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MacLean took: her children to join her husband who presumably is somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. This gains plausibility since her course was traced , to Lausanne where she left the family car in a garage and boarded the Zurich express, and then to the Orient express with a ticket to Bad Gastein, a resort in the American zone of Austria. The disappearance of the Mae Lean family was almost coinci dent with the publishing of MA personal Study of the Missing Diplomats, written for the London Sunday Times by a British writer, Cyril Connolly, friend of. both men. who saw MacLean in London the day he disappeared with Burgess. It is reprinted in the U. S. News and World Report. Connolly at the time he wrote the article (before Mrs. MacLean's fadeout) believed that MacLean. and Burgess were "victims of some unforeseen calamity; but he admits the affair is a "puzzle." He rates them as "members of the governing class, the high bureaucracy" and concludes: "If traitors they be, then they are traitors to them selves." However, he reports that Burgess at one time confided to a friend that he was a secret agent of the Communist Party, and that MacLean also had told a friend that he (MacLean) was a Communist agent all of which indicates that our state depart ment wasn't the only foreign of fice being infiltrated by Reds. I am not going to rehearse the Connolly story get the Sept, 25th issue of U. S. News and read It for yourself if yon-are inter ested. What I am going to discuss is the risk arising to the United States or to (Continued on Editorial Page, 4) Pope Pius XH Proclaims '54 Marian Year' VATICAN Cirr w Pope Pius XII Saturday proclaimed 1954 a . Marian Year in Honor of the Vir gin Mary. He called the Roman Catholic Church's more .than 400 million members to a worldwide crusade of prayers and penance. The major objectives of the year, for which supplication will . be made especially to the mother of Jesus, include a return to fuller Christian life, peace, liberation of the church in countries where it Is persecuted, an end of class hat reds. The Paoal encyclical to the church's hierarchy establishing 1954 a Marian Year, came a cen tury after proclamation of the dog- ma of Mary s immaculate con- ceDtion. The 12-month period will begin next December and end In Decem ber 1954. The biggest initial ob servances are expected to Use place Dec 8, anniversary of the day 100 years ago when Pope Pius IX oroclaimed the dogma that Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin. That announcement of 1853, the Pontiff said in his encyclical, dat ed SeDL 8 and titled from its first Latin words "The Radiant Crown of Glory.- was received with joy by- the entire Catholic world. Fall Weather f Muscling In9 Fall was continuing pretty much on schedule in Salem with predictions by U.S. weathermen for mostly cloudy days today and Monday. A little cooler temperature is expected for today with the high est near 70 and the lowest near 43 degrees. Temperature Satur day ranged from 75 to 39 de grees. ' , l No rain was recorded at the U.S. weather station Saturday, but residents north of Salem re ported some rainfall in the late evening and the downtown area felt showers early this morning. Russians Free 500 German War Prisoners HERLESHAUSEN. Germany I Nearly 500 German prisoners of war who have spent nearly a dec ade behind barbed wire in Russian camps crossed into the freedom of West Germany Saturday night German border authorities said 468, including 18 women and eight children, checked through the bor der here after being brought to the . frontier from the Fuerstenwalde transit camp. V -U,v; ,-., tataaMraaaaaaaaBaa(aaataaaiaawaBBtaaasaBBa SAXJCX MUtCTFTTATIOJe ' Siac Start of WaaXaar Taax Sap. 1 Thla Tea Xaet Yew . , normal ja j t 103BD TEAR Husband, Wife Guide Salem Civil Air Patrol j" '" ' " " ' " ' "' ' " .o;'; ' ' ' i K ' .". J-., , Commanding officer and adjutant the flight record ex the anit s L-C ier D. Garrett and tne adjutant Jealous Girl Friend Identifies Grocer. -!:-. ' NEVADA CITY, Calif, (ffv ; the year-old massacre of Guard Young and three small children came Saturday from the jealous girl Santo. ! Nevada County Sheriff Wayne Brown announced that Harriett Henson, SO; an auburn waitress, named Santo and Emmett Perkins, 44. as the bludgeon slayers of the Chester grocer and the children Oct 10. 