and observation. The, president pro tempore of the Senate had stopped by his bank en route to the Capitol from a White House conference. He walked arminrl Hi ffir intn thp lin nf traffic and was struck a glancing f blow by a passing car. He suffered some pain from be ing thrown to the pavement, but did not lose consciousness. He was taken to the hospital in his own car. Nearly Full Day Required to Select Dr. Bartell Case Jury By CHARLES IRELAND Valley Editor, The Statesman DALLAS Selection of a jury required nearly a full day Mon day as the manslaughter by abor tion trial of Dr. Isaac Donald Bar tell. 58, Dallas physician, opened in Polk County Circuit Court. Thirty-four potential jurors were questioned before seven men, five housewives and an al ternate juror were selected. Several were excused by Judge William East after declaring they could not hear the case with an open mind. Others were challeng ed because they named Bartell as their family doctor. The trial will continue at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday when presentation of evidence is expected to start. Brief opening statements were heard Monday afternoon when selection of the jury a task Judge East called "tedious" was finished. PRICE 5c Mb S-i n Russ to East Germans 4 i To- ;i i i ! r i j BERLIN (JP) The Soviet Union has agreed to send more than 57 million dollars worth of food to help hungry East Germany, but the; East Germans will have to pay for the aid with manufactured goods; ' jThe Communist East German government announced the extra Russian shipments early Tuesday. It admitted it had. been forced to callon Moscow for help "several) times" to ease food shortages. Tlie announcement said the ship meifs, to be delivered during the restiof 1953, would consist of 27.000 ton4 of butter, 8,500 tons of fats, 10,000 tons of vegetable oil, 15,000 tons! of seed oils, 20,000 tons of mea and 1,500 tons of cheese. The value placed on this was 231 mil lionfrubles ($57,500,000). Te i Russian relief offer to the hungry satellite was made public 10 days after President Eisenhow er promised 15 million dollars worth of American food to help the people of liast Germany. Offer Rejected Te Russian food agreement was macje public just one day after Provident Eisenhower renewed a 10-dayj old offer to supply 15 mil lionSdollars worth of American food to East Berlin. EnRoute to Reich Mlich of the food the President promised already is en route to West Germany for distribution in thejEast if that Communist gov ernment agrees. Eisenhower wrote West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that the tl.S. offer "was motiviated sole ly tjy humanitarian impulses and that the food is available . if that government wishes to permit its entry into the Soviet Zone of occu paioh." Meanwhile West Berliners were finding ways and means of getting foot relief to their countrymen be hind the Iron Curtain. Thousands of food packages were distributed alog the border and coupons re deemable in grocery stores were aLsa handed out. Scarcely 24 hours after Eisenhow er made his offer, the East Ger- ma government and Soviet . For eign Minister V. M. Molotov turned it qown and denounced it as an empty propaganda gesture. Their curt rejection made East Germans boil witn anger since it seemed to prove to them that their Reof bosses would play politics witlj hunger. Discortent Grows Unrest, which began in East Berlin June 17, continued to swell. Both the U.S. government and West Germany made further efforts to feed the satellite citizens. Molotov, in his rejection, told the U.S government it had been "mis informed" as to the need for food relief in East Germany. Tuesday's announcement that Russia would supply such relief apparently con tradicted that statement. It seemed to indicate, too, that thejU.S. offer had been so suc cessful in stirring up the people of East Germany that the Soviet Un ion fpund it necesary to counter with a dramatic gesture of its own. Thel East German government claimed Tuesday it sought Soviet special assistance two weeks ago before the Eisenhower offer. The j government said the Soviet regime "after consideration" con sented to add 83,000 tons of food stuffs j and 7,000 tons of cotton to the trade agreement between the two countries. Today's Statesman Scout Jamboree 3 Editorials, features 4 Eddy Gilmore A. Qen. Clay's visit 5 Old Parsonage 6 Radio, TV 6 Society, women's 8 Valley news 8 Sports 10-11 Comics . ; 11 Classified ads 12-13 District Attorney Walter Foster read j the indictment which al leged that Bartell used drugs, medicines and instruments with intent to destroy the unborn child of 4 young Salem woman on Sept. 30,flf31. d. L. Matters, Dallas, made the opening statement for the de fense.! Three Salem attorneys also were in Bartell's corner as the trial opened. They were Paul Burris, Roy Hewitt and Merlin Estep. ttjorney Dale Pierson " was present as special assistant to Foster. i As court convened. Judge East announced he had denied a mo tion by Bartell to. recover proper ty taken from his hospital at the time of his arrest on April 14. The motion was made last week. The property he sought to re cover! included an examination table and medical instruments. No. 113 Send Food Reich, But must Pay Agriculture Bureau Rejects New Building The State Agricultural Depart ment will not occupy space in the new- $450,000 Service Building approved by the 1953 Legisla ture, E. L. Peterson, department director, advised the State Board of I Control Monday. Peterson said the department prefers to remain in its current quarters in a building on 12th Street directly east of the State Supreme Court and state office structures. It occupies this build ing jointly with the State Print ing Department. An appropriation of $700,000 was voted by the 1933 Legisla ture to cover the cost of the; Service Building and site along with construction of a garage to tie used in connection with oper ation of the state motor vehicle pooL Plans for the Service Build ing are being preparedly James L.I Payne, Salem architect. Offi cials said actual construction of the Service Building probably, would get under j way within a' few weeks. It is now proposed that space originally assigned to the State Agricultural Department in the Sendee Building shall be occu pied by the State Veterans Af fairs Department, now housed in the State Library JBuilding. A part of the garage will be occupied by the State Purchasing Division. The Veterans Affairs Department is now scattered in three locations. ; J -) Israel, Russ To Exchange Envoys Again JERUSALEM The Soviet Union and Israel announced Mon day they will resume diplomatic relations. Russia severed ' relations in a dramatic after-midnight move Feb. 12, three days after a f bomb ex ploded at the Soviet legation in Tel Aviv. The legation was badly damaged and three Russians were injured, including Claudia, wife of the Soviet minister, Pavel I. Yer shov. :' In an exchange of letters, Soviet Fojreign Minister V. M. Molotov announced he was accepting Is rael's apology for the bombing and assurances that Israel would con tinue its attempts to catch the "ctilprits." j s J : Molotov also said the Soviet . Un ion; was taking into consideration a statement by the Israeli gov ernment "that it would not take part in any alliance or agreement pursuing aggressive aims against the Soviet Union." Coos, Douglas Forests Shut Closure of 6,000 acres of heav ily timbered lands in Coos and Douglas counties, except by per mit, was announced Monday by Gov. Paul Patterson, to be effec tive Tuesday midnight The closure was asked by State Forest Department officials. :Most of the lands involved In the closure are in the Coast Range mountain area and include part of Douglas Forest Protective Association. The lands extend from south of Umpqua River to the South Fork of . the iCoquille RiVer. - Officials ' said 'other closures might follow within a few days provided warm weather .contin ues. . i - Commissar for God Eddy Gilmore is on his way home to the U. S. after 11 years at Assocaited Press cor respondent In Moscow. ' On page 4 of today's Statesman, he reports how Stalin modi fied hit suppression of the church In order to use it for his own purposes by forming the "Commissariat for God."