1952,: near the northern California town.1 In Los Angeles, where they and blonde Barbara Graham are awaiting a mandatory death sen tence for another robbery-killing of widow MabelMonahan, Santo angrily brushed off questions about . Miss ' Henson's statement Perkins called her "a liar." Long Questioning Brown said a five-page state ment signed by Miss Henson Fri day night after 21 days of ques tioning also named Chester house painter Lawrence Shea as the fin german" and said he got 10 per cent of the; loot for- pointing out Young for the killers. He denied it Shea was arrested for investi gation. Brown said Miss Henson, who testified in Los Angeles she was Santo's mistress, finally broke down after she became convinced Santo had switched his affections to another woman. "Murder Mob" Her statement officers said, broke wide open a mountain mur der mob" beaded by Santo, which killed at least seven people in the oast two years. .Robbery was the motive for the brutal killings of Young and the children. aToung, his daughters Jean, 7, and Judy, 6. and - Michael Salle, 4, a neighbor boy, were waylaid and beaten to death near Chester shortly after Young drove to a bank in nearby Westwood and with drew $7,128 with which to cash lumberjacks paychecks. Left for Dead Another daughter. Sondra, 3, also was beaten and left for dead, but survived. Miss Henson said Santo told her he did not know the children were accompanying Young or be "would not have carried out the 'caper. " Brown ' said she. related that Santo and Perkins split the money, that she also received some, and that 10 per cenl "off the top" went to Shea, for pointing out Young in front of the Westwood .bank, v Sheriff Melvin H. Schooler of Plumas County picked mv Shea, in Chester Saturday morning and rushed him to the county jail at Quincy. 70 miles away, where he was held for investigation without baiL-. - ' j,'- .... Dist Atty. John F. Keane quoted Shea as saying Miss Henson "speke out of revenge." But he added that the painter would be held pending a decision whether, to charge him with complicity along with Santo, Perkins and Miss Henson. . ( Additional details on page 9, sec L) i ". - Today's .Statesman J Section 1 General news'.- Editorials, features World This Week .4 .8 Gardening 10 1 Valley news ir. r. --H Snorts . i . 12-14 Crossword ' nuzzle 14 Radio. TV. 15 Classified ads 15-17 "Section , : "... "?.' "Fanners of America are en Society, women's . 1-6 j titled U know if there is truth to Fall " Fashions - jtha charge that margins are ex- Sectloa 1 - Jcessive,' the secretary said is a riJI-Calor Comica ' l$txirmtvL - - , 3 SECTIONS 14 PAGES of Salem's Civil Air Patrola nan airplane, the military version of is nis wile, Znd u. Garrett. (Statesman Photo.) Killers of 3 Children The long hoped-for "big break" in friend of convicted murderer Jack Portland Area Wrecks PateT PORTLAND m Traffic acci dents claimed two lives in the Portland area Saturday. Richard C Armstrong. 24. was killed in a two-car collision at an intersection. Police said he ap parently drove through a stop signal and was struck by another car driven by Peter H. Jenquin. 33. Armstrong was crushed when bis car sideswiped a. tree. ' Jeff Skagg, 62, Oak Grove, was injured fatally when his bicycle was struck by a car driven by Arthur L. Luc are, Portland. The accident occurred in Oak Grove. What's in d Name? In This Case $100,000 ERIE, Pa. (J) The Cribbs Methodist Home at Meadville, Pa., caa inherit $100,000, simply by changing its name. Leon S. Briggs, 79, who died last Tuesday, left a will providing that the money be put in a trust fund for relatives. Upon their death, the principal would go to the home if its name is changed to "The Methodist Home for the Aged." Briggs' will, filed for probate Friday, didn't explain why he wish es the name of the home to be changed. But officials of the Erie Conference of the Methodist Church said his proposal will be submit ted to the1 home board for action at its next meeting, Dec 1. FROM END TO END DALLAS, Tex. UR Dallas next week plays host to 2 conventions that just about sum up man from beginning to end: The; Diaper Ser vice Institute of America and the National Cemetery Association. - Wholesale-Retail Price Spread Of Beef Causes - Br KARL BAUMAN I . WASHINGTON 11 The govern ment Saturday ordered an investi gation to find out whether the price spread between beef on .the hoof and on the retail counter Is too great, . Secretary of Agriculture Benson, who ordered the inquiry, said he had received reports of a ""widen ing of the spread between prices farmers receive for their cattle and the cost, of these, at. retail." These reports, be said, came from members of Congress and 'others interested in the welfare of agriculture, as well as in all seg- ments of the livestock industry. The Qrsgoa Statesman Salem Oregon Saaday, and wife combination look over a riper Cab. The CO. is Capt Wil Flying Just Family Affair For Garretts The Air Force blue is a family affair with Mr. and Mrs. Wilber D. Garrett 3805 June Ave. They are Capt Garrett commanding officer of the Civil Air Patrol's Salem Capitol Squadron, and his wife, 2nd Lt Garrett adjutant of the same squadron. The couple have been active in CAP work since the summer of 1951 but it was not until two weeks ago that Mrs. Garrett was commissioned a second lieuten ant in the organization. Prior to that time she was a warrant of ficer. 'Capt Garrett explained that the unit needed someone to keep the stacks of records maintained by each CAP squadron and add ed. Who could be more logical than the commanding officers wife?" The Garretts have four chil dren ranging in age from nine years to eight months but still find time, with the help of a baby sitter, to meet at McNary Field each Monday night with the cad ets of the squadron and spend one night each week working on records. The Salem squadron, the larg est in the state, has a cadet mem bership of 118 but the squadron commander is working on a pro gram to add another 200 boys and girls. The squadron now has 44 girl cadets. The jobs of commanding offi cer and adjutant are non-paying, Capt Garrett said, "in fact it costs each adult six dollars a year to belong to the CAP." This money, he explained, is used to finance a CAP newspaper and also pays the expenses of cadets who are sent to Europe each year. Two cadets from Ore gon went to Europe this summer, he said, one .to England and the other to Norway. (Story also in Sec 1, Page 2) 50,000 Watch Parade for Rosy PORTLAND U) Rosy, the elephant from Siam. was officially welcomed into Portland's zoo fam ily Saturday. Street crowds estimated at SO. 000 persons watched a parade with Rosy as the star attraction. At City Halt Mayor Fred Peter son presided at welcoming cere monies. ' Investigation Benson noted mat the Labor De partment's 'Bureau of Labor Sta tistics reported a 8 per cent in crease in the retail price of. beef and veal from July to August This increase. Benson said, came at a time of abundant supplies and gen erally low cattle- prices and' has been of concern to both farmers and consumers. - ' - - Benson directed the Bureatf of Agricultural Economics and other agencies of the department to make ;anexammation "and report to him quickly on the spread be tween the price the farmer gets and the price (he housewife pays for beef. ; , Benson asked the cooperation of all agencies of marketing, trans portation, processing and distribu; tion. inchidfng hotels and restau rants 4 i ' . f 'J -: si' -. i 65 Return to Red Side PANMUNJOM (A Indian guard- Ian troops Sunday released to the Communists 65 Chinese prisoners of war who cnanged their minds about going home. The 65, mostly officers, went back to Communism in a shouting, fist- raising, banner-waving group. They screamed out charges of Allied bru tality, forced tattooing and torture. In Allied hands they had been classed as Communist agitators even though on the surface they once had declined repatriation and decried the Reds. They were held on Cheju Island in maximum secur ity after other POWi opposed to Communism had pointed them out as Red agents. Given to Reds Indian guards turned them over to the Reds at this exchange point and the POWs were herded into an open-sided tent where Chinese Com munist officers harangued them. mey tore ott their prisoner clothes and pointed to various scars about their bodies' as evidence of Allied "torture." But all appeared to be healthy except one who was carried. Mines Incident . . Despite the commotion, the ex change was carried out without se rious incident One of the Chinese POWs told a large gathering inside the Commu nist tent that Chinese Nationalist "special agents" were ringleaders among the anti-Communist prison ers. To Throw Stones" "Kuomintang agents told us if anyone wanted to go back to Com munist China they would be killed," the POW said. "An assassination group of three agents told us that whenever Polish and Czech neutral representatives came into our com pound we were to throw stones at them and if necessary kill them.' While the repatriated Chinese were decrying Allied treatment the IT. Command urged the Indian guarding force to "allay" the "fears" of anti-Communist POWs by telling them Immediately when Red "explanation teams" will be given the signal to start their cam paign to win back the prisoners.' The U. N. command -also sug gested that the POWs be told the explanations period will end defin itely on Dec. 23. Students From St. Paul Win Parade Prize SUtestnaa Ntw Srrlc WOODBURN St Paul Union High School roped a major first prize Saturday in a "wild west parade" that added color to the final day of the North Marion Coanty Fair. Students from the rodeo city won on a float that depicted the Catholic Chorch at St Paul, said to be the oldest brick church in the West The win , gave the school permanent possession of the fair's parade trophy. Hundreds marched in the 10- block parade. Groups included bands from Woodburn and North Marion Union High Schools, the Salem Cherrians, Woodburn Sad dle Club, youth and fraternal groups and the Civil Air Patrol Cadets. Woodburn Pharmacy and North Marion Fruit Co. won firsts for decorated vehicles. Steven and Mary Francis Ebner from Mt Angel were judged the best-costumed couple. Most of the other top winners were from Woodburn. They included: : Decorated tricycles. Cheryl Jo Enos and Billy Steffen: doU buggy, Diana Jean Thompson; wagons, Dicky Jean Rich, Billy and Lydia Armstrong; bicycles, Har riet VanArsdale and Jody Green inger; costumes, ' Nancy ' Steffen and . Guv Eiehsteadt: miscellan eous, Johnny ConnelL f Stowaway Lands On Wrong Island MANILA B Pal Ping, 31. a stowaway, was polled weeping off a plane which landed here Saturday from Hong Kong. t The tears? "I toek the' wrong plane." he sobbed. "I wanted to go to Formosa to see my girl friend." American Leagae-, a At Nw York 1. Boston S At Cleveland IX Detroit S - - At Washington S. Philadelphia Tt At St. Louis S. Chicago " National League At Philadelphia 8. Brooklya 1 At Cincinnati 10. Milwaukee T At r-htro 4. St Louis S At rmafeurg a Kw York September 27, 1S53 PoSo IMl Hurricane Over Georgia, PANAMA CITY, Fla. CP) A hurricane which blew into north west Florida with 90-mile winds swept northward along the Chatta hoochee River dividing Georgia and Alabama Saturday night leav ing a trail of relatively minor damage and a few injuries in its wake. Torrential rain fell in Florida until after the storm passed. The scudding, dripping clouds drenched Wave Sweeps Fisherman to Death in Sea DEPOE BAY If) A Portland fisherman, David White. 29, drowned in the ocean Saturday when a wave swept him from rocks at Boiler Bay State Park near here. Chief boatswain mate William Watkinx, in charge of the Coast Guard station here, reported the accident. White and his wife had been staying at a Lincoln Beach resort moteL White's fishing partner. B. . Curry, Portland, was rescued. Arson-Caused Fires Cripple Moses Lake Moses Lake. Wash, tfl Fires. believed - set by an arsonist de stroyed two businesses here Sat urday night and caused explosions which ' destroyed power lines and threw the town into darkness. . The two blazes destroyed a lum ber company plant and a cold stor age and potato and onion process ing plant Total damage was esti mated as high as three-fourths of a million dollars and the second fire, fed by exploding fertilizer nitrates, still was out of control at midnight Fire Chief Leonard Cook said he thought both fires were set and asked for assistance from the state fire marshal. The town of 5,500 persons was thrown into a. state, of alarm and four false reports of fires poured into the beleaguered Moses Lake Fire Department The suspicion of arson brought air police from Larsen Air Force Base and police and deputy sheriffs from Ephrata and Quincy. The Air Force Base, which lies just outside the city, sent fire fight ing equipment and crews to aid those from Moses Lake, rural fire districts and Ephrata. No one was injured in either of the two fires, which were six blocks apart on the town s mam street The backs of the Potlatch Lumber Co., first to start burning at about 9:15 p. m., and the Western Cold Storage Co., which caught fire about an hour later are adjacent to the Milwaukee Railroad tracks. Fire officials ruled out the possi bility the cold storage blase was set by sparks from the.lumber com pany because the wind was blowing from the other direction and was very light , 'H Portland Doctor Killed; Wife, Mother Shot; Relative Jailed PORTLAND (JH Dr. George Ray, 39, a prominent Portland physician, was killed outright and bis wife and mother were wound ed, in a shooting here f Friday night Ray's half-brother, Daniel Ray, 45, who police said admitted the shootings, was booked Satur day on a first degree murder charge - - ':; t The doctor's wife, Harriett 39, was shot twice in the head. Her condition was critical. His mother. Mrs. Martha Bay. 65, of Poca- tello, Idaho, was reported recov ering from a bullet wound in the back. DanieL who oolice said has a record of nervous disorder includ ing a stay in an Idaho sanitarium, told police an almost -incoherent story of a "poison plot" against him. He said at first that bis memory of events leading up to the shooting was nary. t 'Police said the shooting apparition which be - underwent several ently occurred this way: - weeks ago. . f . t The doctor, his wife, his mother DanieL wno in the past has and half-brother were sitting in I worked as a civil engineer has the doctor's home Friday evening been operating a small confectlon wstchinx television. Daniel snoVary she? here. . PRICE 10c. Vents Wrath Alabama sections of Georgia and Alabama. Roads were washed out homes flooded and sewage disposal sys tems broken down by record rain fall around Brunswick, Ga., where Glynn j County commissioners de clared a state of emergency. At Columbia, S. C, where rain fell steadily all day. The Citadel University of South Carolina game scheduled for I p. a was post poned! until the same time Mon day night Damage Light No deaths were reported and no heavy damage resulted as the trop ical storm moved inland. The wives of, two Air Force men were injured, neither seriously, and 48 other persons escaped un harmed when, gusts up to 84 miles an hour wrecked the roof of a gymnasium they were using as a shelter at Eglin Air Force Base. Heavy Rains A section of road leading from the base to Valparaiso was washed out by the 9.25 inches of rain that fell with the storm. Violent winds ripped through Crestview, IS miles north of Val paraiso and 12 miles below the Ala bama line, causing roof damage to a number of buildings, the State Highway Department reported. Damages Property In Pensacola, at the western fringe I of the hurricane, a tower of radio station WCOA was twisted, utility 'poles, trees and signboards toppled and the screen of a drive- la theater collapsed.--r - Elsewhere in the 70-mile coastal stretch from Pensacola to Panama City beach cottages were unroofed. highways damaged, trees felled and other minor damage resulted. xne storm struct; inland ever a thinly populated section ' where it was least likely to create a disas ter. It was expected to weaken slowly as it lashed along a north northeast course over Alabama and Georgia, probably to die out over land. t Belt Won. But e- License Lost FRANKFORT, Ky. OH A tav ern operator lost his state bever age licenses Saturday for permit ting a patron to make and win a wager that he could drink a quart of whisky without taking the bottle from his mouth. The revocation order, issued by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board against W. C. Blair of Lor etto, Ky., didn't say bow much was bet A board member said only that the patron collected and then was taken home. Money Authorized for Springfield Hospital '. PORTLAND m The federal government has granted -1155400 for construction of a new 35-bed hospital at Springfield, Ore., the State Board of Health reported Saturday. ' ' " denly leaped to his feet shouting This is it" and began shooting. He fired one shot into the doctor's bead, killing him outright The gun then was turned on the doc tor's .wife. She : suffered two woundsj in the head. The mother was shot as. she . ran out of the room, j The mother ran outside but then came back into the house and went to the bedrooms where her two grandchildren, Carol Ann, 11, and . Dale, . 13, .were sleeping, there! she called the doctor's brother l and police were notified. Whnj police arrived they found Daniel seated in the living room with the . gun nearby. He surren dered quietly. TThefdead' man's father. 'Dr. D. was in the house at the time ofl the shooting. He was in. bed re- covering 'from a stomach opera No. 181 $226 Million Aid Promised :1 ' In Exchange By LOUIS NEVIN MADRID. Spain (A The United States and Franco Spain Saturday signed a 20-year . aid-for-bases agreement that makes them part ners in the Western world's de fense against Communist aggres sion. Long shunned by the victors of World War II, Spain Is giving the United States the right to develop and use naval and air bases in this land behind the snow-capped Pyrenees In return for economic. technical and military aid. It was announced that aid total ing 22S million dollars will be sup plied spam under the mutual se curity program in the current fis cal year which ends next June 30. Of this. 141 millions will go for military equipment and the rest for, defense support meaning use in some way helping the develop ment of military strength. Fallback Zone The Spanish bases offer a re serve position behind the forward lines of western European defense. whicn are in Germany. Spanish . territory could provide a kind of fallback zone if those forward lines ever were forced to give way. . An American operations mission Is to be set up Immediately in , Spain under U. S. Ambassador James C Dunn. lS-Month Negotiation Actually three protocols were in volved in the historic, kleig-lignted ceremony at the Spanish foreign ministry that climaxed 18 months of formal negotiations and longer unofficial dickering. ; These were, a defease agree ment an economic aid agreement and a mutual defense assistance agreement all set forth in big ' white documents bound with rib bons in the Spanish national colors of red and gold. . ' Not Accepted - j This is the first step toward in . tegrating Spain in the western line up against communism. Generalis simo Franco, who numbered Com munists among bis foes in the ' Spanish Civil War. Is still regard ed coory by several members of the- 14-nalion North Atlantic Treaty. Organization, notably France and Britain. - V Though Franco has a tough, sea soned army of 20 divisions and a strategic position at the tip of Eu- - rope s land mass, Spain has never been admitted to that defense al liance. In a way, she is now en tering through the back. door. Police Car Called to Move Police Car I A police car was called to re move a police car Saturday and a Salem citizen was charged with interfering with the' duties of a police officer.;-- Detective's reports indicate that an officer's car had stopped an auto in the 2900 block of . South Commercial Street near a service station driveway. ' Police said that the proprietor of the station came to their car and told them they weren't te park there. The officers said they explained to him they were there in. performance of . their duty. Police said that the proprietor' then called the station and re- ' ported a car was blocking his drive. ' - Not knowing the car was a policeman's, a second, police car was dispatched to the scene. Arrested on a charge of inter fering with the duties of a police officer was Cecil Wolverton, 2953 S. Commercial St He posted 125 baiL r Gale, Ingenuity Combine to Boost Gasoline Sales - NICEVILLE. Fla. U) Two en terprising gasoline station opera-, tors hit their business peak Satur- - day, thanks to hurricane Florence. Power lines were down and there wasnt a drop of gas to be bought in the area all the pumps are operated wtth electricity. 1 f But Olen wmiams and Cecil Blackwell pulled a power lawn ' mower to their station, rigged up a fanbelt and ran it from the mower's flywheel to the mechar . nism of their gasoline pump, which started ticking. The rest of the day cars from miles around were lined k? at the station. , f ., ' L 1 i V V
